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I turned 40 last year, and I am loving it. I miss the physical resilience of being in my 20s, but I wouldn't trade where I am now to go back to my 20s.

I grew up relatively sheltered in New England, and moved to NYC to teach as soon as I graduated from college. I spent my 20s teaching in the city and bicycling around North America in the summers.

At 29, I moved to Alaska. I spent my 30's climbing mountains, doing mountain rescue work, and continuing to teach.

I just turned 40, and I feel like this decade is about building some things that last. I feel like I came into more serious hacking at just the right time in my life. I now have the experience to know exactly what I want to build, and I have the long-term mindset needed to build important things. After having stood in front of NYC public school classrooms, bicycled around the continent, faced bears in the wild, and dropped out of helicopters onto steep mountains, dealing with servers and such is just another satisfying challenge to play with.

Life is wonderful if you keep right on living.
So what about checking for valid session cookies from before the ddos started?
Do you able to venture an opinion on whether it would be enjoyable or not to have your testicles slammed in the door of a car?

You can question the validity of the opinion but we all extrapolate on what we do know and fill the gaps in with views and information borrowed from others and reasonable assumptions.
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They are far, far from basic requirements for a job. They may be for engineers and highly skilled professionals, but for the majority of workers the only basic requirements are reasonable workplace safety and humane hours - and even those are often in question.
I'm especially concerned about point 2. If this could be resolved 1. and 3. wouldn't be any problem (if Cisco decided to close the source code (1.), Mozilla would fork the last open version; if you don't trust Cisco's binaries (3.), build your own).

So I agree: as long as 2. is not resolved, Mozilla should better not accept the offer.
It would seem to comport with the law, as best I (as some random dude) can tell. You're not allowed to be looking at a computer or mobile device while you drive; Glass would seem to count.
I am 30 and my career is just taking off :) I do very much hope I have more than five years in me
Nope, follow the original link and click checkout upon the "Yearly" selection. It'll automatically add the promotion code on the next page, dropping the price down to £2/year :)
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An interesting quote from the article:

>That would potentially make the internet faster, more efficient, and more capable of withstanding rapidly escalating levels of global user demand. It would also make information delivery almost immune to server crashes, and significantly enhance the ability of users to control access to their private information online.

As I understand it, the plan is essentially to turn the internet into a giant peer to peer network. I'm not sure how this fits into the claim that it will "significantly enhance the ability of users to control access to their private information online". If anything, it seems that this model will lead to an even greater and equally permanent duplication of online content. This means that user data will be reproduced and recopied even more than it already is...how does that give users a greater control over privacy at all?

I don't think I'll touch on the problems of the implementation as its described, but the following quote:

>the researchers behind the project also argue that by focusing on information rather than the web addresses (URLs) where it is stored, digital content would become more secure. They envisage that by making individual bits of data recognisable, that data could be “fingerprinted” to show that it comes from an authorised source.

really makes it sound like they are working toward making the internet completely search engine based. How else will you find content if the servers are gone? You search for it. It sounds like kind of a terrible idea, but maybe someone else can champion their cause.
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From what I read on FD and here Google could have better credited the security researcher.
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Yeah, down here since around 10 minutes ago, did commits before that.
Yes! Windows XP will get native video playback after all (doesn't support the current microsoft framework workaround).

Thanks Mozilla!
tl;dr:

Deleting your LinkedIn account does not mean that LinkedIn deletes your data.
> It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead.

Did I miss something? I've been happy with my 10" ipad for years and, especially with the 2048x1536 display, have never felt the need to go smaller. I know most of the android tablets are smaller, but I've been completely satisfied. I suppose I've never used the ipad mini, so it might be all that and a bag of chips.

Is this really the trend? It wouldn't be the first to pass me by, but I'm still surprised.
Thanks, I needed this reminder.
I didn't create a new SSH key...I just used my public rsa one. I should just delete that key and create a new one?
http://isup.me is much easier to remember :P

... it did say that HN was up when it wasn't for me though.
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"However, using copyright notice may be a smart choice. By using copyright notice, those who sue for copyright infringement can prevent the innocent infringement defense. This defense is the easiest way to refute infringement. The infringer simply claims he wasn’t aware of the copyright. When properly pleaded, the defense can reduce the amount of damages owed, but proper copy-right notice nullifies this scenario."

Or, y'know, including CC BY SA.
I'm almost fifty and I feel like I'm just hitting my stride. But then I felt that as I approached 30 and 40 too.

