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This whole fiasco reminds me of a hilarious satire article I read recently on an Australian satire site called The Shovel: http://theshovel.com.au/2013/08/26/malcolm-turnbull-launches...

Sadly, we all know this sub-par alternative will be a disaster that will go in the history books. In 40 years I'll tell my grandchildren, "I remember a time when you would have to wait 10 minutes to load a video on the Internet" and they'll laugh and call me crazy. But the sad fact of the matter is, the LNP party have outdated views on not only Internet access but gay marriage, the economy and way things work in the real world.

It's going to be a bumpy 3 years, but LNP won't get another term after all of the crap they've pulled. If I were on the board I'd rather get out before the impending ship of failure sinks (and trust me, it will).
Getting lib sodium and rbnacl to play nice with Heroku has proven to be outright impossible as of now. But I do believe I have fixed the problems you raised.

- The key is not a string, it's generated using PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 for 20,000 rounds, and then passed in to the cipher function - where it's SHA256'd. The reason for this is I do plan on having other clients beyond the website (iOS - which is practically finished, Android, etc) where just in case their generated Key happens to be injection-ready code, I'm manipulating it one last time before going in and encrypting/decrypting.

- I'm authenticating the messages based on a server config variable that is an authentication tag like so: SHA256(SERVER_AUTH_TAG + encrypted_data). The openssl version I'm using doesn't have self-built authentication in its AES cipher suites. Is this a good/bad avenue to go down for message authentication? I feel like if someone takes my server and gets the SERVER_AUTH_TAG then there's bigger problems anyways.

- I'm now randomly generating initialization vectors for each piece of encrypted data. So, for an Onion where there's a title and info, the title gets its own IV, and so does the info. When you edit the title, it gets a whole new IV as well.
The cynic might think that acetaminophen was added in such massive quantities with hydrocodone (Vicodin) and oxycodone (Percocet) [usually 500/50 ratios] as a way to discourage people from attempting to take more than the recommended dosage of opiates.

Kind of like how they used to put methanol into alcohol during prohibition, knowing full well it would kill some people, in an effort to scare people away from alcohol.

Even if that's not the case, it does seem reckless to put so much acetaminophen into each individual pill. I'd be very curious what percentage of those deaths were from overdoses on Vicodin and Percocet.
Joe Cheng and the rest of the team at RStudio have done an excellent job with this. It allows a statistician to spend their time on scripting the analysis instead of web development. Combine this with knitr/pandoc and you have a great toolkit.
So much more secure than my house or car? Looks like it. Also probably buys me enough time to realize that my phone is missing and do a remote wipe.
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I'm not advocating either tool, just answering his question.
honest question: how is this different from a mobilized version of Kinect?
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We'll happily sell you a commercial license if you'd prefer that. Email us at info@rstudio.com for details.

If you mean a different open-source license, sorry, we don't plan to relicense.
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Brunswick in Melbourne is a pretty solid medium-density suburb, and the area within it that got the NBN is the most dense of the lot - and was one of the first rollouts. It's also one of the politically safest seats in the country, held by a no-name MP, Kelvin Thompson. Maybe he has a lot of behind-the-scenes power? I've certainly never seen his name outside of local papers. Or maybe someone high up in the NBN planning committee lives there? I never could figure out 'why there?', and simply assumed that the rollout areas were political.

The NBN rollout area missed my house by about two streets...
Ah, of course, you would want to create a slackpkg for Slack, and push to the AUR for Arch. It's still good to offer the .tgz as a baseline for users of systems you might have forgotten or not have time to package for though, (BSD, etc.).
First off I want to say I agree with most of the people here that Touch ID was not meant to be in breakable but rather an easy to use system that vastly improved users security over 4 digit PINs or no PIN.

That said, hypothetically, let's say I get arrested and the police take my phone. My phone has my fingerprints all over it. What is to stop them, legally, from using my prints on the phone to unlock my device?

I say this not to spark an argument but as a real question, I bought an iPhone 5S and I really am interested to know if any law would protect my phone if it was taken in such a situation?
Anyone who uses "instantaneous" in the same paragraph with "3D printing" is clueless :-).

That said, 3D digitizers look like fun. My thought is that one of these laser pico projectors, a RasPi, a web cam, a computer controlled turntable and some clever software, ok so that is like 5 things. Ah to have free time again.
Fascinating.

Is it correct to say that extracting information about the text in a target iframe using this attack depends on knowing the pixel widths of all the characters in the font used in an arbitrary line of text in the target iframe?
I'll give you some brutal honesty.

