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Everyone seems to be Apple-bashing, and ignoring the fact that Apple really don't make money out of your private information. They make cash out of selling devices. So their interests are more aligned with yours. You may have noticed that Google don't make their money out of selling hardware. So they make it through other means. This is really inarguable, regardless of whether you think Apple are using that for marketing or whatever.

Personally, I'm happy to pay a company with a sound business model that doesn't rely on advertising (and by proxy your private information).

How on earth some of the other commenters arrived at their worldview, I have no idea. Unusually close-minded for HN. A lot of Google employees, perhaps?
Advanced civilizations should use black holes as heat sinks
You'll find HR consultants for pretty much all big companies and govt (incl Fonterra, TradeMe, GCSB, IRD, Frucor, to name a few) will throw your CV in the trash if you don't have a degree. Luckily in this country it's much easier to get your foot in the door through meet-and-greet.

Want to meet a developer from Xero? Tweet 'em. No luck? Ask somebody you know if they know someone who works there, likely they or someone they know does.
If you're 15 and want some of your school friends to chat whilst playing a game, this is inifnitely more affordable than trying to convince mum and dad to lay down their credit card.
> With OpenCL, you can develop on laptop, test on workstation and deploy on actual servers. With CUDA, you're trapped.

GPGPU developers usually prefer hardware with Nvidia GPUs inside, so you can do all this too. I wouldn't call Nvidia anti competitive, just like I wouldn't use that word for Apple. They saw a niche (HPC/smartphones) when no one thought that market to be attractive, jumped in with proprietary technology that others later tried to reproduce (OpenCL/Android) and they kept the market leadership in terms of profits by reiterating their product.
Oh come on, intel's naming is terrible. "better" isn't clear cut, but even if it is, i3/i5/i7 still wouldn't be consistent. Features like hyperthreading, vt-d, v-pro, more cores, better graphics, are sort of stochastically more likely to be in the i7 than the i5 than the i3, but it's never consistent.

See for example the bottom table on this page title "More Differentiation" http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-i...

i3-2100 does have aes-ni, i3-2120 does not.
i5-2300 does not have vt-d. i5-2400 does. i5-2500K does not.

In that generation, i3 have hyperthreading, i5 do not, i7 do. That's for desktop chips though, for laptops its different.

The latest generation, broadwell, was slightly more consistent. But you can never be sure, I have to look up these suckers every single time. At least Intel Ark is nice.
This is exactly what I took from the article "Don't use hardware RAID controllers."
You seem to be operating with some Newspeak definition of privacy.

Privacy is seclusion. Ruffling through someone's dirty laundry, but keeping all the findings to themselves is not "pro-privacy".
Is there any noise about being able to use Windows as an Ansible host? I like Ansible far more than the alternatives, but I can't make developers I work with keep a Linux VM running just to run Ansible to provision a development VM. That would be... crazy.
What is the 'gold-standard' host?
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Ask HN: Is it possible to build a company where everyone is a software engineer?
Everyone is software engineer, some of which happens to do HR, marketing, sales, recruiting ...

Small team. Move fast. Automate as many things as possible (software is eating the world ...)

I know, this is kind of idealism. But, seriously, any success example?
> Can anyone enlighten me on why those deals might not be helping as much as I thought they would?

Good explanation may be found there:
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/150892-nvidia-gave-amd-ps4...
"Two years ago, in January 2011, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told reporters that the Sony-Nvidia deal had earned Nvidia $500M in royalties since 2004. The total number of shipped PS3 consoles by March, 2011 stood at 50 million according to data from the NPD group."
Same question as "Why should I use github, I can host the git repo myself"
This article is mostly another Swift circlejerk. I wish the discussion was more substantiative instead of just taking swipes at Obj-C.

"I’ll be deleting all my Objective-C, because it’s technical debt."

