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I'm thinking of the drag-on effects of this shutdown on many communities. Thankfully it isn't during the summer months when many towns surrounding the national parks would be massively affected by the downturn in visitors (assuming by 'closed' they mean you can't actually go in).

The things that stood out to me were that the TSA will continue to operate WITHOUT PAY! Can they force these people to work without pay? How many of them are now out looking for other jobs. Hopefully this is not sustainable, and the TSA won't be able to staff themselves when the shutdown is over.

I found this bit interesting...
"Research into life-threatening diseases and other areas will stop, and new patients won’t be accepted into clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health."

Shouldn't the drug companies be paying for these things anyway?

"NASA Mission Control will continue supporting astronauts serving on the Space Station." - couldn't another country easily take over this task? I'm under the impression Americans aren't the only ones in the space station.

Note - I'm not American, these are just my thoughts on these services.
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if you have something you need to get done for work or otherwise, you use the most appropriate product.

if you "want to learn about hardware" you use the tools and resources that presently exist or make you own. Otherwise you do not want to learn about anything, you just want to screw around so you can tell your boss you are a hardware expert in ruby or some bollocks.
I do this with other people who aren't kids, though I try to keep it to family and close friends so that I don't thrash my reputation too much. Typically I'll pick a theme (say, "citrus fruit, and related topics") for a particular family get-together and see how many semi-plausible but invented facts revolving around that theme I can inject into conversations. Sometimes I'm rewarded by hearing facts that I made up regurgitated years later (one that I am proud of is that orange juice turns an opaque white when pasteurized, and needs to be dyed back to orange (like margarine) for sale.)

Fundamentally I think this is an exercise in creativity; sort of like telling a good campfire story of your own creation. So far as people play this game with kids, I suspect it is because kids are easier to fool so the game is more rewarding.
The idea of beacon is really good, but I agree with PP that the implementation needs work.

If I am going to buy one of these authors work, I need to see that work. You need a front page, with the best stories this day from your selection of writers (for free). People will come back for that page, creating stickyness, a feeling of personal relationship with frequent featured writers, and sales.

That might get you into google news, or linked on sites like this, so people hear about you.

Also, I think giving access to the whole network dilutes the product. I don't know what other model to suggest.

Oh, and if you are paying these people, you might hope to be able to write to them and suggest they cover particular topics.
> To pretend that pyschometrics does not exist is the equivalent of refusing to look through Galileo's telescope.

But a lot of psychometrics is pure, unadulterated, grade A horse shit.
Being a child of, being included in...

You can of course manage all those relations in a relational database but the job is done by you, not by the database.
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE Workflowy. However I don't know of which mobile apps you speak. Nothing on their website/blog about this.
> Excluding it from the desktop for one release is killing it.

No, it is delaying it from being the default on Ubuntu by 6 months.

> A big chunk of ubuntu's repository is now broken

Really? How so? I have not noticed anything broken at all. How exactly is it broken?

> resulting in a big "fuck you" from the users

I really very much doubt most users will even notice, and I also think you severely overestimate how many of those who do notice will care, and how many of those who care who sees Mir as something negative and/or are bothered by the delay.

> Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.

The point is they will eventually ship XMir, Mir and Mir-enabled toolkit versions by default, so everyone that don't take explicit steps to install a plain X server instead will be running Mir whether or not they run all their familiar apps - including X apps - on top of it.
> I have no interest in learning languages for learning languages sake

You wouldn't be learning it "for the sake of learning the language". You would be learning the language so you could "make... hardware do cool stuff"
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The author is a maintainer of eCryptFS. For those not familiar with it, eCryptFS is an encrypted filesystem used by several Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) to protect your home directory and/or the entire disk. It serves a similar purpose to TrueCrypt, BitLocker, FileVault, etc.

For the purpose of a full-disk encryption software, fingerprints are many times weaker than a good password. The purpose of such software is to prevent a thief, the cops, the NSA, or anyone else who takes possession of your computer, from viewing the contents of your hard drive. A fingerprint won't protect you from the cops, since your prints are already all over the place and they can probably force you to provide a fresh copy anyway. In that case, fingerprint logins would only give the user an illusion of security. So it's understandable that the author doesn't want to enable fingerprint logins to his software.

