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tl;dr - For now, their root CA is Starfield[0], but AWS may become a root CA very soon.

Amazon had applied to be a Root Certificate Authority to Mozilla and Android since June 2015 [1]. And it's been in pending for public discussion recently [2], which is one step away from being inclusion by Mozilla[3](aka becoming a root CA).

Once they are vetted and being included in Mozilla's Root CA program, they will be accepted by Firefox browser and on Linux. And after vetted in Android, it will be accepted by Google Chrome/Chromium browsers.[4]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/s2Uijes.png

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-wants-to-be-your-ssl-cer...

[2] https://mozillacaprogram.secure.force.com/CA/PendingCACertif...

[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:How_to_apply#Public_discussion

[4] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-poli...
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Google's Cardboard team is working on Jump [1], which is a 16-camera rig with a computer vision post-processing step to create stereoscopic 360 video.

Lytro is working on Immerge [2], which is a light field camera for "cinematic VR". So in addition to stereoscopic 360, you should be able to move your head around within the volume of the sphere as well.

[1] https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/jump/

[2] https://www.lytro.com/immerge
Could you elaborate on that? With OpenJDK at least the software side of things is pretty much stable and open (in a FOSS sense), so I take you are referring to possible legal ramifications of Oracle's actions?
VIDEO: NYPD Struggles with Suspect
Not to nitpick, but it's "lactase" persistence. Lactase is the enzyme which breaks down lactose. People without lactase in their gut cannot digest lactose, hence "lactose intolerance" in those without "lactase persistence".
the 90s called and they want their comment back
Great video. I follow the Mirage project already, but I thought Anil explained it very well, and some good questions from the hosts too.
Which is only a bad thing when everyone is up to their eyeballs in debt.
From Vim to IntelliJ IDEA; a Love Story
I think it's more that there are more hobbyist developers on Android, whereas iOS developers are trying to make a business out of it.
You have no idea the perspective shifts I've gone through going down the road, hopefully for the better. Thanks for reading!
Which are usually supported by having 7 tracking libraries and 3 ad brokers in the app.

And having a bunch of free apps doesn't really make the ecosystem appeal to developers who want to eat.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think a big part of why I don't like Medium either is because it's popular. Yes, it's going to sound hipster-ish to say the posts started out interesting, but now whenever I see a link to a post on Medium I expect it to be someone complaining about someone or something, and most of the time that's what it is.
This is the NYT, and, I was hopeful they'd also include information about the state of company hoarding abroad as well as hoarding by foreign companies in their home nations, bjt they dont, so I don't know if this is uniquely American, or maybe its global, regional, etc.

That said I'd like to see a look into an international tax collection agreement among nations,like they have IP rights agreements, human rights agreements, etc. in order to render foreign holdings loopholes useless.
> We could insert new list items into the existing DOM, but finding the right place to insert them is error-prone, and each insert will cause the browser to repaint the page, which is slow.

I don’t think the last part is true. Browsers don’t repaint (nor they reflow) the page until it’s really needed. So if you have a loop that modifies the DOM multiple times, but does not read from the DOM, there performance hit described by the author should not occur.
Amy Cuddy: People judge you based on 2 criteria when they first meet you
it's pretty good.
Can't read this page without Javascript.

Anything but scripting.com.
Facing a Price War, Uber Bets on Volume
I would think the same problem exists for all platforms, twitter, wordpress, disqus comments, etc. Why single medium out for criticism? If you want to maintain control over your writing, cross-post. If you don't, render unto Caesar.
It's easier to speculate than do actual journalism. Particularly ideological journalism, a la the New York Times.
Not really, creating a hostile environment for businesses will obviously drive them away.

