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Is terrorism the correct word for the US government infiltrating, manipulating and subverting technology and services all over the world? Is spreading fear about being monitored by a seemingly lawless entity terrorism?
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The absurd thing is, one of the main companies pushing this is Microsoft and they know how important a feature this is - the main advantage of Bing that they advertised everywhere was that it included stuff like maps and other contextual information in the search results. Then Google rolled out the same feature and Microsoft tried to use anti-competition law to force Google to remove it.
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The question is how could that expensive US education could possibly make sense for americans?

In Europe,in most countries, education is virtually free, just look at the cost of law school or med school in France or Belgium for instance. It's what $500 dollars a year at most?

Of course there are plenty of private schools in Europe, but even these are usually half the cost of American ones.

I graduated in computer science, in France. 4 years of college education cost me, what, 1000$ at most?

Now sure, I pay a LOT of taxes. But I know at least some of it goes into education and allow other student like I was to afford a good education. Having stayed in US for a while, while salaries seemed higher I don't think the cost of life is cheaper than in western Europe.
I would gladly pay more taxes if it meant attracting intellectual and ambitious (and you have to be both to explore this kind of opportunity — also, I suspect that you have to pass some exams, right?) people from other countries.
Not built-in, but there are plenty of third-party JSON fields around.

However, the author of contrib.postgres opened this PR yesterday, so you can certainly expect them in the next release: https://github.com/django/django/pull/4427
Not a very constructive comment but his work is extraordinary. Amazing flow, very emotional and made me feel like a child watching that Duet video. It's just beautiful.
How Cheap SEO Can Ruin Your Small Business
Font rendering in Canvas2D is slow plus you have to reinvent the wheel with things like word-wrap/new line. Using a texture based font in Canvas/WebGL is a lot faster and is used in many (older) games, but with the obvious downsides.

Browsers should finally fix all issues of contentEditable API: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand/ , https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement... , http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable
exactly.. Just in case you want virtual DOM, but not the rest of React, this comes in very handy
I completely get the premise of drawing talent. I don't agree with the concerns over population numbers itself. You see this fear from Japan, Germany, and much of Europe.

Entering into an age that will be dominated by robotics, greater general automation, artificial intelligence, etc., having more people across the board will not be a net benefit. Germany is worrying about this at exactly the wrong time.

Germany has vastly expanded their economy since 1970, while adding zero additional people. They'll be able to do exactly the same thing over the next 40 years by leveraging the incredible productivity gains that are inbound right now. No population growth is necessary or desirable; if Germany holds its population steady, and increases economic output through greater productivity, they'll greatly improve the odds that the median standard of living will increase in line.
You failed the interview for not pulling a James Clapper and lying.
Facebook has some nasty patent terms in their open source projects.
Uber Netherlands employee arrested in investigation into Uberpop
Also, you could argue that it is a good investment to have high educated foreigners receive their education in your country: it's like extending your business network on a nation-wide level.
Education in Europe is not free. You pay with your qualifications. If your university grades are not good enough, you go out fast.

I studied engineering in Europe. When I went to Boston or London to work it was like I was the boss or something because I was much better prepared than Americans or British.

But Americans have much better job opportunities that make them better than Europeans after working some time in any field.

The world is controlled by the petrodollar and Americans enjoy lots of benefits as a result.

Europe is old and taking risks is so hard here. In Asia it is even harder.
Client Side Browser Based Vulnerability – Part 1
We bust the certs all the way to the CA. If it's been acquired through "extralegal" methods (an interesting word to not say "illegal", even though we all know it is), no matter who did it, security is compromised.
> ARC is never going to run on iOS

I don't see why the same applications couldn't be compiled to run on iOS, like unity or AIR for example.
Well, sure, then Dawkins can dispose of it by rebutting the math. If he can't, then this "heckling" is an actual scientific contribution.
On the one hand this is really awesome because by opening ChromeOS up to Android apps it becomes much more useful.

The other side of the medal is that this might slow down progress on the open web-platform as developers would rather develop a native android app than put effort to make a web-app.

It somehow funny:
Recent developments around the web platform (service workers, etc) are supposed to make web-apps compete with native apps and even Microsoft is starting to embrace this (web based skype). At the same time now native apps run in the web. It will be interesting how to this will evolve.

It also shows why Google developed NaCL and that it doesn't really matter that it hasn't been adopted by other browsers. Because its main use case is for ChromeOS.
Op here! One of the primary reasons for using Redis here is not so we can use Lua (even if it is great!) - it's so that we can generate IDs using a service we already have. This idea could be extended to anything that allows user scriptable behaviour - for example, we know at least Instagram are doing this using PostgreSQL stored procedures.
The mindset here is different.

