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What reasons do print, TV or radio news have to cover this? I can't think of any. It takes more than a single sound bite to explain what ACTA is, and there are plenty of easier and well-tested ways of getting people worked up when consuming newsproduct.

The people who know what this is and what it means speak up against it constantly: internet users with a clue. The people left who routinely watch TV and read template-generated newspapers are by definition not going to care. You don't watch TV to get real information, you watch TV to watch TV.
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I've just been hired, and haven't yet been placed with a team. I believe that's typical.
> "We know that fast food is bad for us."

We intuitively know this, but we do not intuitively know what is good for us. Sure, you can insist that people ought to cook everything from scratch, but given modern lifestyles this is really just a moral high horse, and stands little chance of being realistic advice that will be followed. Not to mention that a lot of home cooking is dangerously unhealthy for you (meatloaf, anyone?).

The information that led to my dramatic weight loss wasn't some kind of holy secret grail, it was simply training on what foods I need, how much of it I need, how to read nutritional labels, and the common pitfalls (e.g., trading fat for sodium) that one ought to watch out for. Instead of harping "fries are bad for you!" the program taught me was was good for me, which in the end was infinitely more helpful. We publish a pretty good guide on food groups and recommended servings, but the whole system doesn't account for the world of processed, industrialized food we live in today. How good are those crackers? Unsalted? What does that mean? It can still be an invitation to a coronary unless you are smart about scrutinizing labels.

> "obesity is less about knowing what is in your food and simply eating less of it"

True and false. Most obese people (including myself) eat too much, but much of it has to do with what is being eaten as well. Trading fat for carbs, trading fat for sodium, etc etc, all contribute to bad health.

Also, nutritional education also opened my eyes on how bad certain foods are for you. We intuitively know burgers and fries are bad - but how bad? Even most "normals" don't know this quantitatively, and this knowledge has helped me avoid a lot of foods. There are shades of "bad for you", and it's important to know this. "Stop eating burgers and ice cream" is a moralistic stance to take, and technically correct, but ultimately unhelpful.
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Every month the thread comes up, and every month I mention a website I work with my friend, http://job4dev.com

We put together a job board and a company database, so that people can see about the listings and have information about the company. Each listing page and company page works as a wiki, and can be edited to improve information about. Also, each page has a comment area in order to improve communication between job seekers, recruiters, and people who already work at the given company.

I'm pretty close to finish the section where people can build their resumes and list past experiences, education, and such. http://job4dev.com/my/resume

What else do we do? We have a twitter profile @job4dev (http://twitter.com/job4dev), custom RSS feeds, mailing lists. The fundamental features of this "app" you want are there.

All of this is free. The website is far from perfect, but our biggest problem right now is breaking the chicken-and-egg nature of a job site.

This is a side-project for now, the moment we get traction I can see myself jumping more into it to fix these smaller issues and bringing more features at a faster pace. For now I think all I'll be able to do is to use this monthly thread to do a shameless plug and tell of what's new. (Last month, for instance, we had no resume builder).

Let me know what you think. Feedback is always appreciated.
N.B. USM, as in USMC, as in United States Marine Corps.
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> Those loyal to truth are often the enemy of all.

And lately especially of the US govt.

Our govt. holds secrecy of classified information above morality. I am sure CIA and other such agencies have blood on their hands, and they have done many morally questionable things in the name of 'national interest'.

For them morality is only manifested as legal limits -- the amount of stuff they can get away before being found legaly guilty of something. This means two things, they will try to influence the legislative branch to widen up the laws so they can have more 'freedom' (this happened after 9/11, Patriot Act, torture laws etc)., but it also means that they will do things that are clearly illegal if they are sure these things will never be publically released or opened. I think we are dealing with the later -- as set of things that will be hidden forever but un-exectedly got out.

Wikileaks breaks govt.'s modus operandi. At some point there will be a person working for them that will hold morility above their freedom, and professional duty ( and /put tin foil hat on possibly their life). In the past it was much easier to handle and contain such leaks, this becomes much harder with the wikileaks infrastructure.

I am not defending the government here. The truth should and will come out. I just hope wikileaks people know what they are doing and know how to protect their sources. If they compramise their whistleblowers somehow, they will lose credibility.

