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Sight. Sorry, I really can't explain it well.

Have you ever encountered something, sometimes, that you know doesn't click, but can't explain why? I really think this is a bad idea, and somehow, a waste of resources, a repetition of things. But...

It will affect me little if I pretend it doesn't exist and continue using stackoverflow as I have been until now. Just ignore 'the news' and move on.
We should care about it in as much as it results in massive differences in basic quality-of-life for large numbers of people.

Quality-of-life here is not defined by the ability buy iThings, flat-screens, and XBoxes, but affording decent education, health care, and a fair chance at upward social and economic mobility, regardless of where you come from.
Yep, a lot of us have gotten those. There is also another one that starts "1Sochi..."
It's simply because most people are terrible programmers, except for programmers.
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> My mother tongue is Spanish, yet I have no issues with an English only stackoverflow, at all.

Someone who knows English has no problem with an English only Stackoverflow. Amazing.

The fact that non-native English speakers might prefer English only sources is a red herring; they already know English. Of course perusing English sources makes more sense to us; we already know English to such degree that communicating in it is about as painless as communicating in our native tongue, and focusing mostly on English sources gives is a looot more meaty information. I could read some Wikipedia article in my own tongue, or I could get 5 times more information of perhaps higher quality by reading it in English.
I never suspected it could happen at Apple.
And it's not about $10, you know. It's $8500! I was counting on that money.
Does any of those mutations produce fertile individuals, with both reproductive organs fully functional though? I don't know enough to answer, but I believe that's what the parent is asking.
This point comes up often when talking about React. You can still put the templates in your own file that the view requires and renders in the `render()` function. No different than Backbone.
I've been using Penflip to crowdsource & collaborate on stories from startups for a book called "The Other Side of Startups". Feel free to contribute to it here: https://www.penflip.com/MicahCohen/the-other-side-of-startup...
I wondered this too, but to be honest I imagine it's not a problem. LGBT is a small, fairly tightly defined group (compared to, say, men age 18-25) that skews in known directions (liberal, urban, etc).
I doubt this will succeed. The pricing is enough to turn away most potential users and the remaining users won't generate enough income to sustain the company, especially if they meet everyone in person.
Spam and pollution both impose negative externalities. Are you arguing that the primary mode by which people become wealthy is by generating externalities?

Also, Log(consumption) is a much better measure than Log(income) - a 1000 dollar bill doesn't make you happy, it's the hookers and cocaine you buy with it that does.
also igor of nginx.
I've been in the industry for about a decade. All of the issues you're talking about stem from the confusion about whether telecom networks are private or public assets. If telco assets are public, net neutrality and network unification are obvious. If they're private, they're not obvious at all. The industry position is to be public when it's beneficial and private when it's not, which is totally rational and emulated in almost every infrastructure company.

The solution is to nationalize the infrastructure and privatize the access but this is politically a non-starter. We will always have a compromise because of the quasi-public/private partnership that is infrastructure. It is better to treat this as a condition of the game theory that governs our universe than it is to complain about the lack of fairness in the system.

As far as microcells, they don't really solve the problem of spectrum in aggregate only for individuals and they're, at best, a stopgap solution. Proximal networking is a potential alternative worthy of consideration, but that's at least a few years away right now.

Source: I'm a Sprint MVNO and a Telco nut.
Creating an index of these files seems more like driving down the street taking pictures of all the houses with their front doors left open. Something Google seems to get away with on a regular basis.
People barely now this, but theres a social inclusion aspect by creating the portuguese version of StackOverflow.

In Brazil, at least, only the kids of wealthy families have access to private english courses..

In regular school its just too weak to make a difference.. and of course there are the self-taughts.. a minority..

So, there are a very good social inclusion aspect in all of this.. make the rookie programmers start with the portuguese version.. then maybe they will just hit the english with time.. imposing a language barrier is a sort of elitism that will create a virtual barrier that doesnt do good to anyone..

I dont know why people rant about it, since all the good content is already in english language..

Allow even more people to enter into the technology world is a good thing.. let them learn english later, when theres a need..
I beg to differ.

Source: former software engineer turned manager. Never had to juggle so many wildly different skills in my life.

I agree with 80% being shit though. That was my motivation to go there in the first place.

The thing is, just like CS doesn't teach people to be good developers, no amount of management training teaches people to be good managers.

Also, a good percentage of the coders are pretty shit too. The networking possibilities of the internet have allowed us to isolate ourselves from that, so good developers are usually amongst themselves, be it on places like HN, or working for companies they already know have high standards.

