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In my case, I don't care about encryption. On my website, I only offer software for download. No private data. Payment is handled by a third party.

The only reason why I want to support https is so that customers can confirm who they are downloading from. Ideally, I'd like an EV certificate, but I can't afford that. So I chose a business validation cert. A domain only certificate wouldn't really confirm anything.

(Also, some of my troubles would have been the same with a domain-only cert. The emails with missing links were those for domain validation, and I had to paste the CSR in the management area that was offline...)
Oh, the sweet irony -

> SSL’s not perfect, but we need to make surveillance as expensive as possible

immediately followed by -

> And hey, bonus: more complete referrer information in Google Analytics

Make up your mind already. Are you against the surveillance or for it? You can't really sit with one ass on two chairs.

--

(edit) Point being is that if you are pulling the anti-surveillance card, then you shouldn't really be siphoning off your visitors data to Google.
Methane hydrate. Basically an ice-like substance of methane trapped in water crystals. It can stay in that form when trapped under ocean sediments (there are vast amounts in the ocean), but when pressure is released and it's exposed to warmth, the methane can escape the water structure.
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Given their investment in Xbox, they complain about it yesterday
This is basically pub/sub messaging, but over the internet?
Sad to say, the same thing happened to me and the support messages were unhelpful to say the least. They have several copy-and-paste answers they use far too eagerly.

And it's asinine to ask someone to update billing information when they've locked your account from accessing the billing info page. Two of us have seen that with DO. Makes them look quite sloppy.
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This concern does not seem to have deterred air forces from putting head-up-displays in front of pilots. The primary goal of a HUD in a cockpit is to keep you from needing to go head-down and lose any chance of seeing something important happening outside the cockpit. Better to have something small momentarily obscured than have you looking away completely. That said, I'm not sure motorcyclists have a constant need to perform instrument scans that take them head-down in the first place. I'd be wary of the urge to put too much information up on the display just because it looks cool, or because you can...
I left them long ago after super crap support.

No thanks and good luck.
I've loved GNOME 3 for as long as I've used it, but I've had (apparently) non-typical usage habits since before GNOME 1.x came out. For example, I know a lot of people hated the fact that GNOME 3 did away with the Win95-style taskbar at the bottom of the screen, but even under GNOME 2 I used to ditch it as quickly as possible.

For my purposes, GNOME 3 lets me easily dedicate workspaces to different tasks, it lets me easily open as many terminals and Vim windows as I like, and it lets me easily open two windows side-by-side (an editor with code and a terminal for running tests, or an editor with HTML and a browser for previewing, etc.) so I'm pretty pleased with it.

I'm a little worried about some of the changes GNOME 3 has gone through; as it migrates from traditional in-window menu-bars to a single button in the global bar at the top of the screen, that's probably going to put a crimp in my sloppy-mouse-focus habits. This new "header bars" concept probably isn't going to play very nicely with my custom title-bar-button-order setup (I prefer the traditional Mac close-at-top-left, zoom-at-top-right configuration). Still, I'll probably get used to it over time.
>Over time he completely re-architected the app to have a UI that is driven entirely from the server and doesn’t need to go through the various app stores to release changes.

So I'm reading this and wondering: this differs from a webapp how exactly?
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So, let me get this straight. People are standing on this land mass that, prior to this earthquake, was underwater.

Wouldn't it be funny if another quake hit and made it go back under water?

I'm a decent swimmer and probably swim somewhere around five to seven miles per week (open water and pool). I would wait a while before getting on that land mass. Maybe I'm too paranoid.
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It's just as likely she meant to slam on the brakes and accidentally slammed the wrong pedal. The fact this was the driver's first time in the vehicle makes this kind of mixup easier.
That's true, the tortoises cost $22 million, a small percent of the overall cost.

But siting, getting approval, finding a place where few folks will fight you, etc etc make it add up in terms of time and uncertainty and then when you do find a place you can move forward on there's a good chance it'll be remote enough to be extra costly to connect.
Thanks for trying it out. Sounds like a bug in the collection editor. I want to improve that process to handle cases like yours -- if you don't find the feed, make it easy to look it up and add it -- but I wasn't sure that was top priority since a lot of people end up using feeds that are already in the system.
I think that if I were to do this, I would use facial landmark recognition (using something like a Haar classifier). Haar-like features have been used to aid in (human) facial recognition since 2001 to great success[0]. And recently, people have been thinking about using similar methods for animal tracking[1].

