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Others find valuable. Here in a country where there is no notion of voicemail, all we have is is a missed call log. And then we have to call each one up in person to inquire what they wanted to talk about if they didn't SMS me right after, which few people do.

A voicemail system would be good here. Some people may feel it unnecessary, and are welcome to not use/disable it.
Do any of the App Stores allow regional prices? E.g., I can imagine that it is attractive to charge e.g. $3.99 for a game in the EU and US, but perhaps $.50 in China and India. The scale could make up for the difference.

Besides that, I think the ad market for such regions should not be understated. Especially in emerging economies, lots of companies will be competing for mindshare, both national and international.

Also, with respect to the Apple comment of the grandparent: I think that Apple has to do something at some point. Because it's not only that there are good budget smartphones now, but you can also get excellent cutting edge smartphones around $300-400, such as the Nexus 5 and the Moto X.

An anecdote: but I was an iPhone user for 5 years, but when replacing my iPhone 4, the Nexus 4 was so much cheaper (299 Euro) than a new iPhone. And I don't feel I lost any functionality. In fact, I can do a lot of things I couldn't do before (attaching files from the e-mail app, forward notifications to desktop per PushBullet, assign different notification LED colors to different apps, etc.)
To clarify: there are no charges for incoming SMS to EU numbers, no matter where in the world your phone happens to be.
hi thanks for your answer.

I think this would have the same issue i have with Asana/Basecamp... project management but I don't really have project, I have items to move across owners
Might just be "Research Institute":

'The Institute of Deep Learning (IDL) is the first formally established research institution projected to be Baidu's “Artificial Intelligence Lab”.'

source: http://idl.baidu.com/en/IDL-about.html
It feels like he got someone who didn't understand the full implications of the issue. Or did understand but didn't understand why it would be such an issue.

It seems the bigger the company the more likely that you will get a front line response that doesn't really grasp what you are raising.
Hold on a second, so a programming language that is very verbose, and needs lots of assistance to be workable is considered popular?
Hmmm.... let passwords become unusable, and move to hardware crypto dongle? That sure sounds like a great way to remove any remaining anonymity on their services, once they tie shipping addresses to accounts.

// I like the idea of crypto dongles... when you control both sides
Tree based todo list: http://todo.yt
Windows updates are the worst. Once it decided to restart to install updates right in the middle of a dota game.

I now run linux mint on my gaming rig, so that's never a problem
Odd, I'm doing that daily at work without any issue. (tmux 1.8.x, putty, screen-256colors I believe)
These are in such low orbit that they're still within the Van Allen belts. Vibration during launch rattling something loose is the more likely culprit.
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I find Google useful enough that I'd rather break up Germany. (again)
A 14 year old girl and her pedal powered washing machine.
What are the implications for Bitcoin?
Yes!

Think of some of the things the ad networks have to do: prevent click fraud, find out if their adverts actually made it above the fold, read their cookies on your computer, report back to base that the advert has been shown, personalise the advert to you, get some affiliate marketing code and actually go to some place if you actually click on the link.

To get that advert on your page you would obviously need another tracking service to manage the sale of that ad inventory to whomever the highest bidder is, so you can double up on the tracking codes right away.

Then you would need some independent metrics on how many people read the site and what socio-economic background they have, so a third tracker from yet another company is needed.

I jest, however, it is a bit like this, and, one really good HN article that needs to be written is an actual analysis of what is really going on with these pages and what all of the tracking does.
"doesn't want to" is an awkward way to look at it.

It's more of a catch-22. If you simplify 'welfare' to "If you're not above the poverty line, you're entitled to assistance", then a job which does not bring you above the poverty line is zero-sum - you're still entitled to assistance.

An example I see here quite often, is people who can only find part-time work, and still receive assistance. It's not unusual to find people in the position where they're working <20hrs/week, but do not want to work 20<n<30 hours a week because it'll interfere with their benefits.

This is not the "don't want to work" trope - they'd take 40/hrs week in a heartbeat. But if 20hrs/week + benefits is better than 25hrs/week sans benefits, who would realistically take more work for less pay?
China is in the process of becoming a real superpower. They are making what US made last century: attracting brains.

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2014032...
If HTML5 is so great then why isn't it used for most desktop applications?
Just wondering if OP is a dota friend. Tablesaw just reminds me of Timbersaw(a hero in dota) lol
They are making money from the ecosystem of developers & content separately. Why should it be counted in the price of the phone? Secondly, I didn't discount the quality/design from the phone price.

