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3D Repo Ltd | [http://3drepo.org] | London, UK |
ONSITE preferred, but potential for REMOTE, EU.

If you are interested, please email team@3drepo.org

3D Repo is a multi-award winning open source software for Building Information Modelling in the cloud. Instead of architects, consultants and contractors sharing massive proprietary files in a costly and time consuming manner, they can simply point their web browser to an encrypted online repository in order to examine all project stages virtually, even on mobile devices. Over 40 different 3D file formats are decomposed and federated in our big data repository. 3D Repo has collaborated on a number of large industrial projects with companies such as ARUP, Balfour Beatty and British Telecom. In 2014, 3D Repo won the MongoDB World Innovation Award, the UCL Bright Ideas Award, the Breakthrough Information Technology Exchange Award and was shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Awards as well as the EPSRC UK ICT Research Pioneers Awards. 3D Repo is partially funded by InnovateUK and EIT Digital.

The following full-time positions are to be filled in by the 1st of September 2015:

- Customer Account Manager, London

Responsible for customer facing roles including demonstrations, support, accounts, etc. Requires technical capabilities but more importantly strong interpersonal skills

- Front-end Dev, London

Advanced knowledge of Bootstrap, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and good design skills
Experience in AngularJS is a plus

- Test Dev, London

Experience of unit, regression and stress testing in C++, JavaScript, Travis
Experience in NoSQL databases is a plus

We offer very competitive salaries on par with any large London-based corporate, yet provide the excitement and flexibility of a start-up!
Here in Germany, water is the best protected good that we have - maybe apart from beer :o) - and that is as it should be. It usually tastes good and I use it all the time (stopped buying bottled water long ago).

In a bar or restaurant, tap water has to be free. They don't like that and try to sell you more expensive stuff, but the law requires free water. Great, isn't it?

I was indeed shocked by the amount of chlorine that I tasted in Californian water (I regularly work in Pasadena).
GLiiDE – chauffeur driven car service exclusively using electric vehicles
I was intrigued by this, as I've never seen one in a London airport. A bit of googling reveals that there are no fountains at Gatwick (LGW) - https://twitter.com/gatwick_airport/status/70760011768410112
As far as I can tell, in the UK all you need to do is put a #CapitalAtRisk hashtag on your share-sell offering and you're legit...

https://twitter.com/search?q=CapitalAtRisk
If you're on Windows and are not careful you risk ending up with McAffee as a drive-by!
Well it's not irrelevant tu quoque.

Telegram is like ZunZuneo and other initiatives by Western governments to force their adversary to choose to either censor something and take a PR hit or have their countrymen radicalised.

I ought to have made that link clear. I apologize.
Ask HN: What TV shows do you watch?
It's second to IE in both those metrics, but "percentage of bugs that are high severity" seems like a strange thing to be measuring in any case.
I knew of gnash, but this is another story.

Amazing, thanks.
Interview with Former Reddit Cryptocurrency Engineer, Ryan X Charles
Show HN: Lisp in Go
One recommendation which may be really obvious: don't release any source unless you want to simulate that the source has been released in the "game" world.

If you want to release any source code for any segment of the challenge, while the challenge is ongoing, it will be torn apart by the competitors for bugs.

Because, as Erin said: "...pretending all our bugs were intentional, to make things more like the real world!"
Yes, Twitch is using HLS, which is patented. The rest of the industry is moving to DASH-via-JS-and-MSE. Even Steam Broadcasts use MSE now.
None. (At least the Mac version is not built on Electron.)
For comparison:

Five Years (BS + MSc) University Expenses in Poland (University of Warsaw):

- Registration fee (for BS and MSc separately): 80 zł (~$25) * 2 = $50

- Hard copies of diplomas: 2 * 100 zł (~$30) = $60.

I am quite happy with the education I got there, and US companies seem to hold it pretty highly, based on how many people they hire out of my university.

