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My Grandfather completed suicide when I was 13 years old. It was an awful experience for our whole family which includes his wife, their children, and their children's children.

His suicide was caused by extreme depression, something he fought his entire life. In my opinion, now, its not different than losing a battle with cancer, except that outwardly it appears he "chose" to end his life. Having experienced depression myself, I know it was not really him who made that decision. Tools like this will hopefully help us find new "cures" or at least support structures for those who are seriously mentally ill.
The fact is that when it comes to SMB the physics are a make it or break it kind of deal. If he hadn't spent that time tweaking them, SMB wouldn't have had a chance to succeed. And I'm not saying that the physics are the key to its success, but they definitely were a requirement.
On the topic of brand, I always read "tarsnap" as "tarsnip" - like a parsnip.

I think I get the name (unix `tar` plus a snapshot or securely locked in). It's not lack of familiarity - I've known about it for years, and even have an account.

I doubt you're keen on a name change, but "tarlock" would avoid this.

Or... a parsnip as a logo.

EDIT how bizarre! The instant I commented this, jasonkester made the same suggestion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462378
Fair point, I admit that that bit was surprising, to me anyway. I still think that anybody who was not surprised by it is entitled to say so.
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Gravity of what incidents? Because if you are talking about the NSA using data from Facebook, then the you shouldn't be surprised answer is correct: No one in their right mind ought to think putting all that data on Facebook didn't have massive privacy implications. If not from the NSA, than from companies like Facebook itself. No amount of legal safe guards can prevent that problem and preserve those free social networks because it's an inherent business property of those networks. You are the product and we shouldn't let people delude themselves otherwise.

If you are talking about the use of phone log data and other meta-data that develop incidental to your use of a communications system that are supposed to be private because they exist for limited purposes, then sure I agree with you.

But let's not pretend that the NSA looking at Facebook is really much worse than anyone else doing it. The reason raison d'etre for these things is to record such information.
Thought this was going to be about the Ripple emulator used for making Chrome act like a device while you are working on PhoneGap apps. I think that was open source anyway, but it is always way behind the current PhoneGap version and buggy, so it would have been nice if it merged with PhoneGap, excuse me, Cordova or whatever, and was going to be better supported...

Never heard of this Ripple and don't care anything about it myself.
I explain how this differs from type providers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462374
Show HN: Shuteye - "As private as possible" video conferencing
I wanted to submit this to the brilliant people of Hacker News hoping to get some constructive feedback.

I am writing a couple blog posts on the design process. The first one is located at: http://blog.shuteye.co/post/61493917659/designing-a-product-to-be-as-private-as-possible

The project is live, but the charging of credit cards is fake at this time. To 'purchase' sessions use the credit card number '4242 4242 4242 4242', any valid expiration date, and valid CVC code.

Thank you everyone in advance for your feedback.

@markjstahl
There is the flag option.
You have a point, but one thing logo contests do well is they get a wide variety of concepts, from a community that knows what tarsnap means to them.

Then you call in a real designer to look over the submissions and pick the one that inspires them, and do an improved version of that.
A large volume of the jobs that are being automated are are invented with computers in mind.

The more stringent accounting standards that were created over the last 20 years would have led to the demand for thousands upon thousands of white collar workers, if we still kept books and records the way we did in 1910.

On the other hand, companies would not have been able to grow large enough to need new accounting standards in the first place, if not for the productivity increases since the introduction of the computer.
Eh? Markov chain? Just asking.
I'm sure the domain without the "the" was taken, so this isn't particularly useful advice for someone moving to the crowded .com TLD.
Finding out something for sure that was previously only suspected does not typically make someone surprised. In order to be surprised it is necessary to have not suspected the thing discovered. It seems very accurate (and in no way diminishing of the gravity of the situation) for people who suspected these things to say that they are unsurprised. You must be doing some pretty wild mental gymnastics to see it differently. Perhaps what you mean is that you don't think it is particularly useful for people to talk about how they aren't surprised, in which case I agree.
How about heraldry + block mode diagram?

We did CBC mode in "tattoo flash" style.

(I'm seriously considering another take on block mode diagrams for a tattoo).
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I think a parsnip would also be an awesome logo.

Before you discount it, remember that Sourcefire has a goofy looking cartoon pig.
I think you missed the point.

He was poking fun at the current culture by calling him a "content creator".

I saw this talk in person, and it was obvious in that context.
I think it could sound wrong to the naive because novices generally want things to be simple. They want a few rules, a simple formula, a way to reduce an unknown problem to a known one.

