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There's a lot of interesting engineering that goes into finance. It's hard to get into the domain where milliseconds are of crucial importance and not involve some seriously hairy engineering. Finance, even aside from the practical engineering aspects, can be full of deliciously crunchy theory and mathematics. It isn't all fifty year old frat boys getting shithammered in tawdry NYC bars (though that part can be fun too when they no longer care what is ordered on the corporate tab ;)). Consider this: google is essentially a gigantic clearinghouse for advertising, a topic I think few here are likely to feel deep personal passion about, and yet how much interesting tech have they cranked out over the course of their corporate existence?

As for reward for effort expended the goal seems to be finding interesting work, and this sounds like a lot more fun than taking time off work to go mumble about the same old things from Cormen while sweating in front of a whiteboard to me, but ymmv. Speaking only for myself, presuming for a second that I have time to mess with this when it is released (no sure thing, full time job and two young kids...), even if I don't get a job out of it, learning something about AVR, security, etc. sounds like a worthwhile return on time invested.
All you have to do is convince Kim Kardashian its important...
> with rampant antisemitism in Europe

Because Israel isn't escalating this at all with the palestine conflict...

Netanyahu is a warmongerer that keeps the conflict alive, because it serves his interests, in increasing antisemitism, resulting in jews feeling increasingly threatened, and starts to consider relocation to Israel, increasing support for Netanyahu.
I do wonder if Victoria could do a website that is essentially all AmAs? Basically it would be another interview show with a bit of a twist.
Quoth Sheldon Adelson: "So what if Israel isn't a democracy (in the future). Who cares?"
Avalon and NHN are actually far from no name :)

Avalon has been our partner from our Series A and has funded some amazing startups like Indix, SkyCatch, Nanigans, CloudKick (YC S09), Chartio (YC S10), and Cloudant (YC S08). As an aside, Rich Levandov, who is on our board, was also one of the founders of Phoenix Technologies, creators of Phoenix BIOS

NHN is not well known in the valley, but it's Naver Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver_Corporation) which is one of South Korea's largest telecoms, and is also the parent company behind the Line messaging app.

We haven't talked much about it in our release, but one of the reasons we partnered with NHN is that there's a lot of need for data sovereignty in EMEA, and NHN is in a position to help us enter the asian markets.
> In the US, there is no "statute" for contract of sale like you have in the UK.

Depends on the specific US jurisdiction and the particular kind of sale, but this is often false. See, most notably, the Uniform Commercial Code. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code
I did high-security systems so let's modify that for what I would trust. Five servers that offload TCP/IP, a firewall, VPN, and packet/session authentication onto a PCI card with hardened RTOS (ex: Sentinel's HYDRA firewall). Let's me send sanitized data directly to application through trusted interface among other things. Further, the business's I.P. must be protected: physical separation rather than virtualization + legal protection through regulation and contracts. It will also need to run constantly, be tested periodically by intentional fail-overs, and have predictable cost despite this.

So, I spend 10-30 minutes Googling. I find Hong Kong and Switzerland are among best for regulations on data. Settle on Switzerland for various reasons. I haggle for a few hours with hosting companies to set up the deal. I have some hardware shipped 1-3 business days from other companies. We spend a few hours setting it up, doing disk encryption, configuring the guard (PCI card), setting up link encryption, and testing both sides in various ways. We save & standardize anything we figure out for scripted, instant deployment and testing when we scale out. I ship the relevant boxes to the datacenter. Meanwhile, I deploy the local boxes and thoroughly test the site.

Offshore site is probably up before the week is over. I spend a day re-running the tests. I simulate a bunch of fail-overs in various situations to make sure it works no matter what. Once I'm confident in it, we move all the relevant data into both of them. We might have already done that before shipping it if the situation allowed & then we just move what changed. We transition our domain to point at the new service. The users use it. If it fails, it fails over to the other one. The cost is likely $1,000+/mo and pretty flat except for the times where it takes the main load. Not likely to overdo my cap with only 3 webservers, though.

So, in summary, I have several secure boxes, total control of them, data at rest protection, data in transit protection, regulatory protection, acceptable network speed, predictable albeit higher cost, and long-term stability in various ways. It took around two weeks last time I did something like this. Given they usually charge for the rack, best to always ship a few extra boxes that stay off or idle: reduces impact of shipping time when boxes fail or workload increases.

What does Amazon charge and with what wait for a comparable offering with strong host, network, and I.P. protection?
> Chrome iOS browser was only 25% the frame rate of Chrome on a 4-year-old laptop.

