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Dropbox wasn't hacked
Allowing new packages to support platform specific FFI is not going to decrease the portability of the existing ecosystem. In addition, I don't think there is anything precluding FFI calls from working on multiple platforms so long as those libraries are available.
But React + Flux is an alternative to MVC.

Still early days for Flux, but the principles are sound and I hope it offers a viable alternative to all these framework that rely mainly on variants of the MVC pattern.
really? putting the link in the text and not even making it clickable(if even possible) when you have so little content that the main link should just go to the kickstarter?
Here is another stable algorithm for losing weight, which is fully compatible with cardio.

Choose a desired rate of weight loss and a measurement period. Each period, measure your inputs and do the following:

IF (weight_loss_rate < desired_rate)
input -= 200 cals
ELSE
input += 50 cals
END

After following this algorithm, your caloric intake will converge to the region [optimal rate - 150, optimal rate + 50]. This is true even accounting for noise in the measurements - that just smears out the -150 and +50 a bit.

The nice thing about bodyweight is that it's a stable monotonic dynamical system. Noise and uncertainty don't hurt you much provided you build robust controls.
I'm a huge fan of Tufte, but even he would probably concede that quite a bit of text is needed to explain the nuances and details of the Minard graphic. I mean, hell, I sat through one of his day-long seminars and the part about Minard was not short.

In any case, the OP wouldn't disagree with you...there are things for which imagery beats text (notably, maps)...but otherwise, use text. And still, you can get pretty far with just a textual description. And even for imagery, text is still an essential component for conveying information...Try going through a gallery of World Press Photo winners without reading any of the captions, for example.
Perhaps the tweeting bird could get its own Unicode character code. Then it would compress nicely (because the details of how to render it would be passed along to the font files).
As privacy is a major issue with my livelihood and my business, I think I'll avoid anything with Dropbox. Especially when it's baked in.
Heap is hiring engineers to build a new approach to analytics
> If, as the communications philosopher Marshall McLuhan famously said, television brought the brutality of war into people’s living rooms, the Internet today is bringing violence against women out of it.

Go on 4chan and 4chan-humor derived Facebook groups, and you'll see that it's not just women who are very aggressively and obscenely made fun of- it's also jewish people, black people, muslims, gay people, transsexual people, handicapped people, and so on and so on (you'd think it stop, but it really doesn't). Maybe the women harassment is so visible and has reached such epic proportions recently because out of all of these demographics, they constitute the largest one at about 50% of all humanity.

If that "humor" sounds similar to the humor of a bunch of dumb 14 year old boys at recess trying to out-wit each other by the grossness and "edginess" of their humor, that's because it is- but on a worldwide scale, and with no way for the adults to step in at some point and tell them to shut the fuck up.

While TV brought the brutality of war only into living rooms and only when it was turned on, the internet is bringing the bored, testosterone fueled, aggressive, group approval-seeking teenager into people's lives 24/7, with no way to turn it off. The internet is now everywhere- we spend time on it in the bus, at work, at home, at the doctor's office, in bed, and virtually everywhere else, which raises significantly the odds of crossing the digital paths of said teenagers.
Especially because those teenagers have hours and hours of free time to spend making violent photoshops and creating fake twitter accounts.

(and yes, sometimes the trolls are 24 year old grown ups, not teenagers, with much more means to harass those populations - but for all intents and purposes, they can be psychologically considered on the same level as immature teenagers. Those should be dealt with by law enforcement, but that's treating the symptom, not the root cause. In the short term you want to treat the symptoms, but in the long term you also want to treat the root cause. That last part is yet unclear).
Is Snapchat's unofficial API too easy to hack?
Better question - 'If someone starts, who's gonna stop 'em?'

Seriously... From their perspective we're all sitting at the bottom of a really long ski ball ramp where the balls explode if you're greater than 50% accurate and anything above 85% probably gets the job done.

Just saiyan...
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Lots of viruses used social engineering since the start. The only difference now is that once run, it doesn't have admin privileges, so it is harder for it to make itself a permanent fixture on the system.
Find a book written in 1764 and see how much of the technical detail (how society works, laws, money, etc) you understand. It'll be virtually zero. Technical things just don't last.

The texts that stand the test of time are the stories, ideas, and human history ... Things that people will still be interested in hundreds of years later.
Sarbanes-Oxley should have a separate rulebook for South Florida, statistically speaking.
Doug Engelbart of Mother of All Demos fame talked a lot about artifacts. Books are an artifact of paper and text. WISIWYG is an artifact of print media.

The technology of the medium determines the best way to convey information through it. And on top of that, whatever people are used to may influence what they do in a newer medium. For example we write to imitate speech. We use books on screens and try to recreate the world of print with WISIWYG design tools.