For the purpose unlocking a phone, on the other hand, a fingerprint is probably good enough. The contents of the phone usually aren't encrypted, so a determined attacker will just turn the phone off, pull out the SD card and/or the internal Flash memory, and read everything off of it. Or if you're NSA, forget the phone and get the data straight from Apple. TouchID is not for NSA-proofing your phone, it's for deterring common thieves and pranksters.

tl;dr: I agree with the author that fingerprints are not a good fit for full-disk encryption software. But I don't agree that fingerprints are completely useless. It all depends on the type of attack you're trying to defend against.
For balance on the video aspect - I actually significantly prefer having a video that saves me the time/effort of scrolling around and reading, and this certainly seems to be a popular trend.
("Some of the people, some of the time" etc. etc.)
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It says "Order granting default judgement", does that mean that the guy didn't show up or have an attorney present to represent him? That sounds like he didn't try fighting the suit and Pinterest won by default (same thing happens civil suits when the defendant pulls a no-show).
> How do we know that there wasn't a binary-like change where one generation didn't have our level of intelligence and the next did, and all humans today are descended from that single change,

This question seems kind of confused. But we can say with complete certainty that it's not the case that "one generation didn't have our level of intelligence and the next did" because generations don't happen at any particular time. Imagine your ancestor through the paternal line 30 generations back from you (that is, your father's father's father's... father). If you call him generation 1, then you're generation 31. But other people born in the same year as you, also descended from him, will not all be generation 31. And if you married one of them who was, for the sake of argument, only 28 generations removed from him, your children would be, in this labeling scheme, simultaneously generation 32 and generation 29.

The reason I say your question is confused is that the model where there was a "single change", and all humans today descend from it, requires several generations to take hold (as it gradually increases its population share), but you appear to posit only one.
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Wasn't it only designed a couple of years back? They had that competition to redesign it IIRC.
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Hmm, are you sure that this (linked lists with small elements) is a good example which you should tell people about?

Linked lists are bad because they have big overhead (8 bytes for every element in your case - which dominates by a large margin if you store an int in each node for example) and they are really bad for CPU caches (they have very little spatial locality), thus slowing down your code.

I much rather prefer the "growing array" approach.
I was held back by the amount of permissions it requires
So, where is it stored?
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How do we know that there wasn't a binary-like change where one generation didn't have our level of intelligence and the next did, and all humans today are descended from that single change, as opposed to it happening gradually?

Because it's very, very rare for evolution to actually work that way.
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Stack allocation needn't be unprincipled hackery. You can keep a buffer of static size on the stack (resp. in the struct) and fall back to dynamic allocation only if there is insufficient space.
This might be true, but I think you miss the point.

People will use the enviroment where the tools run stable.
You are also missing the point. The point is: it is irrelevant if mining is profitable or not at any given moment. Author of the article states that it is, when it is not.

If it is unprofitable - some of the competition will crumble, thus making mining more profitable for the rest of miners.

We need miners because they RUN the network. We don't need them to make huge bucks out of it. Existing mechanism (difficulty adjustment plus bitcoin market price plus mining costs) will guarantee that in the long term (after current artificial bubble stabilizes) mining will be just as profitable as any other business investment.
Makes me think they are trying to pull off a HP or a Yahoo.
Yet despite all of your issues, Ubuntu is by now by far the smoothest desktop experience I've had, and I suspect that's the experience most users have. Pretty much everything just works, and a lot of that I believe is squarely because they are perfectly happy to break convention if that is what it takes for them to get where they want to be.

> and they wont because now there is two backends to support for the toolkits

Both Qt and GTK have far more than just two backends already, yet they keep working. Two more is hardly going to be vastly more difficult to get right.

E.g. Gtk has Windows and OS X versions, as well as a HTML5 backend, and a DirectFB backend. And presumably the X backend will stay around too.

> but what will you say in the error message "Something stopped working, sorry?".

What does it say today if the X server fails?

> I never wanted to touch pulseaudio with a ten-foot pole, it is kept away from my systems in every form. Yet Ive seen apps complain about pulseaudio and have it in their settings by default, then not working and telling me to fix my pulseaudio installation.

