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It doesn't say contents, it says registros de conexão "connections log".
The intent was to log IP adresses and dates, not content, but it is known that the interpretation of the text would be up to our judicial system. It also does not say without a court order. It says they can require them to log those ips, but access to these information requires a court order (as said on chapter 2 item I)

There are other ambiguities regarding who should keep those logs, ISP or service providers.

Free Whatsapp and facebook does hurt net neutrality. It undermines competition and leads to a division between services that are "free" and the ones which are not, on a ISP level.

That's not what article 2 says, article 2 is a preamble with the intentions of the marco civil and contains no definition of rules nor obligations. The removal of those videos are not based on marco civil, but on other laws and our own constitution.

The problem is not the Marco Civil, but how it is being interpreted.
Our judges do not understand what is cryptography.
Our population don't understand and doesn't care. People are just upset that whatsapp is offline.
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That's a swell business plan if you pay less in fines and settlements than you can steal.
They don't even need to build anything. The code exists. The secret is out, my friends!

All you do by restricting things like WhatsApp is deny secure communication to law-abiding people and make the criminal's life slightly more inconvenient if he wants to be able to communicate securely. But you can't stop it.
Depends... in eastern-ish Europe it was ICQ only. That was kind of fine.

What I don't get is why mobile carriers still charge for SMS. They could have all deployed their own SMS apps with ads/premium where you could write messages for free. Some did that, but rather badly I think. They just let that market go.
Why are people on HN so obsessed with trying to find argument fallacies in comments?

No, I am not saying that. The words "true MBA" have the same amount of content to them as "a true kitchen sink": zero.

I say that people buy education for different reasons. Some get an MBA because they want to flash their CVs, have a cushy job, and avoid the strains of being original. Others get an MBA because they need the skills, the language, the professional network, and the confidence, that such degrees (at least from good universities) bring for a specific goal they want to accomplish, be that within an already established business or not.

Saying that those kind of mind sets (or only one of those mind sets) is strictly particular to a group of people, which made a certain academic choice is wrong.

In my professional experience, for example, I've met a lot more engineers who were absolutely useless from a business perspective, than I've met useless MBAs. Of course, this is because I've met way more engineers than MBAs.
Lactate is used as a fuel - by everyone. It's all actually really interesting: TCA cycle (a.k.a Krebs cycle) in the muscle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle and kind of also Cory cycle (which involves the liver) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cori_cycle
Datagrip will work, so long as you have compatible JDBC driver.
Did you even read our article, jsprogrammer? That's what I'm reacting to. It says:

>A consensus emerged that the highlight of the workshop was a lecture on 9 December by Kiran Kedlaya, an arithmetic geometer from the University of California, San Diego. He zeroed in on a result from a 2008 paper by Mochizuki that linked the statement of the abc conjecture to another branch of maths called topology. The link was immediately recognised as a crucial step in Mochizuki’s grand strategy.

This is why I'm making the reference to ancient lost texts. I mean, if the result of a 2008 paper is crucial, you'd think the guy would have just mentioned this fact. It's as though they're investigating some long dead guy's hidden thoughts. This is a direct quote: "There is still no clear answer to lingering questions about how things are ultimately going to fit together." What? Wouldn't the guy just tell you how they're ultimately going to fit together? I'm utterly perplexed at the process the article describes, when the author is available and can give hints.
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I'm a developer at a financial services company. I was content to be a developer and let the "business" folks define our stories and I'd just code them. I never understood the application I was building on a deep level--it was always superficial.

A friend convinced me to take a few MBA classes at a local university. The first class was accounting. It opened my eyes to understanding what our product and business owners were saying on my projects at work. Now I could understand the "why" behind the screens I was building! I asked questions that made them re-think their screen mockups. Since then I've graduated and taken classes in Finance, Leadership, Economics, and my favorite: Strategy.

I use more knowledge from my MBA in my coding career than the stuff I learned in my undergrad in Computer Engineering.

In my experience, an MBA doesn't make me a better "coder." But it has given me confidence and competence in my interactions with customers and the leadership team. I'm very glad I took the time and effort to pursue my MBA.
Bicycles are pretty bad when it comes to dozens of incompatible standards for each part.
"Witch hunt"? Huh? He's a victim now?

You could do better than this man to refute my claim of karma in action without playing the victim card.

This douche insisted repeatedly that he is not breaking any laws and playing by the rules to gouge people and I say that the feds aren't breaking any laws here and playing by the rules too.

