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Well, that's entirely disheartening. As a CBA customer I'd expect an actual response, not just something that's effectively "It's all OK, stop asking" copied everywhere. A technology blog should be run by those who can actually give technical details on demand.

Changed my password anyway, like I did with every other service I use.
> Apparently the US State Department didn't learn from its arrogance in Iraq, because such blatant provocation shouldn't have been allowed.

Provocation: Letting Ukraine voluntarily choose closer ties with the West

Not Provocation: Invading and annexing the Crimea

Gotcha.

Also, since when is the US State Department in charge of the EU?
This post is awesome, I've been wondering for a while how clojure's relationship with the JVM/Java actually worked, this article provided a lot of really good insights. Thanks!
Under US law if the interns aren't getting paid then they can't produce IP for the company, because the company is not allowed to directly benefit from unpaid interns.

Leaving a legal trail showing how your company is benefiting from the work of unpaid interns is pants on head retarded.
This has got to be the most complicated packaging system ever invented. And I thought .deb was complicated.

Just in order to use Omaha, you need:

- A non-Express (i.e. paid) version of Visual Studio

- Python

- Scons

- Set a bunch of environment variables, because who needs configuration files?
Version 33.0.1750.152 on Ubuntu rejects with default settings for me.

http://i.imgur.com/aQdu7GO.png
The system scales up by piggybacking on DNSSEC

You're missing the major point: MinimaLT will initially use X.509 (since it's already deployed). A future protocol upgrade will support, if I'm not mistaken, sayI.

DNS Security (e.g. DNSCurve, DNSCrypt, or even DNSSEC) adds a second layer of security: keys are transmitted in DNS records, and server auth is done via X.509.

This means an attacker would have to break both X.509 _and_ DNS.

I'm not sure if this is more secure; in fact, I think it's less secure than SSL

I believe the above point addresses your concern. In addition, MinimaLT's Curve25519 + Salsa20-Poly1305 is superior to any ciphersuite found in TLS.
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Why did they spend so much time and money addressing the limited range of electric cars... in Israel. A country smaller than New Jersey.

It seems like his initial market had little need for his one differentiating feature.

I can't help but wonder if this Onion Talk was modeled after Better Place after reading the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
If electric cars are already a good deal do we still need to have tax incentives?
We don't know whether they want to screw him. All we know is that the hired CTO thinks that he is incompetent and thus should leave the company. The first thing he should do in this situation is to talk to the CEO, and not running to a lawyer or consulting hacker news.
If it's good enough for Norway it should work in Canada too, right? Well, one in every ten cars sold (10.8%) in Norway in March was a Tesla...
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/7-tesla-norway-facts-wil...
Indeed. I love the idea of ATS, but it seems like it would be a challenge to wrangle with. Whilst Rust isn't a flexible and powerful as ATS, it seems to be much easier to handle at the moment.
Only works with Python 2.4, too. Gross.
It is interesting to see big companies like LinkedIn, Twitter, HP showed some interest in hiring remotely. Not sure if they would consider hiring a regular software developer remotely. Their answer mostly make me think of "Well, in case there is an extraordinary hacker that we can benefit, we might think of offering a remote job".
I'm really hoping to be done by then. Trying to knock this out ASAP. Good to re-meet you :)
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Wow, you are really anti electric cars.

Better Place built quite a few battery swap locations, but due to their limited market (~1000 cars, compared more than 23,000 cars for Tesla already) they obviously failed.

The Tesla battery swaps are listed at between $60 and $80 which for a similar sedan (size, engine power, etc) is about the same as a full tank of gas.

The cost and serviceability of electric motors vs internal combustion engines reeks of BS and until you provide actual sources most of your arguments will have lost all credibility in my eyes.
Maybe something with Omaha beach? Like that Google is symbolically entering MSFT's territory?
I actually saw a sort of showroom of theirs in Israel a few years ago, complete with a track where they'd take you around in one of the cars. It all sounded good, but at one point they put us in this very fancy video auditorium and showed us a 10- or 15-minute marketing film that I distinctly remember was totally devoid of content.
Did you miss the part about Microsoft and Windows XP patches?
Probably makes a wombat even more problematic if they decide to run back across the road. Just make sure the fence has a decent concrete footer - they're pretty unstoppable.
Preconceived notions aside, I just read the wikipedia on Joseph Smith and cannot help but laugh at how ridiculously obvious his misdirection is..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith

Jesus Christ's crucifixion is history. Joseph Smith's golden plates? Cookery. Missouri is the new Zion, the new Jerusalem? Cookery.
Biometrics authentication. Iris in human eye's unique and doesn't change over time as proven by a medical research paper published back in the day. This will solve so many password-related problems present on the web as people tend to use same passwords over the multiple websites.
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My business takes orders over the phone, internet, and even SMS. Most customer pay via credit card.