That would be because Chrome on iOS is not Chrome, it's a wrapper around a UIWebView with all the performance pitfalls that entails. Go try it in Safari on iOS or Chrome on Android if you want a proper performance comparison.
Yep, very well stated. I think Adobe should make an effort to remove features from Flash that are no longer relevant and focus on a core set of functionality that allows Flash to go back to its roots and facilitate the needs of animators over anything else, really.

That's Flash's domain predominantly, and that's what it does best out of its feature set.
The integrity value is part of the script tag. You add a hash of the script content as a property of the script tag, and the browser only executes if it matches.

I hacked together something that implements this sort of behavior in a script loader a while ago, if you're interested: https://github.com/ryancdotorg/VerifyJS
This is pretty sweet for POF. I remember talking to Markus on my days at OT. A good 10 years ago now at least. Good for POF!
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This is fantastic, exactly what I'd hoped to get as a response.

There are probably lots of places where we'll need to make improvements, but, for what it's worth, we're all React wrapping standard Bootstrap components, with all their annoying semantic markup (which I am now starting to see the point of).

I'll ping you offline soon for more info. Thanks again.
AWS supports Windows too :) http://aws.amazon.com/windows/
Run them in a VM, just like old C64 or DOS games.
It's not about features. I doubt that many people think that HTML5 is better than Flash at games or animation.

The world has just changed around Flash. The performance and security problems, which were an annoyance 7 years ago, are today seemingly fatal--not least because Adobe has spent 7 years trying to fix them and failing.

At some point it seems like we should just throw up our hands and invoke the sunk cost fallacy.
It feels like reddit management totally forgot AMA is not operated by them at all. That's worrying - They do not pay the content creators and moderators in any way (and that's fine as long as they can rule their communities), but if there is the possibility of profit, they just assume it belongs to them and not to anyone else. I cannot explain what happened (absolutely no communication with the AMA mods) but with that kind of attitude. They just screw themselves over with that IMHO.
Probably has a non-compete, among other things.
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We still watch hundred-year-old movies and read thousand-year-old books. Because people have put in the effort to preserve those things for us. Meanwhile, you're arguing that we shouldn't expend any effort so that people can watch five-year-old Flash cartoons.

In multiple posts, I've said deprecate it. No new Flash content. No reason to create more content that is encumbered by Flash's legacy status. (Although others here have pointed out that HTML5 is not quite as capable of replacing Flash as some think.) But why the huge rush to completely abolish the Flash content that already exists?
Can you maybe elaborate on the main non-js vectors? I know image/video is one, is webgl/canvas maybe a big one? or webrtc? Or would you say js is by far the biggest vector? I currently browse with developer edition (daily patches) with noscript and requestpolicy to make firefox as secure as I can but I still feel using a browser, and Firefox in particular is very unsafe practice and the code is a mess. Am I right in this as far as you know?
For years I was only living for work. No girlfriend, no hobbies, virtually no sleep, nothing. Gradually I became burnt out, depressed and pretty fat for that matter. My productivity and the quality of my output declined as well

After a while I realized that this is not sustainable and I have to do something. I started to focus on weight loss since the results are easily measurable and I felt if I succeed that will give me positive encouragement to improve other parts of my life. Started off with simple changes. Started walking home from work (about 6km) instead of taking the bus every day. During my walks I listened to my favorite tracks or just walked in silence and thought about stuff that I wouldn't normally spend time thinking about. The change in my day to day mood was measurable even after the first week.

After a while I started doing yoga at home following YouTube videos and started meditating regularly. Yoga, besides having positive health effects (flexibility, weight loss) teaches you about being aware of your body and it's needs. I noticed that after a couple of weeks I started eating way healthier and drinking way more water (these days I do at least 3 liters / day) and way less alcohol.

In six months I lost over 26 kilos, which is obviously really nice but what is even better that I feel happier in general and more confident in myself. My life is not revolving around my work anymore. This new found self awareness also had positive effect on my professional life. I'm thinking more clearly, my code quality is better and I solve problems faster than ever.
After I updated my Nexus4 to 5.1.1 the entire device randomly heats up so hot you can't even hold it. Not worth debugging since I don't want it to explode in my face so I junked it.
Don't know about chronologically, but: Between the US and Iran, one country regularly has large groups in the streets, chanting about death to the other country. Which way does that flow, again?
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It's too late for that now, though. The 5 nations that have them are the only five that will have them, if the 5 nations that have them have anything to say about it (and they do).
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I really hope this takes off.
Flash isn't being removed by Mozilla. They have just placed a kind of "Are you sure you want to run this?" prompt on flash content.
Perhaps no significantly bright stars. I find it unlikely that there are zero stars in that field of view, especially since the probe and planet are most likely roughly in the plane of the galaxy.
It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.
And what about all the games from 15-20 years ago, or all the "explanatory" pages (e.g., visualizing different types of balanced binary search trees) that used Java applets? This has been done before, and not that long ago. And just like with DOS or NES games, people will build emulators that work well enough and that will suffice for enjoying historical content.