1. The design is boring and tacky. You really need to ditch those flames at the top, flames to me are an immediate warning sign the site you are on is going to suck.

2. The designs lack any kind of design to them. I don't get the content of some of them and I find the shirt that says something along the lines of, "Popped my cherry" somewhat gross.

3. The container around the site is too big and the combination of the white and purple border is a nightmare for my eyes.

4. The site lacks content, consistency and is all over the place. My eyes don't know where to focus...

Hopefully that helps. I'm not trying to be rude, but extremely honest.
Interesting idea. The issue is that (I'm guessing) you'd also need some intense software to decipher the image and convert it into a 3D file.
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It's hyperbole. I use 3D printers frequently. The "instantaneous" was referring to the digitizer, which takes 12 minutes to create the file. That, compared to the hours it would take to create such a design in CAD program, could be called instantaneous. Just as "rapid prototyping" can take hours, depending upon the object. It's fast, compared to the alternative.

It's all about frame of reference.
Touché. One of my favourite scenes in Yes, Minister is when Sir Humphrey is having lunch with Sir Desmond, a banker he needs a favour from. He offers about a dozen random appointments in the scene -- Potato Board, Wine Marketing Committee etc. It's great.
Good thing I do not run Javascript, esp. when items are fetched from other domains:

http://postimg.org/image/3m9v8eyrx/

I wonder how many people are still naive, and just leave it JS on, no questions asked..
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If I recall; these helicopters kept getting re-routed due to a nearby conflict and this not only annoyed Coppola but was one of the reasons why the film was delayed and ran over cost.
"Docker itself is intentionally limited: when you start a container, you’re allowed to run only a single command, and that’s all. "

- Not exactly true, you can launch a shell in that one command, in interactive mode, so you're then able to run as many commands in that shell as you'd like.
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Isn't most of NBN Corp made up of ex-telstra... Where else would they get communications engineers?
I always find it oddly comforting to see how nervous, and frankly awkward, Mark Zuckerberg can be on stage. I have a fine stage presence but it's somehow very encouraging that someone so successful can still sport such discomfort with important skills like public speaking.
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Fair enough, but when someone wants something printed on my Makerbot Replicator, and they don't know these things. They thing "Star Trek" not, slow grind :-).
I was a VC back in 2000 when McKinsey was running around Sand Hill talking about how bad venture returns were compared to much more liquid asset classes. Unfortunately, time has demonstrated it doesn't matter too much to private equity as a class.

I love Naval and think AngelList will be a wild success (arguably it already is). But it's not a zero sum game. There is too much liquidity chasing too few venture partnerships and too much hope of being the one to invest in the next Google|Facebook|Twitter for AngelList to be destructively disruptive to venture investing.
I have little sympathy for people thinking "oh, it's safe, so it must be safe to take more than the maximum recommended safe dose", but that might be partially because I'm married to a nurse. If I try to be a little more objective about it, I suppose its sensible given how prevalent the drug is and how little you ever hear about people having problems with it- you wouldn't really assume that overdosing would be that dangerous.

When your pain is bad, it is tempting to just keep taking more drugs until it starts working, and everyone knows (er... everyone I know; again, probably biased 'cause married to a nurse) you're not supposed to take too much ibuprofen 'cause it's bad for your stomach, so might as well take tylenol. Fortunately, one of the genuine good features of acetaminophen is a lack of negative interactions with other drugs, so the safe way (as far as I know / have experienced, not a medical professional, don't take my advice, etc., etc.) to assuage that temptation is to vary the types of painkillers you use- little bit of ibuprofen, little bit of tylenol, and unless it gets really bad (at which point you should probably be seeing a doctor and not self-medicating anyway), that generally keeps you within safe limits for both (if you wanna add more types to the rotation, though, you do have to do some research and make sure that the additions don't cause bad interactions or have similar mixtures of active ingredients; e.g., if you take Aleve, that counts towards your total ibuprofen dosage limits).
Did you read the rest of the post? He goes on to say you can do that. In fact the entire message of the post is that entering into the container and running commands and then committing at end is more efficient (In the terms of numbers of layers and disk space, at the cost of what else I don't know yet) than using a Dockerfile and 'docker build'.
What worries me the most is that biometrics can be used to authorize payments, and for anyone that has crafty teenage (or younger) kinds this might sounds a bit risky. Getting access to your parents fingerprint is easy while getting access to their password is much harder.
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Now that would be a printer that sells well. Even the most expensive printers still take FOREVER. One day. One day.
Something occurred to me that might help drive intuition:

Everyone gets nervous when there's a cop behind them on the highway.
This is neat. There is one more case, where the cache is kept valid because the condition that makes it invalid is known. So, for example, if I have a message list page cached, I can simply invalidate the cache for that page when I add a new message for that specific user. Depending on the use case, I might want to even immediately repopulate that cache with the new info.

