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- They were forced (or tricked, or coerced) into working for private companies. We're talking about jobs in supermarkets and (the UK equivalent of) dollar stores.

- The taxpayer paid the wage (the same as jobseeker's allowance, I think). The private companies didn't pay anything.

- Companies could just sack their workers and enjoy the benefits of free labour.

So much for the minimum wage! How can minimum-wage workers compete with free labour? (Free from the company's perspective, that is.) And this was supposed to reduce unemployment?!

And anyway, if people are working, why aren't they getting minimum wage?
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Fair enough, but "OSX is not as well supported as I'd like" is a far cry from "has stopped development". FWIW, I get the updates just fine through Ubuntu PPAs.
I once read an article about HP making an interpreter of PA-RISC running on a PA-RISC CPU that was faster than the real thing.

IIRC it was due to better cache locality.
I have seen many of the bugs in the article.
There was some recent EU regulation for reducing data roaming costs, that should eventually help. With 3G so popular, public WiFi access points have become very rare

I'm currently a TeliaSonera customer in Finland, and have been since mid-90s. But such dirty tricks make me strongly consider switching away.
But you need to be REALLY vocal about your reasons to have any chance of them actually being aware of this.

If you just leave to another provider, TeliaSonera will have zero clue why you did that. Even if a lot of people do it.
A bubble is made from more than insane valuations - it requires a thorough delusion about the inherent value of the asset-class that's the source of the bubble. In the dotcom bubble, anyone that did anything online was considered infinite revenue potential, even if they had no revenue and no business plan. In the mortgage bubble, no-one had the fantasy to imagine the real-estate market going down on the whole. The ratings agencies' worst-case scenario was zero-growth.

It's obvious in hindsight, but apparently it wasn't in the present.

While there are isolated instances of on-the-face bizarre valuations, such as Instagram or color.com, the prevailing actors in the market are actually making money.

In other words, if this bubble pops, who will loose out? Will it have catastrophic consequences for the economy at large?
Question : how do you remembers that users say no without cookie?
Hey stop unfairly dissing C! It's perfectly possible to implement well designed programming languages in C. Blame the programmer, not the implementation language, for PHP's atrocities. It's not Dennis Ritchie's fault -- Rasmus Lerdorf deserves the blame.
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A voice stream is fairly easy to detect. Not many applications have a constant, symmetric flow of data. They don't have to keep you from establishing the connection in the first place, just cut it off or degrade it once detected.
Seems like NoSQL target was to solve small part of your Big-Data problem. This is changing because NoSQL can replace RDBMS in many fields and Security is becoming a MUST to have too.

AFAIK OrientDB is the only NoSQL supports security: http://code.google.com/p/orient/wiki/Security.
As well as the issue with the low numbers only showing a very significant effect at this point, there's also the assumption that the redesign will act immediately.

Some products don't have a "search, find and purchase immediately" pattern to sales. Especially when you move out of the B2C market.

Some businesses sales can look more like "Visit half a dozen different sites. Go away for a week and think. Visit best sites again. Go away for a few days and come to a decision. Visit final option, browse and purchase".

Tracking these multiple visits can be non-trivial/impossible since it may be different people and different browsers visiting the site at the different stages. It also leads to long lead-times for the effects that design changes make.
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Any idea what caused it? We have seen some DNS errors on our sites in Europe from APAC / West Coast US today. (Although we are nowhere near Facebook sized!)
> softcore pornography and boxing pay for all of the "Game of Thrones"

Well, softcore pornography and violence is not that much different to Game of Thrones. ^^
Does it matter?
Markets go up and down, rise and fall.
Recently heard breast augmentation was a reliable indicator of market changes.
Ultimately you want to make the most of crazy money while following key business fundamentals... Like being a going concern by making a profit.
I'm curious that a similar movement has not been started over something like whatsapp, in my experience, the vast amount of my friends (in the 20-25 year old region) use Whatsapp almost exclusively, and almost always using a 3g connection. It means they have to pay only for data.

I assume whatsapp would be harder to detect and stop, but its a wonder that mobile vendors are not up in arms.

The day is coming when someone will arrive with a new type of carrier, Data. That is all. calls,sms everything is handled through the web.
I think the assumption is that you don't do any tracking by default and then the first cookie you set is to allow you to set other cookies in the future.

