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>If one company didn’t, their competitors would, so we all kind of have to do it.

There is a point here lots of people, especially western countries, and most especially Americans miss. So many people think government regulation takes away freedom and unfettered capitalism gives it. People whose own interests aren't even represented by that idea. And we all suffer because of this.
I use all of them (as do my friends).

Different people use the service in different ways. Who would have thought 1.11 billion people are different from each other? Crazy how that works huh?
I added a github issue for this -- https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/845. We should solve this soon.
I can't categorically prove that is wholly false, but I also think it is naive to think that many involved in making numerous such "optimizations" didn't do so knowing fully that they were increasing their own welfare at the vastly greater expense of numerous others. I have no need to classify them as "evil", but extremely selfish, greedy, misanthropic, or sociopathic would suffice.
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I have recently visited Bangalore in Karnataka in India (which is fairly close to Tamil Nadu), and even as a convinced meat and cheese eater, I can confirm that they have tasty vegan and vegetarian food.
See here for more information:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/25/bernard-von-nothaus-awaiti...

Basically he's being nailed for everything under the sun because the State doesn't like competition with the US$.
Almost every consumer business in the Internet space loses money initially on every customer no matter how small or big. Else there wouldn't be a need for VC industry now would there? :). Having a viable business model is important and we have a few that we believe will work well. Time will tell (Hint: Not ads)

(Creator @hikeapp)
Either formulae and formulas are pretty common (and my Firefox spellcheck is flagging the first and not the second FWIW).
We'll bump the version to 2.0 when the product is production ready (the 1.x versioning scheme is an accident that unfortunately we can't do much about).
Failed startups have social connections making founders millionaires even when their venture was worthless.

They do? Where does all that money come from and why would its owners give it away like that?

Some startups (not in the tumblr case) are essentially projects where you show the world Hey I Can Do Stuff then you get a few million dollars as a hiring bonus.

Yes. And for each, there are a bunch from which the founders walk away with very little.

Maybe instead of assuming the Yahoo! workers are all idiots who are exploited because they're unable to see that they should all be working at startups, you should try to start from the principle that they're not idiots and understand why they don't.
This is super cool, the language seems both powerful and easy enough to learn. Nicely done.
I'm not sure where is this the case, and I can't talk for all of the Eastern Europe. But where I live (Croatia), nearly all coffee shops (and there is A LOT of them, coffee is a national pastime) have free wifi, usually with a password which is either spelled out on the receipt or given by the waiter when asked. The link is not great but workable, usually 4-10 Mbits, and since we don't have a tradition of working at coffee shops there aren't many other patrons sharing it. An we don't have any Starbucks. :-)
Let the number 1.11 billion sink into your head for a second.

What do these people all have in common besides a need for food, water, and shelter? Facebook.

Crazy isn't it?

So that's why I don't think a couple million people leaving will affect the company in any way shape or form.
What kind of distances are they pushing them to?

AirFiber radios (I'm quite fond of mine) and other 24Ghz, 60Ghz, and 80Ghz radios have severe rain fade so you need to keep the distance down to one or two miles unless you feel lucky. Now find a cell tower in that distance with fiber and available mounting space. I suppose that isn't a big problem in a more densely populated area like southern California, but still more challenging than parking a 11Ghz dish on a rooftop somewhere within 14 mile or so.

From what I've heard most carrier interest in high frequency bands is for links going a few city blocks to connect micropops back to a area hub site. That kind of caution with fade margin is more in line of what I'd expect out of at&t or a similar provider.
People with Shenzhen hukou can visit Hong Kong without a special pass (or to say, their hukou is a special pass). You also don't need one if you are transiting through Hong Kong and take a layover for a few days (that's how my wife did it on our trip back from Bali).

There are also plenty of Chinese tourists in Hong Kong, not just elites but a lot of middle class.
> anything is better than Disney Channel

I'd say anything is better than TV. And also, anything is better than tablet games, but TV.

God, my 3yo can play hours of lego alone, crafting "planes submarines" and things like that.

And I am not against playing video games with him, but then it must be together. We played Bad Piggies, Minecraft, and even GTA (call me fool!).
AOSP S4 would be what I would get (and will get depending on if the modem chipsets support cdma/lte). After dealing with prior OEM devices and the ugly hacks I had to do to root them and compile the source (as well as laggy updates), I don't think I could ever deal with one again (though my experience was based on Android <= 2.3). Devices you can unlock the bootloader to and access the /data partition where the apps lie makes doing things like working with sqlite super easy when you can just mount the Android device via sshfs and go right to the app directory you're working on to change the sqlite db without reinstalling the app. Not a thing most are aware of, but it makes life so much easier that way for development.

