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Especially funny when people quit "soul-crushing" corporate enterprise to work unpaid overtime producing unmaintainable code (because it's about quit exit) for junk equity.

I mean even their technology choices fit it - always dynamic, the "scriptier" the better, just ship it!
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Yeah,the doc sucks a bit because you're supposed to know it's a "fork" of underscore. They could do a better job at explaining why lodash is useful, because it definetly is.It can really reduce the amount of js code one is writing by 2 or 3.

In a nutshell it's a collection of functions that work on arrays,objects and functions.It's a toolbox.
What I find is that context is decisive. I am only as passionate about the technology as what the technology is helping to accomplish and quality of relationship I have with developed and maintained with the user community.
Strolling in the konbini or donki and figuring out what I could possibly find that could satiate this vague craving for something that I don't know what it is also works. You never know what you end up, buying, if anything. More often than not something dense in calories and/or containing caffeine or alcohol. Oh consumerism.
Before they had Mesos, they wouldn't have.
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Just out of curiosity, are the Meteor guys behind this?

https://discovermod.meteor.com/
It's already been done thankfully

http://dl5.guru3d.com/gtx-970vs-980.png [0]

All of the memory is accessible. Memory read performance is worse than on GTX980 on the first 3.5G and the performance from the last 512MB is atrocious.

http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1435408&p=... for the sourcecode

[0] http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/does-the-geforce-gtx-970-ha...
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The U.S. government, for all its weaknesses, is providing their citizens with freedom and liberties as good or better than most other countries.

The NSA does have democratic oversight. It is controlled by the executive, legislative and judicative branches of the system. That this control is inadequate in our view, doesn't matter for the question whether or not the NSA is part of a democratic system.
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To my knowledge, this guy is still running shows and you can still go see him freely. But i don't quite see the relation between the two i must say (unless you're confusing race and history with philosophical opinions or religions).

As for the expression "evolved", i think it's perfectly suited. It takes a lot of time and "evolution" for a civilisation to accept to not respond to different opinions with physical constraints. It's what we call a "modern" or "evolved" society.
The NSA have been accused of discovering vulnerabilities in systems and software but keeping them undisclosed so that they can exploit them themselves. A defensive security agency could be actively trying to secure these systems protecting us not just from government surveillance but all types of nefarious hackers.
Thanks for illustrating the fundamental problem.

If you've been on the internet for any length of times, you've been called bad names and have moved on. Why can't women do the same?

It's a difference of scale. If somebody calls you a "slut" once, it's easy to assume that it's the person doing the name-calling is the one with the problem.

But what if every second e-mail you receive implies you are a slut?
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I missed the discussion on this last time this came up, but this fits squarely within my area of research, so it would be remiss of me not to pass comment. The Reddit link from Evgeny does a pretty good job of giving the gist of the research.

The big puzzle here is the precise mechanism by which this kind of thing can occur. To some degree, the binding of particular sugar-binding proteins to these newly incorporated sialic acids could perhaps influence cellular processes. What exactly is binding the sugars, and which molecules the sugars are incorporated onto will help with understanding the cellular processes.

The paper linked is an elaboration on Ajit Varki's work - but there's a lot more we don't understand about it than we do understand before we go about making conclusions. For what it's worth, I believe that Varki is not eating red meat [1]. I will try to get a look at his plate at the next conference dinner.

edit: [1] I'm not sure if he previously ate meat, so I removed the "now".
It may be more of a problem with the "service mentality" the document is talking about. Bad things happen when what your customer actually wants is "Find me a pretext to invade the Middle East and reshape it in a more US-friendly form, because Western intervention in the area has always turned out fine."
FWIW, I've been programming for about as long as the OP, and I still enjoy the creativity very much [0]. I also think that those of us who enjoy SW development are incredibly lucky in that we can get paid quite well doing what we love [1].

[0] http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/

[1] http://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/08/5-reasons-why-software-dev...
Same, but I went and bought companyname.st , so that way it's just a six letter domain dot st, and wildcard map DNS to developers internal IPs.
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> Notwithstanding the above, certain Third Party Services like Apple Calendar do not offer a developer API and we must obtain your login information to enable a connection to such Third Party Service. In such event: (i) we will use that information only to login to the Third Party Service on your behalf for the purpose of providing you content from such Third Party Service and (ii) you must use the settings in your account on the Sites or the App to revoke our access to such Third Party Service.

So they technically have full access to everyone's Apple/iCloud accounts? That's what it sounds like so far.

