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Thanks for the tips toumhi, it seems like a general consensus that Signapore will probably be too expensive.

Thanks also for that last part, its been weird discussing it with friends/family cause they think its crazy taking the trip without a plan of what I'm going to do after; but that's just something I'll have to live with.

Besides housing and food, do you have any other big expenses? Also, you mentioned you've moved between Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam, how easy and expensive is it to move around? I'm considering being in Thailand and taking a few weekly trips to visit the surrounding regions.
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I'm really interested in John's switch because, as far as I know, at Mozilla he was working on JavaScript evangelism and performance, but at Khan Academy he'll actually be building software which I think is a pretty large change.
Ah yeah. Good idea. I don't think it's really that big of a deal, I think she was just curious. I would be too. Everything looks ok for now though. I don't think he would be that smart working for a company around here.
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Thanks Andrenid.

I think I might go for the solo ABN approach for now and move to a company approach once things improve.

Don't people recommend an 'incorporate' company as well?
Thanks.
Gilt's manual, a continuous lean, the sartorialist, hickorees, selectism (and related sites), hypebeast, styleforum, and so on. Go to those sites and there will be links to loads more similar sites. There was a lot less cognitive fashion overhead required for males when everyone just wore the same suit every day.

That said, if you bought all your clothes from j.crew and maybe some hoodies and t-shirts from american apparel, you'd be covered for 98% of north american dating and office working situations. (losing out on dates with extreme hipsters, goths, gutter punks, fashion plates, ravers, nudists, hell's angels, and the amish)
I feel like a rant.

Editors: The best editor/editing environment of the bunch is the Microsoft offering of visual studio. The biggest problem is that it is only well suited for Microsoft products. There are a few others and there is eclipse that some people seem to worship but is clunky hog of a thing that is nowhere as smooth as Visual Studio. A lot of people still use fairly basic text editors.

Standards: At first there was Netscape it was good. Then IE came along and it was good and Netscape was a garbage. Then Firefox came along and it didn't crash as much as IE. Then Chrome came along and IE was crap.
While I like the way Chrome has done so much, I really hope Google doesn't do too much to dominate the browser market. Competition is needed. Competition was needed when Microsoft was winning the browser wars. The actions that Google has taken of late seem to not much different from the bullying Microsoft employed all those many moons ago.

Javascript: The things you can do with Javascript are fantastic. The language of javascript is a dogs breakfast. Instead of pushing the language forward and making it more integrated with the browser, add-ons such as jquery have been created. Having one dominant language (that was set by Netscape) makes programming for the web a sometimes painful experience. Using Javascript and trying to make it work with every browser can get ugly. There is room for new language or two in the browser.

I am very happy to be moving on from the dominance of IE6 but I am cautious of what the future holds.
just to be clear, I certainly did not mean "specious" here as a personal attack. I meant it in the sense that it is easy to talk about buggy drivers -- every one of us has encountered some kind of instability or crash from them -- but security assessments rely on specifics.

If a group is claiming that this kind of system interaction is securable (for some given definition of "securable"), we can evaluate both that claim and if that level of security is sufficient. For instance, we can enumerate the ways that WebGL can interact with buffers; given those, what attacks are possible at those points and how are they being defended against?

Obviously a web forum isn't the best place for this, but it's important to keep in mind.
Looks like GitHub would only honor the request for user details if presented with a subpoena.
Forgive me if its a n00b question, but how easy is it to meet new people; and are there particular destinations expats frequent?

One of the things I'm slightly nervous about is not knowing anyone or the language; and thereby finding it hard to do even the most basic things like finding a nice cheap place to crash.

Thanks for the tip about Singapore, that seems to be a general consensus. I'm also planning on taking some weekend trips around the region if flights are cheap, and may relegate Singapore to that leg of the trip.
> In my experience the lag time to the US is a huge factor in overseas hosting. Otherwise I'd just have everything setup overseas because Telstra has the entire industry by the nuts in terms of data costs (bring on the NBN!)

It's not Telstra. There's plenty of non-Telstra international transit, and enough (but not plenty) of non-Telstra domestic transit.

The problem is that to run a hosting business in Australia, you don't get huge benefits from scale, and you're having to maintain a high staff member-to-customer ratio. Customers have a lot of protection (a good thing) through Fair Trading, and it seems that (from my experiences working in the industry) Australian users have a higher expectation of customer service.

Plus, there's also just the time-zone thing. Calling up mid-afternoon in Australia puts you at late-night in the US.
I found a thing called rpc.lockd. Looks like its some type of linux command. Anyone know anything?

And syslogd.
The Male Fashion Advice subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice) has some interesting discussion and advice. Check the sidebar on the right for specific issues.

