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Nobody says you have to read or click them... There's a huge difference in ad types... Branding alone is worth a lot... You think McDonalds tells ABC that they have to guarantee a set amount of people to come into their stores after an ad of theirs airs on their channels? No. Just viewing the ad is very beneficial... Same thing with advertising on the internet, you don't have to click every ad, or even read it... Some ads pay just for being in the viewing area of the user.
It means Vertex Array Object.

http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object...
While the fact that they are apparently building structures in several places is interesting, I find the notion that they will be "used to market google glass" rather odd.
You're talking about cost, not value. The two are only loosely related at best.
Why is NEJM in this title (Profit massively affects doctor surgery choice (NEJM))?
> Laws are derived from the morality of their times.

Yes and no. Some laws are universal wrong - like murder. However, government laws like banning drugs are based on the feelings and opinions of the people at the time.

Both of these are evident from the history of civilizations. Murder has always been wrong - drugs not so.
but then for any reasonable application to be able to use them they'll need to store the unencryption key anyway..
> I hate to sound condescending, but what are experiences with direct democracy?

American idol?
Minnesota?
even fewer I'd be likely to get on my Gentoo system

I think you've just pointed out exactly why even though Linux viruses exist, they don't get a foothold (go "epidemic"). There's huge software diversity. I run Arch, you run Gentoo, others run Debian... The same goes for any given piece of software that's regularly infected in the Windows culture: email clients, web servers, web browsers.

So, why was the Dan Geer "against monoculture" thing suppressed so enthusiastically a few years ago?
AV software is effectively a really complicated blacklist-based form of access control, which is a terrible way to do security in the first place.

There's no reason for antivirus software of this kind of exist on desktop Linux, because the whole operating system is free software, so if we want to fix some vulnerability that malware exploits, we can just do it (for example, by sandboxing applications), rather than implementing kludgy workarounds that turn users' machines into battlegrounds.

From what I hear, Wayland should help a lot with this, since it's much simpler and provides better isolation than X11.
Few things

-It's a great PR gimmick for Uber/CheezBurger and it's something others can learn from.

-Uber articles typically end up on HN because of their presence in SF and that a lot of HN users use Uber (all of the 50~ people that I personally know on HN have used Uber) or are otherwise connected to people who work at Uber.

-Ben Huh is awesome. He's a great advisor and him being involved means I'm going to upvote it.

-Kittens on demand = cool.

-Kittens, cupcakes, and raising money for a good cause = Awesome.
I never used anti-virus in Windows.

Once I was happily searching the web for a solution to programming problem and a windows-like very good looking dialog popped up asking me something I could not answer no. All of a sudden my computer became unusable and, as fast as I could, I turned my router off. Then started a two hours fight to find what happened and solve the problem. Some Java code installed some things when I clicked yes in the dialog. I was using a vulnerable Java runtime, which had been recently exploited.

I still don't use anti-virus in Windows. But I turned the Java plugin off. And now I use more Linux to do web development.
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I agree it's the problem in Canada as well.
For the first time a third party was able to come ahead of one of the two parties, but this had disastrous effects as it provided the opposition party a majority government and overall weakened the power of the center-left and left. And right now I have to decide if my vote will mean anything if I vote for the third party.

The third party's platform will be mixed proportional representation. Which I hope we see one day so maybe this won't be such an issue any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU
Really? No.
As far as I know they stopped when Mozilla tried to abuse their generosity by switching to a shorter release cycle. Not cool, guys!
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To indicate the original place the study was published?
Large downloads dramatically decrease the number of users who get from a download page to actually running an application, even for web browsers. As a result, any steps you can take to make an install process faster or easier will have a tangible impact on the number of customers you have (and any revenue potential that results). Mozilla, like any other company, has salaries to pay, so they would be foolish to make things worse for the majority of users just to make them slightly easier for theoretical users who want to install in a networkless VM and can't figure out that the stub is a stub.

It's a complication, but it eliminates the need for the user to come back after waiting for some dozens of megabytes to download and then interact. You can download a stub near-instantaneously, do things like pick your install directory, and then forget about the install process entirely as it completes without your supervision. That's a good thing, and it isn't possible with offline installers.

Browsers like Firefox and Chrome already need network access after installation anyway. They update on a regular basis, and pull down optional packages like Chrome's software WebGL rasterizer, malware blacklists, and Firefox's GPU blacklist. So, in practice, it is already impossible to do a true offline install of either browser; you just may not be aware of the things that are left out of the installer.
Well, the great thing about single-payer is you have the rest of the industrialized world to learn from. The pitfalls are not entirely unknown.
Funscript is not really MS - it's done by a third-party developer, and F# itself is open-sourced under a very liberal license, and runs well on Xamarin/Mono in OS X.

