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Tens of billions of dollars worth of JavaScript source code are squirted out to every person, good and nefarious, rich and poor, all over the planet without boundaries, every day as they use Web applications. Why is nobody promulgating a standard for hiding it?

The answer is that such proposals get laughed out of the room. They would break the Web, which is far more valuable than anyone's JavaScript source code. Has innovation in JavaScript suffered for lack of source code protection in Web standards? That's also a laughable idea.

So, why not the same answer for passive content?
And remember, the iPhone was the first phone with visual voicemail. It boggles the mind that we all had to deal with horrible audio menus for decades before Apple came along and strong-armed Cingular into fixing voicemail.
I have been using Awesome for a couple years now, and it has a great solution to this problem. You can add a rule to a window class (MPlayer creates a window with the class "MPlayer" for example) and set the "floating" property to true. The property can of course be toggled with a keyboard shortcut which is very handy with lots of terminals.
Notion does a pretty good job of letting you mix floating and tiled windows. I do it manually by pressing Win+D, which I have bound to ioncore.detach. It's nice because all child windows that spawn from that program are floaters by default. It also lets you specify that new windows of particular programs should float by default or open in specifically named frames.

I wouldn't be able to GIMP without this...
I've really been needing something like this. Can't wait to dive in and automate my emails.
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This is not necessarily bad, most hardcore PC gamers already have a setup similar to this one.

At this point if I have to be skeptical about something is about how well the hardware will work with the OS considering the reputation nvidia has with Linux...
My thoughts exactly. This website was supposed to go from "testing" to "ready for millions of users who will present loads of unexpected corner cases" in just one day? That is not remotely trivial.
I was able to see a preview of the latest OpenStack a friend of mine has running on his cluster and was quite impressed where they are at currently. Although I would much rather see solid API and have communities (or startups) build products on top barebones installations like this.
> (I can't find it now, but it was something like Consumer Reports or similar?)

Are you thinking of the Consumer Labs report? I quoted that in a footnote, but it does not show what you seem to think it showed:

> Can melatonin help you sleep? "Melatonin supplements may help some people get to sleep sooner, particularly those with chronic sleeping problems, but don't just buy any supplement - they vary [substantially] in strength, dosage, and cost," says ConsumerLab.com President, Tod Cooperman, M.D. ConsumerLab.com recently selected and tested nine different melatonin supplements. The testing showed that all contained their labeled amounts of melatonin, but the suggested daily dosage ranged from 1 mg to 50 mg [!]; and cost ranged from just 4 cents to $1.36 for an equivalent dose of melatonin. This means you may not be using the right dose for your needs and you could be paying as much as 33 times more than necessary. ConsumerLab.com also found that one supplement failed to properly disclose all of its ingredients.

That is, each contained all the melatonin it claimed to, but there were irresponsible doses being offered. Unfortunate, yes, but this is not a problem for anyone who did their homework and know what dose they want to try.
Is it fair to say that this is "due to windows" though? I don't see anything in this article saying that this directive came at the urging of Microsoft or anyone on the Windows team there. It's entirely possible that this can be some internal nVidia political nonsense happening.
The changing script of the web developer
PostgreSQL, Sybase, DB2, Informix, Firebird all support transactional DDL.
In that space, there have been many quant tools/online communities, smartquant, openquant etc., let alone weath-lab, traderstation the old school TA tools, yet none has taken off into mainstream.

In the algo trading field, nobody can beat HF. In the alpha seeking field, it takes much more than trading algo, or a single algo. Complete computerization is not impossible but definitely a very hard problem.

In term of creating a Bloomberg competing model, I'll not entirely build it on algo based. There are numerous cheap highly educated labor out there in the world, outsource it, fill in the gap where data mining is still not good at. Only then, Quantopian will become a sound Bloomberg conteder.
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Pineal gland calcification happens to almost everyone[1], whether you're vitamin D deficient or not. Not only is it completely normal, the health effects you mention have certainly not been shown to correlate with calcification.

Honestly, the only people that bring this up are people still steadfast against fluoridation of water and people looking for an overly simplistic cause for alzheimer's.

[1] http://radiology.rsna.org/content/142/3/659.full.pdf
>Ulbricht did not enter a plea. But his public defender,...

Looks like the Federales did seize his assets. He may be about to have a bad time.
I don't get the downtime comparison. In government, it's not the result of an unplanned outage that is being addressed to bring the system back up. Rather our governmental "sysadmins" decided to bring the system down, and can simply decide when to bring it back up.
As I've pointed out in the past to you, I'm not sure what use we're supposed to be making of your admittedly nice site, given that we don't know how many people are using melatonin, how reliable any of these cases are, or what.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2vJNNAQZlg#t=130
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Title is ambiguous, it is either referring to startup, or enemy.. "Your startup is not the enemy, it's your dance partner...that is the enemy"

Personally, I find that hilarious, an villain of a dance partner.

