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The US appears to be a failed state to many Europeans, with many serious problems (just one example of which, being, a population which has been indoctrinated to paranoia and xenophobia of a great degree, which you demonstrate to a certain extent in your comment [1])

From my perspective the US and Russia look very similar. I'm guessing many US readers will find this implausible or shocking, but on paper, those two countries really are very similar, and have similar chronic problems.

Being dragged down into the mire of problems with the US is a nightmare many Europeans. We would prefer to distance ourselves as much as possible from the US.

[1] Few other dire problems (ie. Much worse than the global average) in the US I could mention.
Wealth gap, terrible standard of education, public healthcare, contamination of your land and water from dirty mining oil fracking processes , prison industrial system with a huge % of your population in jail, huge defense spending and military industrial complex, spy and security agencies out of control
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Not necessarily. There have been a number of disasters in the last few years caused by errors that have been directly attributed to spreadsheet usage. Many financial firms are reining in excel use by their business users. Prototyping a solution is fine, but for production use they are requiring an auditable solution that has proper source code control and can't be tweaked by the end user.

Spreadsheets are great products but for production use they are really two edged swords.
Does HTTP2 have guarantees that the connection is really reused for multiple requests or could a user agent (or HTTP library) silently use multiple connections for different requests?

I think this makes a major difference for RPC applications, because with a single connection you have a guarantee that all messages will be retrieved in the same order that they were sent.

E.g. with a persistent websocket connection I have the guarantee that all messages will be in order. With mulitple HTTP/1.1 requests I don't have it. Don't know about HTTP/2.

And of course the requirements about such a thing depend on how you design your RPC API (stateless or not).
Exactly. I've been a big fan of John Willis for awhile and the challenge that he, Gene Kim, and others have taken on to fix enterprise IT culture should be commended. They hit the nail on the head when they state that DevOps isn't about Puppet and Chef or the latest hotness on Github, but that the key to it is culture. The tools can help automate some processes, but without fixing the underlying culture it's missing the point.

The Phoenix Project should be required reading for all IT professionals, especially senior leadership. If you've worked in IT for any amount of time you'd quickly recognize all the characters and wondered who from your organization told all your dirty laundry to Gene.
It'd be nice to build a WPAPI layer on top of other CMSs. Plone is my favorite one, but it's not known for speed.
GoogleDrive-type editing is really neat, but I was thinking along the lines of an applied project e.g. if one person has a microscope they can collect images for everyone to analyze: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/sutt/BossLab/blob/master/...
I think bitcoin sucks for a number of important technological and philosophical reasons, but when people ask what its killer features sure: this is one of them. And it's hugely important and hugely needed.
If you write a blog post about that with more information and graphics, I'll upvote it too. This post has very little technical information. Some ideas:

* What device they are using? How they attached it to the cat? Photos of the cat :) ?! Battery use? Transmission range? Is it water resistant?

* Day vs night patterns? Weekend vs workday patterns? (The cat proabally doesn' care if it's the weekend, but thi changes a lot the patterns of the humans and that will probably affect the paterns of the cat.) One week patters superimposed with different colors? (Does the cat always go to the same places, or it changes the path?)
I've never heard of US cabbie licensing including any sort of "are you actually good at this?" check.
You are spot on.. I mean, look at Target.. They were pillaged because they didn't have.. Oh.. Wait.. They had a security team of over 300 people..

This problem might just be a little more complex than we are giving credit for..
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Everyone seems to be taking Mega's statements as truth without question at all. Banning payment to VPNs would severely cripple lots of businesses in the U.S. and around the world. I don't believe it's a possibility, at all.
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This kind of provision is in NAFTA too, 20 years old.

I wonder if there's ever a case where a U.S. law has actually been invalidated, and the U.S. hasn't just ignored the ruling, with no real consequences. Anyone know? In general NAFTA has served as a weapon to make sure third world economies stay maximally exploitable by U.S. corporations -- as it was intended.

This isn't a reason to support such provisions, of course. It's not right, it's not fair -- AND the U.S. won't be this powerful forever. We'd all be better of strengthening democracy, not strengthening corporate rule -- the corporations don't really care which country is on top, as long as it's one that they can control.

But it is noteworthy that NAFTA isn't even mentioned in Warren's piece; how's that working out?
Obviously the author has more of a historical overview, but, anecdotally, I am getting the same quantity of contact concerning roles as I have ever done, but there seem to be more and more recruitment companies moving into the ruby space. I would say it is also possible that what the author is seeing is less of a slowdown in the ruby market and more of increased competition in the recruitment market.

