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iOS 7 is requiring lots of work from app developers, to both fix what ios 7 broke in their app and to make their UIs fit in with the new design language apple is pushing. (To be fair, there are new APIs some apps are benefiting from).

Developers response to the need to do a lot of work for no gain? "This is a great opportunity!"

Anyway, it comes down to who has the power in the relationship. Though both parties are obviously necessary, the devs need Apple more than Apple needs the devs. Add to that the fact that the biggest devs are making tons of money, what's the point in rocking the boat?
China has 28 new reactors in the pipeline for a reason. Solar is nowhere near ready.
http://imgur.com/daKuGOr,0nad8mb

Images of the original thread.
I wonder if it is used as a pressure release valve for anonymity software developers. That way they focus their efforts on tor, which might be more amenable to USG exploits, than other anonymity networks.

One relevant data point:the author of mixminion remailer is working for the tor project,probably killing mixminion(a far more secure anonymizer).

Another relevant data point(for a similar strategy): Most of the research on JPEG steganography is done on grayscale images, which is mostly useless since mostly nobody sends grayscale images. Alot of What's done on color images is being done in places like iran, china and india(?).
Update for however is still reading: today I got the first two paying users :D Thanks a lot for your support! (PRs, suggestions and comments).
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Conceptual mock/redesign of Twitter by Fred Nerby
Ask a cop: Do you support NSA surveillance?
I'm not seeing the same behavior. Just whipped up a test project and I'm able to define an enum with the macro and import it into a view controller which declares a property of that type.

What your describing would suggest that perhaps you left out the 'typedef' before calling the macro.
As someone occasionally involved in hiring, the important question isn't whether we have "enough" software engineers.

It's easy to fill seats.

The question is whether we have "good enough" software engineers. And, as long as we're trying to improve as a company, we'll always want better engineers.
Can't generate certs/profiles, no forums.

Cert generations and forums are both working for me here in the UK, and are up according to their status page. Perhaps worth contacting their support to ask about your access? Have you tried curl or similar just to check?

Re the forums, I do find SO far better than the apple dev forums in terms of quality of answers, at least for released SDK questions.

I too am curious as to what exactly has gone wrong, but there are a few possibilities which could explain the delays. I doubt Apple will ever come clean. They shouldn't be rewriting code save essential security patches, but then perhaps they've had to upgrade some frameworks or libraries to get security patches and were so far behind that this required extensive rewrites of their code-base?

I did notice that they lost some certs generated near the interruption as well, so perhaps their backups situation is a mess (really they should have had nightlies leading to no data loss), and perhaps they had an accretion of ad-hoc services running on servers that were never restarted or rebuilt, leading to chaos when they had to rebuild them all at once and try to restore from clean backups. That could take quite a while to sort out.

Given the number of developers using these services daily, I'm really surprised as well at how long Apple took to handle this.
This is a very clever idea. But how do you plan to promote/scale the business?
Hahaha. Best. Comment. Ever. :-)
One thought: the use of a browser exploit to target Tor is perhaps an admission that onion routing itself is not easily cracked.
Some people actually prefer not having 100,000 built-ins

Have you actually ever looked at Python? The core language is pretty small; much smaller than perl certainly. My point is that if you design the core well enough with orthogonal components and capabilities, you can give people the equivalent of many thousands of purpose-built modules.

I have no idea what you're trying to say with your fruit analogy.

Perl does have a small core that everyone can learn and use.

That hasn't been my experience; the core language seems to have a staggering number of rarely used quite odd features that accumulated early on. It seems extremely hard to write a new implementation of perl that supports all that cruft; one can't even parse perl correctly except by using the existing implementation.
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Totally agree with ebahnx. I've got rudimentary HTML/CSS knowledge that I picked up in high school, but it was enough to know my way around Webflow. Built a responsive site (which I don't have anywhere close to the skills to do myself) in about 4 hours.
C#: Enumerable.Range(1, 1000000000).Select(Convert.ToInt64).Sum()
"Bright.com, a California-based company that uses big data analysis to pair jobseekers with employers, released a report last month that showed that the supposed dearth of high-skilled engineers in the United States may be fiction after all."

Which would presumably be a useful result for Bright's business, if it is true, as it would mean that companies simply are not looking hard enough, which is Bright's business.

"In fact, Bright's analysis reveals that for the top 10 jobs where H-1B visas are requested, only three do not currently have enough qualified American jobseekers to satisfy demand."

Ahh, so it isn't a fiction then. Hang on, just a minute ago they said it may be a fiction according to a report and now they say that nearly a third of those roles do not have enough people in the USA to fill them, according to the same report.