1. We have a 20% sales tax, income tax that is usually somewhere between 35%-45%... car taxes, highest energy costs in the world... just taxes everywhere.

2. The overall mindset here is much less libertarian and much more "let the Goverment handle it".

3. Smart brains are needed for the local economy to stay competitive.

4. Another thing to keep in mind: the actual cost for a student isn't really that much money. There are no million dollar sports teams, luxury gyms, technical equipment usually just isn't on the same level...
Organize the artwork... There is something that always gets in the way of game development in the open source world, and its the artwork assets. Someone just needs to be on top of this component -- coordinating the art from artists contributions, putting it into the project in a way that makes sense, dealing with the requests from developers to format the art a certain way, etc.

Open Source games usually don't hit the sweet spot until someone does this - alas its not always the sexiest part of the project although, it does become the sexiest part of the project pretty fast, eventually.
Make your house secure with other suggestions from here, and then add very visible additions to show that you are secure. E.g. Put up an armed reaction sign even if you don't have armed reaction. Barbed wire fence even though barbed wire is easy to work around. A red flashing LED light.

The best possible outcome is nobody ever testing the measures that you have put into place.
Translated.net, a language service provider, is looking for a new Site Reliability Engineer.
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Full time.

A lot of girls in the office :)

http://translated.theresumator.com/apply/jqOWKX/Site-Reliabi...
This already exists, it's called AIR. However it's a double edged sword.
Pro sound engineer, in both music (long ago) and film.

Two basic reasons: one is that lots of people listen to music on headphones, and two is that most people don't set up their speakers properly. Even stereo speakers are usually not set up properly, and even most musicians don't set their speakers up properly. I don't set my speakers up properly at home. If you want them perfect you basically need to rearrange the entire room around that goal and my house isn't even quiet enough to make that effort worth it. Expecting people to set up a surround system just to listen to music? Forget it - as the lady said, ain't nobody got time for that.

In a movie theater, everything is placed pretty precisely and calibrated for a consistent level of loudness - although mroe and more these days, films tend to ignore established standards. Action movies are ludicrously loud and over-produced these days, for example, and directors like Michael Bay are notorious for demanding that playback levels be pushed into the red, resulting in genuine ear fatigue for many audiences.

At home, you can get nice results with a good home theater but again it depends how much time and money you want to invest in making it good. I just watch movies via the TV speakers because I don't want 6 more boxes with wires trailing all over the place, and between living in a somewhat noisy neighborhood and having a bunch of pets, the distractions to a great-sounding system would just be that much more distracting, if you see what I mean.

On the other hand, if I'm watching a movie in the theater and someone starts whispering near me I have no problem with telling them to shut up or get the fuck out in 99.9%* of cases. Having done it, I can tell you it takes weeks of painstaking work just to get an adequate competent soundtrack into shape, so the last thing I want to hear is some jackass 'explaining' it to his girlfriend like they're sitting in the living room.

* A very few movies benefit from vocal audience participation, and of course comedies are there to be laughed at.
Wiredcraft (http://wiredcraft.com/) -- One of our offices: Shanghai, China

We build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure. We work with large organizations on challenging problems (the World Bank, the United Nations, CNN) OR on our own products (mostly developer tools, things like http://devo.ps or http://sweepboard.com).

We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in NYC this year. We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

- Sales director (freelance + FT); You would be involved with the following sales responsibilities: -Scale our existing sales channels, -Develop new sales channels, -Build up new partnerships, -Develop new business opportunities, Keep in mind that we provide both services and product, both of which you would likely get a chance to help us with.

- Project manager; We're looking for somebody to help us lead and ship our projects and products. http://wiredcraft.com/jobs/project-manager/

- Designer director; you have design chops, understand technology (HTML/CSS...) and do more than nice pictures (content,strategy,color,theory,...). http://wiredcraft.com/jobs/design-director/

- Online marketing intern (Shanghai or NYC); we'd love some help with growth hacking our products and marketing our services like there's no tomorrow. http://wiredcraft.com/jobs/online-marketing-intern/

Drop me a line at job@wiredcraft.com, or go to https://wiredcraft.typeform.com/to/GG4GQz
One of our offices: Shanghai, China

We build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure. We work with large organizations on challenging problems (the World Bank, the United Nations, CNN) OR on our own products (mostly developer tools, things like http://devo.ps or http://sweepboard.com).

