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Timely, given the recent PyPI breach and Rails/Ruby YAML parsing vulnerabilities.
I get your concern about supporting the web; I think it's because a lot of people really want us to be a web game engine, but we aren't. We're a mobile game engine. We simply chose "HTML5" as an API layer because of the excellent tooling around the ecosystem. It just so happens we support the web as a side-product, and that's pretty cool I think, but not really the point of the GC DevKit.

Great feedback on the fuzziness of the license WRT contributions! Overall our intention is to let people keep their source code proprietary, but protect clear bug fixes and enhancements to the core engine. We never, ever intend to come up with some "gotcha" and start charging money. Any suggestions on changes or clarifications to our license that let us accomplish that are very welcome! (Though please read our first attempt in Exhibit A "Modifications" first)

The good news is that the core native engine (c/c++/java/obj-c) is very obviously separated from the game code and so that's easy; it's just the JS libraries that we have to be precise about. Perhaps the MPL has the right wording and guidelines around that?

("The MPL is a simple, file-level copyleft license. The MPL’s “weak” copyleft is designed to encourage contributors to share modifications they make to your code, while still allowing them to combine your code with code under other licenses (open or proprietary) with minimal restrictions.")
I suspect the meteorite and earthquake are not related. The only recent earthquake that fits your description was M6.6 at 67.580°N 142.593°E [1], that's about ~2630 miles away from the reported meteorite impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia [2].

[1] http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000f76f#...

[2] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_METEORITE?S...
Yeah, 6.9 is not mentioned in the story and USGS does not show any recorded event there. Russian media was saying nothing hit the ground -- there was just an explosion in air which is seen in the video. I'm sure something hit the ground, though.
I'm so happy that most Russian drivers have dashcams. That was seriously cool to see.
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Lookups and if/then statements, wow. God forbid you ever have to audit a program with a loop.
I dont think you do get what I'm saying, as we seem to be arguing pros and cons of hosted and managed services.
It is believed that the incident may be connected to asteroid 2012 DA14, which measures 45 to 95 meters in diameter and will be passing by Earth tonight at around 19:25 GMT at the record close range of 27,000 kilometers.

apparently there was a risk that asteroid would intercept a satellite orbit. Too early to say, but it seems more likely than mere coincidence.
There is, it just isn't invoked for a .csv file.

As someone who basically lives in Excel for 40 hours a week, I find my quality of life to be much improved when I keep my text files tab delimited.
Great idea! Mind if I ask how you're curating the data that you send out? That is, if you're doing it manually then it's basically a 'better than nothing, probably' approach because the people benefiting from the service would be those who presumably aren't combing the web for vulnerabilities therefore making them pretty reliant on you and your information– whether it's from the dev-core, netsec, or plain-old-HN outrage.

1) Are you doing an automated scrape of data? If so, who are your sources?
2) What do you consider "the most important" vulnerabilities? Any plans for letting this be user selectable (i.e. at signup decide whether you want all or critical, etc.)?

Aside: It would also be nice if you provided a sample email on the frontpage, otherwise people just have to sign up and wait to see if the service is what they expect.
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Just one note: uninstalling the app will cancel all notifications. Just turn the app off to stay connected.
>And Michigan? I think it borders on conspiracy theory to suggest that, on the precipice of a large depression, no bailout would have been issued to save a 3 million job industry had those jobs been centered in red states.

Michigan is a swing state too. And the auto industry didn't fail because of the recession. The recession was just the last straw. They've been slowly dying for decades as a result of strong competition from foreign competitors. But that's the case across all traditional manufacturing industries. Why did we bail out General Motors but not any of the companies that used to make all the Walmart inventory that now comes from China?

>There are no family farmers anymore.

Because the Department of Agriculture and the president's veto pen had no incentive to care when they were being destroyed.
I don't agree with your implication that finding math easy is somehow a prerequisite for high school programming classes. I found that most of my struggle in mathematics came from lack of any kind of practical application for it. By contrast, I saw programming as building something, which is directly in line with my own sense of fun. I could just as easily have been an engineer or carpenter, it's just computers that I got my hands on first. I would say it's because of this that mathematics are much easier to me when I can apply it somehow to relevant problems that I'm facing in programming.

So I argue that programming courses may actually be a good way to boost the really important stuff - literacy and mathematics. (I think everyone here would agree that literacy is an important part of being a good developer.) It's a real, practical, exciting application of these more abstract ideas.
... yes, I meant exactly 200 years, to the letter. Obviously. The tilde, which is generally taken to mean 'approximate', was absolutely superflous. In a thread about John Locke's conception of property and its effects on modern day states, I plant the turning point at 1813. You got me.

