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It's a public wifi network that is broadcast from a device that is (probably) on your LAN. Attacker connects, finds some vulnerability, and has unrestricted access to the LAN. That is just one attack vector.

;tdlr it degrades your security, and is generally annoying.
For what it's worth, my GP told me that old studies didn't distinguish regular fats from trans fats, so saturated fats got the blame for what's wrong with trans fats (which do mess up your cholesterol badly).
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The Fed lowers interest rates for extended periods of time, and we see three stock market bubbles directly following. This happens three times, in dramatic fashion, in just the span of about 17 years.

Personally, I don't need more empirical evidence than that.

Fortunately we have a mountain of direct evidence to support my position.

Monetary policy being simple has nothing to do with its results. Cheap money doesn't stay put, it chases returns.

Our supposed best macro policy is a disaster. It has neither contained price inflation, nor produced jobs. Quite the opposite in fact over the last two decades of high level Fed tampering with the economy. Said macro policy is not the best at all, it's standard issue failed Keynesian policy (Japan has been enjoying a similar program for decades as their economy has rotted and accumulated hyper debt).

Not only has the Fed admitted it can create asset bubbles with low rate policies (both Greenspan and Bernanke have acknowledged such); not only has the Fed said that they want to spur asset inflation, to generate a wealth effect (they directly said their goal was to re-inflate housing for example); but the US Treasury and the Fed's own governance board has also stepped forward to say that the Fed's policies directly drive asset bubbles, including in the stock market. The Fed's governance board recently warned that the Fed's policies were creating potentially dangerous imbalances in asset prices; that was a year ago.

Then all the direct correlation data:

"between January 2009 and April 2013, on days in which the Fed POMO was more than $5 billion, the stock market rose a total of 570 points, on days in which the POMO was less than $5 billion, the cumulative stock market gain was "only" 141 points, and when there was no POMO, the S&P gained... -51 points."

OR:

"We show that since 1994, more than 80 percent of the equity premium on U.S. stocks has been earned over the twenty-four hours preceding scheduled Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements (which occur only eight times a year)—a phenomenon we call the pre-FOMC announcement 'drift.'"

The data points are extraordinarily overwhelming in supporting the fact that the Fed's policies directly drive the stock market. We have the logical (get rid of yield on cash, money has to chase risk), the empirical (the charts and data), and all of the players admitting it. We also have the perverse: watch CNBC on Fed announcement days.

If that doesn't convince you, there's nothing that can.
How about we just grow some thicker skin. Social embarrassment? Man, what a hurdle.
You are applying a model with fixed r

No, this is not true. The whole point is that R=R(r). Its just that the relationship is ~chaotic, not linear. And it gets messy as either r or R --> 0. The fact that preferences are recursive on (r) should not be a surpirse, but I don't think mainstream Economists generally go there.

On the topic of "temporary" vs Uncertain changes in (r), they are not the same. One is risk, the other is uncertainty. In general risk is priced a certain way (reasonably efficient), uncertainty is something you have preferences for (ie, you dont "price" it in the normal sense) and can only model indirectly in the first instance.[1]

[1] eg, http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/06/ris...
As far as I can tell, the only things considered off topic on HN are (1) submissions whose title don't match the headline of the linked page, and (2) puns.
At the store in SF they're a few bucks. Not sure why they're so expensive on Amazon.

http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/notebooks/recycled-paper...
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A pure EV will be better in every respect. Unless you replace the gasoline motor with a generator, having a gasoline engine still necessitates a lot of mechanical parts you can just drop if you have a pure EV. Transmission, exhaust, clutch, gas tank and a lot more. This increases both mechanical complexity (repairs) and cost.

Once battery tech gets sufficiently cheap, EVs will blow all the competition out of the water for personal vehicles. At most you'll get EVs with a gasoline-fueled genset for refueling off the grid. But it's more likely you'll just switch to a bigger battery pack for the duration of the few short trips which are incompatible with length and charging infrastructure.
How about 'okay, who is for tea and who is for coffee?'

Hopefully you can make a fantastic cup of tea. There is skill to it, believe me. You would also be amazed at how many people really appreciate a quality cuppa. They will thank you for it. In so doing you have a great opportunity to make friends, make sure you are able to get names right, put people at ease and start building relationships.

You can't go straight up to the boss and ask who really runs the show around here, however, make a few beverages, get to know people, gossip, banter, have a laugh, share some great jokes and, before you know it, you will be privy to pertinent information. You are straight onto 'water cooler chat' and that is that.

Just do what you can to break the ice, and, best of luck with your new job!