The ICO would have website owners pop up a box to new users asking them to give consent to using cookies.
what's an advantage of being too verbose? extra exercise for your fingers? ;-)
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In some parts of Europe you might already using WiFi when doing data traffic via 3G (and charged at 3G rates) - mobile operators have been going into wholesale agreements with WiFi networks since some time or have started to build their own WiFi networks.

You're right public / open WiFi access is now rather rare (to limit anonymous access) - but many restaurants / bars / pubs etc do provide free access (suggested use of a VPN here). And there are by now quite a few WiFi providers that provide WiFi subscription with international access.

A positive exception from extra-charging is BT (in the UK) that provide you unlimited WiFi access across the country and free international with the FON network (and at reduced rates with other European providers). You have to be a BT fixed line subscriber for that free access.

You can see a map of global FON WiFi coverage at http://maps.fon.com/
The current best-practise guidance[1] suggests that you split your cookies up into 4 types: essential, performance, functionality and tracking. All types should be selectable, but the first three could be opt-out by default as long as you display a notice. Only tracking cookies need be opt-in, and I’m fine with that.

BT have a nice implementation of this, or at least would have if they’d turned off tracking cookies by default (hah). I assume that their code flexible enough that they can do this on the deadline. Look at the bottom right of http://www.bt.com/ (or any page on the same domain).

[1] http://www.international-chamber.co.uk/components/com_wordpr...
That's true. I bought a 128 meg box for 2.25 from another provider. I run my primary postfix server on it, and prgmr runs a backup postfix server among other stuff.

Anyway, 6 months in my cheaper box is mysteriously reset, postfix config gone, but it's still accepting (and rejecting all) email because the default instance runs sendmail out of the box. Emailed support, they apologized and gave me a month. Still REALLY ANNOYING. PRGMR doesn't pull that kind of crap, so I'm happy to pay the extra for it.
After you log them on, you can set a cookie for session management (it's allowed) and use that to remember a preference stored in your db (which you can get by default on registration).

If you can't log them on, well... I guess you should try to guess their country, and if it's UK, you don't track.

This is another case of well-intentioned but probably unenforceable legislation by our detached European elites.
That is great, well done! I'll be using this a fair bit!

A thing that annoyed me, when I double clicked an object to type text it, it seemed to type the text at the top, rather than the middle of the object. Once I was done editing, it popped to the middle. Not a big deal, but the only negative thing I could find!
Disregarding the implementation details (which will probably evolve and adapt if this ever gets mandatory) I think it's a totally sensible thing as far as the user is concerned. I have the right to know how the information I send you is being used. If you'd like to track me, I'd rather have to optin than optout.
If you read right to the end of the actual guidance from the ICO it says:

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We only use analytical cookies – if nobody consents that will seriously restrict the amount of information we can get to improve and develop our website

The Regulations do not distinguish between cookies used for analytical activities and those used for other purposes. We do not consider analytical cookies fall within the ‘strictly necessary’ exception criteria. This means in theory websites need to tell people about analytical cookies and gain their consent.

In practice we would expect you to provide clear information to users about analytical cookies and take what steps you can to seek their agreement. This is likely to involve making the argument to show users why these cookies are useful. Although the Information Commissioner cannot completely exclude the possibility of formal action in any area, it is highly unlikely that priority for any formal action would be given to focusing on uses of cookies where there is a low level of intrusiveness and risk of harm to individuals. Provided clear information is given about their activities we are highly unlikely to prioritise first party cookies used only for analytical purposes in any consideration of regulatory action.

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My interpretation of that is: tell your web site users clearly what you do with analytics and why and we are very unlikely to bother coming after you.
HN comments are IP. If everyone you upvoted asked you to pay $20 for the value they provided, would you?

We all get value for free; life would be impossible if we didn't. So either you're like Andrew Joseph Galambos, who changed his name to not infringe on his father's, and who put a coin in a box every time he used the word "liberty" (to pay its supposed inventor, Thomas Paine), or your position is inconsistent and ad-hoc.

A pirate is no worse for a creator than someone who simply abstains from the content. So in my opinion, either the two are wrong or none of them is.

