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It has a java bytecode interpreter and an initial implementation of a classfile loader. As said above it doesn't have a full implementation of the java runtime, just a few classes to be able to print out to standard output and su things with string and not much else (at least from what i've seen of the content of libs/java).

Regarding the loader, it can load a few sections from a classfile, the one containing methods bytecodes, the exceptions table and the constant pool (i.e. where all your string are stored with some other "constants").
How much it could take for a full implementation? It depends of what you mean by full. Even using one of the opensource runtime library like openjdk,classpath,harmony/android i'd say a few years done solo, and not much less with more people, to build something complete and stable enough for general use. Definitely not a simple project.
So Linux doesn't suck anymore?
Igudesman & Joo have their own way of playing stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w
That's a potentially perfectly accurate statement that doesn't in any way refute the story. The leak indicates they have access to the fiber lines between datacenters, not the servers themselves.
You dont need angular for dependency injection , there is a lot of JS IoC containers on npm already.
It means that the Google Front End (GFE) server is where encryption/decryption of SSL happens, and that communication outside the GFE (e.g., Google->Client) is encrypted, while communication behind the GFE (internal to the Google Cloud) is clear text.
Skype, oovoo, probably a few others.
I imagine anyone with a line on their resume that says "NSA - Software Developer - 2009:Present" is going to have a hard time finding a new job at many companies (although certainly not all).
I clone the generator repos that I use mostly, and have set them up the way I want, but yes, it's primary value is bootstrapping new things, obviously.
Linux only sucks once a year. :)
They are essential for driving safely, plus the cognitive load is minimal requiring mere glances.
It's mostly a moot point since it's overseas, but I doubt the secret court would be willing to pass through over 6 million FISC requests a day (181,280,466 requests every 30 days the NSA reportedly gets through this wire tapping). At the very least the FISC courts provide a bottleneck at whatever government 'efficiency' throughput they can provide.
Hah, well done on both counts!
Frank Zappa was doing something very similar with the Synclavier in the 80s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synclavier).

He also has a piece called 'The Black Page' due to its density of notes on the page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Page

Both together here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOK98q_ILA&list=PL945B5DD750...
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I was surprised to learn that was even allowed! The Rails Rumble allows any Rack-based app, though.
I don't see how the pretense that the NSA actively avoids snooping on U.S. citizens can be seriously maintained after this revelation. It's becoming increasingly clear that intelligence agencies want the ability to access all data created directly or indirectly by an arbitrary cyberspace target on demand and will shop around for the "best" (e.g. weakest link in technology and/or legislature) nook of the net to snoop at.
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Check React or Ractive for the view layer , they are awesome.
Well given how many times he has been found lying, ...
Heads up displays have already been proven by the military to be much safer. They try to reduce "heads down" time for the pilots looking at their instruments as much as possible.

If you compare a GPS unit the user has to turn their head or worse look down to use vs. a Glass sitting above their vision with the directions always available at a glance, the Glass is pretty clearly superior. Realistically, many users use their phones for GPS and don't have a proper mount whereas Glass will always be properly mounted to be hands free, so it's probably even safer than the most common thing of just using your phone for directions.
Disagree for two reasons. One, kids deserve little but a loving home and a few educational toys. Giving them everything they want is recipe for building a little monster.

Two, for beter or worse, govts subsidize families to the detriment of the single. When the wife and kid arrive, you'll get a ~$500 a month tax break, enough to pay for another bedroom and diapers. The total cost is much less than I'd imagined, especially if you avoid buying all the junk thats expected.
What a horribly edited story.

Word that Goldman Sachs is discouraging its junior investment bankers to take weekends off initially prompted scoffing.

That sentence is awkward, and I understood it to be the opposite of the meaning implied by the following sentence.
"They're already working for Google, etc, and X Y Z security company."

And the NSA, apparently.
This provides a highly scalable, highly available infrastructure for running the JVM in Rhino on the JVM in Node.
Actually in C++11 you can just say:

auto id = mongo::OID("1234...");

This gives you much (not all) of the brevity and flexibility of dynamic typing, while maintaining the power and safety of static typing.
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I would expect Google and similarly enormous companies to have a process in place to keep rogue agents from inserting backdoors and malicious code.
How did it get to be ‘OK’ for people to be late for everything?
How is "120-130K all in for top bucket in 2013" different from what I said (average just over $100k)? I'm thinking average at GS/MS/JPM for first years was ~$110k, no? As for Goldman, I'm aware they're getting rid of the contract, but it's still standard practice in the industry as a whole. Also, just because the contract is going away doesn't mean "up or out" is going away. At the end of the day you have to weight those high salaries for more senior bankers against the fact that the recruiting model of investment banks involves only a fraction of new hires making it even past a few years.
This is reminiscent of the inclines (aka funiculars) in Pittsburgh, another old industrial city set in a similar landscape:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_Incline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongahela_Incline

