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Ask HN: What did you think of Alexis Ohanion's Book?
It is possible to pursue CS in the context of a MD PhD program. However, I think it's rather difficult to justify that level of effort in non-medical fields. Maybe consumer space travel will make it worthwhile to dedicate the entirety of one's 20s to higher CS education, as a minimum qualification, but I'm having trouble coming up with any present-tense examples.
Getting the MAC Address for a Machine on the Network
I propose Dan Bernstein. Now let's do this.
Got one of these today as well, this one claimed to have about 30 BTC
> One of the empirically observable facts is that faith in public institutions is a lot lower today than it was back then.

I wonder if Gene Roddenberry would have had different opinions of public institutions if he grew up after the collapse of the USSR.
Thanks, but it's completely US-centric and doesn't address the problem that such a system would drive down wages to a bare minimum.
Ask HN: Do you knowingly avoid affiliate links?
I recently noticed a behavior that I am actively trying to change: I used to avoid clicking on affiliate links, even if I wanted to get to the provider in the end (I'd strip it out or type it in myself). I don't know why I did this, but I've talked with others who've done the same. Realizing that this does no harm to me but benefits others, I always click through affiliate links now.

Have you done the same? Any reason for why we do this? Are affiliate links a sleazy way to get in on something or a legitimate way to earn a buck for sending people somewhere useful? (Okay, not so much that last question, but the previous two.)
He forgot two of the most important reasons people don't test:

1) We inherited this monolithic spaghetti mess of a legacy system with a class hierarchy that does not lend itself to testing without a major rewrite of the codebase.

2) Online tutorials expertly teach you how to test methods like add(x, y) and things associated with the 5-minute blog tutorial they also have, but fail miserably at teaching you how to test code that actually might exist in the real world.
Which part of his statement was untrue?
Of course military personnel will be at the top
Kanye’s Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye
Seems like it needs a lot of permissions on Android, e.g. reading SMS messages. Not sure it relieves a pain point enough to give that kind of access.
If we do implement a basic income and do away with other forms of welfare, how far will we go with the "doing away?" I assume we'd get rid of programs like food stamps and WIC. What about other forms of government welfare, like Pell grants? Student loans? Farm subsidies? Obamacare? There's a lot you could cut that would make this an easy sell for conservatives and/or libertarians. There's a lot that you could argue needs to be kept even though we've added basic income that would make this a very hard thing to sell.
Unless I 100% own my 'answers' and my social network won't be sold, I won't use this.

I see there being value as an open source project, but if this is just a way to monetize and mine me and my friend's opinions then jelly can go jump in a lake.
websockets at the very least had a reference implementation. but it was more along the lines of "it works for me, i tested it on my local machine"

it took ages long discussions to get the point across. "yes, but on your local machine you don't have a reverse proxy like every other normal web application stack". it's going to break if we do it this way and they just kept responding.

"but it works here"

what about the oauth2 spectactle?

http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell...
80 From NYPD and Fire Forces Are Charged in Social Security Fraud
Yup.

:-)
Show HN: Reach your daily goal one email at a time
Interesting and I think you are correct. Rent-seeking happens all the time and is not just confined to domain names
"This varies by [the sanity of the] jurisdiction."
Show HN: Snaplive (web editor) demo #1
I don't know if you remember, but I've been posting in the past about my web editor project called Snaplive.

Well, a first version of the demo is online, I would love to know what you guys think.

There's a screencast on Vimeo that explains things a little: https://vimeo.com/83603848

To try it out:
1) visit http://snaplivedemo.com/new/ and wait until your demo is created
2) refresh the page
3) have fun playing with it :-)!

