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I've been on both sides of this. I was recently granted early termination from probation after the Infragard incident in 2011, which probably ranks somewhere in the list of Top N Botched vulnerability disclosures (where N < 100).

On the other hand, I've also reported a lot of bugs to projects over the past couple of years. Most projects are grateful for the help, a few (Taylor Otwell of Laravel and Daniel Kerr of OpenCart) are arrogant and hostile, but they're not the norm.
Because it doesn't matter how personally, emotionally vested you are in a company if you don't understand how to run one, how to monetize, to find new customers, hire good managers and leaders, or a whole slew of other things which your team at a startup hasn't done before but a good investor knows how to advise on, or has connections with advisors who do. Success of a company is determined by a lot more than how invested your team is in the project.
I suspect (but cannot point to hard numbers) that machines might actually be cheaper if you are (politically or otherwise) forced to look after your human soldiers to a reasonable standard, especially in 1st world countries.

Consider the initial training expenses, equipment, career-appropriate salary along with possibly reenlistment bonuses, along with (in the worst case) medevac, multiple complex surgeries, and lifelong treatment/disability pension for some injury. Not to mention the logistic costs of transporting them to various places around hte world, and maintaining an acceptable standard of living there.

Per-machine costs would be high, but there's comparatively little training. Maintenance would be expensive, but rehab/repair decisions would be much less politically charged. Not sure how logistics costs would compare - "life-support" is probably lower, but sourcing power & spares might be greater.

I wonder if anyone has done an economic analysis on this sort of thing.
If he didn't want that responsibility, then he shouldn't have bought the land in the first place.
Website takes 5x longer to load than the game they made 30 years ago.
Well, I guess putting armed guards to block access [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla#Martin.27s_Beach_d...] paying to layers and financing black PR campaigns is expensive. No surprise it could be $500-600k. Or did he actually spend it on cleaning the beach? edit: Or had this $500-600k number been pulled out of thin air, just like 70% number?
Bug bounties are a PR problem if handled badly. If handled well, bug bounties say "look at all of the ways we've made our product more secure". Put another way, do you think Google is less secure or more secure because of their engagement with security researchers?
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You wouldn't believe what launched today: http://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-sourceforge-deals/
I never said that most people ask for a coup. I said that seeing people doing this is crazy. You read what you wanted to read, not what I said.
"Build a strip mall"

This is quite possibly the worst idea there is.
Instead they should have expired from copyright starting at least two years ago so we could do it ourselves.
I'm getting an SSL cert error, just FYI.
About time. I had an opportunity to visit[0] last summer and it's ridiculous they're still on their list. Human rights record is more spotty and deserves scrutiny but they're not actively out to kill Americans.

[0] - http://dopeboy.github.io/cuba/
Ahh, forgive me. I had thought it was their crushing debt payments that are impossible to service thats causing their economic hardships.

Greece will be in a much better position as soon as it exits the Euro.
Interesting that Java 8 is a strict requirement. I'm curious what version of Java is most common in enterprise these days?
Seems like it's down/not responding? Unable to get in at the moment.
Going back to the Greeks(e.g Essentialism) all the way to Modern Evolution would foster a much stronger intellectual background and avoid most future indoctrination. Understanding fallacies in theories is better than just taking them for granted.

But why be so picky on this matter? Unlike other concepts, Religion/Indoctrination can have a serious impact on one's life and true critical thinking is the only weapon against it.
When I report a vulnerability, I ask (if it's not already known) what their timetable is for patching it. If they want more than 30 days for a simple fix, I disclose immediately.

The turnaround time for most projects I've reported to was less than a week.
Yeah that is why I like the BEAM VM as well. It is a really awesome piece of engineering build for massive concurrency and fault tolerance. It is nice to see the whole Elixir ecosystem take advantage of it.

That model of concurrency is important to reduce cognitive load on the programmer. Having concurrent units and mutable state isolated makes it much easier to understand what is going on, rather than having some large class or shared memory state modified from many code paths concurrently (maybe via callbacks, threads, signals, etc.)
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This was also the only way to play Goonies in the US, they only sold the sequel for consoles here.
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It slices by codepoints? That's just silly, so we've gone through this whole unicode everywhere process so we can stop thinking about the underlying implementation details but the api forces you to have to deal with them anyway.

