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"""Imagine if there were an alternate dystopian reality where law enforcement was 100% effective, such that any potential law offenders knew they would be immediately identified, apprehended, and jailed. If perfect law enforcement had been a reality in MN, CO, and WA since their founding in the 1850s, it seems quite unlikely that these recent changes would have ever come to pass. How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could states decide that same sex marriage should be permitted, if nobody had ever seen or participated in a same sex relationship?"""

This, a thousand times this.

I was struck with the same idea in the past. Law should not be 100% enforced, or it will be a dystopia. I wouldn't want to live in a world were the Grateful Dead couldn't do any drugs, teenagers could never drink a beer, nobody could express himself with a graffiti in a drab wall, no child that wants to be a graphic designer could ever pirate Photoshop, being a few months less or more than the legal age to date sends you off as a molester, playing a different region DVD lands you to jail, and a million other things...
> Expect no documentation in corporations.

I've worked with enough small to large companies, to feel confident saying that if the culture does not value and encourage documentation, then you shouldn't plan on staying. Back in the day we made do with SMB/NFS shares, but with todays wikis, SharePoint, and google docs, there is no excuse.

From internal APIs docs, VPN setups, build env. setup, POs, to expense reports, you shouldn't have to find the right person. Any company < 2 years should be in the process of developing this stuff, and any company older should either have it or you should be looking for a new job.
Apple will take a note from Xbox at E3 and tell its customers with impairments to "Stay with iOS 6".
>> "(People arguing 'its just a beta, it'll obviously change over time': what happened to Apple's relentless pursuit of quality before introducing something to the public? What's the point of secrecy if you're showing off v0.8 and not v1.0?)
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They haven't really introduced it to the public. They introduced it to developers at a developer conference so they can prepare their software for it. Every single iOS release has been like this. Buggy as hell for the first few betas with several feature changes along the way. When it's released 4 months down the line it's usually solid (excluding Maps).
"Ages" must mean more than half an hour inside a car, then. If I don't have the MyGlass app running on my phone, the location accuracy is so limited that I can only assume it's based on WiFi.

But what do you mean "without aid"? Even without MyGlass running, Glass still has WiFi-based location and an Internet connection (tethering is separate from MyGlass) -- isn't that sufficient for AGPS?
I love this article so much. It explains something that can be hard to grasp. It isn't immediately intuitive, but it's certainly so: without these nuances and flexibility, no progress can exist.

Or we could just do away with any felony that doesn't involve physically harming a person.
To me it looks like they match
That's a shameful way to have an argument.

Boo-fuckin-hoo. Get a grip, Nancy.
What's actually new:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/whats-new/
You have always been able to deny calls using the power button on top. Presumably that method is now compulsory.
I agree if you're working in some drone farm. Without a personal stake, why do people feel enthusiastic about following orders that keep them locked up at work all day? I understand that there may be coercion, like the threat of being fired, but if you're just writing software for your company, where does the enthusiasm for long hours come in? I'm freelance, and I love working on my projects. I often work long hours. I hardly stop. But I have a 100% stake in what I do and generally choose projects I believe in, like endangered language preservation or stuff that I find intellectually stimulating. Why would someone want to work at Microsoft or Google past 6pm? Why do people give their souls to hives?
I don't see the trick. I see a list of things someone wrote so that they can write a follow up post saying essentially, "I called it!"

All those things you want him to write about are for another article. The author isn't under any obligation to provide a complete analysis of this topic. And, it's pretty clear he agrees with Snowden so why not just leave it at that? It's just a blog with an opinion, not a scientific paper.
So we educate them at large expense and then end up living in tents when we're unemployable? Sub-optimal I say.

I'm fine with (b) as long as US taxpayers aren't footing the students' bills. Otherwise I see money wasted. If they are so worthy we'll pay their bills then we should want them to stay. The ones that leave regardless of our welcome mat can provide us with "soft power" back in their home countries.
Thanks for your answer and the project itself! I also know http://fontello.com/
however it seems like these projects are all lagging by a few versions back.
i used to use cloud app and slingshot, but since going retina on my mbp i use Droplr. And sometimes Dropbox's new auto screenshot to clipboard link is great.
>> "I encourage you to download iOS 7's beta and try it out if you can"

I wouldn't be encouraging anyone to do that unless they are a developer, need to do it, and have a spare, non production device to do it on.
In my opinion introverts don't really seek jobs like "Resident Director" ("that perpetually cheerful person who organized orientation events, knew everyone’s name and hometown, and served as your de facto big sibling.").
A person like that is almost the definition of an extrovert...

At least that's the way I feel and I'm introverted (I think...).

