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i18n. This is basically unsupported on any of the client side frameworks I've seen. Even if it were, if you go partially client and part server rendering then where does your i18n live? You have to go all the way or not at all or deal with the mess.

Keep i18n strings and templates as JSON or some other format that can be easily parsed by both the client and the server, one for each language. Have both your client and server code use the file corresponding to the user's locale.

Could this be easier with better i18n support in today's client-side and server-side frameworks? Most definitely. Is it really that messy? I don't think so.

(And yes, I'm aware that not all i18n can be expressed as simple string templates, but those are corner cases that don't add THAT much complexity to the system.)
"That's a bad deal for Tesla. It could mean financial ruin if there are too many irresponsible owners."

On the contrary, if there are too many irresponsible owners then Tesla is ruined if they DON'T cover it. Imagine what "too many Tesla bricked cars" would do to their product image.

Look, this is very simple. Warranty systems are underwritten like insurance policies. It's little risk to Tesla -- the question is the underwriter's risk assessment. If the underwriter won't cover it on affordable terms, it suggests the risk is too high and the product is poorly designed. At that point, the path of failure is chosen (expensive underwriting policy vs expensive PR debacle) is irrelevant. The only issue is whether the risk assessment is accurate -- it becomes a gamble.
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Yes - Microsoft are improving, and props to the people in the company who have done this...

... but it sure took them long enough. Where did all those profits actually go? not much into innovation...
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The author was thinking of

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawoflargenumbers.asp

but confused it with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

Apple has no need to grow its market cap forever. It could pay dividends from revenues.
A bit of background on why (IMO) it's good to see these small claims cases succeed for non-trivial amounts:

AT&T is essentially class action proof post-AT&T v. Concepcion. AT&T had always put mandatory arbitration and class action waiver provisions in its contracts but states (most notably CA) usually ignored them and allowed class actions to proceed. In Concepcion, the Supreme Court said that the Federal Arbitration Act (an act that basically says promoting arbitration is so desirable any contract that calls for arbitration must be honored) preempts state law that would ignore those provisions.

In other words, the formula for becoming class action proof is now 1) insert mandatory arbitration provision; 2) insert class action waiver; 3) dare consumers to sue you one at a time.

Virtually the only way I see to overcome Concepcion right now is mass, coordinated (but individual), small claims suits or arbitrations. If AT&T had to face several million suits where it was actually relatively easy to win $850, they'd be begging for the old class action system.
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I, for one, welcome America's new political overlords.

And I'm not joking. Reddit will become a powerful political force outside of the traditional electorate system, and I welcome the new voice.
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Seeing this thread brought to mind the brief article "Don’t Cry For Argentina" by Paul Krugman last year,

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/dont-cry-for-arg...

and I'd be very curious to find out what HN participants who are familiar with Argentina (I am not) think are appropriate lessons to take for other countries from the economic experience of Argentina.
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I have a cousin who works in PR for Microsoft, and he told me that since Ballmer became CEO the headcount in marketing and sales positions has tripled. (This was a few years ago and was just his ballpark estimate.) I can't help but think that rebranding moves like this are a byproduct of the change in management from engineering based leadership to marketing based leadership.
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I have a feeling I'm being terrifically dim, but how can there be a 750 million subscriber base in the US?
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The problem domain for TV is narrower than the problem domain of Siri. She may perform better.
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If I sign a piece of paper that says I won't sue you, I don't see anything stopping a court from ignoring that outright.

If courts ignored such pieces of paper, then settling lawsuits out of court would be impossible.
I used to work in AOL's UK office. You have a point, talent retention is a problem, and it's not because the staff are being poached, it's because this company has political battles with massive knock-on effects on employee morale and loyalty which is causing people to flee.

This has happened (and continues to happen) at AOL UK, and I feel for Jason because when you read his post, you see how sad he is to be leaving TC.

There are some really lovely, funny, supportive, and wonderful people at AOL, and to leave them behind is really hard. At times it makes you angry, and you want to blame someone for it, and sometimes you want to write a massive rant about all the shit you saw at AOL and email Business Insider and watch corp comms go into overdrive. But in the end what does it give you?

It's better to say "onto better things" - just look at the Verge... I'm sure Topolsky is glad about leaving Engadget and doing this project.
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Advertising needs to be turned upside in the DVR/Digital streaming era. Imagine if the show you watched ran ad-free, and instead simply had a 'Sponsored By' section on the shows start page (basically a newly designed 'landing page' for each tv show). Then we viewers would simply choose to watch the ad's when we/if we wanted. And even if we didn't watch an ad, just seeing a Tide logo on that page would cause some to buy their product ('cool they sponsor Family Guy...' for example).

