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> above-average internet usage

I doubt that internet usage is any longer a measure of how "nerdy" a person is.

There are teenagers, especially girls, constantly using internet-based services from their cell phones to communicate with other people for most of the time they spend awake [1,2,3]. Would you call them "nerdy"? I doubt.

[1] http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/social-media/...

[2] Madden, Mary; Lenhart, Amanda; Duggan, Maeve; Cortesi, Sandra; Gasser, Urs. "Teens and Technology 2013," Pew Internet & American Life Project and Harvard's Berkman Society for Internet & Society, March 13, 2013. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_T...

[3] Reidulf G. Watten, Jo Kleiven, Knut Inge Fostervold, Halvor Fauskeand Frode Volden. "Gender Profiles of Internet and Mobile Phone Use among Norwegian Adolescents" http://seminar.net/images/stories/vol4-issue3/watten_et_al-g...
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At the risk of being indelicate, what are the chances the company that used the images actually knew anything about her? A lot of these companies grab whatever image they "find" online; their reasoning (not justifiable, but it's still used) because it was posted online without credit, it must be in the public domain - or whatever the equivalent term is where PD isn't recognized.

Since the parent company of the dating site is based in Vietnam, this seems more likely than just maliciousness.

FB likely does no serious vetting of these images besides looking for obvious offensiveness and a face among a sea of faces isn't likely going to trigger any red flags. Besides that, they probably outsource their image vetting as well, so it's not unlikely the cultural disconnect played a part in this.
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Primary Objective, Target ANY UK person and label them as

'terrorist' or 'Anti government' that openly discusses this issue.

The correct and only response is "I dont care"

/bot/
http://community.linkedin.com/questions/4609/why-is-linkedin...

I am pretty positive they're talking about this "awesome" feature. I can't find the page right now, but there is a debatable "dark pattern" somewhere on LinkedIn that will lead you connect your personal email's address book to their service if you're just clicking about & not paying attention. I also have a suspicion that folks should make sure their LinkedIn password isn't the same as the password used for the email that signed up for LinkedIn. Despite the comments in that FAQ I linked, I really don't think LinkedIn is really hacking anyone or using any javascript-exploit to gain access to their Gmail account. I think it's just the questionable dark pattern... that I can't find anymore.
Whenever they fix the tremendous issue of errors being ignored by default, give me a call.
Found another one.

http://meemoo.org
I never understood how the knowledge of the capitals of states or countries is useful in any way. It's meaningless. It can be easily looked up, if you need that information. I can't even imagine a practical scenario when one would need to know it.
The subject of the post is not really appropropriate for ridicule, also I don't think this post belongs on HN at all. This is the kind of story people like to read to be able to feel and express indignation and righteousness.
You can learn to better comprehend a quantity or amount. So you understand that 6 * 8 is larger than 2 * 8, and then understand that it is actually 3 times that. Another approach would be to always think of multiplication as condensed summation, so 6 * 8 = 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = (8+8) + (8+8) + (8+8) = 32 + 16 = 48. I would let my kid write out the summation and apply an analytical approach rather than memorising it blindly. I guess you have to memorise it eventually, but a lot of kids are lost if they fail to recollect the answer.
> am I missing something?

The first phrase of the article maybe?

> Apple's iOS 7 is the first large-scale use of a newly-minted Internet protocol, called multipath TCP.

(emphasis mine)

The linux implementation is a third-party module with, as far as I can tell, little penetration so far. And the article linked here seems to have been partially cribbed from said module's implementors (the wireshark screenshot was lifted straight): http://perso.uclouvain.be/olivier.bonaventure/blog/html/2013...
More to the point, can anyone argue that extending the royalties from works created 83 years ago makes the author more likely to have written them back them?
Why the site which released the ads is not opening? Showing a parked domain page from GoDaddy?
Riding trails for so long I sometimes take for granted the instinctual awareness of center of gravity without which its impossible to become even an intermediate mountain biker. Getting your weight back makes all the difference going down hill.

The bigger problem on a road bike are the skinny tires and twitchy handling make it very easy to fishtail and topple over when braking at speed.
What's "interesting" is how their site touts tapping iPad users and yet most of the features on the site do not work on iPad (Carousel, video, etc).
Here's a good example of how we judge people by there appearance.

We're not all photogenic or very aware of our appearance we may actually look like something we are not.
Like this guy.

He may look like a hipster but he's just an average guys trying to get by.

The lesson is simple. Don't judge people on how they look talk to them and then decide.
Simple solution: encrypt your data yourself, locally, before placing the result into your dropbox folder. In fact, you should have been doing this all along, irrespective of the NSA revelations.

