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@justinschuh: what's the best way to provide feedback?

In particular, I generally like the change, but it bothers me that I need to hit the new button in order to see the URL, instead of clicking anywhere in the omnibox. I'd rather see a better-phrased version of "Search Google or interact with URL" in the omnibox, and get the whole URL on click anywhere in there. I could imagine then making a click on the button pull up the security details, just like what happens when you click the lock currently.

Also, it'd be nice if you showed the whole URL when hovering over the button.
X gon' Give it to ya? Nope.
Wow, blast from the past. I worked on frustration-free packaging at Amazon back then (the article is from 2010). 'Twas an interesting gig.
Gibes regarding racism aside, some people seem more articulate due to the fact that they carry themselves differently during interviews.

Of course, many musicians will keep a persona going during interviews as well, so it's still not a very reliable metric.

The most extreme example I've seen was Marilyn Manson, but there are plenty of musicians who rap / sing about really inane stuff and then show that they're way smarter than the way they present themselves with their music.
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Why doesn't this do used books? Why no alibris? Most books I do end up purchasing are not new. This site wouldn't be of immediate use to me.
White House seeks legal immunity for firms that hand over customer data
Gluster is one of those projects that seem under exposed. In the early days (when I was following the project more closely) I got to know some of the core developers quite well and I've always been impressed with the overall architecture and the goalset.

If you feel like you're a good C programmer have a look at the codebase and prepare to have your mind expanded.

It's a very nice piece of software and a very strong proof that not all successful development is done in SV (Almost all of GlusterFS before the buy-out was written in India, not sure what the current situation is).
I don't know much about the details, but the tor faq says you can host a hidden service even behind a nat. Wouldn't that protect against being exposed on a public ip?
This is not a fair comparison. Is Dickens didn't write a best selling book because the total number of all the Harry Potter books sold exceeds A Tale of Two Cities in number? Or worse, that the total volume of sales of trashy formula-written romance novels exceeds it?

Moreover, sales of a notebook with a preloaded operating system doesn't measure operating system use. I have immediately reformatted every "Windows" machine I've ever bought. Just because they're sold with Windows (or Chromebook, or OS X) doesn't mean they stay that way.
Try https://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect)
The fact that a sitting rock does nothing but sit is a perfectly fine, albeit severely limited, computational system (it even satisfies their definition of a computing physical system!).

It does not fit their definition because the whole point of the paper is that a physical system is not computing anything unless an entity is using the system to compute something by encoding the problem into the state of the system and later decoding the answer from the state of the system.
I'm not familiar with libcUrl, so I can't say what you missed, but I am suspicious. Do however look at my complaints about your code. I understand that writing good safe C code is hard (I've written plenty of bad C code myself), but that's one reason why you should use cUrl. Any code you write yourself is another liability.
Here's Mozilla's version: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Recommende...
Mandarin speakers in some parts of China speak their Mandarin differently, so can't remember the exact pinyin. E.g. around Wuhan people can't remember whether a word ends with -ang or -an, similarly with -eng and -en. As a foreigner, I can't remember nu and nv, similarly lu and lv. Beijingers have trouble with -r endings.
Scott Aaronson's review of the Tegmark's book is pretty great: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1753
The raw representation is a somewhat cluttered (to the untrained eye, anyway) json file - especially if you have checkpointed images which are bascially base64 encoded blobs! So as far as I know it's pretty much the web-editor or nothing at the moment. Obviously a JSON-aware plug-in for something like PyDev or Pycharm would be pretty neat, but I think we're a ways off that. See also http://nbdiff.org/ which solves the issue of comparing version-tracked notebooks.
I had never heard this particular Kool Keith rap before but as soon as I read the lyrics I could hear his very distinctive delivery pattern. I listened to the track on YouTube and was not surprised it was just as I have imagined. How distinctive.
Brene Brown talks about vulnerability and leadership in her TED talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

Her book describes research on leaders who discuss their vulnerabilities with their teams. The outcomes included more motivated staff, more self-directed managemement, and better normalization of risk-taking, e.g. the famous startup mantra "move fast and break things".

Quick summary here:
https://www.scottsmarketplace.com/blog/business/brene-brown/
scott_s made an insightful comment about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289.

HN isn't against humor per se. Personally, when I read Reddit, I'm in awe of how good the best jokes are. The problem is that you can't have everything; with a culture of humor comes a flood of lame humor. HN's tradeoff is to optimize for signal-noise ratio, so that stuff tends to get hammered.

