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Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era
I saw "using MonoMac.AppKit" in the source so it looks like it is for win32 and osx, using mono to bridge to native GUI?
Link to the website:
https://stoffiplayer.com/
So they basically tricked Discover out of something like $400,000? I wonder what Discover thinks of this...
Roughly two parts: "I was doing good quality work; that was recognised by my boss; something happened and I complained, and the escalated my complaints; after that my bosses reversed their previous position; I asked to transfer to a different department; they found out and stopped the transfer; I left the company and they tried to enforce a ridiculous non-compete thus I was forced to sue"

"The bad thing: a credit card company had a big promotion with specific rules. We mis-reported the success of that promotion which cost the advertiser a lot of money. I raised it internally, and escalated it, but nothing was done."
I also happened to read Anandtech's Nexus 6 review [1] today, and here's how they described the N6's display.

> The Nexus 6 shows significant regression in color accuracy from the Nexus 5, and the maximum brightness is much lower. It should also be noted that despite its higher resolution, its larger size means that compared to the Nexus 5 the pixel density only increases 12% from 441 PPI to 493 PPI. The use of a PenTile RGBG subpixel layout also means that there is actually an overall decrease in subpixel density.

> Overall, the Nexus 6 display is quite poor relative to the displays on other smartphones like the Galaxy Note 4, iPhone 6, and HTC One (M7). It's also a definite regression from the display on the Nexus 5, which is concerning given the fact that the Nexus 6 is $300 more expensive. It has been speculated that Motorola is unable to source the latest generation of panels from Samsung Display, which would explain why many of the panel characteristics are similar to previous generation AMOLED panels in the Note 3 and Galaxy S4. Although the efficiency of AMOLED displays when displaying black helps to reduce power usage with features like Ambient Display which wakes up the phone when notifications arrive or it is picked up, I don't believe it's worth the trade-off if it involves such heavy sacrifices in color accuracy and brightness.

[1] - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8687/the-nexus-6-review/3
> Munira had falsified her educational record on her resume to Amazon and all her former employers - claiming to have both a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from Stanford when in fact she had earned no degrees at all.
There is more detail on this issue and Munira’s pattern of ethical lapses and misleading and deceptive practices later in this letter.

Why is this person still employed, let alone have any responsibility?
I really think Heroku nailed the deployment model. I just push my code, and then the code is deployed. It would be nice to have staging baked in.
Well if only AWS provides the scaling you need then what would you migrate off of AWS to? You could re-arch your app to scale out for some use cases as you suggest, but that's also an indicator that using AWS allowed you to get to market faster with a much simpler system that didn't require a far more complex design, many more engineering hours and more admin.
Are you sure about that? I mean, it still needs to know the starting altitude to calculate the difference. Unless this limit is above the sea level which I somehow doubt. As an engineer, I'm interested how did they manage to solve this problem.
Ah okay. They used to have wording about not allowing functionality that "duplicates" built-in features...
You know I have some bad days some times, but seeing shit like this just makes me think "What a fucking time to be alive!" It's truly incredibly and is sometimes that kick in the pants I need to keep on going. We are living in a golden age of humanity right now, at no point before in human history have so many people had such an incredible quality of life and never before has man been doing such incredible feats and have the ability to reach a worldwide audience almost instantaneously. The fact that just a few hours ago a human designed space craft landed on a comet, after decades of work and I can receive the images fresh from the great minds that brought us this feat, while laying in bed dicking about on my phone, it's just pure and simply astounding.

For all our flaws I love humans and I am so excited to see what the future holds.

Back to the comet, any word on what happened to the harpoons? I heard there was a misfire or they didn't fire or something? Any idea how that's affected the landing as of yet?
Does it have a colour camera? or maybe it's a bandwidth-saving decision to transmit only B&W? or because of the lighting?
Also an interesting commentary quote from the page 21 of the letter:

"And in fact, even after ﬁnding out about Munira’s lies regarding her educational background and other issues I raised before my termination, Jeff Blackburn represented in his deposition that Munira was given a promotion, even though according to Amazon’s policies, falsiﬁcation of personnel records is a Tier 1 offense likely resulting in immediate termination"

The letter reads awesomely, totally like a good book.
Good points. Except:

>But where does this leave .NET, visual studio etc? Those are no longer the tools with
>which megacorps make their intranets, or where Photoshop and Call Of Duty is made

.NET was never the tool where Photoshop and Call of Duty was made, but a significant amount of mobile apps and games nowadays are made using Xamarin and Unity, tools that run on top of Mono, a cross-platform implementation of .NET. If anything the Microsoft announcement brings Mono and .NET closer together. And I think you will find that a significant (if not majority) proportion of megacorps do run their intranets on SharePoint. SharePoint is and has been customisable using .NET libraries and tools.
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You weren't there. This is not how it happened at all.

