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Ask HN: Have I wasted my college years by commuting?
Hey guys, I've been struggling with enjoying college (I'm currently a junior) because, long story short, I commute and didn't take the chance to transfer to another university. In high school I applied to 4 places and got rejected from Cornell and ended up going to a State University that I lived across the street from (quite literally...I can see the university from my house). I'm in my 3rd year and I feel I just didn't have the same experiences as my peers did by living on campus and enjoying the entire package. I have no problems being social and attending events but I haven't found that one thing in college that makes me feel like I'm part of something bigger than myself (if you know what I mean). My freshman year was plagued by the inability to drive to campus so I walked but I tried my best to talk to people in my classes (people like me). I joined various clubs but the spark wasn't there (Biochemistry club was close but I'm not in Biochemistry anymore---One person in there was in the same situation yet he's doing very well in terms of enjoying his college life). Then I thought about joining a fraternity but I'm not sure if that would jive well with me (I'm a commuter so that raises eyebrows from on campus folk in a fraternity). I'm afraid of leaving college without a substantial change in personality from high school. I'd like to reinvent myself because I don't want to be the same guy I was in high school.
Can someone shed a little light on what these graphs represent? I'm assuming it's some sort of weighting function, but the article has zero explanation of what we're looking at - the axes aren't even labelled.
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The trouble is that any scenario that would require invoking the 14th amendment, et. al. would already be sending shock waves through financial markets and economies around the world... effectively, putting a big question mark next our political will and the full faith and credit of the government... ironically, this would also blow a massive hole in the budget.

The fallout would be epic.
Actually, that might be the deal /maker/ for me. I am away from home for a day at a time, then when I work from home I'm nowhere near the thermostat, so the whole "sensor" thing doesn't really work - which, to their credit, they told me, before I purchased.
That's a loaded question and I'm not going to play that game.
Does anyone know if there is a pre-reception party this year as well?
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> We're talking about A because Israel extends certain privileges only to A-jews. Orthodox jews only accept A-jews.

No. If you convert today by Orthodox standards, then you will be recognized by Israel and Orthodox jews as a jew. You most certainly can do it, you just have to follow stricter standards and there is no reason to believe that such standards were not followed then.
I have already emailed my accountant to file for the refund.
Do you have any proof of this claim or is this conjecture?
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> His argument is clearly that people have a right to privacy.

Except there is no right to engage in total privacy. There is a right against unreasonable search and seizure. But that's hardly a right of total privacy.

Maybe his argument is that he thinks people should have a right to total privacy?
Even if it's not stealing (and I don't see any reason to actually call it that), it's nonetheless pretty close to pointless to move remove bottles and cans from recycling bins that will be picked up by a truck anyway into a shopping cart and drag them across town. It may be a slightly negative side-effect of an on-balance worthwhile policy, but it's odd to consider it positive when there are better ways to help people.
Health Exchange Tech Problems Point To A Thornier Issue
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Thats really weird.
IME Recycle places here in NZ tend to be clean, well maintained and effectively managed.

Also the idea that the point of recycling is to give poor people the opportunity to root through trash is a new idea for me.

Maybe there is something that could be improved in the San Francisco Recycling process?
Show HN: mysql proxy logger: a golang server for logging mysql queries
That's not clear at all. The smoke from some toast burning and the smoke from your kitchen being on fire aren't necessarily the same in amount/duration/composition/distribution. Obviously an ideal detector would take such things into account and reject false positives.

I do not know the degree to which this is possible in practice, but certainly it's been true basically every place I've lived that the smoke detectors very rarely reacted to "typical food burning incidents."
> That's perfectly valid, since those examples were first trotted out prior to that with no argument.

Except the burden lies with those wanting to add a right to privacy to the list of rights we have. The right to privacy simply doesn't exist. There is a right against unreasonable search and seizure. But that's hardly a right of total privacy.

> If it's so obvious why we should treat those as special cases, it should be trivial to explain why.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask you why you want to change the laws and protections we have now, and I think it's perfectly reasonable for you to be required to stand up to the questions being asked.
Ooookaayyy... I'll try again:

Assuming that you don't oppose privacy categorically, do you disagree that "people should have the ability to engage total privacy through any means of communication they so choose." If so, why?
That is what I though. I stopped using the desktop version after suffering for highly CPU usage from the client... Also I don't want 10GB on my HD :P
1000 concurrent users? Are you prematurely optimizing? Very very very few sites get that many concurrent users. I own a site that gets 1500 visitors a day, and usually there's 12-15 concurrent users.
well, some of them do, as evidenced above.

they just get their facts wrong, as also evidenced above.

