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The analysis seems flawed. If "10 year old software" works, why upgrade it? If SMEs are conservative about software practices, the solution would be education of business owners, not trying to create more massive companies.
I'm just not sure how taking money away from companies and then telling them to do something more expensive is a solution.
The point is that he wasn't "so wrong". Apple didn't succeed immediately and without stumbling a few times. At the same time the competition screwed up monumentally.

IMO, Apple will need another wedge and that car makers screw up in order to repeat their iPhone success. This is a possibility, but not a certainty, as some here proclaim.
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I currently live in Singapore. Clear skies today.

But for the last two months it's been constant smoggy haze that makes your throat itch and your nose stuffy. And there's virtually no protest to it here. Just sarcasm and cynicism.
I think that the reason is that people do not understand what is going on. So articles like this should create bigger awareness.

Also people do not know how they could react and discussion like this here could give them ideas.

I would think that what a person could do in another country for example is to pressurise his representative to create embargo against Indonesia so that they have less economical motivation to carry on with such fires. Embargo could be conditional - if fires continue (could be observed from orbit), embargo continues.

This would probably not protect forest, as now more forest is needed to cut down to be economical, but it would protect peoples health.
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I don't know if you've seen it, there is a fork of Glowing Bear that works with irssi instead of weechat. I don't know how complete it is (I work on the weechat version), but if you're interested, check out my other post and #glowing-bear on freenode!
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Inequality seems to reduce long term economic growth.

OECD research:
http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/inequality-hurts-economic-growt...

IMF discussion note:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1402.pdf

The Economist article based on IMF paper:
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21597931...
As was mentioned on another HN thread, why the ridiculous name? "Signal" is an already widely used term when talking about mobile communications. With cell phones in particular.

"I'm trying to get signal on my phone" or "I'm trying to get Signal on my phone". Great(!)
I'm working with embedded on a similar industry, and also really enjoy web dev. I don't like the tools and edit-compile-cycle when working with small microcontrollers...

May I ask why you left the industry?
I just wonder how many research dollars we're going to spend if the advice basically stays: "Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat more calories than you expend and do moderate exercise a couple of times a week. If you're overweight you shorten your life."
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That is a problem with all kinds of connections, not only ADSLs, unless you use any QoS solution.

A router of a good quality will prioritise ACKs. Obviously, most routers provided by ISPs are awful.
iOS jailbreaking would be valuable not only to the NSA, these private companies will sell and re-sell the exploit to multiple parties. So buying it for $1m and then selling it to 5 or 6 governments or agencies at $0.5m a time results in a tidy little profit.

Have a look at the Italian cybersecurity firm Hacking Team, they were routinely selling exploits or packages of exploits to governments around the world. There was no exclusivity agreement for these sales.

As for apple paying as others have mentioned they dont pay bug bounties and usually these vulnerabilities are found by people jailbreaking iPhones, they are usually released for free and at that stage apple can patch the vulnerability for their next software version.

I expect that this will be the end of free jailbreaks on apple products now, selling your exploit will become too valuable to release for free (at least remotely executable exploits will).
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This remembers me the SugarSync case. At the beginning, hey offered a very good storage amount for free, which was replaced for a paid - expensive - plan. Now their plans are fair enough, but the damage was made.
I've seen this article repeated in the NatPo[0], and more-or-less copied in the HuffPo[1], but no where else. I suspect this is mostly fearmongering. The US market is so much bigger than Canada's that most investment portfolio recommendations for Canadians include double-digit proportions of US equities and bonds. And if they are weighted towards energy, I can see why they'd shift south of the border.

0 - http://business.financialpost.com/investing/global-investor/...

1 - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/11/02/canada-economy-manuf...
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RoboVM was basically the competition of Xamarin and Xamarin killed it. RoboVM was cheaper and had a bigger market, since it targeted JVM developers. With RoboVM you aren't even tied to Java the language, being entirely possible to use a language like Scala. And contrary to Xamarin, in order to use IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, or in other words the state of the art in IDEs, you didn't need to pay $999 per year, like you need for using Visual Studio with Xamarin. And RoboVM has been open-source, which brings with it benefits, like trust, trust because should things go wrong, you can always fork it.

