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"2. HN has a story of a person having his Google acct randomly shut down with no warning and no recourse (and I don't have highly-placed friends in Google so for me something like that would mean I'm screwed forever)."

They are thousands and thousands of such stories. But there's recourse...if you make HN's front page or if you have 150,000+ Twitter followers. For the rest of you: Google is to busy trying to make users click on ads, no time to offer even the most basic support.
In the "old times" Firefox asked me whether I wanted to download and then open, download into temp and then open, or download into a to-be-selected folder; with an addon I could force browse render as an option, too.

Yet, this required two mouse clicks in the "worst case" that the default selection didn't fit.

I think the best solution is: if no download attribute set and Content-Disposition is not "attachment", then render in the browser. If either condition is met, open a popup with large buttons immediately executing the action: download to default folder, download to temp (which will be deleted upon next browser start), download to specific folder, render in browser (if there's a registered handler plugin for this mimetype). Maybe add a checkbox "Open after download has finished", and maybe also add one "Try multi-stream download" (because many sites still limit single-stream bandwidth). Even more maybe, for video files add a "Preview with VLC" and fetch the required parts (header and final part of video) first, so I can stream and keep the file for later usage.
To show an icon on hover over a link on the browser side it would require browsers to make an HTTP HEAD request for each link to see if it has the "Content-Disposition: Attachment" header. That would add a lot of overhead to the page load, so I don't think it would be added to any browser.

However, it seems like a good candidate for a browser plugin for those who have fast connections and don't mind.
I thought the same thing. One of the Youtube commentswas pretty insightful in that it mentioned that when you do a parachute landing into the ocean, it's landing in salt water. Therefore the craft has to be taken apart inspected, cleaned, and put back together. So I'm assuming they've done the cost benefits and figured it's cheaper this way.

I wonder if a combination parachute/thruster landing would be more feasible though? Sort of like the Mars Science Lab without the sky-crane.
There are already ways to force browsers to download using HTTP headers. The author says this is a "server-side solutions to front-end problem", okay.

But anyways, when pages use this already, it OFTEN pisses me off, when I want to look at a PDF in browser, but the web app/page is forcing me to save it to disk and then re-open it in another app.

What we _really_ need, that we _don't_ have a way to do right now -- is signal the browser to _prompt_ the user as to whether it should be saved or displayed in-browser. The browser could ignore unless it was capable of displaying in-browser of course. That's something we do not have any way of doing in a reliable way now with HTTP headers, and I wish html5 would add that, instead of duplicating a lesser feature which is both possible now, and frequently annoying.
Ah, yes, IIRC, most comics are drawn with simple outlines and then numbers are written over the blank spaces to indicate what colors they should be, a la paint-by-numbers. Whereas Watterson wanted license to color things himself using whatever media.
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Perhaps my comment will be considered harsh, but my view has long been that if you are hung up on the notation, you miss the physics, you miss the science.

There is no such as "an intuitive convention". Notation is simply that: Convention. If someone cannot grasp this, they lack either or both of the intellectual maturity and the doggedness necessary to understand the science.

If teachers failed to make the point that notation is simply convention, chosen for largely historical reasons, then they have not helped the situation - but fundamentally it is up to the student to see past, to see through the conventions and to perceive what the notation is saying.

Why does "W" represent the "wa" sound? Convention. Do you see the individual letters or do you read the words, the sentences?

Arguing whether you should use i or j for square root -1 is like arguing whether you should o or u for a particular vowel sound.
Last weekend I decided to move my non-profit email off of gmail. Running my own mail server always seemed silly or negligent (everyone I know who runs their own has had mail bounce back at me at least once).

It took me the weekend to setup and secure Kolab. It's GPL, built on top of postfix, has a nice webmail client through Roundcube, and it's actively developed. The current version (3.0) doesn't have CalDav support, but it is on the roadmap for 3.1 in a couple months.

Learned a lot of about anti-spam techniques while setting it up. The config file settings were a little lax for Roundcube, but all-in-all I'm happier with the setup than with Gmail. This CalDav problem was just a random outage, but how long till they make another change that users can't opt out of?
Sure fine, as long as there's a "launch handler anyway" context menu option. I don't care what people think they need to say as long as I have a way of doing the things I want to do anyway.

Case in point: If I want to save a PDF I usually save it from within Okular. If Okular crashes while handling the PDF for display it's useless to me anyway.
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Here are some interesting results of the Nginx Pagespeed module alpha on production WordPress sites. https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/23/partnership-with-google-to-deliver-fast-wordpress-sites/
I think this[1] is to blame for it.

