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Too bad, I liked expedia. Now I have to use travelocity.
Searched for a number of things unsuccessfully then found that Neil Young is on it. Okay, tried to play "Harvest" and it refused. The previews for the same album work, but only after letting the Flash widget run (I use flashblock). The Prime videos use Silverlight, so that was never an issue. I can't find a widget hiding anywhere for the prime music, so I'm guessing that's a bug on their part. Or maybe I have it all wrong. Not going to waste time debugging their issues.

Has anyone tried the amazon lending library? Absolute rubbish. At least this has Neil Young, but the problem is, you have to have nearly everything for it to work. And also you're competing with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odlwI94uFA
Stuff like this, and asm.js, and WebKit's crazy LLVM-based DFG optimizations, all lead me to think Native Client will end up being looked at as a transitional, niche tech: you keep tuning the JS engine until it's not unacceptably slower than native for asm.js-type code, and you keep hooking webpages up with more and more native capabilities and code (graphics, SIMD, crypto/compression), and eventually very few NaCl use cases are left. I don't see other vendors getting on the NaCl bandwagon because they don't want to depend on Google's code and it's a lot of work to implement--so maybe NaCl ends up remembered as the toolchain some companies used to port some apps to Chrome OS and that's mostly it. Sort of a shame; I _like_ NaCl, just don't see a great path for it compared to iterating on existing technologies.
> I've never seen Amazon weaken its hold on a particular share of any market.

I can see AWS being squeezed by outfits like Digital Ocean and Linode on the low end and Google Compute/App Engine on the high end. Anecdotally, I used to run some servers on AWS but moved them to DO & Linode as they're cheaper, faster & simpler.
Then you're eating at the wrong place. What a ridiculous comment.
> Over a million songs and hundreds of playlists.

This line reads like it's by Rhapsody in 2002.
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I don't see the point - it doesn't have Jason Derulo's latest album, nor does it have Ariana Grande's.
Are you somehow on the hook to return a defective item because of these replacement requests?
It's the same as has happened in other places: processed foods and restaurants have taken over. Brazilians are bigger, fatter, and more sedentary than they used to be (just like Americans, Chinese, etc).
I agree that the subclassing idea is a particularly bad one. For starters, to subclass a class to be able to change it without changing the code is almost certainly going to break liskov's substitution principle because most likely your change is not going to be exactly functionally equivalent to whatever the class really does.

I have worked on a couple of codebases with deep and complicated inheritance trees and it has convinced me that inheritance is a bad idea for code sharing and only really helpful for times when there is a clear case for polymorphism. Mostly in those cases an interface works as well as a base class.

Still I don't think the open close principle is completely worthless. I've also seen pieces of code that tend to change a lot (not might change, but actually have changed) where new behaviour is constantly added in new if statements. Validation logic is generally a good example of this. I think in this case, being able to inject in new behaviour using an interface is much preferable to adding another branch to an if statement.

The strength of Uncle bob's advice tends to be that it's very practical and explicit, which makes it quite accessible to the people who need it most: programmers without much experience. It's kind of a pity that this advice is so wooly and that it's presented as subclassing (which is super bad advice), missing the actual good advice that code is easier to write rather than to change, which I think is true even in a system with unit tests.
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The second link looks particularly scary. Does anyone have a rebuttal to this?
Prime subscriber here. Cool beans. I found some of my favorites.

But I also found a lot of spammy crap. I searched for Smashing Pumpkins, and it's pages of "1979 [A Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins]" or "Disarm [In The Style Of The Smashing Pumpkins]". It takes some work to figure out, no, they don't actually have them.

I'm reminded of Steve Jobs's line with the introduction of the iTMS:

"This number [of songs] could have easily been much higher, if we wanted to let in every song. But we realize record companies do a great service. They edit!"

Here's hoping they can grow their library, but in the meantime, please don't give me piss when I search for rain.
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LISP, not so much.

Perl...
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If I recall, to deliver to a new address, Amazon requires you to verify by entering the card details you are using for the purchase, to prevent fraud. They should be doing the same here.
There was a playlist I actually wanted to listen to. I added it, and I was okay with the awkward checkout flow until it prompted me to enter credit card information, despite being logged into my regular Amazon account.

At this point, I gave up and closed the window. I couldn't be bothered to enter this information when I already have various other streaming services. I wonder what their stats are like for the sign on funnel...
Man, I really gotta learn to proofread for typos. Sorry everyone. (seems too late to edit now)
I have for example this NXP1000, with twice the RAM:

ftp://ftp.ai.sri.com/pub/mailing-lists/slug/930331/msg00117.html

$18,700 in 1992. The last hardware Lisp Machine type.

