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Scenario: I'd like to set up Jasmine-standalone-2.0.0 front-end unit testing on the development server where I work. I'm a full stack dev but mostly front-end. I'll admit I'm not super security savvy.
A system admin is concerned that there will be security implications from 1. the Jasmine framework library being housed within the directory structure of a site build and 2. that having Some-SpecRunner.html files accessible by a browser could have security implications.Is anyone aware of security issues/vulnerabilities associated with the Jasmine Unit Testing Framework on dev servers or production servers? And if so any suggestions on how to best set Jasmine up to allay these concerns?
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New Jersey Attorney General John Hoffman and Deputy Attorney General Glenn Graham... since you asked.
No one limits their usage of "racist" to the scenario you described, so that's not what it means. Your situation is racial supremacy, which is a special kind of racist.
Of course not. This is the problem with modern politics in a nutshell.
Ooooh I like that. "pedantic snark"...
My two minutes of internet research says that this is going to get tossed. A President can't be sued for actions taken as President, but can be sued for personal actions.

A Daily Beast article mentions this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/30/can-bachman...
Good stuff, but it kind of bothers me that so much focus is put on the phone surveillance program, when I find the surveillance of private Internet communications so much more damaging, especially since they are also the future of all communications.
Doesn't the digital sharing economy actually make bigotry incredibly easy to detect and verify?

All you have to do is try booking the same place on a different dates (assuming you have an account in good standing/positive reviews/etc). If they keep rejecting you, then not only are you sure you have a bigot on your hand, you have a paper trail with enough proof to go after them with a lawyer.

This is something that isn't even possible in other environments (like say, cabs that just conveniently don't see you standing there hailing them). If anything, the digital sharing economy can be a huge help to fighting bigotry.
I haven't had a split brain on my 15 node cluster in over 6 months even though the cluster is split among multiple data centers which do drop connectivity from time to time. When the setting was wrong, it happened constantly. Tune it properly and it won't happen. n/2+1
I'm not a scientist, but I am a programmer, and I find that learning new things is very often a process of eliminating dead ends through trial and error. That's how you narrow it down to the thing that actually does work.

It sounds like you're saying "don't bother exploring dead ends, either do it right the first time or give up," which is a lot like saying "I just want a penthouse apartment, stop wasting time building a foundation."
This has probably been addressed millions of times, but just to give a response to why this is a misleading comic:

If you were equally mocking of both Bayesian and Frequentist, the Bayesian would arguably come up with basically the same conclusion. In this scenario where the Frequentist ignores previous data based on human history and our understanding of the lifecycle of the sun based on physics, the Bayesian should do the same if we are fair. Then his prior distribution would likely be 50% belief that the sun would explode (Why favor either outcome? Thus the prior distribution is split down the middle between both outcomes.). With the new information given from the detector, his posterior would be 35/36 probability that the sun has exploded.

Maybe the Bayesian approach provides a more explicit way of incorporating previous information, and without that, it's cause for some misuse with a Frequentist approach, but that doesn't mean Frequentists need be fundamentally ignorant in their approach.

The comic's good for a laugh. Just don't take it too seriously as a criticism.
I like the name "Jade Rabbit" :)
Why is the lawsuit against Obama? Shouldn't it be against the USG or the part of the government that passed the law (or against the NSA for the data collection)? It seems strange to sue an individual politician, president or not.
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The same way you find any job? If they advertise they use Go, you know they are interested in Go programmers too. If they don't, still put it in the resume?
I chose Digital Ocean recently because my needs are rather modest right now and they are cheaper at the low end. I imagine that Linode will get this worked out. It's probably only a matter of time until DO gets this too, so I wouldn't have picked based on this.
Online trolls are just “everyday sadists”
I'm not sure you have this right. CAP says nothing about ACID - it only mentions consistency.

NoSQL was in large part about precisely what the name implies - giving up relational (SQL) data in exchange for better performance and the ability to have a distibuted store. Yes, part of this is also about being willing to trade off consistency for availability. But Elasticsearch is an example of a NoSQL store which does focus on consistency (in this case at the expense of availability and, to some extent, partition tolerance).
I think it's wrong to define an ideology with hundreds of years of history by the actions of a random person you happen to know.
Have you ever bothered to read Wollstonecraft? Simone de Beauvoir? even Naomi Wolf?? I encourage to do so and try to understand how feminists outside your circle think and behave.
Free markets should only reduce irrational discrimination based on race. If discrimination helps your business, it is rational, and will continue.

