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I'll toss in another nudge to intuition. You select one of the hundred doors. Then Monty takes the other 99 and opens door after door, displaying goats, but when he reaches one of them, he carefully skips over it, then continues to the last door showing goat after goat.

Then he says, "Okay, the car is either behind the door you selected or the one I selected by skipping over it. There's only one car, so if you picked the right one, then I had to pick a random goat door to skip, but if the door you picked was the wrong one, the door I skipped was the one with the car. And, unlike you, I know which door has the car. Would you like to keep the door that you originally picked or switch to the one that I just picked?"

You don't know where the car is; he does. Do you want your pick or his?
That summarizes the author's conclusion, not what he is trying to say.
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...they will probably cry a bit and up their game. by a lot. Until someone stops just crying and boom.
the website that folks have been linking said that it didn't detect Superfish (sorry, I'm typing this from a phone)

The website you're referring to, is https://canibesuperphished.com/​
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I rarely upvote, but this is amazing!
Alternatively, there was a 1/3 chance you picked the winning door, which is the only scenario where you lose if you swap.
As I understand it, Material (and Microsoft's Metro, interestingly) aims to be better on battery compared to predecessors if only because it's a simpler UI with larger plain blocks of color, minimal decorations, and far fewer "expensive" effects like gradients or translucence\transparency. That doesn't mean said wins aren't immediately consumed by other parts of the system, even other parts of Material UI widgetry. Regardless, the simpler flatter design frees up some resources (battery, ultimately) which can then be used for other things, like smooth animations and transitions.
The first time I got made redundant was devastating. I'd only been in the job two or so years but it was a place i really loved working at. It greatly affected me and was an intense three months. I hadn't been jobless involuntarily before that.

The second redundancy, after nearly 8 years, was surprisingly different. I guess it's because I'm older and wiser.... maybe. "You are not your job" is an easy thing to say to yourself but I think you have to go through the experience of being jobless to really internalize that. I think that's what made my second redundancy different.

i'd come out of that job having learned a lot and had gained a lot of confidence as an engineer. Losing the job didn't feel like losing a part of myself so much as the first time.

One of the most helpful things for me came from a 'career transition' course that my employer paid for me to go to as part of my redundancy. The instructor/presenter was talking about people they'd worked with previously who had spent months engrossed in their job search to the neglect of other things. When asked what their biggest regrets were, one had given an answer along the lines of "I've spent the last six months totally immersed in my job search when I could have spent this time with my kids". The point they were getting that is that in a way, the time you get from a well-paid redundancy might be a rare opportunity and you should take advantage of it to do the things you want to do but never had the time. Certainly look for a job, but don't make job seeking your existence. Ofcourse you have to have the luxury to be able to do that, but I think it's a good philosophy even just to remind yourself that your life always involves more than just a job.
Yes, another use-case is if you are running Privoxy on your local computer; would be great if you could MITM all local SSL connections instead of having to manually whitelist specific sites.
Interesting idea, but how is it different from note keeping apps ( like evernote ) ? Infact now that i think i can actually do stuff like this using a private instagram account.
The UI from the photos looks really nice though, i presume this isn't your first app.
Has anyone else had issues with Macbook Air having marks on the screen which won't come off? These look like tiny scratches, but are in a line and roughly where the screen touches the top of the trackpad when closed.

I've had it with both the 11" and 13" models of the current design. Apple replaced the screen on both, but the same happened and then my warranty expired.
In the last 6 months, I've had my 15" late 2011 model MBP repaired three times for this exact problem. After the first failure, they haven't charged again for the subsequent motherboard replacements. I guess so many are failing all at once that they couldn't ignore the problem anymore.

Interestingly, the first time I had it repaired, I was charged $550 by a third-party "repair" shop who told me up front that it the motherboard needed to be replaced, then took it to Apple and payed them $330 to fix it. Caveat emptor.
The problem is not well-posed. The debate should be about its formulation, not about the math...

The key here is to understand that no matter what you do, the game organizer will ALWAYS open one of the two others doors.

Now, what if the organizer was to open a door only in some cases? He could open the door only when you choose the correct door. In that case, you have 0 chance of winning when you switch doors when the organizer opens another one.

What makes the 1/2-1/2 probability - that so may math PhDs defended - acceptable is this: the organizer is selecting a door at random and opening it. Then if I choose a door and the organizer opens another one, I know that I have a 50% chance of having selected the correct one. Of course, he could also have opened my door in which case the game ends.