This is just the first version, but...
You can't just do that. Bernstein has to want to do it, and agree, and if you don't want to look silly that has to happen before his nomination is posted to the mailing list.
Sounds like a 17th century English puritan ... http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/09/13/puritan_name...
This is a good idea. I would just like to be able to ask questions without using the camera, and to have a favorites list that would make it easier to email or text the URL to the question.
Terrible support from a company that uses Digital Rights Management? Think I've heard this story before....
Yes, because you should get everything for free.
AngularDart for AngularJS Developers. Introduction to the best Angular yet.
Show HN: Sell anything through instagram
You don't need one, it's got gorilla glass, it's basically the same screen you'd get on a high end tablet.
I lean towards propaganda, because it affects other types of shows as well, sometimes in subtle ways.

Cop shows are all about flailing around for a few minutes, followed by a hacker/database identifying the subject and dispatch of the SWAT team. If the computers are down, the good guy beats up the suspect. If the show is on CBS, they do some sort of amazing thing using their MS Surface while driving a Chevy-something. (Bad guys like Fords and Chryslers)

Talk to a real cop. Whiz bang technology is the exception, not the rule. Successful detectives usually use their connections with the community to put two and two together.
How strong is Quora nowadays such that a competitor is necessary?
> The real world isn't a perfect laboratory, so sometimes you must make do with data supplied by accidents and coincidences ;)

You must also understand statistics, and build an experiment that isn't affected by them.
From the page: "Jelly works with your existing social networks."

My understanding was that it works as an addon to facebook or twitter or whatever. Maybe one of the creators is floating around here and can clear this up.
Yes indeed. Vim+FreeBSD+C

Nothing has shown itself as significantly better yet.
From a quick scan through Jacques' list of domains, I didn't see anything that looked like an existing trademark.

There's nothing wrong with owning something and not immediately developing it. It happens with physical assets all the time. Someone owns an empty plot of land and then one day someone else builds a shopping mall next to it. Now it's very valuable. Maybe you'll build a gas station or a restaurant on it now. Or it sits there just being an empty plot of land beside other empty plots of land. You never know.
it's important to realize that our popular TV shows are full of propaganda. it's subtle stuff, not out-and-out endorsements of political or social positions, but more along the lines of assumptions that are reinforced and left unopened. the purpose of the stuff isn't to change people's minds, but to solidify norms. i can't even count how many times i've seen "set 'em up to knock 'em down" characters - usually in the bad guy role.

there will be a character, usually a bad guy, with a certain ideology that will be delegitimized (usually some sort of anti-status-quo or anti-power thing). sometimes they will portray the character's ideology as good-intentioned, to give an effect of objectivity in the storytelling. but ultimately this character will be shown to be misguided, emotional, immature, or otherwise ideologically inferior to the "good" character. i see this shit a lot in crime and law enforcement-focused shows. i'm sure some people would argue that i'm being hypersensitive and that there's no ulterior motive behind these portrayals, but i can't remember a single time that i've seen an anti-government or "rebellious" character not delegitimized in one of these shows.

yes, it's just a character, but our ideological positions are weighted quite a bit on these "stories" - for many people, more so than facts. many hard-line conservatives would get angry at being called a "liberal", not because of their political differences, but because on some level they embrace a story where liberals are milquetoasty, limp-wristed, privileged turtleneck wearers, and conservatives are hard-working everymen trying to do right by their family. many liberals, for their part, embrace similar but reversed stories about conservatives. sure, maybe if you read hacker news you don't base your political views on stereotypes like this, but these stereotypes do their work by remaining in the back of everyone's mind. for average americans that don't explicitly try to be objective in their political and social positions, these stories actually hold a lot of sway. our TV storytelling enforces and solidifies these sort of stereotypes.
Operating system shootout: Which should you buy, a Chrome or Android machine?
NSA revelations: the 'middle ground' everyone should be talking about
Zoggle - Rewritten Using AngularJS
Honest review of the video: very boring, cliché and didn't convince me to download the app after watching it. I wasn't sure wether I should post this or not (sorry for being negative) but I guess it's better than no feedback.
A/B testing is for engineers too
From a product use case perspective, Jelly is like Aardvark for mobile. Aardvark was a bit early in terms of leveraging the various social networks and did not have mobile at its heart. I was an active use of aardvark and was really disappointed when Google shut it down. Heres hoping this product takes social/mobile Q&A forward.
Google "Cory Booker". He is a politician, so any link I include here will create controversy, but his model was to implement small-scale experiments, collect data, and use that data to gather additional funding from external sources.
Jenna Jameson turns 4chan into her Personal Army [NSFW]
Ask HN: Why is Enterprise Software So Expensive? 
I come across these great companies with products many of my clients would jump on using and than we find out they want $30k+ upfront to even get started.
Is this a reflection the value they create, or is there very real hard costs that drive those prices (besides the long sales cycle).

