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I loved this - this is why I love HN. Although roasting the beans in my oven would terrify me - the chaffe could so easily catch fire, couldn't it?

I own the Behmor - I'm rather new to it (< 50 roasts). I'm happy with the purchase however I would caution anyone interested that (a) there's a massive learning curve (as OP points out), and that (b) even though it is marketed as being able to roast 1 pound of coffee, you will only really get a light-to-maybe-perhaps-kind-of-medium roast if you put a full pound of coffee in the drum. I only learned this after going through about 10 pounds of coffee (~20-30 roasts). I like a really dark roast - what I learned is that I can only roast 10 ounces at a time with the Behmor. Check out the top-rated review on Amazon - the guy says he can only roast 7-9 ounces at a time.

After looking at $800 roasters, I'd still buy the Behmor if I was new to this and wanted a roaster. But here's the thing: to roast 10 ounces of coffee takes about 35 minutes - you have a 15-22 minute roast followed by a 12-13 minute cooling cycle. If you go through a pound of coffee a week (which is likely for two adult coffee lovers), that means you'd have to spend almost an hour per week to roast your own coffee using the Behmor. And this roast - there's about a five minute time period in the latter/end part of the roast itself that has to be attended. So you start your roast, come back 10-12 minutes later, wait for the cues you need, and then you can go on with your life.

And you know what isn't great? The Behmor's temperature sensor will shut the unit down if it's cold outside (like below 30 degrees F). When it's cold, you'll have to get your roast prepared indoors, then take it outside, and start the roast. And that five minute period where you have to watch your roast? Let me tell you - it sucks to have to monitor a roast outside in 16 degree weather!

That said, after roasting my own, it's almost unfathomable to me at this point to want to quit using the Behmor and go back to someone else's roast. I've enjoyed the learning curve.
It must be a resounding success - the UK is about to commit to buying some - like we committed to buying Skybolt and the F-111 (cancelling the awesome home grown TSR 2 in the process):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
Any bitcoin-like blockchain must be a valuable currency at the core to reward miners with minted units and fees. Otherwise, there's no incentive to deploy petahashes of computing power to secure consensus worldwide. Namecoin is a currency. If it's not valuable, its security is nil. Economically, users want to keep cash in the most liquid (marketable) asset, therefore, users and miners want to converge on a single most powerful blockchain (aka "network effect"). Today it's Bitcoin and it can only change if it's completely replaced for some reason by a superior, even more liquid blockchain.

Also: blockchain does not need to store more than 32 bytes of metadata or have special name-handling features like Namecoin does. You only need to associate 1 satoshi with a 32-byte hash of your metadata (addresses, certificates, private keys etc.) Metadata can be distributed by any means, e.g. by today's network of name servers. Blockchain only works as a proof of name ownership that links that metadata to a name. You can use just 1 satoshi to be allocated for the name. If you lose your name, it'll be worth much more than that anyway.
Ask HN: How do i increase my karma
I have been a long time reader of HN, but have never bothered to create an account. Couple of weeks ago i finally registered. I still see my karma at the default 1. How do i increase it ?
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Sadly it's well known that non-specific counseling has a neutral or negative effect. Obviously studies about this are difficult.

Someone willing to listen is important to help a person with mental health problems get support. That support doesn't have to be from a professional. It could be self guided from a good quality book or website. Or it could involve professionals, from telephone provided CBT through intensive long term psychological therapies provided by speciList providers.
Why not just demand that the NSA to be disbanded?

I mean... does anyone have any evidence to indicate that we need it?
Cyborgs can't come soon enough. If I'm running out of Juice, just eat a protein bar.
Most programmers don't get that except a few who win the startup lottery. Most developers work for a slightly above median wage in a cubicle in some insurance company somewhere.
I moved from Perl to Python. I noticed Python was harder to do "clever stuff" with - the sort you would see in Perl one liners.

My code is a little more verbose in Python, but I notice I don't shoot myself in the foot by trying to be too clever too early, and ending up with a tangled mess a few days later.
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> Cockpit is under heavy development and it's advised you only run it in a virtual machine for now.

Another interesting Red Hat backed project in the same field of server management and deployment is The Foreman
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.4/index.html
I would say it needs to "adapt" to harsher market conditions created by these mergers, net neutrality gone, etc.
Kicking off the 2014 Google Science Fair
That looks fraudulent, no doubt!

I just wanted to criticize that many of the arguments in the original article refer to activities like violating the "state money transmission laws" or "money laundering" and "suspicious transactions" (http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=5618295)
No, there is not an implicit social contract in becoming a public figure, especially for those people who become public figures without their intent or consent (e.g "Star Wars Kid").

