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Practical implication: If you are stranded on a desert island and you attempt to solicit a rescue by releasing a message in a bottle, you have about a 65% chance of a response (within ten years, I guess). In order to get that above 95%, you would need to release 3 or more bottles. 5 bottles gets you a 99.5% chance.

Of course, you'd better have a GPS device so that you can write down your coordinates on the message, or else you'd better hope the bottle turns up at an oceanography instutute that can trace the ocean currents back to where you're stranded.
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>If a Web page is to contain data and a service wants to act on this data, it has to scrape the Web page.

This is completely the wrong approach and this isn't how people who know what they're doing work now.

A web page is just a presentation layer. If you have a service that wants data, it needs to work with a model or presenter/controller layer. On the web this can be a REST service, SOAP, something proprietary, etc. Ideally, the web site will be using this same source to get its data.

If the web application presents data via a web interface and doesn't offer a presentation/controller layer to allow you to access that same underlying API, then yes, you will have to scrape if you want that data for some reason. But I don't see this as wrong, you're doing something the owners of the data didn't intend for you to do. You'll have similar issues if you want to get data out of any application view (e.g. screen scraping a windows native app).

EDIT: Read the rest of your post and I see that you addressed much of this already. I still maintain that this is already how people are working who want others to use their data.
Why overcome it? That's one of the most beautiful things about music, no?
I think I came up with a monetization scheme while meditating...
think of how it must be to be on the edge of starving in the US to realize that you can eat out at a restaurant and get a good meal for a dollar in many parts of the world.

Wages are relative to expenses.
It's definitely Cyrillic, and definitely Mongolian. The beginning of the third line on the second page reads хуссэн бухнээ, and googling finds this phrase on Mongolian pages. No idea what any of that means, though.
Wonderful graphic as well: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/07/science/before...
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I didn't say structural improvements. It just took a lot of money from the wealthy and paid it to people in exchange for military service. In other words, it set back the concentration of wealth, which is now continuing apace again.
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From my POV google app engine is still the only PaaS offering that can scale the data-tier. Scaling the application instances is a lot easier and most other PaaS providers struggle with that too.

I think if you look at the big picture GAE is as good as it gets at the moment and there is quite a gap to the second place when it comes to automatic scaling.

Am I missing something? Disclaimer: we are very happy and excited GAE customers with https://blossom.io
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I like its style. I wasn't aware that that's the music from Lost...if i'd watched Lost it might've annoyed me. As everyone said, the spacebar clicking doesn't help, the mixed messages don't help (the share links at the end), the cursing is way out of place and jarring. And i guess in a weird way it actually highlights how sad the whole situation is, to think that 30 seconds of downtime should be enough.

But i do like its style, good work.
Just remember "use bcrypt" and you should be fine. There is almost certainly a library for it for your language.
Definitely Greek. I'm teaching myself koine Greek right now, and easily recognize the alphabet. Unfortunately, I don't know it well enough to even attempt a translation right now, but if you bump into someone Greek, you might be able to get a translation
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I have submitted my email twice and did not get any confirmation, neither on page, nor in my inbox. Not sure if this is by design or bug, but confusing in either case.
Ah yes, meditization.
Exactly. I think open source is just a buzzword for them. There is still money concerns behind this service. I was quite disappointed since I was expecting a "Source" link that goes to github or somewhere.
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It's Cyrillic and this is the language of Kazakstan. It's very funny because it says he/she congratulates holy holiday of Muslims, Eid ul-Fitr (wiki it) and it is maximum a week old because it is now holiday of Eid ul-Fitr. I am not kazakh, I couldn't read & understand it fully. It says, he is from NYC, he wishes all the bests and so on...
Many of us are developers on here, so I propose the following: rather than be lead around by the nose on this, why don't we change it? We could define our own XML (or JSON? optional?) based data markup format and a separate presentation markup (XML/JSON based though!) format for displaying it on a graphical interface. Then we could create a browser plug-in that used it, or fork a browser to understand how to render it (or both).

