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Yeah, I agree - I have had a similar experience a couple of times (the very first time freaked me out as it was kind of an out-of-body experience).
I wrote C++ for a few years professionally and found myself able to look through the noise quite a bit. I remember doing a side project in python to expand my horizons and I felt naked without blankets of parenthesis and brackets around all of my stuff.
I wonder if Servo is advanced enough to get some performance numbers on large pages compared to other engines. In any case, I'm looking forward to see what becomes of it. Like Rust, it seems a well thought-out approach to solving difficult problems.
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The baseband processor has no access to the parts of memory it is not meant to, possibly some of the early iPhones did but currently they are properly isolated.
I had no idea canceling a timeout like that was called debouncing.
Not a thing. Not exactly an interesting implementation, but then it doesn't have to be-- normal SSL should work just fine.

That said, silliness can lead to a recursive/"turtles all the way down" kind of issue.
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The mutually authenticated TLS connection between Cloudflare and the oracle uses a certificate that has been signed by Cloudflare's internal CA. When you manage the CA and have influence over both endpoints, revocation can be trusted.

>but have just shifted the problem downstream (it is now the bank's job to revoke you, rather than the user's browser's job).

You make it sound like that's not a _huge_ win... Which would you rather do, ensure revocation on millions of end user systems, or a handful of systems that are controlled by a party you have a close partnership with?
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$12 is a lot of money for a box, and would be one of the most expensive things you buy, unless you want the latest communications chipset or next years display technology. I guess apple do. But it's still a lot of money for a box. News to me.
http://zesty.io and http://bufferapp.com both faced that too, in the book ( case studies ), and that is my biggest problem with Lean myself, as a developer/entrepreneur.

Your experience sounds relevant to my situation, so again, thanks for going down this road on HN for the good of Brand and us visionary types who need to really understand this.
Oh me too. I've often the real smart person in my life was my subconscious. Like you said though, the downside is there is no progress reporting and it can take a really long time. But I would say many of the slick solutions to programming problems have come from my subconscious, either after sleeping or just taking a break and eating some food or something.
> The sad truth is that fashion designers are way better than anyone else in designing clothing and making it shine. The better approach is not to mess with that and just trust them.

> The sad truth is that chefs are way better than anyone else in creating a delicious menu and making it shine. The better approach is not to mess with that and just trust them.

Who ever said that keeping people from dressing hideously or eating food that doesn't match was a good idea?

Some people might even make it sound better, but you're advocating we take that opportunity away from them without giving them the benefit of the doubt.
As someone who spent a number of years mixing records professionally, I can definitely attest to the fact that even talented musicians are usually pretty terrible at mixing. It's a subtle art, and it takes a lot of experience/practice to do even remotely well.

But I think the larger point is that most artists and labels would hate this. To a singer, having someone hear your soloed vocal track is like being seen naked.

I think most artists view their records as being a single work of art. The song, arrangement, equipment, mixing, and mastering are all part of something bigger. Artists don't really want people to be able to break that apart. It's not meant to be experienced that way.
I recently developed a site that does schedule management for churches. In particular it automatically sends confirmations and reminders via text for tasks every week and helps you manage your schedule with giving your church members sub accounts. Any feedback would be appreciated!
This. In the coming years it will be increasingly convenient and perhaps mandatory to have your data on iCloud - if you want to backup, restore or find your devices. The latest iCloud upgrade allows for 1TB of data - it's easy to imagine having your entire laptop, phone, ipad up there in the near future. So physically preventing access to a single device is not nearly as important as protecting your entire digital life in the cloud. This announcement by Apple is a good sign, but it feels like the real battle for privacy from govt snooping will be in the cloud.
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Q: I know you've reviewed the position summary, spoken with other members of the team. What questions do you have for me?

I'm looking for intellectual curiosity, interest level, and how this person is evaluating the opportunity. The questions posed by a candidate can be very insightful.
I don't disagree. To generalise a lot:

The older members of the music-listening public are more likely to be audiophiles and have more money to throw at kickstarters from classic rockers. They are a bit slower to adopt new technologies, but are now fairly well on board with iPods and MP3s. However their ears aren't always high definition any more.

The younger members of the music-listening public don't really bother so much with the concept of "owning" music. It's like fresh air – so long at it's streaming at you, it's good and who cares about owning it.

No mass market for buying high-definition audio downloads is to be found in either category.
> so what is an attribute, what is a method call

It's all method calls. Attributes don't really exist.
Not really. This while dance is necessary because it's (effectively) impossible to revoke certs on millions of end user systems.

