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Australia has been doing this for years for mobile data plans. Even though data plans aren't as expensive as they use to be, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, eBay, LinkedIn & MySpace are all "free" on the Optus network.
The main problem with ssh -X is all your apps close when your connection drops. That is the main reason I always use screen or tmux -- I rarely actually use multiple screens, it just keeps my programs alive.
Here in Brazil, I just read about this ophtalmologist who switched fields, and now regularly prescribes anabolic steroids to his clients. All you have to say is you feel weak and you'd like to gain more muscle. Apparently, according to the article, a bunch of other doctors do this.
2013 in review and 2014 resolutions for Jini, the contextual data platform
I think the NYT article didn't hit the top spot. This one has a more sensationalized title and will probably perform better. I guess you have to know your audience.
As a very happy ZFS on FreeBSD user, thank you for all of your work!
What kind of guarantees does the type system provide? Can I say that no terminating/productive Rust program leaks memory, full stop?
Because we're using both WebRTC && Web Audio API, it only works in Chrome

Firefox supports both of these things, so you're basically saying your code is broken.
Regarding the 12 hours division, they do suggest it is from "the number of finger joints on each hand (three in each of the four fingers, excluding the thumb)".
The answer depends on what your main project is. But getting free press from HuffPo, Yahoo, etc., is an opportunity few will ever have, so if the main project isn't something amazing or highly lucrative, I'd say it's time to pivot.
Obama is first of all the US President, and then a Democratic Party member. The TPP follows long-established US foreign policy guidelines that are invariably supported by both major parties: what is good for US companies abroad, it's good for the US government. It's actually a very common foreign policy principle among countries. There is an understanding that what is paramount is that power is projected abroad as much as possible, and internal repercussions can be managed if necessary. This is not completely irrational: it's easier for the President to pass a bill than it is to make umpteen countries sign a treaty. For example, you first sign all the WTO treaties and force other countries to open their markets, then quickly impose tariffs on steel (Bush II), or on electronics (Reagan / Bush I) when strictly necessary. First you make it illegal to use firewalls among peers, then bring yours up at will.
Stop Conflating Software-Defined with Software-Deployed
So that in the future, you can cite two sources for this piece of information.
No, it's not stupid. Fame, popularity, money, building something that people want don't have to be driving forces in your life, and if you want to do other things that's perfectly fine. Ultimately, you need to do the things that make you fulfilled. Only you know what that would be.

Just don't be a dick about it if someone else builds it. You only own the execution, not the idea. Not suggesting that you would be, of course, but people have done in the past.
Interesting to see some technical details of FreeBSD's VFS layer, I've never delved too deeply into it myself but I have looked at Linux's so it's not completely unfamiliar to me.
Wait... you're comparing feet to meters. When you should be comparing meters to yards. 1.73 miles * 1760 yards.
The folks in the special forces community have access to doctors. They're in the military. There are doctors in the military too and their whole job is looking after soldiers.

If you really want to get right down to it, why are guys in special forces (arguably reasonably smart, also evidenced by their figuring out this antibiotics trick) NOT going to see an army doc right away?

If I was going to be a really snarky asshole I might suggest that perhaps because it's a single-payer system the quality of care isn't that great and blah blah blah. I don't really believe that but arguments can be made both ways.

Don't be a troll.
I get the point you are trying to make, but it wasn't presented in a way that non-tech folk will appreciate.

My parents' reaction to your scenarios would be something akin to: "Really? For the monthly rate I'm already paying, I now get Netflix and Hulu included for free? NICE!"
I'm just glad that nobody in Europe seems to use YYYY/DD/MM. This means that the format "YYYY-MM-DD" is unambiguous and the lexical ordering of dates is the same as their natural ordering[1], which is useful for sorting files in folders.

[1] Except for years BCE which the scheme doesn't treat.
Install this [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...] and filter your least-favourite topics.

I recommend filtering the entries about bitcoin and from Wikipedia.
ICU doctor here.

I frequently see complications of overuse of antibiotics. C diff colitis (1) is certainly the most obvious, but resistant pneumonias and urinary tract infections are becoming more common as well.

Many resistant organisms set up shop in chronically ill patients who see multiple rounds of antibiotics through their lives; however, in just my short 10 year history as a physician, the increasing amount of resistant staphylococcus (specifically MRSA) and VRE (2) found out in the community has changed how we treat many suspected infections.

Although some of this is due to overprescription by the healthcare profession, there are likely other selection components in our environment. Just as you can buy these antibiotics for animal use, so can people raising livestock. The FDA realizes this is a problem. (3)

Personally, the sad part to me is that our medical system is so expensive that treating routine, mild infections can cost hundreds of dollars. Thus, people search out these alternative riskier, but cheaper methods.

(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_difficile

(2)http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/slyutse/resistance%20graph...

