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>Sympathy from the armed forces and various forms of political pressure, foreign and domestic, would be far more helpful than a few deer rifles, and if you've got that your private arms aren't really necessary.

Actually, having closely studied the dissolution of a modern European country (the former Yugoslavia) and seen the fallout from up close, it's not that simple (at least not always).

What happened in that case was that although the Yugoslav government [1] retained control of most of the heavy weaponry (artillery, tanks), and although the succeeding republics (Croatia and Bosnia) were initially limited to small arms belonging to local militia and hunters, the republics did have an abundance of active and retired officers with loyalty to their ethnic homelands who were quick to raise and lead battalions of troops into the field [2].

Those troops then went on to capture some heavy arms from the Yugoslav army, and scored lots of small arms, and eventually heavy arms and aircraft, from overseas allies.

Eventually, after lots of brutal warfare, ethnic cleansing, and in Bosnia, genocide, the republics did gain their independence from Yugoslavia (with significant help from the U.S. and other countries).

What was key in this case were the experienced military leaders who quickly assumed charge in the succeeding republics.

I suspect a worst-case, nightmare U.S. scenario would look much the same, with experienced military leaders taking control of ad hoc forces in their respective states and/or regions, and then fighting with small arms until they were able to capture heavy arms, receive outside help, or were defeated/captured.

1. Essentially, Serbia and Montenegro, plus ethnic Serbs elsewhere

2. Slovenia's succession was a different story than that of Bosnia and Croatia, for a variety of geographical, cultural, and historical reasons.
Why People Hate Programmers and Computers?
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8853062
Providers would be required to allow competitors on their networks. (Similar to how AT&T is required to let other phone companies sell you home phone service over 'AT&Ts' phone line).

This opens up all sorts of good things:

- Faster peak speeds

- Lower latency

- Better customer support / service

- Lower prices

- Stronger net neutrality protections (no throttling Netflix, for instance)

Monopoly ISP's like Comcast / AT&T / Verizon will never do all of these things on their own -- there's no incentive for them to do so.

But if Title II passes, it will make it legal for competitors to start up and reuse the existing infrastructure while new ISPs attempt to build their own, then all of these things will probably occur. Similar to how this all occurred with phone companies when Title II - like protections passed on phone lines.
It's not Windows 3.0. It's version 3.0 of a wine wrapper.
Yes, those are wonderful best case examples. I, on the other hand, don't have much faith that those things happen all that often.
Does anyone else see Title II as potentially opening the door to more competition?

From a recent article: http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/01/google-letter-fcc-title-i...

> Mountain View pointed out that if broadband internet access is declared to be a Title II service, then Google Fiber should be granted the same access as other utilities to poles and other essential infrastructure. It went on to say that doing so would actually "promote broadband deployment and competition."
Forget just using it to control games, cheap/fast/accurate gaze-tracking has huge potential when it comes to passive analysis:

1. Performance! You only need to render high-quality pixels in the places where the user is (or will) look. Lower-quality content can be put into their peripheral vision and they won't notice.

2. Depth-of-field effects will actually be good instead of a pain in the ass, because the "focal distance" is more likely to be whatever the user is actually looking at. (Not perfect, though: Is the user looking at the semitransparent steam-puffs 5m away or the wall 100m behind?)

3. High dynamic range can behave and adjust appropriately since the system knows whether you're gazing into a light or dark area. Current systems either take the entire scene into account (bad) or weigh things towards the crosshair (a bit better) which might not be where the user is actually trying to look.
Yes. Windows XP mostly, Windows 7 otherwise.
The idea that people choose to go to China because it is cheaper is a bit naive. Yes, of course, once you are at scale (not huge, but making thousands of units) China can be cheaper. Why do smart entrepreneurs go to China then?

The ecosystem is there, not here.

If I handed you a bill of materials for a medium complexity product with, say, 250 components and asked you to source them in both the US and China you'd see exactly what I am talking about.

China is now setup with these "manufacturing cities" where everything you might need for a typical consumer product is in close proximity, easy to find and, yes, cost effective. Component manufacturers have huge presence in China in order to facilitate the process. In the US you are exposed to layers of separation and profit-making between you and the component maker. I should also mention that there are components you simply can't get here.

Oh, yes, there's the other reality: Your product is likely to use parts made in China. For the privilege of manufacturing in the US you get to pay the extra cost of shipping, warehousing, handling, supporting and managing the components in a US-based channel of distribution.

Then there's the issue of worker and business culture. Work in China and you'll quickly learn nearly everyone is willing to jump when you say jump. They simply want to get the job done. The US, in sharp contrast, can be surreal at times. For example, it isn't uncommon to send out RFQ's and get no response whatsoever. A couple of years ago I sent out 50 RFQ's to US machine shops for some metal parts. I got around five responses. In China shops would be tripping over each other to get you a quote.