P.S. You are allowed to ask the same question about something three times. Any more than that and people will wonder if you are retarded.
Or as lighter solution use a sandbox program like sandboxie.
I had trouble following this point:

"Even though Euclid’s GCD algorithm is highly efficient, running it on all possible pairings of keys would be a strain. There’s an ingenious shortcut, based on the observation that if Y is relatively prime to each of X1,X2,…,Xn, then it also has no factor in common with the product X1×X2×⋯×Xn. Thus it’s possible to detect the presence of shared factors with just n GCD operations, instead of n2."

Can someone explain that shortcut in more detail?
No. I ignore them.
Pics or it didn't happen. And if there aren't pics, everyone along on the dig must have been lacking integrity.
It benefited the wheat farmers and "Big Ag" so there was possibly political pressure to focus on this.
I'm actually being very picky and asking lots of detailed questions before I accept a position. Especially things concerning team dynamics.
I like more 'physical' processes when it comes to ideas. Allows to take a step back, think about it for a moment.

When I'm away from computer, I always have a moleskin notebook in my jacket pocket with a small pen. While working on my computer, I still like to have a whiteboard nearby to quickly draw something or stick a note on it.

They are as simple as you can get, but they work totally fine :)

Also, when it comes to ideas, I like the idea (of 37Signals, can't remember which book), that if it's a good idea - you will keep thinking of it and remember, if it's rubbish one - well you will forget it.
So no way to upload art unless you have an ipad?
oh, i'm an idiot. yes, it's the OSS image. no idea why i think it's associated with chat.
I have an idea;

instead of teaching "kids to code" -- how about putting together a list of [N] things every [kid/child] should know how to accomplish by [end of grammar/middle/highschool/college] using development languages [x, y, z]

---

By end of grammar school a child should be able to confidently navigate the internet, and have a basic understanding of how websites work.

By end of middle school, be able to create simple web pages.
* Create a blog about themselves
* Create a site about an interest or passion
* Create a forum where their friends can talk

By end of highschool, be able to create simple applications.
* Create a time-managment app
* Create a budgeting app
* Create a goals tracking app

Etc....

Make sure that all kids have a common shared lexicon in this area and experience taking a stab at developing apps and sites that have the same requirements. Allow them to expound upon execution through social interaction about these items.
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I like the idea. Though in my field (mathematics), I think this is actually not at all uncommon already (reviewing and sanity checking unpublished work of your adviser and their colleagues).

Then again, we have the benefit of being able to "make" our own data so to speak, don't have IRBs to worry about, etc. This is trickier in other disciplines.
You are thinking of a different gamma-correction step. The reason you gamma-correct during rendering is because monitors expect data to already be gamma-corrected, and it is this expectation that causes the problem I am talking about. Data in a bitmap is not linear with the light-intensity of the colors; it is gamma'd!

The simplest kind of mipmapping is a box filter, where you are just averaging 4 pixel values at once into a new pixel value. Thinking just of grayscale pixels, if you add 4 pixels that are each 1.0 (if you are thinking in 8 bits, 1.0 == 255), and divide by 4, you get 1.0 again. If you add two pixels that are 1.0, and two that are 0, you get a value of 0.5. Which would be fine if your bitmap were stored in units that are linear with the actual intensity of light; but they are not, because they are in a weird gamma! What you are going to get is something like pow(0.5, 2.2) which is way too dark.

Thus when you don't gamma-correct during mipmapping, bright things lose definition and smudge into dim things way more than actually happens in real-life when you see objects from far away.
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Awesome points; didn't know about the Link header (RFC5988).

Regarding pagination: a few years ago I switched to using "skip" and "limit", instead of "page" and "per_page" or a variation of the two. Instead of thinking about pages (an abstract idea) it forces me to think about the concrete list of objects being requested from the resource, how many of those I want and how many to skip from the start; making it easier to reason about pagination (at least for me).
If you read far enough, the article actually suggests ad avoidance isn't so bad.

Another point to Bettridge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Also, I really liked the linked article on gaze aversion, which argues that smartphones are a bigger threat than DVRs:
http://adage.com/article/adagestat/smartphones-a-bigger-dist...

Or on the internet, it's not really ad block, it's the fact that I can't remember the last time I watched a show on one screen at home without easy access to a second screen to flip through cat pictures or whatever during (muted) commercials.

Guess I'm not the only one.

> Anyone who can reach the unreachable for even a moment has their hands on gold.

Is targeted door-to-door sales the next big thing?
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My Muji notebooks are $3.5 a piece for 80 white A5 pages, with a solid cardboard cover and a ring binding (which I personally like better than the "traditional" binding). A 192 page Moleskine is $13 - 50% more expensive per page, and they don't have a ring binding.

