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This is terrible advice.

The choice of platform should be made based on the value proposition. In the case of whatsapp, the business is based on undercutting the price-gouging of SMS with a superior alternative for $1 per year. This makes it affordable and appealing to everyone, including (especially) J2ME and Android users in the developing word.

If your app fits this profile, definitely go Android first.

But.. if your app is more appealing to people with discretionary income, you are shooting yourself in the foot if you don't start with iOS because that's where the users with money are.
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Well, "love" is a strong word, but our society is built in such a way as to provide strong incentives toward doing so, especially for people with low income or little free time or both.
These pictures are either of the Ukrainian police, not protesters, or show no indication of actually being in Ukraine. Also, Russian news is full of propaganda trying to show the protesters as the ones causing the violence. Anything from independent sources, such as Reuters or AP?
I just posted a comment on the SpiderOak blog about how I was rather startled when I found out that they had waited until after we did the security audit before they informed us that they knew about bugs going in:

https://spideroak.com/blog/20140220090004-responsibly-bringi...

However, after I got over my surprise, I started thinking that this was a really good move on SpiderOak's part. If you hire a security auditor, it might be hard for you to tell whether you're getting value for your money. Leaving known bugs in the code and then observing whether the auditors find them is potentially a good way to overcome that.

Mind you: this will make life harder for we in the security auditing industry if this practice takes off. ☺
See, I find it odd that people go to a foreign country, and then complain about the stuff that is different. That seems like being a bad traveller. Like going to Spain and then complaining that all the shops are closed in the afternoon and on Sundays. "Can't they just work normal hours???"
Ask HN: How do I set a Facebook business page up like this?
I can't figure out how to make an "About" section similar to this page, specifically the "Photographer, Graphic Design, Web Design" tags: https://www.facebook.com/oneonecreatives

When I select a business type such as "small business", all thats will display is "small business". I've tried a few different business categories. Do I need to use a Facebook app or something?
Imagine this: you have no car, limiting your ability to travel to a job. You have only a high school degree, limiting your prospects. You have a child, limiting the times you can work. You have very few marketable skills, limiting the specificity of a possible job.

Do you think you'd have a whole lot of ability to be picky?
How do you think an ORM will help you avoid those performance issues? Unless the ORM isn't very feature-rich but then you've got other problems anyway.

SQL's syntax is ugly because it was designed in the 70s where some people had quite different ideas what a DSL should look like (hey, COBOL, you are guilty, too!)
Value cannot be adequately quantified. At its best, money is an inadequate substitute for such a quantification that is often useful; at its worst, the failure to be mindful of that inadequacy exacerbates its inaccuracy.
A guess, based on my experience and accounts of others here and on other similar forums. The figure could be much different for smaller startups, I've usually joined teams of between 3 and 15 engineers, where the adaptability and learn-as-you-go are more valuable.
Uh, what? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of commentary in the Western press is pretty anti-Yanukovich (e.g. the NYTimes editorial today: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/opinion/ukraines-deadly-tu...).
That said, this complaint doesn't appear to me to be explicit enough to meet with GitHub's takedown policy (https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy), which requires "Identify the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed. The specificity of your identification may depend on the nature of the work you believe has been infringed, but may include things like a link to a web page or a specific post (as opposed to a link to a general site URL)." But the complaint itself, besides mentioning trademarks and the WhatsApp name, only says "unauthorized use of WhatsApp APIs, software, and/or services". But the existence of code that can use the WhatsApp API is not the same as actually using WhatsApp's services in an unauthorized manner, so I think this is ripe for some pushback.

WhatsApp can easily enough restrict API access to its own clients if it chooses to do so, which is a far better solution than trying to shut down what's apparently an easy library to write.
This guy definitely did not get enough exposure to American food. It's a huge country with a vast variety of regional cuisine as well as international dishes melded by the immigrants to match the American tastes.
God bless America and their damn good car manners
Because people.
I think you got confused. This is for people visiting America from Japan.
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> Interesting. Trademark law is probably pretty strong against repositories named "WhatsApp" or something very similar. Using the logo without permission as well.

They probably fall under nominative use, which is an affirmative fair use defense. Describing an API or implementation of XYZ as a "Webclient for XYZ" should be fine.
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"this is really not the way to communicate the message that they ... want their software to be scrutinized"

To be fair, isn't the case for most proprietary software - even for the most security-concerned closed-source companies?

