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economic misunderstanding and xenophobia. Something tells me that if the rich buyers were all from Colorado, people wouldn't have quite so much to say about it.

It's not kind and successful foreign Tim Cooks who just want a place to live.

It's foreign criminals who are laundering money gained illegally through either graft or outright murder/exploitation into US property. Once money turns into property, it becomes "pure" and the chain of illegalness vanishes from view.

American politics has the revolving door between congress critters and lobbyists, but it's not nearly as bad as other countries. The US can't become a safe haven for all the powerful bad people in the world to hide from the consequences of their actions.

Vlad Pootie is worth over $40 billion dollars. Think he's just "a really good businessman?"
Sounds like you are new to the scene. Recruiting has changed so much from 2000. In 2000's, many companies valued recruiters: they had recruiters working for the company on 1099. They used to hire best candidates as recruiters too. Caspean networks paid like $200K on 1099 to my buddy, who worked as their recruiter; they even paid for his hotel, cars, etc when he travelled to best college/technology towns: like NC, Toronto, etc.

See how linkedin has changed the recruitment and the role of headhunters: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/242445

I have been doing contracting for last 7 years or so. The way I look at recruites now has changed: nowadays, recruiters need to get paid their commission or fill their quota; so, they need to find at least 4 prospects for the hiring manager. So, they don't care as long as one of them gets hired. Since they don't maintain long term relatoinship with candidates, they don't know where the prospect stands.

So, just treat them recruiters like car salesman: you don't need to be disrespectful of their profession. They need to make a living like we do. Recruiters (car salesman) are not the problem; but the industry (recruiting or selling cars) is the problem.

I worked as a salesman for two years; I know how difficult it is: commission, base pay, selling warranties, targets, etc. I was lucky to get out of that shitty sales job; many don't have that option any more. After all, becoming an internal recruiter is better for many new graduates than working for Enterprise car rental at their counters.
And you don't own those intangible things, you license them, so how is it you expect to be able to do MORE than the average consumer of a tangible product like a blu-ray?

It's not a false equivalence fallacy when the alternate argument only inverts the parameters while violating the same logical foundation. And it's insulting to suggest I (or anyone else) have been brainwashed because my world view is a bit more pragmatic than, "give me all the rights."

I'll eat the down votes for that, no problem, because this shouldn't be an adversarial debate between producers and consumers. There may be better ways to approach acknowledging producer rights and consumer usage, even if the consumers who feel their rights are violated are outnumbered by those who have no problem. Sure, the argument could be made, "if only they knew how their rights are being violated!" That argument could be made about any number of situations where one class feels like they need to lift up another one. And it's just as meaningless unless you do something to change the situation.

DRM is evil, blah blah blah, I get it, as a consumer, I do. I also get that there are arguments for DRM that are perfectly valid from the point of view of the producer, even if the consumer thinks that the producer is off his nut. Surely there are people out there on HN who aren't so polarized by this issue? Sometimes, it feels like the US Congress in here.
I'll tell you what: assuming you're employed, why not just give up your salary and work for nothing? That's free choice, after all, right?
That should be a great outcome for soldiers who go over seas and have to leave their place vacant. Or people in the hospital. Or people that work on long haul shipping jobs.

Breaking and Entering is exactly that: A crime that should land you in jail. If you want free housing, go get section 8- Thats what its built for.
Sounds like you assumed we are working overtime, we're not. I'm describing the reason why on Friday morning I don't just take the day off if i've met my goals. I don't think the desire for team success is unhealthy, and would counter that only caring about your own work is pretty unhealthy. Just my opinion though.
I think this is one of those projects we all think about doing, then realize an Apple ID is way too critical to a Mac / iPhone user's security (remote wipe anyone?) to let a third party authenticate with it.

It would be really handy as something I could run on my own mac.
True but if they are actually productive in those 32 hours it could work out the same. How many hours per day do startup guys waste playing ping pong and browsing HN? Maybe if they have the Friday off they would procrastinate less during the 32 hours and output would be the same. Personally I think a shorter work day would be more effective than a full day off as regards to productivity.

Also, look at the number of companies that do/have done 20% time. If giving employees 20% of the week to do whatever makes them happy result in better productivity it would be fair to keep the salary the same.
My theory is that, for much of the web, the perfect javascript framework is no javascript framework.

Get rid of all the abstraction, local state, dependency injection, symbol management and so on. Take HTML/HTTP seriously and think about REST in terms of HTML rather than JSON.