Come to think of it, the diploma fee is not actually obligatory -- if you don't need the hard copy, you don't have to pay.

Oh, and there are fees for failing classes and having to repeat them, but there are also scholarships for doing well, so it cancels out.
I get the impression that you want to design stuff, and it's incidental that startups let you do it how you want. Judging by the "I've spent 1000s of hours (I kid you not) designing my products", you're doing the same as what I do with development, and I'd be wary of that.

Maybe, start by trying to let your tech/design be a means to an end and start by solving a problem for users. The launch websites for so many successful startups were super ugly[1]. 100's of hours per project with less than 5 users each, sounds like alarm bells to me. If you haven't already, read The Lean Startup[2]. Build MVP, validate and iterate or pivot accordingly.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular...

[2] http://theleanstartup.com/
If it's built on Electron, there's no reason not to support Linux. Perhaps they plan to add it later.

Either that or they just don't think Linux deserves a GitHub GUI client.
We examined both Kato and Slack for internal use at our company a while ago. I personally preferred Kato's split pane chat windows and handling of multiple team (which Slack still doesn't do right). We also thought it was more competitively priced. After we had made a case internally for team chat, we started a full department trial of Slack, at which point point our users became fairly enamoured with it, and probably unwilling to uproot and change to a new service.

I have a feeling this matches the world at large for Slack. By implementing a very personable interface users seem to grow a positive emotional connection to the service. This reflects in their usage which is also positive and casual, encouraged by features like custom emoji. All this comes together into not the most practical and functional features on paper, but definitely the most enrapturing user experience.

A good read if you want to learn more about Slack's on going world domination: https://medium.com/@awilkinson/slack-s-2-8-billion-dollar-se...
Chinese cars, some with lead-acid batteries, some with lithium-ion. The price of the car is mainly determined by the batteries it holds. The rest of the car is usually cheaply made. Some cheaper ones feel like they don't have any shocks at all. Those in the $10,000 range have amenities such as WiFi, adjustable seats, and rear-facing video camera.
There is no water fountain at the Munich airport.
It's not based on Electron, looks like just a continuation of the code base they had, so no easy Linux version.
I've never seen a wysiwyg tool that can cope with hand modifications to its generated source code. This would probably require strong AI.
Who cares about DVDs - Mozilla caved and added DRM (EME) to Firefox. These kinds of restrictions cut directly against freedom of speech and the press. This becomes yet another word game were you de jure have legal rights, but de facto do not because it is illegal to discuss the methods involved in actually exercising those rights.

/* before someone decides to repeat the propaganda that EME only applies to video (as if that is any better), remember the paranoid websites that try to disable the clipboard or show an image of text instead of just adding the text. "one frame video of text" is inevitable */
Open Source CPU Core Advances
EME is there, but you don't have the CDM.

Outside HTML5 scope, though.
Nieuw+probleem+voor+Dodentocht
This is not details. This is allegation and speculation.
It would be nice if they'd cite their sources. This looks to be one of the main ones:

http://www.crew.org/sites/default/files/cascadia_subduction_...

But this is not nearly as dire. For example, "the Pacific Northwest’s largest population centers and ports, including Portland (OR), Seattle and Tacoma (WA), and Vancouver (BC), are not expected to experience any significant tsunami impacts."
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> I'd like to know other reasons why we need port numbers

Because SRV records aren't in widespread use (by specification and only consequently implementation). First you would need to stop using the A (or AAAA) record, on all existing protocols. This is a good thing because, comparatively, the A record is pretty stupid. However, it's never going to happen for the same reason that you probably can't set up an SRV record with whoever is hosting your DNS.

Also, ports are a portion of an address that routers can ignore - making them better at what they do. With multiple addresses per host you are going to annihilate routing tables/caches and make the internet slower.
Really?