(3)http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378100.ht...
>"The mind-boggling amount of money Google is making on their current businessmodel. How are they ever going to "top" that? Is it even possible to come close to anything so successful?"

Well Apple makes more money than them, so while this observation will be trite, yes, it should be "possible" to make something as successful as their current business.
...Hello Dave. What are you doing here Dave?"... (Hal)
Startup stress: How an unexpected source can help prevent burnout
Whereas quite often you'll need to know how long it’s going to take to drive to a city 90 miles away, and it's quite convenient to use the "1 mile ~= 1 minute" approximation to estimate that it'll take 90 minutes.
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Nice try, but not a chance. You want to see where resistance comes from? Have a little look-see at this chart:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/01/a...
If you and I trust each other a great deal, we can do a transaction by exchanging a private key.

Groups of people that trust a third party can also do bitcoin denominated private transactions (the only visible transactions would be with the trusted third party). You see this at most bitcoin exchanges.
This looks really cool. However it suffers from the same issue as their Mantle API suffers from. The actual interesting features are still just hype with no way of us accessing them.

Yeah the HW supports them but before the drivers are actually out (HSA drivers are supposedly out at Q2 2014) nothing fancy can be done. It'll probably be at end of 2014 until the drivers are performant and robust enough to be of actual use.
I live in a country with metric system. We use different units of measurement interchangeably because it's easy to do so and we have gotten used to it. I am 1.74m or 174cm tall. The bus stop is 500m or half a kilometer away from my home, etc. While nobody converts 250km to meters, when the value is closer to one, both units of measurement are equally useful and equally used.

Also all physics and engineering formula are designed to get and return metric values. When I see K = 0.5mv^2, I know v is supposed to be m/s and m is in kilograms and the result would be in Joules. If it's E = m*c^2, the same thing could be inferred about it.

I'm curios with all different units of measurement, how do you know when to use which. Is there a convention to always e.g. use ft/s or is it different in each formula?
That's probably the biggest difference between you and VCs in the biz today. These ideas actually sound so legitimately like they could be funded today, and make mad bank while at it too. And that's all "normal" VCs care about, so there you have it.
I want F2FS for my phones. It seems to make storage 50-100 percent faster compared to ext4 from the benchmarks I've seen. Motorola started using it in Moto X and Moto G, but I hope Google makes it the default for Android in the next Android version.
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Indeed. And even better, Y-M-D H:M:S is monotonically decreasing.
nowhere near as secure as a burner phone purchased in cash.
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"releasing these details simply doesn't help the cause of fixing the NSA's less savoury incursions" -- of course it doesn't. Why would anyone expect that? At least, I'm not convinced there is any realistic prospect of NSA's programmes, or other similar abuses being "fixed" in the forseeable future.

Meanwhile, everyone, US and others alike, needs and is rightfully entitled to secure communications (in a moral sense, not to be confused with the laws of particular states). Unless there is some guarantee that the methods exposed could never be used improperly, exposing them is a vital public service.
More likely no personnel was required because they simply paid off American manufacturers to implant these circuit boards in computers they knew were going to be shipped and used overseas.

The bottom line, though? This isn't surprising. Nations spy on each other. A lot of nations have been engaging in a lot of phony outrage over our NSA spying who are doing the exact same thing, but have managed to keep it secret. Any nation who is using imported computers in sensitive operations should know enough to check those computers for possible spy hardware.
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Nevermind, I figured it out. I did Export some certs from Chromium and Import them into Firefox, but it wasn't working. However, when I restarted Firefox, it worked.
Huh? I'm not quibbling about anything. You brought it up, not me. I'm perfectly happy where pricing is at in my region. It's commiserate with the general economy. Nothing is disproportionately priced here. Some areas seem to be out of sync with their economy, either high or low.
you should also consider the extensibility of the metric system as well. Any unit when has a kilo prefix is understood to be x1000 even if you are not familiar with the original quantity. kJ is kilo joules, km is kilo meters. I have no idea how this is handled in your non-metric system is but this property of the SI system definitely makes it much more extensible. you immediately get a sense of the ratio of different metrics. for example consider the ratios of miles/feet ??? feet/inch ??? (I have no idea) compared to kilometers/meters meters/millimeters... this makes it possible to define a metric for a quantity ( meters for distance for example ) and represent all the related quantities easily without having to define a new name for a constant multiple of that quantity.

of course perception of a metric also plays a tremendous role here. I don't have a 'feel' for how long it is 12-feet for example but I can eye-ball a distance and tell how many meters it is pretty accurately. I guess this perception is the main issue that prevents imperial system to be abandoned in favor of SI - people are too much used to it.