I guess what I want to know is why aren't startups driving down the costs of products like marketing automation?
Let me know if you have any questions. Josh@Killswit.ch
Then that system will be, by definition, not "basic".

One of the features of basic income is that it removes politics from poverty. If you have a system that is political, you have welfare in another form, with yet another name.

Basic income applies to the rich and poor alike, is identical for everyone, and carries no social stigma as a result, and offers no opportunity for political graft.

IMO that is why adoption is incredibly unlikely—politicians would need to approve it, and by doing so, they'd be putting themselves (mostly) out of a job. It seems extremely unlikely to me that will happen.
At last, I can use my social network to answer the timeless questions, like "HOW IS BABBY FORMED?" :)
MakerBot Is Changing The World
My guess is that things will have to get worse before they can get better, that it's paradoxically easier to democratically overthrow a true dictatorship than the sort of increasingly-oppressive democracy we see in the US.

I say this because most Americans are generally happy with the system. There are aspects they dislike, and lots of results they dislike, but there is still deep respect for the system itself in the people. I think the system may have reached a point where it no longer works well, but it still gives the appearance of doing so.

Dictatorships famously have rigged elections to give the regime the appearance of democracy. However, nobody actually believes it. The dictator wins roughly 99.44% of the vote and everybody knows the election is a sham.

Here, we have pretty decent elections that are mostly fair and well contested, but which ultimately don't accomplish much. We end up choosing between two candidates who have few differences when it comes to how they'll handle civil liberties, elections, third parties, and such. But the vast majority of the population doesn't see it that way, and so the election, and the system as a whole, is seen as legitimate even though it doesn't really work.

Worse, the system manages to control public opinion to perpetuate itself. Most Americans are deeply afraid of terrorism and welcome extreme measures to fight it. Expressing the idea that we should prosecute terrorists as common criminals and accept the occasional mass-casualty attack gets you labeled as a crazy person. This despite the fact that terrorism is a minor threat to our lives compared to almost every other way we can potentially die, even when you restrict it to ways you can die by being killed intentionally by other humans.

Just like elections, the propaganda machine is seen as legitimate, unlike in a dictatorship. In a dictatorship, the state news agency works as a government mouthpiece and nobody believes what they say. In the US, nominally independent media organizations work as mouthpieces of the government but since there are a bunch of them, and they're nominally independent, and they express what appears to be a wide range of views (which is actually only wide within the narrow range of what's considered mainstream), people respect them.

I'm not saying that it's hopeless or that we should give up the fight. But I do think that it's not entirely right to point out successes in overt dictatorships as proof that the current situation in the US can be fixed. I may be wrong, but it is possible that the current situation is good enough to make it far more difficult to actually improve it.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Seems like a Tinder'd UI for answering questions on a modernized Yahoo Answers/Ask Jeeves with a Quora effect.
Thaat's > 710^9 dollars to developers. So how many devs are out there? if we assume [for no good reason] 100,000 (10^5) devs that's 710^9/10^5 = 7*10^4 (70,000) dollars per dev. Adjust the number of devss to suit your prejudices.