(the ~200 figure comes from the Inclosure acts, which, as Wikipedia says, "the majority were passed between 1750 and 1860". Even that is obviously a rough time period, and only one of many significant historical events. Even if we take Locke's birthday, 29 August 1632, as the birth of private property in the current sense, that's still roughly 380 years ago, which is still pretty new as far as human history goes.)
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The thing I can't believe is that they keep driving toward the meteor, even when it looks like it's headed right for them. I have to say my immediate response would probably be to slam on the brakes.
Is it possible and would it help to warm the batteries ala glow plugs for diesel?
Quick note - Nutt is incorrect. The Elysian Fields were a Greek domain of the dead. He probably means the city of Eleusis, which was the location of the famous mysteries, during which some (1) speculate that the participants did in fact use psychoactive substances, although I believe ergot is the most frequently suggested culprit.

1 - it's by no means universally accepted. E.g, I don't believe Walter Burkert thinks much of the idea.
Which ran MS-DOS with a customized IO.SYS (equivalent to the CP/M BIOS). MS at first licensed MS-DOS by shipping the OEM adaptation kit which contained source code for the IBM PC IO.SYS and object code for MSDOS.SYS, and the OEM was supposed to customize IO.SYS for their hardware. MS did not shipped a packaged MS-DOS for IBM PC compatibles until 3.2.
> I really don't get why "computer skills" should be conflated with learning how to program completely.

Speaking as someone who has been on both sides, you do not fully understand how a computer works until you understand how to write code for it in some form. Do they need to know how to write a compiler? Absolutely not. But knowing how to write a script with conditional outcomes is probably a worthwhile exercise.

> The world is very large and needed skill-sets change very fast.

If you believe that computing is going to go away in the next 30 years, that would be a fair point. But we both know that computers are creeping further and further into everyday life. Having a basic grasp on how to direct and control them is an obvious advantage.

Your litany of courses does nothing to counter the reality that we are already forcing kids to learn certain subjects. What about computing makes it less valid than history, science or mathematics as a required field of study? We can say with certainty that students are more likely to encounter a computer than they are to encounter Henry VIII, Schrodinger's Cat, or a sperm whale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Are you suggesting that year-long programming class should be writing i/o scripts all day? Why not just teach kids Excel and be done with it?

This sort of reminds me of someone that I was working with at my last job. I told her to fill out a .csv file so that there were no blanks, but she didn't realize that navigating a spreadsheet with a mouse is a terrible idea. I told her to leave the mouse alone and use the ctr-arrow keys instead, but she didn't listen so the data got messed up.

Okay, so that is bad for her if her goal in life was to become some master data person, but you know what she was a total genius at? Photoshop. I consider this a computer skill, but it isn't programming, but most importantly, it is something she became good at because that is where her passion and goals lie.

I have a question: surely you read the articles online about programmers failing fizzbuzz and generally not being able to program at all. This is the result of students who went to school and paid for said school to learn how to program. What do you think will happen when we force every single person in the USA to program? I would say the world would suffer a serious net loss.
>the part of The Economist that actually talked about the economy utterly confounds me

Recognize that the Economist is a fairly left-leaning, certainly Keynesian publication when it comes to economics. There's nothing wrong with that, and they regularly publish informative pieces, but it isn't the non-partisan publication that it sometimes claims to be.
Does everyone in Russia have a dashcam or something? It seems like every other video I see on YouTube was recorded on one, and yet I don't know of anyone in Japan or the US with one installed (parking cams don't count). It's a great idea– I would probably get one if I still had a car, but it's amazing to me just how prevalent they seem in Russia. (Elsewhere too? I don't know. I'd love it if someone could enlighten me.)
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In short, while Microsoft was concerned with selling more licenses through its corporate channel partners, unconcerned about the punitive pricing (which had many resorting to pirate copies), Google was making money in a different way; it was sending Adsense cheques to publishers on the continent. Small Adsense amounts yes but enough to demonstrate what computing and the internet is; lowered barriers and new opportunity.
>According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit

Anyone else catch this? Is this just a bad translation and they mean to say that an air defense unit tracked the meteorite on radar?

