skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
qemu has support for ceph's "rbd" ( rados block device). you create an image of a particular size using the ceph tools, then when you create a vm xml definition you specify and rbd disk. ( see here http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks )

finally, when the vm is booted you can use that block device like any other machine. for first install it will be empty ( need to attach a cdrom image to get going ) then youncan start making snapshots for "thin provisioning" using copy on write clones ...very sweet stuff :)

re performance ...i think its good, but i have heard its not as good as expensive proprietary systems. the product we're building is around storage analytics on open source. ..so eventually well know more :)
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Last time I ate at Taco Bell was over six years ago, and yet they are following me!

How do they know?
insert snarky comment about the time it takes to learn to set up a hosting environment that can survive an HN self-post here
Thank you, I was about to post more or less the exact same thing. I used to work in the adtech industry.
i'm just glad my city made it to HN.
The article links to Krugman's post. One point Krugman makes that isn't discussed at all is that Amazon uses its market power to keep book prices low. That makes the article's points about it being easy to setup an online store somewhat moot: What point is an online store if no one buys from it because prices are dramatically lower elsewhere.

Krugman also makes the point that Amazon is a (and perhaps the dominant) discovery mechanism for books. Of course, if you aren't in Amazon you miss that mechanism. Combine these two things, and it makes creating a competitor very, very hard. That's doesn't make it illegal, but it's a very big concentration of market power. Edit: notably, this makes it difficult for even publishers to compete: if the dominant discovery mechanism for your items excludes you, then it's a problem. Note the similarities to Google here, and how careful Google is to emphasise the algorithmic nature of their search ranking. Amazon can't use that defense.

I'm not sure I totally buy Krugman's argument that Amazon is actually using its power in ways that "hurt America". But, I am more amenable to his argument that it has too much market power in the book market as outlined above - not totally convinced, but I think his points in that area are much stronger than the Economist makes them out to be.
I'm not endorsing AdNauseam, but the idea is that the information the ad companies track will be useless since the target person will appear to have clicked on every ad regardless of true interest in the product. For instance it will make it appear that a single, heterosexual male is interested beauty products or diapers.
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Are you sure this will work in Hotel Wifis? I tried in the past with Google stick and couldn't get it to work because of something with getting both devices on the Wifi. I think it had to do with the fact that you needed to open a browser to accept some terms before allowing the device access to the network.

And then there's the issue of hotel WiFi having enough bandwidth to stream efficiently without stutter.
Mozilla addresses this problem by requiring all CAs to disclose every intermediary certificate they've issued.

CT will hopefully become widespread, given Chrome will kill EV indicators without it.
The most amazing thing here is the USB-to-AUI converter. Wish I could reach the cached page for that.
“Most of you have browsers, and most of those browsers show you advertisements, and I’m very puzzled about why. The advertisements are annoying most of the time, they slow you down, they injure the concentration that you bring to whatever task it is that you’re doing, and there’s no reason why they show you advertisements; my browser doesn’t show me any advertisements. I don’t see any ads when I read The New York Times, or go to wherever it is that you are happy going to, because my browser has Adblock in it, and that pretty much ends the story. Even in this town, many of you, indeed, I would guess, most of you are probably using the Firefox browser. That means you’re two clicks away from not having any advertising on the net anymore. All you need to do is google “Adblock Plus”, and say “I’m feeling lucky”, [Laughter] thank you very much. Now you know why my friends – and they are my friends – at the Mozilla Foundation are paid tens of millions of dollars every year by Google – basically, not to bundle Adblock Plus into the default distribution of Firefox.

But you also know why all the talk about advertising supported models on the web is just talk, and why it is that in the end, all of those models are fated not to work. Because in digital media, when you give people knowledge, you can’t force them to take advertising, because digital media are filterable – that’s the beauty of them.”

— Eben Moglen, Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons, 2009-03-13

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Software:_Parad...
> Automatic ad clicks can get that site banned (i.e. Adsense will surely do that)

And that's a huge weakness that deserves more attention: You can easily ruin your competitor's ad business that way.

Maybe this extension is a valid way to draw attention to that weakness?
There's a big difference between Google's AdWords and other advertising (including Google's AdSense). I universally oppose all advertisements (in the seconds sense), I even think that billboards in public should be banned. Advertisement like that is just pollution of the mind. However, However, I don't consider AdWords or bulletin board ads "advertisement" in the same sense of the word, because it's just showing you something you already want to see. If I'm searching for upcoming concerts, I want to see information/ads about upcoming concerts :)
This is a phenomenally well-done software and I am too using it for daily backups, but it's likely not what OP wants with his "disk-wide" conditional. He needs something that does full-system backups, e.g. http://ax64.com
As if to underscore the point...
Bear in mind this cycle:

Disruption starts --> Early Adopters modify behaviour --> If huge, global population adopt as well --> Disillusionment, new needs coming up --> New disruption would be needed then, but corporations are slow and clumsy and sometimes are not able to adapt as faster as the market does.

