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This isn't about taking Rice to court or trying to prosecute her for anything. It is simply "she did things we don't like, so we won't use products of the businesses she is leading". Probably because we don't have faith in those products with people we so strongly disagree with for their actions in positions of power.

Same thing with Mozilla and Eich. This isn't about someones free speech - I don't care if you are a sexist racist zoophile, until you start using power (be it capital or influence) to further those views and hurt others in the name of those beliefs. I'll have all the debates you want and consider you just fine and just thinking from a different perspective until you start doing real damage.

Here is an example: I have racist relatives, but I don't disown them for their beliefs or prejudices. I'll have all the debates and conversations with them on the topic that they want, as long as we both understand we are just engaging in debate. But the day they started donating to the KKK (or more appropriately I find out they are doing it, I can't make rational choices without complete information) I would never speak to them again and disown them, unless they apologized and admitted their wrongs and the suffering they caused. And I'd tell all my other relatives my beliefs and why I do it, and ask them to do the same.
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Tell them this is only an amateurish name for the Root Cause field used by professionals (when issue tracker does not have dedicated field, one can use comments for that).

Search the web for something like software bug root cause analysis, there are plenty of resources to justify this reasoning 1, 2, 3, 4, ....

...a root cause for a defect is not always a single developer (which is the main point of this field)...

That's exactly why "root cause" is professional while "person to blame" is amateurish. Personal accountability is great, but there are cases when it simply lays "outside" of the dev team.

And links to something previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4179298
> 2) The whole "gig" messaging and the entire call to action on the page is painfully confusing. -"Describe your gig." What? Am I in a band?

I think this is a difference in regional word usage. I'm accustomed to hearing "gig" used only to refer to a temporary agreement for musicians or similar artistic entertainment, like a single concert or perhaps a tour of concerts. But I have met people from the UK who use it to refer to any job.
Perhaps you should learn something about sales instead of being so incredibly obtuse.

When an employer sends a salesman out to sell his product, he is sending him out on the company dime to wine and dine customers and get them to sign that contract for services rendered or product delivered. This costs the employer a great deal of money. The salesperson is worth nothing except for the relationships he can create between the employer and the client. These business relationships are created on behalf of the owner, not the salesperson.

So when a salesperson leaves a company and then decides to use the information he gathered during his tenure there to create new business elsewhere, he is essentially stealing what he was hired to create in the first place. I don't know of many companies that allow their employees to walk off with proprietary information, and information related to core business functions is certainly proprietary.

"Create a better product" doesn't fly. Anywhere. Not even in California. They simply call the list of customers a "trade secret" and sue your ass when you decide to start dialing them up at your fancy new employer.
ABC.

Always be coding.

Always.

Be.

Coding.
memcmp compares two blocks of memory byte-by-byte. If the first two bytes don't match, the function can return early, otherwise it has to check the next byte. By measuring the execution times for all 256 possible bytes, one should be able to guess the first byte. Repeat this for the length of the memory being compared, and you should be able to essentially read the entire block of memory you're being compared against.

These attacks are usually done over a fast connection (maybe buy a machine in the same datacenter as your target), and through lots of measurements averaged together and measured for statistical significance.

We don't know where this function is used, so this might actually be a non-issue. We need someone more familiar with OpenSSL to comment.
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unfortunately it's licensed gpl2, so no love. which is too bad because I agree.

https://github.com/polarssl/polarssl/blob/master/library/ssl...
...not to mention our uber-lords at the NSA... (yawn)

Actually all tech can be criticised for banality. Think of the telephone - 'they put in all those cables just so she can talk to mother...'. Or television - 'they dug up teh street just so they could lay those fibre optic cables so your gran could watch the wresting...'. Or even the trains - the train stopping at my home town does seem a waste of time, I can't believe they bother when you look at who gets on.
I worked with Steve at a company before famo.us. He's an excellent leader and really does foster team cohesion unlike anything I've ever seen. Plus he's a natural teacher and likes to involve people in the creation of the "cult"/company culture/vision.

A++ would do it again.
It looks like the E-GO hits the first two points, and, purely speculating, I'd imagine that at full power it would assist you uphill as well.
It wasn't static for older versions of OpenSSL, so this still might be an issue if someone was using that function with the assumption of it being constant-time.
Where's the power coming from to scale like that? If Facebook is relying on power from the Columbia River for their data centers, they better talk to the tribes and the salmon. Those dams are failing and many parties in the Northwest want to see them removed.