Many years later I got mine for free from a telco equipment manufacturer.
College tuition has been rising much faster than inflation for probably 20 years now. That together with your example of Canada shows that it's still quite possible to offer a good education at a lower price.

If you want to help the poorer schools out, it's probably better to just give them money. It seems probable to me that the political desire to give every student a full loan to any college (for equality!) is one of two or three primary causes of tuition (and university spending and such) going crazy.
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The Windows share button and the Ubuntu logo aren't abstract as the article claims. It's a top view of three people standing in a circle and holding hands.
I had the same result looking for my recent most-played bands. From what I've found so far, the only artists I like for whom they have good coverage are Dave Matthews Band and Pearl Jam. So I guess you're in luck if you love the '90s.

Even the "popular artists" list that they're pimping on the front page is more striking for what's missing than what's there. They don't have the vast, vast majority of REM's discography (including "Automatic for the People"!), most of Pink's albums, anything by Cher besides "Believe", literally any of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' albums that you would have heard of (seriously, why are they even listed?), Shakira's "Laundry Service", "Oops!…I Did It Again" by Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake's second album — and that was just glancing around as I wrote this paragraph. The most confounding part is that there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to what they have or don't have.
This is probably easier to do when the scammer isn't using a re-mailing service as this scammer is doing, though I imagine the authorities would have more luck compelling them to release the actual destination.
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2. Calories from mono-unsat. fat are better than:

3. Calories from sat. fat are better than:

4. Calories from poly-unsat. fat are better than:

I'm wondering about the reasoning for this particular order. There are different arguments, including the one that sat. fat is the best, as it is the least reactive: it is already fully saturated, while mono and poly have still potential to acquire more hydrogens. This is why some people prefer cooking with animal fat: they assume it is more "inert" under heating.

Anyway, wouldn't it make sense to order them in order of saturation, either sat > mono > poly, or in reverse, poly > mono > sat?
1 million songs don't sound like a lot; the total number of original songs is something around 20 millions, so 1M <= 5%

Besides, how do they decide what's free as prime and what isn't? My songs aren't free to stream for example

http://www.amazon.com/Bambax/dp/B00KB5NT6G/

but I wouldn't mind if they were; how do I opt in?

Edit: not 0.5 but 5%!
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Which misses the point of NSA surveillance. Ars knew who they were looking at, and could have multiple people look at that one person's history for whatever they wanted.

The broad surveillance of any practical intelligence apparatus only bothers to do that to target actual subjects of interest, and don't have infinite leeway to not produce results while doing it - i.e. if the NSA produces no useful intelligence on Al Qaeda for a few months, they're looking at budget cuts.

Or to put it another way: how many man hours did they expend on this effort, and how many people do they actually think work for the NSA? It's certainly not "millions".
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err 5%
This is some trader setup (which layman needs Stoch RSI?).

Google matches news with the timeline, which might be much more convenient for some people.
Yeah. I don't see why city officials don't just do a dig and follow Bob Diamond's research to settle the issue once-and-for-all. All they would have to do is drill through the wall in the tunnel. It wouldn't be a significant expenditure by any means. Surely political allegiance to the Confederacy could not be a motivation for being obtuse in this regard.
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Free.

Black text on a dark background is not terribly legible.

Registration is a chore. Demanding a username and my e-mail address and a new password twice is perhaps too much friction. Demanding I click a link in an e-mail that still hasn't arrived yet before I can do anything interesting on the site is a bit of a stumbling block.
Yeah, DigitalOcean and Linode are great if you just wanna run some servers. But AWS is much, much more than that.
Bret is your typical genius visionary. He's bored by the thing that excited him last year.
"If there was a news website that didn't install any tracking software, but instead just offered pages with cryptocurrency addresses, I would switch to that as my default news source in a second."

No you wouldn't. You might be hard-minded enough to try and commit to it, but instead you'd almost certainly just stop reading any news...then go back to aggregators/blogs whatever.

It's a well studied problem that as soon as something becomes not free, people change their behaviour dramatically.

Of course, if you really don't care about the news (and broadly normals news websites are pretty useless to me), then you can cheaply skip a step...
How is 1M a 0.5% of 20M?
Well the whole point of scripting is to get the job done.
Yeah, and what is with these PANYC people? Has anyone tried to contact them for comment? Track down any information about the people involved?

