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Our title is (currently) "A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it", and the Times Herald headline is even more specific: "A room so quiet no one can stand it for more than 45 minutes."

I'm wondering what it is they 'can't stand.' The article text is pretty vague.
'“Your eyes don’t feel as comfortable in this room,” Orfield pointed out, adding that some visitors have had hallucinations during or after a spell in there. “You lose your touchstones.”
Small wonder, then, that even Orfield spends no more than a half-hour at a time in the 99.99 percent soundproof anechoic chamber, and no one has lasted in there for more than 45 minutes.'

It doesn't match either my experience or my expectation, which is why I asked about it above. If someone had a silent computer to code on in there, could they crank out code for a couple of hours without nuisance, or would something bother them? If the latter, then what exactly would bother them?
" the attackers tested them against all of the relevant antivirus products on the market"

And the other bad guys wouldn't be able to do this?
There are only 2-3 common anti-virus products it's not hard to check if you are detected by Mcaffee/Symantec/AVG

Most antivirus products simply check for signatures. That way you keep paying for updates and they sell themselves on how many 1000s of viruses they detect.

Yes you can't have perfect heuristics and some of these are operating system issues - why does browsing a USB key run a program, why can a game on my phone access to my address book, why can an app connect to the internet without me knowing.

At this point do we just give up on both antivirus AND using general computers to access the web? Should we just use settop boxes with no persistent writeable storage?
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>or gets confused and asks a technical relative

Isn't that a good thing for users to know about tracking? Firefox can always include some small popup help with the prompt explaining the DNT.

>so no sites respect it

But they will lose a big excuse(it's default) not to support it.
For much of this content there are 'APIs'.

Why not link people to an Amazon link, or netflix, or iTunes, for films which are available at those places?
With genuinely new ideas, communication can be extremely hard. Existing language is rooted in existing context. If the idea is paradigm changing, the language to express it doesn't really exist. Attempts to talk about it can be very frustrating. The listener may hear something completely different from what the speaker was trying to convey.

I run into this all the time when trying to talk about how I got myself well. It is a proven concept in some sense as it worked for both me and my sons. But that doesn't automatically give me the ability to effectively convey it to other people. I continue to struggle with that piece of it.
Also, legislation differs depending on the country you live.

Get informed!
My competing definition includes safety and performance. Not about how the system works a single epsilon after an operation but perhaps reading data that we wrote last month, or last year and doing it using the hardware's resources efficiently.

Clearly either your or the ext[234] developers are mistaken as they have gone ahead and implemented extent based allocation and file management.

btrfs's design is inherently safe while ext2's design is inherently unsafe. To make the analogy work, I would say that ext2 does not fit the design spec for a file system; it would be like a garbage collector that does not actually collect garbage.

The payout for data integrity, which no filesystems really handled until the WAFL era, is huge. If you cannot see, this discussion has no point.

The only thing that I must be honest about is that I would not trust ext2 to store my data any more than I would trust you to implement a scheme to store my data.
EDIT: Read below before downvoting, in USA the situation might be better. We're (Europe) still waiting.

Because they so clearly suck at both UI and content distribution.

I don't want to jump through hoops to watch a movie. And no I don't want to wait for the release window to clear.

I want you to give me the rights to get it by my owns mean, because I know how to do it better than you. Just let me pay for the damn thing: I got money, I'll pay for all I want to watch.
I'm from Purdue and took a few courses from its top rated Audiology and Speech Science Department, so I got a lot of exposure to ASL and the Deaf culture. One thing that I couldn't understand is the following sentiment, which is quite common:

"I never viewed deafness as not understanding anyone - “deafness” is a clinical concept, a -‘ness’; it implies absence, a lack of something, therefore I am inferior. Its logic is so devastating, it is almost too easy to fall for it, as many people have. If the world is examined closely enough, we will find it is not true. There are a thousand and one possibilities and ways of being. I am culturally Deaf, wherein I gain my identity and a unique window to the world"

I don't want to be offensive, but deafness is a lack of one of the senses. I appreciate and applaud the vibrant culture the Deaf community created around ASL (and the corresponding deaf languages in other countries) and understand part of this is a coping mechanism. Yet, I have met and read many Deaf culture enthusiasts that argue (almost) that being Deaf is somewhat superior to our "normal" hearing culture, so much so that some Deaf parents wish their children are born deaf too.