This does not include devs who are hired by banks, stores, etc. which give their apps to customers for free.
Saying that books have mold on them is like saying that dogs have fleas on them. Condemning them for that reason is like throwing a pack of stray dogs into the incinerator for having fleas. After all, fleas are a hazard to human health -- the bubonic plague was spread by fleas.

It is indeed possible that the cost to restore these books may have been prohibitive, far out of proportion to their historical value, but the cost to preserve them was certainly not. All they would need to do is freeze them. It deactivates the mold, and prevents continuing harm. The books could sit there, not hurting anyone, until someone cared enough to restore them.
"They were linked to the case in question."

Not everyone "linked to the case" is a criminal, terrorist, despicable sub-human scum, or what-have-you.

That is not a popular idea in many areas of the military or law enforcement.
"unlike in many other organizations, IRTF co-chairs are
little more than group secretaries"

Assuming that's true, I think DJB has something better to do with his time than making sure the carrot cake has been ordered and unsubscribing mailing list subscribers who reported emails as spam.

Also the "keep friends close and enemies closer" as an employee of an organization that has a goal of the overthrow of the US constitution and elimination of human rights, the best place to keep the rep of an evil organization is in the public eye. So if he's mr good guy, no harm, and if we keep an eye on him, no harm, net positive to keep him in place.
No, this is not the expectation at all. Software developers should be paid for their work, but (sorry Hacker News) of all the popular funding models "VC-funded free service"(1) is the most hostile towards its users.

1 http://dominictarr.com/post/71958587606/some-thoughts-on-the...
"24" is one of the most brilliant (in its use, if not its composition) and effective pieces of modern/contemporary propaganda that I've seen.

I think it played a significant role in U.S. society's development over during the first decade of this century. Hell, I observed this, first hand, in my friends. When your erstwhile quite liberal and at least mildly "flower child" longtime friend -- who "can't" miss an episode of "24" -- starts telling you that maybe torture is necessary...

I hope Kiefer Sutherland has sleepless nights...
I was quite distracted by the "Murder she wrote" motif which kicks in at 0:23 on the video.

What pain point is this solving? I can see the usefulness of the photo of the Spire example, but as for traffic / most other real time issues, FB and Twitter work for those.
Vitamin E for Alzheimer’s
A drill press is a big drill mounted on a stand with a crank mounted on the side. When you turn the crank the drill presses down. A drill press operator would literally take something, place it under the drill, turn the crank to drill a hole in it, then remove the item.

I could see a big shop having enough work to support a full time drill operator but it is rather like saying you are a hammer operator or a screw driver operator. It isn't complicated enough to need a specialist.
> Most of the poor are renters. If you gave everyone $12k more a year, why wouldn't everyone's rent (and other expenses) simply rise by $12K?

If they did, that would be a sure sign of an unregulated supply monopoly which most developed nations have tools designed to address. In a competitive market, increased demand resulting from consumers having more money is expected to result in market clearing unit price, but also in quantity traded.

You see some price increases, particularly in goods disproportionately purchased by the poor, but the increases in average prices would generally be less, proportionately, than the increase in incomes of the groups purchasing them. The exception would be goods where there is an unregulated (or poorly-regulated) supply monopoly.
Some caching lessons
> Not everyone can be a grandmaster in chess or win the Olympic marathon

Why do the taught need to be the best of the best for the parent's statement to be valid? Can you not successfully learn how to play chess without being the sole grandmaster?
This is what you get when you click the link in the daily email: http://cl.ly/TEj7
More than anything else, I want to see one of the developers using their own product and being passionate about it. Instead, it feels like they're pitching me on an idea - which I can't for the life of me see the point of.