Is it safe to assume, all other apps that connect to Apple/iCloud also have full access?
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It can be argued that leaving systems vulnerable to attack as the NSA have been accused of doing actually facilitates more crime than it prevents.
But no need to wait at this moment, as class is live. However I also agree that live session is recommended and actually fun. Some of the Community TAs are really good, which one will miss if attended non-live version of class.
As an old fan of Opera I'm starting to like v27. Sure I can't use it for torrents or mail, but the new bookmarks are neat.
Define 'democratic government'. This term is a euphemism nowadays in the West.
E.g.: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/17/chomsky_the_u_s_behaves_noth...
That only means that someone is hosting something on the free meteor hosting system.
You say that, but look what Google has stumbled onto trying this path on iOS.

Chrome on iOS is rubbish.

...because the Chrome guys are daft? Nope. ...because it's Apple's playground, and they don't want to play, so they've deliberately ('not deliberately') made it so anyone using their engine is a 2nd class citizen, and can only build a poor user experience.

(https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423444 for the meta bug if you're interested)
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I do think that this kind of "Lazy Pluralism" also does the disservice of excluding from polite conversation those of us who, for one reason or another, have the same kind of emotional attachment to "propositional inquiry" that many aspiring clergy have to their faith traditions, or who want to find the larger Truths just by looking at regular truths.

Our type seem to nowadays have no home in discussions of not only religion, where you would expect it, but also philosophy, where naturalism is a weirdly embattled position accepted even in weak form by only half the field.

Personally, it does feel "ideologically homeless" to find that I'm largely locked out of discussing larger questions with people simply because I have only truths and no Truth.
It will cost you significantly more than a lifetime supply

People who believe that, are going to spend an awful lot more on smart watches, than a Rolex costs, in the next 10 years.
Semver isn't a requirement nor be-all-end-all, though.
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Providing these backdoors isn't government hacking on legitimate targets, but rather a sort of lazy surveillance or intrusion on its citizens.
> If you are white, have a good job, follow the law, and make sure to richly kiss ass if and when you come in contact with the police, life in the USA is rich, full; it's like heaven.

How exactly does this sound like heaven? Sounds incredibly restrictive and authoritarian to me. Always make sure you're not saying or doing the wrong thing. What happened to 'land of the free; home of the brave'?
So the guy from Opera, the web browser that's never managed more than a sliver of market share; has decided that the market needs yet ANOTHER web browser.

Genius!
Just imagine being American and being full of false pride...
Even in Tokyo the residential vacancy rates are still very high - more than 10% depending on the ward, and more than 15% when looking at the burbs. Manhattan vacancy rates, as a point of reference, are around 2%.

Prices apparently have been going up (attributed to the upcoming Olympics[1]), but honestly, when I walk around and look at rental prices, they seem pretty reasonable (damn cheap even) compared to say, Los Angeles (smaller units, but also cheaper per BR).

You're definitely right about the rest of the country though, and outside of Tokyo, population has already peaked and is decreasing...

For those w/ a burning interest in JP real estate, comprehensive market research is plentiful:

https://www.nri.com/jp/opinion/r_report/pdf/japanreport2013_...

http://www.savills.co.jp/research/japan-residential-research...

http://japanpropertycentral.com/

[1] http://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Property/Tokyo-property-price...
Not disagreeing with you, but some browsers on iOS do add useful features even while being webkit skins, for example Mercury Browser on iOS supports adblock lists, which Safari doesn't.
There is more than a year difference between the two
I don't disagree with any of that - is there something I said that you disagree with?
> "That this control is inadequate in our view, doesn't matter for ... a democratic system."

It absolutely matters. Without those controls you have a democracy in name only. You could quite happily rig elections, arrest opponents, suppress the population etc, while still claiming to be 'democratic'.
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In fact, Vivaldi's founder is Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, one of Opera's founders and ex-CEO of Opera.

So I guess one could say there's a link between Opera and Vivaldi (no pun intended).
Not related to this thread, but to your comment about the Maple Leaf: http://www.newsweek.com/why-rebel-groups-love-toyota-hilux-7...

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see it was paywalled (I'm not a subscriber of that site). I now see that it counts your visits and disable itself after a few times. "Private" browsing seems to solve the problem.
As Georgian, I confirm that it is safe here :) except crazy drivers on the road...

Maybe we could even organize some mini HN meetup, here in Tbilisi...
I think if you replace 'hackers' with 'guys' you get the basic definition of government: at some point, a nation picks its 'biggest meanest' (i.e. most capable) guy(s) to protect it and maintain order. Democracy just tries to institutionalize this decision and allow a peaceful reëvaluation every so often.

