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FYI: On install, Firefox 5 said it was not compatible with Firebug 1.7.3 and disabled it. I happened to be sitting next to 5 or 6 Mozilla devs at the moment (open source bridge conf) and one of them told me to install Firebug fresh from the site. I downloaded and installed the 1.7.3 xpi and it worked without complaint. No idea what's up with that.
Law enforcement does not require a search warrant, in your hypothetical, for 2A precicesly because the search of 4B leaves the residence of 2A unmolested. I do not believe the metaphor falls apart, at all: because the virtual 'tenant' vhd0 of physical hard-drive hd0 cannot be undisturbed by the search and seizure of the data in virtual 'tenant' vhd1--and might reasonably be considered to have the data subjected search and by definition seizure--law enforcement _should_ require a warrant for vhd0 and vhd1.

Going back to your hypothetical, if the resident of 3A were stuffing materials of interest into the crawlspace between their ceiling the the floor of 4B and said crawlspace could only be accessed through the floor of 4B, the interested authorities would need either the express permission of the residents of 4B for entry into their residence or a warrant for search. _That_, I assert, is a similar situation akin to the topic under discussion.
So you were sharing "virtual servers" with other companies and the FBI seized the actual servers? Or something to that effect?

That raises some interesting questions, the impression every seems to be operating on is that they stormed in and took 3 cabinets or full racks with computers owned by other companies. All things being equal, this sounds like the normal operating procedure for the FBI.
It seems unlikely those sites have a very representative audience. The numbers you cite are perhaps large slices of tiny slivers of the overall group of web users.
I suppose you could apply the same exact same reasoning to magazines ... why not just make it all plain text? :)

Truth is, html gives you more flexibility in communicating certain things to a user that wouldn't be possible with just plain text.
This is funny. I'm the person having submitted the question on StackOverflow. KirinDave just assumed I was a Node.js hacker (which is absolutely not true!). I really wanted to understand how Haskell is planning to attack the >10k-100k connections problem. The question was just an excuse to talk about the Haskell-way.

Personally, I think Node.js offers a regressive programming model and I'm concerned about too many peoples diving into it. Ryan Dahl is a very smart guy, doing a nice job and is greatly responsible for the success of Node.js. The rumors goes he would have been tempted to do something with Haskell first but he stepped back as he was not familiar enough with GHC. Actually, that not a rumor, that's what he said: http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/31/node-js-interview-4-que...

The problem with Haskell is that Haskellers are very smart peoples (...smart peoples again!). They became very comfortable with some hard to grasp concepts for programmers having a more conventional pedigree and might underestimate the education effort required in order to attract more programmers. Most of them are not necessarily focused at creating a more accessible language but rather explore new FP concepts (which is great, BTW). Things need to change in university classes first.

So you have potentially hard to maintain callback code on the node.js side and monad/lazyness/FR to master on the Haskell side. Nevertheless, from a skill-improvement point of view, I think the Haskell option is a much better investment.

Back to my Scala book now... :)
i don't mean that chrome os is the same as chrome the browser. i mean that building everything you need into a browser, and preparing to launch a browser-based OS are the same task.
http://www.khanacademy.org is delivering an education to anyone anywhere.
I agree with you on this point. Apart from a handful of items I live fairly lightly anyhow, and less consumption is essential.

I'd just rather see it executed as a rational and dispassionate decision than something motivated by anxiety or internal / social pressure, in those scenarios I often don't feel people can sustain it / they won't substitute with something else.
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I kept thinking of Fight Club while I was reading this blog post. More or less the same minimalism, just without the ass kicking.
I'm somewhat like the OP, but my intentions were nothing like his.

I got rid of 95% of my stuff, not because it was distracting, but because I never used most of it. I also move a lot and I hate lugging inessentials around from place to place.

To this day, I can basically live out of a duffel bag (minus my desktop computer and guitar). I like to travel a lot, so that works for me. Is it right for everyone? Absolutely not.

One commenter pointed out below that after getting rid of everything he felt "uninteresting". I can relate to that because that's exactly how I felt when I got rid of most of my stuff. However, I now believe the opposite to be true. Personally, I put a lot of who I was into all the cool toys and records I had amassed, but when that is gone, either due to intention or accident (such as a fire), what are you left with? A big gaping hole, that's what. Filling that hole can be difficult, but I've found it to be a very rewarding experience for my own personal growth.

In the end, I kept the things that allow me to create and ditched most of the things I simply consumed. I'm not at all anti-owning-stuff, I just believe that if I buy something it needs to be something I'll use over and over again.

Really, how much you want to own is nothing more than a personal choice based on how you want to live your life and where you want to allocate your resources.