Having dealt with the author previously (though never having taken a role through him) I hope his approach of specialising in a technology stack and pursuing that as a specialist, gaining knowledge of both the hirers and potential contractors, wins out over the LinkedIn profile fishers.
I don't use Facebook, but I understand that a lot of people are uncomfortable with meeting random strangers from the internet unless they've already posted a lot of information about themselves online.
OTOH, neutrality limits the degree to which content providers are beholden to access providers, so it makes that play more expensive (and increases the relative value of content providers to other potential purchasers.) So, arguably, it makes that play less likely, not more.
> Do you constantly need to?

"Constantly" doesn't matter. If you ever need access to the entire history while offline and it's not there, you can't work. Disks and bandwidth are both relatively cheap, compared against the value of having access to the data.
And we do not store or even transfer your Dropbox or Google password on our servers. It runs locally in your browser. Feel free to double check this in the source code ;)
>> The password will be hashed with the SHA256 algorithm, the mode for encryption is 256 Bit Rijndael/AES

SHA256 is not a KDF, AES-256 is not a block cipher mode. Where is the source code?
I don't know the current levels of VPN usage, but I'd seriously doubt that there are any industries at all that rely upon people using someone else's IP. Using a VPN to get around content blackouts / licensing agreements in your country is not legal, so I'm sure you don't mean that.
r/macapps says "Be sure to double-check that your app hasn't already been submitted before you submit it!"

Sharing your stuff is fine, only being active posting your links risks being considered spam. Many subreddits also have automatic systems that hide suspect content for a mod to check, which can be quite aggressive.

I THINK reddit-global anti-spam deletes your account, so it's probably just the individual subreddit blocking your newest submission. Their sidebar even says that they have a spam filter.
Most startups that talk to me do hire somebody to "go deal with that scale issue." When they talk to me in particular, it seems like they want to hire somebody to "go deal with that security issue," too.
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I find this process indescribably scary. It's understandable that the public is clueless, but can someone explain to me why the technologists aren't worried? Positive feedback would put us so far past the point of no return that earth will be unrecognizable.
So let me get this straight - a reddit user is someone who should primarily post other people's stuff?

And if he/she is a content creator and want to post anything of his/her own, he/she should post at least 9 times more content belonging to others, first?

That's messed up, but thanks for clarifying this one for me.
“unknowability of what is on the platform”. What's PayPal got to do with that anyway, considering that they admit the business is legitimate?
I think the fact that this form of dump doesn't contain foreign keys is even more extraordinary.

What's the point of having a dump format that you can't use to restore your database properly?

Does it have a health warning advising that it's not a proper dump?
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Actually one of the main reasons I want TTIP not to happen is because I don't want any closer relationships with the USA. US foreign policy has been somewhere between awful, irresponsible and plain evil for the last couple of decades. Don't get me wrong, it is not unreflected anti-Americanism, I am German and hugely thankful for what the USA has done for Germany in the past, especially of course during and after World War II.

But that changed. I would love if we could distance ourselves from the USA for a multitude of things from spying over torturing to the offensive war against Iraq, to just name some obvious examples. If we as Europeans impose sanctions on Russia right now for their actions related to the Ukraine, we should have imposed sanction on the USA long ago.

But we can not because we are so dependent on the USA, especially when it comes to IT with most of the major players like Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM and Apple being US companies. We would be screwed without them. Could we openly oppose the USA and still do business with them? Maybe. Do we want to find it out, test who gets hurt more? Not really.

In the same way the USA is doing business with regimes like Saudi Arabia we keep doing business with the USA. But I am convinced we should really avoid getting even more entangled with the USA wherever possible to not risk worsening our position further. At least until US politics gets sane again.
Thanks detaro, I have already spoken with the moderators of /r/mac and they said it wasn't them - I am shadowbanned.
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> Banning payment to VPNs would severely cripple lots of businesses

I don't believe this banning would be broad enough in scope, at least not in the near future, to affect many actual businesses. These takedowns could easily be very narrowly targeted at VPNs which advertised themselves almost exclusively on torrent trackers hosting links to RIAA movies.

This premise would still be reasonable even without Mega's comments, it's based on the actual legal assaults we've already seen applied to many different mass storage providers, taken to its next logical step. Doesn't even require slippery-slope arguments.
Not in the uk but interested in the job market there and I agree as I consider it my 'backup' in case things go south for me. The number of .net jobs vs anything else is just ridiculous. If you want to work in London and be secure in your job or job search, .net is where you want to be.
> Bitcoin isn't a viable option for Grandma.

