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good reply.

i use <strike>iceweasel</strike> firefox for the same reasons, specifically:

* pentadactyl (formerly vimperator)

* xul and xpcom took time to read about

* i like that the entirety of the codebase is free, not just the big blocks of C++

oh, and might be worth noting that the mobile version of firefox is multiprocess, and there's always the -no-remote flag (if you want to debug something w/o potentially crashing the 20 tabs of docs, bug reports, mailing list archives, and stack overflow you had to dig through to find the thing that maybe, possibly created the bug in the first place), although i totally agree about this thing where solving the problem of stability has somehow been conflated with running more than one process.

to each their own. having more browsers promotes a healthier "ecosystem" or something like this.
But don't threads generally share memory? So therefore if a thread crashes, it can totally screw up all the other tabs still.
>So far nothing has passed.

Nothing that you know of anyway.
Well, the loaner part is not that uncommon I think. I get a loaner if there is anything that needs to be fixed on my not high end Nissan.

But the fact they do it at a place of your convenience seems really good.
All that money and you still suck at grammar.
isn't he wanted for murder somewhere? But I thought the vid was hilarious!

I imagine murderers are capable of both killing and comedy, though not necessarily at the same time.
This takeaway: "Don’t finish your tests before you have a statistically significant result" is potentially highly misleading.

See: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
We are working on multiprocess tabs (again). We paused our effort a couple of years ago for Firefox Desktop. Some other things were more important (we fixed most of our memory issues and improved the global responsiveness of Firefox). And some work was needed before getting multiprocess tabs ready in Firefox Desktop:

- we managed to get multiprocess tabs working for Firefox on Android and for Firefox OS. The inner architecture is now here. Basically, it was easier to start with mobile.

- we worked hard on an even-more threaded architecture in Gecko ("Off-Main-Thread everything"). This makes Firefox much more snappier these days, and this will make things easier for a full multiprocess browser.

So now, with all that done, we are restarting our work on multiprocess tabs on Firefox Desktop.

A multiprocess architecture will probably improve the responsiveness of Firefox, but keep in mind that this is not a magic bullet. Improvements can be made in other areas. Firefox 24 is much more responsive than before and will get more and more snappier in the months to come.

Also - on a related note: "we need a more parallel browser" http://dbaron.org/log/20120827-specification-style
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The comparison provided in that link doesn't work for me, much for the same reasons someone pointed out in the comments.

The conclusion is that bundling benefits both the consumer and the company. The consumer gets both channels cheaper than separately and the company generates more revenue even with cheaper pricing per channel. This completely ignores the fact that I don't want the sports channel AT ALL. Therefore, instead of paying $11.70 for both channels, I'm paying $9 for the one I truly want.

Now expand that over hundreds of channels, including the dozens of sports channels I don't want, and let's see how it breaks down. From the current lineup of channels that I saw the last time I looked I would expect I would only want at most a dozen channels. Compare that to the amount I currently pay would be of huge benefit to the cable company because currently I pay nothing for cable TV as I'm a cord cutter. I haven't paid for cable TV in three years because of their stupid bundling pricing, how did that benefit the company?
If CL is a union of something at a time where Scheme existed, then it can't have been the "union of all Lisps".

I really, truly, wish the CL people would stop claiming that Lisp is restricted to a set that doesn't include LISP 1.5.
The nice thing about VirtualBox and VMWare is they're both cross-platform, meaning images for them will boot on different types of systems. That's what makes Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/) so flexible and useful on teams with mixed environments.
In reverse order.

#3. For real companies with completely unmotivated visitors, 60% conversion rates from visitor to paying customer is untenable. 5% is probably too much to hope for.

#2. Absolutely. A/B tests should be focused on actual balanced decision points. "Should I sign up?" "Should I open this email?" "Should I go back to this site?" But not on people who are already committed to doing what they were going to do anyways.

