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I wanted to say that your answer really doesn't address what the parent was saying, but I see your point now...

Integral part of GPL is the ability for users to change their software, and Apple doesn't allow that (both for the reasons you stated and because... well, a work "monopoly" comes to mind ;).

Nicely put.
Scala jar can be made 30% smaller for Android
> Scala's crazy amount of syntax

Could you expand on that a bit?
The US as a whole is not a little dog. However, those people in it who use the political and economical process for their petty nefarious purposes, well, I guess those consist of 70% water and 30% fear. Being caught in webs of lies has a tendency to make people rather active, since not having full control of the narrative and happenings is potentially lethal for them. So here's hoping.
For me, the stereotypical CoffeeScript experience applies: Easy to write, hard to read.
As I understand it, they don't have to focus to the data center of those companies when doing the duplication.

For example for emails: emails travel unencrypted through the hops, and they would store them all, and then constantly analyzing them. When something suspicious comes up, they would go to the email provider to ask for more data. So for example if gmail address is there, they would go to Google and use their PRISM interface to get more data associated with that gmail adress, if it will be yahoo email, they will go to Yahoo for more data, etc.
At first I thought HN had broken, the domain really caught me of guard.
"isn't it far easier and more reliable to trust electronics than moving parts"

Possibly now - but I can see that back in the 1960s they probably had a point.
from what I understand from Koza about genetic programs, it will be indistinguishable from garbage anyway.

That's one of the problems with Genetic Programming in general - you might get a specific program optimised to a specific problem, but you never learn anything about the problem space from it.
that is mostly TomTom behind the scenes, but that is European as well.
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What about the liquid fluoride thorium reactors? There's been some hype about these recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI
MySQL man pages license change is a bug
It's been out for 2 hours and there's still no SublimeText syntax package?
Yes, I'm in. We'll be the only .Net shop in the room as usual.
My weekend project from 2009 does this: http://www.crondroid.com/

One free daily cron, others paid on request (please use the contact form).

500 subscriber crons per day. We use it for in-house and client projects so have an interest in reliability ;-)

Accounts/dashboard/self-service will be added if/when needed (currently email does the trick).

All comments appreciated.
In this case it's really easy. Nuclear fission is
1) not a solution. Uranium is finite and breeders don't work reliably due to fundamental design problems.
2) outrageously dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years
3) more expensive than solar and wind (see article)
It is pretty close to an absolute loss of privacy[1][2] for at best a modest gain in the already high level of security[3].

[1] At least at the upper end of the speculation. I don't have a good handle on the true situation as I don't trust those who fully know to tell me straight.

[2] The ability to gather metadata, listen in, record and analyze communications means that they are not private even if they are not all listened as we don't know that they are not being monitored.

[3] Defined by the annual US casualty figures due to terrorism.
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They run a tor exit enclave which is really, really, cool; there is a blog post about it here: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/duckduckgo-now-o...

One motivation for switching: they have lots of "gadgets" like Google, and will take suggestions and/or apparently let you develop new ones. Here is a cool example: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Programming/crontab_0_0______...

Another useful feature: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

I just searched Google (heh) and apparently DDG makes their money from affiliate links at the moment. I've been considering switching to DDG so I'll have to make an effort to do my Amazon searches through them; it's a really easy way to support them.

EDIT: useful method of switching: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/255650
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If NSA could subpoena Google, they can (and probably do) do the same with DDG.

Not that I don't wish them success, but PRISM is not the right reason to switch search engine to them.
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It's a business, so they update the maps, where it makes the most sense from a business point of view. Making quality maps is a very labor intense task and looks simpler from the outside, than it actually is. google for instance has more people working on their maps than TomTom has employees in total (which is betweem 3k and 4k). That's how intense it is...

(full disclosure: I worked in TomToms maps division for 7 years).
Full body cavity scans on every entry and exit... A micro-sd card, USB plug, and necessary bits to connect them are easily small enough to be swallowed, hidden under your tongue, stuck up your anus or hidden in any number of ways.. Clearly they need to be regularly strip-searched and x-rayed.
Of all the places where you do not want to encounter an unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM ...
> 30% of all travel worldwide

Lonely Planet or not, that is very hard to believe. I know anecdotes != data but this is so different from my normal experience that I just can't accept it. I do not think I have ever been on a plane where 30% of pax are vacationing families. Business travel outweighs vacations 10 to 1, or it feels like it.

Anyway, of course you're not going to get a family-sized suite for 1万円 at a proper hotel. You wouldn't get an apartment, either. I am not sure what you are expecting here. A four-person suite is going to cost way more no matter how you cut it. And if you claim four-person suites make up 30% of hotel bookings, then you are hallucinating.

