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Mmm, erlang is a nice language and cowboy, too (Misultin, if that's what it was called, was fun to play with too) But all the things that erlang promotes, instantly spinning up millions of processes on 1 server with overhead /process of a few hundred bytes, the gen_*'s, profiling/logging, I have to say akka (the actors/futures modules that's now a full fledged member of the scala distribution), it has all those. Akka can hot swap actors but not chunks of the entire runtime AFAIK. Akka doesn't have as many large apps in production but getting there. Akka does't have the glass ceiling, where sooner or later you know you're going to have to write C nodes/BIF's/NIF's or whatever they've come up with, to speed up an erlang app doing, say, lots of floating point math.

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.1.4/scala/actors.html
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So if that's how you feel, you use JWt ( http://www.webtoolkit.eu/jwt/ ) instead of Wt. Same thing, different language. JWt is a native port of Wt to Java, not a set of jni bindings.
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Hi Saitoyeung,

Balanced caps its transaction fee at $20.00 - Is that an issue for you? Email me - mahmoud@balancedpayments.com

Also, this is a direct quote from OpenACH:

> To get started with OpenACH, U.S. Bank customers can simply request the bank's ACH Direct Transmission service, along with an optional SinglePoint account management portal. Once your account is ready for testing, use the U.S. Bank plugin within OpenACH to transfer your files and handle returns/changes.
Funny that people would focus on google in this case. It seems to me adblock plus is the culprit here. First it gained a much significant footprint, then added the whole "acceptable ads" concept, then got paid by advertisers to be whitelisted.

Seems like adblock plus is abusing its position of power to extort money and doesn't care about the user.
here's the pull request:
https://github.com/bolandrm/countryaday/pull/6
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You might have missed the part where he said the maximum sentence is 30 years. And that escapes are common.
Thermal noise of various kinds, usually.

(Edit: that is, the noise introduced in a circuit by the fact that it's not at absolute zero, e.g. Johnson noise. Not just gathering entropy from a temperature sensor reading or something like that.)
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what negative impact is it having for him?

That is a good question. Assuming there is some goal beyond signups (retention?), then if you cannot or are not measuring it, then that is the biggest problem.
What a schlep!

EDIT: Context http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
I'm not sure this 'tech journalist' knows enough about the field to make any more than a blatantly sensationalist story.

Out of the companies mentioned as having younger workers (Epic Games, Facebook, Zynga, Google, AOL, Blizzard Entertainment, InfoSys, and Monster.com), only two -- Facebook and Google are what most of the younger CS grads from my school would consider worth joining (not even Facebook so much; I know people declined internships at Facebook to do something more exciting).

"The best companies in techlology" (as determined by what, stock value?) aren't exactly the watermark which you judge the entire industry by. There can be a lot of other companies who are recruiting a good mix of older/more experienced, and younger/more eager workers.

I'm not sure if he's implicitly comparing it to the journalism industry in which (presumably) age counts for a lot more.
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I was invited by the Downtown Project to visit the city next month for one of their retreats. Will be sure to write a blog post afterwards.
> The little dirty secret of the tech industry is that if you put yourself in the right time at the right place and get the strategic advantage you can make so much money that a lot of mistakes can be hidden.

I wish I could staple this to the top of every discussion about the management practices of dozens of companies that come up on HN.

When you're floating down a Mississippi made of money, the sheer current of cash will move you along. You require none of the complicated and difficult additional mechanisms and culture to cope with the dangers and difficulties of the deepwater maritime world.

An injudicious observer might conclude that all the guff that comes with facing the open seas is unnecessary -- why, look at this luxurious barge! They have no need for the drills! No need for a captain! Navigation is a wasteful chore!

The problem is that success is not a discrete, directed acyclic graph. It is integral calculus over fuzzy numbers.
Thanks, that's almost exactly what I was looking for. However, it doesn't answer the question which is "can't we avoid that one big assumption" (ie. if the hashing algorithm is good) by combining them?
... where'd the economists come into it?
That's an interesting take and does seem logical for human testing. However, it seems to me the real culprit was a lack of decent automated testing.

More to the point, as well as the potential to conceal bugs it also offers the potential to mitigate the impact of bugs. This was the whole point of my question, which despite some interesting responses, basically remains unanswered.
Disabling gzip compression isn't the only workaround to the CRIME attack. For Chromium, Adam Langley patched zlib to differentiate between various classes of data; see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744#c... and https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10837057/ .

However, it's more difficult for other SPDY implementations to use the patched zlib, so this isn't an ideal solution. For SPDY/4 / HTTP/2, we will have a custom header compressor which is intended to eliminate CRIME-like attacks: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compre... .