EDIT (type): second paragraph, 'about' changed to 'above'
They worked on their business, not their technology. Since they were in the mapping business, they might have invested more $ into their mapping product.
That's the same problem that TV and radio "news" has had for a long time. I don't think the problem has to do with the structure of the web. I think the problem has to do with human beings. And given that this keeps repeating itself, I wouldn't call it a "problem," more just "reality." I agree it sucks though, but presumably the low cost of spreading information on the web will allow niche information sources to flourish. HN itself is an example of getting closer to that.
in the words of one of the redditers on that thread: "I need a shower"
It amazes me to read some weird political take on what is simply a decent business strategy for embedded CPUs. You still have to pay licensing fees and such. Democracy is a strange word to use.

Also, as to W7 and the full OS X on ARM, is there a 64-bit variant of the ARM instruction set. We seem to be passing 4G on the desktop and portable market (look at the new Atom chips).
In the nosql shoot-out thats been going on in the last 6+ months or so, Cassandra seems to be gaining the most traction followed by MongoDB. This is entirely based on my non-scientific monitoring of the various mailing lists, twitter feeds and articles. The big problem I personally have with Cassandra is that it is Java based. Not because I think Java is inherently bad, but rather because I don't know it well.

Personally, as long as I'm gonna jump into the nosql deep end and pick up some new skills I figured I would go full boar and spend some time with Riak (http://riak.basho.com/). Not as mature as Cassandra or even MongoDB, Riak is Erlang based with strong support for JavaScript and the http protocol stack. Further, Riak adheres to Amazons Dynamo paper very closely which meshes well with my overall philosophy re. data distribution and persistence. Riak as a project is moving along well and if you spend anytime kicking the tires you'll soon notice what is lacking and start thinking about how to work around those issues. Needless to say, if you follow #riak on freenode you'll also get a feel for what Basho has in mind for the roadmap. From what I can gather, Lucene hooks of some flavor are in the works.
Looks like all it does is replace a SSL MITM proxy.
Yeah, it's not like they had people develop this feature. It fell right out of the sky! All the developers could just finish other stuff.

No, wait, that's not how this works.
Can't ICANN postulate what can and cannot be relevant information that is gathered?

Maybe, maybe not.

The designated [ccTLD] manager must be equitable and fair to all groups in the domain that request domain names. Specifically, the same rules must be applied to all requests and they must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion. The policies and procedures for the use of each TLD must be available for public inspection. Generally these are posted on web pages or made available for file transfer. While variations in policies and procedures from country to country are expected due to local customs and cultural values, they must be documented and available to interested parties. Requests from for-profit and non-profit companies and organizations are to be treated on an equal basis. No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come from customers of some other business related to the TLD manager. For example, no preferential service for customers of a particular data network provider. There can be no stipulation that a particular application, protocol, or product be used. (http://www.icann.org/en/icp/icp-1.htm)

Translation: ICANN won't attempt to contradict local customs.

The Sponsoring Organization shall abide by ICANN policies ... that concern ... other topics, in the circumstance that the registration policies for the Delegated ccTLD encourage or promote registrations from entities or individuals resident outside the territory of the Governmental Authority, to the extent those policies are applicable to the Delegated ccTLD, except where (a) the Sponsoring Organization is prohibited by law from implementing such an other ICANN policy... (http://www.icann.org/en/cctlds/model-tscsa-31jan02.htm)

Translations: Local laws override ICANN policies.

And more damning, it looks like CNNIC has no agreement with ICANN relating to .cn at all: http://www.icann.org/en/cctlds/agreements.html
Its harder now, since u cant use notifications anymore. I want to know as well.
I don't like gay men who exhibit certain personality traits (behaving effeminately is socially blunderous under some circumstances), make clothing choices I wouldn't make, and occasionally hit on me. That does make me intolerant, and an effeminate gay fashion designer should not feel guilty for possibly driving me out of the fashion industry.

Similarly, a woman is free to be intolerant of geeks, but no geek should feel guilty for driving her out of computing. Her avoidance of computing is caused by her own intolerance, nothing more.
I don't buy this. Maybe in the future in 20-30 years, but definetly not now. I got no idea where the prototype might be, but I don't see how you can build a robot that writes articles without ambient intelligence... journalism cases are really complex and you need a human intuition.

