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You've misread the sentence. I'll grant it's not clear, but this sentence follows the fairly common British form of "legal methods" meaning "acts involving lawyers", not "acts which are not illegal". So this BBC article is simply stating that various companies have been accused of engaging in legalistic and accounting techniques to minimise their tax bills. Nothing is suggested about whether or not those techniques are illegal. Tax evasion is certainly illegal though!
Man, there's so much irony with using OpenBSD (an OS designed with security in mind) with a web app written in C.

While half asleep the other night, I randomly found a very obscure but also dangerous remotely exploitable buffer overflow in C++11 code I had written a while ago -- it's still very possible even with a modern C++ codebase.
So do you honestly believe that upgrading away from windows 7 somehow hurts security?
Have you done many full projects with it?

From my little window in the industry it's indispensable for FX and simulation (water, fire, destruction), but the tools for modelling, texturing, and animation just aren't worth the time. I don't know anyone who uses it for that or would reccomend it for those things.

I've gone through their basic tutorials. It's really nice to make procedural reusable things (a ladder that will create rungs based on the height), but I can't even imagine trying to model something organic.
Telemarketers use anything BUT twilio for robocalling.
It was an exception to your blanket statement (no language uses this definition of const). Apparently the only language that you consider relevant is C, which is fine. But I wouldn't take many cues from C in reference to modern language design and proper semantics. As useful as it is C has many holes and broken semantics.
In a startup, you may be right, though I suspect you chose 99% for hyperbole. Maybe it's more likely 80% of the time or 70% or 98.7%.

In an existing public company, as someone pointed out, the value of the company should be captured by the stock price, according to the efficient market hypothesis. As such, if the price is just as likely to go down as to go up, this should mean that stock options are merely worthless 50% of the time. Before you get into your ability to choose the sale date (subject to trading windows).

So really, unless your public company ONLY goes down from the date you start (excepting really weird scenarios where it goes up, but is always negative relative to your strike price during trading windows), you stand to make money from your options. Maybe not much, but something. And you can't LOSE money from them, unless you do something stupid related to taxes, or something stupid like buy-and-hold. (buy-and-hold for certain values of 'stupid'; I actually did this once in order to swing a lower tax rate and it happened to work, but I could have lost my proverbial shirt).
Do you think random Jury's are more skilled than a small panel of judges?

The US uses Juries because as a check on government power. The whole point is jury nullification not factual accuracy.
If you are allowed to criticize policy, you have a discrete and specific right that people in other parts of the world do not. My point was that saying "it's all relative" doesn't tell the whole story, though I'm beginning to see that that was probably kbenson's point as well.
The alternative is to use several professional judges. In Germany for example a murderer is judged by 3 professional judges and 2 semi-professional juryman.
While I agree, it bears mentioning that sometimes the thing that appeals is popularity itself, or good marketing, or "written by Microsoft". It would be a wonderful world if people always chose solutions on technical merits, and the best solution always won, but I don't think we live in that world.
> good growth potential and those options work out in your favor, which is actually typically the case

Typically the case? I'll wager that greater than 70% of startup employee options never pay out.
Right. And then when those features aren't available in the browser, that's used as a justification going back to proprietary (aka native) platforms. It's a circular argument made by people determined to return to the days before we had an Open Web, for whatever reasons. If you don't want to use the features, nobody is forcing you to do so.
You may like https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/over_the_river.html , then! The sample code there can create permanent or ephemeral/short-lived hidden services. It uses the `stem` library (now named `nyx`, iirc).
I'm having the same experience.

Ironically, I would upgrade to a business account, if not for the "minimum 5 accounts" limit.

Now what in the world would I do with 5 accounts Dropbox? Should I pull like a company out of my ass?
The BBC article didn't explain why the raids were conducted (mostly likely because it wasn't yet known at the time). Meanwhile, Le Parisien (which appears to have broken the story) has come forward with more details, which have since been translated by other outlets, e.g.:

France’s financial prosecutor’s office said the raids were carried out with the assistance of the police anti-corruption unit and 25 information technology experts. French daily Le Parisien, which first reported the news, said the raid took place at dawn and involved some 100 investigators. Officers were still at the scene Tuesday afternoon.

“These searches are the result of a preliminary investigation opened on June 16, 2015 relative to aggravated tax fraud and organized money laundering following a complaint from French fiscal authorities,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “The investigation is aimed at finding out whether Google Ireland Ltd. is permanently established in France and if, by not declaring some of its activity on French soil, it has failed to meet its fiscal obligations, in particular with regard to corporation tax and value added tax.”