Fortunately it's not something I deal with often but thanks for the info, will stop me getting caught out later.
That's not true... lol.
Hacker news frequently features arbitrary web content that is well designed or such. You could argue for a loose relation
The minimum is a bit less thank that I think.
You can see here[1] an example of the gratification for a full time (7h a day) intern ship of 4 months. The pay per month is ~500€

[1] http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/professionnels-entreprise...
Unless it's the US government, right?
Parabéns pessoal pelo projeto! Pelo que vi, todos são brasileiros, isto é muito legal :)

--English--
Congratulations guys for the project! From what I saw, you're all Brazilians, this is very cool :)
It's really hard to convey his tone through text. I interviewed with him, and I met with him one other time for a tour. I have a feel for his natural demeanor.

I admit that I could be misreading it. The abruptness and tone, however, made it feel like he was very upset.
> Build a strip mall and rent bays to surf shops and restaurants

The government would not allow this to happen. The California Coastal Commission prohibits any such development. I've talked to a local architect who had his plans to remodel an existing single-family home in that area scuttled by the commission. That's why, when driving south after Half Moon Bay, you encounter essentially no coastal development until you hit Santa Cruz.

There are one or two shops scattered along the way but those are grandfathered in; as far as I can tell if it didn't exist 30-40 years ago, it never will. If Vinod Khosla proposed building a strip mall, anti-development activists from all of California would converge on Martin's Beach and chain themselves to the bulldozers while conducting a hunger strike while environmental groups would file at least three parallel lawsuits.

Put another way, SF bay area politics are non-intuitive.

(Note I'm not expressing a normative opinion about whether development should be allowed; I'm merely saying what is currently allowed.)
That's an excellent essay. I agree with about every point. I worked MPI over ten years ago. It seemed like an assembler language for cluster computing: something for raw efficiency or to hold us over until we get a real language. I was playing with Cilk and other parallel tools then. Much better but little adoption or optimization.

The examples given in Spark and Chapel show how much better it can be. Such methods deserve much more investment. The bad thing is that the DOE labs are clinging so hard to their existing tools when they're in the best position to invest in new ones via huge grants they have. They built supercomputing before anyone heard of the cloud. Their wisdom combined with today's datacenter engineers could result in anything from great leaps in efficiency to something revolutionary. Yet, they act elitist and value backward compatibility over everything else. Starting to look like those mainframe programmers squeezing every ounce of productivity they can out of COBOL.

I think the change will have to come from outside. A group that works both sides with funding to do new projects. They either (a) improve MPI usage for new workloads or (b) get the alternatives up to MPI performance for HPC workloads. Then, they open the tool up to all kinds of new projects in both HPC and cloud-centered research (esp cloud compute clusters). Maybe the two sides will accidentally start sharing with each other when contributing to the same projects. Not much hope past that.
Percy.io seems somewhat similar to BBC's wraith[1], albeit easier to integrate.

1.http://bbc-news.github.io/wraith/index.html
Extending Visual Studio 2015
But if someone tries to overthrow the US government it is, right?
Correction: SMS notifications launched before the smartphone was available.

Did we call them smartphones before the iPhone was out ?
> Join SpaceTalk on Slack.

So they're not eating their own dog food?
Limiting this kind of program to startups could help. Limiting to certain jobs and job levels too (I guess the fake companies don't "employ" PhDs in compsci either).

It's not my job to make it work or make it right. But tossing the idea altogether is rather radical.
I imagine as the tech matures, some sort of flexible skin will be developed, to protect the actuators from weather and mud/sand, and to muffle the sound of the motors and valves.
If you wanted to get really fancy, eInk squid-like camouflage could be embedded in the outer layer.

Longish fur might actually work quite well for those 2 purposes, they're not entirely dissimilar from the requirements imposed on real animals who evolved it.
It's worth noting that this article is from March.
From today:

India’s Economic Growth Hits Four-Year High

http://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-economic-growth-hits-four...

"India’s output growth accelerated to 7.5% last quarter, putting it ahead of China as the world’s fastest-growing large economy."

To be fair, some of the data presented is faked, but it's in the ballpark. It'd be good if India and the developing world were all growing faster, but they're still coming along at a nice clip.
Works on Firefox on Linux (Iceweasel 38.0.1-1) if you ctrl-r after a short while.
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No doubt. I'm loving hendrix (and, thus, twisted). It has given me renewed enthusiasm for python as a networking language.

Come check out #hendrix on freenode.
Google ATAP’s Project Jacquard Wants to Weave Sensors into Your Clothes
I've heard this repeated many times. But the metals that make up artillery batteries rust if they aren't maintained. Ammunition has a shelf life and needs to be replaced. Troops need to be continuously trained, or they forget how to operate the machines.

