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> “The reason I keep saying 5C, iOS 9… this doesn’t work in sixes, doesn’t work in 5S and, so, we have a tool that works on a narrow slice of phones,” said FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday during a speech on Encryption and Surveillance at Kenyon College. However, he then quickly added, “I can never be completely confident, but I’m pretty confident about that.”

This reinforces my belief that the FBI will not be able to hang with Apple in the encryption arms race.

Is there any more information on how the private company got in and who they are?
Are you open to remote contractors? Climate.com looks great, but I'm a London based developer and only looking for contracting roles
It's here: http://lulzsecpinas.ml/
I'm not a libertarian, but I'd consider libertarianism pretty opposite to fascism.
My take on this article is that nutrition science is not science, no one knows what the fuck they're talking about, and we're basically still in the 1920's with absolutely no real nutritional information or system (usually science in our society) to get there. Having lost someone very dear to me to "cholesterol" and knowing it was a lie at the time, let alone now, this makes me fuming angry. But I live in the US, where the primary driving factor for such misinformation is continuing to profit off of people's misery, so it's hardly surprising that profit has completely kicked science out of one of its most important subjects. Maybe when we stop letting companies profit off of misery and pain, we'll learn something, but I doubt that will ever happen.
Web browsers implement all of this nowadays. In fact, OpenType GSUB ligatures in particular go far beyond what TeX supports.
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Windows does have signals, just not nearly as many as Unixes, and are mostly built around how to kill a process. So I imagine all the non-terminate ones will be mapped to just be ignored.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xdkz3x12.aspx
Yes, sadly very similar to low-level 'contingency' style recruiting in the US and elsewhere.

What to do?

Push back-- tell them, if you are serious about moving forward in any dialog-- answer these basic questions.

1) Can you forward a detailed position summary?

2) Can you share the client/hiring manager info? * I'll keep it confidential, even sign a mutual NDA if necessary.

3) What is the budgeted compensation range? If it's not at least $175K then I am NOT interested.

4) What's the interview process like?

5) Tell me about you and your firm-- how long have you been in the business?

Their answers should inform you whether or not you're dealing with professionals. Incidentally, good recruiters are an indicator of a good potential employer.
so , you had the TV powered on...
I didn't know the application is open source, too. Very cool indeed, I'll give this a try as the main maps application.
When I learned of this concept in college, I suddenly realized why it was so hard to convince Windows people to go Mac. ;)
Reminds me of an earlier article on Signal v. Noise on why Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is...
> Eventually, the software is going to stop working on my SOE. Which means more and more boxes are going to be running non-standard deployments in my environment (or it costs me to update). Every maintenance window, infrastructure upgrade, disaster recovery exercise (and event), has to take those servers into account.

If you're fussy about nonstandard servers on your infrastructure, go get a handful of basic servers from hetzner or amazon. Completely silo them. No access from them to your 'real' servers, and don't include them in maintenance windows or disaster recovery. The person who is paid to spend a few hours per week keeping the server mostly-up will use part of their time on basic updates and backups, and nobody needs to worry if something occasionally breaks.

> Perhaps I pay licenses for those servers to run - OS, support, databases, backup, whatever. Maybe I have a contract with an SI to run all this as a managed service and this costs.

If you have license/contracting costs, you should have pre-allocated money for that when you released the product. If it sold to expectations, a later decision to discontinue the line shouldn't be a problem.

> There's opportunity cost in terms of resources for keeping all these legacy products on as well - both infrastructure and resource related.

There should be no infrastructure impact, and the equipment/employee cost should have been part of the initial product scope, not treated as an externality that can be trimmed at will.

> And that's just the technology related part of it. There's business and accounting impacts as well.

Like what, having to process a quarterly bill for the servers?

Let me put it this way: While the costs are real, they were expected, and can be made pretty low. They should be able to run or outsource a basic legacy server without any hurting. I bet if there was a contract saying they had to refund $2 to every customer for every month the servers were down, they could get plenty of offers to take over hosting for half that price.
Ha, yeah that was a typo : ) I think its closer to 330 million these days.

The homeless problem in SF is really terrible and particularly glaring. Homelessness in general is a problem in many major cities in US however the intensity of it in SF is not not at all representative of the rest of the US.

