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Cisco, San Jose, CA
Cisco is looking for early in career candidates to support our Technology and Systems Quality Group:
Key business enabler of cloud systems, is building a complex distributed platform built on Cloud, Big Data and open source components. The platform is expected to run on over 25K servers; host a million applications; manage PetaBytes of data and will span the globe. This system will automate the manufacturing process and collect device telemetry throughout the lifecycle of a product. This is a real-time system that forms the bedrock of Cisco’s manufacturing process and controls the Intellectual Property / security of our products manufacturing.

Role & Responsibilities
● The team is a small agile team that is developing this advanced cloud software platform. You will be a part of this dynamic team and build advanced software.
● The software stack is on Linux, with Python, Java & C++.
● The database technology is Cassandra – the No-SQL big-database.
● The visualization technology is web based GUIs - HTML5 with JS/Angular/React to support cross-platform support including mobile applications.

https://jobs.cisco.com/job/San-Jose-Software-Engineer-CA-951...

or contact me at wruka@cisco.com
I agree, seems like this is a very early splash page to gauge interest in the business, which is a little misleading and makes me think them untrustworthy as they do not have their legal basics setup yet.
Escaping from a North Korean Concentration Camp
No. This is analogous to finding a new molecule in chemistry, or a new isotope in nuclear physics. None of the fundamental constituents are different, they've just been been combined in a new way. (In fairness, this combination is a lot more novel than most new molecules or isotopes.) In principle, the existence of these pentaquarks could have been definitively calculated from first principles if we had sufficient computing power, just as for all molecules, but this is infeasible.
Planetfall, by Infocom. It was a text based game that I never quite finished. Funny and with good puzzles.
While at it, make the same list for the US.
Well, to be honest, if we were to treat vendors as contributors to projects, the entire world would owe almost everything to China.
getting the GPU to offload stuff and letting the host OS deal with it instead of layers of browser plugins still sounds better (even when Flash tries to use hardware acceleration).

for example, it's much more efficient to let the browser (Safari) play html5 video and hardware decode it than the same video through flash.

it's also much easier to control things when it's not in a black box such as flash, browsers let you disable or whitelist things like JS, WebGL, etc.
Quote from a friend of mine on the team:

"After 9.5 years and 6 billion km, we made it to Pluto 72 seconds ahead of schedule."

Amazing!

The views of Pluto and Charon already reveal how incredibly fascinating this system is. The dichotomy of their surface colours will most definitely lead to further insight into formation processes in the Kuiper Belt.

Just such a shame that we can't land this time around. With the volume of discoveries generated by MESSENGER and Cassini, and the wealth of knowledge that New Horizons is going to generate, it's such a shame that my favourite planet, Uranus, is likely not going to be visited in my lifetime. I spent my PhD studying the mysterious outer ring system of Uranus, and I'm 100% positive that a close-up view of the entire system would blow our minds.

Somebody who solves/disrupts science communication deserves a Nobel Prize.

EDIT: Fixed typos
My guess as to the reason for not using inline html, is that according to the markdown spec, block-level elements can’t have markdown inside of them. So his DIV buttons couldn’t have markdown formatting inside them otherwise.
The Mozilla Foundation unveiled a plan to revamp Firefox
Barely gets mentioned? WTF news outlets are you reading that you got New Horizons but not Rosetta/Philae?
IE (even 11) still has bad support for robust rendering of HTML5. Until that changes, not a lot will happen.
Hacked in the U.S.A.: China’s Not-So-Hidden Infiltration Op
Yes sure, It's really negative feedback here but the majority of users commenting there have technical knowledge as you can see in the comments and most people are only commenting when they don't like things anyway, you never have any thanks if they like things (if you ever created something used by other people, you know what I'm talking about).

So we can see that technical people (including me) don't like so much this feature but it does not help to know if the average user is finding it useful, I would bet on my case average users are not even using it since you need to create a separate account, but anyway, we will see.