Sure, North Korea might have tons of weapons, but do they have the ability to maintain them?
Has anyone used visualdiff.com?
Playing the first SMB was probably the first defining moment in my life at the age of 5 or 6. I still remember every little detail about it - the super 1980s tv console, sitting on the tiled floor to play it, the Paula Abdul and Madonna posters on the wall, being amazed that I could press a button and Mario would respond instantly. It was at that moment that I fell in love with video games and haven't been able not to love them ever since.
Devaluing Creators = Endangering Creativity
Those date from a time when Nintendo sold arcade hardware but not home consoles, so shipping a Nintendo game on non-Nintendo consumer hardware was not considered a compromise to Nintendo's core business.
Has anyone used visualdiff.com? The services seem pretty similar.
Can someone compare this framework to Django or Rails? Java was my first language and I sorely miss a lot of aspects in it. Would be interested to know about the learning curve, performance, and ORM.
>how well do you fit the position/team/organization

This was the reason that I harped on the most. The job descriptions for most of these companies were very similar. The nuances between them are mainly what sold me to the company that I chose. I said to him that I feel that according to the project explanations and job descriptions, I feel that I would be a better fit elsewhere for the time being. I did not want to come off as if I hated or would never work for their company.
I see you made this comment several times here, so let me try and explain...

Sometimes the office pays for group lunch, if you want something else, feel free to go, but prepare to pay for it yourself (This is rarely the reason to stick with a lunch group you don't enjoy).

When a group decides to go out to lunch, it's not because they all want to eat the same thing, it's because they enjoy it or recognize that it's good for office morale. Picking where to eat is a small inconvenience in this regard.

Most of the time, the problem is not too many choices, it's indecision. Everyone is hungry, they all want to eat something Good, but if you ask them what you want, they can't decide. If you put a CHOICE, most people will say eh, there must be something better. But almost everyone is content or doesn't really care what to eat if there's a solid decision in place. That's why these apps take the decision making out.
You've got a valid point. It took me about a year to become really proficient in python, but after that a month to pick up C relatively well, and another 3 months to pick up Scala (probably because functional programming was something new to me). But after Scala, Haskell took about a week, so you might be on to something with similar paradigms being easier to pick up.
The electronic devices are, from a technical point of view, flawed. That doesn't mean the votes have been tampered... though I agree that this should be fixed.

On the other side, this same electronic devices are in use since 1996, thus all elections ever since fall under the same suspicion (even the one won by FHC).

The problem is that political parties only act when they are loosing. Now, the losers claim the devices can be tampered with... of course they can. But why didn't they make these devices right when they were in power?
I'd pay money for this if it worked with Scala.
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Kung Fury is more about the faux-80s that was brought about by Far Cry: Blood Dragon.

Not that that's a bad thing, but "true 80s" flicks are a bit different IMO (ie: Breakfast Club, Back to the Future and the like).
> But I don't think rust is quite at a place where it makes sense to reccomend it for that use-case to a novice (low-level) programmer. I'd love to be wrong about that.

Can you expand on why that is, maybe?
Not to mention that you get to hire performance engineers.

People may have overestimated their utility (that they are good for less things then commonly thought). Maybe not to the degree that the stereotypical C/++ would believe, but still an overestimation.

Maybe we just need to use more abstractions in the middle between manual and fully automatic memory management, like region-based memory management (just an example).
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you did nothing wrong. any company that goes into the hiring process knows that their candidates declining an offer is a possibility and as long as you were courteous they should be mature enough to respect your decision and chalk it up to the "process".

in the end they want someone who wants to commit to working there and you want to be in a place where you have no doubts.
No, nothing wrong on your part. You just were exposed to a bit of human nature - most people are only nice to you when they want something from you.
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Knowledge and experience:
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ghostinspector.com (one of the products from my company)
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I asked them to release it on GOG, to have an official DRM-free download option. If you buy it through their site: http://kungfury.com (to support creators) you get access to it on vhx.tv, but you can't download it from there.

Of course you can download it from Youtube using something like youtube-dl, but it's not as straightforward.
Cyan font on a white background, ffs, go back to geocities where you came from!
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Why there are holes in swiss cheese
I have some relevant experience. My father owns a property with an easement, purchased from an attorney who worked in easement law, in a different jurisdiction: this man himself mistook some points of law, and last minute paperwork was required. At several levels of government, various departments use maps that clearly indicate (incorrectly) that my father does not own the easement, and the city at one time attempted to suggest that it was frontage. And this is regarding an easement whereupon there is a well-established thicket, not a road.