For example, if 5% of blue people trash your house, and you can't distinguish the 5% from the 95% easily, it may be rational/profitable to discriminate against blue people.
Great game, but I'm noticing patterns in my sleep. Might need to stop playing it right before bed...
That's awesome.

At least your page loaded. Still can't load OP link.

EDIT: It is really laggy on my MBP /w Firefox
Its such mallarky that comments are already closed on the article.
Mainly since Woodrow Wilson, who gave us involvement in WWI, The Federal Reserve, The Income Tax, The Federal Trade Commission, The Clayton Act, The 17th Amendment direct election of U.S. Senators, The Espionage/Sedition Act.

Ever since Wilson, we've been imperial.
(didn't downvote you)

And the hype of Dart? I think there is always hype. Hype of Go, hype of Rust, hype of Scala.
I'm not a lawyer but my guess is because its not a question of legality, it's a question of an elected official breaking the law.

When the Mayor of a town embezzles the city's money... the city is the defendant not the plaintiff.
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Yes, but in the article they also say this isn't possible with their current techniques.

Anyone have a figure that represents how far off they are?
This may require a bit more lengthy answer than makes sense here, but I'm curious about what was causing your GC issues and how you fixed them (we have GC issues at the moment).
You're basically arguing (repeatedly) that outsourcing (and thus the whole modern economy) won't work. It's provocative, but seriously citation needed.
slides: http://acko.net/files/fullfrontal/fullfrontal/wdcode/online....
+1 When I got an iPod Touch (1st gen before the iPhone even came out), I installed a helicopter game on the same principle (itself cloned from some flash game), but easier at the start and with progressive difficulty, me and my classmates were hooked, played this for hours. It was way better than Flappy Bird except for the design IMO.
They're making pretty significant advances with Clang and LLVM and have pretty much caught up to GCC in performance and surpassed it in usability. So they're not doing nothing, for sure. But they're pouring all that effort into Objective-C, which will still has the inherent problem of C compatibility. Granted it's evolving (i.e @import), but it can only go so far without breaking compatibility completely like C# did.
Really, your NJ server too? NJ has been rock solid for me today, unlike Dallas.
Are either of those actually examples of political tribalism? The first seems to be mocking the ignorance of many partisans, while the second seems to be attributing political tribalism to Rand Paul. Neither commenter seems to be exhibiting political tribalism.
The US had plans to invade Canada, the Canadian Gov't planned to try to hold out until the British rescued us, and the British figured Canada wasn't worth the bother.
Fusion with laser has been done before, by the same team. The difference is that they improve the experiment and this time they get ~50% more energy. Or if you evaluate it in other words, the efficiency improve from ~0.6% to 1%, or less depending on what do you define by input energy. More details in other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7227620
Mixing in the sense that ABAddressBook is a C based API, with no Cocoa wrapper, like how CGRect is a struct, not an class.
didnt know Asana needed scaling :/
That's not an answer to my question or a good faith reply. I asked for a third option, you implied you had one, either you do or you don't. This isn't a school lesson, I'm not your pupil, do not Socratic method me. If you have something to say, say it.
Anybody else excited that one of the guys working on fusion power is named "Mr. Hurricane?"
> But also whatever language partisanship I had is gone, and won’t come back in the guise of a new favorite language.

This sentence is worth pointing out as a good attitude. I think the healthiest place to be is using tools you like, but able to appreciate the good bits of other systems.

For instance, as long as I'm not actually working with it, I can appreciate the idea that PHP made it very easy for a lot of people to do something with the web, something that otherwise they might not have been able to do, because it is very easy to get started with. That is worth something, and worth thinking about for those who are building tomorrow's languages.
yea didnt' last long, but was a black hole for about 10 minutes, lost all of it's connection to outside services too with no indication of anything wrong on the server itself.
I'm terrible at job hunting and didn't know how to answer when people would ask me how to find Python jobs. There's only one method that has worked consistently for me:

- I met a founder from Lytics (my current mostly-Go job) at a Go meetup.

- I met a couple of the founders from Urban Airship (my previous mostly-Python job) at a Python meetup.

So I guess going to meetups is what works for me, but I don't think that's a general solution. Sorry I can't be more help.
> which he had no need to know

They told him this after he was there for a while and got to know them, and he said it came up in normal conversation.

I suppose they could have been trying to differentiate themselves, or, they could have been attempting to bond with him over their (perceived on my brother's part) mutual dislike of lower class black people.

