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What Apple did was remove itself from the equation. Long before Apple, anyone could encrypt data they felt like encrypting, and trust that short of divulging the key, that data could not be decrypted. The only thing that has changed is the ease of use around applying the encryption. I don't agree that making encryption "too easy to use" should be illegal.

Of course with iPhones we are still encrypting the data ourselves. You choose to apply a PIN lock (or not). If you choose to allow a fingerprint to unlock the phone from a cold boot, then the government can collect your fingerprint and decrypt your files (fingerprints are not testimony). If you choose a weak PIN, the government can guess it and decrypt your files.

All Apple has done is choose to design a secure encryption library, one where there is no obvious backdoor, and one where they cannot be co-opted into secretly disclosing your personal data to the government through a 3rd-party warrant. The fact is, Apple is not in possession of your data, and they don't want to be in possession of your data.

If somehow Congress manages to pass CALEA-type laws requiring Apple to maintain a backdoor into our data, we'll just bypass Apple and keep the data safe ourselves. It might take a few more years for the technology to become equally usable, but the 1st amendment guarantees our right to develop and publish and freely license the software necessary to achieve the end goal, namely, that people have the ability to control access to personal data that they themselves collect and maintain.

Thankfully Tim Cook has the experience and unique perspective on these matters to truly understand the value and necessity of being able to keep personal data private. I'm sure the path that brought him to these strongly-held personal beliefs was not easy, but I believe the world actually is a better place because of it. I am also very thankful to live in a country where Tim can help craft a device which upholds his beliefs, and it would be a sad day indeed to see that freedom stifled.

You're argument about "an encryption system installed by the manufacturer that the manufacturer itself cannot decrypt" does not make any sense. It sounds like an argument against functional encryption, which is an argument against functional computers. Please try following your thought to its logical conclusion, and consider if it's really a country you would want to live in?
Ooh, super excited. Elementary gave a new life to my old black macbook.
> This is pretty much the precise definition of a ponzi scheme and why the scheme faces certain bankruptcy with out a significant rise in births.

Or we could just remove the cap for social security tax.
Rand supporters can expect persecution.
Oh, well in that case I'll definitely vote for Rand Paul.
Mr Money Mustache for the win!
It would be interesting if the non-paying audience contributes higher quality comments :) Or maybe lower-traffic blogs attract less/different posturing than comments on high traffic articles.
> after having spent over a year working with it on a large project

What issues are you running into? I always hear people complain about angular but rarely hear why.
There are a few products I made just to solve a problem for myself that I was too shy to share. I was very surprised how many people found my product and used it when I did 0 advertising and told 0 people about it. But to answer your question, no I do not think it is probable for a product to take off with 0 marketing/advertising. The only way a product takes off with 0 marketing is when an end-user finds your product and loves it so much that they share it with the world (free marketing.) This is very rare but a few developers found success with this model such as Larry Page and Sergey Brin but they are more of an exception than the rule.
Hi I've noticed the link to the junior position is broken and it's not listed on the website. Is the position no longer available?
"The president created this vast dragnet by executive order." That's a remarkable simplification. Makes a good sound bite, but demonstrates, to me anyway, that he doesn't mean what he's saying.

Falsifying the origin of a problem you claim to intend to fix puts that claim in quite a bit of doubt.
The feeling I'm getting is that the left has become mainstream enough to have attracted enough ignoramuses that it is fostering as many jerks as the right has fostered for years. Populism that leans in favor of your political views is a form of power, because there is power in numbers, and while it's not absolute power, it's still corrupts, just not absolutely.

Me? I've not be a fan of most policies from the right, but now I'm no longer a fan of many of the policies from the left.

While I don't agree with everything here are a bunch of interesting ideas from this blog post that resonate with me:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
Why is this not more popular? Such a cool project!
I would like to see your data for "generally the corporation is going to pick the anonymous one."

Regardless, I personally would favor any candidate who did the right thing in difficult circumstances. I don't hire people who will just go and do whatever I tell them; I've got computers for that. I hire people to help make good things happen. And for that, I need some confidence that when faced with a choice between easy and good, they'll pick good.

More than a decade back I was brought into a company to help them experiment with new ways of working. There was one engineer on my team who thought my ideas were nuts. He argued so much that the management offered to give me somebody more tractable. I stuck with him, though, and as he worked in the new approach, he came to appreciate it. By the time I left, he was an unstoppable advocate for improving my client's engineering practices. Over the next few years he made a huge difference there.

