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I wouldn't be so quick to discount this move. It could be a classic Microsoft embrace/extend/extinguish move. They lost the first round on mobile phone platforms, but this would allow them to very quickly create a platform that has developer support - after all, porting your apps from standard Android to an AOSP fork is easier than than porting it to Windows Phone. Especially as Microsoft/Nokia is pretty much the only organisation on the planet at the moment apart from Google and Apple that is capable of offering all of the same services that stock Android provides, making porting even easier for app developers.

The latest Android look and feel is not so different from Windows Phone either, once you actually get into the app. You could imagine a "Windows Phone" homescreen skin with Android Apps behind it, and it would be really quite a decent merger of the two environments, graphically speaking.

If they throw a bit of money around to encourage developers to undertake the (hopefully) relatively simple task of porting from stock Android, it's not impossible that they manage to get a pretty decent App Store together, which would solve the app problem for the otherwise fantastic Nokia hardware that they have been making these last few years.

Anyway, there's a lot of conditionals in the stuff that I've just written, none of it may come to pass, I'm just saying that it would be unwise to dismiss this effort without at least waiting a bit to see how it pans out.
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Most iOS users have not gotten the update notification yet. And many of those who have are waiting to apply the update since it requires a reboot. In addition, the update is only available for iOS 7.0.5 except for the 3GS and its iPod Touch equivalent. There is still a substantial number of iOS users on iOS 6 – usually not by incident …
It's not really anything like putting cash in your mattress. With Bitcoin, you can even store it in your brain, not to mention any place where you can store a piece of paper or a string of digits.

You can even trust a regular bank, by putting the key in their safe. And if it's encrypted, you don't even need to trust them to not abuse it.

And using something like ssss[1], you could also store it in a lot of places at once, without any single one having enough info to use your coins.

[1] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
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"We'll double your first payment"?!

They'll charge me twice?
Why make contact-less keys more complex? OK - possible saving for the hotel in lost fobs/magnetic cards/BLE transponders/what have you - but only for guests with the right kit who are actively prepared to install an app.

Just looks like a silly idea to me.
But you don't need to keep it in a cloud provider, you can keep it on your computer.
Have the Requests for Startups produced many good applications/startups? Any insights on identifying problems for startups to work on?
Nokia is actually discouraging devs from using Windows Phone design patterns and encouraging Android design guidelines on the Nokia X.

http://developer.nokia.com/resources/library/nokia-x-ui/ux-c...
Taking only this episode into account, you're absolutely right.

I was commenting on net neutrality issues and that was obviously not related here.
"BrainHouse is a mix of coworking space, accelerator and secret society."

Secret society? I think they've failed the 'no bullshit' claim at the first sentence.
Didn't other BitCoin excahnges suffer the same problem with "losing transactions"?
That's not how signing works. Also, if the signing is indeed implemented correctly, then the updater cannot have been compromised earlier.
Wow, the North is much cheaper than the Midlands and the South! My sister lives up North and housing is much cheaper than the Worcester area where I live.
It is, but you have to be careful not to overdo it.

Also, I wasn't only advocating printing money by the state. I was also suggesting we stop banks from printing money as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-reserve_banking Monetary policy is too important to let private special interests control it.

Also, the current way of dealing with money, even for a state, is to think in terms of budget, deficits… while it should instead think in terms of money supply. The state would then increase the money supply through various spending, and decrease through taxes. Deficit would be zero by definition. Only inflation would remain. (My guess: inflation should probably be kept between 3% and 10% per year. It should definitely not be null.)

Monetary policy influences all other policies, because you do need a budget to do anything. (A budget in resources and manpower, but money is too convenient to do away with.)

My point is, money is too important to let a few powerful, not-even-elected entities control it.
"How often do you floss." "Ten times a day." "That's curious, because your gums started bleeding like a Tarantino movie when my hygienist waved the box of floss in your general direction."

Awesomly put... and funny as hell too.
They were also focussed on trashing a church. What lovely protestors they were.

They achieved nothing, apart from being a nuisance.
If you're not a network operator, you probably should not be guessing how the internet works. I do enjoy some of the speculation (mostly because its ridiculous) but in general it really doesn't help to guess.
I don't think so; as it may due to some technical issues.
That looks like quite a list of breaking changes (although I don't know how much real code is affected). I guess that's good in the sense of being willing to fix things.

Does the Rust community have a gofix-like tool to keep up with this?
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It's the Guardian. Its heavily biased reporting, warped to fit in with their agenda.
Poignant and well phrased.
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I disagree, network effects are incredibly strong. Since Telegram is only capable of talking to other Telegram apps, its value increases not only in proportion to the number of contacts who have it installed, but also how often you need to communicate with those people.
Hmm... is the removal of std::to_bytes something that's been pending for a while?

