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#GoogleFAIL
> revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account

I honestly don't know what people are thinking while enabling that.

No, Seriously?
Take a look also at FoundationDB, very promising DB with a good performance and scalability.
I've reported a crime to the relevant FBI division, in which I could point out exactly where the money was went (same city, local bank) and provide proof of the fraud.

Action taken: none.
I don't know, I've had one tab cause other tabs to crash all the time, which is something that confused me considering the supposed isolation that should be happening.

edit: not sure why I've been dv, but I'd like to add that one thing I've noticed is that this will usually happen when I open links in a new tab, somehow all those tabs become linked and if one becomes unresponsive they all do. For those who claim I should stop opening links in new tabs, I say: welcome to 2004, this is the whole purpose of tabbed browsing. If you;d like to try to reproduce this: go to facebook and open the first ten links in your newsfeed in new tabs (either by middle clicking, ctrl+click, or context menu) I don't normally do more than one or two at a time but ten will force the issue. then go to another tab that isn't connect to those other 11 it'll work fine while those 11 will look like they're on pause.

Note: I haven't tested this in other browsers.
Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline
I really like the Spritz-style technology, which allows me to read with high retention at 750+ WPM and skim casually at 900+ WPM, up from around 575 WPM and 700 WPM respectively, with other technologies.

I don't like to see them stopping open source versions, but at the same time they have little else to protect their algorithm, which brought some significant advances in the speed reading (RSVP) space that hadn't changed for years.

As screens get smaller with devices like smartwatches, this type of technology becomes even more important and may even be a requirement for reading text longer than a few sentences on such a small screen.
We tweaked the copy a bit. Would love your suggestions on something better. Thanks for the constructive feedback!
>but that they apparently have their ears.

How so? Anybody can contact the FBI.

And when that "someone" happens to be a massive, multi-billion dollar bank reporting a "crime", then I sure hope that they have the FBI's ears.
Cryptography for Kids
Would be hard to fit a petrol station in everybody's home though.

edit - was also thinking that providing extra plug-in points on the side of your property to sell rooftop solar or grid at a premium, as part of a global charger sharing network, is probably going to happen eventually and has a good business plan in there somewhere.
I wonder if he can create a Missingno this way.
Bookmarks, extensions etc. are all missing in Incognito windows.
The biggest problem is they needed to be the "Backend" here. If they just got a cut of the 30% LSAT/SAT sites and those sites simplified their stack it would be a win all around. Look at AirPair, Their core product was their network using hipchat and Hangouts to accomplish the goal. If sites could leverage this technology (read: google marketed it as such, a technology, not and end product) I'd suspect some of those sites would have leveraged it.
I guess I see journalism the old-fashioned way: you're not an expert on everything, but you do research and distill the concepts for regular readers.

This guy clearly didn't do research. Yes, Chrome uses a massive amount of memory, but that was originally a feature. Most people had way more memory than they needed at any given time, so Chrome heavily used memory to decrease processing time and therefore improve rendering speed. It also split into many processes to insulate each part of the browser from crashes and security holes.

Now that the age of SoCs/tablets/etc is upon us, people don't have as much extra memory as they did when Chrome first arrived. That may have an impact on how usable Chrome is (don't know if it's smart about "dialing down" its memory usage).

But this guy didn't mention any of that. Like a modern "journalist", he just wrote about his own anecdotal experiences without learning about the underlying concepts.
You need to pass a checksum, but you don't need to use (ed: display) the nintendo logo to do so.
I'll give it a shot. Its about a difference in expectations for success, specifically how Google's differ from its users.

So what obligation does Google have to keep the service alive? None. But the spirit and marketing of the site was to connect and create a community of people helping each other. And Google is going to destroy that community for (probably very reasonable) business reasons.

I guess I would like Google to give a warning that if a site doesn't reach some n DAUs then the service won't take off. It might give some people pause before putting a lot of work into something they ultimately don't have control over.

I feel users have a legitimate cause to be upset when a site is closed -- this was a real community that because Google couldn't make enough money off them, is gone.
this has been the case with all of us, and what is even worse, the google has developed a steady habit of screwing things up, and it does not even consider the risks involved., the risks here being the user adoption/retention/abandonment. cough barely anyone cares for users anyway, these days.

But from a business point of view it's dire mistake, but it's kind of outrageous too in some way, when you would promise one thing and do another.

anyway fuck users, what about the competitors, Google perhaps is the most alienated enterprise of its size anyway too. Not because they were totally unreasonable, just because google have no respect for any of them.
So if all this is so great, how come so many people are going to great lengths to eliminate HFT with the exception of the people that make money from it? If it was offering such a valuable service, wouldn't people want it to be there even if they weren't the ones profiting from it? Flash Boys has been panned by HFT people, not people trying to trade stock fairly.
Not very much. If you are big, you want big fills. You need market makers for that - i.e., you need what HFT's are selling and would be worse off without them.

