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I don't think the particular kind of arrogance that Oracle has goes away except by being killed. Heck even once the former sales guys are homeless under a bridge I doubt they would see the connection, they'd still be spinning yarns about when they worked for the greatest tech company ever.
Whew. I've never read something from a company that was so insulting to it's own customers. I'd wager a bet that they won't be keeping their job for long.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/why-i-want-to-...
"The Mirror" is also absolutely fantastic!
See, therein lies the problem. I use Firefox because of our mutual views (and the extensions) and there is no competition in that field. Chromium is too pared-down (no sidebar is basically a killer) and I don't want to support a webkit-centered internet.
sounds like a great idea. all the self-titled tech elite could move to their own town and everyone else would be much happier
Unfortunately the ignorant masses, continue to reelect the problem at a 95% rate
From his FAQ:

> But if the major candidates in the Democratic Primary all credibly commit to making this same type of reform the first priority of the next administration, I have promised to step aside. This campaign is about a principle, not a person.

He's not claiming it needs to be him, just that it needs to be someone
> It's insane. If companies are buying ad-space, it's because they expect to get more business in return. This means that someone out there is being influenced by said ads, so that if the content cost X to put up online (hosting, funding its creation), someone is paying X+(ad company overhead) for it.

Yes, and if you paid directly you'd have X+(B2C payment processing overhead) which is more than B2B.

> We could pay X for the content, and not incur the overhead.

That is really not true. Have you ever tried to support N customers instead of 20 businesses?

There are some very major costs in providing any kind of support, even if its just for billing.

You are simply unrealistic if you believe that ad companies have higher overhead than providing large scale customer support. I know someone who runs a [small] ad network and his overhead is a fraction of what it'd cost me to run a similar subscription based model.
It's surprising to me that the energy output has decreased by a factor of 2 in just two billion years. I suspect, though, that a big part of that decline is probably occurring because there are many fewer very high energy sources like quasars and O-type stars.
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This is the reason that FOSS and being able to change the code yourself is so valuable. Nobody has time to wait 2 years for a fix. By the time the patch comes out, it will break all of the workaround code written to fix Oracle's bug in the first place.
Same here. One of the few movies that really stuck. Explores the philosophy of human vs mortality, and how time may not cure all wounds. I will now try to watch it again this weekend.
Here you go: https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/

They've added a ton of stuff as well as removed metasploit pro package due to Rapid7 asking them to remove it.
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> Somebody simply did not consider one specific implication of some top-level level requirement (“Don’t harm the ground operator”) on some lower-level specs.

While I agree with the general point about specifications, we are talking about a weapon of war here. Interrupting a firing procedure for maintenance and then not checking the co-ordinates is exactly the kind of careless mistake I'd expect to get someone killed. At least it defaulted to the location of the receiver, preventing further errors, rather than a semi-random target.
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Awesome movie. Christopher Nolan is such a gem of a director. Inception is another beUty. Had a deep impact.
Not a movie but some books that I helped shape my view on life and learning:

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Space-Suit-Heinleins-Juveniles-eb...

http://www.amazon.com/Starman-Jones-Robert-A-Heinlein/dp/145...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy

That's the set I remember most at least. "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" has some good stuff on getting where you want to be in life.
Except it's delayed in action - there are already other threads running that'll still be running by the time the expression completes. So it's okay if you've got zombie threads running until the entire process is upgraded. It gives you time to initialize a clean object before its effective.

You won't get immediate (2-4) year change to effectiveness. But during the subsequent election cycles you will. So it'll take at least 6 years following the passing of the act to upgrade the process entirely.
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But still, concept of paying the same (or even higher) rate for page view is not that crazy.
That's still not an implication that one knows, just one that implies a better explanation, or put another way, sharing of a greater understanding.

Did the interviewer pick up on that subtlety? Who knows?

We could easily know we both will be somewhere, not yet knowing one another. Getting at your intent would require more context.

For sure, Feynman implied there is more he can share on the topic. An uninformed person may well characterize that as knowing. Feynman would definitely state that as understanding, as that is what science brings us. Actually knowing stuff is another thing entirely. He spent a lot of his life communicating that to people. Great support for the better intent possible in this exchange.

Should a detail dialog of that type actually happen, those things would be made clear, or be intrinsic to it.

People, who may not understand what science is, could come to the conclusion Feynman knows. But, I very strongly doubt that was his intent. This whole discussion is about an artifact of the limited time and language being used in the interview.

