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You’re absolutely right - that’s why the CurrentC app asks for access to Health data on your device. Oh, and your phone and text log.

I mean - “No. Just no."
I saw him speak in Sydney just under a year ago. Coincidentally my biggest take-away was also around tech-debt management. Impressive bloke.
TIL: Prestige Elite [1] might not be the best font out there for programming.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_Elite
> Alcohol and cigarettes belong in exactly the same category.

I hear Iran and Saudi Arabia are lovely this time of year.
The lifehacker page just links to the actual article: http://mac-how-to.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-yosemite-look-...
For the full version of exactly what we do and where we've come from, we've got a nice write up: http://dev.mixrad.io/blog/2014/08/05/MixRadio-History/

In terms of development, the team is located in sunny Bristol in the UK. Glad you like it!
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I love it when websites don't work when I have analytic/ad blockers enabled.
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Hey I love (and defend) crypto but ultimately it relies on (sometimes standard) assumptions like the one-way hardness of discrete logarithms. Symmetric systems hardly have underlying information theoretic garuntees - usually symmetric constructs are based on reductions under random oracle models (which have has its own methodological problems). Furthermore implementations are hardly the same as mathematical constructs, which gives rise to side channels.

These are not controversial views - they are common knowledge among cryptographers.

It is thus an injustice to knock Elephant on 'provability' grounds. The papers for Elephant (and Lion before it) follow standards for peer reviewed work in cryptography.

It is a shame you will not reply to any of the examples in the remainder of the comment.

But other HN readers will see them.
This is so true. Moreover, our industry moves so fast that if your not in the dirt and on the ground for more than a year... it's hard to catch-up. Another things, is that I see some technical people move up so quick that they are never seasoned and thus end up making high level (architect) choices -- with alot of issues. I am not sure how other industry do it, for example, in medicine when someone becomes head of the hospital or something like that.
Being as cynical as I am, my immediate thought was that the title was a summary of the article:

#define CTO

i.e., "CTO" means nothing at all.
Avi might not be dealing with the legal consequences of his actions, but that doesn't mean he's coming out of this unscathed. Even with Jason's forgiveness, his reputation is effectively ruined and anyone considering doing business with him in the future is going to stumble across this story without even trying: after all, who wants to be involved with someone who is immature and short-sighted enough to think that this 'stunt' was a good idea? Even his attempt at explaining his actions [1] reeks of emotional immaturity and atrocious judgment. Calling him a kid strikes me as a recognition of that immaturity, reinforcing the idea that he's someone not to be trusted in the future.

That said, I don't really agree with the idea of forgiveness in this kind of stalker-ish situation (but that's largely biased by having to experience my little sister being terrorized by an ex- who became a stalker... needless to say, it's not the sort of thing I have any tolerance for), While I don't know Jason, I can empathize with his approach: it's pretty common for people in similar situations to just want to get the entire matter behind them.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QkTa-z...
When I first investigated these personal fitness monitors, Fitbit was a standout (I have the Flex). It made the Jawbone look old and clumbsy. The automatic syncing was really nice. Then, my Indiegogo funded Misfit Shine came, and initially it was still behind Fitbit in terms of the app, and sleep tracking.

Then, Misfit kept updating their firmware and app, so month after month, it got better. Although not as detailed as Fitbit, when they added automatic sleep tracking, the war was over, and Misfit shine had won.

Why in the world do you tell Fitbit that you are a) going to sleep, and then b) you are now getting up?

Also, initially I thought the prospect of a USB charged device great. But then, I realized the drawbacks.

With my Shine, I can replace the standard 2032 battery every three months. So I replace it, and forget it. With Fitbit, I'd have to take it off every 4 days or so (depending on usage). The "lasts a week" thing is a lie. And if I was travelling, I'd have to think if I need to take the USB charger or not. With the Shine, no worries, unless I am going somewhere for more than 3 months!

Another thing that really sucks about the Fitbit are the bands. Yeh you got lots of colours, but they break! And then you'll have to spend $30 for 3 bands. Whether you like all three colours or not, you'll have to buy 3 at a time. I guess you'll use them all, because they all will eventually break.

The wrist band Shine comes with isn't super either. It is a cheap rubber band, but it didn't break. I bought a nice leather one about a year after because I wanted to, not because the original one broke.

I have the Aria too, that product I still like, and I still use the Fitbit app just for that. I wish that could integrate with Healthkit.

I think the only thing Fitbit is still ahead of the Shine is with the online app. But in terms of functionality and long term durability, the Shine for me, is a clear winner.
What specifically are you referring to?