The strong and mighty individualist T-Rex was enslaved by the communist mammals. The once idealistic Pterodactyl was forced to evolve into a chicken, bereft of its flight, today kept in captivity by the trillions, bred by robots, for meat and eggs. Their feathers fill our pillows. How ironic that Mankind's dreams are birthed atop their crushed wings.

What gives us the right to land on this comet?

Weren't the dinosaurs there first?

What about our robots? Who fills their pillowcases?

Or, as Eddy Lizzard once wisely said,

"Do you have a flag?!!"
Another interesting lisp is Maru http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/157xdz/maru_is_...

from I. Piumarta (Inria, VPRI), sophisticated yet beautiful C code.
Amazon does actually sue former employees occasionally: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-sues-employee-taking-goo...

Everyone likes to point out how unenforceable they are, but can you afford to take Amazon on in court?
With the exception of wine.

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Probably not. Anything that P/Invokes native code (regardless if it's a system dll, or the apps own dlls) it will just not run. They will crash/throw exceptions when called. Since these apps won't expect themselves to be running on a non-windows operating system the exceptions won't be caught and crash. This will probably include many, many 3rd party controls.
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Not really. It's still a sucky site that's worse than what we had before.
This is made stranger by the fact the Jeff Blackburn says he knew she hadn't completed the degrees, and hired her anyways. And he went to Stanford. For an MBA. Honestly this looks really bad for Amazon, partly because it's obvious how expected and systemic this behavior is

> At the end of the day. You should do what you need to do to maximize free cash flow for the device. Do what you need to do to make more money
I use the supermarket checkouts exclusively as ATMs. Buy a $0.50 bottle of water (unless already grocery shopping) which is good for health and up to $100 cash back. $100.50 saves me $2.50 and may live longer drinking more water and walking a tad more during process. ha
I've been giving this lots of thought recently, with all the changes to Android. I frankly don't really care all that much about the politics behind open/closed software. It's almost never been a deciding factor for me and I've been bit and blessed about as many times by stuff from either camp. I also know that right now and in the near future, if Google completely closed source Android today, it wouldn't impact me in the slightest because there's really only two viable mobile OSs at the moment, neither of which I spend any time mucking around with the source on -- and neither of them are built by Mozilla.

I think what I care more about is accessibility. How easy is it for me to build stuff on their platform? Google makes it really easy, Apple makes it really easy. There's a healthy debate as to who makes it easier, but in the end it's not about openness it's about accessibility. If Google replaced their kernel with the most locked down closed source kernel ever conceived tomorrow, but made no other changes, it wouldn't impact that in any way.

And that's what I, and to be honest most developers care about, getting stuff done, which is what accessibility is all about.
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>"Amazon gave me their final offer: 4 weeks of severance for 18 months of adhering to the broad non-compete that would not allow me to earn a living in my ﬁeld, and further explained that if I didn’t accept their final offer, Amazon would sue me for tens of thousands of dollars in relocation expenses."

It's because of stories like this that I'd never work at Amazon. They have a history of suing their own employees soon after parting ways.
> The screen-cap image implies it's a ms-windows program, but readme.md does not list any system or build requirements (particularly OS and toolchain).

Should have gone with the neutral screencap - OS X...
The mobile OS is the big change. So where as Microsoft still has control of the desktop OS, the desktop OS is a much smaller share of the whole OS market.

I'm coincidentally in Belgium too :) Any chance you work for CoolBlue then?
Your hero image is too big
There's nothing stopping you from using a scale-out architecture with Aurora, and nothing stopping you from running MySQL on your own hardware with loads of SSDs to get the throughput you are after.
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> "well, it's a former employee, so of course he's not happy.."

Of course, if he was an employee at the time of filing the lawsuit (the act of filing it would presumably get him sacked immediately afterwards), it would be dismissed with "Well he doesn't feel that strongly about it if he kept working there"
I was checking to see if someone else already wrote this. This is one of the first things I was thinking.
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In Google+ it says "attended Stanford University" https://plus.google.com/109990231058522395347/posts (so maybe a Stanford dropout?).
Since no one else asked -- isn't this confidential?
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A more plausible scenario has Google buying Valve/Steam and making a play for the Windows App market (and perhaps the Mac market as well).
Incorrect. This is a prevalent yet still poorly understood phenomenon that has an impact not just on those in the tech sector (as many of us on HN are), but also on society at large. Philosophers and activists have repeatedly tried to explain this type of behaviour, but we still have no answer. I find it very curious.
Yes, of course, but Google could at least advise them as best as they can - do that UI/UX research so the developers don't have to, and so on.