There are other places to get lots of internet humor. HN is never going to be one of those, not because people don't like to laugh, but because the signal/noise problem is hard.
I enjoyed reading this chart but I hope it doesn't reinforce the bias that some fans have that word complexity is the only way to tell if a rapper is good or not. There are several ways to judge the strength and weaknesses of a rapper. Complexity is one of them, flow is another. Story telling ability is also another very strong in indicator. The best rappers are able to bring a mix while some are just so strong in one area that they explode no matter if they are really weak in other areas.
Have you checked out MC Paul Barman?
Killah Priest should be grouped with Wu-Tang.
Magic mirror: One way mirror with a monitor behind it
Well that's certainly one weird old technique from a malicious advertiser.
I often have exactly the same reaction - the main question being: why? And let me highlight that I am also impressed with the engineering skills required by this (and similar) projects.

The speculative answer that comes to my mind is that engineering is the 'easier' part of coming with a new product. The concept is the 'difficult' part. I put these qualifiers in quotes because there is nothing easy about the engineering, but it comes easier to people that are already working with technology. They know how to make things. Deciding what to make is not an engineering question, but a business (or society) one.

I suspect that this is the reason for quite a few failed startups. They build things that they can, but not necessarily should.

But, again, this is not a criticism of this project, just adjacent discussion.
Profitable company's can just get a loan to buy those shares based on a reasonable valuation of the companies value. IPO's are only nessisarily if you need to rase money or are overvalued. Bonds, private equity, institional investors, and plenty of other options exist when you don't need a greater fool.
Actually he is from UK
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Always loved that song.

My personal favorite Canibus track is Master Thesis, though.
> Japanese is arguably richer than Chinese for this because there are multiple pronunciations for each digit

In Mandarin Chinese, 0= ling or dong, 1= yi or yao, 2= er or liang.
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I think the point is that giving lengthy quotes of the lyrics is a little pointless if the merit in the art isn't the insight of the lyrics.
There are plenty of niches where the total market is smaller than a thousand users. It simply isn't worth a startup or existing businesses time.

For example I know a guy who sells detailed study guides for software engineering subjects tailored to his university. Even if he captured 100% of the market he would have maybe 300 paying customers.

Last time I spoke with him he was earning around 20k from the guides and another 30k from tutoring the students. An extra $50k on the side as an individual is massive but it's not really worth it to a growth focused business.
I used a very early version of GlusterFS on a 5 node cluster and never lost any data (about 32T worth, quite a bit at the time). What I liked most about it was that it produced storage nodes that could be inspected with the regular toolset, even if something would go down (which it never did) it would definitely have been possible to recover by looking at the crashed storage.

Having the 'bricks' use the regular filesystems was a very smart decision, it means you don't end up in binary hell when things go south.

Split brain was one of the weaker points back in the days, I am not current with the software so no idea if and how much this has improved, someone with more recent experience would be a better guide there.
The situation in Japan developed because the real estate got disconnected from its economic potential by a large margin. At the peak of the bubble in the mid-80’s the land value of just the imperial palace in Tokyo was worth more than the entire land value of California. A million times ratio!!. There is no amount of urbanization that could have solved this problem for you because the underlying economics did not make sense. In the end, I’m not sure the Japanese had a choice, maybe they could have let some banks fail earlier but the size of the bubble was so massive that immediate deflation would have triggered a Lehmann like moment for them.

In fact, if Option 2 is correct I’m pretty sure the Chinese leadership has no other option but to deflate the economic gap with a zombie like situation for decades. If you think they will let a Lehmann-like moment to happen and quickly reset prices back to the ‘right’ level you are mistaken. It would put the financial system at risk; the entire legitimacy of the CCP in danger and that would mean blood on the streets. They will keep shutting down the smaller non-state banks and keep rolling the loans of the bigger state banks and gradually write off the debt over several years. There is definitely no shock therapy of short-term pain that makes sense.
Factory refurbs of the (current model) Acer C720 Chromebook, having quite good Amazon reviews, have been available for 150USD for well over a month (variously from Acer as Amazon reseller or on Ebay). I have purchased 2 of these (my first Chromebooks), initially to replace WinXP laptops used by family members mostly for web-related purposes. They are (for us, within their limits) truly utilitarian and appliance-like in ways that a standard laptop has not been.

Anyway, my suspicion is that this (ongoing, very well-received refurb sale) is an echo: that large quantities of these were sold during the previous Xmas holiday period, with a significant percentage of gift-givers/-recipients being unaware of the core nature of the item (instead concluding from appearance that it is "a laptop PC" (with a low price)), and, when confronted with reality, deciding to return it.
Related, I rather miss the trial balloon that was the Amazon Tote service. Items were delivered in large reusable tote bags which they'd take back on the next delivery, akin to the crates used by Amazon Fresh. IIRC, tote delivery was free but incurred a delay to a specific one or two days per week of delivery service for any given location.

I really liked that Tote eliminated so much packaging needed for conventional shippers including shipping boxes, airfills, and so forth.
I love reading Cory Doctorow, he really is a fantastic writer, thanks for sharing this.

