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In this case it's an obvious fraud, but technically such an outcome is possible and legal: voters can take a special paper and vote at another spot, rather than their home one (say, if they are in another city). So, in theory 140% can be achieved.
I can't help it but I'm missing comparison for the non-Putin elections. Did it look the same? Perhaps not that many things are normally distributed in Russia...
Some users are even asking for a way to enable Adblock Plus on some websites only.

I'd actually use a blacklisting mode for ABP where I could use the regular lists, but only for selected websites.
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I agree with the author in that this "Sharing Economy" will play an ever-increasing role in our economic future, but I think her conclusion that it requires government support to flourish is incorrect. None of the innovative services she mentions benefited from a large government loan or huge tax breaks. I would argue that some services like Kickstarter are prevented from reaching their full potential because of government laws regarding crowdfunding.

In order to reach its full potential, government should let the "group of people with shared needs and a common vision" she describes pursue that vision with as few hoops to jump through as possible, even if those people don't happen to be citizens of the United States.
I heard people telling women to have babies and quit learning (let alone starting their own companies) more than what Penelope has portrayed. Matter of fact, NO ONE has ever told me to join a startup or start one. This is not a first time Ms. Trunk has lectured us about what women think and want. Please, you don't present every female and all this talk should stop. Just do your job or whatever you want.
all republics dominated by muslim minorities voted for the ruling party with rates above 95%; check caucasian republics, tatarstan, bashkir..apparently minnorities in russia love the ruling party more than russians themselves.
Unfortunately it's still not available on Chrome (at least the beta install for it didn't have it?).

I think this is a good step in the right direction though I'm not sure entirely if its a great idea to have the developers decide, maybe a wiki-style process?
>Cassandra comes at the cost of dropping ACID

Suddenly I want to spend my next Saturday night setting up Cassandra at a party...

Edit: Come on, "dropping acid"! I thought it was funny...
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Without too much condemnation, the idea of comparing Zuckerberg to Knuth is depressing, but that my be my own MZ hate bubbling up -- the rest of the world may actually like him. Also, the image on the right is interesting in juxtaposition to the context of the piece.

Points #2 and #3 seem to be of the most value. The others felt repetitive given what I hear from others, but that's a Good Thing. I will be using the expression "Have a strong forehead" in the future.
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This is actually necessary because of the first nauseating article. If you correctly remember, another Techcrunch post also made the round before jwz set the record straight.
"And between these two giants, it will be no contest. Google will almost certainly have vastly superior search -- it's Google, after all -- superior messaging, superior office documents, superior spam filtering, superior video chat -- superior everything."

I think the author is drastically overstating the inevitability of Google's product superiority. Google already spectacularly failed once at messaging with Google Wave, and Gmail doesn't actually have the market share that most people think it has (even just considering webmail). Office documents don't seem to be a make-or-break feature for social, and Google Docs has had very limited success competing with Microsoft Office (in fact, my favorite Google office productivity product, EtherPad, was killed in favor of Wave). Spam filtering is legitimate, but it's not that hard of a problem really in a technical sense; Facebook could keep up. Video chat is a weak point for Facebook, granted.

Besides, integrating your competitor's product as a feature of your own doesn't always spell success. Microsoft integrated Bing with its operating system through the IE search box, and look how little that has mattered. Both Apple and Microsoft have tried to "feature-ize" Dropbox, and Dropbox seems to have emerged unscathed. Instapaper is doing fine even in the face of the Safari Reading List. The list goes on. (Sometimes the strategy does work, such as IE against Netscape, but it's hardly clear-cut.)
I don't think any of those companies was started with the intention of becoming a nonprofit sustainably tying together the community, as this article seems to claim. This isn't the emergence of a sharing economy - that makes it sound like we're moving from capitalism to communism. What we're seeing is companies utilizing the Internet to bring together markets that would have been impossible to organize profitably 20 years ago (try running eBay as a mail-order or phone based system).
Apparently all this "integration" appeals to some people, but I can't say I'm one of them. The last thing I want is google+ integrated with my gmail (largely why I haven't signed up with google+). I'd rather just have my mail be my mail, not some sort of weird blob-like uber product trying desperately to force me to classify the people I kind of know into "circles". I get the value for the company, but as a consumer the idea of all this integration just creeps me out.
How is that portable, across different architectures?

