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I think "lower salaries == more people employed" is an overly simplified model economists teach us to justify dropping wages.

Imho lower salaries doesn't create more jobs it just creates more desperate people willing to work for lower salaries because of its downward loop.

I know this opinion is not popular in the states. But this has nothing to do with socialism. Socialism is about common ownership, common management. Minimum salaries is about raising the middle class.
It's difficult to empirically measure any theory if you come into it burdenen with ideology.
We mainly use GF(2^m) in embedded systems for error correction (FEC, Scrambling, etc.).
I think I might actually be both of those.
That would be true, if the spy can transfer all the results of the team, and doesn't need any supporting infrastructure or agents...
Agree.

Welfare is basic an implicit minimum wage.

Also i personally believe that markets can only regulate themselves if all players start with the same conditions. Which they do more likely in sweden as they do in the states (eg. education, healthcare, middle class, etc)
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And the Native Americans arrived thousands of years earlier. But it's kinda irrelevant to the question of why European map makers didn't have the Americas on their globes until post-1493.
>As it turned out, I decided to use node.js on Linux on EC2 instead, as I know that works fine.

Deploying node.js using Linux (or OS X) is actually pretty convenient using Azure Websites. Even though Azure Websites is limited to 10 instances, but until you get 10 instances busy with node.js.....

However I agree, the documentation is horrible. When working with the node drivers for Azure Storage Tables, most of the time I use the source code as doc, fortunately it's well commented.
> Vert.x enables many JVM languages to program it. Perhaps the real problem's with the language you've chosen. Groovy's business purpose is to ensure jobs (i.e. consulting contracts and conference seat sales) for life for its promoters at SpringSource. Choose a language with another mission and that could make all the difference.

The framework and the language are both problems in my opinion. If it was up to me I would have chosen a different framework, messaging system, language, and more. Wasn't my decision to make though.
Yes, copylefted software is "tyrannical" to you because it prevents you from using the software to build proprietary software, your powers reading comprehension astound me.
It is an honest question, and that's also the most controversial point. The initiants ask for a min wage of (raw) 4000 CHF per month which is approximately 3000 CHF net of taxes. Why this number ? People pretend that's what one need to live well. The reality is more complicated than that, as you may guess, the cost of living really depends on the region and on the industry sector. That's why opposants want to solve this problem with per industry sector conventions (ie: there is already a minim wage in the watch industry) rather than with a global try-fix-it-all law.
I'd cross both vim and screen off that list. I know Debian doesn't come with vim installed by default, and uses nano as it's editor. Sure it's trivial to install, and many admins install it the first thing they do, but it's not there by default.
Pet peeve: 120 hours a week is 17 hours a day, leaving 7 hours for sleep assuming literally nothing else is done. While those kind of numbers are often used to sum up the lifestyle of "wake up at 6, get to work at 7, get breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks with work, get home at 10, go to sleep, repeat," even that ridiculous schedule puts you at 15 hours a day, or 105 hours a week, assuming you treat weekends the same as weekdays. To hit 120 hours a week, you'd have to be arriving at work at 5 and leaving at 10 every day (or 7 and 12, etc.), and that counts all meals and breaks as work hours. No one I've ever met works that many hours (and I went to college with a lot of bankers). There may be the occasional day like that, or the odd week where you push 120 hours (but primarily based on one or two all nighters), but no one regularly spends 71% of their total week working, unless you count any non-leisure as work. It's simply not possible.
Brentwood - Here comes a surge in UCLA applications.
Could you post a link to your plugin?
If there's nothing wrong with it, then why the AGPL?

Pretty much every time someone figures out how to make money with GPL software they create a new license that makes that impossible.
By [1] To turn it on add 'altscreen on' to
~/.screenrc

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNU_Screen
I believe the GNAT-FSF Ada compiler included as part of GCC (as distinct from the GNAT-GPL compiler that can be downloaded directly from AdaCore) can be used to create non-GPL software, see -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT#License
You're most welcome.

> try writing anything in Node.js without a callback!

I wouldn't even try writing anything in Node. Server side javascript is not an option I would consider. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg

Hazelcast on it's own is pretty useful if you need a distributed data grid in Java although it's not without its quirks. Unfortunately it's much less useful in Vertx because of the classloaders.

Callbacks as an antipattern is one of the main points of this HN post.
Paying people more means they'll have more money to spend which can create more jobs. There is no clear cut answer here. Anyone who claims they can predict exactly what will happen with any change to the minimum wage is either a liar or a fool.
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None of the terminology or mathematics used seems to be specific to integer groups to my limited understanding. Could you explain why this has nothing to do with elliptic curve groups?
Wrong Brentwood.
Often, the word 'cheap' carries a negative connotation. Talking specifically about Moto G & Moto E, I'd say they are phones that are priced correctly. Before we start talking about lack of features or compromises, just look at how much they charge for incremental memory. Just $20 for 8GB extra. Smartphones makers are slowly accepting commodity pricing and I hope they realize that skinning Android isn't always a value add.