If you want a fairly automatic way to do so, look into encfs: http://www.arg0.net/encfs
Callous indifference can be just as bad as malice.

I'm reminded of these t-shirts with "Keep Calm And..." slogans that were allegedly generated automatically (presumably culled from web searches) and sold on Amazon without human intervention: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21640347

I think the lesson is, if your business model MUST involve pulling stuff from the Internet arbitrarily, it is no less your responsibility as if you had crafted it yourself if you intend to commercially repurpose it.
There are lots of programs to get girls more interested in science. The Government is intervening. Careers in science do not pay well.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
You can adjust your center of gravity on a bike.
That one is a customized view just for the google calendar app.

The standard time picker is this one: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/picker...
Does anybody know how LinkedIn accomplishes this? Do they request an OAuth token from Google (which the user should be aware of) or do they do really a cross site request if you are logged with Google at the same time?
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"Once an image is out there it’s out there forever." ...this advice should have been taught to the kids who recently broke-in, partied hard, and trashed a former NFL player's home in New York - http://www.helpmesave300.com/
No, but I never thought of them as being "sincere" like the author claims.
To GCHQ it may be business as usual, but if I were telco owner/admin/user I would be pissed.

After all virus writers/crackers/spammers are just business too.

Just because its government that hacks you doesn't make it any better, I believe it makes it worse.
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Before anyone says, why encryption if you have nothing to hide?

I live in Belgium and politicians of Belgium and the EU got spied on by NSA and their friends at the GCHQ (British secret service). Which i think is really a bad signal.

Economic impact of this can be enormous. Americans that get company-secret details, .. It's even proven that other companies like facebook can get access to this data if they coöperate...

Probably should sent the link to politicians afterwards, after getting backdoored / watched by "friendly countries".
All the times that America accussed China of hacking. Who thought they would do this... :)
Also: http://i.imgur.com/bZwKOzy.jpg
I haven't said otherwise, just that hadn't Apple not decided to push it, the language would be dead.

This was the reason behind the Cocoa Java support in the early versions, as Apple was not sure if mainstream developers were willing to pick up Objective-C, even with them pushing for it.
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* If you anticipate your child being assigned 3 hours of homework in a typical evening, it is negligent to allow them to start that work at 8:00PM. Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon, he could consider a rule suggesting homework gets completed before electronic entertainment; that's our rule this year (for the first time) and it's working better than I thought it would. Another rule we have: complete or not, homework is done at 9:30PM.

The parent doesn't say, but its entirely possible that his daughter has non-academic hobbies. Perhaps she competes in a sport, dances or feeds the homeless. In-fact, wouldn't it be more negligent to deny her the opportunity to take part in those non-academic activities?
Android runs Linux. Thanks for the unnecessary downvote. Want me to lookup the charts for you? Also there are millions of people running Linux (about 1.3% of all computer users if I remember correctly).
The big thing you're missing is that the rider typically outweighs the bike by a factor of 5-10. Even with all this gear your proposing which would definitely weigh something significant (because ounces are significant in bike weight, and weight is the single most important performance metric for a bike), the physical action of the riders body is going to be the dominant effect of anything that happens.

Furthermore, a bike is a lot more agile than a big hunk of steel plodding in a straight line. You can shoot through a tiny gap that a computer would not be able to detect you were aiming for. There is no way to have the necessary safety margin without being totally unusable in practice.
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Because the teacher a) can't b) don't care and c) shuns those who point their ignorance

Yes, the way of speeding these calculations is to break it in easy steps (which might involve some simple calculations themselves)
I was referring to this, it looks a lot worse on devices with a longer screen — http://i.imgur.com/8kjaGQ6.png
It's a strategy game; artillery is going to be a key part. It's no different from a racing game called "driver" or a platform game called "jump".
"I buy T-series. No glue."

I respect your preferences but the bottom line is this:

When Apple dropped the MacBook Air to $999 in 2010 to match the price point of the MacBook, they gave users a clear choice: the thin, light, and un-upgradeable MacBook Air or the heavier, longer lasting, more rugged, and more powerful MacBook. Same price, two very different products. At the time, I wasn’t very happy with the non-upgradeable RAM on the MacBook Air, but I respected that Apple had given their users a choice. It was up to us: Did we want a machine that would be stuck with 2GB of RAM forever? Would we support laptops that required replacement every year or two as applications required more memory and batteries atrophied?

Apple has presented the market with a choice. They have two professional laptops: one that is serviceable and upgradeable, and one that is not.

