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When you're under full assault from the US intelligence agencies, sometimes you overreact.
"We deregulated high-speed internet access 10 years ago and since then we've seen enormous consolidation and monopolies, so left to their own devices, companies that supply internet access will charge high prices, because they face neither competition nor oversight."

This should be a wake-up call for people who believe in the free market's ability to further low prices and good products. In reality it is often up to governments to prevent monopolies from forming and ensure that there is enough competition.
https://github.com/clux/symlink
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You are confusing two points of mine, or I didn't explain properly.

In the US if it got to that level, everyone would be in jail or dead.

In the US they would never let it get to that level. Police would not just stand by a peaceful protest without permits. They sure as hell would never let people occupy a government building, even peacefully. They would insert people to make it violent and then start arresting people, at the first sign of weapons, you'd start seeing some massive escalation. If fires were being set on that level the national guard would come in fully armed.

So we are fortunate in that it has not escalated like the Ukraine. But if it did, make no mistake, the US would be giving other countries lessons in brutality.

Our police are completely militarized. They even have tanks now decommissioned from overseas wars. People just do not realize this, or they do not care. But what is really scary is you do not sit on that kind of weapons and not use them, it would be like giving a police officer a taser or gallons of pepper spray and being surprised when they constantly use it.
I think the main reason for this is that there's no 'convention' to profiling a gem. No one's built something that's super simple, off the shelf and easy to use. If someone did, and it got enough traction, it could be as much a part of the gem building process as bundler or jeweler is right now.
How do Google's driverless cars handle ice on roads?
And the study was from 2012. While food prices may have inched upward since then, I haven't seen a catastrophic rise. And while there is a possibility of some pretty big price increases in veggies next year due to the California drought, it's not for the reason predicted in this study.
> since there was essentially no GA in Russia.

Other than Mathias Rust?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
I'm from Spain, and curiously, what you say about Holland applies to Spain word by word (well, maybe with the exception of iMessage having a chance - iPhones never got to be very popular here).

It would be interesting if some made a study about price of SMSs in each European countries 4 or 5 years ago vs. WhatsApp adoption. Maybe the huge differences in market shares would be clarified.
That WhatsApp Price Tag in Two Charts
A Decade Old Itch
it is interesting, I'm new to hacker news but i really didn't respect to see this article in this site! why did you all up-voted it?
Mixpanel should handle that. I would also look into using Optimizely if you plan on testing a lot.
> You can't just simulate 'observable areas'. Everything needs to be simulated.

I can't make sense of this. Whatever is outside the causality sphere is by definition irrelevant.
The pay what you want model is interesting - I'd like to know how that's working for you!
Honestly, Google calls me regularly wanting to set up an interview and I'm no one special. I just view it as the market really is getting tight for talent.
Bravery is not limited to physical actions. Foregoing a once in a lifetime opportunity, you devoted most of your life to, is high on the list.
There is no such thing as "leaders of opposition" right now (oppositors turned their back on formed leader capriles for being too mild and indulgent); just people that posts images and videos on twitter. I haven't seen those egypt and bulgaria pics and I have seen the events with my own eyes.

So.. <rolleyes> at international leftist propaganda.
I have to congratulate you for including Canada in the "Francophonie".

Usually people equate the French speaking world with France,Switzerland and Belgium.

Which is surprising since Canada has almost 7 million French speakers.
PuzzleScript version http://bnhw.co.uk/threes/
"All the Googles and Facebooks pride themselves on their laidback, social and party attitude."

Ugh. Great, now that such people invaded programming, where do the rest of us go? :D
to most french people, it's the actual content being in english that isn't helping...
How Using a Decision Journal can Help you Make Better Decisions
I would hardly call the current Wikipedia app 'best' - it is rather quite terrible. I'd know, since I wrote most of it :) We're rewriting it all to be completely native now.

Edit: Link to the new source: http://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia
This seems to me to be an excellent example of the kind of poor thinking money promotes; do prove me wrong.