Cool new features like fingerprint reader sure catch the fancy of those waiting to upgrade their phone. But expecting to price the phone at more than twice what they are worth when you add an evolutionary feature may not work for too long. The difference in build quality between Android & iOS phones is way smaller than Windows & Mac laptops.
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Maybe Google's incredibly irresponsible response hints at their general strategy regarding authentication on the internet: they are already pushing for the replacement passwords.
I'm quoting: "[Google plans] to release an ultra-secure and easy to use identity verification platform that eliminates the need for long, user-generated passwords. Dubbed U2F (Universal 2nd Factor), the consumer-facing side of this initiative will be a USB dongle called the YubiKey Neo. Built to Google’s specifications by security specialist Yubico, the YubiKey Neo is a small, durable and driverless device that requires no battery. Plugged into your computer’s USB port it will add a second, highly secure layer of verification when you point Google’s Chrome browser to your Gmail or Google Docs account. You’ll initiate the login by typing your username and a simple PIN. The browser will then communicate directly with the YubiKey Neo, using encrypted data, to authorize account access. With U2F verification, if someone wanted to login surreptitiously to your account, he or she would need to know your username and PIN while simultaneously having physical possession of that specific YubiKey Neo."

Furthermore, they had Regina Dugan, former DARPA director and now their VP of Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects, on stage at All Things Digital in 2013 talking about electric tattoos and edible passwords which would turn your whole body into an authentication token with a 18bit ESG light signal. (Link to talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzB1EcocAF8).

So maybe they just don't care because they won't use 2-factor-authentication for much longer anyway.
I'm mostly wondering if there could be a business case (or hobby project) to make medium volumes of non custom rad hard chips for cost constrained aerospace projects.
My problem is that banning cellphones and blocking cell signals is common in secure spaces, so cell based 2fa fails there, too.
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Android 4.4's low memory mode really isn't.
I'm running Android 2.3 on a 256mb system comfortably and on a 128mb system with some minor hacks. 4.4's "low memory" mode still wants 512MB.

While you won't see many new 256 or even 128mb systems out there anymore, 2.3 provides more usable memory to applications on an (otherwise) identical configuration.
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Not my data or article but for those who want to poke around with it http://langpop.corger.nl/formatted_data is the relevant URL.
I agree with what you are implying, maybe it just came across as negative to whoever downvoted this. For devices that you upgrade every year or two, $130 (free with subsidy) is a good price. It feels cheap because Apple etc. have set the bar too high (on pricing).
I have a Nexus 4 and my next phone is also probably going to be an Android phone but my shopping list now comes down to how well it takes a photo (N4 is horrible) and if it gets reasonable OS updates.

I can now get this for around £100.
FBI had a camera installed above the dining-room table. They might have seen him typing the password.

Snowden is more professional: he puts a blanket over his head and computer when typing a password.
Also notice the URL "/apple-and-samsung-agree-to-drop-all-lawsuits-against-each-other-2014-5".

Quotes from one of the commenters on the article:

> Did you just change your title from Samsung to Google?

> that's a big mistake if you cannot tell Motorola Mobility from Samsung!!!
I sincerely hope more companies will follow in Google's footsteps with cheap prices for fast internet. As much as I love what Google does with its innovations, the more competition the better.
So? Even if that were true, it's irrelevant to the above poster's counterpoint to the previous poster's statement.
Or in my original example, have them enter in the # of computers it's going to apply to.
Random idea: this could probably be embedded quite easily into the Erlang VM. You'd then be able to spawn() "a Vedis keyspace" as easily (and scalably) as you can currently spawn an ETS table. Might be useful in place of both Mnesia and network-connected Redis.
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To be honest I do not understand why this made it to the HN top posts when there are already other more complete APIs out there such as the Biteasy.com API. Good domain name though. Maybe that's why it made it up here?
That will be a problem where USB ports are disabled (which is increasingly becoming a standard security practice). E.g. my workplace has separate PCs for accessing Gmail etc. but those still have USB ports disabled.
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The attrition rate is due to the lack of cost involved in opting out if you find yourself unable to keep up with the course / too many courses. Being able to try and see if you can do a course (despite the other commitments in your life) is actually very attractive because most people cannot assess their goals or time budget that accurately.

From the MOOCs' point of view, this is a worthwhile feature because while it does increase the false positive rate tremendously, it also increases the true positive rate : more people sign up for the course because the barrier to entry is low and end up completing it.