This comes up a lot. The most pithy version I've seen is from Mencken: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." But the same lesson is in the [1] Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, and also in the shu-ha-ri model [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisit...
[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShuHaRi
Not knocking your decision to live outside of SV, believe me I understand it, but on the purely economic front one thing to recognize that while housing and other expenses may eat a lot of the salary, you are contributing (or rather, can) to 401K and regular savings at a higher percentage level than you would be with a lower priced job. Your standard of living might not be any better while living in SV, but you can invest in your future more in absolute dollars.

The flip side of that is that this place is just endless bubbles. Get on the wrong side of that and you'll never recover.
It's too detailed to reproduce at small sizes. It's not that the art isn't scalable.
Wanted: Developer for 'this' billion dollar idea.
Actually, I am planning to launch a website/app for ‘combo offers’, especially in food and beverage segment (restaurants). On the site/app, restaurants will be able to post their combo offers like ‘burger + fries + cola’, ‘buy 1, get 1 free’, ‘buy 1, get 2nd at 50% off’, etc. Individual users of the site/app will be able to form groups online/offline (through proposed site/app) to buy those combo offers collectively and share items of their choice in them. This way, individuals will be able to save a lot of money on the items of their choice in a combo offer. Also, restaurants will be able to sell more combo offers without lowering prices any further in today’s cut throat competition. A win-win situation for both.

Combo offers can save individuals lots of money. Please look at the following case:

Case: If an offer of ‘Buy 1, get 2nd at 50% off’ is available for a $10.00 pizza, then:
Combo price = $10 + $5 (50% off) = $15

If two individuals form a group to buy this combo, each individual will have to pay $7.50 for a single pizza i.e. a saving of $2.50 (25%) per person. That's a big saving. I am targeting 1% US market ($6.6 billion) within first 3 years of operations.

I've designed the layouts of the site/app after 3.5 months of hard work (8 hours daily). We'll need do develop specialized algos for this idea and I've even devised a way of filing patents of algos even for free (patent filing cost $30,000 - $40,000).

I am ready with following policies: target user base, launching, expansion (rapidly), revenue generation, promotion, funding, handling competitors, etc.

I am ready to invest US$50,000 (my own money). Any type of help (technical, references, etc) from you is most welcome. For any type of help, you will be compensated with substantial equity in the company.

Email me at agarwal.k100@gmail.com to get full idea and then you can decide whether to be my partner or not.
In general, magnetism requires the material to be ordered, and heating an object up involves adding lots of random motion to the system.

> The electrons might even get excited enough to jump to entirely different orbitals

That's what causes hot objects to glow, basically -- the electrons get pushed to higher orbitals, and then fall back down again, emitting light.
> I can imagine, for example, that "made (or served) by humans" could be the "organic" or "fair trade" of the future.

Actually, I would see it the other way round, on one condition. If people had a guaranteed income (or housing, healthcare & food) then paying humans to do work that robots can do would seem like an unnecessary luxury to me.
Now that the NYT (who has been known to collude with intelligence agencies in the shaping of public opinion) has released something, we now know the full extent of privacy infringement and the world will magically turn into a better place…

When NSA whistleblowers have been trying to do outreach to the public for years prior to the Snowden leaks[0], to be upset because some people want to take a pragmatic approach/perspective after witnessing an apathetic public for years at large, is pretty farcical IMO.

At this point, I don't expect anything from congress nor many of my "friends" on social networks. If I want to be secure in my communications with them, I will/have taken the steps to do so through means discussed at length plenty of times on HN. If governments across the world want to go on witch hunts, they'll only get more of what has happened because of them: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got".

The way I see it, the point of no return was long ago…

[0] http://techtv.mit.edu/embeds/21783?html5=true&size=medium&cu...
Very cool... but where is pressure? I don't see even a mention of what pressure is being used.
"I don’t think I visit another site beginning with x"

Yeah yeah..!
If you have the id or username, then you can check for yourself with a simple HTTP GET to https://graph.facebook.com/[Number/username]. Seeing that this app uses the Graph API to request accounts, I highly doubt it will be able to see any residual/soft delete data Facebook might hold for you.
You might have a bad unit. Mine is just iteration 2 and I have none of these problems. It's pretty quick.
Not at all.

All the logic is performed client-side, and the only thing that is sent back to StartHQ is your final launcher (so you can use the same launcher on other machines, including your phone / tablet).
Only 2 years ago, there still was Nokia E7 with that form factor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E7
A deceptively simple question
An asterisk encased in amber.
No, I want you to acknowledge the gravity of the incident

So you will scold us till we agree with you?
People tend to not take crazy people seriously. That's kinda sad because the guy is indeed one of the smartest people in the field.

