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> Starting April 2016, Chrome will continue to function on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.

Wouldn't it be better to stop functioning? Without security fixes, it will get hacked, and it would be better for everyone if compromised browsers weren't used.
10am-1pm, then again from 7pm-10pm

Obviously right now it is neither of those times, since I am oh-so-productively posting to HN. ;)
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Competing with them with a decentralized corporation is the only option here. They will manage to work around any boycotts by rebranding products through alternate channels.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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> Let's say an university want to bring in a Vietnamese teacher to teach about South-East Asian's studies.

Most universities (maybe all) are not subjected to the cap. Non-profits in general are not subjected to the cap.

The proposed change should only be for the non-cap exempt jobs anyway (which tend to be at for profit places).
The job of the scientific typesetter should not exist. Give me your reviews and your latex template (and only your latex template) and get out of the way.
I can't prove you wrong, much as I'd like to.
Why under your skin vs. say mounting it on a watch strap?
I suppose that's easy bordering on trivial for an attacker of sufficient skill. At least it used to be. Is that no longer the case?

If there is a blacklist in place, absolutely each and every one of the hundreds of CAs need to adhere to it. One mistake or one exception and I could still get a misissued certificate just as easily as ten years ago.

Google can probably get it revoked very quickly, but we all know how well that works in practice. The only saving grace for the CA system is key pinning, and that's the only reason all those corrupt and/or incompentent CAs were exposed lately. But key pinning is not enough in itself. It is complementary to your certificate validation path(s).
What pisses me off, as a condo owner who had this sort of language specifically written into my condo association documents is that it was essentially already there! It's there in condo documents, it's there in town laws and it's there in state laws. But it didn't specifically say "Airbnb or other short-term rental services", which seems to be what it takes to get anyone to actually pay any attention that what they're doing isn't wanted and in fact isn't legal.

"Anyone know what percentage of AirBnB is rentals, and how that would impact their revenue if they're phased out in 10 years?"
I'd love it if this data were accessible, but, alas, Airbnb has been very secretive about that (if they even have that data; they might be sticking their heads in the sand and playing dumb if/when their clients are busted for breaking the laws).
Americans over 30 are more unhappy than they’ve ever been
My mom's childhood friend who was a Holocaust refugee has no reason to lie to me (about not being able to go to any other country they tried to escape to), I think. But here, I pulled up some sources to placate you guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Jewish_Refugees_Museu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007091
They have an Intel Atom addon module thingie, but the CPU can only really run 2x4Gb best case, almost all of these will need separate software running on Xeons.
This is the reason we need strong net neutrality legislation. The biggest challenges were always going to be things like this that look incredibly consumer friendly but would be the beginning of dramatic shift in how the Internet works.
> Worth pointing out (for those of you not in the storage game) that these appliances, while cool, are pretty far from state of the art.

So basically you decided to go into this thread, post something that isn't possible for anyone here to corroborate and call the original post "far from state of the art"...to what end? What was the purpose of your posting? Just to toot your own horn? I don't get it.

If you want to talk about how awesome or state of the art your company does things then great do that. But your actual post? It just comes off as childish like someone showing off they can do something and you're that person that has to stand in between them and the people watching them to say you can do it too and better. Surely we've all seen those very awkward moments in sitcoms.

> We're (Dropbox) packing up to an order of magnitude more storage into 4U.

Are you sure? They can pack up to 180TB into 4U so you're saying DropBox can pack up to 1,800TB into 4U?
When I first created a facebook account in 2007, it asked for my email passord. I thought, "there's no way in hell I'm ever going to give that out to anyone and what kind of low-class outfit would ever ask.".

Then as I was using it and uploading pictures to it, the number of pictures I could load was reduced (eventually to one at a time per album) as it suggested I install special uploading software. I thought, "there's no way in hell I'm going to install anything on my machine just to upload pictures to some website and what kind of low-class outfit would ever require this let alone try to pressure me into it."

My impression of them has not changed one bit. I still have my account since I loath to imply a slight to my many contacts on facebook by leaving.

The idea of facebook is brilliant. It is so brilliant in fact that I think it prospers in spite of the fact that it is run by an absolute creep.
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This is a good summary:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vrAy9gMpMoS3uaVphB32uVXX...
I agree completely, having gone through this with my wife. It's easy to see how someone for whom English isn't their first language could have the best of intentions, yet still accidentally wind up on the wrong side of the law.
I don't have links to back it up, but I read just about every issue and I've never seen this viewpoint advocated in its print magazine.