Lobbying has nothing to do with preventing a completely unrealistic scenario from happening.
I think he has at least one point:

>See there's the other problem with ceding a whole content type to a single company. Since you're counting on them not just to store your writing, but also build flow for it, the inclination is to praise them, to withhold criticism. To try to guess what they like, and parrot it. If Medium becomes much stronger, this will be what SEO becomes. We saw that happen before on Twitter, when they gave huge flow to people they liked, and not to people they don't. Now they're being more open about it. Why not? It didn't appear to cost them anything the last time around.
> writing is hard and writing things regularly that people want to read is even harder.

For the second part, I don't write regularly. I don't look for an audience tuning in every Thursday evening. I write when I feel like I have something to write about; when I learned something new and interesting that I want to share, that more people should (or might want to) know about.

This gives me a URL I can share with friends and/or post on sites, instead of telling friends individually or writing a post on a gated community like Facebook. It gives me some of history on what I've been doing over the years, showing a potential employer I've been doing IT stuff out of school as well (very useful as a young professional). It even serves to remind myself now and then, e.g. my IPv6 post[1] I fairly regularly use to check stuff like "what was the maximum address length again".

In fact, not writing regularly might be more useful to many potential followers. If you only write now and then, they can follow you without fearing their inbox/feed will be flooded, and posts are much more likely to be of quality. When deciding whether to follow back, irregular or semi-regular Twitter users are much more likely to get one from me because they are usually more interesting and not a day to day burden.

[1] http://lucb1e.com/!IPv6
There's nothing wrong with using Medium as a glorified pastebin; the OP does that by having Medium mirror content they post elsewhere, and it completely avoids the "assholes."

The problem only comes if you actually go in on the "game" of the platform—allow your writing to be led around by the incentive system inherent in the structure of the platform's network effects: recommendations, promoted posts, likes and shares, front-page status, etc.

If you "buy into" the platform like that, then the culture of the rest of the community on the platform (i.e. the other people who have "bought into" the platform) will start to matter. If they're mostly assholes, you'll have been tricked into playing a zero-sum game against assholes.

You know what a private Minecraft server with no moderation is like? It's an infinite expanse of dick-shaped monuments, where anything genuinely creative is quickly torn down or blown up. The parent poster is basically saying that Medium is the same way. The dick monuments are figurative, but they're still dick monuments; the tearing-down is social, but it's still tearing-down.

If you don't play the platform's game, none of this matters; you just get your little sandbox within the dickscape and can ignore the community around you. But the platform wants to engage your readers—through links back to a front page, or recommended follow-up posts, or whathaveyou. Building your sandbox in a dickscape leaves open the possibility that your readers might look out the window.
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Perhaps CMU's specializations could be applied to Howard?
Not a bad question. You are correct, the ELBs are doing ssl termination, but the way I'm using Let's Encrypt and a 3rd party python script means that each web server needs to be able to answer the challenge on port 80. For web server without a LB, that means you just run the script and it generates the file that needs served up on 80.

With more than one web server you need to be able to server that file up on any instance that might get hit when the challenge request comes in.

For some, DNS might be an easier way to prove domain ownership, but we have clients who control their DNS. Doing it all on the web means it is 100% in our hands.
yes it will hold up in court.

Police don't let suspects out of detention just because they complain they have to pee. High-tech state-of-the-art tracking technology from Google and Apple indicates that these people are somehow involved in the disappearance of a missing person. How dumb would the officer look if he let a suspect destroy evidence, escape, or otherwise pull something on the claim that they have to pee?
Why Does Pessimism Sound So Smart? – Especially When Things Are So Good
The landing page looks really good! Including the pastry hat in the kit is awesome too. If I lived in the US, I'd probably get this as a gift for someone. Maybe targeting it to the parents of children/teenagers that like to bake would work out?
Well, since you mentioned performance, the stuff I mentioned also buys you performance. Rust is in a category of language performance that GC'd languages with runtimes or JITs never reach in practice. I don't believe Go will be an exception to this (especially not now, with its lack of an optimizing compiler).