So yeah, you might not see it while in your 20s but nothing feels better than the combination of intelligence and experience. That is, the result of learning how to learn.
Well it'll help interoperate with those legacy systems. It seems that VP8's libvpx implementation is likely to be better quality than this solution for a while, since it only supports Constrained Baseline (and even x264 roughly ties with VP8 when limited to that level) and won't even be available for months.

Also, if they get an AAC decoder from somewhere it'll provide H.264 decode of HTML5 video to Firefox users on XP.

I'd still like to see VP8 as the MTI in WebRTC, and I'm somewhat surprised by the timing of this announcement (i.e. nothing seems set to happen for months, so why are they talking about it other than to influence that decision?) but there's definitely pragmatic benefits for Firefox and its users.
The status page says git-over-ssh is operational, but I can't push to repos with ssh URLs.
Microsoft was attacked with these arguments when they decided not to implement WebGL in Internet Explorer 10.
Pulls & Commits are fully offline now getting 503 on pulls.

Updates on Status page:

Identified - The errors are a result of some routine file system maintenance that affected our front-end machines. We are resolving the issue on each machine and will keep this page updated with our progress. We hope to have everything back in working order very shortly.
14:04 UTC

Investigating - We're experiencing slow loading times and outages for some customers loading the site pages or cloning. We're looking into it and will update once we have more information.
13:58 UTC

Though I am having issues pushing and pulling which doesn't cover cloning or the UI.
For the Chase and Sandborn Hour, Edgar Bergen was actually just doing multiple voices (being a radio ventriloquist was just a humorous hook). You can hear some episodes here:

https://archive.org/details/BerganMccarthy

Mel Blanc (of Looney Tunes voice acting fame) did much the same thing for the Jack Benny radio shows and also had his own half-hour long radio show, which you can hear here:

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Mel_Blanc_Singles
Tell HN: HNSearch still not updating
As of now, a search for "Google" sorted by date returns a result that's 6 hours old, similarly "github", "NSA", and others. It would appear that HNSearch is not updating. Possibly it's been affected by the CloudFlare/DDoS/Timeout issues, but it may be something else.

It happened yesterday too - can someone let us know what's happening?
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Pull & Push restored for me.
The intended solution is basic math – addition and subtraction. I don't have a PHD, degree in CS, nor have I studied advanced math but I can still figure it out.

It's all about how you look at problems.

If you can analyse problems, break them down and create simple, novel solutions without much effort—that's not with an overnight sleep, as sometimes you'll need to craft solutions immediately—you're a good candidate.

That's exactly the sort of thing these questions test.
‘Big Data’ Is Bunk, Obama Campaign’s Tech Guru Tells University Leaders
https://appear.in/

Is a service built using WebRTC and AngularJS. Just share an URL and people can videochat in the browser.
Please go look at the members list of the Linux Foundation [1]. And convince yourself that pretty much every single company on this planet uses open source software. It's not some new fad or hippy communist thing. It's serious multi billion dollar business.

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
Very inspiring article. Being 24, almost half-way to 30, these past few months I've been thinking to myself "what have I really accomplished outside of work and school"? I think this is due partly to the high expectations I set for myself, but I also believe part of it is due to the current tech culture, where it's easy for those new to the field to misinterpret that if they aren't moving as fast as everyone else, they must be doing something wrong.

I'm coming to understand that everyone is unique, one's career/life progress is no better than another's. Thanks for the refreshing perspective OP.
Unfortunately, there are aspects to our culture that conflate personal value with success; that is, your value as a human being is based on your success. So it's easy to compare to the very visible milestones; Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, etc. Or to compare to people we know personally; the successful start-up founder with a nice exit, the entrepreneur who got his lifestyle business off the ground and now pays the bills with it.

For me, it's easy to think "I am a failure" compared to these people, especially as the years pass and the number of successes I know increases, but I'm not "one of them". This is a severe error of conflating my external success with internal value.

I prefer to recall the old Taoist saying, "Work is done, then forgotten."
The bottom of the page says "Powered by statuspage.io." That's a good idea for a small SaaS! Unfortunately www.statuspage.io is down too! I also am getting occasional blank pages at status.bitbucket.org (looks like the page refreshes itself automatically), so I guess they are being overwhelmed with traffic at the moment.

Edit: Ironically status.statuspage.io says their (own) site is operational.
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They're licensing per user - just that MPEG-LA has a upper bound of what to pay annually (currently $6.5 million). That's something that Cisco can probably better manage than not being able to move forward with their plans.

