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> I am specifically not talking about the NSA

Right, and there was no reason to think I thought you were.

> As for GCHQ oversight: it'd need to be a conspiracy spanning government (all parties); judiciary; etc

Yeah, it seems unimaginable that one side of the same coin could be in cahoots with the other! If they tell us GCHQ is being carefully overseen so that it won't do anything naughty, then it must be true! Besides, they're probably only spying on those naughty terrorist foreigners - not Englishmen - so everything is alright!

It's already public knowledge that the GCHQ is saving a copy of every byte passing through England, but hey, they need to do that to fight pedophiles and terrorists, and.. racists, of course!
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It's trying to be F# except the whole part about not being functional which is why most people will not switch to F#. Instead, we rather use the language that has worked well for us but want it to have useful features that some other functional languages happen to have.
Can you suggest an alternative business model for websites?

Companies will tend to abandon the ad revenue business model as soon as a superior (and just as widely applicable) model comes along.
It looks a lot like being an astronaut, except instead of PhDs from MIT running the show, you have Bob from South Philly whose favorite food is a cheeseburger with donuts for a bun.
Would you expect to see the same resolution on a secondary, externally connected screen? Obviously, this design has to be able to accommodate to a wide range of screen resolutions and formats.
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Powershell has nothing to do with Command Prompt. it runs on the Windows console subsystem.
Can't decide if I want to respond to this by pointing out that it is argumentum ad populum or as an ad hominem (poisoning the well) argument.

Hmmm, after much consideration, gonna go with ad hominem.
OK, so you can stop the "no poaching" and you'll have:

--> smaller than they should be engineer wages --> higher engineer wages --> even higher engineer wages -->

...
--> absurdly high unsustainable engineer wages -->

...
--> more outsourcing --> even more outsourcing -->

...
--> massive outsourcing -->

...
...
...
--> smaller than they should be engineer wages

...I think the "evil masters" of this "no poaching" pact managed to prevent an engineers' job marked fluctuation. And you think about it, such a fluctuation would only have benefited the foreign outsourcing providers and encouraged the displacement of parts of tech industry outside US ...which imho would've have been a great thing for Europe's tech sector and maybe even for worldwide IT innovation as a whole, since lots of new pseudo-innovations start to sound more and more like "american-inbread ideas".
The player does not need to pay, but at the same time is subjected to game theory driven psychological trickery that's been developed over decades. Think of it like gambling, but more subtle, yet gambling is heavily regulated.
> more or less inconspicuously

I'm going to have to go with "far, far less" on that.
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I'd say taking away Lego occasionally and going out to a park or a river or a museum or a swimming pool or wherever else is a good thing. The point is moderation.
> Though I guess the first year of a PhD often plays this role...

In the U.S., the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships sort of do that for a bit longer (3 years). You do have to write a short proposal, but like with YC, there's not necessarily an expectation that you'll stick with the project that was in the proposal. It's just there to demonstrate that you can come up with a coherent project proposal. I actually did something completely unrelated to the original proposal, and they were fine with that. So it ends up being 3 years of guaranteed funding to do whatever you want. The funding is also tied to you, not through a faculty member, so you really can do whatever you want (e.g. if you change supervisors or even universities, the grant follows you).

At the faculty level, there are also NSF CAREER awards, which are supposed to fund promising researchers, not specific projects. However at that point it's harder to dissociate the person and the research area: is it really possible to judge only the person unbiased by which area they work in and what they've been publishing? With the graduate fellowships it's a bit easier because, like with YC, applicants often have no real track record, so you're just judging college seniors' potential to do research, not judging their existing research.
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The article mentions that Apple also put that former employees were also off limits.
That's entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter how the USB device gets its data; you could have a mainframe connected via USB OTG, and it wouldn't make one iota of a difference because USB does not have DMA.
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Or spell 'sentence'.
One thing where OSM really shines is the ability to downloaded maps for offline use. When i was travelling in South East Asia for two months i had an iPhone with an app that allowed me to download a part of any OSM map. Because every hotel had Wi-Fi access i just downloaded the parts where i was travelling and used that instead of finding a local SIM card. Even in pretty remote parts the maps were usually good, and in some cases they were even better than the Google Maps equivalent (e.g. Laos).
"The representative asked Mr. Cook if that was the case only because of government subsidies on green energy.

Mr. Cook didn't directly answer that question"

It's a shareholder meeting. Answer the question. Unless the answer is embarrassing, which, without more data, we have to assume it is.
I propose to just call them sharewares. I, for one, like to be able to try a new app or game before buying it.
"An expert is someone who's far away from home and gives advice"

-- anonymous
> some Italian relatives

Yes - my wife, and children, although the children have dual Italian-US citizenship. We live in Padova.

