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> Despite knowing going in that this wasn’t likely going to lead to anything, I’m still glad I took the time – you learn a lot by observing how companies hire. Driving away from their HQ I left thinking how difficult consumer services were going to continue to be for them if they insisted on perfection before release. I still think of this every time I use Dropbox instead of iCloud, Sunrise instead of Calendar, Mailbox instead of Mail and so on. Even when I look at iMessage and wonder why the fastest growing apps are chat-related (don’t tell me it’s just cross platform, I think Apple could have been way more aggressive with evolving and opening iMessage up).

Hmmm...when I use the aforementioned services, I have the opposite assumption...that Apple is not at all insisting on perfection before release...and is sometimes OK with substandard releases. It's the promotion of these services as being perfect that Apple seems to be better at...or at least readying these services so that in many/most use cases, they seem perfect to the casual end user.

But I think developers who have worked with iCloud, for instance, would argue strenuously that iCloud was not released in a robust state.

As another anecdotal point...buying an iPod 5 made me realize how perfection is not necessarily Apple's goal, even in hardware. The previous iPod touch, and the iPhones, all had ambient light sensors...this was dropped in iPod 5...this seems like a minor feature but only if you don't go in and out of buildings during the day. Unless I remember to jack up the brightness on my iPod before going out during the day, I literally will not be able to see anything on the iPod screen, unless I go back inside or the day gets darker. Moreover, switching the brightness has been moved out of the quick-nav and buried in Settings.

This is such a massive inconvenience that I can't help but think that Apple was on deadline and for some reason, couldn't fit in the ambient light sensor, and then said, "fuck it, just ship it"
> why did humanity create governments?

The same reason "humanity" created mafias and gangs -- which is to use violence as a means of economic control.
The site recommended buyers use PGP to encrypt their on-site messages to sellers (including their mailing addresses), so that even SR admins wouldn't have access to them. It's slightly cumbersome but really the only way to do secure messaging on the web, as the lavabit story shows.
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Act as if you only have to do what is legally required. Bonus points if you use this as an excuse to play hardball and avoid keeping promises.

I've had two employers change their employee benefits packages/bonus structures sharply negatively within <1 year of being hired. In both cases I went up the chain and asked what other compensation I could expect. I was very reasonable and offered them several alternatives. I'm empathetic to a tough situation, and am willing to be flexible.

In both cases it was like talking to a tape recording. 'benefits are not guaranteed, and legally we are within our rights to change at any time' and 'sorry it's policy hands are tied'. Yes I understand that you can do that, but you've effectively rescinded what we negotiated when I recently agreed to work here.

The most frustrating part of the whole thing is how quickly things change once a two week notice is given. As if the retention offer does anything but underscore their dishonesty.
Apple is in the position Sun Microsystems was 20 years ago. They supplied finished, working solutions, which were really "just" high-quality versions of what the other guys did. Eventually, services got so widespread (Lintel) that customers got less picky and Sun's peculiar quality didn't matter anymore.

However, that won't be how Apple will die out (if they do...), because there is already a huge market of people with lesser quality standards than Apple (Android). Instead, Apple's threat is another company who takes the time to give extraordinary quality for novice users. This isn't happening right now, b/c everyone is fighting for the disruptive (low) end of the market.

So, Sun could have extended their business by diversifying to serve specific high-volume customer markets. Java was an epic half-step. They gave away their ability to add value to customers for nearly free, while focusing ever harder on custom unix hardware and software (UltraSPARC!).

If Apple wants to avoid a Sun-like fate, they'll need to properly diversify beyond custom hw and sw and extend into the spaces of large customers where they can add value. You see _some_ of this in their supporting multimedia Bitflingers, but they'll need to incur much deeper and much more specifically into the multimedia and small office spaces.

Perhaps the Cyanogen corporation could morph into a "luxury" distro?
I am loving every minute of this NSA-Gate or Snow-Gate. Nothing like holding GOVT accountable for decisions they make behind closed doors, decisions that had an impact on the whole world not just US citizens.

Its also great all the technical details that are being released about how they Intel Agencies collect data. Its all fascinating.
Almost as tedious as reading complaints about complaining about voting :)
What? I mean, full marks for hyperbole, but even DIVX never tried to claim the buyer didn't own the physical medium. It's the ownership of the bits stored thereon that's under discussion.
Sounds like, if you're going to do something very sensitive on tor, you need to:

- always have an update to date version of tor bundle!

- compile the bundle yourself from source

- run it virtually, and always roll back to a clean snapshot (before installing it tor) when done

- if possible use from a network that is not your own (open wifi, public wifi, etc.)

- spoof your mac address

- do not run JS, Java applets, etc.!

