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The tipping point for IB came with Auto-Layout. Realtime feedback when setting up constraints makes a huge difference.

The risk of merge conflicts, can be alleviated by breaking down your massive storyboard into smaller ones that deal with each flow. If that doesn't setup appropriate boundaries for your teams, break them down into one storyboard per view controller. If that isn't modular enough, use XIBs to at least layout views.

The merge conflict argument is overrated. The vast majority of apps don't need more than a few developers working on user facing code. You're building an iPhone app, not an operating system.

As far as I can see the only way to easily review changes made using Interface Builder, barring getting really good a reading raw XIB files, is to manually checkout and review each pull request. Doing this is of course incredibly tedious, time consuming and not something I suspect most people have the discipline to do consistently.

In Gerrit, code reviews include a one-liner you can copy and past to checkout the branch up for review. Regardless of the IB debate, if your code review tool doesn't do this, invest in tooling to make checkouts as frictionless.
Nope. ITAR, among other reasons. The explicit purpose of the STTR and SBIR programs is to encourage domestic businesses. Not to say NASA doesn't do open-source, but patents open for all might even hurt U.S. small businesses, since a foreign company could compete.
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There's huge potential in this space. I worked on a project in college where we examined the viability of using Black Soldier fly larvae as a protein source for animal feed. It's a surprisingly high quality protein and also provides oils that can be processed into biofuels. The larvae can also be further processed to extract chitosan [1], which can sell for $100/kg [2](depending on quality).

Of course, there are many challenges around mass-rearing of insects, especially for human consumption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitosan
[2] http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/chitosan-price.html
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I've heard stories of Uber drivers demanding cash tips out of customers and giving low ratings to any customers who decline (IIRC, Uber's TOS forbids this, but that's almost impossible to enforce).

That doesn't happen with Lyft: because tipping is built into the app, nobody asks for cash.

I don't carry cash, so I'd be screwed if I rode Uber and a driver threatened me with a 1-star rating if I didn't fork over cash.
If you're having a hard time using it I'm happy to use it for you!
Honestly with him as my audience I have to tone down any cause-effect blame / hostilities that I genuinely harbor, because those are different subjects (though I did infer the fact that only workers over 55 in the US have gained in employment since 2008). Just describing the problem in terms people can understand seemed a worthwhile experiment. As context, he's an Asset Manager and Financial Advisor for the public sector, so there's nobody more disappointed in the lack of quality rate bearing gilt-edged securities than him, figuratively speaking.
> it's not something to display as a gag. It's a deadly serious matter.

When you say this without consideration of the context, it makes you look very detached from reality. The pictures he showed were all over the internet. FTA:

This was, I think, a rather devout reading of the rules. (Taken literally, the rules say Purdue should also have notified the FBI. I do not know whether that happened.) A more experienced legal and security team might have taken a deep breath and applied the official guidance to “realistically consider the potential harm that may result from compromise of spilled information.”

Or perhaps not. Yes, the images I displayed had been viewed already by millions of people online...

Any time I read national security paranoia regarding Snowden's leaks, all I can think of are quotes from Team America. "From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100."
Stories like this make me very happy not to be an ill person in the USA...
Thank you for your insightful comments. What I was missing was the precipice it is to run a billion-dollar company, with all eyes on you. Your response now highlighted that those factors are also important.
True, but at the end of streaming, the provider/browser clears the cache. The legality of it is debatable, but downloading copyright material is certainly not legal.
If someone visits me at home and uses my coffee-maker the action is same as taking it to his home and using, but only one of them is acceptable.
The only party that benefits from tips is the employer (let's not go into the employee distinction right now though). It just shifts the responsibility to the customer to determine whether or not the employee should be paid for their work.
IMHO, this is a misconception. Most of the benefit of Lyft/Uber comes from app convenience, being cashless, mutual rating to weed out the jerks, carpooling efficiency, transparency (easy to get estimates and know if you overpaid), good customer support, and reliability in getting a ride, all of which are legal and which cab companies could have done.

They have a lot of room to raise prices before it outweighs those advantages. Remember, people were using UberBlack (as "UberCab" way back then), which simply took existing, fully-insured car service drivers, which had no regulatory advantage, long before UberX/Lyft.
Glad someone @ NASA is finally doing this. The acceptance rate on SBIRs/STTRs is about 70% because so few people know about it and/or apply.

The bar is very low, and there's alot of stupid work that gets funded essentially because of how NASAs budget works.
Apple's already shown they don't like this behaviour with their randomised MAC addresses in iOS 8+. Obviously what this article references is done at the carrier level, not on open wifi networks.

