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A true valley inspiration
Interesting, it didn't take very harsh measures for me to be left with only Pittsburgh!
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> Where is the tax base?

In corporations?
What a wonderful experience to read this article! Author has a gift for writing. I hope he travels more and writes more :). The only thing missing is all those photos he mentioned he had been taking. I really hate it when travel writers hog their photos and don't post them. It would really add another dimension for the reader if author can post more photos somewhere.
I'm assuming, as there is a live PE executable modification payload listed, and Windows is supposed to throw warnings for unverified / unsigned updates and installers, that the CA infrastructure is already compromised.

Either that or most Windows users still just habitually click through security warnings, which I sincerely hope is no longer the case.
Why not think about startups?
Ship the public key by post like internet banking in the early 2000s.

This is actually how OpenBSD operates. If you buy an official CD set, the thing ships with keys which are then used to sign downloaded packages.

When the keys go via a side channel, the probability of compromise decreases considerably.
Thanks for the mention! I'm one of the cofounders. We're already making a huge difference in debt collection for several leading technology companies. We had to rethink a lot of the core solutions and technologies for debt collection to not fall into the same traps.
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awesome concept, looking forth to trying out!
thx mate!
The underlying assumption being that you won't live much longer than anyone else. Hopefully this will change, and soon. Do those psych textbooks make any guesses to how long an average human would have to live before they exhausted their brain's storage capacity?

I am reminded of the immortal character in Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently's, who has been alive too long and forgotten all of his early life (including who he is). I believe he was supposed to be a Time Lord.
If Quake was done today
There's a widespread perception that once someone is arrested, there is some haste with which they are provided legal representation. But unless you have a lawyer on call, that isn't the case. You don't even have a public defender on your case until after your arraignment, which is when your bail is set.
Hey,

I also think it is a really good idea.

I'd personally like if the administrator could set the default rendering engine for example, if I could set Markdown because my team is familiar with it.

You might want to also have a look at Slack and integrating StandUpMail with Slack.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5991005/slack-is-killing-e...

Also you'll probably need a feature where the administrator could set on what days the emails are sent.

GitHub integration would also be a bonus. For example, merged pull requests, etc.

Anything like that would be awesome!
More reasonable places in the higher desert: Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, and if you don't mind some snow...Jackson Hole.

Only SLC has jobs...oh and there is Denver also. My dream is to live in Jackson Hole, but I think you need to be rich.
Taken like that, Olympia could be a bedroom community for....Tacoma. Not sure about tech jobs there, though. There are state government jobs in Olympia, so if you are a lawyer...
Might as well just live in Portland then, since you'd be working and shopping ere anyways. And let's not forget the exploding mountain problem. Bellingham is nice and they even have some tech there.
Any OCR to scan table and graphics?
Hi guys, don't you know about any perfect OCR software that is capable of scanning text and tables from PDF to XDOC?

Example here: http://snag.gy/UzZpW.jpg

Cheers
I think they may have been referring to the tools used to identify security vulnerabilities and exploit them after the initial port scanning. Probably just variants on Nessus / OpenVAS / Metasploit / etc. at a guess.

I agree with you though, The existence of nmap, Nessus etc. isn't the problem. These tools help the state of security over time. The fact that the governments of the world are so paranoid that they feel they need to try to automatically compromise the majority of internet facing devices in the world is a problem.
d.j.b software (qmail, nacl, dnscurve, others). It is rare, but it has been done.
Maybe Universities should do more. As part of every undergrad CS course, get extra credit for finding and accurately reporting a bug in any well-known FOSS package. Bonus credit if it is a security-related bug. Even more credit for actually fixing the bug.
It is literally a single square mile. Nobody's sense of democratic principals should extend so far as to say a single square mile cannot choose to govern itself a little differently.

There are 7,000 actual residents in the City of London and more than 300,000 people work there. To give the huge imbalance of people who work but don't live there a voice in government a mere 16000 non-resident votes are also allowed and divied up to businesses with respect to their size. For the boring local government services provided, this is more than fair.

Also, in general the people who live (especially) and the people who work in the City of London are fabulously wealthy. My heart doesn't bleed for their lost electoral rights (not that I actually believe that the system is unfair) and they all seem pretty okay with it anyway.
I wasn't saying it was a good idea, just that the majority of people using one refer to it as a pepper.
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Is every object of a type Eo?
Host almost any application on IIS via IIS Node
Too much work for the user or the developer?
I've decided not to be a native developer, but instead focus only on cross-platform tools. Right now, I've settled on Lua, as I believe its a really powerful, yet simple technology, that has a lot to offer. Of course, I still need to do some native development - extending the Lua host, and so on - but the meat and beef of my applications is only going to be done in the Lua VM .. its finally delivering on the promise of Java (write once, run anywhere) and is just enough of a challenge to keep things interesting. I have to switch between "Host developer" and "App developer" mode, but I'm finding that context switch to get simpler and simpler as time goes on ..

