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If you replace "government" with "insurance industry" then everything is still true, except that the insurance industry has one motivator and that's profit, whereas the government's motivator is public health.

The insurance industry wants to not have to pay for your care. The government wants you to not be sick.
No, I offered $125k.
I'm perfectly ok with the feds tightening emissions controls, and severely cracking down on those 'rolling coal' jackasses.
I think this comment is relevant.
Sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing. Extended family living arrangements have some sort of class stigma in developed countries, but they are clearly advantageous in many ways.
> extreme risk to one person versus a diffuse benefit over several million

Interesting, do you have any actual examples of this?
Then Firefox and Chrome loose again, though.

Because then you have the 7GB OS + 95MB Firefox + 100kB YouTube vs. the 7GB OS + 30MB VLC + 2MB youtube-dl

And, additionally, the browser is just a document displayer, like a PDF viewer, or an image viewer. 135MB for that is far too much in any case.
I followed the link through to his 1990's examples and noticed that it talked about www.ge.com.

I dug up the version which would have been live when the section was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20020603030453/http://ge.com/

Comparing that to the current http://www.ge.com/ I do feel like it was easier to find content that an end user would be after.

Sure it looks dated, but functionality wise I definitely feel like the "modern web" has moved to form over function. It annoys me.
> "It may even hurt you ... pay your rent, and then all of a sudden the floor drops out from under you. There could be an eviction, which could hurt chances of landing an apartment later.

Or, you know, just leave when you can't pay the rent?

Is that not an option? Or do they not expect homeless to be able to do that?
You only have to injunct one. After a couple million in losses, they'll pay up. At that point, the threat of injunction would simply get the other ones to pay.

Or, you start seizing domestic property to pay taxes on the foreign assets.

Do NOT assume the government is ever powerless. It is always bigger than you.
Then they should have gotten a warrant, and it should not have taken them an hour to realize it was a mistake.
This right here. I have been preaching this message for ages. You simply cannot account the immense benefits of having everyone working on the same stack. Even just splitting into two languages you start getting huge knowledge barriers and a major loss in shared skill growth. If you've chosen Java/C#/etc for your base language you need to have a DAMNED good reason for bringing in another one. And the other one being the best option for the problem of the day is not a good enough reason if your primary language is capable of solving the same problem in a slightly less elegant way.
Then explain Android popularity in Europe ;) . 'on average', we are richer then the US ( Belgium and the Netherlands), I also believe your 'facts' are just assumptions based on nothing ( didn't downvote you though :) )
I had the same problem when I was young. So much ear wax after a particularly bad cold that it prevented me to hear clearly. It lasted a long time, definitely more than a day. My mother put a few drops of olive oil in my ear, and told me to lie down so the oil would stay in the ear.

After a few minutes of this, suddenly I heard crackling in my ear. I decided to yawn... and I heard this huge "CRRRRACK" sound from inside my ear, felt a very weird sensation as the oil found its way past the wax buildup, and suddenly I could hear clearly. It was glorious.
Yeah, that's not going to work. Just like Mr. Levison giving the FBI the key printed in tiny font did not fly from the court's point of view.

Lavabit found in contempt for trolling the FBI with 4-point font
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ladar-levison-lavabit-founder-...
> How dumb would the officer look if he let a suspect destroy evidence, escape, or otherwise pull something on the claim that they have to pee?

There's a lot of ways in which the American system is deliberately set up to let some of the guilty go free and requires a certain degree of responsibility for those detained, charged, or imprisoned in order to preserve a set of rights that are important related to basic human dignity.

So yeah, particularly in situations like this, I'm comfortable saying sure, risk the possibility that (as yet established) evidence might be destroyed or that subjects of interest might escape detention. Strict detention practices should be sustained by meeting a high standard for suspicion.

But maybe better than that would be if we could have a system that included both reasonable pursuit of justice and a respect of basic rights. Seriously. Is it really impossible to give detainees and opportunity to urinate while protecting evidence? I doubt it. Search the damn bathroom, then search the detainee. Then, unless you've found anything that absolutely requires further undisturbed careful investigation and documentation, escort them to the bathroom for a reasonable amount of time. Part of the job. Particularly when you don't know that they're guilty of anything.
Also, how does it relate to other JVM languages, like Scala? If Android was written in Scala instead of Java, would this lawsuit still applied?
I wish the article mentioned where all these people are coming from. If they're all local then that could lend credibility to that explanation. If they're from all over the country then that doesn't seem as likely. The thought did cross my mind.
> which will just mismanage the money and use it to line its own pockets.

