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I think it goes one step beyond that: you're asked to accept an EULA for a software that you don't know what it does or why it needs to be installed and run... because the vendor refuses to tell you! Amazing.
Both you and the article miss a basic point, which is that the preservation of government, for its own sake, is in the interest of both the people who compose the government, and also of the people. This is particularly true in democratic countries, where the government is the vehicle for the popular will. The fall of a democratic government almost always leads to tyranny, because very few revolutionaries go to the trouble of overthrowing a government to not take advantage of the opportunity to impose their own point of view. In authoritarian regimes like China, there is less of an overlap between the interests of the people and the interests of the government. Though, there is still a tremendous overlap. The only thing worse than a bad government is no government.
Actually the review seemed kind of negative on balance. Indeed, the PS4 review they did was also kind of hot and cold.
Shameless plug, but we've been working on a very mobile focused framework and UI library called Ionic which some people might find interesting (also uses AngularJS): http://ionicframework.com/new/
Hardly. It was literally the only place without an extradition treaty where he could flee to.
I don't think anyone has tried to just clone Dropbox. Everyone thinks they need to differentiate to compete.
For those who needs TL;DR - the The Intel(R) Content Protection HECI Service is getting disabled :D
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At least on my machine
Sometimes the actual deletion must occur before a mistake is realized. I have often seen undo implemented as a 'soft' delete which means the read-side needs to be 'undo aware'. Sometimes undo is implemented by backing up all related data to a separate location which is also non-trivial. Managing the 'restore' half needs logic to account for conflicts and changed state.

It doesn't change the fact that Undo is an amazingly useful feature but its not always as simple as 'delay the action'.
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Are the 'intel employees' the ones with _intel in their usernames on this forum? These users aren't even marked as admins, just normal members... This doesn't inspire confidence in these answers.
I don't think it's reasonable at all to reduce the entire function of modern government to a platitude written 200 years ago.
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True, but I think this is one of those instances where you kind of have to take what you can get in terms of negative PR for Cupid Media and other companies that store passwords stupidly.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for my 42 1/2 p
Very nice! I have a "scratchpad" project for fiddling around with things, but this might wind up a permanent tab on my browser. Less overhead than a VS project, for sure.
What kind of hardware are you using? Are the jobs parallel? I do not know about .NET very much, but it seems very slow. Would that be feasbile for you to maintain this?
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Their certificate is messed up, it doesn't seem to have an issuer.
There is a big difference between one particular policy or program not being useful to fight terrorism, and the whole intelligence apparatus not being useful. To analogize to a different domain: lots of people would say programs like No Child Left Behind are not useful, or even harmful. That doesn't mean that they also think that the only purpose of the Department of Education is to miseducate people.

Even people who disagree with particular intelligence programs are likely to support the intelligence apparatus as a whole.
No it's because the industry and schools do a bad job of training novice programmers.
But Zhang was teaching as a adjunct (or at least, a non-tenure-track instructor) before he made this breakthrough and skyrocketed (apparently) to full professor. Adjuncts generally have enormously less time for research than full time professors do (at least if they want to make a borderline living wage).
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I think there is a lot of sensationalization, because teens aren't really expected to do much while they are teens and you do something like this - then catch words like wizkid and wonder boy or whatever get thrown around - "he certainly has shown the stupid scientists spending billions of dollars building a fusion reactor!"

fact of the matter is - today there is just so much information available on the net that you can pretty much build a 3d-printer or a cat scanner or whatever else you fancy at your home.

the bar for being a genius has significantly lowered since the 90s.
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I'm a little confused by how this actually integrates with email. What will I see in my email when I use flowcontrol.io? What isn't in my email that requires going to the website to use? If I sign up, do my collaborators need to sign up as well?

The more new technologies I'm exposed to, the more reluctantly I approach them. I think the idea can work - do more with email. But I want to know a little more before I sign up.

That being said, I'm in the middle of a bylaws review with an organization I'm a part of. This may be a helpful tool, and I'll try it out.
Coming? It's already here. And your iPads are part of the problem.
Nice. It's a shame http://fiddle.net wasn't available.
I have a pair of these also. I wear them most of the day in the office. The noise canceling feature is great, but I also can't emphasize the importance of the "over-the-ear" ear cups vs. "on-the-ear" enough. Over-the-ear makes a huge difference if you are looking for isolation.

EDIT: forgot to mention one minor annoyance I have with over-the-ear headphones is how some ear cups fit over my glasses. With these Bose it's not much of an issue since the ear cups are soft enough, but has been much more annoying with other headphones. Something to be aware of, at least.
This is truly awesome.