Because this is very common practice in device or network code, in my experience.
Maybe you missed this ? But this whole discussion on the death of Flash was started by Facebook: http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2015/07/13/flash-aah-aah-its-...
JRuby 9.0.0.0.rc2 Released
Good news, we're getting there. In Chrome 43 and (probably) Firefox it's supported: http://caniuse.com/#search=clipb (see note 3)

However the API is god awful.
True confessions: I wrote for an Internet content mill
I thought you had to be kidding about the gift thing.

Does anyone else see that as odd?

You're not trying to date the company, nor are you family. Don't get me wrong - being enthusiastic and passionate about your work is important.
You don't know these people though - any form of gifting just seems like an opportunity to make things really awkward.
Can we just have a breakdown of companies who played a large part in the TPP formation so we can boycott them? Money seems like the only way to speak to these dickheads.

Here's something close - a list of supporting businesses on the US side: http://tppcoalition.org/about/

What do we have here... Apple, EBay, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Xerox. This is going to be hard - I use every one of these companies every day. But what part did they play? If the press can find out, that will help the user make an informed decision.
Almost a hundred years, wow.
Today is the day! In a few hours, I'll be flying by Pluto. #PlutoFlyby
I think driving in a Model S to give you a sense of where mainstream $20,000 electric cars will be in 10-15 years will give you a much better idea than a $5,000 Chinese electric car that's probably slightly better than a bicycle will.

The "electric" part of the car is maybe 50% or more of an EV cost, and it will be affected by a "Moore's Law"-like law (but with a 2x improvement in 5-10 years instead of 2), and most of the other 50% is stuff like huge high quality wheels, leather materials and all that "luxury" stuff. Drastically reduce that stuff to $20,000 gas-powered car "luxury" levels, and then extrapolate where the "electric" side of the car will be in 10-15 years, and I think you'll get pretty close to a Model S-like driving experience on a much cheaper car.

To give you an analogy (I know, again with the iPhone, but I think they have more in common than not) what you're saying would be more like trying out a $100 "touchscreen smartphone" in 2007 and saying "Wow these suck - they are even worse than regular smartphones because they work so much more slowly having to power that big resolution and those graphics".

So your experience then wouldn't be an accurate prediction of how touchscreen phones, even $100 or $200 ones, let alone the $600 ones, will be in the future, because in 2007 you needed quite expensive components to provide a "good experience" with a "touchscreen phone".

The original iPhone that cost $600 gave you a much better idea of how touchscreen phones will be 8 years later, because now even $100 touchscreen phones have better specs and work better than the $600 iPhone did back then, and can do a lot more, too.

That's why the Model S should give you a much better idea of how $20,000 EVs will be in 10-15 years than a $5,000 EV does today.
I imagine mobile phone screens will get larger as flexible displays become popular. I imagine a phone you flip open and an origami screen will unfurl like one of those credit-card sized Tube (subway) maps.
> I've heard Facebook video and last.fm streaming don't work without Flash

Regarding Facebook video, I fail to see how that is a bad thing ;)
IIRC in the UK it is a requirement of alcohol licensing laws that tap water be available for free to customers (this is second hand from someone who was getting their license some years ago).

Ofc I would expect it to vary by country. In general though everywhere here will try and sell you bottled water but give you tap water on request.

Edit: God dammit i need to refresh tabs before I reply.
Has all this magical technology actually made our life experience better?
I work mostly in lispy and functional languages and am enamored by all the theoretical beauty to which these environments aspire. I dabble in Prolog and think a lot about genetic algorithms, neural networks, and other mysteries I may never need for work but that captivate my imagination. I still marvel at the ability to Facetime in realtime with my nieces on the other side of the world who I rarely see, talk for free over VOIP with my 87-year old grandmother thousands of miles away, and instantly learn from fascinating people all over the world who I will never meet in "real life." These are genuinely magical phenomena for anyone who grew up before most people even had "answering machines" or "vcrs", and at a time when even a "car phone" seemed like a far-off reality. And I'm not even that old.