I know this seems extreme, but from what I read, it's the best you can do to protect yourself.
I'm looking at the Dock at the bottom of my MacBook Pro and I can't help but think that most of the apps are half baked and most of them I don't even use.

I've replaced Safari with Firefox. I haven't fired up iChat in a while because I just use GMail chat instead. iTunes is really wonky when you want to play music off of an NFS server. I've never fired up FaceTime or PhotoBooth. The X11 app is so buggy it's ridiculous. I use Terminal all the time, but it's got some serious memory leaks. Time Machine breaks half the time in unexpected ways. Calculator works pretty well, although I find myself using the R console more and more instead.

I feel like the Mac software side of things just doesn't get any love anymore. Apple is so focused on iPhone/iPad that the OSX applications are stretched completely thin and rarely get any love and attention. The machine has really just turned into a glorified terminal and browser where I run the occasional Linux virtual machine or the odd game in Steam. Any serious heavy lifting is left for Linux, and most applications have migrated to the web.
A couple years back I was taking 3mg of melatonin nightly. It worked brilliantly for about 3 months. After that, while I'd feel sleepy and fall asleep as expected, I'd be wide awake 1 sleep cycle later (~90min).

I'd still recommend melatonin as a short term way to re-establish a regular bedtime/routine. Long term usage - less so.
It is generally not recommended to sleep in earplugs, as you're risking inducing a tinnitus. Basically everyone has some background noise in his ears/head, but it is ordinarily discarded (not brought to consciousness) by central nerve system as it's much quieter than external sounds - but if you cut them out, you're risking that your brain becomes aware of that sound and bam - suddenly you have tinnitus. And it may very well stay with you for the rest of your life.
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Where I work(ed) at the USGS most of us doing the tech work are actually contractors who are now basically on unpaid leave. Is this site yet another thing us contractors are excluded from?

Also I can't confirm if this is true or not but more senior federal employees have told me that in the past they have received back pay but us contractors are at a loss.
That is good and bad, it definitely skews toward safe non controversial papers.
"This Planet Is Doomed"

-- Sun Ra
I drew the graphics for the splash screen and donated my iPhone to the cause. My two friends did the coding.
Tell me how people in Montana feel about the three justices born in New York City: Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsburg? Tell me how much people in Montana like edicts coming down from Washington, D.C.?

We have a Supreme Court, and we need one because we're one country under one Constitution and one Federal Government, but it's been bitterly divisive and I don't know why any country would want to subject themselves to that without those constraints.
> That is what laws inherently are, rules that limit an individuals ability for the greater good of society.

Not to be unkind, but this is a simplistic view of law and realpolitiks. As an example, can you honestly say that arresting hundreds of thousands of peaceful weed smokers annually is a "greater good"?
I don't think letting node.js handling static files is the very best idea.
Sucks you are being downvoted for not agreeing with the hyperbole, but I think you are correct.

The NSA's job is to spy on things. TOR represents a place where illegal things occur, so it is a perfectly reasonable thing that they would be tasked with trying to stop such illegal things there.
What's the best way of communicating climate change uncertainties?
I certainly don't think something that changes once a year is 'iterative' in the way he was referring to.
git / RCS serve very different purposes.

RCS is a pretty excellent tool when you have a single file (like httpd.conf, hosts, a zone file) that you want to manage on a server. 80%+ sysadmins know how to ci/co and use rcs in that context. Likely less than 10% of sysadmins would grok the use of git in that context.

Also - does git even have the concept of "check out with lock, check in free lock, etc?"
Oh hell, is it? Quite often I'm short on cash and just tip with the change I have - not tiny-denomination coins, I hasten to add, but 50ps/£1s. Bugger.
Appreciate the feedback, I agree that statement could use some tweaking. We also realize we're not the first site to do voting on songs, but we feel that we've created a simple/fast/effective way to build charts via Soundcloud (eventually other sources) which we haven't seen done. Let us know if you have any feedback if you sign up, would love your input.
>Here's a question for the techno-libertarians stepping up to say the government has no right to shut down sites like Silk Road...Where do you derive this supposed natural right for anonymity on the internet

Techno-libertarians would care more about the right of individuals to freely trade with each other. Anonymity is merely a necessary component of trading controlled substances under an oppressive regime.

I think most libertarians would agree there is no intrinsic right to anonymity.
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Actually, it's a really poor in-memory cache, since it pages back and forth to disk constantly.
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Communist would have been a better word to use than Soviet. Soviet was relatively specific, but broad swaths of the world got labelled communist. While it's true that the Soviets were more than boogeymen, I think that the broader point stands that Americans (and everyone else really) tend to have some convenient, reductionist label to apply to "others" that is broadly taken as a synonym for "evildoer". "Terrorist" is the fashionable label today.
Gwern comes close to suggesting filtering blue light, but I will repeat a previous post. I've tried melatonin, but it is no substitute for for filtering blue light in my experience, and it tends to induce horrific, apocalyptic nightmares (granted, a night dreaming of EAS Emergency Action Notifications is better than no sleep at all).