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/french-police-ra...
I am intrigued by your story.

What reason did they provide for not answering your questions? Which communication avenues did you explore before deciding to leave? Did you try to negotiate with them?

Did you leave any options on the table, or did you exercise your options?
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Anyone doing serious training should check out DC Rainmaker's take: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/05/initial-thoughts-on-pebbl...
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FDE is not supposed to be an anti-stealing mechanism anyway.

Besides any potential thief wont even know whether you're running FDE or not on the laptop they steal, or whether it would be bricked or not. They can always sell it for its parts (screen, etc) anyway.
Just a data point: Fastmail got them to implement/support push for Fastmail on iOS (no, it's not just IMAP IDLE).
That would be great, but both Epic and Crytek have no reason to do that. Releasing under copyleft would mean there will be forks with changes they can't use for their proprietary branch.

They of course have no reason to use permissive licensing too since that would mean someone else can make money off it.
The concept of unbiased news is in my mind troubling. How can one have editors that won't make judgment decisions?

The more tightly one boxes the editors in with rules the more predictable the enterprise becomes. And a predictable huge enterprise is a standing invitation to be gamed. There is a whole industry of marketeers and political hacks searching for new ways to leverage others infrastructure and social assets to get their message out. The human element so far seems vital to protect against spam. Even Google can't stand still and constantly tweaks their rules - and gets taken to court for it too.

And if one has editors making decisions and they are all young they tend to be on average more left than the general population.

It is hard for Facebook to win here. The best move may be not to play.
We've banned this account for trolling, detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11762872 and marked it off-topic.
> But then...... I also thought it was spectacularly hypocritical of Mozilla to fire him for having what amounted to... ideals.

They didn't fire him for having ideals. One, because they didn't fire him, and, more significantly, because the problem was not him having ideal, but him being unable to determine or unwilling to take the steps necessary to effectively manage a major PR incident affecting Mozilla's relationship with users, employees, and other important stakeholders. (Or, given that he actually resigned, maybe he was quite able to determine and willing to take the necessary steps, but those steps were inconsistent with him remaining as CEO.)
> Wait, what's the alternative to juries deciding whether or not someone is guilty of murder? Having a single judge do it?

A panel of 3 judges. Or properly randomly selected juries. The US system, with a mix of weirdly selected judges and bizarre jury selection seems to be sub-optimal.
This article is pretty terrible but just in point of fact: it looks like they are using MySQL's InnoDB backend - which does support transactions and MVCC. If they're even talking about avoiding transactions for speed purposes (no matter how stupidly) they must be talking about Inno because in MyISAM BEGIN and COMMIT are no-ops.
For a private company, for the people we're talking about, the answer is generally that they practically can't trade at all, so you're not losing anything by looking at the books.
You can get a bucket of data to use across multiple data devices with Google Fi?
Is it just me, or does the JPL video have the incorrect audio stream.
Look into what supports PCI passthrough
That tech looks amazing (I didn't have the time to make it work though)
They have a separate number/letter for appointments. For example, if you are there for DL issues without an appointment you get letter G and have to wait hours. If you have an appointment then you get letter B and you wait 20 minutes. How is waiting 20 minutes bad?
>What is a bigger threat to your machine's security than not being able to use it at all?

What kind of a threat is that?

Is your computer worth more than the contents of your bank account?
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Do you know if the 409(a) report is required to be made available to stock holders, or is it something the company can also hide? If the company reports the valuation reported in the 409(a), is there anything else of value in the report which stock holders would benefit from reading/being aware of?
Regardless of crypto space in general, it seems to be that the relative value between Bitcoin and Eth should be more equal-ish
The scary truth is that humans can't handle proper free speech

I will have to disagree here. In my view, freedoms require training to wield them correctly. Part of that training is social (and hence requires good role models), and part is educational (and requires a good education system). When either of those fail, you can expect problems (extremism in the former, and Trump in the latter case). But that doesn't mean the freedom itself is harmful or even unattainable, it just requires constant maintenance.

I think the current western liberalism, where it is perfectly OK to spread outright lies and counter-social messages on mass media in the name of "free speech", is doomed.

I think the current Chinese propaganda is equally doomed.
Thanks for my newest startup idea!
Seems like this might make a great productized consulting offering.

Edit: this looks like it: http://lawgeex.com/
https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/ for the history of it. The original author is still unclear, but that article digs back as far as Gary Tarolli at 3dfx/SGI (by way of Carmack, Abrash, and Terje Mathison)
> For public companies any employee who can see any financial or revenue information is not allowed to trade stocks outside of 14 day window after the announcement of quarterly report.

