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I think you should also make it clear in the readme that just hosting data in a better jurisdiction doesn't help in a lot of cases, since if the data owner or host lives in a different less friendly jurisdiction the law becomes almost impossibly complex.
Just like they'd never illegally hand over political asylum seekers to the CIA, knowing they'd get shipped off to their home country for torture, right?

Except that happened not that many years ago.

Then they promised an end to all rendition flights via Sweden. Yet a few years later, Swedish military intelligence caught the CIA red-handed doing further rendition flights with complicity of Swedish airport staff.
I agree, I don't care about config files, just want to see them write a simple test and see it run.
Because it's now the same size as e.g. a receiver or other audio/video equipment.
Is there any reason as to why you didn't share the company name?
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> either NSA is grossly, unbelievably overstaffed

Can you tell me the last time a President said the military had gotten bloated, and needed to go on a diet? Not counting screwing over veterans, of course.
The article is a bit demagogic, because saying "we open your letters" is not the same thing as "Google algorithm reads your email."

I don't defend Google here, and I also stopped using Gmail, but not for the reasons mentioned in the article. Storing the emails and mechanically parsing them wouldn't be a problem for me, if they could ensure that those emails will not leak out of Google - but that is not technically nor legally possible (at least nowadays).
A single anecdote is perfectly sufficient to disqualify the claim.

Whether or not dropping out is a good idea is the real tired argument here, and does not even relate to the parent's comment. Google has studied this and released a recent report about the matter (I do not have the link handy anymore, but it was posted to HN at the time). They found that there is no relationship between educational attainment and ability/performance. The case is closed, at least until someone invalidates their study.

Given that, whether dropping out of/not attending a post-secondary institution is a good or bad idea is really a personal matter, and is highly dependant on the individual and that individual's particular situation. It might be important for you, personally, to get a degree, but projecting that onto anyone else is pointless as nobody else is in the same situation as you.
Just looked at bittorrent sync and all they offer is a binary download for Linux. Thanks, but I'd rather use open source tools to handle my secure data.
Please share your scheduling tips! How do you fit all of that in?
fwiw I immediately understood what I was looking at and proceeded to get hooked on that game :)

a popover or floating arrow or something might be a decent way to solve some people not getting it.
Firstly, thanks for reading ;)

Secondly, I'm making a subtle point - when I started with the company he lied about his name and called himself "John Snow". I only found out it was a lie months later.

I also want to protect the anonymity of my friend Ian.

I also want to protect myself (legally) if he ever read it
"Decentralized", so it centralizes the functionality of many services. Okay then.

You've bitten off more than you can chew by going against Flickr/Youtube/Soundcloud. You don't really offer anything they don't, just a promise of ethics like "it's free".
I thought it best I chime in on this, as I wrote it.

This was not intended to be shared on a site like this, it was written with those around me in mind. It just so happens I like Medium.

If you think that I wasn't here very long, that's fine. If you don't like the content, that's fine. You weren't the target audience. I just posted something to explain to those around me why I was making what a lot of them thought was a bad choice.
low turnover = higher profit

longer term employees = more knowledgeable = better customer service

some decade walmart and target might get a clue about this
Seems like a great time for cperciva to remain in Canada.
Here in Sweden the standard line is 'FooDegree or equivalent' and that always mean that competent people are free to apply regardless of if they have a degree or not.
Compensating for the movement in the way you mention it shouldn't be too hard I guess.

I'm curious if they will need to compensate for the speed differential between the source and the target. Can anyone explain if the following will cause any problems for this technology? If the source and target move away from eachother quickly, the target will observe an increased wavelength, and vice versa. Apparently this is called Redshift [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift] and technically there is some similarity to the Doppler effect.
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Then I owe the NSA gratitude because I've been long wishing that there was more focus in the hacker community on building distributed systems as alternatives to data silos like Facebook and Google.
I think that designing, soldering and programming simple PCB with a PIC on it that can echo stuff received over RS232 should be obligatory right of passage project for programmers.
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If you read the comment by @grabeh you'll see that it's probably quite easy to research. In my reply to @grabeh are the reasons why I didn't give more details (such as the founders name).

I would have no problems if anyone else posted the real details here, but I wouldn't comfirm or deny it - unless there's a legal expert on here who could reassure me it's OK to post those details.
I wouldn't put it past the DOJ to conjure up claims that there are always investigations into every company at all times, so any destruction of property at any time could be construed as destruction of evidence.

Then again I'm a bit more paranoid than most.
Macy's has a bigger problem with Kohls and Target than Amazon, IMO.
> I always feel like "just another dev", bored and ultimately like my potential is being cut short.

