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"Aloft" is a bit of a misnomer, I believe, for something sitting on the Moon.

Both of the space telescopes I mentioned are targeted for L2, which is well beyond the Moon's orbit, so there's no chance they'll de-orbit. I believe they use reaction wheels for pointing, not propellant, but as L2 is not stable, you're right that it needs some fuel for station keeping.

On the other hand, the Moon has quakes, and large temperature swings. Wouldn't that be much easier to set up an effectively stationary sunshield for the stillness of L2 instead? Plus, the Moon blocks out about 1/2 the sky, which seems like it might limit what you can do.
two bricks in a school from an $89 satchel? Might one not do better there?
1. Should you get an MBA?

I think there are 2 situations where an MBA could be helpful. First, if you plan to move into management, then an MBA is helpful. Second, if you plan to start a company, an MBA is helpful.

The advantage of an MBA is it'll give you an understanding of the business aspects of building a startup.

However, if you plan to stay technical then obviously an MBA would not help.

2. Project Management

There's a lot to be said about experience with PM. But to get this type of a role you need to show the employer that you're the type of person who takes responsibility.

3. Startups - India vs. US

Starting a business is hard. I have experience starting 2 companies in the US, and 1 in India. Both environments have pluses and minuses. I would not say its 100x harder to start a business in India, but it's definitely different.

The US is a mature economy, the rules are very clear, and starting a company is fast. So is shutting it down.

In India, the economy is growing, the rules are defined, but getting stuff done is tough. Setting up a company requires more capital, more clarity about what you're doing, and shutting down (in case of failure) is way more expensive.
BitShares + Ethereum are two great teams that are undoubtedly pushing the cryptocurrency ecosystem forward. DAC's and DAO's will bring another wave of cool tech.

I think the next big economic bubble/cycle in cryptoland could come thanks to advancements in these two projects.

The fact that both teams get along really well is also awesome... http://bitshares.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Dan-Vitalik-...
A foreigner working in the USA doesn't get to vote for the laws they live under. That's what I'm trying to communicate.
Another thing that's bitten me from time to time is what might be called FocusNabbing: where you're entering a password into one site and something else steals the focus, so now you're potentially typing part of your credentials there. It could be some other application running in your OS showing a modal alert or some other tab suddenly stealing focus (looking at you, Google Calendar).

While this attack vector is far more difficult to exploit, there should be protection against this kind of focus stealing. If your browser detects that you currently have the focus in a password field, it should block any attempt to switch the focus away to something else. The same should apply to the OS itself.
Watsi is incredible. I really love what they do and envy those who created it. It's also a nice surprise to see Watsi and I share the same birthday.

I'm a 26 year old, somewhat privileged white male. I have accomplished nothing in life. I'm still struggling to graduate from college which I'd spent 6 years of my life for. I get depressed thinking about it, and just want to dedicate everything I have as a human being to work for some humanitarian organization similar to Watsi so I could feel like I'm good for something. Of course, then I realize these organizations don't exist to help privileged people like me to figure out what we want in life, but to help people who have real problems. I'm such a cliche. I applaud Watsi team not because they're a bunch of wonderful people who have great talent, but because they wanted to use their talent to make the world a better place. I wish I had your courage.

I'll donate whenever I can, which doesn't amount to much, but every bit helps. I hope.

PS: This thread should be about Watsi but I couldn't help share what I feel. I hope you don't take it the wrong way. Thank you.
Was it?

As in, do you have some empirical basis for that statement -- as in, you know, something related to actual statements made by the creator(s) of the original bitcoin protocol itself? Or is it just something you find nifty to believe in (therefore it must be true)?

Please clarify.
I think a lot of the features Julia julialang.org has, could be implemented just as easily in Common Lisp. Macros in general are much simpler to use to generate domain specific code than templates in C++ are, yet there are tons of very high effort numerical algorithms implemented in C++ and virtually none in Common Lisp.
Good explanation.

I understand and agree with letting somebody else make a tough decision.

I was a little concerned with the OP's explanation as OP made it (almost) sound like a one size fits all strategy.
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It has to be so frustrating to Google that the people responsible for Android make it so hard for users to upgrade to versions that support SHA-2.
Actually the SNI extension is sent in the clear. That's one of the things TLS 1.3 is supposed to fix. (See e.g. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10484.ht... for a discussion about how to handle SNI there). You have a point, though, in that the TLS extensions sent by the client might give you some indication with what client you are talking with. I would not hope for it though, and even if, such heuristics are hell of an ugly hack inside the TLS stack.
Returning this or not returning this, THIS is the question :)
"Cluster On Die can be understood as if you split the CPU and LLC into two parts that behave like two CPUs in NUMA. The OS is presented two affinity domains. "

Those Who Are About To Die ... err ... write kernel scheduler We Salute You
> So why sacrifice compatibility for no improvement.