Completely disagree. Obj-C will still be around in 10 years with some level of tool support since there are what – hundreds of millions to billions of lines of Obj-C already written? It's not just going away, like how C didn't just go away, and tons of other languages still in use today. That timeframe is likely to outlast the lifetime of most projects started with Obj-C, today.

It's not technical debt if it's the right solution to the problem. Obj-C is the best-supported way to get things done on Apple's platforms today and tomorrow. Swift is still full of rough edges, bugs, and toolchain issues that aren't just suddenly going to be magically resolved - it's a process.

So maybe they're excited about the distant future of Swift and hooray for them. I just wish it actually were Objective-C without the C and not the C++ reading clusterfuck that it is.
"Generated code? What do you mean? (I have no familiarity with VB6 at all."

I think the parent is referring to generated COBOL code.
For all we know it looks like it http://www.3dcenter.org/dateien/abbildungen/Intel-Prozessore...
We don't allow stocks below a certain liquidity threshold, so this would be pretty tough to achieve.
You can see some chang s over 100's of years. Nothing as dramatic as this. I wouldn't call 10 million years quite a blip though. But dinosaurs were around for almost 200 million years! Some animals have not evolved much in hundreds of millions of years, like sharks and crocodiles.
I've been rebalancing religiously every quarter, sector-balanced low-fee mutual funds etc. Lifetime APY so far, 2.5% . S&P500 APY over same time period about 8.3% . Grumble.
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He probably means Multiplay.
It's disingenuous to ask for it in the first place when one touts itself as a privacy advocate. Vast majority of users will do what they are told to do by default and Apple knows and exploits that.
I think Obamacare is still mostly a pejorative in my community - to the point that the minority proponents have recently taken to referring to it as the Affordable Care Act in a sort of rebranding attempt.

The Patriot Act has similarly transformed into a negative, doublespeak term. I'm not surprised the lawmakers felt the need to create a new bumpersticker-named law rather than continuing to edit the old one.
The founding fathers took care of that one for the EFF and the rest of us. Get a warrant. Get a warrant before rummaging around in people's digital effects. Here's the Supreme Court from last term: " A decade ago officers might have occasionally stumbled across a highly personal item such as a diary, but today many of the more than 90% of American adults who own cell phones keep on their person a digital record of nearly every aspect of their lives."

By the way the same question applies to the intelligence agencies. What level of freedom is acceptable in their opinion. I've heard a number of easily disprovable talking points in favor of continued expansion of this full-employment-act for intelligence "analysts," but what would people's ability to freely express themselves look like if the intelligence community had its way?
Nobody can explain you such matters. It's like asking someone to briefly explain Quantum Mechanics. You will never truly understand a word unless you learn everything you need to know first. This is especially true in law and politics because things can be ambiguous and often times people deliberately want to deceive you.

If you are pro civil activism, take the time and effort and learn how to read documents. Otherwise you are just lying to yourself so you can feel warm and fuzzy.
that's because they buy development, not products.
I've worked in some big corporations who enforced Java internally, but they do not care about products they also use (best example is office tools, but I've seen many "business oriented" products developed in other languages: i.e. first versions of rational suite -yes, I'm old- were made also in smalltalk and nobody ever cared about, etc. etc. etc.)
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Why wouldn't the stock drop more?
The risk of you being personally targeted and hacked is greater than Google being hacked. The only entity I'm concerned about that might access Google's data is the US government. OTOH, If you don't trust Google with your data, I don't see how you can trust anyone else - at that point you might as well be writing your own PGP implementation.
It's too bad the debate here has turned into a huge Apple vs Google thing when it's really a story about not letting the government strip away people's privacy and ability to properly encrypt their data.

But these issues are not independent. Full end-to-end encryption is not acceptable to Google in the short term, since it would mean that they have to store or transmit data that they cannot profile.

This has two consequences: 1. end-to-end encryption is less important to Google and they'll be less inclined to fight governments' attempts to strip away the right to do end-to-end encryption; 2. having data unencrypted data at rest[1] makes it easier for government agencies to request and use that data.