They are far better maintained, and operated as part of the city's public transit system.
You could make the gap between those note groups wider and it would become impossible. Even then, it is impossible to play for some—my piano teacher had rather small hands and had to "cheat" by dropping out notes if she was going to try Rachmaninoff.
> people do not actually care about their privacy

This is 100% accurate, I've attempted to aggressively promote privacy tools well before the NSA/Snowden stuff among the people I know. They still don't care to use simple things like OTR with IM. They might use it for one week, and switch back.

Journalists/tech sites love making this seem like the biggest deal in society right now, but hardly the case in reality.

I'm not sure if it's an intellectual/knowledge gap (lack of technical knowledge), laziness, lack of good design in crypto tools, or just generally not caring about their privacy (until it becomes to hit them in the face).
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It should, but it probably won't.

But the smiley is particularly infuriating, because it embodies the mindset behind this domestic spying: "we're better than you, we're smarter than you, and you can't do a damn thing about it, peons."
I thought that that was the worst thing that ever happened, and I turned out to be wrong. No inconsistency here.
while they might not have access to the "Google servers", it now is almost certain they have access to the "Google network" (i.e. fiber cable access). as seen in previous reports, intercepting sea fiber optic traffic between continents seems something the NSA has mastered...
this is excellent, here it is for use in iOS projects: https://github.com/TapTemplate/ionicons-iOS
No sweat. :)
“In 2008 the hauling rope of this tramway snapped with 12 passengers inside. Ramaz Khipshidze, the director of the Aerial Tramway Network says the automatic braking system worked "thanks to God."”

Well, it certainly wasn’t thanks to regular maintenance. Honestly, why is everything from the Soviet era just left to rot?
Ruby-ffi is maintained again and now fully BSD-licensed
1. ran over a bunch of people
2. pounded rhythmically on the steering wheel while singing "bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do"
What problems do dependency injection solve for you? I haven't had a chance to use it yet, and I've always been curious about its benefits in real projects.
Specifically, he denies direct NSA access to the systems, and says that NSA would need to use a court process to gain such access, but the report is that the UK's GCHQ is actually tapping the systems and the GCHQ is sharing the captured data with NSA.
If you believe that modern western cultures are not gender biased and this state of affairs is worth preserving, then you are a feminist! You can't deny it because you have just advocated for gender equality.

Feminism advocates for autonomy for everyone. Everyone should be able to make choices about how to live their life instead of having those choices made for them. Everyone should have control over their own body. Everyone should have control over their own self image.

You may not perceive it, but many people live in cultures in which they are strongly pushed toward ideal body types, lifestyles, and choices from many angles: family, community, media, friends. This affects both men and women. If people who live in traditionally patriarchal western cultures can now say honestly that they perceive no gender bias, then feminism has won. It may not have won the war, but it has at least won some battles, and it will continue fighting for equality for all.
It's far beyond special investigator time.

Obama should be impeached. Both Obama and Bush should be tried for criminal conduct. Both should be put in prison for decades for treason. Of course on top of that are the war crimes and general crimes against humanity both committed (torture, war, murder of thousands of civilians, and so on).
Fitting that both the examples are of Touhou song remixes, as Touhou is kind of the video game equivalent of black MIDI (shoot em up with ridiculous amounts of projectiles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmMDqub_UKA
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Alexander is but one of many Wormtongues striving to bring down Rohan.
I was thinking of "Far Centaurus" by A. E. van Vogt, but I'll look up the Heinlein as well now.
Great post. Managers are undervalued in startup culture, but so crucial in certain instances, like sales.

I read a great study 10 years ago that talked about the ratio of entrepreneurial minds to management minds in companies. The interesting point was how tweaking the balance could influence growth, while another could influence profit. This leads so any companies, motivated to increase share prices, to tip the balance toward a managerial mindset to squeeze profit, creating friction on growth.
I generally use browserify to handle dependencies the same way I do in node.js. It's worked pretty well for me so far.

https://github.com/substack/node-browserify
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A port of it to Python would probably be a better place to start. Not many people are conversant in Pascal these days.
Isn't this kindof "publicly"?
Me to! What a blast to the past. I might look through it again.
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I am interested in your book, but it is unlikely that I'll remember to come back tomorrow. I would recommend at least taking email addresses to send a reminder.