This is a good example of how an ill-posed problem have different solutions depending on its implicit interpretation.
You can purchase white plastic by the roll or by the sheet that is designed to cling to a wall and be marked upon with dry erase markers. Some of these work well--but read the reviews on Amazon as some work better than others. One nice feature is that they are somewhat self-archiving (the writing becomes "permanent" after 24 hours or so) and are easy to transport.
Your reply is the most valuable & important response of this entire conversation so far. Thank you for saving my faith in the HN community.
You know you can use MAC and a NULL cipher right? Even in IPsec there is a whole mode, AH where messages are authenticated but not encrypted...
My first regret: having not the balls to do what I really wanted when I was a teenager.

I went to the university mostly to please my parents and to reassure them. I think that was my biggest mistake and I never really learned anything there.

My second regret: quitting. I'm getting bored very easily.

I'm thinking about 2 projects I started with friends where I left the ship eventually because I felt less motivated than them. Now they are both making tons of money and expansing there companies (while I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life).

I also started a lot of projects which I will probably never release, but that's a pretty common thing.

The last one: working for someone else.

Studying led me on the logical path of getting a job. I first said to myself that it will be temporary and I listened to people who were telling me that I had to have a little experience before launching my own thing (and my advice is: don't listen to their bullshits and do what the fuck you really want to do). The truth is that when you get a job it consumes you and you can forget what your dreams are pretty quickly.

The counterbalancing point of this last regret is that I met extraordinary people while I was an employee, who are still very good friends nowadays. Actually the guy with whom I'm trying to build a startup right now is a former coworker of mine ;)
Hmm, there was a class action settlement in 2011 for that it appears. No repair programs that I can find - may be Apple's the most proactive in issuing repairs and other manufacturers' issues are swept under the rug because of relatively low visibility.
Should this fall under the original brief of the NSA? (Ironic, I know). I realize that FBI traditionally does "domestic" and CIA "foreign" -- but I seem to recall NSA has something about "cybersecurity threats" or some such nebulus thing in their mission statement?
Use some software with which you can do remote maintenance on your parents' computer(s).

Or, introduce them to more stable OSses, like Ubuntu instead of Windows. That worked for my neighbours ;-)
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With Duo, in addition to the online request acceptance, you can also get a code from the phone without being online, and type that into wherever to finish logging in.
Why is it when a sports team goes after another player, it us a trade. But when a company goes after an employee, it is poaching?
Yeah I get that the sports guy is under contract. But the word "poaching" has a negative conotation and it makes them look like a big bad evil company. When in reality it is a win for the employee.
Yeah the standard flat rate fee for motherboard related issues from Apple is just about $300. With this in mind it's usually a better idea to take them to Apple then use third party shops. I've had the exact same issue happen to me on Apple laptops all the way back to my 2008 Macbook Pro and eventually Apple made the same extension for that model as they are with these newer models. After a few years the video chipset seems to have connection issues that may or may not be solved with a reflow attempt (baking the logic board in the oven)
I donate to the EFF whenever possible. What else can I do to fight these bastards? I think the NSA is a threat to humanity and I feel helpless.
No, you have a 1/2 chance of winning after a door has been opened. However, you also have a chance of losing on that reveal. Something you don't have in the normal variants. (That is, in normal variants, you only lose at the end of the game. This one, you could effectively lose when the host opens the actual winning door.)

So, your overall odds aren't as different as it seems. Just you have a much better odds of winning by switching, if you are still in the game.
Pretty sure that was too.
Yes! I had this exact problem with my MBPr 15" (2013). I used to bike with it in my backpack, and I believe the pressure from that pushed the screen in, causing it to scrape the metal near the trackpad. Any pressure should cause this to happen, given that they're so thin.
Many thanks, easy when you know the right keywords >.<
We can have as many pseudonyms as we need, and can transfer Bitcoins among them via mixing services. No pseudonym need make more than one purchase. It's the difficulty of anonymous postal delivery that's limiting.
"This reminds me so much to Windows 95 ..."

That statement is so wrong... I switched to linux from Win95 because the bluescreens sucked so bad. No comparison really.
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Fantastic explanation.

I think this is what the article was trying to get across with the example of the doors but I felt that just confused the matter by talking about "shifting" the probability.
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That's a good point, but we're going for that old-school mathematical charm. The rest of the lounge is has a warm antique feeling, with a patterned rug and roman blinds, curved wooden chairs etc.
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or is there an rss feed somewhere ?
Unless I am missing something, the only traffic you can decrypt is between the browser and the proxy which is localhost, not the proxy and the website(traffic you see on the wire).
Well, well. Just as with the iMessage switching from iPhone issues, it seems that sometimes it takes a class action lawsuit to get results from Apple: http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/28/apple-class-action-lawsuit-201...