[1] The whole 'data encrypted at rest' thing seems to be doublespeak to me. Their storage backends may only see encrypted data, so it may protect against storage server theft, but as long as they also hold the encryption keys it's only marginal security against hacks and the government, and no protection against the cloud providers themselves.
> Google says "don't be evil" and then goes out and does evil.

"Evil" such as serving you ads?

> Google's product is your private info.

Better ads targeting using your private info - not selling your private info to advertisers/governments. It's evident how much you distrust Google, but don't spread and allude to FUD.
Power shell is ok but MS DOS terminal needs an update: it has several limitations about fonts, encoding and missing libs that make it the worst terminal experience imho.

Ah also POSIX compliance could simplify the life of those who develop on Windows. I tryed to develop on Windows for many years, I tryed hard but you are always missing some feature that on Unix is basic.
If you are not sure, then read the article and keep track of what the researchers say. This will increase your degree of sureness.
This isn't the case. WMF is available separately. I just rolled our WMF4 over all our kit and we have PS4 everywhere now including win7 and 2008.
> Plus is anyone expecting a lot of YouTube 4K content ?

Every enthusiast cameral high end smartphone or the latest GoPro shoots 4K, more and more people have 4K displays and prices come down. So yeah, i think there will be a lot of 4K on youtube in the near future.
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Pharo (and others) can interact without many problems with any file-format VCS using "filetree" (an file based export source format).
There are many of us using it for projects more or less complex (one of them the Pharo VM: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm). So, while we can improve in that area, we are not agnostic :)

Now, you can do scripting with Pharo too, but using console to edit it is so alien for us that we cannot even understand why someone would want to drop a complete development environment (with some really nice tools), just to use a text editor...
How we uncovered the identity of popular spyware makers
Large-scale attack hijacks routers through users' browsers
Making a speech is easy, compared to actually doing the right thing.

Just a month ago, I was asked by an employee of an Apple Certified Service Provider to decrypt my hard drive in order for Apple to make a "hardware test". There was an issue with my display, but they insisted that Apple's hardware test needed to have access to the data on my hard drive and send information back to Apple via the Internet. What about privacy, now?

So, don't believe anything they tell you. If you want to be secure, you need to take care of it yourself.

Edit: Just to make it clear, the employees were asking me, to hand over my administrator password, which should be added to their database, in order for the technician to successfully run Apple's hardware tests. This is literally the most insane thing that ever happened to me...
If but I could send this moment (and recent ones) back in time to the slashdot of 2005...
LightSail Spacecraft Restored After Being Silenced by Software Issue
Democoin: A Publicly Verifiable and Jointly Serviced Cryptocurrency [pdf]
Not a word on Linux support, of course.
Les Nouveaux noms de domaine dans la presse – JDN
Those who have tested the latest version complained a lot about the FOV being very small, thus breaking immersion.

Though it's the first gen version, so i guess it will become much better.
Hey all, I'm the author of this app. It's late here, but feel free to leave any questions and I'll answer when I can!
For the love of... just let me drag it wider than an old vt110 terminal!
This video makes it all look a little too easy. The nuclear industry is with its back to the wall and for very good reasons. The core message here is: let's build more nuclear power plants and we can sort things out. We have been hearing those types of arguments for over 60 years. The technology has left us with huge amounts of incredibly toxic waste and recycling experts in France/UK/US still haven't been able to sort this out. So here are wonderboy and wondergirl telling us they sorted it out. Hm. Who doesn't like a good miracle.
Thanks, that's good to know. Guess I'm a bit sore as I held out for a 97 chipset motherboard for months (when I really needed a new PC) with the aim of using Haswell and then switching to Broadwell and future proofing. With the lack of Broadwell desktop CPUs I could've saved money and gone for 87 chipset, and planned a Skylake replacement...
I understand completely what you mean. CPUs and graphics cards are hard problems to solve. For a long time, I was very happy to use AMD, because I felt that I was helping to keep the desktop market at least at two players (which is also crazy close to a monopoly). I still use AMD graphics cards for this reason.
I think it could work definitely.

