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The problem is that that way that's still ignoring and trying to obscure the fact that Saudis are definitely the ones that should be mentioned first as the problematic ones, exactly what the top comment wanted to bring to the attention.

It's the actions that should be criticised, no matter who does them. They shouldn't be a trigger to target only those who aren't "ours."
Hi there, apologies for the terse answer, what I should have said is that it's always a good idea to try 2-3 solutions before deciding which one works best for your business.

I believe we are the only ones with geo-mapping and the ability to define custom sales regions. You can slice your data by plan, region, etc.

We also allow you to choose how your churn rate is calculated and have tools to allow you to really drill deep into the data instead of just showing nice looking graphs:
https://chartmogul.com/blog/2015/01/dig-into-your-metrics-wi...

There is certainly some overlap but the whole experience in general is quite different than what else is out there so I would certainly encourage taking both systems for a spin.
Both have been around quite a while SixteenColors for a bit longer.

Artpacks.org re-launched with a new design and client-side rendering this year.
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Can't afford? Or choose the live outside of SF? Hell, I know plenty of people who could afford to live in SF and choose not to. SF is not exactly family friendly.
Thank you for the that link... that's pretty much what I'm looking for.
Thanks for the heads up. I will definitely have to get that downloaded and sorted under a VM some time soon.

Is it really just the Pro version? Is distribution of software created with it limited?
Super! Looks great works great too!

Lately I'd been bothered by poor quality experience and sometimes even spam requests on Skype. Hangouts was never my thing and Firefox Hello seems like a breath of fresh air just at the right time. Keep it up!
Or remove the physical microphone entirely and use a headset.
You know this because? Once stored it can be farmed to anyone with a mapreduce job to spare. Esp when the investigating agency can take some of the bounty, law enforcement can be a nice profit center.
That's the message I want to hear. Thanks!

I do compile C++ in parallel frequently under Xcode, but I don't stress it for gaming other than for a few hours once a night. Stays cool most of the time (other than gaming, it goes mental then).
It's interesting, although struck me as weird to bundle/market it as part of the core Firefox experience, especially considering its closely tied to a third party. Seems more extension territory.
If it's only worth doing things that last decades, why do people care about fine dining?
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Lots of great ones out there!
My suspicion is that, over time, our computers will become something more like the neo-Victorians' from The Diamond Age. If the Internet is as ubiquitous as electricity, it stands to reason it'd become less obtrusive; a future smart watch would be no more obviously digital than my wristwatch is obviously powered by electricity, and probably (hopefully!) no less bothersome.
Telefonica is a global telecommunications company. (I've never seen them in the US, but they are very common in latin america) Not sure what they have to do with a web video chat system.
A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality. In my view, this is true for most values of X, including Skype, Mail, Word, Excel...

To add insult to injury, there is no simple way of disabling the functionality[1]. Firefox Hello is ludicrous.

[1] about:config is not a valid value of simple
Do they have the specs anywhere on their encryption?
Seems like one of very few discussions on HANA on hackernews.. what are the use cases where you guys are using HANA.. from my initial experience , we need crazy amount of memory even to test out HANA..any pointers to get the hands on HANA
Does this affect the end to end encryption mechanism of WebRTC (at least for Internet users)?

In other words, can Telefonica make it easy to spy on all Firefox Hello talks, or only on the browser-to-phone ones? (which is to be expected, I guess).
The reason SHA256 was chosen is that it is a hash function. Hash functions are meant to be easy to calculate but difficult or near impossible to reverse and near impossible to optimize.

MD2 was designed by cryptographers and has tons of research regarding it's security. It is now broken.

Protein folding basically has no research regarding it's security as a hash function, because it isn't designed as a hash function.

Protein folding almost certainly has a large optimization problem, an attacker likely could find ways to increase his mining power by orders of magnitude. If the currency became valueable, it is inevitable that someone would make solving this problem constant time.

Now, is making protein folding more a efficient a good thing? Absolutely! But the only way it can be made more efficient is by making this currency useless.

Essentially, the only way this currency can be useful to DNA folding is if the currency becomes useless for securing money.

Edit: It appears that foldingcoin is on top of the bitcoin blockchain so miners aren't even there for consensus. They are simply creating a speculative asset that has an increasing monetary supply that equates to donations to protein folding. The miners are completely unnecessary for security.
Not fascism, a Public Private Partnership. Win-Win for everyone!
Does this make enterprise/university use of rouge AP mitigation mechanisms illegal?

