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* Python ['django', 'bottle', 'google.app.engine']
* Ruby [:rails => 'heroku']
* Javascript ['angular','backbone','node'];
* Clojure '(Compojure)
* Haskell, Go (and other esoterics)

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Sony fires 8 million colorful petals out of a volcano in Costa Rica
For what it's worth, the prosecutor in this case (Mark) is the former coworker who I've mentioned on here a few times as having prosecuted the FBI case against my dad (small world).

It is a little disconcerting to wonder that if the same case happened today, would it result in a katamari of charges meant to steamroll RTM?
A casual analysis would be that I treat HN the way most of my coworkers treat IRC, which I try to avoid.
#1 feature: being able to sway large portions of IT-sector opinion, with unsubstantiated fear and security threats, to be pro-internet regulation.
Actually, they're worth about 7 figures.
Interesting, certainly clever than the way we were trying it.
Unix manpages are fine. If you've read the GNU awk manual vs BSD awk, you'll understand what I mean. GNU awk manual is hundreds of pages long and serves only to confuse the user. Not only that, half of it is listing differences between GNU awk and other awks which is just mindnumbing. A fine case of cat -v. And don't get me started on glibc.

The bit that pisses me off is: man awk (see info awk instead). I think they fixed that but it was a pain in the butt for years. Is it in man or is it in info?

One tool for the job.

Edit: cite your sources :)

1 - OpenBSD awk (6 pages if I print preview it): http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awk&apropos=0&s...

2 - GNU awk (330 pages if I print preview it): https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
Elite US universities essentially select for hyper-competitive people. If you weren't hyper-competitive at ages 14-17, you won't be getting in. This isn't the case at Canadian schools where basically any talented student can attend a top school provided they aren't inordinately lazy.
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Collaborating with stakeholders.
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Being an engineering student at University of Waterloo has been a great experience so far. Co-op is one of the main reasons why I chose UW as it is certainly rewarding. The knowledge and experience that I have gained through 1.5 coop terms (currently on co-op) has been simply amazing. It also helps pay the tuition and reduce, if not completely take away, the debt after graduation.
Besides the university, the Kitchener-Waterloo region is a great place to be in for technology and start up enthusiasts. The R&T park right beside the university and the Tannery Complex in Kitchener are home to many great companies/startups. It is compelling to overhear conversations about reversing linked lists,javascript mvc/mv* frameworks, monetizing apps while eating at a local restaurant.
Having 2 years of experience at possibly 6 different companies helps stand out from graduates from other universities.
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For a summary of quite a few of the techniques mentioned in the Ars article, have a look at:

Hardware backdooring is possible - By Jonathan Brossard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpilXPv8pU

(This one more recent from nullcon, made a splash from DefCon 20 earlier).

It's not really much of a stretch that an agency (commercial, criminal or government) that dedicated a few man-years of work could come up with something along these lines.

There's really only one-and-a-half "out there" claims: the "half" being networking via audio, the "one" being cross-platform.

It'll be interesting to see if they manage to grab a dump of the malware and we can get more eyes looking at it...
That was my thought too. For a studio that was so important to Sony that a hardware engineer investigated a "hardware" bug just to make a software engineer happy, I would assume they would have a larger team.

Also, having played the game - wow, two engineers.
KDE 4.0 was released almost 6 years ago, and I wish people would get over it. 4.11 is not the same software. It's very fast and stable, and if you develop for it, you can count on long-term compatibility. It's GNOME and Unity that break backward compatibility with new releases now. They certainly have the right to do that, and I respect their desire to move their desktop forward, but it means software like qtcurve no longer works for GTK because some developers don't want to have to rewrite for every GNOME release.
I would assume he did. I would usually make it known that I'm not pleased with my current pay level and that if an opportunity were to arise that compensated me fairly, I would take it.
The problem at the moment is that the BIOS is writable at all times, even when the OS is running. This makes BIOS updates easier (i.e. you can make a Windows application that can do so, for example), but the problem is that this allows ANY process with Admin access to alter the BIOS as well.

I'm speechless that this horrible idea was ever taken seriously, much less implemented. That answers my question as to how a BIOS could become infected.

I'm seriously sitting here in shock. How could any hardware manufacturer think it was a good idea to let a userspace program permanently alter EEPROM, ever? One does not need to be very intelligent to realize hackers will hack that.