Both Java and C# are compiled (JIT or AOT depending on environment). PHP is often interpreted for development but pretty regularly compiled for production (see Facebook et al).
"It would be much better to throw out the flawed starting point."

It might be interesting to pick a bunch of different starting points and see how much convergence you get, though.
FWIW the other key feature missing for me is the histogram.[1] Pretty much everything I change in Lightroom, I'm keeping an eye on the histogram to make sure I'm not (unintentionally) blowing things out or losing dynamic range. Being able to drag the histogram itself is a bonus, but being able to see it at all is key.

Oh yeah, and noise reduction. With low-light photos lack of noise reduction is a dealbreaker. Maybe that becomes more important with RAW?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=histogram+lightroom&tbm=isch
Let me know what you think! Just launched. Not enough inspiring engineering talks yet, so if you know of any, I would appreciate your suggestions :)
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I will say this. If I were black or poor I'd be terribly insulted by this nonsense. Don't you think it's a little bit racist to believe blacks are too stupid to do what they need to do to vote? We're not talking about solving simultaneous differential equations here.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but using DL for such purposes would require much more preparation in sense of effort and computation power. Wouldn't it?
I have a pair of Logitech UE 9000s - they're noise cancelling, over the ear and bluetooth - they're very comfortable :)
But read up on American tunneling costs

Where? I'm kind of interested as to why it's so much more expensive here (other than the obvious labor cost and probably-more-stringent safety regulation)?
Please specify one startup that this directly impacts. Which streaming service is left out in the cold, and in what way does this specific situation stifle competition?

Data caps on cellular data plans already exist, so getting uncapped data for specific services does only benefit the consumer.

Your generic "net neutrality is good" arguments don't apply here, where net neutrality has been broken for years. Net neutrality hasn't ever existed on the web, let alone cellular data plans, anyway.
> Give me a break, many/most normal people didn't know about the "final solution".

Hard to say because many certainly were given the opportunity to pretend like they didn't even if they did. Surely afterwards they probably wouldn't be raising their hands proclaiming they knew but kept quiet.

Hundreds of thousands and millions of neighbours, friends, acquaintances disappearing and everyone actually thought they are being sent to ... well where ? the beach ? What did they think happened to this people.

> Being a nationalist isn't inherently unethical, committing genocide is

Joining to fight a war of aggression is and willingly participating in it is. Besides the most horrific and well calculated, scaled and optimized genocide, "regular" Joes Barbers committed countless tortures, rapes and execution in Easter Europe.

My Russian teacher was telling us a personal story how as a child she watch through a fence how German soldiers, raped and then dismembered her childhood friend.
This is just a start, there're lots of features in roadmap (not in repo yet). Im trying to model pgweb after Sequel Pro (http://www.sequelpro.com/), which is MySQL and OSX only.
Some of the features you mentioned will be available in upcoming releases.
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Sure, but IE 7 predated Chrome by 2 years. I'm not sure how IE 7 which has a global browser share roughly equivalent to Chrome 11, Firefox 3.6, Android 2.3 and Blackberry 7 has any relevance.
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Oh Cool. Hadn't seen that before. I like MethodView dispatch pattern.
Wow thats quite interesting, i think ill try that this weekend, see if i can setup an automated solution too if i can get it working smoothly.
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It makes sense - it's fairly common that we see things that get bigger/worse when postponed. It's entirely possible that this doesn't happen with post-fast insulin spikes, but it seems a reasonable thing to want to check on. At this point it's no longer a question that can be resolved without measuring things (or finding other people who have measured those things), though.
In that sense I'm reading a book called "Traction" on how to target and engage different channels. It's kind of a lean approach to acquisition. Try something if it works iterate, if it does not, change.
It also suggests parallel experiments on a single channel to boost quality of the test.

Great experience what you shared!
Thanks
So did the hard drive became available publicly?
IDEA has some pretty slick database features, including some of the things you mentioned: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/database_tools.html

Only in the Ultimate edition though, so quite pricey..
Just in case you didn't know, your email is not in your bio. The "email" field is not public, so if you want your email to be displayed you have to put it in the "about" field.
Germans knew about the persecution and murder of Jews.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard

> The mass of ordinary Germans did know about the evolving terror of Hitler's Holocaust, according to a new research study. They knew concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were stigmatised as sub-human and race-defilers. They knew that these, like other groups and minorities, were being killed out of hand.