We could set up our web servers to detect if the client has the plug-in/browser and serve this new standard if so, or redirect to "legacy" web pages if not (with a little "best experienced with" badge). If the day comes that we aren't getting anymore "legacy" requests we can just drop them (or even better, just program the servers to be able to auto-generate something passable if a legacy client did happen by). If done right, this really could get traction, since most web designers would prefer a nice format to fighting their way through as one has to today, and clients shouldn't be able to tell any difference.

The web is ours. If the "standards bodies" are making crap standards we don't have to stand for it.
Consider that in every other context listed, {glyph1} {glyph2} (where both glyphs are numerals) indicates "{value of glyph1} * {base} + {value of glyph2}".

For anyone with a passing familiarity with our number system, yes it's straightforward. But this wasn't produced for those people - it was produced for people with absolutely no prior experience with human culture whatsoever.
The way YC is growing, PG could very well become a billionaire in the coming years.
(1) serializability will not be "fast anyway". it will be slow. this is the problem with, for example, mongodb's global write lock.

(2) you would not get "lots" of aborts with bank accounts because each transaction is, typically, to a different account. you're only going to get a problem when two processes try to change the same person's account at the same time.

(3) what this provides is standard-compliant ACID sql, the same as postgres, oracle, sql server, etc. if you use any of those and don't have retry in your code for when transactions fail then you're already in a mess.

i am not associated with this project, but what you're saying doesn't really make sense. as far as i can see, you're criticising it for being the same as everyone else in the standards compliant, sql world.
Is being 100% open-source really the motivating factor to use this over S3? I would think the only factors vs using this over S3 would be price and reliability/performance.

I could care less if this is open source, if I'm going to offload my data to a 3rd party, open source or not and I'm worried about privacy I'm going to encrypt it. I honestly could care less what happens on the back-end, just commit to a data loss and reliability SLA and I'm happy.

If you can support my use case, or have reliable performance near 370k requests/sec (http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-obj...) and be cheaper than S3 then we'll talk.
I'd also worry that such a program might reduce the ability of kids to function independently and instead reinforce the ideas that large government institutions should displace the family as a means of childrearing.
I wish you were doing this around the same time in December!
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Heh, I wanted to make something similar! Good job.

You might have me login with twitter or something and give me a more customized news stream based on my interests (I really don't care about justin bieber for example). And maybe make a more common view pattern (that full screen thing is annoying me).
I have my phone on all the time, regardless of if I am on vacation or not. When I take a vacation and I have spare time, I work - sometimes billable, sometimes not. Vacation for me doesn't equate to switch off the laptop.

I spend a lot of time glued to my laptop. When I am not at my laptop, I browse and read mails on my phone. I generally reply to the mails as soon as I get them.

I like it this way - this is a worthy investment of my time. What I do with my personal time is totally my prerogative. I don't see why people feel the need to preach around their lifestyles with silly music playing in the background. And seriously, the obsession with FB bashing is sickening. Don't like it, don't use it. How hard is that?

I am not an outgoing type, and without FB, I would have lost touch with a lot of friends and acquaintances. I don't engage in a regular conversation with many people, but I do catch them once in a while. There are other mediums for communication, but FB is all inclusive for my circle - everyone I know is on FB.

If you don't like being connected, switch off your phone - that's not rocket science. If you feel one shouldn't work more than 8 hours a day, that again is up to you. But why do you feel the need to preach it in a condescending, all-knowing tone.
Part of the point was to demonstrate that the App Store code audit did not catch the exploit.
Great. I think `bcrypt` is another way of hashing passwords. Read this: How to safely store a password http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
It will be very difficult to impossible for a .ru domain to gain traction with North American visitors for this purpose.
I find your response even more bizarre - just try to imagine replacing email with this method for just half a minute.

The real reason this isn't a concern is because of the absolute cost of his experiment, not because of the relative expense of his communication method in comparison to others.
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This! Totally ruined the whole thing for me. Made it feel utterly hypocritical and ruined the high-brow mood. Actually came out feeling sad about that...
Reading this article reminded me of an acid trip I had (thanks Steve Jobs), where I was completely surprised by how much was going on when the "filter" was removed and I felt as though I was able to look at what my subconscious was doing. I wrote a really long essay about it (unreleased), but I didn't feel all of it was relevant so I'll just summarize my thoughts here: I was pretty surprised at the depth of thoughts I could access when I tried LSD.

