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I wish he had stuck thru the storm. I support gay marriage, but no one should be made to apologize for a belief that half of the country (including Obama) agreed with at the time. He was a consummate professional that did not slander anyone else based on their belief. Now we are slandering him thru a social media shit storm.

OkCupid should be ashamed for themselves for their cheap move leveraging their large user base.
Brandan Eich = "deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies"

Really, he is your enemy? He make your site work with JS and Firefox. Without both, internet browsing will suck today. Please OkCupid, show him some respect and a benefit of doubt.

Mozilla failed to back the cofounder that worked tirelessly for them for 16 years. They never emphasized after 16 years in an executive role, his personal vote did not have any effect on his ability to lead a diverse team. Hope his next company will appreciate his contributions more.
Am I in the minority that I don't want an app for every. bloody. webpage. I visit?
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I have been toying with the idea for a little while too. Distributed, open and safe where on the top of my list.
the old iPhone screens are too small. current isn't bad at all. perhaps a bit smaller than ideal, but not really "too small" (at least it isn't too small for tens of millions of people)
At least nobody can say the NSA isn't creative.
Amazon Fire TV source code
Intolerance of an intolerance is not equatable with the original intolerance.
Django embraces programming in the config files. They are pretty much all Python code. Means you can do some fairly cool stuff. It ends up making a lot more sense to configure a Python framework in Python, rather than XML or something else.
I'd guess that the number of people receiving eviction letters "out of the blue" is pretty small. I recently had a couple run-ins with my management company and the last thing they want to do is evict me. They just want me to stop the offending behavior.

I think the important thing is the agreement between tenant and landlord (or condo association, etc). From my perspective, if those agreements are specific about no subletting then I don't see how it even matters if there is a city-wide ban? There isn't a city-wide ban of smoking in residential buildings in Atlanta but I am not allowed to smoke in mine. That seems to be analogous.

I believe the fault lies with both AirBnB and the renter. I see people mostly harping on AirBnB and it does seem they could do more to make the renter think about the legality of the situation or check a box stating that they have the legal right to do so. But as a long time renter, I've always been well aware that in every rental agreement I've signed, it is a violation to sublet at least with out consent from my landlord.

The idea that there is some connection between morality and abiding by all laws is silly. There are so many ridiculous laws on the books, it is laughable. Over here in Atlanta, it is illegal to engage in oral sex. I don't believe I'm am a bad person for breaking that law as often as humanly possible. Again, I think that violating a piece of state or city legislation of which I had nothing to do with enacting is far different from me violating an agreement which I myself signed.
Depending on whether a fund is still in its reinvestment period, they may also not be able to put that money to work - it may automatically go back to the LPs, who aren't generally very happy to just get their money back when they're expecting 25% or higher IRRs.
I agree -- I know it's silly but I still marvel at the fact that the $10 microcontroller I'm working on has almost the processing power of the laptop I used in college in the 90s (and in the case of the RPi, vastly more).
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Uber is launching an on-demand courier service tomorrow
Because it's kinda the point?
This is a waste of my time, I'm sure, but you realize that from the very beginning, the US system of government was set up to avoid that scenario (among others), right? Checks & balances, division of congress, 3 branches of government, etc?
What would be an alternative to parameterized subroutines, though? Is there another way to avoid re-implementing an algorithm every time you want to use it? And keeping all source in one gigantic file?
I made a wall to circle around the drone. Pretty fun.
Well yeah, they've got a valuation to worry about. They are not going to let a little something like the law get in the way of that.
"the economy of ignoring the laws regarding what it is you're trying to do"

not unlike things like Napster..
I'm not sure what happened with level 4 multiplicity, but I placed a 2nd exit inside the box. Then when I go through it says it completed the level but I'm still on the multiplicity level. Reseting does not fix. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0dafb64fad2ddd6fd451
Likely, and maybe they're going to work on something like "Twitter Home," a new lock screen & experience for the Twitter app only on Android. If done correctly (and not invasively) I can possibly see people using it. Then they'll announce the Cover app is no longer available.
In this case 'Big name stars' is implying: "It's so simple and easy even people with no technical knowledge, and even those with minimal interest in making the effort to speak to you will be willing to use it". It isn't discussing the technical aspects, outside of usability.

It's also suggesting that it is useful for glossy, premium-quality interviews that would usually need dedicated kit and camera crew - not just in warzones, ad hoc news interviews and vox pops.