I have to work in Solaris, SUSE SLES, some other linux where I don't know what they run, and OS X and I don't have root on most of those. bash seems to work the same everywhere and always seems to be there when I get access to a newly provisioned environment.
Ideally pick something that you use or are interested in.

Django is pretty well setup for new contributors:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/contribute/
There perhaps is one valid reason for them to: Minorities can get big preference by being extremelly loyal. Majority can't because there is only one pie.
What you think women want is clearly not what women want, because you're only one woman, and women are complex and varied, and want different things.

Also, I want a different thing to what you want, and lots of women want what I want. So you are twice as wrong! Not only for assuming other women want what you want, but also that you want what other women want!

Ahem. Now that "want" and "women" have started sounding less like words and more like an arbitrary sequence of sounds, is anyone willing to contribute actual science to the discussion? People yelling at each other "women are like me!" "no, women are like me!" has, I fear, outlived its usefulness.

Are there any studies covering, say, startup success by founder gender? Any documentation on attrition rates from school -> university -> startup? Has anyone even been bothered to go out and survey the attitudes of women towards startups rather than just projecting out their own?

Rather than shutting up about what women want, I think a better idea would be to actually find out what women want. Gender balance is clearly an issue in the startup community, and not talking about it isn't likely to help. Are there few women because women don't want startups, or because startups don't want women?

I don't know, but there comes a point where more opinions are not useful.
This is basically what happened to Readability.
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Rick Patnel, creator of AdBlock Plus died two years ago. I don't think he would have approved this new development.

Just saying.
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I agree, the word fragmentation means nothing here. The word he was looking for was inconsistency, but he chose fragmentation because that's the most popular negative buzzword related to Android, even though it makes little sense to use it in this case.

That being said, I agree that Google should strive for even more consistency in their OS and their own apps. I do think they are learning and moving in the right direction, though. They just need to do it faster and even more holistically.
I've made this chart to visualize voting in Moscow.

Every person who voted (or "voted" gets one pixel on the screen, grouped in circled depicting their voting place.
Pixels are color-coded, each party has its own color, United Russia is black.

https://github.com/alamar/elegraph/blob/master/moscow.png

The X axis is turnover, bigger to the right. Starts at ~25%, ends at 100%
The Y axis is % of votes given to United Russia, bigger towards bottom. starts at ~20%, ends at 100%

You can see there's something crazy going on, there is more than one center with wildly different voting behavior plus at some places some parties got no votes at all, plus towards the bottom a few places where all the votes went to United Russia.
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I agree with with zuck knuth comparison perhaps I too quickly wrote the first two names that came to my head. As for the image, I like to make people think I go outside...
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In my experience, it happens through personal interaction and is a matter of culture. Facilitated by employers? Most employers are decades away from knowing how to do that. Or rather, most employers that exist today will never do it.

The interesting question is how many good programmers would be happier working in such a culture. I believe the answer is significantly many, and that this is a competitive edge waiting to be exploited. We hear so much about perks and benefits. My programmer soul says: fuck perks and benefits. Give me an environment that is teeming with creativity where I get to work with great people that I learn from and am inspired to do what seemed impossible.
Well, I'm working on a web-based real-time multi-player game, and I'd say that UDP would be very welcome by me. When I'm on a good connection, TCP is fine and things work perfectly. But as soon as my connection becomes just a tiny bit unreliable and packets start dropping, it becomes completely unplayable, as TCP has to retransmit those dropped packets before any new packets are processed.

Since all we get is TCP right now though, you can take advantage of that at least and easily do things like send deltas instead of absolute positions, and even things that depend on reliable order of transmission (which you can't rely on if it were UDP), in order to reduce bandwidth use.
Whats the problem with having babies? Its not impossible to continue working and taking care of babies, after the first year or so. During that year your husband can take the work or someone you hire. Big deal.

This argument what woman want is kind of sexist, since nobody talked what men want before. Do whatever the fuck you want and stfu, gay, lesbian or baby-creator.
Here's the opening of the article she referenced: "Austin's supply crunch for software developers was bad enough by September to prompt 25 Central Texas tech executives to fly to California in search of new talent."