At the end of the day, they can still only be "best practices". but developers can and sometimes should create their own unique designs. The other 90 percent of them can simply "copy" Google's style guide, and still have their apps look great.
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Someone will get into trouble for leaking that...
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Preventing MySQL deadlocks in your Rails application
Looks like a pretty rough place to land - I wonder though if this is one of the 'bounce' phases of the landing, and maybe what ended up happening was that it was more of a tumble, due to surface features snagging a leg, or something.. I must admit that during the approach, the landing site looked to me like it might have been 'pretty smooth', like it was a plane of material that didn't look too jagged and nasty, but this photo just looks like we landed in a pretty rough spot. Regardless, seems like some science is going to get done anyway, and that sure is exciting! Can't wait for 14:00 and see some new pics ..
There's the steam box I suppose. A steam handheld would be pretty cool. I love the 3DS, but it is underpowered and the games are hella expensive. A good alternative with a controller and lots of reasonably-priced indie games would be great.
It seems I didn't look thoroughly. "Stanford Alumni" was listed in one of her groups, and Stanford itself was listed in the "follow" section on her page - sorry, you're right!
Not really. .net apps have already been running on Mono, with varying success; there are also cross-platform apps built on .net - none of this should change significantly.

As for unmanaged apps - this changes nothing.

Two things could happen: a) the open-sourced .net will allow for better implementations on other platforms, and/or b) MS will later step in as a patent troll and try to undermine Mono this way, SCO-style. While option B seems unlikely (the open-sourced code seems to be licensed quite freely), MS has played the Embrace-Extend-Exterminate card too many times for me to be entirely trustworthy.
I don't think we've gotten any further details than the fact that they didn't fire when they should have. There's a press conference at 2 pm CET.
I'm not sure about that status of the harpoons, but I generally use http://reddit.com/r/space to keep up with all of my space related news. Article quality is generally very high and there are a lot nice folks over there who answer questions in the comments.
If it's 18 months it's not so bad. A nice long holiday you can actually use to brush up your general skills and CV, or retake that side project you never had time to finish. You're still officially employed so it doesn't count as a hole (and if asked, you could not work during this period).
Can't believe 64bit is still not supported. Apple did it 1 year ago.
Ongoing internal investigation? Or -- and forgive me, I don't know a universally inoffensive way to broach this subject -- because her being a gender/ethnic minority in her line of work makes Amazon reluctant to terminate her?
Thanks, I'll be sure to keep my eye on that sub
They only mention that the company pays for the internet service but I'd assume traffic/speed from a home could also be an issue. I mean the average home network connections aren't exactly amazing so what can be hosted on these servers (I doubt it's cost efficient to provide new infrastructure for every home)?
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I agree, the article is a bit long, but I liked the discussion on biomimicry at the end

http://biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics
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Saddest statement in the entire write up:

>My manager did not communicate to her management chain the positive impact I was having on the product - in fact, she once told me “You’re here to make me look good - you’re doing an awesome job”
Moving our usage totally to the cloud is not a great idea, it seems. Yes, we get convenience, but at the same time lose autonomy, control, and freedom over our computing.

RMS has a good (albeit slightly extreme) view on this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

This view has people discussing the issues e.g. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/09/why-st...

All in all, if we as users demand web apps that respect our freedom, and employ non-proprietary file formats, then this would be a non-issue. There are a number of ways this could be implemented... one would be to provide a software package (with source code), available to be downloaded and run locally on one's machine, if the product changes or gets trashed. Of course, complete access to your online data is necessary (i.e. ability to download your data as when you please).
Apparently the visible light sensor has RGB color filters.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=PHILA...

I would guess these are probably not a Bayer filter pattern, but filters that are mechanically swapped.
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> No it isn't.

Self experimentation could be an excellent source of data. Quite a few "interesting" things cannot effectively be rigorously tested, either because we have no effective placebo, or because they are inhumane (e.g., the vast majority of so-called "rigorous" diet studies are actually based on self-reporting and willful compliance, because you can't keep people in controlled a lab for more than a few weeks). Also, as Ionnadis pointed out, quite a bit of (supposedly rigourous) published research is simply wrong.

So for a lot of things, we have to do with "amateur hour" experiments, whether conducted in a university lab and published in Nature, or conducted at home and published in a blog.

Self-experimentation can easily disprove a "general truth" but cannot really support one due to lack of controls ( and do recall the scientific method is statement about disproving things, not about proving them) However, if you do stumble on a local version of a "general truth", you can then look for the n->inf version more rigorously.