I was surprised at the speed of the processing: simple thoughts like "bike" would trigger an enormously long chain of associations and thoughts that would go all the way back to my childhood, and I would vividly recall pictures of my first bike, but even now when I try to think of it I have trouble recalling such vivid memories.

I'm not quite sure whether the LSD caused me to think more about things, or whether it simply removed a filter that otherwise would exist without the drug. Either way, I walked away from that trip thinking, "there's so much more going on up there than I realize."
How is this open source?
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Well, almost exactly. The Japanese invented a method of sexing chicks known as vent sexing, by which experts could rapidly ascertain the sex of one-day-old hatchlings. Beginning in the 1930s, poultry breeders from around the world traveled to the Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School in Japan to learn the technique.

The mystery was that no one could explain exactly how it was done. It was somehow based on very subtle visual cues, but the professional sexers could not say what those cues were. They would look at the chick’s rear (where the vent is) and simply seem to know the correct bin to throw it in.

And this is how the professionals taught the student sexers. The master would stand over the apprentice and watch. The student would pick up a chick, examine its rear, and toss it into one bin or the other. The master would give feedback: yes or no. After weeks on end of this activity, the student’s brain was trained to a masterful—albeit unconscious—level.

Huh? "Subtle visual cues" that seemingly cannot be described, but can somehow be taught and passed on? I call bs.

Just googled it, here's the technique:

Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves literally squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male. Some females have very small bumps, but rarely do they have the large bumps male chicks possess.
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"Whether they listen to the reports or not is another matter." - It's kind of the point: the instinct of a bureaucracy that is not serious about security is just to keep things quiet in the belief that no noise means no problem. Schneier's excellent essay, "Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a 'Damned Good Idea'", observes that this reflex is in fact economically rational.

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I think it is this unrelated technologies bit that is driving things like NoSQL.

Interestingly, with LedgerSMB, you have to know: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Tempalte Toolkit, Perl, SQL (including PL/PGSQL), LaTeX

That's only 7..... When we standardize on an AJAX API framework, I guess that will mean 8. However LaTeX is only required by some specialists (customizing printed check and PDF invoice templates), and a lot of the current approach is to hide the AJAX stuff inside TT widgets, meaning no more than 7 for most developers.

And since the LaTeX stuff is a specialty (customizing higher-end printed templates and printed checks), that leaves only 6 for most developers. And since the SQL stuff can be easily handed off to others in the community (because the db API is defined through SQL, mostly through a procedural interface), it means 5. The perl is thin glue, and probably should hardly count (unless you are engineering the framework). A few master them all. Most work with the framework we provide. So here you have to know 4 well to do basic customizations, but 7 well to do the most advanced.

Works pretty well, actually.
I am a Bulgarian from Turkish descent. Cyrillic is the first alphabet I have learned, and this certainly contains words that do sound articulate when read "in Cyrillic". But it also contains letters that don't exist in Cyrillic. For example, at the second line of the "top" side of the message, I can with almost certainty say that this is a "w". A letter that doesn't exist in Cyrillic (and can't imagine some of the Cyrillic letters being written like that)
I can't read all of the message (because as is common with written text, you often need to know the language in order to be able to "make up" some of the letters), but I can certainly read maybe like 50% of it.
Mongolians do use Cyrillic. I have no knowledge of Mongolian.
But I will bring another suspicion to the table. I wouldn't exclude Turkic (and other) languages from within Russia (and the former USSR). Those peoples all (or most of them) know Russian (Cyrillic) and often use the alphabet to write their own languages. I can certainly identify Turkic (sounding) words like "сайхан"-sayhan(Seyhan), "амед"-amed(Ahmed) - which do sound like very common Turkish names.
Of course all of this is pure speculation from my side. It could very well be Mongolian. If it were in some Turkic language, I would expect to be able to make up the meaning of some parts, because of my knowledge of Turkish (which I can't).
Hah, thanks. My suspicion (a sibling message). Came out true :).
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Eid ul-Fitr was on August 31 this year.
It is NOT mongolian. In mongolian there are no letters Ә, Ғ, Қ ... This is kazakhish. I am from Germany but have roots from Azerbaijan, therefore I understand altaic-turcis languages. It looks similar to mongolian but it isn't.
At first I was click but then I was click click click. Amitay is a friggin' great designer, but there's no way he can beat my addiction to the web.
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I'm a GAE user for a personal app -- basically I use it for serving comments on my personal blog, similar to whatever Disqus is doing but I prefer the control. I also built on it 2 other personal apps that I later shut down.

