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Who are we: VALA Group Ltd is an international engineering company specialized in software development and quality assurance. We are a quality and automation driven company. This means, that we aim to build better software, with the help of automation. VALA is a self-directed, transparent, low-hierarchy organization. Our company vision is to be the happiest company in Finland and this drives us to take care of ourselves and others.

VALA is one of the fastest growing IT companies in Finland, with a current headcount of 70 employees. The company headquarters are in Helsinki

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- Programming or scripting skills
- Agile world (Devops, Scrum, etc) is an advantage
- A continuous interest in new technologies
- A drive to develop yourself and pursue happiness

For Software Developers, preferably you have experience in a at least a few of the following:

- React.js or Angular.js
- Java development
- C/C++ development
- Embedded systems
- Agile world (Devops, Scrum, etc) is an advantage
- Mobile environments (particurlary iOS and Android)
- A continuous interest in new technologies
- A drive to develop yourself and pursue happiness

Benefits:

•	25 days paid vacation

•	Hierarchy free organisation

•	Occupational healthcare

•	Flexible working hours

•	Possibility for unpaid holidays throughout the year

•	Personal trainers and Life Coaches

•	Annual sport & culture benefits (€400)

•	Monthly lunch benefits

•	Weekly HIIT group trainings

•	Broad professional development support

•	Plus, all the basics (phone subscriptions, appliances etc)

You can apply by sending a free-format application to careers@valagroup.com or by filling in this very quick survey: https://spiikresearch.typeform.com/to/r3vMbF (for TA engineers) https://spiikresearch.typeform.com/to/MCcETJ (for Developers)

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Sorry, but no way. Local execution of sandboxed or VMed code isn't going away, and shouldn't go away, and suggesting that it should or will is honestly a bit deformation professionnelle, not to say a tiny bit crackers. Neither Spectre nor several more Spectres will change that. Computing mostly got along fine without sandboxing in the 'Seventies, but it could do so because computing in the 'Seventies was a radically different world for many other reasons too. We need more, and more reliable, sandboxing not less. If that means that, for instance, hardware manufacturers have to start getting serious about relative timing guarantees instead of cheerfully doing whatever it takes to beat the benchmarks, well Too Bad Really. It's a direction that things should probably have been going in anyway in the interests of real-time perfomance guarantees.
New year resolution: Help people learn React
> I think you could make a convincing argument that Whisper could be strong-armed by the US government, but for me it seems unlikely that they could be compelled to install a back door by Turkey, Russia, China, or some other such illiberal regime (at least, less likely than Google/Facebook).

> For example, see https://www.cultofmac.com/426440/whatsapp-wins-encryption-vi..., where WhatsApp (which uses the Signal protocol) was not able/willing to hand over message data to a Brazilian court. That is the feature that Signal users are choosing that FB Messenger does not have.

Actually I'd say it's a feature that FB Messenger has and Signal doesn't, since the salient fact is that Facebook inc. refused to turn over private messages. Facebook has the resources to play hardball with governments; they could afford to have their service shut off for 3 days in Brazil. Does Signal have that kind of warchest?
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Anyone know of a similar extension for Firefox?
Time to update you permissions Ux
They mean populated with homo sapiens, really isnt any appropriate words to use, cant say populated because other homo species probably dwelled in North America just not homo sapiens.

Can't really call other homo species people because still a vast difference, similar to us calling apes people but much closer.
Exactly. To illustrate your point:

The invention of "rope" is the invention of a manmade object that can create a strong and flexible connection between two objects.

Nylon rope is an innovation that progressed from grass rope. It should not be qualified as an "invention" in and of itself, as it is functionally the same as grass rope, it just does the job of rope better.
Interview with Tim Urban of Wait but Why [Transcript]
Do you have arguments why?
>It's never the infrastructure or the algorithm or the data that is political. It's the people using that infrastructure, algorithm or data in their decision-making who are responsible.

I don't believe that. In a sense, it's like the classic NRA defense, that guns don't kill people, etc.

In reality, certain technologies also come with specific tendencies -- ascribed in their very design and formulation.

In the very least, certain technologies within specific societal contexts tend to have specific outcomes. Which makes placing the blame to "people using that infrastructure" problematic, because those people also operate within that societal context, and are influenced by it, they are not totally free agents.
According to the table here [1] it is a DSB (data synch barrier) instruction. I don't know if it corresponds to any of the listed valid option values in [2].

[1] http://kitoslab-eng.blogspot.nl/2012/10/armv8-aarch64-instru...