> My worst parenting moments (so far!) have been when I’ve paid too much attention to the kid doing something at the limits of her abilities, only to make her so self-conscious about failing while someone else looked on that she moved on to something else.

This is the best analogy I've seen to the idea that in a world where no one could disobey the law, we could never make any progress as a civilization.
There are IPython Notebook implementations for VI and Emacs which mirror much of the rich interface of the notebook. However, they do NOT include the Javascript support needed for these rich interfaces. There's also a QT frontend that can display graphics.

IPython is two separate pieces - a core kernel, and a frontend that communicates with it via a published protocol. Anybody can design any client they want to interact with the kernel. The notebook interface in the browser is definitely the richest, in terms of features.
I thought the point was that it would be tough for an English speaker to find and enter the characters if they were Cyrillic.

The transliteration only has to be done once when registering domains, so it doesn't seem like much of a burden.
There are multiple legal ways for VCs to force the company to liquidate their investment.

The primary one being redemption rights.
> But the frustration persists. Only about 600 of the millions of products Amazon sells come in frustration-free versions.

That's horseshit, I thought, then I saw that the article is from 2010.

Today Amazon has way, way more: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=5521637011

> "16 of 55,642 results for Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging"

I don't use my car often, so I find myself ordering little things from Amazon all the time (1-2 packages a week, lots of books, pens, camera stuff, cables, small electronics, household necessities, vacuum bags, cleaning supplies, etc). In the past two years lots of it has been frustration-free. Kudos to Amazon for what they've done in the meantime.
> All lyrics are provided by Rap Genius, but are only current to 2012. My lack of recent data prevented me from using quite a few current artists.
Thanks jph, I'll definitely be looking into this, I'd never seen these results before. The whole notion of the stoic, untouchable, and unwavering leader is really an antiquated notion it seems
I used GlusterFS a couple of years ago (2011) for a hosting project, we had about 300 or so medium-large PHP sites based on top of a GlusterFS cluster. It ran beautifully but the pain points where it fell down was small file performance and its configuration system (I think this has been made much nicer in more recent versions).
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I'd like to compute the identity function. Let me denote by 1 the presence of a rock, and 0 the absence of a rock. I'll set up the problem (the input) by placing a rock appropriately, and after ten seconds, I'll check to see the if a rock is present. If so, the output is 1, otherwise it is 0.

This is a theory, a valid interpretation, highly reliable, scales well, and it commutes. Why isn't it a computation by their definition?
We run it in some 2-node configurations with 4-6 bricks/node (Gluster is configured as distribute+replicate). Replacing disks isn't a big deal, there's a replace-brick command which migrates the data away from a brick to a new one, or for hard fails you can just drop in a new disk, do replace-brick and force a heal to re-replicate data. A node going down and coming back is straightforward, the self-heal-daemon and disk activity get the "missed" changes re-replicated (or force it via heal) -- everything keeps working in the meantime. Native clients ignore "down" nodes without needing intervention (for NFS clients use a shared IP and fail that over to any "up" gluster node).

Performance gets better with every release, but the speed of `ls` (Gluster uses `stat()` to trigger replication/checking) is still woeful at times. 3.5 will hopefully make that a lot better. In general, Gluster is not the right answer if you have lots of small files.
Came here to say similar. In addition I dont see any problem. The URL bar is a redundant usability smell. Needs to be cleaned up in the fashion they have.

On security, I feel its a problem sure, but teaching users about URLs is a bandaid fix, a hack and completely irrelevant to this change. You can't fix the phishing problem by showing URLs. It needs to be tackled in the proper manner and solved silently from the user.

Google already does the right thing when you use them for DNS (redirects on mispelt). They also implemented blacklists of dodgy content, not ideal and doesn't scale but its a good start. Better than claiming the user is at fault.

Basically if you need to claim the user is at fault your design is wrong whether you like it or not.
Yes. Basically we've shifted from emphasizing high MBTF to low MTTR. Especially with techniques like continuous deployment and gradual rollout, it's relatively painless for all involved.