If you are looking into development at all, Scala works well on Android if you prefer something other than Java. I only moved to using it the last couple of weeks (used C#/Mono and Java previously), but it's better than I thought it would be. I got it working without any external building or extra plugins in intellij idea as well (setup guide I put on github earlier today https://github.com/yareally/android-scala-intellij-no-sbt-pl...).

I'm stuck on Verizon for now and torn between keeping unlimited data and getting a newer device I won't hate. AOSP S4 is probably going to win me over in the end though and the nice AMOLED screen it has.
These points are interrelated.

> Which means nothing to the people who don't have it

So in the case of lactose intolerance, what's interesting, in fact, is the environmental impact of the fact that the people in the Western world are largely fine with lactose. As the PBS NewsHour story about the causes and effects of China's meat consumption habits shows, Western habits are having a significant influence in the diets of the younger generation in developing countries. The effects of large-scale pollution of water resources is horrific, and competition for water resources is, after oil, the next source of conflict in the world. So yes, it will affect everyone.

> Everyone knows this. That doesn't mean most First World people need supplements, because they don't.

Sure, First World people don't need supplements, if they have a varied diet. In North America, that's a big if. There are cultural impediments to that varied diet, even for those with the means to afford it. But for many lower-income families, and especially those living in low-income neighborhoods, they experience the "food desert" problem. And they lack the same access to quality foods as more affluent people. That is a systemic issue related to how society (via government) deals with the problem. And the economics of the prices of foods is, in some part, related to the energy requirements which is related to the 90% energy loss up each level of the food chain. There is an environmental impact there.

btw: I just threw in the names of Bittman and Pollan as representatives of the ideas of plant-based and natural diets. It's not like they invented the ideas; they're just the most recognizable cheerleaders for them at the moment.
As an ex-Bloomberg software developer who was on a H1B, I couldn't agree more. What option do you have but be a wage slave when they pay much, much more than what the tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon pay?
And an accurate, predictable model of economics would pay for the trip.
Author seems to be focused on how Yahoo can generate a profit on the investment through advertising revenue in the short term. That seems pretty short sighted to me.

The pattern I've seen since Mayer took over has been about 1) improving developer talent 2) focusing on what's doing well in the Y! properties and making that even better. Hopefully she's thinning the ranks of middle management behind the scenes as well. The company isn't going to turn around overnight, but you combine Tumblr, Flickr, and Mail, and suddenly you are getting a pretty robust social network with an existing userbase to rival Facebook, without having to ramp up a new product from zero like Google did with Plus.
+1 for Balsamiq.
Pretty goddamned pathetic, America. You treat your rapists and your murderers better than your grey-hat hackers. Nice priorities.
On the back of increased visits from this thread you should probably raise prices :P
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The horrible treatment of just about anyone that enters the prison system is the primary driver of our plea-based justice system. While Weev's friends may think that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is afraid of their public complaints, the opposite is true. Such public stories help get other defendants to plead guilty in exchange for reduced sentences, hopefully in minimum security, "Club Fed" type facilities, before significant resources have to be spent on their prosecution. By discussing it here and spreading it online, we are actually advancing the goals of federal prosecutors across the country.

As far as Weev himself, not much can be done. The feds are permitted to house any inmate in essentially any conditions they want as long as they meet certain (incredibly low) standards. Once you are in their grasp, you are at their mercy. Theoretically, they can keep him in segregation for the duration of his sentence. The bra thing is ordinary for jails and prisons. He is being threatened with "Diesel Therapy" - being moved from prison to prison - in order to disrupt his posts to the Internet which violate their rules.

Basically, he hasn't learned (but will soon) that he is no longer in control. The harder he fights against the rules, no matter how idiotic those rules may be, the more difficult his life will become. This is true both while in custody and during the entire term of his Supervised Release. None of this is necessary or right in the eyes of anyone with half a brain, but it is the system we have and he exposed himself to it.
The fact that character ranges like [a-z] can depend on the value of LC_COLLATE is also something not many people are aware of.

$ echo "ä" | LC_COLLATE=C grep '[a-z]'
$ echo "ä" | LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 grep '[a-z]'
ä

For common values of LC_COLLATE, the range [a-z] does not exclude accented characters and umlauts.
Well let me tell you something: The creator of this app (Kavin Bharti Mittal) is son of the guy (Sunil Bharti Mittal) running one of the big telco company (Airtel) in India. I think he sure has something up his sleeve, and this is why the investment of 7M sounds disingenuous and misleading, given that the VC company is just another venture of Airtel.