Would you consider blindness to be similar? I haven't heard of a Blind culture, but maybe it exists.
Suddenly we live in a world where you need to go to a rights holder to reference an image for discussion or non-profit display? The law may be divided on the issue, but I'm not.
Looks nice. There seems to be a bug with the movie titles though. I clicked the top 50 and most of the torrent links for the movie Safe were actually for the movie Safe House.
Seems like if you could automate your app a little you might have a decent app targeted for the startup crowd :)
But you have no real control over either, so why make such a big deal of the former?

Not true. Even thought they need to be much smarter about it, people with guns, whom our tax dollars fund and who's power and number I fear and would like to limit, can reduce the likelihood of a terrorist ruining my life. Scientists can do the same for cancer, but unfortunately, we have more people who can fight terrorism that who can fight cancer.

We can elect leaders are vote in the marketplace to shift resources one way or the other, or be a better cancer or terrorism fighter if we are in those fields. Our individual control might be negligible, but not society's.
This is a good point. Being somewhat familiar with the code, but not enough to call this a provable lie, there is nothing I'm aware of that really fits this statement. No "error" that caused it to "leak". I don't think they wanted it to leak, but the design of it could only constrain it so much. It was intentionally designed to infect other computers in order to reach its target.

The other part that makes no sense to me is the bit about the "beacon" that would deliver info back to them over an air gap network. This is rather confusing and inconsistent with what has been seen from it, but it's not impossible.

But of course these statements went through several non-technical people and were written for a non-technical audience, so they might be based on something accurate and just sound funny.
Oh, and I have 14 days in which to respond.

Nothing can happen in the next 4 days due to the long weekend (2 bank holidays for the Jubilee), but likewise I can't get legal advice during this time either. So until Wednesday, all I have is HN and the opinions of others to guide me.
I am a hater of bad seo probably more than most. However, Distilled is one of the best leading companies out there for seo. I thought I knew a lot about seo but I've had the fortune to know someone who works there, and after a while chatting to him it's immediately obvious they know what they are talking about and what they do, and their knowledge is far wider and deeper than I realised was possible for this sort of thing.

Grouping companies/people as knowledgable as this in with the bad fruits is unfair because the gap between them is so vast.
"isn't the solution simply for the user to not be a moron"

This. I haven't used an antivirus program in a long time.
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They're not the same things, no, but they obey the same wave mechanics, and due to the difference in propagation velocity, their wavelengths are actually very close. A wavelength of 3 meters is about 100 MHz in the RF world, and 1 kHz in audio terms.

That's why an RF anechoic chamber looks a lot like an acoustical anechoic chamber, and often sounds like one too.
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True, it's one of those semi-obvious concepts that people keep rediscovering. It's funny how people get lost in the day-to-day and forget these things.
I think the film-industry should be inspired by this. If they offered something which is as easy to use and as good-looking as this, piracy will certainly decrease.

Just put a "Pay here"-button before giving the user their download-link. Skip the DRM and the restrictions for different parts of the world and they'd have a killer-platform for selling their products.

I am not saying that piracy isn't "unethical", but that there are many ways it could be resolved without resorting to harsh laws.
I find the first version easy to read, and the second confusing and hard to read. I believe this is a matter of what a person is more accustomed to, and I learned on the first form and lately have been using the first form more. For me the extra brace below the keywords makes it hard to find the phrase of interest, and the expanded vertical space also makes it more difficult to line up indentation levels. But these visual cues are flexible, and I could learn similar scanning tricks for the second form.

I have worked with people that were dogmatic that one form was objectively better than another form, rather than it being a matter of local optimization in the brain; I have difficult working with these people because they tend to show similar rigidity and confusion of the subjective with the objective in other areas, and such small mindedness limits what type of engineering solutions one is able to come up with.
This is very interesting, because it's extremely similar to the design that we need for Rust. We need:

* A generational GC, preferably bump-allocating so that we can win on allocation-heavy workloads.

* A non-thread-safe GC, because all GC'd data is local to a single task in Rust (and we enforce this in the type system).

* A precise GC, because (a) we don't want accidental or malicious leaks due to misinterpreting non-pointers as pointers; and (b) because we need precise GC metadata to clean up shared data and run destructors when tasks fail.

* An incremental GC, because minimizing pause times is absolutely critical for browsers.

* A non-copying GC, because LLVM doesn't currently support copying GC satisfactorily (i.e. when allowing pointers to live in registers). Fixing this would require a significant portion of all target code to be rewritten.

Also of particular interest is the ability for individual allocation sites to choose to bump allocate only, in the interests of performance (but at the expense of fragmentation). This could potentially allow Rust programmers to fine-tune their allocation behavior and trade performance for fragmentation when it makes sense to do so.

