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Funny HTTP 418 response status
418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324)
This code was defined in 1998 as one of the traditional IETF April Fools' jokes, in RFC 2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and is not expected to be implemented by actual HTTP servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
OnTrac recently declared, apropos of nothing, that the package they "guaranteed delivery" for was undeliverable, and that (according to their online tracking) they'd try again the next day. They didn't. The tracking didn't update for the next two days. They delivered my package the day after I called them to complain -- the guy on the phone told me "we had some staffing issues".
Amsterdam is very bad as well.
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Aye, but Android's moving to an AOT runtime with libart, which has shown some pretty significant performance and memory consumption improvements. I'm curious how much better performance you'd get from Firefox OS if there were a similar AOT option available for it.
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It does since 4.0 at least: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/45629/what-androi...
Er, how "secret" are secrets submitted without encryption? Could use an "s" on the end of that http for starters...
You're forced to explicitly define the interface. While I think the advantages of an explicit interface are well worth it, I can write a Javascript microservice with no defined interface faster than I can write an interface declaration + implementation in Scala.
While Melbourne doesn't have any shortage of land to build out into it is getting very far away from the inner city.

As long as you are happy to drive everywhere and can find a suburban job or are prepared to make long commutes there is plenty of relatively cheap housing to be had.
Well, they are obliged by law to make sure whatever they are selling is not counterfeit and is safe to use. And no, the law does not care how that is enforced - but I imagine that when they order a batch of chargers from China, someone could take a look at one and see if it's genuine or not?
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Just to clarify, "deploy" in this sense means "upload to your organization's maven repository (or maven central)".
It is the brutal end of blindly following A/B testing with the bottom line as the controlling variable.

If you were to A/B test for user satisfaction instead (much harder to measure) you'd get a totally different result.

A/B testing is a tool, you can use it for good or bad.
One of the most incredible things about this sort of project is how many people work on it. This is a beam-splitting laser interferometer so sensitive that it can measure beam jittering in the Planck length range ... yet the size of the main team is about half that of the company that makes Minecraft.

The work these people do is incredible.
A lot of new cars in Europe also have front, rear and trunk 12V sockets.

I wouldn't buy one without at least two of those.
The difference is you only have to trust the one your domain ends in and you have to trust one anyway.
I think this is neat. I can't imagine a use for it but I like the UI.

The fundamental problem with this:

There's no way to prove that the secret has been deleted and / or not copied. You have access to the plaintext and the password / url (presumably an encryption key). You (the malicious server operator or the compromised server) can do anything you want with the information.

This would be interesting if you could:

1) Offer end-to-end encryption. This would require encryption in the client which has its own issues.

2) Be able to provide proof that the information has been made inaccessible. This is not the same thing as having the link return a 404 the second time.
Can you verify that the binary download of Firefox is compiled from that source unmodified?
Nginx optimization: understanding sendfile, tcp_nodelay and tcp_nopush
>Share this secret by sending this URL with a freind.

*friend
That is why you should be on Linode is you are in production.

Note: Not saying they are perfect, but it is just much less likely to happen.
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I've considered it a few times but there where and are reasons why for now I need to stay in the UK (til recently partner with health problems) and my mother is ill.

It's something at the back of my mind for one day though.
Sure, and how exactly am I supposed to trust them ?

There are tons of services doing exactly the same thing, some even on Tor.
Yeah, that's a showstopper.

You shouldn't be launching a site in 2014 without https: that could handle 'secrets', or even any personal information, or really at all!

Also, as said above, you can't actually prove destruction (as far as I know, without a Trent i.e. trusted party to do it), which is a big theoretical flaw in the whole idea.
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Hmmm.

Don't know if it's down, but every attempt I try gets "404 - It's most likely your seeing this page because a message has already been accessed and deleted".
> between CL and the rest of the world is undeniably poor

Because CL is a language and not an implementation.

Many CL implementations have excellent interoperability capabilities.
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Does it support symbol files?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're missing it.

Microservices, at least how I understand them, is just functional programming at the O/S level. Where they are located, how they talk to each other, and so forth? That all becomes SysOps stuff. That's good and bad. It's really bad if you don't stay on top of it and don't refactor. You can make the same mess you made in your big monolithic POS, just spread out everywhere.

But to state it that way misses the point. The point is to actively keep the number of microservices small, have tests for each one for compilation, deployment, and production. You should never deploy something that doesn't work in the ecosystem. The development environment should prevent it. You should also have a very good grasp on data flow between microservices and latency issues. Monitoring that should be part of your daily work.

You don't just do microservices because they're cool. You do them because they separate concerns in such a way to be both scalable and configurable without having to touch the IDE. With good safety protocol in place, this decrease both risk and complexity. Without good protocols in place, you'll make a mess no matter what tool you're using.