Also Muji is a Japanese brand - the paper works really well with fountain pens, which are common there. Moleskine paper does not fare as well (as fountain pens are rare in the US). Being French (one of the few remaining fountain pen heavy cultures, with Japan and Germany), I still write daily with a fountain pen and deeply enjoy it.

Oh and also I'm left handed, and thus write in my notebooks from last to first page (in western order) - since Muji is a Japanese brand, the notebooks are designed to be used in that way. That's a little detail, but I'm a little obsessive :-)
Fair enough. I agree that the code has to be working but sometimes, even after laying down the guidelines on how to write code a better way to structure out, things go out of hands with multiple contributors. In my opinion, the solution to this problem is to refactor the code as soon as the code is checked in. Not necessarily refactoring the whole code, but to make it conform to the existing design and structure.
It is unclear how he is able to provide "assurances" to the public if he was supposedly "unaware" of such activities.

So either he knew and is now rapidly trying to backtrack/CYA or he has just been ignorantly making unqualified statements and being a chump.
> It sounds more like the industry will grow to the maximum that the economy can sustain, and no further.

Fair point. I would argue that as long as (1) globalization exists (2) the population increases, it can sustain growth. In other words as long as the number of eyeballs increases so too will the people try to farm them up.

> Every time a new communications system is developed, the market will shift -- and we have so many systems now that the market is just catching up to all the ways we have to advertise.

Regardless of communication medium, in theory it doesn't mean the market spends any more or less on advertising. The goal is all the same, grab attention and convert to buyer. So I'm not sure what you mean by "the market will shift".
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True, you can die from overdosing on carrot juice.
that would be an addition to the Common Core Standards it sounds like
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The article is interesting, intellectually stimulating, teaches me something I don't know, teaches something to others that they should know, "engaging," or unexpected in a positive way. I actually think all of the other answers are not good and contrary to the spirit the forum is trying to cultivate.
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If you are a biologists and you want to keep your lab going, and you want to have RA-ships for your graduate students, you need to get grants. You aren't going to get grants unless you are cranking out publications. The days when as a biologist, you could work on a problem for several years, being careful, checking your work before you publish... those days are over. I'm confident the system will right itself eventually, hopefully in my lifetime.
Actually, the effect happens just as much during downscaling. It is just not as noticeable, because your artifacts happen at subpixel scale. But they do affect the output colors.

The math does not really know the difference between upscaling and downscaling.
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I can imagine an article just like this, several hundred years ago, with the title Stop Teaching "Kids To Write".

Programming is fast becoming the new literacy.
I feel like the website doesn't really explain what they're offering. It's a little cryptic to me, I can see lots of beautiful artwork, but am I the only one who still doesn't understand what problem they're trying to fix or what they're offering me?
We are saying very close to the same thing. I don't believe intuition should be ignored outright - it is indeed a very useful tool - but it should be used only as a clue to help you define your own thoughts and stance more clearly. The fact that something "feels wrong" is not a persuasive argument to change, but it should be a persuasive argument to yourself (and to others if they trust your opinion) that further thought and discussion may be needed, as something may be being overlooked.

Intuition used as a direct reason for action puts us in the realm of lynch mobs and herd mentality. It is indeed a powerful tool, and as such has great power over us. I think the best check we can put on it is the rational mind. If you can't come up with a rational reason why you feel a certain way, maybe it's in fact your intuition that needs to be put in check. That was really the reason for my response. I have an immediate negative reaction to appeals through emotion. That's not to say that what you are arguing for is wrong, just that I refuse to take a feeling like that as a persuasive argument, as surely with a little time a more coherent argument can be formed, and if not, then that's definitely reason for pause.
Great start! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Almost all online photo editors run in flash or don't have good PSD support. They are almost all geared towards users who want to do photo touch ups.

This is definitely lacking in features but has a lot of potential and gladly pay for it to see it developed more.
I'm confused by the reference towards the Mediterranean diet being protective against heart disease, because it seems tangential to the argument presented in the rest of the article.

The clinical Mediterranean diet is low in saturated fat. In one of the landmark papers measuring the effects of the Mediterranean diet on CVD risk, the "prudent" Western-style diet used as a control has 11.7% of calories from saturated fat, while the experimental Mediterranean diet has 8.0% of calories from saturated fat [1]. This diet is actually within the 10% limit the article references as out-of-date advice from the 1970s.

Another large intervention study has the calories from saturated fat on a Mediterranean-style diet falling from 13.7% before intervention to 8.0% after intervention [2], again below the 10% limit.

I am not at all suggesting that the Mediterranean lowers the risk of CVD because it is low in saturated fat. It just seems odd to use it as an example of saturated fat not being linked with CVD risk without addressing the fact that the Mediterranean diet is relatively low in saturated fat, and that intervention studies using the Mediterranean diet typically reduce the % calories from saturated fat in the intervention group.