I always had that too. Especially about the potential; I knew I could do so much more than I was showing at all the companies I worked for, but I had no idea how to show it.

I quit and became a freelancer. Messed about with my own projects for a bit, did some small freelance work, and now I'm at a big freelance job at a company that's larger than any I'd worked for before. And from day one, I'm contributing beyond what I normally contribute. I'm taking on leadership roles that I normally wouldn't. I make more strategic decisions than every before.

I don't know if it's that this company has just the right culture for me, or maybe it's that ultimately I'm a freelancer and my own boss, and therefore I feel far more responsible for my work. I want to sell myself and keep selling myself through my work. Or maybe it's because starting my own company forced me to step way outside my own comfort zone; I have to negotiate contracts, hire an accountant, decide how to invest in myself; I need to think business, and that doesn't come naturally to me, but I do it. And maybe that's what gives me the confidence to take more charge, take more initiative, and keep moving forward in my every day work.

And I've got plans inside this large company (my client) beyond my current project. I see ways in which I can mean more to them, help them with more fundamental organizational problems; I see ways in which I can make myself more valuable (and thus more expensive) to them.

Whatever it is, I love it so far. And when I stop loving it, I'm free to do something entirely different. I'm my own boss.
On the depression front: I know a lot of people use it as an explanation for having a down day. But believe me, I wish that were the case. The last 7 years have been an emotional roller coaster, and not one I would wish on anyone.

Honestly, I wasn't going to put Apple in the title to being with. But someone convinced me I should. Kinda wish I didn't now.
The same exact thing happened to me a couple of years ago - except that I wasn't working at a startup, but at an established company. I even proposed to have a results-based salary (I was doing a lot of sales engineering, so that would have been fairly simple) but was refused.

So I started working just my contract hours, and building hashtagify.me on the side. In the end I gave my resignation notice, they went into a panic and offered me 5 months of half-time work - but with 85% pay; this cost them much more than what I would have expected as a bonus at the time, not to count the almost two years of not-really-enthusiastic work.

I really can't understand how managers/business people can be so stupid sometimes.
I agree with you, actually, but I fear that the current commercial situation in many a programmer shop or IT department does not allow for well-educated and well-experienced programmers for they are too expensive and difficult to find. In this situation I'd settle for experienced "SO programmers" with a good operational understanding of what they're doing, even though I'd prefer experienced academic trained programmers with a strong mathematical background.
I'm in the 'something similar' camp. This is functional testing. I use Selenium, an open source library for automating browsers via plugins.

Personally I find it much more useful than unit/integration tests because while those test the programmer's understanding of his own code, functional tests actually drive the app, perform normal user actions by driving the GUI. For example, you could have all of your unit tests passing but without functional tests, your OK button may appear off-screen and you wouldn't know.

It is annoying when you make changes to your app because test runs take much longer than unit tests, so I have one general test that I run after a refactor, and then a full suite that runs after commit.
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Mapnik describes itself as a mapping application toolkit:

http://mapnik.org

Tiling might not convey that.
Just avoid producing too much garbage then?
Can someone explain what this does, in technical terms? The site doesn't.
And the obligatory t-shirt to express my feelings about this http://www.cafepress.com/hackernewsswag/10307694
I assume they would be under some sort of NDA.
Believe me, I know that it's not gonna be a magic button I can just press. I have planned out my next steps.

Before starting this role, I was working towards losing weight and had lost about 14lbs. I have a plan, and the job doesn't fit it at the moment.
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If there is one thing I have learned is to 1)Be careful with non engineers are involved as management 2) Never ever ever go with anyone who is in a rush.

They always seem to be in a fucking rush, do this, do that, fly here, fly there, contract later, sign off later and etc.

Fuck them.
Thanks for the comment. This was supposed to be nothing more than an explanation to my friends, and perhaps someone else would think "I've been wanting to quit my job, why don't I just do it already?".

If I can inspire one person to do something they love rather than do something they think they're expected to do, even better.
I'm employed as a software engineer, but I have a mechanical engineering degree.. What should I call myself?
That's funny because I sort of forgot Amazon started selling books. I don't think of them as a bookstore anymore at all. Maybe that says something.
I like the way this has been presented, but have to admit that I disagree with the point - if someone's willing to give me something for free (monetary) in exchange for reading info I pass through their services I'm fine with that - I just won't use their service to send anything I don't want them to read.
There are good arguments for privacy, and for people/organisations being open about how they use any personal data they collect, but in this scenario you've willingly and knowingly signed up to a contract; and in doing so invalidated your right to be upset by the required "payment method" of information.
Very nice!Thanks.
Would be great to have an index so that 1) I can get an overview of what is available and 2) I can view what interests me instead of going through all the content.
Face recognition for authentication is a huge fail. Google already tried that with Android and it was a big failure. Most of the time a person having your photo and showing it to the camera is enough. In other cases a short video can be used as well.
Also I think during the boom time they simply built too many malls. Don't know about the US, but even in Germany they build more and more malls while the malls next door are going bust (still building more as we speak). It's crazy.
I can. When you're not doing an actual work that contributes directly to a product you sell, it's easy to be dumb. Because you are allowed to.
It doesn't matter whether it's static or automatic storage duration.
I absolutely understand anonymising however my point was that providing links in your profile risks undermining the purpose behind this anonymisation.