Look at it this way (put your FP hat on): any program takes input, runs it through some functions, and produces output. If you were debugging, you'd set up breakpoints along the inputs and outputs to chase down errors. Then you'd walk the data flow to see what was going on.

Microservices allow you to do this without touching the code. You would think that this increases network and system instability. It can, but when done well, you get the same thing you had with the big monolithic thing -- only in smaller pieces that you can change and reason about without introducing one of the thousand stupid coding errors that get introduced any time we open the project up and touch it.

Plus you get hot-swapping, easy testing, auto-scaling, and ease of programming. In the modern VM/hosted world, this is a pretty good trade-off.
> js is whitelist only

You're not representative of the majority of online users. Not even close, by an enormous margin (95% of people don't know what JavaScript is, let alone how to disable it; out of the remaining 5% that do know, 4.999% don't care). Given that you're in an extreme minority and wield no power in the marketplace, could you give them a reason as to why they should dedicate development time to making this use case work?
The original title promises maps that explain the global economy and of course it does nothing of the sort.

Most of the maps are fun, quirky and/or entertaining. A few of them illustrate a single, isolated point well. But explain more than the most trivial points (China is kind of a big deal!) they most certainly don't.

Vox increasingly looks like intellectually pretentious Buzzfeed.
Well, the data comes from Eurostat, which has its own definition of "Unemployed person"[1], which from what I can tell is independent of the country's social security system.

[1] http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
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When there is an incident, I don't think it'll be a $3000 turbine powered aircraft. The people operating & flying these things are likely to know what they are doing - and if they don't it'll be in bits far before it reaches an altitude dangerous to manned aviation.

The DJI Phantom and friends are awesome, but someone can take them out of the box and fly them up to a 1000ft or so with zero skill or knowledge of aviation culture required. And it can still take out an engine or cockpit window.
This is something that's on the roadmap, though currently there is an unofficial package available.
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> Firefox OS is the ONLY MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM where all the source code is open including our built-in apps and services.

Not entirely true, your drivers are still closed source.

> A platform that doesn't limit your freedom. You're free to build and distribute your apps without walled gardens. You don't need to pay to place an app on Firefox Marketplace.

The same is true of Android.

> A platform where HTML5 is a first-class citizen.

I would argue that's a bad thing. I'm overjoyed at all the lovely native mobile APIs and apps out there. Few APIs are as bad as the web ones.
Actually the Lisp runtime of GNU Emacs is not terrible. It's just that there are a few better in the Lisp world. Some of the things in Emacs Lisp are there by design.

> The display technology assumes a text terminal,

GNU Emacs and Xemacs have a lot of support for non-text-terminal displays.
I will be open sourcing the code once I've cleaned it up a little.
That makes me wonder: what is Lynx's market share these days?
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> inherits common lisp's non-interoperability

Yeah, but that would be bullshit to assume. I use for example LispWorks (commercial, proprietary) and Clozure CL (free, open source) on my Mac. Both have excellent interoperability with C and Unix. Both have a native Cocoa interface to the Mac.
I'm not saying they were good. I'm saying Java was designed for that kind of applications as well.
You're completely right. Although I think meteor is eating its own dogfood ;)

Normally you would use meteor for your webapplication and only render the dynamic parts with meteor instead of the entire page.
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Doesn't solve the problem he's describing since it won't prove that the published code is what's running.
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The experiment is looking for an effect 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the Planck length.
For people who build from source, all control is at the user. They are responsible for the security, and they do not need to trust anyone. The question about who should have trust invested in them do not involve them, as they operate outside the system.
Are financial institutions creating a more lucrative market for hackers?
Does anyone know why they didn't go with TACK?
Conferize just came out of beta, please let me know if you have questions about our product.
> Who cares about z-tables and chi values?

I think the problem is how these concepts are taught, not the concepts in and of themselves. Too many people leave their graduate-level stats courses (that they take for X scientific/engineering/sociological discipline) believing that 0.90, or 0.05, or 1 SD are somehow magical values. Too few students understand the concepts behind them (I had to work hard on my own to gain a glimpse into them).
I see Dropbox traffic hitting my servers. People evidently rent Windows dedis, install Dropbox on them, and they spew out broadcast to the local /24
Maybe she would write a blog post about it?
Wouldn't it been still better to sell cheaper and hope for some income through the purchase customers made with their product?
It's more of a stately home, really.
There's always a possibility of someone just taking a screenshot.
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this one is going to be a similar service https://www.burn-notice.me/

which other alternatives are there you are talking about? i would like to have a look at them.

in terms of trust, lot's of people put their data on facebook, so there is that... specifically for you, would it help if you can audit such an application?
Yes, why should we trust our browser company with the security of our SSL connections. That's like locking your car with a key made by the company that manufactured it!
Many people who actually write GUI software in Lisp use one of the commercial offerings, typically either LispWorks and Allegro CL. That's one of their advantages: they offer maintained and cross platform GUI libraries.