This is a profoundly American viewpoint. If you assume everyone mismanages funds, you don't give them enough funds to really deliver value on, so they look mismanaged. The rest of the world has relatively well functioning governments despite having quite a bit more responsibility
We don't want governments trying to pick winners, or generally even having an industrial policy at all. Their track record has been far worse than private investors. And politically it's impossible to justify when a large government investment fails. For example, look at Solyndra.

At better approach to stimulating demand would be to offer a cash prize or a guaranteed purchase contract for specific innovations that meet defined criteria. For example, what if the US federal government offered to purchase 10 million doses of a 90%+ effective Zika virus vaccine at $100 per dose? I'll bet that would encourage private investors to take a gamble.
All political ballyhoo aside, I see this as just a 1/2 baked plan. They had a goal, they apparently didn't look for the big picture or consult with appropriate sources for advise, and they failed. Regardless of any moral or political judgements, it doesn't reflect well on them.
Did you hear then over the sound of your garbage collector?

But seriously, I'm a huge JVM fan yet I know that if memory is a limiting factor, I should look elsewhere. I just don't current work in any environments where my program has less than 64mb to use.
BSD licensing also offers the same freedoms as the GPL. I do like the GPL for many reasons, and I would prefer contributing to a project that uses the GPL rather than licenses that allow proprietary derivatives of code that I spent time and effort writing.
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It may be sitting offshore for tax reasons, but even if it were sitting here (with higher taxes), it'd be sitting. Parked. Hoarded. Illiquid. Whatever you want to call it. Tax rates are the proximate cause here; what we really need to look at is the cost of capital, and why companies deem there to be no productive investment use for that excess cash.
> all ads are bad

You realize you are a hypocrite for saying this, right? You cannot on one hand say all ads are bad, and be an advertiser yourself without being a hypocrite. This is probably what leads to the down votes.
Personally, I have enjoyed working in Qt. For anyone looking to get going, I recommend practicing by transcribing the example code and then try tweaking it a little (and more so for Qt / GUI development than with other technologies). It takes a bit of boot time, but once you get going you will find you naturally start to "get it".
Sorry for the late reply.

NV in my region gave a many fold improvement on data performance, voice performance came later (when the NV network launched here - even when done on 80% of the sites - there were still huge dropped call issues, because of the inability to handover between legacy and NV, and because of a lack of meaningful optimizations on the new network)

If you were deployment in 2012 - you must be in Chicago since that was the launch market - Chicago had more problems then the next 4 NV markets combined, huge build quality issues, most of which have been resolved now.

Even then - with NV you didnt see real improvement in most areas until the launch was complete, which took a hell of a long time - 2ish years for Seattle, longer elsewhere.

NV for those not in the know was an forklift upgrade of the sprint network, and involved wholesale replacement of everything from the Antennas to the Switch.
(iv) mean LTE or newer. That suggests NOT tablets, including iPod Touch like devices, because it must have all of the listed features.

It also, weirdly, suggests not anything 3.5G or lower. What? Why?

And in any case, Apple's end-to-end encrypted iMessage does not depend at all on such a cell network of any version. It does work on WiFi only just fine. So why are these devices exempt from terrorists and kiddie porn sickos and human traffickers?

If you're going to be serious about catching that, it seems like everything that does full disk encryption would be broadly included. Desktop and laptop computers, and tablets. Why does Layer 1 matter to this?
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This is the "common sense" advice. It doesn't apply in a lot of situations and depends on yours. If you're quitting a startup working 60 hours a week and have money in the bank and lots of interest elsewhere, you probably won't have time to properly interview for a good next job. Take the time off,get to know what it is that you really want and what your goals are, and then go for them. There are not many times in your life in which you will have opportunities to take breaks.
Do you have any evidence for this claim? Or is this just conjecture on your part?

Last time I checked, most Android hardware manufacturers - including Samsung (although that may be for other reasons) - were bleeding money. HTC's financial trouble are well known, Sony's Android division isn't profitable either.

Can you think of a single Android manufacturer that is raking it in?