So either don't use those apps, fix them, or install Pulse Audio anyway. It's not app developers obligation to make things keep working on every bizarre configuration around.

If you want a conservative distribution, perhaps you will be happier with Debian.

> There will be apps developed by Ubuntu for Mir that will just cause problems when others try to run them on Wayland.

If people write their apps to run straight on Mir, sure. Just as if people write their code to target any library that isn't universally available.

But just like exceedingly few people target X directly without a toolkit or wrapper, I think it'll be exceedingly unlikely that lots of people will clamour to write code targeting Mir directly. Much less likely than depending on pulse-audio functionality, for example.
"How to make $100k in Open core" would be a better title imho. After all, he makes his earnings from the pro additions, not the open part.
I'm amazed that reading is not about 10 times as fast as listening to someone talk in a video for most people on this site. I can't stand videos for this very reason: my time is limited, and listening to someone drawl on without being able to search or scan is maddening.
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So how do I make $100k in Open Source now?
I studied at a university and not at a college, but I don't remember half of it.

But I think the core of this education is to get shit done without help. When I started I felt lost, because everyone was like "yeah... if you want to come to lecture do it, and if not don't, I don't care"

So I started and failed horribly.

The first year was a PITA, but eventually some students get it figured out and do their thing.
Meta-nitpick: "open source" also has a broader definition then just being able to look at the source.
No, that's horrible.

There are better ways of teaching children that people lie, and that information is not always accurate.

Besides, people don't always know that they're passing on bad information, so you'd have the situation where someone is passing on stuff that is wrong but saying "no! this isn't part of the game! this stuff is really real!"
My own experiment in brevity: the Pitch Blurb.

(Ironically long) explanation at http://thinkinghard.com/blog/PitchBlurb.html.

Lots of examples in one web page at http://thinkinghard.com/blog/index.html.
Feedback:

when editing or creating a post why is it just a plain text box and not a full one with options to link text/ use BB code and all that good stuff.

The site is very easy to navigate and all that/ no bugs. looks hacker news - ish

Oh another thing.

When someone comments on a post that you make there should be a sort of notification system in place

and then let people be able to do @doubt_me thanks for the reply. etc etc....
It's loading very slowly. Try:

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Adult vocabulary is a strong predictor of adult IQ just as child vocabulary is, but I wouldn't recommend studying vocabulary to get smarter. Being "a predictor" says nothing about being a cause; smarter kids know more words because they're smarter, but the "predictor" relationship is established at the point of "smarter kids know more words".

I am informed (by a Chinese teenager, so possibly not perfectly reliably) that vocabulary size isn't considered a concept in China -- there are words that everyone is expected to know, technical vocabulary, and words that no one is expected to know (by way of example, I use the word "vacillate" in my day-to-day casual speech, but that's unusual, and many native english speakers don't know what it means. That situation is not supposed to be possible in China).

For purposes of my point, the truth of the assertion isn't really relevant. Such circumstances, obviously, mean that vocabulary can't be a predictor of IQ after the age at which it's all been learned. Do you imagine that IQ differences would disappear along with the predictive value of vocabulary size?
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You must have not been looking too hard as that was never true.

Apple has no problem with Open Source. It is just that a few Open Source Licenses have a problem with Apple. A small but important difference. Apple couldn't care less what open source license you use. But some licenses like the GPL forbid you from distributing your work in a place like the appstore.
That's a $100k question ;)
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Very honest retrospective, that was a great read.
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Exactly. From the article: "since the defendant didn’t even respond to the complaint, it’s not exactly clear whether he will pay up."

So not only is this a default judgement, but the $7.2 million will probably never materialize because the defendant is in China. However, I'm guessing that Pinterest will get control over the domains (which, to them, is probably more important) because the registrars are US-based.
No text? No problem for Chrome's search by image
Kind of curious what happened with the team from Diaspora. I thought they pivoted to a website where users posted pictures and could place text on them.
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I got the addon working, but I can't seem to make the nav and the title bar collapse. Does this only work in the unstable builds?