When I look back upon the best people I've worked with, they're all like that. They're professionals, in the sense of having a strong sense of professional and ethical duty. As far as I'm concerned, one person like that is worth any three over-obedient clock-punchers.
That's just because we need to define the set more gracefully: "n! is the product of the first n natural numbers".

The negative factorial issue arises from a slightly awkward specification of the set, not from jameshart's core idea.
OS X is fully POSIX compliant. Its launchd is rather more similar to systemd, having abandoned startup scripts 10 years ago.
Knuth did TeX. LaTeX was Leslie Lamport. LaTex is short for Lamport TeX.
SQLAlchemy-Wrapper: A friendly wrapper for SQLAlchemy
as someone who vehemently hated Bush Jr, I am beginning to wonder which would ultimately be more dangerous and damaging to the states; the sneakily nefarious third term Obama cabinet which will say one thing and do the other while ignoring the people calling them out on it to gradually gain small amounts of power, or the recklessly irresponsible and blatant nature of the Bush cowboy genes and the power grabs that are so obvious that half of his own party disagrees.

God, it makes me sick to my stomach to sound pro Bush. I promise I don't mean it that way.
> nobody can fail

I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Have you looked into remote work? I love Reno and have been remote working here at several different companies for many years. Right now, it's fairly easy to get a good front-end web dev gig remotely that pays much closer to SV salaries than Reno ones.

Reno has really blossomed even in the last few years, but the jobs market, especially for skilled people, is abysmal. There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem as well since many people with enough talent realize that Reno's salaries are laughable and end up leaving. Right now there's not enough decent paying work to attract people to the city, but if you where to bring a company here that paid sane wages you'd have a hard time finding talent. I've known enough amazing UNR grads that migrate to the Bay to know that this city does have the potential. It's just a matter of that right window of a reasonable paying company being here and snatching up enough bright people before they move to the Bay.

But for remote work it's hard to think of a better place. Cost of living is very low, there's no state income tax, and SF is an easy 3 1/2 hour drive when you miss parts of the big city experience. Every other major West Coast city is a cheap and quick flight. And there are some really amazing people in this city. If you don't go already, head to Hack Night at the Reno collective some time, it's a great group.
Capitalism is the reason you are using the wonderful machine in front of you. Capitalism is the reason you have food. Capitalism is the reason you are not right now waiting in line for toilet paper. Capitalism has far from failed.

Very little actual good and a lot of bad science has come from public funding.
I went one step further and built a Canadian that was built on x64, ran on raspberry pi, and targeted teensy cortex m4!

https://github.com/jwatte/teensy-canadian
Apple seems to trying much harder to market the Apple Watch. I've never seen Apple being so open and giving so many journalists inside access.
_Was_ it actually cheaper?

>Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however, this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow.[2]

That sounds horrible, but both the references are to books so I'm not sure what actually happened.
Refreshing to see somebody attacking the consumer operating system market. The UX and design looks super clean.
> Software engineering reliably undergoes a major technology shift at least every 10 years.

From web to mobile? What was the tough bridge to cross in the last 10 years?
Interesting, sure. But I started out wondering if some obviously-noise picture could be found that fooled humans, at least at first glance. "Hey a panda! Wait, what was I thinking, that's just noise!" It would be weird and cool, on the order of the dress meme etc. but much more so.

Kind of like the memes in Snowcrash, ancient forgotten symbols that make up the kernel of human thought.
> This isn't really anything amazing or new

One counterexample: Contractor, an Android Intents-like system for sharing data between apps.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementary...

(archive.org link because this info doesn't seem to be on their new site, for whatever reason...)

There are other technologies like Switchboard and Granite that are unique to Elementary OS, and many of the user-facing apps were written from scratch.
Rockets would be hugely expensive, and would negate the value (unless the asteroid were solid gold or so). Much better would be to apply an ablative heat shield and just let the thing strike the ground (or ocean) at terminal velocity in a controlled area.
It is not cynical at all. The white house has a duty to fill the press room with diverse range of press that reaches as much of america as possible. "Serious" isn't really the criteria.