Here's your argument: Maybe the OP doesn't want to live there but a lot of people do.

Apparently, 25 Central Texas tech executives think you are wrong.

So since we (well, everyone it appears but you) are talking about finding people who have not chosen to live in Texas, perhaps those companies might need to persuade people to move.

You'd have to pay me EXTRA to work in Austin, frankly.
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Who is your target customer here? I would assume that most digital photographers already know how to watermark their images. Maybe you should target to more the mom/pop/kids variety?

Looks good otherwise :)
The problem isn't that Google is letting carriers (and hardware manufacturers) mess with Android -- they were always free to make Android phones with bloatware and restrictions. What Google (supposedly?) did here that was destructive was let them them mess with a Nexus branded Android phone.

No matter how you slice it, marketing value will be lost if this story is true because this will cause the Nexus tag to mean nothing to those who it was originally created to court.
The ads are so good that I'd choose an ad-supported kindle over an ad-free one at the same price point. Virtually all my shopping, aside from perishable foods, can be done at Amazon.com -- I've bought toilet paper, ketchup, packing supplies, cereal, etc. there -- that the offers will probably pay for the device.
Keep the doors open to everyone? Have you talked to actual women about their experiences in tech? I have for many years, and I tell you true: open doors are not what all of them are seeing.

I'd like to see your evidence that women-specific events only serve to further divide groups. The participants I've talked to see it as an opportunity to learn new skills in a safe environment. Skills that they then go out and apply at regular companies. It's not like they then go on to work at women-only companies and then found women-only startups themselves, after all.
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your comment, being a link to another comment, added absolutely nothing to the conversation. therefore, it was downvoted. if you don't have anything to add, don't comment.

(and yes, i'm aware that this comment adds just as little or less to the discussion as its parent does.)
I think Dropbox is a great example to illustrate the weaknesses of the product-to-feature template. Yes, a product can be crushed by a feature, but only if that feature is "good enough".

Dropbox, in particular, is remarkably resilient, because the competing features still aren't "good enough". Apple and Microsoft are actually relatively weak competitors because neither of them "plays well with others" (and having access to your files "anywhere" is a big part of Dropbox's value proposition). Amazon is a more significant threat (competing with your infrastructure provider is never easy), but even they haven't done enough to make Cloud Drive simple and ubiquitous.

Looking at Google+ that way, I think many products won't be threatened by Google+'s features. For example, Google+ doesn't support anonymity the way Tumblr does, so it isn't likely to be a "good enough" replacement.

Facebook might be special case, though. Other than the existing user base (which isn't an impossible hurdle), I don't really see any dimension along which Google+ isn't likely to be a "good enough" alternative. On the other hand, I've never been a fan of Facebook, so I'm probably a bad person to assess that.
Two things:

1. Why do they have to be "junior"-level? When you start a job, do you want to be doing easy stuff? Or do you want to be doing the fun, challenging stuff?

If you're looking for projects that have bugs that are easy, or easy-but-tedious-and-time-consuming, you probably won't find very many. The easy bugs tend to just get fixed, the tedious ones? You don't want to work on those.

2. I've always wondered how far people get with other people saying "contribute to this project because I like it!" — at the end of the day, after you've spent the past hours working on something else, are you really going to spend the next hour coding for something you don't care about? Or are you going to say "meh" and play Starcraft?

There must be some app/tool/… that you use that is open source? Thats a good ones to look into contributing to. Because you already use it, so its easier to care about it.
Why would anyone think that this statistical analysis shows evidence of a fraud?

One chart shows that there is no normal distribution for votes given to United Russia (UR)
The other chart shows that percent of people who voted for UR grows when the number of people that voted grows

Let's think, which facts have influenced the results of voting:

А) External factors:

1) Votes falsification

B) Personal factors:

2) Authorithy of elder person, commander or tribe leaders
3) Mass-media

4) Standards of living

5) Rational thinking - when someone takes a pen and a sheet
of paper and writes down proc and cos of voting for one or another party.

The regions where UN had the biggest number of votes where:

- rregions with large number of milinary men

- regions located on Caucasus (where family and tribe traditions are very strong).