(Disclaimer: I work on SPDY / HTTP/2 for Chromium.)
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Other engineering disciplines tend to evolve at a more measured pace and have a stronger institutional memory. They also tend to have structured pathways for taking a fresh grad and moulding them into thoughtful, cautious masters of the problem and solution domains.

In our field, technologies largely align on generations. Older coders have deep experience with tech X, throwing that away seems dumb. So they don't follow up on tech Y.

Meanwhile, younger coders, frustrated with the accumulated cruft of X, seize the freshness of tech Y and become masters at that instead.

One day, along comes tech Z ...

This cycle has already appeared in Java or Perl -> PHP -> RoR -> Node.
"Laws" was in quotes to insinuate it may not be an actual "law", beyond the implied social/moral/ethical/(legal?) contract you enter when retrieving content from a site.

Beyond the ethical considerations, which I think can be clear but aren't always (depending on the type of advertising, such as pop-unders) I'm not convinced there aren't legal considerations as well, which is why elsewhere in this thread I asked for more information when a lawsuit was referenced.

Beyond pop-unders and similar advertising that I think can be clearly defined as outside the bounds of acceptability (see my other post that mentions pop-unders for details), I think this is very clear. When media is presented to you under the condition that you view their advertising, whether inline or before access, refusing to do so clearly removes your rights to the content as well. You have no implicit right to the content, only what they grant you, and under their conditions.

I have yet to see an argument otherwise that sways me in the slightest.

P.S. To be clear, I also occasionally do and have bypassed ads, circumvented authentication to content, and used copyrighted material without right. This doesn't negate my argument, it just makes me a somewhat of a hypocrite when I do so, which everyone is at some point in their life. I just refuse to bury my head in the sand and act like I'm entitled when I do, and I feel bad about it (to varying degrees, depending on circumstances) when I think about what I'm doing.
shouldn't be a need to do anything like what you're suggesting, ever, with a valid PRNG

OK, but the point was that if we approach PRNGs like any other element of a secure system, ie. without trust, as the article was suggesting, then combining them in some way may assist with QA on the overall output. (Example: I mean, we don't trust the NSA - but do we trust Schneier? He could be paid handsomely by the NSA as a false stooge and EFF board plant, who are we to know? And if you're an overseas government without a native cryptographic/cryptanalytic tradition, would you trust him? He's a US citizen connected to BT - that's UKUSA - two of the 'five eyes'!)

Similar to how multiple hashing algorithms are often used to preserve overall functional integrity in the case of individual hash function vulnerabilities that enable an attacker to propose collisions.
I saw an awesome talk my mnot recently about http/2.0 for which I'm really excited. A large part of it was basically "Lessons we learned from SPDY" which is great, in the longterm.

Personally I feel SPDY was a huge benefit to the internet, but in saying that it was a huge benefit in the form of "a cautionary tale to others"
That's why I said "Capital K in front of B means 1024 to some people".
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No, I'm pretty sure my browser has all the capabilities, but instead of checking for them, they look for 2 or 3 very specific browsers/versions and deny access to the rest.
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For how many browsers?

And then they have even less community validation, rising the security tradeof even more
I believe it will change audio/visual applications.

HDMI will be a thing of the past because you will be able to transfer the highest quality audio and video over the Cat5/6 cable including internet data.

Movie Theaters could be democratized if you could view movies over the cable allowing those wanting to start a theater to have direct access to new movies via a subscription model.

Audio/Visual is where it will be - I can see it as clear as I can see this laptop in front of me.
No, LXDE-Qt is not bloated
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I know of someone who switched to cpp with wt because the java code he first developped to generate a pdf out of a big database ran out of memory after minutes of work. The cpp code generates the pdf in a second. Not everyone‘s situation, but this is an example, on a server, where efficient resource utilisation is important.

Also, did you see wt is widget oriented and has a java version, which you can use with jruby if you want?
database/sql? Really?

I cant even express much little I like that api.

Lets just start with: no comprehensive test suite to make sure drivers work, drivers that don't work (or work 'if you use the api in a particular way only; which defeats the purpose of having an api), no cross database support.

There are some good database apis, but using database/sql wouldn't be my advice (hint: use a c binding to a cpp orm).

I haven't heard of lots of people using database/sql; most shy around from it for mongo or similar as far as I'm aware.
How does locking your bike prevent people from pointing a gun in your face?
Hey I'm a bit late on this but I figured I'd chime in. I'm part of the current batch and I left school two weeks early to attend, so its possible even if your schedules don't line up. That said, I was only a part time student last quarter and it was still pretty tough doing HS by day and finishing up my finals by night, but I made it happen, feel free to email me if you want to talk about it (email in profile).
There is an important distinction between questioning authority, and challenging it. To give an extreme, it is the difference between commenting on a site like this one that the NSA is a fundamental threat to our freedom, and becoming a whistleblower like Snowden.