I wonder if this is not available on my platform (MacOS).
Ah yes, of course. I should have remembered that. So Firefox is multi-threaded now?
Why American news coverage of the government shutdown is a failure of democracy
No. I don't believe they'll let you in the door.
However, if they're trying to sell to people who are willing to pay for READING content, maybe it's best to have a written description.

I, for one, rarely watch videos, due to the disruption of a soundtrack to those around me (get out the headphones, etc.).
For the benefit of people that don't use this already you should stress you need to press "Return", then type "~?", or whatever.

If you press ~ without a preceding carriage-return it will be sent over the wire, as per any other keystroke.
I agree with the article but the title on HN is terrible, and needs to be changed. The article says that talking with, and reading to, your kids improves their verbal skills and makes them able to better process information. Who could argue with that? My mom would read to me all the time when I was younger. She would read to me books she liked, classic scifi and such. I enjoyed them very much, even though they weren't written for kids. She would talk about the stories with me and explain some things I did not get. I think that helped quite a bit with my language skills. However, that's in noway negates the fact that some kids are simply smarter genetically then others. Paying attention to your kid and talking with them would greatly increase their abilities, but all kids aren't borne equal, and I don't think the article makes that argument, unlike the title. It should be changed to "Talking to kids greatly increases their cognitive abilities."

I think having kids be exposed to several other languages as soon as they are borne, and reading to them books you personally like and find interesting helps them immensely (obviously filter out explicit content, old classics are usually good). It's also important not to dumb things down for kids. Basically Teletubbies = bad, family friendly comedy in a foreign language = good.

In a side note I also find it infuriating how economists always make an argument that women should go back into the workforce after having kids, because its good for the family and for the economy. But what about the kid. I don't want to single out women, but I think either the mother or the father should take at least 5 years off, after the birth of their child, to raise their child, instead of hiring a nanny. I understand that it's not fair to always ask the women to do it, but some one in the family should. It's not always an option, but more often then not its the children of the wealthy that you see being raised by nannies. Ok, that's getting off topic.
You're being downvoted and yet your comment is worthy and even a "hack" so to speak. That's sad and typical. On behalf of people who care and are fascinated, thank you.

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Oh, I get that. What I am saying is that just because two concepts are irrational does not mean that the language we have constructed to talk about these concepts plays into the shared root cause.

As a concrete example: Tea leave reading and bigfoot sightings are both related to (really, both stemming from) apophenia, but accusing tea leave readers of being basically bigfoot-ologists is a rather... 'clumsy' way of handling the subject matter, for better or worse.

Sometimes it is certainly useful to point out that an underlying phenomenon is the basis for another absurd hypothesis, but that is something that you need to go into with some degree of fineness. If you just jump right into that, you'll be accused of being "rude, and therefore wrong" (illogical, I know...).
> Isn't that a little drastic? The fact that my 4096-bit-gpg-encrypted mail has been stored by them doesn't mean my communication is pwned

The'll store it until they can pwn it. That's what the huge data center is for.
Thanks for your feedback, it's very much appreciated!

> why is it just a plain text box and not a full one with options to link text/ use BB code and all that good stuff

You can use BBCode, I just forgot to put that in the help text.

> When someone comments on a post that you make there should be a sort of notification system in place

It's coming up, today. The site is just bare-bones right now, but I'll add more features (and advertise more) in the next few days.

> and then let people be able to do @doubt_me thanks for the reply. etc etc....

Coming up, stay tuned! Thanks again for being one of the first guinea pigs! :)
What about this:

> Other parts of the infrastructure used by Mir originate from Android. These parts include Android’s input stack[11] and Google’s Protocol Buffers.[12] An implementation detail in memory management shared with Android is the use of server-allocated buffers which Canonical employee Christopher Halse Rogers claims to be a requirement for "the ARM world and Android graphics stack"

I think Canonical wanted to be able to easily port Ubuntu to Android devices in the future. Will that be possible with Wayland, too? I think that's a pretty important aspect, because Android is the new "Windows", and there will be a ton of Android devices in the future, and just like Linux adapted to working on Windows machines, they will need to adapt to work on Android devices very well, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)
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