This and other reasons is why it can be comical to hear politicians at all levels repeat the "get manufacturing jobs back" meme. It's ridiculous. This would require a cultural, legislative, labor law and ecosystem shift of such massive scale that it is just about impossible.

No, entrepreneurs don't go to China because it's cheaper. The go there because they need to get their work done efficiently and, yes, at a good price. And all the necessary conditions to meet these goals exist in China, not in Europe and certainly not in the US.
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That's a good question. What would be the analogue industries/commodities to compare to? Tea, Coffee, Tobacco? What role does software play in those other than ecommerce and agriculture on a large scale? Of course cannibis is mostly grown in small scale operations right now but that could change with legal industrial hemp.
Static typing does not say "a better Ruby" to me, Ruby is extremely dynamic.
It would be interesting to see the difference in sales in the 3rd month between US and Europe, since the European version took one more month to crack.
"If we'd be worried about our ability to analyze these then we wouldn't be able to optimize away that special case to begin with.
"

Most compilers require you tell them, specifically, that it can tail call everything, before it will do it (i'm talking more about GCC and LLVM here, which are generic compiler frameworks). It will do some tail call optimization, but only fairly basic cases, exactly because it can't analyze what will happen.
>I'd be pretty surprised if the US employed people to do anything like this on domestic US sites at any scale. What would they post?

Call me a conspiracy nut, but now that social media is how most young people get their news, I wouldn't be surprised if the US gov paid people to post and promote bullshit fluff to keep people distracted from major events in the world. When those major stories do make it to the masses, there are people to comment about how it's a "non-issue" and "we need to focus on more important things" or that the US is doing what's necessary to protect its interests and the world's.

Just a couple examples:

All throughout the build up to the Manning trial, I distinctly remember most commenters on tech news sites supporting Manning. Upon conviction, I checked the comments on Ars Technica and the comments were overwhelmingly along the lines of "Let this be a sign to all future traitors.", "Lock HIM up and throw away the key!!" There was a comment about how suspicious the shift was, and the next three pages of comments were along the lines of, "How do we know YOU aren't working for someone?", "We never supported TRAITORS like YOU.", etc. It was bizarre.

The overwhelming coverage of The Interview days after the CIA torture report came out. People were outraged, but then every corner of the internet was plastered with patriotism and how we need to release some awful comedy to stick it to some dirt poor totalitarian state. Now people have forgotten about that movie, as well as the CIA's issues.

I also recall a huge amount of support for an invasion and increased funding of rebels in Syria back when the US government claimed Assad was using chemical weapons against his people. What shocked me was that the people most calling for war was liberal/feminist discussion circles. That all seems to be forgotten now that a group of rebels called ISIS is our enemy of the week.
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How can other governments make services digital by default?
It's weird. I truly believe that if this had happened to someone other than Aaron that he'd have found a way to marshall at least an order of magnitude more petitioners. He really had a knack for this kind of thing. Sad to see this blown off like that, adding insult to injury.
Show HN: Shareable Voice Selfie
Speak a voice command, snap a selfie, and share. From then on, you and your friends can view your selfie by just speaking your command: ﻿https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD2JCEouvnQ
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I made that project. The main benefit of balls is that the friction doesn't add up like it does with connected rods and gears.
Battery life of a tablet, beats the battery life of a phone though. I usually find when I come home from work in the evenings, my phone needs rechanging and the tablet is there.
It's not 3D, but I wrote a little curses program to find and delete large files - https://github.com/dlubarov/cleanup
It gets harder and harder to search for your search terms (the plus operator and quotes no longer work for exact matches for example)... now you have to be logged in, add text to the address bar or add a modified 1-click search engine to the Firefox toolbar...

They seem to be aiming for a TV-like experience by showing you whatever they want and not what you search for (maybe Google should be called an inspiration engine nowadays, for lack of a better word)
Fidaxomycin, which was developed by Optimer Pharmaceuticals to treat C. difficle, was relatively inexpensive to run. I want to say in the vicinity of $100 million
New antibiotic might kill resistant pathogens
> A lot of people forget that AT&T, Verizon, and Google put forth Net Neutrality legislation that was perfectly good, but limited temporarily to "wireline" services, because they wanted time to regulate wireless.