Of course if you are time insensitive, you can certainly play games. This basically means running your own HFT strategy, but biased in the direction of the trade you want. You'll also opportunistically take liquidity if the fill you want is in the book.
A major step forward in Bitcoin security
>Just because a bank says you're stealing doesn't make it so.

Of course it doesn't. That's the job of the FBI and legal system to determine.
Wondering if anyone knows if current state of manufacturing, maintaining, and disposing batteries actually is actually more ecological than using gasoline?

I'm sure the potential of batteries to be more ecological and efficient is there, but the general assumption seems to be that they are already there and I'm not too sold on that idea yet.
asston?
Frankly I have more memory than I need for most tasks so I don't mind this trade-off.
No need to be negative, but this was a failure from the beginning. I tried a number of times to "helpout" but was not accepted. I'm no industry expert, but I do have some things to freely offer and thought it was weird that I had to wait and wait and wait to become accepted and by the time that happened, I was no longer interested.
Matter of opinion. Like Tabasco.
The feature has always been in Firefox (I remember using it before Firefox 1.0), just well hidden. These days, I use the add-on profilist to make switching between profiles trivial in Firefox.
> No-one is saying that anyone should be forced to do anything.

That's actually exactly what they are saying...
Markov bot trained use Jeb Bush's emails
Signed extensions also seem like a nice addition

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing...
...did you not read anything I just wrote?
There are several; vimperator has been around since before chrome even existed.
I'm currently writing a game in C99.

Compilation times, no need for inheritance and the fact that most libraries I'm using are written in C were the reasons I chose C over C++ or something else.
Thanks, we worked hard to get there :)
Why the holy flying fuck would anyone give someone they met on the Internet the ability to impersonate them? That's like online safety 101, right after not giving out your home address and vacation schedule.

Especially when that someone already has a bad reputation like linkedin has.
Dear fellow, if you - Oh, screw with the wordplay. I use Linkedin as a friendly reminder of who I know and how they are positioned careerwise. I'm pretty sure in case I need a new job I can contact the people I know and something will turn up. People who know me professionally respect my skills and I don't need to flaunt them around github or anywhere else.

I'm sorry, but it's just not about skills but who one knows and Linkedin is a really handy rolodex.

Rather than write stuff to Github, a much better advice to build career is to do a good job at ones current gig and co-operate and respect your colleagues. Those are the references one needs to get a job. Not a random github account with yet another blog engine. Unless the repo is really astoundingly good and usefull and called 'Clojure' or in that caliber.

Just like in startup scene, small time players like individual engineers want to target a niche. The easiest niche to reach are ones colleagues. And I don't mean this in a sociopathic sense,just that be professional, be good at what you do, don't be a dick and remember the people you work with will be around for a long time to come.
just a naive question---on the mac, what's the issue with Safari? Seems really fast to me. Also I love the Reading List feature.
It sounds stupid, but scotch tape on the lock switch really helps.

It was my 'fix' when one of my readers had a broken lock detector arm, and read all cards as locked even if they weren't. The scotch tape on the card fixed it :)
I misread this as Google Hangouts.
Or more dangerous, as fewer people die from traditional causes, unemployment becomes a more significant factor.
This brought back some memories.

In the GBA days I saw a schematic to link the GB classic to a parallel port[0] and asked my older brother (I was still a child) to build it because I dreamed of trading my Pokémon online, just tunneling the data over the internet.

Unfortunately the GB link was engineered to work under low latencies only and my dream was crushed. I'm not sure if it was the games lacking support for lagged packets or if it was the hardware, but it just didn't work. It worked for local communication with an emulator, though!

Maybe now, with low-latency fiber all around, my dream is feasible? Contemporary Pokémon games are internet-ready so I guess it's not worth the effort, but it might be fun to live that dream again :)

[0] http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/gb2pp7.gif
> the culture-specific BC/AC split

Any dating scheme is going to be culture-specific. The point you pick to be "year zero" is always going to be a point in time that's culturally valuable.

> The ascendance of the net is the beginning of the real CE.

That's an assertion that a marker you find culturally important (as a techie) is more meaningful to you than a marker that other people find culturally significant.