It's quite cleverly written for the target audience.
If someone donates money to support a bill to make it illegal for straight people to marry, then the comparison might be justified. Until then, equating a private, in-born sexual preference (or opinions of such) with attempting to enshrine bigotry in the law is really stretching things.
That's a bit unfair, though, as Washington State is an internal subdivision. That's like asking an American where Galicia is (either the Spanish or the Ukrainian one).

And the US will not actively intervene in the Ukraine, since NATO, as an organizational entity, would probably be damaged badly. Most of Europe wants to stop the Russian Bear but also wants to keep the situation from escalating.

If the US pushed for an intervention against the opposition of key NATO members (after having done so so in Iraq), where would that leave NATO?
One of the reasons I didn't want any smart phone was the size (I had a small flip phone from Virgin Mobile); but now I'm used to my iPhone in a Book Book.

On the other hand, my wife often has no pockets, and never puts her phone in one. Instead it goes in a purse. For her, and I expect many women, the only thing that matters if it is comfortable to hold and use not how it gets stored between use.
> It is also why so many mobile websites are broken.

Many mobile websites are broken. On a mobile phone, both websites and "mobile websites" are broken.

If anyone is looking for a money-making idea, here's a website I use all the time -

http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm

On my desktop it takes me five seconds to use. On my Android HTC One it takes me maybe five minutes to use.

If someone made an equivalent Android app, or a functional mobile web site of course I'd use it. Actually - I'm an Android programmer and could do it myself, but am busy with other things at the moment to do it singlehandedly.

That is just one web site. Many web sites I use are designed for the desktop, and work horribly on smartphones. No wonder people go running for apps when the functionality pops up in one.
Probably, yes, they could evict you for conducting that particular illegal activity in your apartment. Whether or not a landlord is likely to is a different question. Remember that the clause says that the can evict you, not that they are obligated to. I can imagine a scenario where a landlord might try it if they wanted rid of you for some other reason.
"OpenCL implementation is also free to effectively merge the stages like in Halide."

I gave up relying on magic compilers a long time ago. And having worked in this domain for a long time I'm actually offended by people who write off the problem as simply a matter of a good enough optimizer. This has significantly held back both performance and portability in imaging. (And likely other areas.)

Halide is not magic, it is just a better slicing of the problem backed up by a good implementation. As always there is no free lunch but when it comes down to actually shipping this kind of code across a wide variety of platforms with great performance, it is a lot more productive than anything else out there.
But wouldn't that allow a simple subpoena to get access to everything?

Certainly it's the best bet against criminals
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I wrote a program which could help with this. https://github.com/konceptz/AmazonS3-Rest

This will let you take a pre-authorized token and make these same requests. No one should be sharing S3 Secrets even if it isn't hardcoded like the implementations trustlook found.
Ugh, that's a horrible vulnerability. We found something similar in nginx a few years ago, and the result is that you can repeatedly open up client connections and dump server memory as it changes, revealing keys and, without any real effort, authentication info and cookies.
Very cool! I'm stuck on level 7 because it seems that the script isn't editable anywhere. Related note, the color scheme for highlighting editable lines might want to change, because "black on dark maroone" doesn't exactly jump out.

Love that you're auto-gisting solutions. That was clever - I presume you are browsing through searching for the common description tag? I also like the API popup, although I didn't see it until I got stuck on the (uneditable) level 7. I verified this because $('.editableLines') ==
[] in console! Perhaps this is a very fancy meta-game that you can only win with a pull request? :)
Besides AWS, so many SDKs are used client oriented design, like Dropbox and Facebook. The consequence of leaking those keys may not critical as the AWS though.
The dev tools have included variable sizing help for several years now. Anything being made now should be using these features to deal with different sized phones, even if just the 4 size and 5 size. Certainly it will make some people's lives difficult it they increase the width of the next phone, but developing new apps now it is easy to handle.

The bigger problem is all of the legacy apps that were designed with pixel perfect backgrounds that weren't meant to be stretched to fill different sized phones. Those have to be redesigned (and probably should have already been for iOS 7) to work for bigger phones.
> What it does is lock the other PC vendors into a race to the bottom, leaving Apple as the only company with the resources and brand position to support premium gear at premium prices.

I do wish that other PC developers would copy the marketing strategy used by car companies: separate branding for their high-end line.