Very cool, and I'll be sure to keep an eye on this.
It will be the marketing companies choosing to disregard the DNT headers and track everybody, not Microsoft.

Blaming it on Microsoft makes no sense.
There is a large scale research project using a 10^30mW IR source - the study has been run on land animals for the last 500MYr
We threw out our TV 4 years ago. Haven't looked back. After Katrina, we lived with my parents in Texas, who had just moved into their new house. We convinced them to not turn on the TV, just because we were sick of the news. And then we decided it was good for our daughter. My dad finally broke down a few months later and started watching the History Channel. My daughter immediately sat down and we didn't notice any bad behavior. Until the TV was turned off. When she became a holy terror. We repeated that experiment every day for 3 years, and finally I came home from school one day and my wife put the TV out on the curb.

I'm convinced TV content and especially the heavily commericalized product on the airwaves, activates a huge amount of sympathetic tone. Thus the bizarre ability to stare at it intently, then the almost freakish let down experience when the tube goes off.

Life has been steadily getting better since. We eat healthier, spend more time with the kids, the kids do more, I've lost 30 lbs, etc, etc.

Throw away your TV.
It's very difficult to out-innovate 'taking things someone else made and giving them away completely for free', when you have to make tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to break even.
friggin phreaking boxes ;)
First off - don't panic - take the weekend off and enjoy it - even if you are a republican ;)

Solicitors send threatening letters - that's how they earn a good deal of their money. Relax - phone around next week (when and only if an actual letter arrives) and see if any of your local legal firms have experience of web stuff (might take a while as this sort of thing is pretty rare in the UK) and then go and see them.

Provided you have taken steps to take down possibly offending material when it is pointed out to you then I do not think there is likely to be a problem. But do take advice.

An email is just that - trying to scare you - you do not yet know if it is a real issue or just a try on from some jerk who wants to bully you - that's how some folks live their lives.
These are good points, but having gone without a tv for 8 months, there are downsides. There's really nothing that lets you relax without any mental input whatsoever like a TV. It's very effective at that. I found I was more stressed out without at least a tiny bit of TV in my life, albeit only movies and Battlefield 3 on it.
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Feature request: Let us search Actors/Actress's names and come up with movies they played in?
I think the downvote was for using IE!
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The fact that the menu titles consist of text characters isn't enough?
Did your friends who thought it might have been a cover for direct sabotage not examine the code? I assume anyone working in InfoSec at least has access to the binaries. With an appropriate SCADA controller you can see it in action, too.

Edit: Actually it looks like these days anyone can grab RE'd source off the intarwebs, though I haven't checked to see if the downloads Google is feeding me are legitimate.
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Two reasons I won't get rid of my TV:

1. I like to play my PlayStation 3 on it.

2. I stream Hulu to it for the few shows I really enjoy (30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Community, Game of Thrones, etc.)

At the end of the day, while my TV may be off most of the time, I still prefer it to watching TV on a smaller monitor.
I really like using ElasticSearch to index the couchdb database[1]. It allows you to scale out the data store and the search index separately, since they actually have separate concerns.

You can also do a lot of really complex queries with the elasticsearch query-dsl[2].

[1] http://daemon.co.za/2012/05/elasticsearch-5-minutes/
[2] http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl
Most people do not understand how all this works well enough to even know that they have something to complain about. They just want their Googles to work and show them interesting things. If the ads they see are less interesting, they aren't going to say, "Huh, I wonder if Microsoft started sending an HTTP header which falsely indicates that I prefer irrelevant ads." No, they'll just lump it in with all the other stuff that doesn't seem relevant to them and ignore it. Which of the parties involved in that situation wins? Not the browser implementor, not this particular user (who doesn't care), and not any of the advertisers who now have to waste money talking to people who are unlikely to be interested.
> We don't upload movies, we don't run a tracker, we don't belong to
> any release groups: that's how not interested in piracy we are.

That's like saying "We don't sell crystal meth, we're not distributors for crystal meth, we don't belong to any drug production groups, but our site helps kids obtain crystal meth from those who do: that's how not interested in crystal meth we are."
I love to teach! Here's a small run-down:

Previously, .torrent files were the preferred method to distribute torrents. They contain meta-data such as the size of the torrent, its name, whether it's a single file or a folder, the file structure, and more importantly, a list of trackers (think of them as "matchmakers" for people who participate in the torrent) and SHA-1 hashes of all blocks of the torrents.