[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcmarkup/
What's with Chrome adding extensions to the filename? Is this behaviour specific to Chrome on Windows or standard across all platforms?

The world does not revolve around windows. File extensions are optional, not mandatory, in unix land. If the site says the file is named foobar, its name is foobar not foobar.txt.
You don't need to know much (if anything) about PDEs. If you've taken an undergrad class in classical mechanics, you'll do just fine.

If you're interested specifically in game physics using Verlet integration, http://web.archive.org/web/20100111035201/http://www.tekniku... is a nice reference. Most of the springy-cloth demos use Verlet integration.

Here's a short series on 3D game physics that doesn't rely on a Verlet integration scheme: http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/. The advantage here is you get a more general ODE solver. It's a little bit more tricky to get right, though.

Once you dig a bit deeper into it, you'll find that the hard part is collision detection/response. A nice intro is the two tutorials at http://www.metanetsoftware.com/technique.html. An in-depth reference is Real-Time Collision Detection by Christer Ericson.

A community related to this is http://www.bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/.
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I addressed that in the previous sentence: if it's orthogonal to working vocabulary size, then it must be positively correlated with verbosity. That could be true, but I can't tell from personal experience.
If you're using Firefox, you might be interested in the Open In Browser extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-in-brows...
I caught on to that about halfway through the article -- as I'd imagine most readers did.

It seems a bit much to me. Someone from Shopzilla responded in the comments with an apology and explanation of what had happened. Seemed good enough for me, mistakes do happen and I'd be surprised if this was started by Shopzilla with malicious intent.
Parachute and/or airbags are not necessarily lighter than fuel on a rocket as big as falcon. Parachutes don't scale linearly with the weight of the cargo. Plus they introduce an additional complexity and a point of failure.
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I've seen the "first sleep" references too. That's not what I'm talking about. Waking up naturally for a half hour in a pleasant relaxed state is one thing. Having the dog bark "let me out or I'm peeing on the carpet" and having to run downstairs, having the other dog jump on me at random intervals, having two kids separately get me up for a half hour each fussing about whatever, and having m'lady decide she must check her email at oh-dark-thirty, well, that's quite something else.
I think Opera already does that.
I am not that much of a space buff....but for some reason...when I see this video and the one posted by the OP - I get SOOO excited.

Perhaps it is the innovation of never seeing a rocket do a full-blown take-off and then land vertically and then seeing what the long-term result will be - which is orders of magnitude better and more efficient than how it is today....that just gets me excited.

But I am truly glad to be alive today and glad Elon Musk is who he is....and doing what he is doing.

In 40 years, if he continues on his current trajectory, my kids will find it weird that space travel was "novel" in my generation.

That's VERY exciting.
You cannot land a large payload on Mars with a parachute due to the very thin atmosphere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5590965
One small nitpick: please please don't make all your files download with a single filename.

In the article it gives an example of "fixing" a hideous generated filename like "203759-fs3.pdf" to download as "invoice.pdf".

Yes this is a little nicer, but please be _even_ nicer and put other relevant info in the filename, "invoice-2013-01-01.pdf" is infinitely more useful to me.

Context: My bank forces statement downloads to all come out as "statement.csv" .... once you have a nice collection of "statement [43].pdf" files lying around you soon long for that hidious generated filename (or a semantically better one).
There's something of a conflict between "The download attribute is supported in Chrome 14+ and Firefox 20+" and "but I think server-side solutions to front-end problems should be avoided whenever possible."

The client-side solution sounds nice, but there's still likely a large percentage of your users for whom it won't work.

So instead of just a server-side solution, to do this nicely you have to have BOTH a server-side and client-side solution, for now. How is that good?

I suppose you could leave the default & old browser users to fend for themselves (in a manner of speaking), but sadly the folks who are downloading a different browser are mostly the same folks who understand how to right-click.

The ones that need a simple download link are the ones still using their default browser.
My #1 install on any server is fail2ban, then it's server specific stuff.
I'm a huge fan myself (I've watched seasons 1-4 maybe 30 times each), and I agree with you. It did lose its magic after being cancelled the first time. The movies were ok, but it felt like a different show when it landed on Comedy Central; too topical and edgy and a bit scattered.
Yeah, isn't "Content-Disposition: attachment;" header exactly for this?
I thought the new series was much less timeless than the old ones. Sure, the older episodes had some things that were specific to the late 90s - early 00s, but many of the episodes held up extremely well, keeping their emotional impact long after initial airing (looking at you, Jurassic Bark). The revival, though, was way too topical, immediately taking on pop phenomenons like Susan Boyle and the iPhone.