The commit (https://github.com/mozilla/rust/commit/efaf4db24c92e119e26dc...) is recent and it breaks a bunch of libraries (eg rust-sdl2).

Feels like it deserves a mention.
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> They are directionally correct, and with most A/B tests even if 95% confidence is really a true confidence of 90% or less, the business will still do better implementing the variation (v/s not doing anything).

What? That's not right at all! A confidence measure is how much you can trust that there's actually a difference. You can't say it'll improve things if your confidence is lower than your original threshold!

In addition to this, every time you change something you:

1) Might introduce bugs

2) Spend money

3) Spend time you could be spending adding a new feature or getting a new customer
512MB ram? My year old android handset has 1GB and is slow as all hell. It hangs, reboots itself, shows weird errors ("Activity Phone is not responding" when somebody is calling) and takes 30 seconds to open firefox. I don't know what Nokia is thinking.
The Nokia/Microsoft deal hasn't completely gone through yet. Until it does, Microsoft is not legally allowed to have any say in Nokia's product decisions
Design patterns for one platform make sense that they are downplayed where they don't fit.

Me ego was downplayed as WP came along, part of the game.

That said, this seems like an evolution of the saga low end line rather than the high end devices... Simply look at the cameras.
tldr; I'm going to allow double <enter>, and I'm going to add a [+] to the top-left of every block but that's not done yet and in the meantime you'll have to edit the XML ('view source') to make those kind of changes.

Long answer: Currently hitting <enter> clones the current block element but when there are block elements within block elements (such as chapter > para) there's no way to know what <enter> should mean. Other software (some wordprocessors) use double <enter> to step up a level, and I guess I'll support that. For UI reasons though I think that I'll also add a [+] button to the top-left of block elements (above the vertical label, above the nodeName). And I should also support pasting XML more (it kind of works right now but it needs more work).

I'll be a bit busy for the next week on a live split-view of the XML, but after that I'll work on cloning nesting block elements. I'll say when it's done on @hollowaynz -- cheers :)
I don't understand how that works. I had $1000 in my account, say, and it was worth 1 BTC. Now it's worth 10. Isn't that much more expensive for Gox to return?
Did you ever play X-Wing or Tie Fighter? Tie Fighter was an incredible game. You could spend days in the training simulator.

X-Wing Alliance was also exceptionally good, including Em-Kay shouting "Check your mail!" and "There's no point even TRYING any more!"
It took the video game industry nearly a decade for most games to come out with network code as effective as X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter's and QuakeWorld's at hiding latency, packet loss, and bandwidth limits. Even recently, many fighting and RTS's games struggle on poor connections.

Until I played Killer Instinct, the only decent fighting games that I've run across have been based on the GGPO. Judging from my own and others experience, KI's network code is this generation's equivalent of QuakeWorld. I hope the developers of KI publish a paper like this one, detailing their technique.
Lots of comments & speculations but no good explanation of - Why?
Correct on the math, to the limit of my understanding of it and quick glance.

I am agnostic about whether most A/B testing practitioners administer their tests correctly -- of the universe of companies I've seen, far and away the most common error regarding A/B testing is "We don't A/B test.", which remains an error even after you read this article.

The novelty effect they talk about, which the article says is probably simple reversion to the mean, is -- in my opinion -- likely a true observation of the state of the world. You can watch your conversion-rate-over-time for many offers, many designs, many products, etc, and they often start out quite high and taper off, both in circumstances where there is obvious alternate causality and in circumstances where they isn't. By comparison, I have not often participated in tests where conversion rates started out abnormally low and reverted to the mean, which we'd expect exactly as often as "started out high" if that was indeed what we were seeing.

I believe so strongly in the novelty effect that I have written proposals to profitably exploit it by scalably manufacturing novelty. Sadly, none of them are public. It's on my to-do list for one of these months but a lot of things are on my to-do list for one of these months.

If you run many tests, which as time approaches infinity you darn better, your odds of seeing a false positive approach one. Contra the article, you gladly accept this as a cost of doing business, because you know to a statistical certainty that you've seen many, many more true positives.

That about sums it up. If you have any particular questions, happy to answer them. My takeaway is "Good article. Please don't use it to justify a decision to not test."
I'm in a similar situation. I got into writing code because the things I thought were cool required writing code to have; websites, irc bots, web apps, etc.

I have been learning new things about code (and in the process software engineering) for about 10 years and I find it more exciting than ever. I do have a a lot of boring tasks to complete but I often play around with them a bit, finding new ways to do an age old task and then it's cool again.

