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In the eyes of the law, debugging my source code and tracking every place your car drives on public roads (non intrusively without attaching a GPS device) are exactly the same: legal.
I have a slightly-lower-than-median wage in Aus and only $20k in assets (car, some furniture). This puts me at 0.9% for income, but 27% for wealth, which is quite a strange disparity - evidently there are a lot of people earning much less than me with much more in the way of assets.

While I am not financially astute, I'm also not terribly bad, throwing that money away on lottery tickets and whatnot. Buggered if I know how I manage to drop 26 percentage points - how are all those much poorer people managing to save so much more than me, especially considering that by the time you're out of the top 1%-by-income, you're below $30k.
>If your product isn't open-source, that's a non-starter for me. Because now I'm worried that I could spend a lot of time configuring the product, and not being able to add that one feature that I need. I'm not sure if you can run a business with an open-source deployment product, but I know that I won't ever use a closed-source one.

One can certainly provide an open source software which is not free software and illegal to redistribute. I can't see how that's detrimental to business. E.g. you can download the source code but you can share it to anyone.
Just wrapped up my first project at work with xamarin.ios and also used monomac for some tools. It was awesome. The app used a bunch of opengl-es on ios and everything went very smoothly. I'm always glad to see them pop up on HN.
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Your request that we start with a “quick call” shows a clear disregard for the work style of engineers

The "quick call" line resonates with me. I've had a couple of these interactions lately, and in my minds eye, I just picture someone [me] walking onto a used car lot and a sales person [recruiter] is trying hard to sell me, when I really just want to look around. Leads to an awkward interaction.
The iPad app used to let you watch the movies in both portrait and landscape modes. I found portrait mode worked better for me when watching a movie in bed.

As of a month or two ago, they took away the ability to watch in portrait. Why. It just made the app worse.
You realize that if you do this, you might actually help them be better recruiters.

I just mark them all as spam.
I use Opera Mail for GMail, but I installed Y! Mail for Android after reading this because GMail somehow sucks at sending pictures with my phone. Now that I've tried it, Yahoo is much faster. Thanks.
Having bashed my head against Backbone's router over the past few months, I've come to the conclusion that pattern based routing is just the wrong approach for picking a view to render the page. Instead, choose a view based on some property of the JSON returned by that URL (I'm using '@type' as our API will expose linked data through JSON-LD.) Now route information only needs to be specified once, server side.
Your license plate is a unique identifier for your car, not you. It is not like an online pseudonym in that cars are often shared by others, whereas a pseudonym is a false name, generally (with exceptions) reserved for individuals. To claim they're equivalent is therefore not true. You are not anonymous in a crowd (I can take a picture of you and identify you later, your identity is tied to your face), nor should you be (if people where anonymous all the time, personal responsibility would go out the window - there is a time and a place for anonymity and privacy, driving around on public roads is not one of them).

And why should I stop putting my name on things? I'm the one who did them, after all. Besides, if I were at all concerned that what I was saying would land me in trouble, I'd create a new face. I'm not against privacy, I just don't think you have any when you're in public.
I can't see how Sieve is significantly better than Gmail rules. Reading the examples, I seem to have the ability to do everything listed, with the exception of actually rejecting messages (versus quietly deleting/archiving).
We (Heap) recently launched our iOS library. In addition to retroactive funnels and arbitrary key/value pairs, we let you retroactively define events without having to ship new code to the app store.

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From the recentTranshumanist Reader: "The most frightening apartheid one could imagine is a future world in which extended life is allowed only to a few – the very wealthy, the political elite and their chosen followers, Mafia, military, scientists, sports heroes, movie stars. This is not the transhumanist objective – far from it. It is up to all of us to ensure that this segmented future never happens. We will not best prevent it by denouncing technical advances and trying to blockade them, but in thinking hard, feeling deeply and wisely, debating the issues together, and acting as free men and women".
The link was very helpful. Thank you.
I truly wish that a lyme disease vaccine gets released in the near future. I got it twice (!) within two years when I was younger and boy was I sick. At least the first time. It is not fun at all, though I seem have managed without any permanent problems as far as I know.

I did not get sick until something like 4 months after getting bitten, which lead in turn lead to the diagnosis being delayed a lot. Not fun at all.
This is a good analysis but I think it misses the mark a bit.

The problem is very much one of terrorism. The basic idea of terrorism is to erase the boundaries of the battlefield. The worst possible reaction to that is to do the same, but that's increasingly what we've been doing. In order to be capable of fighting a war effectively (even while acting purely defensively) the rules of the battlefield must necessarily be very much different from the rules of civilized society.