It means the only real native effort that has to be made is just enough to get things working in the Lua side of things, of course - this has its challenges. But, being responsible for the full scope of the framework that supports my app has really made for a more rewarding experience. It has its ups and downs - certainly its not very easy to convince other developers of the merits of this technique - but it definitely results in a sharper, more consistent focus. I feel that the wall-garden effect of other frameworks/environments is no longer an impacting event in my developer chops - I have to understand the native way, but I don't have to use it for the full scope of my implementation.

Plus, there is something very satisfying about deploying on multiple platforms with the same code-base.
What does "IC-only" track mean? I am assuming it means that you can keep advancing in a technical field without moving into management, but what exactly does it mean?
Though in Haskell's case, the compiler leaves enough freedom in most cases anyway.
Web apps do not necessarily require a network connection.
This is close to the truth – that character was not supposed to be a Time Lord in the book, but the storyline of the book is loosely based on two separate scripts written by the same author for two separate Doctor Who serials. (For unrelated reasons, the one script containing that character was only partially filmed, and the serial was therefore not broadcast at the time.)
It's most likely to have been written off?
Yes it's true, but I would not take the smith tools argument that far.

You could say there's a spectrum of low level/high level tools you will either work with or build yourself.

Most low level tools are now quite good enough. The more you go high level, the more will deal with specific cases that will restrain your ability to do thing the way you intended. Like the article said, Unity will fit for very small teams and very simple games, but it will be hard to do anything really complex.

I think compilers, languages and engines are better suited for more use cases than an editor like unity is. It's a dilemma of flexibility versus speed and ease of development.

ease of development/flexibility:

ease<|--#-------------------------|>flexibility

ease<|-----#----------------------|>flexibility

ease<|----------#-----------------|>flexibility

ease<|--------------#-------------|>flexibility

ease<|------------------#---------|>flexibility

ease<|----------------------#-----|>flexibility

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A startup is not the solution to this problem.
Actually I wanted that there should not be any investment opportunity by players. But thanks for the reply :)
I don't think most people do. I'm in my early 30s, though, and do - I use a service called LegalShield that I pay something like $17/mo for, and I have access to a lawyer who will do up to a certain amount of work per month covered by that fee, and then if I need more in-depth representation I can have them perform it at a discounted rate.

I've used it a few times (contracts questions, mostly), but I also have a lawyer "on call" if I'm ever arrested or otherwise am in legal trouble. I realize that $17/mo isn't affordable for everyone, but it's worth it to me.
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طريقة لقراءة رسائل الفيسبوك دون الحاجة إلى تثبيت تطبيق فيسبوك ماسنجر
Thanks for the eye-opening analogy!
Also +1 for Sabbatical

I'm in a similar situation right now and think I'll again make a sabbatical.

It helped me a lot when I found myself for the first time in such a situation. When I came back I was deeply relaxed and highly motivated to start working again.
I was so lucky to sign the new contract before I started the Sabbatical - therefore everything was really chilled and relaxed.

I can really recommend it - take some pressure from yourself and find joy in life.
Top Gear tries to kill a Hilux :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
If you are using org-mode you should consider org-babel which does all you need for litrate programming and more.
Why do you feel obligated to report the activity?
Pattern Recognition Algorithm Recognizes When Drivers Are on the Phone
I'm in my mid-40's and have learned: you should have a lawyer. Pay for legal insurance the way you pay for health insurance - both are vital to operating in the modern, western world, alas.

Its a fact that our lives are fully dominated by the laws and regulations of the countries that we live in. If you don't have the time, or wherewithal, to understand all of these legalities (and few of us do, unless we've done law school), then it really pays to have an expert available to do that for you. Its unfortunate, but true: so many times, not knowing what is legal and not legal will get you into trouble - especially if you are entrepreneurial, and want to seriously have an impact on the world around you.
How often would you imagine the emails get send? We were thinking of a daily use case (maybe excluding weekends)...
That's increasingly an issue with phone number transfers. I've had multiple work numbers get rung constantly by debt collectors. Apparently a big problem with cell phones too.
The BBC somehow survives now that it's actually linking to papers referenced, entities discussed in the article, etc.
How important would be searching and tagging the historic content for you?
I don't find this long article particularly enlightening about NASA's situation, except that budget cuts and lack of moonshot type projects aren't particularly inspiring to the young.