Comedy Central is also to blame, in my opinion. The initial run was short and inconsistent. I had my DVR set to record any first-run episode, but I feel like i never caught any. A show can't succeed if it's never on the air.
I find that somewhat difficult to accept, given that pretty much every single patent that touches software is ludicrous.
QWERTY keyboards need to go away, but they are design patterns that people are used to.

Any file the browser would normally try to display natively or through a plugin can be forced to download using this attribute.

What if you want to do the opposite? Are we going to have to do "Right+click and Open in Browser"? What about mobile? Also, as far as I'm aware this issue is only really with PDF files, as virtually every other MIME extension is not supported by a browser.
Regarding the 'bonus' problem on weight of coins: 1p and 2p coins of the same value weigh the same, by design.
Similarly 5p and 10p.
Reminds me of the 1099 fiasco a few years back [1]. I think this has to be just as silly if not worse.

[1] - http://www.thetechgap.com/2010/12/who-to-blame-for-the-1099-...
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I don't think a parachute would give them the amount of control they want over where it lands. Maybe the idea is to eventually have many of these things docking in the same area, like an airport. If you have a fleet of multi-million dollar rockets, you want to be in as much control of them as possible.
In my area, there are state, county, and city sale taxes. You would need a full address and a database of addresses within city limits in order to determine the proper sales tax.
I don't know what OS you are using, but on linux, I save all of those files to /dev/shm. Since this parks it in shared memory, once I restart my computer at some point, they will be gone. The same can be done by using a tmpfs as your default download destination and a script that cleares any file older than x days etc. I basically use two download folders: ~/Dowloads/* and /dev/shm/; the first is being used for Downloads I'd like to keep, the latter for temporary files.
>1) a "witch hunt" can be taken in the metaphorical sense to mean a hunt for any enemy/dissenter.[1] I think the term is used rather judiciously.

In this case, it is being used over judiciously which is why i take exception to it. The key to a witch hunt has to be a conviction and/or a hunt for a non-real cause. I'll even take a conviction to mean real harm (economic/physical etc.) not sanctioned by the government or sanctioned by he government. Reddit didn't result in this. He might have been nervous for a few hours, but he was not harmed. (That doesn't mean we don't need safeguards in place to prevent it).

>As such, I imagine the timed release was not to delay or elongate the process but was very intentional.

I agree that they used their past experience to set the delay, and I understand they probably had good logic for it. But, just because an organization made what they thought was the right decision, in this case it appears to not have been. As an outside observer it appears that their 1000s of years of experience failed them, and they need to explain why and issue an apology.

>I do agree with you that it seemed to take longer than is desirable to find the suspects (especially since once they were found, one got away) but a "better system" is by no means the hive mind of untrained "armchair investigators."

I agree that Reddit probably isn't the best system, but we do need to look at the potential use of crowds to solve cases like this more quickly. I read through all the reddit commentary and I didn't get the sense of hive mentality you describe, there was a lot of disagreement and people stating to be careful and not post their personal information etc. It wasn't perfect, but could have been effective had they had the right images.

>Perhaps in the future there will be a way to crowd source information but the responses of Reddit 4chan, and yes, even some here on HN were well-intentioned but harmful.

At worst they were "potentially" harmful, not actually harmful. Everyone is lucky nothing bad happened to those people whose pictures were circled, but we are equally lucky the attackers did not decide to bomb something in the 3 days after the incident.
You're right about part of the reason. One reason the partials are namespaced is indeed to serve as a distinction since at the moment, only the resource can hold the context for the partial. ivars will be visible from both the parent view render and controller sync calls, but likely not reliable since the partials will be rendered from different actions. The main reason they are namespaced is to allow rendering of all partials for the sync'd resource when publishing syncs in the controller. We can just ask the resource to give us all its partials in the views/sync/[resource pluralized] directory and only render those partials that are realtime, versus needlessly rendering all partials (including non-realtime) in the 'normal' resource directory.
Thankfully it's possible to downvote comments, though.
Open in browser extension for Firefox might be somewhat close to what you'd want.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/open-in-brows...
Settle down, no one's taking your right-click away. The author is just conveying that this is a bad default to force on users for the simple act of downloading.

If linking to a download, a simple click should do the job; meanwhile, power users should still able to right-click so as to pick the directory, etc.
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You can't direct where the rocket ends up, highly likely that the rocket will get damaged or much less likely that the rocket will damage something else (This is why NASA dumps it's rockets over the ocean). Then you have find a way to get the rocket home, which involves time and money. Why not just burn fuel (rocket fuel is only a few times more expensive that burning water) and bring the rocket home?