(Note to everyone else: ad-hominem trolls will be ignored)
You remember the ones who say yes. As for the ones who say no, you ask them every time until they say yes. So I guess the system works.
uhhh, not sure what to say, I'm living in France.

In the SW part of the country, the surf region, there are loads of foreigners, many of whom have been here year-round for more than a decade; still, the accent is poor, the phrasing limited, and the non-native speaker element is absolutely evident.

You may immerse yourself in everything French, but unless you start early on in life it will be exceedingly difficult to attain native speaker type fluency. Language is not just speaking phrases, being able to read literature, etc., it's also being, language is being the being of another culture.
You're mixing concerns when you bring in roaming. It's really a different beast, not very liberalised, so old, entrenched more-or-less monopolies control this and disrupting is difficult.

As for fixed lines, there's a reasonable amount of competition. Multiple providers give you affordable, uncapped connections for well under $200 (I pay £22.50/month). Unfortunately, they've got traffic shaping in effect in "prime time" which is a bit annoying, but I can get an unshaped connection for £32/month from another provider, so I'll switch when my current contract expires.

As for mobile, my current provider has uncapped mobile usage (I don't know how they'll detect if I connect a laptop, but that's the terms) for £10/month. I haven't tried doing VoIP over it, and don't really care, although Skype happily logs in.
If they can pull this off, I'll definitely be on board ... good luck.
If the correspondence does not need to be editable, PDF is the best option, with even less problems than Word or OpenOffice formats. And LaTeX has built-in support for it.

I agree with revision history, Word probably manages it pretty good. But git repos aren't a bad option if you are used to them. I personally use Dropbox, so I have a simple revision history without problems.

Anyways, I didn't say LaTeX was the perfect solution, that's why I said that he maybe had some impediment to use it instead of Office.
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Problem is you only have a limited time to learn. How do you prioritise the curriculum? How long do you spend at uni before going into the real world?
I have learned more in the real world but probably because my teachers lacked inspiration...
It's not in the interest of companies like Twitter to push out the information in machine readable format without charging for it. Most of the business models for these companies revolve around making money on the information they have (or advertising).

For blogs that are seeking to make money out of advertising, it is difficult to justify why they should send out the content out as RSS feed. If you send full text, then user does not come to the site. If you send excerpts then users are not happy.

One thing to try out could be push full fledged web pages inside the RSS feeds. Instead of just getting the text, I would get images, layout and advertisements as well (but of course still just the content, not the "chrome"). Reading this kind of blog entry on my "RSS" reader would be more like looking at the actual web site of the blog. Consuming large amounts of web sites this way would be faster than visiting them one-by-one with the browser. Publishers benefit could be that users would browse through more of their content (on web I usually pick few articles to read, with this I would probably cursory browse through most of content (and get exposure to the related ads).
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Err, haven't rooted my phone actually.
The title is a little overly broad; as far as I can tell the only part of analytics that'll be impacted is setting cookies solely for tracking purposes. Lots of other kinds of web analytics will be fine. For example, you can do statistical analysis of your Apache logs, or of other cookies that you set in the regular course of operating the webapp.
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Whatsapp uses XMPP, so trivial to intercept and block. I think it has to do with challenging BlackBerry and BBMs dominance in that market.
Translation: we don't want to sue you, this law is to go after Facebook and Google.
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A search for that phrase led me to this:
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Mystery solved! :-)
Although I very seldom make calls (or receive them) and use the data plan extensively I still consider phone calls the main purpose of a mobile network, even though the ratio of calls and data usage are probably less than 1% for calls.

Why? Because when trying to get hold of someone calling/texting them is the, by far, most effective way imaginable. The same goes for being contacted of course.

I can't mail even an tech-savvy person and expect him to automatically receive that in his phone, especially if he is on a vacation. The phone is the last thing you turn off.

There is no equivalent technology as commonly used as a cellphone. Mail and perhaps facebook are probably the most successful ways to contact a person on the internet but it is frustratingly inferior to a phone call or text message when there haven't been an established contact earlier and a quick response time is valued.

That alone makes the primary purpose of the mobile network to server calls and text messages in my eyes.

And that is even without taking into consideration the case of emergencies - and that use case alone is important enough to create laws in order to protect and ensure quality.