The thing that advertisers don't seem to understand is that we consumers are actually interested in the right ad's. I would choose to watch the new trailer for Game of Thrones - Season Two for example. Or an add for the new Honda Element, if I were shopping or just curious what the new model looked like.

All the sponsored by ads could be google-style customized to the viewer, and the view-rate would likely be higher than it is now where I DVR skip pretty much all ad's since there is no easy way for me to know what is being shown.

On top of all that, advertisers would be able to know exactly how many people were actually watching their ads. They could even add in interactive 'like/dislike' voting to further determine the effectiveness of the ad.

I thought of all this 5-6 years ago when DVR's really got popular. It seemed to me an obvious way to 'evolve' TV, and I'm pretty surprised something like this hasn't already happend. I guess it's expecting too much from an industry that is used to just shoveling ads at us from all angles, the idea of 'choice' is probably pretty scary/imposible for them.

Maybe this is the way Apple intends to crack TV?
The instant red herring responses on any comment is pretty blatant. Not that I assume it is government but it does seem pretty systematic.
As discussed in the paper, the logistics of targeting the attack and not getting automatically blocked by the network make it a bit more difficult than that.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Seems reasonable to me. And the animal threat is real.
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I think you're right, and it makes me sad. Who would prefer a distorted image over a non-distorted one, black bars or not?

The only explanation I have for this is sense of entitlement: "I paid dearly for each of these pixels so you better use all of them, no matter how bad the picture looks like!"
They don't have so many lawyers on payroll they can respond to a large increase in small claims court appearances though. They'll have to hire more, or send someone less qualified, or send nobody - all cases in which the consumer has "won".

The opportunity cost of spending the lawyer's time on small claims vs something else is not to be underestimated.
The lady in charge worked on the Power Puff Girls, and Foster's home for imaginary friends. I am not to surprised that she went on to other quality projects(especially since it wasn't just her but a number of people on MLP are veterans of those shows.)
I have this advice: Argentina is the "hurt me plenty" or "nightmare" doom level but for business. Entrepeneurs from all the world come here to train. If they survive, they are ready for everything.
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That was actually my first thought after reading this. Chances are, people in public wifi spots will actively and aggressively ignore any and all warnings that get in the way of them getting their work done (I have witnessed this far too many times).

However, Chrome surprised me the other day by not allowing me to continue on to a site that didn't have a valid certificate (I was MiTM myself using PAROS proxy to test something). In other words, we don't need stricter warnings, but the warnings must become errors for them to be noticed.
The only level that involved "code" was the final one; otherwise, it was more just running the program with the right arguments (so I'm not exactly certain what you are hoping to see). While solving the levels I tried to get each one down to an easily-paste-able bash command-line. If you log in as level04 you can just paste this command:

while ! echo 'cat /home/level05/.password' | /levels/level04 "$(printf %1036s)"$'\xd0\x23\x5b\xf7____\xee\xab\x6a\xf7' | grep -F ''; do true; done

(To be clear: I still had to brute force the ASLR; but even if you are doing the executable-stack+shell-code approach, you don't need the nop-sled as you can just calculate exactly where you intend to return to; that's what I meant by "totally reasonable" "guesswork": the nop-sled works and kept you from having to stare at the assembly.)

(Note: my original version only required a single address, but involved more messiness outside of the program; the command I pasted here is a revision I made after an e-mail exchange I had with a1k0n, who reminded me that "/bin/sh" was a string that already existed in libc, so I could run an actual shell rather than some random garbage.)

(edit: Awesome! It turns out mpetrov managed to make a 100% deterministic version, which makes the executable-stack+shell-code approach look a lot cleaner, as it drops away that irritating brute force step ;P. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3630826)
I act just like that four year old now when I'm around a "normal" tv. It had been long enough that I decided to simply go in assuming that tv must be fixed by now, and I can pick a show from a menu, netflix/hulu style, and get what I want immediately.

I went through the motions, and had an entertaining exchange with my sister. Something like:

Me: "I just selected 'Modern Family'. Why is 'Modern Family' not playing now? I just see a short description and no 'play' button."