#3. On sample sizes, it is important to think carefully about the maximum effort you're willing to put into a test. Be very, very cautious about accepting test results that arrive early. No, 99% confidence is not enough to stop with 200 conversions, and 99.9% probably isn't either. Don't worry about statistical significance when you kill tests that have run too long to be worth continuing. This is a line of reasoning that is sadly rare in our industry. (I keep meaning to write my next article on that topic. But http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part2-limi... explains one way to come up with such a strategy.)
Then you repay the amount of money you took off the Government. I don't understand how that's even a question?
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Ask HN:Do you still feel safe while using Internet?
Nowadays (after revealation of massive NSA surveillance) I don't feel safe while using internet.I feel like I am being watched every second. While using facebook I think many times before writing some words which may make me seem like a bad guy. Similar is the case when I use Email, Google or other services. Do You feel the way I do?
The addition of export = is great. This was a glaringly obvious deficiency that I'm glad they resolved.
I think wording in the subject line is important, because it is the only thing a user sees. There are no other factors that affect whether he will open it or not.
What's preventing the government from coercing DDG to start log collections at their end, and then sealing it with a gag order?
The basic foundation maybe, but I want to make sure the server infrastructure is sound and scalable, and that requires more than a few hours. It's a pity the project hasn't gained the interest I was hoping it would.
Nitpicking, and you didn't read the article, either.
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Web server logs typically don't record POST parameters. It's possible that the web server could record them anyways, though.
I prefer the OSM offline maps for this reason. They don't do routing/navigation per se either, but they do let you search for addresses and POIs, whereas offline Google Maps doesn't. I don't usually need turn-by-turn directions so that's typically good enough for me: at least it means I can type in the name of a museum rather than having to scroll around the map hunting for it.
A lot.

They're undoubtedly in some sort of raid, so they're going to need to un-rack every device, pull every single drive, label its position within the raid set, pack them properly, then store in a temperature controlled environment. Then follow along, slotting new drives they purchased in every single slot, then re-rack the whole device.

All in the hope that one day Kim will 1) Win and 2) decide it's worth it to get the data back for a business model & product he's left behind.
> Copyright is an extension of one's right to be paid for the value provided by their labor.

No - labour is the work, effort, and time - and charging twice is fraud.

> anything less than a linear relation looks dangerously, to me, like communism.

McCarthyism and FUD. Also, when you watch pornography, the terroists win.

>> Copyright is a government-granted monopoly...

> Just like money...

OK, this is part of a larger tangent, but this is worth setting apart and responding to. No, money is not a government-granted monopoly. Money is whatever I accept as payment and that does not need a government (a government of one is hardly a government). (As for more conventional forms of money, we all together gave our respective governments monopolies on that - only in a different sense than you mean - not the other way around.)

> "As much remuneration as possible" would ideally be econ-speak for "what the market will bear", but this does not apply well to copyright because of the severe market distortion that widespread piracy introduces.

That works both ways: charging for ideas has distorted access to knowledge via the Internet. You might claim that without copyright there would be less "stuff" on the Internet, but there is nothing supporting that. Humans are creative by nature whereas humans would not naturally clean toilets - and thus should be paid for it.

> What you have instead is some portion of honest (or technically unsavvy) consumers paying more to compensate for large number of pirates who derive value without paying for it.

Remove the part where you call people who share their access to information freely "dishonest," and you have simply repeated the childhood moral "knowledge is power" (and "sharing is caring").

> 1. Copyright does not stop you from thinking anything. It only stops you from profiting from copies of other people's expression, which is in no way related to restricting what goes on in your head.

Profiting implies selling, which is not the case with simple/private copying - unless you mean profiting abstractly, as in increased capacity for thought, then yes - and in which case you have paraphrased me well.

> 5. The petabytes of torrents exchanged daily (yes, petabytes in the US alone; look up the numbers) is hardly "free expression and thought". Ponder how many movies/songs/games that is, even if you assume a ridiculously generous 50% of the torrent traffic to be legit.

It's almost as though the only reason people pay their ISP is for the ability to make copies.
The point about head coaches is interesting, because while NYU has athletic programs, the funding (if I remember correctly) is hugely less than that than other private schools. NYU students just don't care about athletics.

Two additional points:
1) Conde Nast gives loans to editors and higher ups. [1] [2]
2) Having worked with some of the "all star" professors in varying capacities (and getting a glimpse, however small, of the bargaining process) a lot of other universities are often trying to poach research professors from NYU. Housing, which is a hugely hard "thing" to solve in NYC, is a large bargaining chip.
Inside China's Shadow Banking: the Next Sub-Prime Crisis.
Happened to me as well. It's a fine policy, except when there's a major news story that has multiple facets. When the news starts coming in fast and thick, we community members who use the flag feature for reporting duplicate posts get punished. Hopefully pg will review this at a future date. But, like jacquesm said, it does save me time haha.
Another thing you could try is building dashboards for firms/companies that are plug-able into major databases (Excel also as a "bonus", there are many using Excel as database...).

Most will require your board to hook into their ERP system, which is run by a database. The idea it's not new but existing solutions are over-complicated or expensive.