Google also doesn't make the phones directly - other manufacturers like LG do. Can you think of any reason they would be making more money? Keep in mind that Nexus phones don't sell anywhere near the same quantity as widely advertised phones, like say, the Samsung Galaxy range.

Also, the apps that ship on Android are free...
I'm presuming that you're making the assumption that ads delivered to less affluent people are less valuable (otherwise I have no clue what your post is supposed to mean in context).

That's a fallacy. You can sell one widget for $1M or one million widgets for $1. Very often conversion rates are higher in the latter case.

So even if we take your word that Android users are - worldwide - poorer than iphone users, it doesn't mean anything in the the context of this thread. And as was said, that's why you've been downvoted. Doubling down by calling HN readers stupid (on average) is unlikely to help your cause here.
I was vaguely expecting the location to be somehow "significant", like this one that anybody who's ever done much geolocation/mapping work probably immediately recognises if they've used data without sufficient validation:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/0%C2%B000'00.0%22N+0%C2%B0...
I think difference between savings and investment (or consumption) is in reversibility. Savings are reversible, basically if you "invest" in any liquid enough assets that keep value, then you save. Investment (and consumption) is irreversible, once you made the decision, it's done deal - somebody does the work, energy is spent, entropy is produced and so on.

That's why, contrary to mainstream economic opinion, it is useful to save. Saving lets you react to investment from competitors, by postponing the decision after they made their move. This gives you advantage (power) if you're big enough.
There's good coupling and there's bad coupling, and a semi-famous quote about learning the wrong lesson.

"If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either."

It sounds like you've been burned by bad coupling. Sure, upgrading one thing and having something else break sucks. However, having to upgrade a hundred things because that one thing that's statically linked into all of them (like your SSL library) had a bug also sucks. It's like Scylla and Charybdis. They're both bad, but it is possible to steer between them.

The dual nature of this problem was recognized decades ago. It's why we came up with things like API versions and even the symbol versioning that you probably don't realize is already supported by your system's loader. Responsible developers can use these things to make sure that compatible fixes take effect where they need to without relinking, while incompatible changes affect only new code compiled and linked with the new header files etc. That's good coupling - the kind that reduces risk and total work.

Unfortunately, responsible developers are in short supply. Worse, faced with a plethora of irresponsible developers who don't know how to make a change without breaking stuff, a lot of people are reaching for the ugly workaround - static linking, including the kind that's disguised as containers - instead of solutions that will last. They've veered away from Scylla, right into Charybdis's maw. I made that mistake once myself once - perhaps more than once - until I realized I was getting just as burned by the "solution" as I was by the original problem. I suppose more people will have to go through that same process before the situation really improves.
Why do you assume that we do this? You're pretty accusatory about this whole thing.
I'd like to point out that Linus's tree has at least 100 GPL violations by my count (from proprietary firmware blobs in the IHEX format).
CC with Irish and Dutch descent here. I have wet earwax and normal body odour :(
If they keep trying, and learning from their mistakes, I'll be happy to forget the initial missteps.
This has been my understanding of what they really want, in particular when using the word "front door". That's key escrow. Not weakening encryption so that they can break it, but they want manufacturer or OS provider to have a copy of the keys used and in particular the law seems worded to burden the company to actually perform the decryption, not merely hand over the keys.
Yeah, it's line he's never heard of PHP.

JS is probably 2nd, among languages still in common use.
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It appears (on the information given) that the police did neither: they didn't lawfully detain the suspects or control their actions through a legally authorized manner (e.g. arrest them, serve a warrant on them), but the police did restrict their actions (prevented them from entering the house).

It seems on the face of it that the police inhibited the victims' legal rights, without exercising a legally authorised reason to do so (or relied on misinformation to suppress the victims awareness of their legal right to choose to not comply with the police officers' requests).
I have to say, I was trying to learn Clojure (instead of Common Lisp) and actually fell in love with Haskell when a friend explained that I don't have to write the type signatures - almost at all. Indeed; previously, I was rigorously doing type signatures on all functions in Haskell, and found it very annoying.

The only downside of that was it made sometimes harder to figure out the error. When you get run time type error, you can do the traces on the values and see where it happens more easily. In case of static typing error, you cannot even start the program. But perhaps this just requires some better practice.