Hmmm. Could this possibly be an advert posing as an article? Is water wet? These and other exciting questions will be answered in a forthcoming study; "Look here's some numbers so give me all your money, you pitiful fools." Available soon for only $666.66. Reserve your copy now while stocks last.
> So if they say there are no qualified engineers then that's the end of discussion.

Actually my company (which hires tons of foreign developers) does have applicants rejected. They then hire some lawyers to help reword the application. I'm not sure these are all H1-B, there are other hiring visa designations, but it definitely is the case that the government can reject applications. Frankly the government should reject even more of them, and then also reject some of the resubmitted ones, however the government is easily fooled by clever wording.
There's no stack overflow or even numeric overflow here. This is a floating point precision problem.
I don't see the actions of a huge, lumbering bureaucracy as a good predictor of the future.
Google cooperating with the USG is a much larger risk factor for being surveilled. Currently, the USG does not need to exploit server vulnerability to access Google messages, but for a foreign-owned ISP, they don't have this back door, at least not as readily. That means a targeted attack, which is inherently more expensive.
Hmm we'll lets run this thru the engineering filter and see how much is reasonable.

Well, something that can't run forever, stops, and its been close enough to forever that you can assume we're evaporating away 50 tons/day. Where else could it be going? But is that a reasonable evap rate from an engineering perspective?

50 tons is about 50K kilograms. Takes about a KWH to boil away a kilo of water so we're looking at about 50K KWH or 50 MWH per day. Now there's about 25 hours in a day so thats about 2 MW continuous boiling away water, or at least on long term average.

A big reactor runs in the GW range but decay heat starts around 10% and slowly drops over time. Actually a couple years in, most should be gone although the long tail is pretty long. So it was dumping out tens of MW continuously and now maybe much less. So we're looking at a couple MW generated, vs a couple MW to make that much water vapor. Seems reasonable. So I'm willing to believe from an engineering estimate, aside from solar heating and whatever, that 50 tons of water simply evaporates away.

We can argue volumetric, if a ton is about 1K kilos and 1 L water is about 1 Kg, that would strongly imply a ton of water is about a 1K liters or about one cubic meter. I suppose we could have gotten to this same point by talking about mL vs cubic centimeters vs grams. Anyway you're claiming a cube of water a meter on a side, stacked 50 tall each day, for a couple years. I say that most of that has to have evaporated away otherwise you'd have 50 meters deep of water covering the entire site after a thousand or so days.
It's not clear how a willingness for the end-users to pay $3-5 monthly would help the situation given that he can't use $$ to increase his quota-controlled access to the api.
I know you're speaking in broad generalizations, but you should read some of Rand's stuff before passing judgment on him. He's written some amazing stuff on Moz - http://moz.com/community/users/63#posts

Full disclosure: I'm a Moz associate and a personal friend of Rand's.
Important factor is how many of the "qualified" candidates clear the interviews?
The problem is not the lack of people to interview, it's the lack of people who clear interviews.
Whiddershins' comment has nothing to do with political correctness, but rather with actual historical correctness. The comment is polite, sincere, and provides a further source of information for those who seek it.
Explosive- and drug-sniffing dogs' performance is affected by their handlers' beliefs

UC Davis study finds detection dogs may exhibit the "Clever Hans" effect

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/2010-2011/02/2...
How does merging work? It didn't cover that in the video.
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Upload image of your poo, computer program will tell you if you have any health problems or you should change your diet.
Throwing more resources at a late project makes it later.

Nine women can't make a baby in a month.

And just because you're Apple doesn't mean throwing a billion dollars at a major security breach will fix it completely and correctly in less than a week.
Well, the question is where is the tritium. If it comes in the form of heavy water, then the biological half life is indeed short. But tritium can substitute essentially any hydrogen, and so it can also come in the form of amino acids, which have a good chance to end up in the nucleus of a cell. So especially for tritium, it can essentially end up in anything where organic chemistry is involved, which is to say everywhere.

However, the general problem I have with articles about the dangers of radioactivity is, that they almost never contain enough information to actually judge how dangerous it is. It is usually easy to get a factor of 100 or more variation in the dangers of radioactivity, based on the exact contamination scenario, the precise isotope abundances etc. So even Pu is not always very bad, since PuO is almost insoluble in water, which can be used for nice party tricks [1]:

[...] to eat as much plutonium as any prominent
nuclear critic will eat or drink caffeine. My offers
were such as to give me a risk equivalent to that faced
by an American soldier in World War II, according to my
calculations of plutonium toxicity which followed all
generally accepted procedures.

[1] http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html
Why don't you just become a Java Enterprise Developer? That is essentially the new Cobol.