And also, in my opinion, Firefox became a great product by trying new things. And as always, when you change things, sometimes it does not work, sometimes you explore in other directions, you need to experiment a bit.

PS: Downvoting-me does not change these facts.
HN submission and discussion on why the attitude expressed in that blog post is harmful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7930430
To repost my comment from a previous submission:

There's been a lot of meta discussion how Yishan Wong, Alexis Ohanian, and Ellen Pao have been talking trash to each other about Reddit and seemingly ignoring every NDA in the book.

The comments made in the linked interview trashing a former employer seem to perpetuate this culture. It's weird. (although if you're planning on starting your own startup after a bad job, burning bridges isn't as drastic)
The fact that their anticipated price is $3/day is absurd. I can't see insurance companies rushing to cover this.
Blocking third party JS does not help me offload the libraries to a CDN (ex. cdnjs.com) to save server bandwidth.
There has been for a very long time a desktop player packaged with Flash Professional, I'm not sure if it comes with the free player download but I expect it would.

The real problem will be the Flash games and applications that try and call home to domains that no longer exist.
Windows Server 2003 extended support officially ends today
Turn what you're doing into an applied project. Lines in a book are that, in a book. Run a mini-project using the skills you want to learn, and discover much deeper knowledge and understanding.
Redfin Introduces On-Demand Home Touring with ‘Book It Now’
People chanting "USA" are literally not saying "in your face, my country is better that yours." I think if that's what you're hearing, you're bringing some personal interpretation to your hearing.
Unfortunately Flash still fills a couple gaps in browser support: live video streaming and adaptive bit rate streaming (live or recorded).

I posted a similar comment about it the other day: [0]

Personally I would like to see HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) [1] implemented in the all the browsers, it's a nice lightweight protocol and would be the path of least resistance since it's already used heavily in the mobile space.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9874338

[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming...
319 million people spending $650 million[1] amounts to $2.03 per person. I probably paid more than average taxes, but I don't feel like I can claim more credit than, say, the Yuan dynasty of 13th-century China and its contributions to rocket science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Mission_profile
Which platforms are the most demanding regarding PCIe time window? Which ones caused you problems?
Look Back at Real Estate Market Shows That Timing Matters
Ask HN: What do you do when you are lethargic?
Sometimes - like today - I am not interested in anything. I just feel lethargic. I walk around, try to sleep, try to work, try to lift some weights... nothing works. I'm just bored. I play computer games and feel bad for wasting time that I could use to build my startup, do sports, plan a holiday or whatever. But I simply find no energy for any of these tasks.

I know that in a day or two I will be full of energy again. Maybe even later on today. But these lethargic moments come often. Once every few days I guess. Any Ideas how to approach this kind of situation?
Mark from Mozilla here.

To be clear, by "blocked" Flash we really mean enforced click-to-activate. User choice is always a #1 priority at Mozilla.

We regularly block vulnerable plugins. What made this block different was that we did it before Adobe made an update available. Now that Adobe has released an update, it is no longer true that every version of Flash Player is blocked in Firefox.

However, we're glad to see the conversation this has sparked. Personally I align with Alex Stamos regarding Flash, in the thinking that a formal EOL would be great.

I'd also like to use this space to make a shameless plug for Shumway, a project set on building a faithful an efficient renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance. Ending Flash doesn't need to mean an end for Flash media. http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/

Edit: typo
Sorry, could you explain this a little further? As an American, my income taxes seem to be pretty solid evidence that I am bearing American liabilities. Especially in a case like space exploration, where the only cost is monetary, I don't see how a burden is being placed on anyone save the taxpayers.
To be fair, a bottle of water you can carry with you is pretty convenient. You can keep refilling it from the fountains, too.
Wholeheartedly recommend this book as well. He gives a brief overview of classical complexity, how quantum matrices work, then how quantum complexity works. It's really accessible to those with some complexity background.
At the end of the first draft, this YAML convention will become Jade.
Mozilla is not a merry band of hackers anymore. They're a bona fida corporation with its own agenda. Their agenda depends on having as many users as possible so they're trying to make everything they can for that. The free web, choice and all that become second place now.