This brings me to the consideration that real estate agents are not lawyers, and that legal status of the easement might have been unclear or incorrectly represented when the purchase was made. Also, I think that if the road was being treated simultaneously as a liability and an obligation by whatever mix of regional law pertained, a legal confrontation would be completely understandable.

I do not know or assert that any of these things are the case, but I know that easements are complicated beasts, and that a simple violation of contract may not be the only explanation here.
I think it's high time a formal taxonomy of robots gets introduced.

There are humanoid robots, robots that simply do labor, autonomous, semi-autonomous, remote-controlled, etc. Your definition of sensing and control is new to me, personally, but valid of course. There are software robots, and then there are clickbaiters and charlatans making outrageous claims which lose their drama when an appropriate definition of robot is applied... We just need to straighten it all out, organize all of the things!
Yeah, but its also the impoverished and "lower class" in the US and the rest of the West.

You need $30-$40k [depending on where you live in the US] per Adult to be middle class.
Comparing to malloc and free directly isn't very useful because that's pretty much the worst way to manage memory. Aside from memory arenas, you can just pool memory or preallocate too. I think concurrent data structures have very niche usage in practice (compared to say, a thread safe system).

>> cache line misses hurt.

> What does that have to do with GCs?

Everything. Sure you can use a copying GC and hope related objects go together. I tell the compiler to lump them together and exploit the prefetcher wherever possible.
The bad reason is "Because we do, and we're the best. Those researchers are just slackers".

One good reason would be to prefer passive sensing, because LIDAR is equivalent to waving a laser across the entire landscape, precisely announcing your own position to anyone watching. Multi-ocular systems can be entirely passive assuming enough ambient light, so they're much harder to detect.
Correct. It can (will be able to) talk to npm, pip, RubyGems, cpan, the full gamut of package providers. Connecting to things like Windows Update, Microsoft Dev Center, etc. are also possible to implement.
Here is the Node.js? =(
Because a large part of Japanese language (and Korean and Vietnamese for that matter) is made of loanwords of Chinese origin (漢語) it made some sense to bring them together (albeit I suspect it is often done because Japanese use Chinese characters too). So while the grammar vastly differ, learning one is really useful to learn another because a lot of words are roughly the same.

As a side note I was reading in a book[1] the rather extreme view that the "corrupt" Japanese or Korean readings of characters maybe seen as a dialect of Chinese.

[1] Élémens de la grammaire chinoise. Abel Rémusat (1822) https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&out...
Wikipedia says the first use of the term was in 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Early_years
Which, again, had nothing to do with my point. I said that I don't buy it as an argument for the war.

But I'm not trying to justify the war. I'm saying that the comparison made by the OP between the supercollider and the war isn't valid.
> Trying to overthrow a government is not terrorism.

True; "trying to overthrow a government" is a goal, "terrorism" is a means deployed to achieve a goal. You can do the former without the latter or the latter without the former, but the Cuban Project had the goal of overthrowing a government and used terrorism as a major one of its means.
There's a link to an "online demo" but then it asks for your login info or for you to register. That isn't really a demo then, is it?
Are you asking if people would consider to a better but cheaper version of Slack? Because the answer is probably yes. Gotta get the integrations right though.
I'd like to counter, IoT will probably change this view. (however the points raised are still valid.)

IoT devices generally have utterly terrible security, and you'll not want them public exposed. I can envisage a place for a house wide firewall of somesort, to stop publicly addressable devices being knocked offline, or exploited by persons unknown.

So there will be a need for a "virtual front door" something that home router should really do, but fails utterly in most cases.
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This movie is amazing. Every scene is just genius :)
> We've gone this long with it being insecure, so I don't see what the big fuss is with the internet all of a sudden.

Dragnet surveillance was never practical before, due to the ongoing manpower required. With the Internet, that's changed.
oooh! It's not exactly the same! The arcade is quite a bit more difficult. You need 250 coins for an extra life, and there are a handful of levels that are not on the cartridge. The NES version has a couple levels (I think it's 1-3 and 2-2) which show up again later with slightly more characters, but in the arcade those later levels are completely different.

*though the graphics and mechanics are the same and I'm sure that's what you meant. I'm a big fan and it bugs me that I can only play those levels through MAME.
When it comes to a new article being behind a paywall, I would rather not know the news than have to make an account to view it. Can we ban wsj.com from HN?