No improvement? How about improvement in security?
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I don't deny its performance, and I'm actually quite bullish on it. I just think 365-665 days is a fairly arbitrary number, and a lifetime of 4-5 years is not enough to draw conclusions from.
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Does a foreigner working in Switzerland get to vote in any election? It's my impression that all countries restrict voting to their own citizens.
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Actually, in the case of SNI, the hostname IS sent in plain text. It's sent with the initial ClientHello message so that the server can use it to select the proper server certificate for the session.
Independence is a tradeoff. On one side, they'll put the issue of not having currency and other downsides, on the other hand they'll put the benefits that they see fit.

Krugman's argument might be sound, I don't know, but I don't think it's the only argument.
I wonder if this will be less of an issue here in Canada with our euro-style chip & PIN setup. In theory the attackers wouldn't have long-lived access to any of the payment information. I suppose we'll see.

The attackers probably have my name/email address/mailing information, which kind of sucks.
The reason I was pissed off was the patronizing "you may want to do a little research". Not that he/she didn't know I had been on Isotreninoin.
> By having a review process for extensions just a few suffer (the extension developers) and many (the users) benefit, because they can trust the browser.

The users will also suffer if there are less extensions available because most developers of $small_hobby_project don't want to go through an approval process every time they try to update their extension (and you would need to check every update, or the whole ordeal is pointless).

They'll especially suffer if, typical for Google, the extension review team is horrible and understaffed. Google can't even get paid support right, what makes you think they'd be quick and orderly about approving free browser extensions.
What’s the problem with too much funding?
encouraging that they are using this as a motivator to "roll out EMV "Chip and PIN" to all U.S. stores by the end of this year" ahead of the prescribed deadline.

edit: "Chip and PIN" is taken directly from the sec filing that is linked.

the described deadline of october 2015 for the liability shift comes from banks[1] and not a US law or similar.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#United_States
If you prefer something that doesn't force you to go all in, check out Glowing Bear. It's a WeeChat relay client that I've been contributing to. Basically, it connects to your existing WeeChat running on your server, meaning you can continue using that, or use both in parallel. Works great on mobile as well.

https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear

http://www.glowing-bear.org/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glowing_be...

Why reinvent the wheel when you can let someone else do the heavy lifting? ;)
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Is this some kind of Scrooge McDuck excuse? If your income tax rate is 30%, on $1,000 donation, you get only $300 back in tax credits. If donation is not tax-deductible, then you won't get $300 so don't donate $1,000. Donate only $700.
This isn't tech or startup related, so I understand if it gets flagged. But it's one of the biggest stories today in the US.

I think it is an important parallel to how we delude ourselves in the tech world about the extent of male privilege -- how, in situations of gender conflict, we tend to assign the best possible intentions to males and the worst to females. What would we see if cameras captured the harassment and discrimination that occasionally lead to the high profile stories we hear about?
That depends entirely on body mass since the effect is dose dependent (one of the few things we understand well about the positive effects of alcohol).
Did you see the wiki ?
Oracle isn't alone in core based pricing.

Microsoft licenses by core as well

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-move-li...
maybe the use of "sign"?
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It would be nice indeed, but one advantage of web-irc clients like this, is that you can run it on a server for people who can't access IRC directly from their location (firewalls, private networks, etc).

For example, I run a web-irc instance for the people on the Montreal mesh network (which runs mostly on private/unique-local addresses).
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>But relying grandma's pension on BTC? That's unethical to me (and stupid).

Who has suggested investing pensions in Bitcoin? I've never heard anyone make a bona fide argument for this.
FWIW this is a good example of how not to get hired by Google (at least in the technical space). The essence of his message was "I want to work for you, I work really hard." which, when you think about it, few people work at Google who don't already want to work there, and well if you don't work hard you don't stay. So the two pieces of information this guy tries to share with Google are not actionable or useful to someone evaluating them.

If you really want to work for Google, you need to have a good reason why you want to work for Google.

The two types of folks I saw who regularly made it through the process into a hire were people who were pursuing some goal and doing so at Google would be good for Google, and people who were doing some thing Google thought would be useful for them to be doing at Google so they went out and recruited them. I don't recall a single person whose only goal was to "work at Google" actually got through the process.
My dad in France can send money, instantly, to me who live(s) in the US.

Umm, no. He can't send you "money", using BTC. All he can send you is bitcoin. There's still this pesky business of converting between bitcoin and fiat currency, on either end. And all the preamble about getting your Uncle to sign onto one of these proxy services (and to accept the general idea of bitcoin), and all that.