On a related note, I see qualified people my age working jobs they don't really enjoy for peanuts and it really sucks. I consider my self very lucky for having a full-time hobby that is rewarding and can pay the bills.
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It's between the lines.
Microsoft has been known to do a lot of things that they aren't legally allowed. In this case, I doubt they would not interfere if they didn't want to.
> These boats are rare. I mean really rare. This is not the norm. The boats and the moorings are damn expensive so this doesn't make sense even for the landlords. Even crappy moorings cost.

My Girlfriend lives on a house boat in battersea and its beautiful and bigger than most flats we have looked at. The moorings are crazy expensive though hers is a bout 650 per month of sunk cost - then obviously plus the cost of the boat and cost of oil to heat it (no gas to central heat).

I feel sorry for this guy but as someone points out, there is council accommodation exactly for this reason (wage =/= rent).
MaidSafe, the New Decentralized Internet
What is the status of your PostmanLib? Can I use it in production?
Single page version - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_su...
I use nas4free + samba/CIFS daily, works like a charm. On each client (mobile, PC) I have an application that performs regular backups. In terms of alternatives, there's also OwnCloud that can be deployed in-house.

How does ClearSkies compare to existing private cloud solutions?
under the assumption that week-week changes in normalized stats would be swamped by my tests

This is an enormously problematic assumption, which you can verify by either looking at the week-to-week stats for a period prior to you joining the company, or (for a far more fun demonstration) doing historical testing of the brand of toothpaste you use for the next 6 weeks. Swap from Colgate to $NAME_ANOTHER_BRAND, note the improvement, conclude that website visitors pay an awful lot of attention to the webmaster's toothpaste choices.
Spell interruption in warcraft?
Also first youtube video for 'guild wars 2 pvp' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KR...

Looks like real time to me.
Why call it X when they could call it X11?
What are the chances of a third world war?
For the purpose of comparison, we have the same issue in France, although we do not have Netflix there. ISPs are slowing down Google services / Cogent / … and asking them to pay[1]. One went so far as to remove Youtube ads on-the-fly without telling (let alone asking) the consumers beforehand. And slowly, not limiting bandwidth becomes an argument for the customer to pay more, as well[2].

They are looking for a target to increase their revenue. Given the targets they pick, I'd say they're mostly driven by envy.

[1]: http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2012/09/20/free-a...

[2]: http://imgur.com/aHxjUOz
so how would you have solved it? your explanation here is pretty unsatisfying since they did use TCP, and it didn't work.
I worked in a large, supposedly ground breaking digital agency where we had a game manufacturer as client. The client were keen on agile and continuos prototyping / mockups. Sadly the designers (pardon, 'creatives') and ux didn't want to know, the were too set in their ways and couldn't get out of the old workflow: work Photoshop / OmniGraffle; refine until perfect; pass on to developer. Eventually the client got pissed off and we lost them. The visual people just couldn't get their head around not having complete perfection at each step of the way. Shame, because it was a great project.
And if you don't find yourself having a preferred outcome, it means the choices are more-less equal, so coin flip will still save you time.
Is learning VIM worth the effort?
Filtering for <£60, there are still a few rooms in that site, some of which are "no deposit"; e.g. http://www.gumtree.com/p/flats-houses/very-cheap-short-term-...

I wouldn't enjoy living there, but it seems better than the boat.
The 'no central bank' concept in bitcoin is interesting academically to economists and people with strong opinions on the matter. IMO, it's not the most important part of bitcoin for countries like Zimbabwe or other developing economies.

(1)Bitcoin is a long way from being a steady, safe currency that solves currency instability problems. (2) I don't think it's all that different from simply using foreign currency, which is what people in countries with a failing currency do.

IMO what is interesting about bitcoin and bitcoin in developing countries in particular are its basic advantages: digital, transaction cost free cash. This may open up the door to all kinds of activities held back by the non access to financial services. Remittances, long distance commerce, saving, etc. Remember the splash microlending made? A lot of later studies (after the initial noble prizes and mass interest) found that micro-loans acted as (poor) substitutes for other basic financial services like savings or insurance. It's hard to save when everyone in your tight knit extended family is broke and owed favors. You just can't keep your penny jar tucked away. But, paying back your loan is not optional so microloans are the only way of doing big ticket purchases, even if interest rates are very high.

Financial infrastructure is important. If bitcoin (or similar) can be used to build low cost financial services available everywhere it will have made a big difference. The hyperinflation stuff is very theoretical for the near future and uncertain in the farther off future.

Links on this page are a good reference for the academic thoughts on microfinance and financial services as development tools during the recent 3-4 surge in interest on the topic:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/munger_on_micro.htm...

*Even though there doesn't tend to be a lot of talk about savings as a way out of poverty, I think that thinking back on many of the old anecdotes from now developed economies, those people credited savings as a way of making progress on their family's financial situation.
So, you're sitting in a car driving 100mph towards a wall. The car's safety system warns you, saying 'collision ahead, break NOW'. You're thinking "hey, no problem, no car since 1880 has driven into this wall, it must be a hallucination - I'm keeping my foot down baby".