Maybe it would be great to collect information in a specialized case, but to make an article out of it? It's a whole different story!
I think it is great that there are funds pursuing different strategies. What's even better is that they are fairly transparent about their data so we can use the data to find better strategies.
I really wanted to read that article, but I had to close it and get back to work after reading tip #1.
We're not hiring anyone specifically now, but you owe it to yourself to check out Waterloo region. It's starting to get an awesome and vibrant startup scene, and alongside mammoth companies like RIM there are a ridiculous amount of job opportunities.

check out www.waterlootechjobs.com
Has anyone tried link exchange networks like Fbexchange? Seems interesting, you can also buy clicks from the network, but I'm not sure on the quality.
Well that's lame.
And we won't get anywhere if all we do is put forth the same old tired theories (it must be the men's fault) and attempt the same old tired, stereotypical solutions that never seem to have any effect. "Come join us, really, its great and we wont bite!". That's great but then we refuse to do the one thing we are great at - collect the data and re-evaluate and adjust our solution ( and theory) based on what seems to be working. And hence we go round and round. Look at the medical profession. Women doctors exist at pretty much every level. Is there something we can learn from that?
If a CA is issuing bad certificates then they need to be removed from the default CA list. Mozilla was worried about this with China a little while ago. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/mozilla-debates...

The real news will be if anyone can prove that a default CA has been compelled by court order to generate a fake certificate.
Are you saying that we would have increased population growth if the population was all packed together? By packing together we could do things such as use less electricity by being more efficient (less power loss due to transmission distances, less power used to pump water all over the place, less fuel spent moving all over the place, etc).
luckily not everything on the command line uses readline, else there'd be way more gpl licensed command line tools. vi mode has been in nsh and pdksh, independent of gnu readline. It is also part of the specification for sh at opengroup.org:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/sh.h...

Interesting note about emacs mode though:

In early proposals, the KornShell-derived emacs mode of command line editing was included, even though the emacs editor itself was not. The community of emacs proponents was adamant that the full emacs editor not be standardized because they were concerned that an attempt to standardize this very powerful environment would encourage vendors to ship strictly conforming versions lacking the extensibility required by the community. The author of the original emacs program also expressed his desire to omit the program. Furthermore, there were a number of historical systems that did not include emacs, or included it without supporting it, but there were very few that did not include and support vi. The shell emacs command line editing mode was finally omitted because it became apparent that the KornShell version and the editor being distributed with the GNU system had diverged in some respects. The author of emacs requested that the POSIX emacs mode either be deleted or have a significant number of unspecified conditions. Although the KornShell author agreed to consider changes to bring the shell into alignment, the standard developers decided to defer specification at that time. At the time, it was assumed that convergence on an acceptable definition would occur for a subsequent draft, but that has not happened, and there appears to be no impetus to do so. In any case, implementations are free to offer additional command line editing modes based on the exact models of editors their users are most comfortable with.
I recommend #3. Hang out on IRC & the groups, open source the non-secret-sauce from your startup. Build a brand around yourself as a badass Clojure programmer. Best case scenario, you have a successful startup. Worst case, you're a well known Clojure expert, and someone will hire you to work for them.
Oh I agree the photo is excessive. Never said the whole idea was great, just that the theory of requiring business registration verification or name verification is most likely well intentioned.

What makes the whole thing skeptical and scary is that it is the government asking for this and not a specific registrar's policy.
Yes - I thought this was a cryptographic breakthrough, but it's just people breaking promises.
A bit like Frank Abignale Jr... Great story!
Shouldn't it be possible to detect when this is happening, and who's issuing the certificates? We need a plugin that snarfs the certificates as they hit your browser, and a web service to log them to (send the SHA256 of the cert, and if it's not already there, send the complete contents of the cert).

I'm game if someone else is.
> IDed

you know you've seen too many ads when you read that and think it's a new apple product. Scary.
Posterous is hiring Rails engineers in San Francisco. We're a super small team (6 full time engineers) and have big challenges to be tackled ahead. Also, we're about to get new offices in the Mission right at 16th and Mission!
CNET: GoDaddy to stop registering domains in China
And this is why I shoot mostly film... with digital it's too easy and tempting to resort to parlor tricks instead of taking a genuinely good photograph.
Here are my notes:

Use ON_ENTER_FRAME events and getTimer(), not TIMER. The Timer class is a low-accuracy system good for tweens, but it runs aground of Flash's "elastic racetrack" throttling behavior: Flash will try to keep a balance between rendering frames and code execution and that conflicts with the absolute control a game needs. ON_ENTER_FRAME will keep your main loop running once-per-frame, which is what you want; with getTimer() you can still apply a dT to your objects.