This person in the article really doesn't at all seem like an introvert to me.
While the original poster oversold it, admittedly they are nicer looking icons. The new safari icon apple designed is a crime.
because it's REALLY hard to find people with a top secret or secret clearance because the process is so demanding.
I think the point about color is wrong. I like this article in general, but that section misses the point. Color is used to highlight important information, but it doesn't act as a divider between items in a list. The list is divided according to a perfectly-executed typographic hierarchy that lets the eye group lines together in space. https://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/12... No color needed.
A cynical view would be that a public devotion to Objectivity is the perfect vessel for concealing an ideological agenda. (Look how proudly Fox News wears its "Fair & Balanced" slogan.)

But I think there have always been a select few responsible journalists of conscience, who have had to weather different obstacles in trying to be heard amongst the throng of schills and entertainers. The golden age of journalism from the 40s to 70s is (a) probably not as golden as remembered, and (b) probably the anomaly rather than the norm.

All I can say is, thank the gods for the web. While it can also be used for evil, at least it makes it hard to shut people up.
Like you.
'Inferior' is often a matter of perspective.
No, Toobin says nothing about Snowden's factually accuracy, which is what I'm talking about.

Snowden said "I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President if I had a personal email." The initial articles from the Washington Post and Guardian implied that the NSA can browse, at will, all data about everyone on the servers of those internet companies.

The government says the information requests must be certified to fit the scope of 50 USC Chapter 36[1], then be approved by the FISA courts, then sent to the companies, where their lawyers review the court orders and then specific data is produced in response to the narrow requirements.

There's a huge gap between these two stories.

I'm not 100% sure that Snowden is wrong, but I'm leaning that way based on what I've learned in the past week.

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title50/html/USCODE...

P.S.: I am also not saying that what the government is doing is Constitutional or moral or even, necessarily, legal. I object in particular to the telephone metadata collection, which is separate from the so-called PRISM data collection.
I am happy with Gnome 3. I can't understand the rants. If you don't like it, use something else.
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and it seems like just a few months ago people were quickly rebutting this simple fact.

Of course we went from old and tired, to ugly and nearly unusable so...
I think it's the backgrounds everywhere that make iOS 7 look so busy, especially the home screen. The screens that are simple text-on-background or boxes-on-background look fine, and the chatbox retains a pure simple white background.

In cases where the white background exists, the stylistic similarities to WP7/8 look more obvious. WP7/8 make very limited use of elaborate backgrounds, preferring to go with jet-black. There's an option to invert the WP7 colors and go with black text on white background... it makes iOS7 look like a complete clone there.
For those not familiar with Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA with La Clojure is also an okay choice. I use IDEA for Python, Java and Scala; and still switch to Emacs when I code in Clojure. The reason is that Emacs has really strong toolset for LISP, where many of the features are missing from other environments, or implemented partially.

Slime/swank (nrepl replaces it, but I'm just slowly transitioning to it), provides code completion, documentation lookup, REPL, macro expansion and even live code updates on a running application; which can be a bit of a pain to setup on other editors. And the integration in Emacs is really great, as the repl buffer is really just a text buffer, the same as the one you are coding in.

But the biggest reason for me to code LISP in Emacs is paredit. It really makes all the trouble with balancing parenthesis and moving around the sexps really easy. It might seem counter intuitive and a bit troublesome at first, but I really recommend you to try it. For a short and enthusiastic video on paredit, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0 -- and maybe the other Emacs Rocks! videos to learn more about modern Emacs.
Do you really think that removing the 'rich Corinthian leather' (which Steve Jobs loved) from iCal is a bad thing? If anything, I think the real world textures are more childish.
I work to live. I don't live to work.
There's a ton of wrong with that statements tone, not that I think the author meant it that way, but I'll point it out regardless:

#1 - The majority of HN seems to involve typical latests web crud app fads. It's probably also not that interesting to *nix system developers either, though many might read it for the apps being created as opposed to the how.

#2 - Having MongoDB on your CV generally means you're developing for your CV. Occasionally it means you had a valid usecase, but if you tried to sell me on that for a typical app, I'd never hire you.

#3 - The bleeding edge is called that for a reason. Sometimes you'll bleed and theres very good reasons to stick with tried and tested.

#4 - It's easier to make it simple to get up and running when you have that from the start or early on, and working with techs that make that easy. Not so much when you're inherited a lot of legacy, some of it you don't even understand.

For what it's worth, MS make some decent products, so it's hard to entirely slate them but I imagine the GPs opinion that they could be doing things a lot better is also true, just some of the points were kinda off base imo. If anything.
5 Minute single task test: Can you be distraction free?
Would you mind sharing more details about why you think it's going to be painful for seniors to adjust? The answer might be obvious, but I'd love to hear more about the difficulties that you've faced teaching seniors.
You don't need any laundry service to have deniability.