Maybe the overhead works out favorably in favor of BTC in the end, or maybe it doesn't. But the tradeoff isn't nearly as simple as you're making it out to be.
Nah. What I like about this feature is that it requires no new OS support because it's just NUMA and OSes already support NUMA. This feature should benefit clouds that are already dividing servers into shared-nothing domains.
Two things:

1. Hashes don't "sign" things (not directly anyway)

2. Hashes aren't unique in theory or practice (using a 256-bit hash on every 257-bit number will generate 2^256 collisions by the pigeonhole principle).
Because of the type annotation on the `x` declaration. Rust takes type constraints on the result type into account when determining what implementation to call.
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> And it wasn’t just Spain, it was all of southern Europe and more. Even euro-area countries with sound finances, like Finland and the Netherlands, have suffered deep and prolonged slumps.

I hadn't heard of troubles in those two countries before before, though I'm sure like pretty much every country in Europe — or indeed the world — they didn't go entirely unscathed during a global financial crisis. Scotland, the UK as a whole and other western European countries aren't exactly in the depths of recession and unemployment that have been happening in Spain and Greece, for example.

Note the lack of mention of Norway (not that it's a eurozone country), which is in an incredible financial position with a $900bn fund made up primarily by saving a portion of oil revenue. While Norway has had 15 years to amass this huge fund, this is the model that Scotland would like to follow — as after independence it would have control of its north sea oil and gas revenue.

> In short, everything that has happened in Europe since 2009 or so has demonstrated that sharing a currency without sharing a government is very dangerous.

What happened was dangerous, though arguably the use of a shared currency and central bank helped countries support one another.

In any case, the most likely outcome in the case of Scottish independence is a currency union with the rest of the UK, in a similar manner to the Euro. If the Bank of England denies Scotland the use of its assets, it will also have to forgo Scotland's share of the liabilities, essentially wiping out Scotland's share of UK debt. So it's unlikely that Scotland's currency would be completely separate in any case.

All in all, while there are naturally unknown factors, there are plenty of reasons to seek independence and just in terms of economics — even excluding oil and gas revenue — an independent Scotland would appear to be in a good financial position.
Keep telling yourself that as we change the world.
> We often see candidates trying to expedite the offer process in order to receive offers around the same time.

As a candidate, what would be the best tactics to achieve that objective? Say I have 6-8 candidate employers, from mature startup to enterprise in size, and I'm moderately senior. My approach would be to do the phone screens with them all, and narrow it down to about 4 companies to interview with in person, then do that all in a single week, planning on accepting somewhere at the end of the next week.
Well you could learn a lot of the underlying concepts yourself first. It would only help you professionally. If you want to get into some C++, I strongly recommend Robert Sedgewick's[1] entire set of algorithmic books

Note: I've been doing 'nix/python/perl for about 7 years professionally and also don't have a degree. I've actually been using the Khan Academy to re-learn some of the more advanced Algebra and Calculus bits I forgot a little bit each night for the past few weeks. When I'm done, I'll likely find a college that will do night school CS. Not because I need it, but because I want to have a degree. Having used Linux as my primary operating system fulltime for the past 12 years, I can honestly say I could teach just about any of the Linux/Unix classes. But it is good to have accomplished something.

[1] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/ and http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Sedgewick/e/B000AQ4JCO
In fairness -- after a short while, people began to actually intentionally provoke Drepper -- knowing the reaction that would come (re-opening old closed bug reports over and over and over and over, snarky remarks, general complaining in the bug tracking system instead of mailing lists, etc).
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If it passes, Scotland won't actually become independent until 2016, so there's no worry there.

But in any case, there would be no reason for Scotland to make the existing UK and European standards stricter, especially for people who were already legally in the country before independence.
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yes, it's very plausible as a thing in itself. They can succeed without replacing smartphones.

Computers keep shrinking, from mainframes to desktops, laptops, smartphones. I'm curious about the next smaller form-factor, and argue it's not watches, but glasses. That was the claim I meant to make.
When a small particle gets accelerated to great speeds as it approaches a massive object it simply passes through because the collisions are off/aren't perfect even when they're on
Key point is that it doesn't just call for "Protections for Net Neutrality", but that it specifically calls for Title II classification.
I've been writing assembly and C since grade school, but yet this is immediately interesting to me. Rapid development of quick hacks is super useful both in my personal projects and when I'm doing embedded security testing. Would I use this for a mass-market project? Maybe not. But I'll certainly use RAD tools for embedded work for one-offs.
Are you not then further taxed on that $700 as it must be classified as cash spending?
The plan is for Scotland to honour all current visas. Any reapplications/extensions/etc would then just go through the Scottish system thereafter rather than the UK system.