If one could locate the face in the test set, she could also presumably find some landmarks of interest: eyes, nose, mouth, etc. Considering that dogs typically have longer snouts, cats have pointier ears, etc, this data could be used to differentiate between a dog and a cat. There would be difficulty dealing with awkward angles and bad lighting though.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.6.35...

[1] http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~troppel/internal/sparc/TourBot/To...
From a different article about the island: When a devastating earthquake struck the remote Awaran district in Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Tuesday, it killed hundreds of people and left thousands homeless, as the government struggles to rescue those who need help.

IIRC, Pakistan is demographically a very young country, with overall low education levels and a lot of challenges. I will voice my hope that this oddity somehow brings them more help with the aftermath of the quake than they might otherwise be likely to get.
"Its author presented anecdotal evidence without any actual numbers and then concluded that doing CrossFit is not worth the risk."

...

"My problem is that such articles needlessly scare off people who can otherwise become stronger, faster and healthier with exercise."

That's why it's called "survival of the fittest".

Someone scared off by anecdotal evidence from reading a single article (or even several) will no doubt not fare as well health or otherwise in life than someone who gives things a bit of thought before agreeing or going along.
Indeed, it's difficult to exactly price externalities. There are published estimates of the carbon externality. You do you best; it's far better than the "estimate" we currently use ($0).

When comparing, you add in the externalities to everything. To be specific:

- you don't count the deaths in PV installation as its not an externality. The installers are an involved party; they can (for example) ask for higher wages due to risk. (Also, if you wanted to compare this to nuclear, you need to include deaths building those nuclear plants as well. And possibly mining the uranium.)

- you do count the environmental damage during PV manufacturing (and turbine manufacturing, and coal mining, and oil drilling, etc.)
Right. Either relativity or our understanding of quantum mechanics had to be "violated" in order to explain their observations. Einstein & Co. chose the latter with their idea of hidden parameters (i.e. information already present in the second particle).

But, later experiments based on Bell's theorem seriously challenged the hidden parameter explanation, preserving quantum mechanics in the process.

So, that takes us back to instantaneous information transfer or a third option: one electron (or any particle for that matter)!
I do not think you can say that the freedoms offered by Free software are entirely inaccessible to even the most technically illiterate users. We usually talk about things like the freedom to copy or study or modify software, but the most basic freedom is the freedom to use software (and by extension, your computer) however you wish. That is not something Apple's snappy interfaces deliver -- you are only free to use iOS for the things Apple approves, and subverting that control (i.e. jailbreaking) is no less intimidating than using a modern GNU/Linux distro.

My experience has been that deliberate restrictions on software use affect non-technical people as much as they affect me:

"What does 'activation failed' mean?"

"Why can't I copy this DVD?"

"I want to record this TV show and then watch it on my tablet, how do I copy it from my DVR?"

"My friend had that app, why can't I find it in the app store? How do I install it?"

Dismissing the freedoms offered by Free software as abstract and inaccessible ignores the reality of how people use their computers. Nobody is claiming that someone who never touched a computer in their life is going to be hacking the kernel, but it is not far-fetched to think that they might want to copy a movie or that they might be angry if their books mysteriously disappear one night. The snappy UI is little more than bait -- it is attractive to people who are frustrated by more complicated systems, but hidden behind it is a system that denies people the right to use their computers they way they want to use their computers. In other words, what I said in my comment: an attempt to take advantage of technical ignorance.
Systemd is a critical part of the Linux userland, and is now the standard Linux init system.

If you opt to run Linux without systemd, expect various userland things to break.
The cheating was last year, during an exhibition, on a different class of sail boat. The Oracle team added a few 5 pound weights to the front of a 1.5 ton boat to shift the weight slightly. Not exactly the most important thing to note.

As an aside, this is how high performance events operate. Look at NASCAR, F1, Indy, etc., you push edge of design to just beyond the legal limits and hope you don't get caught. The rest of the world doesn't need any introduction to these methods. Ask any of the Brazilian, Finnish, or German drivers racing for any of the Italian, Japanese, or British F1 teams.
Pretty neat.

Is there support for remote data/search?

I understand the need for responsiveness in this sort of UI, but in some cases you may want more information to be available. For instance, in your booking example, once you reach the step of picking a city it would be a good place to have normal autocomplete kick in that hits the server-side search engine.
I guess that answers the age old question, "who will watch the watchers watching the watchers?".
The FBI.
My first thought was to go with the length of the state's boundary that is on the convex hull divided by the length of the whole boundary.

So...we've got at least 3 ways so far to assign a measure of convexity/concavity to a state, and they give quite different results.