There is something more here. The DOT would more likely forget about Bob if nothing had changed about the situation than just suddenly decide, "nope, deal's off". The Verge article you linked seemed to indicate an uptick in interest and traffic for the tours, but seeing they allowed them for so long, what changed about the relationship that they didn't even want to work with him to decrease any burden on road traffic? It seems like just an excuse to cite safety concerns.

EDIT: is this the same thing? It's late for me, I'm kind of running on fumes http://www.panycarchaeology.org/history_of_panyc.html#Atlant...
No, the scammers claim it never arrived, so Amazon merely sends it again.
I didn't notice this because nothing I was looking for ever actually showed up there (even though it is available through Prime Music).
I think this is how the NSA became the NSA as we know it today. When your task is to prevent terrorism you need to see. You need to see in time and detect patterns. So you need to store as much data as possible because.

So it's good to stick to some boundaries. In the example of the robot: you could measure room temperature, because maybe the sensors are acting to it. Or you could measure the amount of people in the room because sensors could act to it. Heck, maybe the sensors are acting different to different people, so track there faces and store it. Well maybe sensors are sensitive to somebodies smell so track that too.

There are limits to what is useful to track.
Not just returned to sender. I've had people tell me they were able to have Amazon reroute the package to them, and then be told to keep it. It's like a free Xbox (or camera or whatever) without having to do the dirty work of perpetrating the scam yourself!
Whatever your experience, there always is something that is so rare that you won't have seen it. Bob's will have that with an event of which the test pilot thinks "I have seen that countless times", that test pilot will have it with an event that is way rarer, but that still may have some quite ordinary explanation. Program is, we don't have an super test pilot who can say "I have seen that countless times".

And yes that will be something out of the ordinary. But the test pilot claims as to what it is, I wouldn't trust more than Bob's claims as to the nature of the things he finds extraordinary.
I could dramatically reduce any number of things if I really wanted to. That doesn't make it practical though, since I don't want to, or I want to still partake in a modern civilization.

The better question to ask is "will being off the grid actually solve the problem?"

Because plenty of people aren't on the net in Syria, Iraq, Afgahnistan...still doesn't really work out.
It warms my heart to see such a brilliant hack. It's especially impressive that this doesn't use any external tools like sed.

If you scroll to the bottom, you can see how it works. Each x86 instruction is actually a shell function, and the input to the the assembler is itself a shell script. Each line of the input script basically tells the assembler which bytes to output. There is some fun stuff for dealing with variable-length x86 jump instructions, but otherwise that's the basic idea.

The new Mill CPU architecture actually uses a similar idea in their assembler. Each of their instructions is a C++ function. To assemble Mill software, the first step is to run the "assembly language" through a C++ compiler. The resulting program emits the appropriate Mill machine code when it runs. This is an interesting approach, since it turns the assembler into a reusable piece of software.

Another side-benefit of this technique is that it gives the assembler a super-powerful macro language. In this case, the macro language is basically bash shell. So you want to emit 100 add instructions? Just put the instructions inside a bash `for` loop!
I didn't get replication out of the description. It sounded more like distributed storage and load. Notice they say "warm-standby" for data nodes. I can only think of one reason anybody would resort to STONITH for something like this.
Very insightful generalization. Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?
Reminds me of TempleOS [0]

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Thanks for the feedback. Going to fix these right away.
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So we reached consensus. Go on then! I know you are supposed to trick me.
Wooohooo, yet another amazon prime thing that isn't offered to Canadians. Considering we pay more, get "2 day shipping" which is actually 3 days because Amazon cant' seem to do math, and get no other services, and Amazon prices are rarely something to get excited about here, well Amazon, we're done. I just cancelled my amazon prime account. Apple, Netflix, and Google figured out ways to get media to Canada, but Amazon decided to suck donkey nuts... again.
It's extremely straightforward: they value customer satisfaction considerably above their own fraud write-offs. That's literally it. It's a bit silly, because there are a number of measures the CSRs could take to prevent someone with JUST your email, address, and name from accessing your account (Netflix asks for a "call in code" visible when you're logged into the site, for instance), but they don't.

The CSRs are in India and basically told to satisfy any "did-not-arrive shipments". The fact that they are also willing to ship to an alternate address is completely insane. But my scammer told them they were "on vacation" and appealed to that side of the customer satisfaction coin.
Since I'm not a "football fanatic" i really need more info regarding how the whole system works before i click register.

Also a nice big call to action would be nice to have.
On iOS, the icon has even more meanings than that. The system share menu has three distinct sections. The first is AirDrop, to share a copy with a nearby device. The second is exporting to external apps and social networks (this can happen in many ways, as you described). And the third is to perform actions on the file within the app.