So even though the last month I probably had an all time low of call-time (where I think I talked for about 15 minutes in total (outgoing and in going)) I still view my data plan as an accessory and that the main purpose of the mobile network is calls and texts. And I'm having trouble imagining that this will change any time soon, regardless of how often people actually make phone calls.
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The problem is that even the strong, viable firms have insane valuations. A lot of them are great companies, they're just overvalued.

Take Facebook--$100 billion valuation, more than Unilever, Anheuser-Busch, Amazon, McDonalds, or Cisco. Seriously?
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My hypothesis is A/B testing can move the needle for light engagement, like "try a free trial". But pulling out a credit card requires a lot of motivation, and the 0.1% of your visitors that have this motivation are relatively unaffected by your design.

That's not true in my experience. I've seen some big increases in the percentages that complete the checkout process through an iterative process of redesign/test for example.

The motivation behind a user purchase can be very different in different situations. If Mary is purchasing a new gearbox for the car, and she's already done a comparison shop, then she's likely to finish the purchase as long as it's vaguely sane. If Bob is impulse buying that new laptop bag he saw on swissmiss then every single grain of friction between Bob and the final "purchase" button is going to make it more likely that he remembers he really needs that $80 for groceries this week.

At some point you're going to reach a maximum of course and only see small or no increases - but, with my clients anyway, folk seem to be quite a long way from that in many instances :-)
very cool, want lots more examples, especially of them calling each other

e.g. show an example http hander that makes a call to over SOAP, squirts something into a database and returns etc

p.s. mispelled calback in code example
Your "About NewsBlur" page has nice Who/How/Why sections, but I’m still not sure What NewsBlur is. I guess it is a feed reader and it looks nice, but what makes it different from the one I already have?
The compatibility efforts on the API are exactly what the trial is currently about. Oracle says they violate their IP rights; Google says they don't. We'll see how it goes.
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That's so true. I noticed this when I started teaching iOS development (both on my own and at The Big Nerd Ranch). Teaching a subject forces you to see it from many different perspectives, as many as students you have. It still astonishes me the completely different ways each person approaches a same subject.
People have been predicting tech bubbles since this website was called Startup News. Each large large investment/valuation/acquistion is grist to the mill. Eventually they will be correct.
Frankly, their policy seems sensible and I'm having an hard time giving a fuck about the webmasters (is this still used?).

If you want to track, do it properly with a package installed on your own server. stop subjecting your users to Google's All-Seeing Eye just because using their Analytics is easier for you.
Wouldn't this be easier if browser companies blocked all cookies by default. Users wanting cookies turn of blocker? A lot less browsers than websites?
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Agreed. Though the cynic in me wonders if they even care to track such data.
Who is forcing users to go to a website? I consider a website the same as someone's house. While I'm interacting with their server its obvious they'll want to know what I'm doing.

Its tracking people outside of a website's scope that should be allowed only with consent, such as facebook tracking people when they go to sites with a like button and so on
The animations are a nice touch but it seems to offer nothing I don't already get with http://livereload.com/

Which is free if you want to download the source from github and compile it yourself.
I mean this honestly: what makes you think Groklaw is biased? That deosn't match my [uninformed] mental model of their site.
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Maybe that's the case if you want to turn everything into a mind game. You're really taking points away from the company, not the candidate, when you judge them idiotically.

Wait, you suggest that they "swing by the office" instead of just sending an email? This is madness.
More at: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/darwin.pdf

(Probably should have submitted that as the primary link.)
I'm with you to an extent - in that if I've thought the purchase over, and made the purchase in sound mind and then just decided I don't fancy it any more, it's bad form to return the product.

On the other hand, I like liberal return laws because we're getting increasingly good at manipulating people with marketing. Giving people the opportunity to realise that the product doesn't make them feel as amazing as the marketing implied is probably useful.
You can solve the problem easily if you get hold of the cellphone data of the involved parties. If cellphones get together after date, it was successful. If cellphones spend the night in the same location, I'll call it a 5 star. The cherry on top would be that if you have GPS on both phones you can also get the bathroom moment.

Say hello to the new age of not so much privacy.
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We're a UK business with our web server in the USA. Do these new laws apply to our website?
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