> They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them. They knew because the camps and the measures which led up to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of officially-inspired German media articles and posters according to the study, which is due to be published simultaneously in Britain and the US early next month and which was described as ground-breaking by Oxford University Press yesterday and already hailed by other historians.
This is basically the same workflow we've been building at https://readthedocs.org, but for open source projects.

It is really an amazing workflow, and makes writing documentation as well as books a breeze.

I would love to see a standardized site building template for asciidoctor, so that we could support it as well as reStructuredText and Markdown.
As I understood it, it is the CTO's role to make sure that the technology supports the business strategy.

It's perfectly fine to have a VP of engineering run day to day management, in this case you have more time to immerse yourself in stripe's business strategy and find and eliminate bottlenecks there.

According to the Stripe team page there are 160 people working there and engineering is the minority of it. I would be surprised if the other functional departments in your company are so optimised that they no longer have issues that technology can help remedy, these issues may accelerate the company or even prevent the company from reaching its objectives. e.g. the executives in charge of a department may lack visibility and have to beg for engineering time to get the analysis they need to do their jobs. Even worse, they may have already stopped asking for these insights and are now operating with limited insight.

A great example of this is Max Levchin his initiative to tackle fraud at Paypal, a core strategic issue for them but it wasn't part of product or engineering.
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I think you are right, particularly since your focus is (at least partly) on capturing your kid for posterity rather than making impressionistic or abstract work.

There is, however, a marked tendency in photography to obsess about the technical. In the recent series of books "100 ideas that changed..." that also covers fields like art, graphic design, fashion, architecture and film, the photography book ("100 ideas that changed photography") is notable for its focus on technical developments. The other creative fields have their idiosyncrasies, and each book has a different editor, so this is hardly a well-designed study, but photography stands out as the most concerned with the purely technical. That seems to be just the way it is.

Nobody would suggest that wobbliness or "looking like its about to fall down" are good ideas for architecture, but for some reason people coming from the art world like the idea of messing with photography's technical perfection. Maybe it's a personality thing.
Germany has great cellular network hackers. If anyone of you would like to know more about this area I'd highly recommend to search for talks by Harald Welte or Karsten Nohl.
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OK, so which one is better: HTML, Python or R?
I recall reading somewhere of companies that split the CTO role into two, internal and external. I can see this. The internal CTO is primarily focussed on the technology and product, while the external one mostly talks to customers.
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I agree that healthy skepticism is sensible, but it's easy to let that drift into a "things are going to stay pretty much as they are" bias. Things aren't, not in the medium to long term. Yet I perceive evidence of that bias on Hacker News.

In this particular case, I'd judge some disruption in this area is at least plausible. Adding windows is really difficult from a material science perspective, it creates structural weaknesses that must be compensated for, and making sure those windows never blow out to some 9 sigma safety threshold must be a nightmare. In short the windows impose enormous complications and costs. Last week I flew in an Emirates A380, equipped with a variety of outboard cameras. I got by far the most interesting and beautiful views I've ever seen from an airliner, via both a big screen and the seatback screen. Not by peering out a tiny, awkwardly angled window. It's not implausible to me that this might signal a possible trend for future development.
I beg to differ. Firstly, I did not reference Citizens United, but the Supreme Court.

But regardless, since you bring it up, the majority opinion in Citizens United rests on the idea that corporations are protected by the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendments.

It is simplistic and naive to treat corporations as just "an association of people", or even that their political interests align with their shareholders'. The vast majority of shareholders are simply looking at their return on the dollar, with little understanding of or the time and resources to look into a corporations political financing and lobbying activities, much less have access to the behind the scenes of what is really going on. A corporation takes on a will and "conscience" of its own, not necessarily in sync with its shareholders or even employees.

The other basis of the ruling, that monetary contributions are protected as "free speech", is a problem because money is not anywhere near evenly distributed, and so overwhelmingly undermines the idea of "one-person, one vote". This problem would still exist without corporations having "money as free speech" rights, but it is even worse if corporations have it.

I agree with Justice Stevens that "A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."
> Using free alternatives in 2000 as a desktop was laughable at best

I used a combo of Linux & FreeBSD as my desktop OS exclusively from ~2000 to 2005 (when I bought my first mac). For the 4 years prior to that range I only ever booted into Windows to play games.
Way to miss the point, which wasn't "a cell phone can do everything as well as a DSLR", which is objectively false, but rather that "what makes a great image has very little to do with technical ability".

I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal on how every picture you've brought up can be taken with a cell phone camera, but that seems a wee bit pointless.