Well, now is the time for a fork and I hope it will happen.
Interesting. Do API:s support 10 or 12 bit colors? Is it limited to "low level" rendering, similar to when you render a region of screen using a 3D hw device, while the rest of the screen is being drawn at 8bpp using the graphics API:s of the OS?

I guess my question is: Has OS X always had graphics API:s that uses floats instead of rgb bytes for everything?
So what do you suggest we do about it?
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I've been using libgdx and was meaning to explore the whole iOS/RoboVM angle, I finally got around to it this weekend, ironically just in time to catch the kerfuffle around this.

Presumably there is an open-source version of RoboVM still around. Perhaps here: https://github.com/robovm/robovm ... though I gather the problem with that is that it does not include any of the latest iOS 9 work, which was done in a closed repository somewhere.

Looks like the Libgdx guy (Mario?) fought hard to keep a free version of RobobVM for Libgdx users. Not sure how long that can last; its currently based on self-identifying yourself as a Libgdx user and hence easily abused.

The other irony is that Libgdx used to use Xamarin to target iOS, but they switched to RoboVM because it was free/open.
'Have you got the signal app?' - solved.
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It would be nice to have a little more context on this project
They might just work because they make it easy to eat less - very simple rule to follow that rules out most unhealthy snacking.
The economies aren't doing good, so you count off the low-crime, free healthcare, good free education, cheap housing altogether?
I wonder if it would be even remotely feasible to have an electric tractor for farming use that is powered by a power line attached to a tall pole on the tractor (with a winding/unwinding mechanism as the tractor moves).
You think that's scary? Have a read of Dead Hand.

http://www.wired.com/2009/09/mf-deadhand/
> Several RoboVM components used to be made available under the Apache 2.0 license while the compiler was open sourced under the GPL license

How can close source the compiler if it is on GPL license ?
some of the other countries in the region should simply move their defensive forces over and annex the island of Sumatra. the Indonesian government has simply run out of resources and that island is completely without any semblance of organization. I have doubts that the Jakarta administration will even notice if the island is no longer under their ownership, but even if they do I do not believe that they will do much more than voice a very angry opinion.
Possible...

https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/658751231154913280
Can't imagine this is really going to be a big thing in Amazon's strategy going forwards, just a marketing ploy and a bit of fun.

Interestingly, Amazon reportedly turnover twice as much from their data services than they do their retail operation. We've seen today with King the value of Big Data
And what do they do if someone stores 75TB of stuff? "Unlimited" nearly always means "we will fire you as a customer if you use way more than anyone else".
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Which makes it a mirror rather than a proper backup.
Can you suggest a better name?
"Starbucks, PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz are examples. Don’t buy their products until you see results."

I don't see how taking money away from these companies and then telling them to do something more expensive by enforcing more responsible ways of making palm oil is an answer.

It seems that if you take away money from these companies, you'd inspire them to cut corners to turn profits. Their shareholders dictate profitability.

If you want to encourage good behavior, you should just contact them and tell them you are concerned and ask what they are doing about it to end this problem in a short timeframe. Ask them what you can do to help stop it. They will probably appreciate the help. If they don't respond, write another letter and give them a timeline, like the end of 2016, and tell them if they cannot make a change in the local behavior there by then, you will start a lifetime ban on their products in your family and tell your friends, social media, and the press about your decision.

In general though, banning products hurts workers and shareholders. It doesn't enact the change you want.
It used to be SkyDrive, which was stupid, because "Sky" is a massive broadcaster and ISP in the UK and Ireland.
The author can use any license they wish going forward, but previously released versions will remain GPL.
I commented about this elsewhere in this thread, but the Contributor License Agreement for RoboVM gives RoboVM AB (the company) an unrestricted license to your contributions. As a result, the contributors cannot assert that they are violating the GPL since RoboVM is not actually on the receiving end of it.
Update: even worse, nearly 30% of the float is short

How can we know this ? Is it published somewhere by the markets/regulators or is it an estimation based on stock/option behaviours ?
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Singapore currently has the most advanced airforce in the world. The size and prowess of its military relative to its size is unmatched anywhere on this planet. Economically, it is at least on par with Hong Kong and Tokyo. Nearly all major companies with a presence in Asia have an office in Singapore, many of them their entire Asian headquarters are in Singapore. I'm not sure I understand your analogy; I think it is the vice-versa of what you mean.
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Woe betide anyone who uses Amazon Glacier for backup without paying close attention to the pricing.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/

Retrieval pricing...
>I had it badly with 50-100 of "PSI". Before I was there it was around 300!