No one at WhatsApp has ever warrented that their software is open source, that they want to produce open source or that they share open source values.
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> what you get when 2 super-powers choose a foreign country as a battlefield

- this is bullshit, because the driving force of the protests is disgust of the widespread corruption and rotting of the whole system. People are very tired of the general air of the lawless governing. EU does not act at all, as it seems to us, peaceful protesters. Though I agree that Russia can't be aside when a country is getting out of its sphere of influence.

> Ukraine's elites are split, but of course they are not the ones bleeding on the street.

- that is bullshit because protests have begun exactly with the average Joe's anger to Yanukovych decisions. The scale of protests was a great surprise to the opposition. Russians tend to greatly overestimate influence of elites on political process.

> The liberal west is using Nazi groups (far-right wing skinheads)

- this is bullshit, because Ukrainian nationalists are not Nazis and are not skinheads (who are widespread in Russia), Ukrainian nationalism is not based on ethnicity, it's based on idea of sovereign Ukrainian State living in peace with anyone who is not a threat to its existence and well-being. Yes, there are minor groups of real far right forces like S14, they are used heavily by Russian media to demonize Ukrainian nationalists, but they don't have any real influence.

> Yanukovych was at least elected
- Hitler also had been democratically elected, this does not justify any of his ensuing deeds.

> the people do not trust the opposition's leader
- it's true, we don't follow them blindly, they depend on Maidan much more than Maidan depends on them. We trust them as far as they express our will.

> None of this is for the good of Ukranian people
- me, as a Ukrainian, disagrees with you.

> Both sides are equally corrupted.
- this is a popular propaganda cliche to make people passive and to kill their will to change a corrupt leader. It is hard to imagine a person who can do more harm to Ukraine than Yanukovych did.

I live in Kiev and I am also very tired of explaining why these premises based on Russian propaganda, are not correct. Come to Maidan (it's easy if you live in Russia), see with your own eyes, then think again of all that bullshit.
"it would imply that we live in a deterministic universe..."

You say this as though it's impossible. You may not believe we live in a deterministic universe, but, that's just, like, your opinion, man. The rational stance (I think) is to: (1) admit you don't know, (2) acknowledge the possibility of a deterministic universe, (3) for whatever chance the universe is deterministic, delude yourself into believing that it's not, because the illusion of free will is probably good for your mental health.

I think you're doing #3 really well, but skipped over #1 and #2.
Many military aircraft are designed to not glide well, because gliding well means that a plane is less agile. Most modern fighter jets go almost immediately into a tumble if they lose power, since they require constant computerized corrections to remain stable.

Its probably a bit more important in a hobbyist or even a commercial plane.
"...that we threw in the garbage after WW2..."

I think this is a very salient point. I'm glad to see him focus on terrible urban design as well.

Pre-WW2 public spaces and areas are beautiful wonderful places that people spend significant fractions of their yearly income and travel across the planet just to spend a few days in.

The world really would be a better place if we followed what he's advocating here. I'm so heartened to see many new urban projects following this exact plan. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/tysons/
It's crude, almost offensive even... but then you realize that our travel guides are just as broad-strokes.
That would be the Austro-Hungarian empire. Used to be a pretty big deal...
Mike? Why did you have to change you name? He's the one who sucks!
My thought was akin to what he said, the system needs to grab all 100 rows to do the second filter.

I didn't think about the fact that the original one was an index-only scan, so went with "Roughly the same", since outside of that property the performance is similar.

Too bad there is no way to get good data on why people thought that way without a much longer quiz.
> Someone mentioned it being akin to motorcycling riding, but I can't imagine that 2% of motorcyclists die from it.

The rates for motorcycle accidents and deaths is really very high:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety#Accident_rate...

Quote: "According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2006, 13.10 cars out of 100,000 ended up in fatal crashes. The rate for motorcycles is 72.34 per 100,000 registered motorcycles."

That's about 5 1/2 times greater.
There are a bunch of reasons that inform that. On TV, they used to have censor bars over people's mouths as well as "bleeping" what they said. So putting your hand over your mouth emphasizes the obscenity - plus it's funnier :) Also, from a distance no one can see your lips so it gives some plausible deniabilty. It can also make the outburst quieter, which helps when you're fake-yelling.
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Fair enough. I understood that, I was being kind of a dick. Sorry.
>Of course these things are subjective things, but because they are subjective things they have no place in such an article.

Liveability seems rather subjective to begin with, but if you poll enough people you'll converge upon a widely shared view. Doesn't make it right, or make your views wrong, just means that most people are more predisposed to a certain opinion: Vienna is a highly livable city. I know I quite liked it when I've visited family there, and would actually be interested in living there if I had appropriate work.