However, recently, magnet links seem to be preferred: instead of sending all the info above, you just send the SHA-1 hash (20 bytes) of the torrent. (We add in some extra stuff, such as the torrent's name and size so it displays faster in torrent clients).

From that hash, torrent clients will join the Distributed Hash Table ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table ) and ask around if anyone has seen this torrent. If yes, the content of the .torrent file is transmitted directly from peer to peer, and you can start downloading it like a regular torrent.

It's a very neat trick, and it allowed bringing down the size of ThePirateBay to 90MB total: http://infworm.com/fit-the-entire-pirate-bay-site-on-a-usb-d...
While the blog is mostly down, here is a summary of the problems pointed out by the author:

1. View index updates - "Every write sets up a trap for the first reader to come along after the write"

2. Append-only database file - "Create(s) a huge operational headache", disk utilization, compaction, etc

CouchDB has always been a poor choice for write-heavy applications. Sounds to me like a case of selecting the wrong tool for the job.

Though I'm a big CouchDB fan myself, I wonder why the author didn't go with a traditional RDBMS for this application.
Wall follower for the maze: http://imgur.com/w8xoQ

I'd love to do Trémaux's algorithm if they'd add the full list of block types to the maze.
It's called figurative writing, dude... That's exactly what he means.
Time deadlines from a solicitor - or anyone else other than a judge are meaningless. They are intended to get a rushed reaction - take plenty of time. It costs them money to start a case don't forget - so they wont rush in the normal course of events.

When I think about it - 18:00 on a Friday evening - sounds a bit late in the day for a UK solicitor.
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Just as a counter point, I gave up TV a little over year ago and nothing changed. Granted, I saved some money on not needing a cable bill, which was nice, but it wasn't a life changing event. I don't feel like I suddenly gained more free time. It's true that I haven't missed it, but I also haven't missed the green pants I gave to Goodwill. I wouldn't tell you to get rid of your green pants if you're getting enjoyment from them.

So, on the one hand, I'll agree with the article. Get rid of your TV. It's not that important. On the other hand, if you feel like keeping it, do so. It's still not that important.
Very nice. Very slick. A little too slick though for my tastes concerning movie torrents. I'd like to have some info on A/V codecs, bitrate, etc. before I even think of downloading.
"How do you expect to watch movies without a TV?"

You could always print individual I frames onto a transparent substrate and shine a light through it to produce an image on a wall. Not sure what you would call it
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Is it legal to embed full movies from YouTube on a website?
So there are a lot of full length movies on YouTube. This shocked me at first considering YouTube is doing nothing about this.

I started thinking about things to do with this... So, would it be illegal to create an aggregator of sorts that curates all of the full length movies on YouTube and displays them on a website using YouTube's embed feature? I wouldn't be hosting the movies (that is YouTube's error I suppose).

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

*As a sidenote, here's a very rough mockup of a website for this concept. Lots of the buttons don't work, but I'd still love to hear some thoughts on it :)

http://www.wix.com/dkoch15/movienites
That is theft, pure and simple, same as if you incur a billion dollar thought on your own and fail to immediately declare it to the IRS and pay proper taxes on it. Not.
It's not just query parameters. Could be post params as well.
Funny you would mention that. This app has been so useful to me already, that I've considered making a SaaS offering out of it. If I don't do that, we might just release it as open-source. Or both. The biggest argument against making a SaaS offering out of it, is that this type of app isn't really core to what we're doing, and I'm worried that it would just turn into a distraction.
If you suddenly see a huge cluster of API calls in a single geographic area, that might point to an issue, such as a problem connecting to the local CDN. The stuff you're talking about is actionable from a business standpoint, but the stuff in the article is meant to be actionable from a performance and problem resolution standpoint.
The results will still be conditionally independent given the assignments, which is all you need to use the counts for estimation of a binomial .
On most of these stores, if you linked directly to the movie page, it'd be a one- or two-click experience between arriving and watching the video.

On Amazon for example, you click the "Buy Movie" button, and it turns into a play button, which launches the movie player. As long as you're signed in, there are no intermediate steps, the purchase just goes to your default credit card or bank account and you get an e-mail receipt while you're already watching the movie.

It's not that different anywhere else if you're already signed in, which many people will be.

You haven't really answered the question of why you don't "let me pay for the damn thing" by linking to these stores for the movies available there. If you're only interested in helping people pirate movies even if they're cheaply and easily available to them online already, just come out and say it.