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I would prefer charts based solely on album sales, metascore while interesting is full of bias. There are some artists who cannot be scored below certain thresholds either because of likability or political correctness. However total sales is usually a better indicator and longevity of sales, as in how long after initial debut did sales stay good.
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I wonder what that scenario even is, where you need a trusted certificate and are also (for some reason?) unable to use the mechanisms widely available in environments (either OS or language/API) to trust a testing certificate.

This seems like a very silly service to operate, and as remarked by others, I guess the certificate will be revoked soon because the private key data is out there.

Mostly surprised that this wasn't obvious to a company like Pivotal from the first moment.
And the obvious: they sell them another pair.
> publishers have the right to respond, either by blocking access to ad-block users

All the best with that. The number of sites on which I will have to disable ad-blocker because you won't show the content otherwise is in single digits.
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Regarding your first point: Is GPS time defined for dates before 1980? If not it does not have leap seconds in the sense that it skips or inserts seconds at specific times. It just has a constant offset to TAI, I guess to maximise the number of leap seconds that GPS can handle in its 1 byte leap second field.
I've seen one almost daily for a while now when I walk past either of the two BMW centers in close proximity to where I live and I can't say that I agree with you.

To me the i8 (and even more so the i3) looks like some sort of weird Japanese spaceship from the future and not at all the subtle luxurious classy design that I expect from a German Premium wagon. In short it's to much attention, screaming "I'm here, look at me". I'm not a rapper I want timeless class not flashy bling.
I was actually looking at the comodo website to figure out if I can submit revokation on my own (we've got the key after all...). Gave up after looking at 20+ pages. Apart from a login site for email cert revocation, I can't find any reasonable contact.

Comodo website is not that good apparently.

Edit: in the document posted by brohee: (about authentication for certs revocation) "OR the Subscriber
must be able to send an S/MIME email signed with the private key associated with the Certificate". That's doable :)
Same for me! and I remember the critics weren't exactly good when it came out?

I heard that when their following live album came out (Alive 2007) people actually started appreciating the RAM album more. Could that be a factor?
This SDK has nothing directly to do with the current code execution method. There is no reason why this same SDK won't be expanded once a better exploit is found.
JJ is on his Honeymoon.. so I think it will be a few weeks.
Not the thinnest tablet in the world but...

https://twitter.com/clivebeale/status/641165826016604160
Indeed, and particularly nowadays that price differentiation is often based on brand images and customer segmantation, not actual differences in manufacturing.

On a related note: if you look for a quality car (quality defined as "will drive you from one place with reliability and sufficient comfort"), then cheap cars, manufactured in great numbers with consistent quality, are far superior to "premium" cars which are manufactured in small numbers and then to have lots of quirks and little problems. The premium cars have luxury features of course, and can make the owner feel happy about them, but the Toyota Corolla or whatever is going to be more reliable.
A bit off topic, but this line stuck out: "I did some googling and couldn’t find any information on Inman, except for some mentions in lists of BBSes of times gone by."

It's a pretty self-damning statement by the author that the extent of their research is confined to "googling". Motherboard Vice's about page says it's "With in-depth blogging, longform reporting, and video journalism, Motherboard investigates the news and events that are already affecting the years to come." This article falls short of any of that.
gee how benevolent of them
I can imagine that it would not work for EU for some reason, but it even returns that there are no concerts in NYC for the entire month of September.

This leaves me wondering, where did you get the quotes from that this service is the best way to find bands when it isn't working? Or is it just that HN has DDoS'ed your backend? :)

EDIT: it also appears that you are lacking a #contact named anchor tag - the "contact us" button is not working.
"It would be better to have a functioning micro-payments system."

What's the closest to this at the moment ?
Wouldn't be difficult. Especially if you are happy with requiring javascript on your site.
> But if you do not need wildcards, the StartSSL free certificate has been an option for a long time:

In fact, the free StartSSL Class 1 DV certificates are only available for non-commercial purposes. They DO enforce this, I have had a cert turned down by their "CertMaster" because they considered it part of a commercial operation.

That is why Let's Encrypt is doubly cool - it is not (at least, in any obvious way) motivated by $$.
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Good question. Maybe you can skip the fee by posting your private key to pastebin and send them the link? :P Might not leave you with an account in good standing with them though ;)
Nobody is against publishers blocking access to ad-block users. But if 80% use ad-blocks, you block out your entire audience and let it surf to the competition who figured out how to serve ads that are not making people puke (ie. sponsored stories, endorsements, non-intrusive ads, social selling etc.)