Reminds me a little of Kevin Rose's Oink: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/14/2872172/oink-app-kevin-ros....
This could be quite useful for Ripple, which is basically solving a max-flow min-cost problem over a credit lines graph.
Am I the only one who gets an auto-play video and then an uncloseable popup that prevents me from pausing or muting it??
Using a color besides grey on white would be nice. The lack of contrast makes some of the effects really difficult to see, especially the Speech Bubble ones.
As opposed to risking just making it legal so anyone can do it without a second thought?
I see it as a variant of the 'hedonic treadmill'. So many scenes of extreme behavior, by 'bad guys' and 'good guys', have already been done in filmed/televised entertainment, that audiences are habituated to all the usual situations and nastiness. New works must keep going more extreme, in both what happens and what's shown on-screen (as opposed to suggested), to hold attention.
And then having your ISP drop you as a customer.
will work for food and housing for me, wife and kids. i would legally relocate to the usa
Yes, my perception is that, in general, in American fiction, the way to go is with a violent solution! (Again, that's makes great spectacular movies, don't get me wrong, and it's a general thing compared with movies from elsewhere, not something that happens all the time)

For example, if you want to stop a meteorite hitting Earth, do not use rockets attached to its surface, explode a huge nuclear bomb!

If you have to start the nucleus rotation, do not make any chemical reaction or engineering project, just explode a huge nuclear bomb!

If you are a multibillionaire that wants to solve crime, just personally punch criminals in the face!

And we're talking about fiction, not real life. I'm ok with spectacular, but I can't help noticing it :-P
I would love to find another girl near me who likes to play tennis and also likes the Dodgers and the same kinda music as i do. Can this site really do that? I have to try it out..
I think it's about data-ownership, not price.
Canada's ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we'd stop wars
That depends entirely on your window manager. I generally run a customized Fvwm2 setup, so that's all easy to tweak.

In my setup, focus follows mouse only when the mouse moves

That makes much more sense to me.
Didn't Aardvark do this already and get bought by Google?
FWIW, I think hellbanning that comment was WAY out of line. It sounded like a sincere question to me. In fact, it was a question I was wondering myself. In any case, for such a severe sanction, the commenter surely should have been given the benefit of the doubt.
None of these satellites will improve on the maximum resolution of Google Maps. Physics prevents it. They would need to be MUCH larger to get better resolution. Like: http://spaceref.com/onorbit/kh-9-hexagon-spy-satellite-makes...

What they may be able to do is get more up to date information. I think this makes Planet Labs really interesting. With 28 satellites (even if only 20 make it operational) you still end up with being able to image every point on earth every hour or so contingent on cloud cover (granted we're talking really low resolution because those cameras are little more than a hand-held Canon lens you see at sports events).

The problem I'd be curious about for PlanetLabs is how they plan to downlink their information back down to earth. They wont be able to afford access to something like TDRSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_and_Data_Relay_Satelli...) but they may be able to do some really cool mesh networks to always get access to a single ground station. That would be a really cool and unique solution. Otherwise they need to wait for each satellite to fly over a single ground station which would only happen every 9 hours or so if they are lucky.
Edelweiss: Automatic Storage Reclamation for Distributed Programming [pdf]
Simulation of different airplane boarding strategies
Ah yes, I see. I just tried it out, here's GIMP with a 256 DPI:

http://i.imgur.com/2GpqyND.png

The title-bar size is configured in pixels, so that could be fixed easily by the user, but icons, both in the GIMP and in the native window don't resize well. It seems the DPI scaling is only applied to text, and only text-containing elements are scaled accordingly.
Total non-sense.

E.g. FireFighting - It has a lower Workers Comp rating than most construction jobs. In California they often make $100,000 or more and spend most of the time training, cleaning or resting. Most calls are not for fires, but for assistance. There's very little chance of loosing your job and in the unlikely situation where you're hurt or injured, there's a well-funded plan to take care of you.

Compare that with an "Event Coordinator" who's under constant deadlines, paid ~$27K/yr, workes 12-14 hour days and lives in constant fear of loosing their job if everything isn't perfect. No health care and no retirement.