But I remember when you could visit a theatre or have dinner and the event of being with others was the point, people sharing the same space and time together, invested in that moment, and the only stimulation from another human was the one in front of you. Each encounter was a shared experience only between those involved. Uninterrupted from the outside, a special depth emerged from these moments.

Modern life has mostly removed this. You cannot watch a movie with an audience that is fully involved in it. At a party, many are equally invested in their conversations with those not present as they are with those who are. The energy and attention of our minds is not infinite, and when some of it enters the electronic portal, much less trickles toward those a few feet from you. Even a short check of email has a lingering effect on your mind that lasts longer than the actual disruption.

What is the net balance of these new tools? New generations will never understand the equally magical impact of being present in the moment with one or a hundred others, the true "social" experience, free of the distractions of an entire planet that is accessible from our purse or pocket.
It would be extra nice if it had a fallback to work without Javascript (menus...).
First hand - https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-licensing#mandatory-licensing-con...
Defense King
Wait, you mean like _CRTDBG_DELAY_FREE_MEM_DF which will just mark freed blocks as freed and inaccessible?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5at7yxcs.aspx
And you don't "own" it if it's carrier locked (wait out your contract)
Overall, it's a good thing. Flash is a proprietary technology from the past. Lets move on guys...
Tread carefully my friend ... I don't know your particular circumstances but chances are it's not going to be only a matter of enlightening them with a few resources.
Perfect for TAO.
I used to miss Theme Hospital, but like many DOS retro games it's been cloned. CorsixTH https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH has a day old beta for a release https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/releases/tag/v0.50-beta...
This is a review of evidence on the subject: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854718/

The road will be exposed to heat and sunlight both of which promote leaching.
Approximately 1% (order of magnitude) of users have JS disabled. If users wish to disable it they can, but most of the web will break.

I don't particularly see this as an indictment of the industry, rather, it's an indication of the risk-benefit trade-off that most people are willing to make. A little risk, a lot of functionality.

Put a different way; driving is WAY more of a risk, but it doesn't seem to stop people doing it.

We've mostly gotten rid of Java and Flash at this point. That seems rational. The investment in browser (and JS engine) security at this point is massive. If you've got missile launch codes on your computer or something, by all means, don't browse! (or browse with JS disabled, or use Qubes, or otherwise sandbox your browser).

Realistically, at any given point in time my browser IS vulnerable - but on the other hand, my CC details and DOX aren't worth burning a reliable 0day on, so I'm cool with JS enabled.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/uber-ceo-tesla-sell-half-milli...
Are you saying that University of Warsaw charges no tuition fees?
Iran nuclear talks: 'Historic' agreement struck
#PlutoFlyby: Latest updates
Let's move on to Silverlight!
His description of Tony Abbott is a complement compared to his actual incompetence as a human being.

I'd much rather vote for a monkey than him. His stupidity and incompetence, among other thing, makes me ashamed to be an Australian.
Font Parsing Vulnerabilities
Flux vs. Reflux
The intersection of people who are willing to rewrite all their arithmetic to use such a library with people who are not willing to switch to a non-C language is rather small.
Price-comparison websites should help lower prices. But unchecked they may raise
GMIC Bangalore 2015
Pluto Lover Alan Stern Discusses Historic July Flyby [Q&A]
Turn your iPhone into a Super 8 camera with the Lumenati CS1
Out of curiosity, care to name one thing of any substance that was negotiated in public? Ever?
Electric car infrastructure is "cheap" (compared to say hydrogen stations or even gas stations). Chargers will be everywhere by the time 20% of the car market is electric. I wouldn't worry too much about it if you're not planning to get an EV in the next 10 years anyway.
You're right, I misinterpreted the timeline there.
Why would you expect stability from software in early alphas is beyond me. If you want to be an early adopter you need to take the maintenance problems into account. And if you just wish to use a somewhat completed language you should have just waited for a final release.