For instance, your method and the method in the comment you responded to both would assign a low concavity to a state that is almost a square, except that the boundary has a high frequency, low amplitude sawtooth pattern imposed on it. Mine would score that has a very high concavity.
Sawfish?
Safari on Windows isn't even supported anymore. Who uses it?
I've also had a bad experience with DO in production. Moved to Webfaction and have never looked back. They are just excellent in every which way.
Alternatively, improve the process of fulfilling FOIA requests so that it cannot be "bogged down" by someone making requests (which is a manual process).

One such improvement would be to publish all this information publicly in the first place.

The whole idea of FOIA requests is broken - it only exists to compel the government to disclose the information that they are legally required to disclose but don't feel like it unless someone takes the time to specifically request it.
Prior discussion here (for the BBC article that ComputerGuru mentioned):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447007
I wouldn't exactly categorize "everyone can see your data" and "we can now track your movement on our own site" together.

The idea of surveillance, in this case, is that no 3rd parties can snoop on your data. If you are actively using a site, it should be under the assumption that they can and will track anything you do on their site.
The difference is: you are the product for google and not the customer. Trust me, google doesn't treat advertisers the same way it treats free gmail users.
Funny that DO's public response was to demand permission to discuss the case publicly, when apparently they had not discussed it with the customer concerned!
OP, can you please confirm whether or not you made this post quoting a reply from Digital Ocean in the previous thread, as [1] claims you did?

Now i've received an answer from DO. I seriously dont know how i did a DDos.

Here it's.

Greetings,

Based upon the tcpdump results, I have again confirmed that your droplet was indeed performing a Denial of Service attack.

With this information, we are unable to restore services to your account.

If this is true, it is disingenuous not to mention this reply in your post.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6439501
Air force pilots are trained to use a HUD. Motorcycle pilots aren't. A HUD is probably ideal if you are used to it, but I fear the first hours.

Ideally, this should be tested.
I am pretty sure that you can't use them for commercial projects
If FIFA had any moral fortitude then they would cancel the event - if independent parties can verify the allegations and there is any evidence that the government have not been acting to the best of it's abilities to prevent such actions.

It seems FIFA care nothing about football except that it's an opportunity for the rich to line their pockets.

If FIFA don't act then governments in countries where FIFA operate should be shutting them down and disbarring all directors for supporting wide-scale illegal and immoral activity against human beings.

Even one confirmed case of a worker being unfairly denied their entire wage (without the government moving to correct the injustice), never mind being denied water or freedom from physical abuse or having their passport unjustly confiscated and they should just revert to the runner up country.

That would be fair play.¹

1 - http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/socialresponsibility/fairplay/...
In neal stephenson's 'the diamond age', much of the acting was done by software, leaving the human actors to 'fill in the blanks' and add a human touch. You could avoid the uncanny valley caused by lag by instantaneously starting the response from software and interpolating into what is being acted.
Ah, I want to live in this magical fictional world too. (:
might be interesting to check this out as well - not just confined to dentists http://pagepenguin.com/
> DigitalOcean requested me to send a paper which authorizes them to disclose the information in public. It was midnight here in Turkey and i was asleep.

> And now after nearly 10 hours or so i still haven’t heart from DO

What about timezone differences? You were asleep, they could be, too.
I wish this perspective were more widespread.

Systemd takes the cool stuff that's been getting into Linux under the hood and makes actually usable to everyday users and administrators.

And it's far easier to write a systemd unit than a startup script for any other init system (except DJB's daemontools, perhaps).
The problem with the abstractions of Facebook is that you then need to always remember the "rules" of the website you're working on. If you're a Facebook software engineer adding a section to some docs somewhere, you have to thing "do we use .mbm or .mbl for our page headers? Damn, I'll check some other source".

The ideal CSS, in my opinion, is just the opposite. The developer writes Plain Old HTML and includes a stylesheet, and the new page looks instantly consistent with the rest of the website. That's how you enable anyone to work on the project. If a new UI is needed, the designers will change the css and instantly all pages will look good.
Canaries should know this very well ;)

As for what they smelled, maybe they are other gasses as well considering what those rocks and earth went through (sulfur?)
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Just hop on here [1] and jump to the end of the thread. View profile of 10 people & add them. Should take only a minute.