The number of customers who dispute charges with their credit card companies is very low. My response rate is 100% and I have never lost a dispute.

Nevertheless, the first thing that happens when a customer initiates a dispute is that the disputed funds are debited from my merchant/bank account. I am also charged a flat fee.

I always contact the customer the same day I receive notice of the dispute and I send my reply to their bank immediately after that.

The dispute process is ridiculously long considering we're in 2014 and it usually takes around six weeks. I've even had customers admit they erroneously disputed the charge and they call their bank with me on the phone to drop the dispute. It still takes six weeks for my merchant to show the dispute as resolved in my favor!

That means it takes six weeks to get my money back. Thankfully my merchant also refunds the dispute fee if it's resolved in my favor, but that's six weeks where I've been unable to use those funds (including the dispute fee) and I no longer have the merchandise that I shipped.

So after six weeks, when the dispute is resolved in my favor: GIVE ME BACK MY MONEY WITH INTEREST!

Credit card companies charge their customers interest if the dispute is resolved against them. Why don't I receive interest on my money?

Throughout those six weeks my money goes somewhere. I don't know if my merchant holds onto it or if the merchant actually sends it back to the credit card issuer; even if it gets put into a lousy bank account then it would earn some interest.

The bottom line is that the funds are disputed, not stolen and the time value of money applies to merchants the same way credit card companies apply it to their cardholders.
What's preventing it from running on more modern versions of Python, like 2.7?
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This is probably going to be an unpopular position, but I think it's also important to keep in mind all the arguably beneficial things that insecure and "open not by design, but by neglect/accident/unintent" systems have brought us. Homebrew software on gaming consoles; "jailbreaking" and "rooting" phones; various other hardware/software hacks; leaks of information that have provided important information to the public (including, most ironically, the Snowden/NSA stuff.)

Would living in a world where events like Heartbleed will occasionally occur, but one where we still have the relative freedom to modify, examine, and generally "hack" our software and hardware in ways the original creators didn't approve of, be better than one of "absolute security" and highly restricted, locked-down devices controlled by corporations (and possibly the government)? I think the whole security situation has reached a point where people have to really start thinking about the tradeoffs that are happening, and realise that all this technology - as much as it can protect against external attacks and defend the users - can also be just as easily employed by others to oppress them. Once again, the infamous Ben Franklin quote comes to mind.
>Provocation: Letting Ukraine voluntarily choose closer ties with the West

Ukraine should have been quietly told that joining NATO or the EU was not possible.

>Not Provocation: Invading and annexing the Crimea

Strawman: This.

What Russia did is absolutely wrong IMO, but it is expected (just like the US doesn't like anyone else messing with South America or the Caribbean).

>Also, since when is the US State Department in charge of the EU?

The US has been the primary power in Western Europe since the 8th of May 1945. The US can directly control who enters NATO, and wields significant influence over the primary EU members. The possibility of Ukraine joining NATO or the EU would have gone through State and should have been firmly rejected.

EDIT: Downvotes and no replies, I can't tell whether I am on Hacker News or reddit.
Google Navigation for Cooking. So as Google Maps gives you turn by turn instructions for driving, an app could give you line by line instructions for cooking. So often when following a recipe, I have to read the next item on the instruction list for a recipe. I think it would be great if I could have these read out as a line - by - line item that I (or whoever i'm cooking with) can then follow. I love cooking with people, but sometimes having to stop conversation mid-sentence to read what we next have to do is cumbersome/awkward, and having an auto-pilot for new recipes that would read the next "task" for cooking would be awesome.
It's not available yet, I am still building it. I've been using the "prototype" for myself. I am hoping to have v1.0 done in a couple of weeks though.

If you want I can notify you on email/twitter/etc when it's done.
That's not complicated for Windows dev. Windows devs are used to a bunch of configuration, because they grew up with it. Besides, those steps are easy to follow, and can be done quickly.

Setting environment variables is as easy as writing a .cmd file that sets them for you.

Most devs have Python installed.

Installing Scons is easy.

A paid version of VS can be easily pirated if you don't feel like paying for it. This isn't by accident: MS would rather you be writing Windows software than non-Windows software. And if you're writing software to sell, then a license isn't costly: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/7152061321388788226
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It will do pretty bad sitting if it is left out in the cold for a long time without being plugged in. As I understand it, it must heat its batteries to keep them from freezing, and if this power use completely runs down the battery or it freezes it has to be replaced at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars.
Pretty awesome:

"Now, a year later, do you have any updates to share regarding your experience with Omaha?"

