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> Not speaking Dutch is all fine while you’re on your student visum in an English speaking environment, but it breaks down when you have to pay taxes or get a letter from the immigration office—all that is in Dutch.

Denmark has gone to the next level and even this is largely in English now too, which makes it even harder / less motivating for foreigners to learn Danish. Most government websites are dual-language, and every civil-service employee speaks English. Many state agencies (and banks, pension funds, unions, etc.) now also give recipients an option of Danish or English for receiving official communications, and some actually default to English if you're registered as a non-Danish national, so you'd have to specifically request Danish if you wanted it.
I more or less agree with your reading of this. I found it a little curious that the author didn't mention anything about researchers taking a slightly different tack, like the people who designed the Pronto, a South African-designed condom whose application is much faster than a traditional condom. Obviously condom feel is an issue in usage rates, but I suspect that speed/ease of use is at least as important. It's not like condoms take forever to put on, but the process of locating and using one can definitely interrupt the moment.
WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook and this will further bump up their market share.
Incremental and parallel computations, like building software in a development environment, is better done using some kind of purely functional system, imho.
Thanks for this link. These look great, and I've never heard of them.
Kimsufi are unmetered 100Mbps, and they seem to live up to that promise without throttling.
u know http://famo.us ?
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If the people that can afford $3,000/month for rent don't have a place to spend it, they'll just bid up the price of the other housing. Nobody is going to build hovels out of the gate, affordable housing is luxury housing that was built 50 years ago.
An article on ebola said that the condom provides 95% protection per use. i.e. a 5% chance of infection anyway each time they are used.

That's basically worthless because after 13 uses there is a 50/50 chance of infecting someone.

They are more effective with HIV only because HIV is not as infective, not because the condom is more effective.

So the problem with the condom is not the design, but that they are not as effective as people think. Couples using them consistently every time still have a good lifetime chance of transmitting HIV if their partner is infected.
...which creates another problem with optimization: As soon as you make a change--no matter how small--to a single one of those concatenated assets you now have to deliver the entire new combined asset to the client. If you make changes to your JS/CSS assets on a regular basis (rapid iteration anyone?) this means your clients might be best served via individual assets (depending on your traffic patterns).

I have solved this problem myself by avoiding concatenation and using the browser's IndexedDB to store assets that can be loaded dynamically (JS, CSS, and client-side templates). Assets like this get downloaded over a WebSocket connection which provides the same advantage of SPDY in that no re-negotiation is necessary.

You can see the implementation of this here:

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne/blob/master/gateone/core/...

...and the client side code is here:

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne/blob/master/gateone/stati...

(Including the functions immediately following that one)
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From a discussion in /r/rust. Great overall discussion about the benefits of Haskell-like abstractions. This example almost looks like magic, it really helped me understand the power of these abstractions.

Often people (including myself), will ask "why bother", "why should I get a PhD in abstract math just to write a damn script. They're all turing complete languages after all."

Here is a perfect, down to earth example! So simple even I got it!

p.s: Not being a Haskell guy, I had to use these resources to figure out wtf was going on; they might help you too:

- explains Functor: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/The_Functor_class

- explains Monad: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_monads

- explains retry: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/ch10.htm...
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We use a cookieless domain for most of our static content (as the name implies, to avoid sending cookies on those requests, which helps the desktop case a little bit, but helps the mobile use case a lot). We originally did it because of the 2 connections per origin limit, but left it in place once that went away and was replaced with a huge uptick in mobile users.

We should test whether we should move the CSS back to the primary domain and pay the cookie uplift penalty to avoid the DNS and TCP penalty for that. (Another poster below rang that bell for me and it makes logical sense, but need to verify via testing.)
Have you read the Make pattern rules examples [0]? There's the specific example of yacc/bison doing something similar to as your describing (at least for 1:N case).

