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I agree with everything he's written. I was a diehard Firefox fan. The plethora of releases was annoying in itself - it's a damn browser, fer chrissake. Mature technology. Removing all the buttons so it looks like Chrome isn't improvement, it's just change.

But even then I stuck with it until they managed to break it completely. Loading a page with a lot of external links would take, literally, five minutes. I tried disabling all my plugins, disabling javascript, etc, etc. No joy. Finally I gave up and downloaded Chrome.

I still use Firefox at work, but only because I'm using an OS for which there's no Chrome.
Only if you pay for an annual subscription (seriously! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Plus#PlayStation_Pl...)
It's a confusing article for you, I guess. An article written on a Friday referring to Friday is probably referring to the Friday on which the article was written. What is confusing about the phrase "earlier this week"?
And Barak Obama doesn't know how to pronounce "corpsman"

Do we really want to go here on HN?
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> The crew is actually going to stay and live on Mars, with the intention to remain there, for the rest of their lives.

Wait what? Isn't that a really important part of the problem that shouldn't be just skimmed through as a mere detail on the video? Aren't the ethical issues that would arise from this, by itself, be enough to make everything else unviable. Humans live for a long time. What if after 10 years living there, the show just didn't raise enough money. "Hey crew, you'll just have to suicide, we won't send anymore food". Just so many huge issues come to mind. With not many obvious solutions. I would be interested to hear to which solutions they have, if any.

edit: their incredibly short FAQ answer about ethics doesn't make me anymore hopeful. They don't touch on any of the obvious hard problems and even dare to make an absurd analogy with immigrants from Europe to the Americas:

http://mars-one.com/en/faq-en/19-faq-health/231-is-this-ethi...
Lightning is not really "fine" - it never properly worked for me properly. Integrating it with Exchange is a nightmare. It is sad that it was never brought to a level where you could confidently recommend it as Outlook replacement, and now it never will be.
He would make the necessary architecture changes. It wouldn't have to be unconditional.
One of the problems of "freedom of speech" is that many people have bundled a lot of concepts into "speech". There are a great many Internet activities that would be difficult to capture as speech.

Reading a political screed, for instance, is not speech. It is probably protected in some other way, but I'm actually unaware of how. (Actually, considering workplace laws, I begin to suspect it's not protected.) Differently, is clicking a Like button considered speech? What about Unliking? How about transferring a file, or maintaining a personal wiki that no one else has access to?

These aren't questions I want answered anytime soon. I'd rather leave them alone and simply say that people should have the opportunity to engage in these activities, full stop, without having to figure out whether or not they're speech.
My favorite combination is offlineimap+mu+mu4e. Mu is really fast, mu4e is a great reader and its interface is similar to Wanderlust (another great Emacs based mail reader) which is why I prefer it to notmuch.el.

http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/

http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
Sometimes I wish that some of the current Wikipedia article could be sent back in time to the early days of Wikipedia. Contributors and readers from that time would be blown away.
Also, if you're ever around the VT / MA border, New England Felting Supply is pretty trippy. The entire store is sorted by color which makes the the whole inside looks almost like some lickable candy thing.
The short answer is "poorly". If Linus complains that Linux apps that are buffer cache sensitive end up using O_DIRECT (which in a lot of ways is worse) simply because fadvise() and similar functions have never been done properly.
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It sounds like you're recommending that Netflix should be in the data center business, with movies almost a side consequence of it. That certainly might be viable, but it's not the business they're actually in, and apparently not the business they want to be in. Additionally, data centers are a dime a dozen, while good streaming movie providers are much less common.
Actually, I'd argue the best strategy is to have an alternate cloud provider in each "region".
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If Hn starts being filled with this stuff I am giving up the internet.
Mail.app is way behind Thunderbird. On TB, I can do tags, I can do message flags, I can do search folders, I have 9000 ways of searching, I can add quick folders, I have great antispam engine... Mail.app is ok if you receive 1-2 emails per day and never need them afterwards. If you receive 300 and need to be able to find each of them years since, it is not even close to being adequate, let alone fantastic.
This was really the opposite experience I had when I was a teller in a bank. The amounts were similar but the chance of getting caught was slim. We had a binder of local bank roberies that we updated when the person was caught. It was usually rare for a person to get caught unless they were really dumb about te roberery (told someone such as friend they thought they could trust or their license was recorded) or they got greedy and came back several times. The banks never pursued the robbers very hard because the money was all insured. If a robber was smart he would tell the teller to not put a dye pack in the money and we were always instructed to follow those kinds of orders ... There was no reason to be a hero. Also if you ever want to rob a bank don't threaten that you have a weapon ... Armed robbery is a much more severe punishment than unarmed.
Some other philosophers question whether there's even a meaningful difference between positive and negative rights. Those critiques go beyond a mere, "well, it's meaningless for the rich and the poor to have equal rights to use any printing presses they own."