Ultimately, that's where space activity should go (and hopefully will go). Over a few centuries, shipping went from having the perception (rightly or wrongly) of adventure and travel, to a base commodity. Today you could ship a 40ft container of laptops from Dalian to Rotterdam (5500 km by North-East passage) for 60 US cents a laptop, and if you're sending lots of containers, expect a bulk discount. If the cost of shipping[1] doubles, the end consumer buying the laptop won't even notice! This is where space activity should end up :)

[1]: Obviously by shipping I mean the bit on actual ships; not the cost of trucks to and from the ports, which is horrifically expensive by comparison.
* Don't use any technology before, during or after a protest.

* Wear something that you can throw away.

* Don't wear recognizable brands or symbols.

* Hide your face.

* Cover every visible part of your skin.

Protests and riots are all fun and games until you are part of the last roundup and you finally have time to figure out that protesting will never change anything to what you are protesting against.
Are DuckDuckGo instant answers being considered as well?
If the people who work there "got a voice in government" that would be quite a bit better. According to the article that's not the case: Corporate management of "Goldman Sachs and the People's Bank of China" would be calling the shots.

Not sure if I understand where you are coming from. How can you not see a fundamental problem with the situation (even if "people are rich" and "just a square mile" would make this particular situation less severe)?

Would you be ok with an expansion of this system to other areas? How do you feel about democratic ideas in general?
I don't know if this counts as literate programming, but one of my favourite outputs for learning about code is Docco: http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/

Sample output: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
Chill man !

A lot of us on HN would love to be pulling down >$200k. My guess is it's like golden handcuffs, you have gotten used to the lifestyle it allows and won't contemplate earning half of that. I think that's what's blinkering your evaluation of the many brilliant suggestions here by other readers of HN.
The sneaky thing they did is write seL4 in Literate Haskell, and then translate it to C. That involves some serious understanding of both languages!

http://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/seL4/tech.pml
I use ToRA http://torasql.com/ and/or Oracle SQLDeveloper. Both of them are Oracle DB tools that work fine with Postgres with the right drivers. pgadmin is intolerable.
Can you recommend other resources and reading materials other than this? I would like more on top of the provided links thank you. OP's url have got me interested in AI now, but mainly for solving puzzles like this.
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So what did they do? Write the code in C and then proved it with Isabelle/HOL? Extracted C code from Isabelle/HOL?
Does Firefox have separate processes per tab/window yet? Literally the only reason I switched to Chrome back when
It does have it in nightly versions but not enabled by default. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
IC: Individual Contributor, examples are Staff Engineer, Architect, Principal Architect, Distinguished Architect...
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Red Hat is working on ksplice and SuSE on kGraft. And unlike Ksplice they try to merge it into the mainline kernel.
Ah, going by many software burns in the past I'll wait until it's a stable feature before making the journey back
I'm curious about the diversity score as well. Honolulu only gets a 3 out of 6!

http://two88cities.herokuapp.com/cities/details/342/Hawai'i/...
Certified software already exists ("trusted nix" anyone?).

Though in practice it's arguable if it's actually any "better" than non-certified one. It also costs a lot more money to certify.

Some OSS software has indeed problems with certification. A real example: if you do a statistical analysis for a government or public administration, you need to use certified software. Many people use Stata in that field though would prefer R for a number of reasons. I have, personally, twice as much confidence in any result that R is spewing compared to Stata. But Stata is certified, while R is not.

To bring back to OpenSSL, you could readily start the certification process of a single version of OpenSSL if you really wanted, and most importantly, had money to. You know, for you critical business. Or you can just buy a certified SSL implementation in the first place and use that. Because if YOU're resposible for security, whose fault is when an exploit is found? The SSL developers, or you for not using certified software?

Because that's how stuff is already working in practice.

People in this thread seem to forget how free/oss software is made. Complaining about implementation details or "organization" politics about a group of people loosely collaborating is a bit hypocritical.

Start a "Trusted OpenSSL" startup, collect money, and start employing the core developers. Then you might still have money to buy a Coverity license which will definitely help in spotting problems like these.
>Contrary to the popular belief, The Big Bang model simply does not concern itself with what happened at the exact moment of Big Bang; what it does is describe the evolution of the Universe after that, and does it well.

That sounds as much of a cop out as the answers religious people give.
So how did this 4d universe come about? :D
To verify that a username matches a given email address, so that you can provide password resets?
Can someone explain to me how you commit agri-terrorism with unregulated seeds? What is the government's argument for this?
On similar lines 'I paid a bribe' from India.. http://www.ipaidabribe.com/reports/paid#gsc.tab=0
But still doesn't prove anything about where the universe "came from".
Most SME's usually don't have redundant everything (unlike large enterprises, and IT specific companies) in their environments. They will usually do a cost / benefit analysis and choose to skimp on certain redundancies (usually somewhat "stateless" stuff like routers, VPN endpoints and other network gear).