"The update system is still running well with no required maintenance for the past year. The server gets almost a request a second at peak times... Omaha checks for updates every 5 hours. If the version that the client has doesn't match what is published it sends a URL (hosted by Rackspace) of the updater. Omaha downloads, verifies, and runs the updater."

So, there's an upfront initial time investment to get it running, and then you don't have to touch it and it still works a year later.
An Indian friend told me a story. In India, it's cheaper to pay someone to come to your house, drive a nail into a wall, and hang a painting for you than to buy a hammer.
Its been around for years

http://argumentrix.com/wiki/Main_Page

EDIT: opps looks like its dead.

shouldn't be to hard to clone
That's a good point. Amazon and Google are direct competitors in tablets (Nexus vs. Kindle), phones, app stores, cloud computing (I'm using both for Recent.io), local delivery, living room TV, product search, etc. You could make a reasonable argument that Google competes with Amazon in more categories than it does with any other company.

It's reasonable to disclose this in any case, just to remind the reader. (The WSJ does routinely.)
Yeah, and typical for the human brain is that it will fill any gaps with something made up but plausible.
Really good read! Altered states are a fascinating topic.
So this would be similar to Impermium (now acquired by Google) meets Sift Science meets Cloud Flare - have you checked them out?

I have thought of building such a security as a service for websites for sometime. My PhD thesis was on building a reverse proxy server (kind of like nginx) to detect attackers (via machine learning) and starve them of CPU/network resources disproportionately (using admission control + WFQ) during a DDoS attack. After that I've spent a decade building systems to detect cyber security threats, click fraud, Twitter spammers, etc.

What do you think is lacking in existing security as a service offerings that prompted your post? Would love to chat more.
Quote from Part VII, Soldier's Lot, divide and conquer:

One requirement is sacrosanct when these selections are being made: whenever possible, Russians must not be stationed in the RSFSR, Ukrainians in the Ukraine or Latvians in Latvia. If there are disturbances among the Russian population of, for instance, Murom or Tolyatti or Omsk, these will be crushed, sometimes with considerable bloodshed, by non-Russian soldiers. If a strike breaks out in Donetsk (as one did in 1970) there will be no Ukrainian soldiers in the area. The soldiers stationed there are Tatars, Kirghiz, Georgians. It is all the same to them who they shoot at. What is important is that there is no one in the crowd confronting them whom they know and no one in it who speaks a language they can understand.
Maybe something like Omaha Hold'Em. All the cards are on the table. /s
From the Guidelines: "What to submit <snip> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Submitting a website down page does not gratify one's intellect, its just stating a fact. A post-downtime review would classify as gratifying.

Please people stop submitting website down articles, they are always back up by the time I get to them and there is not explanation as what happened and why.
Ninite is awesome for setting up a new PC.

It's a completely different tangent to actually creating/managing the install process for a piece of software though.
Python 3 really is a superior language. It took all of the good parts from 2, and left the cruft behind. The downside is that there were so many good parts of 2, and so little cruft, that 3 isn't all that much different. However, it's different enough to break things.
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The naming is rather coincidental, as is the fact that it appears to be based on principles that are the exact opposite of LoseThos.
Ah, good old one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
This is why technical questions should never be answered by the Maketing department.
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Okay, that was not immediately clear. Thanks! :)
Yea... that really sucks. However, its not a practice that's likely to change soon. Large clearing houses even have a line item on their P&L's for the float.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KJGUfS1...
Saw it on Imgur, but it looks like it originally comes from:

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/library/tutorials/ext...
Here's why this is, at least on a certain level, wrong...

Software complexity expands to exceed available tools.

This is a Big Truth. No matter how fast hardware gets, we'll beat on it until it's burning up. Give us better tools, and we'll just write more and more complex software until the tools break down under the complexity. Give us better processes, and we'll make bigger projects.

Better tools don't make it any easier to write software, never have, never will. They just change the kind of software we can write. You don't buy a Porsche to drive 55 more effectively, and you don't use better software development tools in order to work less.
I think the point is that you cannot group them like that.

Static typed languages vs dynamic type languages is a much better separation but even then it is grey.

The pejorative "scripting language" was a term that Sun pushed really hard a while ago to separate them from "real" languages (i.e. Java) that you would trust your company to.

[Edit] I may have mis-remembered and it it might have been Oracle rather than Sun trying to dismiss "scripting languages" as toy languages at the time.
Yes, and the majority of the groups that were found to be in violation were Democratic.

Oooops. So much for your talking point.

Go away, troll.
Tesla offers the option to purchase 4y of maintenance for $1900, which I included in the model, vs. $600/yr. The options are nearly economical neutral, but I plan to do at least the 1st 4y option. Maintenance also includes brake pad replacement.