I bet outside of out bubble, the 80% shit applies to many other professions, including our own.
For Chromium, developers do not need to publish apps through the Chrome Store, nor do you need a Google account to use such apps. Chrome has the same side-loading capability of Android allowing install from unknown sources. There are apps that Google refuses from the Web Store that are distributed this way.

I don't think you're going to get many people to believe that apps which target a platform that is mostly based on a spec controlled by a consortium, and for the most part, are cross-platform, are somehow more locked down and proprietary than a native apps platform. This is pretty much the first time I've seen anyone on HN try to argue that web apps, even chromium apps, are harder to port, and more of a walled garden than Android. It's a difficult to pull off argument, and I don't think it works.
That's incorrect. Plan 9's C is a restricted ANSI C variety.
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WebRTC is a transport/application level API for building things on top of, it is NOT an open interoperability standard of the same sort XMPP is at all.

iMessage uses TCP, but that doesn't make it an open source application with an open protocol.
I'm not going to defend the Italian justice system - it's indefensible. But it's a fact that it is MUCH more likely to go to prison in the US than in Europe - just read the numbers.
See, but what if I'm writing a little script using Bash to run on my server? Does it go in Unix? Or programming? Or serverfault?
As a comparison, look at the spectrum of race. How we look at it keeps changing. Could we get by with a binary? Sure, we could have "white" and "non-white". Could we do 3-5? Sure, that's what Brazil's government does. They have white, brown, black, yellow, and indigenous; you can pick one. [1] But people in Brazil don't really like that. It may serve the governmental need to have a simple system. But for the individuals expressing their racial identity, it doesn't really fit their self-perceptions, and they don't like having somebody else's categories imposed upon them.

If you are looking for a simple way to solve this problem, just drop gender from your system. If you really need to use pronouns, just use singular they [2] for everybody.

I think the second-simplest thing would be to not ask about gender, but to ask about what pronoun to use. Facebook's going with he/she/they, which isn't what every activist would want, but it's way better than a simple binary.

If you really need gender, then I'd probably follow the Facebook model; the alternative is to basically repeat Facebook's process of talking to a lot of people and finding some other workable solution.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_Brazil#IB...
That's basically what they are doing.

If someone asks a question on the Portuguese then it would be easy for an English and Portuguese speaker to search the English site for the answer and then post to the Portuguese site and earn their karma.
Good article, and commentators below have some good suggestions. I'm curious what tools the HN community uses to make their lives easier?

Project Management? Chat/IM? Task & Calendars? etc.
Good, good.. We are watching.
Except for that whole everything else is written for Mac, Linux, windows thing.
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Yeah, because the world was just PEACHY before WWI. People starving in the streets if not downright famines, oligarchs meddling in the affairs of the people... just awesome. History has proven time and time again that when enough people are sufficiently marginalized, they tend to disregard the property rights of the wealthy in order to restore some sort of equilibrium. It's a game of chicken that numerically the wealthy can't win.
A point of clarification: the new site has intentionally relaxed rules. SO is a mature site that can afford to have stricter criteria, but pt.so is still in its infancy and the protocol is growing to meet the needs of the community that forms there.
Hm. What's wrong with FileVault?

I knew that there could be some issues with my laptop after service it Apple, they informed me about it. But I thought to myself, come on, it's just a minor cooler issue, they won't even need to login to fix it. How could they possible break anything.
Because you might have cause and effect exactly backward.
Imagining a new kind of interface
Chromium is packaged in Ubuntu and Debian. It's not packaged in Fedora because Chromium forked a half-dozen libraries [instead of pushing changes upstream](http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-wh...). Of course, none of these are 'fully free' distros.
From a more practical perspective, concentrating wealth in the hands of a few people will cause inefficiencies. Rarely does a single person (or a small group of persons) have the best ideas on how to allocate resources. An important tenet of Capitalism is that fair competition breeds multiple solutions to the same problem. While it's inefficient because some aspects are duplicated or tangential (accounting/marketing), it is an excellent system for insuring the best players are providing products and services.
I don't know if this is true for CoffeeScript, but sometimes an unfamiliar syntax enables something new and very useful. You won't experience that unless you embrace something very different.

eS6 will have fat arrows, but comparing CS today to JS today, I find the -> and => constructs are more than just an abbreviation, they make it radically easier to write AND READ code that makes heavy use of functions.

YMMV, of course!
In spite of inequality increasing, relative mobility has remained the same and absolute mobility has increased. People consume more health care and education than ever before.

http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_trends.pdf

Does this mean inequality is not a problem?
Actually they are kind of doing that already. Someone who is fluent in both can arbitrage between the two for reputation.