At any rate, I don't really like the idea of humanizing something as cold and unfeeling as a 'startup'. Dance is art, beauty, skill, self expression, but it really fails to connotate the risk and danger of failure that war as a metaphor does.
This paper is from 2006, so there's almost certainly more developments since then.
From the Schneier article:

"The good news is they [NSA] went for a browser exploit..."
- Roger Dingledine, President of Tor project

It seems there are assumptions among parties that employ "browser exploits" against unsuspecting users that the persons targeted will be using "modern", complex, Javascript-enabled, graphical browsers, and that they'll use these browsers to retrieve content from the network and to view that content on machines with writeable permanent storage that can connect to the network. Am I misreading all these tales of browser exploitation?

Can these parties accomodate reboots from read-only media, text-only browsers, write-protected storage and offline viewing of content?

Maybe the problem isn't so much with Tor as with with the popular browsers and their gratuitous complexity.
I don't even know why I'm interested in this: I have neither the time nor the desire for games any more. The only game I play is DOTA2, and I want to quit it.
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You don't know that and this is the whole point of the "hole in one" argument.
Usually the problem is that you have factual savings vs. theoretical profits. And theory loses to facts.
Although, in effect I think you are right about GCHQ, that whole CCTV thing is pretty much a myth founded in a deeply flawed study focussed on a street in Central London. 90% of CCTV is privately owned, and if you step out of the metropolis CCTV is no more abundant than anywhere else. I suggest you stop using that argument with regard to the UK as it undermines your absolutely valid post.
not to be a downer but I do feel these systems and exploits are designed by us the hackers we so much want to belive are good, but it looks like most hackers have a price and probably derive joy from designing these systems for the government.

we know what is trustworthy we know how to build and do the right thing. yet look there is tens of thousands of brilliant minds working for the nsa against everybody else.
In 2013, does it make sense to put each user in a docker/lxc container? I don't know the resource overhead, but I'd hope/expect that it would be within tolerances.

Then you can have rich features like includes without worrying about file-based info leak. (cpu-timing attacks are perhaps another kettle of fish).
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I've been playing with vagrant and ansible to create a new server in a snap. Here is a good weekend project:

Instead of having just an Tor/browser bundle, build a vagrant machine specification that installs the Tor bundle. This virtual machine would be destroyed and recreated from time to time. Now put the machine specification in GitHub and let anyone use it.
Did you consider the possibility that it is in fact you who don't understand?

The Law of Large Numbers states that as more miles are traveled, the fires per mile will approach the expected value. It is entirely possible to have 10 fires in the next week.

We won't know what the expected fires/mile is until a much larger sample is collected. It will take years to prove out.
They should get some software engineers from the NSA maybe and put them on the obama care website...
I always like stuff like this because you see that these people who knock it out of the park apparently effortlessly actually struggle like all the rest of us normal humans behind the scenes. They couldn't figure out how to make a touch screen, the processor wasn't available, Sir Ive's case was impermeable to RF, the LCD was causing interference on the multitouch display, etc... This stuff is hard. Really, really hard. Any one technical obstacle could have killed the whole thing.
How the iOS 7 auto app update feature is a ticking data loss timebomb
Adobe hacked, millions of customers' data compromised
They hid all of that complexity behind an essentially non-functioning website....genius!
>I never understood this advice. Not to sound arrogant, but I know I'm good.

How many people have been led out the door protesting, "How can you fire me? Don't you know how much work I do around here?" Those people didn't have anyone in management saying, "Hey, you're doing a great job."
I haven't visited the website but

> lowercase or capital letter, a number, or one of these symbols _.@/-."

says "or" and not "and", so it doesn't actually seem like there's any issue so long as you include a letter. Then the only real restriction is the minimum of six characters.
Or we could just sign the OOB letters, on company letterhead, with an ink pen.
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It would be great if I could force every single developer that I know to read this. And after that enforce it.

At least after fifteen minutes you have enough information where you can, hopefully, clearly articulate your question with enough detail. There are times where questions are fielded to me and it was simply "this does not work" where after fifteen minutes of legwork the answer was solved along the way.

Often the answer is found simply by questioning yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
"There, far from the public eye, new technologies – such as application programming interfaces – are allowing financial institutions and businesses of all sizes to interact in new, faster ways."

This "new" technology called API sounds amazing. Everyone should start using it.
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Thats why we all should keep as much privacy as possible, if not for the sake of feeling a need for it ourselves, but to help out those who feel so. It is easier for them to hide among the mass of encrypted traffic and privacy-aware activities rather than stand out there on their own, shining like a light bulb to the NSA and other adversaries.