Full disclosure: I'm pretty sure my wife is owed a reimbursement over this.
So in that mode it's a proprietary alternative to FIDO that requires a camera to image the phone's screen?

A lot of work has gone into the FIDO spec to make sure it can be used across a wide range of environments. I don't see the utility of buying into a proprietary 2-factor system that seems to be solving the same problem. If you added u2f-hid support to eliminate the hack of transmitting data via pictures and cameras, wouldn't your system behave exactly like FIDO?

Isn't the natural progression for a company like Duo or Clef to pivot to being a managed FIDO 2-factor service, for organizations that want central management of 2-factor auth without creating their own management system?
Thank for bringing this to my attention.

I guess I should look into the Chromium source to disable this MITM "feature"... I'm really too busy so if anyone else does this I'd much appreciate a patch.
Just because it is a saying, doesn't mean it is true. There are some things that are free (as in beer) and you are still not the product.
In the case where companies are selling your data, you are both, whether or not you pay for it. The companies still need to work hard to retain you.
Just last month I finally sold my 15" MBP (early 2011) for $500 after whining on reddit, and having no chance of repair, except the apple auth. guy said, I need to change motherboard.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2ka0h0/yosemite_cripp...

Also I voted this.
http://www.change.org/p/timothy-d-cook-replace-or-fix-all-20...

I wish I had not sold it. :/ because for $500 I could only get the HP pavilion :/ as a replacement., you know that alone is the most terrible fact about this whole episode. that Had to use a HP lappy. :/

If I were apple CEO, I would be sending a personally signed, apologizing note to each of these customers, with a bag carrying a new MBP.

In my case it took 45% of my fortune to buy that machine. :/
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Why does the government consider this grandmother public enemy No. 1?
Now locals should fill out the rest of Detroit on the U.S. City Open Data Census. http://us-city.census.okfn.org/

Then you can see how it compares to other cities and have some good conversations with city departments on how to improve the quality of the data they do release.
Duo has been awesome. I hit my login screen, enter password, send notification and hit accept on my phone. Ridiculously easy. The only problem is when you phone battery is dead.
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"Windows Vista and up did away with special OEM ISO/Disks. You can use your OEM license with any official ISO/Disk."

Are you referring to all flavors(Home Basic/Home Premium/Pro/Ultimate) from one disk? Installing retail/OEM from one disk has never been the case in my experience, though I have limited experience with 'retail' installs. I joined TechNet ~6 years back to obtain ISOs to reload various x32/x64/Vista/7 installs, but none of the machines' OEM keys I tried would work with the TN ISO's. If I'm not mistaken, they were specifically 'retail' ISOs.
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/03/11/frequentism-and-bay...

This a very good 4 part series on the subject, with a focus (esp. in part 3) on how this affects scientific statements.
Where do you stand if you have an Early 2011 15" MacBook Pro that has a faulty GPU but is long out of warranty?

Even with this extension program, you aren't any better off since you would still have to pay for the repair according to Apple's website?

I guess this is where your statutory rights come into play if you live in the UK (like I am) since these entitle you to the free repair or replacement of the defective goods up to six years after purchase.

http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
Tired of looking for your car or getting parking tickets?
From Monty Hall's interview:

> He retained the authority to offer the contestant cash NOT to switch. "I wanted to con [them] into switching there."

So he wanted them to win the car. That seems interesting. I suppose it makes sense as this was an entertainment program. Viewers like a happy ending. Or if the guest accepts the cash and stays with the lower probability door, it's okay that they get the goat because they have cash. So win-win just for appearing. Also prevents unhappy guests from saying bad things about the show.
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Feynman did his Nobel work a long time ago and early in his long career. I suspect that achieving a science-Nobel-level breakthrough these days usually happens many years later in a career, because getting to the outer edge takes many more years of study than it used to. Breakthroughs requiring less study are more likely already to have been made, and each generation has to reach higher for the remaining fruit.

I also suspect that reaching a science-Nobel-worthy breakthrough requires not just more years but more-focused work. Feynman may simply have been an exception, but he might also represent something that was possible then but has become less possible with each passing year.
Thank you. When you put it that way, it makes so much more sense to me. Opening the door does not change the odds. Why is that so counter intuitive?
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Evernote is a great app for keeping notes, but it is more oriented towards professional use. This, on the other hand, is a memory book for babies where stories are organised into albums. The easy-to-use UI is focused on pictures and rich text information about babies' firsts, thus creating memories that last forever.
Basically: to make OpenGL apps in Go you used to have to install a bunch of headers and libraries, and it was a real pain.

We fixed it a long time ago, but people used the old version so much we didn't want to break anything.