We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in NYC this year. We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

- Sales director (freelance + FT); You would be involved with the following sales responsibilities: -Scale our existing sales channels, -Develop new sales channels, -Build up new partnerships, -Develop new business opportunities, Keep in mind that we provide both services and product, both of which you would likely get a chance to help us with.

- Project manager; We're looking for somebody to help us lead and ship our projects and products. http://wiredcraft.com/jobs/project-manager/

- Designer director; you have design chops, understand technology (HTML/CSS...) and do more than nice pictures (content,strategy,color,theory,...). http://wiredcraft.com/jobs/design-director/

- Online marketing intern (Shanghai or NYC); we'd love some help with growth hacking our products and marketing our services like there's no tomorrow. http://wiredcraft.com/jobs/online-marketing-intern/

Drop me a line at job@wiredcraft.com, or go to https://wiredcraft.typeform.com/to/GG4GQz
To add to that, 100ms-200ms is only the cutoff time to determine the bid winner from adexchange perspective. We still need to add the time for adexchange to notify bid winner + adserving load time for total ad response latency.
I agree, bad behavior at meetings may be a bi-product of an inefficient meeting.
Because choice is good. The Javascript world is definitely not a mono culture, get used to it.
Yes, there are! I cared for the contents, but not enough to open another program…
Will be great to have something like this in Emacs.
360 browser accepts all certs, incl self signed. no warnings.

also lol: 'high usage numbers are in large part due to the software being very difficult to uninstall. Furthermore, whenever a user attempts to install another browser, a warning pop-up claims that the new browser is unsafe and should not be run'
Well consider the alternative: only rich people could get a higher education otherwise. IIRC this is what happens in the US too (parents having to save for their kids' college education, assuming they actually have money left after paying the bills), which leads to reduced mobility (the poor stay poor)
Those "others" = the Chinese government.
> Coming back to a text editor... Let's say we have a contenteditable area in which a user is writing something

Browsers should fix all issues of contentEditable API:

* http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand.html (see compatibility table (old but still valid), and demo: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand/) ,

* http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable (see issues tab) ,

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement... (see bugs list).

* and additional touch related bugs in mobile browsers.
Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers
It tells me

security: SecTrustSettingsRemoveTrustSettings (user): No Trust Settings were found.
security: SecTrustSettingsRemoveTrustSettings (admin): No Trust Settings were found.
Quick changes, bad docs and system too large to test results in actual explosion
See also "Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY": https://blog.cloudflare.com/using-cloudflare-to-mix-domain-s...
To contextualise this, in the UK we usually declare whether we have an alarm during the application for insurance, and we pay a larger premium if we don't have an alarm / other security.

So these people have benefitted by having a lower premium because they have an alarm and then not used it / found it inoperable in the event of a burglary.
The Economist is already on Blende ( https://blendle.com ), an article-publisher/aggregator with micropayments from a wallet, no ads.
...and Germany gets the better side of this deal. Unless you overinflate fees and run your education system like a business educating people is a net benefit.
I am on a temporary work assignment in Germany (2 years). I would come back in a minute if I wanted to further my education. Its a great country, safe, modern, and residents (permanent or not) get a lot of support from the government. Free university is for the German people, but they extend it to foreigners because Germany needs people and they hope they stay. I've learned a lot in Germany I will take back with me an apply to my work and everyday life (focus, directness, efficiency, attention to detail, basing decisions on first principles). I imagine getting an education here would reflect these principles and be of very high quality. Most German engineers I interact with our exceptional. Germany has an export to import ratio of ~1.2 meaning for every euro they spend, they earn 1.20 euros. They can afford this. The US is less than 1 (perhaps 0.8 or something) and Canada (my home) is about 1 mostly because we have so many natural resources. The benefits one gets in the US and Canada pale in comparison to Germany, it is embarrassing. The US and Canada need to push their export to import ratios higher through innovation and efficiency improvements (real economic growth, not like artificial economic growth based on low interests, real estate speculation, and the financial/banking worlds investment/money magic tricks) in order to be able to afford the benefits a German resident gets.
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Did the AIM convos happen when you were a teenager? My FB chat's aren't like my MSN days, but it's the difference between my teen years and my mid twenties (today), not a difference in tech. I still chat my ass off with good friends on FB, very similar to my MSN days.

Meanwhile I haven't put anything on my wall since 2012. I literally use FB messenger to just send my best friends any stories or pictures I want to share with them. The other 250... they're more like colleagues to me than part of an intimate circle. Which is why my wall is so empty.

How everyone else does it (posting general stuff on their wall) is beyond me, I feel like an alien. For example someone I hung out with in Korea just posted: "Colorado we about to be all up inside of u".