Her: "Don't you remember how tv works? It's not on right now, this is just a tv guide"

Me: "I guess tv is worthless. I hope nobody paid any money for this"

I wasn't being deliberately obtuse. I was genuinely surprised at how much it sucked, and I really do not understand why so many people pay so much money for it.
Pull request:

- its not so simple to choose

+ it's not so simple to choose
Why now? It doesn't escape my notice that an influential British magazine is majorly dissing the Argentine government just as Britain and Argentina are getting into another tiff over the Falklands and a bunch of oil is found there.
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. A similar thought occured to me; that like "minimalist" has been by a similar group of people, the word beautiful is being diluted of its meaning. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, and I've never thought to use it to describe a UI, no matter how well thought out or suitable its colour scheme. Now very suddenly it's become the de jour adjective of a new generation of apps, along with "delightful", and I'm suspicious it's more based on fashions amongst the startup crowd and less on more objective realities.
It is to me. I was very surprised that programmers pay ~$100-$200 for padded over-the-head headphones. Perhaps this is just ultra-typical. The styles are very interesting, although unfortunately they don't provide that data directly; the brands are also somewhat interesting.

Keep in mind, I say this as someone who is apparently quite atypical. I have converted to neckphones -- headphones which wrap around your neck while wearing them -- as things which occupy my permanent ensemble. It's partly because I wanted to be able to quickly drop and resume music listening while cycling, but to be honest the padded headphones feeling around my neck died in high school for me, and hasn't been resurrected. They were too sweaty and you couldn't really wear them around your neck comfortably and sleekly while you were in a situation where you wanted to pay attention. Thinner traditional headphones are good for that, earbuds are horrible for that.

I feel like the story is missing the details, though. I could write a blog I suppose about all the neckphones I've used and their relative advantages, but honestly it seems like my basic problem is "I expect to accidentally sit on my headphones once or twice per year and they must be cheap, so that I think of them as expendable." That's not really in this article. ^_^;; I've used Sennheisers, I have a pair of Sonys now, but I must remark that at least for neckphones, after several frustrating experiences with other brands my brand loyalty today belongs with Philips. So I am even more atypical; they don't make the graph at all here. ^_^;;

I feel some extra pride because it's a Dutch company, but still: the last Philips neckband headphones I bought, the SHS5200s, lasted me almost an entire year for (if I'm remembering this correctly) 15 euro, with beautiful sound that, unlike my present Sony's, didn't leak sound to my office mates. They ultimately wore down because they had a straight headphone jack, not an L-shaped one. (The headphone ports on both my old and newer laptop were/are on the front, and therefore fatigue the cord when I'm reclining with my laptop on evenings and weekends.)

The only reason I'm ranting about them, and I promise I'll stop, is that the SHS5200s actually solved the problem of cord-extension breaks. And it's retrospectively such a simple engineering fix: just don't make the audio wire load-bearing. Use a piece of elastic to "bunch up" a little bit of wire, when you accidentally hyperextend your cord, the elastic is what responds. It's a brilliant little thing.

The reason I'm saying all of this is just that, in my role as hacker, these are the little things which I value most. The sound quality needs to be pretty beautiful, yes, but there are other practical problems like being able to comfortably keep them around my neck when I'm walking around town.
If AT&T throttles your unlimited plan and then encourages you to switch to a more expensive metered plan to get back the same level of service you used to have, money does seem to be at stake. And also punishing The Man, of course.
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How many of you heard Dire Straits in their head when you read that they had Microwave ovens? I would even go so far as to assume that some rooms had colour TVs.
That is a good point!

Old numbers of ~160MM households as below, with 58% subscribing to basic cable[1], gives us ~93MM

77.5B / 93MM = $833/yr, or $70/mo.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_...
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Certainly not a new thing. Circa 1994 my dial-up ISP (with "unlimited" internet, the first one in the area) was oversubscribed like every dial-up ISP, they had an order of magnitude less connections available than paying customers. When I actually set the connection to stay up 24/7, they shut the account down within a week.
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It was small claims court, AT&T can't actually send a lawyer there.

A lawyer could potentially do all the prep work (and bill for it) but they can't argue in front of the judge.
I've been listening to a commercial rock station on HD (KSAN fm on HD2), and it doesn't have any ads or announcements. There are silly "you're listening to station X and it's awesome" announcements every now and then, but that's about it. Everything else is just music.

I have no idea why they don't have any talking or ads, but i don't mind. I suspect it's because this is an offshoot station--there is the normal station, with more mainstream classic rock, talking and ads and then there is this "HD2" station with no ads and different music.