In general, I think if you're looking for "one language to rule them all", that can scale up to the highest performance and down to one-off apps you would write in Rails, you will be disappointed. Even if you don't care about safety. That's because, no matter what people say, static and dynamic typing is a tradeoff. Rust is more statically typed than Go is. Go is more statically typed than Ruby is. Which you should use depends on your circumstances.

A lot of language designers and enthusiasts, from all communities, believe there's a "sweet spot" of language design where your language can scale up or down at will. I don't believe it. That experiment was tried with Lisp and Java and failed. Multiple languages are here to stay.

At the end of the day, all I can say is: If you're happy with Go, use Go. Rust was never designed with all use cases in mind, and I don't see that fact as a failure at all. I see it as just acknowledging reality: trying to make a language that scales up and down indefinitely to all use cases is chasing the impossible, and language enthusiasts who believe their language is the one language that can do that are all mistaken.
Gentle Intro to Higher Order Functions in JavaScript
This is absolutely fantastic.

http://thecodelesscode.com/case/128
They are modifiable in software too...
Offcloud Downloads Torrents to Web Download, FTP, Google Drive and Dropbox
You maybe getting the point there. This incident sounds a lot like an inaccurate Wifi locating result.

Or someone in a large stolen-phone operation has been using a randomly picked MAC address to confuse the Find-My-Phone softwares. That's a lot easier to do.

I bet someone at Google or Skyhook could look into the Mac address to see if there are any abnormalities for that particular one.

I really hope Sherlock Holmes will be there to resolve the mystery.
This is why I avoid links going to Medium. For every great piece, there are ten insufferable ones I'm likely to encounter instead.
Yes, I'm also suspicious about his claims of "this is faster than that." He doesn't demonstrate that the actually know how something like this should be correctly measured.
And, one hopes a benefit to those who might prefer ownership, they might build even more durable easier to maintain vehicles. The anti apple approach to manufacturing improvement. [apple and co depending on voluntary obsolescence and difficult repairs]
In Portland, OR, my healthcare is 4% and my 2k+ house in the burbs (30 min commute) is <20%.

At $3500/mo (about $750k house), there are over 500 house available right now[0] just in the actual city of Portland (not including suburbs). And that's just limiting it to 2bd 1.25ba (and above) detached houses (not including condos, duplexes, etc)

It's totally possible to work and live somewhere other than California.

[0] - https://www.redfin.com/city/30772/OR/Portland/filter#!uipt=1...
Is this you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein ?
Low-fat diets aren't particularly good for you, as you can see by the current generation of unhealthy heart disease-having Americans dutifully following them.

If your macronutrient ratio is going to be high-carb, you at least need a strong culture of small portions like Asians do to keep a precise daily calorie target.
Is this so bad? Falling into something of a European-type rut with permanent 8-12% unemployment and modest GDP gains? I remember the 90s. Everyone was buying shit non-stop. What kind of life is that? Sure it created jobs and growth but to the ludicrous end where we refused to accept the gravy train was ending. I remember Bush 43 pleading for Americans to "go back shopping" the black friday after 9/11 when the writing was finally on the wall. Its perverse.

I think if we want a shorter work-week, more holidays, and more leisure then we have to concede a bit on demand/buying shit. The endless race for growth eventually hits the laws of diminishing returns hard. Worst of all, automation is here in significant ways now. A lot of jobs are going to be gone forever with very limited new growth to make up for it. If I'm automating the responsibilities of hundreds of employees, I just don't see what can make up for it. A handful of devs, managers, sysadmins, etc can replace a significant number of jobs nowadays.

I think aging Western economies have a long adaptation process ahead of them to later stages capitalism and this is one of the first signs this move is now mandatory. How we handle automation, slow growth, etc will be the political fights of the future. We're already seeing some implementations of Guaranteed Minimum Income and other things completely unthinkable 30 years ago.
"Un temps pour l'enfance, un temps pour la mort, un temps pour l'enfance de la mort".