Kalimantan, where the fires are burning, hit 3300 PSI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Southeast_Asian_haze
I meant it as a descriptive answer: why is the world looking away? This is why. Indonesia does have laws against these practices, but it seems they cannot or will not enforce them. Indonesia is also a major regional power so it seems its neighbors can't do anything about it either.
> Actually 30GB if you automatically upload your pictures taken on a Lumia.

You actually got the 30 GB if you activated photo upload anywhere just once. I once installed the OneDrive app on my iPhone, activated photo upload while not having any photos on the device, uninstalled OneDrive immediately and had been enjoying 30 GB of free backup space for Arq ever since without ever uploading a photo.
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> While I can appreciate that the unlimited service is not provided so that users can store dozens of TB (which may be within the terms and conditions, but is certainly not reasonable)

If it's within the terms and conditions, it's reasonable.

If Microsoft promotes unlimited upload, then it should have no limit. If it is not reasonable, then do not promote it.

This is pure marketing. Only a tiny percentage of users does this, and the rest uses less than 1TB. Still you can market that unlimited upload. If that would be unreasonable, then do not promote it.

But then maybe too many users start to upload many terabytes, and then it starts to costs money, and then the promotion budget gets cut, and suddenly they realize it's not going to get better. A new manager steps in, cuts out the stupid idea and there you are, another stupid marketing failure.
I'm a web developer in the consulting business of a big international IT company. I'd like to be paid more, but if I'm honest with myself, my salary probably isn't far from market rate.

However in terms of recognition of my skills I feel massively undervalued. The management are business consultants rather than technical people, and there's a pervasive culture that technical work is something to be outsourced/offshored and generally done by the lowest bidder. I was hired as a "Technical Consultant" and yet I've repeatedly had to fight to do technical roles.

I often think about leaving to get a pure web developer role, but I'm still at quite a junior level and junior dev salaries here in London are awful.
I simply can't grok the use case for this, sorry. When I hear the terms "Unix" and "Cross Platform" uttered in the same sentence, I reflexively think about cygwin.
Everybody.

Turn your question on its head - who here feels overvalued at work?
When I was there, the PSI peaked at something like 412. A PSI of over 100 is now often considered "normal" which is tragic. I start to notice the air quality degrading at around PSI of 50.

When we got back from our Thailand trip to flee the haze in 2013, the leftover remnants of the crisis yielded all our clothes in our closet penetrated with thick black dust.
I really am not sure if you are trying to be humorous or just naive. Perhaps you could set up a Facebook action page and we can all click "Like" so that we can all feel better about continuing to buy their products.
So should I prepare for my mother to suddenly have a battle.net account?
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One of those rare startup-success-stories, where there isn't even a mention of "valuation" or "investment rounds". I very much enjoy that.
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Unfortunately I could not get the layers working.
Nasa seems to offer similar tool
http://go.nasa.gov/VbYrug
I run an appointment scheduling site that is used by many escape rooms (supersaas) so I have a pretty good overview where they start: The Netherlands is indeed leading the pack but so far we are seeing many more in Europe than in the US, and almost none in Asia.

Conversely, we see that the number of dog training classes in US is 5 times higher than in Europe :-)
I'm also wondering about this.
Naming conflicts are a major problem - legal trademark implications, branding issues, searchability, etc etc. A name collision with someone, especially in a remotely similar industry, is problematic.

IronChatApp.com is available. ("Steel"|"Lock"|"Forti"|<anything that conveys security>) + ("Chat"|"Talk"|...).

I'm not sure, there are tons of professional marketing/branding/PR firms who do this really well. TextSecure et al were acquired, IIRC. If the parent company has 50k to throw around, approaching W+K might be a good investment.