I personally would find a city with good beer and cheese selection to be more liveable than one with out, but that wouldn't be the only factor. Personally I think the best beer is in California, though.

A startup scene also can be considered a negative by many, if you look at the SF protests vs. techies lately. (The animosity was small when I lived there, but seemingly has grown over the years.)
Granted, I visited for a couple of days, but I was positively and deeply surprised by it.

Everything seems nice. The city is Beautiful. Public trams go everywhere and the transport system is top notch.

Cons: they speak "Bavarian German" and they seem to be paranoid about the internet (more than in Germany). They have cold winters as well if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, I don't really understand that parent comment. Tipped jobs pay well, and don't really seem relevant in a "living wage" discussion.

Minimum wage jobs, on the other hand...
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People who work for tips defend the practice, because the people who make it their profession have learned how to work the system. People who aren't good at it have been weeded out. So it's hard to say if it's really good or bad.

I've decided that it's a peculiar form of North American efficiency: part of management and monitoring the service worker has been delegated to the client. If someone's working for tips, less supervision is needed to ensure they are providing great service. As long as everyone obeys the cultural norms, it's a win for the owner, customer, and service worker. For those who don't obey the cultural norms, well, at least the service worker has a base salary.

This explains why it's more normal to tip a waiter, but not so for a fast food restaurant. In fast food, the workers are staying put behind a counter, and the manager is just a few steps away anyway. The more mechanical your job is, the less sense tipping makes. Maybe this is crazy (and if you're a service worker feel free to say I'm stupid), but perhaps we should look at tippable jobs as being good, because it proves that the worker also has some autonomy and has to be acknowledged by the customer as more than a serving unit.
Agreed. It's not as if there aren't a zillion other Github repositories using trademarks in their names. Consumers of open source will generally understand the distinction between official libraries and third-party-developed libraries, and if trademark law is reasonable (IANAL), it should accept even "whatsapp" repos as fair use since no "reasonable person" would be confused. But it requires someone willing to fight Facebook, I guess.
What are the advantage to using Gerret, Kiln, etc for code review? Is it for people who using hg/git/etc without a web interface?

The way I normally do them is you submit your pull request on github or bitbucket and everyone on the team makes suggestions and asks questions until they are satisfied.

Once they are happy they comment "LGTM". Once you have a LGTM from your team members, you pull your pull request.
I believe there's a town in California where everybody has their own hangar, instead of garage.
or raise a fund

In any case betting his personal wealth would signal far more confidence than merely writing a paper. As dlthomas points out, he could do both.
Perhaps Google is better at guessing your focus precisely because they are tracking you?
I wouldn't read too much into this. As part of their purchase agreement WhatsApp likely needed to say that they had been diligent in maintaining and defending their copyrights and trademark. That's pretty standard in a financing, so I'd imagine it's a standard part of M&A deals. It probably turned up during due diligence that they had some "cleanup" to take care of in order to not be lying when they made that representation.
Perhaps people around were _really_ good at it.
Because otherwise you won't be able to eat or stay off the street?
Any good suggestions for alternative DNS providers?
The best part is watching al giores cult members change the name from global warming to climate change so that anything that happens can be blamed on man and watch the believers use the word deniers in that creepy you don t believe in our religion way
It is so very true, though. Over the years I've had to teach my "trick" for figuring out tips without a calculator to pretty much all of my friends (the spiel: 'move the decimal one place to the left; double that number'). I was always surprised by how magical it appeared to them :|
The optimism thing gets me every time.

Gross generalisation time: I've met very few Americans I disliked as individuals, but an awful lot that in groups become intolerable. A lot of it seems to be that the barrier for nonsensical optimism creeps lower with each extra member added to the group until absolute irrationality reigns supreme. If you try to burst this bubble you are screwed, and the only thing to do is walk away and hope to be far enough away that when it blows up you're not in the blast radius.

The thing is one time out of ten they're right and the cynics among us are wrong, and you have to love them for that. As Churchill is often quoted as saying you can always trust the Americans to do the right thing, once they've tried every other possibility.
I've had a serious go at DDG 3 times now - last month I tried it but I ended up just using !g for every search and so went back to Google. The thing I use most often, and major frustration with Google, is limiting the search by time period : I wish the additional tools would be sticky.

I did blind search engine testing and Google came out on top.

That said Google is frustrating me more and more, especially now you need to "put it in quotes" if you don't want them to just show you things they think might be tangentially related in some way to your search and, you know, show you results with the actual terms in.