I got interested as to what is their value proposition and why are they doing it. Then I came upon this information. Here is the nitty gritty.

From their TOS:

We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, asset views, number of clicks, etc.) with third-parties to better understand usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality related to hike application.

hike may receive data whenever You connect with an application or site through hike (such as during status update, when You connect to other sites and in which case hike posts to these sites on Your behalf ). This may include date and time You visit the site, the web address, IP address information, browser and if You are logged into hike and Your authentication tokens used on such sites. Your authentication tokens may be saved on the server for the sole purpose of seamless posting to the same site by You in the future through hike.

They store the "Authentication tokens"...
This purchase looks like this decade's Geocities. Yahoo can't seem to stop itself from wasting money on crap.
What if you're in a situation where you have both the source and target repo already present, each with their separate issues (which you'd like to combine). I assume you'd have to combine everything in one repo, delete the other, and perform the rename. Does that sound right?
If you're like me, this was a little odd:

function g(x) {
return function(y) {
return x + y;
};
}

f(1, 2) === g(1)(2);

How does this work? Since the function g is itself also returning a function, the call g(x) is itself literally another function address (if you will) awaiting an additional parameter with an invisible (y) on the end.

I have been dabbling in functional programming for a short while now, but this one took me completely by surprise. I had no idea JS would pass a function like that.
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I think the $5 mark should stay for the first one, then we'll see :).
Here's our privacy policy - hike.in/terms. I'd love for you to go through it line by line. The invites sent when a user launches the app is user initiated. The UX built wasn't great clearly so we removed it.

On Data and Airtel, can't blame you for thinking that way. Most of the industry is filled with those kinds. Airtel and BSB are different companies. No such thing happening.

(Creator @hikeapp)
I wonder how long until this gets taken down by a DMCA request. IANAL, I don't think dumping the ROM and uploading it to Github is legal.
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It's perfectly OK and healthy for kids to be bored.
I am using Bootstrap and FontAweosme for my website... there should not be any license problem by using them both.
I may be the only one who learned it this way, but here goes:

Square Brace (BPEMDAS with a silent B)

Parenthesis

Exponent

Multiply & Divide

Addition & Subtraction

When I learned PEMDAS (a long time ago) this was hammered into my head so well that I know the nuances to this day. In fact from what I recall there was 1 PEMDAS unit per year for a couple years in a row. Also, I hate sensationalism.
Gotta hand it to you for having the balls to do it (and submit to HN).
Not gonna lie; I thought I'd get my ass kicked. You guys scare me a little.
> 1) R&D in the food industry that optimizes for profit, where profit is maximized by creating foods that are irresistible.

The problem is, what is irresistible for someone who makes two meals a day is different than what is irresistible for someone in a different diet, lifestyle or even mood.

While I was busting my ass inside an stressful office until 10:00 PM without eating, I wanted to get home and sink my teeth in a pepperoni pizza as fast as possible while watching TV. Nowadays I'm on a different lifestyle and, mind you, I woke up craving for squid, for some reason (the body talks). I went downtown, bought fresh squid, cooked a risotto myself with the things I like. A low fat, low sodium, high protein, Zinc and Selenium rich meal - the exact opposite of pizza, but satisfied me just as much today.

You're saying the food industry optimizes for irresistible (crunchy, fiberless, fat and sugar rich) food and there's no way around this formula. I'm saying they are only selling what hungry, depressed and stressed people are craving to eat.
Currying is stupid. It's more complicated and less flexible than just explicitly defining a new function. For example, try to do this with currying:

var x = function(a,b,c){ return a - b * c };
var y = function(a,b) { return x(a, b, 5) };

Also, currying is married to positional arguments. What if you're trying to use keyword arguments? Can you curry this?

var x = function(params) {
return params.top - params.bottom;
}
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I'm surprised that it doesn't? gorilla/sessions[1] does the same; and you can eventually remove your old keys provided you keep your expiry times sane.

[1]: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions#NewCookieStore
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So refuse to have proper user account, make user accounts simple links to OpenID records and have the OpenID provider secure the personal data.

The real question is "why websites (businesses) want user accounts and their personal data?". They answer is "to sell that data or to profile it".

You want my data to earn more? You protect it or you are liable for it.
Good article, i will take it into consideration in the start up that i am currently working on. Only one thing that i don't agree, giving something for free dose not always implies it has no value.
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Great effort, and I certainly hope more coders will get into statistics (most I know are only interested in machine learning). However, I think your definition of 1.3 "Confidence Interval around the Mean" could be improved. You state:

"A confidence interval reflects the set of statistical hypotheses that won't be rejected at a given significance level. So the confidence interval around the mean reflects all possible values of the mean that can't be rejected by the data."