We're finally forcing people onto the new code, and also ensuring we don't end up in this situation again.
You could possibly change the text before indexing to solve this problem.
LINE is probably one of the big IM players in Indonesia as well aside from BBM (decreasing as users moving towards Android based phones) and WhatsApp.

That's a country with lots of users as well.

I rarely use Line except whenever I need to chat with my family/friends overseas but when it comes to IM, culture seems to dictate the user-experience. I use Google Hangout, Facebook Messenger, and Line.

Google Hangout and Facebook Messenger are alike and focus on one thing: conversation (sounds heavy eh?). Line focuses on expression/emotion (especially 'cuteness').
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Do the interview but don't invest yourself emotionally. Approach the interview like you don't want the job (even if you do). If they like you, cool. If not, cool.

One thing you can try is contracting/consulting with an established firm. It got me into a couple of positions I'd have otherwise been screened out of, because I was able to bring what I know and can do to the table without fear of rejection or concern of being screened out.

Also, get out of your head. :)
For an example of cherry-picking lodash modules see

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Very cool and a step in the right direction. When I saw the headline, I was crazily surprised. The only other issue I see with this, is how residents of Detroit who do not have Internet/Access to Computers ect are being left out (probably more than we think).
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In the USA, banks will only accept one or two checks for deposit to your personal account if you're using a fictional company name before demanding you create a business account.

You don't need to incorporate to create a business account, but you have to register your fictitious name locally. Costs about $40 at various places around town and they handle all the paperwork and announcement in a newspaper.

For taxes, you just keep all receipts and file a Schedule C. When depreciating equipment, you need to know the day it was bought.

Also, check if your city requires city taxes. Some do, some don't.
Yap, lodash v3 (https://github.com/lodash/lodash/releases/tag/3.0.0) introduced lodash-fp for auto-curried iteratee-first lodash methods.
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Why didnt' you simply put a big red flashy banner on the go-gl repo pointing to the preferred repo?
Apple hardware is pretty solid but I have never really gotten used to OSX. I do most of my work in the terminal, Chrome and Sublime Text, and each time I bring up Finder I am sorely reminded of how much I miss Explorer.
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I haven't even read the piece yet, but clearly the important thing would be their explanation of why they think doing so is a good idea.
I have applecare for my 15 MBP w/retina (THANKFULLY), and I can attest that I've had to have Apple replaced the logic board twice. Both times, the screen's backlight would just go out.

Great to hear Apple is doing this, but then disappointing that it's even an issue for a $2k+ laptop.
Well their label shouldn't say "valuations as of Feb 2015" then
Love it when technology helps the nature, instead of trying to squeeze out every little bit of fruits/money out of it and then let it die. I also really liked how every site was custom-thought to fit with the area (I.e. finding nutriments within 50km to help the local ecosystem). That's great.
That's still not obvious to me
Another useful website is: https://filippo.io/Badfish/
But why? If it is already like C++ why build a new language?
Are you serious? From your description, I was expecting some kind of gross pornography. I think that these 'rolling in the aisles' displays of public piety in the service of political correctness are getting a little out of hand these days.
TheVerge is more like a lifestyle blog than an actual tech blog. They have this belief that Apple hardware is the best and any review - or any post really - will reference Apple if they get a chance. And if they don't get that chance they will work hard to create it. For a very specific cult of people thadt is OK, but it wouldn't work for an independent tech blog.
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The second paragraph says "Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will repair affected MacBook Pro systems, free of charge."
I have a completely different view of how Microsoft behaved when it was dominant, vs Google today. Back in the day, most of the tech industry feared Microsoft. MS had a monopoly over hardware and software companies and bullied everyone. Google today doesn't have this monopoly that Microsoft held. Even the author's description of Google's strengths, "Google’s pillars of ads and search have become its Windows and Office", aren't as dominant as MS' products and definitely not for as long either. So I think it's incorrect to say that Google has become the MS of old. Those were the bad old days, when MS dictated how things were done in the industry.

While Google has tried to push the rest of the industry to its way of thinking, it doesn't always succeed, whereas MS in its heyday was quite capable of strong-arming the rest of the industry, time and time again. Google has generally pushed and supported an open source approach which MS is finally beginning to move towards. Quite a change for MS, nothing new for Google.

Kelly's article uses some poor examples and paints a glowing picture of MS. I think he's correct in that there's been a shift in MS getting a lot more positive press, but I don't think he's correct at all about how poorly run Google has become.

I realize this is short on specifics, but I don't want to make this too long. I'll agree with the critics of Android that there are problems, but in my view, Android has always been rough on the edges and is finally getting better overall. Especially compared to the early years.