It's quite interesting to me that Google's main advantage when I first used it was I didn't need to AND all my terms together, it was the differentiating feature that won me over (I can't recall who from, it was around the time of Teoma and AllTheWeb IIRC). Now even when you use the cumbersome notation to say a term is required it still shows you pages without the term on ... but it nonetheless is the best offering I can find (for me). Argh!
you can pick up high quality microbrews at pretty much any decent grocery store these days so i'm not sure where your sense of superiority is coming from.
> There isn't a lot of scientific evidence for anything related to conciseness.

Or consciousness either. :)

But it's true, whichever spelling we use -- consciousness is a subjective, philosophical area with no real scientific substance, and it will probably remain that way.
Just goes to show that the skills required to get a job are different than the skills required to start a company
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_in_the_Bible
tl;dr Gerrit only allows you to comment on one commit at a time, not a set of commits.
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Compared to Russia, and most of the former soviet block, the US is a fairly religious place. In most of the "importance of religion" surveys we rank in the ~50% "yes" category whereas Russia is consistently ranked as one of the least religious places on Earth. (See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_cou...). It seems only natural that the US would have a lot of metaphysical threads woven thru its work on conciousness. <caveat, writing from a town w a 10 block long street that's pure churches, so...bias>
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Is there any point in freaking out or do we just have to wait this one out?
Weird, I haven't researched DNS as well as I should have. I always lived under the impression that there was this extensive DNS cache network where intermediaries responded to queries with cached results from root DNS servers.

Instead, the second that this DDos hits is the second we have websites stopping working.

How is it that in this day and age we can't have distributed caches of DNS entries at our providers of full dns databases. I mean there can't be more than like a few billion dns entries in the world total, which fits easily in a modern desktop computers RAM.

If that is an underestimate, I can't believe a single modern server wouldn't be able to mirror the world's DNS queries for at least a providers worth of users.
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As I understand it they've contributed a lot back to the erlang platform itself. It's their particular system that they want to keep proprietary.
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You're right, it was Newton's method.
As much as we would love to have a magical language that knows exactly how to take anything and make it performant enough, there is a decent amount of evidence to say that is impossible.

Honestly though the nice thing about SQL is you can quickly get something that works, and then use tracing tools to figure out what is taking longer than it should.
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It's not about knowing, it's about relevance. These data structures do not exist in Erlang in the same way. So when they ask you to code a snippet to implement a HashMap in Erlang, that will be a pretty insane task.
I agree that money is not the only indicator, but how else do you propose that we direct our collective attention?
The employer is required to make up the difference if a tipped employee makes less than the minimum wage (7.25 or higher) - though sure, that's maybe not a livable wage.

Honestly, though? I worked at a restaurant ($10 buffet) for six years and most of my friends work in the industry still. Almost all waiters make out much better than the rest of the kitchen staff. Additionally, many establishments (especially mom and pops) encourage waiters to report the minimum amount necessary (whatever works out to minimum wage) for taxes.

I wouldn't feel any worse for your waiter than for the guy who cooks your burger.

Bizarrely, though, waiters are much more vocal than the rest of the staff about their wages.
That is not a DMCA takedown request. It is merely a takedown request. The person to whom it was sent has no obligation to comply.
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I'm fine with people hating money, but people hating the love of money? Sounds like personal issues to me. I don't hate hating money as I don't have a personal grudge against people who hate money but it sounds like you do with people who love money. Oh, and I used to think greed was bad too, like when I was 12 but since then I've figured every single one of us act out of greed all the time and waiting for a greedless messiah is naive at best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
"isn't the case for most proprietary software - even for the most security-concerned closed-source companies"

Frequently, and it is an attitude I really dislike.

A serious dedicated attacker can replicate the reversing work quite fast, but this kind of things make it really hard to dedicate a couple of hors to assessing the quality of a protocol.

Moreover, they demonstrated not to be security-concerned, so this comes to me as covering tracks, even if it isn't.
But if you pass food stores on your way home anyway, why not shop every day. A weeks worth of groceries is a a bit of a pain to carry no matter how you look at it.
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Devon here.. that probably explains it.
Looks really nice but you guys ask for too many permissions!
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> You're right; if I was 82 and wanted to settle down I'd buy a ranch somewhere in the palm desert for 100k, but I'm not.

I'm not even sure why 82-year-olds do this. It's pretty much guaranteed you'll lose your ability to drive before you lose your ability to keep a home. Why set yourself up for the heartache of finding out you can no longer live in the house you just bought because it's inaccessible by anything but your private car you can no longer use?