I'm not impressed by either SF or San Jose either, but I wouldn't say the US doesn't impress me. The North East Corridor of the US is very different from the places you visited as is the South, the Midwest etc.
Presumably someone who has a BS in Computer Science or related field.
I first question the premise - why does there need to be pull requests? Maybe just let people commit what they want to commit.
But why? It's a deployment nightmare to keep node updated on servers and laptops and desktops that will never, ever use node to server server-side JS, why do I need it and NPM and the whole upgrade nightmare it implies to run a random CLI utility?
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My memories was that an Apple II was a luxury item like a BMW. We got an Atari 400 and 410 by trading in my Atari 2600 and 23 cartridges. My dad bought the BASIC cartridge with it[1]. There was no way our family could have afforded an Apple ($1,000+), and frankly in 1983 we didn't have the information sources to pick a Commodore[2]. I still don't think most parents are educated enough to do something as simple as a Raspberry Pi, and I worry about the whole that the loss of the 8-bit under $200 market left.

I do wonder if someone built $100 Lisp Machines here in 2016 what that would do for CompSci education, but with App Stores and all the modern machinery, handing a cassette to friend to run on his computer is long gone.

1) I do wonder how it would have gone if he had bought the LOGO or Assembler cartridge instead.

2) I will say I'm glad we got the Atari (except for the keyboard) because I got to play with the great Jay Miner chipset
"So much of "SmartHome" is solutions in search of a problem"

Being a bit neurotic about switching off appliances before traveling and leaving our home unoccupied for a while I would throw money at any service that could allow me to tell what devices were on or off in my home at any time.

I do sort of have a solution involving an iPhone that I use at the moment - but it's a bit silly....
Happens plenty in the US too.

There are some good recruiters but their are also a lot of dolts.

The main good thing I can say about recruiters is that if a company has bothered to hire a recruiter they are serious about hiring someone. The largest employer in my town (and state it turns out) is notorious for listing positions that go unfilled for years, refusing to interview qualified candidates (who would inevitably be overqualified) and interviewing and rejecting C- and D-players as if tire kicking was a national sport.
And I bet your VCR never flashed 12:00, either. You are not a representative user.

There are hundreds of millions of families out there that have no idea how to program their thermostat beyond changing the current temperature, so they just leave it running all night and day, whether they're home or not.

The appeal of the Nest thermostat is not so that control freaks can fine-tune the temperature at home while in an airplane. It's so that regular people can just have it installed and forget about it.
or he just read the story and that's his opinion of the situation. i feel the same way and i didn't have an easy time in school.
100K users of a single extension for a single browser. I'll leave it to you to get the numbers for all other extensions for all other browsers. And don't forget that uBlock can do this as well.
Two aspects are fundamental regarding this:

1. As a platform, we can take advantage of the network effect. The data we gather from all the users using it, plus the interaction they do when we classify certain patterns can be used to improve our machine learning algorithm. Thus, you as an IoT manufacturer can take advantage of a trained algorithm instead of you developing one from scratch.

2. This network effect brings in another discussion which is privacy and security, we are very aware about this. The data is never shared with third parties and it's only used for training/improving our algorithms, we protect user data, because we know this is a big concern that will surge with IoT in the future. We are planning to implement end-to-end encryption and open-source the core code at some point so you can deploy your own local applications.
Any questions? Happy to answer.
We started off using wkhtmltopdf for the reporting module in our application to generate PDF's. After using that for a while and searching far and wide for an alternative, we settled on PrinceXML and haven't looked back. It's not OSS, but it's really awesome... once integrated, just set it and forget it.

http://www.princexml.com/
I am from Cluj, Romania and I am a developer for some years now. I really know how things are in the IT sector in Cluj and I really know how my country stacks up against others.
The article is not accurate and highlights mostly positive aspects.

The programmers are decent and hard working, but nothing spectacular going on. They might not be your first pick when you want innovation. We are mostly self-taught ( thanks DoD for the Internet), and contrast the poor courses that are held at the Romanian universities. There are programmers that range from mediocre to good. Comparing to colleagues from London, or the US, we are not as good. They know more things and are more specialized. They work at a faster pace and work on hard problems. We make decent work though, but nothing mind blowing.
If you want guys that can innovate, better look elsewhere like: the US, UK, Finland, Holland and other Nordic countries.

Here is the factual truth about Romania. It is a country of huge contrast.
It has really good results in math and compute science Olympiads, but it is at the very bottom at math performance for the population at large. See PISA test results. 40 % of Romanians do not know basic and simple concepts from math. 40 % also are functional illiterates. This is much worse than the US. At the peak level
We seem to be very good at IT, yet there is virtually not an algorithm or an innovation that bears a Romanian's name. You learn about Dijkstra, Turing, Fermat and Leibniz, but not Popescu or Iliescu.
You hear about how good we are, but no Romanian University is within the top 500 at the computer science section.
There is a lot of impostors in our universities and plagiarism is high. The dean of the Technical University of Cluj plagiarized courses from Berkeley and presents them as his own.

Romania has one of the largest internet speed, but only half of the country is connected. And within those that do use it, the vast majority are on Facebook and Youtube. Telekom just published that Romania has the poorest internet usage when it comes to business related activity.