Bear in mind that like any community it has certain strong personalities that set the tone for everyone else. If your instincts say "following this advice will make me look ridiculous" then you're probably right.
I'm still considering China too; definitely not out of the question. Curious to know more about why you think it will be more attractive than Thailand or Indonesia?
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These are two unrelated things in my opinion:

1) GitHub is anonymizing the sender on DMCA notices they publish.

They anonymize it because they're not The Pirate Bay exploiting someone else's work and keeping teh internets riled up so the ad impressions keep coming. You should not expect them to instigate or facilitate or even just enable retaliation, they gain nothing and risk plenty by taking a more antagonistic approach to publishing DMCA notices.

2) Sony hopes a DMCA can be used in lieu of a subpoena.

This is not the same as removing senders.
Yep, spot on. That, or they learn how to get a basic ZenCart or OSCommerce install running themselves.

I agree that if you don't know how to get your business back online within a day or so, that you don't deserve to be running a business and that you've taken that risk on by trying to cut costs/corners elsewhere. Still, my idealising doesn't stop people from doing it.
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They should have claimed that Lulsecz hacked both accounts and made this fake conversation for the lulz :)
Very nice. Great Canvas implementation example.
The comments to the submitted article show that the writer got this wrong.
I was curious, so I looked it up: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/fofou/manifesto.html
the rent is low and the women love foreigners :)

Love that part ;) and thanks so much for the kind offer olalonde. I'll look more into Shenzen as you're not the first person to suggest that. Are there a lot of hacker types around? And how about the night life?
Not true. In astrophysics, at least, all journals I know of let you keep rights to noncommercial publication like putting the paper on arXiv and on your web page.
I'm working on http://www.sophia.org/. We went out of private beta in March.
Thanks for the cost information, definitely within my budget.
Keep in mind that the FBI agent-in-charge's perceived cost for pissing off some small web companies is pretty low; their perceived cost for tipping off whoever they're after, and blowing the entire operation, is much, much higher.
It's amazing that a company was borne out of some crazy guy walking around broadcasting his life... But, good on them!
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Out of curiosity, which journals are these? The NASA scientists I know of that work in astrophysics seem to publish in the normal journals and put their papers on arXiv like everyone else.
What about this website design?
I have never been to the parts of Asia you mention, but if you don't stay right in Tokyo, Japan is doable on $5000 for 3 months. I had an (extremely small) apartment outside of Machida for $300/m. I would guess that outside of Tokyo, Japan might be cheaper than Singapore. The towns near the beach are chill, inexpensive and have many amenities compared to american small towns. I spent less than $8000 over 9 months and went on many trips, bought random electronics and clothes, etc. The most expensive part of my stay was train fare.
After reading the comments, I'm considering doing Singapore as more of a smallers trip (not suggesting that you can experience all of it in a few days). Curious to know more on why you suggested Taipei?
I never said that shaders are arbitrary code or that they're executed in the kernel. WebGL in general opens up a huge attack surface, however, much of which is in the kernel. As soon as WebGL hit Webkit, I started testing it for two reasons: 1) I do 3d art, and 2) I work in security. I understand the systems involved quite well, and I'm still very concerned about it.
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Does anyone else think Hulu would be a good acquisition for Google, especially now that they have Google TV? It would've been better if they bought Netflix a while ago, but Hulu seems to be like the next best thing. Plus, it's based on ads and everything.
India would definitely be around the top of the list for something like this; unfortunately I was born and raised there ;). And part of what I'm doing is to move somewhere completely unfamiliar where I'm not familiar with the language. Thanks for the suggestion!
'Now when people ask, “Hey Buf, happy hour? A bunch of us are going out to Bloodhound,” I don’t have to spend my night at home watching Battlestar Gallactica in my boxers eating cheetos off my fat naked belly.'

Hate to break it to you, Buf, but you didn't have to spend your night like that. You had a choice, and it may make sense for you to restrict your options for future decision making by getting rid of your material things, but it's sort of presumptuous to assume that most people are just as bad at making decisions.

Edit: Maybe I'm in the minority here, how many of you also feel totally and uncontrollably compelled to sit at home and interact with your material possessions when offered a choice between that and an opportunity to go out and interact with friends?
It really is surprising, especially how sophisticated the email specification is (since it had to deal with gateways and multiple non-Internet networks, etc.). But, perhaps history has something of an answer here: it took email decades to work out how to handle multimedia, with all sorts of false starts and poor standards, so, perhaps HTML email is really just the continuation of this?
You can't really call it HTML if it's so wildly nonstandard.

Personally, I think we need "Markdown Email". It looks great in plain text, and something like an end user custom stylesheet could render it pretty-fied for those that care.