A better bet might be for them to scale up in Utah and harvest methane from waste to generate power.
The price of this might be the destruction of comic book stores. It's often hard for companies to bypass retailers, because the retailers will get mad at them, and the retailers are the majority of their (direct) customers.

This way, Amazon does Marvel/DCs dirty work, but Marvel/DC still gets paid.
It's not shocking at all that Gawker picked up the story without fact checking it. They're not in the business of facts.
=) that's coming.
Your drop-down isn't themed correctly on Chrome for Mac, FYI!

http://i.imgur.com/Y1BZwGP.png
Anyone want to host their mission critical project with a team so small that individual employees have to be on call 24/7?

If the company requires more than what can be done in a 40-hour work week, it should hire more employees.
Do you think its a cost/control to not buy big iron (outsource to a degree) vs build/scale themselves? I'd like to hear some HN thoughts if some don't mind sharing.
It looks like there's some github projects using it: https://github.com/search?q=SSL_SESSION_cmp&ref=cmdform&type...
It takes far more energy to travel at 20 miles/h (Boosted) rather than 12 (E-Go).

Also range measurements can be deceptive. Perhaps the boosted board was measured in harsher conditions (more stops and starts say, or different weight, or different incline).
On the website it says it supports up to 10%, so I'd say yes on that.
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Hey HNers. Need some feedback: How many founders / cofounders could use, or could have used, extra income while starting up your company? The typical job/gig search thing just doesn't seem efficient or practical for entrepreneurs. I'm thinking about starting a service that helps founders get recruited for extra remote work ---- and get paid very well for it.

I'm thinking something along the lines of a marketplace exclusively for entrepreneurs, where you'd create say offers or packages which employers can purchase, and on our end we'd go out and ultimately serve as your recruiter and find you work that fits in your schedule.

The issue is that founders don't have time to look for work and browse job descriptions, or interview --- so we'd need to make it clear that you have x amount of availability, you're being hired remotely, and at a rate you specify.

For employers, entrepreneurs typically have highly desirable skill sets --- even with limited availability and performing remote work.

Is this of interest? Thoughts?
I've used graphical programming in the past. It sounds amazing in abstract, but ends up being a mess when it is implemented. It basically requires a "sufficiently smart editor", which, even if implemented perfectly, would not leave a lot of room for a third-party ecosystem to be built around the language.

There are many solved problems in text-based programming that would need to be resolved in order for a graphical programming language to be as useful.

How would one post a "snippet" to StackOverflow? How would diffs work? Consequently, how would source code management work?
Sweden was among the last EU nations to make the retention a national law, and from what I have read most ISPs are still in the process of developing/negotiating a long-term solution for storing the data. Since they were to pay the entire cost themselves, this should save them quite a lot of money. Especially if you were prepared to believe their estimated implementations costs of one billion SEK.
It appears you forgot to read the whole article. He claims to have asked Google for clarification after the first application was suspended:

I emailed Google back and asked them to tell me exactly what I need to change to be compliant with the rules. Is it the icon? The name? The disclaimer? What? Google refused to give me any additional information.
Nice! Well best of luck with what you're building :)
I honestly feel that "white-space: pre-wrap" would get you there for 99.9% of the internet, who never even use markdown.

How about the other 0.1%? Well, why not a WYSIWYG editor (similar to that on Stack Overflow) that generates HTML? I mean, what are we, barbarians?!

I'll note that the source to your Reddit article is 322 lines long! That'a lot to remember!
Some more info on what DNSChain does (it goes a bit beyond access to .bit, it also provides a RESTful and securely authenticated HTTP API to the blockchain, currently reading but writing is possible):

+ *.dns metaTLD (blockchain agnostic): http://blog.okturtles.com/2014/02/introducing-the-dotdns-met...

+ whitepaper that gives overview: http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf
Are you still in the game dev field? Great job on the book by the way.

Edit: Oh, are you the one whom Herb Sutter used his benchmark in the Build conference talk about C++ a few days ago?
If you were in the UK I'd invite you to have a think about working with us (DataSift)...

Anyone else feeling this way, drop me a line chris.hoult at datasift dot com.
Mostly just a very difficult time figuring out the "right" way to host it on Linux. I could never get it to perform worth a damn after trying a bunch of different hosting methods.