He's probably going to take a trip to Colorado. Why he wants to share that with his 1800 friends is beyond me. That's the type of stuff I'd send a few of my friends, it's just not relevant to anyone else. Didn't even spark a conversation or anything either. I'd feel like a giant asshole posting stuff like that every day. HN is a world of difference, it's literally the reason I'm on here.

Twitter is a mixed-bag for me. Thing is I don't follow friends or semi-friends on twitter. Mostly just industry/professional/journalists I want to stay up to date on. So it's usually a feed of highly relevant bits of information, so I quite like twitter. The other side of twitter (people who tweet with their friends) feels like teenage MSN chats, only less coherent, less conversational, more one-liner, and of course, permanent so I stay away from that.

I mean imagine you're in a bar or on a bus with your friends just talking about whatever, and you gave everyone in the bar or on the bus a little device with which they can read every single line of the conversation you're having. I'd be the weirdest thing in the world, extremely awkward, there'd be no privacy and it'd be completely irrelevant to the rest of the world. But somehow some people use twitter like that, posting public permanent random conversations that you'd normally (in the real world) expect to have privately, instead of using PMs or Private Group Chat.

That extends to things like 'liking'. If I like a new book, I want to share that with my brother who reads a lot. I really don't care for a guy I had class with last year to see that. Say you're in a store and you see a nice shirt, would anyone send a letter to 250 of his friends about that? But some people treat FB likes like that. It's really weird to me. Also one of those things I'll PM a few of my friends.
Microsoft agrees to use ODF 1.2 after meeting with Maude
> Tesla Motors could be viewed as a stepping stone on the way to building a Gigafactory.

This is an even better summary than the post's title!
So we have come full circle in circa 5 years.

We now have a development platform for desktop quality apps in a proprietary format that run via a plugin in the web and in a runtime on desktop.

The only missing link is publishing the plugin so other browsers can run the apps, oh and renaming it to Flash.
Stanford researchers solve a mystery of dancing droplets
Fake Pirate Bay website exploited to serve baking Trojan to WordPress users
I think the concern here is not that MCS made a mistake, but rather, CNNIC said they wouldn't do something and then knowingly did so. Whether they had good intentions or not is irrelevant. They made a public promise they wouldn't issue intermediate CAs, did so for money and the result of that must be at least temporary revocation. Otherwise the whole notion of trust collapses.
CNNIC is no ordinary CA we are talking about that fears out-of-service. Just like what its name states: China NIC, it is the entity that runs and manages whole block of Chinese part of internet, doing IP allocations and things like that.

even if everybody decides to take CNNIC root out of their system, I doubt how much it would influence the CNNIC.
Because it's a man on the side attack, it sends its attack packets when it sees the original request. He's taking advantage of this by lowering the TTL so that the request never actually reaches the destination server and only the system doing the attack is able to respond.
> Got really annoyed recently since they raised their prices from around $100/year everywhere to being a discount on the local cover price.

Wow, that's actually true (though I'm in Europe). I can consider myself lucky to have taken a 3-year subscription last summer under old pricing model. Now it's almost twice the price, it would also make me think twice now before renewing. I love the Economist and I do take a look at the Espresso from time to time, it's really well done, but, as a long time subscriber, I'm not willing to finance their video or "Buzzfeed model" experiments.
Startssl has wildcard certs if you buy their service at 50$/yr, plus many other stuff.
Public university used to be cheap.

In the 1960's, tuition & fees at a UC school was less than $2000 (2015 dollars) per year. In the 1950's, it was less than $750 per year.[1][2]

Today, tuition & fees at a UC will cost you $15,000 per year.

In order to completely pay for tuition and fees, the state of California would have to increase revenue $3 billion per year. Or increase tax revenues by just 3%.[1][3]

I, as a citizen, feel like our government's priorities have been absolutely abysmal since the 1980's. To me, this level of insanity transcends political ideology. It's just plain dumb not to fix this.

> Now sure, I pay a LOT of taxes. But I know at least some of it goes into education and allow other student like I was to afford a good education. Having stayed in US for a while, while salaries seemed higher I don't think the cost of life is cheaper than in western Europe.

Cost of living is lower in the US (as a whole) than Western European countries, and median household income adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) is quite a bit higher in the US.[4][5]

That doesn't make any of this sensible, though. Sure, I'd take lower taxes if Californian kids had to pay just a couple thousand more to college than French kids. But $14k more? Insanity. Raise my taxes please.

1. http://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since-...

2. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=84&year1=1956&y...

3. http://www.sco.ca.gov/state_finances_101_state_taxes.html

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity#OECD_co...