Increasingly the ideas that police should act like soldiers, that soldiers should be used for policing, and that the protections inherent in the criminal justice system are now outmoded and no longer useful in fighting terrorism have taken hold. But this has occurred concomitant with the expansion of the "battlefield" in the "war on terror" to encompass no less than the entirety of human civilization.

The result is that while the terrorists may have knocked a few holes in the walls we have put up between civilized society under the rule of law and the near-anarchy of the battlefield the governments of the world have gleefully participated in shooting vastly more holes in those walls.
I am not confident that I understood you in full, so am rephrasing what I am understanding:

1. Given the experience VCs have, having seen much larger number of startups than a common founder, some validation of the startup's concept and also the founders' rationality quotient already comes from a money raising event.

2. Success statistics are very different if you include vs. not the startups that are unable to raise money. A startup that is unable to raise funding is probably not even getting included in the statistics, even if the founder may loose all his savings into it to consider it a failure.

3. I follow your point about optimization for getting big.

Thanks
You could try pulling up our profiler (Shift+F5).

I didn't experience any jankiness and wasn't able to find anything by profiling either.
That is sort of an interesting issue. "Oh but he is a Citizen!, you see. Constitution something, something...".

If he wasn't a citizen and just a local goat herder. Meh, who cares. Ok, kill him. That is kind of the thought process. Quite perverse. Constitutional or not, it just serves to limit the debate and to constrain opinions. Now even as far as Constitution goes, this is wrong. But what if the piece of paper signed couple of hundred years ago, allowed it. Would that make it ok? What about all the other people in those countries, murdered by US pilots from Langley by a push of the button.

"Oh but we don't deliberate target civilians, we are an exception, not like those other terrorists, these are all accidents" everyone would chime in. But are they? How can we be sure? If the contracts to build drones and the jobs involved in killing terrorists are paid related to how many terrorists are killed. Pretty sure soon enough the'd find way to target as many civilians as necessary in order to keep busy. An added benefit is that each person killed probably spawns a couple dozen future terrorists. Can't imagine a parent, sister, child of a victim not wanting to inflict likewise damage to the country that did this to them.
>> Who Says C is Simple?

> I do.

I disagree. C comes with a lot of edge cases and subtleties that can surprise even people like myself who 'know' C.

Some examples: Exact semantics of restrict, C99 inline semantics (eg I wasn't aware that it's possible to make a non-extern/non-static inline definition into an extern one with a single redeclaration), effective typing rules and whether it's possible to circumvent them, whether or not it's undefined behaviour to cross boundaries of the sub-arrays of a multi-dimensional array if it doesn't happen in a single expression, ...
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Colorado Town Debates Bounty On Drones
That's a lot more encouragement than I hoped for. I was just confused if doing what I want is right or wrong, if not having a greater goal is wrong. I have some clue about it now.
I was only half joking.

I'm not sure if VLC has the same feature, but KMPlayer (freeware but closed-source) has all sorts of options to tweak the way subtitles are displayed, and even allows you to edit the subtitles on the fly. I suppose these features are largely due to the fact that subtitles are absolutely essential in Korea (where KMPlayer come from).
Which guys are getting 5 billion dollar from their apps?!
But, Ymail for the desktop still suffers... The back button is murder! And I might understand tabs for drafts, but why for each mail I read? I am forever trying to close them.
I'm no medical expert (of any sort), but my gut feeling says yes. Why? You are trying to learn your immune system to fight of something. This is usually learned by adding a dead(ish) infection.

Possible problems are: A) Not being tuned to humans. B) The method of immunising doesn't work for humans. C) The lymes aren't dead enough for humans and you get lymes deases.

Ow: and ask a fair, honest, open-minded and well educated doctor who will do the research on it.
Another point further complicating the analysis is that companies which start to do really well simply turn around and reduce the amount of subsequent grants. There is less risk of failure; the expected value of the grant has increased, so the company offers fewer shares to existing employees in the next grant cycle. This effect can be significant as growth companies tend to hire a lot of people (including hot shot VPs with huge price tags) and take more rounds of funding, both of which can dilute initial grants substantially before the liquidity event.

The author assumes no subsequent grants, but realistically everybody factors subsequent grants into their back of the envelope calculations.
Very promising. Be sure to announce here when it is order-able.
Why You Need to Innovate in Tough Times
Go Berkeley, awesome prof.
I think the maddening part is that most of the recruiters really aren't... oh, what's the word? Right "trying" very hard. They're doing the least possible amount of work and thinking we won't notice or care. And that's just insulting.
> Modules are on the way: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html

Yeah, with luck they will be part of C++17, you just need to wait 4 years for them to be defined and then around 5 more for all major compilers, across all OS to support them.