Given the opinionated writing style, this is almost certainly a less-edited (or non-edited) "blogs" section in the same vein as the wild west that is blogs.forbes.com.
I see what you're saying, but I absolutely "get" what Go is doing – you're right that I don't care for the idiomatic approach that much!

I have enjoyed the gin API. In maybe 10 lines of code, I can build a fast HTTP service that can serve up a small single-page app. The same thing using e.g. Negroni feels like I'm writing more boilerplate for no apparent gain – and I'm a great opponent of writing boilerplate code.
Put some water instead of sand, a small turbine in the neck, and you may have an interesting power generator. Perhaps a portable light bulb?
Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts
Wait, what?

There are really people deluded enough to defend IS? Yeah, some controversial groups you might have a small amout of sympathy for, but we're talking murderous psychopaths that execute anyone they disagree with.

Aren't these the exact kind of individuals that most students and colleges should despise the most?

Honestly, this thing makes me despair for the future of humanity.
To a tiny universe of Reddit/XKCD readers perhaps.

In the rest of the world, for example at the offices of Con Edison, or in the city of Edison, New Jersey, he's still considered to be somewhat important.
This is, unfortunately, quite well-known in the oil spill management community. We've chosen to measure incident response using visible oil on the surface of the water, so the companies use a method which reduces that metric but causes exponentially more environmental damage throughout the water column.
Im not sure its a 90-10% split between the importance of infrastructure to business logic code in our case, but I don't think you necessarily need to make the distinction.

Something that I've run into a few times is when an FE will come up with a proof of concept that needs to be built out into something more robust, and it takes longer to build it out than to come up with the concept in the first place. This is often because the original POC is more or less a direct translation from pure math, while the real application needs to be worked into a multithreaded program for performance reasons. That often comes with significant changes to the way the business logic gets executed.

Software isn't merely a concrete implementation of pure mathematics. It is a logical system that bears some resemblance to math, but has a number of details (hierarchal memory model, network latency, etc...) that make it act quite differently. I think you can iterate on an idea faster and with fewer bugs if you treat it as a software problem from the get go rather than working on the idea and the software separately.

For example, I once had a frustrating argument with an FE about why a program he was working on wasn't working correctly. He thought I didn't understand the normal distribution and how the tails never quite reach zero. What he didn't understand is that the computer doesn't care what a normal distribution is supposed to be, if you try to deal with numbers on the order of 1e-100 in a float in c++, it might as well be zero.
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In other news, water is wet.
Even if they were old-n-busted, your network must also use a DNS resolving server that supports DNSSEC. So even if your client has the right stub resolver, the network you connect to determines whether your client can make a secure connection or not.

Good point! I didn't know that. Perhaps that's what you're running into, since Android 5.0 seems to be working fine for me? For a long time we all just used whatever DNS server we got from DHCP, but I think the time for that has passed. At this point we should choose our own recursive DNS provider, and reconsider using networks that don't allow that.
> University computing centers can donate storage space to the project

If we leave the publishing-as-a-business area, I wonder how much university libraries currently pay annually for their subscriptions. And I do wonder, if it would make sense for universities to let their libraries take care of archiving and publishing the respective uni's publications. Open-access everything, host it at home.
Ah, "racketeer" (written as "PAKETEP" in Cyrillics, iirc -- a borrowed word from English, but used to mean an individual extorting someone vs. organized extortion of a business) with a soldering iron or a clothes iron... the reason my parents for the longest time told me 1) never tell others we have a home computer 2) the model of our home computer was a "Sinclair" (it was actually a 386, but they were afraid I'd blab about having a computer in the first place... of course I blabbed about having a Sinclair, to someone who first volunteered information about having an actual Sinclair, leaving him confused as to why our Sinclair ran MS DOS and why I programmed it in Turbo Pascal...).

The general big fear was being burgled and tortured for money you were presumed to have had but actually didn't. I suspect this was the intent of the burglars: most any rational person would prefer to give up their money rather than being tortured with a soldering iron -- and these were heavy soldering irons used for repairing 220v home circuits (culture shock coming to the US: people didn't fix simple things like an outlet/switch failing to work, but I digress...) -- but the stories of those who didn't have money but were tortured and murdered anyway, made those who had the money (and might decide to volunteer only a portion of it) realize that the threats weren't kidding.

However, that's not the full story. I really do wonder how much the soldering iron added over simply barging into a home, demanding the money. I suspect there is also huge element of, as Orwell said in 1984, torture for the sake of torture itself (sadistic personalities amongst the criminals, rather than pure rational calculation as means to making money).