Does it sound 100% fair to target him like this? Maybe not but neither was his scheme to suck the blood of his victims in distress and need. At least he's still got the chance to defend himself and present his case before a judge in a normal trial unlike what he did to those patients where he ordered them to pay him the exorbitant amount (fine) without any legal recourse to reverse that decision.

I say that he's in much better position now than what many of his victims are thanks to his greed and selfishness.
Uploading a URL of white noise from Wikipedia gave it a high-memorability (0.82) with lots of areas of interest. Secondly uploading a purely white image [2] produced high areas of interest in the top corners and a mediumly interesting image (0.62).

I thought the tests might reveal something useful, like the eye-tracking heat-maps of Jakob Nielsen [3] but I'm not convinced.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/White-no...

[2] http://images.all-free-download.com/images/graphiclarge/plai...

[3] https://www.nngroup.com/books/eyetracking-web-usability/
You know that and we know that here. I just feared someone might decide that making engineers miserable to do the constant porting might be a good security tradeoff.
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You missed the OP's point. Most of us unknowingly commit major crimes in the course of our day, just given the sheer volume of statutes arrayed against us.

OP is referring to when prosecutorial discretion permits "the powers that be" to use this fact against people who fall into disfavor.
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Might there be a shift in how we think about furniture? You used to run into people who'd have stuff that was passed down the generations, and not just in wealthy homes. It seems to have been a necessity for poor young couples, and a lot of old stuff seems to have been hand crafted.

Nowadays, you can change every piece of furniture in the house for a few hundred bucks. There's constantly something new at IKEA, and you don't want to care if the kid scratches your dining table. You also want it to be easy to clean, and if you're moving house you can just throw out the old stuff.
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First time I've read something by you I completely disagree with.

"If they want to provide a communication service here, the law is clear that they must abide by judicial orders that allow wiretapping in very specific cases."

I didn't the grandparent to be complaining. Simply stating that they are upholding the law of the country, which WhatsApp decided to ignore. The fact that it had massive popular adaption means WhatsApp may decide it should play ball, or the citizens of the country will get the laws changed. All of this is GOOD and indicates a WELL functioning society. Nothing is broken or bad because an App gets banned.
Finally! The ban doesn't make any economic sense to me. It's a free market, let them sell it globally.
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Yes, and the compiler knows that as well. GCC even merges the two versions because they're equivalent[0]

My point is, if size is dynamic, this is a dangerous optimisation.

[0] http://goo.gl/4Ev8as
Don't forget one of the best/worst examples: Joseph Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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If we accept the premise that humans can't ever colonise off earth, then we should not fund robotic missions as well, since that assumption makes all space exploration and the science there pointless in the first place.

The point of organized missions to gather data from, say, Mars is that this data will help future human space travel efforts. If we accept that we're not going to do that ever then all the current activities are worthless and we can just stop them right now.
We've already sent robots.
> Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ?

If you already have proof that somebody is a pedophile, terrorist or drug dealer, why would you need to wire tap them and invade their privacy anyway?
"Modern" meaning 1999, of course!

It looks like there's some more info and links at https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Graphics_Modes
My experience is that the entire value of an MBA is in the network of people you meet through business school.

I asked a friend who had a technical degree from an excellent university, and later got an MBA what useful skills he learned, and he flat out said that he only got it for signaling purposes. As far as new ideas/notions, it was basically absolutely nothing.

A quick glance at any publication on 'managerial studies' will confirm the total vacuity of the field. The average published article is a 'just so' story backed up by a dramatically statistically underpowered study. Managerial science makes social psychology look like quantum physics.
In France it would be the end of their career for a professional bound by secret (doctors, lawyers etc.) to report a crime confessed during a session. But they have pretty persuasive power, I know some lawyers advised some people to confess very gritty crimes to the police.

But normal citizens could go to jail for not reporting.
Yeah we know that but for some reasons most jobs don't automate anything. Certainly not a POST request or filling an excel sheet line.
But are statistical conclusions really necessary? Or the only conclusions that matter?

I look at it from a market perspective: she had to compete with a lot of people for that position. If an MBA was a disadvantage, would she win that position?

Of course, there are many factors for why she got her position. But I doubt that she strictly speaking knows which of them contributed and which of them didn't.
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>(which is the reason why it doesn’t have much adoption in countries with reasonable prices).