This brings us full circle to the original question, though: Did the security researcher write a program to dump the contents of EEPROM rather than desoldering the chips? if so, then he may have been hoodwinked by the virus.
What about resigning after < 2 months? Solid record before that (to the point of petrification).
I agree he deserves a pardon. A lot of law and public acts seem to be "signaling," e.g. it's OK to do this and not-OK to do that. Temporarily coming down hard on someone to signal that people should NOT do what he did is OK; it makes equal sense, once the threat has passed (and that specific one has been replaced by new threats), to pardon the person and recognize they were made an example of -- for good reason at the time, but no longer.

Contrast this to what they wanted to do to the hackers in the Slatella/Quitner book.
> Waste is never good for an economy. If it were, we could have an amazing economy by setting up factories and recycling plants right next to one another and skipping the output. That's massive activity, but zero productivity, and it's productivity that we want.

There's a Keynesian argument that it's worth maintaining high employment by having some people do unproductive work (in effect a stealth way of doing wealth redistribution from productive to unproductive (bwim poor) people), because the velocity of money is higher in their hands.
You can ask the OP who complained about it in the first place.
for people making physical products a cap would make sense. Printrbot was a pretty good example- order fulfillment took a lot longer than anticipated because of the high volume.

On the other hand, delivering a desktop application is about equally difficult for 200 customers or 2000 customers, so the Macaw guys should just revel in their extra cash (aside from the stretch goals that they chose to take on as well, and printing a handful of extra t-shirts).
There are solid financial reasons for a Canadian engineering student to want to stay in Canada. With that in mind, some school is going to end up being The Best Tech School In Canada. That's Waterloo.
The only bad thing about Macaw is that early access is not until January 2014.
It's not hate speech.

The blog entry states that you can implement the Todo MVC app with 1kb of extra code on top of jQuery and the end result is smaller, modular and faster. This is big news.

The statements on the post are indeed bold but I think they are still valid. They should deserve a better response IMHO. This seriously questions the relevance of current client-side frameworks.

Without constructive criticism should we just agree that others are bigger, slower and less productive ??
As you go back in time, the number of people working on a game drops dramatically. Crash Bandicoot was released in 1996 and had 2 programmers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(video_game)

Three years earlier, Doom was released. It had 4 programmers.

Six years before that, Final Fantasy had 1 programmer.

If you stick around for the credits in a modern video game*, it's clear hundreds of people are involved.
Circular logic is what keeps this economy going (in circles, around the drain)
Thanks for this, I wondered what the details might be like.

I don't suppose you've had the County come after you for occupancy tax yet have you? While in general there are a lot of hotel rooms in Vegas (something like over 140,000) the hotels are a pretty strong political block and have been a thorn in the side of some folks who went the VRBO route.
Macaw is much closer to Fireworks than Photoshop. I've never used Fireworks but a colleague of mine did. It's so much better suited for web design. But Adobe failed to market it properly (I actually never heard of Fireworks before 2011, several years after I started). That's probably the reason why it's discontinued.

Macaw tries to capitalize on this void left by Fireworks, a void that actually may have never been filled by any web design software. I think the keyword is "fluid". Unlike Photoshop, almost nothing in Macaw is engraved in pixels. You can easily modify elements without worrying about half-eaten pixels, resizable boxes or weird rounded borders.

Sounds like Fireworks? Yes, but Macaw adds a powerful feature (and probably the most criticized one): code generation. As some others said, it does sound like Dreamweaver. But Macaw's code quality is vastly superior and quite impressive.

Being a front-end developer and a graphic designer, I'm right in Macaw's target market. I think I'll try it out but I probably won't use much of the generated code. I'm comfortable enough with CSS to understand how my own written code will behave in the browser. I've developed best practices that would be hard to merge with any software generated code.

But Macaw is also a design tool with interesting features. And having missed the Fireworks train, I think I'll try to catch this one. My design process have grown simpler and more focused over the years, and although I'm comfortable with Photoshop, it sometimes feels like an overkill.
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You can usually get way more by switching.
Hypersonic Successor to SR-71 Blackbird Spy Plane Unveiled
Is this why HN is unstable, somebody is trying to take revenge on the 25th anniversary. ;)
Google has debs working in Montreal and Toronto.
Give the homeless homes.

Homes with lock, bathroom, AC/Heat, kitchen, bedroom, living/dining area, and food.