PS : Look at their corporate HQ.
strange,please send us an email
I'm just disappointed that browser makers caved to Flash-using media companies demands and added closed-source DRM to the HTML spec. Thank you for demanding such an awful misfeature, Hollywood. Our starving culture will forever be in your DMCA debt.
Lildebi, Debian on top of Android, a simple installer app
Uber Could Have to Pay $209M to Reclassify Its Drivers in California
Is the clip at the top just audio with a black screen? That seems like the least useful thing; I'd wager that any blind visitors have screen readers.
Ask Google Music developers why they still require Flash for the best experience? You can call for its death but the call is hollow without a replacement.

Isn't there also a possibility for the browsers to sandbox the plugins enough to keep them safe?
BIOS is not the sum total of all firmware on a computer - for example you can write a rootkit that lives in the southbridge controller [1] [2] and [article]. And you're correct, as you note - unless you're plugged into the JTAG how do you know you actually reflashed with a clean firmware/BIOS?

It's important not to mix the sensational reporting with what Dragos actually claimed - he only claimed an audio sidechannel as an airgap jumper and/or stay-behind re-loader mechanism on previously-infected systems. Which is actually perfectly possible, especially given that many audio chipsets still have native soft-modem capability built in. Could you write a "loader" firmware virus that re-downloads a more substantial rootkit via soft-modem with an ultrasonic carrier? Well, it's not impossible...

That's generally the problem with the BadBios tale - he's a security researcher so his claim was just at the edge of possibility, but it would have to be an very sophisticated piece of work. It's more likely that the guy was jumping at shadows, but then you read stuff like the [article], which I read as implying that BIOS/firmware-level malware is starting to trickle down to small-scale private actors.

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-07/Heasman/Pre...

[2] https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-07/Heasman/Pape...
An intro to big data
Every country has a right to forbid business relations with another country due to its government's policy. As an Israeli I think the boycott on Israel is a legitimate way to try influencing our policies even though the boycott hurts me as a citizen that oppose the occupation. You pay a price for having a dumb government.

Just to clarify: I'm all for the deal with Iran, hoping for a better future for the Iranians.
Here is a pretty neat WebGL site where you can test that theory. http://david.li/flow/
I love some of the aliases here. :D Added them to my toolbelt.
Here are mine.

https://github.com/uberspot/dotfiles/blob/master/.alias
I think sustained cardiovascular activity is the best thing. Not weight lifting, but running, swimming, or fast walking, biking, any of those things. Seriously, it works. Also, getting the blood moving in that way tends to inspire many great ideas; many influential people throughout history associated active body movement with good ideas.
And they are untouchable. Lesson for the rest. Whatever you do, by hook or by crook, get a nuclear weapon.
> being directed to benefit Britain and the U.S.

I know they were directed to Britain: Anglo-Iranian was a significant chunk of the UK pension system. But what monetary benefit was going to the U.S.?

Most of my understanding here is coming from All the Shah's Men. If you've got additional sources, I'd love to see them.
They are an American company and America typically counts Sunday as the start of the week.
These are mostly childish comment, not really HN worthy.
By running the validation "in parallel", do you mean running it in each of the possible quantum "many worlds" in which validation takes place?

If so, aren't you implicitly assuming that these other parallel worlds somehow draw on a shared pool of computing resource? This might be true [1], but equally there may not be a "behind the scenes" of reality at all.

[1] How would we know? Run a timing attack on the underlying compute infrastructure?
If you're rich, America won't let you out, see [1]. If you don't plan on expatriating make sure you understand the difficulty you will face with overseas banking, see [2].