> or have you attempted to start a business in Italy?

Are you crazy? Do you have any idea how much that costs?

In Oregon, it costs $100 to create an LLC, the equivalent of an Srl, and you can do everything online.

It is easier these days to start a company in Italy, thanks, in some small part, to my efforts:

http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Presidenza/dettaglio.asp?d=690...

But it's still very difficult compared to most places in the US, UK or even many other European countries.

I agree with you that there are a lot of stereotypes, but Italy having awful bureaucracy and a bad judicial system is pretty much a fact.

Like I said though, the positive thing in all this is that the problems are all things that can be fixed if more people apply themselves rather than simply complaining.
I hope this movement toward community owned not-for-profit internet utilities is a trend, not just mapping but also for search and social networking. These functions are so key to the user and give so much power to whoever operates them they belong in the hands of the community. There is too much conflict of interest when in the hands of Google, Apple, Facebook or the like.
Say $2M in Valley is 10X of cost-to-company (CTC) per person. If CTC in India is say $30K then the India valuation with the same 10X should be at least $300K.

If the 10X somehow ends up at 3X, then at that point the expected payoff for a founder may be better as a technical lead or manager at the India development centre of one of the majors.

(Very different if one delivers value, of course - either for local/global market, or in terms of non-trivial technical expertise.)

So, the real value of the article may be in the statement about the $100K versus $2M per acqui-hire. It may belong to the category of wrong-method-but-right-answer, which our educational system programs us to avoid.
So how old are our nuclear missiles now?

And what happened with the massive cheating going on inside the unit that is supposed to maintain and run them?
I would argue it would be ok. There is nothing inherently wrong with apps requiring in app purchases to unlock content or pass paywall.

The point is not to label them as free, so the customers can rely on the usual meaning of the word free. And when the app is about to charge money, the customer should be clearly informed it is about to do so, even if he did not turned on "require password before purchase" option.

The problem is the deception, not the ability to buy things from inside the app.
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Colbert at least ended it in reasonable style...

part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7gGtVScrQo

part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QH4d4qNOQ

"I'm sure that under enhanced liberty you can have all the privacy that you want, just like under enhanced interrogation you can breathe all the water you want."
>>Let's put it this way: people spend more than 10,000 of their lives talking and writing (including hours spent at school), and the majority can hardly put together a good sentense.

If this wasn't a joke the irony is brilliant.

* sentence

*10,000 hours not 10,000 lives
FYI Openstreetmap started a few months before Google maps was released.
What's over is US technology exports.

It's a big world, and we are not indispensable. We will lose dominance in telecom infrastructure and services because of the NSA.
Same in France, non-profits are allowed to make profit but you can’t plan it (you’re supposed to plan that you’ll spend as much money as you receive but it doesn’t always happen) and you can’t give it to your people. (source: I run a non-profit)
Of course, you should argue with facts and numbers only to people that agree with you. If they don't agree, it's obvious that they are stupid and evil, and thus beyond arguing. They should be just called names and told to STFU. Because nothing makes your position more compelling than refusing to address legitimate concerns - like how much the company spends on certain policy.

Maybe to see if somebody is interested in statements of fact, you should first try having the statement of fact. And not just say "well, I could drown you in facts, but since you're not worth it, I'd just resort to name calling". That looks rather unconvincing to me.
I just wish C# had algebraic types. That's the only thing keeping me looking for another programming language right now. Everything else, I love. But I do a lot of runtime reflection right now that is really only necessary because C# generics are not a powerful enough type system to represent what I want succinctly.

So I might end up implementing a lot of things as F# libraries glued together by C#. I'd prefer not to have that bit of context switch there, and I've had some trouble getting the F# compiler to work with Visual Studio on all of my machines (my Windows 8 machine was fine, but my two Windows 7 setups are broken).

Okay, that's not the only thing. I really want macros. Lisp-style, not C-style. I don't care if they are "considered dangerous" to lowly corporate developers. They can pass corporate policy against their use. That should be no reason to keep them out of the hands of adults.
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Can anybody recommend a good OSM-based maps app for iOS? Currently I'm using Apple maps as it offers a great user experience. It's extremely fast, fluid and has turn-by-turn directions. Unfortunately the data is sub-par for my area.

I've tried Google Maps' latest version and it feels laggy; When I zoom in it seems to jump to an image at the end of the animation. Nobody is getting vector maps right except for Apple. I wish it could just use OSM for the data.

