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The motivation reads exactly like the xkcd comic on standards. http://xkcd.com/927/

The rest of the document reads like someone just discovered the Cairo library and wouldn't it be cool if we jammed this into our already overly-bloated standards document?

There is no all-purpose graphics library. What's good for games isn't necessarily good for rendering PDFs and vice versa.
I think he came from marketing. Remember the Intel 487SX?
Been there, done that. Wasn't as fun as I thought it'd be.
Improvement in CS/Electronics/MCU technology is a big contributing factor.

In India, We have a motor cycle called Bajaj Discover which gives amazing mileage. The innovation in mechanical engineering is very small, bulk of the innovation is timing of the spark plug firing controlled by a micro controller combined a engine design which functions per that intelligent design.

These sort of things were impossible even 20 years back, given the size, price and many other factors.
More often an instance of adultery would be concocted with pictures (hence rise of PIs with cameras "investigating" divorce cases).

Whilst not impossible it is likely our heroes have feet of clay.
I didn't even bother to get to the "jailed without trial" half of his question yet, since that was very publicly signed into law only a couple of years ago and obvious enough to not need rigorous debate.

But yeah. http://www.alternet.org/16-year-old-jailed-rikers-3-years-wi...

And one case most of us are familiar with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/25/10233835-man-spen...
Talking to the police is cooperating in the prisoners dilemma. It isn't in your personal interest to do it, but the world is a better place if everyone does. Encouraging people not to talk to the police is actively making society worse.

I talk to the police, even when it isn't in my personal interest, because I'm not a huge dickhead. I believe in a moral obligation to uphold the qualities that helped make my life livable in the first place.
Candy Crush may have different sprites from Bejeweled, but they play exactly the same. Special matches even give the exact same special powers in Candy Crush... I think they deserve the "candy swap" ripoff. They just got what they did themselves. And it's worse that they also made Papa Pear which copies Peggle (also made by PopCap, creators of Bejeweled)
Using just the Win Key will do the same - you can just start typing in the metro start screen. Since I'm used to Alfred as a Launcher on Macs, i feel right at home with this behavior in Windows 8.
For me too Classic Shell is actually saving Windows. I don't think I'd even buy the Windows notebook without knowing that there's Classic Shell. And I also like "flatness" by the default on the desktop of 8.1. Windows 7 defaults are weird with all that button background shadings and all that shaded frames.

The next desktop Windows should look like Windows 8.1 desktop plus Classic Shell. Having different desktop and tablet versions is obviously needed.
If we're talking about day-to-day battery issues in regards to devices like phones and laptops, the battle can be won on number of fronts, for example:

1) Batteries get enough capacity so you only need to charge them once a month.

2) Batteries can be fully charged in a short period of time, say one minute, we wouldn't bothered very much to have to plug them in once a day.

3) Carrying around a device at home or work for few hours a day will keep the device charged for a whole day (via the "superlens").

Any of the aforementioned solutions and perhaps few others would solve the issues we have with batteries in our handheld devices today. For cars, trains and other battery uses, that's another thing.
As you can see, it's a hotly-contested issue.

But it's a nice, easy way to make the narrative work.
they worded it horribly but it would be a good time to cold call them but not mention the cometitors trial
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In my company we have been using Sass/Compass for about two years now. Sure it's very cool, feature rich etc. But afaik we use only a small part of the possibilities. We don't need them all, cause we know how to properly write CSS.

Furthermore, for me it has two main drawbacks:
Firstly, the dependency on Ruby. Not everyone works on a mac where it's easy to install. Sass/Compass plugins are cool (I love the syntax of Singularity) but they add a whole new dependency chain, fiddling around with Bundler and gemfiles. I don't want to install all this crap! Combined with the awesome (and necessary) nodejs tools grunt & bower there's almost more config files then project files in my working dir...

This ESPECIALLY becomes a problem now we are moving towards Continuous Integration. Try installing Ruby on one of the cloud sollutions for CI out there. The only one that supports it is Travis. But you only want to use that for open source projects, which we don't do. The business plans are ridiculous.

The second drawback is SPEED:
Sass is insanely slow compared to the javascript driven (nodejs) Less. Even for small projects I have to wait 10-20 seconds after a save before autoreload kicks in. Less is near instant.

The basic features of Less and Sass are similar. LessHat will give you most of the mixins you need. Combined with the SPEED and PORTABILITY of Less, this makes me want to move from Sass to Less.
TEDx: Sean Gourley - HFT and the new algorithmic ecosystem (2012)
Yay, more villifying "Wall Street" and fueling the "Wall Street vs. Main Street" fire, and suggesting that it's somehow noble or good to not want to be rich.