I expect them to do something about this carrier-level behaviour next iOS. From a technical perspective, what could they do to prevent this?
I'm not too well educated on their gov'ts, but how effective was it? Any signs or indicators that it worked out for the better?

Call me intolerant or ignorant, but I personally fear seeing what the general populus would try to get passed in America if such a system were established. Perhaps a naive` worry, but a worry nonetheless.
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Related side question. A few months before this leaked out I bought a brand new Golf TDI(diesel) and I'm in California where it sounds like my car is technically now illegal?

I have no idea what I should be doing at this point. I've been significantly overpaying on the note but not sure I should now. Does anyone have an idea what this means for the owners of the vehicles in question?
Using artificial selection to breed good tasting insects could make insects more palatable, in the same way artificial selection has wildly changed the physiology of other livestock. It's something that will happen inevitably if the industry gains traction, but getting a head start would be interesting.

Long-term, making insects more desirable to consumers could reduce the amount of live stock raised, and indirectly influence emissions and global warming.
You may not have inherited great wealth directly, but it's a fair guess that you "inherited" some or all of the following:

* Parents who pushed you to focus on your schoolwork.

* Parents who owned a computer, or bought a computer specifically for their kids' education.

* Parents who lived in a house with consistent water, electricity and internet service.

* Parents who made sure you got glasses if you needed them, so you could see the board in class.

* Parents who understood the importance of a college education, and who helped you apply to colleges (real colleges, not for-profit scam schools), took you on college visits, filled out financial aid paperwork, contributed to your tuition.

* A relatively high IQ and/or an analytic mindset.

I'm sure you've worked hard, but don't discount the advantages you were born with, and don't fall victim to the Just World Fallacy. This planet is full of people who worked twice as hard as you and got nowhere.
It was appealing to me last week (the first time I used Uber) when it cost $40 to take a cab from the airport to my hotel and less than $20 to go back to the airport with Uber.
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"both liberals and conservatives tend to overestimate how conservative their constituents are, conservatives’ perceptions in this regard are exceptionally strong – conservative politicians typically overestimate the conservatism of their constituencies by more than 20 percentage points on these issues. This difference is so large that ​nearly half of conservative politicians appear to believe that they represent a district that is as or more conservative on these issues than are the most conservative districts in the entire country​."

I heard a quote years ago that "reality has a liberal bias." Based on the data...that appears true.
I've lived in Seattle since the late 80s when I got the hell out of Olympia WA where I grew up. I remember when it was nearly impossible to find a decent tech job in the city, and you had to cross a bridge to Bellevue or Redmond, which is non-optimal for so many reasons. I for one am happy as hell that tech is booming here. If you are thinking of coming here, do it, lots of us are welcoming to transplanted tech nerds.
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Why not? It's guaranteed to be clean and well maintained. You don't get that guarantee with regular cabs.
Do you have any numbers about what percentage of your customers running Sentry on their own nodes instead of just using cloud version that you provide?
The big problem with all those standards, frankly, is that you've gotta pay money to actually evaluate them.

There aren't any guarantees that they'll be useful, that they'll match the modern development processes in your language, that they'll fit your problem domain, etc.

Those standards are there primarily to make the publisher a buck--not to represent the codified wisdom of up-to-date practitioners in a field.

Until we've got a truly open-source standard for people to code against, we should stop wringing our hands about these things.
Run everything from the phone through a VPN over iCloud servers, so all traffic from every iPhone in the world hits the internet as if it comes out of Cupertino? Install Tor as an OS-level feature?
What is the difference between someone's personal car you'll never ride in again or a rental car you'll never ride in again? Taxis are typically rented by the day too, but who cares other than the driver and the rental company?
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Right but the tip is done long after the ride is over, so its not like a taxi driver where you are still in their presence when you make the decision to tip or not tip
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I do not need to point at a specific security hole to prove the statement "more complex code is more susceptible to bugs".
> One has to trust those who are authorised to examine the legality of such programmes.

Why? Their track record is pretty atrocious.

> And of course, one must hold accountable those who abuse that trust.

How? And how would one ever discover the abuse without examination?
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I love djb's stuff - he has his own concepts of everything, though, including the FHS, which makes his stuff hard to run on regular Linux distros. If there was a djb Linux I'd definitely install it.
I hate to attack people on any forum, much less HN...

but you are an ass.