I don't think there are direct equivalents in other languages, although similar approaches exist. Checkout Elm for example:

http://elm-lang.org/Examples.elm
Because globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com is not known as an authority in medicine, while the New England Journal of Medicine is.
The big take from this is not the effectiveness of Facebook for marketing, since it can and is done successfully, but rather a rant by marketers on the amount of exposure Facebook's algorithm gives them.

The situation is that brands small and large spent lots of money building up a following, but when they post something it only gets exposed to a fraction of the followers. The argument is, why should I spend money getting 100k followers if you only show my posts to 15k (or less) of them at any given time.

On one side, more brand exposure degrades the Facebook experience from ad inundation, on the other side marketers are not seeing the value for time/money invested.

This has always been the thorn in the side of not just Facebook, but most ad driven revenue models. Since Facebook is a social experience it's a challenge that's tricky to navigate, they can't exactly bend over to marketing products and services, that would be a disaster, but the tools and feedback for marketers leaves a lot to be desired.
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Given how long the billing process is over in the US, that makes a whole lot of sense actually.
I like the idea of the newpapers of manufacturing a huge lie that proves that they can be trusted.
That's pretty harsh. It seems like it was a relatively harmless prank that he didn't even intend and immediately regretted. I don't understand why you judge that so harshly or why you immediately dismiss his work based on it.
Does 60 millions of lines of code of Facebook make sense? I mean I know its a large project with multiple modules, but any ideas why such an enormous codebase?
A stub can save bandwidth by only downloading the components needed for your system, instead of having to pack in every possible optional dependency.

The alternative, expecting all users to know precisely which components they need, is absurd and never works. And we all know you can't reliably do configuration detection in a web page to that extent either.
The advantage of single-payer, is that he will not have a profit motive to do so

According to the article (Physicians in general aren’t allowed to refer their patients for treatment in facilities that they also own), that's also generally true in the existing system except for some exceptions. In particular the one cited in the article.
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The hardcopy has EXTRINSIC value. You own it, and you can resell it. The softcopy has very little extrinsic value. You neither own it nor can give it away.

There is some intrinsic value to the softcopy, but mostly convenience and being freed to sell your hardcopy.
I use Firefox Nightly (since the beginning of this new releases schedule) as my main browser on OS X and I'm quite happy with it. The only (minor) inconvenience is to have to reboot the browser after every update every day.
But first they need to harm the US as much as possible. Eventually, they'll get around to responsible budgets for the things they want.
You should qualify your last sentence by adding that the only real reasons that that is the case is that 1. Most Linux installations are headless, removing a humongous attack surface, and 2. Both have either not had a lot of market share historically, or they haven't had a lot of users that were easy to fool. Despite popular belief, neither platform is in some way inherently more secure than recent versions of Windows.

The market share situation is changing now, and there's no reason to think that if Windows went away tomorrow the world would be malware-free.
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Well that is a relatively specialized requirement. For most students their computer is email, web, photos on the web, facebook, word processors, textbooks and some light spreadsheets. More specialized students can spend $800 more to get something like the surface pro 2.
I did something similar (http://markolson.github.io/storyboard/) earlier this year using ffmpeg and ImageMagick to generate either GIFs around lines of dialog (like this project), or PDFs where each page is a frame of text or a new scene. Optimizing GIFs is by far the least enjoyable part.
I think high school is a perfect example, actually. High schoolers are highly influential in popular culture, and many trends bubble up from there. "Getting my ass kicked" wasn't meant to be taken literally; it was more of a rhetorical device. But my point was that, for a device to be widely accepted, it has to be appealing as an accessory. People in high school are extremely image conscious. So are most people outside of high school, for that matter.

"We're not in high school anymore..."

You and I aren't, but millions of people are -- whether literally or metaphorically.
I don't want to sound trollish but the domain name makes me think penis enlargement.
Likes prevent people from leaving. They let your potential customers browsing your site know "hey, we're not a scammer there are real people who bought and loved our products and services, here's a authentic list of them."
What contract? Are we going to have a standard contract specifying what you want to happen in every conceivable situation? Just imagine a some medical issues that could come up: kidney failure, liver failure, vegetative state, amputation, DNR, transplants, organ donation, etc.

Any number of unimaginable situations could come up, which wouldn't be covered by a contract, and which a human being has to make a decision that directly affects your life.