Note that if you look who created what language and framework, you can see exactly what you describe: technologies like J2EE were created by companies who want to make money by selling the time of consultants. Therefore they have to be so complex that you can not handle them without consultants. Once you are entangled in a Weblogic+J2EE+Oracle system, there is no way out and you need scores of consultants.

In contrast frameworks like Rails were created to make the lives of their creators easier. It shows.
Vulnerabilities in your mail provider present a superset of the problems of Google Mail.
US is about 20% of global GDP (wiki). Let's ballpark US market share at $6.4b.

Is this less impressive of a number?
Interesting. We applied with a very similar concept (except starting with Word instead of PowerPoint and with more focus on email and tasks doable on mobile devices) in winter 2012 and got immediately rejected. Our pitch was probably not good enough...

We're working without YC's help anyway and hoping to launch soon :)
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Ask HN: Any companies become successful simply by copying?
Very curious because the more I think about one of my own projects, the more it seems I want to make what this other company is making. Without disclosing any details, I briefly worked with said company, figured I could recreate most of what they had myself, and then actually own something of my own.

For reasons I'm having trouble articulating, it does feel wrong, though it's not like I have any trade secrets going on - one could look at the product and figure out how to build it themselves if one were so inclined. Don't startups have to be original ideas???
Because high level languages provide me a significant freedom from concerns about implmentation, freeing up my mental cycles for the business problem at hand.

The height of the level of js and cs don't seem significantly different.
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Your product is really awesome, but it sounds like you are going down a bad path. Playing around with it, I love how it is a good replacement for photoshop, built with the web in mind (classes are crucial so that I don't have to go and change every element every time I make a small change). Haven't used it on a real project yet, but I am planning to. At that point I will probably export out the design and then finish it in code.

Your plans to compete with every CMS out there, plus Shopify sound like a world of pain. I would love to see you guys stick to your core product and make it awesome without taking on that gargantuan task.

Luckily for me, there is a bunch of competition in the space if you guys slip up.
when you think; for $199 you can buy a HTC one and flash an AOSP ROM vs pay the same for MotoX.
I would go with HTC One every time.
My company (which, according to Glassdoor, is paying above-average tech salaries) recently started offering ~$100 per lead for software engineering referrals. If the person ends up being hired, their referrer also gets a ~$2000 bonus. A recruiting firm that can truly locate these missing engineers would be making a killing in the marketplace right now.
I'm a designer and developer - love the idea of both WebFlow and Macaw are up to.

I can see how this can be a huge time saver for me on the front-end - even if just another level of high-fidelity mockups (vs. production).

I find it really hard to justify dropping the money and then my time if I'm working through a web-based cloud service though (vs. a desktop app - even like the ones that call home like Creative Cloud).

We've seen a lot of web-based essential services go out of business. If I've mocked up 100 sites in WebFlow, the company goes out of business, and suddenly I don't have those resource files - it would be an even larger loss to me than any amount of money I had paid to purchase the software.
How about paying a market wage, instead of offering a "free lunch" to people that cannot negotiate.

Who can't negotiate? It's your fault if you can't/won't negotiate.

I'd posit that the reason finance pays more for engineers than STEM is because most of us think that the atmosphere at a finance company will suck and as a result they have a smaller labor pool (I've literally never responded to a single financial recruiting email).
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sum(range(1, 100000001)) took ~3.25 seconds on my air under python3.
"Qualified applicants" takes on a different meaning if you're looking for someone to crank out a CRUD app or write operating system kernels.

For example, we've been looking for an entry-level web developer for almost a year. They actually put "computer science degree" and "2 years experience" on the job ad. We found a pretty smart kid with an associates that blew the interview by mentioning he kept up with industry trends on Reddit - so our boss is afraid he's going to screw around online all day.

The sad part is, 3 of the other 4 developers in the department came from other areas in the same company, one in shipping and one in billing, and have almost no formal computer training and don't even know how to upgrade Firefox.
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So if they say there are no qualified engineers then that's the end of discussion.

You really believe that? You can't imagine that, hey maybe these companies gasp lie so they won't have to pay market wages? That some C?O somewhere cares more about the bottom line than hiring qualified local engineers that they can't threaten with deportation?
Such explanations make people feel better - but don't actually solve the problem. Apple's focus is do it, do it right, and don't involve anyone who doesn't facilitate getting it done.
Possible alternative is that a third party wrote the malware and decided to put an NSA/SAIC IP address in the code to scare people
tell the creator: https://twitter.com/ajimix
On this note, you should also add an option for "Any" for at least the brand and type you are looking for sections. Since you don't have a ton of inventory at this point, it's likely that whatever search I do outside of San Fran is going to fail (and even some there.) Every search I've done failed so far... Let me pick Paris or Cleveland or whatever and show me anything and everything available there.