[2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dui0802b/CI...
Could something similar be injected into you're eye and turn it into a different kind of eye ?
This has been proven to be fake and lists transactions that are not using the wraith protocol and are not meant to hide the op addresses
New evidence (Google disclosed the vuln to Intel in 2017 June), means new behavior.
Can posts to Stack Overflow be fingerprinted using hidden Unicode characters?
Personally I somehow doubt this (in this case).

The disease effects a small number of people (1 in 4000), and doesn’t cause complete blindness in all those effected.

It’s delivered in a viral vector, kind of not so easy to do yourselves I’d guess. Probably the easiest way would be to get hold of some and culture the virus yourself? Then just make as much as you want.

Still injecting something made without strict QC into your eye might not be so appealing.
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mankind has been extremely lucky with our environments, among others:

- Jupiter & Saturn pick out most of the comets, so we encounter massive reset only very rarely

- thanx to hitting other planet long time ago, we have a spinning molten metal core inside planet generating magnetic shield for all nasty radiation

- moon gives us tides & stability

- our sun is just the right size and age to be stable

- we're located at quiet part of the galaxy, which itself is pretty stable

I think some primitive life (ie stromatolytes equivalent) can exist on many places, simply because it happened on our planet very early when it was very violent place to be - so random arrangement of matter into self-reproduction is feasible.

But to evolve into specialized multi-cellular organisms took more than billion of years, a step that might not happen at all.

And to create an intelligent life is another massive step up (or accident). There is Drake equation to manifest it, but basically all variables in it can be anything including 0, so it's kind of useless.

So from my perspective there are couple of options:

- universe is too young (if you consider average star age compared to estimated universe age), so we're one of the first sentient arrivals, others are behind in evolution

- we're just not interesting enough to be contacted by superior races - just look at the news, I wouldn't blame them. We're 'meh' category at best, although most like to think of themselves in very different perspective

- we're fucking alone, weird random anomaly (by far the most scary option of them all)

There is a wonderful TV series from BBC called Earth: Power of the Planet, which explores this topic to great details, highly recommended!
Spectre is mostly about JavaScript extracting keys and passwords from the browser process. Install their ChromeZero extension for a start.

Meltdown on the other hand can do everything. But only on Intel.
I agree, I'm hitting small annoyances for example using Git in VSCode, via Samba (mainly permissions problems). It would be nice if the whole stack would be Linux. So also atom and VSCode would be on WSL. Though I think that should be possible with an xserver on Windows come to think of it... The performance however... Not something to write home about.

Wat is nice though is that the terminal in VSCode can be set to an Ubuntu terminal, I wish the entire Git stack could also be. And then, please also add sshfs...

I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to Open Source software and Linux, but for a family computer on Windows 10, I can now have all my Linux stuff and my wife can have her Adobe suite and proprietary Photo printing software. recently there is also very decent hardware available like the Dell XPS 15 line. If my 15" 2011 MBP dies I don't think I'll go for a Mac again.

I do feel sad, there are really only a couple of things holding me back from getting the whole family on Linux.
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In German* it depends on the tense of the verb. “On Monday I went to…” refers to the most recent Monday in the past. “On Monday I go to…” refers to the closest Monday in the future. Same for “This Monday…”. “Next Monday” refers to the second closest Monday in the future.

*At least in the region where I live.
Well these are essentially research papers - and people invested lots of time & it'll have an impact on their career.

So yeah making it nice & pretty seems appropriate just like a CV
I'm amazed how vim uses files. Some years ago we had to edit some SQL dump with hundred of millions of lines by hand in vim, worked.
They’ve cured color blindness with gene therapies already. It’s likely possible that you could add receptors for more wavelengths.

It just doesn’t seem to be commercially viable (colorblind-ness therapy was never persued because risk/reward/commercial aspects don’t work out IIRC).
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"...the highly personalised, digital door salesman right on your phone."

That doesn't sound good to me.

I'd be interested to hear other uses for the technology but if that's it, I'm glad it hasn't taken off.
Can't see how the numbers are the same, curious, what numbers did you see copied?
IMO, The comparison between Nature and Billionaires/wealth is just mind-bogglingly inane.

For starters, the evolution and convergence of the species distributions within an eco-system is a multi-generational game versus a single-generation (or at least single-digit) game for wealth accumulation in most societies.

Secondly, the strategy used within the games are almost completely different (in the case of wealth distribution there is a high degree of choice/variability by individual actors) while in the case of species dominance there is only pseudo-random variability based on genetic code. The variability also does not change within the course of a single generation.

A more fair comparison might be to compare the amount of territory controlled by the average pack of lions versus the most dominant pack of lions. In this case, the games are at least somewhat similar. I would actually be really interested to see this type of analysis, and I think it could be done very well, for many different species.
You've successfully made it less clear.