And anyway, buzz feed's news articles are as serious other publishers. The presence of other silly stories isn't any worse than the Boston Globe having a comics page.
I've found I almost exclusively prefer working with 30+ year old engineers. There's a huge difference and it shows.
I usually summarize this thusly: "I have already made the mistake you are about to make". It should be obvious the time savings would worth it to "rent" me. And I am months away from my 40th birthday.
> Paul, Feb. 2: I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

> That quote is taken out of context. To quote the entire thing

That wasn't out of context, that's him later trying to walk back his quote. They link directly to a video of him saying what they quoted[1]

(and even ignoring that, his point that parents should essentially use their instincts for setting a vaccination schedule is irresponsible and would make for incredibly poor public policy)

[1] http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000351424 at 1:53
> In this case, though, it's not the people who are hiding it - the device manufacturer is.

That is not correct. What Apple has done is give control over whether the information is hidden or not to the person with the password for the device.

> Nobody is buying a new iPhone because of the encryption; they're buying it because it's a newer, better version of an existing product - a product that police could search for evidence before if they had a warrant.

You can't win this by making a relativistic argument. The world was not in a state of anarchy before everyone started carrying around iPhones.
> Mandatory also means you might be subject to fines

So you write me that ticket and I shove it down my pants, wipe my ass with it, and throw it in your direction. What then?

You want to know what happens when you don't pay the government's fines?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/09/384968360/jai...

So you're OK with throwing people in jail for not performing a medical procedure on their children? I just want to know where you stand.

Personally, I think we're better off with a public shaming campaign, same as we did with smoking, but apparently I'm soft?
It depends a lot for me on the quality of the contact.

As soon as I started hiring at my last company, I got a lot of worthless email. Tons of contacts from companies selling low-rent coding. Randos selling things totally irrelevant. People who sent in resumes apparently without even reading my advertisement. Kooks.

That left me generally ill-disposed to anything that looked spammy, thoughtless, or clueless. So if you're going to write directly, make it worth the reader's time. Your email should be smart, clear, and short. You should have read and understood absolutely everything publicly available. And you should be either asking or telling me something that is not already obvious.

Best of all, of course, is that you get somebody to make an introduction. If somebody I already respect is willing to vouch for you, that's worlds better than a cold email out of the blue.
Existential crisis ("what does it all mean?") is one of the most common mental illnesses of all time. Pascal and Newton had it, and plenty of regular people do too.
Ok, lets see. The languages that I have seen come and go as intense fads:

* Easel
* Telon
* Powerbuilder
* Codfusion
* CICS (was actually taught in a "CS" course not too far from here)
* PL/I (may be not totally dead, sadly)
* IITRAN (maybe not that intense)

To Tom's point, I know of a project involving 300 Telon programmers who had to be let go when a massive project failed. Few who invested in the above technologies are working in them today.

More importantly than the article says, develop skill in solving business problems using your programming skills.
Downvote me if you want; I don't care and it doesn't make you right.

Simply adding "sucks" is not a free pass to do whatever you want with a trademark.
When you're young, it can be beneficial to specialize in the "here today, gone tomorrow" technologies, because it negates the advantage of all the greybeards and lets you get exposed to levels of responsibility you wouldn't have a prayer of reaching for 10 years otherwise.

I got my first tech job (at 15!) because I'd taught myself Java, which was then brand-new, and a number of local companies needed experience with that and this weird new technology called the WWW. Parlayed that into a bunch of web experience, often as sole developer or team lead. Parlayed that into a job at Google, where I got to learn information retrieval, machine learning, distributed systems, the stuff that actually has a shelf life.

Someone could certainly end up at the same place (skill-wise) by getting a Ph.D and then a job at Google. The thing is, if you take that path, you're also forgoing work experience, income, perspective on how the industry operates, and the opportunity to jump off into different careers if you find you like them better. My first job out of college was writing software for hedge funds, for example; it turns out I hated the financial industry, but if I hadn't, it wouldn't have been too big a leap to get a job at a hedge fund after that.

The trick is to not kid yourself into thinking that the twelfth Javascript framework you learn is still valuable. The first gives you opportunities, the second and third give you perspective. But after that, have a plan B for things you should be learning that you can't get on the web. All that Java Swing stuff I did around 2000? Basically useless. Ditto the PHP in college, and even my Django & Javascript skills are nearing the end of their shelf life. It's the stuff I've done besides that, the stuff I generally don't talk about on Hacker News, that makes me valuable
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Finn here.