I wouldn't think any air defense system would be capable of actually intercepting a meteorite, but perhaps I'm wrong. Still doesn't seem like anything intercepted it from the videos.
Way to be unbiased.
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OT: I find that interesting. I wonder if that actually leads to fewer converversions to paid blogs? I know of a few (political) blogs that I am surprised use the free tier on such services, because the ads seems so out of place -- but maybe the (non-technical, in this case) bloggers don't reflect much over the ads, because they simply don't see them?
Video of Meteorite Crash in Russia
>> Speaking as someone who has been on both sides, you do not fully understand how a computer works until you understand how to write code for it in some form. Do they need to know how to write a compiler? Absolutely not. But knowing how to write a script with conditional outcomes is probably a worthwhile exercise.

Oh, good, now people think I came out of the womb with a computer in my hands. You're barking up the wrong tree with this argument since I'm probably much "younger" than even you are.
Your comment is just darling. "Given that perhaps 90% of Excel spreadsheets have errors ..." -- a completely made up statistic leads to -- "I fail to see that Excel is a good or useful tool." -- a conclusion that doesn't even follow from your made up evidence, even if it were true.

Nicholas Taleb would be rolling over in his grave, if he was dead.
You're seriously suggesting that Musk is entirely objective here? About a project he has invest millions in?
Apparently, most do to avert insurance disputes.
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I'm trying to go deep in two things right now: Ruby and JavaScript. The frameworks and new popular languages don't matter to me right now, my goal is to become an expert in Ruby and JavaScript because I know I'll be able to transfer those skills to the next popular language when the industry changes. But just doing weekend tutorials on every new technology is not going to get you anywhere. Anyone can learn a little about a lot.

Point is, get really really good at one or two things and you'll be able to transfer easily. Doesn't matter what those one or two things are.
A factory worker at Foxcon these days is probably making 4K RMB a month, which is around $641. It is perhaps half to a third of what a similar factory worker would make in a first world country (if such jobs existed).

Also, note that China also has a significant import tax, and you don't get around it by making things in China! Special export zones are complicated, so basically everything is imported. The markup on China vs. US is about 20-30% right now, not as bad as before.

As noted in another thread, wages in Brazil aren't that great, its still a 2nd-world country. Perhaps ahead of China, but the growth vectors are fairly clear that China will overtake Brazil soon in per-person GDP and probably wages after that.
Not to mention if you did your job well, the patient thanks you by saying "fuck you".
Can't find the link, but Kottke (of kottke.org) posted about this a while back. Russians apparently use dash cams to deter police corruption.

Edit: Sorry, it's not police--they're used to aid in car insurance claims. See below.

http://kottke.org/12/12/russians-are-dashboard-cam-crazy
It's amazing how something so tiny can illuminate the entire sky like that.
Phil Plait (Slate's Bad Astronomer) doesn't think they're related: https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer

Note especially: 12 hours is a long way at 8 km/sec, so this object in Ruissia was on a very different orbit than 2012 DA14.

and also: Also, apparently moving east-to-west tho I can’t say for sure. Anything on the orbit of DA14 would be moving south-to-north.

Obviously info is still pretty thin, and this article seems pretty speculative. I'd wait a few hours before jumping to any conclusions.
"BREAKING NEWS - Urals meteorite shot down by Russian air defense - military source >>"
The explosion is clearly audible in this video at 25 seconds in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA
It's a byproduct of Russians using them to combat corruption and scammers on the road. It's a fad that caught on based upon the underlying need. In the US most citizens don't have that underlying need. The cops, on the other hand, do have burden of proof and liability concerns, so police cars do have them. If the average citizen could be extorted on the highway they'd start to catch on here too :)
Yes apparently to avoid people jumping infront of car and suing the driver:
http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/russian-dashcam/
I've heard the explanation that Russian insurance companies are much less likely to pay out if you don't have a dashcam. I'm not sure how true that is but it sounds likely to me.
The next sentence follows with:

A missile salvo reportedly blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers.
You don't have to defend yourself to me. I'm not saying you (or "hackers") are wrong or something, just that these are not necessarily shared beliefs among anarchists.

What you're describing is more akin to (classical) liberalism. For instance, here you draw on a couple of the core tenants of liberalism:

1) Equality. In the Jeffersonian sense (ie, under the law). This is really the cornerstone of liberalism. The classic structuralist response would be something like "Yes, yes... all men will be tried equally for the crime of stealing bread crumbs to feed their starving children."

2) Freedom of information. Also at the heart of liberalism is the idea that in a world where anyone can participate, speak, and think freely, we'll be able to select from a marketplace of ideas for how the world should look. The classic anarchist response is that we live in a specific political and economic reality that wasn't of our choosing, but which influences our desires, the way we think, how we think, and what we conceptualize as possible. Simply talking about other social or economic possibilities does not have the same effect, so just being able to speak freely is not necessarily meaningful in that context.