-bowerbird
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What a great idea and an interesting use of URL-shortening technology. Kudos!
I never said that no one proposed an alternative. I said that not enough people are being constructive and proposing alternatives.
I am on year 13 of their fantasy sports site. I'm going to know what works and what doesn't. From applets to flash to mobile....Not to be a jerk, but do you? Otherwise don't have this conversation with me.
You're missing the point entirely. Imagine if people thought the same way about height as they do intelligence. Neurotic parents would waste all their time trying to make their children taller. The nightly news would be filled with segments on how X or Y impacts your child's height. Yet, none of this would do much to change outcomes, because height, though highly variable among siblings, is mostly genetic.
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8 Alleged Silk Road Drug Dealers Arrested Worldwide
It would have been rather uncomfortable to have been a Tor user with "Dread Pirate Roberts" as a username, if you knew nothing about Silk Road and happened to be a Princess Bride fan.
More than once my dog has tried crawling thru the bathroom wall to escape the noise. False alarms got bad enough when I was learning to cook a steak right that just the sight of the cast-iron frying pan would send him into hiding.

Yes, majority of fire deaths involve a non-working detector. Considering how severely & irrationally people react to false positives, anything that calms people into not permanently disabling the device is good.
As usual, I prefer reporting by professional journalists to the press-release recycling service ScienceDaily, the source of the link kindly submitted here. On a drive today, I heard a report on this newly published study on National Public Radio,

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/08/230175345/delayin...

and the strength of that report, brief as it is, is that other researchers were interviewed besides those with the new publication in Health Affairs. The Health Affairs study, at bottom, is an argument for a change in public policy to have more funding of basic research on slowing aging. And maybe that is a good idea. (My bias would be to support that kind of research, as I am a good bit older than most participants on Hacker News.) Whether doing a lot of that kind of research will actually result in safe and effective means to slow aging and thus prolong healthy lifespans is the $7.1 trillion question.
Basically the testing suite uses an image of known brightness profile (if you scroll down to the IE7 section you can see an example of a test image). It looks like what its doing is grabbing the interpolated image from the browser and plotting the brightness against x-axis, which it can then compare to the actual brightness function.
> A lock that is held for 10 microseconds potentially causes a lot more contention than a CAS that takes a few nanos.

See, if you're trying to compare those two things, you're comparing a lot more than locking vs lock-free; you're comparing two completely different designs. All you can do with a single CAS is a very primitive operation like queue enqueue/dequeue, stack push/pop, set add/remove, etc. If you're holding a lock for 10us you're doing a whole lot more than that; you're doing something that isn't possible to do lock-free, and your design is inherently less concurrency-friendly.

If your experience comes from taking a coarse-grained mutex-heavy design in C++ and reimplementing it in Java with a design that communicates between threads only with lock-free data structures, then your results aren't indicative of locking vs. lock-free or C++ vs. Java.

If you really want to compare locks vs. lock-free apples-to-apples, then use data structures that have the same API as your lock-free data structures, but are implemented by taking a lock for a very short amount of time -- just enough time for the operation you would have performed lock-free.

And if you want to compare C++ vs. Java, use an equally concurrency-friendly design with both. If you're using high-performance lock-free data structures in Java, use the same in C++, since they are available in both. The memory management complications can be confined to the container library; at the application level exclusive ownership of objects can be passed from thread to thread.
I commuted too. It totally sucked, and I got much less out my college experience than I could've. My girlfriend did too. Basically, our answer is, yes, you did, sorry.

Some people are somehow able to naturally fit into the college life even though they commute. Other people just don't, and need the continuous hustle of the dorm life to really feel like they are learning something about how people live and interact. You just might be one of the latter.
The man with 4k+ comment karma certainly must exercise often.
Well, there are actually some reasons to stay with 32 bit when using AArch64 in ARM v8. There are lots of goodies in the new, RISCier encodings and the benefits from the more traditional encoding are more relevant for lower-end chips. I'm sort of waiting for someone to make an ARM equivalent of the x32 ABI[1], using the new instructions but keeping 32-bit pointers to minimize cache pressure.

Still, 64-bit memory addressing does have advantages in terms of garbage collection, mmaping files, etc even if the phone has less than 1 GB of RAM.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
So does that mean the CAs will start penalizing sites if they give out their private key and -- pursuant to a court order -- don't tell anyone that they've given it out?
I don't know about anyone else but I only ever use Amazon Payments in Cydia because of limitations in Cydia.

I would prefer to use PayPal but because Cydia doesn't allow for proper backgrounding, auto-login/password saving for PayPal accounts, or auto-login/password saving for saving Cydia accounts, I get stuck in a situation where I need to pull two generated passwords (IE, so complex I would never even try to commit them to memory.) from 1Password. One for my Cydia account (via Google), one for my PayPal account.