>If a lot of smart people thought WhatsApp was worth 14B

Why are they smart? Because they have billions of dollars? Because Whatsapp is valuable? Because Whatsapp was less useful before the smart people bought it?

Are you incapable of viewing the transaction of 16 billion as a possible utter mistake? As financial hand-waving assigning a liquid value to shares whose value might well be inflated?

Money is a poor measure of value. Plain and simple. Are you drawn to the volume of the transaction because you think it signifies true success?

> it's probably worth taking a second look at what WhatsApp did to get to this point.

Something I never contested and agreed with explicitly.
But Venezuela is a democracy and Hugo Chavez was a democrat and man of peace!
it looks so much like WeChat from Tencent(one of the largest IT company in China), and WeChat is totally free.
> 'art' is a dirty word for me because of people associated with it

lol, once more I see that nobody escapes the tentacles of post-modernism :)

I totally get the DRY principle regarding music btw. Every time I try to play an instrument (especially percussion), and I get it right, I find myself wishing for a "repeat" button.

Somehow with drawing this is very different for me. I love zoning out on penning tiny details, cross-hatchings, or on the computer, handpixeling sprites.

I think this is also what the article is really about, learning to access this other "mode" of your brain thinking.

I'm all for DRY, but it's great to be able to stretch the other brainmuscle and just DRRRRRRRRRRRaw :)

Also there are no terrible errors in drawing. Especially not if you do it because you love doing it.
Well under that definition Castro was "elected" democratically... As far as I can tell, after you control all the powers in a country, elections don't say too much.
We've gotten much better at predicting weather a few days out[0], because not only has our understanding of the Earth's climate improved by leaps and bounds, but we've also had the chance to iterate thousands of times over the last couple decades to see how well our models perform and adjust them based on that evidence.

On the other hand, we've only had the chance to iterate a few times over the last couple decades in predicting longer-term trends several years out, and even though our understanding has increased here as well, we don't have the benefit of very many results to confirm if that understanding is anywhere near enough to predict well over these sorts of time spans. Apparently arctic sea ice has decreased faster than predicted, but average global temperatures are falling out of the "95%" ranges of most of the models of a decade or two ago[1]

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/the-weatherman-is...
[1]http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...
I, too, am a bit skeptical, but this is boiling climate science down into too simple an exercise. We do, for instance, know that things are warming up, and we have many different models to predict what effect that will have on, say, weather trends over a longish period of time. It's kind of like the stock market -- I might think that the fundamentals of company ABC are good, and believe that they will be up over the next five years. Some people do make reasonably good predictions of this sort. Predicting the open and close of ABC's stock tomorrow, however, or the high and low over the next three weeks, is another story, and there's reason to believe that we do no better than random chance at this kind of prediction, in aggregate.
There's also the ground effect. It's impossible to get a feel for it on a simulator.
Their investors don't have any choice. Mark Zuckerberg has absolute control of Facebook. He can do whatever he wants.
Why I Left Windows
"It’s a decidedly contrarian approach shaped by Jan’s experience growing up in a communist country with a secret police. Jan’s childhood made him appreciate communication that was not bugged or taped."

How ironic that they sold to Facebook.
Right. And the whole point is that the ads are targeted at a local audience.
oh yes. I do mainly games so that huge restriction doesn't register with me sometimes.
Did you read on to the end? I also had the problem that performance degraded with large route sets, but resolved it by matching in chunks of ten routes.
WhatsApp DMCA
Please, the EU is made up of individual countries with individual languages with individual histories and cultures. Comparing it to the US is ridiculous.
I'm currently working on a project where we started with Trigger.IO but moved to phonegap simply because more people have used phonegap, so the documentation is a lot better.