Wishful thinking, sadly.
It is one of your primary duties to safeguard the best interest of your organization. Incontrovertibly, the best interest is not served by storing passwords in plaintext as this can result in grave harm to your organization.

Accordingly, while I would not share any details with the outside world, I would advise you to strongly push the issue internally, from the position of an educator.

Here are four articles that may assist you in composing a stronger series of arguments:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Broken_Authentication_and_Se...

http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/256.html

http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-pass...

http://marknelson.us/2011/02/06/gawker-considered-stupid-cri...

You will want to further notate that the effort of implementing non-plaintext authentication really isn't terribly significant.

What troubles me is this "most senior" programmer of yours. If storing passwords in plaintext is OK with him/her, meaning that he/she has a weak background in security engineering, I can't imagine that there aren't many additional severe security issues (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, etc...). Most concerning of all though is that this "most senior" programmer seems disinterested in due diligence and is instead actively arguing against widely known best practices.

If, after your strong push, management still is not motivated, personally, I would resign. I would not want to be professionally affiliated with an organization and management that have a materially compromised decision-making process.

At some point in the future, your organization may be compromised, which may lead to people losing their jobs. You will not, in the future, want to be on the receiving end of questions like, "So the web application that you worked on stored passwords in _plaintext_???," "So how exactly was it that you were unable to present a compelling case to do something that is so blatantly obvious???."
Could have used http://secretsocial.com
The reason people moved away from them is that a few bad apples were tracking emails via logged images. Then you got the images stripped which made the whole thing kind of pointless. Not to mention the fact that there's the actual HTML engine rendering mess.

HTML email sounds good on paper (and to marketers) but the reality is that its a nightmare.
I'd express it slightly differently:

A Sony employee is publicly accusing a non-anonymous GitHub user of breaking the law, and at the same time demanding the identities of GitHub users in the hopes that GitHub will comply out of courtesy (i.e. without a subpoena). At the same time, GitHub is providing him or her with anonymity.
Considering the title of the video series I believe that is the point.
Thanks for the feedback, we were thinking along the same lines... we'll try and do SO and Github integration in our later releases
I'm pretty sure there were no releases between 5.0b7 and 5.0 final, so I'm not sure why Firefox was prompting you to update. But in any case, you can download any release manually from ftp://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
The name "Go" is easy enough to skim past even when authors do properly capitalize it in their post titles. Not capitalizing it is just being mean.
If arXiv started charging 5 bucks for everyone to post there, the only problem would be to make it hassle-free enough. The only people who would be discouraged are the crackpots.
Right, but it's just a coincidence that it's Sony and that they're also hoping to get that stuff - GitHub's policy is to always anonymize the sender regardless.
It's absolutely terrifying that there exists in the world the type of individual who would plan and carry out such vast and permanent destruction of unique information. I can't imagine a motive that would rationalize something like this.

At least hold the data for ransom or something.
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I've been in the biz long enough to see several paradigms touted as the end-all solution. Today it's the cloud, but it's not too hard to envision something the size of your smart-phone, or maybe even your smart-phone, as the server. There are a lot of good reasons to keep the server in your physical possession. The network infrastructure to do that is just about there.
Attachment to not owning things is exactly the same issue as attachment to owning things.

It sounds as if you don't think that it is possible to genuinely not need certain things.

If I don't own a TV and never even remember the fact that I don't have a TV, is that 'attachment'?
How expensive is it to spin up a VPS and start poisoning data centers? Three racks to take down one site? It would be a nightmare of a whack-a-mole game on a global scale.
I think the Flash-based restaurant example has had it's time. Let's try and move past the fallacy that most Flash-based sites are restaurant sites. They're not. YouTube, Grooveshark, blog.tv, etc. are all possible because of Flash.

The dream is that we'll be able to harness webcam, microphone, great audio API, and so on, without some proprietary plugin.

The reality is, we won't be able to. As soon as standards are all caught up, Flash will have included 5+ years worth of advancements that will be absolutely necessary for some types of interaction with the user.

Flash may be proprietary, buggy, closed, etc, but life without YouTube and the like would really feel like the stone age more than an improvement.
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why does someone need html email anyway? say it in plain text and if that's not possible just stick in a url. And you get to actually track it easily too.
So you want to do a startup, eh?
Maybe someone gained svn root? http://svn.wp-plugins.org/

The problem is while WordPress has evolved to a secure way of not storing passwords but instead the salted hash, new passwords (and resets) are still sent in the clear via very insecure, plain text email, and probably archived forever on some services like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.
I agree with you that you are not exactly saving the environment by rollin on Lithium. Heck, you didn't even take into account the environmental damage of mining it in China, talk about an environmental disaster.