Swap to 1Password, pull one, swap to Cydia, login, swap out again, pull my PayPal password, and the payment flow is lost and I'm logged out of my Cydia account.

I'm sure there are reasonable technical excuses for all of this but I figured it was worth mentioning. This may not be a very common use-case but I'm sure the basics of "I use Amazon on Cydia because I can pre-authorize $50 and not have to re-enter my password every time" apply to many people.
>> at this time it does not support payments for digital goods or services.

Found this in the fine print.

~B
there are a number of these online nowadays,
but this is a rather clean implementation...

-bowerbird
> Hoarding gold since 2005 and tell you one thing - just can't wait.

I don't want to burst your bubble, but if things go tits up, it will affect the demand of useless shiny metals and as a consequence, their value. If I were you, I would hoard toilet paper. Historically, for some reason, when the shit hits the fan, there is never enough toilet paper around to wipe up the mess.
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If they are to be brought into a conversation not specifically about them as examples, yes.

Whether it's wiretapping or execution, when referencing those crimes you're making a personal evaluation of the actions without referencing any criteria for for how you judged them. To do so is to play to people's emotions about the crimes you referenced rather than the actual item for discussion, which is when wiretapping is justified, and specifically for what crime.

I view it as equally manipulative to state "we can all agree that murder is bad and wiretapping should be justified in some cases" as to say "we can all agree that changing traffic lanes without signalling does not justify wiretapping" when the actual question has nothing to do with either crime.

This is just a case of Godwin's law writ small, so it's harder to spot.

(An alternative argument is that for any extended powers of the state, we should have statistics to back them up. If wiretapping is ineffective for a crime or it's benefit is outweighed by it's downsides, maybe that should be taken into consideration. In the end, I'm basically I'm for questioning generally unquestioned positions.)
same with chrome on my android
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For some reason resampling artifacts are highly visible to me. Like minor distortion and color inaccuracy, some people see it, some people don't, some people care, some people don't.

I used to tell all the authors at techcrunch to resize before uploading, because our theme just loaded the original image and let the browser resize it. Of course this occasionally led to 2-megabyte, 1000px PNGs being rendered at 215px wide, with awful resampling errors making text look awful and taking ages to load besides. No one listened, the fools!

These days it seems like there are few situations that demand a "cheaper" resampling method than bilinear. The calculation cost and time are so minor and assets so malleable that it can't possibly end up the bottleneck - not when you have ten or twenty widgets, scripts, and trackers loading as well.

It always seemed strange to me, however, that the resampling of images is browser dependent. I guess callouts to the GPU are a bit much when all you need to do is recalculate a bitmap.
Often yes, but "To me it should only be enough money to cover... for just long enough to where you can afford those things without outside money after" assumes you know what is long enough. If you raise money, raise enough that you have some time/room to figure it out, and make sure.
They aren't awful, but then again, I think Gillette and Schlick are overrated. None compare to feather safety razor blades. However the convenience of DSC makes up for it all.
I suspect that the people that have been caught were previously known to authorities.

The articles don't ever point to the Silk Road shut down as providing any useful information to authorities other than all the buyer reviews...
Not choosing sides here (both sides are being irresponsible and goofy (or not), one perhaps more than the other).

To address your rebuttal: To get better statistics, more-local democracy, and reduce the likelihood of catastrophic failure, we could partition those 300 million into roughly 50 subunits and let each partition vote on what ought to happen.
> I use Stripe for Draft, and I know I'm losing money. I get emails everyday from people outside the US who can't use a credit card or they don't trust any vendor with their CC.

I think you need to make a judgement (in the absence of hard data, which you often won't have before launching something!) on the types of users that might use your service.

For example: I'm building a service where the sole demographic is developers, and typically fairly savvy ones at that. I feel that I can get away with Stripe (credit cards) being the only payment option available because most of my users aren't going to be particularly averse to buying things online.

If I were selling physical goods, or SaaS with a diverse userbase, then I would certainly consider other options.
From what I understand, all the member libraries are storing some part of the cache. They might not all have a complete copy, but the details aren't clear yet.
Software companies not in the ads/media industry or those not operating as marketplaces will always have less revenue. Whereas companies that are especially in the business of providing advertising will typically handle much larger revenue streams. So a SAAS company vs an ad network could see dramatically different revenues at similar sizes. Strangely enough, a SAAS company is not necessarily more profitable at similar revenue.
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What horrific consequences do you imagine will manifest themselves from the government spending only what it takes in?
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I think you misunderstood me, or extrapolated a position far beyond anything implied in my statement.
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Gold has lots of uses. Of course, most of them are dependant on industrial (and hence financial) infrastructure...
I really wish the licensing for Mathematica weren't as strict; it's a fantastic language that would be everywhere if it had a free "community version" or something. I used it very extensively in college and then took advantage of the $500 lifetime professional upgrade for new graduates. Now I do server-side development and data science at a startup, and I often work on problems that could solved efficiently with a few lines of Mathematica code. I'll use it for one-time internal scripts, but due to Wolfram's licensing you can't just bake it into your server code. Not to mention, it's nearly impossible to find engineers who have much experience with it since you can't exactly download it and hack on it like you can with the alternatives.