Huh? I don't think this is correct. WhatsApp is huge in Europe, nearly everyone I meet prefers to use WhatsApp over SMS yet almost everybody has "unlimited SMS" plans.
Privacy that relies on trust in the state is no privacy at all. You are an opponent of privacy. A shame.
Or maybe a ti84+ port? :D
Glitches as demonstrated via the diamond pattern can be avoided by traversing the graph in topological order. This was demonstrated in Greg Cooper's PhD thesis: http://cs.brown.edu/~greg/

Transactions, as I understand them, solve a different issue. This is the issue of multiple inputs to the graph occurring at the same time.
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I remember the lp3 [1], a LPT printer port dongle / sound card. It was a DSUB-25 parallel port passthrough with a headphone jack on the side. You piped an undecoded mp3 stream into it via a Winamp plugin and any machine running Win95 or higher could "play mp3s".

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20000311130535/http://lp3music.c...
>Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs, you also won't bother to invent any new ones

Citation needed. Extremely needed.

Counter-anecdote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

edit: wording
The price of flying too high, there's a reason big pharma executives rarely show in the front media.
Mindset is everything (at-least extremely important for any level of success in entrepreneurship and most other things)

Most entrepreneurs solving ambitious problems look crazy to outsiders. Hence the famous Steve Jobs quote

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

Look at what the Gates, Jobs and Musks of this world have achieved with their 'anything-is-possible' mindsets..

Btw, for those who are interested in this stuff I've created an app to help people develop a growth/positive mindset at http://positivethinking.net
Your pessimism is undeserved. You seem to have formed your mood 5 years ago, and not revised it since then.

Venezuela just officialized a huge change in direction with a complete majority for opposition in parliament. Argentina has just elected an opposition president that is already undoing the policies of the previous governments.

Now, I'm also Brazilian, and, of course have more detailed info about here than those countries. I've never been so optimist about our country. You know, I've watched the TV news yesterday (I guess first time in the year), and 2/3 of it was about the president's impeachment or criminal persecution of corrupt politicians/businesspeople. Yesterday there was nobody thrown into jail, but just last week there were 11.

You know, those people didn't start yesterday. Corruption was smaller before the current government, but those businesspeople now in jail have been living from government contracts since before the military coup. Some of the politicians now in jail have been in power since the military government.
fixed link: http://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-become-a-better-programm...
Looked at several services, didn't find one that offers a free tier for 1 min checks. For many this seems to be the crucial feature of their paid plans.
Worlds colliding. This Economist article plus our antique and vintage focused startup, ATTIC (https://attic-dc.com), is featured on Cloudinary's blog today:

http://cloudinary.com/blog/10_startups_managing_images_in_th...

The E article points out the waning demand for certain genres and increasing demand for others. This can't be emphasized enough. Midcentury modern is what younger furniture shoppers seem to appreciate and it's reflected in the designs of the big box retailers like West Elm CB2. Their assessment of younger shoppers seems a bit off too, as outlets like the Washington Post and Apartment Therapy cite mixing old and new as one of the top 5 (!) design trends:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/apartment-ther...

We also think that consumers have moved away from these goods partly out of convenience (or lack thereof). Furniture is something you want touch (and smell) before you buy. You want to inspect its integrity. It's a market that doesn't lend itself to buying online, at a distance. At the same time, it's not particularly easy to shop locally either -- furniture dealers are not necessarily the most tech savvy and don't always have the resources for comprehensive marketing.

That's one of the reasons we built ATTIC -- to help aggregate and showcase local opportunities to buy antiques and vintage furniture from small businesses. In general, shopping local -- especially from small businesses -- is a difficult proposition when it's so easy to shop online. That's a problem that we think could use some solving.
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Lets not forget too that Martin Shkreli took no risk inventing this drug. He bought a monopoly - a necessary lifesaving drug with no alternative - and jacked up the price by thousands.

Either a free market fundamentalist (ie no explotative patents) or a dyed in the wool regulator should be able to agree this is not how the market should work.
The issue with pointing to things like "the Harvard MBA" is that people who are selected into top tier programs are likely to have done just fine on their own anyway... so it's really hard to say that the MBA is why she was successful. I think she was successful because of qualities she already had, not something she learned in business school.
I dont understand what you mean. Can you clarify?
> First time I've read something by you I completely disagree with.

That's scary. Well, there is a first time for everything.

> Simply stating that they are upholding the law of the country, which WhatsApp decided to ignore.

Have a read:

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/brazi...