Apple doesn't just overcharge for additional flash, they overcharge at every possible item in your phone. Example : $30 cables/connectors/chargers. On top of that, they sell you last years model at a premium too. Up until a few months, they were selling iPad 2 at some ridiculous price. The BOM cost goes down significantly with new rev of components coming out, be it the camera module, the previous generation app processor, the foundry charges, the low res LCD,...
Both are based on a platform from MediaTek, a Taiwanese giant you've never heard of. It makes white label handsets that operators can customize for local markets.

Technically this isn't the case; MTK don't make handsets themselves, they're fabless and only provide reference designs based on their chipsets. It's the innumerable Chinese OEMs that use these reference designs to make handsets. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek#.282013-present.29 for a non-exhaustive list of smartphones that contain them.) Because it's a reference design, most of them have very similar features, since OEMs don't have to expend much effort to add features themselves. In fact I'd say it's unusual to not have e.g. dual-SIM, expandable storage, FM radio, or removable battery in a MTK smartphone; they're pretty much standard. The variation between models is mostly in ROM/RAM, camera and screen sizes, and case styling (there are models with small screens but the fastest SoC, for example.) Also, the MT6589 platform does not have 4G, it's 3G.

MTK is certainly relatively unknown in North America but in Asia the situation is very different - you'll find far more mention and phones using them, hardware-level repair/modding information is common, and they also cost significantly less than the flagships from Samsung, LG, and the other big companies.

Edit: looks like Wired covered this a year ago: http://www.wired.com/2013/02/mediatek/

(I bought a generic 5" MT6589 smartphone in China and have been quite satisfied with it.)
https://github.com/git-deploy/git-deploy

Interesting ... it says one of its main functions is the ease of reverting / backing out of an install.
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While I agree that having a good CEO is important for any company, it this case SEO would be much more relevant ;)
sure but depending on who's paying and how many subscribers you have it can be a decent sized up front expense. I'd argue it's well worth it in the long run but a lot of companies would prefer something which is less expensive per user (to them) so based on phones or soft tokens.
Show HN: A Nintendo style arcade game for iOS
Two issues in tmux not fixed or this way by design are missing flow control and that you have to explicitly bind shortcuts which work in gnu screen automatically without pressing Ctrl twice. Other than that it's good.
Obvisouly Java is most popular because it is the best programming language. It got OOP and is on the super fast JVM, nothing can beat it.
Many ad networks and affiliates have their own tracker. You can package them all inside a tag manager, they add up quickly.
Explicitly taxing and subsidizing involves the kind of economy planning you don't want in a free market. Plus, it's a permanent fix. It's much easier for the government to build the fiber infrastructure, lease it to operators in the short term, possibly sell it or spin it off in the medium term. Just give the free market a bump to move it out of a local maximum.
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Braun’s biggest victory over Apple underscores a central economic issue: What is the right balance between competition and opting?

Does anyone own a shape? Should anyone own a shape?

These questions may should absurd, but they are at the heart of U.S. patent laws Battle of the Titans: Braun vs. Apple.
Interactive prototypes toolbox for Apple Quartz Composer
> Imposing a price floor on labor does nothing besides driving up unemployment.

Do you have any evidence to back that up? I know it was orthodoxy like twenty to twenty-five years ago, but I remember there were plenty of other theories in my university days.

Pushing young people out of the job pool isn't such a bad thing if there's an educational alternative. Besides, people on lower incomes spend a larger proportion of their income, rather than saving.

Directly increase their disposable income with a minimum wage and I find it hard to believe there won't be an increase in spending in the economy - and that has its own multiplier effects.

Besides, even if what you say is true, then you could pragmatically combine policies for effect; an increase in minimum wage with say, government spending on education initiatives, or raising the mandated school leaving age.
There's a service that does something like this: http://www.knowroaming.com/

It basically acts like a local SIM while you're roaming, including getting a local phone number.
I guess the multiple peer-reviewed studies which have been published countering that particular bit of econo-religious dogma have passed you by. Which surprises me, given I'm pretty sure at least one of them made HN.
Alternative interpretation: Gotta love how European research funded by tax-payer euros enters the public domain — as it should.

Fwiw, on this side of the pond some are somewhat bemused by how e.g. US big pharma firms are allowed to patent research results that were funded by tax-payer dollars.
This is a religious position not actually supported by evidence. Quite the contrary, in fact.
> With Node.js it’s possible to merge web and backend teams into one unit which makes things much more efficient.

That sounds good, however in practice it's not that much.
Why do you need 10,000 lumen to light a room? What sized room are your considering? And, if you are responding to your parent post, it says light enough to walk around. Even 100 lumens would be sufficient to walk around a 100 sq ft room.
Accept the key isn't tied to you account when you buy it and you don't have to buy from google...

> Consumer provisioning should allow users to buy a compliant token from a vendor of their choice, insert it into a computer where they’re already authenticated to a website, and register their token with a single mouse click.

http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/pdfs/A...

