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What you're missing here is that Apple bans everyone equally while Microsoft does not. What I mean by that is the App Store doesn't discriminate on an individual basis. Apple is generally consistent in their "unfairness". Looking at what Microsoft is doing, their decision to restrict Firefox immediately struck me as an anti-trust monopoly issue. They're not restricting Firefox on the basis of some policy that applies to everyone but singling out one piece of software.

The argument in this article is a red herring. This isn't about fairness. It plays on the whole Apple v. Microsoft thing and tries to drum up sympathy and or guilt by playing the "you're just hating on MS because it's trendy" card in a way. It really looks like Microsoft has decided to restrict Firefox capabilities on ARM devices so their browser can have a leg up and deliberately and negatively impact the user experience of Firefox on certain devices.

Framing this using Apple and it's policies/practices are an attempt at misdirection. If you take this attempt to play the Apple v. Microsoft card out of the equation and for a moment pretend Apple never banned FF and FF never even tried to get on iOS what you're left with is Microsoft unfairly discriminating against one company in an obvious attempt to stamp out any competition. It's a pretty cut and dry case of ant-trust once you weed out all the distractions.

Edit: clarified the first sentence of last paragraph. Added the words "Framing this using".
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I think the general issue is that most routes start or end at home on familiar roads. If the navigation software is getting those wrong, it makes me distrustful of how it will do on unfamiliar roads.
Maybe he just has the crazy notion that he can make the world better if he spends the money than if the US government does.
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This would be a better question for Stack Overflow or something like it. Hacker News is a tech news links-and-comments site with "Ask" as a minor feature. Stack Overflow is an actual programming Q&A site.
I don't sense any dark connotation for the word. I've seen it used most often in a pretty value-neutral way to describe any group of people living outside their country of origin. These days most diaspora are composed of economic emigrants who have left their homelands voluntarily in search of opportunity.

It's also the title of a very good science fiction novel that I would say treats the word without negative connotations.
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You seem to have interpreted "trapped" more literally than I. My take was that it meant he was "trapped" into paying taxes, not physically trapped in the US.
My understanding is that the alternative browsers on iOS aren't really browsers- they're reskins of the iOS' webkit. You can't, for instance, plug in your own Javascript interpreter. Opera mini takes a different tack, doing much of the work on their servers and forwarding it to the client. But a full replacement for Safari, like a fork, Firefox, or Chrome, is not allowed.
Although I agree with most of what you are saying, I disagree that most grads are capable of using a startup mentality to adapt themselves to the market.

In fact I would go as far as saying our public schools and universities actively discourage independent thinking and creativity. When we graduate, we are thrown into a world that we aren't prepared for. We have been prepared to memorize facts and follow routine, now everything is the complete opposite of that?

Even assuming I'm wrong and most graduates can adapt to life after graduation, it still takes a while to mentally pivot. Six months is not long in the scheme of things, but when it happens to lots of graduates, articles like this start to pop up; occupy movements start to pop up; etc.
It's twitter for your wrist, how many billions is that worth?
Unfortunately, more recent jurisprudence in the U.S. has been chipping away at the scrutiny given to contracts of adhesion. In overturning a California Supreme Court decision that greatly restricted arbitration agreements when they were made in the form of contracts of adhesion, Scalia (writing for the court) noted that "the times in which consumer contracts were anything other than adhesive are long past", so California's rule being limited to contracts of adhesion was in practice so broad that it invalidated most arbitration agreements, and therefore interfered with the Federal Arbitration Act (AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 2011).
You can file claims with the department of labor for unpaid bonuses earned while working at a company.

Anyhow he was still working at the company at the time he should have been paid so the money was owed to him and he could have filed (for likely at least the interest on the bonus if not wages up until it was paid).

"Unpaid wages, including commissions and bonuses."

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileWageClaim.htm

Either way it's a moot point now.
You'd be surprised how many vendors and merchants simply do not care. I was employed with an e-commerce vendor that indefinitely stored CVV2 in plaintext (among other numbers).
It shouldn't be a business. It should be a sustainable project. The moment you make it a business, it looses its core value - "by users, for users". That said, the project needs to sustain development and growth of course. The difference is in the goal. Business' goal is to make money, and it's driven by for profit reasons. Such kind of project's goal should be to make a good (user oriented, privacy protecting and so on) social network, and it should be driven by that reason.
I do not claim to be a fan of HFT, but I wouldn't say it's on the same level as stealing CC data.
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It is a huge difference, however, if you think: I could give that money to the government, without any control over it, or I could donate it to specific charities, or even fund my own charitable organization, and have complete control over how it was used.