Honestly you wouldn't want to translate all of SO anyway, there is a lot of cruft when you build up a huge database of information.
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No, the Rwandan Genocide is not a common event. But my first example was the police beating a confession out of someone.

My objection is when people in USA think USA is as bad as that.
So people who are infertile don't count? I don't understand your point.
These are Bitcoin addresses. The hash for the first is 197c054e032f9b6b406625b49fcb2c429c0825633143d082bbbdbcd5fa368bd4

I do not know if it is modified. Neither of them are confirmed. (I converted my Starbucks card balance to a meager fraction of a Bitcoin. Since then my $7.21 has plummeted to $5.69.)
> Given that instability is down in the US and young men are neither economically nor sexually disenfranchised

We are. That's a centerpiece to modern intersectional feminism: everyone's hurt to some degree by the structure of society. Men have it better in a lot of situations, but things are still rough.
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It's already been said, but again: DON'T TALK TO COPS.

THIS is why you don't talk to cops. Remember all those people that said "what if you're not the person they're looking for? What if you see an accident?"

This is what happened. Do you understand yet? If you have to talk to cops, despite everything you've now read or heard, then talk to them as little as possible. Follow their orders and get the hell away. The cop told him to leave. He should have left. His civic duty was done at that point.
I learned English because of my interest on technology, and because I saw it not at as disadvantage, but the opposite.

Yet again, if it was up to me, I would set Latin or Esperanto as a 'universal' language and be done with it. :-)
When I worked at Peopleclick (HR applicant tracking software), we didn't go quite this far, but we had 7 gender options: Male, Female, M-F Trans, F-M Trans, Neuter, Other, and Declined To Identify. Which was pretty progressive for 14+ years ago.
FWIW large portions of ovh.com have been blackholed on my web server for persistent Wordpress comment spam to hosted sites.

Unfortunately, I can't blackhole their traffic on mail services, because IIRC some open source mailing lists use them.

OVH is not my favorite network.
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Ask HN: What is the killer 'internet of things' app?
We keep hearing about how big the Internet of Things is going to be - but I find it difficult to see practical apps that would be extremely important in everyone's lives (e.g. google maps on phones is an important mobile app today).

What is the true potential of IoT beyond phone-controlled washing machines, refrigerators? I would love to get some perspective and understand from YOU - what do you think can be the 'game-changer' or 'killer app' for internet of things. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
BTW, "Beyond the Gates" (aka "Shooting Dogs") is another film about the Rwandan Genocide, but much more violent than "Hotel Rwanda". It also touches on a bit more of the white/black racism as well.
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Ah, enter the drone. /dystopia
As such, the software which makes up "Android" resembles OS X to me: open source in parts (even large parts), but the bit which most people (including developers) use is closed source and restricted to running only on sanctioned hardware.
Would this work with existing libraries? For example, if you want to use whisper without blocking the thread.
To be specific, credit card companies put the bulk of the risk on the merchant. If someone steals your card and buys a book, the credit card company will reimburse you and (most likely) not pay the bookstore. They set up the incentives this way because customers are more likely to use their card when they are protected, but stores can't afford not to accept credit cards.
Stack Overflow is great for reference or solving specific problems. It's pretty awful for learning anything in depth.
> 10% of the world’s programmers are in China

> 1.4% of our visits come from China

> Only 4.8% of our visits come from China, Japan and Korea combined

> So, if the data tell us that we’re getting roughly 80% less activity from Asia than we should in the absence of language constraints, why does it feel so obvious that all serious programmers speak English?

That data says it's less. It doesn't say the reason why is language constraints.

p.s. With or without this data, sure, it's obviously false that "all serious programmers speak English", and obviously true that some more people will participate using their native language.
Correct on both counts. Ultimately, if you lose $50,000 in revenue to an outage it is at least partially your fault. Whether you want the direct control of the entire cluster in exchange for the extra responsibility is an individual choice. My point is that offering to rebate a trivial amount of money in that case is pretty meaningless. Hell, I think its meaningless even if you have full redundancy and don't suffer any actual losses. I certainly don't see it as a perk of cloud providers.
This doesn't seem like a very reasonable idea. The entire point of beta testing is to fix bugs. The beta testers don't owe you; they are doing you a favour if anything.
But otherwise many countries in Europe are incomparably safer.

You mean like how there was no protection against double jeopardy for Amanda Knox?
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So what do you recommend we should read?
I'm all for learning new stuff, but since you're already strong in .NET, would ASP.NET MVC 5 + Entity Framework 6 fit you better if you want to do your own startup?

Or do you want to work for startups in your area, and Ruby is a common requirement in the UK?