It's _far_ easier to handle revocation on a couple trusted endpoints (especially when you own the CA), so 'normal' TLS does the job here just fine. No need for more turtles.
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You and me didn't read the same article, or the same HN thread.

The guys in the SHU are in one of the highest security prisons and, still, they managed to stir a huge prison strike and (If you believe the article) lead a criminal empire that extends its influence far from the prisons.

So, point me to that "strong" evidence, and make it peer reviewed, if possible.
Has anyone here spent any time in a sensory deprivation tank? After going in one myself, the conclusion here makes a lot of sense.

While you're floating, you don't feel like you're actively processing everything that's going on around you as you do in a normal environment where all senses are available to you. While floating, it feels like you're spectating your mind as it processes things.

So when you shut off all your senses and let go, you enter this observation mode where information is being processed but it doesn't feel like you are doing it. It seems like the same thing is happening while we sleep only we're not as lucid.

I'm interested to see if others have had similar experiences.
Batchmate of Aptible here (Zen99) - this information is spot on! Great guide by Chas and team.
> It's very difficult to avoid sampling bias and confirmation bias when you're looking for historical and contemporary events that seem to fit your curve.

"Looking for historical and contemporary events that seem to fit your curve" seems to be the definition of deliberate confirmation bias.
I don't think you are right. Regardless if what is after that contained in the `...` wouldn't matter. A lone `{` or `}` would be a syntax error.
This. SSL/TLS can ensure perfect forward secrecy when the private key is compromised, as long as the session information is ephemeral. With session tickets, compromise of the key used to create the tickets means every session created under that key can be compromised, regardless of whether the private key is lost. See https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html for a great discussion of this.
Musician weighing in:

Musicians and bands had been making a living for thousands of years before the recording industry was invented, and they will continue to do so for thousands of years after the recording industry has crumbled to the ground (mostly due to their own greed and stupidity). While the recording industry certainly allowed some musicians to become filthy rich, that was mostly through exposure. Musicians have never made very much from the sale of recordings alone, and have always relied on touring and merchandise for the majority of their revenue. Today, even very popular bands, the ones that get the juicy contracts, are making pennies on the dollar on the recordings they produce (and before this gets brought up, so are the engineers and producers, most of the money goes to marketing and distribution, and then a big chunk to the various executives and agents). The situation is much worse for smaller and rising acts.

The truth of the situation is that the recording industry and their distributors have been exploiting the labor of hard-working musicians for the last 100 years. Many of the old blues men from our earliest popular recordings were never even paid, although men that they never even met grew rich from selling their work. The recording industry has been selling the same snake oil to us sense then, just packaged differently according to the musical tastes of the time. There will always be a collectors market for physical recordings, but it is time that we acknowledge that digital content can be delivered for essentially zero marginal cost, and that free knowledge and art have cultural benefits that drastically outweigh any financial gains that may be made by restricting access to them. (And if you are someone that can only be swayed by economics, I would argue that by encouraging innovation and free exchange of ideas, you will reap greater economic benefits overall, even though certain industries may suffer initially.) Moreover, as an artist, by sharing my music for free, I feel that I am being much more honest and forthright with my audience and that am able to reach far more people than I would otherwise.

The only people really exploiting artists are recording industry executives. If you buy an album you like, instead of pirating it, you're taking advantage of those artists. Go see them play live or buy a fucking t-shirt instead.
Surprised to see that gaming is not on there. Studies have found that gamers have an enlarged cingulate gyrus in the brain. This structure has been linked with impulse suppression, so this should help us resist the impulse to do things the wrong way!
The pressure is still 1/3 of an atmosphere approx, regardless of mechanical or gas. The more salient question, to ask those who have experienced it, how do those parts of the body respond to less than normal atmosphere pressure. Sounds like that could be a 'sensitive topic' as well.
Who's truth? Your interpretation of the question makes no sense.
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Thanks for all the rapid responses!

The Wikipedia page about Sleep paralysis make it sound like something horrible where you're attacked by monsters that you can't escape because you don't control your body.

I actually enjoy it when it happens (and would like it to happen more often!) but apart from that it seems that, yes, that's what it is, so thanks.