I predict 50-70% of the issues disease and violence would go away if they had homes and not shelters.

A security,sanitation crew could probably bring this disease and violence down even further.
I didn't see an API documentation on their site. Or I missed it?
Most Canadian universities have co-op programs, though. I just finished my last courses at UVic and am currently doing my 3rd co-op term (and locked in for a fourth). I agree that co-op is basically mandatory, but I'm wondering what sets UW apart from other universities with similar programs.
It’s possible to find a nice apartment in a major city for less than $50,000. The place I found was in Las Vegas and it cost $40,000.

Wow, I had no idea things were that good/bad. Here in the UK, I deliberately choose to live in a cheap part of the country and you'd still be talking $120k or so for an equivalent 1 bed flat. This really illustrates to me why efforts to turn various areas in the US into "mini Silicon Valley" areas could actually work.. when you can have a good, secure base for a year's salary, it surely changes your attitude to risk.

I don't think there's anywhere in the UK you could buy a house for under $100K where you wouldn't be getting bricks through your window or dealing with gangs of chavs on a daily basis. I wonder if this goes part of the way to explain why Brits are far more reluctant to take risks in the entrepreneurial sense.. you gotta be on a darn good salary to have a place of your own anywhere on our isles.
Wow. If that doesn't scream "broken system!", I don't what does.
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Depends on the field. You talk to geeks, they list Waterloo and UofT. You talk to scientists, they list McMaster and UofT. You talk to teachers, they list Brock and UofT. And so on.
That's a good point, companies selling to governments and large organizations will probably see a drop in business. Makes sense that those types of decisions will be affected.
I can presume that you didn't even understand the context before jumping into your conclusion. My conclusion is not towards FLOSS, but towards the hostility of people behind FLOSS...
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Does anyone have information on what is actually different about ART?
Does Lockitron work for someone who happens to not have mobile phone service where the rental is? As convenient as it is, it seems like short-duration travelers to a country don't always bother with having a working mobile phone where they're going. If so, I'd hope it's obvious in the listing.
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A 10 year old child has spent 5 months sleeping on the bus at night with her father. She's getting off the public bus and onto a school bus each morning.

I'm not saying that the adults deserve to be homeless, but can't everyone agree that no child should be in this situation? I can't even imagine how 10 year old me would have done in such a situation. I know kids are resilient, but it sounds absolutely terrifying.

According to a quick search, it is claimed that there are 1.6 million homeless children in America, with 1.1 million enrolled in public schools. That is insane. I can only hope that this number counts mostly children who were homeless for very short stints, and that most of them aren't doing anything like sleeping on a bus for 5 weeks straight.
This makes sense. The cases I was thinking of were actually for companies planning on making physical products.
The RTM worm had a 350 word dictionary. I wonder how much damage could be done with the same 350 word dictionary today?

There's an analysis that got posted to HN here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302924
It's obviously a decoy to turn our collective attention away from something much more sinister.
I think it's more of a Canadian thing than a Waterloo thing. Ironically it's the same Canadian conservative attitude that investors often complain about (not shooting for the moon) that is responsible for the more pragmatic, practical attitude of entrepreneurs here. Waterloo is special because it has three great academic institutions and a culture of entrepreneurship that stretches back many years and encompasses everything from textiles to brewery and distillation industries.
It's incomplete though - https://news.ycombinator.com/classic is not listed, for example.
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You can put a cap on it by limiting the # of backers for any given reward level (this is what we did), but most of the big campaigns screw themselves by letting it overrun
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Except it's not as simple as "don't use GMail and you're safe" - they have their finger in every pie via their ad system. You can very, very easily opt-out of using MS or Apple products.
Sure, I saw that, but it seemed to apply pretty much the same to photography. After all, that's one of the reasons satellites don't work with a reasonably smart target.

So moving things out of the way {of the lens|of the bomb} doesn't look like that much of a difference .
Show HN: Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js
Former FBI Agent Reveals Who Really Killed JFK
We're already supporting Stripe's metadata over at Stunning in our receipt emails for customers, and rolling it out to our other email types in the near future (http://blog.bestunning.net/stripe-metadata-support-for-stunn...)
Sorry, but this comment is hilarious because it is written from a perspective that Magic "was" popular.

Truth? It's more popular than ever [1], and the Power 9 cards are still worth hundreds, if not thousands.