What is one of the main arguments against that distinction? Well, consider: many people here are arguing that the Internet isn't a right because someone has to provide or pay for it. In some sense, it's not a "natural" right in the same way that they perceive, say, property rights to be.

But when you say you have property rights, you're not just saying that the government won't come and take your stuff. You're saying that the government has a positive obligation to send violent thugs in uniform to protect a monopoly, of use and transfer, over a physical object that it has recognized for you. (After all, otherwise a right to private property would be meaningless.)

That leads the people making the initial positive/negative distinction into an intellectual trap: all of a sudden, their negative liberty has shown its true colors. It requires as much government involvement as, say, the universal provision of healthcare service. Or the Internet! Even freedom of speech requires government action to uphold: it's pretty meaningless to have freedom of speech if the government won't back up its guarantee of force on individuals who would harm you for saying something.
one of the things someone pointed out to me most of a decade ago is that more and more things are becoming algorithmic--or perhaps we should say, being revealed as being algorithmic.

take some classic physical patent like the Bessemer process for steel--given a suitably general collection of industrial robots and reconfigurable equipment, "make steel like this" is "implementable" in software.

or any random machinery patent--"be this specific kind of rotary engine" is software if your hardware is a few trillion nanites.

what exactly the implications are for the patent system, i'm still not sure....
The logistics of supplies and rescue are a lot easier, sure, but the two environments have more in common with each other than the rest of the surface of this planet. You already need to live in artificial structures that can take a pounding, grow your own food with little from the environment but sunlight and some raw materials, and you can't survive outside for very long without ample protection. I mean, for a training environment, where else would you go?

Also, if you look at the context of the quote, you can see that they're making an analogy:

Living there [Mars] is comparable to getting by on Antarctica, and provides
similar challenges. However, the South Pole now has a number of very advanced,
large research stations that boast a great deal of modern facilities that provide
a good quality of life. These looked very different 50 years ago. The Mars
settlement will develop in the same way.
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The only thing I can think of where honking datacenters could conceivably help is searching for things. All other things should be mostly unaffected. And I'm not sure you need an entire datacenter to search through one person's email or address book.

Spam protection is a more serious issue, I think. Both mail servers and desktop clients do it. Mail servers, especially if they get feedback from clients, have a huge advantage though in that they can learn from all their users. The desktop client has to work with a single user's input; unless you implemented some kind of p2p collaborative approach (which would be really cool).
> That's a fair point, but also true is "don't let your product stagnate by keeping it familiar and unchanging". People get bored with similarity and want new shiny things.

I disagree. Users want something new if their current software isn't meeting their needs for whatever reason. But if it is meeting their needs and they know how to use it, then keeping that software the same isn't "stagnation", it's stability.

Whenever I hear users ask for change it's because there's a feature they wish they had or a bug that's annoying them. I've never heard anybody ask for change just for the sake of change, or complain that software was boring because it didn't change.

For games I guess it might make sense to keep changing things up just to keep them fresh, but for productivity software I think "boring, predictable, and functional" is the ideal state. Productivity software isn't supposed to be entertaining, it's supposed to be useful.
I'd argue the recent deploy to AWS actually ought to increase the ease with which you can fail over: it's basically a new deployment to AWS. You can/should be able to use the same deployment process as a starting point for fail overs, which is a huge advantage as compared to a cluster that nobody knows exactly how it was setup.
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Here's something that I worked on for the past week or so. It might be a little confusing at first, but it makes asynchronous programming much easier in Node.
I'd easily pay $100 for a perpetual license for a client that has as many capabilities as TB, plus does exchange calendars/address books right. I'd expense it then, of course :) And it would be worth every cent - while TB has many excellent features, lack of some more enterprise-y things probably cost me much more than $100 in time and effort over my career.