It also seems odd to use the Mediterranean diet as an example in an article that paints refined carbohydrates as a major CVD risk factor. While the Mediterranean diet is relatively higher in whole-grain carbohydrates [2], it still includes lots of refined-carbohydrate foods (think pasta), and it introduces so many other dietary changes, particularly a vast increase in consumption of fruits and vegetables [2], that one can't assume that the increase in whole grains particularly is the source of the diet's protective effects against CVD risk.

[1] http://www.drhirani.com/Assets/lyonfinalreport.pdf

[2] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=199488
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Good work! I think you should checkout how your site looks on mobile and smaller resolution screen (It breaks).
I definitely do not think this is in the best interest of young people. It prepares students not for a fruitful career, rather it forces a trade that is not necessarily suited to the majority of students.

Or perhaps it just teaches them a broadly-applicable skill that does not have to be taken up as a full-time job in order to be useful.
I feel like we didn't read the same piece. Did yours have this at the end?

At so many points in this album, the music breaks into this melody, and it's glorious — I mean, glorious. He has to know that — why else would you do that? He's not just banging his head against the wall, but he acts as though he is. He doesn't want to seem precious, he wants to keep his cred.

And sometimes it's like a synth orchestra. I've never heard anything like it — I've heard people try to do it but no way, it just comes out tacky. Kanye is there. It's like his video for "Runaway," with the ballet dancers — it was like, look out, this guy is making connections. You could bring one into the other — ballet into hip-hop — they're not actually contradictory, and he knew that, he could see it immediately. He obviously can hear that all styles are the same, somewhere deep in their heart, there's a connection. It's all the same shit, it's all music — that's what makes him great. If you like sound, listen to what he's giving you. Majestic and inspiring.
Don't assume just because X service says they're not logging data that someone else isn't. In this case PIA might not be logging user activity, but as the NSA have proven in the past, it's all too easy for them to get a secret court order and install hardware into a data centre server rack that monitors network activities for a particular service. They've done it before and if they wanted too, they could do it again.

The scary part is if it's a secret court order, the service provider is gagged and threatened with legal action if they publicly disclose the fact they're complying with a Government request. Being an American based company all the more makes it too easy for the NSA to get the information if they need it. This article does not make me feel any less insecure about my privacy.
On Wednesday, I had the idea that developers should be able to schedule programming interviews whenever they want and track their progress over time. This idea is now a real product called Rate My App, now available!

Launch pricing for the first few users is $9.99 for a 30 minute interview. Please provide any feedback you have! You can also follow the project on twitter, tumblr, facebook, and youtube (/ratemyapp.)

Thank you! - Vlad (@vla)
How about pixlr? It is pretty solid and feature packed for a free web app
I'm just speculating here but I could think of some reasons why advertising is a better revenue model than direct charging for a studio (also I think the theater model doesn't depend on ads. For ads I mean tv/cable/ota).

1.) Better price discrimination. Instead of 3 people paying $5.99, I could convince an advertiser to advertise 3 different products at different price points. If the advertisements were 100% effective and I got a 10% commission, it could result in one person buying a $500 Louis vuitton bag and another buying a Macy's store brand bag at ($50). That gets me a revenue of $55 compared to $18 if I sold direct. (I know that TV ads don't actually work this way, as you can't track whether a commercial led to a sale of a product)

2.) The advertiser may be willing to pay more for the ad spot than you are for the content. Again speculating here, but if an advertiser is willing to pay $20 per view and you will pay $10, then the studio is incentivised to go the ad route. (I think this is most likely, as people were livid when Netflix had to increase price of their streaming package meaning consumer could be more price sensitive).

All in all, I have to believe that advertisers haven't been pissing their money for decades, and that studios aren't so consumer hostile that they would bend infinitely for advertisers. If the charge-the-consumer-directly model actually worked I don't think studios would be so hostile to Netflix, and HBO would likely offer a streaming package that didn't depend on the cable package.
I read the entire essay. As I read it, I found myself wondering who D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. was, and what experience he had in the industry. After I clicked through to his app.net profile, I found this biography, which I'm sharing in case you had the same question:

"18-year-old business owner, web developer, systems administrator, high school basketball official, diction junkie, computer enthusiast, car enthusiast, college student."
No, it shouldn't. Although the death of a celebrity is interesting, it's not deeply interesting. However, some celebrities like Lou Reed, are deeply interesting. And it's not until their death that we generally discuss or think about how deeply interesting they were.

Hacker news, as far as I understand it, is not tech news. Other sites have that covered. This is the discussion of ideas.
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