It sounds tough getting some time for yourself in your scenario.
Seems like a lot of folks in this transition at the moment. It'd be great to take a poll.

I wonder if a low-cost provider will offer the one-click installs we all came to appreciate with decent shared hosts, along with a decent back-up system.
If the only goal was to present what exists in other languages, this would be a great idea. Your suggestion results in translations for all the people searching for content in a language other than English. But it doesn't allow those people to participate in return. You need the community of PT speakers to succeed (which is the whole reason we have separate sites for different topics, and the reason why we believe our model is better for expert answers than Yahoo Answers, Quora, et al).
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IFTTT could be a game changer if there were more hardware APIs
https://ifttt.com/
Maybe I'm not hearing you right. You are talking about a conspiracy to frame a complete stranger? While it's possible and easily doable, dare I ask, "why would anyone care to do this?". For fun? What financial gain is there in framing a stranger?

My drives are encrypted btw.
You are attempting to make assertions in high causal density situations; the evidence supports an infinite number of conclusions, and yours are not particularly convincing.
I don't find the recommendations very useful either. Maybe the secret value of the recommendation engine for Netflix is evaluating movies outside of their catalog. When considering how much to pay for the streaming rights to a movie, they can use the recommendation engine to determine how well received it would be by their membership and bid accordingly.
This is why Apple is inferior to Android. You spend resources to develop something, and it's a crapshoot whether or not it gets accepted or stays accepted.

I can understand ordinary customers being wow'ed by Apple marketing, but why don't developers jump ship en masse at the way Apple treats them? It's not like there isn't an alternative.
Milking it is not a rational choice, expected but not rational. Comcast should have make the Roku, but due to a fixation on the analog cable infrastructure they did not. The amount of analog bandwidth they devote on their networks to digital traffic is a ridiculously small percentage of their capacity.

Comcast should have created the caching infrastructure that Akamai did. Comcast should have implemented cloud backup services. They have the capability to have 50+ Mbps from the customer to their datacenters. This is freak'n huge.

Why didn't comcast create a colo system so that providers could get as close as possible to the customer?

No, Comcast will go down with the Titanic with all of their riches. They have squandered more than they have protected.
My co-author Seth and I wrote a book on how to raise money. Happy to answer any questions.
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(1) The API request page on dropbox's website hung after clicking "allow." After I received a "no response error," I refreshed and things started working as expected.

(2) Once I received the "Creating new website" prompt, I could see files added to my dropbox. Yet I still received an "oops, something went wrong error" on brace.io. Brace.io prompted me to reselect a valentine's URL (I kept the same) and went back to "creating new website" graphic. Failed again. Refreshed.

(3) After #2 failed again following the refresh, I changed the url name after getting the "whoops something went wrong," which sent a POST request containing the old url title instead of the new one. I'm not sure if this is functioning as expected. After that hung for a minute or so, I went to #4.

(4) Finally, I tried the original URL, which prompted me to administer the page at admin.insertvalentineurlhere.brace.io. That works!
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Crazy. All of the things people suspected turned out to be largely true. They do seem to be drowning in the information they've collected. If that means anything.
I've used http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for this in the past and it's worked really well.
There site is already in postmortem, I would have liked to seen what they had built. We learn more when we see awesome ideas that don't gain traction, it's often depressing though. I also see a trend of all these assets just vanishing. Even when sites opensource after failure, seldom anything comes up it. I will proffer the uncomfortable suggestions that the balley-hooed software practices, despite the back-patting, are not uncoupled and modular. In fact, we have reached the age of massive coupling in the full stack, even the deployment.
I agree; I love the side-by-side explanation and json, and the ability to toggle from python to ruby, etc.
I see English as more of a liability for a country like India. Only 10% of the Indian elites have any sort of proficiency in English. Indians never developed an 'infrastructure' around their native language like China did, which results in a debilitating problem for India. There is a big language barrier in India. A poor Chinese kid doesn't need to learn a foreign language to be hired as a full time programmer. But in India, unless you have a working proficiency in English, say goodbye to any chances of being hired as a programmer. Say goodbye to any real possibility of using a computer. Say goodbye to the possibility of understanding any real biochemistry. In India, I can't take a guy from the streets, give him 2 days of training and ask him to do some work on a computer. I'll have to spend 2 months with him, teaching him a new language.

Thus now there are two Indias, the 80-90% non-english speaking India, and the 10-20% english speaking elite India. And the language barrier makes it that much harder for the under-privileged India to cross over to the other side, which is not the case in China or Japan.

In 10 years, the kind of language used for human communication will become irrelevant. Thus, I hope that the Indian problem won't last very long.