The intention is also to make immigration to Scotland easier and more forgiving, and expand the number of visas granted, not tighten up the rules.

http://scotreferendum.com/questions/i-am-living-in-scotland-...

http://scotreferendum.com/questions/what-will-an-independent...
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That was kinda my experience too. The mental training wheels that I came up with were based on remembering that like charges repel, so the electrons flee the negative terminal. But it didn't take me very long to simply regard voltage and charge as quantities of "stuff" related by equations.
We've used Lob for various printing needs from postcards to stand up banners (excellent btw) for trade shows; and plan to continue using them as needs arise. The turnaround time has always been quick.
Great article, and great explanation if why you posted this. This truly points to bigger issues in Tech, in America, and the world.
Musl-libc and uClibc are probably the most popular right now.
BTLE is actually quite simple to understand.

BTLE implementations on the other hand, those are horrible.

It isn't all that hard to outright crash an iPhone when using BTLE.

Other platforms are... interesting.

Part of the problem is that the overall big BT spec is rather all encompassing, getting test coverage on it is hard.
I would assume as they expand internationally, they will send jobs to the "print shop" nearest the destination to minimize time and cost.
Wow another STM32F design win. Amazing that folks are still using AVR parts when 32 Bit Cortex M parts are cheaper, faster, and more capable.

The trend to on board interpreters is interesting. The whole JS thing with Beaglebones was my first experience with it. Back in the stoneage there were Handiboards with a version of C that was interpreted on the board. And I've built over a dozen robots with boards that ran BASIC of one flavor or another. Personally if you're going with the STM32 chips anyway I expect Micropython is a better starting point.
Ah, it's a bit garbled and I read it the other way. Ta.
TapChat is similar, has web and Android apps: http://tapchatapp.com/
the "emoji everywhere" movement is really starting to annoy me. Half of the symbols still don't work universally, rendering question marks (?) and square boxes for an awful lot of users.

Not to mention I do not foresee ever having a keyboard with a Cow key, or Bridge key, etc.
True, but you would only be connected while your browser is open. I think it is preferable to have a client running somewhere on a server and connecting to that. Even better if it's not a third-party server but your own. In the end, what's the difference between attaching a screen session and connecting a web client? I use WeeChat in a terminal multiplexer and connect to it with Glowing Bear.
My most challenging thing was doing the last rewrite of the child care subsidy management system at our agency. It combined all the bits and pieces I had developed in the last decade, added several new layers of detail (was able to complete all forms and reports) and added depth (historical data tracking). Went from single user app (FoxBase - actually the old version used a distributed-data method so it was multi-user) to Web Based (LAMP) one. Well integrated...

There's just a lot to write about it, lots of different challenges and successes. and I could tell stories on those older systems too there are successes and challenges all the time.

I think a lot of this is demonstrating experience, interest and problem solving skills, might also touch on communication skills and able to relate technical aspects understandably.
The problem with this project is crazy inflation in Ghana. We were actually really surprised about the prices for building material but the good news is that the community is coming together to provide the labor to make it happen. Very inspiring story of the guy who is behind this project. His grandmother (who is illiterate) insisted that he would go to the school regularly. This enabled him to get a scholarship for a statistics undergrad program in the US and he just graduated from UofU with a PhD in Public Health with emphasis on bio statistics. He has now returned to Ghana to rebuild the school (which is cancelled during rainy season as the roof is totally leaky and turns the school into a mud pool).
I expect this to be a wealth transfer event and personally I am going to make some cheeky One-Cancels-the-Other Order (OCO) bids and cheeky offers on the pound and on publicly listed Scottish companies, especially financial stocks. I expect price action will likely surge upon confirmation of where this vote will go and I'm betting I'll be able to make a profit from this event. In my experience the market always overshoots upon 'risky' events and reverts back to the mean.

I would be interested to hear if anyone else sees this vote the way I do (or doesn't)?
To the people who downvoted this comment: Read their FAQ and you'll see what I mean. Also, learn to take a fucking joke.
It is not clear to me why they would have your name, email address, and mailing information? For example, I recently purchased some items from home depot and used my debit card + pin, other than rolling the pin, what else should we be doing?

Do you have a home depot CC?
2) Also, I don't use GMail; say what you will, it's another defense against this.

As the article states, you can use this to replicate any website. It's not just isolated to GMail.
>> 2) Also, I don't use GMail; say what you will, it's another defense against this.

Using a mail client to get your GMail instead of a web client is a defense against this too.