Also, it does a wonderful job of introducing a new product to the market : I do not know a single friend in my circle who has not tried out Coursera. And guess what, I would happily pay up if they charge a reasonable fees in the future!
The point of redis is having external, shared, persistable memory. Redis abstracts away the problem of getting atomic updates to various data structures safely and asynchronously written to disk under continuous write-heavy workloads. Vedis abstracts away that same problem for process-local data.
Am I missing something or the fact that once gmail password is compromised, the attacker could easily change the phone no. or set it to use Google Authenticator? Further steps regarding voicemail etc. will be moot after that.
I was surprised to see how highly-ranked some of the languages were (like Fortran and R) that I had previously discounted as mostly abandoned in the "github crowd".

Obviously Fortran is used a lot in HPC and numerical routines, but I always figured those were closed-source and rarely updated, with development focusing on their wrappers.
The farmers are well protected in Switzerland, while the chocolate making is highly automated.

What the higher minimum wage will do is push either for automating or exporting lower wage tasks, which will reduce immigration (since those jobs are not really done by swiss citizens anyways), and there are surprisingly a lot of xenophobic people in Switzerland that are OK with this.
They released the GPL version last tuesday: http://libre.adacore.com/download/configurations
Spoofing could re enable it too I guess?
Believe Google already uses YubiKeys for authentication internally - certainly some of the Google staffers I know have them for authentication
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My last phone was my first smartphone. It cost $80 and ran Android 4.0 very poorly with pauses and crashes.

My current one runs Android 4.1 and cost $60. It runs smoothly enough that I have no pressing reason to upgrade in the near future; but when I do I expect to get even more for less.

These are both Virgin Mobile pre-paid phones.
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It's a bit worrying that they should have to bet on the Tesla S gimmick to give the project some traction. Are there no other ways to attract the people of Las Vegas to a modern transportation system ?
You need to login to change the settings. If 2 factor authentication is enabled only a password isn't enough to login. That is exactly what 2FA means.
There are social, cultural and infrastructural factors which you completely trivialize by neglecting to mention them. In Thailand, for example, working-class people do often live with others in small spaces, but either they are strangers in factory dorms or they are extended family members in small apartments.

The crucial role of the extended family may be the hardest for modern Westerners to appreciate. It is not our feel-good notion of family. My brother in law has spent the last 15 years continuously working out of country as a truck driver in Singapore, living in a ramshackle shelter on construction sites while sending most of his earnings back to his wife and kids. This is a somewhat extreme case, but milder instances are commonplace. People often have to work away from their families for years at a time to make ends meet and accrue any sort of savings.

Then there is transportation. Every day you will see mothers on scooters carrying several toddlers who are certain to die in even minor accidents. Another common sight and a less egregious example would be pickup trucks with the backs piled full of day laborers, or commuters casually hanging off the back of high-speed songthaew busses. This is highly efficient in monetary terms, but the human cost is huge.

It's a complex issue that is not reducible to PPP numbers.
Can those services that require interaction be tricked by hacking the voicemail and recording a message with touch tones in them? Fortunately, most that require # also use it in voicemail greeting recording to end the recording, but the example, there are some that require any key, which probably is vulnerable.
Well JavaScript works fine in Mobile Safari, not so much on WebViews.

Apple is playing security card here by no enabling JIT compiler. The reality is probably a bit different. They could have solved the issue long time ago, but I guess for now it's just better (for them) to continue building Objective-C developer community. In some sense they are sustaining higher app quality by... making it worse.
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Personally, since i do a lot of typos, i'd find it rather distracting that i can't go back and fix something even though i know it's wrong. I suppose the idea is to let go of all of that and just spew out words without breaking your flow, and i know going back to correct a typo does break flow, but it's something i think i'd have to train myself to do.
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asana? https://asana.com/
Yes, they mention it on their landing page that the purposely disabled those to make you focus on just putting words on paper. They don't want you breaking your flow to correct a typo
I've lived in North America, South America and Asia. In my experience, these observations span at least those three places I've lived in. The behavior of men in the workplace in Asia and to a lesser degree South America is worse than the major counterparts in the US, but only because those societies are more patriarchal and that behavior is not as frowned upon.

After far as the workplace behavior of women, I've found that it's approximately the same, but perhaps more muted in Asian cultures.

Again, all anecdotal here. So take it with a grain of salt. What has been your experience?
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Microsoft and other services don't use 2FA for all services. I'm sure this can also be exploited to log into vulnerable service without 2FA and then being logged, change the password.

My favorite is services that use secret challenge responses to reset passwords. Some of those "secret" questions are colors, car makes, etc., which narrows down the choices to just a few.