One can for example also use Clozure CL for advanced GUI stuff, but that is best on the Mac.

For example http://opusmodus.com is a composition software using Clozure CL.

Other composition environments are written with LispWorks: PWGL, OpenMusic, Symbolic Composer, ScoreCloud.

http://www2.siba.fi/PWGL/

http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home

http://www.symboliccomposer.com

http://scorecloud.com
That's a bad analogy. For years medallions were owned to be flipped and sold at a higher price. Owning a taxi medallion is like owning a McDonald's franchise in the middle of a city where property values have skyrocketed to the tune of 20% per annum for the past decade.
It's still pluggable (as it's just a normal syntax extension), it's only the #[deriving(...)] syntax that is not overloadable. E.g. a custom attribute #[js_traceable] can use all the back-end code of #[deriving], with only the surface syntax different.

https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/2774
One of the issues plaguing the UK is that the wealthy students go to private schools, which have the best facilities/teachers etc and are able to produce far far higher results. The argument becomes "when n% of the people with maximum A level grades come from private schools, that's the % you should expect at the top universities which gate by grades, regardless of their history".

So I guess I have 2 questions:
Do you have a similar issue where the wealthy buy better tuition to ensure higher results and get a better shot at the best colleges?
Is there a scaling factor applied to those of different backgrounds to mitigate this?
Do you mind telling for which company do you work for ?
That would be a major shame since there are AC power inverters that run off of 12V ports in cars. Some people rely on those for different reasons. For example, it's a really nice way to recharge a laptop while traveling.
I've found the absence of joins very frustrating, as well as aggregations such SUM etc. The reason is, I presume, that these are very intensive for a reactive app. If it has to check for a re-render everytime anything is updated across 4 tables then that's expensive. Or for aggregation, everytime something new is inserted into a table.
Div is like a canvas here, and background gradients create the image. What's so impressive about it?
I'm very interested in looking into the code as a sample of real-world distributed system implementation, much more informative than our university's distributed systems course, I guess.
Are there any guide available for the source code, besides src/README ?
From the phone specs : The RAM is adjustable from 256MB to 1GB, allowing you to replicate a variety of performance levels to test the OS and apps.
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Ask HN: How should one correctly iterate a tech product?
Hi HN,

I run a tech company and I'm feeling a little lost.

We recently launched our product out into the open and began doing qualitative user testing. This was a wonderful revelation as is started to quickly flare up UX issues with the product which we had not seen.

It changed our process from one with lots of tinkering behind closed doors to one where we were throwing up quick versions of the site and immediately testing our thinking against reality. A good change I think!

The question that I'd love some guidance on is the following:

Internally we / I feel a conflict between user acquisition and product development.

I don't know if we should pursue the qualitative testing road more heavily, not just to fix UX issues but to be the main driver for product development, and that that should be our focus right now.

Or if we should also spend our time trying to acquire users to our effectively unfinished product.

What does the YC experience advise? Is it some sort of balance of the two?

Some help would be really useful! Thanks HN.
It's about users though. You do SSL for the users, not for your sake. If you as the server owner trust the government behind, say, .ch, then that's fine for you. But if browsers supported DANE, then all of the browsers users would also have to trust the government behind .ch.

Or rather: The users trust the browsers to show an SSL warning if there's an indication that the connection is being MITMd.

Today, the browsers trust (hand-picked, subjected to stringent rules) CAs to tell them whether a connection is being MITMd or not and they then tell the users.

In the case of DANE, the UI to the user is the same (Blow up or don't blow up), so the trust given by the user to the browser is also the same, but now the browsers can't rely on CAs which they control to some extent (using said rules and monetary incentives), but they must rely on governments, often without oversight or clue and with all the incentives to MITM connections.

That means that by trusting DANE, browsers force users to also trust DANE and users might not want to trust some or all of the entities behind DNSSec.
Kevlar is a registered trademark. You might run into some problems with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevlar
>As for R/Python/Matlab/etc., I will let the zealots argue what's best. To me, they are like statistics and machine learning: similar with different emphasis.

Having tried working with Matlab and having extensive experience with Python, my verdict is: Haskell or Ocaml.

Ok, but seriously, once I understand just fine what algorithm I'm implementing, doing numerical computation in these all-dynamic languages is atrocious. I could have saved hours of runtime if I'd been allowed and able to just write the damned algorithms in a statically-typed language that compiles to machine code, on top of saving myself debugging time.
I went to that museum schroomed out of my mind one time. Good times.
That is exactly the method they use. Calculate the centre of economic gravity, then project it onto the closest point on the surface of the globe.

Here is a nice analysis that does the same process in a more intuitive way. It calculates the centre of economic gravity in 2D map coordinates. This gives results that are easier to understand, because everyone's used to looking at 2D maps.

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/djv/world_economic_center...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034394