Not that controversial a topic in my opinion.
Let me start by stating that I think I understand the point of this article. As a student, for example, I often opt to study in the library in lieu of getting work done in my own domicile because I know that the relative discomfort combined with the silence and isolation will help me do the needful.

I understand selling the TV and all that, but I don't understand why OP would sell a bicycle or see not cooking as an expression of a minimalistic lifestyle. I mean, I suppose that if you rode your bicycle so infrequently that it was actually just sitting around and taking up space, it would be good to sell it, but a bicycle seems like one of those things that isn't really a distraction and sometimes comes in quite handy.

Similarly, I don't understand why I've met and heard about so many people that take this strange sort of pride in not cooking for themselves. Cooking is one of these things like taking regular exercise that it seems important to make time for, because by not knowing how or making time to cook, you are exposing yourself to a waste of money and generally worse nutrition than you would be able to achieve in your own kitchen.
If Yahoo acquires Hulu, does that mean it will come to Canada? Pleasee!!!
Hmm, so what happens when your OpenID password or provider gets hacked?
It certainly seems very fair to say that most dynamic languages have most of the features he's bragging about. That seems to be the a repeating pattern of the last several Scala articles I've seen here: The author is all excited about how terse it is (compared to Java, I guess), but it actually looks kind of bloated to me. :)
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Hulu to buy Yahoo? Impressive.
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Why does it matter if the reason is "legit" or not? They still happen.
I can imagine businesses evaluating hosting providers based on the 'professional' look of their website, which has no mention of security or backups. http://web.archive.org/web/20100525225803/http://www.distrib...

Does anyone know of a security auditing service that customers could look for when evaluating hosting?
Good reason to have a couple friends at large universities that have institutional subscriptions to journals and the like who can hook you up when needed. Shhh. :x
Lots to read, but some very useful links there.

So many articles talk about developing relationships with bloggers, but I'm finding it really hard to put into practice. Has anyone had any substantial success with that?
This is more like they have a warrant for one house so they seize the entire street or neighborhood simply because they can't make the distinction on the field between one and the other. In doing so they're causing harm to businesses, only because they happened to be in the same area code as some alleged criminal. They're not just intruding and looking around, they shut down the business, for days if not weeks.
They don't need gimmicky intros or polish to sell them because they're interesting as hell, I love watching them and seeing how other startups are doing, especially ones that are all ghetto and scrappy like the rest of us instead of 'normal' offices.
Yes, it can be VERY slow. But for us it's so valuable (allowing us to build a custom CRM on top of gmail and google spreadsheets) that it's good enough for now.
I'm hoping to put in a deposit for a Model S Signature as a bay area vehicle (for personal and/or company use). The 300 mile range is perfect for SFBA, and it's big enough for 4-5 people comfortably, or datacenter equipment, and has more novelty value than a lambo among geeks.

I wouldn't take an exotic (Tesla, Fiskar Karma, F or L, etc.) on long road trips in the US, especially with a non-standard drivetrain, due to the lack of service options.

Within the bay area, especially if you have 240 or 480v charging at home/office, it's perfect. I know a Roadster user who has his mainly because he hates gas stations.
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That's exactly the reason emails come in two parts (text and HTML). You can tell your client to only show plaintext emails if you're so inclined (just like you can tell Firefox to only use your own personal stylesheet).

Personally, I prefer the HTML emails and find them faster to go through. It takes me about 2 seconds to skim a Thinkgeek mailer with product images and see if there's anything interesting, vs. having to actually read the entire email and click a bunch of links.

Then there are all the nice graphs and colors in the server monitoring emails I get that let me get a big picture overview of the server farm health at a glance every week. If I see any red or too many spikes, I can decide whether to investigate further or get back to coding.

For all the benefits I get from HTML email, I'll risk the small chance that getting an email with Paula's pink hearts theme will seriously fuck up my day.
If your drivers are clever you can do it with the trackpad, too - sometimes tapping the pad with two fingers will middle-click. Less error-prone than using the buttons.
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/fuels/electricity_locations....

Every major US city has electric power stations. From that map, you could very easily make a continental road trip in the United States. And, this map is out of date. Chicago alone is building over 250 quick charge stations this year.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-02-10/classified/ct-...
The idea is that you're a working machine. You think the terminator hangs photos in his house? Trick question, the terminator doesn't have a home. I bet this guy wouldn't either if he didn't need to. He lives to work
"but their more widely applicable UI expertise is soulless, spartan and even ugly in spite of whole continents converting/reacting well to it"

They are pulling UX/UI from not just Google proper but also from their other properties such as YouTube.
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I can't tell what the difference is between the $9.99 plan and the $25.99 plan. If there is a difference, I can't tell from the pricing page.
Thanks -- I'll get on it. What version of Chrome are you on?

