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There are a few videos on youtube, but probably best to check out the hack emacs and emacs rocks videos.

Just like Clojure, getting over the intimidation factor of Emacs is 90% of the battle. It takes a few weeks of self-enforced daily use to get your brain around Emacs, but once you do, you'll find that it is well worth the effort. Then you discover how the other major modes work and there is simply no going back.

I would suggest just getting acclimated to using the basics navigation keys, then when you find yourself using the mouse too often for some certain task, look up the hot key to do that task.

I started up by learning:

C-f, C-b, C-p, C-n, then:

M-f, M-b, then:

C-a, M-a, C-e, M-e, then:

C-[space], C-w, M-w, C-y

It really is a slow process of learning a few keys at a time, but you'll find that once you understand the mnemonics and get your muscle memory in line, you'll find that you can learn several key-bindings quickly. The initial hump is sort of steep, but then it goes really fast.
The Chinese experimented with strict enforcement in the Qin Dynasty, following the philosophy of Han Feizi (Legalism). It sounds like it was a big failure. I'm sure there have been other such experiments. The Law is not a computer program.
The discussion about style is useless because everybody is different and has a different taste.

The only thing that matters is usability. And that's where iOS7 fails. Some examples:

On the home screen "Reminders" is barely readable.
Receiving a phone call: You can't read the name.
Messages: white text on a light background: bad for reading.
The weather: barely readable.
Yeah. They probably made it before the one against NSA starts, to show that what NSA is doing is useful.
I've yet to see an opportunity for much personal gain on his part, what's caused you to cast him in that light?
https://github.com/johnsmclay/icnfnt/issues/18
No, but they'll probably get all the digital medical records.
I'm curious what people think of existing marketplaces.

If you're thinking of selling an app, do you feel like the tools are there to find buyers and perform the transaction?
EDIT WARNING: as soon as I posted I noticed someone deleted the parent comment... it commented something like some crimes (like murder, rape and "stealing my iPhone") always have no defense.

Some things, exist and are possible for good reasons...

People might condemn me and think I am some sort of crazy satanist for believing that even rape has its use...

For most part, rape is utterly evil and should be harshly punished, yet sometimes it was needed, and it might be needed again (I hope not, of course).

Also, how you get 100% effective in getting rid of murder, without also getting rid of soldiers, security guards, hunters or even construction workers? Well, then you need to separate intentional murder, from unintentional one (like a construction worker dropping a hammer from his toolbox into the head of a random person nearby the construction site), but even then, you end with issues like: if law was 100% effective, how you separate the preemptive killing of a armed rapist from murder?

Being a soldier and engaging a suspect enemy spy on your land is murder if he ends dead?

What if your iPhone has the only password needed to open a door to some secure building on fire, and you for whatever reason refuse to give it, it is wrong to steal your iPhone to save a life?

We cannot have 100% effective law enforcement, because there is no such thing of black and white issues on crime, several criminals do not believe themselves to be some sort of evil creature, yes, evil exists, but sometimes the actions of a criminal are just actions that you do not understand the motivation.
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> They are roughly 30 years ahead in crypto analysis.

For various definitions of "roughly"...
A society without crime likely will be a stagnant society, one where there is not enough room for any fringes at all rather than just not that one fringe that we'd like to get rid off.

Imagine an organism that perfects the trick of error correction on genetic information. That organism would not suffer from some of the afflictions that come with imperfect genetic copying. But that organism would also instantly stop to evolve.
Not a big fan of this guy tbh.
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This is absolutely true, but it doesnt seem to be in line with the 'whistleblower' image that has been projected so far, and more in line with plain espionage.

It appears to my jaded eye that Snowden copied everything possible while in the NSA, revealed a certain amount to rile up the public opinion in his favor and to cover over the fact he was copying everything in sight.

He seems to be positioning himself as a literal espionage agent right now, giving operational secrets or at least implying he is willing to reveal operational secrets for special treatment from china... and no doubt money.

The tone of his statements seem to be like a chinese propaganda mouth peice right now... funny how things are never as simple as they look at first glance
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Ah, I didn't know that was possible on twitter, that makes a lot of sense.
No, the AG is pressing charges, ostensibly on her behalf, because everyone thinks she was in denial about the abuse. Alternatively, even if everyone agrees she consented, consent isn't a legally recognized defense to all forms of battery and you also have to consider sodomy laws: in the hands of a conservative judge/jury, what you were doing actually was illegal, even though you were consenting adults and nobody got (permanently) hurt, which is the standard most "reasonable" people go by nowadays.