There is a nice table on AMD's website though:

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
The one thing I am noticing is that every group seems different. I have been several times however found the religious aspect very off putting. I did find being able to talk to others helpful however. If there wasn't the god bothering aspect I'd probably still go semi-frequently today having been sober for over ten years now.

To anyone like me out there, anti-theist but alcoholic, it is probably still a good idea to go to a meeting, at least once. Your group might be very different and even if you don't agree with everything it will show you that you aren't alone.
The only problem with saying "it works for some people and that's great" is that it is known that sending people to AA performs worse than just leaving people to their own devices.

If you get the flu it takes about two to three weeks to recover from it naturally. Imagine there's a flu cure that extends that to two to six weeks. Sure, some people take the cure and get better in two weeks while some who don't may only get better after three weeks. But it's still blindingly obvious that you'd be better off avoiding it and those that got better after two weeks would have likely recovered as quickly on their own (or using a different cure).

Some AA advocates argue AA has a higher success rate than widely reported but the problem is that AA is extremely secretive about the actual numbers and sees recovery as a lifestyle rather than a process. AA doesn't aim to cure alcoholism, it just aims to keep people sober.

Some people simply are more prone to addiction. Teaching these people to cope by channeling that addiction into something healthier than drugs (or gambling or whatever) is great but that's not really what AA aims to do.
Just wondering, why there's no mention of this being free, i.e. 100% government funded. Something like this essentially transforms somebody's life, allowing him/her to work, not being reliant on others etc. Not to mention the (oh, sadly) not quantifiable humanitarian reasons.
WebPonize: macOS app which converts images to WebP
This a million times.

It's not a coincidence that the focus in UI design also shifted at the same time, in the post-dotcom-bubble years.

Software user interfaces used to be designed for users. Desktop software didn't try to make you send an endless stream of personal data and content to the vendor, or trick you into using it again as soon as possible.

Today's software is designed with an advertising mentality. Instead of customers and human interface guidelines, there are eyeballs and creatives. Previously it would have been a scandal if a software package sent all your keypresses to the vendor's server, but today everything is tracked and monitored. Most designers don't give a shit about things like accessibility because they fundamentally understand software as something more akin to a billboard or centerfold ad.

Meanwhile usage of the word "product" creeps to replace "software". To me, it strongly carries the connotation that consumer-facing software design is turning into the process of developing ways to surreptitiously extract value from the user.
One could flip your argument and say defining life as purely organic is a failure of imagination.

The thing about searching for "life" over "intelligence" is that life doesn't necessarily need to be intelligent for it to be interesting.

I also think the SETI example you've made is a tad unfair because their process dictates that their search be for intelligence (crudely put, radio transmissions). Whereas when you're visiting a planet, you can observe a wider scope of life as it need not be intelligent (as we can perceive anyway) for markers to be identified.
The speed gains are very real so I wouldn't call it a mistake.

Side-effects could obviously been mitigated better, but hindsight 20/20.
So my biggest immediate complaint is that the up/down hearts are misleading. I was a little excited that the uphearts/downhearts appeared to be slightly offset, which would deal with one of HN's most annoying design flaws -- accidentally hitting the wrong vote button. As it is, your hearts have the same horizontal hitbox even though they appear visually skewed. Having the hitbox match the appearance of the hearts would be welcome!

The other fix I would make is in the font-color of a few elements that are now more emphasized than they need to be. e.g. The "unvote" label seems to be in the darkest shade of font color.

As someone who doesn't mind that it is a Chrome plugin, since Chrome is the browser I use for HN and because I don't mind that the plugin has access to that page -- I say keep it as a plugin rather than make it a CSS sheet. With a plugin, you could provide a polished config panel experience that makes it easy for a user to disable/enable features. For example, I could see myself liking the "Hacker News" masthed back in the header and in a hot pink shade -- but other users may want it gone like it is now.

Of course as a plugin it could add all sorts of features to the HN page, at risk of breaking the minimalist experience. All I think I would want in extra features is maybe he ability to switch between a few different variants of pink styling.
If the universe is large enough, with enough inhabited planets, it's very likely some alien, somewhere, speaks perfect English.

At the same time, it's extremely likely we never encounter them.
If it was a big issue you can always introduce a 'benchmark mode' switch that allows you to put resolution back into the counter when you want to run a benchmark. Display a 'WARNING BROWSER INSECURE IN THIS MODE' banner for good measure.
I think other lifeforms exist in the universe, but the probability that they live in the same timeframe or that the two lifeforms meet each others is ridiculous
Have you tried opening a bug at bugreport.apple.com? I've posted there with varying levels of success in the past.
For me, VS Code doesn't hog memory anywhere near like Atom does in the linked article.