This one is golden. "A time for childhood, a time for death, a time for death's childhood".
There's legislation to prevent that.
Reported by something that has <90% accuracy? Less than 99%? It matters...
I think everyone using Medium at least owe it to themselves to try out the export feature and migrate one blog post.

I did that with a few for archival purposes and such, and the export feature is basically an HTML file with all kinds of stuff going on in it.

The idea of Medium is awesome, but the combination of their weird CMS and the way in which they store blog posts is annoying. Pros and cons and all that.

That said, it's not like other blogging platforms are saints. I'm sure it'd be a mess to export my Tumblr posts too.
Summary: Many large corporations in pharma, auto, tech are becoming net savers in order to (1) avoid the taxes associated with purchasing and maintaining new assets; (2) have a warchest of cash for M&A activity as cash deals are generally much cheaper than equity/debt deals, and M&A can be more cost-effective than R&D if done correctly.

Author is unconvinced that this covers the whole picture, and offers this meta-explanation: Through the 20th century, as we shifted from a horse-and-sun-powered agrarian economy to an electricity-and-motor-powered industrial economy to a silicon-based information economy, it was clear that every company had to invest in the new thing that was coming.

Simplified: there isn't enough promising new tech out there to soak up all of the cash in circulation. This is a common theme that has economists asking: what will be the 4th industrial revolution, and when will we see it? [1]

Is the cash hoarding good or bad? Author thinks good: If corporate leaders and their investors truly believed that the future were bleak, that innovation and economic growth were irreparably slowing, there would be little reason to hold on to all that cash. AKA that we are on the cusp of a new wave of innovation.

Personally I don't believe this matches up with leading business cycle indicators, such as the stock market, employment rates, and trends federal spending as a percentage of GDP. [2] But what do I know - there could be an R&D lab somewhere out there that is tantalizingly close to bringing the next paradigm-shifting technology to market. I'd love to know what that could be.

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w18315.pdf

[2] http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/recent_spending
The problem is not that the router is currently broadcasting a BSSID that exists elsewhere. The problem is that a geo-wifi database contains an association between their address and a BSSID.

They can change the router, and eventually the problem should sort itself out (if it is indeed their router and not a neighbor's that is the issue), but it's going to take until the old record ages out of the database for it to happen. And that could be months or years.
Our users expect much more involved and interactive websites. (i.e facebook notifications). So you have to accept that we need some ajax and a js framework to update the DOM. And as long we've cracked open that barrel of monkeys, we might as well batch DOM updates and make other improvements around client-state and how it communicates to server-state.

I think the nodejs "problem" of "download this library and 400 other modules" comes about because it's so _easy_ to write a library nowadays! Which can be a good thing, although it's correct that it leads to a lot of noise and low-quality libraries out there.

And if I continue this post any more, I'm at risk of straw-manning his argument as being nostalgia for mothertongues.
Keep in mind Sails has stagnated and there's a fork called TrailJS now.

The NodeJS 3rd-party ecosystem is really really fragile at the moment.
No no no. Your grandmother grew up with free media: radio and television have always been free and ad-supported. In fact, the first thing that likely pissed her off was getting ads on her cable channels, because the "rich" folks paid for cable, which was ad-free (except, I believe, the broadcast channel, but we didn't have it so I'm not sure).

Internet advertising used to be done far less creepily. For example, you can do context-advertising: show me an ad for surfboards when I'm reading about surfing. I have no problem with that. You can guess that I'm interested in surfing if I'm reading the article. You don't need my shopping history for that.
True, I was thinking about Urban areas. As you pointed out this should gradually grow to cover suburban sprawls.

I am imagining CaaS parking spaces popping up everywhere.