It's unfortunate that many idiots carry the title of "software engineer" when they completely hack basic analytical thinking and basic math skills to prevent such exploits!
Google "market failure", little Randroid.
Why do they need so many different trackers? Do each of the ads use their own tracking mechanism?
Exactly.

What this is likely to do is to displace immigrants working illegally with citizens working legally.

Imagine what would happen to California unemployment if all the agribusinesses suddenly had to pay a real minimum wage. Illegal immigration would get almost completely displaced with actual citizens willing to do the work now that there was a reasonable wage behind it.
I was using the CodeAcademy courses, they are equally good. Although I have looked into only the first few lessons on learn-angular.
As an app developer I can tell you that the problem is that these people don't spend money (on software). So even though there are now many more android users than iOS ones (world wide) it's still not a very lucrative market.
How can you pay for incoming SMS?
As sibling comments say, there is no way that America can attempt to occupy any sort of moral high ground on human rights given the events of the last decade. Where have you been?
The two of them did a song called Under Pressure.
I might take a look at this, have not yet looked into Angular.

It is a little disappointing to disable javascript and refresh the page at www.learn-angular.org, it's just a blank page. As much as I'm a javascript fan, and have made single page apps, a completely blank page without JS just feels wrong. I'm guessing this isn't the fault of Angular.. or is it?
A variety of household/family coping strategies, some anomic, and typically utilised together:

1. doing without
2. extended family help,
3. multiple low-paying jobs among family members,
4. subsistence agriculture,
5. family splitting, including emigration
6. informal economy,
7. corruption ('blat' in Russian). Core public services and government jobs pay poorly. But its also institutionalised in INGO's even though they pay very well comparatively.
8. crime.

Numbers 1-4 are classed by the troika as an 'informal welfare acheme.'
Third comment on this post, but anyway. Why are 2FA providers still using SMS and not USSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Serv...)?
The problem is that taxing entrants into the cable market creates a very high barrier to entry. The tax is not being levied directly on voters, but indirectly, by creating a monopoly that provides poor service, when they could instead have competition providing great service.
A slight nitpick: BT was privatised in 1984 - what they did get was a strong regulator in the form of Oftel (now Ofcom) - it was Oftel who made BT offer Local Loop Unbundling (in general policy in 1999 and specifically as part of BT's license in 2000):

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/oftel/publications/br...
Absolutely essential reading on the topic of the rise and fall of any online community (or groupware).

http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem...
I hope so, too, because I'd worry about what a Google in Comcast's position would do. Google isn't the net neutrality champion it was a decade ago. They are still in the group that promotes net neutrality right now, but I don't think they're trying too hard. Even AOL [1] seems to outspend them on pro-net neutrality lobbying (AOL!). Google must be quite worried about FCC reclassifying Internet providers are common carriers, too, and they probably don't want that either, otherwise they'd outright push for it.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/16/5724952/companies-that-hat...
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nginx gained on 'active sites' and the 'top million sites' metrics. They have an interesting way of determining active sites: http://www.netcraft.com/active-sites/
Roaming, or USA.
As far as I'm aware Microsoft (and presumably others) will require you to generate a one-time app password if a service does not support 2FA. And to generate that password, you need to be logged in with 2FA.
I use a YubiKey NEO which has the ability to store multiple TOTP tokens on it. You have to arse around with it first and install a jar to the token to give it that capability (I remember it's all official from YubiKey, they just don't ship the keys with that capability).

Then, I simply NFC it to my Android phone, and the YubiKey neo app shows the 2FA tokens for all the secrets on that key. You can also password encrypt the key, so that someone can't just steal the key off you.

Adding new secrets is also easy, I just scan the QR with the app, touch the key to the phone, give it a name and it's added.

I've got around 12 TOTP secrets on there, works very well.
I feel that these popularity indices are pretty flawed and most often used as arguments under a confirmation bias. Defining "Popularity" is no good measure in my opinion. This graph just shows that with many lines changed many questions arise, it does not say whether people enjoy doing so.
I would be much more interested in spots like "Logos" in the bottom right - 160 Mio Lines changed, only 38 questions of StackOverflow. So what does that mean? Is everything about the language crystal clear? Beat that, JavaScript.

Github is a reliable source but I am not sure whether it is representative. At least it appears to be very popular with web folk. Other sources are missing such as bitbucket, especially since it allows for free of charge private repositories. Like this, the only thing this says is that github use correlates with the lines of JavaScript. Not sure whether this is a good measure for popularity. Much like a kid in kindergarten, who shows up every day and talks to everyone. Yes, his presence correlates with the presence of others, but what if he is just a jerk and nobody really likes him?