Are Cisco and other AP controller vendors going to remove this option from their software? (If they're shipping a checkbox that is always illegal to enable, why aren't they subject to enforcement action?)
>Eliminating the "Zionist regime" would require destroying Israel

No it doesn't. A "regime" is a synonym for a government. Ironically your previous link to Khomeini's plan for getting rid of the "Zionist regime", refutes your point. (The interesting part about that article is if you read the "controversial" document, it really is, more or less, pretty mild. In contrast you read Netanyahu's comments about the document and you'd think it was Mein Kampf)

As for all the talk of "terrorism" the word is so politically charged as to make it almost worthless. All your links to "terrorist" activities are, as I said previously, small potatoes. Israel uses "terrorist" tactics against Iran, Iran uses "terrorist" tactics back. U.S. uses "terrorist" tactics against Iran, Iran uses "terrorist" tactics back. I'm not sure what else you would expect.

And suppose they were funding the most egregious "terrorist" organization in the world, what's your point? What does that have anything to do with the article? Don't the poor serfs get enough of the war mongering propaganda through the myriad of other channels? Do you really need to echo it here?
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Source? AFAIK if you want your border, padding and margin respected, there is no way to do the above in vanilla CSS. Which is why css-flexbox was proposed.
OK I see what you mean, it's in the pack but not rendering. I don't even remember what that is.
> "it worked fantastically – so fantastically that some people really did send the emails back, reassuring us that they hadn't looked at the site."

I was one of those people! In fact, my email archive still has my response, where I attached the message to the reply, assuring that I'd not read it. I thought I was being so smart!

Sadly, the original emails from "Ford" were lost from my archives somewhere along the lines.

I suspect I got >< close to the forums too. The site is all very familiar to the memory, but I either didn't dig quite deep enough, or found it but didn't realise it was postable rather than a read-only forum with more play marketing.

Still, it's truly fantastic that it's been kept alive so long, and I'm sure should a day ever come that you don't wish to (or unable to) continue hosting it, that there are a legion of fans who would happily take over!
Tor is effectively an open proxy (or set of them).
I really hope that some day there is an all female or at least half female hacker house. I really like the idea of a hacker house and love being around smart tech people but some guys don't know how to act around women (I'm sorry but there are guys like that out there and many of them are hackers). It is even worse if you are one of the only single woman in a close community. I've heard from male friends that live in hacker houses that I would feel uncomfortable even though I am a relatively reasonable person and am used to living in messy spaces with other people. Also its nice to be around other women in case you need an emergency tampon or advice on whether you should wear your pumps or your wedges or want to bitch about what its like to be a female hacker.
Unfortunately, it's not viable. Proof of work needs to be "wasteful" (if you can consider validating transactions and keeping the network safe wasteful). I don't understand why so many people get angry at Bitcoin's use electricity and not at say, VISA's, or any other entity that isn't curing cancer.
Hitler's speeches did an amazing job of inciting people to violence, guess we should ban any videos of that, you know just in case.
That convoluted process works for that single exact message.

What if you want to search for the early appearance of some two word phrase on Usenet? This used to be easy. It can't (as far as I can tell) be done now.

And that convoluted process is -considering Google has excellent search engine- a fucking stupid mess.
I think the "pipe" part is more important than the "tar" part. It illustrates how processes can cooperate through the use of a standard communication tool and very simple interfaces (the more I read the article, the more I saw the parallel with Go's io.Copy, io.Reader and io.Writer).

Once you got how useful piping is, you understand why you can do something as powerful as:

machineA: tar -cf - dir | gz | ncat -l -p 6789

machineB: ncat machineA 6789 | gunzip | tar -xf -

And here you go, a dir is sent compressed through network with the power of little tools and a good inter-communication.
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Rust 1.0 is currently slated for 8-14 weeks away: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/1.0-Timeline.html
Very interesting. Did he enjoy it or did he get bored? Did he have to watch some horrific films? Did he feel like his brain was being polluted as more degenerate films come out? Did it affect his perception of reality?

Just interested.
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Astronomy is the study of the heavens, not the study of telescopes, although they may be an important tool.

Likewise Computer Science is not the study of programming or computers, it is the study of data and computing. Programming is just often the tool for the job.

Some European Computer Science departments actually call themselves Dataology departments...
> A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality.

I'll agree if you amend "allow a web page to implement X" to "allow a web page or an extension to implement X."
Comcast Business connection in Olympia WA:

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--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
538 packets transmitted, 530 packets received, 1.5% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 13.706/27.511/101.208/11.207 ms
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I am maintaining a fork of it at https://github.com/junkblocker/codesearch where I've added some niceties.
Now the question is can you enable 'Screen sharing' utility to it? It could then be a killer app for meetings and conferences getting rid of all the expensive external software applications?