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Expat...
[2] https://americansabroad.org/issues/banking/
Your comment confused the heck out of me. Can you clarify a little more? Did I miss something in the article?
That's funny, this looks a lot like google's AI Challenge, http://ants.aichallenge.org/, which allowed you to write your solution in multiple different languages. I wonder why they narrowed down to just java?
Could this be illegal? I mean the EU for example has pretty strict requirements on what you can do with user information.
Lắp mạng Internet cáp quang Vnpt tại Hapulico Complex
Sure. But did you think of it as a European achievement? That's what I was getting at.

When news media talks about European integration, it's always with the "Greeks are lazy, Germans are stuck up" style angle that tries to play up national stereotypes.

Rarely do we get to read about Europe as a group of people that get together to put spacecraft on comets, and the EU as a project that has brought 70 years of peace to Central Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire.
It is weird, but when you consider the entire point of Reddit and its role in society, it's not strange that its gossip culture penetrated to its very core.
> One point I make is the Tesla is luxo-sport car. Costs a lot new like any other sporty car. So the cost of a new Tesla vs a used gasoline power car isn't really a fair comparison. Looking on Craigslist, you can get a used Nissan Leaf $10k, cost per mile is $0.035. One can run numbers but the cost of ownership is probably $300/mo.

I guess that's kind-of my point. If millenials can't afford to buy houses they're probably not buying luxo-sports cars. It's not that a Tesla is a bad idea, it's just that the idea that millions of young people with no real assets are going to buy them is a fantasy.

I would suggest that it's roughly as silly as saying pretty soon all the millenials are going to be driving 5 and 7 series BMWs. Not unless those cars come down in price by 80%-90% or everyone somehow magically gets rich AND there's no inflation.
Traveling at 16km/s for 9.5 years would dilate time by almost 300 minutes! Not only is there a 4.5 hr delay because of the speed of light, there's an extra 300 min of relativity correction.
When did they build in Pocket? I didn't like when they added Hello but this seems even stranger. I guess they're getting money from Pocket for it in the same way they get money from Google for search but users can opt-out of Google search - from those complaints it doesn't sound possible for Pocket. (Please let me know if I'm wrong).
In Defense of the Hi.P.P.O
It actually makes me hopeful that New Horizons will have a chance to look further on things in the Kuiper Belt. It's a very interesting area that doesn't get much attention.
Wow, all Brugmansia are very dangerous to manipulate; Anthurium and Caladium having micro-needles and corrosive poisons (to put this it in the nose of the poor dog is the same as filling the nose of the dog with a mix of powder of broken glasses and vinager); Euphorbiaceae cause blisters in the skin by contact (they are bathing the dog with Croton!), Cyperus have micro-spines of silica and cuts like a razor blade, and Aristolochia causes cancer by contact!.

Most of the plants in the table have in common that they are very dangerous and cause a hell of pain when aplied to skin and mucosae.

This is not 'improving methods', is just a cruel animal punishing to turn the dog crazy and vicious. Please don't try this at home. Is plain and simply nauseating dog torture and also very dangerous for the owner (a human can easily be killed if parts of those plants are reduced to dust and accidentally inhaled for example).
It's the European angle that barely gets mentioned; see my reply to oh_sigh.
> Why would a developer work in such a place? I imagine you would be forced to be all professional yet always play second fiddle to the traders, no matter great your skills were.

This is generally the case at most places where software development is done, even when the software is the product.

For example, as any developer working at an "enterprise software" shop -- despite being the "producers", you're still beholden to (and less important than) the sales folks.

Not saying that's right or wrong, just that that is how it is.
Amen. I work at NASA and I'm gobsmacked at the beauty of the New Horizons imagery. I can't wait to see the good stuff.

Isaac Asimov's science essay collections had a profound effect on me. I learned physics years ahead of when I would have in school by reading these essays and learning how to do calculations involving kinetic energy, mass, acceleration, etc. Even more important, those essays helped me learn how to think like a scientist. Asimov's secular humanist world view also influenced my own world view greatly. I met him several times at various SF conventions and I miss him.
The whole recent controversy has been strange in general. There's this incredibly pervasive sense that the management in general is completely disconnected from the community, only stepping down from on high to dish out shadowbans.