Re, TV: the soldering iron thing _did_ make it into some Russian/late Soviet movie I watched back in the 90s, not in a graphical scene, but the threat: the militisia agent -- it was stilled called that back then -- was refusing to take the reported threat seriously and was simply cracking jokes about it.... A graphical scene (albeit comedic) with a clothes iron did make into one the more famous movies of that era, ironically as something that happens in US (ah, projection!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Is_Good_on_Deribasovsk... )

That said, growing up in former USSR (Belarus, specifically), I was also surrounded by plenty of stories of partisans (anti-Nazi resistance fighters) saying nothing when questioned by the Gestapo, as well as tactics the partisans used: assume anyone can be captured or be a traitor, make any one piece of information useless by itself, and so forth. This couldn't be propaganda, as the French resistance stories I was exposed to in the US were also quite similar. I suspect resistance to giving useful information under torture when 1) one has a lot more at stake than money 2) the organization one is a part of has a choice about how to distribute the information.
I'd say it's more Dropbox getting nervous.

Dropbox wants all this trade secret non sense.

And everyone else give them their data.

That they promise they won't read.

Give me a break. Bittorrent sync and blaze pods in house for the win.
You can say "I need a cook skilled in traditional Mongolian cuisine" but saying "such a candidate can only be found in Mongolia" would technically be against the law in the United States (if you have 15 or more employees). Freakonomics had a whole podcast about this.
> A man does not need to be attracted to me to be worried that close collaboration -- working late together, having dinner together, etc -- will lead to other people wondering if there is an affair.

While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with professionally-appropriate "close collaboration" between two colleagues, "close collaboration" is possible without "working late together" or "having dinner together."

In my experience the vast majority of working professionals, even those who forge close ties with their colleagues, don't see working late or dining frequently with colleagues after work hours as being fundamental to "close collaboration." They have their own lives and don't want to be spending their evenings with co-workers, male or female.

> My experience has been that men who aren't attracted react really negatively to me giving off signals that I am interested. So men who are not hoping to sleep with me can have powerful reasons to just not want to work closely with me in the kind of manner that could dramatically further my professional goals.

If a man or woman takes the risk of signalling romantic interest in a co-worker, he or she should be prepared for the possibility that the co-worker will react "negatively." While most adults are capable of handling this situation maturely and kindly, for obvious reasons the rebuffed party will almost certainly experience some level of discomfort after being rebuffed. This is the primary reason folks should be careful about expressing interest in somebody they have to work with. Are you prepared for the potential of self-inflicted awkwardness?

Unless you are frequently signalling romantic interest in the co-workers you are hoping will work most closely with you, I don't understand why you believe men who are not hoping to sleep with you are generally disincentivized from building a healthy and mutually-beneficial working relationship with you.

The only thing I can surmise is that your expectations around what "working closely" with a colleague looks like are unrealistic.
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> Posted by Marc Pawliger, Director of Engineering and Early Notifier

Can anyone explain the Early Notifier part of the title?
You are not Google. How many people are potentially affected if the security of your domain were to be compromised?
I know its just an example, buy multi user access is something I hate not being on every tier. It's a basic requirement for any business with more than one employee in my opinion.

The alternative is shared password lists that never really go away.
Oculus is in such a weird position right now. You can buy (well, pre-order, but at least it has a ship date) a version of their hardware right now, but it only works if you have a Samsung device, or are willing to buy one. Or you can wait for the "real" Oculus device, but all they'll say about when that'll come is "Q1 2016" -- which isn't encouraging when Q1 2016 is, like, six weeks away. But Gear VR is a real Oculus device, Samsung says. And then Oculus agrees... in a halfhearted way that makes you wonder just how much they really mean it.

None of which would matter much if they weren't heading into the prime shopping season of the year. But since they are... ugh.
I think it is missing (at least) thread sync for seccomp, used by the sandbox, maybe other securith things too.
It bothers me that you can't execute out of SRAM. That doesn't bode well for bulletproof firmware update, unless there's something that I'm missing.
What do you think would happen under a DNSSEC-DANE TLS world if that started being detected via the same mechanism?

There is just no way the NSA is going to risk it except in very very specific circumstances they can easily control, (exactly the same situation as HPKP) because, they too will be forever burned, except now they cant just switch to one of hundreds of other CAs, they have burned the root keys to a tld. This will be obvious, this will be screamed about from the rooftops, the key will be rotated + a ton greater scrutiny applied to the process.