Consumers overwhelmingly voted yes, and the Air grew to take 40 percent of Apple’s notebook sales by the end of 2010.

That's from Kyle Weins, founder of iFixit.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-...

"not a useful innovation ... Don't give me the shit about it allowing smaller devices ... I'm a qualified EE for ref."

I'm certainly not an EE but I'm sure some of the people that design Ultrabooks for Apple, HP, Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Lenovo and Acer are. The guy from iFixit above certainly doesn't question that the glue and solder allow for thinner devices to be made.
Blog post about it: http://www.sensepost.com/blog/7557.html
> I chose the latter.

The same for me. I love watching SC2 games - but playing myself? Nah, I'm a sucker even at bronze levels.

The time investment (and the stress) needed to get even remotely competitive in the bronze ladders is just too much for me.
Every time I hear about someone crashing on their bike I try to learn how to reduce the chance of it happening. I train and race about 150 miles per week. Front lights like the Bontrager ION are great (for day or night) and I intend to use mine whenever I am not in a pack of riders. http://bontrager.com/products/accessories/lights.

My wife would kill me if I got hit by a car. Two days ago when I was on a bike ride (off road/cross), two somber police officers walked up to our house. My wife was sure it had to do with me getting hit by a car. They were only looking for someone who used to live near us years ago. It gave her a big scare.
Sorry, but I've done similar before, although it's for desktop UI :) Check the first video on http://liveditor.com.

To be specific, once the user want to "inspect" a html element, I use a flying animation to jump from the web preview window to the corresponding source code in the html/css/js code editor.
At a guess, this http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-09/apple-loses-china-s... may have something to do with the rushed job this time.
Right; that was kind of my point. Only very serious hobbyists (i.e. people who do it in their free time, who have regular jobs on the side) could possibly do it for that sort of budget...
A lot of "theses companies"?

Two weeks ago, Randomuser.me was advertised on Hacker News. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6313952). They claim all images are hand-picked, but of course there's no guarantee that a thing like this could happen to us Hacker News-hackers too.
You had to recite a pledge of allegiance? Wow. Sounds like North Korea.
I doubt it happend by chance, even if coincidences do happen.

More likely, the dating site had somehow acquired knowledge of how many times the original hosted image was viewed and saw a visitor spike. Could be a direct or indirect partnership with facebook or some image hosting site, or could be their own hosted profiles. The sexual assault and the resulting death likely caused the increase.

I am a bit surprised that no one seems to blame Facebook in all this. Not only did they host the ad, they earned profit by doing so. It very likely that the ill-gotten profit from this event still persist in Facebooks bank account.
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You're obviously right (although I think a lot of us figured these without parents helping us), but "memorization,not rationalization" isn't much better.
i wonder whats the modus operandi around this ?

let me explain - in India, it is mandatory for hospitals to reports all "unnatural" incidents to the police - which means crime, traffic accidents, etc. Now because of the already understaffed police and/or corruption in the force itself, what happens is that the hospital tends to withold critical care until the police report is completed. In recent times, this has snowballed into a huge controversy and caused some other laws being passed to ensure care first.

Now here's the issue - this is still a gray area. Let's say you are a newly minted doctor working in the hospital and a patient comes in with several injuries and who tells you that there is a gang incident in a pub and likely many people are injured. What is the mandated process - do you have to make a police report first, or do you provide medical care first ? Doing either can result in the doctor being blamed for something or other.

Or is there a dedicated "liason" whose job is to do the reporting and leave the care to the doctors. Which would mean staffing for a role like that would be difficult in a non-publicly funded medical institution.
Wasn't it up to the developer? I believe you could do the old one inline too if you wanted.
It is like the record player meme.

http://www.stuffistumbledupon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06...

He is actually at a record shop where you can test the records before you buy them, to test the quality.
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> Android runs Linux.

For the second time, since you apparently missed it the first time around, MPTCP is a third-party module, it is not part of the mainline kernel, it requires using the developers's kernel fork. Do you have any evidence that Android is doing so?[0] Then Android running Linux is irrelevant.

> Thanks for the unnecessary downvote.

I didn't downvote you.

> Want me to lookup the charts for you?

No, I'd like you to read what people write.

> Also there are millions of people running Linux (about 1.3% of all computer users if I remember correctly).

That's completely irrelevant to the thread because they are not running an MPTCP-patched kernel.