If you or anybody reading this has the know-how to determine what's causing the scroll bar to get added, it would help me troubleshoot it as I can't reproduce it on my version of Chrome (13.0.782.15 dev). Based on your screenshot it looks like the scroll bar is being added to the wrapper in that section of the page.
if you want to read it in more elegant format, there you go: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-06-21-sony.m...
This post should have been called "having ADD sucks."
> The network infrastructure to do that is just about there.

There's a long way to go from having enough bandwidth to serve your personal blog or small-time web app out of your {apartment, house, office} to getting what you'd need for a large-scale web app (at a minimum, redundant 100 Mbps fiber connections with five-nines SLAs) routed there. That and getting a nominal 100 Mbps connection from your friendly neighborhood telco is a lot different from getting a 100 Mbps connection you're expecting to saturate 24/7. The telco won't put up with that for very long, because they overcommit their subscriber bandwidth in the (correct) expectation that most of their customers will not use all of it.
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> Gone are the days of ugly plain text and we celebrate the arrival of beautiful emails.

The point of email is to read and understand information QUICKLY. Plain text allows one to do just that. If you are trying to make email an artistic masterpiece, you are missing the point.
It looks like you can specify a different server with -s <host>. I'd be more than willing to let it run for a few days so people could test their network (I'm on an academic network I know isn't shaped), but I'm wary of letting any alpha-version network service that needs root permissions run unattended on my laptop.

If there's any interest, I'll run it in VirtualBox and give you guys the ip to connect to. It'd also be pretty easy to set it up on a free aws shard, but there's no telling what they're doing to their traffic so it might defeat the point.
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There are a lot of interesting companies in the space now. A couple that come to mind are http://www.betterlesson.org/, in Boston, who are building a way for teachers to share lesson plans and other resources; and http://www.learnboost.com, in SF, which is building an online gradebook and other tools for classroom management.
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"Won't somebody think of the hackers", eh? Thank you, Mrs. Flanders.
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And HTML5 is often used as a buzzword that incorporate all the new standards.
Eventually, yes, adding sites like Reddit, even newspapers, trending topics on twitter (and then evaluating the mood of tweets with the keyword(s).

Also, allowing them to see the popularity of certain trends (traffic, if you will). I am not familiar with the industry…maybe the product exists…but it seems incredibly useful!

Well done, too.
You may have power stations. But http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric/charging says that a full recharge still takes about 4 hours for their best option that they offer. That time needs to come down - way down.
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Yeah, I know something about the family doubting of that kind of plans :-)

As for expenses, it depends of your lifestyle of course but it should cost $25/day for basic expenses (housing + food + beers) . If you want to travel around it will cost more. Also language courses you have to pay, yoga classes etc. But everything is much cheaper. I go to a salsa class here and it's $2.5 for 1 1/2 hour.

There are lots of cheap flights between countries, check Air Asia or Cebu Pacific Air for Philippines. Or from Thailand, you can take the bus/train to Laos/Cambodia.

Thailand is more expensive than Vietnam, although it's still much cheaper than most western countries.
hi Lulzer, nice to here your voices, :)
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I currently run my own OpenID end point and once anything but HN and Stack Overflow starts supporting it I will probably add two form auth and use client-side certificates for authenticating with it. Also Google supports two factor auth now and they are an OpenID provider too.
Is Hulu even an acquisition target at any reasonable price? I always felt the media co backers of Hulu(Viacom, Time Warner etc.) want to keep it independent and use it more to progress their corporate cause than make a return by selling Hulu.

I'd put Hulu as one of the least likely companies to be acquired.
That was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the article. Yahoo. . . buying something huge? Is the world ending?
Do you think that made any difference?
This is really quite sad. In 1999, Yahoo bought the streaming media company (not just video, but radio/sports/original content/etc) I worked for, broadcast.com. They then proceeded to slowly drive the property into the ground, to where now, there's so little of it left it's pathetic.

If they had really grasped on to what we were doing back then, and ran with it, Yahoo would have come out ahead of YouTube, Google Video, and, I could imagine, many of the current streaming radio players out there now (lastfm, rdio, etc).

But that didn't happen. They silently killed off what they spent so much on to buy.
Not all HTML messages include a text section. I just looked at the raw message of 6 HTML emails and only two of them had multipart/alternative sections. But if it could be agreed upon to always send both, I think that would be good.

And for sure, you do make some good points on where HTML email can be a good thing. Perhaps I'm being too pessimistic.
That's not what's meant by 'off site backups'
Not all that helpful because I don't have a feel for the size/wealth of any of those countries either.
I known I'm a bit late here, you probably won't see this. I originally did use scrypt, actually, because I'm a fan of Colin's work but I was turned off by the lack of rigorous 3rd party crypto analysis of his reference implementation. Something bcrypt has...