I'm not necessarily saying that one is better than the other (private charity might have the potential to be more effective, but is certainly less democratic). But the choice is not merely between private hedonism and government coffers. You can do good with money outside of taxes.

Plus, if it's invested in other companies (as one would assume it will be), then it helps grow those companies, which if successful, will presumably pay taxes themselves. I'm not arguing against capital-gains taxes in general, but the question of where taxes are collected along the chain is purely practical, not moral. If Saverin isn't paying additional taxes now, it's not like that money is disappearing forever.
Your point is well served without the analogy of heft and the financial industry being added. Matter of fact, I assume that it will likely be met with discussion that shifts the focus onto those examples which are irrelevant to the greater topic at hand.

There have been several in depth discussions and posts on both hacker news and reddit which comprehensively make the case for both.
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Flipping burgers at McDonalds is a good way to get your foot in the door if you work at it. Shift managers can make $50-75k, and location managers frequently top $100k. Given the high rates of turnover, such positions can be earned in 2-3 years (for college graduates).

Moreover, McDonalds has an extremely generous education assistance program, including full-ride scholarships to business schools for employees who qualify for its executive training program. A high percentage of McDonald's executives are promoted from within. And like Dominos, a vast majority of McDonald's franchises (which clear >$1 million/year, on average) are owned by former employees. (Don't remember what the % is for McDs, but for Dominos, their pizza box claims >95% of their franchises are owned by former employees.)
Hmm ok down vote away, but that's the principal behind this law
My biggest constraint was talented, and heart-ful teachers.

And, like Andrew said, I put a lot of weight into students' attitude.
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This seems like a bad move for Microsoft. Few people see them as the horrible monopolistic evil empire anymore, but it's not so long ago that people saw them that way. They got in significant legal trouble just for bundling a browser with Windows. Blocking alternative browsers, or subjecting them to restrictions MS considers too crippling for their own browser seems like a good way to scare off developers and users alike.
And yet sadly, most Americans seem to have this myopic view that the USA is the be-all and end-all of everything good, sacred, and worthy. Welcome to America
Every bit of bragging about himself makes it easier to find him. He has disclosed this information so far:

* He tried to apply for a job at Kaspersky during last year. Didn't have enough credentials and still whines about it.
* He hangs out on Anonymous IRC.
* Uses Liberty Reserve.
* Exchanges bitcoins to dollars (periodically I guess).
* May be German-speaking. Understands Russian.
...There are. Google, Microsoft, and all the rest get tons of applications. People just can't develop software.

P.S. My Google intern salary would beat that if it were scaled up to full-time levels (and in actuality full-time is much higher).
The server was probably not running Windows.
The reaction of commenters who gleefully explain he may not be able to become a citizen again is pretty amusing. What makes you think he wants to reapply? Billions of people live fulfilling lives without ever stepping foot in the United States.
Apple bought three geo-related companies in the last few years. My guess is C3 Technologies for 3D/"satellite" layer, Poly9 for the street maps layer, and Placebase for the POI. I imagine they've been working on unifying them for a while now and we will see the fruit of that labor soon.
Well, those speed bumps increase the fitness requirements for a short time of hackers. So it's not a total loss/ black-white picture.
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> What you're missing here is that Apple bans everyone equally while Microsoft does not.

You could not have this more backwards. The fundamental issue that Metro apps cannot write to executable memory pages. This is a fundamental security feature of both WinRT and of iOS. Browsers download code off the Internet JIT compile it to native code and execute it. This is what Firefox needs to do. It's not like Windows 8 is checking for Firefox.exe and refusing to load it.

What Mozilla wants is an exception to the normal rules for applications on ARM Windows 8.

Microsoft makes exceptions for their own applications (Office and IE) but that's it. These are the same sort of exceptions Apple make for their apps on iOS.
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You should probably exercise a disassembler on the code for a bit and come away enlightened.
Same here. 4096 bytes is just 64 lines of 64 characters. These guys are brilliant.
I very much enjoyed the reading of his comments - I pulled a few of his that others may find interesting.