Also, if this was limited to criticizing ideas, it might be more reasonable. It isn't. For example, Caroline Crialdo-Perez getting rape threats on twitter for saying it would be a good idea to have a woman on a banknote.

To turn your phrase around, there is an implicit social contract in having a platform for disseminating ideas that you not use it for threats, intimidation, abuse or causing emotional distress.
Ferver: A simple Ruby app serving files over HTTP
If you're in the UK, Zen Internet now offer £25/month truly unlimited fibre broadband. ~80mbps down, ~20mbps up, no traffic shaping / AUP or anything. I am so happy with my internet right now.
That would also be a great idea.

Leasing infrastructure works great in lots of cases.
Do these child carers have access to a support network?
I don't know why he claims it's untouched, Red Bull sent a team out to base jump from Ulvetanna back in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg
New awecode: Hoa\Websocket (PHP)
Sometimes I wonder if future historians will think we literally believed the religious imagery we used in technological flamewars.
It's interesting that this is a case where DRM transfers power from one user to another: from recipient to sender. The only other case I've come across where this kind of transfer is accepted as beneficial is anti-cheat systems in games.
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MP uses Pepper Spray in Indian Parliament
Try to use the MDN instead. It has much better and accurate information. YMMV.
i'm not really directly responding to you, but this thing about schools investigating rapes is absolutely fucking ridiculous to me.

if there's been a suspected rape, the police need to be called, not the school. rape is a crime, not something for school politics to get its hands on.

calling the real police deters real actual rape, and false accusations of rape, both of which can ruin lives.
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My experience with the AWS console is that I get a 12-hour session upon logging in, and I never have to reauthenticate.
Well if Elsever would make it easier to access, we wouldn't have to. $32 to read about what might be the biggest breakthrough of the year?
The problem is that W3schools contents sucks as well. E.g., MDN is much better in comparison. http://www.w3fools.com/
Thanks for the feedback and the vote count!
> Imagine a forum [...] but you have to log into it with a password and passwords cost $50 to acquire and for sufficiently bad behaviour they can be revoked

You don't have to imagine it, take a look at the Something Awful forums. People still get banned but the discourse is better, from my limited experience.
I hope the kid wins a shitload of money in a lawsuit against the state... and the cops get punished. Now what's the chance of this happening?
Yeah, sure: that's a Google phone made on contract. If you take a look at LG's other (= own) phone designs you will see that they have absolutely no design sense whatsoever in either hardware nor software. Especially the interface on their phones is a hideous and unusable pile of shit.

At least Samsung seems to be making some progress in this department, but I'm not holding my hopes up.
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Sesame Street Fighter - A Typing Fighting Game
SSL pinning on iOS is now very easy. AFNetworking 1 supported it and AFNetworking 2 has made it a great deal easier.

Pinning by public key means makes upgrades and certificate renewal less of a problem.
That's just silly. If you kill your boss, who's going to promote you, and who is going to pay out the higher salary? No, the rational thing to do is to wear his skin to impersonate him and sell all the company's assets. Then eat him.
Have there been any cases where Bitcoin private keys have been requested?

I don't know of any, and it's not the case here.

(If law enforcement had a legal claim to the balances controlled by the keys, they'd craft their order or enforcement action to achieve that end. I think the sweep of funds to a new address, after the Ross Ulbrecht arrest, suggests they understand the key-control issues involved.)
> u should be damn well sure that everyone involved is squeaky clean.

i don't think that's how it works, unless you mean clean of negative publicity. i really doubt most lobbying are clean, but you don't hear about them, because they act like the kings concubines.
Legally so, but not rightly so. Apple has arbitrary and unreasonable rules. They are not in a morally justified position when they exert those rules, even though they are legally able to.

Now, in this case, it is obvious what the right move is for the developer. They have to ship their app on android or windows phone instead of iphone. If apple refuses entry into their walled garden, the developers should take their app and go somewhere else. If enough apps do this and become popular, apple will change their rules.
I've been depressed and it's precisely because of that i'm certain i couldn't be of help to someone depressed. Thinking back, i can't think of anything my friends could've said that would've helped. I mean, i was basically a pessimistic, cynical asshole that shot everything down, be it "it'll be ok" or "Lets go to the cinema".
The bird hit the pipe at 7 for me. Could be a browser/cpu issue?
There's nothing wrong with using table for layout. Before calling me old school, let it be known that table can do responsive before even css2 was drafted. Also the rendering compatibility of table still looks pixel perfect now as how it was written in 1999.
Cool idea though .. been meaning to implement a flappy bird bot myself.
Actually I think we're still a little off.
The p-value is the probability of seeing a test statistic at least as extreme as the observed sample statistic, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true. This can be restated in terms of tests and errors.
The p-value is the probability of committing a type-1 error for a statistical test, where the threshold of that test is chosen to be equal to the sample statistic. In more intuitive terms, it's the probability of a type-1 error under the null hypothesis for the most extreme test that the sample data is able to pass.