Text may be an evolutionary winner so far, but it is by no means some ideal artifact for communicating when computers are widespread.
It is a common misconception that Powershell is CLR only.

You can also make use of any COM, DCOM, or plain dynamic library in the shell.

There are also text formatters for interoperability with older scripts.
India's Startup Scene: Will VC Dollars Create the Next Amazon?
Hm, I think it's a feature
"National breakdown" does sound extreme, but the damage to "society" by failing to prepare for a hurricane is the sort if level of impact I am thinking of - not World War Z.

But we lack even the minimum levels of putting advice on shopping bags in the vast majority of States and countries. If there is a real need to lock down say two states, is it reasonable to expect the one that regularly has hurricane drills and experience will fare better - I assume so - and primarily because it's citizens are more prepared for hurricanes and thus anything is slightly easier to deal with.

This is an eminently reasonable position to take IMNSHO - most armies will tell you preparation beats most everything else.

all your points are valid and I am far more convinced than before I started. I guess my only objection is experience has taught me to beware of convincing explanations that I ought to do nothing ... Which barely counts as a rational position.
Thanks for taking the time to write a detailed answer. As it happens we do offer visualisation tools that show the data recorded and have a large, "erase me" button that hard deletes all information we keep for a user (also explaining at what cost).

We are also spending significant time and effort in redesigning the language of the app to be more respectful as well so I'm reassured by your comments.
Ummm... Letting a service called Conspire manage my email???? It appears that people are letting this happen though.
As a Line user, I've found stickers can be more expressive and a lot more fun than text. But there are sticker abusers. What would make this way more useful would be if you could have a blacklist of the sticker abusers
It has degraded functionality, worn bearing/tolerances etc. and will require some amount of maintenance or work to keep it going. i.e. it might be fine, or it might be fine with some applied effort by a knowledgeable person with more time then money.

Those things play off against the costs of "buying" the machine for a non-nominal sum - and also the likelihood of a quick sale.
Yeah as baddox says, you'd still be smart to vote 0% or 100%, as long as you can make a better than random pick at who is the leader and runner up. That's because voting in "black and white" is the same as Approval, and as I said, Approval gives an advantage to those who can guess better who are the leaders. Making it especially annoying in elections (such as local ones) where you have no idea who the front runners are.
The same article, but with images: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-ch...

Despite their mistake, I particularly like testing jig with capsense buttons (although I wonder why?)
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Ballers gonna ball.
Then it is great. They are saying that the leaked credentials were obtained from third-party services.
greenyoda, what do you require to assign a colour to Austria? I could maybe help you out here doing some research according to your criteria.

One of the last major "freedom initiatives" in Austria was our government's decision to abolish the data retention law on Juli 1st to comply with EU law - a small victory for data protection activists.
Videos described in text are called "stories".

Imagine a technology that can create a present experience in the user's brain that engages all the senses and evokes a dream-like state of being there... that technology is called "text" (that's a loose paraphrase of someone in the interactive fiction community, though I can't remember who.)

Music, I will grant you (mostly), but text really is an unbelievably powerful, flexible medium. It can't do everything, and everything it can do requires a certain amount of work on the reader's part and a huge amount of work on the writer's.

The remarkable thing about text is it allows us to tame and control our dreams. We don't dream in text, but we can use text to evoke waking dreams. We can be in Mirkwood or on the slopes of Mount Doom in a way that mere video can't compare with.
The subject (due to length constraints) unfortunately left out technology too.

For all the knock that MBAs get, it's worth noting that to make money and survive, businesses must do two things:

1 - Create Value

2 - Capture Value

Many of the people here excel at #1, but there are plenty of CS majors who don't create any value. Good MBAs help in capturing value. This can come from turning the business into a monopoly (a goal of Peter Thiel) or from figuring out how to incentivize a sales force. These are things generally not well understood by great programmers.

That said, MBAs also tend to be a tailing indicator. Which tells me that it's probably time to be a banker, and look for cash over equity for the next few years. :-)
I wonder if, instead of the micro lens array mentioned in other links, they have a fiber with a tip acting as a lens, such that the larger scene is transmitted to each "pixel" in the raster. Each raster point would get a slightly different scene rendered to it, be displayed by the fiber tip, and thus produce the array of images necessary for multi focal viewing. I don't know enough about optics to know if this is possible, but it sure would be cool!
Msft still supports IE8 on windows 7 and various server os's. As much as I would like to see it die it remains in a bunch of corporate environments with ms support.
Three dimensional virtual and augmented reality display system
I would love to use this, I really would. The UI is great.