I hadn't really perceived that AirBNB was evolving into a short-term apartment rental system, but if that works for you, great! My point was simply that, since I don't have all these dependents, I would never think of using it in a country with good business hotels.
Terrible, terrible answer if you are mostly doing functional Scala. I've got a blog post that deals with this.
Tl;dr: Java libs are good along as they are thread-safe or immutable; if they're not, you're looking at horrible side-effects where there shouldn't be any.

http://talesfromannoyance.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-im-lookin...

If you want reuse, you need to look at taking those parts and wrapping them up in SOA.
Could you expand on what exactly you feel is syntactically inconsistent?

Considering features: Well, it certainly depends where you come from. If you come from Scheme, Scala is huge. But if you come from Java or C# or F# or ..., Scala is refreshingly small, consistent and self-contained.

Regarding implicits: Most languages have implicits, they are just hard-coded into the language and will be there forever. In Scala, you can just de-import the ones you dislike and if enough people dislike those, they might even get deprecated and removed.

Implicits seem to be really the feature all people except actual Scala users love hating, especially exactly those kinds of implicits which aren't even widely used anyway.
Implicit conversions make up maybe 10% of all usages of “implicit ” and require a feature import.
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Ask HN: Are you an iOS / Mac developer interested in a side project?
Hi folk, i am a UI designer and have an idea for a product that i think could help a lot of folk im the design industry. I would like to speak with a few ios/mac developers that are available and willing to work on a side project that could potentially make revenue. If you are interested I would love to share my idea and maybe we can work together.

Contact me on skype for more details : chrisjohnson83
let's say you have more than one future:

findAirline: AirlineCode => Future[Option[Airline]]
getFlightsForToday: Airline => Future[Seq[Flight]]
findAvailable: Seq[Flight] => Constraints => Future[Option[Flight]

compose them so that I get:

findFlight: AirlineCode => Constraints => Future[Flight]

I don't want `Future[Option[Flight]]` since Future has own error handling (using Try). No cheating by using scalaz monad transformer.
If I recall correctly, DDG claims not to keep a record of your searches, so a subpoena would not provide anyone with much information.
Good point. I was contemplating doing exactly that already.

Consider it done.
Given that the NSA has been willing to violate the Constitution, which is literally the highest law of the land, what makes you think they care at all about a few pesky child protection rules?

It's like paying attention to the speed limit while mowing down pedestrians in your car.
This is just molten salt reactors all over again. They have disastrous security problems. Basically the salt eats away metal parts of the reactor, the graphite moderators are flammable and large parts of the reactor become radioactive because they catch neutrons which makes repair, maintenance and deconstruction almost impossible.

(edit:)
I forgot about loss of fuel solubility events and the unsolved problem of tritium retention.

(edit:)
It's interesting how the english wikipedia pages miss all the details on the failed projects in this field.
DDG logs very litte information...so while NSA can subpoena DDG, there's no data to get.

Developers should read "Playing chicken with cat.jpg" [1] which was a response from cperciva [2] to the 37 Signals privacy blunder. It was discussed quite a bit on HN [3] and for me it was a perspective-changing read on privacy.

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3484284
They claimed to be encoding all new videos uploaded, and to have already processes up to 30% of their entire back-catalogue, and 99% of viewed videos about two years ago. So I'm guessing they're pretty much done by now.

http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-yo...

If I do a similar search to yours, the ones that disappear from the &webm=1 search are all presented to me with Flash, not with HTML5/H.264 but I believe if you embed them in another site you should get the HTML5/Webm version (not actually tested this, just read it as a workaround). You could also try searching for them on a Wii, since it's Youtube app uses Webm.
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Good article on avoiding common copyright mistakes.
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Yep, exactly.

Now, this makes me wonder: What could be an equivalent implementation for e-mails. An e-mail host that encourages immediate download, totally deletes e-mail contents, deletes logs of any sort, etc. when you delete messages?
Not exactly - it's more complicated than that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengl_es). GLES was originally a simplified spec based on the desktop API, but optimized for mobile and embedded devices. They have since leapfrogged each other and removed (fixed function pipeline) and added (shaders) various features at various times.

The latest versions of ES and GL are largely, but not completely compatible AFAIK, with the desktop having a superset of features.
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Oh that's cool. I'd forgotten they had the traffic up online. I was wondering how many people had switched over to it over the last week (I've gone back to using it as my default engine again - not for the first time).