Half of the population still lives in the rural areas, and the conditions are horrible. Over half of Romanian schools do not have running tap water or a decent toilet with flushing water. Mostly are again in the rural areas.
But also in the surrounding regions of Cluj, and other major cities, there are entire neighborhoods that do not have access to the sewage network. And they are part of the city of Cluj, not other entities.

Romania is featured as a poor country by World Vision, which needs western support. It is listed among Albania, Georgia and a host of African countries. The orphanage footage of Romania in the 90' comes to mind.

And the list shocking contrast goes on and on.
These fellows are selected for high IQ will benefit either way. By virtue of his intelligence, connections, and family wealth, Bill Gates would have been successful whether he stayed in college or not.

I'm sure many of these failed fellows will go to college and resume where they left off.
+1 for effort, but I fucking love Javascript.
I don't think that's what this is about. It's about linking to content that violates copyright laws, e.g. running a torrent tracker.

> The case arose in the Netherlands where the GeenStijl website had provided a link to an Australian site showing pictures of a Dutch celebrity taken by Playboy magazine. The Australian site did not have Playboy's consent to do so.
Unfortunately, their politics won't allow them to consider any sensible alternative. The US is the devil, Columbia is devil junior and they certainly can't give in to capitalist cretins. Afaik even Cuba have pulled out their assistance (physicians, etc.)

It's like they try to run the country on ideals alone and that ideals will carry the day.
Give an inch, take a mile.
Why can't Blizzard just license the older versions for some minimal fee then?
Aylien launches news analysis API powered by its deep learning tech
There's http://reedditapp.com/about/
Is this all because of the recent oil slump? Even taking that into account, Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. How can this happen?
We agree. It's more possible than ever to succeed without a label or big company behind you. That doesn't mean there's more money in selling music media.
> but you should almost certainly apply

Also, need to remember it adds up - YC, 500Startups, tech stars, etc. and then pondering about the results and then the sorrow phase after not being accepted.

Weigh your trade offs.
"There are highly processed food ingredients like whey protein and resistant corn starch, oat fiber, etc which have compelling health-promoting effects."

Cod liver oil comes to mind ...
This is not about electricity. This is about giving everyone a day of the week off to distract keep the people happy(-ish) in the face of a rapidly decreasing quality of life.

This isn't about socialism. This is about what is a dictatorship in all but name.
I don't see why, from a technical point of view. There's no reason we should throw out the benefits of the Web platform because TeX happens to do things a certain way. With MathJax and tools like it, we can bring the benefits of TeX to the Web platform in a way that actually meshes well with what the platform provides.
I have predicted it few years ago. You dump the database, zip it, and upload it to your Google Cloud. It's that easy if you are insider. You only need half hour and no one will notice. It is more likly to leak if there are more databases, like citizen db, voters db, social secufity db etc. We will see more leaks in the future.
Here's what I'm using, albeit a different approach. I don't have thousands of docs to worry about, so I just want a quick preview to ensure the PDF is created as expected. https://gist.github.com/brbsix/546b732a9578343b114b425691c79...

Typical use would be `makepdf -o URL`. This saves the PDF in a temp folder, opens it to preview, then asks to save. If it encounters any fatal errors, it iterates through the available `wkhtmltopdf` binaries on PATH (I've got a couple) until it finds the first one that works.

Then there are a few options that can be added (ignore, lowquality, disable-javascript) and it will feed the appropriate option string for that version of `wkhtmltopdf` (since option strings may vary by version).
Pretty much ... the only edge case I feel for is having an offline copy in places with low or expensive internet access. Like parts of the developing world. Clicking through isn't such a big deal.
I didn't mean to say anyone should blame the soldiers, just that we shouldn't glorify soldiers and the military.

>This cult is propagated by civilians more than soldiers.

Exactly! I think we're in agreement.
If you want to segment a guide for just certain users (based on what properties you send to platform), you can try http://onboardx.com
All I know for sure is that the whole situation was a mess. See http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/supreme-court-oracle-api/

What's interesting to me right now is whether or not Microsoft is saying it's OK in one context (linux interfaces on windows), and not the other (java interfaces on android), and why are they different?
This honestly sounds like some kind of eating disorder.
Hi, post author here. Thanks for pointing out!