Don't get me wrong, it's a powerful tool and well worth it's price. But adoption is extremely low outside of academia, and I don't see that changing anytime soon unless Wolfram adopts more developer-friendly licensing. Which is a pity because it's definitely the "right tool for the job" in a lot of cases.
I think you had caps lock on when writing your title.

Personally I saw and read that release note and didn't think much of it at all.
Looking at it now I totally overlooked the dig at Clear.
Websites change all the time, while still having the same basic content.

So as I said, a tool can help, but it won't be trivial, and you'll still have lots of manual work.
You arent even required to dress like a hobo for it to be legal! http://freegan.info/what-is-a-freegan/freegan-practices/urba...
No national government of an English speaking nation has defaulted on its debt since the “Great Stop of the Exchequer” of Charles II Stuart in 1672:

"Here in the Anglo-Saxon world—never mind how few of us in it
have any substantial proportion of our ancestors coming ashore with Hengest, Horsa, Esc, Ella, Cymen, Wlenking, and Cissa to loot, pillage, rape, and burn—we have not seen any government default since the “stop of the exchequer” of Charles II Stuart, when he simply got sick of paying his bills and decided to balance his budget by defaulting on his debt and then accepting bribes from Louis XIV of France, who was desperately anxious that Britain not help the Dutch resist his invasion."

http://delong.typepad.com/files/20120221-the-budget-and-macr...
They have? And of the whole world as well?
I have to agree on other providers supporting PHP supports for years, but this is a good news for PHP devs and companies. PHP is still not completely accepted in big companies, just the news that Google app engine supports PHP will lead to some confidence to invest in PHP and that the language is here to stay .
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You shouldn't bring up Plan9 when discussing Linux.

It's akin to bringing up Mozart's writing symphonies at the age of 8 to the proud mother of a somewhat disabled child that has finally mastered the potty at the tender age of 12.

Seriously, you can literally list every single new IPC introduced in *nix in the last 3 decades and counter it with a better design and execution under Plan9. It's simply the result of a proper design as opposed to an afterthought. No real point in bringing it up unless you can constructively use the information to fix Linux.
Wow. There is a whole point why we were taught not to trust a web site in general. Printed materials usually last longer. I am so thankful to learn about this case tonight. Thanks!
I would love to have a minute to talk to you about this.

I recently took over a new but quickly growing webstore. Just two weeks ago we decided that we want to add "Payments by Amazon" as an option for our customers. We run a Magento Enterprise platform, so I was certain there is an extension for this.

Welcome to the rabbit hole... Do I want Checkout by Amazon or Payments by Amazon? Not clear as advantages of either or why I'd go with one over the other. After spending a few hours reading the differences I gave up and called friends until I got a contact at Amazon payments. Spoke with a super nice rep who explained to me why I shouldn't bother with CBA and look at Payments API instead... "But, I see there is a CBA Magento extension," I protested, can't I drop that in and be on my way? Turns out the extension is maintained by a 3rd party, and as far as I could tell and the rep confirmed it isn't really maintained at all, so even if we spent the money on it, no one could guarantee that it will work.

Fine, let's talk about payments, if Amazon is pushing payments api for merchants, there must be something for Magento users. I get told sorry, maybe there is something in the works but if I want anything up and running for the holiday season, I have to roll my own, and by the way please sign up for another Amazon service (I accidentally signed up for CBA, because it wasn't clear which I service I needed).

So here we are… building our own implementation for Magento. I know it's not Amazon's problem to support how payments are used, but if you want e-commerce merchants to take you up on this offering, some love for the ecosystem will go a long way and some clarity that CBA isn't being promoted anymore.

But I have to give Amazon credit, I've spoken to reps over at Selling on Amazon, FBA, Payments and they are all sharp, knowledgeable and eager to help. I can't say a single bad word about the people that interact with your business customers.

You're the CTO of Amazon, the revenue you're going to get from my business isn't even going to justify a rounding error on the balance sheet, but if you want to hear from the merchants, I'm happy to give you a view from the trenches.