Also, depending on your target user group, you may want to checkout out Ionic (ionicframework.com). It's a mobile-first front end framework built on top of AngularJS. I've been using it on top of cordova/phonegap and it's easy to get up and running with and very performant (on the modern devices it supports). With Cordova and Ionic, our app feels very close to native on iPhone 5+ and high-end Androids
Not to detract from the work that this man (or anyone else) has done, but it's very rare for code to survive for very long without an active maintainer before it succumbs to code rot.

Either someone else steps up to the plate and actively maintains the software, or something else will replace it. Source control makes it easier to revisit the past, but it doesn't ensure that the past will continue to stay current.
Flask TDD – updated with AJAX
Just keep doing what you guys are doing (started using Arch after years of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, in order of preference). I am hooked. Thanks for finding the sweetspot between things I like with FreeBSD/Gentoo/Debian in terms of packaging and philosophy.
That is an amazing photo :) Sorry to hear about the fate of the plane, but thanks for sharing the memory.
To protect and serve [them and their political masters.]
I can't tell if you are being ironic or not, but just to remind the people who can take your post seriously, that Chavez and his group commanded two unsuccessful coup d'etat attempts, that is hardly something that a "man of peace" would do.
Read less tech books
More like French BBS scene.
Snowden Was Justified
Fast until you hit the catastrophic backtracking problem, and then your routing code spins indefinitely. I've hit a production issue of this form.

For this kind of problem you need to use actual regular expressions, not Perl's bastardization of the concept. Or produce your own DFA - it's not as hard as it looks, and gives you a much better idea what's going on.
EYEsect: see the world through different eyes
I don't think npm link is meant to be used in production like that.
Technical sophistication has nothing to do with this. Aereo's technology isn't complicated, or innovative, in a way courts have trouble understanding. It's a fairly low-tech workaround for rules that draw an otherwise easy to understand line between over the air broadcasts and streaming. The argument Aereo is making isn't a technical one, it's a nitpicky lawyer-ly loophole-y one. It's clearly a streaming service, but because there's a physical antenna involved, it shouldn't be subject to the same rules as other streaming services?
Since when do CEOs, lawyers, and hedge fund managers ever have visa problems?

Certain categories of US visas can basically be bought, but it is not cheap.
What does HTML5 have to do with Titanium Android?
10 years later and one step closer to landing on a comet
Murder...
http://videos.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/video-ukraine-des-...
I thought it was the de facto messaging app across the world?

There is no such thing. IM is extremely fragmented into local markets, and you will find different solutions being the de-facto solutions at different locations.

For reference, I'm from Europe and outside the Netherlands I have never heard of anyone using Whatsapp. I tried it once, and it found 2 contacts among my 100s. It was instantly deleted as it was of no use to me.

I also remember it causing stability issues with my Android-phone, ensuring I will never ever install it on anything I own ever, for life, unless my primary intent is ruining that device.

What's "hot" here, or at least what I've heard of people using is MSN, Skype, FB Messenger, Hangouts, Twitter(!) and IRC.
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Civil disobedience is all about breaking the law without hurting people. In general it only takes place when large numbers of people have a problem with the law itself. If the state enforces the law by hurting people then public opinion will swing in favor of the people who are being hurt. This is the whole point. Arguing that the opposition was not peaceful because they broke the law without hurting people is obviously wrong and misses the point.

It happens in the US too. An 84 year old nun was just sentenced to 3y in prison yesterday in Tennessee for taking part in a peaceful protect against the US nuclear weapon program. Being put in prison isn't as dramatic as being shot by snipers, but it does represent harm and it does affect public opinion (to what extent, who knows).
:( I get what you mean (about the "flair") ... and I'm not really sure what to say.

Except that I hope you do try. A few stick figures. Take a look at xkcd's earliest stick figures: https://xkcd.com/6/ and compare them to the way he manages to put actual emotion into those few lines with his current cartoons.