This is the case of Amazon as it's been the case of many more in the past. You cannot eternally grow without decreasing your value at some time, reformulating your value proposition and launching your new proposal to the market.

So this is normal to me. Nothing strange. What sounds weird to solve the problems they are facing is their new proposal: a non-online store :/
In addition, the overzealous, erratic clicking originating from an obscure extension could make it pretty easy to detect these users.

The only result would be filtering out their traffic from counting towards any PPC ads and more accurate tracking of the individual users. There isn't an upside to running this extension.
I am trying to be a tech evangelist because I love to motivate people. I love to spread the message of technology. I am also a software engineer with deep roots in code. I love building stuff, although I am bit teared up between leading engineers and building the product myself. One thing is sure, I a not a Manager. I can lead a tech team but not manage them. Another thing that is clear is I am in love with technology, madly in love.
That may well be true in general - twin studies are certainly not the end all of distangling genetic and environmental effects. But if you read the studies results, I think the difference in correlation effect size speaks for itself. In general, identical twins correlate with r value of ~0.5 and non-identical twins with <0.1.

The authors interpret the low correlation in non-identical twins as evidence that the traits being studied are weakly (if at all) influenced by environmental factors that non-identical twins are subjected to. They then infer (assert, w/e) that this level of weak environmental influence also extends to the set of environmental factors that identical twins are subjected to. Now, obviously as you point out, there are environmental factors that are more or less unique to identical twins, but I feel that its unlikely (and so did the authors) that these identical twin specific factors contribute significantly the vast difference in correlation between the two classes.
Same article submitted with its original url discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8459264
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> "I knew because I’d had so many anomalies over the past year and a half, two years that somebody was interfering with the computer."

She's saying that she believed it to be infected for two years, and she didn't replace the PC, or do anything to remedy the 'bug' during that two years? Real genius we've got here. If this is the kind of critical thinking she brings to her journalism, I'm sure her book is going to be a great read.
I'm not convinced that StackOverflow is a good example. The economics of this "HuffPo" model (no ad revenue actually flows to the content producers) seem unsustainable in the long run.
... since I've paid to access the Interwebs

You're paying for data transport, you're not paying for the content.
>"for a long time HTML table tags bidirectionally implied table layout" //

You're right, tables are fine for tabular data. But it was always thus.

Perhaps if you were a html noob and hung out listening to people pissed off with table layouts you'd get confused and think all tables were bad (you definitely want a graphical layout helper app though as keeping track of them in code is a PITA).

It was

table tage |- table layout V tabulated data

rather than just

table tage |- table layout
I agree http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/02/postels-law-not-sure-... . Correct code remains correct under various compositions and transformations (that may happen in the future). Code that is working only due to pity often does not have this property. Some Netflix style chaos-monkey that turns on and off strictness during testing would be cool.
I dunno, what about Chromebooks? Firefox OS seems like it's the same sort of idea, but targeted at phone instead of laptops.
Thats not an argument for Amazon though.
Doesn't the ad network get that information already when you load the ad?
No, it isn't. Ad networks would have a clearer picture of sites that people visit (albeit a muddier picture of ad preferences).
The form factor of the Fire TV is still small enough to easily hide, though, but I agree.

One thing I noticed with the Fire TV is that it very much feels "expensive". Very sleek and polished shiny black box and heavy for the size. They may very well be trying to hit different niches that way.
Yes, but mostly because it's probably untrue.
Amazon is pretty good for 'content' stuff - movies, music, and of course books. I'd consider buying this, but the phones and tables are, IMO, inferior compared to the Nexus equivalents for anything but Amazon Video.
"our cellular printing api has printed over 9300 food orders for our client restaurants, stadiums and golf courses"

Am I the only one who read this as a system using 3D printing to print food? Disappointed to discover it's not that kind of cellular.
Counterpoint: I joined my last company with very little programming experience. With a great mentor and lots of work I was 'decent' in 6 months. I worked closely with the other developers and handled one of the big features of our app by myself.
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If someone makes a claim, and their only evidence to support that claim is saying "Trust me," then their history of making claims is relevant. If they are not trustworthy, then we should insist on evidence other than their word.