In short, if the action in question does not affect the powers that be from operating as they want to operate, there are no consequences from doing it. If the action challenges the powers that be then - no matter how wrong their actions - the consequences are real.

Those in power will respond to challenges. And shrug off questions.

And yes, that is indeed better than many other countries. (Though I personally felt that the rights and freedoms which I cared about were better protected when I lived in Canada.)
This seems really cool, but what about Vegas' sustainability issues? Isn't everything still imported( especially water ), or does this project also address that?
shhh, i think the greeks are calling.
(in case this falls flat, individual worship is nothing new.)
It seems like a whole lot of website (and app) design completely ignores this segment of the population. Too many designers have forgotten the principle of "graceful degradation" such that much of the web is completely unusable for even the mildly handicapped.

I think it is quite stunning that Netflix had to be sued into including closed captioning.
Also, this is where Microsoft's kinect patent to see how many people are in a room could come in handy to ensure the subscription model isn't abused in case profit sharing is a prerequisite by the production companies.
It's too bad that you're replying to a comment on a deeply researched book (And the Band Played On) with a link to a shallow and slanted retrospective justification for lack of leadership.

The original book criticizes then-president Reagan, but also the media (specifically including the NYT) and elements of the medical establishment.

It also gets into controversies within the gay establishment, such as whether to make a fuss about the problem (which could attract attention and lead to "outing" of people), and whether to close bathhouses as health risks.
I desperately want to learn more about board layout and system design. I think the costs of making custom hardware have fallen so much that a hardware renaissance is almost here, if not already. I've done embedded/kernel work before, so I theoretically have that side covered. :)

Does anyone know of a list of projects I should do to at least be able to pickup kicad/eagle to start laying out boards into gerber files into manufactured boards?

One suggestion I got was to design and implement one's own Atari Punk Console: http://www.makershed.com/product_p/mkjr2.htm

I also found this book: http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Printed-Circuit-Board/dp/00...
You know, every time I see one of these types of frameworks the first thing that comes to mind is "Some people are just determined to make C++ look cool again". I mean sure, sometimes you run into a case where you are running computer vision algorithms on an embedded device and have to choose C or C++.

But how common are those use-cases really? And why on earth would you want to worry about buffer overflows and memory leaks when you're already worrying about XSS and CSRF attacks?

As fast as modern Java is, it just seems unnecessary.
People use Chrome because it's better than Firefox. Much better.
I definitely agree that the standard of the comments and articles used to be significantly higher. I definitely see a lot of parallels between the comments on HN currently and those on Reddit 5-6 years ago. Luckily it seems like HN resists the negative change that happened (I saw it most when Imgur was created).
Err, I think you'll find what you described is roughly the definition of a PRNG (though usually more mathematical in its verbiage). The problem is, we don't trust any particular PRNG. My question was, why not combine them so as to remove the need for absolute trust in any given PRNG.
So... Blocking third party cookies?

I thought there was a big fuss about FF doing this by default or something.
In this case, free = non-profit. I think 99% of the population would work for "free" provided their expenses are paid.
Might be related: Amazon increased headcount by 57% in 2012: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2013/01/am...
Could this be Stallman's new laptop?
An interesting thing is that many subway systems recover some of the kinetic energy by converting it to something more useful than heat.

Some subways, for instance London's, are built with uphill slopes prior to stations, so that part of the kinetic energy is converted into potential energy.

Many subways use regenerative electrical braking for part of coming to a stop, i.e. the kinetic energy is partially converted to electric energy which is used by other trains on the network. Some subways increase the efficiency of that by having storage, for instance a large battery, in stations.

References:
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059982358

www.londonreconnections.com/2011/milestones-reached-on-the-jubilee-and-victoria-lines/

http://www.railway-energy.org/static/Regenerative_braking_in...
While I think it's cool to do this and I am a bit envious, I would still like to add the recommendation to not dismiss money so quickly. I have some friends who think like that and it concerns me a bit.

The thing is, you are not taking into account that there might be times in the future where you could actually need some backup money. For example an illness (or simply old age) could make you unable to work for several months or even years. Not even counting other things you might want to do that money could come in useful for. In the future, you also might have a family.