Electron apps are often slow, memory hogs, but VS Code is neither of those things - it's an example of a great Electron app that absolutely flies, despite being stuffed with features.
Yes, but if it's your metal, you don't need to.
It seems unlikely - electron developers are going to understand how to use browsers, but fixing the browser itself is the way to make it use less RAM.

Maybe if they switch to Servo it might use a little less RAM, but inherently it's always going to be pretty heavy.
Great approach. Now what does it do? (Or rather, what can I do with it specifically compared to other distros, and how?)
> Why is the tech industry so young? And why does it put such a premium on youth?

Because the young are more naive, blind to the things written in this article, and they happily follow the dystopian agenda of big companies.
Thanks. I generally have formatting problem on this site, so I appreciate all the help I can get.

It's fixed or at least improved now.
What they mean is that these unseen galaxies are within the radius of the observable universe, but too faint to be detected with current telescopes.
This distinction seems arbitrary. Couldn't I just say that rope itself wasn't an invention but simply a better kind of vine for climbing?
Big +1, the integration between iPhone and Apple TV is so poor it is shocking.
I've found that C++/MFC and C#/WinForms are the one that are stable and actually work over the long term. Our >20 year old app runs a lot of MFC code that is unmodified from that era.
Google knew about Spectre and Meltdown processor bugs last year
You don't need root, and you don't need physical access. For Meltdown, you only need the ability to run your own code on the target machine.

Where that gets tricky is when everyone's using cloud hosting solutions where the physical machines are abstracted away, and a given physical server may be running multiple virtual servers for different customers.

Think of it like this:

* Somewhere in a data center at a cloud provider is a physical server, wired up in a rack..

* That server runs virtualization software, allowing it to host Virtual Server 1, Virtual Server 2, and Virtual Server 3.

* Virtual Server 1 belongs to Customer A. Virtual Servers 2 and 3 belong to Customer B.

* Normally, Virtual Server 1 can't access any memory allocated to Virtual Servers 2 and 3.

* BUT: Customer A can now use Meltdown to read the entire memory of the physical server. Which includes all the memory space of Virtual Servers 2 and 3, exposing Customer B's data to Customer A.

That's the threat here.
You still can move some functionality to a device driver or something else that runs in the NT kernel space.
> Intel believes its products are the most secure in the world and that, with the support of its partners, the current solutions to this issue provide the best possible security for its customers.

* sad trombone *

They're obviously not the most secure, as the Project Zero research shows. The whole press release has to be one of the most dismissive and snobbish PR pieces I've seen from a large corp.
I'm on my 2nd Mazda (technically 3rd - had a ford laser which was a sub license of some sort of the Mazda 6 (or 3?)). They require very little maintenance, don't seem to have any problems, service is great, they are great cars.
What changed? Why is this being posted now?
Correct.

If I'm checking for any prime other than 2 or 5 -- each of which has it own quick-check anyway via the last digit only -- it's always OK to drop trailing zeros.
These risks make it obvious why an "at home" solution is highly unlikely to come to fruition.

You want to be putting enterprise-grade things into your eye. The only way you'd be able to guarantee that is to source the treatment through traditional channels.
Either that, or you'll have to put up with some processes taking longer.
> And some people still aren’t sure if there is other life beyond Earth. :)

Until we actually observe it, no, we can't be sure; the probability of it existing is high simply due to the sheer amount of dice rolls there are in the universe, but the likelihood of us observing it is low. We already know there is and was no intelligent life in our solar system besides what's on Earth; there's still hopes of finding traces of microbial life on Mars and maybe that ice moon. But unless we get a signal from far away (what the SETI project has been scanning for for decades now), we'll not find evidence of alien life in this generation.

I also doubt humanity will find a way to travel fast enough to get to another solar system within a human lifespan. If we do, it'll probably involve bending the fabric of space-time and the Great Old Ones will return from Beyond the Observable Universe and will start eating us.
> they want a MacBook Pro that stops optimizing for thinness but has a larger battery, MagSafe, and perhaps one or two USB 3.0 ports during the transition period.

This is the situation I'm in. I need a new laptop as my MBP (2010) has recently hit the hay, but I'm just putting it off and stalling being of things like this and the massive price increases. Instead of magsafe and useful ports I get touchbar... thanks Apple. Honestly trying to convince myself if I can get by with an alternative laptop with Linux (Windows isn't an option anymore).
I could go on and on about how bad Apple's developer documentation is. So much stuff is missing an overview document or sample project, so you have documentation on the 10 classes but not how they fit together. Sample code that does exist won't compile on the latest Xcode 1/4 times, especially if it's Swift. I've found code that won't compile even in the Swift language documentation. There's almost never any documentation what can go wrong and why.

These days I prefer Stack Overflow answers to Apple's own documentation since it's more up-to-date