IMHO, GAE is great for quick prototypes. Even for apps built for personal usage is great as the free quota is still reasonable, and compared to shitty PHP hosting services it's heaven-like. As far as the free quota goes it's also a lot better than Heroku.

However, I feel very restricted on GAE. My current project at work that pays my bills would never fit into it. Even if it did, because of the stuff we do asynchronously and because of how Google charges for API calls, the bills would go through the roof.

the only PaaS offering that can scale the data-tier

Yes it is. However, you can also scale the data-tier by yourself. Yes, it takes engineering, but it really isn't that difficult if you're planning ahead a little, which you have to do with GAE anyway. I think this old article from 2009 about how Friendfeed used MySQL to do sharding is a classic by now, but in case you haven't read it: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

My biggest problem with GAE is that it is hard to migrate from when it no longer suits your needs. Not impossible, not extremely difficult, but difficult nonetheless taking away precious resources you'd rather invest in something else.

But as far as PaaS goes if you're in to that, it works great.
I am sorry, but should be Eidul Adha not Fitr. Sorry.
The story about the chickens and planes was fascinating. In those cases, there obviously is something that the brain can detect that differentiates the different sets, yet is something so subtle that the conscious mind cannot readily identify it.

I'd be interested to hear if "muscle memory" like this is used in machine learning/AI type situations for things such as evaluating and tuning randomly created classifiers to identify objects, or respond to stimuli. If so, we could extract those "memories" from the computer to identify exactly what it ends up using to classify different objects, to show us the subtle differences.
I love that this is so direct, and it's helped me learn more about redis.

Some of the explanations are a bit confusing though. I'm not sure I know what a List is - though I suspect, knowing JavaScript, Python, and PHP pretty well, I know what a List is. Descriptions like "If a hash is like a string with an extra field layer" are just plain confusing. Why not put it in terms of commonly understood programming languages? The examples are in Ruby, why not let us know which Ruby structures these most closely correspond to, for instance?

I do appreciate the particular names in the example text, however so I'm willing to overlook this.
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All the talk about "press space", when clicking the left mouse button (what I first did, instinctively) did the same thing, also made it feel confusing and not very polished.
No, I'm saying that you could use the site as it is in an automated form. You just need to POST the data to a certain URL and then parse the page to extract the contents.

No need for them to have an API.
I won't be able to make it this time :/

Did the schedule changed from once every two months to monthly?
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I had that too. I mailed them (info@nimbus.io), let's see if the behavior is normal.
It works for us, but we need to work on our meditizarketing strategy...
For developers, the extension IDs are actually somewhat important. Plus, handling canonical URLs in a massive store could be a bit hairy (Android Market does it because all developers declare their own IDs, Chrome extension IDs are made by Chrome itself.)
You're basically saying "don't use the internet". People who are gonna use it know what they re getting into. Plus the use case (a password to an unknown username of an unknown service) doesn't sound that dangerous to me
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I'm not criticising it for being the same as everyone else. I'm just not sure how the whole thing works. I don't see enough information provided on the site, yet a lot of statements about providing full ACID and scalability.

re 1) and 2). I think they are related. The serialization can be done on account level. There is no need to have a single global write lock. This also implies that if the bank account transfers are typicaly to different accounts the serialization will be as often as the aborts. Hence very rare and the system will perform equally good in both cases. However, the serialization does not require further retries and doesn't force the application programmers to workaround the problems.
I'm hoping it's something like:

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However they are considering open sourcing more and more of their code.