I'm certainly not advocating missing out on life for fear of running out of money and running in the treadmill like crazy just out of fear. But saving money in the good times probably can't hurt.
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Finally! How about a relational algebra to help give the ORM a footing?

https://github.com/chuckpreslar/librarian

No where near perfect and needs a lot of work. By no means am I a SQL expert so I'd love some help.
According to the local paper, the guy the cops were trying to get a "tactical advantage" over had all charges dismissed with prejudice.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/henderson-fam...
HTTP pipelining is turned off by default in most browsers due to concerns with buggy proxies and servers (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264354 ). It may work for you and the particular set of servers you visit, but I suspect browser developers would rather have a browser that by default works with the widest possible range of configurations.

Unfortunately, it being turned off by default in most browsers means that most people won't see the benefits from it. Hopefully, the upcoming HTTP/2 standard will fare better (latest draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-unicorn-httpbis-http2-01 ).

Note that HTTP/2 will be based on SPDY (in particular, SPDY/4 with the new header compressor). Hopefully, when the standard is finalized and we have multiple strong implementations, that will allay the concerns you seem to have with SPDY today.

(Disclaimer: I work on SPDY / HTTP/2 for Chromium.)
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The auto-fill for passwords still works. All the sites I have visited with the exception of Pingdom came with all the info filled in. I just had to click the button to login.

With Pingdom it asked me to reenter my timezone and site to monitor. It is like it totally lost my account without the cookie.
... a built-in Firefox feature with an epically bad UI. If you set Firefox to ask whether to accept cookies from a domain and whether to keep them beyond the end of the session, you get asked per cookie not per domain the first time you visit a site. And FF presents the questions that pop up in a stack of modal dialog boxes, potentially dozens, and sometimes they appear out of order so you have to dig around to find the one that's willing to accept a click, which can be difficult on account of them all being modal.
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Absolutely correct. More context: Pathfinder was done during the Goldin era of better, faster, cheaper.
Are nuclear power plants still being built at the same rate as wind turbines? Or are they mostly old ones sitting around? I suspect the latter, in which case the "accidents in construction" comparison doesn't make much sense imo.
Interesting point about the rare earths.
>North Korea in the past had enough non-nuclear firepower to flatten South Korea many times over, seemly they STILL have that firepower AND nukes, yet South Korea knows they won't use it...

No. They have nukes because they have no chance whatsoever against the South. The North Korean army is bigger, but its equipment is antiquated, and it has no gas or live ammunition for training. The "soldiers" spend most of their time farming or working in factories. They don't have enough food to fight a war.

The South Korean military budget is 20x that of the North.
Really, all this is doing is updating the notion of a session cookie to account for the fact that tabbed browsing usage patterns mean that the browser process is usually much longer-lived than your visit to any one site. Browsers have long had the option to make cookies expire at the end of a session.
Exactly. I often used to ponder how effective a heater a PC is with decent graphics card running under load. I could heat my room in winter with just myself and the computer. With the computer off, I was cold. So I suspect that a 2ish litre car is somewhat better a heater, even long after its been turned off. The neighbourhood cats sure seem to love my car after I've been parked up for a while!
Thank you for your comment. I'm especially interested by home automation and data mining.
Thank you for your feedback. I agree that the first-run experience makes for quite the adventure. Until a few months ago, I also considered the idea of starting the add-on in a paused state a no-brainer. After supporting my add-on for some time, however,I'm not so sure about that any more.
There's a huge portion of users (probably not HN readers) that would not realize that the add-on is paused. Pop-ups, etc. only go so far. It's really about managing expectations and expectation mismatches. I hope that the portion of users who care about their pre-existing cookies overlaps with the portion of users who read the "What just happened to my cookies" blurb that pops up. I haven't had too many angry complaints since I added the undelete feature, so it might be working.
If this were BSD licensed, I'd consider ripping PHP out of pfSense, and using this.
I agree that we could all do with a little less idol worship, but I think that what javajosh pointed out is also very important.

We have all been conditioned to use dialectic materialism as a means by which to argue - and THIS is the issue. There is a third way in this debate - and that is, continue to discover the crimes of the US Military Industrial complex, enlighten the people, and remove the criminals from power before it is too late.

Going back on forth on the "rightness/wrongness" of this whole situation is exactly what the powers that be expect, and depend on in order to continue to be able to operate in full view. Abandon the synthesis/anti-synthesis method in this debate, people.

Remember: what he revealed so far is just the tip of the iceberg. There are far more heinous secrets to be revealed, and we would all be better off - US Citizen, or not - if these secrets were finally pulled out into the open and made available for The People to understand.
Chrome sure as hell isn't better than Firefox when it comes to security or privacy or even ad blocking.