I really don't know why they run this station or even how it makes any money, but it's there and it's nice. So, for whatever reason, not all commercial stations have ads.
Sweet, I did not know. Is the performance respectable (provided it's a modern device)?
For all the folks that still watch broadcast television (I do): starting in December 2012, the "CALM Act" takes effect, restricting the use of louder than normal commercials.

http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-rules-restricting-lou...
I don't see how that differs from allowing a thick client written in wxPerl from directly connecting to the database. It seems quite useful in many cases.

One thing to keep in mind about PostgreSQL is you can do a lot of traditional middleware tasks (including message queues) in the database back-end with transactional control. These can even be hooked into other applications
Remember, you can put a lot of what would otherwise go in a middleware layer in the database itself, especially with features in PostgreSQL like LISTEN/NOTIFY.

There are some limitations of this approach, but in general, I have found it ideal, but it requires thinking about your database differently. Instead of a data store on the bottom of the stack, you have an intelligent data storage and queuing system in the center of your environment.
I agree with the author, but for diametrically opposed reasons. It's more that I don't think my web framework should decide that I need to be using MVC. If I want to tightly couple my view logic to my model logic, that's my (and my team's) business. If I want to drink the MVC Koolaid, that's my business as well. It isn't the business of the person who wrote my framework.

It's much simpler to handle views and view logic in only one place, and that place is slowly moving away from the server side.

I see. So one is simpler than two? That's a bit simplistic. Every situation is unique, and it's impossible to make such a sweeping statement that's true in all cases.
[resources used within network to route, store and forward message, payment made to peering network to which the target phone is connected to]

I spent two years working on carrier software for this section of the SMS transmission procedure and there are plenty of things here which cost the carriers money. SMS is definitely not free to the carrier.

Also, from my understanding, they don't actually piggy-back on the control messages, at least not after they have entered the wired part of the system (I never worked in the over-the-air part of the system, so have no knowledge of what happens there). That is, even if the control messages were sent constantly, SMS messages don't get a free ride, but rather they share the bandwidth with the control messages, since those messages do not require near as much bandwidth as the voice channels do.

As an aside, one carrier we installed our system in could only handle a thousand or two messages per second tops, after that, messages were dropped (well, TCAP transactions meant they were re-transmitted later), so there isn't some magical unlimited bandwidth available to SMS messages.
How can it be a public disservice to fund this stuff if it's never possible to know if it's unwanted?

The theory is that in the universe of all possible projects, the vast majority are a bad idea. E.g., most startups fail. So unless we have some compelling reason to believe a project is a good idea, it is likely to be wasteful.

...but the real world is always more complicated.

This is a logical fallacy. You are claiming the world is more complicated, and then assuming the complexity hides facts or mechanisms which would support your preferred policy. But you don't even attempt to explain these mechanisms.
Excellent, thank you for the pointer.

However, do depersonalized people feel like they're no longer individuals, or do they feel like they no longer have control?
Obviously this is just one opinion from an Argentinian but I think there are only two lessons. The other economic analysis (GDP growth) are explained because the country came from a really strong recession (subzero situation), and the commodities rocketed sky-high while the agricultural sector improved a lot in terms of efficiency. The rest of things remains the same: an hyper-corrupt country, without justice (except when the government pushes for specific cases), with a lot of poor people and people living of social assistance handled by government lords in change of favors (votes).

Lessons for other countries:

- You can renegotiate your foreign obligations (what is happening in Greece). The default is not the end of the game.

- Stay away from IMF bureaucrats
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One commenter mentioned that my gp sounded hostile. I didn't intend to (it was late at night). I found this interesting enough to comment on. I hope you have more ideas about how to illustrate a great tool.
I would think with stored procedures in Javascript and JSON as a native type you could mix and match SQL and NoSQL approaches to your heart's content!
Unfortunately, that's incorrect. The cable channels, as mentioned upthread, early on promised "since we can restrict access, unlike broadcast, we can just charge people and we won't show ads." That's not true in 2012. It is extremely, extremely rare to find television without frequent and intrusive advertising. HBO has less toxic advertising practices and better content, which is why you see them mentioned so often in this context.

Basically, the main television networks are all double-dipping (cf Marco Arment: http://www.marco.org/2011/10/27/double-dipping-ads-in-ipad-m... ).
the total cost of the network would increase if the number of messages was significantly increased

When I worked in telecoms a couple of years ago, we installed our SMS anti spam/fraud system in a network where a disproportionate amount of SMS traffic was caused by a virus on handsets that was constantly sending SMS messages. This was costing the carrier enough money that they installed our expensive anti spam system.
I can't find the source, but I think it was on HN within the last year or so.