Surely we can't hold Feynman accountable or assign this intent. There isn't enough said to make that conclusion.
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Since earnings via ads are rapidly decreasing I am looking for other ways to monetize my websites. My experience with donations have been disappointing at earlier tests, about 0.5% earnings of income via ads. But maybe I did it wrong, or choose the wrong donation channels (I used paypal, flattr, bitocin)
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[...] it was so mustache-twirlingly out of touch that it could have been from the Hacker News.

FTFY :-P
Please don't assume all extensions have a reason to be on AMO. There are plenty of extensions which are developed in-house for in-house use only.

Also, as a developer, I never cared to run the "nighties": I don't want an unstable browser, and I don't want fancy new features. I always ran the stock version, also to ensure compatibility with the user base, and never needed anything else.

Maybe Mozilla should also remove the developer tools from the stock version, because clearly it's too dangerous in the hand of people that could cut&paste code with full privileges into it, and it's only a keystroke away!

This is a giant slap in the face, frankly.

I don't see a difference between a walled garden such as google play and this.
I loved this movie also. In the end, he was a Big Fish.
Not. MS makes really, really killer tools.
Then perhaps he should become a martyr instead of a pariah. I certainly don't think that he can morally justify some of his Wikileaks actions and the resultant drama around it has completely ruined the cause.

He has done more to harm the movement for greater transparency than anything else. There are people who quote him saying he doesn't mind the death of civilians as they are complicit due to their actions. This is the motivation used by terorrists.
There will also be automated, unbranded builds of Firefox Stable that allow you to disable the signing requirement, but are otherwise bit identical.
I just went through the article again slowly. I can't find anything that would support your conclusion of "Vance doesn't even understand the basic principles." If you see a specific factual mistake in that article, point it out.
> Advertising is the method most people use to discover new products/services.

Prove it. I can just as easily pull out my ass "Word of mouth and browsing in-store or online is the method most people use to discover new products/services."
I think you meant "Stand by me" instead of Lean on me :)
Great movie btw, I have the same childhood nostalgia when I watch it.
"The man who sleeps" – one of the best art-house movies I've seen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192718/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Apologies. Normally I catch stuff like that when I read it (but quite often not when I type it) - and it's incredibly frustrating to see. I have an increasing tendency to confuse where/were, there/their, its/it's when I type, and I have to insert a 60 second delay before hitting submit and confirming I haven't blown it. Particularly annoying is the use of 's when it's not needed. Thanks for pointing it out.
Make no mistake, it is all by design. Counselors, puppy rooms, etc. - the "higher education" industrial complex needs to keep growing and justify the ever-increasing tuition.

I put "higher education " in quotes because it has less and less to do with education, sadly.
Thanks for this, I am very new to python, so I will try this out.

But I think at the moment my bottleneck is the scraping part. The current program hits 365 pages (each day for a year) and managed to pull down the 20 million results.

I am now trying to figure out how to pull more info from each day, and that's why I am thinking about trying to optimize. Does cProfile measure things like time on a webpage (via bs4)?

Do you have any links on optimization "thinking", as in, I don't know if it is my approach that needs optimizing, vs my code.
Oil/Gas exploration. In my former job, pretty much every major piece of software that we sold to customers had at least an embedded Oracle DB as part of the install.
How many systems do you think require application signing?
I really wish I could show about 70% of the Windows knuckleheads a few Linux tools. And I really wish about half of Hacker News would spend twenty minutes with Visual Studio and Azure. Both sides have no idea what is possible. And, no. No joke.
But we see the "You have to do this (possibly) unethical thing because it's the law" (capital punishment, imprisonment for victimless crimes, etc) all the time. Why not the opposite of "it's ethical because it's the law"?
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Yes! This made me so happy when I got to that section :)
> The I/O gap is huge. Amin says it has to get solved, if it doesn’t then we’ll stop innovating.

I can imagine you can solve the throughput problem with relative ease, but the speed of light limits latency at a fundamental level, so proximity will always win there.

I tend to think that storage speed/density tech rather than networking is where the true innovations will eventually need to happen for datacenters. You can treat a datacenter as a computer, but you can't ignore the fact that light takes longer to travel from one end of a DC to another than it would from one end of a microchip.
Citizen Kane - Its fascinating to me that someone who has no experience in the medium can create such a seminal work.

Jiro dreams of Sushi (Documentry) - This is perhaps one that left quite a lasting effect on me.

In the same vein, Stanley Kubrick and his drive for perfection has been a great influence as has been his filmography.
Opening up with the gambit about inventing unique ways of killing people was a genius way to set the tone for the piece.
Well no, because then the page would load way too slowly and users would click away and avoid the site in the future.