It's somehow noble or good to not want to be rich after you've become so, is the cliché.
This article kind of reminded me if this comic strip:

http://xkcd.com/810/

What we're saying here is that someone offered to let the blog owner post some well written and original content on their blog, that would be relevant to their readership and mutually benefiting to both parties. But that's bad because Google says so.

Now, if the content is bad, or not relevant to the readership, or overly spammy, then the blog's readership will presumably react. So it's up to the blog owner to protect their reputation and vet all content that they publish. But assuming the content is good, haven't we just got to a nice place? With marketers realising that the best way to promote their product is to persuade respected content publishers to endorse their products and by making content that people want to read?
Call your wife and tell her "Honey, pick anyone at random out of the phone book for criminal defense attorney" then call them and say "John Smith, who is currently being held at $LOCATION, requests the presence of counsel. He will pay your usual hourly."

You know exactly what your lawyer is going to do? He's going to walk into $LOCATION, announce "I am the attorney for John Smith. Take me to him immediately.", greet you, then say "My client refuses to answer any further questions. Is he under arrest? If not, he is leaving. Here's my card if you have any further questions about this matter."

And that will, most likely, be your entire engagement with this attorney. If you need one in the near future, you can hire one after a more informed search, and have your existing attorney brief him on the procedural history -- to whit, that you were briefly detained and that he did exactly what every other attorney in the phone book would have done under those circumstances.

P.S. In the United States, if you're under arrest, you are entitled to a public defender. Heck, you can even say "I won't speak to you except under advise of counsel. I don't have a lawyer at present, so until I find one, I'll accept the services of a public defender." If they refuse a public defender, you're not under arrest, and if you're not under arrest, you should probably leave.
>If you only use IE for banking

But they don't.
Dilemma, really?

noun
noun: dilemma; plural noun: dilemmas
1.
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made
between two or more alternatives, esp. equally
undesirable ones.

#firstworldproblems
The flaw in Uber’s surge-pricing algorithm
N.baidu.com seems to be cracked
The words changed unpredictablely
Ah yes, the commando Google support desk.
Absofulukingtely. Litterature is like code, can be pretty obvious and linear and you just read it, or it can be deeply intelligent and you decode it, ponder over what it implies and what it assumes.
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Is it really a good idea to be making HTTP requests with the card number and CVC in the URL?

I get that it's over HTTPS, so the whole thing is encrypted, but won't the URL still be saved in my browser history, which will end up on disk and be available to anyone who gets on to my computer?

If the request was a POST method instead, you'd avoid these possible weaknesses. Or am I missing something?
The day my double appeared on the radio
Somebody does you a service, and you give them a link? That seems perfectly reasonable to me. If SEO means trading a good value service for a better reputation, then SEO sounds like it's working pretty well.
Performance isn't everything and in many cases not that important. Clojure and Haskell make leaps-and-bounds better performance than Python and Ruby which both have mass adoption.
My guess is they would have held on to his Google Glass, verified that no movies were recorded, and returned it to him. They would not be able to arrest him without evidence. Could they falsify some evidence, like claiming that a "witness" saw him record the movie, for sure. But would they? Probably not. Some cops are dicks, but most are honest.
Hadoop : How to start taming this elephant?
Dilemma, noun (3b): a difficult or persistent problem.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dilemma
Is the ageism in my head?
I've been a product manager at bay area tech startups for 15 years and have been hacking since the 80s. Only recently did I formerly learn how to code (about 3 years now, self taught on a daily basis and also via a well respected 3 month in-person training course) and have become fairly proficient at Ruby and Rails. I've met with about 30 companies in the past 6 months and haven't even gotten close to getting an offer. I am a very smart, very capable person and am doing just fine on the technical questions. I seem to connect with most people I interview with but have been passed over time and time again. Most of the startups I meet with I met on Angel List and White Truffle. Probably all of the people who I've interviewed with have been younger than me by at least 10 years (I'm 42). I've never had a problem getting a job before as a product manager. Could it be ageism at play here? It couldn't possibly be my inexperience because I see so many other people with less experience getting jobs. I know networking is important and have been doing that like crazy. I've exhausted my old network. Many of the people I speak with are surprised I switched from product management to development and tell me I should be in management by now. I never expected this and am really at a loss.
Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays
...and an overwhelmingly higher standard of living to go with that.
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Are you sure?

Do you mean that you know the law of the relevant jurisdictions and can confidently interpret it, or do you just mean that it shouldn't be illegal?