So maybe GP means he wants a well-designed democracy with a strong military, including infosec. Yeah, good idea.
I have a hard time seeing how spying on European officials will help identify criminals and terrorists.
Things we don't do frequently are very difficult to disrupt. Just look at the process for buying a mattress.
In other news: hot water still hot, thermometers find.

I wonder: what was (and is) the economic cost of this whole charade? How many man-hours were spent writing memos, how many meetings were called, how many expensive developers and sysadmins were forced to waste their time implementing stuff that nobody wanted -- likely not even the proponents: I'd be surprised if Cameron and his entourage were actually using these filters.
To me, Turkey is on the verge of becoming really scrwed. It's still possible for them to change their path. The situation is much much different than, let's say, China where the situation is far too deeply rooted.

All they need are wake-up calls, and having Facebook unavailable could have been one that would have helped realize their dear loved president is blocking a website for a damn cartoon (and putting journalists in jail as well).
Given that a NSA dev team was well aware that the spyware would be discovered and disassembled at some point in time, it was reasonable to intentionally leave behind evidence that points to countries other than the US. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I'd not take the cricket references too serious either.
It's not the article's fault, the ofcom report it's based on is lacking in detail, it just labels the table of results "This table shows the figures for take up of family friendly network level filtering by new customers who were offered it.".
While there are good examples in the past (FeeTinesAMady already mentioned Martin Luther King), remember the JTRIG documents about breaking up groups with social wedge issues and other and other divide-and-conquer tactics. If you can drive people apart by attacking potential leader[1] or separating key groups of people before those groups gain any momentum, you can probably skip the expensive and risky "Stasi-style-tactics" completely.

There's a similarity between the attack against Dr. King and the method described in the JTRIG documents: "COINTELPRO". Instead of being stopped by the Church Committee, the program probably got a renaming and reorg[2] to move away from the "failed branding". Regardless of the name, the tactics are being used (it's just modern marketing tricks).

It is easy to see the enemy that is loud and disruptive, and a lot harder to notice who is responsible for these newer, more subtle attacks that - especially when the attacker understands P.R. and branding

[1] and identifying relationship graphs ix exactly what you get from simple logs of telephone metadata. Throw a few JOIN clauses into your query, and you can do the COTRAVELER trick of extending those relationship graphs into many other areas.

[2] similar to how "Total Information Awareness" got renamed and moved around
I wonder if Chomsky would have that liberty of critique in any other country...
I have my custom domain's email in Zoho, and I'm pretty happy.

They have an Android app now, and the UI is good and improving (not yet Google-class, but very usable).

Zoho's CEO has been a Hacker News user for a long time, and he promised to keep the basic tier free:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu
I think disinformation is one of the pillars in their line of work. For all we care, they could have written references to whatever is popular in North Korea.
His final words:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVqAPtyORJk88tBMQzNwD...
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I agree with your first paragraph, but I don't agree that google is violating CC BY-SA. They do provide a link back to the original source, very clearly shown in the picture in the article. This seems sufficient for attribution, though perhaps they should go further and actually cite the answerer's username.

You could argue that combining two answers counts as modification, but that seems more of a nit-pick than enforcing the spirit of the license. Otherwise the text is unchanged.
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I wish that it had mentioned what it was a library for. Took me longer than it should have to identify that it was a Javascript library.

I probably should have guessed, but I hate guessing wrong and missing out on something I could really use.
You don't even need xss for this. You can simply bruteforce the password and try to get some fingerprint of the router and enable remote management. I did this some years back. Back then I also needed to find out the routers IP. Did this via iframes and the js onload event.
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Wow, thanks, that presentation is pure gold! The best thing about FP (and moving into it from the OOP world) I've ever seen: clear, easy to follow, based on a practical example and really presenting the sense behind the use of FP.
Ok, but you omit a crucial step, that I kinda need an answer to further understand.

In order to attack(successfully), they employeed various techniques; from weakening security systems and protocols, to actively endorse weak crypto schemes. What about these? And for the sake of the argument, let's say that they have the best of intentions and they don't plan to use those against law abiding citizens.

Do you agree with these actions?
that link is mostly paywalled. do you have another source?
It is, however, amazingly convenient and capable of saving a lot of time in bug fixes.
Unless it somehow fails subconsciously when under duress, yes, so this has no practical applications I can think of. It's still fascinating research, though.