I think ServiceStack would probably have solved my issues though.
So, a couple things:

I wish I had copies of the decisions handy, but the supreme court appears to not believe that quantity is a quality all its own. That is, until quite recently, the amount of surveillance the police or government could pull off was severely limited by personpower: how many employees they where willing to dedicate. Technological considerations, such as the ability to shove a gps tracking device into a car or use mobile phone tower checkins to get a pretty precise idea of where people have been, have considerably changed this, but the supreme court doesn't seem to think that a change in scale means the law should change. So privacy will probably require support from congress, which is unfortunately filled with the stupid, the venal, and people like Difi who doesn't care a wit about surveillance unless and until she is surveilled.

Also, people are stupid. I saw somewhere -- again I'm missing a reference -- that fb makes on the order of $20-$40 per US user per year. Given the quantity of employees and infrastructure dedicated to monetization via advertising, you'd think they'd be willing to take that much money in exchange for no advertising and come out ahead. So if the US would agree to pay $25/year, we could have ad-free fb (and a fb executive staff motivated by users' needs, where users == you and me, not advertisers.) Unfortunately, people are stupid, so they will never bite. They will, if they can be bothered to care at all, simultaneously bitch about advertising and privacy while being completely unwilling to pay money for services. I have no solution at all for this, but it makes me sad.
TIL two things:

1. Everyone gets a clean slate the moment they change jobs and

2. Supporting your beliefs with a $1000 donation is the equivalent of going to war, supporting torture, and illegal wiretapping.

Get real.
You have my attention. Now, what's the pitch?
I recently started the same discipline. I spent a good part of my career writing code then worked my way up to executive management and stopped. After several years as Director of this, or VP of that, my skills had eroded. Late last year I decided to take a sabbatical and get back into the game by applying to Hack Reactor in SF. It was an intense period of two months of pre-course work (18 Code School classes and a bunch of coding assignments), followed by three months of intense work on site where we went 11+ hours a day for 6 days a week. One of the disciplines there is to work on a short “toy problem” every morning for 30-60 minutes. Although I finished the program recently I am keeping up that practice as well as working on my real project, a new startup for social video. I’ll never stop coding again!
google "mines" your data with your permission and lets you opt out of almost everything (e.g incognito mode) and take all your data out of google if you want (e.g google takeout). and at no point is your data sold to advertisers. you are just matched to an ad and what the advertiser sees is anonymous stats like "12% of the people who clicked on the ad were men from united states" and not "harry smith who lives in blah blah and whose email is blah@blah.com and who is 28 years gold and lives at blah blah and watches a lot of porn clicked on your ad"

you can use lots of google services without ever logging in e.g chrome, youtube, search, maps etc. even android os can be run without even a trace of google services if you want.
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I'm from Victoria! Cool to see local people making it on HN.
Bush started your country down a path that has led it towards unprecedented insecurity and cost countless lives, both Americans and foreigners, and he did it on a crucial moment when he had the option to act differently. Obama is left with little choice in a lot of regards - the world - and your country - is already the wreck Bush left us with. Just leaving Iraq on day one would lead the country to a certain civil war and most likely another yet theocracy that hates the US (and this one for reason I can completely understand). Just closing Guantanamo would unravel an insane chain of resentment that most probably should have been faced rather than postponed.

I hate neither. Bush was grossly incompetent. Spectacularly incompetent. Dangerously incompetent. Again, Obama is a huge disappointment, but I suspect he, under less grim circumstances, would have been a much better president than he is now. In so many ways, his hands are tied. A president - any president - is limited in his actions to what's legally and politically possible and that severely restricts his actions. Even with his hands tied, Obama is light years ahead of his predecessor.
Hey :) I'm able to reproduce this by disabling JS. I'm on Chrome on a Mac as well and with JS enabled there are no problems.
California is an-at will employment state. What this means is any employee can quit and any employer can let go without cause as long as it isn't against the law (which is insanely difficult to prove to begin with). Any offer they provide to her (salary, earn out, etc)... Would not have mattered if they hired her on and let her go a day later... Ultimately contracts are fickle like that. There are probably exceptions to all of the above but most likely difficult to enforce in the end.
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I think that cult, is a shortcut for saying a group with high asabiyyah.
I work in an ad tech company on the mobile product, and all of my coworkers are amazed by this. Congrats on actually innovating the mobile advertising space instead of another native ad/geolocation startup.
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> The book is written in markdown, so it should be fairly straightforward to eBook-ify it.

I put my "toolchain" to do this up on GitHub, which really is just a Makefile that feeds things to Pandoc: https://github.com/steveklabnik/words
> EDIT: I see it exposed in 0.9.8y. Anyone know of anything that builds against this specifically and uses it?