When I say screen share, I mean not just the browser's screen but the whole computer screen?
When you're at a "Windows-Only" place Notepad++ is not a bad choice. I still have a copy of PFE around and I must admit I do miss its easy macros, remove trailing spaces option, and templates on OS X.
Now that is scary, as I don't want to give all my personal data to some random company's server in Europe? Firefox is cool with me but Telefonica, not so much.
No... that's not true at all. Books like Lolita, Catch-22, Animal Farm, and To Kill a Mockingbird are all considered literary fiction.
no, unfortunately :(
We are using SAP HANA Platform for in-pipeline defects diagnostics results analysis and maintenance planning. If we take into account a simple case of 500-1000 miles long gas pipeline it will be GBs of defects data that is annually coming out of the in-pipeline scanning. To be able to visualize this data, map it to the 2D pipeline map and provide defects analysis we need to have in-memory database performance.
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That was probably years ago, because by now, they are the ones that serve more homes with FTTH technology.
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...which is why the two sentence comment you replied to said to forgo airplanes...
The underlying technology used to implement this is WebRTC, which is available to web pages. Implementing peer-to-peer real time video communication entirely in Javascript would be difficult, so it has to be provided to some extent by the browser itself.
> Perhaps some of that audience can appreciate the difference between a good basket and a bad one. That does not require that they be a practitioner of basket-weaving themselves.

This is actually pretty close to how I personally define a "professional": A professional is someone whose work can only be judged by other professionals of the same domain.

Obvious failure modes are exempted. Anyone can tell you about a bad bridge after it has failed. But it would take a bridge engineer to tell you that before it fails.
> Protein folding almost certainly has large optimization problem, an attacker likely could find ways to increase his mining power by orders of magnitude.

As you mentioned, this is a good thing. And as far as the effects on the currency go, this doesn't seem any different from Bitcoin miners moving from CPUs to GPUs to ASICs.

> If the currency became valueable, it is inevitable that someone would make solving this problem constant time.

Protein folding / structure prediction is NP-complete, so seems unlikely.
> The composition of fresh pasta is much more delicate; it is softer, coarser and has less of a bite to it than dried pasta.

That can be true -- particularly, essentially all dried pasta is hard-wheat pasta, fresh pasta may or may not be hard-wheat pasta. But I don't think the distinction you draw is particularly true when comparing dried pasta with fresh pasta using similar wheat.
another problem with tools like Skype and Google Hangout is the number of concurrent participants.
Zarafa is excellent (and works with MS Outlook if you need that).

Edit (to elaborate more): it's open source, has a very nice web ui, supports pop/imap/outlook, does activesync and mobile push, uses other standard opensource software (postfix, mysql), is easy to backup, comes with good documentation, is simple enough to get up and running (there are pre-built deb and rpm packages), integrates with LDAP and you can get a paid support contract if you need/want one. Their open source site is here: https://community.zarafa.com/

I'm not affiliated with them - just a happy sysadmin whose managed lots of Zarafa installs in the past.
All the join commands (http://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/) are already supported and will continue to be supported.

There is currently no push implementation for joins. That's coming in the next few releases.
These criminals weren't too smart. To begin with, the risk/reward ratio on an attack like that is pretty high. Repeated attacks in the same physical area, even worse. Using people already known to police? Not so smart. And the icing on the cake: involving lots of people!
Is this targeted to people who would block residential in home wifi from Comcast and others?
That would be disturbing.
I was using vline.com (also using WebRTC) works like a charm.
Shazam actually has 2000 music geeks in a call center who listen to tiny audio fragments and guess which song it is. The algorithm just makes sure the rock geek gets the rock songs, and so on.
Author here -- my mistake, this was a bad example! You're right, this will become much more relevant as the `changes` command supports more and more complex queries.
Use node based chat application for that.
I used to do this; Putting in 80 hour weeks taking 1 day off every 10 days or so -- worst time of my life. I wasn't going to the gym and I wasn't eating well primarily because I had to eat out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And at the end of the day, the only thing I gained was knowledge. All of my work is gone, our company is gone, the project was lost and the company that bought our company is struggling.

Take your nights and weekends.
I've got 4 pairs of glasses yet most of the time I don't even wear glasses. I'm pretty used to how I look in different glasses and without but sometimes it feels a bit weird to wear glasses and sometimes it's like my different looks is different versions/personalities of myself. I'd never go to a club with glasses, it'd be weird, glasses me wouldn't like clubs. However I'm rarely at work without (however sometimes on the commute and often during lunch and breaks), I don't think non-glasses me enjoy working as much, he'd rather be out on town.
Mirage, that sounds familiar. My impression was ACiD and iCE were the two top groups and you had to be pretty good to get in. Everything was tenebristic because of the way the ansi colors mixed (had no idea what tenebrism was) and the subject matter was almost entirely games/comics characters.
Yes several other systems out there - but competition is ultimately better for the consumer. We believe we have the best product in this space and an exciting roadmap.