[polymorphism code - to hide virus signature]

Randomness is your friend, make your own crypter and make it so fucking random on every compile, that AV reverse engineers kill themselfs (HINT: randomize the crypters sourcecode using perl scripts)

[polymorphism code - to hide virus signature]

I started coding about a year ago, hacking old malware sourcecodes and reading russian boards. Most botnet operators are dumb as fuck, who don't even care about their traces, the ones you see on TV, catched by Microsoft and Brian Krebs. If you have more knowledge you can automatize nearly everything, like creating scripts that rewrite your sourcecode for your crypters so your malware gets undetected again, saving you hard work.

[finding infections on a computer]

Use GMER (http://www.gmer.net/) every now and then when your spider sense is tingling. Srsly, you can't fool GMER, it scans from the deepest possible point in your system, at ring0 and is impossible to fool, there is nothing deeper than ring0 on a usual PC where malware can hide stuff from. I always wondered why other AV vendors don't do it like GMER, it can detect all rootkits. But when a AV can detect everything, who will pay 30$ a year for signature updates...
<i>They're not restricting Firefox on the basis of some policy that applies to everyone but singling out one piece of software.</i>

What gives you that idea? The policies apply to every third party application on Windows-ARM.
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I was around and remember it well. Even if some of the HN community missed the OS wars, they've probably dealt with the consequences of Microsoft's OS monopoly - after killing Netscape, Microsoft allowed Internet Explorer to completely stagnate. More than 5 years passed between the release of IE6 and IE7. Anyone who spent late nights/weekends in the last half decade trying to get some web page to render properly in IE 6 has Microsoft's monopoly to thank for it. I don't love Apple's policies. But so far, they haven't been nearly as harmful.
Flipping burgers can be a damn good pathway to an executive position in the fast food industry, as long as you actually put the effort into it. Turnover is high in the fast food industry, so promotions are rapid. College graduates who stick it out are frequently offered full-ride scholarships to business school on the company's dime, with managerial and executive-level positions (in either cases paying >$100,000) afterwards.

From a career perspective, starting your career by flipping burgers at McDonalds can yield greater dividends (in the long-term) than being a programmer.
My lord, someone look at it in IE9.

This is just laughable.
Was replying to "are now using a backdoor in the encryption".
Not exactly a confidence booster, is it possible that hits are the goal? Pretty weak sauce if so.
They're not banning it. They're just not allowing access to critical API functions for a JIT engine to Windows Marketplace apps. Only IE has access to it. Without these APIs then Firefox will run like a dog because it'll undue all the years that people have been working on optimizing Javascript engines.
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"Protip against driveby infections (the ones in the browsers): Disable addons in your browser and only activate the ones you need. Chromium and Chrome for example let you disable all additional content like flash, html5, pdf and java in the options, you will see a grey box instead of the content and can manually run it using right-click -> Run. Chrome options -> Content options -> Plug-Ins -> Disable all or Click-to-play. Chrome also allows you to whitelist sites you trust, like youtube. This will make you immune to driveby infections regardless of the version of your java or adobe reader, because you will only be able to click and run content, that is VISIBLE on the site. Malicious content is ALWAYS hidden in a 0pixel iframe! This also stops the nasty flash advertisements implying you can't aim precise enough to win an iPad3."

This is one thing I've been trying to convince people to do for ages but, for some reason, that one extra click turns so many people off. The extra minute or two I probably spend a day clicking on plugins to activate them will pale in comparison to how much time I'll have to spend recovering from being infected.
You don't think Apple decided to restrict third party browsers so their browser "can have a leg up?" (Yes, yes, I know the answer will come back "a unified browser is a better user experience". And my response is: why not let the market make that call?)

That sounds awfully naive. Apple certainly does protect its turf (c.f. banning Google Voice after approving dozens of VoIP apps) , and to argue otherwise is just silly.
I get a 500 when I try to sign up.
I would like to take the time to point out that Opera has a browser on iOS http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637... (iTunes)
German hartverdrahtet -> hardwired / hardcoded but also 'wired hearts' (the opening shot and the primitive the scene appears to be made out of)
It looks like she/he was ultimately "walking away from the river" (and his family) on the first answer given.
This was inevitable. I remember when bitcoinica was first announced her a while back and commenters warned this would happen.

I'd be curious as to how the breach occurred and how it could have been prevented.
"Really, the chip things are an example of security theater. Yes, they're more "secure" in the sense of being harder to defeat"

Absolutely not!