It really is the fault of publishers that people hate internet ads.
COMODO policy is compliant, they just didn't act on it yet

https://www.comodo.com/repository/Comodo_CA_CPS_4.1.4.pdf

4.9.1 Circumstances for Revocation
Comodo may revoke a digital Certificate if any of the following occur:

A personal identification number, Private Key or password has, or is likely to become known to someone not authorized to use it, or is being or is likely to be used in an unauthorized way
I don't think they're missing it. It's a bad idea and you can have your own valid certificate for free from many companies. Or for test, you can create your own cert in 2 lines of bash. (and add the ca to trusted store, so it's just as valid as this one)

For testing purposes you can also generate your certs valid only for a few hours/days, so you can be sure they never get used in production by accident. And with proper SAN entries.
> I don't see why one computer (or one small group of computers) should be responsible for doing work that could easily be performed in a more distributed way by people's browsers, if only because it's cheaper to offload that work onto the client and leaves less ways to crash the server-side application.

Of course, this has always already been the case! That's why we don't stream our webpages as images (or video, if you need to scroll), but instead offload the work of rendering a graphical representation of the symbolic HTML representation to the client-side browser.

It's a pretty solid idea (apart from the Browser Wars), and one of the ideas that made the WWW viable.

The ridiculous part, however, is where people somehow decide that we should wrap more and more and yet another layer of abstraction onto it.

It's not that web servers have grown less powerful and therefore need to offload more work onto their clients. The demands on web servers are higher today, but they've also grown more powerful, and we came up with some pretty clever scaling technologies to deal with those higher demands. But offloading code execution in the form of client-side JS is not really one of those, in practice.

Yes, the idea could technically be used to accomplish that and make less work on the server side, but really, take a look at this page, or any (bloated) page like the problem we're describing; That's not what's going on here, it's about the same amount of work on the server side, nothing's being offloaded, just more work on the client side.

At least the Flash-only-interface websites that plagued the web 10 years ago offered us UI elements that weren't possible in HTML back then (for better or worse), but today's JS bloat truly doesn't add anything that can't be done in a much leaner, less client resource-intensive way.

Even your spreadsheet example. Sure, run the calculations client-side, that only makes sense, no need to throw out JS with the bathwater. But what sort of calculations are we talking about, realistically? For a medium spreadsheet, a few hundreds of summations and multiplications. Nothing of the kind that should make a 5-year old computer even blink. But whatever these types of apps are actually doing they manage to crawl the jankscroll already even on an empty document, let alone when you try to use it.
Is there a text-version of this?
Well for most of us €30 (the cheapest I found here in france) for a tablet makes it a disposable device (this is different in developping countries).

There is a recycling tax here that is as low as ~5 cts for a tablet or a comparable electronic device. The burden of recycling is on the developping countries we send our used gear to. Not to mention the use of raw materials.

Can't say that this does not apply to higher end device that tend to be unrepairable but their lifespan is longer.
>It would be better to have a functioning micro-payments system.

There's some things that seem inevitable to me. True flat-rate music streaming services was one of those things and we're pretty much there. Moving away from ad-supported websites to a convenient subscription model is the other.

I don't think the war against AdBlock can be won. How do you disable a software that simply hides content? Force users to click the ads? Put them into more and more annoying places? We already know the endgame of that and it's shady pop-up orgies. I doubt the New York Times wants to be associated with that. But I also won't pay $10 for every single website I might visit a month (some, maybe, for only an article or two in a link).

What we need is a common subscription flat-rate that fairly splits revenue between websites you actually visit. Not sure about the privacy concerns but at least here, the user data wouldn't have to be used for advertising.
> One thing I miss in default raspberry pi is battery support. Today I just use the filesystem in RO.

It would be easy to put a battery + charging circuit in front. If you still want to power it through USB you could get increased efficiency by bypassing the DC-DC converter (just cut the trace from it and solder the output from your own PSU there).

If the RPi itself had a charging circuit, they would have to decide for the end-users what kind of battery chemistry, charge rate etc. it should support, and they would not be able to please everyone as these things are used for so many different purposes.
I'm not sure if it's intentional but the DVD copy protection is a some emotive comparison.

There are clear laws against copying content without permission, not so with adverts. I am not obliged to sit in front of TV and watch ads during the break, nor when visiting a website unless there is some contractual obligation for me to do so. I have yet to come across a site that tells me I must agree to view the adverts to access the content.
Don't think there's any serious options but check out Google Contributor: https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
All this engineering is fine, until that sensor, or system breaks down? These vehicles are becomming so difficult to work on even the dealership mechanics are learning on the the customers' dime. I won't even get started on the proprietary software, and the fact that independent 3 party repair shops can't even buy access to the repair codes.