I just hope he gets some help and is able to work his issues out.
Mereological study of parts and wholes applies here, along with small-world network algorithms. Internal causation is a real thing, and best explains various seemingly "utterly chance-like" statistical problems. I'm saying that the environment coupled with internal measures ultimately explain what occurred; from an outside perspective, all I can really depend on is an "external description" of the problem which attributes political and legal descriptions of the result, rather than strictly psychological. "Deranged" suggests a narrow line to the psychological; "mad" suggests a combination of issues which similarly seems to mirror the structure of "depression" which itself is a result of a combination of issues.

I subscribe to legal realism. Like I said, I don't know how we ought to treat him, which implies that I don't know much about the man himself. Legal systems analyze intention to come to (public) justice, not to ensure that the victim is redressed.

My position or statements are a comment on the adjacent, failing legal system. These governments and trade unions (via pharmaceutical industries) have become so thick with corruption that the theoretical construct of the "Observation Statement," emergent from Logical Positivism and Scientific Philosophy, is subjective to game-theoretical quantum systems.

Am I saying that ontologically mental illnesses are diseases?[1] That's a debate. However, Copycat suicide has warrantability or assertability conditions, and we can employ strategies that minimize the spread of disease to minimize the fluctuation of social statistical norm deviation, along time paradigmatic cycles.

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[1]: http://www.ted.com/conversations/14653/debate_is_mental_illn...
I use it for math at the undergraduate to graduate level and have for over a year, but not super religiously. There are plenty of things in math that benefit from this treatment. It's good to just know definitions, then when you come across something that satisfies it you'll know what to look for to find out more about it. You'll know the exact requirements of theorems so that you don't have to once again look on wikipedia to see that yes this does require a compact set. You'll find a card that says something you've reviewed before but go "wait, why is that true?" and then work out the general idea again. You can memorize known identities that are just plain useful, things that can't be easily Googled but can be easily recognized. You can put warnings to yourself that certain theorems can be easily applied incorrectly. You can learn the most common names for theorems so that it is easier to communicate with others about them.

And above all, it's just another chance to look over things you already should know. I won't claim that it's more or less useful than reading a textbook for the equivalent amount of time or doing problems, but it's certainly more useful than doing nothing.

P.S. Anki has very nice LaTeX support! I don't know about the others, but this is invaluable for math.
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Hitting the thing that looks like a play button actually toggles the video visibility.
> There's exactly one piece of somewhat moving interface in the entire site. [(YouTube)]

You are making the exact same mistake he is. You are picturing what you remember of YouTube and in your recollection, it is simple. This is because they have done a reasonable job of using a simple design, not because they have avoided "moving" things. Go look and you will find plenty of menus, tabs, comments, and other ui elements that are built of the exact stuff he says is worthless. Holding any of these sites up as an example of being essentially just text and a few images just indicates that you don't have much of an eye for detail.
I think it actually is considering that both games he played were platformers (SMB and Spelunky).

The 360 controller is pretty much the ideal controller for that genre so if the Steam controller can reach parity that's a big deal.

The real test is how it performs with twitch FPSs and games like DOTA.
Wealthy politicians
Maybe RIM as a company didn't understand it, but executive Mike Lazardis seemed to realise the threat, since in the article he apparently stated something like "if this thing carries on, we're competing with a Mac, not a Nokia" when talking about the original iPhone.
Based on the state transition temperature of Al, the table displays data at 1 atm.

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What I don't get is how Carbon has a liquid state in that table. At 1 atm, solid carbon (not CO2) sublimates into its gaseous phase just below 4 kK.
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Implementing features piecewise is not remotely the same thing as iterative development. The point to iteration is that you develop your understanding of the problem along with the solutions, many of which get thrown away.
Have you talked to the bigger companies? Microsoft is here, for one, and are unlikely to turn up their noses to a .NET developer. Plenty of places have dozens of recs open. Don't talk to the stupid recruiters, talk to the companies themselves.

I'm not dismissing your larger point that a good engineer can quickly take on a specific stack - engineering is what is important in a good employee, not knowledge of a specific API.
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If an American student commits a crime in Turkey, we wouldn't call this student a "Turkish student." Some universities in Turkey may not be wholly funded by the Turkish government, nor culturally and financially indebted to a Turkish family.
This chap gonna make big. wishes..
>A patent is a monopoly in the same way all property rights are monopolies: you get the exclusive right to use something.

If you wrap ideas and physical objects up in a box called "something," you've begged the question.
I was struck by this part:

"FEINSTEIN: [...] upstream collection [...] comprises about 10 percent of all collection that takes place under 702, and occurs when NSA obtains Internet communications, such as e-mails, from certain U.S. companies that operate the Internet [backbone]"

If vacuuming the internet backbone is only 10% of the data they collect, where the hell do they find enough data to fill the remaining 90%?