In your explanation, where you said "given a sample" you should say "given a sample size", to make it clear that the type-1 error probability is not conditional on the sample data. If you condition on the observed data, then the probability of passing a statistical test is going to be 1 or 0 depending on whether or not the data passes the test. It is the test itself, not the error probability, that depends on the sample data. Which is also something you should have specified.
In fairness, as an EU citizen, I'd say most justice systems the world over are just shit.

Sure, the rich and connected will get all sorts of rights and protections, but if you are Mr. Nobody (and worse, you were not born and bred in the specific area where you're being accused) then some sort of abuse is almost guaranteed. Look at the news in places like UK, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Canada: people "spontaneously" die in police custody, are killed in the street while unarmed, spend years in jail for crimes they didn't commit, spend months in custody before even being accused of anything... and these are just the ones we hear about. My father occasionally had to look after kids who had some brush up with the Law, in Italy; long story short, once you enter The System, you can kiss goodbye to any sense of respect, self-worth or personal rights.
That's the same reason I don't want to see humans on Mars. I can't think of anything that improved with the presence of humans.
Sounds cheap.
I sympathise with those using tables for layout considering how unintuitive the box-model is.
I bought the Motorola flagship phone[1] of last year and it's just as bad as he's describing, if not worse.

Unfortunately, it goes way beyond just small UI and physical design issues:

-The "Play Store" is filled with low-brow, tacky crap (above and beyond that of Apple's "App Store").

-Even though my phone has multiple cores, the audio output is seemingly competing for resources with events like changes in network or wifi availability (e.g. riding the subway), which leads to issues like choppy/distorted audio.

-The workflow/UX for common applications and uses was seemingly designed by someone that didn't use the phone for any extended period of time. Want to call someone? Open the 'Phone' application. Don't know the number? Oh, that's a different application -- close 'Phone' and open the 'People' application. What, you'd expect scrolling through contacts to be a common ask for someone about to make a call?

-Bloatware. Remember the days in which you'd buy a Dell and it would come pre-installed with a bunch of crappy applications that you immediately tried to remove? Yeah, it's like that, with the exception that you can't remove the bloatware and you have no control over their use on your data or battery.

-Little weird issues: type a text, hit enter, and start typing again too quickly? Sometimes the final word of your previous line will be entered as input on your current message. Interest-based ads from 3rd parties, hooray (I don't even want to start thinking about which local data sources are scanned)! Volume control is context specific -- there's 4 sliders for the simple intent of "I don't want things louder than X."

-I miss having a physical button to hook into the OS -- when an app is crashing (which is common), you don't have a "oh crap, close-it" toggle. This makes you interact with touchscreen buttons on an interface that's already decided to stop dealing with users.

1. http://www.motorola.com/us/shop-all-mobile-phones-1/Droid-Ra...
I skipped the post, mainly because I somehow wanted to know what greener pastures the author had found...

Then he revealed Javascript. Even though I am putting out a ton of javascript and javascript-targeted languages, I found that a little disappointing!
Reading about suicide in the news is incomparable to the kind of direct intervention I'm talking about. As john_fushi commented[1], the best thing you can do is talk about it and his suggestion of calling your local suicide helpline for advice is an excellent one.

On a personal level, I've found that talking frankly about suicide greatly reduces my desire to act on any suicidal feelings. This effect is greatest when talking face to face with somebody I know and trust.

However, worrying about whether or not somebody trusts you should NOT stop you from intervening. If somebody shows a desire to listen and help my in such a situation I'll have a much greater level of trust in them than I did before, even if they were previously a complete stranger or somebody I dislike.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7228997
I contacted them a while ago and they stated that they will let developers create their own intents soon.

http://www.ask-ziggy.com is also similar
All this because of an image that looks like a screenshot? Wait 'till 4chan gets a wind of this...
Palm had the grid icon layout for years before apple did it, but nobody would confuse an old palm device with an iphone when actually using it, and palm in fact had to throw it out and start all over with the pre to deliver an iphone competitor.

There's a big difference between a good concept and a good execution of a concept. Apple have always been brilliant at execution, even if they don't have many original concepts (they don't do basic research). Is it not innovative to take a good idea and execute it better than anyone before? I find that a hard thing to dismiss. However, now that they are on top of the world, it would be nice to see them invest in open basic research to give back to the community where they got all their ideas and technologies from, like microsoft does with microsoft research.
I used Google Glass once... The migraine set in after only a few minutes. It was horrible.