I was looking at how the ideas behind Kandan (A Hipchat clone) and appear.in can be combined for remote work, and I came up with what Sqwiggle already does for $9/head :|

Too late to the game, I guess.
Another podcast in a similar vein is Our Own Little Accelerator http://www.ourownlittleaccelerator.com/
I think Go is still missing its killer-web-app-framework. But maybe it's better that way. Keeps out the people who don't like think before they code.
This is a good argument for unique passwords, not for weak passwords. Weak passwords only "make sense" if you really don't care whether your account is compromised due to a very weak password.
I'm not a fan of over the ear cans, so I've gone with in ear monitors (IEMs). Specifically, Westone 4Rs which are spendy. I've used Westone UM2s as well as assorted Shure models. In all cases, the tips matter for proper fit and noise isolation - almost all will ship with different types and sizes. That said, not everyone likes having something in their ear canal.

A discussion on tips -- http://www.avforums.com/threads/iem-tip-comparison.1690650/
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I'm trying out loud white noise in a moderately loud environment. For about 30 minutes I"m able to concentrate. Not sure how long this will last though.
Become fluent in C# at least. Get experience with the CLR. Learn about unit testing. Watch Tudors to learn about court intrigue.
These are their graphics drivers, not CPUs.
Thanks, that is really helpful. As I will have to block out constant babbling, passive noise blocking is probably the most important factor. That is a really helpful overview in that amazon link. Sounds like I should explore the sennheiser line-up in more detail.
PS: someone just opened up a package of crisps/chips and is now munching on them. Wonder how active noise cancellation would fare with that.
The absolute minimum we need to function is less than the achievable minimum. A power vacuum will always be filled.
Exactly. This wasn't "his company" the instant he took funding. Investors do not give out loans, they buy ownership stakes. Multiple rounds of funding will reduce the founder's ownership to a tiny share if they are not careful with terms.
Dammit. I was hoping no one would see through me.

It's hard to remember to practice those platitudes day-to-day, which makes them worth repeating. You must register your predictions beforehand in order to avoid hindsight bias. You also have to avoid getting attached to them. Programmers very often commit map-v-territory mistakes, asserting how a thing works as if it were an observation of how it performs, and so on.

If all this is old hat to you, well, congrats! But it's not to everyone. And keep reading. It gets more practical after Ch 2 or 3.
Are they using a specific presentation framework or is this a homegrown layout? I agree that the integration of advertising is nearly seamless and does not feel intrusive at all. In fact, when scrolling quickly, I thought the Madden 25 ad was part of the content.
So cool, thank you!
Try Linqpad for a scratchpad too. Don't let the linq name fool you - its great for general purpose fiddling about. It has been truly indispensable when developing on .Net.

http://www.linqpad.net
What bothers me is how they say "source codes" instead of "source code".
Ask HN: troubles finding dream home for your family? sharing economy in RE.
Finding a home is hard (that’s a nice way to put it). Now try finding your dream home for your family in a high demand / low inventory market like SF or NYC. It’s really hard, it’s more than hard. It’s frustrating, it’s awful, it sucks! (Yes, I said it) Why … Why can’t you find your dream home through your local MLS site or Zillow?<p>There’s only about 3% of all properties available to you on the open market. Shouldn’t this be enough to find your craftsman style, 3 bed, 2 bath home with the white picket fence on that lovely cul-de-sac? The simple answer is NO.<p>We as a society are taught that if you work hard enough you are suppose to get everything you want and need. You WANT that extra bathroom, you NEED the best schools for your children … so why are you made to “settle” for a home that’s only available (that flimsy 3%). There’s another 97% of homes which may be available to you. But how will these homeowners know you exist if you don’t tell them.<p>Which brings me to say two statements :
1.
Homeowners should know how many buyers are looking in their area, what exactly they are looking for and how much money people are willing to pay for their specific property - they can do this by providing a “line of contact” to perspective buyers.<p>2.
Buyers should have the ability to “advertise” themselves to homeowners in their interested areas - tell them everything your looking for to find a home; nice and easy! No more waiting around for months or even years for that dream home to come “on the market” or even worse “settling” for a property because it’s available.<p>Thanks to companies like Airbnb and Lyft; we live in a 'sharing economy' which means we should be able to advertise our needs and wants and be matched up with them.

You can make this happen... who's with me?
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interesting :)
And there were plenty back-up services before dropbox.
I would say that people, and their reasons for objecting to surveillance or having privacy concerns far are more complicated and varied than you are imagining. Some of the people who have expressed concerns may be:

Citizens concerned about government officials overstepping constitutional bounds and lying about it, but not particularly concerned about the practical consequences of the surveillance.

