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Edge runs a modified version of the trident engine, which is pretty peppy and drops all the legacy ActiveX stuff. It is absolutely not IE11. It also seems more secure. The recent IE 0-day patch last night doesn't apply to Edge, for example.

I have no idea if it will be successful, but kudos to MS on finally getting off the IE trainwreck. Now if only they'd release it for 7 and 8.
Excellent answer. I love these "gotcha" examples when taking something that should be relatively simple and trying to make it more complicated to prove, um, something.

I wish people would realize that making their CSS more complicated and bloated is not necessarily the answer.
Angular 2.0 is backwards compatible the same way that React is compatible with Angular 1.0... basically it's mainly just the new Router that makes it possible to use other libraries easier with 1.0.
I think I may not have made my point sufficiently clear: I'm well aware of the mechanics of VC funding. I wasn't talking about that, but rather specifically the label "lifestyle company". VCs tend to use the term as a pejorative, implying that a person who owns a business should not seek to improve their lifestyle. My observation is that the difference between the self-funded and VC-funded scenario, as regards "lifestyle" optimization is only who's lifestyle is being optimized (the business owner in one case, the VC and their investors in the other case). The VC isn't going to give up their fancy Sand Hill offices and the Tesla any more than the self-funded entrepreneur is going to give up their quality time with their kids and family.
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Is that illegal though? Sure, if you can PROVE it is done on purpose then maybe, but assuming you cannot then is it? Because if it is then any misconfigured version control or any employee that doesn't do what is expected of them is also breaking the law.
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It's these sort of articles that questions my use of Amazon for my retail purchases. Not just from the ethical standpoint of overworking people but also from the practical effect of getting most of what I want on time at a price I want because I can't say that Amazon today really does a good job on that front either.

For example, if I want to purchase electronic components for my PC New Egg still beats them every time in price and delivery times (imo). Anytime I buy something like a stick of RAM from Amazon I tend to get burned on the delivery time (unless I use Prime) or the price (certain third party retailers just run out of stock). So, I never trust Amazon with my component purchases.

Similarly, I'm finding their clothing section is getting more parse every year for plus sized clothing so I wind up buying socks from Sock Dreams, most outfits from Torrid (casual/off-work) or Lane Bryant (office-friendly/semi-formal) or some other retailer.

Oddly, Amazon still beats Zappos on large size shoes (Zappos use to be the goto retailer but not anymore they seem to have culled most of their stock of non-fetish large size shoes).

All this article and the NYT article just convinces me further that Amazon may become my retailer of last resort since all the thumbscrews in the world isn't worth anything if it comes down to a meager savings in price or time.
Then my C++ is no longer my chosen subset of C++, but rather the union of my subset and the subset used by the library. C++ is no longer "what you make of it" but what I make of it plus what the library author made of it. Bring in multiple libraries and you start to approach the entirety of the language again.
CERN had the option to negotiate for a traveling license and declined to do so.

The fact that there was a technically inferior workaround means jack shit. Yes, it's technically inferior, that's why you should pay for the real thing.

"A workaround to your licensing deal existed so I wasn't violating your licensing deal!" is nonsense.
The UK is also one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world. The government are happy to gouge you and it is getting worse almost by the month at present.
According to the government's own site, people on ILR without a BRP do not need one at any time unless they are moving their visa to a different passport [1].

I also do not see any mention of it needed to get employment
[2].

Having dealt with UK employment law indirectly I can see how your brother's (and subsequently your) employer might have gotten confused about the rules as they are not very clear (which just goes to show what a mess immigration law here is).

That being said, the whole system is unnecessarily expensive, bureaucratic and confusing. I am not sure how that necessarily makes it directly xenophobic though (there are many other government procedures that have a similar unnecessary complexity).

[1]https://www.gov.uk/biometric-residence-permits

[2]https://www.gov.uk/check-job-applicant-right-to-work
This is exactly it. Not only that, but quite a lot of the anti-immigrant sentiment is directed against Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslims - who are quite often second or third generation immigrants and therefore are full British nationals. The spousal income requirement is targeted against people making arranged marriages in those communities, for example.

Much of the rest of it is directed against EU nationals, who have a right to be here so long as we're in the EU. If the UK ever does leave the EU, immigration will be cited as a key reason.

Moreover, we fought off an attempt at imposing national ID cards, but the government is clearly going to bring them back in by imposing them on immigrants first.