Boycott surveillance, encrypt everything.
The iOS 5 Google Maps app was very dated and lacking in features compared to the Android version at the time - probably the biggest thing it was missing was turn-by-turn navigation.

It wasn't terrible, it just hadn't been updated in a long time and had fallen behind the other options.
I think they're saying that the username has to match [a-zA-Z0-9_\.@/-]{6,} - note the "or" there.
And what streamer is going to trust them? I think there are MANY top streamers that were owed thousands of dollars. Twitch.tv was a DISTANT 2nd place to Own3D but then streamers were paid to move to Twitch (Dignatas LOL) and than once the checks strarted not coming it was a fast transition to twitch.

Also Azubu has streaming in Korea http://www.azubu.tv/index.do.

Europe is the place for someone to come in and fix their latency problems that Twitch causes.
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How many hedge funds spend billions on technology?
Could it be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitivity#Skin_reaction... ?
> "privilege" (which is a meaningless concept that just means "you're bad")

The rest of your comment was pretty reasonable [1], but here you just went off the rails.

"Privilege" does not simply mean "you're bad". It's a specific sub-category of "different perspective" that is really important and useful in understanding many of the subtler aspects of social power imbalance.

So here's the question: do you care whether/that some broad groups of people are systematically harmed for reasons that are absolutely not their fault? If you don't care, well, I'm sad to hear that, but I think you can safely move forward without caring what "privilege" actually means. If you do care, you can't effectively think about this problem without knowing about privilege, and how it affects your thinking. For one thing, privilege is part of the problem directly. But even more important, privilege causes a type of cognitive bias that makes it harder to see the problem clearly. It's like not knowing about fundamental attribution error, or not knowing about confirmation bias.

[1] Although I personally respectfully disagree with much of your comment, I think it was mostly reasonable. And while I think jamesaguilar is more right than wrong, I think he made his case pretty poorly. And in particular, I agree with you that "If [you don't agree with me], ... you are probably suffering from an over-abundance of privilege and a serious deficiency in empathy" was, as you say, inappropriately aggressive and accusatory.
Just going by the rough employee counts it would be 40%, 800k furloghed out of 2 million total. This whole business of forcing "essential" employees to work without pay, which would be illegal for any other employer to do, is keeping things from getting out of control for now.
There's no specific details of how they're staining. The two clues I can find:

- It's called "User Agent staining"
- "Each stain is visible in passively collected SIGINT and is stamped into every packet, which enables all the events from that stained machine to be brought back together to recreate a browsing session."

I'm wondering if they're not staining the browser user-agent string itself, but somehow modifying another part of the browser fingerprint (e.g., any of the things listed at https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes). If it's in "every packet", it would have to be a piece of info that is always sent by the browser.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466422
I think you may have missed a few words in your comment "seems half-arsed" and "towardsand".

Please edit and elaborate because my observations of London aren't dissimilar. London just isn't a technology place. It's all about business.
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From my experience, yes the site is really bad, and it's more than just heavy traffic.

The sign up screen lists some requirements for the username, but not all of them. My sign up attempt failed several times with a non-descript error message, which I attributed to the heavy traffic, until later I saw the "Forgot your username" page listed more requirements (apparently you can't end a username in a special character, which wasn't mentioned on the signup page, and which I only added at the end because that page wouldn't let me through without one)

So finally I signed up, but I get invalid login message every time I try to log in. Thinking maybe I mistyped my password (twice?) I clicked "forgot your password" and entered my username. It actually sent me a Forgot Password link to my email (confirming that I'm in the system) but when I click the link in the email it pulls up a page that says "We could find any account with the information you provided" - yes, with the information I provided from their own link. Have done that three times.

With these kinds of basic inconsistencies and bugs, I'm actually hesitant to enter my info once I do get in, wondering what kind of massive security holes are waiting to be discovered...
That with a little bit of Fortran can get you in a big world of hurt.
Rails has been doing this for years, I'm sure other framework do it too.
Here's the repo of healthcare.gov is anyone is interested in addressing some of the optimization issues mentioned in the article:

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov
My publisher pays me and all their other authors and uses no DRM on e-books. They sell more e-book because it isn't a hassle to move them around. They are a big enough publisher that if their sales and revenue significantly diverged from industry norms they would rethink that policy. On the other hand, I don't know of anyone going out of business for lack of DRM.
If you assume that fires are normally distributed, it's equally likely to be a larger or smaller length of time to the next one.
> a complete desktop environment

I agree. I wish more Tiling WMs came with a GUI application launcher, better mouse support for moving and resizing, login screens, etc.