ZipCar was the first innovator in this space.
Unfortunately, it's not likely that there is anything they can do to change this. This is just a record in a database somewhere now and until that record is changed (and propagated everywhere) this will continue to happen for them.
The geolocation would probably be enough evidence for claims of libel to be ineffective.
$50k gross is <€3k net monthly. There are quite many who make that, probably over 2% of the tech workforce (more than 2-300 people in Estonia). But even with €2k net your consumable income is bigger than for someone making $100k in the Valley.
There's no way it would hold up in court. Perhaps the court of public opinion but nowhere else.
Congratulations! I'm loving Rust, it's my go-to default language now. I'm going to start messing around with piston.rs to make some basic 2d games. I already wrote an irc bot with Rust.

For those wondering, stable just meant the API defined for interactions with some libraries were subject to change. It wasn't like a problem with using the APIs, it was just the developer has to know that new releases might change how they worked or if they would even be available in the future.
What makes you think that taxes aren't already being paid in the foreign jurisdictions?

This is a big part of the disconnect: if you (say, as Apple) sell a phone in Munich, you're paying the VAT tax in that country already.

Generally speaking, when you take the profits from your German sales back to the USA, in many (most, save a few exception) cases, you're going to pay corporate taxes on those profits now that they are repatriated back in the USA. So companies are incentivized to keep those profits in overseas jurisdictions to defer the US tax and reinvest in their overseas operations. Considering how much of their actual sales come from overseas, it's no wonder that they pursue this strategy.

EVEN IF a company wanted to be a "good US corporate citizen" and pay more taxes to the government, they'd be at a financial disadvantage to overseas companies doing business in the USA because THOSE companies DON'T have to pay tax on their overseas profits. That's why you see all of these companies set up in "corporate tax havens" that don't tax a single penny of offshore income. For one thing: it's damn easy to do international business through these companies because you effectively have a neutral ground from the perspective of finance. For another: you save money on taxes, allowing you to offer better terms to your customers and partners.

This kind of stuff only matters to the biggest corporations with multinational operations because the regulatory minefield associated with keeping track of laws and regs in lots of different countries is a nightmare and only a few top accounting firms have the talent to master it. Another reason why the law of unintended consequences shifts the tax burden to the little guy: he's not big enough to care about shifting his income overseas. When you create incentives by way of regulatory/tax arbitrage, you make it worth the while of a big multinational to invest the time and effort structure their deals so they take place in offshore jurisdictions.
I was replying to travisby's comment.

In the scenario of a transaction not documented in compliance with law, you wouldn't know where the buyer lives.
What population and level of energy consumption is the 15,000 scaled too?

I guess one reactor every 3 days isn't any less daunting, but that 15,000 number seems to be really specific and could use a link or some fleshing out.
I'm a fan of empirical over theoretical data and arguments. The 4:500 rate is what we've achieved, and, belabouring the point, all accidents have had massive sociological elements. I very strongly recommend reading Charles Perrow (Normal Accidents, but also other works).

Yes, something's got to control human breeding. Either humans or something other than human. Most likely viral or bacteriological, in my book.
People use vastly more energy in the day time. Peak solar and usage don't line up 1:1, but they are fairly close. Further, Summer cooling uses a lot of energy and you get more solar energy in the Summer.

Solar hot water heating is much more efficient ~90% and easy to store locally. Payback is ~3-5 years in most of the US even if you only need heat for a few months out of the year. Granted, it does not work in Alaska, but it does work in Mane.

Thus, Wind for base load 24/7/365. Solar for peak power usage. Toss in a 30% buffer + ~20% extra generating capacity get's you to 5 9's.
Equity for Coffee Farmers
It is, but using it would require us to use 5x as many ELBs as we need now (100 domains per cert vs 20). For some that isn't a problem and free is a great price.

20 domains on an ELB for a year, $10.80 per domain (ignoring traffic). Or put 5x as many on and get SSL for $2.16 per domain per year (also ignoring traffic).

That said, I'm really happy to see AWS head this way. Even if someone uses them, in min mind Let's Encrypt did its job - drive the cost of SSL down to where everyone can have it.