Bonus points if the app can download maps.
FYI on android's Google Maps I've been able to do that for at least a year and a half, and it works great for me (I used it extensively in SEA too, coincidentally). Not sure if it's available on iOS's version.
IMO one of the most useful features of FP languages is type inference. I'm not sure you can cherry-pick that.
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It seems like the conversation on HN in general oscillates back and forth about fighting fire with fire and not acknowledging there can be many ways to put out a fire...

People upset about the corporate-governmental surveillance state ever-present globally want those in power to change without changing their own collective behaviors seems to crowd out any discussion about other ideas that probably would be eaiser/more effective to implement by taking advantage of such realities and less focus on imposing crypto fantasies that go against the flow of current collective human behavior...

Here's an idea seldom mentioned here: have you thought about removing the oxygen that enables the fire to burn?
> utterly infuriating changes in the Google Maps interfaces

Anyone know what Google's plan is here? I've stopped using Google Maps on my phone for the same reason. Doesn't seem like a win for them.
For those looking to get hacking quickly on the osm data I would highly recommend osm2pgsql

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql

It sets up and imports OSM data into a postGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database. From there you can use TileMill to create whatever type of map you fancy or just access the raw data.
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What's your point?

Incidentally, what logical arguments would you recommend one use against people who have rejected science as a legitimate world view?
Can you link to a spot you find too busy?

(Not for any important reason, just for a more concrete point of reference)
Nemerle?
Type inference is not an exclusive feature of FP languages, though there is no known system that can deal well with nominal subtyping (scala makes a good go at it, but only locally).
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Why bother if someone else who knows more than you has tried? Clearly climate change scientists will have tried to convince them and if they can't what hope does the Apple CEO have?
Restore the Fourth SF participated in the protests with several other organizations.

We don't know who the other participants in BULLRUN are. We don't know if companies or standards bodies are compromised from the top down like RSA or the bottom up through subverted employees.

It was important to protest RSA because imposing a cost on RSA provides an incentive to companies to resist BULLRUN through stronger internal security and extracting a higher price for C-Level cooperation.

- RSA security tried to force some of our members off the public sidewalk. (https://restorethefourthsf.com/rsa-thinks-as-little-of-the-f...)

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There were some lovely photos of the event from the independent press.

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This is the correct answer.

People have made fun of the first steps: the undersea cable that avoids the US, for example. Yeah, yeah, we have multi-billion-dollar titanium submarines to tap that. It's not the first such cable that's significant. It's when the cables to the US don't get replaced it will start to sting.

But the real break with the US will happen when you can buy telecom infrastructure and enterprise gear that runs buildable open source software, and when Internet portals start offering secure-by-default communications products like Tox for their customers (or customers adopt such products with or without support from their service providers).
And not before she's got her mom safely out of Pakistan.
Try http://mapswith.me/
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> initially incapable

So teach them? Isn't that what the parent post was saying?
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It's incomparable. Google Maps only caches around 10km x 10km, and in offline mode search and routing doesn't work. Also, in Google Maps it's impossible to tell if/what is cached and what not.

OSM maps can be for any area, and applications do provide search, including POI search and routing.
don't tell me a about shortage if the market is manipulated
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When you take the decision, you may not have enough information to know if it's going to be good or not. But when you took the decision and still refusing to know how much it costed you and how it influenced company finances - it's just willful ignorance and unwillingness to face the facts. That is never good. For the sake of Apple shareholders I hope Cook actually knows the figures he was asked for, and refusing to publish them just as a PR move, to gain some fanboy love from bashing an unpopular target. Because if they genuinely spend money and refuse to count them, it's not good for the company.
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I like to keep a complete world map on my phone, since the only time I'm ever going to need it, is very likely to be the most important time (i.e. possibly life or death).
God Bless the EU.

They are the only ones fighting the good fight for the consumer these days. Thanks to the lack of campaign finance reform in the U.S., all our pols are on the take to those with the deepest pockets.
Looks to me like it's simply growing into a many-featured multi-paradigm language, much like Scala.
Yes. Google Maps used to make it easy to cache an area and know which areas you'd cached. It was also integrated with My Maps, which I found useful. One of their updates a while back took both of these away without warning.

For a fully featured Android map app, with many options for map sources, try Locus.
I downloaded some maps but panning / zooming results in the map flashing while it's displaying the next tile. As I said, I use Apple maps because it has a great user experience. This has the same issue Google maps has.
Engineers wouldn't price themselves so high that they would be outsourced: that only happens to people who don't have any room left to let their wages fall, either because they already earn too little to sustain themselves or there is a legal price floor (e.g., minimum wage). An engineer making $200k isn't going to starve from taking a 50% pay cut, and they'd certainly rather take that than no job at all.