But I can't get over the fact that all of my emails would go through a third-party service. It's just too much to ask these days.
That requires that any shared data be included as static data inside the compiled object file, right? Very often, you want to load "code" that is really data in an application-specific format, eg. DEX files on Android, .class files for Java, script text for Python, or templates for a webserver.
I've been using the same setup locally for years - ad-blocking/page-rewriting proxy to MITM the browsers on my machine and filter parts of pages that I don't want to even reach the browser.

If Snapchat required each user have a separate public/private keypair (which would be transferred through other means, maybe even in-person), like what SSH uses, then they would be less amenable to being MITM'd via a single centralised trusted authority.
You're completely right about the definitions (and it's probably not worth getting any further into the gun control debate to argue about whether "multi-round firing" is any more harmful in practice than "pull the trigger more than once").

But it doesn't really change the point; a firearm that isn't an "assault rifle" or an "assault weapon" is still a completely effective killing tool.

There is no way to make a generic tool that can only be used for authorized purposes. The tool has no way to determine what purposes are authorized.
Nipped that in the bud quite nicely. Some of those passwords were god-awful. Moral of the story: 2FA for the win.
One of the things I like about Startup School is the quality of people attending. I tried to organize a quick "Speed Networking" session during lunch hour - bunch of people joined in and it was fun.
I remember PG saying a lot of founders apply as single founders - I think if the organizers setup a "networking area" with a simple "speed networking" type rules it may even help people find their next co-founder. And the team behind the next big thing could say - hey "we met at startup school"
I've got no idea what it does now. Other than that sometimes useful things are under it, sometimes not.
Being a privat pilot myself, I was fascinated by the story of AF Flight 447 from both a human and technical point of view, since many times, a combination of these two factors would eventually lead to an unpleasant situation.

This documentary about AF Flight 447 is the best I found so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsgyBqlFixo

...including the last words of the pilots.
Haha, very nicely put. However, what I was getting at was that DOS/Windows permissions were even worse, and not better for it.
Wrap the thread create calls and make them care. :)
Slightly off topic but that's a terrible definition of human rights (and being in nice crisp text makes this immediately apparent).

A far better one is, "Human rights are political conditions necessary of the life of a morally autonomous being." Tyranny and democracy are both "political conditions", as is "the rule of law" and various other things. One useful thing about this definition is that under it rights are both natural and inalienable: a right may be violated (a condition may not be met) but the necessity of certain political conditions for moral beings to be able to make their own moral choices (moral autonomy) cannot be removed.

So not only does text enable us to present ideas more succinctly and precisely than images, it allows us to argue about them effectively, and to have those arguments remain somewhat accessible for thousands of years. Images can be used as components of an argument (I've never published a scientific paper without graphs) but without the accompanying text the argument is woefully incomplete, whereas text alone is capable of sustaining a vast range of arguments without any accompanying images.
Would be interesting to know what third party service it was and how they were able to make that link.

Also the pastebin claimed such a large amount (6,937,081) of impacted users but only showed a really small sample that started with the letter 'b'. Based on that sample they were already covering letters (bf, bg, bh). So I doubt this is anywhere near the claimed amount.

Asking for 'BTC' to leak more (who wants to pay for a public list?) is also extremely suspect.
Holy Contrast Rebellion, Batman! http://www.contrastrebellion.com/

LC;DR - Low contrast, didn't read.
Must a replacement perform all of the functions of the thing that it replaces in order for it to be a replacement? Let's interview our good friend the vacuum tube to find out more.
Not only is text durable, but plain text data is universal.

Take a document written in the word processor du jour 20 years ago. It is highly unlikely you could mount the physical media, let alone import the data with high fidelity. But plain text can be read by just about any tool, whereas binary/proprietary formats are limited by the longevity of the hardware/software that created them.
Oh yeah, it's really bad code. The idea was only going to be topical for a few hours after Facebook launched sticker comments, so I went for working MVP over code purity. The grunt file in particular was automatically created by the yeoman chrome-extension generator.
In the northern parts, that's called an ice storm. Few people die. Almost anyone can live 2 days without food, and water is normally safe after boiling. I think the bigger problem is that local governments are underfunded and national governments are such bureaucracies that it's nearly impossible to mobilize a rapid and effective response.
DNP does just that. And it's... not safe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol
So ... what's the lesson here for our non-nerdy friends & family? I immediately sent my closest friends a "change your Dropbox password" email, which is still valid because, whether they were hacked or not, someone may now have their password. Which is probably also their password to Facebook.

I suppose the question is, does it matter if Dropbox was hacked or if these credentials were gained by some other means? The end result for a poor user^ is the same.