(The "super premium" home visit visa service is clearly there for the benefit of the wealthy foreigners that pump the London property market and such like.)
I have something very similar to this called Synapse[1] which basically does the same thing. It's open source, free and customizable with extensions. Plus, I can incorporate DuckDuckGo[2] with it which will allow me to search through specific domains (like, thousands of them, not just a couple). So, I really don't see the point. It's not really cross-platform and doesn't support teams, but I don't really need those features at all.

[1] http://synapse.zeitgeist-project.com
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
> What exactly are you offering here other than reselling DigiCert?

1. We check your company registration, status, and DNS/whois and CSR while you apply - and before you pay.

2. Better CSR creation. There is no software to install, and no command line Q and A or clicking. You just paste a command onto your server, in either bash or pwoershell, then paste back the results.

3. We're massively faster than standard CAs. CertSimple deliver EV certificates in an average of 5 hours. The standard time for an EV cert is 7-10 days.

And a bunch more. See https://certsimple.com/about
This is not a 'fine' in the legal sense, it's a (most likely) contractually agreed penalty for non-compliance with the licence terms, or otherwise a settlement proposal. This is most likely a no brainer, from a legal point of view (it's how pretty much all specialty licence deals are constructed) - as I'm sure CERN's in-house councel has advised.

There is a reason this sort of thing is covered during orientation training. Sure, many people (especially those new to the real world like students) roll their eyes at it and think it's all just a bunch of mumbo jumbo; and OK, usually in practice it's not as strict as it seems at first, but that doesn't mean it's any less real.
I have to disagree here strongly. The statements published by Impact Team are heavily laced with vitriol towards the users of the service. I feel their statement about exposing ALM is just a loose attempt at claiming virtue around their act. I am quite sure it was not in any way the prime motivator.
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They must be telling the company her name if the charge is to be passed on. Otherwise she can simply not pay. I have read the article please do not swear at me even in acronym form.
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Insane euro labour laws are what help to keep us workers from breaking down here. Honestly, it's really a godsend.
The fact that otherwise intelligent people seem to genuinely think that AI would take over and run amok like the fucking Matrix or something is pretty ridiculous.
> So off I went there, handed in the form and paid the £65 fee. This then got displayed somewhere for a week so people can oppose it if needed (not that anyone in this country knew me...)

This is even more hilarious if you try to change your name in the UK. In most countries there are registrations where your names shows up, not so in the UK. You can change your name just by doing so. However there is a "deed poll" which makes it a bit more official though there is no requirement for the name change.

But that's the price you pay for not having a mandatory registry.
Serious question, isn't this what unions are for?
Code reviews people! Proper code review system in place prevents this!
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> The company was wrong. […] They have no right to demand a fine of CHF30000 be paid.

The company has every right to send a speculative or infringement invoice, the infringing party also has every right to ignore said invoice and try their chance in court.

> For one, they had a site license.

Which didn't cover the student's usage.

> For another, after investigating, they found it to be the stupid act of a naive student who

had likely breached CERN policy and was possibly a hazard to CERN's computer systems.
I'd like to understand more about the systems that require pager duty?

I don't work for AMZN, but as I understand it the internal infrastructure is highly service-ified, so (ideally) pager-duty activities are hopefully somewhat contained. And, I would imagine those issues relates to less-mature systems in play.

Which leads me to my impression: it's 2015, AMZN has been around for 20 years, and their warehouses weren't just propped up yesterday. If pager duty involves looking into more mature systems interacting with others, then those activities will only get worse over time. It becomes maintenance nightmare land, something you can only do by churning through people.

AMZN has some hard engineering problems to solve, but I wouldn't label it a top-notch engineering organization.
The text ends "Launching a web app? Get a high-assurance SSL certificate and still launch on time."

The moment you're deploying an _app_, you've already solved the hard problem that certificates are meant to help with. Just activate certificate pinning and you get a lot more security to boot.

CAs "help" in the case where you're navigating to a site via a URL bar and you have no other stored information to help identify them. An app is stored on your device already, and doesn't have a URL bar so you don't need to care about the colour of the lock icon.

Of course, in a world of apps and certificate pinning, the business model for CAs looks even more questionable than on the web. In theory, your bank's site should show a green lock and if you click on a phishing link, you get a nasty red one. In practice, you'll see red on your bank's page every now and then when they forget to renew their certificate and, to quote security researcher Peter Gutmann: "The only place you're guaranteed never to see a certificate error is on a phishing site. They don't use SSL at all, and people still visit them."
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I think it's still superior for equipping tools with a REPL. Say you're making something that has smart users who won't freak out about typing commands and editing a complicated config file to achieve advanced results, then it makes great sense.