[1]: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/dai...
But if you don't really need that much square footage, then it's sunk (heh, heh) cost anyway.
Great timing! It's unfortunate that 2/3 states that I tried have "their own healthcare exchange." Kind of defeats the point of having centralized healthcare and also a complete pain the ass for the consumer.

On a bright side, I bet a ton of people got their pockets full by working on all of these exchanges.
So what is dalvik?
It's kogir, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kogir
I was thinking the same thing. At my last job we had one dev board (TI ARM/DSP SOC + lots of custom hardware) that we could reset with a static discharge into the carpet 6 - 8 feet away. That took us a while to figure out :p
The Ars Technica article is nothing short of offensive. It's an article that does not need to exist. We need to sit down and have a nice long talk about the ethics of fear mongering in the security industry, as well as the idea that a "well-respected researcher" would not only hype up his findings, but not even reveal his findings until a conference that he organizes. Talk about a conflict of interest.

I'm willing to give Dragos the benefit of the doubt here and just assume that Dan Goodin has his head so far up his ass he can't see clearly and that Dragos has no intention of misleading people.

But having these issues for 3 years? Let's just say that extraordinary evidence needs to come out fairly quickly now. Or at least a massive correction of the hype here. Surely, in 3 years, someone else would have discovered this thing.
I am always interested more in a job ad that talks about the team structure and the people I will be working with. If you copy/paste required skill sets but provide absolutely no insights on how a prospective candidate will be utilizing those skills on the job, it is of no use. You don't need to be cute or anything but try and explain the job in a way you would explain it while interviewing someone in person or meeting someone over coffee. A good balance of human/informal touch and professionalism.

The worst job ad is one where all you have is a list of skill sets, required number of years, some hip keywords (ninja etc) and cute stuff like "unlimited soda" but no real description of how a day will look like while at that job. Don't get me wrong. These list of checklist items are not bad but without any context, these are meaningless for me as a prospective candidate.
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A raise usually means a 5-10% increase, a job change a 20-50% increase. Asking for a raise makes little sense.
More evidence for Waterloo's "specialness" can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathemat...

Its teams have finished among the top five 18 times since 1968, twice as many times as Stanford (though far fewer times than MIT, Princeton, or Harvard). This with a budget that's dwarfed by the schools who dominate the competition (and can afford expensive international recruitment). Waterloo had its heyday, interestingly enough, around the time that RIM was founded: beginning in 1978 it placed in the top five eleven of the following sixteen years.
Google has an office of about 250 developers in Kitchener/Waterloo.
I wonder how he deals with unruly guests.
Your GitHub says Cambridge, is that true? I am in Cambridge and it is not cheap here.
That's roughly a 25% annual return. nice. We're renting out our place in Buenos Aires. We're clearing 10% return and I use it when I go back there to meet with the team. Stays about 80% -90% full, great location. Guests love it. My wife (who doesn't work full time) manages it remotely. It's been a very positive experience and my takeaways are similar to the writer's. It's not passive income, but it's steady...
That paragraph isn't talking about a wifi card, it's talking about a software defined radio.
You need a working mobile phone with service, but it doesn't need to be a smartphone.

https://lockitron.com/help/mobile#smsaccess

EDIT: Included more detail about needing a working mobile phone with service, due to ahlatimer.
SecureBoot implies that firmware installed by running OS must be signed too.
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How working remotely changed my life (and can change yours, too)
very interesting post, it's always great to read about other sources of income. I wonder if renting on airbnb is more lucrative than renting in general.
Hi j0ncc,

Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if you could shed light on your inventory risk, meaning do you find that the market price for your rental and nights reserved is highly dependent on the economy, tourist season and weather conditions or fairly resistant to external circumstances. Furthermore, is your product fairly fungible meaning if you have had to deal with competitive pricing in your locale and/or have had repeat customers.

Also, I'm guessing given the relative low price of your rental income and your buying in cash; real estate fluctuation risk is relatively low. Does your purchase qualify as a first time home-owner tax credit?

For comparison, a $50K investment with 8% market annual return will compound to $68K in 4 years or $92.5K in 8 years. Using cash-flow discount model, assuming that your real estate property value stays the same and annual income the same, you spend $50K to yield $90K ($40K in illiquid property value and $50K in generated cash) in 8 years, making your net present value of your $50K investment to be discounted at $21.8K. Just food for thought.