Not everyone uses a Tiling WM because they're a masochist musophobe.
> Plus, the average Tesla driver is currently probably a superior driver

I can play the conjecture game too.

The average Tesla driver is probably a worse driver than the average gas-powered car driver. Why? Because they have the disposable income to purchase a Tesla, which means they're probably less careful with their possessions (as they can presumably afford to replace them), plus the Model S is a sports car so they're probably driving faster and more carefree than your average person.

Not that I really believe this, but come on, your argument is completely made up.
The FBI could end up with 5% of all bitcoins
Technology or otherwise.
they are doing so well they are going for the dual boot scheme, how does MS kool aid taste ? Windows Phones are a disaster, that cost Ballmer his job.
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It's downright deceitful, in my opinion. The entire page is trying to exaggerate the significance of the shutdown.
It's clearly intended as a joke. It's a slideshow shown to people with technological backgrounds. Most people in computer-based work have seen poorly selected stock photos like these to depict hackers/terrorists/whatever.
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Yes, sorry I should have provided some context to the copy/paste. I was agreeing with you.
Goes to show you how the OS is 40% of the cost of a computer. take that away and you can get great hardware for the same price.
The website's easily among the best this government, or any government, has ever created. It hasn't had a single minute of downtime (the Healthcare.gov servers have handled the load without a hiccup), it looks great, it's easy to use, it's mostly open source (on GitHub no less), and during off-peak hours I had no problem making an account. All that in a few months with a small team and no headline-making budget over-run. The only "non-functioning" aspect is likely that the legacy systems it talks to can't handle that many millions of people a day. Even in the face of those failures, the site doesn't crash or unhelpfully throw you some cryptic error code, it puts you in a queue and eventually tells you it's too busy and asks you to use the call center in the meantime.

http://i.imgur.com/xAikKoM.png

Sure, it's not accomplishing its goal for everyone yet (over 2.4 million have been able to sign up for new plans, or so I heard on NPR today). But, from the perspective of "I could've built a better website alone in my bedroom", no he couldn't, as what this team built is working great despite doing a lot more behind-the-scenes than one might expect.
Excuse me, I read your response. You seem to misunderstand that people have preferences. If you think you can ay $3.99 for every thing you want to watch on Amazon or Youtube movie channel, go ahead. I don't think it is valid to call it useless because millions of us are happy to pay $7.99 a month to watch multiple movies at any time we want.

Your whole arguments abut price and overpay don't make sense. I call your arguments closed-mind and invalid. From a consumer's standpoint, there is nothing cheaper than being able to choose any movie you want to watch, unlimited at a bargin price like $7.99.

That being said, I and millions of other users think Netflix should have more movies. More newer movies but that's really impossible because stupid Hollywood movie companies like WarnerBrother won't sell them to any streaming company simply because they want to sell the DVD.
"But Apple just took existing parts and smashed them in a case!"

I love articles like this, even though the people who need to read them the most don't have the attention span for them :-)
The "no code" aspect is bandied about a lot but it looks legit in this case. That's extremely attractive; sending common automated emails should really not need development team effort. Nice work!
Speak of the devil... We just used this terrible site which is used to manage gift cards, and it requires all usernames include a number: https://www.ucard.chase.com/
No, they didn't make it seem worse. If I put the phone on my flat hand, and let the signal stabilize, I could drop the signal by about 16dB with one finger (as numerically shown on a jailbroken phone). This was often enough to terminate a call.
There was no "seem" about it - it was a bad design. If I could have gotten a refund AND gotten out of my carrier contract, I would have.
The contraction shouldn't feel weird unless all contractions feel weird. The grammticalized "have" in the modal is almost never pronounced the same way as the verb meaning "possess"; it has become a schwa-vee or often even a simple schwa (rendered as musta) in ordinary (not explicitly emphatic) speech. It has really become more of an affix than a separate word, so maybe it is time for the written rendering of the language to begin to reflect that.
The chart showing the trading volume is priceless
Even if I am an Android long time user I would love to have an easy way to experiment with two OS on the same device. I'll be then able to end up using the one I like the most. Competition is great.
Trust can take care concerns of credit card transaction, banking, or privacy. But when it comes to trade secret, intellectual property, trust is irrelevant. If you're working on trust, you're on the wrong path.

Traders need to keep their algo close to themselves. What you can offer is not testing their algo on your platform, but separating the their critical algo from the commodity data mining then offer the latter. The latter is what most traders don't have and you can add value. The ability of separating the algo, might just be your competitive edge.
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I've played DOTA2 twice, and I have absolutely no idea of what's going on or how to play. What's the big deal anyway?