My father used to say I can roll down my own windows. I thought at the time he was being to hard on the industry. They finally engineered servos that worked longer than a year.

He would flip if he saw just how complicated vechicles have become, and how he would wouldn't be able to buy a service manual, and do most of repairs. My father bought very few new automobiles, but always bought a factory service manual, and did all his own repairs. His last vechicle was a 98 Dodge Dakota. It was still simple enough for him to work on, and now myself to work on. (My father passed away a few years after he bought the Dodge.)

I will hand it to certain companies, like Toyota, who engineer complicated vechicles, but these vechicles are putting easily 250,000 miles on the odometer. Yes, a lot of the fancy features/gadgets stop working, but the vechicle still runs, and gets through smog.

Needed advances in technology--yes! Fluff/gadgets--no! But I'm just an older guy who really never got the need for so many retractable beverage holders.
We give customers a certificate signed against our CA to secure the CloudFlare to origin server connection.
WoSign issue free certs with up to 100 altnames, which is almost as good as a wildcard cert for many purposes, valid for up to 3 years. They also revoke for free.

They're the best option at the moment if, like me, you don't want want to put a penny in to the CA industry.
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The HFT debate is bound to be misunderstood... It rose to prominence last year with the book by Michael Lewis "Flash boys". A discussion between two exchange operators Bats and the new IEX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcpmHyPD_PY

This issue is not about frequency per se at all. Its about who has access to what information at what price. For instance one thing that happened was that data providers (e.g. Reuters) sold information to a group of traders, before it was available to the public.

The question is not at all whether software should be used to trade (we're not going back to pen & paper / pit trading). Rather the question is how software should be used in financial markets. HFT is not evil, it's a difficult problem to be solved.
A growing number of environmentalists support nuclear. James Hansen, for example, advocates advanced nuclear in his book Storms of My Grandchildren. Several other very prominent environmentalists talk about their conversion to nuclear advocacy in the documentary Pandora's Promise.

And we could cut CO2 emissions from industrialized countries quite soon, with the right kind of nuclear power. ThorCon, for example, has a design for a molten salt reactor using existing technology, which could be built in modular form at a rate of 100GWe capacity per year by a single shipyard. It'd be safe, very proliferation resistant, six times more fuel-efficient than conventional reactors, and as cheap as natural gas. Their only problem is that the NRC won't let them do anything.

75% of U.S. coal plants are scheduled for retirement within the next decade. Air pollution from coal kills thousands of Americans per year, according to the American Lung Association. We have lots of shipyards. We have a historic opportunity here, if the government will get out of the way.
They're saying that low latency / lack of fundamentals (versus 'market events') marks HFT.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, even if you are only about 'fundamentals' (whatever that means) you're obviously going to want to trade FIRST on those fundamentals .. right? Cause whoever does is going to win the day. Ok, so low latency is necessary for normal electronic trading.

Ok, now market events versus fundamentals. Seriously? At what point are 'market events' not fundamentals? The definition is all arbitrary. If there is a change in some correlating index, isn't that a 'market event'? But isn't it also rather fundamental (say, that correlating index is interest rates futures)? At what point does that change in the correlating index no long qualify as a 'fundamental event'? When Nanex says it doesn't?

Nanex simply wants to have its cake and doesn't want to be marked as "HFT". All electronic trading, at its heart, is going to be HFT at some point. The only way to keep that from happening is just come up with really arbitrary definitions marking the line you can't cross. Likely those definitions will be used to help whoever is paying Hillary Clinton/Bush/Trump/etc the most money.

Let's not bother with these shenanigans just put a transactional tax on everything and be done with it. Let's stop spending all our time and our brain power creating software to do trading and start getting back to actually researching /innovating / building things.
Agreed. More to the point, it can be argued that if I do not want to consume ads, my browser displaying them means my browser is broken.

This entire thing where your attention is hijacked because you have a passing interest in subject X is out of date. Yes, we've had passive ad sponsorship of all kinds of events in times past, but it wasn't a situation where the advertisers monitored your every move and were aggressively interfering with your content consumption. It was a situation where they wanted to be recognized for supporting the content you were consuming. Ads have gone from being passive, supportive, widespread constructs to being aggressive, directive, in-your-business constructs. Not good.
I'd be more supportive of gas if the industry weren't so resistant to measuring and controlling their methane leaks.
It would be your corner of the world, I think. As I recall, it was a big hit in finance, where they wanted to run existing MS-DOS stuff, including I'm sure Lotus 1-2-3, and had demands beyond what MS-DOS could (easily) do. And of course it preceded Windows 3.0 by a couple of years.
I would like to see someone challenge ads and/or ad blocker blockers in court. They're a huge waste of resources especially on mobile: bandwidth, battery life, etc. Bandwidth is very expensive on mobile especially outside the USA.