I did not include tires or insurance - either for the Tesla or for the other vehicles (Ody, BMW, Volvo). I also didn't include the financial value of safety (though Travis attempted to on the cash flow model), HOV lane access, cargo space, etc.

On the battery, based on the research I've read from existing EV owners, and from my experience as an EV owner for 3y, I'm expecting around 85% of my battery to be available in 8-10y. If a battery swap option is available, I plan to do it around year 15 or so (i.e., ~2030).
I wish it was with a more liberal license, to be honest...

Apache2 makes it incompatible with GPLv2. I guess I'll skip that for VLC...

A contrario, the crash reporter, Google-breakpad, is under a BSD license.
I agree... Call it the Open Computing Club, invite some girls... booze..
Your Net values for the Ody Touring Elite don't add up.

How is the Net for Year 1 for the Ody Elite $16,184? It lists Maintenance at $300, Fuel at $2727, and Depreciation at $10,500. That totals $13,527.
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By far the most common MITM attack is through untrusted WiFi networks. That's when SSL is most valuable to the user, and also when it's easiest for an attacker to block access to CA servers. Other kinds of MITM attacks are so much less common they're barely worth talking about in this context.

IMO, an adversary that can extract a cert using Heartbleed and set up a MITM should also be advanced enough to block some IP addresses.

I'm confused by the rest of your comments about Gibson. All I said about him was that he continues to generate hysteria without providing details or citing prior discussion. The only things I'm accusing him of are things he is still doing today.
I'm a B, for sure. I'm trying to create new tools to deal with the "things are really messed up" problem... in part because I can create a working business and get myself out of the enterprise, and in part because I genuinely want to make this industry better. What I like about what I'm building is that it changes the human/computer ratio in debugging and problem-solving for complex systems.

Have computers do what computers do well, so people can do what people do well. That's the core of my approach to building software. A big part of the reason enterprise development sucks is because debugging is so manual. Automate parts vulnerable to automation, and engineers won't just be more efficient - they'll be happier.
Came here to make the same exact comment, ask the same question.
Probably not relevant, but Google has a datacenter in Council Bluffs, IA, which is just across the river from Omaha, NE.
I'd like to see something like #1 where not even the site hosting the content can impersonate an anonymous blogger. I suppose this would require some kind of key signature system. The problem with tripcodes is that while they offer a persistent identity across every site that implements the tripcode algorithm, you're giving up your secret password for the trip to every site you post on.
Hmm, I didn't think Facebook did actual remote hiring. At least on their Careers site, their jobs seem pretty attached to locations. At least one random Software Engineering job said it required being on location.
>> they obviously don't have anyone technically competent enough to handle online banking

You shouldn't assume the people in charge of the marketing/support channels are in close contact with their actual technical department. Albeit its awful they are saying what they are saying, since it is misleading, but what you are saying isn't necessarily true at all.
Lyft just added this to their latest public build but they've been beta testing this for a year. It doesn't do the navigation in app, it shunts it off to your preferred navigation provider.
Not to detract from the fundamental misunderstanding of the word 'patch' by their marketing department, but it's probably safe to assume that they're not using an open-source stack and hence will be ok.
This isn't new, is it? Why is it here?
This is my bank, what should my next steps be? Change my password/PIN? Withdraw my savings (temporarily)?
I agree that youtube can be much more useful. But writing a wrapper does not sound legal, does it?
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It's common that many people go for a decent restaurant and have their meal alone which turns out that it's expensive and boring. Idea is why don't we have an mobile/web application which will list out nearby restaurants and users who posted that they want a company to share their lunch bill. With this advantage is that they can try out different dishes and still with lesser expense as you would share with your stranger partner.

To be more specific about the application:
1)Any one wants to share their lunch bill, they open the application and check the near by hotels.
2)If anyone has posted already that they need a partner to share lunch, you could join them (probably their taste also mentioned in the app)
3)If you don't find any one who's open for sharing, you can post one.

This will work out for people those who travel, single, students,group of strangers.,
I'm amazed at how many brilliant minds I find in the enterprise. Most of them are rolling boulders uphill. Sure, there's a ton of slackers and dead weight, but there are a lot of people who would be the envy of any startup.
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I do have money there. This worries me greatly.
Hi catmanjan, you do not need to change your NetBank password. We are patched against the Heart Bleed bug. We are dedicated to ensuring our data and that of our customers is safe and secure. We take matters of security very seriously and our security teams are always up to date with all of the latest security developments so that we can continually strengthen the protections we have in place.
They did ship. It's not that rare to see their cars driving around Israel. From what I've heard, owners loved them - less so now, obviously.

I think BP burnt through their money too quickly, and ran out of resources (and investor patience) just as they were starting to get some traction.
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