(^Not me, of course. I use 1Password.)
Text may be an evolutionary winner so far, but it is by no means some ideal artifact for communicating when computers are widespread.

Which is...right now.
Multi-threaded signals are pretty dreadful, though. In a multi-threaded system, signals should be delivered on a separate thread, not via an existing thread getting hijacked.

That is basically the recommended way to handle signals in a pthreaded program - have one dedicated signal-handling thread that calls `sigwait()` in a loop, and block all signals in the signal masks of the other threads.
Once again, the "journalists" can't be arsed to do any actual work but instead parrot what they heard. Absolutely shameful on their part.

Edit: For those down-voting me, please explain how condemning factually incorrect "news" is bad? Thanks :-)
Why do you trust the hacker? By definition, hackers are not the trustworthy kind. He may have 7 million emails and passwords from elsewhere and make bold claims to collect bitcoins from lower ranks of hackers. I initially thought that some smartass created a bunch of accounts and posted them to collect some bitcoins from the naive. Particularly, because emails are so similar, i.e. I speculated that he did that to simulate having a 7 million users database.
yes hi did,
but also: ".. urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox".
thank to @CondoleezzaRice and nsa.
It is more like - eh!
Well, you could. Whether you should depends on the context, including importance of security, importance of institutional stability, other available mechanisms for punishment, &c...

But honestly, I mostly just thought the inconsistency between your two figures was amusing.
I agree but I suspect that they fill the niche of the 200-in-1 electronic kits that were around in the 1970s to 1990s. They were inferior than the parts, overpriced and teach at a way higher level of abstraction than the individual components without providing any real education.

However, they were popular because they were productive and gave people a jump start. I assume the same is true for this.

Even Forest Mimms books were short on the details required to design or build something from scratch and missed vast chunks of fundamental knowledge.

However, as someone who dabbles with electronics occasionally and is a qualified electronics engineer, not that I've ever used it professionally; nothing replicates the joy of sitting there with a pencil and paper for half an hour with a copy of TAOE and building something from scratch without copying a single pattern or module from a kit and not using a single microcontroller or black box abstraction.
Actually S3 is internally based on Dynamo, although this is not exposed to the end user. Straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.h...
One way to think of it: When you take a picture with a camera, different objects in the photo may be in or out of focus, depending on how far away from the camera they are.

Closer objects may be sharp and distant objects blurry, or vice versa. Or somewhere in between.

Of course you can aim the camera one direction or another to choose its field of view - which objects appear in the frame and where - but that's completely separate from which of those objects in focus.

Focusing is one thing, aiming the camera is another.

And that doesn't change at all when you have two cameras. You can aim them both at the same thing, you can aim them off into the distance, but you still have to focus them both.
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They must have been replaced by Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States...
Yep I was particularly interested in long breaks for the kids and how you handle that, but I see you're able to work around it.

Thanks for the feedback on picking my tech, I guess you're right but thats what happens when you work in project environments. I'll put forward my primary skills as my value prop.

Thanks for responding
Honest question - how good a fit / approximation is the concept of a calorie (as in, we burn the material in question, and measure energy given off as heat) in approximating the energy extracted from the material through digestion?

Obviously the laws of thermodynamics hold, but I find the above equality to be slightly presumptuous - an obvious exception is that "fiber" can be burnt, but not digested (by humans, at least). What other caveats are there to this system, and are they employed to adjust calorie numbers for foodstuffs? I'm genuinely curious to know more about this, are there any good, concise sources?
And government officials optimize for freedom? Has this been your experience?
Well, to follow your line - virtual functions can also be implemented with some function pointer stuff within C. We're not discussing implementing various C++ stuff in C, we're talking about C++ itself.
Don't think "code & features", think "product". We developers often miss the product side of what we do, yet it's often the gut feeling that makes people follow certain trends while ignoring others. Any solid logic can be defeated by instincts (yes, we too can behave like our girlfriends). A more compelling product is better at sales that a more clever one. Yes, it's more often irrational than not.

From the presentation standpoint, your website likes identity. It's bland and super easy to forget. It just doesn't grab me. Product needs to imprint itself at the unconscious level, it gotta be likable. Use your creative vision or ask for help.
Flux seem so overcomplicated I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Yes this bothered me too, so i checked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Europe, with that kind of doctoring of data for the sake of the story, how can we trust the rest of the data?
Isn't this whole case way too exaggerated? Okay, that can be seen an ignorant and manipulative question as well.
A friend's email was on isleaked, but said they never had a password with those first two letters.
Fitness tracking in Pebble
youre thinking too small. Try hundreds of KB to a couple MB per second per host. And tens of thousands of hosts. Data streams at (tens of) gigabits per second are not trivial.
Someday the heap will be a protocol.