I used to be an owl for years--decades. A regular 9-5 schedule seemed out of reach. All previous attempts quickly led to backsliding and accusations of moral failure. However, I found that an involuntary physiological response to artificial light in the range 460-484nm was involved.

This May I changed my environment by filtering out blue light after 8PM, turning off white lamps and turing on amber compact fluorescents. I'm asleep ~ 10PM and up usually ~ 5AM. This is now my regular schedule. It would have been inconceivable for me six months ago.

I use the following:

1. Inexpensive Uvex amber goggles from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S0360X-Ultra-spec-SCT-Orange-Anti... Wear them at least an hour or two before bedtime. I also have the considerably more expensive glasses from lowbluelights.com. In my experience, the inexpensive goggles work just as well, although the more expensive glasses filter more blue light.

2. I replaced most of the white compact fluorescent lights in my apartment with amber compact fluorescent lights https://www.lowbluelights.com/index.asp

3. And I use a sunrise simulator alarm clock. http://www.amazon.com/Philips-HF3520-Wake-Up-Colored-Simulat...
Sometimes I forget to set the clock--now I don't seem to need it.

Not to mention f.lux (pardon the paralipsis), though again, in my experience, filtering is necessary.

Concerning the scientific basis for the claim that blue light in the range 460-484nm suppresses melatonin production, here is one reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_ganglion_cell

Moral: Nagging and moralizing was both uninformative and ineffective. Science and engineering was both informative and effective.
And, analogously, for interviewing / recruitment.
In 2013 as well.
> ...how difficult consumer services were going to continue to be for them if they insisted on perfection before release. I still think of this every time I use Dropbox instead of iCloud...

There's a big difference between startups iterating, and giants like Apple. I think we all remember how they were excoriated on the Maps release, which certainly wasn't perfect. Because of their scale, Apple doesn't have the kind of flexibility that unknown startups do -- not just because of their scale, but also because most of their software isn't solely web-based, but is tied into software that is sold with hardware which is released yearly.

I agree that they have a difficult time with a lot of consumer services. But I don't think it's nearly as simple as the author suggests.
I believe Perforce still uses RCS under the covers.
Hi,

Evidently you don't feel the need for Docker and don't believe it's useful of needed, which is of course totally fine. I won't try to convince you since I've tried before and failed :) (if other are interested I cover some of the differences between docker and lxc here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker...)

However there are obviously people who disagree with you and find that Docker solves a real problem beyond what lxc can do. This seems to irritate you, to the point of "bullying" every thread about docker on hacker news. Why? Is it not a good thing that we toolmakers try new ways to solve a problem? If docker doesn't do a good job, people will stop using it, and the project will fail. It's really that simple. Why not let people make up their own minds instead of going on a crusade against a project?
Karthik: Thanks, buddy. We are still validating our idea, collecting feedback from beta users and trying to prove to ourselves that this things has legs. Soon though we'll release a native version of FeatureKicker. Something which tags elements and gestures. Imagine shaking the phone, and our overlay coming in to ask, "We think shaking should do X. Is that what you expected?"

What do you mean by "Backend-as-a-service"? Tell me more.
Many stories are submitted, but the ones in that form seem to get upvoted more, I suspect because fans of that particular language upvote them (certainly the go ones seem to get a disproportionate boost).
Hi, co-founder of Loom here. Thanks for the feedback.

The reason Loom saves space compared with iCloud is that Loom stores your original photos entirely in the cloud, and not on your device. Loom caches smaller versions of these originals on your phone for fast browsing, organizing, and sharing, and then you can quickly access the originals if you choose.

Everpix is a great service and more affordable than Loom, but the main difference between Loom and Everpix is that we store your files in their original size and resolution, untouched, so if you ever need them, you can get them. Additionally, Loom supports RAW and video uploads.
Yes that's the part that just kills me. It was a system-wide lock, and now it's just per-DB. I just don't see how anyone can take that seriously.

Also, why bother with a buffer pool manager when you've got mmap, right?
Thanks. I use f.lux already and it's great (it makes my eyes feel a lot better) but hasn't really helped me fall asleep. I think I am going to try a no back-lit screens after 23:00 rule.
Unit tests are a means to an end, and scala makes that end easier to achieve with fewer of them.
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I'm pretty sure Tor profiles against this as well. There's a presentation somewhere on YouTube addressing just this problem.
I have a fair bit of insight into this world as I work in it and this quote seems abit off.