Instead look at those photographs and tell me what exactly makes them worthwhile. Is it the creamy smooth bokeh? The pin-sharp focus? The incredible low-light performance?

Or is it the fact that it's your child? Is it the human element - capturing someone in a moment of happiness, of vulnerability, or of peace?

This is the whole point of my rant before - all of this talk about sharpness, noise levels, autofocus points, etc etc, does nothing for what's in your image, and in the end that's what counts most (and what most people are worst at). It's light, it's subject, it's composition. Everything else is details - a compact point'n'shoot wouldn't give as much depth of field in photo #1, but who cares? A cell phone camera would have had a tad more noise in photo #3... but who cares?

No one. Except fellow pixel-peepers who get off on technical perfectionism. None of your relatives will even begin to think "wow, look at the smooth tones even in the shadows!", nor will you after a few weeks. I'm willing to bet that in a year or two, when your son is more grown, and you come back to this photo, you will not even begin to think about the technical aspects of it. Photography is so much bigger, more powerful than this.

A good photograph is 95% subject, composition, and light, and 5% technical mastery. It's nice to nail the last 5% sure, but there is altogether way too much noise being made about the 5% to the deafening silence about the 95%.

I'm willing to bet that if you took two identical novice photographers and gave them each $1,000, one who spends it on classes and books, and the other who spends it on gear, that the gearhead will have shown the least improvement in actual images (by a wide, wide margin) than the one who spent it gaining knowledge. This scales too - I'm willing to bet the effect is even more pronounced if you gave them each $10,000 instead.

The bottleneck, as always, is not the gear. It's the person behind it.
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't want a Linux-style package manager?

Why can't apps be self-contained downloadable things with all their dependencies contained within, like back in the Apple Macintosh days?
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"I would start worrying the day computers start formulating judgments"

"Judgement Day"?
I'm just going to paraphrase some quotes from the discussion I had with the aforementioned friend, since I think he puts it much more succinctly

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Indeed. I mean, people think that Gates is being so clever with his pedantic word-play jargon games, but they are forgetting is that the Federal prosecutor is smarter at word games, is well versed in law, and can easily pick out minutiae. He would have just made Gates wait 6 hours and ask the question again and again and again, until finally, he writes up a report saying how uncooperative Mr. Bill Gates was during the deposition (whose entire point is that you are supposed to cooperate) and thus making the case of plea bargaining even harder. (He is quite smart. Probably top of the class at Harvard law knowing how federal prosecutors are hired.)

The whole idea of a deposition is you try and co-operate. If I were a judge do you see why I'd take a very dim view of that tape? The article is cnn's main story from that year.

But as a sign of how worried Microsoft is about the effect of the videotape, the company brought in a hired gun to talk to reporters about how depositions are typically combative and involve "jousting" and, in that sense, how Gates' deposition was "unremarkable.""

When you have to do that, you know something is wrong. Oh and btw that is completely disregarding how it affects public opinion which in turn might harden Justice dept through pressure via political bodies (congress and white house) that are susceptible to public opinion. Remember, all depositions are public record.

It might seem quite funny and clever to you but an average American outside the Valley probably sees it very different - an overpaid arrogant CEO.

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As for how come there was very little outcome, apparently it's a fairly well established claim in various law journals that the whole reason MSFT case failed was because after 9/11, they didn't seem to want to go after an American champion. Or MSFT would've been broken apart. Prosecuting them changed as political priorities changed. (Date of settlement is November '01). And a Republican revival started around the same time.

Also note that Gates retired a few months later. Official reasoning was given as him feeling burned out, apparently.
Its not about which is the best, but which is in most demand within job advertisements.
Thanks, makes more sense now.
With respect, I think you're deluding yourself a bit. The way you've described things, what you've done is hired a VP of Engineering to do most of your old job. It's a big change and you risk creating for yourself a (very boring) Chairman of Technology role if you're not careful.
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This has turned out to be far more difficult to find out than I would have guessed. I still don't know! They also sell an optional "voice controller", I would assume that uses the same tech. Maybe we can figure it out through those specs.
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If the author got hit by a bus, there's no one else around to maintain it.

Generally refers to "how many people can continue to develop/support this software if original maintainer (and close co-developers) get hit by a bus."
Why does hate have negative connotations? If someone did evil to me, and I can't fight back, what do I have besides hate?

And the app in question doesn't work.
Planes have automated systems that have control over direction and speed, and nowadays many planes have connections to the Internet. Has any ever been hijacked over the 'net?