> That was like three or four years ago

People probably "forget" that because that didn't actually happen -- even ignoring the subject "perfectly good" description, AT&T, Verizon, and Google did not propose net neutrality legislation 3-4 years ago; in fact, four-and-a-half years ago Google was supporting and AT&T opposing an alternative discussed at the FCC to use Title II. [0]

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/few-neutrals-in-d...
Running strings on the binaries of the built-in apps reveals some Korean names and *.edu.kp email addresses - which, of course, are not available on the public internet.
The patent could probably be challenged. Magnetic power connectors existed prior to MagSafe (e.g. you don't want hot oil from your deep fryer to spill on you if you trip over the cord), so the patents seem more like those "X but on a computer"-type patents.
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This is interesting:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/05/14/intel-proce...
This should answer your question. Albeit satirically but the context is very solid [1]. Basically like most forms of engineering, making processors is hard.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
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I'm a bit worried that these stories floating around about title 2 being imminent will give the monopolies time to throw more money at the problem to make it go away.

i.e. "convince" Wheeler or get congress to pass a bill.

Or it could be a ploy by Wheeler. Make noise about full regulation, then make the carriers think they have won some concession when he negotiates and implements something lesser.
I think there's an unfortunate trend throughout a lot of human activity to make things complicated. The prototypical example in my mind has always been the Monty Hall problem, where you often see convoluted explanations or detailed probabilistic calculations, but the solution is just plain as it can be when you consider that if you switch you win iff you chose a goat and if you stay you win iff you chose the car.

I've also always been a fan of Feynman's assertion that we haven't really understood something until it can be explained in a freshman lecture. At the end of his life he gave a now famous explanation of QED that required almost no mathematics and yet was in fact quite an accurate representation of the theory.
Meh. We call the Russian Federation "Russia", the French Republic "France", the Kingdom of Morocco "Morocco", and the "Republic of Korea" South Korea. It's hardly unique, and no one else seems to mind.
There are still a bunch of details like franchises and redlining. There's also the natural monopoly argument.
I went to high school with this guy!
> but it is supported by facts.

It might be based on what some sociologist said, but if you compare suicide rates by country, these is nothing suggesting access to guns is a strong driver of suicide rate.

If you assume the US turns into Canada, then of every 50 people who kill themselves via gun, about 42 would find another method.

(Unless you want to argue that, because of the superiority of the US's health system over Canada, that the US should have a way lower rate than Canada. I'm not making that argument, but let's just say it wouldn't be popular among those who want to ban guns.)
Highest z-index was an astonishing 999999999999999999999999999 or 9.99e26. With a default key repeat on OS X, this would take 3 seconds of holding down 9 to type. If you took that many pieces of paper at .05mm thick, the stack would reach from Earth to the Sun 10 trillion times. The worst part about this large of a z-index is that a number that high will overflow and not work in the expected manner anyhow. The lowest was a more reasonable -999999.​

FWIW, ​max z-index that is cross-browser safe is: 16777271
Thanks for this... I've been needing to get a cleaning service going on my place and these guys look fairly rock-solid.
Nearly every antibiotic we have is developed by "mimicking nature", and some of the resistance mechanisms have also developed in the wild.

Mimicking nature is exactly what got us into this problem in the first place.
Prior discussion of this news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487
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Including this link on HN and a few friends on facebook linking to the same article, I've seen five people talking about this hoax. And zero people actually spreading the hoax.

Is this a hoax hoax?
No, it only leads to a local optimum, not a global one.
Ask HN: What do we do about the leap second?
Really basic question: do we need to do anything about the leap second coming up on June 30? I am specifically referring to typical web apps running on platforms like Heroku, etc. Does it make sense to just put our apps into maintanence mode for that particular second to prevent any catastrophe with our data? I am exceptionally ignorant in this subject; I appreciate any enlightenment!
4 gaming consoles (only counting currently functional), 1 laptop, 1 desktop, 2 smartphones (connected to cellular network), 3 smartphones (not connected to cellular network), 1 thermostat, 2 smoke detectors, 1 printer, 1 Raspberry Pi. For a grand total of 16 devices.

Added thermostat, smoke detectors, and 3 game consoles in the past couple of years.
Show HN: we're a Small Indie Studio and, after 1 year, that's our first iOS game
Make that 99.9 %. If charging money, publishers use in-app purchases
I'd recommend moving back to CM11. That's what I did when 4.4.0 broke a tonne of stuff on my N4.
imo, flex-box and evangelism of box-sizing border-box have been the best things since CSS3 selectors and transforms/transitions.

i only wish that <col> elements could propagate style rules as if they were parents of all the related td/th cells. there's still no way to specify text-align and font-* on entire columns easily, which is just silly.
So then, there will be software you can't run without attaching an external keyboard?
Chaos from the leap second?
That's probably because they dogfood and have a database of really good emails :) https://assembly.com/really-good-emails
Good to see the little teeth on the plug are gone, they were the main failure mode for micro-usb cables.
The game is a mix of Card Game and RPG in manga style :)

Of course feedbacks are very welcome!!