Lucid dreaming (at least according to Wikipedia) is something different -- a brief lapse of consciousness inside a dream. That happens to me also, quite frequently, but is quite a different experience. When I dream about unpleasant things I often begin to think "meh, this isn't real, it's probably a dream", and the dream takes another direction -- but not one that I control. I wouldn't say I'm fully conscious then; it's more that my dreaming self is aware he's in a dream.
The post was a riff on the standard "One weird trick that [does something] discovered by [quirky, unexpected source]" ads you see.
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Any more good pieces regarding this topic? Super interesting!
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I agree that he didn't say that. The 4 color boxes are what apple ships computers in. The iphone is shipped in:

> Many small Apple products come in polycarbonate + ABS/PC mix molded packaging. This is both harder and more expensive than you might think. Recycled cardboard is your friend

I always assumed the iphone packaging was polystyrene. I am pretty sure it is, and I think the author is wrong. Of course the S in ABS is polystyrene, but my limited knowledge is that ABS is never clear in any formulation.
I will only come back to Dropbox when I can have client-side encryption.
When I'm skeptical of evo psych, I am not arguing that gender or sex hormones have no effect on the brain. That would be silly... there's abundant evidence that they do.

What I'm being skeptical about is that we can take that all the way out to surface characteristics and then make blanket statements, or that we can concoct untestable fables based in current evolutionary models and then use those to justify those blanket statements.

There certainly is gender dimorphism (the right term) in humans, but it's also very hard to separate genes/development, environment, and culture. It's also very hard to go from the cellular and hormonal level all the way up to, say, how people tend to behave in job interviews.

The reason I get so skeptical in these areas is that history teaches us that human beings will rationalize their prejudices using whatever system of belief they find around them. Historically that's usually been religion, hence it use to rationalize gender and racial stereotypes. Now we live in a scientific age (supposedly), so we should be on guard for pseudoscientific attempts to do the same with scientific-sounding language. Indeed the "social Darwinists" were on that beat a century ago already. So whenever I smell an attempt to explain or justify a social prejudice or a class system, my skeptic hat goes on.

That was rambling... need coffee..
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Insane ? A standard DVD is 4.7 gigabytes. That would be 6 tracks and it would be ideal for any rock band and we haven't yet compressed the thing with loss (not technically true but you get the point.

I don't know about electronic music though.
This is pretty much what the BBB does and probably what Angie's List does as well. It's an old business model for the review industry.
What is the market for this tool? Is it for programmers? Is it for management that _doesn't_ know how to code, so they just run the program through this tool, if it passes, push to production?
To be coy, it matters quite a bit to the respiratory system. But of course there's a face mask as part of the system. And that's what keeps the balloon inflated, if you will.
What about rock bands and other recording music with their instruments rather than through samplers ?
Unless you're specifically trying to support small business, I'd go even further to say that you could just use eReading apps. This assumes that you have a smartphone or tablet in the first place. One less piece of tech to carry around that gives you the same functionality is always a plus in my book.
As you get more rest, REM cycles increase. We recall the dreams we see in REM.
Also, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (I think one of the later books).
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CloudFlare has learned their lesson from past experiences and how makes the big media announcement one day with a smaller less publicized announcement later covering the technical details. This prevents reporters from stumbling across a HN thread tearing the "new internet saving technology" apart and reporting on weaknesses or flaws.
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This is a discussion about cyberwarfare in a literal sense. The technical discussion shouldn't really be separated from the economic, political, social and human health concerns because all of those parts of the system interact deeply and directly.

A goal of total political cooperation or submission leads to economic sanctions leading to serious human health effects leading to defensive denial of service attacks. This accelerates the need to decentralize the financial network systems to make them more robust.

How can we imagine though that even after a complete transition to next generation systems that are ground-up distributed designs (not just stop-gap tweaks like this) that we won't have new types of attacks to deal with.

The starting point is the belief system that provides such fertile ground for conflict. We have to promote the idea that human lives have value and that lethal force is not an acceptable way to resolve conflict.

As long as decision makers are living in a sort of 1960s James Bond fantasy world we will all be subject to the insecurity of that type of world. Its largely built upon a type of primitive Social Darwinism that is still much more prevalent than most will acknowledge.

Its much easier to accept a compartmentalization of these problems and focus on a narrow technical aspect, but that does not integrate nearly enough information.
I'm a huge Neil Young fan, but Pono is bound to fail. Throughout the evolution of widely adopted audio formats, the sound quality has always decreased. The average listener doesn't care about fidelity. They can't tell the difference. They care about convenience.

Cassette tapes were better than vinyl records, because they were more portable. CDs were better than tapes, because you could skip tracks. Mp3s were better than CDs, because you could fit thousands of them in your pocket. But at each step of that progression, the sound got worse.