I know a small team for mobile game development which has around 10 people, 7 developers and 3 designers.

This small team run pretty well at the moment.
Very interesting, thank you.
Seems I was wrong in my assumption, though I'm interested in why they keep using the term 'Lightfield'. This is a better patent claim page for my understanding on how the final product will work.
https://www.google.com/patents/WO2013077895A1?cl=en&dq=inass...
Ask HN: University diploma/degree role in modern (2015+) IT career
Hello HN,

Today I wanted to ask you about education's role in career and job hunting.

I do realize that for an entry level candidate (e.g. a tech support engineer), the presence of a university degree is probably valuable (since they might not have any relevant field experience, hence entry level) and even might be a deciding factor.

However, if you've already gotten a job in a field that more or less suits you and is not far from your ultimate goal (your CV begins to fill up with years of experience in the field), do employers typically care about your degree (or its absence) at all? Maybe it varies with levels (BS vs Master's)?

Does it play any role at a later stages of career or does any meaningful experience (and other things like on-site tests and general impression) completely overshadow it? Do you think anything will change in the near future?

I also feel like there are some variables to this question that may change the answer significantly. A good answer will specify these:

Location: USA vs Europe vs Asia?
Ecosystem: Big companies vs Startups (small businesses)
Occupation: Techie vs Manager

So help me out, HN. I'd love to hear about your experiences with this! Cheers!
> A silver player is simply better than a bronze player.

> There's not some magic thing that a senior developer has that a junior developer is missing.

"They're just better" is a way of saying "this is magic and not quantifiable". If you cannot quantify what factors allow one developer to consistently deliver quality software on schedule, then you cannot grow your team in that direction, and are essentially rolling the dice.
quite the opposite: you can think on a pharo application as your own virtual system (think docker, but at the level of the development environment). For a sysadmin installing and running an app is as easy as saying:

curl get.pharo.org | bash

./pharo Pharo.image config URL PROJECT VERSION

./pharo Pharo.image http --start 8080

then they can reproduce last line as much as they want:

./pharo Pharo.image http --start 8081

./pharo Pharo.image http --start 8082

etc.
Its dead simple because other services seem to have figured this out. Twitter does actual real time systems, and its not 1-to-1. Slack meanwhile seems to have no trouble delivering me messages.

I can confirm these problems. When I had an iPhone and iMessage, they were out of order all the time, and delivered unpredictably.

However, Slack, Twitter, etc. are not solving the same problems. iMessage does end-to-end encryption and has perfect forward secrecy (which, if I understand correctly, implies that they need to re-key fairly often).

https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
Magic Leap are promising MUCH more - realistic occlusion of virtual objects by real ones, dynamic transparency (allowing both AR and fully immersive VR), natural depth of field (refocusing on virtual objects without simulated blur), a scanning fiber light-field display, fully accurate hand tracking, both very near (holding something in your hand) and far (things flying through streets) depth tracking.. you get it. Not to mention, they haven't even said anything about their cloud platform yet, which you can bet Google are heavily involved with.. combining Tango area mapping with Google Maps.. they are trying to solve every problem in AR/Computer Vision, so it's no wonder people are skeptical. But if anyone's going to succeed, they have a pretty impressive team & investor lineup.

Not to mention, Magic Leap are trying to build a whole ecosystem designed for AR experiences, right down to retails stores. Whereas Microsoft simply seem to be making 'Windows-AR'.
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That's the popularity argument. Yes, companies like Apple or Oracle are on my hate list.