IANAL and the little I know about the intersection of kinky sex and law comes from a single presentation I attended years ago during college. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly certain I have the broad strokes drawn correctly.
Many European nations also have extremely loud but -- in comparison to the rest of their population/government -- small groups with extreme anti-immigration/"nationalist" stances. Some of them even get significant media coverage, or have control of a major news outlet or two.
This is maybe slightly off-topic... but does anyone know of an icon-font for AJAX indicators?

FontAwesome has a single one which is tries to rotate, but which isn't quite the same (and relies on newer browsers).

I'm thinking a font with perhaps twelve lines/spokes for each position, where you'd superimpose all twelve, and then use CSS to animate their colors/opacity only (not actually moving/rotating them), but with a JS fallback.
Wish I'd had this years ago.
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You can't possibly determine the legibility of font rendering designed for a 727k pixel display based on a 115k pixel screenshot.

Have you tried the current Gmail app? It uses thin fonts, and I don't find it to be a problem.
What did Steve Jobs know that Walter Gropius and Jony Ive missed?
I am very puzzled:

> And by disclosing that he possesses documents that he says describe U.S. hacking against China, he appeared to be trying to win support from the Chinese government.

China is known to be active in hacking attempts against US government and US industrial targets. They would therefore be greatly interested in any inside information they could get about US defenses against such attempts.

The NSA would likely have information on those defenses.

I would expect, then, that China would be quite interested in getting their hands on any NSA employee with a high security clearance in order to question them about those defenses. Snowden is publicly known to be a person. He likely has information that would also help China with their own internal spying programs.

And now, Snowden is letting China know that he's got even more valuable information of particular interest to them.

Given this, WHY did he pick Honk Kong to flee to? If China wants that information (and it is hard to see how they could not want it), their best move is to kidnap him and blame it on foreign agents (hinting that they think the US took him--which many people would find quite believable) and make him turn over his information to them.
I suggest you do a quick survey of the replies to this thread. Most people HATE it. Apple designed a browser that addresses the size issue, no reason to do it again poorly.

I also suspect that developers, such as myself, are looking at a site on several platforms and so automatically compare them, but when a user focuses on their phone it fills their perception.

Giving people bigger buttons, and text might seem nicer initially, but it's usually very aggravating when the scaling is locked and with the real site you can scale the text even bigger then the choice you made for the user. Plus many other issues with content relationships (text and images say), usability, etc.

If your designers are going to put as much effort into the mobile site layout as they did to the main site then maybe, but I have yet to see that happen.
"We want the nation to know that we are being transparent. For example, We don't look into what is going into Wall St." - Gen. Alexander

Note to "Terrorists": go IPO :P
I love how Gen. Alexander and friends are like, "We're so vulnerable!", and see no problem with storing mass amounts of information that is begging to be hacked.
> The people that "broke" (hey, see the quotes?) the user experience you expected and liked are the people that steer the project. They are free to do that,

Yes, they have all the freedom to destroy their project.
I can't reproduce it using the latest update to the Retina 15" MBP and an iMac in target display mode, connected via Thunderbolt.
Espionage is typically conducted in secret. Snowden publicly released the documents and publicly announced his role as the leaker.
> This seems to be transitioning from leaking to let Americans know how their civil rights are being violated into something else.

Something else far different indeed.

China is not an evil country but they are not pure as the driven snow either. They are aggressively pushing to gain access to resource-rich ocean areas that do not belong to them under UNCLOS.

On the other hand China almost certainly knows better than Snowden does how they are doing against NSA attempts, if only because of their own counterintelligence. So if I were Snowden I wouldn't think of giving China that kind of intel, it can only harm his standing here at home (and with those Asian countries under China's guns...) and wouldn't even help China as much as he seems to think anyways.

P.S. Why is no one pushing for a criminal investigation regarding the process used to give computer geeks security clearances? :)
XMPP dates back to the early '00, which puts it right smack in the middle of the XML craze. It is as mature as it is bloated, a very strong subjective hurdle to overcome.
Definitely. If you had been a former or current employee I was going to say that colors your recommendation a bit.
"PRISM Collection Manager", "April 2013", "ORCON", "You should use both" and the classification date in relation to the date slide doesn't suggest sales material to me.

Note that the slides have different degrees of redaction across sources. These links should together cover what's available on PRISM.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server...
Aristotle advised that laws should cover the general case and judges the particular. Hence the saying, "Hard cases make bad law." There is always a need to interpret. So the computerization of guilt or even "fishing" is very scary. Privacy is a buffer that helps build "selective enforcement" into any law that gets made.