That's intercooler.js:

http://intercoolerjs.org

Here's an image I tweeted trying to explain how to get there mentally:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9QNU-ZCQAECP-K.png:large

Yes, it's a simple model. And no, it doesn't work for every app. But many apps would be infinitely simpler and more usable in a browser by using this approach, and almost all apps have some part of them that would be simpler to implement using it.
You are correct about the paper copy, I still have the IBM Technical Reference Manual binder that has the full code listings.
Spotlight. Alfred. Connect directly to chat.db.

Any of those sound good? :)
Thank you, it will be better
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Took the train home yesterday and was sitting behind someone watching a movie. I couldn't connect to the trains Wi-Fi, though I tried the whole trip :(. I really wish I would have brought a movie to keep me company rather then watching their login page load.
Why should I care about any of this? Serious question. Transparency is double-speak. It's marketing and branding for the demographic that Reddit caters to.

Notifying users of requests by law enforcement that they are legally allowed disclose is just stupid. What matters is the nature of the requests - not the number of them!
That's correct. In the future, if time permits, I would like to figure out how to use private APIs within OS X or the Messages.app libraries to send messages without the AppleScript files. Unfortunately that's non-trivial and takes some serious poking around. Right now it's a useful solution for me over ssh so I wanted to share it with the community since I thought others might find that ability useful as well
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If you are going to expect being compensated, why are you making free software to start with? Why not make a paid one instead?
During the housing bubble (as it was about to burst) I recall reading several stories about governments pursuing fraud charges where a family (or a bunch of close friends) would purchase several houses in a neighborhood from one another, each time raising the purchase price.

I would posit that probably in most cases of "real estate investment" by super wealthy, there is little to no difference, except it is not a "family bond" that exists, but a bond of being a member of the most exclusive club on earth. In many cases my hunch is (because of the opaqueness of the market) super wealthy can, and probably do, orchestrate purchases from and to themselves (not even requiring a separate purchasing party), each time raising the prices.

I think noone could argue that this kind of behavior doesn't affect surrounding real estate prices, and thus negatively affect everyone in the surrounding areas.
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I've found it helpful (both for convincing, and for clarifying your own thoughts) to phrase things like this in ways that are compatible with "mainstream economists" view of how things work.

The standard riposte to arguments like the one in the article is "well, then someone would pay their workers better and make more money, and those firms would come to dominate."

The response to the response is something like, "managers are being paid in non-pecuniary status benefits via underpaying their underlings, in a way that reduces total firm output, and there are coordination & principal/agent problems in getting management to agree not to be compensated in this way".
If you're a pre-PMF startup then you better be working all the time, because the clock's running out and your "dream" will be in the dumpster once there's no more money.

Early stage startups are a sprint, startups like Treehouse have a proven business model and are now basically dealing with scale and optimization, they can go into a well-deserved "regular job" mode with weekends and family time. If you want a 9 to 5, do not do a startup, unless you have something absolutely incredible in your deck that will allow you to bypass the "work crazy" stage.

Also early startups aren't all about coding. There's a lot of other extremely beneficial work that can be done once you've reached your coding quota for the day.

Nobody wants to hear this, everybody wants to work 4 hours a week and be billionaires, so this inaccurate mythology gets propagated.
I suspect you could coax 720p out of a 1GHz+ G4 if the code was sufficiently optimized -- another obvious problem with putting the video decoder in a black box.

But more importantly, the point is not the exact quantity of particular models of PowerMac in existence, the point is that if I have one which is otherwise capable of it, this nonsense interferes with me doing it.

And the same goes for every other thing that doesn't fit a mold. What about Linux on a PS3? What if I have a PA-RISC/Itanium/Power/etc Unix workstation? What if I'm using X forwarding so that my "browser" is really running on an UltraSPARC server?

It breaks anything the central planning committee didn't contemplate a priori or can't be bothered to fix. And it's not just old hardware, it's anything new or different. It keeps new platforms from getting off the ground.
> You keep telling that to yourself, and yet the businesses go out of their way to do something that you're so sure doesn't do them any good. Do you really think they're stupid? Do you really think they are wasting their energy, to support a system that possibly even hurts their bottom line? Are you in the entertainment industry? Do you know better?

I’m not saying they’re stupid. I’m not even saying that the insistence on DRM is stupid, I’m just saying it’s wrong. It’s an understandable mistake—it’s hard to understand the capabilities of the internet.

> Maybe there are different levels of sophistication from this camp, but I also remember people saying that piracy would actually help CD sales because it spread the word about artists. How many platinum records have there been in the last 5 years?