Okay yes his other drawings of that time are actually pretty good, but my point is, even when drawing stick figures, you can get better at it with practice :) But not if you get disheartened.
You don't have an explicit one, but they have an "excessive use of bandwidth" clause in the contract, which is similar to the early days of Rogers Cable.
Wikipedia’s Art and Feminism Edit-A-Thon and the Gender Gap
It is harder to predict very unusual events.

Also, I am not sure what difference it makes? We want to predict climate to inform environmental policy. But a lack of certainty does negate the damage that pollution does.
UPD: that girl just died :( https://twitter.com/avramchuk_katya/status/43648282472023654...
FCC commits to enforcing net neutrality despite broadband ruling
My first opensource creation was a port of Jim's wonderful Builder gem. Many thanks Jim for the inspiration you'll be sorely missed.
It used meteor.js
I am not sure all your private code on git should be publicly accessible. Wouldn't it be possible to point dependency to private in-house GIT repository?
Hi. Were you able to solve this issue? I am in the same exact situation.
Also, where can you look up support cases for Arq? The website shows no support forum at all...
Thanks
Is it cheaper? It depends on how long you expect your investment to be relevant for. If you accept that FTTH is going to be an ultimate 'end game', at least for the foreseeable future, then going FTTC is not cheaper. It may require less capital investment today than FTTH, but in 5 years, you're having to invest a similar amount all over again, in new equipment or by going FTTH.

FTTC is just delaying FTTH.
Closing the ‘free will’ loophole
That's actually not so different from usual way. Matter of trust is generally hard.
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Farewell, Jim
Why would you recommend reset --soft ?

To get back to where you started (changes not added to the index, since you are doing commit -a) you should do `git reset --mixed HEAD~` (or drop the --mixed argument as it's the default).
Google Offered To Buy WhatsApp For $10 Billion Before Facebook Swooped In
Building the BBC's Winter Olympics Web Pages
I agree with this 100%

I the current age it makes much more sense to do away with broadcast television/radio services and reclaim the spectrum for wireless data services. You can still have 'broadcast' stations over data connections if you like. It's the same logic I would apply to 'channels' on cable and voice traffic on cellular. All of these things can be done more efficiently, data wise, by replacing them with data connections and on-demand usage.
Controlling much of the media was already the case before Maduro. The ruling party does not nor did it control all of it though. And it's not Maduro directly deciding everything. Maybe those were not ideas you had, but they are common misconceptions to many, just wanted to clear those up first.

So the things that have happened for many years now in broad strokes are that the state sponsored media was political. Besides what you expect it wanted the mind share of the older more conservative folks and would promote ideas like there was too much obscenity etc. Another thing was that independent media was also political and so attacked by the state directly and by harassing employees and owners.
And, one can use tools like "Certificate Patrol" (Firefox addon) to ensure cert isn't changed.
Muryza, fuck yeah ?
571k pkts/s is pretty respectable, probably nearing or at the bandwidth limits of their network interface. but i'd like to know how many new connections per second can they do (avg), and how long does it take to reach 2.8M connections? (if it takes a long time to open a connection, it could take a while to establish all those open connections, and a reset of all conns could create a long wait for new users to connect)
I am being ironic. He was lionised in the left-wing press in the UK when he died, and was a friend of our ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone. In reality, he is no better than Castro.
Has Anyone Seen my Code? with Jim Weirich and Chad Fowler
This has nothing to do with the cable companies. It's the broadcast networks, who actually make the content that people want to watch. Internet-types like Aereo and Youtube have been trying to free-ride on their efforts for a decade now, getting viewers by distributing content they didn't create. And when the content creators legitimately complain about it, the internet-types paint them as "holding back progress."
This isn't two superpowers fighting.

This is people willing to die not be part of Russia and not to live in a kleptocracy. This is blood being spilled for freedom. It is terrible, but necessary if you do not want to live under the rulership of the most brutal.
>please stop lecturing people with cheap and meaningless moral judgments.

Ha. I'm not lecturing; I simply have no respect or consideration for your position.