PLs are complicated beasts and developing them takes time. It's normal for a language to change drastically during development: frequently it turns out that some feature doesn't fit well with some other, and you need to scratch the feature or redesign both features.
Turing-complete machine running untrusted code is a nightmare for security. There always be bugs and exploits, it's just a matter of time and effort to find them.

JavaScript enabled by default is already bad enough. We don't need Flash, Java, ActiveX or anything similar turned on by default. So it's a good move from security viewpoint. Less attack surface.
"£400 won't get you a tiny one-room apartment without windows, that would be amazing! It'll get you a tiny windowless room,"

yes, they lived in rooms, not appartements indeed.
Hi,

There is problem with fs lib in node.js. So, please update your local node.js to the current version.
Planet Labs: Putting Linux in Space
Of course he means that, do you know the thread you are posting to?
Pluto: Nasa's New Horizons probe shows dwarf planet bigger than expected
I have a lot of experience of end users and they are forever telling me that they get so many different "Update this", "Update that" windows that they can no longer distinguish real from fake. Some of them have been tricked by fake web site pop-ups as a result, others ignore legitimate update messages. I do not blame them.

Internet Explorer and Google Chrome get updated in a way that most end users find to be simple to understand, particularly with Chrome. Firefox is also quite good in this regard. All of them are reliable - it is rare, IME, to come across a Windows Update, Firefox or Chrome instance which is silently failing to update. Or not even bothering to prompt to update.

Flash, however often I install it, just doesn't seem to auto-update reliably. Quite often it only does so after a user log on/reboot, which doesn't happen much in the days of standby. Even on brand new, fresh Windows installs (so we know the OS/Flash isn't broken), I test Flash from time to time and it just doesn't prompt to update at all on some occasions. This is what makes Adobe's poor track record exponentially worse - that their software update mechanism is crap at best.

I was gobsmacked when Microsoft declared they were going to start updating Flash via Windows Update. Gobsmacked and so very relieved. It felt like they'd walked into Adobe's office, grabbed their fire extinguishers and told them "You are so useless that when there's a fire, WE will come and put it out, since you don't seem able to. We are sick of our offices getting burned down because of your idle incompetence."

I won't even address Oracle's Java. Bundling malware with their updater is tantamount to crime.
- Because they'd have to live in Europe for the duration of that degree

- Because loans are harder to get or impossible, depending on circumstances

- Because grants are exceedingly rare in such a case

- Because despite (some) American's belief about Europe, it still costs money to study here, and living here is just as expensive as in the US. You won't be able to afford a car, for example, as a student (yes yes not all US students have one either, what I'm saying is that it's a significant adjustment to what many of them are used to)

- Because it results in a European degree, which may be only a small problem for some (US) employers, but is probably somewhere between 'hmm, peculiar' and 'hell no' for most of them

- Because they'd be away from 'home' for 4 years or more, unless they'd spend 5-10k over the course of those 4 years traveling back and forth

- Because outside of STEM (and even then), language issues are non-negligible
Auto playing video, agh!
Flash bugs are more important because the are crossbrowser. I will still use Flash though on older computers, because it needs less resources for video.
I like the idea of having pure functions f(state)=view,
however, wouldnt this be very slow for very big ui applications? Also the only reason todo this on web is to use some sort of double-buffering and prevent redraws before everything is updated. On mobile native you have control over these things. But thinking about it, doing purely functional UI for native apps would never work, right? You need todo a dif each and every time the ui updates. And this happens a lot for example for sliders, or animations.

Is the approach inherently flawed for fast UI applications?
It was merely an example where the US laws relating to DRM and copyright are totally egregious - and possibly counter productive.
Shareable title about designers and code
How to disable?
In Paris we have these too, the famous Wallace Fountains, and most of them just run all the time.

Other kinds of fountains have valves though, like the ones which provide sparkling water. And I can guarantee people are using them, in the evening there's frequently a line of people waiting to fill their bottles.