EDIT: Keep downvoting HN. The Mr. Pink act on the backs of low wage workers really gives the tech/entrepreneurship crowd a good look.
Not at all similar. They can show you ads if you go to Youtube, it's how they make money. There are no ads when you download it.
So Uber checked with GitHub who visited a certain file/commit page and the only strange IP was from the Lyft CTO? Wow
Based on the comments here, it seems this tool is powered by youtube-dl.

youtube-dl is a great tool ( supports multiple websites outside of youtube as well )

The problem is...if you use youtube-dl to rip songs from youtube you are going to be stuck with a not so great quality bitrate.

Based on some quick research, it looks like the top quality audio bitrate you can get currently get from youtube is 126.886 kbps. That's going to really reduce the quality of any song you rip from the site. Most songs are digitally released at 320kbps these days. CD quality is 192kbsp.
Have they added the Korean language version of (the original) Oldboy to Netflix or is it still just the dubbed version? I got tired of checking. Funny was just thinking about this last night when their recommendation engine threw Drunken Master II at me and the only option was English dub.
I love the systemd principles, as they were outlined by Poettering in the initial announcement. Configuration files instead of boilerplate shell script (and worse, shell script with special comments), socket-based startup, massive parallelism, cgroups, the end of PID files...

I just wish systemd itself had stayed there and that the additional functionalities it keeps developing lived in separate projects with well-defined interfaces.
It's an utterly brazen lie to say the company didn't know about this.

Anyone who's ever built anything as part of a team - whether the Linux kernel, a space shuttle, or a Lego set - can tell you design decisions like this cannot be secreted into the final product.

So let's say a software guy decides to make this fix. How do you do that?

- You'll have a version control system, won't you? At the very least someone will see it. There's some interesting if statements referencing the speed of the rear wheels, which you can explain at code review.

- How do you test it? I doubt your normal office happens to contain the entire running setup of a diesel engine, with nobody around to notice, and nobody needed to tell you about the details. Because you know, an engine test rig wouldn't have details, right? You just turn it on yourself, spin the car up to speed and debug, right? And I'm sure there's nothing complicated about gas measurement, even though it tends not to be a part of CS courses.

- What do you tell the cluelessly naive good guy engineer about his results? Would he really only test the car under test conditions? Does any engineer with even the slightest grain of curiosity test only the one mode that he's supposed to?
Sorry, that isn't what I asked. The OP didn't respond. Perhaps you can?

How, specifically, would you define "gun control"?

We throw this terms around but nobody bothers to define it. What exactly does "Gun control is the elephant in this particular room." mean?

Again, I ask, how, specifically, would you define "gun control"?

I am not refuting anything you are saying. I am simply asking a question.
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Re: over-classification - my biggest concern is that using the "national security secret" gambit can be a coverup for criminal wrongdoing. We've seen it over and over and over throughout history. And now that the national security state is involved in more activities than ever before, it's almost guaranteed that some of those activities, or the motivations behind them, are criminal.

Conversely, we've heard, many times, things like "disclosure will cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States..." and seen that NOT to be the case. The NSA and related parties are starting to look like the boy who cried wolf. A boy with perhaps more power than any government entity in US history.
I don't disagree, real interest rates are weird right now.

Just trying to call out that it's the real interest rate that matters, not the nominal rate.
Probably around 10K liquid right now.

On the bright side, over my lifetime I've probably racked up hundreds of thousands in technical debt, and maybe helped encourage others to spend millions on therapy!
When you watch a video on Youtube, you are essentially given a license to watch that content on their site. They show some ads and make some money. When you download, you are violating that license.
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We do have a beacon that reports anonymous statistics to us as well as giving us an estimate on unique installations. That said, it's an optional feature, and its only in newer versions. One thing that is generally true is many companies don't update frequently so we end up not getting a large chunk of data due to them running on older versions.

If take only our data (ignoring anyone who isnt actively reporting to us), It's a fairly close 50% split of on-premise companies to hosted customers.

That said, our estimate is its more around 30% of users run off of getsentry.com, and the other chunk runs on-premise.
systemd has its own FHS requirements, as well: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarc...

The only difference is acceptance.
It's a CLI version of a tool like Youtune (http://youtune-downloader.com) and probably many others.
Are you aware that you can split different scenes into different storyboards? That helps a lot with the issues you mention.
I think drivers are discouraged from taking cash because companies like Lyft don't want people to assume drivers are carrying lots of cash, for safety reasons.
How do you get it to automatically play the file?
- Use deduplication in a production environment [1]

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/234475/zfs-destroying-dedup...
"If we could ascend into that higher domain, we would free ourselves from the straitjacket of ordinary space. We could bend our arm through an extra dimension to reach into a locked safe, or see the insides of a human body laid out before us."