Best of luck with this.
Since circleCI users upload the private heroku SSH keys to automate deploys, how hard would it be for the intruders to get access to the environment variables stored in heroku?
And this is, somewhat ironically, very bad news for Mr. Kurzweil.
BTW, a much simpler way to get the SSL keys is to send someone (or teams) to be employed by Google. (Like another big country probably did a while back.)

Once inside, put a few webcam, physical/virtual key logger, a few line of code, (checkin code with extra ",", "=" instead of "==" in the right place - just like a post about Linux security Kernel hack a while back.) and the jobs are done.
The closest thing to an open-source in-browser JS renderer would be something based on https://github.com/0xfe/vexflow, but a reliable converter for MusicXML hasn't been written yet.
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One wonders if this was staged. And by staged I mean if there was a note out to officers saying "If you pull over someone for a violation add this charge if they are wearing Google Glass."

There are a bunch of unanswered questions (and by that I mean not yet litigated differences in opinion) with respect to glass.

For example, if you're driving and you notice you are being tailed, and you say 'Glass record' and you look down at your speedometer, and up at your rear view mirror, and then record the entire traffic stop. Is that video admissible in court? There have been stories of police officers being less than truthful in how a stop occurred, video makes that harder. There is also the infamous 'resisting arrest' charge which people of various demographics feel is used when profiling to hassle them. So if you can get it on record that it is illegal to drive with Glass, then you make it more obvious if someone reaches over and puts on their glass when they get pulled over.

Another question, is it a phone or not? It has a cellular connection capability so kind of. If its a phone are you 'texting' when it is showing text? Who knows, some would argue yes, some would argue no. Again, not yet litigated.

All these things are going to come through the courts eventually if this product gets any traction. So did the CHP tell their officers to add this if they stopped someone? I don't know but I can't think of any reason an officer would try 'watching tv' as the infraction.
Periodically, especially when a new report like this one comes out, I like to go back and watch the original Snowden interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM) and reflect on the differences between what we knew vs what we now know. When I first watched the video, it brought tears to my eyes and I try to remember that so I don't get desensitized to the magnitude of these revelations. I respect the man more and more everyday.
Scalable in the sense that you can try and climb up the layers of abstraction in the same way you'd scale a mountain of rubble, yes.
I've been thinking about this for a while. It seems almost impossibly easy and yet no one has really done it.

Maybe it's because the consumer startup crowd and the data science crowd don't overlap enough. If http://prediction.io supported time series data you might see a few of these products pop up overnight.
I think you should pivot, catcanhazitrainbook.com is available, and the growing acceptance of domestic purrtnerships is nothing but pure up and to the right. I agree, college kids don't realize that felines have been marginalized in the new twerking paradigm - and how unfair is it that we send all these tweets around with no cats to chase them? You can get out in front of this and really change the world with your rockstar ninja buckets of vc fueled distributed map reduce haskell most viral housepet centered social network ever.
You should not be upset with Adobe. You should be upset with your payment card provider.

This industry has systematically externalized the cost of these data breaches, and the security systems necessary to try to prevent them, to every other business and end-user in the country.

There are many ways to solve this problem. Europe has largely solved this problem, and using your antiquated American credit card in Europe is not only difficult, but even if possible will elicit crazy looks.

What other industry today would you trust that the only security is a 16 digit number that you repeatedly share with the world and your zip code? And to think this is how we secure our money?

Adobe is offering a service that costs at the least tens of dollars to 38 million people. What is your credit card offering?
Looks interesting, but I have no idea what it's about. Other than Linux, and badass. Which are two of my favourite things, however, for all I know it could just be alternating pages of the words "linux", "badass", and "fuck".
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Quite an ambitious idea. I started small (by focusing on personal reading analytics): http://www.clarelegere.com/profiles/1
Things like Twitter often start as a "wouldn't it be neat if."

Then actually taking the trouble to prototype it, show it to people, and find out if it has lasting value to any group of people you care about. And then you have to improve it to better fit those peoples' needs, and marketing it instead of taking a "okay, now come and get it" attitude.

Each of those steps is a huge obstacle which most people won't even attempt.

We see the finished product and think "who knew we needed that." But it's exceptionally rare to jump straight from a golden idea to a finished product. That's a marketing narrative after the fact.

Even "finding an idea" is fairly rare, and its going to waste a lot of your time if you expect it to be the first step to building a business. Find an audience, learn about them, figure out what their goals are and what choke points are keeping them from attaining them.

Then help them.
> So, you cannot use gps for distractions, unless you can?