But suppose publishers did go this route. Adblocking software would just evolve to match it. They would fetch the ads from the server, possibly via a proxy, run their scripts, feeding bogus statistics to the trackers, and then not display the ads.

Users have the right to control their computers however they want. Trying to limit how the user can use their computer to have better control over your content is DRM. And, in fact, the only effective way of preventing adblockers would be to use traditional DRM software, since we have laws saying that users can't circumvent them.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040467
Thelma and Louise would come the closest for me. Specifically the scene where they are complaining about men and one says to the other "You get what you settle for."

I think about that when deciding things and it has improved my life.
A Beautiful Mind.

And quite recently, That Sugar Film!
I gave Mozilla money back in the day when they asked for donations in the beginning to be on that full-page NY Times ad.

I wonder if I can have a refund? I'm very disappointed in how Firefox has aged.
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at least 2048 bits

yeah, I added that .. 2048 is really minimum best practice these days ;)

SSH1, not SHA1!

Good point, edited - btw next paragraph also says disabling 1024 bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange.
That quote is quite different from the definition you're using.

Your definition is not what anyone else uses, from what I've seen. You don't have to use the same definition, of course, but be aware that unless you clarify what you mean, you're going to be creating a ton of confusion.
The simple way to fix that is - counterintuitively - to abolish all campaign finance restrictions.

With vastly more money available, politicians would have to spend far less, both in time and favors, to finance their campaigns.
But why can't they arrange some alternate setup where the main site serves the ads (relaying the ads from another server) rather than the ad network? It would be roughly the same effort from the site owner.
I think the article is talking about the "full fledged" problem, while the computation you talk about could be using a set of optimizations aimed particularly at base-pair edit distance problem.

For example, I could assume that there no deletions and insertions, only changes and then the problem becomes embarrasingly paralell and extremely easy to express in assembly-like operations. So I could paralellize it on a GPU by splitting the string into fixed length substrings and get huge gains. Problem is, can it be safely assumed that there are no deletions and insertions?

Wikipedia has a list with some modifications that can also be used to speedup the calculation under certain constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%E2%80%93Fischer_algorit...
Perhaps I'm jumping ahead of the series here, but one of the unique (I think?) features of ARM is that all the various conditionals listed (NE, EQ, LT etc) can be applied to just about any instruction, and not just a branch. So, you could have an instruction sequence like:

SUBS R1,R2,R3
ADDEQ R4,R4,#1

whereas in other instruction sets you'd have to branch over the 'ADD' instruction if the previous comparison was non-zero.

(Not sure if this applies to ARM thumb style instructions or not; my ARM experience is very out of date!)
May be cliche, but "2001: A Space Odyssey" was huge for me the first time I really watched it through. Kubrick, in his own way, created a timepiece that reflected and captured the revolutionary mood of the late 1960's without ever having to directly bring it up. It is truly a movie about humanity and one which completely describes all my hopes and fears for the future of our kind. Not only that, but the film is really beautifully well done. Every shot feels like it means something. Every line of dialogue either drives the plot forward or serves to add greater meaning and mood to the storytelling. It's just a monumental work that I think everyone should at least try to see at some point in their life.

Also, "Synecdoche, New York" is a very depressing and introspective movie that left me reeling for days. Hard to get through, but very worth.
Das Boot taught me that war is nasty for all inside and that there are humans on all sides, abused into submission and dillusion by the war mongers. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Watch the longest version you can find, I prefer the mini series.
Wow, that was an eye-opening and interesting explanation of a different perspective than I usually read online, and I appreciate that
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I'm glad someone wrote this article. I used to work at an ad network and for that reason, I've ethically chosen not to use an ad blocker. But I do agree that consolidation of tracking, over-abundance of ad spots and nasty performance have reached new lows that I've considered using one.

I think it would be nice if publishers just went back to <img> tags. Script tags and iframes and flash give to much power and result in lots of performance issues.

You can still track and consolidate with an img tag but the tracking is limited to what's in the http headers.
No worries. Thanks for fixing it.
The fact that I find the title inspiring and that we can go further doesn't mean I have not watched the video. Please stop to criticizing people on imaginary facts.

There was a lot of interesting comments yesterday on a post called "Presumption of stupidity" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883). This could also applied to comments: Do not assume the worse you can imagine by default.

And yes, it's indeed a very interesting talk.
'Explorers' when I was a kid. It really inspired me to take things apart and put them back together -- preferably in new and useful ways.