I like how whenever we bring up this popularity argument, we are in essence talking only about 2 or 3 companies, the big ones. Here's another picture: http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about-us/members/
Yep, this was the idea. The target audience are mostly gamers who want to get a quick server up and running, especially for PUGs (pick-up groups in MMOs). Most guilds already have some type of voip server they setup or are subscribed to.
One big one: talk with marketing and sales about marketing and sales things. It helps you look into engineering from the outside, and see the other side of the interface - it shows you the pain of missed deadlines, and the surprising benefit of having that one extra feature. It helps you put real value to the output, and gives you context for measuring the worth of things you're spending time on.
> So their interests are more aligned with yours.

Exactly how does a company that makes money through selling you products have its interests more aligned to yours?
I see people here mentioned GNU Smalltalk. The last time Smalltalk was posted here, some more seasoned people talked me into looking at Smalltalk again.

Now, I am getting more and more into Emacs. I like SBCL a lot, and I have played with it more. But Smalltalk also has an appeal, with similar ideas in live persistence coding. However, I am more comfortable with GNU Smalltalk.

Problem is Pharo has the powerful CogVM. How performant is GNU Smalltalk in relation to Pharo. If I wanted to run the same Seaside infrastructure as these dudes (there is a fork of Seaside included in GNU Smalltalk from the start), would it collapse under loads Pharo's CogVM can handle?

This is just out of curiosity. Obviously this is armchair engineering 101, but I would be interested to know more about this. There is such little interest in Smalltalk at scale it is hard to find this info with limited searching.
Oliver Kreylos probably has the best description of the current demo: http://doc-ok.org/?p=1223
There is a lot of tracking Google does that couldn't just be instantly turned on at the request of a government if Google wasn't already doing it.

For example Google Analytics: if that product didn't exist the government couldn't just ask Google to install tracking scripts on half the websites in the world without anybody noticing.

You could argue that the government could force Google to create and market Google Analytics. But that just re-enforces the idea that we shouldn't be using Google Analytics - we don't even know if it isn't entirely a program created at the request of the US government (I don't actually believe this, but it's where you end up if you start worrying about the government forcing Google to change their business).
Now .. the cold war showed that when everybody has a nuke then nobody will ever live to tell the tale from that one guy, who build a gun wilding drone.

The problem is that crime is so high, and crime is so high, because society basically provide those guys with high-income-guaranteed-protected-by-the-state-zones (drug trade). And the drug trade is part of your way of life. You cant preach protestant ethics and expect those who fall short to stay in that harsh reality that is created.

Even if everybody gets a free wrench, if the aqueduct is pumping water into your houses attic, you never gonna have a dry day. But you gonna have people bleeding from there heads where the wrenches hit.

Armed campus police would make sense though.
Not quite.

An SSD at 85% wearout will take longer to program and erase the blocks and it will require more refreshes (data retention suffers) so there will be considerably more background operations.

In fact SSD vendors do quite a bit to make the disk perform its best early on when they absolutely can and then start to break down further down the road after the benchmark is over. After all the users are mostly only testing it for a month or two and they never get to a real wearout condition during the test and then they buy in bulk and run it for a few years but by that time the SSD model is already outdated anyway (about 18 month cycle for SSD models).
That's not even a little insane.

They needed access to something, and asked you for it to complete their work.

It would have been insane if the guy had just hit a button, and your data was decrypted.

As it stood, you were always in complete control of your data.
Thanks for the link.

I did think margins on any console GPU deal would probably be slim, but I didn't know it could be that slim. Seeing some hard numbers really helped.
Pragmatism is.

This is a Hyper-V hypervisor host on a private VLAN three layers behind the internet and two layers behind the users locked in a room with no console access other than via an ILO card on yet another VLAN.

There has only been one KB which infers a security problem and that has had alternative mitigation put in place.

Not rebooting your server doesn't imply incompetence or disregard to security.
Because that company makes its from me, directly. It has to cater its products to ME, and not to advertisers, or enterprises, or anyone else.
By building and providing a product or service that you need/want/like enough to pay for?