That seems a bit vague and perhaps confusing. Might I suggest something more like this:

"The confidence interval specifies a range (+/- a multiple of the above standard error [SE]) around our estimate of the mean (x-bar) such that: if we repeated our sampling process an infinite number of times (i.e. with the same sample size and forming a new x-bar and SE each time [and therefore, a new confidence interval]), Confidence_Level% of those intervals would contain the population (true) mean."

In addition, I think in this case, at least, there are no assumptions about the data to worry about, given a sufficiently moderate sample size due to the Central Limit Theorem (I'm confident about that in the case of the mean (x-bar), but I'll leave it up to others to correct me if I'm wrong about this applying to the standard error (SE)).
I don't understand why a secret token is even necessary. This seems like bad design. As a matter of principle, the server should never trust the client. If authentication is necessary, it should be done on every request. If that is the case, what purpose does the token serve?

The entire principle behind HTTP - what enabled it to conquer and dominate the internet, is its statelessness. Storing and trusting things in cookies is a fundamental security design flaw.
If you're looking for things to add big-picture-wise, it might be helpful to specify what assumptions go into various tests/methods. In my experience, this is the biggest hangup and mistake, because a) it's more difficult to understand and b) ignoring it gives the appearance of rigor even if the test used is inappropriate for the data.

I should emphasize that this is not a nitpick or even a criticism, just a feature I would love to see. It's also what I spend a large portion of my time trying to track down, so having it in a convenient location would be nice.
Thank you for replying. Good to know Airtel and BSB are separate enterprises. I went through the terms.

"Hike TOS:

hike may receive data whenever You connect with an application or site through hike (such as during status update, when You connect to other sites and in which case hike posts to these sites on Your behalf ). This may include date and time You visit the site, the web address, IP address information, browser and if You are logged into hike and Your authentication tokens used on such sites. Your authentication tokens may be saved on the server for the sole purpose of seamless posting to the same site by You in the future through hike.

We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, asset views, number of clicks, etc.) with third-parties to better understand usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality related to hike application."

So you store "authentication tokens", and maybe FB and Google+, twitter data interactions....I think you are aiming for this goldmine, since normally this data through Airtel's network will be encrypted. Pardon my skeptic viewpoint, but it looks you are not aiming for directly monetizing this app itself but are building a satellite platform based upon this app.
| very low immigration levels

It doesn't help that (politically at least), Japan treats immigrants/foreign workers with distrust (even though the terrorist attacks that have happened in Japan were by Japanese nationals).
The way functions work in JavaScript is awesome. Just think of a function as another value a variable can have. This might be more clear if we wrote it as:

var g = function(x){
var f = function(y){
return x + y;
}
return f;
}

Also because of the magic of Lexical Scoping, the new function f holds onto a reference to the variable x that it saw when it was created. If you run var myfunction = g(5), you effectively get this:

var myfunction = function(y) { return 5 + y }
And so? What makes you think you are inherently better than a Fashion model?
We can just grab a drink for a start?
If you get scared by HN, I assume you haven't tried a 4chan submission before...
Wouldn't it make sense for a vertically integrated company to control its OS though ? Like Apple... We know Samsung is at least looking at this option with Tizen, previously with Bada. Why do you think they can't achieve this where they already have 95% of the Android market ? I'm not sure they can either, but I wouldn't be so confident about this statement.
This is absolutely brilliant. It perfectly and precisely depicts how I feel.

Most of the time, I love to talk and interact with people. Everyone has a story to tell and networking rarely hurts. As a current freelancer, it's fascinating to hear people say, "I need X. How can we make this happen?" My mind instantly fills with a wide variety of solutions, which are then filtered down to the best possible few. Then we talk back and forth and determine what is best for the both of us.

Now we get to the point of actually coding. I appreciate solitude when it comes to this. I need some time to get in the 'zone.' I need time to fix errors to create a great product. I ultimately need uninterrupted time to enter the world of brackets (I'm an iOS guy - you guessed it!) to create something that people will enjoy.

After this entire process is over, something new has been conceived and I get to continue to do what I love. It is the best job I could have for myself right now.
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Every time I see an article like this, I try harder to appreciate this country more, despite all my disappointments.

So many people want to come here, even those that could most easily work virtually from elsewhere. And what do you get for your efforts except to get sub-standard wages and treated very badly as "foreigners" in our ever growing xenophobia.

Best wishes and good luck, sorry it has to been under such strange pretenses and politics.
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