Furthermore there are no serial number exchanged afaict, so the key itself isn't identified by the server, only the fact it has valid credentials.
So does anyone know if there's a setting to make searching in copymode case insensitive? This is the biggest reasing I can't switch to tmux...
I use pystash (trystash.com) with tags. It's like an evernote but for command line.
Sure there are still people making money but the successful indie dev is an increasingly endangered species and no longer plays a large enough role in the ecosystem to drive platform decisions.

I say this as someone that would much rather see indie devs thrive.
>There are a lot of funny bits. For example the 'language' 'IO' is tagged quite a lot on stackoverflow. Or was it 'Input / Output'?

I got so fed up with "IO" tag being used for Io (http://iolanguage.org/) questions on Stackoverflow that I created the iolanguage tag and then re-tagged all the Io questions!

I did this a few years ago (2010 i think) so luckily there wasn't many questions to change :)

Io question count currently stands at 44 and not the 7,126 as shown on the chart.

ref: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/iolanguage
Losing the state change in the noise. The receiver is the more interesting end in a setup like this.
Dual SIM is such a cool feature and so common in asia that not having it in Western markets almost seems like a conspiracy.

Work/private phone. Burner. Try out a new network. Add a local SIM when traveling.
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From old HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852016
It looks like they support Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Russian. So the only "non-isolatin1" language is Russian?
From old HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852016
in Chicago minimum wage is one of the highest, if not the highest in the country and so is the unemployment rate.

The effect of raising minimum wage will highly depend on what level it is raised to and how strong the local economy is.
Google is and always has been downright hostile to anything that comes from outside Google.
Actually, I find it amazing that people still consider phone calls and SMS messages as trusted channels.

I fought long and hard with my bank to avoid using SMS one-time codes to confirm transactions, and I lost (stayed on paper lists of one-time codes as long as I could).
Art work looks good. I would recommend varying up the screenshots a little. I can't really tell how the gameplay works as each screenshot is essentially the same, just with different items. I would maybe also add a short video of the gameplay to your developer homepage. I went there to see if I could get some more info on the game but it just said 'Zodiac Bash Coming Soon'.
Yep in google play you can set exact prices for each currency (or let it do currency conversion automatically for you - your choice).

On iOS you don't set a price directly but a price tier (e.g. Tier 1 $0.99, tier 2 is $1.99 etc) and apple controls the exact price of each tier in each country.
I wonder what percentage of app developers are really that sensitive to app sales. Ad-supported and underpants gnome supported seem to be bigger categories.

Users directly paying for mobile apps is like users directly paying for web apps, a smallish part of the overall game.

IMO, the bones of the business case (beyond the sheer number of these devices) is here:

“for a vast number of people in a vast number of countries, the cheap handset will be the first screen, and the only screen.”

If you want to show these people what movies are playing, sell them flights, let them share videos, shop online, etc. Targeting these “low end” machines is the way to do it.

App sales are a small part of the overall picture.
Is it that surprising? I'd bet the average devops is in the top quartile, if not the top 10%.
For a start, because USSD is provider specific and unless you are the provider you need to initiate it with a special USSD code from the phone which you need to register in every network you want to operate in.
Here in the UK, most people who get welfare are also in work, so presumably there is a large tax saving to be had in raising the minimum wage.
I'm not Kolev, so I don't know his reasoning. But I can guess.

USSD is interactive. That lets you keep the one-time password's validity time short since you know when the subscriber sees the one-time password. The other is that it's straightforward to require an interactive step, e.g. "press 7 to get a code".

The interactive step makes an attack based on SMS forwarding harder. The short timeout makes an attack based on having limited access to a victim's phone harder.

Not sure if the security improvements are worth the useability problems---people aren't familiar with USSD and, because it's not used as often, mobile terminal software for it is likely to be buggier.
They're a code that you type in rather than a number to call. I really have no idea how they work, but I imagine they're some sort of non-text non-call sort of thing? Don't really have anything sensible to google so I can't find out for sure. Hadn't thought of that though.
AFAIK the relation to EC is that pairing-based cryptography is a popular (among academics at least) user of GF2m elliptic curves.
dual sim is popular in China

Most android/feature phones will automatically choose which sim card to make a call with depending on what network you are on.
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I think the biggest help we can give him is to redesign his website: very few people (without knowing his struggling situation) would ever pay for the content. His website content is pure gold but looks like crap..
I found an alternative in https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat, not quite as insightful but still occasionally funny
> Note: I am not saying all university support staff are like this. Some definitely are though, and they're probably the reason why good people sometimes find it hard to be properly remunerated in academia.