Build a few templates and run them in browser (HTML 5, Java Scrip, CSS, database connector, and a scripting language), get them to look good/attractive (I know it's not easy, but hey... it's not that difficult either).

I believe most companies will be happy to just invest in a LCD screen, an Android device and your labor - to have the boards displayed on the factory floor or at reception (they can also run presentation slides).

As a bonus you can manage the systems remotely - for servicing after installation or changes, if required (another source of income).

I know that this is not a really "passive" income idea, but if you get passionate about it, I think that it has the potential of turning out nice. I have build one of this boards for my work place, and I am thinking of putting this into action.
Well, one things for sure, funny it aint!
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Doesn't this imply "you don't have a right to remain silent until you're told that you do"? In other words, the Miranda reading GRANTS you that right rather than INFORMING you of it?
That's like saying commenting on YCombinator is not free because the hosting is paid for by someone.
...which leads us right back to Hanlon's razor (it's probably not malice, just stupidity).
I'm not even sure parental credit would slow things down. That might send more of the less-privileged students to smaller universities and community colleges, but I'm not sure they constitute a large fraction of major university students in the first place.

And for those students whose parents credit would justify a 60k loan, how many of those couldn't also get an 80k loan, on student loan terms (rates and repayment schedules)? I think all you'd do there is make it increasingly harder for parents of college-age children to get any further credit and draw down their consumption as college prices continued to grow. (Surely they'll rank co-signing Junior's college loans as more important than a cottage or condo in the sunshine belt.)

I think the bigger problem is that the degree and institution aren't considered in the loan process. I don't know how you'd even begin to structure an objective analysis, but it seems fundamentally wrong that the government will guarantee an 80k loan today for a degree that cost 60k yesterday, even though the market for that degree hasn't moved and the program itself is largely undifferentiated from what it was yesterday, let alone from competing universities charging 40k or less for substantially the same program.
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Safe? I haven't felt safe since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY ...
Not really. I don't do any customer-oriented things on EC2 so my experience may differ, but to manage my VM's I just setup a bunch of cronjobs to update everything, reboot every so often and start my programs and services after each reboot.
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The article clearly used the term "free" to mean "zero fare." This is a strawman criticism.
While the term "free" can be ambiguous, I've found that the specific phrase "non-free" (as opposed to "paid" or "commercial" or similar) almost always tends to mean "proprietary", as an antonym of "Free Software" or "Open Source".

So, I'd read the comment you replied to as "not Open Source", which I likewise consider a fatal flaw in tools I depend on for software development and build systems. No community around it, no recourse if the original author loses interest (which looks like the case here), and no ability to work on it myself.
Tree Style Tab - tabs should be a tree, not a list.

The last I heard, Chrome had a vertical tabs feature for a while, but that didn't allow nested tabs.
Doesn't even have to be that remote: Google Maps coverage of Crete is surprisingly bad. Not only is it incomplete, but it's also wrong in a number of places, e.g. mislabeling footpaths as roads (and gated private driveways as roads, and miscellaneous other things you can't drive on).
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Agreed about the small things. I'll never understand why they decided to put the ctrl+F find dialog at the very bottom of the window. It trips me up almost every time I use Firefox, which isn't often. The vast majority of computer users are not conditioned to look down immediately after invoking find.
Which of course they do not. Google uses ECDHE_RSA. DDG uses RSA. ixquick, "the world's most private search engine", uses RSA. Bing does not even offer https.
Build a platform, not a website nor an app - seevl.net
> we're back to Cable Television

This will never happen, for the simple reason that you have choice and as a result, competition. You can choose Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or any of the smaller ones.

Netflix gets commercials? It will literally take a few clicks to switch to Amazon. All 3 get commercials? Watch competition sprout.

That's the beauty of the Internet. Barriers to entry are significantly less than in the real world, which allows for competition to flourish. There is literally nothing stopping you from starting your own streaming service. Most of the technology is proven and widely available. And, of course, anybody can license content. This is universal and required by law.
Leaseweb isn't closed. They just had to store some servers. They could just turn them off, put them in storage, then sue law enforcement or the DOJ equivalent for the opportunity cost and storage costs. That's not an accurate analogy at all.
You are absolutely right. I've made some small update.
For all the hand-wringing, the current federal student loan system (under Obama's PAY-E program) has pretty sensible repayment terms. You pay a maximum of 10% of your earnings above 150% of the household poverty level (but no more than you would under an ordinary 10 year repayment plan), capitalized interest capped (over the lifetime of the loan) at 10% of the original principal, balance forgiven after 20 years.