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/0...
You could have just bought the $7 cert from getssl.me and it would take 2 minutes at most.
You could have just bought the $7 cert from getssl.me and it would take just 2 minutes at most.
> no 3rd parties can snoop on your data

And Google is what... ?
Glass isn't a HUD.
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The thing is that they wanted to stay private when i posted this so i immediately removed and now waiting for them. By the way i received that response after 2 hours of the topic opening. They weren't answering me at all before HN post
What makes those other people's requests more deserving to be answered?
True, but I responded to a different comment. In essence the person I replied too was tired of people wondering if Google will stick this long term, considering their gazillion projects.
good question.
There is no support for remote data/search.
That's deliberate.
The API gives you the ability to wire up your callback functions and means to change the array of items (the content of which could come from AJAX calls)

In future, I might provide an example.

Thanks
By the way, someone should watch this thread and start saving all posts by the OP. Last thread he deleted a lot of them.
Wait... did I miss something or did you send snailmail and expect a response within 10 hours?

Also I am nowhere close to being a lawyer but I'm pretty sure if they disclosed your private information on here without your written permission you could sue them probably for more than either of these 2 posts are worth against them.
(American) Usually when I see it intended as a quote in the headline, the "says X named official" is either in the headline or in the lede, which will basically just be an expansion of the headline anyway. Often though, that's not the case, and there's palpable sarcasm associated with the quote. (I've come to dislike that style of writing stories.)
That's a possibility. But at this time yesterday they were really really active.
It's not SNELL certified, most serious riders won't consider it.
Yuck. Who wants to deal with that? b^)
If you're willing to write off users of Internet Explorer on Windows XP, you don't need a dedicated IP for SSL; you can simply use Server Name Indication (SNI).
Some months ago a tried to open an account with DO, but my account was blocked by DO before creating a droplet because my dad, who has the same name as I do, had already used the service. DO wanted me to verify my identity, address, etc.

I can't stand such friction, so I stayed with AWS, who have never had an issue with having a customer with very similar or equal name to another. Clearly, there is something wrong in DO's identity/fraud detection process, and even more wrong is the fact that they are locking user's production accounts without any warning at all.
It could lead to discriminisation of people (or topics). They should not keep the information about who requested what any longer than needed to fulfill the request.
You have to pay for the one electron. Since it's the only electron, the cost is infinite. This results in a buffer overflow. Your utility bill is an overflowed unsigned short, divided by 100. This is why the maximum utility bill you will ever see is $655.35.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I wonder how many expats would be in Qatar or Dubai in the first place if it weren't for the 0% income tax.

Speaking of Dubai...

"Norwegian woman sentenced to prison in Dubai for the crime of unlawful sex with her alleged rapist"

"Australian Alicia Gali reported being brutally raped while working at a hotel in the Unite Arab Emirates 2008, spent eight months in a fetid and overcrowded jail cell after (she says) being tricked into signing a confession."

http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2013/07/shocking-cas...
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My experience has been that ereleases.com is a cost effective vehicle for getting the word out (I have no relationship to them other than as a customer). Part of the variance our different outcomes may be due to market focus and differences in content of the release.

Mass e-mailing reporters you have no relationship with strikes me as a poor way to make a first impression: I would spend the same time cultivating relationships with a key set of reporters who write for an audience likely to be interested in your company or product.

The risk to me in the blog post is that you are suggesting to technical startup entrepreneurs that they can code their way out of developing some necessary relationships with bloggers and reporters.
Actually if you read the BBC article it is the mud shell of a giant bubble of flammable gas. So what would be "funny" would be to have the think pop under them and engulf them in a huge fireball explosion. Ok, so not funny, but they mention also in the BBC article to 'igniting' one of the gas leaks and then having a heck of a time putting it out again.

If it is methane, they would be better off leaving it lit and burning as the CO2 would be less of a greenhouse gas than the methane, and it would prevent buildup of unburnt gas which increases the fire hazard.

Of course they could build a magical city on it with its own source of power that could develop advanced technologies and then sink into the ocean never to be heard from again :-)
Ask HN: How do you keep projects on schedule?
For those of you here that work as a freelance developer, designer or something else, what do you do to keep projects on schedule?

We've all had the projects where the client takes a week to give feedback or get a important document to you, which slows down your process and business.

Interested to hear what others do to keep the project on time and keep things moving. I've heard a lot of people putting in "penalty" clauses in their agreements where the client is charged for not reaching certain deadlines etc.
I don't think its scare tactics at all. All of middle east is like this. Saudi Arabia, Dubai everywhere they need workers for construction or such. They "import" workers from Bangaldesh, India, Pakistan etc, take their passport away and make them live and work in horrible conditions. Many people die or commit suicide too.