aaronkrolik

What is the base of the cutter made out of? Does the water jet defuse before hitting the base?

You should check out the coral project: https://coralproject.net/

It's the next generation community platform that the Times is working on right now.

How is it that 200M user accounts are worth only $1800?

Another annoying point: the documentation only lists the api methods you can call, but not the ones you cannot. I was a bit irritated to find out that the /_update method is not supported on AWS ESS

A small word of caution: I'd strongly recommend against using a huge java heap size. Java GC is stop the world, and a huge java heap size can lead to hour long gc sessions. It's much better to store data in a memory mapped file that is off heap, and access accordingly. Still very fast.

Not if you use openjdk.

has anyone been able to recover the now removed document?

not open source, but I pretty quickly built a version of this a few months ago.

The chat box submits to a lambda which puts the message on SQS. App consumes sqs and puts in DB (for durable storage) and posts to slack room. Responses are then sent via pusher back to the chat box (a react component)

And Al Jazeera America has not been free of controversy in recent months. In November, the news station’s general counsel, David W. Harleston, was suspended following a report in The New York Times that he did not appear to be licensed to practice law. In late December, Al Jazeera aired an hourlong documentary that linked some of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball and the National Football League to performance-enhancing drugs. The most prominent athlete mentioned in the report was the Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, who angrily denied the report, calling it “complete garbage” and “totally made up.”

Lets not forget that they are being sued for libel

http://deadspin.com/ryan-howard-ryan-zimmerman-sue-al-jazeer...

This is a lot like an assignment for my operating systems class to introduce threads/lock (each elevator and rider is a thread).

https://users.cs.duke.edu/~chase/cps310/lab3-elevator.html

My thought exactly. A $148M tax write off is pretty substantial

Funny you say that! This was a problem with drug smuggling. Now they have the shiprider program [0]. Basically a Canadian patrol boat has 1 american officer on it to make arrests if it crosses a border, and vice versa.

[0] http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ibet-eipf/shiprider-eng.htm

Does this mean no more DVM?

Could kazakhstan take "national security cert" traffic, crack it and then apply a different, globally trusted cert? Couldnt they also strip the public-key-pins header from incoming traffic?

How would this affect access to bitcoin/blockchains in Kazakhstan?

If the js asset cant be trusted, what would stop an adversary from mitm-ing the application level implementation?

"mobile is here to stay"

nothing in the past decade has been here to stay. I dont know what the next decade holds, but i highly doubt it will look like what we now call 'mobile'

We had a wifi radar at school. Was scary good. Only downside was that it jammed wifi for half the engineering building

Style question re dom manipulation: third party embeds, such as twitter, instagram often come as specially classed blockquote elements that are swapped with iframes by a jquery plugin. What is the best way to integrate this with react?

Again, i was simply quoting the manufacturer. Adding information to the conversation. You dont have to believe it or agree with it, but it's a side that should be heard rather than downvoted.

I fail to see how my post is implying that you should be fine with non-necessary irradiation. I'm quoting and linking the manufacturers website.

Link to the AS&E "ZBV" mobile X-Ray van in question [0], sourced from the linked Fox News article. From the AS&E website:

"Dose to Cargo: Less than 0.1 microSievert (μSv) per scan (equivalent to 10 microRem (μrem)), at an average speed of 5 km/h (3 mph) at a scan distance of 1.5 m (5 ft). Should a stowaway accidentally be scanned, the effective dose is well below the ANSI specified limit for accidental exposure and is equivalent to flying two minutes at altitude."

[0]http://as-e.com/products-solutions/cargo-vehicle-inspection/...

Edit: Why the downvotes? Pretty objective information...

Electric field forces are drawn as if you were placing a small positive charge in the field. The wording is awkward. If convention used a small negative test charge, the language (and diagram arrows) would be flipped. "inward electric field" is only with respect to a positive charge, not to all charges.

Interesting you draw the Knockout comparison. I'm pretty new to React, but have done a fair amount with Knockout. I find that I use the two in very similar ways. I know knockout has a large feature set and claims to be a VMMV (whatever that means), but in practice I used it mostly to go between some dynamic JSON and DOM.

I'm fairly new to react, and have wondered if I was using it correctly (as intended). Almost always I have a root component that manages state, passing it to children via props. All changes to state go through that root component, either by callback (also passed as prop) or some external event.

Is this update in a sense validation of that approach?

Funny to see a blackberry app in the works. Makes sense since RIM is based in Waterloo ON

A few weeks ago, in honor of 1M digital subs, the NYT published a list of digital highlights. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/21/business/media...

Every nyt article goes through layers of editing, fact checking and copy editing by people with years, often decades of experience. Nyt is one of the few places that can afford to do this. Furthermore, if the nyt does get something wrong, unlike most blogs, etc; there is a framework in place for submitting and publishing corrections. NYT even pays someone (Margaret Sullivan, the public editor) to advocate for readers. She writes about her work here[0].

Per evidence. Here's evidence: half the 'content' you read on the web was first reported by the nyt.

Recent examples: Hilary clinton emails, VW scandal, Nail salon exploitation, etc, etc...

here are 50 more:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/21/business/media...

(disclaimer: i work for the nyt but opinions are my own)

[0] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/index....

Here's the link to buy a subscription: http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp3004.htm...

Digital is $8.75 /week after a the first month for $.99

Will amazon support the head plugin? Can we enable our own plugins?