Tk seems pretty pointless now. Wx obviates it, in my opinion.
Cars, and maybe off-grid houses, are way more exciting than a laptop which becomes obsolete almost as fast as its battery wears off anyway.
TLDR: Everyone always attributes it to JWZ, but it was actually coined by David Tilbrook.

It's not mentioned in the blog post, but David told me in 2007 that he said it at a EurOpen conference in Dublin circa 1985.

David also told me this is only his second favorite quote; the one he was most proud of, from 1981, was: "Software is the only business in which adding extra lanes to the Golden Gate bridge would be called maintenance."
I joked about starting a salary spreadsheet during my last week. Management wouldn't even make eye contact with me on the last day. :P
I know this is a little off-topic, but who is a good/trustworthy certificate provider with reasonable prices for certificates that are supported by Android and iOS browsers?
At the risk of making a slippery slope argument, it's impossible not to wonder how this boundary will continue to move (how many degrees of separation can be prosecuted from an actual crime). I'm sure the more extreme advocates of this prosecution will try to draw parallels to "What if someone put a bomb making guide online"; but this illustrates the point well: When the original feinstein bill to make illegal distributing bomb making information was put into place, it was not long after that corporate interests wanted to move the needle such that financial damages were protected in similar form, in this case from CD cracking.

We've now moved one step further, pursuing those helping people find ways to help them do an illegal act (my own opinions aside, it's still illegal), and while this can be very readily justified as simply expanding the scope of investigation for involved parties, I have two primary concerns.

- One, where do you draw the line? As a sister post jokingly put it, google should clearly be taken down for facilitation too. But perhaps it's not such an outlandish suggestion after all?

- Two, there are too many similarities in my mind to how prosecution in the drug war focused on end users, and the overwhelmingly negative outcome from that angle of attack; With the additional leveraging of some of the most extreme violations that can be brought against these individuals (as another sister post jokingly puts it, "those terrorists!"), I must again take the sobering reality from that joke in that we are further criminalizing acts that at the end of the day have EXTREMELY disputable damaging impact, and for practical purposes, entirely overturning the subjects lives (who, I have no reason to believe were not otherwise productive citizens; but no longer) in the pursuit of this crusade.

That was quite the rant. A bit of a conglomeration of a few subjects very close to heart, I guess.

Let me try and end this with a thought, however, more to the tune of what HackerNews wants to be:

Given that the pre-takedown content of the site is still present on Archive.org, I wonder how much of a statement it would be to start mirroring the content in a more "disposible" fashion across multiple providers, play a game of whack-a-mole. Or if something like Etherium, or another distributed system, is truly the panacea for content like this. It probably takes away from my earlier points in that I would support this form of dissent, but I can't help but see things like that and not want to "aim to misbehave."
Honestly, there are plenty of other options out there besides Angular and even React, despite the tremendous hype around it at the moment.

Aurelia seems to be the best ideas from Angular + the best ideas from the creator's previous framework, Durandal, in one framework with much cleaner syntax and much less complexity than both Angular & Angular 2.0.

Ember has made some big updates recently, rewriting their rendering engine to use a virtual DOM.

A lot of people still seem to really like Meteor.

Mercury, Mithril, Ractive, JSBlocks, etc. are all smaller, lesser known projects with a lot of potential.
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How do you know? I don't mean to be rude but I'm just curious as someone who applied and was rejected.

My team and I are planning on continuing on. Good luck to everyone else who is in the same boat!
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A web app is an application on the web ie accessible through a web browser.
It looks like the author is doing quite a bit of cherrypicking. How many of these features are "nice to have" vs critical? The only critical feature for me is getusermedia, as our application can't work without it. Edge supports it, but Safari doesn't.
_web app_, not _app_. Which commonly refers to web pages (accessed in the browser) that are an application, not an app that runs directly on the device. For native apps, certificate pinning is the right thing to do.
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The student didn't steal the license. He misused the license.

The license for his usage existed in the pool - it is only a combination of CERN security policies and the company licensing check limitation of their product that prevented proper identification and therefore infringement.