Further from a legal perspective using a pseudonym to refer to a person doesn't necessarily protect you if it would be clear to some readers who the person is that you're referring to. Having links in the profile would increase this risk.
> Government snooping is a separate issue, but as far as I know there are no major email providers that a non-technical person can use that aren't vulnerable.

But at least, those other email providers are different that your web search provider - while if you use Gmail, your profile will also contain your searches (if you use Google for search), visits from those searches, and then also data from other Google services you choose to use.
The ponzi scheme theory: since apparently Amazon is making a profit it reinvests, it seems to me it could make a "real" profit any day simply by not reinvesting any longer.
As I understand it, this is about "secure" communications and not some magical new way of information transmission. These "quantum communications" would still require a standard channel to communicate over.... which would likely be laser/radio as per normal.
That's harsh, but I'm glad to (finally) see an appropriate companies reaction to all this mess. Sadly, most non-technical people will not understand what such companies do and these stories unlikely hit headlines or have bigger impact on public opinion.
Most managers think of themselves as being the biggest and most important cog in the machine. However I've seen Directors and CEO's sat there playing solitaire not really knowing how they got to that position in life or what role some people have in their company.

If you're an introverted programmer growth-hacking for the company, try telling the CEO about the value you're adding to the company... typically (in my experience) this news is usually met with disbeleif, furrowed brows and denial.

You were right to do what you did, hopefully you both learned from the experience ;)
Would that matter if the information weren't encoded using the wavelength? Eg, imagine that they toggle the light very quickly, Morse-code style, to encode messages. If the frequency changes slightly, no big deal.

EDIT: I suppose this effect could make the speed of the toggling appear faster or slower, but that could be adjusted for.
The USGov just shot Paul Revere's horse.
$30-$50? Huh, how about $1 per usage?
Hmm, OK I'll remove them. But, I am still proud of the work I did during my time there.
The Doppler effect will be present, but will not cause any problems that aren't already present. It exists in current radio communications - light is no different in that regard as it's all just electromagnetic waves.
where's the js script to scan all 4 digit numbers triggered eggs ?
If Apple could have developed their own proprietary rendering engine they would have. Jumping on KHTML meant they could get a working, OS X UI compliant browser when IE for OS X was no longer being maintained, even if the guts of that app had to be shared with others.
Jayzus. That would be as close as possible to actual implementation of the concept of 'thoughtcrime'. Thanks for the shiver.
I've never had a return challenged or refused, and I can immediately print out a shipping label. It's not entirely "no hassle", but it's the least I've ever had, and the only reason I've ever purchased "risky" merchandise (e.g., clothing) online to begin with.
Given that visible light and radio waves are the same thing except that visible frequency, my first thought was "why don't they focus the radio waves rather than switching to visible light?"

I suppose that higher frequency waves can encode more information, but I'd guess they also have a harder time penetrating the atmosphere. Maybe we don't have a mechanism for producing "radio laser?"

Can anybody clarify for me?
Eventually something will indeed replace C++ for gaming. You can look at the emergence of all the new server side languages in two ways: either one will "come out on top" as something akin to what C/C++ is now or there will be much more specialization in what we now call "systems programming". If the future is the latter, engines might always be done in C/C++ simply because it gives them the ability to easily make bindings to the majority of languages (ie Rust). I believe this will be the middle ground of which you speak. It really would've been cooler if there was more incentive to build languages specially for games, especially since the domain has some interesting demands such as the close coordination with GPUs and memory allocation in general.
After reading it again, it suggests he stole data to start a company:

The founder (let's call him John) had already worked in the
translation industry, he'd stolen a few clients, some data,
rented an office and hadn't really thought about the rest.

I personally couldn't find the company, but if @grabeh could then maybe you should protect yourself from one of those nasty UK libel cases:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/no...

The story was great by the way. Well written. Nice to see another .NET dev on HN btw.