Phone calls/SMS? Banks/payments? Encryption they can't break, so they have to ask the endpoint, like Lavabit?
Animations are slow, but not prohibitively bad. I don't like the style though, and wish i could go back easily.
Not only that, it contributes to a culture of deceit in the valley (and in tech entrepreneurialism, in general).

This is the same mindset that led to Groupon being funded so heavily. Both seem to be classic examples of the "bigger fool" investment model. We all know it's not a sustainable or ethical business, but investors dive in knowing that with the kind of revenue numbers this sort of thing can exhibit for a short time they'll be able to unload their shares to less savvy investors in a year or two, before the reality of this business sets in (or before the law steps in and makes them act right...like a thousand other retailers that make a modest profit and provide good service and fair dealings).

Investors that fund stuff like this should be shunned by entrepreneurs (hard to do with Groupon's investors, as a lot of smart money went into Groupon). Get rich quick schemes should not be how we build the future.
i live in a democracy yet i feel powerless.
The NYT is using "social network" in the term's pre-Internet era sense, meaning, as the headline and story say, "social connections" and "large-scale graph analysis."

Nowhere in their story do the reporters allege that the NSA has been bulk-downloading private Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. information with the cooperation of those companies. (In fact, I would be very surprised if that were the case, as it goes against what my own reporting has established.)

Instead, as the story says in the second paragraph, the NSA is building social graphs based on its "analysis of phone call and e-mail logs." We know they get phone call metadata via Section 215 of the Patriot Act from telcoms like AT&T, VZ, Sprint, etc., which have long been in bed with FedGov. My guess is that the email metadata comes from two sources: AT&T, VZ, Sprint, etc., and bulk fiber taps (remember, "UPSTREAM" from the earlier Snowden slides) aimed at email providers that do not fully support SMTP-TLS.

When I wrote about this in June (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57590389-38/), only Google among the top mail providers was fully supporting SMTP-TLS, while Yahoo Mail, Hotmail.com/Outlook.com, AOL, etc. were not. And for SMTP-TLS, it takes two to tango.

A possible third source, also via UPSTREAM, is monitoring HTTPS connections to Facebook itself, which was using 1024-bit RSA keys until recently, as I wrote about here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57591560-38/

Finally, the NSA is supplementing its email-and-phone metadata database with whatever it can vacuum up through public records (the article refers to voter registration rolls, property records, and Facebook profiles) and non-public data held by regulated industries that, unlike large Silicon Valley companies, have little interest in litigating against FedGov on privacy. The article refers to bank codes, insurance information, passenger manifests, billing records, and "location-based services like GPS and TomTom" -- odd wording, that, and a hint that the reporters may not have understood all of their material. Cell phone location metadata from carriers is probably included as well.

In other words, Facebook can be reasonably criticized for moving slowly away from 1024-bit RSA keys and not supporting SMTP-TLS, which have made it easier for not only the NSA but other intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance too. But this story is not about the NSA having direct access to Facebook's servers or getting bulk dumps of direct messages from Twitter, and in fact there's zero evidence that's the case.
Can't wait for the follow up, "How I'm dealing with my Traumatic Brain Injury"

Seriously, I get that one can rationalize away : "I have never been in a bike accident nor experienced a close call, though I know what has happened to less fortunate bikers. I try to be cautious: I don’t fly through intersections, and I always look both ways. I believe the helmet has limitations and won’t protect me in many kinds of accidents. "

Helmets do one thing really really well, they mitigate brain trauma. Sure they look stupid, sure they are bulky, sure they take time to put on and put off. When you lose control of your bike, or it is taken from you by circumstances beyond your control, a helmet will give you a fighting chance to avoid having your greatest asset made irrelevant.
Everything that is technically exploitable will be exploited, I prefer to be cautious rather than live in a bubble and assume that powerful entities will care for my concerns.

And by the way, IANAL, but the collecting of data was not technically illegitimate, right?
I'm a teacher and my next term starts in one month. I'm retooling all my lesson plans right now to use this. Thank you so much, I'll be following this project closely.
If a person prefers using a trackball, that's great, but when the same tools used by the pros costs about $50, there isn't really any other reason to use anything else.
As a member of various communities dedicated to language learning, spaced repetition software is very widespread. Languages require memorization, you simply need to remember the words so they eventually become second nature.

Sometimes in life the answer can't be reasoned about, you just have to buckle down and memorize it.
Google Search is just math, and a physics engine for a game is just math. Both of those things also tend to be covered by trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, not patents.

Your argument is terrible. Justify your aggression with better arguments.
I rest my case ;-)
I worked for a company that was building similar hardware. The main problem not mentioned much in the linked article is that of enabling customers to implement their own proprietary trading strategies without requiring them to be FPGA experts themselves.