How do you handle loans? If I have 30k in debt, and I marry into a polygamous marriage, do the other spouses carry my debt? What if I die, then who owes the money? Not all tricky legal issues can be covered with a "well let's just make a contract."
As if Tesla would sell to Apple.
This is completely, absolutely brilliant.
You are missing his point that it's not easy to find.

"Systems & Languages" doesn't tell me anything about being able to find the offline installer there. Either changing the phrasing to something more explicit like "Other downloads", and/or adding a title attribute explaining what can you find there could be a good improvement.

Also, giving a hint at the "thank you" page (ex. Having trouble? Try the offline installer) would be a nice addition.
FB is the largest single referrer to our site. Using google analytics tracking, I can see that inbounds from facebook are directly linked to tens of thousands of dollars in sales. I have had terrible luck with facebook advertising, but we get great results when people share their bike rides on our site using facebook. Their friends who are probably bicyclists themselves see the link and come through our funnel.

You need both a good funnel, and a message that provides value to a user. It has been crudely expressed as "do you get your user laid", less crudely as "make your user look cool". If you do this, then they'll share your service to all their friends for free. In our case, someone is proud to ride 100 miles, and they'd like to show it off. Our tool let's them do it, so they paste it around on facebook. It's all about your value prop and how someone feels sharing that with others.
Probably just about all of the Windows 8 users.
Ask HN: Social Services API?
Someone just reached out to me proposing a Yelp-like mobile app focused on providing info and reviews of social services for those in need. I can imagine building the front end and even handling the review/feedback aspect, but I'm wondering if there's any sort of API that anyone knows of that could provide data regarding available services in the first place. Anyone know of anything?
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That's what the Apple developer I was working with told me; he implied that he had submitted the report, and that it was "hidden" later. Maybe the discussion on the report was hidden?
Clicks n stuff - and it's working.

The OP read an article in NEJM once and has a numbered list of things to say, followed by an unnumbered list of things to say.
I think he means these: http://caniuse.com/#search=input

Firefox doesn't support advanced (and more user friendly) input types. Number, color, date/time.

At least that's what I'm guessing.
Mike West, developer advocate at Google Chrome in Münich, had a great talk, recently at GOTO Aarhus, where this was mention.
The talk was focused on security and mentions the new sandboxed iframes[1]. With the inline iframe, iframe's can now be used as div – a sandboxed div.

The idea is that you can sandbox e.g. social buttons by putting them in a sandboxed iframe. You can also populate the iframe's without extra HTTP-requests by the iframe, by using "srcdoc". This is a perfect way to sandbox user generated comments on your blog.

I recommend reading [1] as it covers all of this.

[1]: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-if...
Google Ads target people who can't tell the difference between search results and ads.

LinkedIn succeeds because they have ads people actually want to click—virtually everyone needs employment, and generally jobs are far more valuable than anything else advertised online. Any given ad for employment will be many, many, many times more interesting to any given person than any given ad on the internet will be.

Facebook has very little worth selling to a young audience that will never click online ads. Who goes to Facebook to find ways to spend money? It's a social network with little relevance to commercial interests (for end users).

Market-specific businesses will almost always beat out the special interests—facebook would probably get more money selling users to specialized advertising customers on demand, or even getting users to pay to make ads/stupid "features" (Games! Anything involving microtransactions! Bugging me to like things I have no desire to like!) go away.

Speaking of which, how is the model of pay-to-remove-ads not more prevalent? Surely it wouldn't REDUCE profits.
I still don't understand how an e-book, which can infinitely be replicated at no cost to anyone, can cost $10. How on earth does this make sense?
I purchased A People's History of The United States a few years ago, and now I can buy it for my Kindle for $10? Who does this?

Occasionally Amazon will offer the Kindle price higher than the used physical copy price.
It's fair to be annoyed by these design changes, but there's nothing you can do. It's already impossible to truly bundle every single dependency into one installer for an application like a web browser. They can and will change on an hourly basis, and having out-of-date (or worse, missing) data for things like blacklists can compromise your security.

It's only natural that an application that's designed to communicate live with servers on the internet would, at some point, have to pull more and more of its configuration and application logic from the same internet. The browser's still open source, so if it bugs you, you're free to compile a build yourself and gather all the dependencies manually.

The fact is that there are still stand alone installers available for all sorts of configurations, right there on the Mozilla FTP where they've been for something like a decade. If you're a power user and you're saying you can't figure out how to hit an FTP server or type 'firefox standalone installer' into a search engine, I don't know what to tell you.