How many queries does google process per day? 1B? DDG is up 1M in the last week. So it could realistically represent a 0.1% drop in traffic for google - or am I way off somehow? It's not unrealistic to think it could go up another magnitude again. Then you're starting to talk about a real impact to Google's bottom line.

Very interesting.
The maintainer and contributors have full-time jobs. On the one hand, part of that job is keeping up Scalaz for their own professional usage. On the other hand, no part of that job is documenting it for everyone else.

They could just have kept the code proprietary.
Interesting syntax, it's the first sane-looking block-based Python-like syntax I've seen.
That is pretty awesome.

I'm curious: was the privacy focus by the DDG guys always there, or was it pushed after they found it was a nice advertising point?

Either way, I think this is a good enough reason for me to finally make the switch.
Then change the election system..
Does anyone know if this sort of hack also exist / is possible for a Philips Senseo machine?
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I wasn't exactly asking related to start ups. I think I grew up reading a lot of magazines, and somewhere, due to a lot of chaff, I stopped reading quite a few.

I generally don't like the whole "sensationalizing of news" standards of most magazines. Hence the question of what people read these days.
This is indeed the given explanation, but why on earth was there a separate set of man pages with incorrect copyright headers?
Too much features: Scala has everything, it seems like the language designers coudn't make a choice about what is best. "Whoo this is cool, lets add it". One word: implicits, arrgh

You mean implicit conversions, right? Because implicit parameters are the single best thing since sliced bread.
Love it, own it. Thank you!
This has the same design as http://mouapp.com which has been on the market for a long time now.

Mou is donation based so you can try before you donate. The developer is very responsive and the app is constantly updated.

I really don't get it.
There is always people bingo. Might make an app for that
Python and mongoDB: transparent object persistence
Just curious, where are you finding FLAC-quality Internet radio? Would love to listen.
My first thought too. They have sunk an awful lot of money into GPUs without ever delivering a really competitive offering. And then there was Larrabee...
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This is marketing.

[not trying to detract from your wider point]
Sure they can refuse any changes. And you can refuse any changes. But then you don't have a contract, and then you don't have an employement.

So if they say "We'll give you a job, under conditions X, Y, Z" and you say "I don't like Y", they could either say (a) "Well, OK, we'll offer you a job under conditions X and Z" (in which case you have a job), or (b) "Sorry Y is a deal breaker for us, no deal" in which case you don't have a job.
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Question about the website, what are you using to do the tool-tips?
Yeah, but the offline maps do not work in Brazil due to licensing restrictions. So OSM has an advantage there.
A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size
—pg
Ask HN: Working for Shares and Valuing a Startup
Long time Hacker News poster but I'm posting this from a throwaway account.

I need some advice on receiving shares in a startup and how to value
them. I'm a freelance developer and I've been doing some development
work for a startup over the last year or so, for this I've been
charging my normal day rate.

The sole owner is now offering my shares in the company for a
reduction in my day rate. I'm trying to figure out if this will be a
good deal and how to value those shares.

Some details about the company;

- It's a product company

- It's been around for a few years

- Already launched a good amount of existing customers who love the product

- Revenues of around £70,000 over the last year

- No real marketing has taken place yet

The owner has suggested valuing the company at 6X revenue (starting at
10X and discounting for uncertainty) giving a valuation of £420,000.
He suggests that we take my new rate minus my old and make up the
difference in shares. I would be working around 8-10 days a month and
would be reducing my rates by around £300/day probably.

I do believe in the product. I use it myself daily and it addresses a
major pain point for me. I was paying for it before I started working
with the company. I believe that there's a lot more that can be done
with customer acquisition and retention and that I can make a big
difference to both.

Any advice gratefully received!
Not at the moment, but possible in future. Can you let me know of an example stream?
Strange that you mention the Audi A8L since I saw one for the first time a week ago in Monte Carlo. It's very rare even in Europe.

"The Audi A8 L is the first automobile in the world to be available with an integrated WLAN hotspot. A UMTS module provides the connection to the Internet."
>Molten salt and pebble bed reactors

Both failed miserably due to extreme safety problems with every design tried. Stop reiterating propaganda and read up on what actually happened.
Not sure, but the latest Tegra offering has some surprisingly impressive performance/watt figures. (I attended an NVidia roadshow a while back, but don't have the brochures here.)
Thank you. I haven't encountered any reply saying that they couldn't checkout the wall.
Would you let me know what browser your are using?
And I don't understand the hint you. What does "block your tracking systems" means?
Thanks a lot.
Yes, this is the only "bad" thing I find with the application. Hopefully it gets fixed.
Does anyone know if there is or was a HN meetup in Dublin, Ireland? Thanks
I started out with Scala three years ago on a hobby project when I wanted an impure functional language compatible with a Java library I felt myself bound to use.