I assume you're referring to stocks of the company in question (or possibly its competitors as well). For a private company, you can't trade stocks outside company-approved periods anyway, so would this really be an additional restriction in practice?
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I know Clemson University's Digital Production Arts teaches a lot of 3D animation stuff, they also offer student enrolled in the program a Pluralsight to learn Maya, Nuke, etc. I hear from a few of their students that it's a good resource compared to some of the coursework.
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Nah.

I was insinuating that Fox News is EXTREMELY biased to the right. But to say that NPR is not left wing leaning... that's a complete joke. Diane Rehm is as much a militant democrat as O'Reilly is a republican. At least O'Reilly is for show. Rehm just has a smugness about her that smacks of distaste for all things republican. She builds one strawman after the other and lets her guests kick them down. Even for shows like PHC or WWDTM, they often delve into "low brow" territory where simply "being republican" is the punchline.

Fox News is almost comedic at this point. NPR is much more insidious.

Also note this website (HN) itself is very left leaning in its ideology. Probably because the vast majority of the viewership adhere to the common SV psychology, which is also left leaning.

Myself? I find it all disgusting, harbor distrust for all media. Like someone else mentioned... a long time ago (before I was born, I'm sure) they stopped telling the news and started hocking style to sell advertising space. You have to be awfully stylish yourself not to get sick of it once in awhile.
In Sufism (among other paths) the aspirants are explicitly and repeatedly warned regarding the "dangers" of unsupervised development.

> it's just a tool

Tools are a means.

> to see what's already there

That is also a means. (Unless one is merely curious.)

> blissful or happy

To arrive at-rest/contenment with Reality. At which point the distinction between "happy"/"unhappy" is understood to be nil.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11760549 and marked it off-topic.
I got a panicked phonecall from my mother earlier this morning due to exactly this. She told me her computer suddenly updated to Windows 10 and she couldn't stop it. I'm slapping my head that I forced my father to download Never10 for his aging Win 7 laptop, but forgot to make her do the same on her Win 8.1 laptop.

Were she not so reliant on Skype to talk to her family overseas, I would really prefer to nuke Windows altogether from her laptop and throw Linux Mint or something on there, just as a giant middle finger to Microsoft.

Either that or just have a few minutes alone with a Microsoft's CCB and a crowbar. Either works, really.
This is why the linux desktop failed to penetrate the market. You can't say, "Well it does 80% of what most people need." Most people just surf the web, view photos, and other basic functionality. That 20% it can't do is a deal breaker. Not to mention the things most people never do, but businesses rely on like legacy/proprietary software support.

>It doesn't cost anything to keep these features around, why kill them off?

This is also why the features list of a basic Windows or Office install is miles long. Once developed, there's no cost other than maintenance of those features (updates, security, etc).

I think its hard to argue against complexity in software. The ultra-complex usually win for rational market reasons.
> The coding style is very Microsoft-like, which is I suppose not a big surprise given it's DirectX roots.

Just in case first CryEngine and early versions of CryEngine 2 had OpenGL renderers, but code style was pretty much the same.
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Link to Clemson's DPA program in case you're interested:
http://www.clemson.edu/graduate/academics/program-details.ht...
i didn't know what cryengine was. I mean, you probably don't need to tell people what it is, but the github repo, documentation introduction, homepage, and first page of the getting started material don't have the words:

"CryEngine is a game engine designed by the German game developer Crytek. It has been used in all of their titles with the initial version being used in Far Cry, and continues to be updated to support new consoles and hardware for their games."

which I found on wikipedia after clicking through 3-4 pages. General consensus seems to be that it is pretty awesome though, so keep up the good work.
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It does actually encrypt your data, and if it's correctly implemented, it's fine. Those drives sell for a few years now and not a single exploit is known.

For most people this is more than enough.
Please edit personal swipes such as "Sucks to be you" and "Close your mind, or open it" in comments here. They add no information, degrade the quality of discussion, and provoke worse.
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> "Hey, I saw your posting on Craigslist and I decided to respond because I'd love to find a gig where I can work in Scala" is perfectly acceptable.

So you basically want candidates to duplicate what they already said (should
have said) in e-mail with application? What for?

> Just put in enough to show me that you're not applying to every single posting because you're so desperately unemployable.

And how employability has anything to do with competence? Competence can be
estimated from CV (if it was sensibly prepared) enough to invite for
interview.

Again, what do you expect in the cover letter?
Hopefully not like this: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...