Analogies used here:

The car - Energy policies

The safety system - Climate models

The warning - Result of these models

You driving into a wall - Laymen's opinions about why these models don't apply.

To put it differently:

1) There's a time delay of several decades between putting out the CO2 and temperature rise. What we're feeling now is the effects of energy policies in the 60ies and 70ies.

2) Since the 70ies our CO2 output has risen considerably, mainly due to emerging markets.

3) Most of this 0.8 degree warming you're talking about has occurred in the last 30 years.

Well - would you bet on the wall being an illusion, or would you rather brake just in case?
Ask HN:  Why would MtGox delete all their tweets if things are going to be okay?
I'm trying to think of reasons why they would delete their tweets under the assumption that everything will be fine. Why would they do it, knowing that they'll eventually re-enable withdraws? I'm looking for the most convincing argument. Because if the most convincing argument isn't very convincing, then I'm going to sell my goxcoins on bitcoinbuilder.
Honest or not, starting a startup for the sake of making money (whether that money will fund a more altruistic "end-goal" or not) is probably not the right reason to build a company.

Making money was exactly pg's reason for starting Viaweb. YC wouldn't be so hypocritical as to deny someone for advertising that as their reason, when YC itself wouldn't exist if its founder hadn't started a startup for the purpose of getting rich.
Let's bring this down to earth. You're confusing transit and peering connections.

Netflix pays level3 for transit service (you pay your brother). Comcast pays level3 (your brother) for transit service. Notice how level3 is neither the source nor the destination of the traffic.

Netflix's traffic increases from, for example, 500Gbps to 1Tbps. Comcast's level3 ports fill up because netflix increased in popularity.

In general networks that pass a lot of traffic like this end up peering directly and avoiding transit costs.

Comcast has two choices. They can either pay level3 for another 500Gbps or they can transition the full 1Tbps to free peering directly with netflix. And yes, I consider it Comcast's responsibility to do one of those two things with their subscriber revenue, which, incidentally, most other ISPs in the US are doing.

Instead they are choosing option 3 which is, leverage their local access monopoly to force netflix to pay them, and protect their cable and xfinity services.
The updater verifies the signature using the public counterpart to Apple's current private key. It can only be changed by updating the updater (or a separate keys-only package), with the correct signature.

Or at least that's how it's supposed to work.
Office has a huge amount of legacy. I get that porting it to iOS had to be done. Microsoft provides Office for the Mac desktop. But porting to Android is a whole other story. Porting it to Android validates Android as a platform like nothing else. It'd be equivalent to Oracle releasing their DB server for Linux way back in the day, it gave the platform instant enterprise-cred whereas before it really only had hacker-cred and FOSS evangelist support despite the knowledge that IBM was spending a whole bunch of money on it internally.

You're right that Nokia has a track record of supporting and developing across multiple OSs but how has this turned out for them in the long run?

Samsung are right to keep their options open but I think they should go the Amazon/Nokia route and differentiate on top of Android. Having said that Samsung is probably more than large enough and has a large enough R&D budget to pursue multiple strategies.

It's really hard to see how this plays out. I thought we'd never ever see the day when Microsoft developed for Linux or Android unless as a bridge to their own world. I thought past history, pride, lack of trust, wrong momentum, or whatever would stymie them from making the transition. If I were a beige box manufacturer I would be extremely concerned that the Microsoft may move on from phones and tablets to laptops or even PCs, now that hell has frozen over you never know what they might do.
The old Unix ways are dying...

Or, at least, I think that's the best way to summarize the essential miscommunication between these two camps. Vim is, in the spirit of Unix, a single purpose tool: it edits text. Why would it need threading? async? background jobs? You can't type in two places at once, right?

NeoVim wants to be something like an IDE-lite. Text editing, yes, but with the ability to do background compilation/syntax checking, a bit of debugging here, some REPL-ish things there. For that you need a better async story, better process control, etc.

So, in the end, I don't actually see a problem here. Vim will cater to one audience, NeoVim to another. For my money (or donation to Uganda), I'm happy using tmux splits, sending text between vim windows and REPL windows, and keeping Vim primarily as a text editor with syntax highlighting. I would appreciate if some events could be backgrounded (e.g. syntax check on file save), but I don't think this needs a complete refactor.
Another, non-paywalled, link is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/comcast-and...
They have no option here - using Google's app store comes with severe attachments that Microsoft is not likely to accept.

My guess is that they are aiming at lower end of market where the price is important, and betting on developers to port their apps. Which could actually happen if porting is not a big issue.

OTOH, Google is putting more and more stuff in closed source part of OS, so the platforms will inevitably diverge. It might be a bit late for Nokia to do this... we'll see.