[0] I'll help you, the MPTCP project has a page pointing out to Android ports of the MPTCP module: http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php/Users/Android which include a rebuilt kernel to include MPTCP as well as patched connection manager, network daemon and iproute2. Doesn't sound like base Android supports MPTCP to me.
I have seen this (well, something very similar) done before: newer versions of MS Excel (or at least the web based version) slide the cell focus indicator around instead of just removing it from one place to another. I didn't like it at first but probably because it was different and seemed unnecessarily showy, but after a couple of minutes to get used to the change it does make the interaction feel smoother and a little more natural.
> Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon

That's a bit unfair -- that was Friday afternoon only.

I don't have any kids in school yet, and I'm not in the US anymore anyway; but I do remember from my HS experience it would have been unkind to force me to complete all homework before any entertainment. School ended at 2:15 (because it started at 7am... ugh), but that's when after school activities started -- and who could have a decent college app without extracurriculars? I worked on the literary magazine, ran track/cross-country, was in a few plays/musicals, and got home either at 4:30 (early bus) or a bit before 6pm (late bus), usually the latter. In theory I could sometimes get some work done during the school day, but when would I hang out with friends, then?

I agree about limits on homework time, and entertainment time; but I think I'd be inclined to make sure they had both downtime and homework time, and if the homework couldn't be completed, so be it.
> I laughed out loud at the author's complaint that math homework involved doing a lot of calculation without the aid of a calculator. Well yes, that is how you develop math feel.

IIRC historically, mathematical algorithms used to be encoded as a handful of steps, so that people could do them on abacuses and the like without understanding what they were using.

Just sitting there crunching numbers by hand won't give you a feeling for maths. - Or the ability to approximate well, which is the real thing. That's a selection of tricks to do with multiplication and division that'll get you into the right ballpark.

That's something that can be encoded and taught as its own skill, spending ages doing things by hand in the hope that people will hit on that skill for themselves ain't it.
And another one http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/hallo-editor/ (integrates nicely with Aloha editor, http://aloha-editor.org/)
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Could you expand on this? I'm not sure I follow.
This situation is slightly different IMO. I'm not saying ignorance is an excuse, but the "Keep Calm..." ads are manufacturing the offensive product.

That company was actively engaged plagiarism and product is the trite rehash. The FB company wasn't selling the image per-se, but merely appropriating it for their service. If they were selling copies of Rehtaeh Parsons' image as a product itself rather than an uncredited and, as far as they're concerned, anonymous image of a girl to help them push the service, then they would be comparable.
Exactly. I've experienced this in mathematics. Just knowing the topic of a paper will typically narrow down the possible list of authors to about 5 people. From there, the writing style or other clues typically give it away.
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Usability aside, the view breakdown looks fantastic. I mean it can be overkill but whatever, that wireframe view shows some engineering.
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Its not really much different to other hobbies if your efficient at learning and improving. If you play a few games and then just stop then you wont improve much at all. But if you go back and analyse your play and your decisions at each point in the game you can quickly improve. And most parts of SC2 can be broken down into small parts which can be practiced with repetition, for instance practicing your build order for the first 3 minutes so you can do it without thinking if a huge benefit.

Ive found it not much different to learning guitar to be honest, or any other competitive game like Dota.
> I've been in this game for many years now, and I have the impression that a) is taking a larger and
larger percentage of my time.

Have the same feeling.
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Which encryption is NSA-secure?
He lists that as a separate bug, so it seems the drag targets are too small and they don't respond to taps.

I had some trouble myself interacting with an iOS7 time picker but it was about confusion of how wide the active areas where.

I'm also dubious of the still skeomorphic toggle buttons. They look like something you could drag across to activate, but you need to start your drag on the toggle switch so they're basically buttons.
Well, if it's just a book, if no-one's checking on it. (Which seems implied by the book being all the proof of your past life,) Then I'd go to a print shop and make myself a new book....
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For now it's used only for Siri which I guess makes sense: other services can easily retry the connection after switching data source, it's much more of a pain with Siri as one would expect greater responsiveness.
Exactly. There's this lose-lose idea for Apple and customers. Apple won't please business leaders till the business employees are able to work wherever they are, which the employees aren't necessarily asking for. As it's done for the CEOs (who use secretaries) the judge and users aren't the same.
"for example, converting 0.00009621 to scientific notation is tricky (it’s 9.621 x 10¯5, which makes no intuitive sense to me)"

Are math skills out there really THAT bad?
I personally think that if you need this ASCII art, then your project structure is probably suboptimal.
But I nonetheless submitted it because it is an interesting hack.
Belgium recently revealed that the NSA and the british secret service (partner of NSA) is spying on politicians and members of the EU.

So it had gotten me interested in which options now are secure? And which definatly aren't.

Is there anyone who can help us shed some light on this matter?