> Now, 5% of asset managers are algorithmic traders. In a decade, 50% to 70% of asset managers will use trading algorithms.”

It may be true that if you include all mutual and pension funds that only 5% have their own algos, and even that seems very low, its important to note that these funds trade through other brokers like Goldman and Knight capital.

I'd guess that vast majority( > 90%) of trade that they do are done algorithmically whether on a simple VWAP or a more complex "work it" style algos.

Maybe the author meant alpha seeking algos rather than basic order allocation algos?
At the same time, if this is a genuinely useful tool for its intended purpose, there are lots of exit strategy possibilities. It might be worth billions to a single hedge fund.
This needs to be higher. I think this was the best scenario anyone who knows Tor could hope for. The attacks against Tor, when used correctly, are well understood. And, assuming this presentation is accurate,the capabilities of adverserial semi-global attackers aren't much different from what we were expecting.

I would love to see if they have similar slide-decks for I2P, which is often compared with Tor for Hidden Service/eepsite usage.
"It starts up, it has a BIOS environment to do its diagnostics and testing, and then it will look for an executable and go find an operating system."

All switches on the internet booting from the network? That's the wet dream of every hacker, including the NSA and their colleagues in other countries. The cherry on the cake would be if these things could get a BIOS update without human intervention. I hope they get the security right.
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Attacking Tor by passive analysis is one thing. Installing spyware, creating a botnet, and making the infection process quick and easy is another. There might be some justification for the former. The latter is too risky.
>80%+ sysadmins know how to ci/co and use rcs in that context. Likely less than 10% of sysadmins would grok the use of git in that context.

Citation needed, because my experience is the exact opposite.
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... And then Monty and his team all quit, so what Sun actually got for a billion of their shareholder's dollars was the domain name mysql.com. One of the stupidest business decisions of all time.
This was a popular attitudes in the 80s, and 90s, until Google, Intel and others did some research and discovered that Cold data centers aren't the be-all/end-all.

After reading the research I kept on the order of 100 servers in a server room at approx. 80 degrees for a couple years, and didn't see any devices fail.

I don't think anyone in the last 10+ years has believe that "servers are expected to keel over at 75F"
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Thanks, austenallred. I'm not sure what you mean by "people will go out of their way to get it". Can you tell us more? I'd love to address that in our application.
I think this is one of the best ways to avoid getting taxed heavily. Employees won't have to pay rent(which is after tax) and the employer(facebook) can show them as expenses (which will again be tax free). If we take facebook and it's employees as an entity, they had saved a lot fo dough in taxes. I wish more companies would follow suit.
As I understand it, which admittedly isn't well, it made surveillance jobs easier when its users mistook anonymity and privacy. That is, sending something through the tor network means that it's more likely that your traffic is going through a node belonging to a group that records everything than if your traffic randomly found a point to point route across the internet.

I don't see how using the Tor network could make you less anonymous, unless as you point out, it's use suggests a user's greater likelihood of sending and receiving interesting information.

It hurts the system that exit nodes have been targeted for content that other users were responsible, but from how I have read, Tor can provide people meaningful anonymity that is difficult breach.

As an aside: What is the effect of such parenthetical statements? I think they just create a vague idea of uncertainty and fear. If there is a vulnerability, there has to be a mechanism, not just a sense of omnipotent government surveillance.

Maybe that mechanism is the probabilistic likelihood of an organization controlling a large portion of the Tor nodes' ability to identify users. Maybe it's a flaw that has been surreptitiously put into the source code. I'm pretty sure more people who know would suspect the former as far more likely than the latter. It's easier to address the questions when you know what the parenthetical utterance was even referring to in the first place.
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Improved arithmetic is a side effect. I doubt there is any way to meaningfully quantify the beneficial effects of mindfulness meditation. Any long-term practitioner would be able to tell you that.
Actually the slidedeck states that Tor Browser Bundle defeats some of the attacks they use that plain Tor+Vidalia is vulnerable to.

And if you're referring to the previous Freedom Hosting attack, that only affected users of TBB on Windows who had ignored "Security Update Available" messages for over a month.
One doesn't need to assert any natural rights. Once can make a completely utilitarian case for the decriminalization of controlled substances. In fact, nearly all available evidence points in that direction -- it is increasingly hard in w a world full of data to make the case that criminalizing substance use offers any utilitarian benefits at all. It makes the drug market a more dangerous place, controlled by violence. It destroys the lives and the communities of substance users by incarcerating them for long lengths of time. Etc etc etc. I don't need to lay out all the facts here, they are plain to see for anyone who looks into them.
Yes, you are perfectly correct. But a lot of people are paid a lot of money for reinventing the wheel every few years, so expect your words to fall on deaf ears.