You could just as well choose the Before Present dating scheme, which defines "present" as 1 January 1950, roughly the point in time when the number of atomic explosions made radiocarbon dating obsolete (and the beginning of an astronomical epoch). But that is also culturally-specific, relative to the concerns of a certain epistemic community.
the main reason why I never switched to Chrome is the Google process that is always running whether you are currently using Chrome or not.. but I don't think I had any issues uninstalling it a few years ago
The historical FF record: https://areweslimyet.com/
I don't understand how Gmail allows it. I assume they've gotten enough complaints about it being abused to prohibit or strictly limit access with at least warnings before actions can be taken.
How One Woman Makes Almost $1M a Year on Etsy
Foucault's pendulum: I love that book. The adventures of Casaubon and al entertain me to no end. I've read it many, many times cover to cover, I've typed in (in 1987) and run the BASIC program generating God's name, I've read encyclopedias for details on the countless trivia in the book. really it's my favorite Eco. It's so clever you feel smart just reading it, it's so choke full with interesting stuff, so funny and ironic and meta-referential...
That seems to be the opinion espoused in the article. It was legal due to a "loophole".

> I guess that makes sense if the reason the FBI didn't have probably cause was because they should have known that, even if everything Goldman alleged, he still wouldn't have broken any laws.

From the article:

> On December 28, 2012, President Obama enacted the Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act of 2012, which clarifies the scope of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (18 U.S.C. §§ 1831-39). The newly enacted amendments are intended to reverse the recent Second Circuit decision in United States v. Aleynikov, 676 F.3d 71 (2d Cir. 2012).

The only way that statement makes sense is if the author believed that the FBI failed due to a lack of the acts alleged by Goldman Sachs being a crime. Imo, anyway.
I would say they're not even trying to serve mobile users anymore, except that ruining the mobile experience this badly takes a lot of effort.
https://twitter.com/lwahonen/status/566315464825913344
This.

We tend to cheer for social justice against government abuse of power, but we're always the ones footing the bill.

Settlement and damage costs should come out of the agent's salaries across the entire organization.

Maybe police officers will stop shooting black teenagers if everyone on the force is docked $5000 for each application of lethal force.
I had no idea that I granted them permission to send email through my account, I thought I had restricted them to the address book. I made a mistake.
Definitely. You can fill the data structures to make any Pokémon imaginable (Missingno was just particularly odd data), store it in the Arduino ROM (instead of grabbing the traded Pokémon) and let the magic happen.

This made me think of real-life Pokémon vending machines :) Or even recreating a physical Bill's PC!
I believe the point is that if a barrier to produce 'a thing' is raised, people will be less likely to produce more of 'a thing'.
Lob API + Autopilot = automated direct mail
Well at least there's a reasonable explanation, and even if I don't like it for myself, as an IT guy I totally understand where they're coming from.
Austinite here. Here's what's available to us:

Time Warner is the most available and is the only cable option for many people.

Grande Communications is available in a few, selected areas.

Google Fiber is slowly becoming available across the city, one neighborhood at a time, but is not available to most at the moment.

AT&T U-verse is also an option, but the impression I've gotten is that Time Warner is still much faster.
That's nice. But does it have supermarkets, cafes, physicians and schools within walking distance? The article omits to say.

This is important. When Lisbon expanded in the 1960s the newly built-up areas were designed so that primary schools and churches were always within walking distance, as these were the centers of community. And apartment blocks had shops on the ground floor.
So did someone share it on LinkedIn yet?
I agree 100%, I think the article is worthless, as a journalistic piece.

However, if you treat it as a blog post, and one that's likely to be parroted by other users of his same ability, it's a decent canary for popular opinion.
I put it on my site, but no one used it. It was on the sidebar of every page. People just clicked on the "tutoring" page instead.

I'm not sure it would have worked for LSAT/SAT at all. People seem to want to talk to a human before they book a lesson, since they're expensive.

In theory, people could find it very useful to consult an expert for five minutes. But in practice the sort of people who would want to do that don't even look for a tutor. The typical tutoring students wants hours. If the client is a parent, then they're looking to hand off the problem to an expert. (For almost all SAT tutoring, the client is a parent.)

Could you see this working outside of a technical niche?
I switched to Chrome very soon after it came out, and I've been happy with it for the most part for years. I typically have dozens of tabs open at a time if not more and it's never been a problem, until the last few months when Chrome on Linux has started becoming unstable after running for a day or so to the point that I can't rely on it working for anything but Gmail. Other pages, even simple ones, will blow up with the Chrome BSOD until I completely restart it. I used to be able to leave things up for literally months. How this makes sense with Chrome's process architecture, I do not know. On Windows I haven't had these problems, and maybe it's just a particular combination of libs at fault, but I may soon switch to Firefox on my Linux box at least just to avoid the hassle.
Just so you know, there are very few situations where one should produce a graph from a set of points by spline interpolation (at least in the natural sciences). It almost never is the right choice, if you don't have a model for how the graph you are sampling looks like you shouldn't draw lines between points at all.
I think that's the same thing people say when they pay African Americans less money too.
> The Helpouts community includes some engaged and loyal contributors, but unfortunately, it hasn't grown at the pace we had expected.