Young's testimonials are from professional musicians, the extremely small subset of the public that actually cares about the quality of the sound. These are not the people he needs to convince. This is obviously aimed at the general public, who have proven time and time again that convenience is king.

The vast majority of people can't tell the difference between an 16-bit, 44.1kHz, 192kbps mp3 and a 24-bit, 192kHz, losslessly compressed file.
It works for that particular restaurant because they have a local clientele and don't cater to the tourist or traveler trade. That is, like many restaurants and other small businesses they are not really dependent on the internet for traffic.

Who visits Richmond, CA except for people who know someone there? It's not Las Vegas or Orlando.
Right at the top: Available for licensing in some fields. No idea what that means.
Their detailed report[0] is pretty clear, and defines what they mean for the categories they're reporting. According to that document, they had 20221 device data requests, and they provided data for 12146 of those requests (some of those requests have many individual devices). For account data, they received requests for data from 2803 accounts, and provided some data for 1333 accounts.

0: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/government-information-re...
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A lot of what was in F451 has come true. Cellphones that people are just glued to. And wall-sized televisions, such as the 90" HD models you can buy at Costco.
I'd agree with you if those audio engineers hadn't participated in the loudness war for the three last decades.
The difference though is that Python is powerful enough to avoid the repetitive noise even if use of that power isn't the 'Python way'.
For some businesses, Yelp puts a big consumer alert on their business page when they catch the businesses soliciting reviews on craigslist or whatever: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2012/10/consumer-alerts-because...
Wow. $10,000 is a big difference for taking two more electives. Very interesting.
$12 for a box at scale, well damn!

Use 100% recycled cardboard and print the box in a single color water based bio-degradable ink.

Then claim you do this to save the environment, win-win ;).
Hey google, you can start by phasing out RC4 on YT.
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It is clojure. Clojure literally bootstraps itself on every startup, and this bootstrap takes a little less than a second even on a fully started jvm. And since none of your clojure code can run until clojure.jar is fully bootstrapped, large clojure projects can easily start up for 5+ seconds before executing a single piece of code.

I love clojure as a language, but my code is usually cli oriented and it was such a terrible fit for it that I switched to Scala. Despite being on the jvm, my startup times are an order of magnitude better.
Actually, this is pretty good advice. For everyday problems, if it doesn't line up with common sense, usually it ends up meaning I need to ask more questions. Models that tend to not be close enough to reality means I need to observe reality more.
While this is a cool feature, I wouldn't say the improvement is more than marginal: all potentially sensitive customer data is still available to Cloudflare in plain text. And after all, with a Business plan you can already use your own ("custom") SSL certificate which you can then revoke at any time.

Why not offer a "pass through" mode where the proxying is done on the network layer rather than the application layer? Of course in such a modus all CDN-like functionality could no longer be offered, but it could still do a fair amount of DDOS protection, no?
There's no chance whatsoever that this is a new DRM-encumbered format[1]. None. So some people need to take a breath.

(And there's almost as little chance that it is going to matter any more than the Apple/Bandai Pippin @WORLD.)

If Apple is actually involved in a more significant way than grudgingly acting as fluffer to Bono's fantasies of heroically saving a nonsensical[2] industry that briefly emerged as an artifact of technological limitations of the previous century, I would guess it is some kind of super-metadata-laden format that includes art/video/interview/extras, maybe including built-in remixability or something, that is designed (but unlikely) to entice users to buy even more DRM-free $1.29 songs than they already do in MP3/AAC.

[1]: http://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_post... (Was astonished that Apple doesn't still host this, btw. But it's not gonna change.)

[2]: “Cole Porter wouldn’t have sold T-shirts. Cole Porter wasn’t coming to a stadium near you.” Right. So he would have sold his songs to somebody who was -- or else not made much money from it. So what. There are homeless drummers in SF better than Cole Porter, and no new media format is going to change any of that, nor should it.
Those bits are for people in altered states. I posit that this has helped many of his films having incredible long tails thanks to their cult status.
This doesn't mirror my own experience. Typically the 5-star reviews often fall into the category "worked great for me" or fanboyism, but it's generally ambiguous how extensive of a test they've performed on the item, if it even warrants it (though some reviews are exhaustive on this front). And 1-star reviews often are hyper-critical to excess, though any potential issues are often highlighted there, prompting me to read them first. Since all reviews end up with these extremes and the "is this review helpful" ironically isn't often helpful (more like, "do I agree with the review"), I always end up just going with my initial gut feeling on whatever I'm looking to buy anyways.