I also hate the left driving lane of UK btw. It screws up with my head every time I rent a car in London...

stupid metric-ism ;)
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I don't think so. Google search gives more accurate results than StackOverflow itself.
Al Jazeera has significantly more hipster cred than NYT.
"They" really don't. Either way you described is still either sorted in ascending or descending order: H:M:S D/M/Y (321 123) or D/M/Y H:M:S (123 321), as opposed to using MDY, which is neither ascending nor descending, but 213.

Additionally, the point of doing it the other way round is that the most important thing is on the left, where we start reading, followed by less important things. If I need to know the time of day, the hour is the most important thing, once I know whether it's 4 or 6, I can look at the minutes and first then do I perhaps (and does one really ever?) care about the seconds. As a matter of fact, my old wristwatch only had hour and minute hands... The opposite is true for the date. It starts, again, with the most significant thing on the left: the day. This assumes that people will probably have it easier to remember the month or year they live in.

And a final example: I have an appointment on the 24/01/2014 at 10:15:00. The most important questions are: What day do we have? And if it happens to be the 24th, what hour of the day is it? Is it 5? Good, 5h left. Is it 10? Oh boy, better look at the minutes...
imho in the near future most countries will have unlimited data plans or similar, so this argument will be irrelevant.
It has, the french went full on with the decimal system back then. And they didn't stop at the date and time, they also did away with all other measurements for size, weight and distance, but also things like the feudal system. Must have been confusing times!
What's that a map of, countries that have placed a man on the moon?
Hi.
Do you know why the above "cheap" services do not user something like OpenStack to bundle their services?
This would supposedly provide them at least with some dashboards and API's.
thanks.
We just use decimal degrees, e.g. 23.5ºC.

That said, and as an European, if had to stop using one unit of measure it would certain be the Celsius scale.
I predict that the corporate media will run with this story and that as a consequence this source of medicine will soon disappear.

We cannot have the profits of our Most Holy Corporations drop. Cheap antibiotics will cause a drop in the Most Holy Profits of Our Sacred Corporations, and That Is Not Permissible.
Looks like there will be several players in this market - an alternative is Indie Phone; http://indiephone.eu .. If it ever ships it should be a better alternative privacy-wise as they are building everything from the ground up (their own OS instead of relying on Android, etc.)
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While I believe you are being facetious, I'll bite.

Yes, it also means that schoolhouses will no longer be confused with military bunkers. And diplomatic consulates won't be confused for depots [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._bombing_of_the_Chinese_emb...
OK, so where can I best buy some Dogecoin with BTC?
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You do realize that it's a Very Good Thing Indeed For Everybody if the reckless use of antibiotics is reined in as much as possible?
Perhaps you're right when you say, "Everyone knows that net neutrality is important". My gut says otherwise.

There is a strong contingent on the hill to allow companies to do what they want. They want to make money like this. The government will allow them to do so. Heck the head of the FCC is one of the companies that want this. So I doubt she'll be running off to change phrasing anytime soon.
Microsoft has introduced ReFS [1] as a potential successor to NTFS in Windows Server 2012. It has a few of the 'next-gen' filesystem features that the article mentions, such as integrity checking, but no copy-on-write and it's not feature-equivalent to NTFS yet. Also, you can't boot from it yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS
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Judge denies request to reduce $1.17 billion CMU patent verdict
Twitter redesigns web app to look more like iOS and Android
Eh, I have a yoga 2 pro like the article and Chrome is working (well it broke so bad I had to reinstall one upgrade, but that aside) Ok... but it has a lot of weird artifacts you notice from time to time like the drop down for the url bar splitting in the middle and the left side ~2em down from right side.
The linked paper is from 2002. Has anything changed with regards to regulation in the past 10 years?
Well, as an American, I was going to say friends with the vet. There's lots of potent horse medicine out there as well :)
Still they're about 100,000 computers behind the Chinese.
Where did you see me talking about employer responsibility ? I'm just saying that these people might have a legal freedom but it doesn't necessarily mean they have opportunities to find better jobs. It's just an observation from the real world.
Forget net neutrality, doesn't this reality already exist when you factor in data caps? Most of these startup ideas use a fair amount of data which is now being capped more often than it has in the past.

I may be alone in my worry that as we move to capped data plans, and the pay-per-bit model that many new ideas and concepts (say for example always connected appliances) won't be financially feasible for consumers.
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Man jailed in UK for refusing to give police USB stick password
Yes, I agree. Apple did re-invent themselves a with the iPod and iPhone a couple of times and were successful in new markets when already being a large company. I guess there is still hope for Google then :) Thanks.
In which Android versions? Cyanogenmod supports this functionality, but most stock builds don't, up through the most recent Kitkat releases.

(The first shipped Kitkat builds supported a form of this, but it was quickly removed, amidst complaints from privacy advocates:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-p...