We know that in the civil sphere getting sued is so bad it often doesn't matter whether you win or lose: the mere threat is enough to compel or punish. Likewise in the criminal sphere, people often settle rather than fight, which would mean bankruptcy and the risk of worse jail time. Now imagine in the criminal sphere if a computer could look at everything you wrote and raise a flag every time something looked suspicious. It's important to have a buffer, some kind of resistance that must be overcome before subjecting people to that. Hence the Fourth Amendment.
Breaking news from NSA leaker Snowden: "Water is wet, Cubs won't win the Series."
What new keyboard?
This guy was taught some bad practices. He learned things that can only hurt him.
Wait, you're saying a beta release of ios7 isn't beta? Even if it is mostly the same for gA that doesn't discount it being beta software right now.
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where'd you go? We were supposed to chat on Skype and you disappeared.
Just be careful, if you're ever in France: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/feb/06/.... :)
Out of all the 'historically pro-Apple bloggers/authors' John Siracusa stands out as an exception: on the [recent episode of the ATP podcast](http://atp.fm/episodes/17-cant-innovate-anymore) (starts at 34:55) he gave proper credit to Windows Phone for paving the way — even though he's a confessed Microsoft hater.

Matt Gemmell's continual dismissal of the Microsoft designers who created Metro is incredibly disrespectful. He's repeatedly made snide remarks about Metro as merely change for the sake of being different. Given the [sweat, blood and tears](http://mashable.com/2012/03/29/microsoft-metro-is-a-philosop...) that it for the Metro UI folk to convince the execs at Microsoft to take design seriously, it's dispiriting to see a loud voice in the community like Gemmell be so snarky and flippant.
Out of curiosity, why do you assume that Google is a more trustworthy source when it comes to describing NSA capabilities than actual documents written by the NSA?
I love the idea at least of CompCert, but I really wish it was open source. I could drive adoption within Red Hat and in key open source projects tomorrow if it was.
It makes sense from an historic and signals intelligence perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunia_Regional_SIGINT_Operation...

I'd imagine this would have some bearing on it as well:
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
I appreciate that you cleverly responded to my incredulity being expressed via interrobang with an internet-styled typo, but I still find your argument unconvincing.

If you look at the icons I mentioned, Voice Memos, Apple Store, Stocks, Videos, iTunes, Game Center, etc., they too are bright and vivid and have small inconsistencies. Why is the radial effect different between Apple Store and iTunes? Why is the light source for Videos different from Stocks?

The only difference between these icons and the new ones is that the old ones looked like they were designed by a self-important designer, thinking, "How much arbitrary detail can I pack in this icon?", rather than your extremely talented nephew.
Lol - don't worry citizens we're only monitoring you, not banks or big business.
How is Microsoft slow and steady when he just told you they have poor code quality, no docs, etc.
People often conflate "leadership" and "management". Leadership isn't about telling, it's about doing, usually doing without having been told. It's about coming to the meeting with what you've implemented, rather than with suggestions. I had more typed up, but really, that's the core point: Leadership and management are two very different things.
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This seems extraordinarily unfair to the author. Being "proactive" can't retroactively make your team write documentation, make them care about engineering quality, or stop them wasting time in meetings, it's just a lame, corporate-speak, equivocation; the kind used by managers in reviews, and nowhere in the real world.

Kids fresh out of college may need to adjust their expectations to the real world, but most of his complaints are legitimate problems if true, and accusing him of having a "poisonous attitude" for raising them is exactly the kind of oppressive, censorious behaviour that allows such mediocrity to exist.
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The best advice I can give there is, learn how to read a stacktrace. I won't lie, they're messy, but they do contain the information you need to figure out that sort of problem.

For example, all Clojure function calls have the same sort of appearance in the stacktrace, which you'll learn to recognize. You'll be able to pick out "doSomething2" in the trace, which will then help you narrow in on the problem. Recurse through the stack trace using this technique until you find the specific form which is the problem.

Just added a "reading stacktraces" idea to the book: https://github.com/clojure-cookbook/clojure-cookbook/issues/...
If I built iOS 7, I would have created these settings specifically for the dev beta and instrumented them. Knowing that 58% of dev users turn on the extra legibility setting is good info for how heavy to make the text in the production release.
It's almost as if every politician does precisely that.
Also, worthwhile to note that this guy is an SDET and not an SDE at Microsoft.