Activists for whom NSA surveillance confirms that government is not on the side of the people, but whose sense of history leads them to the conclusion that if massive FBI files, Jim Crow laws, and lynching did not stop the Civil Rights movement, metadata is unlikely to prevent the arc of history bending towards justice.

“Airbus nationalists” in Europe who are, in their heart, more concerned about the fact the EU seems to be incapable of developing a Facebook, Google, Twitter, ect. They may ape the language of their fellow citizens whose privacy concerns are based on Nazi/Stasi/etc. historical experience, but actually view cloud computing as industrial policy struggle. Video game manufacture is likely not their strategic priority.

People with specific consequentialist privacy concerns. For example, someone who hates Facebook because it has caused something embarrassing to be shared without their truly informed consent. They may be indifferent to the notion that embarrassing information is hidden on a government database, and they may actually welcome and value that Google algorithms leverage their g-mail and search history to serve up more relevant ads.

People who once cared, but are so sick of monomaniacs hijacking every HN discussion that they are looking forward to buying an Xbox One simply as a sign of contempt. They likely also once were vaguely sympathetic to Google Reader users, but now see the product discontinuation as just punishment of tiresome and entitled whiners.

You may feel that all of these types of people are wrongheaded, but change often happens because large groups of loosely affiliated people band together, and rarely because zealots double down and fail to see why anyone might consider a different point of view.
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Those who want's a TL;DR probably wants a correct one.

Intel(R) Content Protection HECI Service

The Intel(R) Content Protection HECI Service is used to enable premium video playback (such as Blu-ray) for Intel® HD Graphics. It does not collect any user information. Disabling the service will prevent certain types of premium video from playing on the system; however, unprotected video such as user-generated content and YouTube videos will continue to play.*

Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service

“Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service - Intel(R) ICCS” is a service used for accessing the integrated clock controller in the PCH to adjust the clocks to the CPU (BCLK, DPCLK, and DPNSCLK). The graphics driver uses this service to adjust the graphics clocks (DPCLK & DPNSCLK) to perform clock bending. Clock bending adjusts the display clock frequencies to reduce screen flicker. Originally access to the ICC registers was only available internally to the PCH’s embedded controller (ME) so the registers were exposed to host through the HECI interface. On Intel® 8 Series PCHs and beyond, the HW has changed allowing the graphics driver to directly access the display clock registers, and the “Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service” should not be necessary with those chipsets.
In addition the “Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service” is used by the Intel eXtreme Tuning Utility (XTU) to perform overclocking. Overclocking is more complicated with its larger frequency range and dynamic configuration, so the PCH’s embedded controller and SW service are used to abstract the ICC implementation.
Disabling “Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service - Intel(R) ICCS” on Intel 8 Series PCHs will only impact the ability to do runtime overclocking with the XTU. With older chipsets, it will also disable the ability to do clock bending (meaning you may get additional screen flicker).
“Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service - Intel(R) ICCS” does not collect any information.
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The moral of the story here for developers is, if you present the user with some scary string they don't understand, they'll overreact and do rash things like disabling chunks of your working, tested software, and probably accuse you of being in bed with Holywood and the NSA in the same sentence. Better to just bury the DRM bits so nobody would ever notice, saves a few hundred threads over the lifetime of your product relating to random crashes caused by machines with chunks of your code in a disabled/inconsistent state.

The moral of the story for users is, you should be used to this. 99% of the code running (or regularly updated) on your machine has no scary labels attached to it. You're running Chrome? Well, they're pushing fancy new ways to fuck with your privacy every day. They just don't install services named things like "address bar keylogger service", "automatic upload your bookmarks service", "youtube DRM service" or whatever else.
They've given a detailed explanation. They should have done so to begin with instead of deploying their most cryptic forum rep.
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This is real cool. Thanks for sharing
On the other hand there will be consistency once wee see more languages/platforms. javafiddle.net? dartfiddle.net?
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While I enjoyed and partly agreed with Uncle Bob's equivalent of "Get off my lawn", it would be excellent if he also proposed something that resembled a solution to the problem. I struggled at my first dev job because school only taught me the basics, not modern full-stack agile software engineering. I worked with a team that had everything from testing to deployment polished and near perfect. However, some of them gave me a chance, and today, I suck a lot less at writing good, clean, tested code. Our industry will need to continue to do things like that if we hope to improve over time. Otherwise, history will just repeat itself.
On page two they have the answers[1]:

Thank you all for your patience. We were able to get complete clarification on the services that were installed and running. The first service in question was the Intel(R) Content Protection HECI Service.