They are not even being discussed for the next C standard, and thus similarly to C blocks, it will remain a clang language extension.
I'd rather wait for the Mega e-mail.
Since this is Hacker News I think you can treat `$` as a placeholder variable for any word you want
A touch screen phone make with Arduino.
(good) Software Engineer demand isn't likely to drop in the future I assume. Except if Skynet takes over and writes code by itself.
1. Undefined behavior is because not all hardware is the same

2. Pedantic but it's nul terminated, null is something either the same or completely different depending on the implementation. Also what would you recommend for non null strings? passing a struct around of *s and size_t len, _that_ is a horrid idea.
Classy. Though considering how it was recently revealed that Nixon intentionally torpedoed the talks with Vietnam before he got elected, that's totally in line with the character.
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Side question, but... why develop for a closed platform like iOS first, and then port to an open(ish) platform like Android? (now, I know some answers, but I really hope people don't start doing this for new projects, even if Apportable is as good as they say...)
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> It is worth reading for some context on the family.

Good idea. Let's take a look:

"Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed at the age of 16 in an American drone strike on October 14, 2011, in Yemen, along with alleged al-Qaeda members two weeks after the death of his father.[250] Nine other people were killed in the same CIA-led attack. Among the dead was a 17-year-old cousin of Abdulrahman.[251] Family members have said that he was on his way to a barbecue.[252] "

Looks to me like people like his father, don't really have to work too hard. We are doing his job for him.
-fstack-protector && -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
Especially confusing is when the article suddenly says "This is not random". But oh what it means is that the upcoming part of the article, on a completely different topic from the Pi, is not random.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "a Pinboard for e-mail"?
Looks great, smooth to use, attractive 3D view.
Can't wait to try it out!
These guys are the reason why I haven't jumped ship from .NET. These days I call myself a Mono developer more often than a .NET developer.
...please don't post poisoning advice on a public forum ever again, you never know what use can these be put to :) ...even more so if your facts are wrong!
I really wonder about google product development sometimes. Its like it really is done by interns with "bright ideas" but not much common sense.
As per today's developments, I think the conspiracy theories related to the government controlling the media and labeling them unhuman terrorists can stop. See: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
There is a human reason for it. People identify with their tribe. Everyone is guilty of it. It is easier to think of foreigners as silhouettes, mere background material for your own play. The Israelis doing it with the Palestinians. The Germans did it with the Jews. In both situations, the citizens of those countries are complicit in whatever happens. Hell, all the rage that I hear on this site right now about civil liberties being violated by TSA is unsurprising to anyone who travels to this country from a third world nation. The funny thing? That has been happening for decades.
So what stops everyone from protesting and using showdead? Doesn't that basically depower mods?
This guy's son was a bad enough dude that he got put on a terrorist kill list. I think we should at least consider that we might have an unreliable narrator.

Edit: what I said was that folks should, like with any article, do some investigating before they jump to conclusions. I merely stated that the close ties to known terrorists provides more motivation for this.

But yall are obviously just looking for any opportunity to get all righteous, so keep down voting and not even reading what I said.
>The "five-figure and higher" line (repeated four times!) is pretty funny. I'm not sure of any other market where price estimates span multiple orders of magnitude. It is just a transparent way to get you to name a figure first.

I presume they are targeting an anchoring effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Isn't this a war crime because they are not at war with ?
Telling you the rest of the world hates America land is the enslaved.

Ps.: I tend to avoid products made in any crappy country, this includes the US.
If you don't like above said prospect, then maybe you should do those things in private instead of in public.
yeap, i read it too fast. Didn't notice the "er" after dst.
thanks for clarifying.
I certainly used to be that way, but in the past year or two I’ve grown. Doing a short one-off project from start to finish is fine, as long as it doesn’t get out of hand. But I’m making a long bet on a programming language project and there’s little time for anything else.

Besides, it seems better to think in terms of tasks, not projects. What is the most concrete thing I can do right now? Even if it’s large and daunting, I think you can always be productive as long as your goals are specific enough to be actionable.
13 years ago the Nasdaq closed above 5000. Two years later it was at 1100. I wasn't working as a software engineer then, but I remember it well enough to know that not only will it not be like this forever, but that it has been "like this" before.