Sure there is violation, but the elephant in the room here is that a license was available and paid for so the company producing the software had been compensated. We are not in the grey area "but I would not have bought it anyway" where "stealing" could somewhat apply.
Thanks for that. I'll be keeping an eye on that one.
Love how the video starts with "Meeting? OK give me 5 minutes" and then shows how quick it is to create a prototype that even runs on hardware.
Namecheap is a reseller but they resell Comodo certs cheaper than Comodo does themselves.
Based on your comment, I did get the point because this is exactly what I was talking about.

Does the visa state "this visa is irrevocable, you will never have to do anything to be allowed to stay in the country, until the end of times, ever, we promise."? Maybe it does, and then I'm happy to be wrong.

In politics and legislation, there is no "promises", no "indefinite". Laws are the reflection of what society wants at a certain point in time - at least in functioning democracies. For everything, not just immigration.

I'm not saying it doesn't suck. I've had my fair share of dealing with immigration regulations and I know how awful it is, but it is foolish to think that a right to residency will never be questioned and subject to different rules. Only citizenship is definite.
>Product managers are potentially both the most helpful and potentially most damaging hire you can make, as you are ceding them control (if you do) over the very definition of the value your company provides.

I think it ties into what paul graham wrote about hackers making things for users. The more layers you have between the hackers and the users, there's more potentially that your product won't be that great. I've worked with product managers who supposedly talk to the users directly and channel that into the work us developers have to do but they always seemed to just copy the competitor or only make small changes whose value is questionable.

>An alternative approach is to get a company really involved, to where everybody on the team has input in the product, and that you source the ideas from everywhere, but yeah, somebody still has to drive it.

It's probably better to create the position of product manager from within.
Establishing baselines from the users current ip address to their alibi seems like a significant challenge.

If your traffic is being routed for interception, you would only be able to detect that if you had a preexisting baseline with your alibis.

If there are enough users, we could potentially crowd source baselines for different autonomous systems to the alibi network.
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That's true, but it doesn't really count if only one of the threads is eligible to run at any one time and all the others are blocked.
Nice advertisement post! (sarcasm)

The point of SSL is that traffic can't be snooped easily, and regardless of EV or domain validated, that works just as fine. EV is just another scam to charge more. It has no added value, just a nice green bar, which is a topping marketing scam.
In the US, that's the big difference between exempt and non-exempt. I'm glad I have a lower, less prestigious job because it's classified as non-exempt. That means if I'm on call, I'm paid for it. Which means the company really has to think "is it worth having this guy sit around in case something breaks?". It also means company policy prohibits me from having a company cell with email access, because I shouldn't be working off the clock. This lets me work on many side projects because at 5:00p, I'm done. If they need me to do more, they pay me more.

I won't say the system is perfect, but when the company incurs a cost for being legally obligated to pay more for more work, I think the employment social contract becomes more fair. Aside from top level executives (CEO, etc.), I'm not exactly sure I can find a reason that people should be classified as exempt.

Lawyers and doctors are the often cited examples of exempt employees. Sorry, if an attorney spends a few more hours one week on trial prep, his firm is billing for it, so pay him/her more. Similarly, if a surgeon's operation goes sideways and ends up taking two hours more, pay him/her more.

If the idea that any labor past 40 hours in a week was "free labor" for a company was discarded (or better yet, actually cost the company more than the first 40 hours, i.e., "overtime"), we could reduce the number of people who are working more than 40 hours per week and start hiring more unemployed people. On a micro-scale, does it make sense to have 4 people consistently working 50 hours each with 1 unemployed person, or does it make more sense to have 5 people consistently working 40 hours per week?

While you're at it, maybe 35 (or 30?) is the new 40?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Gradual_decrease_...
really...

if anything SDE are underpaid compared to the skills/competency they give in return..

We don't tell other professionals to take a pay cut cause a whole bunch of people are doing it tough...
CERN should try to mediate between the software company and the student.

The high fine of 30k was probably set because the company thought CERN was violating their licensing. For an institution or large company the size of CERN, 30k might be a justifiable fine.

If the company knew the infringement was done by a single student, they probably would not have set such a high fine.

Also, I doubt 30k would hold up in court as a reasonable fine, given that the student had access to the software anyway. Although him downloading the software illegaly shows some criminal energy.

But maybe I'm wrong and the company knowingly fined 30k for the single person's license infringement and CERN tried to avert that. Would be nice to know some more details.
> (I believe he's using one of Reddit's servers.)

Haha, definitely not a reddit server. It's just a linode VPS (that I use for a lot of other scripts and hosting personal sites and such as well).
Not really, the university may have paid it and then get the money from the student.