It's true that Finnish spelling is very simple. The mapping of sounds to letters is quite regular, and much more so than in English. As an example, the word 'computer' is 'tietokone'. The pronunciation is [tietokone].

As a result, a "spelling bee" is a completely foreign concept in Finland. A Finnish spelling bee would go on for days.

The grammar of Finnish, on the other hand, is very irregular and full of exceptions. There are 16 noun cases. This makes Finnish laborious for English-speakers to learn.
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>Very little actual good and a lot of bad science has come from public funding.

Many, many private and public universities depend on federal grants to do the important research in every field.

Perhaps what you say about capitalism is correct, but an increasingly automated society can probably do without it. Look up post-scarcity economics.
None of what you say contradicts anything that I said.

He's not against government, he's against government when it bothers him and in favor of government when it suits him.
Tip: Whatever sound/song you set your alarm to you will grow to hate.

Right now that Deep Note has good feeling by association, it will grow to be your nemesis as your alarm. Then movies will remind you of your alarm. :(
There is also a paper out claiming that elementary school students who learn math in English speaking countries lag behind those in, say, Chinese speaking countries, because the numbering system in English is irregular. For example, 11 and 12 does not follow the construction of 13 or 15. Or the fact that two-digit numbers are composed differently from three-digit numbers. I don't know if this claim is true, but it certainly drives me crazy when I started learning English.
When I was a programmer in my 20s, I saw the same among my peers and tried to emulate an engineer in my 30s. I stayed mature, tried to focus on the big picture and was always open to advice from elders because I didn't know squat yet and was aware of it.

Just by doing that I excelled in many areas, and now as a n almost 40 year old developer I try to hire people who act like I did, and believe me they're out there.
there's a lot of listicles but it drives some high-quality journalism.

Check out this amazing article covering the writing of the AUMF after 9/11 http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-w...
1.) There are some pretty nifty frontend editing demos that show you what the site will look like on desktop, table and mobile at once, I don't see that as a big problem. Don't really agree with it being a metaphor since most front-end plugins literally make the actual content editable on the frontend.

2.) Agreed on the formatting. But you can limit content editors by restricting the available tools and formatting options. As for the looks vs says, I think it heavily relies on the person. Some people are visual beings and perform better when they are seeing their page being built as opposed to created in a detached vacuum.

3.) #1 adresses this in part. As for complex content, we've had pretty good feedback on using blocks with visual previews on the frontend. There are issues, such as very large blocks having problems with drag-and drop, but I think these are just hurdles.

From a programmer standpoint, I guess it would be nice to detach the content from the presentation, but working "IRL" with business owners, creatives and journalists I hear almost every day about the "complicated systems" that people want to get rid of, opting for a simpler, visual experience.
They don't. They're classic free riders.
Marketing in the sense of "preparing your product for market" is indeed necessary. You should have a deep understanding of who specifically needs your product and how they benefit. And you should make it very easy for them to understand that. The whole point of business is to serve other people, after all, and that applies just as much before the sale as after.

Advertising may or may not be necessary; it depends on what your product is, who uses it, how much it benefits them, how your audience talks to one another, and how much advertising your competitors employ. Note that advertising is an arms race. The kinds of weapons a country needs depends a great deal on what its neighbors have. The same applies to businesses and advertising.
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Thanks for your input.

On top of the listings, we also provide a full-fledged (MVP at this point) rental transaction process. So we are not just a free classifieds, but a marketplace/platform that tries to facilitate the entire ad-hoc rental transaction life cycle.

If anyone is interested, they can try out the rental process on the site themselves.
Don't hold your breath: Why Windows won't be open-source any time soon
Obama promised to end Guantanamo bay antiterrorism/whatever, which is executive branch.
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Yes, how tragic that someone might have to suffer the indignity of earning a measly $80,000 a year.
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This uncertainty is one of the things that drives me towards getting a CS PhD and ultimately a research position rather than becoming a software engineer. Older researchers are very common in CS-related fields, both in industry and academia.
I was maintaining a custom piece of PL/I software until 2010 when I changed jobs, as far as I know the place is still using it. I suppose I have potential value as one of the few people (barely) under the age of 40 that have experience in it.