3) Transparency and accountability. A typical anarchist response to projects like wikileaks is something like "What is the value of truth in a world where we have no agency?" The insurrectionist, for example, doesn't attempt to shame, expose, or reform institutions of power, but rather expects their injustices as their fundamental nature. You can't blame a tiger for being a tiger.

It's true that it is possible to draw similarities in the sense that hackers and anarchists on the whole probably want "good things and not bad things." But to the extent that we're never fully going to get there, it's the tension that really matters, and that's where I believe the differences are currently quite deep between these two groups.
I believe it presently does. In fact, I believe that's the reason why the battery charge level dropped overnight in Musk's presentation of data and why, according to some folk, plugging it in to a normal power socket isn't enough to actually charge it as the battery pack draws more power than the socket can supply simply keeping the thing warm.

Such a process will of course drain the battery which still achieves the end result of 'can travel less distance on a full charge'.
The explosion is clearly audible 25 seconds in to this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA
A meteorite would be hypersonic when first entering the atomsphere and then supersonic the rest of the way until maybe a few hundred meters before impact. Besides that, if it's not a solid iron-nickle meteorite, it may even breakup or explode well above the surface instead of staying intact.

It's not quite like taking out a satellite in low Earth orbit in that there's plenty of information on its orbit, trajectory, tumbling characteristics, approximate mass etc... It would be very, very, very hard to intercept a meteorite without a lot of information before it even got close to Earth.

The report of a missile salvo taking it out is very suspect IMO. Without more information, it's hard to tell.
"Corruption is rampant in the Russian Federation, and that’s led most motorists to take matters into their own hands. It’s not uncommon for a driver to be pulled over by the notorious Russian Highway Patrol (GAI) and harassed into paying a bribe. Dash cams afford at least a little protection from baseless accusations." [1]

[1] http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/why-are-there-so-many...
This is going to sound really obvious, but what about slowly applying the emergency brake?
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Nice article. I read EG in high school and I'm Marine now, but never thought about EG as a primer on it. Depending on what experience kids have, maneuver warfare can be a difficult concept to grasp. But once understood, it can be applied widely (e.g. to business). For example, in my current startup I may not have the technical background, but I've found ways to compete anyway. Another example is where Malcolm Gladwell describes Col Van Riper's exploits in his book Blink.

Anyway, I have friends who are ROTC instructors and forwarded this article to them. MCDP 1 (Warfighting) is dry, so EG is a fun (though shallow) primer to discuss. It should also make the concepts in Warfighting easier to visualize for someone without any concept of asymmetric warfare.

To respond to some of the comments, maneuver warfare isn't a new concept but it’s obvious it's not well understood, particularly in business. Another useful military idea to apply to business is the OODA loop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop).
I ask again:

What about computer literacy, at the level of understanding the software that makes such devices work, makes it less valid than history, science or mathematics as a required field of study?

Put your fingers in your ears if you'd like, the crucial point is that we've already got a system where you have to learn things you don't necessarily want to learn. What is it about the most important growth subject of the next century that exempts it from such an externally-imposed curriculum?
> Imported iphone taxes: 60% import taxes + 7%-15% sales state tax if you are a reseller or 0% if you are the customer. 0% industrial tax.

When Apple assembles iPhones in Brazil, how much do they pay in taxes on the components like the screen and flash from Samsung or LG? How much do they pay on the software value add done in California?

Final assembly is just a small part of making iPhones, so moving it to Brazil for a tax advantage is a no-brainer, but Brazil could still make a fuss about components, which they don't seem to be doing; this is a giant loophole.
In the comments "Next Russia Today probably will write Putin himself shot the meteorite from his hunters gun."
The problem is that by the time they've modified the spreadsheet app to solve issues with process design, workflow, edge cases, it's an unholy mess that nobody wants to touch.
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>When it comes to Texas there's the idea that they might get a bigger share of the ad cash but this is in conflict with generally worse chances for the GOP candidates.

Again, it's not about parties, it's about policies. The long-term average will always be for each major party to win about half the time because if they don't they'll change their policies until they do. The question is what policies they'll adopt in order to do it -- and if your vote doesn't count, whether you're Texas or New York, your voice isn't the ones they'll be listening to when deciding what policies to adopt. What good does it do a Texas social conservative to elect a GOP candidate like Mitt Romney?
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