I'm not familiar with all the pros/cons of all these systems and of course there will be good and bad things about all of them including ChartMogul. We're very strong in international support, e.g. geo-mapping, multi-currency, etc. Also in performance we've invested heavily in developing our platform to give an almost native/desktop performance experience.

We have features to allow you to really drill into the data rather than just look at graphs: https://chartmogul.com/blog/2015/01/dig-into-your-metrics-wi...

Also heat-mapping: https://chartmogul.com/blog/2014/12/heat-map-your-subscripti...

We have many ways to slice the data up, e.g. you can create custom plan filters and slice all your metrics with them.

There are also some things we're currently lacking - e.g. net revenue graphs (coming very soon).

Hope this helps.
Some Saudi hijackers aren't an aspect of Saudi policy, they're just a reflection of the US' lack of popularity in the entire region. There are so many kinds of people working with al-Qaeda, all different nationalities. Reassigning responsibility for 9/11 to the whole nation of Saudi Arabia is the worst kind of prejudicial ignorance.

Fundamentally, the rulers of Saudi Arabia are willing to play ball with the US and have a certain reliability. That really matters a lot, from the standpoint of US policy. If the US foreign policy is not completely insane, reliability in not attacking us should count for a lot.

It isn't the same topic as how quickly we can force them to internalize our values to satisfy aimless cultural imperialism. Saudi society is not a modern democratic society and forcible external intervention is not going to help it get better. It will have to get better on its own timetable. If you think that it was bad to remove Saddam and Gadaffi, you should renounce this nasty implication that we should attack the House of Saud, you can't imagine the consequence of that, it's totally irresponsible to suggest.

If you are going to talk about Iran, talk about Iran, don't change the subject to the Saudis.
Just call it the "Chrome-ification" of Firefox.

Chrome is automatically updated to be jam-packed full of browser-specific APIs and functionality.

Like when Chrome automatically updated and registered itself as a background service without permission.

Or when Chrome automatically installed a microphone listening service for always on "OK Google" hotword detection.

Or the fact that Chrome Apps are less and less "webpages" and more and more "applications that only support the Chrome API".

"To add insult to injury, there is no simple way of disabling the functionality"

I wish I got paid my hourly rate for the sheer amount of time I spend combing through Google Product Forums reading about what arcane chrome://flags or commandline ---arg is required to disable their new functions.

It's a shame what's happening to the web.
Of course stringray is (quasi) legal. Wifi blocking, well son that's a $600,000 fine.
The push functionality is new to RethinkDB and is just coming out hot off the presses. We'll see soon if people understand the advantages, but the initial feedback has been extremely positive.
A mobile OS should not include X functionality, but should allow a mobile app to implement X functionality. But somehow due to competition for the platform, every company is more or less in the same race.
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Telefonica run O2 in the UK, which is a decent mobile network (and the only one which covers my house).
In the US, the rule used to be first to file, but is now first to invent (along with the rest of the world) since the enactment of the America Invents Act in 2013.

First to file/invent isn't actually relevant for prior art though. Any publicly available source that describes the invention can serve as prior art. However, patent lawyers are very good at "writing around" existing patents and other prior art.
As an example of WebRTC this is pretty decent... but please work on getting navigator.getUserMedia to screen-capture into a stream more easily; right now, the browsers' screen-capturing apis are extremely wonky and difficult to build applications with.
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Hi benjaminfox,

Great to hear you're using and liking ChartMogul...that's great!
The dumb ones are just as dangerous as the smart ones, and there are far more of them.
You could do it with mongoose middleware, but this solution is a lot more complex and expensive. In this case the application developer would have to take care to notify an additional piece of infrastructure about every change. Even if you can abstract the code, that requires quite a bit of additional intelligence on the backend.

Baking feeds into the database should dramatically simplify the amount of required work.
>As you mentioned, this is a good thing. And as far as the effects on the currency go, this doesn't seem any different from Bitcoin miners moving from CPUs to GPUs to ASICs.

The optimization "problem" is a problem because it can wipe out the currency. The transition to better hardware was gradual, while a software optimization could literally make one persons CPU more efficient than the rest of the world combined.

>Protein folding / structure prediction is NP-complete, so seems unlikely.

While it may be difficult to actually fold the protein, folding the protein such that it breaks one of the assumptions I listed may be trivial.

If we could simply use NP-hard proven problems as hash functions, we would.
Can the result of one of these "Work Units" be easily checked for correctness? Or does someone have to redo the work to confirm?