The thing is, however, $100 paid to closed-source software vendor never guarantees he won't be out of business or bought by some Novell that will promptly run it into ground in a year or two. With open source chances for product survival are higher - though, as we see here, are in no way guaranteed.

Just in case anybody cares, I'm currently on Mac OS X, but when I worked on Linux & Windows, I used Thunderbird too, and the same applies for both of these OSes too.
His appellate court has jurisdiction over the federal courts in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. The chief district judge assigns cases. The chief judge designation is based upon seniority, and all of the district judges have lifetime appointment as well.
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Partisan politics like this have no place here; that's clearly what this article is (as the second paragraph explains the main thrust here is that "nerdy liberals all over the country" are having a laugh at this). At any rate, although the visual paradigm they are using looks very much like a Venn diagram, I'm not sure overlapping circles, especially when they aren't being used to delineate overlapping and exclusive groups of a population, necessarily only have that one interpretation. It seems more like a bad visual choice for a series of A+B=C sorts of statements.
Anyway, take your politics elsewhere.
By doing. Instead of talking about how you'd build a reliable cloud service, you can innovate by actually building it. Feel free to tell people how easy it was after you've done it.
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"If access to the Internet is a human right, that means every human in the world should be able to demand access to the Internet?"

Does freedom of speech mean everyone should be able to demand access to a printing press?
Amazing insight, thanks.
Obviously, it works at quantcast. How could it not work elsewhere?
I have Aspergers, and I can attest to this... I spend most of my time on my PC connecting to the world. I work from home as a programmer and I have maybe 4-5 friends that I see often (once every few weeks, I go for a walk to the store with one every day) but I spend the majority of time in my space, designing, building and deploying things online and reading to try to gain more knowledge of the world. Now, the question is, how would a personal space on Mars be any different from a personal space here? (I wouldn't go unless it was feasible and viable, and I could return within 10 years - just to be one of the first humans on another planet - I'm pretty comfy on Earth as it is, but I see the point you're trying to make here)
I'm talking about more formalized than that. For example, suppose that we had a model that would typically return double what a drug would (modelling for inflation and opportunity cost), but that the pharmaceutical company was obligated to sell the patent at that price. Furthermore, suppose that this model was tweaked to generally return 20% more to the pharma company than holding the drug for the length of the patent.

Now the voting public could say that a drug was important enough that it should be funded via tax dollars.
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is this available or just a ploy to collect email addresses?
well, after all samy is my hero.
I concur. We are currently a customer of ZC, and compared to what happened before we were, it's an immense improvement. And they really care about the feedback we provide, too. Great idea, great execution.
The answer to safety issues should not be a matter of restricting people from operating them. By that mentality, you'd ban a huge range of very useful things.
They mention a lot of options like transporting hydrocarbons from Titan or Ammonia from the outer solar system (as methods for atmosphere formation).

Clearly the best source of CO2 is to export it from Earth. A space railway from Earth to Mars for shipping CO2 would be at least as practical as any of the other options.
I quit using Firefox due to absolutely horrific memory management and I never used a single add-on ever. It was extremely frustrating because every time I went to a forum seeking help the first and only thing people would do is blame add-ons.

It was so bad that I had to close firefox when I wanted to do anything else. If I played a full screen game it would work great for about half an hour the suddenly it'd chug along at 10fps. Without fail the issue was Firefox deciding to consume 90% CPU. And again this is without installing a single add-on ever.

It may be better today. I don't know. I don't care. I switched to Chrome and haven't looked back since.
I get a Firefox update every single day because I'm on the Nightly. If people would quit complaining and embrace the rapid upgrade cycle, we can advance the web at an accelerated pace. Almost half the people on the Internet are getting an upgrade every 6 weeks. The next three years could see as much change as the last 10, for example.

Btw,yes I understand we have legacy browsers and they won't get the full experience, but when they finally do, they'll get that better browser.
I've heard so many theories about this. Can someone shed some light...

Some say it's for psychological purposes, others claim it's got something to do with tax, and some say the cents value is used by the store to signify if an item is discontinued/on sale.
I'd like to see a crash test of this "car". I'm not suicidal enough to drive it on a regular road.

In fact, at the $300,000 price you might as well get a lightweight plane ($20K would get you a decent one), and a really nice car for $280,000.