If you need more payload build a bigger rocket.

You could also add wings to the rocket and fly it home which has it's own set of trade-offs and benefits(see space shuttle).
The PDF case is no problem with the builtin PDF support in Chrome and Firefox. Or if you like the Adobe stuff, just disable the plugin and you'll automatically get the download and then a prompt to launch Acrobat Reader.

This is similar to forcing links to open in new windows - assuming the user is stupid in a way that doesn't even let the user to revert to the normal web behaviour (no browser function to "open in same window" vs no browser function to "open in browser")
The problem is that FF does not read the OS list of programs (or can call the "Use OS selection for program/Open With"), but has "its own source" - on Linux, this sucks, because if I want to specify an unknown program, it's most likely in /usr/bin, which has thousands of files and so blocks the disk for a huge time while reading the file list.

On Windows, it sucks too, because I have to go to c:\, then remember if the program is x64 or x86, then remember the producer of the program, hope the program files-directory is named after the producer or the software, and then find the correct .exe to open. SUUUUCKS.
Why did you post a link to a site which stole the content, stripped the author's name, mangled the text by repeating some of it twice, and omitted an extremely interesting video?

Moderators, please update the link so it points to the original source:

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-...
A little more difficult than that. I grew up in Pennsylvania. My zip code was for the town next to the township I lived in. There were taxes for stores in the town that weren't levied on the township (two different local gov'ts). Also, PA doesn't tax clothing while Maryland a few miles away does. So every item you sell would have to be categorized in some way (and maybe differently in different areas). So, every delivery address would have to be accurately mapped to multiple, overlapping taxing authorities (state, county, local, school district, etc.) and every item you sell would have to be mapped to multiple tax categories (clothes and shoes not taxed in A, clothes (but not shoes) taxed in B, shoes (but not work boots) taxed in C, etc.)
Give them a book. Paper.
They've always seemed more like a hobby company than the competitors. Their small scale has really seemed to slow them down, like lots of manufacturing and sourcing issues that a bigger company can just throw money at.
Right, some browsers do, some don't. (I used to be able to _get_ Firefox to, with the right config, but stopped being abel to figure out how, then switched to chrome where i haven't figured out how either).

But what we need is a standard cross-browser way to request this behavior (prompt for download vs show), that by default standards-compliant browsers will comply with (I'll allow for users over-riding this default behavior with configuration, if the browser wants to support that, sure).

We don't have that. I wish html5 would add that, instead of minorly improving an annoying thing we already have (way to signal the browser to force or default to download).

Sure, it should be avail in the HTML not just in HTTP headers, so the browser can let the signal effect it's UI before it does an http request for the asset, sure.
Yes, exactly this extension I talk about in another reply - but I don't use Firefox any more because it creates disk load and swaps heavily on a 5400rpm disk, and it locks up while waiting for disk i/o every ten seconds (every tab switch, in essence). Chrome's single-process-per-page model is better, because the OS can do proper swapping.
I recently had the opportunity to talk to a few ex-prisoners about basics of websites, digital marketing etc (they are starting businesses). While their digital knowledge is not much, their street smartness and "real" world knowledge is unbelievable - I'd never ever have a tenth of their smartness.

It would be nice if they had internet access (perhaps in some restricted way)
No. It was a stated goal of the Space Shuttle project, but it failed. Had the Space Shuttle been a commercial venture it would have been abandoned decades ago; other than the fact that it generally worked (which, to be clear, is saying something, that's not guaranteed), it was an awful design.
Further: the article is about browsers adding a feature for HTML5 developers that formerly required tinkering with HTTP headers on the server-side.

There's nothing in there about disabling Save-As.
so would the browser be enforcing that? Or the server?

Because both options are unacceptable.
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Posting personal information is one of the very very few things that will get you a site-wide ban on Reddit. They have squished vastly more than they've allowed.

They should have done this a week ago, but I won't discourage them from finally doing the right thing by nagging them about that.
Same here. I explained they failed on digital delivery of a service. I also told the rep that the company had threatened me and other customers with a refusal of service if any such chargebacks were attempted.

I may have been willing to wait out the launch fiasco, but when EA reps explained to me and others that our Origin account would be BANNED if we issued any chargebacks...that was the last straw for me.

I'm sort of hoping EA does ban my account. I'm sure my AG would love to hear about how they no longer provide me access to games I purchased in the past but they now no longer think I should be allowed to use.