I also find your comment odd, because by the end you seem to be taking it at face-value that she was spied on. Personally, I'm dubious for the reasons Thomas stated.
Those worried about supporting content creators - there are other ways to do this( e.g. Flattr).
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I think its an attempt at anarchism. This on any scale might render their data useless. Of course they might just ignore all data from this user meaning it changes nothing.
This is not a good idea... it will get sites you frequent possibly put into review by their ad networks. By clicking ads every time you visit their page, they will grow suspicious quickly... at least Google Adsense will... potentially freezing or seizing all funds in the adsense account (the opposite reaction to the spirit of this product)
"There is no moral imperative for me to view ads since I've paid to access the Interwebs"

When I go to McDonald's, I don't pay for my Big Mac. I already put gas in my car!
I would support this if I believed sites would start paying the people who write for them.
Looks like she's using Hollywood OS :-)
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HollywoodOs
http://www.steampunk.demon.co.uk/hollywoodos.htm

Quoted from the site:
"A user may delete a file that is used by someone else, and force their screen to stop displaying it"
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Worse, as ad networks can--and do--block publishers for click fraud.
I don't pretend to know what will come next, only that the UX and beauty of anything I do on a phone or a browser is severely diminished by the presence of ads. I will go to great lengths to make them go away.

For these reasons and more, it strikes me as likely that advertising as a business model has a limited shelf life. It will exist only so long as there is no better alternative and not one moment longer.
Why do you say that? There still isn't an Amazon Instant Video for Android; it's only available on FireOS devices.
Agreed.

People forget, we half-stumbled into this ad supported content idea. The only thing keeping it that way is inertia. I think we've finally started to feel the limits -- it means being tracked 24-7.

Enough already. We can do better than this.
Luke Harding, a journalist for the Guardian who covered the NSA, makes a similar claim:

>I was writing a chapter on the NSA's close, and largely hidden, relationship with Silicon Valley. I wrote that Snowden's revelations had damaged US tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping.

>Over the next few weeks these incidents of remote deletion happened several times. There was no fixed pattern but it tended to occur when I wrote disparagingly of the NSA. All authors expect criticism. But criticism before publication by an anonymous, divine third party is something novel. I began to leave notes for my secret reader. I tried to be polite, but irritation crept in. Once I wrote: "Good morning. I don't mind you reading my manuscript – you're doing so already – but I'd be grateful if you don't delete it. Thank you." There was no reply.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/edward-snowden-...

It doesn't seem absurd to me that something like this could be done to intimidate or gaslamp journalists.
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Chrome is practically forcing CA's to adopt CT by removing green address bars for non-CT certs.
There is something also mean-spirited about tracking users. Yeah, yeah, I've heard it's all anonymous, but I've been in the IT industry for a very long time, and I know for a fact they can identify the users with enough time. Because all of this is bought and sold behind the scenes.

I would be OK with ads that went straight to the site selling an item with no tracking other than click-thru stats but not using the IP address, not fingerprinting the browsers, etc.

It's sick that sites show one price to mobile users and another to desktop users. I've seen this by testing it myself. It's a sham. It's the seedy side of capitalism. Everyone should get the same price. Another reason to block ads, since allowing them means you're buying into the way they do business.

Nothing mean-spirited about blocking a very strong vector for malware, which we all know ad networks have become. I have a moral imperative to protect machines under my control, so we block all ads, disallow all tracking, use Disconnect, Ad Block Plus, and HTTPS Everywhere, along with other in-place tools to allow users a clean Internet experience. Let's not even mention how much bandwidth is saved by adblocking... That alone makes it worth it.
No. Wells Fargo is on every CA's high risk list. Even if you were able to pass the validation for the domain it would be flagged and you would have to go through a lot more checks.
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Strongly agree. Ads (and even ads placed by primary distributors and authors) hijacked the internet without permission from browsers/surfers and routinely have additional negative consequences. The reader doesn't need permission to defend themselves.
I've stopped watching the Daily Show and Colbert from their respective web sites for that very reason.
Of course, but that's kind of a point of this extension. It doesn't only want to block ads, but actively fight against them. (or as I understood it, against those ads which do user tracking).
You should check your Twitter history, maybe there was late night drunken "I need to talk to Taco Bell right now" involved :)
My comment was mainly about serviceWorker.ready.then.
I've never seen a JS API using such pattern - the name of the event as a property which is a promise.

A manager object/class also usually rings a bell.