I think the point of Tesla is more to push the technology of electric cars forward, to a point where someday it reaches a critical mass, or proper economy of scale, to the point where it is efficient.

Also, I was strolling around Montreal the other weekend, and saw a Roadster at a red light. Me being the drunken asshole that I am yelled "yo tesla dude, gun it". And let me tell you what, that car takes off like a friggin rocket, but quiet as hell, all you hear is the tires begging for grip. I want one.
> Tools should get the hell out of the way of their users.

I think this was precisely the point that Naggum was making. Basically his thesis is that emacs is hard to learn, but eventually you can do amazing things without thinking about it. A novice tool on the other hand never makes anything but the most trivial task easy, so though it doesn't get in the way of a beginner, it never gets out of the way of the expert.

You can argue about how true this is, and debate the merits of the modern crop of text editors that make better use of GUI elements, etc; but I still found the argument he makes to be compelling and worthy of consideration even if we ultimately disagree. He didn't just invoke a religious argument about the superiority of his tool of choice—he drew up a meaningful analogy to what it means to devote the time and obsession to perfecting one's art.
I'd leave it as is or keep it short; intro sequences are pretty tedious especially if you watch several videos one after the other.

The best thing you could do to improve this show is to do more of them, because they rock.
I like this idea a lot.

Also something that would help would be an ignore based backward compatibility standard. Like how browsers ignore tags they don't understand, then you could send a markdown formatted message that is marked in a way that the alternative non markdown text-only version is used by older clients.
> Nevertheless, I maintain that a text editor is strictly as important as the text it is used to create.

Absolutely. And what is the importance of that text to you? To me it is both my passion and my livelihood. In aggregate it's clearly #2 only to my family.
Does anyone know what the tool was?[0] jimmikaelkael is a well known PS2 dev. I had checked out the DMCAed repo when he first put it up about a week ago but I can't recall it was.

[0]: https://github.com/jimmikaelkael/ps3mca-tool.git
Living in an architect designed minimalist space is one thing, but having an empty "regular" apartment can put a strain on interpersonal relationships. It's a turn off to a lot of people if your apartment looks like a temporary crack den and there's no place to sit down.
This is one of the best comments I've read in a long time... :)
If the warrant includes your living room (because the police have probable cause to believe that there is physical evidence in your living room that would link your neighbor to the crime), then they can search your living room.

In the case of a shared server, I don’t see how you can do a good forensic search of the affected server without having the physical box in your possession.
I haven't really loved Hulu, in fact just today I canceled my premium free trial with them... but they don't deserve that! Nobody deserves death-by-acquisition-by-Yahoo.
> entries = new ArrayList<Integer>() {{ add(3); add(4); }}

Nah, entries = Arrays.asList(3, 4);

Scala is pretty sweet with a lot of syntactic sugars, but it still it doesn't fundamentally make writing correct code any faster, especially for Java developers who are competent with their IDEs. Until Scala's compile time and IDE support improves 10x, I see no point of using Scala for production code.

Slightly more verbose Java syntax is more than made up by the instant/incremental compilation/autocompletion/refactor that works. Even as a Java noob (I'm more experienced in C++), I can bang out correct code the first time without going through any edit/compile cycles, most of the time. IDE is the new REPL and language snobs always forget that.
Why not Tarsnap?
What I got from the article is that the author is blaming Khan for not explaining a few things in his history videos that may not be immediately obvious to a viewer.

I think this is a _much_ bigger issue in classrooms. I've had many instructors and professors at my university skip over the details. Because (1) they assume we know it already, (2) they are too lazy to discuss or write it, (3) there is not enough time.

Khan does an excellent job teaching in his math videos. Almost never have I felt like my questions weren't answered by him. He probably thinks as a beginner would and tries to make it as simplified as possible. He writes down everything. Even uses different colours for different concepts. Why? I don't know, maybe he wants to make sure his viewers benefit from his work. A classroom teacher couldn't care less, they still get paid at the end of the day.
Yes, that's true. My question was why that's their default policy. What is the point of anonymizing requests? I certainly had no expectation of anonymity when I employed the DMCA to take down unauthorised copies of my software from download sites.
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No. You're talking about the neutral case. I own no specialist plumbing tools, but as I'm not a plumber, it doesn't bother me either way.

I'm talking about the two other cases - I must own X to be in state Y, or I must not have X to be in state Y.

People set themselves up all sorts of artificial success milestones with stuff like this that are just as ineffective on either end of the scale.

My own anecdote. I had a TV, I decided it was a distraction and owning it distressed me enough that I gave it away. I now own a TV again, it's dusty and gets used once a month. Nothing inherently different about the TV in this case, I just matured enough to be able to balance and manage my time better, so now there's no particular attachment (in the case of the TV) to having it there or not.