This is a completely irrelevant point. Of course piracy hurts sales. But DRM doesn’t solve this problem, and I see no purpose pretending that it does.

I’ll be happy to revise my opinion if a DRM scheme emerges which actually works.

> I'm inclined to think there's something at play here, something that really hits their bottom line, that we're not considering.

Well, yes. There’s something else at play here, which is that having closed-source access is useful to corporations for reasons that have nothing to do with DRM. For example, having more closed-source access to users’ machines means that they can collect more data on their users without their users knowing.

Yes, there are things we don't know, but it's a pretty big leap to assume that these unknowns are good reasons to concede on an open web. If there are unknown reasons that companies want closed internet, there is nothing stopping them from presenting those reasons in the court of public opinion. I suspect the reason they are fighting the DRM issue is that it comes across as defending artists' rights, and the real reasons companies want to run untrusted, unaudited code on our machines are things you'd feel less sympathetic about.
Not arguing with you're overall point but drug sales have not stopped by any stretch of the imagination. There are more dark net market places now than ever.
I meant what is the reason, but the comment history does have a lot of down votes. I'd search through them for a reason, but that could a while.
> Is Netflix an outdated business model? Because it's not possible without DRM.

[citation needed]

> Is any sort of video rental or subscription model outdated?

I’m not sure why you’re asking me that, I never said that.

> And why is it outdated?

Because DRM does exactly nothing to prevent piracy, and hurts users.

> DRM may not be able to provide 100% ironclad copy protection, but it provides roughly the same level of copy protection that video rental has before, probably better if you're comparing to VHS or DVD.

And how much copy protection is that?

Here’s a fun experiment: go on The Pirate Bay and search for Orange is the New Black, then tell me how effective you think DRM is.

Piracy is far easier now than it was in the VHS or DVD eras. In the VHS or DVD eras you at least had to have some access to a controlled version of the content in order to copy it. Now you can go on a torrent site and search for something you’ve never heard of and people you’ll never meet will serve it to you for free.

So no, DRM does not provide roughly the same level of copy protection as video rental.
Eventually, whenever you become an employer. You would probably and most probably get the NDA signed. Esp., if you are a small business, because you are more at risk from your employees than competitors.

Although I am not in a sofware business, but what would it take a lead software developer to open up his own shop? Nothing a few bucks and the clients of his/her ex company.
A good recruiter is worth his or her weight in gold, but they are rarer than hen's teeth.
For those of you who, like me, might want to use this on older hardware, I got an error on launch on Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion: https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessageclient/issues/2

Just thought I'd mention it here in case others are thinking of trying this out on Mountain Lion.

Edit: CamHenlin has already committed a fix for this problem. Nice work!
Interesting stats hack definitely. I love the point the other comments are making: Learn more about simulation and bootstrapping. It'll still require a little probability but all of the results will make a ton of sense.
> This isn't even close to true. Netflix has a ton of non browser delivery mechanisms. It may only have been delivered with drm but that's a different thing and I don't know enough to know if that's true.

Maybe that’s a bad example. But I’ll put out this challenge: find me a reasonably popular TV show that’s supposedly completely covered by DRM, and I’ll find you a torrent for it. My point is that DRM does nothing to prevent piracy.
Yeah, the service will essentially be a man in the middle on the account, and I believe it will be very important to communicate that with users. I'll think about releasing a standalone "server" app based on the code although I've already built something somewhat similar (although even "clunkier" if you can imagine that) here: https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessageservice
no, reddit's ban types just aren't well publicised
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That's only somewhat true. You can express arbitrary graphs pretty easily with an arena, which has some similarities to GC in terms of how you use it but flat out isn't garbage collection (unlike reference counting) or unsafe (at least, not after an incoming Rust patch lands). There has also been discussion for some time in the Haskell community around the feasibility of a non-garbage collected implementation of Haskell (the consensus seems to be that it is doable, though perhaps not wholly practical).

More generally, Rust is not the final word in type systems around data structures, and for more complex ones there are more complex type systems.
> All other things being equal, the one who spends 40 hours working, not just typing, but thinking about the problem, fixing bugs, finding new ones, improving performance, refactoring to improve structure, et cetera, will produce work output that is higher quality or in grater quantity than the one who puts in 30 hours.

The only difference in opinion that I see here is that those 40 (or 50, or 30, or whatever) don't all have to be done while sitting at a computer and looking busy.