Actually, the really annoying stuff isn't Flash, it's Shockwave. The format's not been reverse-engineered, and it's hard-to-impossible to find a working plugin for it that seems to play some of those old Shockwave games.
>In particular, placing limits on abusive content and users would make the site more attractive to advertisers.

I see no problem with this. I purposely avoid recommending or even mentioning reddit to the people in my life because of all the horrible content on the site. I won't promote these subs, but there are many, many popular racist subs and subs that promote violence against women and, hell, one that is dedicated to showing photos of dead women who were attractive in life. There's a creeper sub that shows candid photos of women on the street that pathetically skirts the rules by pretending its about "fashion."

My god, reddit is a mess. I can't ever imagine recommending advertising there. I can imagine videos games, e-cigs, energy drinks, etc advertising there as these things already have a lousy reputation, but reddit is not on the path of being this broad forum with lots of members with disposable income. Growth isn't impressive when its just more of the same, largely unprofitable, "manboy" demographic.

This is why USENET lasted so long and was so prolific amongst techies. It never had to make a profit. You could trivially start new "communities", etc. Reddit is pretty much USENET as web, but the problem is, someone has to pay for all those servers and staff. No one is donating or proving access as part of your shell account like they did back in the USENET days. I find it questionable that such forums would ever be profitable. I suspect the next gen reddit will be something that has more in common with torrent-like tech than old school client-server web tech.
How is it toxic if representation doesn't even equal general populace? Men are clearly getting in no problem. This isn't a case of over correction, it's about seeing if they can look past historical biases towards men and be more open towards hiring for the future.

The study you linked describes current faculty expressing a desire to bring it towards a balance.

I'm not sure where the toxicity is created.
That's kind of odd, that Mass. isn't included. I wonder what happened there.
Blount also said she believed Pao’s exit was an indirect consequence of gender discrimination

Sounds like she backed the wrong horse.
Ah, now we can talk specifics. I look forward to talking with you more off HN, but for now, check out the Bootstrap accessibility plugin from PayPal:

https://paypal.github.io/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin/

Addendum: Accessibility validation tools exist, but the best way to test accessibility is with a real screen reader or other assistive technology. On Mac, the VoiceOver screen reader is built in; just press Command+F5 to turn it on, and go through the tutorial. On Windows, there's an excellent open-source screen reader called NVDA (http://www.nvaccess.org/). On desktop Linux, there's the Orca screen reader for GNOME and (less well supported) Unity. The screen reader for iOS is also called VoiceOver, and on Android, there's TalkBack. They can both be found in Settings. Note: On mobile platforms, screen readers change all the touchscreen gestures. FWIW, the majority of blind programmers I know use Windows as their primary platform for real work, and iOS as their primary mobile platform.
What, Kepler is fighting to keep the lights on? The greatest mission that NASA has ever undertaken? I'm saddened to hear that.
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This is a really interesting comparison. I've done the startup thing (unsuccessfully) and know a fair number of other people who have as well (including one who came within one business decision of being a millionaire but who couldn't convince his partners to accept the buyout offer they were being given.)

When you consider reward/(risk*effort) rather than just risk/reward it wouldn't surprise me if lotteries came out on top.

But... the thing you don't get from a lottery is a statement like this: my life-partner and I met through PoF almost ten years ago, and I will be forever grateful to Marcus for building the site that made that possible.

We had both been on other sites previously, and we had actually seen each other's profiles on other sites in the year or two before we met while we were both in a post-divorce dating phase, but PoF had the right mix of features that it happened to be where we actually connected with each other.

As I recall, I saved her profile for later consideration at one point, and the site (unbeknownst to me) notified users when that happened, so she looked at my profile and contacted me with something along the lines of, "Don't hesitate, I won't be here long!" I didn't, and she wasn't.

Now, I agree that accolades from strangers doesn't necessarily balance off time not spent with your family, but it is another factor in the overall equation, knowing you've made the world a better place for a lot of people.
I don't think it's ignorant to not want multiple zero-day vulnerabilities every week.
Thanks for correcting the title HN. Lithium batteries bloat, explode, etc... No manufacturing process is perfect, so there is always going to be a small percentage that do this. The only hard requirement is that the failure be contained.