Brazil is not exactly a paragon of virtue when it comes to police force and legal affairs. Let's give the GGP a free pass for being entirely of 'good intentions', that still leaves you with a police apparatus that is involved in, amongst other things, unlawful killings and the use of torture, they rank 69th on the world corruption index, roughly around the region of such examples of upstanding morality with the authorities of Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Italy.

If this were North-Korea or China everybody would be cheering on Whatsapp and FB for making a stand and not cooperating with the authorities.

Companies can make it easy on themselves by avoiding hard choices on which regimes to support in their quest for wire-tapping and which not by not having a footprint in a jurisdiction where such abuses are common and at the same time make it has hard as possible technically to actually cooperate in the first place. What you can't do you also can't be compelled to do.

The people of Brazil then have the option to make the use of such software illegal or not.
author here. Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

> [meta] The title of this article sucks, really, it's a bait,

It was not intended. The title just tries to summarize the post. Still, so much to learn about writing!

>> Lots of rework happens because of miscommunications with the user. Other times, the user doesn’t fully understand their problem (there’s not much we can do about this)

> Agreed. That's where "lean programming" comes into play. If you have the capacity to make the code change as requirements change then I think the issue is pretty much solved. However, not all languages/solutions are equal in that matter. Obviously TDD, Agile techniques help.

I have a note on Agile. As I mentioned, I believe Agile or lean programming to be solutions. They don't question anything about the status quo, they just try to cope with it. It's good, it's an improvement. But an incremental one from the perspective of the stack of poker chips.

>> If we assume that typing code is the way to program, we will never look for better alternatives.
> Typing code is a medium. The fact is, for an engineers it usually the most convenient way to create a program.

Turns out that the medium has an huge effect on our understanding. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2976-bret-victor-thinks-math-...

>> Building software is 90% a human problem
>Agreed, but like everything humans do.

The first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of the tautology club. Of course! the idea is to make programming something that humans don't do, or at least, reduce how much human involvement you need. Humans are the weaker link in software development, we should do like with other things that humans don't do anymore, figure out a solution and put our time to do something else.
Marginal improvement in what sense? When considering privacy, Telegram is by far the worst option. They store the plaintext message history on the server of every message that every user has ever sent or received.

Even if WhatsApp weren't using end to end encryption by default, they would have no way of complying with government requests like this one, because they simply don't have the messages. Telegram, on the other hand, is a surveillance dream.
If you can make exploitative profits from old drugs why risk your money making new ones?
Then why shouldn't giving you a raise be against the law also?

EDIT: I'm not defending the guy or the drug industry necessarily, just asking how you'd craft a law that makes drug prices "fair" but also isn't incredibly arbitrary.
There's a change in how people think about furniture, driven by high real estate prices. A grand piano costs more in floor area in major cities than it actually does to buy.

It's also clearly very fashion-driven. Wait until everyone's gone IKEA modernist, and you'll see the pendulum start to swing back again.
This DX interview is CRAZY! I read it before this broke and it pretty much solidified my thoughts about how he must view himself and his actions.
"No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it."

The problem is, that by definition, you can't take away privacy from criminals without taking it away from everyone else. Especially when term criminal varies from country to country -- in this case it might be a drug lord, but i.e. in Russia it might be an opposition leader or journalist that dug too deep.
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"'Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off
lifesaving drugs, you also won't bother to invent any
new ones'
Citation needed. Extremely needed.
Counterfact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk"

Here: http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....

NB: the higher the price, the higher the quantity supplied
"flying too high" or acting like a complete, arrogant scumbag?
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I think the implication may have been that the "Harvard MBA" credentials - not necessarily training - may have been instrumental in her career path. Degrees are filtering mechanisms, and while it may be true that an MBA isn't needed to succeed once you're in the door, it may be harder to get your foot in there in the first place without them.
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God he used to be such an ass. Sometimes I forget he's even the same person.
Some product questions:

How does DataGrip support connectivity with different database engines? Is it JDBC or ODBC connectivity?

Does DataGrip use internal SQL parsing for various SQL dialects or is the SQL validated always against the server?

Does DataGrip include SQL profiling, like MS SQL Profiler?

Do you intend to add MDX support?
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I'm suprised it's not there already, given the amount of computer science related people I meet everywhere I have been : Bouldering/Climbing!

3 times a week, roughly.
I love it because whatever their level is, everybody can have the same fun all together.
Seems to be that they did, but Varnish didn't suit their needs as they couldn't fit all the data in RAM. It's OK to change what you use because you outgrow it.