Calling this a dark pattern is absurd. Nobody's being tricked, you're not being conned into opting something other than what you intended. The same Firefox gets installed either way, the install process is just streamlined in ways that increase success rates and simplify it for most users.
I don't know how well it works on a OS X, but I have been using the firefox-ux nightly build on Windows for awhile now. You can find them at [0]. It's been as stable for me as the other nightly builds tend to be, which is very stable, but do be aware that going this route can lead to running into bugs. I understand why these things take a long time to shake out, but it is massively disappointing to hear that the new UI won't be released until Firefox 28 or later!

[0] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/late...
Does defensive medicine have no role in doctors opting for aggressive treatment to the conservative alternative?
When you live in a society of hundreds of millions of people, all with their own view of how society should be run, you have to accept a certain amount of "take it or leave it," otherwise it will quickly devolve into paralysis or anarchy.
Crashed when I first opened the menu.

Menu randomly refuses to come on screen, freezeing after the settings logo comes into view.

When trying to enable gravatar, it says "email goes here" might be better to have Email there. Looks a little unprofessional.

Settings menu doesn't feel like it gives a response, action just occurs. Changing the colour of the select tray might be nice.

Animations seem a little odd. Settings page fades in towards you and everything else just fades to replace the current page.
Wow, on my MacBook Pro Retina, Firefox is now faster than Chrome. It's noticeable during any graphics update, scrolling pages in particular.

I wonder if this is because Firefox has been optimized, or whether Chrome has simply stagnated. I suspect it's the latter; when I got the Retina MBP I immediately noticed that graphics performance was laggy compared to what I was used to on my previous (slower but non-Retina) MBP.
Obviously EMC, NetApp and others in that space provide value, but what they do with existing drive technology is simply out of reach of most startups. The barrier to entry is way too high.

With this new technology it opens the door for innovation in this space. Using commodity components you can build out new EMC-type systems with a different focus. The amount of hardware engineering you have to do is minimized, and more of it can be done strictly in software. Lower cost, more rapid iteration, all that.

I'm not saying this will happen tomorrow, but in ten years the storage market could be turned inside out by this approach.
no to both questions. As others have mentioned though, not really your target audience
Maybe that shouldn't be in the title here of a blog post that references a newspaper article that references the NEJM study (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1201141).

Forgive the pedantry. I'm sure the title will be changed soon anyway.
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You may be committing a crime of fraud to give them a doctored ID. Something you can be prosecuted for.

Doesn't mean you can't do it and maybe get away with it, but now if you are caught, the state can press charges and put you in jail. Which is quite probably good enough for facebook, they wouldn't neccesarily get any additional value from actually validating you with the government somehow.
I user to use MSE under windows, and did the occasionally scan with MBAM.

Then I ditched Windows for Linux, and never saw an AV again :)

Anyway, Windows has got considerably more secure than the past. I feel that I used to run an antivirus "just because", and not because I felt the need for it.

The "trick" is to always keep your system update (which mean, always install the latest patches as soon as they come out), always use an up-to-date browser, remove/disable (with click2play) any browser plugins, block ads (unblock them on sites that you feel secure/trustable, but ads are one of the main vector of diffusion for viruses), and obviously don't run any "sketchy" software you might find on the net (VirusTotal and similiar help with that, but for one-time/few uses, it's better to run a virtual machine and then restore it).
It would have been nice if Obamacare fixed some of the above problems. Unfortunately, Obamacare did not fix any of them.

Fraud, ridiculous amounts of paperwork, and incentives to do the wrong thing were everywhere you looked before Obamacare. The same problems exist now.

Worse yet, Obamacare added to the mess by over-charging millennials and their kids, and undercharging smokers and others with unhealthy lifestyles. Except for those below certain wage thresholds, insurance costs are likely to increase.

Yep.
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Hey everyone. My name is Ken and I'm interested in becomming a freelance software developer. Forget the tech details for now.

Can you please let me know how you get clients? Do you use online sites like oDesk or eLance? Do you contribute to open source projects? Do you network with local businesses?

Any advice for an aspiring freelance developer would be very welcome..

Thanks in advance.
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Cryptolocker requires the user to run the executable. Users doing that are going to get infected regardless of OS.
Even if you don't agree with her views, I don't see the point of this portrayal. At best, this is a misguided comic, at worst, it's an ad hominem attack (poorly) designed to discredit her philosophy.
> Giving these crazed Islamist terrorist criminals the same rights as the rest of us is like spitting in the face of every victim of 9/11.

Isn't that the whole point of the trial? To determine if they are terrorist criminals? If it is a certain as you think it is, why would they need to suppress information? Surely, you aren't opposed to a trial where the outcome is certain?

Executing the accused without a trial is actually spitting in the face of every victim and tarnishing their memory. That would mean that we've destroyed the foundation of the United States using their deaths as an excuse.
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