But given the situation, I think it's more likely that they had no ulterior motive. They had a few bad experiences with black guests, and decided to use race as a heuristic for determining suitability as a guest.

This is how nearly all racism starts, it's unfair and we should strive to eliminate it, but people are always going to make generalizations.
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I'm not quite understanding the problem.

Normally, I run unit tests on my dev box; presumably your sysadmins don't care about that. I also run them on a special-purpose CI server. None of these machines are accessible to the outside world. I would never put the the unit test code in a place where it could be triggered by regular users or the general public.

Is that how you're setting it up? If so, what is the sysadmin worried about?
I mentioned this last time, but that doesn't seem to make it less interesting to people.
You are making a connection between the advent of NodeJS and the Javascript language. The correct version the way I see it is that the popularity of V8 and NodeJS makes Javascript more than a in-browser scripting language; now people can write both client and server side applications in JS. The latter doesn't require the language to change; the language implementation has been around for years and now people started to do things outside the original norm.
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I've got Linodes in every data center except Atlanta. Dallas has been quite unreliable in the last six months, but the other data centers have been OK. (Fremont had some bad DoS and power issues a while back but it seems to have been OK recently.)

I wonder if Dallas is being affected disproportionately because Linode's own website and management console are hosted there, and that's what the DoSers are targeting.
Literally the next line is qualifying and clarifying the previous statement:

"That means that segregation may occur even with communities that consist mostly of non-racist individuals or individual with very low level of racism."

I'm not sure that anyone could be confused about that if they aren't emotionally invested in the discussion. And I am not interested in debating things on emotional grounds.

If you reallywant more information on Shelling segregation model, it can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFl3Cfw12bo. This is a 10 minute lecture from Coursera mooc.
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The complaint - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017524-rand-paul-co...

What's frustrating is that I had to search through 5 articles/blog posts to find it. Why do media outlets post articles on any lawsuit without a link to the complaint?
This happens all the time.

Google "v. <any recent president's name>"
At least some mobile operators have "SMS archive" option, that can be enabled and accessible from self-service site. It requires some time to set up, but attacker with sufficient time, knowledge and patience may pull the attack relatively easily. No need for NSA-grade adversary.

(Even worse, until relatively recently they had used numeric passwords (those had to be set from a phone, using DTMF tone dial). This had changed only 3 or maybe 4 years ago. Wonder whenever that change was 2FA-related. :) )

So I'm uncertain whenever SMS is more secure.
I'm in love with this. I wish it was a plugin for Ghost[1].

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No. Any actions or statements by politicians I like are legitimate and well-intended, while any actions or statements by politicians I dislike are nothing more than political theater.
People making false equivalency arguments on internet message boards?
I'm on campus right now and can download the PDF. I'd upload it, but I don't want to pull an Aaron Swartz. <_<

EDIT: Okay here, but I have limited bandwidth so get it while you can: https://mega.co.nz/#!CNgVhZra!JcsLGB5y0FGUffI4rdyNr-BBl82YJD...
Yeah, I'll just type my password, thanks.
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So, doesn't that mean we should be blaming idiotic news media outlets that tend to generalize and publish scoops on scientific papers too quickly?
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I don't get the romanticization of the under class. In poor neighborhoods, there are lots of noise, litter, and crime and few good role models. Why would you want that in your neighborhood? To prove how open-minded you are?
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This is right vs. left. He wouldn't have done this to a Republican president, do you think he, Rand Paul, would have? Do you know much about Rand Paul? The man's entire political career is based on acting the partisan part.

Like it or not, everything literally is partisan politics. No issue in the US rises above partisanship. That's the system we live in, you'll just have to accept that or attempt to change it directly.
No. Let us, instead, wish for justice for all.
Does this provide me with the code?
Hmm, this actually sounds promising. I do like hot chocolate made with whole milk, so other variations on the spiced-milk idea might work too.
First, let me preface by saying that I use Python and JavaScript in my day to day work. There is a personal side to this issue, that is, his mastery of Python, but I believe the issue is more related to Python.

Python as a language is uninteresting. It has no novel or exciting ideas other than its readability. Python 3 has shown nothing of importance to upgrade as the rate of adoption shows.

It lacks the flexibility of Ruby, general appeal of JS, philosophy of Clojure.

Maybe its boringness might be of value to some, as it has reached steady state, but I believe that if you are going to be where the puck is going to be, you need to consider languages other than Python. I am betting on JS and Clojure.
Umm.... what were they issued the subpoena FOR!? I read the entire article waiting for this to be explained.