There are plenty of crimes that exist on the books as preventative measures against serious wrongs being done. Sometimes it's worth prohibiting harmless but easily enforced activities if they're corellated the right way with harmful ones.
That's flawed logic. Most of the analysis comes from the Adobe leakage, and arguably a large share of users there didn't care about this service and used an easy and weak password. It would be much more interesting to have stats from active gmail accounts or bank accounts, for instance.
You can believe that if you like, but I'm sure he'd be the first to admit that his success is only possible thanks to the advances made in the Space Race, which was of course state funded.
Google would tell you to go and buy some AdWords. Getting to the top of their search results without paying them is just stealing, don't you know?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7093369
That big dot with all the coverage right in the middle called "Alice Springs". That's where he lives.
> Current battery capacity is fine.

If it is, then consumption is too high. Few hours of use is not "fine". Sure, if I use it as just a phone it can last week.. but once I use it as a computer, it drains pretty quickly.
What is a &lt;defunct&gt; process and why it doesn't get killed?
C++ needs something.

It's a bit embarrassing when someone used to the standard library from most other languages asks "How do I draw this picture of a cat" or "how do I print 'Hello World!' in red in a welcoming font" and you have to say, erm, well.. there is nothing in c++ for that. Maybe you can find a platform dependent library that will work for you.

It doesn't need a library to do everything, but something that lets you draw and write text to a window seems like something that should be available on every platform that can support it.
So what happens when the US government funds the research, and a Chinese company just uses it and makes the money?
Google's ranking algorithm is getting less and less able to discriminate between "good" and "bad" content. Their response is just to whinge at people who won't play by their rules.
A more valid comparison would be Tumblr vs hosted WordPress (on wp.com). In which case, it boils down to personal preferences, assuming in both case you would do it at least a bit professionally (custom domain name + sort of custom theme, and not just mycorp.tumblr.com or mycorp.wordpress.com with a stock template)
I currently get 100mbps on my cable connection in Australia of all places :)
Because Google makes money from one form of advertising, and makes no money from the other.
A deserializer might be able to instantiate arbitrary classes, so any class with a constructor that could execute an arbitrary command makes the deserializer vulnerable.

Of course, the correct answer is not to use the deserializer that can instantiate arbitrary classes when you have a well-defined list of classes that can be instantiated.
Maybe it was the wrong question to ask.

Why does either need to be celebrated more? Vision and perseverance, determination and resolve, integrity and magnanimity are all culturally celebrated virtues.

To honor one man while denying the other is to ignore part of what made that endeavor the success it was.
tangentially, this is a classic example of Google plus inability to link straight to content.. what is up with breaking one of the best things about the web (links as first class citizens) Google ?
yeah 1.1 has now gone live - we have altered this - we will look at the licence as well
...and the top comment in the "fast Korean internet" thread is about how much Freedom(TM) Americans have.

This doesn't sound like a story about someone with much freedom.
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This seems like not only a poor analogy and poor understanding of the prisoner's dilemma but probably the hugest amount of wishful thinking I've seen perpetrated.

You are guaranteed that some party is going to be a betrayer. A criminal and an innocent person aren't even playing the same game stakes-wise. In the prisoner's dilemma, both parties have to be guilty to begin with. More importantly, it requires knowledge of each party's existence by the other.

Edit: Sort of an aside (it seems you may be focused on the idea of talking for the purpose of snitching?), but I think Immortal Technique brought up a good point when he said that ordinary people (well, he said blacks and latinos) shouldn't snitch on each other until cops start doing it first. There are very obvious reasons why cops don't do it (along a scale from Adrian Schoolcraft to Frank Serpico) and maybe citizens are right not to do it either.
The problem is the full screen launcher steals context. Also it is fugly on multimonitor systems.
It's quite true. My father is a lawyer, and the first thing I remember learning, even before "don't talk to strangers" was "never talk to police". After that it was "get everything in writing" and "act as if everyone is carrying a tape recorder", but that's neither here nor there.
Have you used a wireless charger?

You don't really charge your phone, you just put it on an allocated area of your desk.
Ultimately, one way or another, don't we all?
Supercap-based batteries have other problems that make them similarly inconvenient. Current battery capacity is far from fine, considering that a smart "mobile" phone can barely last through a delayed plane trip.
Wow, very currency, much coin!

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I don't have "a lawyer" on call - won't they provide me with a shitty one?
>>I Think you over-estimate the capability of "our industry". I don't want to pop your bubble but the people required to make those space machines are not you typical web 2.0 programmer. They are the best of the best and many have half a century of experience. Also they have way more budget. Space is hard.<<

I work for ESA space missions (not Rosetta). Although my colleagues are certainly well qualified, I am not sure if we are really the best of the best. (we are not the typical web 2.0 programmers though, this is certainly true :o).