That service does the following:

The Intel(R) Content Protection HECI Service is used to enable premium video playback (such as Blu-ray) for Intel® HD Graphics. It does not collect any user information. Disabling the service will prevent certain types of premium video from playing on the system; however, unprotected video such as user-generated content and YouTube videos will continue to play.

The second service in question was the Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service.

That service does the following:

“Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service - Intel(R) ICCS” is a service used for accessing the integrated clock controller in the PCH to adjust the clocks to the CPU (BCLK, DPCLK, and DPNSCLK). The graphics driver uses this service to adjust the graphics clocks (DPCLK & DPNSCLK) to perform clock bending. Clock bending adjusts the display clock frequencies to reduce screen flicker. Originally access to the ICC registers was only available internally to the PCH’s embedded controller (ME) so the registers were exposed to host through the HECI interface. On Intel® 8 Series PCHs and beyond, the HW has changed allowing the graphics driver to directly access the display clock registers, and the “Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service” should not be necessary with those chipsets.
In addition the “Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service” is used by the Intel eXtreme Tuning Utility (XTU) to perform overclocking. Overclocking is more complicated with its larger frequency range and dynamic configuration, so the PCH’s embedded controller and SW service are used to abstract the ICC implementation.
Disabling “Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service - Intel(R) ICCS” on Intel 8 Series PCHs will only impact the ability to do runtime overclocking with the XTU. With older chipsets, it will also disable the ability to do clock bending (meaning you may get additional screen flicker).
“Intel(R) Integrated Clock Controller Service - Intel(R) ICCS” does not collect any information.

We apologize for any confusion or misleading that may have been created by not having this information posted at an earlier time.

[1] https://communities.intel.com/message/205908#205908
Since it's binary-only closed-source, even if they told you what it does, you'd have to take their word for it. Whatever the two new services are, for all you know, they could be things the drivers already did, just now they are neatly organized as Windows services and not just built into the driver itself.

I really can't understand the reason to make such a fuss.
Using Azure cloud - medium Web Role server (2 x 1.6GHz CPU, 3.5GB RAM). It is set to auto-scaling so it should be adding new instances if first server is being swamped.

The jobs are done using Worker processes and there could be up to 20 of them running at the same time.
I've been running Linux on the "desktop" since 2006, and it's well worth the switch, in my opinion. Especially now, considering how streamlined most hardware configs are!
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Why did you type it's instead of it is? Is it really so much work to type one more character to justify this? :-)

The shell is a working language as much as English is. You'll spend more time using it than learning it, so get crackin'.
Is our industry doing the equivalent of offering free rides to hopeful software developers, calling them pilots, and throwing them by the thousands into airplanes just to watch them crash and burn?

With some exceptions, it's less dangerous when a novice programmer writes ugly code than when a pilot crashes a plane.

So we shouldn't require as much caution around letting people program as we do in letting them fly an airplane.
It may seem hard to believe, but countries like Germany did operate by the assumption that the Americans at least have good intentions. Everybody knows that the US can and will push their agenda when they think it is important, but often nobody sees real harm in cooperating either.

That is also why the spying on Merkel is extremely harmful to American-German relations. It changes the view of the public at large on the US.
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"Linux adoption might get a serious kick the in pants if mainstream news started reporting that Intel was installing unknown drivers in their cpus."

Because the general population cares so much about understanding what their computers do, right? I don't give a damn about what my car engine does, as long as it gets me from A to B without exploding.

Linux adoption will dramatically increase only if this sort of software starts making serious trouble for final users, like refusing to play unlicensed MP3s or deleting your family videos because they were encoded with unlicensed tools. They are not that stupid... yet.
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These are good points. What I would say is that this article is right on target about how important it is to get an enterprise deployment right the first time. I've been part of a failed one that went on for years before we finally gave up on it, cut our losses, and started over. Needless to say, a few people lost their jobs.
Better - misname your modules. So, instead of "Bad-for-you spyware", you call it "Power management you should never disable, ever".
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In the 1960s, Motorola commissioned a series of ads illustrated by the late Charles Schridde with a running theme of the “house of the future”. These futuristic paintings are amazingly detailed. Viewed from an architecture / interior design angle, they really give an insight to the American imagination of that period. Swanky bachelor pads, spiral staircases, indoor scuba diving pools – you name it.
The Slate Political Gabfest is by far the best current events podcast I've come across: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html

My favorite comedy podcast is Judge John Hodgman: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/judge-john-hodgman
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Is there? Are you sure about that?