These companies are always hindered by the downtime incurred when one of these non-redundant devices needs restarting. In a couple of previous positions over the years I would have loved the ability to apply patches with no downtime.

There are environments where the time to failover to redundant infrastructure is critical (HVT, particle physics etc.) but the more common use case is probably going to be the companies that have no failover capability for certain parts of their infrastructure.
Hi,
I didn't realise this was where all the cool kids hang out. Google alerts 4tw
Involuntary Eye Movement a Foolproof Indication for ADHD Diagnosis
Or on robots?
Paper here (paywalled): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698914...
Hi, a global option to hide dates would be handy. See some people love posts to have dates on them say if you're discussing a current event, its a good idea. Other times, removing a date, makes the content seem more timeless.
In the UK we do have shops with only self service checkouts (convenience stores, not the larger supermarkets, so far).

Receptionists are an odd case, as telephone access to people has either been removed (use a web interface), or goes direct to where you want. Redesigning the interface.

Law bots will only change if the law changes to be more computer friendly.
I would have to second this. It would make things really easy and simple to configure.
Streak (YC S11) hiring for customer success roles
Streak.com (YC S11) is hiring full time engineers. We’re a small and nimble company working on email for businesses.

We're growing fast (our user engagement has been doubling every 4 months).

We’re trying to make email better for businesses. We’re built on top of Gmail and we help business manage all their processes (sales, hiring, fundraising, etc.) inside of Gmail.

At Streak, you’ll be able to:
- help customers use Streak with their own processes and special business needs
- help with tactical customer support issues
- work on a product that people use everyday for 28% of their day.

Obviously:
- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)
- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing
- We’re well funded by elite silicon valley investors

Our requirements:
- you love working hard, not just for financial rewards, but for the opportunity to grow personally
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We’d love to hear from you at customerlove@streak.com, please send us samples of anything you’ve built.
I feel there's an important amount of context left out for anyone to give you sound advice. Do you have a wife/husband? Children? Ages? Any other commitments? A mortgage, car payments, other debt? What fields have you been in? Then, there's the personal side. What's on your bucket list? Could you earn half of what you're used to and live comfortably along with any dependents you may have?

Also, what's wrong with management? For that matter, what's wrong with being bored or confused? It seems like you have a certain sense of urgency for change, but is work where change is most required in your life?

What do you want? If nothing, then at least learn to be content. This is not advice, just me repeating what I often find myself contemplating.
Here in the UK, there are people who've been forced to miss their friends' weddings and their own holiday trips due to the same tactics by employers, despite having booked the time off well in advance. Yet our business lobbying organisations have the gall to claim that the zero-hour contracts which make this possible are good for employees because they offer the employees flexibility.
I'm interested - but literate programming like this, as far as I understand from README is not a lot more than having good docstrings in each function.

So maybe I am missing something but sphinx / python seems as good a replacement as can be - although the easy mixing of real code and docs is nice
I hope better than gobject. Any hope to see regular mingw builds?
Sabbatical is a great idea.

Try and do it cheaply as well. The places you end up staying as a result puts you on an interesting path where you can meet some very interesting folks.

I try and do a 1-3 month long snowboarding trip each year. Buy a season pass, find a room in a hostel and hang out with the other seasonairres. The total cost is only slightly more than a 1-2 week holiday in a hotel. I've meet some awesome, crazy, fun, random and right-down good folks from all around the world.

The imagination gets fired and after some time, I actually really look forward to coming back home and working on something.
I've gone back to FF after using Chrome literally form the day it landed. I changed because of vimperator + the ability to theme the header slimmer (i'm on laptop 24/7).

But frankly it kind of sucks a bit and I have to jump over to Chrome a lot because almost no videos will play in FF.
It's great to see kids doing great work for the public good.

Though, I do wonder how the app compares/will compare with the ACLU app for the same purpose.
That's a great find! Thank you for that.
In short: it would be a legal mess. Most inhouse game engines have a lot of dependencies on closed-source code, mostly 3rd party specialized engines for AI, path-finding, physics, loaders for asset management code, or code that talks to the game console SDKs. Even releasing code which only calls into those closed source libs might be illegal. And even if that would be possible you would need (commercial) licenses for each of those 3rd party libs if you want to compile the engine code yourself. Also, by releasing the code you're inviting patent trolls to harvest your code for patent violations. Hardening a big inhouse engine for an open source release is easily just as much work as creating the thing in the first place.

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Please remind me why Google is the default search engine in Firefox.