It also kick started a life long love of sci-fi.
It is in SOME ways an exaggeration—they're also tackling familiar problems—but GFS/Colossus and the data center administration are probably accurate.

However, Facebook and Amazon almost certainly have similar challenges. I don't think they are necessarily unique so much as so huge the rest of us don't have the money or the problems to solve.
I live in Virginia and have been getting those anti De Blasio ads... I'm not sure why.
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Trust (2010) because it addressed a common issue with a new angle (at least for me) that I find very interesting, and troubling even though I have no doubt it exists.
>in the form of a vague anecdote devoid of logical arguments

"Between October and June, 74 iPhones running the iOS 8 operating system could not be accessed by investigators for the Manhattan district attorney’s office — despite judicial warrants to search the devices." is a bit more than an anecdote.
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How do you explain this study then that says the people's opinion has zero influence on Congress's decisions, while the influence of lobbyists matches how they vote much better?

https://represent.us/action/theproblem-4/
The Animatrix. The best reason to watch the live action trilogy is to be sufficiently informed to watch this. It delves far deeper into the philosophy and psychedelia of technology than the live action films. And it's made and voiced by the same people.

Big Fish. How will you live if you know the exact moment you're going to die?

The Wicker Man. Weird. Christopher Lee apparently said it was his best work?

Waking Life.

The Big Lebowski.

A Serious Man

O Brother Where Art Thou.
You are right, that does agree with your definition. But, in my opinion, the reverse engineering was done only by the first team. They took the binary and constructed an understanding of the code. The second team just did basic software engineering from a spec. Your definition requires both teams and that's where your definition is too narrow.
Cheers for this idea.

I was just wondering when I should stop the prototyping 'hacks', and sit down to try doing things smarter.

I have tackled the "MVP" of my problem, and I am still hacking away to get exactly what I need, but I am starting to think about the whole idea of 'technical debt'. I have enough code now that it is starting to not fit in my head.

I am wondering if this is the inflection point for starting to optimize - maybe abstract the code enough that I can keep building and keep it all in my head at the same time...
MapReduce and associated infrastructure at Google is arguably at the center of their massive and proprietary codebase. I suspect opening that would involve opening much of their core code.
I don't think #1 is as bad as you think. It works if you make it easier for people to vote, but don't force them to vote. Additionally, emphasizing that citizens have a right to vote and giving them more time to do so can lead more a more engaged population and voters that are more informed.
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Baraka - both format and content was one of the first movies that really made me "think" & realize how many different experiences of being human can exist.

I know this is off topic, but one of the fist / only books that ever really changed my view on the world around me was "Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness" - I have never seen things quiet the same way after reading this.
A few people including myself have done some GPO changes and not had any luck.

I'm not sure I was quite as thorough, so I'll retest this tonight using your specific suggestions.
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> tracker blocking

Try opening a private browsing window in Nightly and see what you get... ;-)

Edit: Here's a screenshot for folks without Nightly handy. http://imgur.com/5khKObb. This is still a work in progress, but we're getting there.
Why whitelist ads at all? Ads are evil, the ad agencies track you, you run the risk of viruses / malware (like the recent 0-day exploit on a russian news site through ads), and there's zero gain for the person visiting the site.
s/accuracy/precision

Sorry, I don't usually try to be pedantic, but when the conversation is already about nitpicking, I think it's necessary.

Significant figures are precision, not accuracy. Accuracy is "being in the ballpark". Precision is "tight groups".
It is opt-in, but I do agree, pretty slimy.
Under EU law it is illegal to forbid someone to convert a binary back into source code.

Even further, if I buy a software, and it does not run on my system, I can turn it back into source, modify it, recompile it, and use it as much as I want.

If the original company tries to prevent me from doing this, they commit a crime that can be punished with multiple months of jail for their CEO or 10% of their profit as long as they have that practice.
I wouldn't think Chrome Web store is full of Malware. Yes, it's not free of those, but the bad ones are quickly removed by both Chrome's policing, and users' flagging. That's how Mozilla should go forward. The problem with manual reviewing is, it depends on the 'volunteers' time availability, and a stupid Review system which is NOT FCFS. You are told you are 37th out of 150 in the queue, but you see that you either remain at that position while others are being approved, your queue position goes both up and down, and some times your add-on is instantly approved even when you are 100th in the queue. All this takes many days even if your users are waiting for a critical fix. This is the biggest turn off in uploading add-ons for Firefox.
> I keep wondering if this isn't some sort of universal limitation on this reality that will force high decentralization.

To be fair, bandwidth has a high cap. Not all problems will need to be decentralized.
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