There were no need to falsify election results in the Russian Army - it has very strong pro-UR propaganda inside and have almost no information sources other than TV which is also pro-UR

As for the Caucasus,

1) There are very strong tribe traditions there

— one for everyone and everyone for one.

— people tend tol vote as they are told by the elders

2) Opposition media sources (Kommersant FM, Musiness FM, etc which describe UR in negative way, are not widespread in Chechen Republic. Certanly, somene can use the Internet, but this is very small number of people in this republic

3) Russia gives this region large amount of federal money to rebuild and renovate cities that were destroyed during prevoius wars (this even caoused the campagin "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" "Хватит кормить Кавказ!" in other parts of the country)

4) Rational thinking factor is evident here

5) No need for falsifications there

I do not say that there were no falsifications at all, but I think that it is stupid to make such conclusions using only these charts.
If you require 80 hour weeks then no, a women with a young child isn't going to cut it. However, neither is a man with a young child.

There is one difference, though: Males are more likely to postpone having kids for the sake of their career -- because men are biologically more likely to be able to postpone having kids. For a 35 year old childfree woman, having kids is practically "now or never"; for a 35 year old childfree man, having kids is simply a matter of waiting until the right moment and then finding an appropriately-aged woman.
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Raw data from Moscow:
https://github.com/alamar/elegraph/blob/master/data/moscow-2...
The last 6 columns are voting counts.
I second that. If this is anti-Putin frame-up, he would be the first to investigate election fraud. Actually the opposite is the case, russian authorities repeatedly say that elections were clean and fair.
Okay, now all we need is a "STFU women" post and we'll be back to regular HN interesting stuff :D
What if most women want to take care of their own babies?

Hell I'm a guy and I'm dreaming about downshifting or even ending my career when kids start coming. I have seen consumerist/careerist families and I believe I can do better.

I actually WANT my kids to be raised in an atmosphere of (material) scarcity to the point that I could do without major wealth or if I acquired it I would "hide" it from them.

I must be batshit crazy huh?
One of the authors, Ares2, gave some details on how it works technically. https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8872&#...

There is a whitelist, mentioned in the FAQ, which lists a few companies which made it there: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...

Additionally (but the FAQ omits to mention it), a business partner of ABP can obtain a key - adding <html data-adblockkey="XXXXXKEYXXXXX_XXXXXSIGNATUREXXXXX"> to his page, which will whitelist the content.

The main author Wladimir Palant then replies to the transparency concerns raised on the thread about this solution:

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Seeing as it is legal to share files non-commercially in Switzerland I'd say that worldwide is a stretch.

It's also getting there in other countries. The momentum is behind the sharing, not behind the institutions upholding the barricades.
I believe I've seen similar a post with this exact name here about a year ago. Nice to know Google have fixed it -_-
Honestly, I'm not sure what the big deal is. Ads that do not distract from the content I would not mind being displayed.

Notice, however, "display" does not equate to "I'm actually looking at it, reading it, and then clicking on it", my mind's own ad blocker will happily ignore it.

I am not someone who believes in website ads as no one seems to have gotten rich advertising their product with website ads; I am not opposed to putting them on my own website, of course, advertisers are welcome to pay me, I just don't see the point in becoming one.
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a circle is exactly the same feature as a contacts group, something email clients have had since their inception. you've never organized your contacts into groups or lists so you could quickly send an email to a pre-defined list of people? that's exactly what a circle is. i can't imagine any rational reason to be creeped out by that.

and even if you don't group your contacts, that's perfectly fine. there is nothing forcing you to do that. after-g+ gmail works exactly the same way it did before g+, only now it has the ability to send mail to any circles you've set up in google+.
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I think he would have. He added the multiple lists feature, and the new non-obtrusive list is effectively just another list. The end user is free to use it or not use it, by default will simply be display those ads instead of block them.
First thing I thought also.
You could try to replace your income with small business ventures and certainly having some cash will help. This business makes it seem like the only way to do well is to hunt down VCs and convince them you are the next prodigy. There are other paths - they just aren't going to be written about on Techcrunch.
Thank you for the advice.
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