I don't know of anything that builds against that version specifically but it is the version that is included in OS X as of 10.9 (and possibly 10.8).
Why not? Who limits the size?
If you're a pure technology company, like Google and Facebook, you're not going to outsource your core competency. It's not an issue of costs; buying "big iron", even if they could, would be akin to style drift for an investment manager.
Hey, could I email you some questions? I have an idea in the mobile ad space and I'm not sure where to start. thx.
Well for reddit comments, the vast majority of the comments I typically make will make use of quotes, bold, italics or lists (the comments that include markdown), I use stuff like tables quite infrequently. So even remembering a small subset of the markdown will make my comments much more readable. I learn the features I use regularly, from reading other comments, that's how I picked up markdown originally.

I'm learning Python, I don't expect to learn all the features, hopefully I will learn a small subset, enough to be dangerous!

> Well, why not a WYSIWYG editor (similar to that on Stack Overflow) that generates HTML?

Absolutely, this is a good solution also. I personally like knowing the markdown features, I guess, but that's just me ;-) There is an extremely similar feature in the RES addon which allows live preview, not possible on a smaller screen though. It even includes a helpful list of markdown features for the newbie.
The Rumsfeld memo was reported by MSNBC but after review, prompted by your criticism, I am not satisfied with the credibility of the document.

The Downing Street Memo was widely reported in major newspapers and contained among other things the passage "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Blix: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/18/opinion/iraq-war-hans-blix/

This is a nice summary of regime change
http://publicintellectualsproject.mcmaster.ca/democracy/real...
How is it 'slightly less so'? In what way is it open at all? I see no different between this behavior and Apple's behavior except that Apple has a (slightly) more human appeals procedure.

And frankly, users buy Android for the Apps, so what good is the platform being open if the store is not?
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The thing about weather temperature outliers, however, is that they're highly relevant to the effects resulting from them: an hard freeze at an unexpected time, or a colder seasonal low, can have huge impacts on agriculture, infrastructure (roads, pipes, overhead wires, and structures can be damaged by freezing or ice storms), similarly heat can result in ruined crops, heat deaths, drought, and fires. Diseases, pests, and parasites can also be strongly influenced by weather.

And in terms of the energy surplus (or deficit) represented, these are huge changes being represented. Takes a lot of energy to heat (or cool) the world.
I have friends in LA/Hollywood who use the word "gig" when referring to any job of indeterminate length; especially if it pays well. ex: "Oh, man, I'd love to have that gig!"
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You could definitely still do a lot less in-house than FB does, and be successful. FB seems to delight in building tools and infrastructure.

Bloomberg is probably a better example of a company which builds "optional" technology in house, just to be awesome, though -- they're not at the scale of FB (where "traditional" solutions break down), but from what I've seen, they do a lot of interesting work in-house because their staff want to do it, and because it lets them have really top-quality staff in a highly competitive market.
Just wondering if you are going to handel licensing, bounding, and insurance. It appears you could possibly be banging up against 3PL regulations.
I'm thinking something along the lines of a marketplace exclusively for entrepreneurs, where you'd create say offers or packages which employers can purchase, and on our end we'd go out and ultimately serve as your recruiter and find you work that fits in your schedule.

The issue is that founders don't have time to look for work and browse job descriptions, or interview --- so we'd need to make it clear that you have x amount of availability, you're being hired remotely, and at a rate you specify.

For employers, entrepreneurs typically have highly desirable skill sets --- even with limited availability and performing remote work.

Thoughts?
I don't really know why you chose to make these distinction as a response to what I wrote.

You said HN is not an appropriate place for this kind of discussion. That's all I was disagreeing with. I would agree that an arbitrary discussion of US politics would be out of place, but on this occasion it is directly relevant to this community.
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GnuTLS is LGPL 2.1+: https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/39aaa63a1a4cb8432... not GPL 3 as that file seems to imply
I wasn't aware of this, they certainly were vocal enough to make it appear like a mob.
Does working toward your side projects without necessarily writing code count? There are some days where I devote myself to figuring out something on my system that's essential for my side project, and those days I don't necessarily write any code.
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It's best if you actually just _read_ code everyday and the writing is just the side effect of tinkering with it. Like chess you will save a lot of time by learning from other people's games before you actually do something on your own.
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FWIW, I know of at least one member of the billion-plus exit club who was a core founder & did sidework during the early days....