I know it's wrong and working on these improvements:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/4dl454/recreating_...
Yep indeed, my goal here was to tell non-remote workers that is not always sunshine and rainbows :).
I haven't simulated this to check but it may be the case that IO pins become a limiting factor. The Cyclone IV has 153 IO pins so the design would have to use less than ~15 to be able to fit 10 copies on.
Because they nationalized their energy sector and bet everything on it.
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Vulnerability scanner for Linux, agentless, written in golang
> It's pretty rare for Blizzard to go after these companies in court

Blizzard is actually the company that set the precedent of going after these companies in court (bnetd [1]), and I can't think of a single company that has gone after these types of projects (private servers) more than Blizzard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
Absolutely right. That's erroneously copied from converting each HTML file separately with the intention to merge afterwards. Thank you for pointing that out!
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Aside from the obvious outcome that it would be manipulated (which anyone could predict, and if well thought out it would have had "learning guards"), it didn't require some deep artificial learning -- you could tell the thing to repeat various offensive statements. It was just a giant miscalculation.

However the legal department of every company on the planet makes a risk:benefit analysis, especially in fuzzy areas like copyright law (which we've seen with the Java case....an API isn't copyrightable, then it is, then it isn't, then it is). The assumption that if Microsoft did it therefore it must be without risk is folly.
Interesting, I've never heard this before. Any sources?
The caption is kind of amusing with it's literal-ness and complete irrelevance to the story:

> People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with binary code and a Central Inteligence Agency (CIA) emblem, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014.
Oh very true. Somehow they made it achieve the same as most of the rest of the MMO space together. Never quite saw why as, well, I never got hooked on it, so left early. One of the kids is still hooked on WOW and won't let us kill the sub even now!
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Vegetable oils, having vegetable in the name, sound healthy but are like the HFCS of the oil world. They are cheap, heavily processed, and prone to rancidification.
That isn't exactly true. Most oils in nature are paired with anti-oxidant molecules that prevent rancidity (it wouldn't do for a plant's germ cell food source to go bad). The problem is that your typical soybean oil (or other common cooking oil) is removed from the plant matter by washing with a solvent like liquid CO2, which is then filtered and evaporated. The result is an oil that is almost pure lipid, with very little in the way of anti-oxidants.

If you were to get an expeller pressed, unfiltered soybean oil, it would be just fine.
the vast majority of their reserves are "heavy" crude. Which is much more expensive to refine. The oil slump certainly didn't help, but Chavez nationalizing the oil company and replacing competent engineers with cronies is what really fucked them. That and the general socialization of most of private industry.
I don't think TeX output looks better than what Web browsers do if you enable all the high-quality text features like hyphenation and use modern OpenType fonts (in particular not the Core Fonts for the Web). The reason why the Web doesn't do this by default is backwards compatibility and performance: hyphenation is asymptotically more expensive.
A million times this. People think that the second law of thermodynamics doesn't apply to them because "biology is complex!", which sounds an awful lot like the creationists.

You can't outrun your fork. Even if you want to create a caloric deficit through increased activity level, you'll need to hold intake constant, therefore you most likely have to track it to begin with. These days with things like MyFitnessPal there is no excuse. And while it's possible to lose weight without tracking (I've done it), it's not nearly as straightforward.

If people are truly lazy, they'd put down the fork, as that's all that's needed, no time "wasted" at the gym necessary. But hunger is a hard thing to beat, and willpower can be used up, not to mention a lot of other factors (mindless eating, eating for comfort or to self-medicate, etc).
They are both speculators, just different time horizon.

My epiphany came when a few years ago I had a conversation with a friend who is a brewmeister and restaurant manager for properties owned by his family's trust. (If you live on the Peninsula, you have probably had his beer.) His grandfather had set up a trust in order to pass his Monterey-area produce farm to his children, and the trust and farm are still going, and growing. My friend mentioned he was spending the weekend at a family retreat with some of his siblings and cousins that were the current trust management. The topic for the retreat was identifying which of "the cousins" (the pre-teen and teenage children of the next generation) were likely to be future manager-trustees, and which were likely to be passive trustees. The goal being to start identifying and grooming the next generation of management.

So my definition of investor: If you are managing the asset with the intention that someday your as-yet unborn grandchildren will be taking over and managing the asset, you are an investor. All else is speculation, just on various time horizons. An investor is never looking for liquidity, ever -- only speculators expect to turn an asset into cash in the foreseeable future.
This is for latency sensitive applications, where you're counting cycles and can't possibly afford to write nicely formatted log messages to a file. (Or can't really even afford system calls in the main loop).

So there's a main application process, which does its logging by adding messages to the shared memory ring buffer, with a message format that's designed to be compact and cheap to write. And then there's going to be a reader which reads the log messages, and actually does something with them (filter, format, write to log files, whatever).
The $70m is over 12 companies of which we know details of 5 of them.
An ironic thing to say given how staunchly you are defending capitalism.
Blizzard releases paid expansions because people will pay for them.
Yes. You can do whatever you want, even extending or changing the ISA as you want (though if you break I-subset compatibility, the only thing you can't do is still call it a RISC-V processor).