And I also experienced the "when it compiles, almost correct" proverb from Haskell community.

The other thing that converted me to Haskell from Lisp was that I learned (theoretically, so far) about how to write interpreters using free monads. And you get type checking with it.
Most of the homeless shelters I'm personally familiar with (have volunteered at) are not-for-profit...they have limited funding, manpower, and facilities...

On a really good day everyone gets fed, clothed, bathed and has a climate-controlled place to spend the night...most of the time its a stiff challenge to provide those basics..the wherewithal required to offer extras like counseling, job coaching, or to accommodate individual patron's schedules (coming and going--a security issue) is just not there the majority of the time...
Yes, though his compensation dropped to only $136M. It didn't stop him from recently buying a 180-ft yacht.
I still consider it this way because it means someone loves, cares about what he is doing, and generally does not have much delay pressure, which allows him to take time to refine his word. And I use the word "professional" in a depreciative way.

"Oh, look at this hedge, it was trimmed by professionals, they damaged every single branch."

"Hey, look at how they painted the door, there's paint over the hinges and even the lock is stuck with it. That's professional work."

"Oh, my basic tool that [big software editor] forces me to use leaks 1Gb memory per hour. That's professional software (developed by the nephew of the trainee)."

So basically, for me, "professional" refers to a work that was done with great efficiency, but time and money spent were the only metric of this efficiency. Quality, attention, precision, thought about the consequences, the future were not part of the parameters.
According to the link posted by evmar, clang warns on this starting at r258128.
>>"HN is supposed to be for smart people, not fanboys?"

>>"Android users are on average quite poor, compared to iPhone users. "

You are pretty, I like you.

Here, I'll do it to you.

"This is HN, we're supposed to be impartial and smart, right?"

"Obviously Android is for smart people, techies and power users while iOS is for... the parents and luddite friends of smart people, techies and power users"

See how I took a potentially-valid demographic comparison and used it to condescend in a fanboyish manner?
Would Apple have the balls to stop selling phones in California?
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If you have the money for it, I would suggest going with a service like ziptask or gun.io. They will do all the technical heavy lifting for you (figuring out requirements, vetting / hiring, project management, testing). You will likely spend around $15k-30k (very rough estimate) and have your app within 3-6 months. Then you will pay a couple hundred a month in server/bandwidth costs to keep the thing running.

Otherwise, you are looking for a "full-stack web developer". Though I would really suggest going with an agency for a project like this. Hiring and managing freelancers is hard.
> The Supreme Court turned down the opportunity to hear Google's arguments that APIs are not protectable by copyright. Turns out, they are, according to the Supreme Court's affirmation the Federal Circuit's decision.

That's not an affirmation. An affirmation would be if the Supreme Court took the case, and agreed with the Federal Court. This is "we're not going to bother", which leaves the decision as good precedent in that Federal court (but not in any other).
Yes, I am not in favor of Federal regulation here, but that is somewhat off topic. Even still, I wanted to purposely point out information to those on HN who might not be familiar with the complexities of such a legal patchwork and what it results in.
This is a problem for essentially every liberal arts school I've looked at.
Of course there is. The point is, we've reached the stage of our advancement when, on aggregate, we produce more than we actually need. Our current issues are with distribution of what is being produced.
Please, ask any questions you have. I'd love to know what questions you have about it, as I see it as perfectly normal.

Obviously depending on where you live, your socio-economic status , your experience may vary. I'd think one to be crazy if they said there were openly racist people in every city saying racist things, everyday to a black person. That seems ridiculous to me

I seriously don't see what the big deal is. The USA isn't in the midst of the Jim Crow or slavery. Maybe your view is skewed my the media (CNN, etc) about the pervasiveness of racism.

You can't fathom that many black people can live a life without meeting openly racist people ? I would think You were odd if that were the case
This can leak the user's client by changing links per client.

Make a link per identifiable client, show only the one for the current client, and give each link a post/get parameter identifying the client. Quite easy to do, but a lot of work to have broad client support.

Tada! I now know you read your email on your [obscure and bugged client], which is susceptible to [this and that exploit].
It seems to me that an opportunity presents itself: work with the shelters on ingress/egress issues. Amazon should be pretty good at it by now.

If it makes it easier for both sides to get what they want, it's not even that big of an expense.