It felt like I was using a 60 Hz CRT monitor, so I suspect that the problem is that the refresh rate is too low.

Also, the eye strain of looking up in a weird way certainly didn't help!
Easy to use Python, Youtube Data API v3 library
Load balancing should be transparent to the user. Pages with duplicate content should use <link rel="canonical">.
Exactly! I think I can only visit the states again after I'm married and with kids, to go to Disneyland... it seems the only safe venture. I mean if you're single, go to a club and get into a fight, that would probably be enough to make your life hell already... going there is like russian roulette
Darren Herman is from MDC Partners, a massive advertising company. Then he founded a "media management" company. He's a "marketing innovator".

He writes ambiguous phrases that tend to contradict themselves like "Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center" (what?) and "The new tab page isn’t delivering any value for them." (double-what?)

Let's look at some of the wording from this guy [1], it's straight out of some PR/advertising agency. It makes me so incredibly suspicious, and I worry it will be counter to Mozilla's goals.

"Some of these tile placements will be from the Mozilla ecosystem, some will be popular websites in a given geographic location, and some will be sponsored content from hand-picked partners to help support Mozilla’s pursuit of our mission."

A given geographic region? Who says that it's popular? Hand-picked partners? Who picks them? What are the requirements for being "hand-picked"?

Let's look at some more language, filled with buzz-words and devalued propositions:

We are excited about Directory Tiles because it has inherent value to our users.

While Mozilla hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with all viewpoints in the digital content community, particularly the IAB, we think they’d agree that users’ interests should come first, and we want to help their members deliver compelling content to strengthen the Web ecosystem.

When the user is at the center everyone benefits

We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make every experience for them richer and more meaningful.

I know many will find me harsh, but when I read these things I also immediately have my guard up. I wonder what is being hidden behind these frankly contradictory and ambiguous statements. There is, to my mind, a falseness to them that is disturbing. This sort of language is what a politician or PR agency would use to deliver unpalatable news. I feel very strongly that it has no place being on an official Mozilla blog.

1. https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...
I don't agree. I was clinically depressed in my early twenties.
There is a temptation to reduce the world to simple bite sized physical causes. With something like brain cancer this may be appropriate - but perhaps not, it may be that stress levels induced by a working environment may influence the chances of developing the disease.
The point is there is a complex network of interactions which include emotional reactions to your environment, which can drive a person into a depressed state.
It may be that for some proportion of those that suffer from depression that the cause is purely chemical imbalance driven by phenotypic makeup. But I suspect this is rare, we are a complex system of interacting components and these components include our own internal way of viewing the world.

There is something tempting about reducing complex issues which have implications about the way we live our lives (like ADHD, Depression, etc) to simple physical reductionist causation. It is not a correct way of viewing the world and should be resisted.
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If think if there is a natural monopoly on a resource used as a lifeline or by more that half of the citizen, the infra should be under the government's oversight and the service privatized and open to competition.

Your wireless carrier example would be a single wireless network with as many as wished service providers.

This would slow down new technology deployments, but the market might be mature enough to get it's evolution slowed down two or three times without major inconvenience I think
(for instance, we'd be stuck with LTE for a while if we go this way now ?)
"Also, it’s pretty amazing to see that 85% of early adopters are men."

It's be interesting to research the reasons behind that statistic. It could be that women are more risk averse so they don't sign up as often. Or that women have a higher bar for giving up the privacy of their email address and startups are failing to win their attention. Or startups market to their peers at the beginning, and as most startups are male-led that means they don't get the message to women as often.

There could well be a 'betali.st that appeals to women' opportunity here.
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This sleazy behavior is exactly why I refuse to use LinkedIn.
Well, it's not necessarily that. For example, my website serves an authority delegation file (https://stavros.io/.well-known/browserid) which I really don't want an attacker to mess with. Serving JS libs/changing the config/etc wouldn't get them anywhere, unless they could change that single file.

Since there are some ways to protect from that (I think the two I proposed above are reasonable), Mozilla probably should think about implementing it.
I did the website, now I want the T-shirt.
Callbacks ≠ passing functions as arguments. Callbacks (in the node sense) is passing a single function as the final argument which will be called exactly once with an error or result.

The function passed to _.each is used to access the elements of an array. It is called once for each element. It is used as a mechanism to pass a block of code to _.each, not to get a result from _.each.
Yeah, sure. Nobody use node.js. /sarcasm
I wish that I had the ability to downvote people because of comments like this. There is no justification for that kind of behavior -- and calling it a "best practice" speaks volumes about your lack of integrity.