This uninvited use of your resources is stealing. I think you could make the case that all of the resources wasted by visitors is more valuable than the website is generating via ads (or losing from being blocked).

There would be many hurdles to cover especially due to all of the technical details (you requested a resource, they just served it) but I think you can argue that when you click a link to an article the user intends to request the article not the junk they're forcing you to have with it.

It actually would be nice if Google ranked pages by page size or had some way to tell you what you were in for by clicking on a link in your search results...
It's true that iPad sales seem to have reached saturation point, but competing tablets aren't making any more significant headway either. It's peaking as a market segment, but it's a segment still thoroughly dominated by the iPad.

iTunes sales are also peaking because streaming is taking over. It's too early to say how well Apple Music is doing, but there's no indication it's in trouble.

Apple Watch has significantly expanded the smart watch market and taken over 75% of it. What is that supposed to be lagging exactly?

As for the iPhone, the latest models are as fresh as ever and the whole point of the article this thread is based on is how spectacularly successful it is. What gives you the impression that it's in any way tiring? Sales? Revenue? Margin? All as healthy as ever. The demise of the iPhone has been predicted for all the 8 years it's been on the market, but the fact is there's no indication that it's anywhere near peaking yet.
Reminds me of Keurig introducing DRM into their new 2.0 coffee brewers.

It uses a scanner to authenticate the k-cups, and refuses to brew cups it determines as non-authentic.
Bingo. But most people also like to kvetch and moan about the restrictions imposed by programming with only structural recursion and productive corecursion -- even though those are usually exactly what we want.
I bought one of those £28 Android tablets from Amazon to experiment with for work a while back. The thing was utterly unusable - it turns out the hardware you can get for £28 is just barely enough to boot to the Android launcher. Don't even think about doing anything crazy like opening a web browser, or reading an eBook on it.
Not necessarily. Browser extension APIs have to provide APIs for the way ads are loaded. For example if they are magically loaded, chrome needs to give you an API to intercept magic.
I'm not sure if chrome requests API allows you to block websockets, but maybe it's possible to load ads over websockets and Adblock would be unable to interfere. Even if it is not possible, there's probably a lot of ways to abuse Adblock to make it do a much worse job.
Some minor corrections.

rote learning. (rot learning sounds like a subject in Necromancy Studies). Likewise 'brownie points', not 'brawny points'. 'sole motive' not 'solve motive'.
You do? Last I checked, I just saw that you had the option to put a self-signed cert on your own server, but no way to tell CloudFlare to validate it (e.g.: I couldn't upload my public cert to CF and say "this is what you should expect"). Alternatively, I could buy my own valid cert and put it on the server. Is the option to get a valid signed cert from CF new?
Shouldn't they count the 4 albums with the largest variance in the average between the four albums?

> We determined the overall average score for all of these
> artists and then looked at how much an individual artist’s
> average album deviated from this score.

Wouldn't this make a consistently below average artist count as an inconsistent?
I agree, especially E9x just doesn't seem right to me. The F3x is getting closer, though.
How about we use the touch display with the raspberry Pi and a windup mechanism to charge an added battery pack then start a charity to distribute these to developing countries.
I don't think I have any exception to my ad-blocker. I have not yet encountered something I want bad enough to make an exception, and asking me to make an exception is a reminder that I'm the product, which is not exactly the most positive call to action.
There's already an internet-scale mechanism to avoid seeing ads while ensuring that publishers are compensated for the content they're creating -- it's the very ad exchanges that show us all the terrible ads we see. All you'd need to do is set up a pixel retargeting yourself, match it against the exchanges, and then bid an uncapped amount against it while displaying a blank creative.

Admittedly this won't block 100% of ads, closer to 50-60%, although it would most likely block all of the worst offenders. Likely net cost would be in the $1-$3/day range, distributed amongst the sites you patronize. And, again, all of the infrastructure to do this already exists. You wouldn't need to do deals with publishers or anything like that.

I've always wondered why nobody's created this yet; I've always assumed it's because people using ad blockers would not actually pay for an ad-free experience. Other ideas?
Though I have a neutral opinion of RAM, the graph is tricky to be read, maybe because it's vertical and not horizontal
The trouble with recycling parts like that, is that the more mass-produced something is, the more likely to have idiosyncratic connectors and signal formats that mere mortals can't find out how to hook up and program.