VAST difference in quality between the two disciplines.
Obviously this is a strawman. Even North Korea does not have 100% compliance.
Jeremy Scahill: Where are the Dems on Civil Liberties? "They're Nowhere"
The redesign is broken, but part of the motivation was cleaning up after the felt, wood, and leather fetisch, even though Forstall somehow managed to get all the blame for that.

Steve Jobs was probably great on a more holistic design level, and that's the sense of design awareness we tend to give him credit for. It still allowed weird and outright design trends every now and then, though, but not in a way that tainted the entirety of the design.
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Rate and review music.

Find band members.

Get feedback.
Not underlining links is a web anti-pattern, a concession made in the name of looking nice while at the same time being more confusing. Looking nice is very important for web designers at this time, so usability is neglected...
Your original argument, as I understand it, was that since Snowden made a claim in an interview that was not backed by evidence, and that claim was reported as news by others, current and future accusations against his personal credibility are not propaganda but legitimate rebuttals to those unsourced claims.

What I'm saying is I'm willing to grant that these offhand, unsourced statements, made in context of the man explaining his own motivations, should not be treated as anything more. Further, I'll grant that regardless of Snowden's personal credibility or lack thereof-- his credibility is unimportant. Further, I expect Snowden would agree with me, since he's said that he came forward so that this would not be about him, but about the questions we should be demanding answers to from our government. Questions to which Snowden himself is completely irrelevant.

It's because of that irrelevance that accusations leveled at his personal credibility, and thus at his personal statements, absolutely are propagandistic poisoning of the well aimed at discrediting his very real evidence.

Although in fairness, many of them may be mere journalistic incompetence.
Just opened it, could use some support! :-)
off-topic: how does he/she get those vertical tabs in Firefox in that screenshot?

https://raw.github.com/oyiptong/retinadisplayproblem/master/...

(warning: that is the picture that apparently breaks certain displays)
They don't have to ask. I'm sure the sewers are brimming with genetically engineered cybernetic cockroaches constantly scanning our feces for genetic identifiers and trace electromagnetic signals, beause the NSA has slowly been slipping silicon and rare earth magnets into our food in order to allow them to van-eck phreak us through our orifices. The entire American military-pharmacological complex is a part of it, as is Dole, and Mrs. Bairds, and American Standard, because who really names a toilet company that anyway?

The terrifying thing about what i just wrote is if it's not actually true, it probably will be soon.
This is still early in the story, but you don't see how Snowden stands to gain by holding inside information about America's Chinese hacking whilst in a territory controlled by China?
I should point out that if you do send anonymous samples of your feces, they will look into their DNA database to send it back to you with a lab fee. Possibly presenting the bill on your taxes.
In this hearing there has been so much smearing in reguards to Snowden's educational background. There are plenty of smart people who didn't graduate from high school.
I thought about commenting on that, but I knew what he meant.
Ask HN: Any services that send daily job emails?
Looking for a service that lets you pick certain sites and receive one big job list email based on your keyword(s) each day.

Anything like this out there?
I also love debugging the code I wrote yesterday (or last month) without wondering what could possibly have made me do something so damn stupid.
I should put a nuance on my remark that police can ask for ID without cause; after looking a bit deeper into it, this is not entirely true. There has to be cause but that is defined very broadly. Examples mentioned on the government website on when police can ask for ID, and when they can take you into custody when you can't, include 'a car driving around at night in an industrial area', 'there is a shooting in a pub and for the inquiry it is necessary to establish who are the witnesses', 'youth are being a nuisance in the neighbourhood', 'there is a fire and the arsonist might be amongst the spectators' (!).

Not quite 'papieren, bitte' yet, and not as dramatic as I made it sound, but still not what one would expect in a land claiming to value freedom. (my other points still stand though, including those about the 'no cause search' zones)
Sorry everything swamped me, give me two mins.
"I imagine the perpetrators of extremist based terrorism see this erosion of civil liberties as an enormous win."

You are almost certainly wrong. Most terrorists have political goals that have nothing to do with US civil liberties and more to do with foreign policy.
Ouch!

When someone first described the idea of theming, as in something like CSS and HTML, I totally got it. Can't apps use a descriptive semantic language underneath and just have the OS skin most of it for you?

Swapping themes and making applications and the OS more accessible thereafter would surely be much easier. I know I'm simplifying things somewhat, but isn't this the next evolution in responsive design?

I'd find it someone hard to think that apple would eschew accessibility Perhaps high contrast mode will exist at the very least! Even Windows 8 has made a few inroads.
I'm doing the same movie frame-by-frame:

http://jacksongariety.com/journals/the-big-lebowski-project

:)
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