In the US fraud may be small (but it's increasing). But magnetic stripes are very unsafe

Chip'n'Pin may have some issues, but it's much safer to most common attacks such as

- card stripers (very inconspicuous)
- physical theft of the card (because it requires a pin)

And, as someone that had a striped card, it's a pain (even if liabilities are $0)
Yes, the reasons are not very impressive ones, but nonetheless.
Anyone interested in checking out the kickstarter campaign that was successful, there are lots of photos and a backstory:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upgradeindustries/boardx...
Yeah, this has got to be it. Non-US CC info seems much more difficult to acquire, and thus more valuable. And just because Americans are in debt (obviously not all) doesn't mean their credit cards are maxed out.
I hate to snark, but bitcoin seems to be turning into something of a bad joke. How long will it be before the net volume of bitcoins stolen exceeds that of those spent?
My feeling here (ex-MSFT employee, so maybe biased one way or another) is that Mozilla is going after the soft underbelly of Microsoft, because they can.

Mozilla is already locked out of iOS and they have failed at getting Apple to budge. If WinRT locks them out, they'll be locked out of two out of the three major tablet platforms (it's a safe assumption that WinRT will get some marketshare at least).

Microsoft is an easier target than AAPL - Win8 is still under development so it's still early days and the company has a history with various governmental organizations (the DoJ, the EU). My guess is Mozilla is attempting to rattle Microsoft into opening up Win8 to get Firefox to run. Or drum up enough press, get the DoJ to make a quote or two and really get Redmond to worry.

If I were Microsoft, I would hold my ground. Strategically, it makes a lot of sense to own the browsing experience e2e and I think Mozilla's case is weak given MSFT's lack of marketshare, the existence of Chromebooks, Boot2Gecko, etc.
I've just tested. The fastest I get (37% time in drawing according to chrome profile, and ~45 fps) is when I draw everything moving to one, visible canvas, that I clear at the start of each frame, and everything static (background) is on another canvas, that isn't changed when it's not needed.

When I draw everything moving to off screen canvas, and then drawImage this off screen canvas into visible canvas, I get 48% of time in draw function, and ~35 fps.

It is indeed faster to draw everything to off screen canvas, than to on screen one (when I commented out copying off screen canvas to on screen canvas, and left only drawing sprites and tiles to off screen canvas - I got steady 60 fps, but obviously nothing is visible then :)). And copying whole canvas to the visible one is still slower, than drawing the sprites and tiles on the visible canvas in the first place.

But thanks for ideas.
Social Security is not taxation. You get money back directly to you correlated with what you paid.

As for as the "double" part, can you not then collect from both countries when you retire?
In the time period listed I've bought WAY more than 5 jars of Nutella, but I don't honestly think that I bought it thinking "Hey this is healthy!".
Opera Mini doesn't contain a rendering engine or JIT or...it's a glorified image viewer that lets the rendering be done on a remote server.
The fact they are losing the war does nothing to repair the damage they caused.
all we know about him is he's german, he doesn't have a degree, and he likes ponies. he's explicitly avoided answering questions about his personal life, even just about his day job.
Maybe he'd prefer to allocate $38 Million per year to charities of his own choosing rather than to a transparency-devoid government?
What's wrong with the webkit rendering engine?

Chrome started as "effectively a shell" around webkit. As far as most end users are concerned, the difference between browsers is the UI, not the rendering engine. I use iCab on iOS for its UI and amazing feature set (including Adblock and extensions), and apprececiate the choice. In fact, it syncs with Firefox bookmarks. Atomic is also nice.

It would be very interesting to do a Firefox-like UI for iOS and see what the end user uptake would be.
GotoBLAS2 was quite an achievement and featured performance metrics competitive with Intel's MKL [1]. When Prof Goto stopped working on it, the code was forked as OpenBLAS [2], which is used by the Julia programming language [3].

[1] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark

[2] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS

[3] http://julialang.org/
Were they warned in a general sense? Or were they specifically targeted?
Breaking even ain't bad.
I'll need not 2, but 4 canvas elements, each at least [width/2+1, height/2+1]. I'll try this, and let you know. Thanks for ideas, even if it seems a little strange.
This is now the 2nd, 3rd time that Bitcoinica has been hacked?

People warned of this when it was first announced—a financial platform created by a lone teenager in China [1] is obvious going to be a target for high profile attacks. The site owner's comments [2] make it clear that he's not ready to do security on a large-scale financial system.

The idea that they were holding even 100K of Bitcoins is mind-boggling.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973301
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973732
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It already has enough attention.He just being a subtle troll and should be ignored.

It is improbable that someone with 20 years of experience in the tech sector would be oblivious to the Netscape/IE situation unless he is one of those people that include the years he spent programming since he was 5.