That drive claimed 128 bit AES, but they botched it.
I 100% agree. It annoys me greatly, to be a paying customer, and to be nagged to become a business user. It's a bit of a slap in the face, IMO.

I don't have a business, I already give you money, and now you want even more?
>I rarely have need for what's in the stdlib

It has been my experience that people who don't know or use the C stdlib end up unknowingly re-implementing stdlib functions over and over again.
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Awesome! Now lets do it for 1B rows, and then 10 Billion and then some. It is well known that for small datasets NoSQL is no better , if not worse, than an RDBMS.
Is there a way to configure the tool to not be secure? Why is the secure configuration not the default? Can a secure default be easier to set up?
> I find it hard to believe that anyone not employed by Microsoft would take this position.

Insinuations of astroturfing and shillage without evidence are a breach of HN's civility rule and not allowed here. Someone holding an opposing view does not count as evidence.

When there are genuine concerns about astroturfing, we look into them carefully and (in the case where we find something) ban the accounts involved. But casual accusation and insinuation is not ok. Extrapolated, it would wreck this place.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11764493 and marked it off-topic.
With sufficient sandboxing, and depending on the needs of the site in question, this is actually possible to do securely.

When you use sandboxing properly, the security of your application doesn't depend on how complex it is or how many features it has. This is a huge advantage over secure programming languages, where bugs are less likely but still some constant factor of KLOC.

That said, not every application can be sandboxed easily.
Maybe if you wanted a stable OS you should be running the LTS version instead.
On Thinkpads at least it can be much longer.
> The US uses Juries because as a check on government power. The whole point is jury nullification not fact accuracy.

Nullification is not the whole point (but not insignificant), and factual accuracy is important -- but accountability to the citizenry at large (represented by a jury drawn from the citizenry, rather than professional government officers whose accountability to the public is distant at best) for that factual accuracy is just as important.
Quote from the article:

"There have been hundreds of Delaware lawsuits to inspect company books says Ted Kittila, an attorney with Greenhill Law Group. Most requests are settled before a suit is filed, he says."

So, for the cases which went to trial, were the companies held accountable, or were they able to skirt the law somehow? I'm curious whether employees who brought the suits were able to claim damages if the value of their shares changed materially in the interim where the company refused to release the financial information which the shareholder was legally allowed to see. The shareholder could claim that they would have sold if they were given appropriate information which they were illegally denied? Thoughts?
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I want something like Google Translate, that will take any arbitrary text and turn it into Emoji. Make it so.
"We’re building a multi-platform digital game subscription service called Boondogl that delivers native web games to desktop, mobile, console, and VR devices, and we’ve bet our entire business on native web technologies – HTML5, WebGL, JS, and soon WebAssembly."

What exactly is "native web"?
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That link contains some fascinating insight into the machinations required to get POSIX-like behavior on a Win32 backend. Thanks for posting.
This article is inflammatory and slanted. It seems like the author cares less about reporting than about driving an anti-regulatory agenda.
The first thing that comes to mind is that they write about read throughput, when the write throughput is a big selling point of many NoSQLs.
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They'd backdoor your machine instead. Same result.
"The City Of Austin Is Embarrassing Itself."

I wouldn't go that far. They're not handling this very well, but this article is a bit of demagoguery in the skin of "news".
Is anyone else thinking of porting their mobile number to Twilio and setting up their own, personalized google voice using the twilio API ?

This occurred to me when I decided that what I wanted my phone to do was ring forever if I didn't answer. It turns out, twilio gives you a way to do this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22410430/twilio-respond-t...

... and there are a lot of other very interesting things you could do:

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/03/building-beyond-google-v...
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Has Pebble's build quality gotten better? I havw the original, it wasn't made very well. Had the sticky button issue, they replaced it. Then the vibration motor died in the replacement, basically making it useless as far as a smartwatch goes (since I mainly use it for notifications). They wouldn't replace it, since the replacement only had a 90 day warranty. Of course I don't wear it anymore, I would have tried to repair it but it's impossible to open.

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence if a company doesn't stand behind its products. Even Google does a better job.
> (and the advertisers won't change their metrics because of them)

uh. That isn't what I was doing - one party's act in self interest can benefit third parties (even if accidentally)... like electing to not set yourself on fire in a crowded Museum of Yarn and Flammables.

> ...attack the economic incentives underlying their current strategies.

That has been going on since the first ad click payment. I'm guessing that the ideal solution is one that would require a scale of economy that is outside the capabilities of the majority of the market participants, and that is why we still have catch the monkey ads.