It's progressive, there's a safety net, and it is, for the time being, solvent (government makes 30-50% profit on each dollar lent). Yes, people with great credit who would end up paying less under a standard 10 year repayment at say 5% end up subsidizing those who graduate without getting a decent job, but I think that's uniquely justifiable in this context, because everyone involved is turning to the student loans as a way to better their economic situation (after all, nothing stops you from paying in cash or getting a private loan at 5% if you can qualify for one).

I think if you added a cap in there instead of going up to full cost of attendance, to force schools to moderate their tuitions, it would be nearly perfect.
What's the largest city in the world that does this?
Any downsides you've noticed to those programs/settings?

Also not sure what is meant by "for trainers and the like" ?
Even simpler: Don't have the government involved in student loans at all, and let the market price loans for different degrees for different students freely. Those institutions that can convince lenders that graduates will be in a position to pay back the loans quickly will be able to offer lower rates to students, and thus attract more and better students.

Those out to study degrees that don't offer great employment opportunities will be offered more expensive loans which will curb demand for such degrees which will depress the cost of the degrees. It will also make sure that fewer people will go to a party college and study an easy degree (or, at least, that those that do aren't subsidised by tax-payer underwritten credit).

Extra bonus: All those companies that clamour for STEM grads have a very simple avenue for putting their money where their mouths are: Simply go out and underwrite some cheap loans. (And no, indentured servitude is still illegal - companies underwriting student debt shouldn't be allowed to change the terms of the loan if the student comes to work for them).
That's the thing I've never understood about the complaint of commercials on Hulu. Hulu is not the exact same service as Netflix and never has been. Hulu provides TV shows almost immediately after airtime and I can understand that something may have to be done to offset the increased costs of doing that.

Amazon offers a similar service where you can purchase an episode for many shows the day after airtime. Even though I have an Amazon Prime account I still have to pay extra to see the show immediately even though that very same episode will likely be free in the future because of the Prime account.

Hulu is doing the same thing, instead of you paying extra you watch commercials. And yet, no one seems to complain over Amazon's model even though it is essentially the same thing.
mtgox was talking about scalability, not stability.
According to Wikipedia [1], it's Tallinn.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport
Charity is very profitable for many elites especially in places like NYC and DC. Just because they don't distribute dividends doesn't mean they don't distribute salaries. Most "connected" people here come out of school and get hired by their friends at non-profits. They sit around, raise money, and don't do much with it other than pay themselves.
Careful down this path. What you're saying is that law enforcement re: terrorism should not have to respect the same principles and standards we place on other law enforcement action.

Which is the precise argument that the other side is making. When we special-case terrorism we're no longer on solid ground - whether it's in favor of looser or stricter treatment.

So, here's the thing: the level of false positives, when calculated in aggregate can suggest unreasonable enforcement. If 95% of all searches yield nothing, there is a legitimate question of whether or not your targeting is reasonable. This is the primary legal argument being used, for example, in the ACLU's case against NYC's stop and frisk policy.

But a single case of a false positive, with no further information, cannot be taken as evidence either way. The fact that the Wall Street plot may have been a false positive sheds no light on whether or not the suspicion was reasonable in the first place.
Sorry about that, I just wonder how this comment made it to the top given that it has nothing to say about the article.
Vertical space on linux? That's simply not true. Exhibit 1: The default firefox and chromium running on my linux (ubuntu, i3wm). http://i.imgur.com/paE173H.png . 6 pixels by default in favour of firefox.

The real problem though is chrome's interface really is completely inflexible. I like a thinner browser than either of those. Hence, my firefox setup: http://i.imgur.com/XAyc8Tu.png .. 17 pixels more space than chrome can be gained easily (firefox with only the extension 'pentadactyl'). And further more, since firefox's appearence is all just XUL it can be styled to be as thin or thick as I like.

So yeah, firefox you can change the ui to be vertically thin. It's simply impossible to do that with chrome.
>At least the browser is one app that can fully take advantage of multiple cores, unlike most apps out there.

Nope. The vast majority of web pages and web apps do work either on page load, or in direct response to user input. While in the background, they almost universally sit idle. Multicore has no benefit in this scenario.

The exceptions are games and media, but music is the only case there where you are likely to have something actively running in the background. Unfortunately, audio decoding is so incredibly cheap now that the gains from using a separate core are negligible.