I can pay you from an account I've never used before to pay anyone else and there is no way for you to find out who I am.

In the general case, even if you do things shoddily, it would still take a massive operation so you can short-list me among the possible sources of the payment.

Lately BTC's pseudonimity is being downplayed for social engineering reasons (some of the visible faces in the BTC community have decided so). Supposedly being very anonymous is very hard work now, something for experts. But in reality it's the other way around, making yourself easy to track requires very specific usage patterns. By default almost nobody gets tracked unless they want to.
Ha! Those exact words are going to bite Apple so hard when iOS 7 is released.

Old people love ornamentation. My 91 year old grandmother can barely distinguish buttons on her iPhone 4, I pity how she'll use iOS 7.
There's actually a whole new build system, where LESS, SCSS, and CSS are completely driven off a single icons.yml file. Hooray for no more copy and paste!
Why Features Can Poison your Software Startup
Yes, as a brave citizen of the Unites States that is what is expected of you. Of course, you are free to sign a digital petition and feel like it changes something because it is on a .gov domain, but other than that, you stay put and enjoy your freedom in one of the most powerful and civilized countries known to planet Earth!

God bless America!
How (smart) employers want you to ask for a raise.
Voice-operated dashboard technology riskier than simply talking on a cellphone
This really resonates with me. I'm having a terrible time getting high quality code from my team. Software is expensive to develop, and as a tech company we always try to solve every problem with code first. I'm going to make more of an effort to think about our problems beyond the lens of code, thanks!
When Bitcoin becomes more stable it will be used on every corner on earth. Right now its too risky, unless you can immediately sell/cash the coins you take on too much risk. You could sell products online in Kenya 24hrs for a set price and find out when you wake up bitcoin plunged and you lost money to the point of giving away your products. So long as there is only 1 major exchange we are at the whims of speculators and bots.
All new features have high hidden costs for a software startup that has not yet found product-market fit. This post explains gives 10 reasons and offers some solutions.
> If the terrorist's find out they got flagged because of X

What terrorists? Good security practice is making a system that is usable, because otherwise the best practice would be to seal the boarder completely.
I think Cincinnati is OH-1/2, Boehner was elected by suburbanites. That aside, they elected him their representative. All of America, through their representatives, elected him Speaker. He's as close to the opposite of a "random" Congressperson as you can get.

Among other things, like the fact that he runs the House, that means that if Snowden were a part of some plot, say, to assassinate the President and VP, he would become President.

To be fair, that would also validate his accusations of treason.
Context based alerts for app promotion
If President Obama doesn't use barack.obama@gmail.com from a known IP address, then his emails are essentially hidden from the NSA.

This example doesn't really work with Obama though. There's no chance that he has any online accounts or connections which aren't thoroughly monitored, I would expect the NSA and CIA to be reading the President's emails, and the emails of congress, senators, generals, and have everyone's social media logins, et cetera.

I don't mean to be a pedant, I just think the analogy breaks down using him as an example. For you or me, maybe.
http://newsroom.fb.com/News/633/Public-Conversations-on-Face...
On Emacs, I've been a long time vimer and one day I decided to try Emacs to see the world from a "higher order".
First thing that I found superior to vim is that the level of extensions are beyond what vim mods could do. Being benefit from elisp, emacs can do pretty much anything your OS(unix) does, with the emacs interface on top of it. That means, you can use emacs stuff all over your "buffers"(working windows). And if you are a coder, you will be amazed by:
1. being able to code, while talk about your code on irc/freenode seamlessly;
2. being able to code, while open a api website, and move code examples between them.
And things do not break easily like vim does, yet everything are an order more finished and intelligent than the vim counter parts.

Saying all these, the reason I am still using vim is that my CTS prevents me from using emacs all the time, and most of the advantage Emacs brings can be achieved by a good tiled windows manager such as xmonad.
There are two problems. The first, most obvious one is that of clutter (not to say spam). The more public updates are in your feed, the less space there is for your personal - and more important - ones. Granted, there are solutions to this problem (groups), but how many people are even able to use them?

The second, more subtle - but more fundamental IMHO - one is that of Facebook's brand. If this succeeds, it will inevitably be diluted. In the long run, this could open the space to some competitor who focuses completely on the private space. This is difficult due to network effects, but not at all impossible.
The ones who leave are a drain compared to students who spend money in the local economy and pay US taxes the rest of their lives. We shouldn't push them away or educate the ones who have no stated intention of staying here. There will still be plenty who leave anyway to propagate propaganda.
That or dies[1] in a plane/car crash (jfk jr, paul wellstone, michael connell, just to name a few)

[1] that the person died and the vehicle crashed are well-reported facts. Most people don't question causality after this - and enough entropy can be introduced to prevent questions also.
"Sometimes"?