(The second and third sections are what can now be extended by developers in iOS 8.)
And equally you're over exaggerating the demands ZFS has; it runs quite happily on lower end hardware. Granted you need a 64bit CPU, but all Macs are shipped with one anyway. And unless you have deduping et al turned on (which you don't really want on a desktop anyway), the CPU load would be minimal. You could probably even get away without compression as well (though the modern algorithms ZFS supports are pretty light on the CPU).

As for memory, the minimum you need for pre-fetching is 2GB of free RAM. ZFS will, however, run on less with pre-fetching turned off.

The thing with ZFS is that it will consume your RAM and CPU if you have all the uber features enabled and a boat load of pools created, but since you don't need nor want that on a desktop, ZFS shouldn't need to be that resource hungry.

What's more, part of the misconception of ZFS's bloat comes from the age of the file system. My original ZFS server was less powerful than most budget laptops these days (and I was running a small number of VMs off that thing as well)! So modern systems definitely do have the resources to run ZFS as their desktop fs.
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George, do you have any domains with your whois/registrar information matching your Amazon account information? I guessed that was the vector they used to attack me. I had several domains with my home address as my address, along with my email and name. Voila. The entire triangle of data the CSRs need.

I was able to get a CSR to show me some of the logs of the chats with the scammer, which was particularly enlightening:

http://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-sociall... (Thanks also for linking to my post in your article. It's insane this is still going on.)
"Free with Amazon Prime" makes this very clear. No tricks, just plain English.
> Next episodes don't auto play.

There are actually some very strict legal requirements preventing streaming-video services from providing "linear content" (i.e. anything that works like a TV channel.) Anyone that seems to do so (e.g. Netflix) still stops every few episodes to get you to press a button to continue.

Happily, this is entirely irrelevant to within-home streaming. Plex can auto-play for as long as you like.
I'm seeing the same thing.
Do feel so bad. My amazon.de account in Germany also does not have this "prime" feature.
> Maybe there's just something fundamentally ingrained in human psychology that makes us converge like this.

Or perhaps there are meetings in boardrooms where the upper echelon of a given sector of the economy work hand in hand with thinktanks, highly paid psychologist consultants, PR firms, journalists, and media executives(at the ownership level) to design and execute strategies that encourage whole populations to act against their best interests by entering into these sorts of centralized arrangements.

Why does everyone always jump to "human nature" as the explanation ? I'll tell you why it's because they have no visibility into the 10+ billion dollar/year PR industry that is operating in our midst. Human nature does factor into this though.. it's human nature to assume that you're not personally vulnerable to suggestion and manipulation, so people tend to write it off even though statistically speaking the odds are that they can be influenced, and are being influenced.
Amazon's not making their money on random individual users, and companies aren't jumping to migrate away from it. AWS is way more than just a VPS provider.
Looks like it's back now ...
Do you really think so? I find Amazon Instant Video to be a distant also-ran to Netflix, and this music service is vastly inferior to literally every other one I have tried.
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> "I read quite quickly (though only somewhat accurately) through pure pattern-recognition. I can look at, say, "word" and identify that the second letter is an ‘o’, but if I want to understand it as a concept I ignore the letters involved all together"

Isn't that how pretty much everyone reads? No one looks at every individual letter of each word!
It costs $10 per month for on-demand streaming of 16 million songs in Rhapsody. By that calculation, this offer would cost $7.5 annually. So it's a smart move for Amazon to lure people to Prime by sacrificing small fraction of revenue.

I'm a user of Rhapsody for almost 13 years now and love it not having to buy individual 100s of artists I listen to. Amazon's 1 million song collection is peanuts for me but for most others it might be enough. I see we are now only few months away from true commoditization of music business (i.e. pay monthly subscription to use all you want like electricity and water).
Well, I pay $83 a year for prime, I just don't get anything special for it.
If you wish to give feedback or ask questions; please go ahead. I and a workmate did this at a work-related hackathon a couple weeks ago.
I'd find a comparison against other libs interesting. There's a lot out there already: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7034/graph-visualization-...
It is; I just spent the last two weeks putting together a very handsome CloudFormation template that can attest to that. I'm almost considering creating a custom CF resource provider to let me spawn DigitalOcean droplets, though.

(And to let me use CloudFlare CDN distributions instead of CloudFront ones. Amazon need to either finish CloudFront, or kill it; this purgatorial state where it works but it takes 30 minutes to make any changes, and where only half of its APIs are exposed in the SDK libraries, is obnoxious.)