Also, the python scrypt wrapper kept erroring out when I would use it in an app running in mod_wsgi... (which has probably since been fixed)
I agree with this, but given that there's barely funding for research itself now, this task has fallen to nonprofits. Hopefully they can do a good job of it.
I think your "stuff" should be a reflection of your present goals/way of thinking. I dont believe in minimalism per se because it can get in the way of achieving things you want. For eg: if you want to get good at a sport, your going to have a lot of sports gear - (the better you are the less you usually need but as a beginner you need much more stuff).

I do however think that minimalism is useful as a tool to get to the right amount of stuff for people who presently have huge amounts of stuff. Get rid of all your stuff and then afterwards buy back what you realize that you need. This will be a much faster way than trying to decide one-by-one which of pieces of stuff you should keep.

What usually happens is that "stuff" accumulates - it doesnt disappear on its own. You have to put in extra effort to get rid of it.

Having old and useless crap around you does distract the mind - a lot. Also you worry about it and there is also the associated guilt of not having taken the time to get rid of it. That is the problem with having too much stuff. It deadens you without you realizing.

I have recently gotten rid of a lot of my stuff for a cross country move. And I basically got rid of anything that I didnt use in the last 2 years. Books were actually the hardest to get rid of.

In the end what I discovered was, that without any stuff, my _real_ problems became abundantly clear. Clear as daylight. And I could focus on solving only them.
> …scrubbing the emissions at a coal plant can be done more effectively than at the per-internal combustion engine level.

This is true, especially because you can put a fence around a coal plant, while you can't always put a fence around your catalytic converter to keep meth-heads from stealing it for the platinum[1].

1: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=catalytic+converter+meth-head
Is it really? I feel like it just takes a basic amount of curiosity to ask yourself: "Huh, is this really how it works?"
I'm optimistic about the general population asking those kinds of questions, but I might just be a(n elitist) technophile. :-/

Something my dad told me: Never be one misstep away from a big mistake.
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Yes. http://hackermonthly.com/startup-stories.html
I'm one of those classical introverts who needs a lot of downtime to recharge. If I were to do improv on Tuesday, it effectively guarantees that I'll be staying in on Wednesday and reading a book, or writing some code, or doing something that I find enjoyable.
equivalent map for the US (but without gdp per capita comparisons): http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
Zoogle.com redirects to Amazon.com : Hmmm...
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Except that it was mentioned, at the very least tangentially, in the article:

what to do when, for example, someone creates an entry in an array by giving it an ordinal position that doesn't exist. Do we create an array of suitable length and fill it with bits of emptiness in order to maintain the illusion that this array is ordinal?
The second Google purchases Hulu, the site's content licenses will be revoked by All the providers and they'll demand a renegotiation of far more favorible deal.

Hulu was only able to stay afloat because it was backed by FOX NBC and Disney, and got all those shows at a heavily discounted price. The networks were very cautious to not create an iTunes for TV that would grow to be too big to control, they use very restrictive and short term content license to ensure that.
Josh - You can have the best of both worlds. Boot to a spare HD or Target boot, use Disk Utility and take a DMG of the hard drive as it sits now. You can move that to where ever you want to examine the contents.

This frees up the drive for reloading the OS (and this is a must if you suspect foul play) and you can examine at your leisure knowing you have an exact image of the drive.

If you are in the Bay Area, CA, I would be happy to help over coffee. Contact info in profile.
Kind of nice to have Flash working again. It had stopped working for me when I upgraded to 4 (Ubuntu 64 bit). I'd tried a few suggested fixes, none of which worked, so I'd just resigned myself to having to open up Chrome any time I wanted to view something that used Flash, which isn't often, but I'm glad that issue is resolved.
The Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a whole cake for previous Firefox releases.

http://www.openbuddha.com/2011/03/22/another-version-of-fire...

What does this mean?! Perhaps Firefox 5's release is not as significant as earlier versions? ;-P
"Large-scale web app", true.
The ignorance level of some of those comments is amazing (not the comments here, the ones on the article).

"I am a apple fan, but you can be assured that I will NOT be using iCloud for this very reason.
Always have a back up and NEVER rely on cyber space."

"Moral of the storyis GET YOUR HEAD AND EVERYTHING ELSE OUT OPF THE CLOUD(S)"

"Like others on here, I feel that the rush to the "latest and greatest" IT thing of the cloud has serious implications - when you are not in direct possession or responsibility of your data, and something happens to it, what do you do?"

"This is why cloud computing is destined to fail. 'Cloud Shocks' like this will force people to rethink the whole concept and write cloud computing off as just a 'fad'. This isn't the first cloud shock and will not be the last."

The company in the article wasn't even a cloud provider...and further more, if they were a cloud provider they would have more chance of getting their data back. Some people just don't know the difference between the internet and cloud computing..
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