I think you have 2 markets here:

1. People who are interested in getting a nice camera and want to test out a specific camera or 2 to decide which to get. "Any" doesn't help much here, but if they have a handful they'd be interested in it might be somewhat useful in the early stages where you don't have much inventory.

2. People who aren't interested in buying a nice camera, but would like to use one for a day. These people specifically, likely don't know which one to search for, and they don't care which one they get. All of them are better than their point-and-shoot or phone. Adding an "Any" really helps these people. Click my city and show me what is available.
Interesting article. Here's the conclusion, from Wikipedia:

"In late 2012, the ACLU announced a settlement in the case, under which police must now observe rigorous rules during traffic stops in Tenaha and Shelby County: traffic stops will be videotaped, and the officer must give reason for the stop and for suspicion of criminal activity. Drivers are to be advised that they can refuse a search, and dogs will no longer be used in conducting traffic stops. Property determined to have been taken improperly must be returned within 30 business days. Also, asset forfeiture revenue from traffic stops must be donated to non-profit organizations, or used to pay for the officer training required by the settlement."

For once, the good guys won, although (like usual) no one was charged criminally in connection with it.
You're 100% right. Why make it difficult for really smart people to immigrate to the US? Better engineers are always welcome at any company.

In any case, there's reason to believe many of educated immigrants will become entrepreneurs and create jobs themselves.
Kinda funny. When someone comes on here and writes about how great some Google service is, it's an interesting post. Now someone writes about good experiences with a Microsoft service, and that's shilling.
What does "1v1 chat" mean in the readme, characterizing services like hangouts?
I'm not saying they taste like meat. Be nice. There are plenty of delicious alternatives but unfortunately they're not at the grocery store, they're usually made by you in your kitchen. That's worth addressing.. but fake meat? no.
I'm trying very hard to think of a language that won't, by default, allow you to throw user-generated HTML onto an HTML page if it allows you to create an HTML page at all that incorporated user-generated (or, in fact, program- or programmer-generated) strings. Angle brackets, etc., are only situationally bad. (And let us separate language from framework here; the languages used in templating frameworks will almost always allow you to emit HTML should you choose to do so.)
Hah, yes. Thanks.
Since it's too easy to mess up, and all, the obvious solution is just not to use data.

It does literally say that using data "should always prompt skepticism" - not conditionally on whether it was done right or not.
I know that the kind of non-informative comment I'm about to make is rightly discouraged, but I really can't resist. This was a supremely insightful and well-written note, and I feel I understand some things better after reading it.
Very often your current users get used to your design and hate it when you change something. Is there a way to do A/B testing on your current users, or should you try it only on new ones?
A modern, open, polyglot lint would be of great benefit to the world. Unfortunately, it's something that gets way too little attention. Open-source static analysis projects always seem to flounder.
I cannot comprehend why they did not put this through the Nexus branding (of course with slightly adjusted specs and price). Instead of having one true Google line-up they segment even further away with this purified Google-ish Motorola phone, the Nexus line-up and already existing phones of other brands with stock Android (Google Play editions?).

Where is this heading?
Running Specs From Vim
"The benchmarks are impressive considering its older architecture."

Blame Qualcomm's idiotic naming scheme. They are calling this a Snapdragon S4Pro, same as what's in the year old Nexus4.

In reality, it has the same Adreno 320 GPU as of the Galaxy S4 and the HTC one. Also the same Krait 300 CPUs of the S4 and HTC One, just 2 of them instead of the 4.

www.anandtech.com/show/7197/a-quick-look-at-the-moto-x-motorolas-new-flagship
That is an excellent question, and I wish I knew the answer. I have tried finding data on that before, but was unable to. My inclination is that GS has a much higher standard deviation than Google, with the data skewed right.
How will you verify that the water tight camera case remains water tight after repeated use?
Are you selling an Apple?
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"It would make sense that an employer would try to offer a lower salary to an employee it helped move to the United States since that employee also gains the benefit of getting sponsored, but the analysis found the opposite."

This makes me want to punch the screen. It is ILLEGAL to pay an engineer on an H-1B less than the median salary for that position, precisely because people were worried that foreign labour would be used to undercut wages.
It isn't necessary to credibly fake PC, though it is easy (see link above). An officer could believe they were correct in their suspicion and their actions would have that bias. Combine that with a mindset of "the ends justify the means" and there is little that would stop many officers from an outright lie in order to achieve their goal.
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And is GS average pay skewed by a 1% of employees who make globs of money into the 10s of millions in total comp? Do the majority of staffers make normalish wages? Admin assistants, IT, operations, etc?