Hell, when I graduated college 5 years ago, we were talking about the precipitous drop in CS enrollments and the outsourcing of the entire software industry. Now, CS is the most popular major at my undergrad.
You are assuming son is innocent.
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Last I checked, we weren't governed by Klingon law, but sadly it seems to be the case that you can be held guilty of the crimes of your father. I don't mean to trivialize this, but my geek brain can't quite find any other imagery surreal enough to explain in another way.
I got interested in building something like this when I saw Docker issue 410[1]. If my understanding is correct Mesos uses Zookeeper to keep a Mesos master available. Zab, Zookeeper's distributed consensus algorithm, is similar to Raft which has a popular Go implementation[2] written by Ben Johnson. Perhaps Flynn agents can use this implementation.

1. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/410

2. https://github.com/benbjohnson/go-raft
What's a joke?

There is nothing ridiculous about using network timing as random, that's how /dev/random already works.

There is nothing ridiculous about using random.org, though that should be https.
The governments of the world aren't the only ones responsible; much of this has been cheered on and done with the gleeful support of their citizenry.
In the first case you will find you are presented with some "new idea" which is so revolutionary it has its own set of buzzwords, its own methodology, and its own unique values. Except that it isn't new, its like those folks who drag up popular HN posts from 2 or 3 or 4 years ago and re-post them for the quick karma hit. There is are people who re-wrap old ideas and pass them off like holiday presents at a white elephant gift exchange. The trick there is to spend enough focus points to validate that the idea isn't really all that new, identify where (and if) it varies from what you've already seen/heard/done and then either discard or integrate it into the same slot.

I'd strongly argue that this is a very bad filter. Almost all good ideas are "not new". The fact that you recognise them as not new just means you've been around the block now. 3-4 years ago they were just as old - you were just younger and more naive.

Discarding an idea just because it's not new seems foolish. If it's good, use it - even if it was first dreamt up by the ancient Sumerians.
playing devil advocate... err.. CIA analyst - the son would probably wanted revenge and would get "radicalized" by the murder of his father. Vendetta for that reason is pretty much killing all (male) members of the family, including children.
That is kind of the thought process. Quite perverse. Constitutional or not, it just serves to limit the debate and to constrain opinions.

It also damages the reputation of the US throughout the world. That has effects on US business, and US citizens when they travel.
My company ( PushSpring ) has a product that lets you track arbitrary data and events about your mobile app users and then segment them. We also offer the ability to send targeted messages to segments you define via Push Notifications, as a way of keeping them engaged (or re-engaging groups who've left). We're working with some of the largest publishers in the app store.

Love to chat about your requirements -- hello@pushspring.com if you'd like to discuss.
India allows telcos to be fully foreign-owned
Serious, no, tapping is serous the drones are HORRIBLE!
The point of 'he is a citizen' here isn't 'who cares about goat herders', I think, but more 'see, this government will kill anyone, not just foreigners or terrorists'. If the government claims some foreigner was a terrorist and trots out some constructed evidence, how can you know any different? But when they murder someone who literally could have lived down the street from you without due process, maybe that brings it a little closer to home, and you start thinking about how questionable the whole process is. It becomes clearer given that context that they could do this to literally anyone, and clearer just how difficult it would be to stop it.

At least, that's what I think is supposed to go on here.
The article is written like they were just some regular americans on vacation in Yemen. If my child was out recruiting for Al Qaeda, and preaching to the 9/11 hijackers, I'd hope that I'd be more self reflective about what I could have done differently. Maybe take some responsibility instead of complaining in the New York Times. The son isn't guilty of the father's crimes, but the father may have some responsibility for the son's crimes. The grandson is an innocent victim, but he wasn't targeted. That's an ugly mistake.
That's not name calling, nor dishonesty, and I think the comparison is fair.
Sorry for the delay. I agree. If a powerful government wants to get something, it generally will get it. However, I think there are a couple of small differences here:

1. This venture is backed by a private fibre network. This means that all (most) of the traffic for these large clients will still be very accessible nationwide, but will not be subject to internet backbone taps (within Canada or otherwise).

2. Canada's legal system is still a ways away from the US, although Harper is trying his damnedest to change that. To my knowledge, it's still significantly harder to obtain legal wiretaps, especially blanket wire taps, than it is in the US. Naturally, legals systems can change, but for now people are trying to work within the system and stay ahead of the curve.

3. Again, a private network. This means that even in the eventuality that intelligence services were doing illegal surveillance, it's a bit harder for them to access the network without the companies and their clients knowing.

That said, if Canada keeps going in the direction it is going, it probably won't matter. I'm just mentioning that people are indeed trying something in this space. Like all ventures, they are by no means guaranteed success.
So, with the kill lists, it's 'one hop' that's 'allowed'...
PayPal 'credits' US man $92 quadrillion in error
I'm sorry but that's just wrong. Nothing fucking justifies killing a 16-year-old American citizen, accused of no crime, without due process. NOTHING.
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