Ford/Lincoln, Honda/Acura... why didn't we have Compaq/HP? They could've kept HP as a brand to be proud of. Google could've used Motorola to fill in low-end products unworthy of the Nexus moniker.
Make your own drones.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c18b7b1e7ab1d672da55
Exactly, rule number 1 is always that client data cannot be trusted.
Yes, you are, along with most users here. But it's not stopping companies from wanting to control UX entirely though a mobile application. One of the reasons for this is that in general, mobile webpage performance is complete ass. A thorough but by-no-means complete diagnosis of the problem can be found here: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...
Why there will be no XP doomsday.
Disappointing, considering how ubiquitous Disqus is on American news sites. This means we'll be seeing more ads and promos on pages already packed with commercial messages.

FWIW, I rarely bother reading Disqus threads (glacial load times and poor sorting) and stopped contributing after many of my comments started being flagged as spam.
Does firebug override the ctrl+shift+K javascript console?, curious because I don't use it.
Except that you don't understand the problem either and have replicated it and just moved it.
It's all the same thing in my mind. Build a business with the idea of selling out to some big corp, or to sell to as many customers as you can. Either way, you're going to be beholden to someone else. I don't begrudge these folks whatsoever.
I was thinking coding vacation. I perform improv on the side, and it's not unheard of to have intensive 'improv camps' for adults over the summer where performers go for up to a week at a location to focus on improving performance skills.

I love the hack camp idea and chance to fully dive into something with like minded people, it just needs to fit into something I can spend my vacation days on.
If the community of which Mozilla is a part consisted of people who so disagreed with the action of voting for Obama, then, sure.

We play the "freedom" game in lots of cases. You can be racist, you are technically free to act in racist ways in public, but the consequence of such behavior is that most people will choose not to associate with you. You will lose opportunities to do business, to socialize in most cases, and more. So, are you free to be racist? Not really, not if you want to be part of the society, even though the technical answer is yes.

So, the larger society does not "tolerate" racism. And the community of which Mozilla is a part does not "tolerate" the CEO being part of a movement to prevent gays marrying. I don't consider either to be a tragedy. This is about what groups of people will allow, and what they won't.
That said; the AWS APIs offer a lot of tools to hand keys to clients with extremely limited scope, both in API access and time boundaries. For example; a game could be given access keys that allow it to write a high score only to a particular row of a DynamoDB table, the one corresponding to that user.

Direct device->AWS use can make a lot of scaling issues very simple without needing a middleman service on every request. However this does not obviate the need for a federation brokering-type service that auths the device, calls AWS to get a time-limited token with permissions scoped just so, and hands that back to the client.

AWS provides Amazon/Google/FB web identity federation for just this use case: http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/manage-federation/.
It's much more widespread now with Airbnb than with Craigslist. Craigslist is more promiscuous and serendipitous whereas Airbnb is more corporate and explicit. If a whole company that is valued at $10b has a business model for this, one would assume that such a service is completely legal. That's the heart of the issue here. It's gotten to the size now where media, landlords, and government have to step in before it becomes a black market of sorts.
If app is the best hire for the job then so be it. Ditto web when it is best. However the two dominant gatekeeper paradigm is scary.
Of course he affected peoples lives, he created javascript.

Prop 8 failed though, so in the end he did jack shit against gay rights.
Same in many others. I still consider it a pattern to apply with great caution.
Nope, I don't want that either.

I also don't want every mobile webpage I visit to use some slow janky JavaScript framework to emulate native app behavior either because in my experience the user experience for those are universally worse than just trying to be a relatively normal web page (perhaps with some media queries for image sizes, etc) and letting the mobile web browser do its thing.
Many posts here express dismay at Airbnb's selective disregard for the law.

Companies often ignore laws when it is expected to be profitable. It's a simple matter of risk management. And it is a straightforward consequence of our economic and legal system.

See this 2012 article "Should Companies Obey the Law If Breaking It Is More Profitable?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-radcliffe/should-companie...
> There's another Planet Money story[0] about the efficacy of just giving money to people.

It does look like many of these people used the money to increase their productivity, yes (for example, by starting businesses). But from what I can see, GiveDirectly has only been in existence since 2010. I'll be interested to see what their numbers look like ten years from now, if they're still around. (My prediction, for what it's worth: (1) the fraction of people receiving their money who actually become more productive will go down (more people trying to game the system); (2) their overhead will go up (more money being spent on trying to prevent people from gaming the system).) It's definitely an experiment worth trying.

> How does that account for the increased efficiencies gained from being large, e.g. bulk logistics?