Question is if MPEG-LA closes that loop hole the next time they revisit licensing payments (but then, how? Microsoft and Apple profit from the same provisions, for example).
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Here's how I look at it. It's not the decimal number of years since your birth, but the phase in your life that closes doors.

In tech, you constantly need to keep up to date on the latest technologies, read publications and go to conferences, because experience gets stale very fast. It's also easier (than in fields like medicine or law) for junior techies to get up to speed in experience, because they can skip the decades of now obsolete tech and fast forward to roughly where you are at. This is fine. It can be fun and it's definitely rewarding.

Then by your early thirties, three things change at the same time: you get promoted to a busier, more responsible position, you have small kids, and you get fat. The (waking) time you have for yourself shrinks from 8-10 hrs to about an hour if you're lucky. You can use that hour to study and keep up to date, to do something about that gut and exercise, or you're so tired you just want to relax. Pick one.

In my opinion, this is why middle aged people seem so lazy and boring.
That issue was created before we did the work, and it is a bit out of date, a fuller treatment is here, and it includes references to papers that helped us, as well as how we overcome some of the hurdles in that issue you linked too https://gist.github.com/russelldb/f92f44bdfb619e089a4d
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I completely agree. I love my current iPad and don't want a smaller form factor for what I use it for (e.g., reading and small amounts of typing, Duolingo every morning). I already have a smaller form factor device that is wearable but painful to read or type on for bigger jobs (my phone) and a larger device with a full size keyboard for doing lots of typing and serious work (laptop). I welcome the iPad Air because it is the device I enjoy the most but faster and lighter.
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Esp effective if you are doing web development on local machine. Oops, I just started to work.
Right - the government stopped working, and people realized they don't need it. Mysteriously, this has lead to decades of chaos, despair and starvation rather then an economic boom.
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The Cisco paid MPEG LA license fees only cover the Cisco delivered binaries. Doesn't sound like this completely free plug-in method would work for say, iOS apps which can't download external binaries. You'd still have to cover the MPEG LA licensing.
According to http://www.openh264.org/faq.html
"In order for Cisco to be responsible for the MPEG LA licensing royalties for the module, Cisco must provide the packaging and distribution of this code in a binary module format (think of it like a plug-in, but not using the same APIs as existing plugins), in addition to several other constraints. "
He also completely failed to mention mental health issues, which was the more glaring omission for me.
It's possible that I have an advanced case of "peter pan syndrome", but when I turned 30 things started to take off for me. At 33, I'm just starting to get little hints that I may in fact be a grown-up. I'm working at my first startup right now, having previously worked at more established companies and research institutions. If somehow in 1.75 years I just stop being able to do that, and start fading into a decline, I would be very sad. It's also pretty unlikely.

My personal theory is that it's all about ensuring continued personal and professional growth. I know plenty of people who stoped those in their 20s and seem "old". I also know plenty of people in their 60s and 70s who didn't stop them and I find myself surprised regularly when I remember the number of years they've been alive.

Basically just supporting digitalsushi's point with anecdotal evidence.
As someone who commutes on a motorbike I'd even go further and say that it should be illegal. When you're driving you need to be focused on the road, not watching your friend's facebook wall.

Hopefully soon enough we'll get fully automatic cars and this will be a problem of the past but in the meantime this seem the safest approach.
Whether it's valid or not, something capable of projecting into your eye while you are driving seems like it is a potential danger. It is not the same as a monitor that is not directly in your line of vision or obstructing your view of the road.

My question would be what this woman was doing that attracted the attention of the police in the first place.
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I'm pretty sure that Circle uses the oAuth api to checkout repos, the deploy key part on github they use for their deployment feature.

If the attacker has a bunch of tokens, could they have bulk downloaded source code before the oAuth stuff was revoked by Circle?

https://github.com/blog/1270-easier-builds-and-deployments-u...
I really don't want people driving with Glass, even if it was turned off as she claims (how could a PO know?)
When the OP says "if scientists have an easy way of creating markup versions of their LaTeX files" it sounds like they'll be writing it by hand, don't you think? Alternatively, a toolchain involving compilation to HTML+MathML doesn't sound to me like a problem for browser vendors.
They get to choose items from a list, so I'd hope they choose stuff they can use.
She was speeding.
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Always keep to two pages maximum. I have a lightly coloured header with my name in large letters at the head of page 1, the rest in a nice, clear, structured list of skills and previous jobs.
If I remember later on I'll link it up here for you to see.
California has always been strict with technology usage in cars, and with good reason. There's a large amount of research that concludes that distractions make the road many times more dangerous. It's pretty much that simple.
The page only became bad when the blog received a trackback from a different blog with a different character set. At that point the blog software erroneously changed the page's content and made it invalid. It was a software bug, plain and simple. The page was fully valid when the blog author published it.