This is really the ideal scenario since things are always cached and requests don't even need to hit the dynamic site, but obviously this can't always happen since sometimes you just don't know.
I know it's an oldie, but thanks for posting this; I hadn't seen it before. Ryan Tomayko writes some quality stuff; I remember around the time Git was becoming popular, I sort of didn't understand the hype right away, and Ryan posted a great explanation (http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git) that turned a light bulb on in my head.
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While every death is a tragedy, 150 per year makes the phenomenon quite the outlier. For perspective, cancer takes over 500,000 lives a year in the US [1]. And lightning kills around 50 [2].

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

[2] http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/fatalities.htm
I suppose he's gotten slightly better at talking. He seems nervous, but isn't a complete wreck (see interviews from 2 years ago, he has improved a lot since then). As I understand it the markets responded well to Zuck's talk with Arrington and now with Bennet -- fb stock shot up after each of the interviews. But that doesn't excuse the fact he is a cartoonishly twisted guy and entrepreneurs and consumers alike should be leery of his every move. Does he seriously expect people to buy his latest spiel about immigration? This is the guy who created a political movement that went so far as to fund ads for oil drilling in arctic national wildlife refuge and putting down Keystone XL pipelines, so, sorry, I'm not buying that he's in this cause because he met someone who couldn't attend college because they were illegal immigrants. Having talked at length with people who knew him in his Harvard days, he's ruthless, relentless, and rapacious -- he has determined he's going to approach the immigration issue in the public arena with stories about illegal immigrants not getting accepted into colleges, and this seems to be the way he's going at it. Pity. He's the face of a serious issue that warrants genuine people looking at it with sincerity and good faith, instead we're stuck with Zuck.

This is the guy who literally called the users of his site "dumb fucks", and was literally willing -- no, eager to hand over private details of his site's users to his friends. I ran forums that garnered about 12k users per month when I was 16, I took the responsibility of safeguarding my users' private information very seriously.

The only thing that's changed about Zuck is he's learned to not say these things out loud, play a nice PR game, and meet people and convince them that he's a nice fella who wants best for everybody and "connect the world!" through Facebook (no matter if you want to be connected to it or not).
They both IR LED + IR camera.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNI
I wrote some software that could (mostly) do this scanning with a webcam.

http://jack.minardi.org/software/whats-in-a-shadow/
Would really like to see some service that intelligently tries to pick an avatar based on Gravatar, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. if you just give it an email address.
Being able to be comfortable in front of people is a completely different skill set. There are 8 year olds that can be comfortable in front of crowds. There are people that are surgeons that can't get up the nerve to ask for an upgrade to first class at the airline counter. Or who wouldn't be able to negotiate down the price of a car. Has nothing to do with their ability to use a scalpel though.
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Did you read her book? Her point is not that Eggers plagiarized her wholesale, rather that the themes, characters, and plot are uncannily similar to those of her book. But his work receives buzz and hers is passed over. Somehow a hyperbolized book of fiction written by a famous white man is worthy of attention and lofty comparisons while a memoir by a woman who experienced 'boy kings' firsthand, dealing with identical themes, is overlooked.
Right, I've just always found it hard to believe the same of an executive. But your point -- and mine, really -- still stands. Not everything needs to be perfect. Just the important stuff.
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I think it's unfortunate that this guy has so much power over technology and, maybe to a greater extent, society as a whole.
I don't know his true intentions and ethics, but he just seems so disingenuous.
Like VR, touchscreens have not good enough latency. Because many components and their architecture contribute to latency (touch-CPU-RAM-app-OS-GPU-display), an integrated approach better improves it.

NB: For Christensen, "not good enough" does not mean "not adequate", it means that even better would be valued. It means "need not satisfied". Consider a meal: too small, you're still hungry (you'd pay for more); too big, you leave some on the table (your need has been "overshot", you can't absorb the extra improvement, you won't pay for more).

However, smartphones have overshot the need for pure computing power, it seems to me.

BTW: I too find his disruption more compelling than modular/integrated. A theory is not very predictive if there's many ways to apply it, giving different results.
Source on fiction selling better than non-fiction?