Edit: Mea culpa. It was WhisperSystems not OpenWhisperSystems which was acquired, both of which were founded by Marlinspike. This, incidentally, proves my point that naming similarities (WS vs OpenWS) within a similar domain (both mentally associated as "moxie" projects in my mind, in this case) can lead to problems.
People still experience diminished happiness if they feel their relatively low quality of life or social status is because of their perceived own shortcomings. This is often how depressed people feel.
I can do all three and you can find a lot of people who can. The problem is how many things you can do at once.
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Sorry, I don't. I recall reading something very intelligent about the edit war between Israeli and Palestinian sympathisers, but google didn't yield it up. (In general terms, it's quite hard to google stuff /about/ wikipedia.)
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Living in East Europe and work in IT to an abroad company (aka getting a super inflationed sallary) is the sweet spot of sustainable life quality - nowadays is probably the best you can find in the world. Be thankful.

What for do I want to receive 100K in the Bay area and pay an huge amount of money to get a decent house, health care, safety and schooling for my kids?
Envy was also always related to greed.

You seem to want a society where envy is absent, but greed drives economic growth. That won't happen.
Heavy? The per-capita meat consumption in Pakistan is five to ten times less than in the West.
It's a pity on how he started the campaign by saying he would resign after day 1.

Looking at the public's interest in 'outsiders' this political season (Carson, Trump, Fiorina) and the lack of any real opposition towards Hillary outside of Bernie, Lessig actually did have a chance of getting his voice heard.
So, where's the best cloud comparison website? What does HN suggest for "just store these bits and don't do anything funny"? It's going to be AWS isn't it.
it does require to have the google play services installed in the first place. so for those who i.e. run cyanogenmod without the google play services installed, it's unfortunately not possible to use Signal/TextSecure.
Anyone care to explain in brief to someone who reading 10 bit color still thinks "hey, weren't we at 32bit color already?"...
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> TextSecure et al were acquired, IIRC. If the parent company has 50k to throw around, approaching W+K might be a good investment.

No, moxie's previous company (Whisper Systems) was acquired by Twitter (iirc), Open Whisper Systems is a different project. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Whisper_Systems and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_Systems
I have been using Signal (and TextSecure before that) for a while. The two features that would make me use it more would be:

1. Web client. (I send most of my texts from my laptop, which means I use Hangouts)

2. Search messages on the client.

Thanks for a great product and keep up the good work.
>Let me explain a specific example: If a person A cheats person B out of his money, it affects me negatively. It poses a risk in the future that person A, being a cheater, will repeat this many times and eventually will have enough money to cheat me. (Both B and me will agree to be cheated by A at the time when we will be cheated, yet it won't be our preference. Kind of like getting a forced move by check in chess.)

It depends what you mean by "cheat". If A lies, then A potentially committed fraud or the like, and can be persecuted. If A just took advantage of B's gullibility (sold him some great swampland or the like), this wouldn't pose any risk to you unless you were gullible too.

>Which is a bullshit excuse. We have mathematical capabilities to deal with these kinds of problems - probability, fuzzy logic, whatever. It's just laziness of economists to show that the free market assumptions hold under these new assumptions.

It's a not about a lack of mathematics, it's an empistemological issue: how can these assumptions be justified? Any qualitative model necessarily requires more assumptions. As all moral assumptions/statements are ultimately arbitrary due to the regress problem I mentioned previously, fewer assumptions means less arbitrarity.

>In particular, we can model things like this in computers.

You can't model things like this in computers until you can model human brains in computers. Until then, you have to make arbitrary assumptions that some kind of agent in particular model morally approximates an actual human, which is yet another assumption that must be justified.

>It's a nice curiosity to have free markets work under some weird, unrealistic assumptions, but it's rather useless in the real world.

You're missing the point that it's about how "work" is defined. If you define it by allowing people to maximise their ordinal utility at each given moment in time, then they "work" by default. If you define it by some other criteria, then how much they work depends on how similar those criteria are to maximising momentary ordinal utility.
>I think that the reason is that people do understand what is going on.

I think you mean "do not understand".

As for diplomatic solutions, Singapore has tried to get Indonesia to release the names of any Singapore-based companies who are creating this problem in the region by farming there, but Indonesia won't do that either. Try to protect their business interests. If Indonesia could do that, Singapore could punish those countries under its control.
Whenever my previous team leader would suggest "just" doing something I took it as a sign that he hadn't actually thought things through very thoroughly.
microg's GmsCore (an unprivileged open source reimplementation of Google Play Services) can do Google Cloud Messaging and should work for Signal.