Certainly not everyone is like him - but I'd wager every university has at least a couple of people like him (we definitely had one, again, in physics)
Or they could do away with LOC as a metric entirely and use number of repos instead?
Here's another tmux guide with a few other tricks http://blog.soarez.com/post/57348732818/tmux
Sdb: simple, fast string-based key-value database that supports arrays and JSON
An app for that.

http://studiomarch.com/endless/
Yeah, I was specifically wanting to use Cloud Services as I have a requirement for long-running background processor nodes, and Cloud Services allows for the creation of those while Websites doesn't.
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I have the same (shitty) experience with the PS3 (a little less with the Xbox 360 and somehow updates seem faster on that one). This is basically pushing me away from consoles which were supposed to be "plug and play" in the first place. The best thing is just to put these consoles offlines so that you cannot technically update anything at all. Some newer games may complain about the need of a new firmware, though...
He's referring to the previous work of Joux, such as this: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/095.pdf.

"Today's" result is an improvement over that and previous works. So what we know is that attacks on curves over GF_{2^m} are getting better.
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> then install it when you shut the console off.

I seriously hate that on my laptop. I want to switch off and be on my way and suddenly Windows tells me it needs to install an update before shutting off. Seriously wtf! This is the kind of things that drives me to Linux, where I know that when I click Shut down, the system will be off in 20 seconds.
Is it because of tables, or because the HTML is not valid?

I had reported this sometime back, but was turned down: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/78
2.3 still runs on 16% of android phones:
https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
This is not customer-facing "read this script" support, though. This is "serious bug/security flaw" respond-to-this-so-your-customers-don't-get-screwed triage. They definitely used to respond to this type of thing a lot better.
I always wondered (and still do) why the voicemail recordings weren't stored on the phone. I could get it in the 90's (storage was expensive and phones weren't beefy enough to transcode efficiently) but at the beginning of the century I got puzzled by this.

Obvious advantages are:

- you never lose any information ;
- you can archive and transfer them on your personal devices (PC, etc.) for later use ;
- you don't have to call your voicemail and navigate a audio/keypad interface that is basically a huge timesink and an horrible experience.
Next time I'm about to complain about a bad day at the office, I will read this story again.
Hardly. No I meant on the receiving side of techs trying to fix VPNs.
Inspired by this I wrote a minor mode for Emacs called draft-mode. It can be found at https://github.com/gaudecker/draft-mode
It also helps to have sensible conventions for naming hosts and groups. If you need to select a subset of machines then you are sometimes going to make a mistake as simple is getting a wildcard pattern wrong. Instead have groups with explicit and obvious names that require no memory to understand.
Indeed. Though the step described as "We are developing a more automated approach" is a bit scary. :)
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Here in the UK, it's easy to disable it. The number to do so usually becomes preloaded on phones, or you can phone up customer support and have them do it, or search for it online.
Normally, I am not too bothered by the downvotes, but this one makes me chuckle. effects of unemployment rate is not a settled matter in economics, and it's highly politicized - with left wing leaning economists publishing all sorts of empirical studies showing no effect or mixed effect and right wing economists doing the opposite. But, clearly, raising minimum wage to $15 in a strong economy like Seattle will have a less adverse effect, if any, than in a weak local economy such as Chicago
I haven't used a desktop app in months. Except to open PDFs and an occasional excel spreadsheet.
How a 14-year-old mastered supply and demand by selling marijuana
A display similar to the Type 30 CRT can be seen in action in this video of a Bell-Labs educational film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2BWLZqA ("The Incredible Machine", 1968).

The video shows later equipment, a PDP-5 and a display that looks like a member of the 330/340-family, but the technology is the same. (Interactive graphics technology like in TX-2 and the PDPs was actually amazing, but apparently got lost over time-sharing ...)
Intuitively it feels quite accurate. C#, Java, C++, Python, JS cript at the very top. Scala above F#. New entrants not too down in the bottom.
I tried them again this week (next.duckduckgo made me give it another go) still isn't great, found myself using g! almost every time.

I'm almost 100% sure its the lack of bubbling, as much as I hate bubbling as a concept, overall, it makes search ten times better. I would have simply liked if they focused on privacy but kept the killer feature that is user oriented search.

I do like how some of my technical questions found long forgotten forums and mailing list archives that google wouldn't dare show me anymore. Even if I was just looking for the stackoverflow answer..
>Dual SIM is such a cool feature and so common in asia that not having it in Western markets almost seems like a conspiracy.

When the phone market is dominated by the carriers they don't supply dual-sim phones because they don't want people to easily switch or complement their networks. I know of at least one carrier-named phone sourced from ZTE, whose only difference from the original ZTE model is the removal of the second SIM slot.
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The point is that the company is dedicated to it, and they can't slip up or they outright lose customers, so they're more likely to pay attention to risks and the state of the art in multi-factor authentication.