Usually, the software for space missions is written by electrical engineers or physicists/astronomers, who somehow specialized in software after their master or phd. Indeed, the style of that software is quite different from what is usually developed in business setups. No unnecessary complexity, just straight forward paths to the solution. We use more or less exclusively open source tools. No windows too. Works pretty well.
Our results are also open source, btw. Just to answer some guys who believe, this is all military, secret and disclosed.

But we also have to fight cowboy-coding and design-pattern-gurus. We usually don't have to fight software managers though. Everybody is so well qualified, that we use to discuss once a week what we do, where we want to go and then just do it.

Worked very well, so far. My last mission was a huge success :o).
The real innovation may indeed be done at universities and science institutes, not so much in startups and business. Which startup can afford to hire 200 scientists and invest a billion to do something new? I think there is indeed no competition on that level.

But we also give a lot of tasks to industry (we have to, because of the public funding). In some cases, this caused trouble, because their main focus is to make profit and still be good enough to avoid problems. Also, they usually keep their methods secret for legal reasons. If something does not work in space, it can be hard to get the necessary information to fix the problems (while the time is ticking, because many missions have finite lifetimes).

Our goal is usually 'as good as it gets, outstanding, if possible'. We can afford that and that is really cool. It doesn't work in a business setup, because it usually is expensive.
I admit I am a bit of a Fan boy.

However, I recall trying FF on my laptop and being slow, then switching to Chrome and it being super fast. When I updated to Nightly, the speed was about the as Chrome.

DRM and other things be damned, I can't notice a difference between Firefox and Chrome in performance. And I bought my computer 3 years ago.

I can't remember when Chrome subjectively outperformed Firefox. And the objective measures are usually about the same.
Repsilat, you are mistaken. There is never any benefit to talking to the police (as a suspect). If you are a witness to the crime, and want to do your civic duty, be my guest. But as a suspect the cops are not at all interested in what you have to say. They are not interested in the truth, they are interested in probable cause to arrest you. All they are looking for is probable cause. In their mind it's arrest first, find out the truth later.

Why do you think it took them that long to connect a laptop to the Google Glass and see if any video was recorded. They probably suspected it was empty. They tried to brake the guy first, to find any reason to arrest him, so they can go to his house and search all of his computers. They asked him a ton of questions, and I can guarantee you, they were looking for any unrelated excuse to arrest him.
Agree 100%.

I spent 4 months driving South through Mexico and had a fantastic time. I know of at least 50 people that have done the same thing in recent years and they all had the same experience.

Mexico is nothing like the American media portrays it to be. Hell, most of the world is nothing like the American media portrays it to be.
that's a good news
Five agile principles that should guide you every time you need to write code
Culturally, Nintendo hates cross-platform gaming, or used to anyway. Things like the U screen are part of various ploys to force developers to take advantage of Nintendos unique features (like dual screens on the DS, and the motion control on the Wii). Not all of them have worked...
Is there anyone that understands computer security that doesn't think this is criminal?
There are so many things that can go wrong here, both intentionally and by accident.
So what?!

Every language should have a proper set of "batteries included" in the standard library.

One is not forced to use every single feature on every program.
Nice one shaufler... Good job
Exactly what happens now: Nothing. US patents aren't enforceable in China to begin with.
I love this...
20 Million South Korean Credit Cards Stolen By a Credit Bureau Staff
You can never properly anonymise data.
Thanks for sharing such an awesome news..
Box-drawing characters wouldn't give as much of the old school curses terminal hacker vibe.

And yes I am aware that they used to use graphical box drawing chars back in the day as well, but right now it's 2014 and it's the aesthetic that counts, too.
If you check the working groups there are lots of APIs being worked on, including file system ones.

http://isocpp.org/std/the-committee

- SG1, Concurrency

- SG2, Modules

- SG3, File System

- SG4, Networking

- SG5, Transactional Memory

- SG6, Numerics

- SG7, Reflection

- SG8, Concepts

- SG9, Ranges

- SG10, Feature Test

- SG11, Databases

- SG12, Undefined and Unspecified Behavior

- SG13, Graphics

Any modern language should have a "batteries included" set of libraries, even when targeted for systems programming.
That comic is starting to be used in situation where it's pretty irrelevant, such as here. How many cross-platform 2D graphics libraries are there?

Also, the purpose is pretty obvious if you look at the use cases of Cairo and it's obviously not meant for (serious) game making, but there already is an open standard for that.
Amazing resource - thanks for collating this.
Regarding (1), the mention of CSS refers specifically to SVG, not canvas.
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Comet-bound spacecraft Rosetta wakes up from hibernation
Is this the only product to detect ‘Pass-the-Hash’ attacks?
Colorista, an app that help you to find colors. First of its kind