You're using strings in your enumerated constants. These will compare slower than integers. However, the bigger concern for performance is.....

You're using the Flash transform functions on a per-frame basis for rotations. This will always be slow; software rendering is fast only at simple memory copies and nothing else, which translates to using copyPixels as much as possible in the inner loop. Hence the performant way to architect Flash games is to prerender a giant spritesheet with draw(), use that as a lookup table for each rotation, and to draw the result onto a single surface rather than to maintain objects on the display list, because the Flash display list will do event processing per object. If you need to finely control draw layers, defer the actual rendering operation into a queue for each layer, and do it all in one pass later.

Your "GameObject" won't scale well for a more complex game because it mix three concerns(drawing, motion, collision) in a single class. This caveat is true of the Flixel/Flashpunk architectures too; a more factored approach would be to push these things into components and instance them on each entity type. For an example of a more factored entity system look at Pushbutton Engine.

Anyway, it looks pretty good overall, but it's a simple game. The companies may be looking for something a little more elaborate.
It is an impediment to running some new site you just want to throw at the wall and see what happens. This is truly a loss. But for the most part these rules have always been challenging. I've had to run down to a Shanghai IDC in years past to show proper company backing for my server. The gov calls the IDC and says we're going to do an audit next week. The IDC looks through it books to see who doesn't have their records up to date and calls to try to mitigate any interruption in service.

For a local Chinese with a plan to launch a startup, you need to get your corporate paperwork in order anyway just as you would in the U.S. In that regard, this is just one more set of forms to fill out.

This change is a larger barrier for foreigners that can't read mandarin and understand current Chinese regulation. For them, they're used to being able to go to any number of web sites, typing in their credit card and owning a domain.
It's probably mainly a business decision (admin hassle) milked for PR.

Let's not politicize things too much, and let's not forget that GoDaddy doesn't exactly have a stellar ethical record as well. They are quick to censor speech [1], delisting whole sites from DNS. They also have advertising policies that are questionable, etc.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/godaddy-silence/
Isn't it already established that Cassandra unlike many other NoSql solutions from the start was developed to the requirements of the biggest social websites and if you are not one of them then you may be better off using a less complicated/resource intensive solution.

On the other hand if you play big then having a dedicated java geek looking after your Cassandra shouldn't be a problem and even would gain you a bit of advantage in other areas.
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What they know is their own history.

Within the memory of China's current leadership, they've had a personality-cult-dictatorship and famines and purges-of-intellectuals (the 60s and 70s). Going back to the early-to-mid-20th century, China faced invading armies, a bitter civil war, and a communist revolution -- together killing tens of millions. In the 19th century, China was dominated by western foreign powers, and had another civil war -- the Taiping rebellion -- that featured a self-proclaimed "brother of Jesus" leading a "heavenly army" in a conflict that killed 25 million -- proportionately more than the US lost in its civil war of the same period (which had fewer cult/messianical undertones).

US domestic policy is still informed (and twisted) by our far-more-mild experiences over the same periods. So it's understandable that the technocratic Chinese leadership thinks that their own population, without strong central control, is prone to be caught up in giant ideological swings and civil wars.

While not excusing human rights violations, this insight should at least make their mindset a little less mysterious. America has had the luxury of seeing openness work for two centuries at the same time China was suffering religious, imperialist, and ideological misery.
The real bad guys can just use symmetric encryption, with keys distributed by mail or by hashing parts of certain books. It's the typical end-user going to their banking site or reading their email that's most vulnerable to such devices. China might be a top customer.
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I'll just add that we (LinkedIn) are a JVM shop. Amongst our weaponry are: java, scala, other intriguing languages, hadoop, voldemort, OS X dev boxes (with scads of memory), lots of perks and fun projects.

We also have many open source projects to work on: http://sna-projects.com

We are located in Mountain View, nestled in amongst the sprawling Google surroundings.
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> it is extremely time consuming.

Most importantly, it’s not especially interesting. Figuring out what needs fixing takes a human eye, but actually cutting a distracting pole or bit of lens flare out of a picture is work for a patient robot.

> Are losing our love of reality because of the dreams we can so easily create?

Um... no?

How do you define “reality”? If it depends on what can be shown in photographs, then the time to have this discussion was around 1850.
And if you don't have a problem with vi mode, use ESC to enter command mode and enter v to edit the command line in ${EDITOR}