The problem with deniable cryptosystems that make it intractable to prove you've complied, like the old stegfs or the not-quite-as-old Marutukku (aka Rubberhose, which Julian Assange worked on by the way) is that it really sucks to be the keyholder! You can try to secure a system against duress disclosure, but you can't safeguard the people as well - it is possible to make wrench-resistant systems, but unfortunately not wrench-resistant kneecaps. I don't think any good solution exists for that: that's a physical/political/legal/OPSEC problem, not a technical one.
My transcript from the video, at 4:05

> For some weird reason, the mitochondria in cancer cell are defective.

I never heard this before. Is there an article (published in a peer review journal) that support this?
I'm obsessed with this. Use it all the time. Love you dev! whoever you are.
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With the speed they are shipping updates for the official mac app it should be possible to use the group messaging in about 2 years.
Red meat gives you cancer, each vegetable has a weird side effect, carbs should be avoided, seafood can poison you, etc. I'm ignorant like the most of the population and I'm scared. We still don't really "know" what's good for us, and that makes me want to return to what kept us going during the 99% of the time-span of our evolution. But then, even that is a topic of discussion, I see[1]. I don't even want to get into the form and frequency of food consumption. Maybe in a few hundred years[2], we'll have enough research to say something like "well, eat X, Y and Z, N times a day and you should be fine with a statistical confidence of 95%".

The biggest problem is, most people just hang on to the first thing that "works" for them, then keep suggesting everyone that they should do exactly as they do.

[1][1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-m...

[1][2]: http://www.peta.org/living/food/natural-human-diet/

[2]: Maybe I'm too optimistic?
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We self-host our own HipChat servers, so they weren't affected by this.
Class action might be a solution for US citizens. The problem with malware though is that you end up infecting a whole lot of innocent civilians all over the place, which the people in Den Haag have slightly mixed feelings about. To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed that these cases never end up in international courts. The rules we have in place seem pretty clear to me.
Agreed - more than a year between the two. Here is the full rundown if you're interested:

Regin details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regin_(malware)

Sony hack details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hac...
It's absolutely not the norm in modern day Germany. Besides she apparently grew up in East Germany (when it was still occupied by Russia). But even then I can not imagine it was common.
Servo is for research. It's not production-ready and might never be. It's explicitly not intended to replace Gecko.
She was not born in the West, the story mentions that she grew up in East Germany (part of the Soviet Union).
Just one more reason to upgrade from iOS to Android. We have real Firefox and real Chrome over here... and have had them for yeaaaars now.
I was really surprised to see people wearing fencing masks to do this. These masks are not designed to stand up to the kind of blows that are shown on this video, if I were doing it I would be inclined to wear a keno mask instead.
yeah I fail to see how this actually defends against the `I'm going to hit you with this rubber hose until you login` attack
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So two children were abandoned. Sad story.
Yes - the paper does acknowledge this, and makes the assumption that the point of entry is physically secured, for example by a human guard standing watch. This means you couldn't kidnap someone, steal their TOTP token, beat the password out of them, and then go to the location and authenticate as them. It doesn't help in a situation such as being able to log in from any internet connected terminal.
From the license:

> Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, _provide a link to the license_ [...]

There is no link to the license. There isn't even a mention of the license! For me this is the most important point, therefore Google is not complying with the license.

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> You could argue that combining two answers counts as modification, but that seems more of a nit-pick than enforcing the spirit of the license.

This is a minor point for me, but I still disagree.

Google's work is definitely a remix and the license is very explicit about it. We're not the ones meant to interpret what's the spirit of the license or when it's fine to violate its terms. I guess (IANAL) even non-remixed excerpts (i.e. removing content) should be marked as excerpts to fully comply.

Here's example of why it might not be just a nitpick: answers are sometimes conflicting, and their meaning might change radically when automated excerpts are amalgamated. Imagine a right answer turned wrong by the automated merge. This could damage SO's reputation, driving away visits which would otherwise come back to SO as a reliable source.

If I were to remix them by hand, I would definitely mark it as a derived work.
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Meta note: Every news organization that issued a "TIA is dead" story really needs to go back and make a retraction.
Agreed. I should probably buy an RFID read / writer.
That omission of a few crucial words from my comment is almost malicious. I didn't say that the inadequacy doesn't matter for the democratic system, but rather that it doesn't matter for the question if the NSA is a part of such a system.
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For this type of stuff, I use... NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. I DON'T DO IT. BECAUSE IT IS INSANE.

Gloriously, wonderfully insane, though. My compliments to the chef.
I would love to disclose my extremely disturbing and potentially violent intrusive thoughts to an application with a completely murky privacy policy...