You are not being lectured: you are encountering an attitude with which you disagree, and one that has no regard for your disagreement.
A free market for companies that need to tear up every road in your town to lay their own cable is impossible (to say nothing of apartment and office buildings). Internet pricing and business has nothing to do with a free market, and likely never will. Deregulating them was asinine.
Qlika aspires to do to online-marketing what Google did to search
If changing ISPs is your only use case, it works fine. But if you expect to keep the same name when you walk down to the coffee shop? Yeah, you're firing up the VPN.

I mean, nsupdate is great; I use it all the time, but it doesn't really solve the problem that the 'IP portability' folks were going or.
I'd rather just SMS/email them. At least those are actually cross-platform, and don't depend on proprietary apps like WhatsApp.
Took off and landed on my very first time as well :-)
(San Diego, Montgomery Field, March 2011).

The explanation my instructor gave me for the landing were perfect: Line up to the runway like this. Lower throttle and add flaps at these intervals. At the last checkpoint, point the nose of the plane at the numbers on the runway, like you were trying to collide with them, except that at the last moment you pull up and cut power to idle.

Worked like a charm. Maneuvering on the runway is harder than flying and landing. ($$@#!#$%! pedals working 2 ways and in the opposite direction from what I expected :-) )
It is definitely sarcasm. (Or irony, probably I don't even know the difference)
Syria, Sudan, google bus stop, Ukraine, Venezuela, ... who's next?
At what point do objects & events outside the causality sphere stop influencing things inside it?
So there's no goal now, just feeback loop of increasing violence?
On desktop, not on mobile. This is the first big mobile IM service and the network effects are tremendous. Every other IM service is crappy (Skype) or late (Voxer) or crappy and late (Hangouts).
OfficeQuest... Gamification for the Office Suite
We won't be just a blip in the past, we will be the AI's "god" and creator. Young AIs will hear legends about us.
Ask HN: Career advice, take an opportunity or search for something fulfilling?
I'm a 24-year-old IT honours graduate, technically inclined, loved programming from high school. I started my career as a developer (as planned) but changed to a user experience role when the company I was working for at the time closed its doors after half a year. I took the new role to round out my skills, and because the hiring company was a large, stable brand. All said I've done well in the role, and have been with the company for nearly two years now. My original manager left the job a few months ago, and is now trying to headhunt me. Herein lies my dilemma.<p>I've wanted to get back into development for a while and was planning on making the move during the next few months. User experience is important to me, but I miss the satisfaction of solving technical problems, getting my hands dirty, and creating things. I started keeping a side project, a roguelike game, which I work on now and then. Unfortunately I haven't had the time to flesh it into an actual game, it's more of a line-of-sight demo right now.<p>The headhunt offer has come with a significant promotion into management, and a generous paycheck to match. Of course accepting this will likely leave me even less time to work on side projects. I think my concern stems from the six-months-to-a-year commitment of getting a new job. I would really rather not join only to burn bridges by leaving, but if the job proves unenjoyable, six-months-to-a-year is a rather long time.<p>So here is my question, in my shoes, would you continue in an area of work that is very well paid, but you do not particularly enjoy? Or try and hunt down a job doing what you enjoy at a place you'd actually like to work at, even lacking experience?
I'm using LibGDX for writing games (although you could of course write other apps). They have fairly recently added RoboVM support for compiling to ios and it's amazing.

I literally loaded up my code in Eclipse on a Mac, right-clicked and ran, and there way my game, running on the iphone emulator...

Pretty impressive, especially for free.
HTC's first smartwatch will be based on Qualcomm's Toq, also a Google Now watch
Pro-Russian snipers shooting medics as well.
If you are talking about Pizza, yes, If you are talking about headaches, no.
Vienna again named world's most liveable city
Sad news indeed.

I would say it is appropriate for any of you who have had the pleasure of knowing Jim to add some information to his Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich for those of us who didn't meet him.