I don't know what to think honestly, but it seems like the reddit administration is walking close to the cliff currently. Maybe the newOld ceo can turn that around.
When you look at the math (as you have) it seems almost certain to be a scam. ResMed has a Technical note [0] on powering one of their devices form a battery, while product efficiencies can vary they are recommending ~30 Amp hour batteries for the 20 cmH20 this device is claiming to provide. It amazes me that indigogo doesn't do something to stop this sort of thing when it gets to be such a well funded project (I'm sure other platforms are guilty of it too).

[0] http://www.rpc.com.au/pdf/battery-powering-products-usa.pdf
Rule out thyroid problems (simple bloodtest) amd sleep problems.

Then focus on diet and exercise.
This is drawn from https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-makes-a-good-corporate-st which discusses it in a bit more detail.
Interesting note, as of today, the US is the first country to have successful spacecraft missions visit all of the classical planets.

There is one big exception, of course: the Soviet Union was the first to have a spacecraft visit Earth, with Spunink.

This category is completely arbitrary, especially given that Pluto is now considered a minor planet. Still, it's an achievement of note.

Mercury - 1974, Mariner 10

Venus --- 1962, Mariner 2

Earth --- 1957, Sputnik 1

Mars* --- 1965, Mariner 4

Jupiter - 1973, Pioneer 10

Saturn -- 1979, Pioneer 11

Uranus -- 1986, Voyager 2

Neptune - 1989, Voyager 2

Pluto --- 2015, New Horizons

* The Soviet Union launched several probes to Mars before the US did, but those probes failed. This may be true of other planets as well.

edit: formatting
Google accidentally reveals data on 'right to be forgotten' requests
It is too simplistic to link all the changes to money or radicals. Every country has all the sides of a normal distribution. You have extremists, and you have general majority, and then many smaller interest groups, leftists etc. In USA even look what the difference between two elections was, clinton and bush and then Obama, and what the world experienced.

What I believe happened is that the remains of the green movement did not die, but thanks to the awareness of folk in Iran, direction of politicians inside, and policy changes of USA and other EU outside (pull out rather than invade), the movement was left to go into direction of democracy rather than anarchy. Despite being hurt in the election I voted for Ruhani, envisioning a slow but necessary passage into democracy, while many people are used to the black and white terms of revolution. The people in power felt this, and saw the movements around them in arabic revolutions, and decided to go on with it rather than against it, with the support of majority.

Today we are not done, but is the day we start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, that there is hope.

Edit:typo + clarification
I'm fairly skeptical myself, but if they do put their money where their mouth is, this will be a fantastic product. I use a cpap, and I can tell you flying international lugging a machine around is a regular pain in the ass.

That said, my dollars are staying snugly in my pocket for this campaign. It's pretty farfetched, and I don't like the metric they used to illustrate the actual pushing power. It doesn't add up.
> Although, people like us on HN, won't feel excited about making a little websites and earning through Adsense income

I dunno, I'm pretty excited about that sort of effort-to-income ratio. That's the equivalent of never having to pay for groceries again.
Revisiting Apple and IPv6
Detailed notes and problem sets for a series of twenty-one(!) lectures based on the book are at [1].

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/
very much agree. I honestly don't see what the hubub is all about.

Re: privacy, Firefox maintains it's commitment and integrity. The pocket integration is very transparent (pocket has agreed to open-source it), and the tech-saavy people that seem to be the only people this offends can disable with about:config.

Honestly, it seems that people seem to be upset about the idea that Firefox is raising money outside of donations. I for one am very happy about them finding revenue sources that also add functionality for users, all while maintaining user privacy as a main interest.
Most projects still written in C are those that make extensive use of C libraries. Making the application code immune doesn't actually reduce the vulnerability surface much - much of the vulnerability comes in the libraries the application calls.