This is often brought up in discussions on 4th dimensions but think about it: For the 4th dimensional being to see inside a closed 3D space, photons from that space should reach its visual organs. From the viewpoint of beings in 3D these photons would be "lost". This energy discrepancy should be detectable by placing 3D sensors around that space.
Tor as an OS-level feature may not spark the best reaction. It's been given a bad name ("deep web," silk road, etc) in mass media and many people don't understand it enough to think of it as anything other than bad.

I think that it'd be cool to have, but I don't think that Apple would ever implement it.
In this way we are sort of like a global village - gossip about you can and sometimes does travel around the entire globe. On the other hand, all those people "knowing" is almost as if they didn't knew anything at all - every one of those thousands/millions people have secrets of another thousands/millions to pick from.

I guess the primary place where our times are different is when it's you vs. a faceless Organization - a company or a government, where they can use your data against you while you have no target to retaliate against. In this way you may also say that we have less of that privacy with each generation, but that's because Organizations are quite recent things - your average villager of the past had neither need nor way to interact with their government the way we do today, and companies like we have now didn't even exist.

That last paragraph is probably the first time I thought that particular thought explicitly. At this point I'm not sure whether it's me conceding the point of continued loss of privacy in meaningful areas of life, or observing a strong correlation between diminishing privacy and progress of society, that may or may not turn out to be a causation of the "privacy vs. progress of mankind - pick one" form.
They should be sued for that.

There is no way most customers are informed and intentionally consenting to them tampering with the HTTP requests they send to include their customer ID.

The obvious expectation of a customer of an ISP is that it sends the data through unchanged.
Delayed payouts are one way for businesses to minimize loss should a chargeback occur. But now that Lyft pays out instantly, they're at risk of losing the payout (> $50) + $chargeback_fee. Is the wording of the announcement code for "Stripe is shielding us from exorbitant transaction fallout costs"?
You are starting from the inexplicable premise that these properties he rents out were somehow ill-gotten, and not the direct consequence of him saving significant amounts of his income while he worked a totally normal job and investing them intelligently in property.

And of course landlords (since you're obviously using rentier as a pejorative) DO provide a valuable service: housing to people who either value the flexibility of renting or don't have the finances to buy housing where they live.

Your apparent disagreement with the entire system of rental property around the world is certainly principled, but singling out Mr. Money Mustache as some kind of hypocrite for earning money off his investments is absurd on its face. Are you also opposed to people buying dividend-issuing stocks?
The whole economy in America has no margin of safety and is a house of cards just waiting to fall down.

The average employee lives paycheck-to-paycheck.

The small business owner is constantly worrying about making payroll, and is constantly on credit hold with his
suppliers.

The large corporations are holding profits offshore and are draining away the opportunities by offshoring.

The banks and Private Equity are conjuring up ways to rip the small business owner and common folk off.
> some cash out of your physical wallet

Some what now?
The fact that I have to tip is my big complaint with my local food delivery service. I'm already paying at least $6 for the delivery, possibly an added 20% of the check if it's not a "partner" restaurant yet I'm still expected to tip. They go so far as to say the whole "fee isn't a tip, so make sure to tip" like the chain pizza joints do. I really don't see why tipping is a thing when I'm explicitly paying for the service. I'm sure the owner is just using the cultural institution of tipping to avoid having to pay his employees.
Something that wasn't mentioned here: a Ph.D. in the US is a great way to increase your chances for an offer for professorship back home in Europe (or anywhere, really). That will skew the number towards people who fully intend to leave after getting their Ph.D. as naturally US naturals can derive no such benefit. In fact, if we imagine the opposite holds, they might well be penalized for getting their Ph.D. at a US university.
Unfortunately, we may never know the truth in the scenario. The way that automotive world works with the multi-tier supplier chain, anyone who is not close to the source, will never know where the real blame is.

Behind the scenes in VW's HQ in Wolfsburg, it must be chaos.
And if everyone became doctors, who would you call to fix the toilet?
Bonus: breeding cycle for insects is amazingly short compared to livestock.
Even in the US, I don't know anyone who regularly carries cash anymore.

Why would you want the hassle? Or risk it being lost/stolen?
It's things like this that drive people to want HTTPS everywhere, but even that is subject to subterfuge when the provider inserts their own "trusted" certificates to proxy that traffic.

There really should be provisions in the telecom bill that data traffic is to remain absolutely untouched.

Just imagine phone calls where mentioning the word "pizza" would trigger an advertisement being injected into it.
Well you are new, so you should be required to take your substantial income and use it to get a place an hour from work so you can bus everyday.

That's totally the way the world works right?
Sweden, Norway, Finland.