Its not like browsers and other people pinning certs are just going to shrug their shoulders and say "aw shucks, i guess we wont worry about it"
I'd suggest using the following Creative Commons license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
SELinux came from the defensive side of NSA, pre 9/11, and was not written to make Linux more secure. It was written to force application developers to re-architect their applications so they could run under a mandatory security environment. The original idea was that, once enough applications could operate under a mandatory security model, an secure OS could be put in underneath them.

NSA had had several multi-level secure operating systems developed for them in the past, but they didn't have any applications other than ones specifically written for them. SELinux was intended to remedy that.

Unfortunately, nobody seemed to understand that, and NSA doesn't do much outreach.
Thanks for circuitlab BTW, the integration with electronics.stackexchange is great!
Modern compilers should, but there is a lot of legacy code.
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Url changed from http://mashable.com/2015/08/22/3d-glass-printing/#C2KgF3Zw0a..., which points to this.
I pretty much follow news sites and comedians. I ignore the news links mostly and laugh at some (but not all) of the comedians' jokes. I am generally on for less than 45 seconds.
Note that I did not claim China doesn't have racism. But by personally comparing my experience growing up Asian in the U.S. (having lived in non-diverse small Midwest towns for several years) with the experience of Caucasian friends who spent some childhood years in China, I'd really have to say: they got a much, much better experience as far as race is concerned.

And every time that I have confronted a Chinese person about prejudice against black people, I also asked them where their preconceptions came from. Without exception, they tell me that they have no first-hand experience, but they get all their information from American movies, whose makers they assume to know more about American culture than they do.

But if you actually want to compare relative levels of racism quantitatively (which is hard because there are so many confounding factors), I challenge you to compare the incarceration rate of African Americans in the U.S vs. African Chinese in China.
It doesn't sound like the boot drive is a single point of failure since data is stored Reed-Solomon coded in chunks across many pods. If one data drive fails, the whole pod has to go down for maintenance for it to be replaced. The only difference is that you get to choose when to take a pod down for maintenance to replace a data drive.
That would just cause those users to switch to Firefox/IE/etc., which is not what Google wants.

If they're still using unsupported platforms, there's a good chance it's because upgrading is not a feasible option (at least not now/not easily).
Seems pretty pointless since there are Asks/Fan mails already. What does instant messaging have to do with a blog service anyway? Tumblr's strength is being a content publishing platform, an easier Wordpress/Blogger. So they should be developing new types of content to publish. For example polls would be cool (since Twitter added them recently). But IM functionality is just a distraction from posting new content.
I've been treated that way by police. Surrounded and backed into a corner - threatened with being beaten and having my camera broken if I "resisted arrest" by continuing to take photos - and held there with nowhere to move for over five minutes while the threats continued.

And this was for photos of the city skyline from across the water.

Groups like this (police and protestors) attract people who want to act like that. They'll find any reason, and they hope it gets ugly.
I wouldn't bet against the oldest and biggest CPU vendor.

Atmel of Arduino fame had $1.4B in sales last year.
Microchip who was the hobbyist's go to before the Arduino had $2.1B in sales.
Freescale who is the corporate descendant of Motorola microcontrollers had $4.6B.

Intel had $55.9B in sales and $11.7B in profit - more then enough profit to buy every chip those other three companies made last year.

Intel missed mobile - almost no cell phones have Intel inside - they are going to catch the next wave or die trying.
Contracting seems to be a big part of it. The justification for contracting these kinds of jobs out rather than just doing them in-house is that private-sector competition through a bidding process will lower costs, ultimately making the government more efficient. But in many cases I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper to just hire some in-house developers, rather than bleeding all this money to the likes of IBM, Oracle, etc.
I am very optimistic concerning our plans to make Leaf work in a distributed fashion. It's not quite finalized yet, but the rough outline consists of abstracting other parts of the Network away as a special type of layer and using capnproto + zeromq for transportation. Sadly I haven't come across a good implementation of model parallelism to learn from, so that might become a bit tricky.

I think there is still a lot of room for improvement for layer-based networks, but even if the graph-based approach will become more prelevant I think the Rust trait system gives us great tools to migrate and reuse a lot from our layer based approach.
Yes...we're making some ;-)

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
I haven't read the Economist in years but advocating something that would drive down wages is pretty much of a piece with its worldview. It's just surprising, perhaps, because usually these conversations focus on unskilled labor.