Who is to say that the folks in the OP's article aren't thinking about work problems on a Friday? I'd be shocked if they don't get more of the thinking portion of their job done on a Friday (or after hours or over lunch or...) than they do in the remaining 32 hours "working hours" of the week.

People are up in arms about the lack of traditional appearance of work (that is, in a chair in front of the computer, or in a meeting, etc.), not the time actually spent thinking about how to solve a problem.
This IBM no longer exists, physically or spiritually.

Physically speaking: near as I can tell, the printer plants in Armonk, NY and Charlotte, NC are long-shuttered. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, by all means, post it.

Spiritually: The low-end printer division was part of the 1991 divestments. It became part of Lexmark. As far as I know, Lexmark no longer manufactures anything in the US. They just slap their name on various imported OEM designs.

p.s. This case study was written in 1998 about events in the late 1980s. The Lexmark divestment had already occurred. The manufacturing capacity was probably already dead before the study was published.
The same can be said for getting lobbyist money out of Congress. Letting the fox mind the hen-house is a horrible way to run a society.
Can you explain further what you mean by this:

"Working 7 days on extrinsic motivations is soul destroying."
If you use Rust for any length of time, I think you will find that you almost never need reference counting. You are right that Rust's borrow checker cannot always determine when memory needs to be freed, but the point at which that occurs is much more distant than "when you need to allocate on the heap."
Your example shows that simple statistical tests aren't always that simple. Especially when talking about small effects.

What you really want are confidence intervals which show what would be a significant change. You can calculate that from your A-data and from your B-data. If they overlap you probably aren't quite there yet.

Comparing A/A vs. B or A/A/...A/A vs. B/B/...B/B is a poor man's approach to visualize the distribution of the mean values.

Things get further complicated when doing a lot of tests. If you do hundreds of A/B-Tests and a handful show a weakly significant result that may actually be a statistical fluke. The likelyhood that a wrong seemingly significant result is present when doing hundreds of tests can actually be pretty high. You should rerun these tests with fresh data and check for consistency, which in itself is some kind of A/A/B/B-test.
I was very happy to see that the article addressed this immediately in the second paragraph:

The researchers cautioned, however, that they cannot draw a direct, causal connection between meditation and preserving gray matter in the brain. Too many other factors may come into play, including lifestyle choices, personality traits, and genetic brain differences.

Good reporting.
Yes, one challenge for the military is educating congress and the American people on new emerging threats so new defense products can be researched, developed, and funded.

The global military environment is dynamic and evolving and our defense plans need to reflect that reality.
These two sentences do not jive:

> They expect that you treat your position not just as a job where you work so many hours or do just the tasks that you are asked to do, but that you take more personal responsibility for doing the very best job you can, improving your own productivity, and making the company function better and more efficiently.

That's actually how I prefer to treat my job, and why I like startups. But...

> The company managers don't care about you and your work/life balance, only the work they can get out of you. And in terms of efficiency, that means paying you the smallest salary and benefits that you'll accept.

If the company treats me like that then I'm going to start punching the clock, that's only fair.

There are a lot of employees that take advantage of their employer, and there are a lot of employers that take advantage of their employees (with more leverage FWIW), but such an adversarial relationship is a drag on overall resources and productivity. In knowledge work trust is paramount, there are no metrics which you can use to guarantee that an employee is "100%" productive, and management attempting to do so is a huge red flag for me.
> That's absurd. Netflix would sooner stop supporting web browsers on desktop OS's before they started allowing DRM-free streaming.

So let them, and let a competitor arise that allows a similar service with DRM-free streaming. That's what the free market is for. I'm not sure why implementers of the open web should care about Netflix's concerns.

> Without EME, Netflix would be relying on proprietary browser plugins forever, and if a platform with a significant userbase appeared that didn't support any form of proprietary plugin, and they wanted to support that platform, they'd develop their own proprietary application for it instead of providing DRM-free streaming (think of how Netflix has applications for mobile OS's and even consoles, both living room consoles and handheld consoles).

So let them do that and suffer the consequences of the inferior user experience that would provide.
>Parallel lines are non-intersecting lines, i.e. lines traveling in identical directions. This is a nice allusion to the way parallelism works by running identical processes that do not interact.

Maybe, but there's nothing about parallelism that says the parallel processes have to be (a) identical or (b) not interact, if I am not mistaken.

Two threads running in parallel (and at the same time) might do totally different things (not identical) and might also interact with each other (e.g. consumer and producer threads).
Would be nice if users could give you(r service) access to only the imessage key in their icloud keychain.
I am very grateful for this joke.