Or can you just be subpoena'd without any case?
Why does it have to be out of band? Couldn't they just append a signature or something?
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cofounder of Beacon here - would love to get grilled by the HN denizens and get feedback about what we're doing!
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Somewhat mystified what strategies a victim can use in an attack other than paying bribes or protection money. Obviously the attackers scale faster than defenders so there's no technological solution.
Do a bad job, so you don't make money, so you won't be targeted by people shaking down providers for money?
I suppose one strategy would be to cover up problems and not talk about them, so obviously a provider not reporting problems couldn't be having problems?
So Asians are smarter and less crime-prone on average than Whites. I don't understand why you are picking on me, I'm not the one here who has a problem with facts.
And, I also just tried to write my solution :-) http://yoshiokatsuneo.blogspot.fi/2014/02/ultimate-tic-tac-t...
Both parties are slowly merging into one anyway: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/us/politics/boehner-to-...

The only notable difference these days is the fringes (where Rand Paul and Tea Party reside) vs the single party.
What we are seeing here brings to light an inconvenient truth: you simply cannot legislate away obnoxious social behavior. As long as I remember, Craigslist has prohibited discriminatory advertising to ensure listings comply with the fair housing act. Does this really stop a prejudiced landlord? When it gets down to the level of individuals dealing consensually with individuals, there isn't much that the state can do (unless it's a tyrannical state).

Black comedians have always joked about being passed over by cabs, well before Uber, Lyft etc. In the long run, I think these services actually improve things .. On the curb, all a racist cab driver sees is how someone looks .. but now everyone can develop a reputation that goes well beyond appearances. In addition, by taking care of payment, prejudiced drivers don't have to worry that some groups are less likely to pay at the end of the ride. Eventually, they will realize that the color of one's skin is a terrible predictor of character and (hopefully) become less racist.

So, the "sharing economy" is not itself racist, but due to its peer to peer nature it exposes the lingering prejudices in our Society. But, since prejudice requires a lack of reason or evidence, the sharing economy also provides a way forward. Through AirBnB, for example, we can not only see what someone looks like, but we get information about the content of their character. Granted, it's not perfect (nothing ever will be), but it's a start.
Agree, the animation is distracting. I'd rather that the bar fade-in (quickly) in place. Otherwise, this is awesome, and I'm going to use it.
I'm not certain because I'm definitely not a legal expert, but I think this might be because there is more legal precedent that warrant-less phone monitoring is illegal compared to warrant-less IP traffic monitoring. Would anyone with a better understanding of surveillance law care to comment?
We created a startup Yardale in 2010. It was focused on bartering. Basic idea was that you create 2 list, wants & haves. You can share your profile on Facebook and and hopefully your friends will see what you want to sell or barter. It had automatic matches if 2 people have exactly an item that they want to exchange.
It failed because lack of some essential functionality like automatic emails, automatic matching with items of same values, etc. Also marketing efforts didn't workout and we had only our friends and family sign up.
Wow, I'm glad you explained that. You've defended your point splendidly. Superficially, the continent that had a genocide against one of its ethnic minorities would appear to be more racist and xenophobic. But if it's complicated, well, that changes everything.
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Actually I feel especially because of HN that Python got a boost like no other language in the last five years. It even reached our slow Berlin to recognize it as a potential alternative to Java. So I guess the hype in the rest of the world must have been quite huge.
I'm adding "disrespectful" to the list of euphemism that progressives use to silence dissent.
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How to find web development work in Europe as an American?
I was wondering if anyone else who has made this happen has any advice or resources for finding work. I've been sending emails / applications to European companies but my process is slow and I feel like there has to be a better way to find opportunities. So far I've used LinkedIn job search, googled for European startups (and searched for terms like Copenhagen startups, Amsterdam startups, etc.), used Angel.co a little bit.

I know that the most important thing is just putting the time in, but if there are any good resources or organizations to make my search more efficient I want to find out about them.

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How are the consumers in any way affected by this?
I guess that buying the intellectual property rights to the game, they can say to the trademark office - look here, proof or presence in the gaming market under this name since 200X, therefore we should have the the trademark and the exclusive right to name things candy.
That's nice!
I guess the response time will be on the same network, right?If not, What is your server provider? How far you are from the server? What is your ISP?
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Hysteria aside, what happens when a court subpoena demands someone hand over something they don't have? Does the person just say, "I don't have it." and that's that? What if they lie about not having it?
The effective US rates are higher than foreign statutory rates.

So yes, its easy to tell that US corp tax rates are higher.