Also, beware that Google cache has a previous prevsion of this article stored: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RMaGY0-...
The Doppler effect (of which redshift is a special case) already has to be taken into account with radio communications (which is EM radiation just like light). In fact, all data from the Huygens Titan lander was almost lost because the software onboard the Cassini probe, on which Huygens piggybacked, couldn't have locked onto the lander's carrier wave due to too steep a Doppler shift. This was fixed by altering the Titan approach trajectory so that the Huygens' relative velocity didn't grow too high.
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definitly, if you want to push the product with a video, it should not be longer than 2, max. 3 minutes and you should only show the key aspects.

additionally, you could have a look at some conversion rate bascis (I cannot find a call to action button above the fold,...) or SaaS marketing tips on how to push your product out.
This is fantastic! I have been looking for something like this to develop tutorials for my site http://RubyRails.com

I see a big problem - how do I save a template of a VM? It would be a pain to install Ruby on Rails each time per student.
In my experience, Mailinator addresses have only been used as a way to abuse our service or try to keep getting new trial accounts. Of course we have mechanisms to protect against that, but it's still a large amount of cruft we have to deal with and clean up after. The number of paying customers that use Mailinator or started with Mailinator and changed their address afterwards is zero.
It's been over 13 years since I graduated and I still remember his varied and wonderful choice of trousers ;).
No they didn't. Stop with the conspiracy theories.
I like the visual method of writing scripts, but having used Selenium + SauceLabs.com on a real app and dealing with functional browser tests every day, I'm concerned about:

* Timing issues; most of the time spent writing functional tests is knowing when to wait for the next click (e.g. waiting for AJAX response and change in a certain DOM element)... and doing this in a clean way (e.g. WebDriverWait conditions instead of putting Sleep(1000) everywhere).

* Ability to expand the tests to do other things; for example, Selenium can take screenshots of the browser window because it works at a lower level. We use this for regression testing our web pages.
I watched the video and am none the wiser. What is the problem that koding solves? It seems like some sort of groupware social network thing for dev teams with a vm hosting thing bolted on.
something the Swedish government refuses to do.

Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but that isn't really true. The case isn't that they refuse to give such a promise, it's that they are legally prohibited from make such a promise due to the laws regarding ministerstyre.
Sweden never "wanted to extradite him" what they couldn't do was guarantee they wouldn't extradite him (because laws.)
My interpretation is that it hosts VMs of your development environment (only Ubuntu though), and provides you access via VNC or similar tech. I'd say it frees you from the burden of having to manage your own remote VM instances if you are e.g. coding on an iPad.
I cant see it.
I would be impressed by that!
Yep, you're right. I wasn't thinking about their specific business model and customer set. Thanks for setting me straight.

I wonder what the Lavabit TOS and privacy terms actually said? Usually they say something like "we will not disclose ... Except to comply with legally served requests..." I'm curious whether Lavabit had something different here.

Perhaps this suggests a new business model, a sort of turbo canary, where the service explicitly commits to shut down rather than comply with a secret order which it would otherwise be compelled to obey.
This depends a great deal on jurisdiction, in the UK there are many jobs with titles of "X engineer" which would more accurately be described as "X technician" or "X operator".

In places which more rigorously enforce titles it is usually down to a professional body to set requirements, though even then these tend to not mandate a degree (though that makes the path smoother). For example the IEEE requires either an IEEE accredited degree or 6 years of proven work experience in a relevant field to achieve member status.

In the UK we have a institution for IT professionals (The British Computer Society) though as far as I can tell nobody really cares much about it.
1. Some users may provide a real email address instead of a throwaway Mailinator one. The owner of the site can then send email to that address (which might get read and result in money being spent) or sell the email address to some third party.

Now, someone who would prefer to give you a Mailinator email address probably isn't likely to buy whatever you're spamming them with, so the benefit is probably pretty small. But it might be nonzero. (And if you're selling your mailing list to advertisers, of course they won't know how many of the addresses are for people who will ignore their spam.)

2. Requiring a real email address (that takes some effort to acquire) makes the cost of abuse slightly higher. So if you're offering a service people might want to abuse, you may reduce the frequency of abuse a bit by forbidding throwaway email addresses.
The USGOV just shot Paul Revere's horse. No big deal - the majority of the US electorate are so disengaged they'll never know/care.
since "the killjoys" (actually quite accurate in this case) AT WIKIPEDIA won't let me put the words 'LUDICROUS SPEED' in blink tags or capitals on the Spaceballs article, what's the point in having it anyway?
I already felt in love with Koding, but I had some connection issues while using it, kinda bothering.

But the service still lovely, looking forward to see it get more stable through the years.
Great. Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.