I can't think of any explanation for a book written by an early female employee at Facebook receiving little attention other than a clear judgment about the value of the author's voice.
Wow. But let's play along. Which other OTC medicines could being forgetful and accidentally taking a second dose cause death? Not to mention it's hidden in other medications which require careful label reading to discover. fta:

"The 4 gram per day recommended dose is also the maximum safe dose, one that
must not be exceeded, an unusual situation for any drug, particularly an OTC
drug, one placing a large fraction of users close to a toxic dose in the
ordinary course of use," the report said.

that sounds like something extraordinarily dangerous to be handing out OTC and allowing companies to bury in other medications requiring people to be very careful to not accidentally double dose.
The media doesn't generally show as much interest in B2B companies as they do in B2C companies.
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Well that's why I put it in quotation marks, to indicate that the description was a bit sarcastic. He worked as a welder for a good ten years (17-27) before going to college to get a degree in construction management. My main point is that people in the "trades" are often just as intellectual and capable as anyone else might be.
I never mentioned murdoch. I think FTTN benefits all established media. I was also was having a go at smh reporting, so whatever..

But since you ask, I would say the reason why people think there was a conspiracy is the rabid anti-NBN propaganda by murdoch during the election.

A better explanation perhaps..
http://theconversation.com/news-corp-australia-vs-the-nbn-is...
This refers to Americans who are documented foreigners in Mexico. Does the number of Mexicans added to the US population include undocumented immigrants, or only documented ones?
It looks like his site is taken down due to bandwidth limit reached. Use http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... till it's back up.
So this is why those bastards aren't in jail!

And how about that second amendment, eh?
the difference, unlike cancer, is we know how to nearly completely prevent those 150/year (and 70k associated hospitalizations)... it's just it puts a big dent in a private company's earnings and we have the best congress that money can buy. fta

The German government reported four deaths from acetaminophen poisoning in
2010, the same year the CDC put the American total at 321. The U.S.
population is four times that of Germany.

Germany has strict controls on acetaminophen.
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So this is why those bast*rds aren't in jail!

And how about that second amendment, eh?
I am guessing I can beat it with a good pen. As you say it has to be tolerant. If you have a little grunge on your finger, or a cut, or get a tan or there is grunge on the sensor it still has to work.

Also, there are a lot fewer fingerprints than the world has been lead to believe. Especially since we each have 10 to try, since the phone only checks 1.
Thanks for the feedback!

It's true that Shiny isn't designed for blazing performance (it's built on R, after all) but the pensions app is particularly slow--I believe it's actually the calculations, not the plotting, that's so slow. It is also running on one of our free hosting accounts, that only allocates a single, single-threaded R process to service it; so you're competing with all the other visitors to that app for the attention of a single thread.

I'd encourage you and anyone else who might find Shiny useful to try it with your own data and your own scripts. You might be surprised at how decent the performance can be, especially once you've gotten your head around reactive programming and learn how to structure your code to take advantage of it.

That said, Shiny is definitely not designed to be a general purpose web development framework. It is specifically designed for R users to build single-page apps for analyzing and/or visualizing data. Rather than replacing Rails, it is aimed at replacing PDFs and LaTeX documents, which is the usual way R users pass their results around.
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Easy karma, pg.

I mean, you've posted a topic that is guaranteed to provoke the kind of flamewar you seem to think is counterproductive.
Not the latest ones. The trend now is to give a drone a flight plan, not to fly it.

For instance, the X-47B is designed to perform such delicate maneuvers as taking off from and landing on aircraft carriers and performing in-flight refueling automatically.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/x47b/

It has a wearable remote control for carrier crews to use to direct it while on deck.
Wikipedia (unfortunately, sourcing a print book so I can't vouch for its having been quoted fairly) indicates Soviet agents were definitely stealing Concorde plans during the Tu-144's development.
If it's true that the majority of other states lost jobs (as the parent comment claims), then Texas would have also created more jobs per capita than most other states (since a positive number, no matter how small, is greater than any negative number).
Sorry, I was reading my own pet peeve about conspiracy theories into your remarks. I've seen all the arguments given before, but honestly, Foxtel just doesn't make very much money for Newscorp.

And given the huge bargaining power Foxtel has to alter content agreements, switching to an NBN-based streaming model just isn't the contractual minefield that it is in the USA (where there are far more cable providers).

I think that most papers came out against Rudd because they were ... against Rudd.
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But at the end of the day they would make more money signing up 1,000 people for $25 a month than signing up 100 people for $200 a month.

I get the feeling here that you just made up numbers that prove your point. And even then, the numbers are so close (25% higher revenue, which of course ignores the margins you believe to be irrelevant) that I'd be skeptical that one or the other would be clearly more profitable.

Perhaps the reason CrossFit gyms have to charge so much is because there are comparatively few people in the world foolish enough to join a gym that advocates a "fitness" program that is statistically so dangerous.