For the developer/tester of Typepad (the blog software) to catch the bug, they would have had to trigger this bug in development/testing before it made it into the wild. While we always hope developers will catch as many bugs as possible, some will always slip through. Strict validation on the client means that even the slightest bug can make the website 100% down/unavailable, even though the browser would be perfectly capable of displaying something that 99% works.

Modern web sites are huge amalgamations of dynamically-generated content using umpteen templating technologies and aggregations of data that come from sources that the page's authors do not necessarily control. Guaranteeing that their output will always be valid XHTML is not trivial.
This comes from Planet Money, who has an entire Podcast dedicated to the subject. Quite an interesting listen (as all of their podcasts are): http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/25/240801871/episode-...
Unfortunately, Cryptome, illustrious as it may be in our eyes, is hardly "the American Media."
First thing on the ticket it looks like, yep.
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HTML is not user-hostile and MathML is. I'm saying this has something to do with lack of uptake for the latter.
I often worry about whether my startup clock is running out. I'm closer to 30 than 20, finishing up graduate school, and for the most part feel young. But other than the pediatrics ward, the only other time I start to feel my age is when attending some of these startup events.

What I try to keep conscious of is knowing what's reported in the media and what isn't, which are often 2 completely different worlds. On TechCrunch, "kid genius makes $100m" is the story they want. It fits this age-old narrative of a child prodigy reaching success in half the time it takes a "normally smart" person to, like Mozart, Einstein.

And that media draws in huge amounts of young people hoping to fit that narrative. But what's not reported are the companies that are typically working on much harder and more boring problems -- problems that require an understanding by people who've been in industries for years. Look at any CrunchBase newsletter about the day's fundraising and acquisitions, and you'll find yourself surprised at how many medical/B2B/etc companies are being bought for $100m+. These aren't companies started by 22yo grads, but by people with extensive industry experience. And the (startup) media doesn't really give a damn about them.

That's not, in any way, to devalue startups started by younger people. There's little-to-no barrier to starting social apps and the like. They have their place in society and have shown to be successful, so I don't blame a fresh grad who wants to try his/her hand at it. But there is a whole world of other startups and companies that are working in more complicated and boring industries that could not have been started by people in their early 20s.

Experience still matters, as unsexy as it is.
But she was also cited for a television screen in front of driver's view. The first citation was speeding, which probably is why she was stopped, and then she was issued second citation of driver's view obstruction by an entertainment device.
That's the "Good News". Now for the rest of the story:

The open source part of this is nearly useless, if not completely so, as evidenced by the fact that Firefox won't be using the source code. The "you don't have to pay the MPEG-LA" part only applies to the binary module. If you want to pick up this code and ship it in your own software, you'll still need to pay the MPEG-LA.

The reason they are doing this is to put more weight behind H264 in the political battle in the IETF over the MTI video codec for WebRTC. But if they succeed in making H264 the MTI, and you want to write a mobile app that interops with WebRTC for doing some form of realtime video, you'll won't be able to use their source code without paying the MPEG-LA. You'd have to use their binary module, downloaded from their servers, which, as they mention in the Q&A, is impossible on iOS.

The announcement seems to try hard to smudge this distinction and push it into the fine print, but there's still a patent "elephant in the room".

TL;DR: This doesn't solve the patent issues surrounding h264, and doesn't make it anymore suitable as an MTI for WebRTC.
But Glass doesn't project into the eye. It projects into a glass prism at the edge of a field of vision. The argument could be made that this still constitutes a distraction if it comes up, but if my phone is mounted in my car and lights up with a text, it's pretty easy for me to notice that it lights up but keep focused on the road and ignore it. I imagine a responsible Glass user could do the same.
Interoperating with legacy systems? What legacy systems? The majority of Firefox users currently don't use WebRTC with H264 streaming at all. This is a very new thing. Maintaining legacy only seems to benefit Cisco.

> if they get an AAC decoder from somewhere it'll provide H.264 decode to Firefox users on XP.

aacdec.c and friends in ffmpeg git seem to be LGPL also...
It's not just storage upgrade options that keep Apple from adding external storage, I think. With the way the sandbox works, how would apps be allowed to read/write to an external device? That would allow them to escape the sandbox and do IPC, wouldn't it?
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Only if you use the binary module, not the source code.