And if there's no market pressure, it never will be.
The TM on your brand looks unfriendly and as though you're writing in the style of Paypal T&Cs. I thought you might be trying to make an ironic point but it doesn't seem that you are (Correct me if I'm wrong).
Languages are not fast or slow, but languages do have traits that make them more or less well suited to fast or slow implementations. Ruby's semantics do not make it well suited for a fast implementation.

That said, the question just becomes "why would you use MRI if you care about performance?"
And apparently Uber has filed suit against github: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/28/uber_subpoenas_githu...
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I would recommend using pgloader (http://pgloader.io/) instead. It is simple to use in the default case, but can be configured with rules for how data types should be converted if necessary. It can also clean up weird timestamps like 0000-00-00 00:00:00.
I really dislike when companies say it their product encrypts with "256-bit encryption" or "AES-256". Like you said, that is an incomplete description of an encryption scheme. The choice of block cipher mode can immediately make or break my opinion of a product, and when developers omit what mode they've chosen, I lean toward break.
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Can you link to the source code? In the 2-3 minutes I've spent searching, I can't find it.
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Wolf is 100% correct. These details make it sound like this product is insecure. We definitely don't want ecb mode or a weak kdf like 1 round of sha256 with no salt.

BUT before anyone lambasts this guy, it's good the author posted so mistakes can be learned from the feedback, that way others get exposed to the issues, and less mistakes are made in the future. In my opinion, there is too much hate for people who make mistakes when writing code, when in reality that's how you learn. Few people learn all the theory first and THEN how to build it, it's often learn to build then the theory.
It's not because of end-to-end encryption. It's in response to allegations that MEGA.nz and other "cyberlockers" exist primarily for the purpose of facilitating copyright infringement.

MasterCard and Visa blocked payments in response to this letter from Senator Leahy: http://www.leahy.senate.gov/download/binder1

The letter cites this report, which concludes that MEGA.nz, among many other services, exists mostly to facilitate copyright infringement: http://www2.itif.org/2014-netnames-profitability.pdf

I doubt that this information is reliable, though I suspect it also happens to be true (if you understand my distinction). I have little doubt that mega.nz is mostly used to store pirated content, but I don't think this report is an adequate justification for a U.S. senator to pressure CC companies to block payments.

But I think it is important to emphasize that this is not really about encryption. MEGA.nz would, of course, want us all to think that it is...
It's a bullshit answer, so don't expect to find any real rationalization behind it.
These are all very fair questions.

You find ways to mentally make it not about the adware. You're building a monetization system that allows other software makers to continue their craft!

No one wants adware.

I think my first response supports your notion of a reality distortion field. People try and forget its adware and think more about the cool technical challenges (millions of installs per day!) or reframe it to not be about the adware.

The meetings were never openly malevolent towards users and there was a legal team to make sure user rights were never actually violated. People would come to our meetings and they would never realize we were an adware company, it just sounded like normal ad tech.
The truth is not nice, but here it goes:

A lot of companies got burnt on ruby related projects. Especially anything rails related. There is a steady pipeline of work right now for skilled developers to migrate services and code from ruby to go, Scala, java - basically anything else except ruby.

I have earnt quite well doing such gigs, although I tend do more erlang/elixir stuff these days.

I would always ask the clients what happened, and why they want to migrate rather than maintain or even build out their ruby code bases, and the answer was always the same - the developers in the ruby space were mostly sub-par. Often several degrees below java developers in terms of skill and ability.
I would say it tallies with my experiences too.

It is also for this reason they are not using node js - because it was seen as the next shiny, all the half-devs from ruby jumped onto it, and the risk of crap codebases from the same amateurs is ever present.
It's nice (I tried it some time ago), but I pity that without LaTeX support (one of key things I would need to Google Docs-style collaborating).

On the other hand, I tried to enter CoLaboratory from http://colaboratory.jupyter.org/welcome/ and it does support LaTeX, but has issues with connecting to local kernel (I couldn't make it working). And it seems to be no longer id development: https://github.com/jupyter/colaboratory/commit/a4a7176e46c94...
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Pretty much! And the funny thing is that every company is always "fixing that" until they make the advertising less aggressive and revenue drops 30%. Then they turn the dial back up.
I sell downloadable software.