Using GPS on a phone while driving is illegal as well (in CA): http://www.dmv.org/articles/california-bans-use-of-cell-phon...
Between mortgage and student loans I am much less than zero. I wonder how common that demographic is.
> They try to reduce "heads down" time for the pilots looking at their instruments as much as possible.

Do cars integrate with Glass like this?
I'm a tenthousandaire. Is it close enough? What's with the question?
Note that the article makes the point that while the NSA can't compel companies to cooperate if they're not in the US, if they (or their data or data centres) are not in the US, NSA has much freer reign to use covert means to just take what they want.

So getting out of the US would be insufficient (not that it would be a viable option anyway) - if moving out of the US, they'd also need to actually know their countermeasures are sufficient to prevent the NSA from just taking what they want.
Ask HN: Does Facebook marketing work for any of you?
Use this article as a baseline of the discussion:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101151565#_gus

Does Facebook marketing work for any of you? I'm in ecommerce and no one I know in the industry can make FB work on a profitable CPA-basis. I'm curious to see if anyone out there has made it work.
That may be true of the unreleased Gen2 Google Glasses, which project the image directly in your field of vision, but it is most certainly not true of the Google Glass Explorers currently available, which require the user to look up at the display. In its current incarnation, Google Glass is just as distracting as looking at the radio or instruments, and should not be regarded as a HUD.
It's like Car and Carpet. But it's also the kind of car that you can build out of carpets.
Also, from a Kauffman Foundation report:

"The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders [of companies that have more than $1 million in sales, twenty or more employees, and company branches with fifty or more employees] was thirty-nine when they started their companies. Twice as many were older than fifty as were younger than twenty-five."

http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2009/04/educatio...
> What matters is that large cloud systems are fundamentally incapable of protecting data.

I don't believe that's true.

1. Google (and others?) is already aggressively increasing the amount of encryption it does on traffic between its datacenters. So they have been addressing this problem before it was even brought to light.

2. We easily have the encryption abilities to do many more things than we do with secure cloud data; we'd just have to pay more for it. For instance, I can encrypt everything the minute it leaves my laptop, store it in the cloud, and not decrypt until it hits my laptop again. Nobody but me ever gets the secret key (heck, it could be a one-time-pad and thus unbreakable). If I trust the cloud computers themselves, then I can store different secret keys on each and use strong public-key encryption to protect all traffic between different machines in the cloud, and between my machine. Breaking the system requires compromising a machine, and even then you only get the key for that machine.

3. In theory, fully homomorphic encryption could allow the best of both worlds above. I completely encrypt my data on my machine --- nobody else has the key --- then send it into the cloud where cloud companies can do operations for me like searching, sorting, filtering, etc, all without ever decrypting the data or learning what it is. They send me back the results (securely), then I decrypt. Of course, right now this would be massively slow and expensive, but progress is being made.

Naturally all of the above are subject to the "5-dollar wrench" rule or the "secret court/FISA/warrants" rule. You cannot protect your data from the people making a law that says "give up your data". But it is technologically possible and even feasible to secure data from the NSA's snooping. The tradeoff is cost and time.
Are you kidding me? I've worked in tech consulting since leaving university, spent a lot of time at Accenture and have worked just as many hours per week as my friends in the big 4 banks.
>but still the "eyepiece" can cause problems like glare, reflection, transparency problems.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you don't drive much.

I spend a lot of time on the road (60,000+km this year). There are a multitude of things to distract you behind the wheel, from eating, phones, stereos, day-dreaming, other drivers, nature, whatever. It's endless. If having a small eye piece is distracting to you, by all means don't wear one. But don't project your inability to maintain focus on all other drivers.
I think it is part of a more general problem: people do not spend much time thinking about the importance of any of their rights. Nobody wants to hear that a terrorist attack was successful or that a criminal walked free for the sake of their civil rights -- rights are abstract, terrorists and criminals are threats to our children and whatnot. Look at what people say about free speech rights, how quickly everyone parrots the quote about shouting fire in a crowded theater (most people have never bothered to look into the Schenck case, they just know that one phrase). People have even managed to say that habeas corpus rights are problematic.

Privacy rights are too abstract for most people to bother with. After all, they have nothing to hide, only criminals and terrorists would bother hiding anything (or so the thinking goes).
Slight correction - a properly designed HUD is safer, in aircraft.

Aircraft are not cars - watching for other aircraft is typically handled by air traffic controllers for most aircraft that will have HUDs, or the HUDs are capable of displaying the locations of other aircraft.

Google Glass interfaces are not designed to be HUDs to be used when driving, and there is no ATC or automatic detection of other vehicles when you're in a car.

The two use cases are quite different.
How do you compose plain text in reply to someone who sent both?