(from helpouts.google.com)

Google feels more and more like a company that suffers from gigantomania (a nice service "hasn't grown at the pace we had expected" - so it should be no less than Google Search?) on the one hand, and inability to bring new products to the market on the other.

I have a theory that there is no such thing as bad idea. Any initial idea, be it seemingly good or bad in the beginning, requires refinement, development and a lot of solid work. If you look at any successful product or service today, the initial idea wouldn't have necessarily be qualified as good. It's a thousand of new derivative and auxiliary ideas that make the original one interesting and eventually also successful.

So according to this theory, if a company shuts down its own products one after another, and screws up others that used to work well - that company is clearly malfunctioning. In case of Google it doesn't seem to be bad engineering, in fact Google can be considered one of the top few companies in the world in terms of technical quality. It seems to be more on the product management side.

Google, you need to change, fast. I have a feeling your countdown timer may have started already.
You mean one main "firefox" process that holds all tabs and one child process that holds all plugins (Flash, Acrobat).

So if one tab hangs (e.g. WebGL demo) then still the whole Firefox is slow as hell. Firefox should finally spawn child processes for every other tab with less permissions ("sandbox" technique) so that if one tab hangs or crashes every other tab and the UI still is responsive. It seems we have to wait for Rust based Servo engine to get that feature - but that would also rescue us from XUL based UI (FirefoxOS already has an HTML5 based UI).
"Yeah, sure I'll just switch from LinkedIn to GitHub..."

What?
You are right, http://huu.la is using server rendering and prefetching technique, which makes the ux x00% better than this one.
I would have thought the same about SVN.. When confronted with a mixture of money, ignorance and fear, all bets are off.
Chronologically it's the other way around I think: Vimium was inspired by the Firefox plugins Vimperator and Pentadactyl.

(The one I mentioned, VimFx, is more recent and more minimalistic that either Vimperator or Pentadactyl.)
One thing I'm less clear on is what will happen after 1.0.

Is there a "post 1.0 wishlist" somewhere?
>I've reported a crime

Your unverifiable anecdote doesn't hold much weight, I'm afraid. But do you really believe random-guy calling the FBI should warrant as much attention as multi-national financial institution reporting a potential crime?

People are complaining as if GS putting the FBI on people is rampant. As far as I'm aware it has happened this once (though I'm open to other tales) and an over-zealous investigator tried to make a name for himself and messed it up royally.

I agree, what they did to this poor fellow is disgraceful, but let's not pretend that the justice system doesn't have a habit of railroading people when they desire a suspect. That's the real tragedy.
Funny you should ask: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/labels/A-wishlist

We have not done any scheduling for what comes after 1.0. I've been doing a huge amount of triage to move over issues that used to be in rust-lang/rust to be under that label, too, and to make it more detailed than just 'wishlist.' We'll figure out exactly what's next shortly before the first post-1.0 cycle actually begins.

http://users.rust-lang.org/t/most-coveted-rust-features/324 was a thread created recently, asking people what they want the most. You might find that interesting too.
Compuserve/the well->Prodigy->theGlobe->geocities->friendster->myspace->facebook->[fill in the blank]->
Wow, that's fantastic and unexpected news. Is the FDA doing surprise inspections all over? Like, Sun buying them, then letting things stay bad, pretty much indicates they rather complicit. Or is it thought they wanted a "dirty" division to try tricks in, while keeping an otherwise clean company?
I think it is modeled in terms of endogenous vs exogenous entry. But I might be wrong, please correct me if I misunderstood.
I agree with most of this and it echos some of my own behavior; except for the never ask for help advice. Absolutes are an "advice smell" because the world is not black and white. I think you should ask for help after you've exhausted your own options, or there is a time crunch.

A few additions:

A rockstar tries to make everyone else into rockstars. they write up documentation, fill in tests, take notes at meetings for others to reference, and are the ones people go to for help.

The write code they write is crystal clear and easy to support, and sets an example in quality.
I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I'm working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn't find the features I needed and did not wish to change my workflow.

Back when Chrome came out Firefox was buggy. Since then it has become much more stable. Chrome is the one that's buggy now. One process per tab means that a bug in one tab does not take down the whole browser but it is much better to just fix the bugs and not crash at all.
I'll admit to not using Firefox extensively for several years, but I also have had zero issues with Chrome. The closest thing to an issue is that I really don't care for the profile name UI in the top right of the window, which they just added. That's certainly not enough to switch browsers over.
Because the "old way" was worse.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-give-us-your-email-passw...

I believe Facebook was the first site to ask users for their email passwords -- and to great effect, at least on their growth metrics.