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   by masnick 12y ago

   > It's possible that for it to be published, a higher standard would be needed. That is, the actions they took were ethical, but perhaps inappropriate for scientific publication. > But, if that were the case, the peer reviewers a
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   by masnick 12y ago

   Human subjects research has ethical obligations that at times go beyond what seems like common sense, but are still really important because of past ethical abuses. See http://www.maxmasnick.com/2014/06/28/fac
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   by masnick 12y ago

   I just wrote a blog post about the ethical/professional obligations of the researchers associated with this study: http://www.maxmasnick.com/2014/06/28/facebook/ When you publish a paper, you are su
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   by masnick 12y ago

   Yeah you might want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927898
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   by masnick 12y ago

   I've been using Telegram for several months and have found that it is much more reliable than iMessages. The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This
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   by masnick 12y ago

   Amen. I switched to FastMail from Gmail more than a year ago and also absolutely love it. I highly recommend it for anyone dissatisfied with Gmail. A few things that may be helpful for people considering making the switch: - If FastMail&#x2
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   by masnick 13y ago

   Also, the age of the tweet or gist would be a red flag. If the signed gist is 2 years old and hasn't even modified since, you can pretty safely assume that if the keybase public key matches the signed message in the gist, nothing nefar
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   by masnick 13y ago

   I agree with the OP about uploading private keys being bad, but you don't have to do that – everything works without doing that as long as you are comfortable in the command line. Whether or not uploading private keys should be an opti
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   by masnick 13y ago

   Jumping rope regularly has helped me avoid shin splints. 10 minutes once a week seems to do the trick for me (now that I can jump for 10 minutes straight -- took a bit to get there).
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I also agree -- this makes me very happy to be a FastMail customer. Can you imagine any of the other big email providers offering this kind of technical explanation of data loss, or going to these lengths to recover every message possible?
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    by masnick 13y ago

    Totally agree re: Toggl (UX issues really bugged me -- time tracking can and should be low friction) and Timely (pretty but flawed interface). Also totally agree re: quantified-self time tracking and its usefulness.
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    by masnick 13y ago

    Three quick thoughts on some details: 1) Please, PLEASE make sure it's quick/easy to enter time with the keyboard. Right now the main log time interface doesn't let you tab to select the project drop down. I feel like I shoul
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    by masnick 13y ago

    +1 for this. There is not much out there for personal productivity time tracking, especially with good design/UX.
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I really don't understand how the author of the parent post is still angry about this. 37s did the responsible thing by continuing to fully support the old version, giving users time to migrate (or not migrate). I think there are a lot
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    by masnick 13y ago

    From a public health perspective, this kind of news story is actually very helpful. The reason is that before H1N1, one of the main reasons for young, healthy people to get the flu vaccine was to protect at-risk populations through herd imm
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    by masnick 13y ago

    No problem! Hopefully you like it. So far I have nothing but good things to say about FastMail. They just had a big storage bump for all the different plans, which helps a ton.
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I posted below that FastMail is a good Gmail alternative, and switching isn't that painful. See http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/ (Posting again here so you (might) be notified.)
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    by masnick 13y ago

    Yep! FastMail is great. http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/
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    by masnick 13y ago

    Yes, FastMail. I wrote a blog post a while ago about switching from Gmail: http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/
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    FastMail introduces mobile web interface that's "faster than native"(maxmasnick.com)

    2 points by masnick 13y ago|0 comments
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    by masnick 13y ago

    > It'd take a pretty awesome GitHub mac app to really sell me on GitHub's appeal to the general public. Even I find that, since I'm working with an app like Hammer for static sites, it breaks my workflow to have to go into
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    by masnick 13y ago

    Thanks for your reply! I definitely agree that all things AWS are terrible in terms of learning curve and usability. It's easy to forget how unintuitive setting up static hosting on S3 is (bucket policies, ugh). So I guess your real co
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    by masnick 13y ago

    Thanks! It's probably also worth noting specifically that CloudFlare offers some JS optimization/preloading features: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer One is in beta and one is for Pro accounts only.
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    by masnick 13y ago

    It seems to me like the set of people who (a) can make a static HTML site and (b) can't figure out to use Amazon S3 or GitHub Pages or a traditional host like http://nearlyfreespeech.net is quite small. But it seems like th
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I would recommend FastMail over other mail services to founders. Its features are fairly comparable to gmail (and presumably windows live mail, though I haven't used it). Additionally, there are some advanced features that seem particu
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I'm surprised they still apparently have the big banner ad on the right-hand side. I know they have to make money somehow, but it really detracts from an otherwise pretty good-looking design. Yesterday I saw someone using the previous
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    FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you(blog.fastmail.fm)

    292 points by masnick 13y ago|169 comments
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I agree. The infinite scroll is really well-implemented in FastMail. It's much better than the pagination in Gmail, which makes it extremely difficult to jump, say, 2/3 of the way down in a search or label with thousands of hits.
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    by masnick 13y ago

    A lot. http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069944
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    by masnick 13y ago

    I have Arq ( http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ ) set to back up my ~/git folder every hour. At most I can lose an hour of work. This came in handy once when I accidentally did the equivalent of rm -rf ~/git.