I have tried shareit, bluesnap and avangate.

Avangate checkout flow peformed best.

I am currently working on switching to cleverbridge, ping me if you want stats on them when I have switched.
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Having a look at the source ... why are you rewriting this in node/js? Wouldn't Ada (or nim) make more sense, given the initial design is implemented in Pascal?
Thanks for the feedback; I pushed your cleaned up version to Github (https://github.com/srpeck/kchat/commit/5669fcca67fa609a9128b...).

As for your comment in #5, I noticed that I can hot load new versions of the server and client without impacting the existing clients' web socket connections. A production change to chat.htm only requires me to \l chat.k; any existing connections still have the older client running without interruption until they refresh, but all new connections get the new client. However, I am not all that concerned about hot loading new versions, as this is only deployed for a small team on the intranet.
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https://github.com/philipsoutham/py-mysql2pgsql

Works very well for me.

I think the only limitation is related to spatial data. I'm not aware of anything else.
I am in the middle of IPython Cookbook (http://ipython-books.github.io/cookbook/), which I enjoy a lot.

I wanted to ask which things gets outdated, but it seems that the author tries keep it up to date (https://github.com/ipython-books/cookbook-code/issues/17).
It's not about submitting 9 other links for every 1 of your own, it's about being part of their community or not. Being a legitimate reddit user instead of someone preying on them.

You are a legitimate HN user. It is not hard.
Most adware is toolbar free. The only way a user would know the adware exists is by going to their extensions list.

And even now, that isn't the case anymore. More and more adware is moving over to being exclusively EXE based and proxying all HTTP traffic, or using DLLs, or doing something outside of the browser. The disclosures for the ads often times don't actually point to the name of the installed software.

I would agree that users with adware are less tech literate (sometimes), but the install screens are made to specifically trick people into installing.
That's pretty horrifying
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> restricted TLDs such as .edu, .mil, and .gov have proven useful alongside (rather than instead of) the unrestricted TLDs

They have? I haven't heard any solid reasons for them to be TLDs instead of second level domains of .us?
For all 200 owners?

Watch Amazon discontinue the device, or drop it to some closeout price like the Fire Phone, before the SDK launches.
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Don't put your crypto experiments online where they could harm someone who naively relies on them.
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MITM has nothing to do with TLS. It just means that the attacker is talking to both sides simultaniously, giving them the impression to be talking to each other directly. Thus the attacker is able to read manipulate the traffic. This can be used to hand out the attackers own certificates, but is in no way limited to it. I'd call this attack as the library is doing it MITM.
What about pay, though? Here in the US, at least from my perspective, .NET contracting is slightly better than PHP contracting. That is, most of the .NET jobs are (relatively) poor paying with the kind of cheap, demanding client we've all had horror story experiences with. Exceptions would be in finance, where you get to be treated like shit because you aren't a tradeer.

One of my colleagues lumped "webdev" (of the sleazy WP theme shop variety) and .NET jobs in the same category as a "cesspool". I can't disagree.
"Scrum Masters...The main issues in the Scrum Master market are that lots of Project Managers and people from somewhat similar disciplines doing the two day certification and are repackaging their careers on their CVs and jumping on the current Scrum Master bandwagon."

Well that pretty much confirms my perception of "Scrum Masters".
This is true for every kind of software except security things.

It's really hard for a novice to find something that will actually protect them in between all the "convenient cloud solutions" that an intern cobbled together in their lunch break using some javascript they found on github.
I wonder what it would have been like to live back in those decades when democracy was expanding instead.
But I think it is important to emphasize that this is not really about encryption. MEGA.nz would, of course, want us all to think that it is...

Well, the part about encryption is in quotes and attributed to PayPal.

It seems pretty clear to me - they're saying that due to Dotcom's history and the fact that he can't prove it's NOT piracy, because of the encryption, means they can't touch him.

That's a very bad precedent, terrible actually. Your service is encrypted. Someone claims it MUST be used primarily for bad stuff. You cannot prove your innocence because it's encrypted. Therefore, no payment processing for you.

It's the definition of guilty until proven innocent.

That said, I agree that given Mega's past, it seems likely there's a lot of piracy on there. And I hate piracy. But even so, this sort of thing cannot stand. ISPs make lots of money off piracy too. They shouldn't be cut off from Visa or MasterCard either.
Two things:

1. Cryptor is usually the word used by criminals to describe payload obfuscation to evade antivirus detection.

2. Momma says closed-source crypto is the devil.
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