I said "more and more things", not "all things". Yes, there are probably some areas in which economies of scale are large enough that large corporations are more efficient on net than smaller ones. But I suspect there are fewer such areas than most people believe, and I think technology can make there be fewer still.
Arch + ODroid + live stats and chat... watch it die.
I decided to do some stress testing for fun on an ODroid... come watch it suffer in real time!

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Security through obscurity is not effective.
I think we should be very wary of mainstream media coverage (and yes, Slate is mainstream media here) of this issue, because writers like William Saletan know relatively little about the specifics of Mozilla, technology or the personalities involved. This article ignores the specifics of the case and places it entirely within existing "culture war" political narratives. It's designed to present the story to people without having to actually tell them anything they don't already know.

A much better attempt at the same basic argument (that it's a shame Eich was forced out) can be found here: https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2

Given the tools at our disposal and the massive number of people from the tech community who blog, there's really no need to rely on Slate to tell us what to think here.
Very fun. I found a bug that lets me skip levels 8-11 by using this code in the phone callback on level 7:

if ( ! ( player.cc && player.cc.length ) ) {
player.cc = ['#f00', '#ff0', '#0f0'];
}
player.setColor(player.cc.shift());

It says it's loading the next level, but the code and gamefield remain stuck on level 7 until you push it to level 12.
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Edge to edge display does not have to mean edge-to-edge touch sensing. You can be smart about what to sense where and when. (I.e. when your screen can detect more than two separate points of contact, you can dynamically ignore those at the edge when appropriate.)

Lots of apps are starting to load data proactively in the background. That's why iOS settings has the "Background App Refresh" screen (under "General").
Higher voltage than what? The article doesn't list a voltage, it's far too non-technical for that. Even if you assume USB-like, modern specs put that up to 20 volts (with 3 amps on micro). But I'm sure this would have a heavier connector.
But if you profit off illegal activity and/or look the other-way... you have created a nexus with that activity...wil[l]ful negligence etc. How do you stay out of the legal crosshairs?

You don't. AirBnB is potentially creating a huge amount of legal liability for themselves. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
In my company we have an application that stores an API key in its local storage. This API key is generated by the client app when it's first run and it's individual. If it gets stolen only that client will have its security compromised. That happened to us a couple of times, always on rooted android phones with pirated software installed.

I'm a heavy AWS user but not too familiar with S3 keys, couldn't the keys be generated and isolated per user?
I'm not even sure this should be filed under vulnerability. How is this any different from embedding credentials on a webpage so that JavaScript can talk directly with the service lol.
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They would certainly have more housing, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be any more affordable. There is simply more people who want to live there than it could possibly support, even now. Hell, I'm a developer and I can't even afford to live there.
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The regulator cares about more than just the mean price. The idea behind Reg NMS is that anyone who places an order at a protected venue should get the best price available, not just something close. It isn't enough for the differences to just average out, because some people get poor execution in one direction, and others get poor execution in the other.
More control of UX sounds the reason people used Flash before web 2.0.
Thanks, those are good links too. I seem to recall seeing something similar to the first link, except in Haskell, but I can't seem to find it right now.
This seems like a good option if I am ever in an action movie and I need to tell the bad guy that all of the information will be released to CNN and the NYT if anything happens to me.

If I come up with something I can't tell my wife while I am alive, I will probably just put it in my will.
My local Radio Shack carries both Arduinos and various Propeller microcontrollers, along with sundry components for them (LCDs, wifi, bluetooth, etc). It also sells various breadboards and some really cool individual integrated circuits (hex and other logic gates), MOSFETs, CMOSs, and bunches of other cool stuff. And I'm not in a huge city or in California.

If you're into hobby electronics, it's worth checking out Radio Shack if you've not been in one for a while. They carry much more than just electronic kits for kids.

But I agree that the target market for these is more professional engineers looking to take a prototype into smalltime production, or an early protype into something more refined.
The Flurry stats [http://blog.flurry.com/bid/109749/Apps-Solidify-Leadership-S...] show 32% of user time is spent gaming; 17% on facebook; 9.5% on messaging and 4% on youtube - that's 62% for those of you keeping count.

That doesn't look like the end of the mobile web - that just looks like people spending a lot of time gaming and on facebook.
A bullet in your head, right.

Anyway, has anyone else noticed how supposedly a community of people not wanting one guy as CEO is a terrible tragedy, a lynching and on and on, but not Proposition 8 and the larger movement to prevent people in love from being able to marry? "The death of one man is a tragedy…"
It's a recipe for shooting yourself in the foot.

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