In other words, there's nothing particularly newsworthy here. The fact that testmunk found this significant and specifically paint it as a problem with the nexus 4 does more to show their lack of experience in the field than anything else.
Doesn't this mean Adobe Air is a huge risk as well because it's based on Flash?
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Most likely they thought a community member would pick it up. Of course they are aware that AMA is where the money is coming from, Pao used it as a monetization lead iirc.
"It’s still an idea on paper at the moment; the next stage is to build it and test it in a laboratory to make sure it’s safe in wet and slippery conditions and so on"

EOT
It's messier even than that. Iraq didn't have WMDs, but they wanted their neighbors to think that they did. But they wanted the inspectors to think that they didn't. So they couldn't have the inspections be unambiguously clear that Iraq had nothing, because then Iraq's neighbors wouldn't fear Iraq as much. So they tried to play this game of doubt, and the US reached the conclusion that Iraq wanted its neighbors to reach.
You guys are awesome for doing this, but are enabling a dangerous kind of startup:
1. post bullshit to indiegogo
2. hackernews designs it for you
3. profit
I agree that the biz model is struggling and that monetization is tough here. However, I was more talking to the maturity of the people there when mentioning a top 25 website. One would think the board would have hired people that are not so petty, but alas.
This has nothing to do with Hackathon attendance.
This is pure clickbait
Article should be re-titled, "Don't write code for free at a hackathon."
Seriously! Every editor in the world by now has an Emmet plugin (possibly still called "zencoding" if it hasn't been updated in a while), and I'd rather write an easy-to-learn superset of CSS selector syntax, then generate conformant HTML from it right there in my editor, any day of the week.
The only person claiming Alexis was responsible for firing Victoria was Yishan who hasn't worked there for 8 months and he based that on the fact that Alexis is Ellen's boss so he's ultimately responsible. Former employee kickme44 pointed out that Alexis actually reported to Ellen, despite his role, and Yishan then back peddles on his claims somewhat.

The fact of the matter is that we just don't know how or why Victoria was fired and we will likely never know. Everything so far is just speculation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...
I was advocating for this yesterday in /r/sysadmin and this morning it was a pleasant surprise to hear that this actually happened. I imagine you're getting all sorts of complaints from advertisers and others, but its the right move. The web is simply dangerous and having an unaccountable closed source binary happily running anything served to it is just crazy.

I'd love it if you kept it like this and implemented a flash whitelist function. Flash needs to be treated like Java: its legacy tech that should be used only via whitelisting. Google is too embedded into the marketing and advertising world to ever consider doing this in Chrome. Its really up to you guys, per usual, to save the web.
Silly question perhaps, but does this apply to Macs as well?
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Although this article makes a good point, it doesn't offer any practical suggestions for how to avoid the issue entirely.
I found it pretty funny that he said Match is "dying" in that article:

When he does engage in conversation, Frind can be disarmingly frank, delivering vitriolic quips with a self-assured cheerfulness that feels almost mean. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), he says, is "a complete joke," Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is "a cult," and Match is "dying." ...
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I actually thought of a novel solution yesterday after reading this article, I'm going with the "Take to the Sky!" option.

So imagine you take one of these - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard)#/media/Fi...

Then combine it with one of these - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_balloon#/media/File:Clo...

Imagine the life-raft bundled around a central high powered air pump and heating unit which could deploy in seconds and heat enough air to generate the lifting power to get 6-10 adults/children (plus raft/heater/pump) in the raft to 15 meters in air within the remaining time before the wall of water/debris crushes you all. You would only need to maintain that altitude for long enough to get a tow from a helicopter (or drone) to safety or for the waters to recede.

It's doesn't seem like an easy engineering problem and I didn't even do any back of the envelope calculations to see the power required to lift 1000-1500lbs 15 meters in 10 minutes, but my gut says it's totally within the realm of our current engineering capabilities.

If we could build such a device that could be mass-produced for a reasonable cost and deployed en masse to schools and other highly populated areas within the subduction zone, it could potentially save thousands of lives that would otherwise have 0 chance of survival.

The problems that would need solving and the potential life-saving potential has me kind of excited and my brain is already getting ahead of itself thinking Kickstarter. So if you or anyone else would like to talk some more about this, I'd be more than game to start getting technical.

If anyone sees a glaringly obvious problems in this, please don't hesitate to call it out rather than just rolling eyes and moving on... wish I'd put this up when it was still on the front page.
Feels like there needs to be a workshop or teaching section that can funnel these folks and learn them some Ruby/Rails/Haskell/whatever.

>If you attend a hackathon with a preconceived notion of recruiting a team to build your Vision, on your terms, for your benefit, you’re doing it wrong. Instead, you should attend to learn more about the skills and understanding you need or that you need to hire for in your team.

alternatively (and perhaps controversially) if you have some cash and can plan a project out and write down proper specs you can hire someone online for $15/hr to do the work for you. They get paid and you walk away with some kind of project implemented.
How reliable is such a model? I'd imagine they have gigatons of data on earthquakes, so validating the model must be fairly straightforward.
Why Uranus?