I've been using cloudapp for the last year, but I'm curious about the dropbox thing.

There's also Servus (https://servus.io/) which is pretty much like cloudapp/droplr but using your dropbox.
I don't think it's the color, I think it's the backgrounds. With less spacing between elements on the home-screen, putting a background - even a simple gradient - makes it insanely busy. Spots where they show a more elaborate background are cringeworthy. There's a reason WP switched to solid colors.

I think the bright elaborate icons would look fine on a jet-black or solid white background.
An Open Letter to Jeff Raikes (about Office file formats) [2005]
Honestly gnome 3 convinced me to switch from using a few assorted others (xmonad, kde, xfce, etc) and just use gnome 3.

Its the only one that just works 90% of the time with crap that should work. Network, bluetooth, notifications, window management. I like the way all these things work. I have my minor qualms with it (alt+tab, multimonitor support, poor virtual machine performance)

Those few things aren't deal breakers for me though
An 18 year old's very brief thoughts on iOS 7
More #innovator than #earlyadopter

#xingchasmunderrated
I predict that Snowden's case will mirror that of several agents/people during the cold war who defected to or openly supported the Soviet Union. The Soviets initially gave them asylum and a platform. But when they started to criticize the Soviets they were removed from the spotlight.
Also: http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/09/an_open_lette...
You’re Not Wrong, Microsoft, You’re Just An Asshole
I am sorry, but "Coq" is competing right up there with "Megapussi" potato chips and "Wack off" insect repellant for the worst named product.

What on earth were you thinking naming it "Coq"?

http://www.oddee.com/item_96682.aspx
The link says "The US government invested more than $250,000 in Omar's education [at Johns Hopkins] through DARPA grants."
Very cool. Looking forward to hearing about CloudFlare's solution.
The article has been posted: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1259422/edward-sn...
Agreed, folks are far too critical for a beta release that has yet to evolve. Of course, there are still major improvements that need to be addressed, but people need to understand that Apple will not ship anything shitty when it comes time to release it to the general public.
FlatUIKit for IOs
I would prefer articles like this were titled 'How Timid People Can Learn to be Leaders'.

I think the author means well, and perhaps this is valid for a certain type of introvert, but these types of articles bother me. I'm an introvert and I have no problem with public speaking, I run my own company and I've been a manager over various teams and project, both large and small.

There is more than one definition of introvert - for me it's the one "A person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things." If anything, I'm self-centered and self-absorbed, but I am certainly not bashful. I've had it described to me as this: extroverts work out solutions by talking, introverts work out solutions thinking.

Meaning, I think internally, I mull over things in order to get them straight in my head, and I can work for days without speaking to a soul. But I am not shy, bashful or even remotely timid. I think people who use the 'I can't engage because I'm an introvert' would be better served by admitting they are shy and work on that. There is nothing wrong with having an introvert or extrovert mindset, and we need both in the world, but always equating introversion with bashfulness is a mistake in my eyes.
I had the same feeling entering my first job, and I think that its not something about Microsoft it seems to me that its the clash between what we tough that was work, what were taught that was work in college and what it is work in the real world.

Nevertheless these points are valid and we all know the problems of this stuff.
Some people have to take charge because it's too stressful for them if they aren't in control. Others want the power/status of managing people. Maybe you just you value other things like family, alone time or cheesecake.
You are correct. Additionally, you could split large transactions into multiple destination addresses or obfuscate them with intermediary addresses. It takes longer to verify transactions, but it's harder to tie addresses to a single entity (you).

Another problem you hint at is broadcasting a transaction from certain IPs. A common heuristic is to record the IP of the first node to report a transaction as the node that made the transaction. You would have to modify your client so that is not the case, or use some sort of VPN to connect to the network.
I think that with the new version, you may be able to just modify the icons.yaml file, and re-build.

See https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/src/...
Oh, didn't see that. Thanks for clarification!
I absolutely disagree. The whole reason I'm using Apple products is that their software has always been incrementally refined, never "revolutionised", like Windows 8 or Ubuntu's Unity or whatever. OS X 10.0 and OS X 10.9 look almost the same and so do iOS 1 and iOS 6. If the form factor of my Mac changes, it does not make any app on the system look ancient, and it does not negatively affect usability.
Douchebags like you are ruining San Francisco
Gamification Done Right
Among commercial products: Testwell's CTC++ [http://www.testwell.fi/ctcdesc.html]

Among freebie products: ggcov [http://ggcov.sourceforge.net/index.html]
What If It Is Not Just Metadata the NSA is Collecting?
Do you use the PS3 Controllers via Bluetooth? Or does the USB connection work?

Looking into installing RetroPie soon and I have those controllers laying around but I don't have a BlueTooth dongle.