The game is also available for Android
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mangatar.d...)
and for Windows Phone
(http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=171a2246-66ae-4e60-a299-...)
#JeSuisCharlie
Sorry, I´ve read 10 gigabit Ethernet is here, who cares about USB?
It passed Belgium a few weeks ago, it's actually pretty interesting how it moves through the network :P
Does this help?

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/

Most of the companies I list are in the US; that would be a problem if you had to take a face-to-face meeting, come in to integrate your deliverable, work closely with the QA staff &c.

Most of my work since 1998 has been remote; of that, most of my clients I never met in person, some I met just once or twice.

I have many more that I will add soon, particularly for countries other than the US.

My experience is that oDesk and eLance are not worth the time required even to browse their websites, let alone do the work they offer.
Also see Chrome's statistics on CSS (and other web tech) usage: https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/css/popularity
The difference between this and jamming is signal jamming typically uses noise on the same frequency to make it impossible for the receiver to understand the signal. Basically, jamming blocks ALL communication on that frequency. This just shuts down the specific AP by deauth'ing the clients.
Should't press releases, if anything, be factual?
Removing access to means and methods is a well know. Part of suicide reduction.

You are wrong when you say that people get creative. Suicide is often an impulsive act and so making people work even a little bit harder does reduce the numbers of people dying by suicide.

England changed the domestic gas supply from coal gas to natural gas. It's now not possible to use a home even to complete suicide. This led to a permanent reduction in suicide numbers.

England made it very much harder for people to get coproxamol. That led to a small permanent drop in completed suicide.

England changed the amount of paracetamol that people could buy. This led to a reduction in suicide deaths from paracetamol. http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/resparacet.html

Restricting access to means and methods of suicide is a useful and important suicide prevention measure.
I see 13 privately held marijuana companies (this is surely a conservative list as well, because many might hide it from their description) that have openly taken investment -

http://i.imgur.com/ONcqb2V.png

12 separate institutional investors involved in these companies too, including Front Street, Broadband and ArcView
Believe it or not, there is a mobile CT! It's on a semi truck, though.
Carry bugs in limbed bignum code don't usually result in integer overflow (though integer overflow does usually mean the code is busted for sure). Part of the reason for this is that it's common to use 'overcomplete' representations where the limbs are smaller than the underlying type so that multiple operations can be performed before propagating the carries all at once.

This class of error is very much behind all the noise making I did at the Rust development team about treating integer overflow as a first class cause of software disaster as much as they have memory safety. Fortunately, they seem to be moving off the everything-wraps and wrapping-is-always-fine position.
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I dunno, I've experienced this a lot, although to be fair, with much larger areas of expertise than a particular product. I was thinking more about 'graphics', 'AI' or at the language level like 'C' or 'Java'.

I'll trust my experience over guesswork.
All of the products on sale now are amazing - stop chasing that dragon :-)

The latest Airs are way more powerful from the MBPs of yesterday.
> "But please, keep regurgitating Netflix's talking points about how noone will be able to start a company in their basement ever again - an odd complaint, since before Comcast throttled Netflix to something like 70% of the total Comcast network, Netflix themselves may have been causing problems for people trying to launch companies from basements or garages, or just check their e-mail."

If Comcast's networks are configured sanely, then no amount of Netflix streaming would be able to interfere with email or any other sparse flows, because the packets being dropped at congestion points would belong mainly to the heaviest bandwidth users - the Netflix streams themselves. Netflix cannot possibly do anything to interfere with non-Netflix traffic on Comcast's network in a way that is not primarily Comcast's fault, just like it's not Bittorrent's fault that it revealed a bunch of network problems.
I believe the narrative behind the meme don't imply that one agrees with what Charlie Hebdo said or how it said it. I believe it's more along the lines of `you only silenced one voice, not our voices` or `I died a little too, even if I don't agree with Charlie Hebdo stances`.

edit: the meme originally came from the charliehebdo website. I'd venture to guess that they mean `you didn't kill Charlie. Charlie is everyone`.

edit 2: nope, I am wrong according to WP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_suis_Charlie And that's why memes and absolutes suck.
Yeah, I don't know if its fixable, just that the conclusion drawn is on shaky foundation.
Oh I agree, the patents are ridiculous, but I think if any of the big manufacturers were willing to make a go of it, they'd have done it by now.

That said, I think the specific innovation they rest their patent on is that it can be inverted. Under current patent doctrine that might be enough, and I suspect people wouldn't be very happy with a non-invertable magsafe-like.
You can approve of and partake in an activity while also realizing that excessive use is detrimental. Like drinking.
That was their purpose. It was either that or put the teeth in the female port, on your expensive device and impossible to replace when (not if) they broke down. Put them on the cheap and easily replacable cable was a wise design decision.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was...

Having no info on the mechanical properties of the Type C connector, I'm curious (and a bit skeptical) about how that'll live on.