Since then, it has become such a strong favorite that I have remodeled part of my own hobby programming language based on Scala.
on top of that Mou supports custom styles, which I see no mention of from Erato. I happily donated to Mou, and really don't see why anyone would choose Erato over it.
All of these (Erato, Mou, MarkdownLive) have noticeable lag while editing. I get that you have to parse and render the markdown, but with todays computing power, is it too much to ask to see the text I just typed as soon as I press the keys?

This is especially bad when there are images on the page. Why not just render the current block and leave the rest of the page as is.
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I expect they will do very much what Imagination Tech does now with their PowerVR graphics cores. License them to SOC designers who integrate them with a CPU (invariably ARM) and other peripheral cores (eg. DSP, Ethernet, I/O, etc) and then get someone like TSMC or Samsung to fab the silicon (since most chip designers are fabless).
You can start your own mail server and make it encrypt all incoming messages with your GPG or SMIME public key. This way NSA will have to collect your old messages from various senders' servers (or the archive made by their sniffers).
True re: encoding or decoding; but it does make sense to me to keep it in ByteStrings as that is an efficient representation - from ByteStrings you can do what you want with it (convert it to Text).

I personally haven't used the Text.ICU package but I know many, big, packages that retain the "experimental" flag. So that shouldn't necessarily deter usage; just because it's 3rd party doesn't mean it's bad either - many fundamental components of the Haskell ecosystem are 3rd party! There are also many libraries that implement bindings - I don't necessarily see why that is a bad thing either; obviously a pure Haskell approach would be nice but in some cases it does defeat the purpose to reinvent something.

What I do agree with you on, though, is the lack of clarity in what should be used. I think the Haskell Platform is a good start in that direction but there are few docs written on "this is how you deal with strings and unicode in Haskell and all the libraries we recommend for it".

The good news is, this language has the capability to serve both the research needs of academics and the practical needs of implementers; so uncovering this stuff is very good.
www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/software.pdf‎

This might be a report of interest, considering the topic.
> “The decision to buy back shares was really to keep our people on board”

So are these guys really still a startup? Once you hit profit and pay off your debts it's a little strange to continue calling yourself a startup.
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I'd be happy even with a host that allows you to delete e-mails en masse, or auto-delete them after a set period of time, say 180 days, which is how much is necessary to pass before the US government considers e-mail "free for all".

You could also try Bitmessage or Retroshare, where e-mails are automatically encrypted, and P2P (no central server).
I know its not ideal, but you can try searching for hte journal / article on scholar.google.com , this will point you towards a PDF of the work if it exists somewhere on the internet (Conference / Journal site, Author uploaded themselves, Piracy etc.)
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How to write a CV for software developer
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You mean something like this? http://www.texts.io/
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It would be nice if that was mentioned somewhere. Looking at the website now I just see a Mou clone with less choice and no customizability.
Nitpicking, I know, but I think the author has misinterpreted the XKCD strip. IMO, " - as fast as possible, of course. Want something on the Travelling Salesman?" is not a continuation of the client's request (Give me set of appetizers, fulfilling these requirements, as quickly as possible), but rather a response to the waiter ("I have to see to these other tables" - "and you have to do so as quickly as possible"). This makes the mention of "Travelling Salesman" more appropriate (since it deals with optimizing travel time for certain visits).

Am I misinterpreting the dialogue?

(Not that it matters, of course!)
At the end of the article the author insinuates that the Bing ad partnership might lend itself to tracking users or otherwise making the service less secure and anonymous. Is that possible?
I would rather type than reach for the mouse. Vim, anyone?
Great link. Thanks!

Gonna need to start learning ruby.
I remember the first time (about 6 months ago) I took a look at their about page there was a big emphasis on them not tracking your searches, so I think the sentiment has always been there.
I think there's a difference between being incomplete and effectively not having mapped a country at all.
I prefer to imagine Larry Ellison wringing his hands saying "Curses! And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!"

Also he's in an abandoned fairground for some reason.
Hmm... I wonder if there'd be people in the US willing to relocate to the middle of nowhere for a job that promised some good perks plus an extremely comfortable wage relative to cost of living (but not necessarily any larger than in San Fran or something).

I do kinda think that having a tech company set in the middle of some rustic mountains or something has a sort of crazy "code from an adirondack chair" appeal.

I'm not sure I would, personally though. I enjoy living in urban areas a little too much.
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