And I think it's necessary. The explosion in software complexity, platform complexity, and platform variation means that trying for absolute perfection is much more expensive than it was. And that's before we even look at the much higher requirements volatility.
The cynic inside me thinks that this is just a step to remove those pesky open URLs from the user and gradually push something propietary Google to replace it in the future. Google now controls about all search queries done on the web but does not control people going directly to a URL yet. That's what a big firm's marketing department would describe as a place to realize growth.
Ah yes, that's another huge problem! I'm so used to things being async that I didn't even see that.
because most of the artists are gimmick acts.
The first step is to answer a different question. What is consciousness? How do you determine whether or not a system is conscious? If you can answer this question the answer to your question is probably easy.
RedHat seem to be investing a lot of (needed) effort and resources into it and it's certainly being actively improved. The RH "product" version of Gluster is the RedHat Storage Server: http://www.redhat.com/products/storage-server/
I recently tested some software that used libcurl, and it was also horrendously slow. I don't remember libcurl being so slow when I used it for a project a few years ago. It makes me wonder whether some more recent change made things a lot worse, at least for some configurations. Maybe it's DNS-related, as some have suggested. This is probably neither experimenter error nor the last word on the subject. More likely, it's a strong signal that there's something here worth investigating.
Not sure on the relevance on freedoms and election rigging but this statement -

"Third, although primary education in China is quite good in urban areas, good primary education in China is still not as pervasive nationwide as it was in Japan by the 1980s. That's illustrated in part by how few people in China (compared to Japan) are even conversant in the national language. Barely more than half the population is conversant in standard Mandarin Chinese"

To me means they have huge room for easy improvement and as such can continue growth for years.

I think you've successfully argued the opposite.
Not yet, thanks for the hint.
I had a similar experience trying to build a highly-available wordpress infrastructure a few years back. The terrible latency of gluster completely killed any chance of getting decent web performance out of it. Ended up implementing OCFS2 on DRBD, much better.
The fine folks at Facebook are recording all the talks with their fancy AV setup. I expect the talks will be on on http://pyvideo.org within the week.
A few years ago I got an email advising me my account had been compromised, and I needed to follow a link to get the matter resolved.

Mousing over the link, I saw https://www.bankofamerica.com/[lots of gobbledygook followed by an ellipsis]. So, to see it all, I copied it to the pasteboard and pbpasted it into an open Terminal window. The gobbledygook ended with an @-sign and a domain that resolved to a Chinese IP.

About the @-sign syntax: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4981309/315083
Hello. Sorry if this is in appropriate to jump in. I'm the lead programmer and the guy that made the video as well. Unfortunately, you know these videos have to be put out under deadlines, and we will have about 4 more months of time to improve the programming, plus always improvements going forward. The position pad is actually a slider, and as you slide your thumb to the left (in example), it narrows the band of focus for how much you can move the cursor. That's not completely refined yet, and will get better. Feel free to PM me on the kickstarter site if I can give more info.
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>>I for one am very happy that the creators of automobiles have bothered to make the process so simple, even a moron at automobiles like me can drive in car and have it work 99.9% of the time, and the rest of the time - it's clear I need to take it to an expert.

On the other hand, you are required to get a driver's license before you are allowed to drive, because if you don't know the rules, you can harm yourself and other people.

Perhaps that's the direction we need to go: an Internet User's License that teaches people the basics so that they don't harm themselves and other people. They don't need to know how the Internet works to use it, but they should be expected to know how to keep themselves and others safe.
I really enjoyed seeing the various rich Javascript plots that are getting Python wrappers. Another favorite is Python-nvd3 ( http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/jdavidheiser/9552624 )

I may be biased, because I wrote the hacky IPython integration, but I really love the graphs produced by nvd3.
I'd love to see something like this with Sir Trevor JS... I don't see that library mentioned very often.
Thanks, I'll give it a read! I don't have a definite stance on the topic but I am aware that a lot of people are making a lot of points on this - indeed - very philosophical topic. I often lean back and enjoy the discourse, it is very good entertainment :) I am far away from pointing it out as fruitless but I can definitely understand why many cog-sci folk would thinks so (often depending on their background, really). I particularly liked what Tim van Gelder wrote on dynamicism, although I don't agree with it and he appears to have a poor view on the connectionist perspective.
Sadly, split brain is still a bit of a sore spot. It probably will be as long as GlusterFS continues to use the "fan out" replication approach, though past and future enhancements around quorum should help too. On the other hand, it's great to get such positive feedback about the "everything is regular files" doctrine. It has certainly been a bit painful sometimes, especially in terms of performance, but the feeling has always been that the ops advantages are worth it. Nice to see someone else agrees.

(Disclaimer: I'm a GlusterFS developer)
Facebook cloaking is pretty huge right now. Even more so now that they've started cracking down hard on affiliate ads.
Still, everyone knows that when you are cloaking it's just a matter of time before your account gets banned. FB is getting harder to cloak everyday. (Not that I do any advertising on FB, it's too stressful.)
That. I really appreciate being able to read the motivation behind chosen cipher set.

Furthermore, they have great config examples for nginx and others[1] -- it's pretty easy to forget/misconfigure things like Diffie-Hellman parameters, OCSP stapling and session caching.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Nginx
Jus Allah has been in and out of JMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Mind_Tricks
I do occasionally up vote posts that I find funny. I just down vote several times that. The real issue is HN has an older audience which does not find obvious one liners interesting.