So, there are a few shipped phones which can have this functionality made accessible via third party app --- but update your phone and they cease to work.)
Yup. Here's the article version: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-secret-toolbox...
This really should have been written in the form of a parody of Snakes on a Plane.
Ask HN: What would you do if you were told you were overpaid?
A good developer friend of mine was recently told this by his boss. Threw him off, as a expected. What would you do in this situation?
The opportunity to prevent the creation of antibiotic-resistant diseases is gone, that is the point. Go ahead and use your antibiotics, and if you are lucky they will do something.

Its useful to think in more than black and white. But sometimes thresholds are crossed; the 'prevent the creation of difficult diseases' threshold has been passed years ago.
One thing that's extremely helpful is to care as little as possible about the opinions of other people. What do they matter, anyway?

I'm half joking, but not caring what people think really does let me be calm in public speaking. There's no reason to be nervous if the only possible negative consequence is a bad opinion you don't care about anyway.

Of course, this isn't something you can just turn on like a switch....
Depends on the client!
How much profit do you think is made on antibiotics?

How much profit is made by the misuse of antibiotics in animal rearing?
Of the three initial examples, only Bing marked the Atlantic Ocean. At least they had that detail.

(though they do have a road running right through the airport... win some, lose some)
"When you enter SafeD, you leave your pointers, unchecked casts and unions at the door. Memory management is provided to you courtesy of Garbage Collection."
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Not here in Portugal, we only teach up to 10x10.
I understand there is a need for some pixel-tuning, but most of it can be expressed as rendering constraints on the vector images, such as "this rectangle has to be, at least, five pixels wide".
Wierd, I've got my Windows 8.0 laptop hooked up to my 40" Samsung 1080p telly (bought in 2007) and it all looks good, even from ~3m away...and that's using just the VGA input (Dell didn't stretch to a DVI port on their cheapo Vostro 1720 range back in the day).
The main project doesn't have a finished MVP yet, so hard to tell if it'll be lucrative or not.

It's a tool that helps affiliate marketeers better target their visitors, so I guess I'll have to start thinking about B2C vs B2B.
I think it's a much easier argument to make. It is not necessary to convince people that they want the President's nominees -- presuming they are qualified -- confirmed to the judiciary. It is only necessary to convince people that it is fair for the President's nominees to be confirmed. People like fairness, so it's an easy argument.

The system is, we have these seats, created by acts of Congress, which need to be filled. The President nominates candidates -- ideally candidates recommended by the Congressmen in the region, for regional appointments -- and the Senate vets them, and confirms or denies their appointment. The Republicans, however, aren't playing fair: they have been refusing to even allow votes on the candidates, even while admitting the candidates are qualified. Furthermore, they are not cooperating in the nomination process, refusing to recommend candidates to the President.

It's not fair, and everything after that is camouflage. If it was really a concern about the workload of the judiciary, and act of Congress could add or remove seats as necessary. But it isn't, and Congress isn't acting -- they are refusing to act, never in good faith and rarely at all.
Dutch too: tien, elf, twaalf | dertien, veertien, vijftien, zestien
Here's my use case: I have multiple computers with an X server, but only one which actually has the graphical program(s) which I need to use.
So, on the "main computer", I set the DISPLAY to Xpra's :15 instead of the usual :0, launch the program in `screen`, and off I go.

Now wherever I need to use the program(s), I only need to re-attach the Xpra session, and it shows up at the local display. This allows me to keep the same windows open, but I'm taking them with me, wherever I go. Also, the programs keep running when I close the connection (or when it drops), so I don't have to a) start them again, or b) restore state.

More Xpra goodness: allows me to change the compression and algorithm on-the-fly; is more responsible than SSH X forward on slow/laggy connections; has a "connection problem" visual indication (the windows are overlaid with a spinner, instead of just freezing).
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You missed the point. The author was choosing startup ideas that compete with entrenched entities that are also potentially data-intensive. I don't think the ideas themselves were supposed to be judged, just that they fit a loose model of ideas that would be almost impossible to fund/execute without net neutrality.
> 321 123

I think you mean 321 456. It's not monotonically anything.

> most important thing is on the left

See, I feel that the month is the most important part of the date. "My birthday’s in June" or "My birthday is on the eight of some month"? "The harvest is in October" or "The harvest is on the 30th of something?"
Because being poor doesn't give you the right to take from others to satisfy your own entertainment desires. I think Jean Valjean wouldn't have been quite the sympathetic character if he stole a lute instead of a loaf of bread ;)
Ask HN: I was a victim of bike theft. What can I do?
Today I woke up to see my bike was gone. I've filed a police report giving them the frame number. I made a claim to my insurance (they declined) and I've been searching craigslist and ebay for ads posted recently.

Is there anything else someone in my position can do? I'm about to ask my neighbors if they saw anything. It happened between midnight and ~8 am.