You can look at e.g. the late Seth Roberts for examples; the ideas are interesting, some of his successes have been replicated by enough people; Among these - correlation between Vitamin D intake time and sleep quality (see gwern for a rigorous test of that experiment, that confirms it for n=|{gwern}|=1, and many other less rigorous; Rigorous correlation among flax seed (supposedly omega 3) intake, butter, bacon and response time for n=|{seth}|=1, which I have not published but have verified rigorously for n=|me|=1 about flax seed. And there are a few others. I think some of his ideas are crazy but almost all are interesting.

(Self-reported) success on his Shangri-La diet is ~80%, which is very high for a diet, but obviously not a general truth since it is not 100%. It worked for me once, but not the 2nd time a couple of years later despite following exactly the same protocol. I'd say self-experimentation is much less rigorous, but way more time-and-captial efficient way of arriving at results.
MS is heading off LibreOffice on devices at the pass. (And are lucky LO on devices is running way late.)
I wonder if Michael Woodford (Olympus scandal) would be interested in having this brought to his attention.
Have you heard of bwapi? Write AI for starcraft/broodwar and compete
https://code.google.com/p/bwapi/wiki/Competitions
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the author stated that his son suffered from stomach aches and was told it was a sign of possible mental illness. This was back in the 70s, but could there be a connection?
Ask HN: Loans as a Limit to Innovation
The ~$40,000 in Student Loans that I currently owe is a limit to the amount I can innovate. Professionally in the form of language learning as well as in general. I was wondering if anyone has any experience or ideas about investing in mutual funds or other trading items to shorten loan payback time. (Currently I am looking at 10 Years!) [Tuition.io](http://tuition.io) has been invaluable in this effort to answer the questions of how much I actually owe, how much is reasonable as a montly payment, etc.
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It is, but I believe it's not because of its plugin nature, but for another reasons. It's just that Flash had served its role but got replaced with better solutions and is mostly unnecessary anymore.

I think I'd be very pleased, if, in a same manner as it happened with Flash, Enigmail would become obsolete and GPG support would be provided by Thunderbird itself.
The one feature that really differentiates Lisp from other languages is its macro system. Macros allow you to give arbitrary semantic meaning to an expression. The expression (a b c) could quite literally do anything. It could set the value of b to the value of c (setf), it could call the procedure named by c with the value of b and store that value back into b, or define a class called b which has a local variable called c. Macros allow programmers to build arbitrarily complex DSLs all within Lisp.

A couple examples of some really great macros are those in PAIP[0]. In particular, look at the defrule macro[1][2] for a version of mycin[3]. The macro defrule is a DSL for creating rules about how to diagnose different bacteria. Also look at the rule macro[4][5] for defining DCGs[6], a way to parse natural language.

A great way to learn more about macros is through reading On Lisp[7], in which Paul Graham explores some of the really crazy things that are possible with macros, including implementing continuations[8], creating a DSL for ATNs[9] (another way to parse natural language), and even implementing an object system.

[0] http://norvig.com/paip.html

[1] http://norvig.com/paip/mycin-r.lisp

[2] http://norvig.com/paip/mycin.lisp

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin

[4] http://norvig.com/paip/grammar.lisp

[5] http://norvig.com/paip/unifgram.lisp

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_clause_grammar

[7] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation

[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_transition_network
What I didn’t know at the time was the the HR Business manager was a good personal friend of Munira, and in what seems to be a betrayal of trust, informed my manager that I was trying to get a transfer. At my next 1:1 meeting Munira explained “You think you’re going to get a transfer out of my group? I’m putting you into a Performance Improvement Plan which prevents transfers for 12 months”.

This reads like it came from a dystopian MegaCorp sci-fi story. Is this for real?
Maybe they're hoping that their biggest customers will be office buildings that have space to spare. Each building could house a fair number of servers.
The best way to get rid of that loan is to cut down your expenses while holding down a well paying IT job. You should be able to get rid of it in a year or less, investing in mutual funds is not going to make a huge difference until you've amassed more than enough capital in order to pay back the loan, so until then you're much better off simply paying off the loan (less risk too!).
Belgian perspective: every bakery has their own cutting machine, and when you buy a bread, it is cut just before it is wrapped. If you tell the baker beforehand that you prefer it uncut, you'll get it uncut. 15 years ago, it used to be the other way round: the baker would ask you if you wanted it cut, and would only cut it if you said 'yes'.

Bread in supermarkets can be pre-cut and pre-packaged (industrial, cheaper, and of inferior taste), but often supermarkets also offer freshly baked, uncut bread and have a cutting machine for you to use when you pack up your bread.
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I've been doing research into the options available in this space recently.

GoToWebinar still seems to be one of the most recommended options.

I wish there was a way to use the Twitch technology for business streaming - it's best-in-class right now. But to the best of my knowledge, there isn't.

Also very interested to hear other answers on this thread!