Since you can't legally take off and land on a road, there's no real difference.
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I would like to believe you, but since every Firefox release is faster than ever and uses less memory, if that were really true Firefox would run on an Atari and be so fast it would literally travel into the future to fetch pages. But that's not the case.
Why would they want to sell the Nexus in court?
I hope that we won't be forced to sign up for Internet service or pay additional taxes to allow for this human right to be spread and given to everyone as part of a government mandate- I mean tax- by buying the service from private companies.. All kidding aside, how much do you want to bet that in the next 10 years, we'll all be mandated to purchase or pay for Internet access?
I love Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird. I want Thunderbird to survive and be successful. But I've never actually been able to make full use of things like flags, smart folders, or the built-in anti-spam because it's all local to a single computer. Those benefits don't follow me to my phone, or to a friend's house, or between my laptop and desktop.

We either need more extensions to IMAP (but what clients would support them?) or we need better web apps.
Never had any problems with Firefox updates. Switched to Chrome because Firefox leaked memory like crazy and because unusable after less than a week of work. I use browser quite intensively and keep tens of tabs open at all time. Firefox seems to be unable to deal with it. I suffered for years but once Chrome got decent extensions that was it.
Actually, that's because the designers of Android took the gamble of replacing the Linux userland with a touch-oriented layer built on a managed language runtime.

They did this instead of trying to evolve it toward a vague goal in that general direction, or trying to drag along legacy apps.

In hindsight, it's obviously the right thing to have done. But it was a gamble at the time.
We're trying to get people who are interested while we finish up the beta version ala http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...
Being able to fly somewhere and then drive on, without having to rent a car, is a real difference.
This post explains some ofthe subtleties that in the past had made me question whether fadvise() worked at all. Admittedly, I still find unbuffered io to be simplest and most predictable. But Linus' basic arguments against unbuffered io have been reasonable, and I feel more resolved about the matter understanding that fadvise() can be made to work.

How would you improve fadvise()? And what problems have you found with O_DIRECT?
As far as I can tell, all ps3 system and game updates are hosted on some dude's dsl line. And they can't be bsckgrounded probably the worst part.
I've been dying for something like this. My ideal client is basically a clone of gmail, but one that connects through my local internet connection. I know gmail can do POP and IMAP, but it cannot connect to my workplace VPN. RoundCube definitely looks like a good start, I will check it out.
Progress is nice, but unfortunately as a user I don't care too much about progress if the bottom line is the same. Sorry to sound disdainful about your efforts, and I know how hard it is, and I have greatest respect for the efforts of Firefox developers, but the bottom line is - it is (was, last time I checked) still leaking like Eratosthenes' sieve, and still becomes unusable after mere days of work. And even admiration for the product and all the history of it can only hold the user for so long when viable alternative is out there.
One thing I've not seen anyone bring up in the comments here is Chrome updates just as often as Firefox does. Chrome might even update more often than Firefox does. I don't know because Chrome solved the rapid update problem exceptionally well. Chrome could update every hour and I probably wouldn't even notice, let alone care. Rapid updates in and of themselves are not the problem here.
Mail.app has no problem searching and indexing all of my mail since 1998 (nearing 20 GB). I'm not sure what you are doing wrong... upgrade to an SSD maybe?
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Ask HN: What are 3 things you would want from a non-technical co-founder?
I am a non techie, trying to fix that via udacity and o'reilly, for the mean time I would love to know what 3 qualities/skills you would look for in a non technical co founder.
How do you know when you've simulated a worm's brain correctly? I mean, they don't actually do much, do they?
Another decent place to find out more about multi-threaded ruby or to post info about it is http://ruby.io/
The best part about that virus was it also zipped up a random file from your pc to upload along with it. Everyone in /g/ was grabbing for these things. Can you say identity fraud.
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I agree. I have long wanted to spend time in Antartica, but I wouldn't set foot on a shuttle destined for Mars for this reason: breathable atmosphere. Maybe the Mars project is more comparable to sending people into deep sea, leaving them there, and sending fresh supplies with a 6-month delay?
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Mars does not have a magnetosphere. You can't live there without shielding, end of story.
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Have you used Mail.app on OSX recently? It has most of those things. SmartFolders are the same as search folders I assume. There's a fast/robust search system with saved search queries. QuickFolders (the extension?) sounds kind of like the favorites you can add to the toolbar for specific folders/people/searches. You can flag messages in a few different ways plus color labels if you want to get fancy. Not suggesting you should switch or anything -- just defending an app I like a lot.
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