Not that I'm an API specialist but I would rather implement it as:

document.addEventListener("serviceready", function() {

window.pushNotification.register().then(.....
The only reason I have installed ABP is google's youtube ads. All the other websites are suffering because of google's politics with youtube, since I encouraged all of my friends to do the same thing, just to watch youtube quietly.

I would really like to use this project, though, on websites with paywalled articles, not on others, but I would never bother creating or maintaining a black/white list. So I might just go ahead and install it.. :P
And there are also many donation-supported sites out there.

Ads are, to me, unsolicited. You can maybe imply that by visiting your site I'm requesting them, but that'd be twisting it. Whereas donation is more user-initiated and/or site requested.
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I wish companies would quit making hardware and just make apps for the existing hardware. I am so tired of having to have multiple boxes.
They don't get any information if you use the hosts file to send all the requests for their (sub)domains straight to localhost or even /dev/null
Are you doing anything about it? I mean, personally, I listen to about a half dozen podcasts, but haven't signed up for any of their monthly "donations" (most have re-occurring payments from paypal or amazon to help support the network/show). I do occasionally click through one of their product endorsements based on their review (often tagged with amazon affiliate links), so that is a small part.
It's worth noting that a decent amount of web advertising's "value" is based on viewability, not click through rates.
I can't wait to see how hackable these things are. Decent processor, HDMI out, WiFi, 1GB RAM… pretty decent package.

I know there are other cheap android sticks out there but one with a remote for $39 is pretty tempting.
Clearer picture? I think just loading the ad is enough info for finding out what sites are visited. This just makes clicks less valuable.
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This is great if your audience has money to spare for that purpose. What if your audience doesn't?
Do ads in a newspaper "hijack the real world"?
Have you applied to jobs? What happened?
Their hypothesis is that bad data (I click everything) is worse for the ad networks than no data (ad blocker).

I suspect the hypothesis is wrong for two reasons. Those clicks make the network money, and a small percent of bad data across their network is noise.
But that is the point - they want to actively fight against ads who do tracing, and by extension, against sites using those ads.
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It could just be that they underestimate the degree that identical twins are driven to duplicate one another's mannerisms. Did they try to measure it? Or just dismiss it.
Are there any languages out there that handle scale and many connections like Erlang does, but with an easier to swallow syntax?
They ought to implement DIAL (aka Google Cast). Then, instead of their pitch being "specs you don't care about have bigger numbers than Chromecast," it could be "everything that's great about Chromecast, and then some."
> There is no moral imperative for me to view ads since I've paid to access the Interwebs

I dislike the ad model but this is dangerously wrong: you pay your ISP for transit – unless you're subscribing to a specific site, nobody else gets a dime from you to pay for their costs. Unless subscriptions or micropayments catch on, that means that sites are either going to rely on ads or will be limited to organizations with significant other revenue streams – neither of which is a particularly healthy prospect.
> Powerful performance—4x the storage and 2x the memory of Chromecast, plus a dual-core processor and 1 GB of memory.

This one line shows that they really don't "get" the appeal of a Chromecast. Even as a techie I really don't care what specs a Chromecast has, I just want it to "just work" and it does "just work."

If Amazon's one "just works" then that is good. But the fact they're trying to shove too much into it (games, remote, tons of apps, etc) suggests to me that they're over-thinking it and it will require more prodding.

Chromecast does one thing and it does it REALLY well (and inexpensively). More companies could learn a thing or two.

PS - Amazon locking Amazon Digital into their own devices is pathetic. All it does is decrease the value of their own services, it doesn't increase the value of their hardware.
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here you go.

http://tech.mattmillman.com/wp-content/files/axaui_m1.pdf

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_rBACik...
relevant: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/service-drains-competitor...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086937
Not buying it. In western nations, letting journalists "know" that you can access their computers is about the stupidest thing a "government-related entity" can do. It hardly ever works, produces a ton of backlash, and just imagine trying to do this with a few thousand journalists covering political topics.

I mean, granted, intelligence agencies can do things as stupid as any other governmental agency, but there is a limit to "covert" operations. Controlling western media on a useful scale is way beyond this limit.
I sympathize with anyone who doesn't have the technical knowledge to know whether a given ad is benign or malignant, or even what the real differences are between the two. For that crowd, the unregulated ad-based market (the web) can feel quite predatory, and an adblocker can feel like a very sensible default protective measure. If there were other trustworthy protective measures in place, that gave a user confidence that a given ad or a given page wouldn't do anything alarming or insecure, maybe adblockers wouldn't be necessary.
NoScript and domain blocking using the hosts file is the best I've found to stop tracking. AdBlock is such a resource hog...