%.tab.c %.tab.h: %.y

bison -d $<

[0] http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/make/manual/html_n...
Also it gives off the same negative signals as checking a regular watch when with company. In the same way that if you're sitting there having a conversation with someone and you're checking your (normal) watch it's telling me you're not paying attention and you have somewhere else to be.
Probably prohibitively difficult anytime in the forseeable future. Lots of people are spending money trying to improve, on a much more limited scale than "drink sea water", salt tolerance on a variety of crops where that is probably easier than almond trees, and that's not easy.
Couldn't you just measure the capacity in directly in Watts instead of Watt hours / year?
Misspell something so its not already taken, then choose colors via Feng Shui or some such.
Flawed methodology. If you use Instagram 21% of the time, Facebook 20% of the time, and other apps less than that, the study puts you firmly into Instagram bucket despite you using Facebook with the similar frequency. There is no accounting for people who use more than one app, which is what most people do.
It's a dot org: https://letsencrypt.org
The premise seems to be based on the button in the tv show Lost, where that code "had to be" entered in before the timer, but no one was sure what would happen if they didn't.
Yes and considering they are trying to get snapchat too, it's pretty clear they knew early on the right strategy to own the market.

I wonder, with a snapchat merger, if they would run into monopoly issues with the FTC.
Regarding fonts: true, but I'm clearly not the only person who holds this opinion, as evinced by https://twitter.com/search?q=Wired%20font%20-google&src=typd
I'd have thought there was a decent space between "hobbyist" and "$1m annual revenue". A lot of small software businesses would fall into that bucket.
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Is nuclear cheaper per joule than other energy on the grid?

They'd essentially be running a nuclear powerplant, which wouldn't turn out any resellable power, just water.
There are some alternative materials that will become viable if Li becomes too expensive. But yes, interesting indeed.
IIRC, I got around the M:N problem with GNU make by defining a pattern-matching rule to do what I want. For example, I was using yacc, so I did this:

%.tab.h %.tab.c: %.y
stuff

Using pattern matching forces make (GNU make) to correctly treat this as one rule which outputs multiple files, instead of the default of it being multiple rules which each output one file. It's not perfect, but it is a simple fix for some of those issues.
Thanks - I only have about 3 years worth of daily usage data so that's good to know. I'll give your suggestion a shot.
The key element here is that the short glance allows the wearer to decide whether or not to act upon a notification.

I open my phone to do one thing, and end up doing something else -- for twenty minutes. I'm looking forward to the watch as a way to minimize my phone usage and simplify my interactions.
It is resolved. Just not in the way you want.
This is just an alarming sign that the entire SSL business is broken. It was exploited so many times by western agencies and also by criminals that it should be clear to everybody that this workflow is broken. This action from Google is an example of double standards. There are CAs from three letter friends in some of the tools we are using today so they can silently mitm attack your SSL traffic. I don't see Google rushing to fix the underlying problem and just trying to mess with China.
Hot SF rental market sparks suspicions of landlord arson
Well, it operates in a different way from opportunity costs, which could counteract a "pushing on a string" effect.

And perhaps for many properties in the mid-range of site value, the opportunity cost is masked by high information costs, which a land-value tax could make more clear.
>I haven't seen their animated ads, because I adblock all sites by default,

wait, i thought this conversation started when I said something like "Engineers don't click on ads" and then you said something like "But I click on ads"

Now it comes out that you use adblock, which does seem to support my thesis in the general case.
Well, I'm a beginner in web, and I can't say it's easy, in fact, it's quite the opposite. In native frameworks there's normally one idiomatic way to do things, while the web framework land looks terrifying.

So, that's part of the problem, right? For some damn fool reason we keep throwing beginners at frameworks--they should be starting with just bsaic HTML and CSS, and then learning JS, and only then moving on to frameworks. It's so damned confusing in part because people aren't learning the fundamentals, and so are lacking a mental model of how things work and what makes them slow.

I'd also tried HTML, but it just wasn't competitive. The native iOS UI was even faster and was miles ahead of HTML in terms of speed.

Show me some numbers. If you want to talk about performance, then let's be quantitative. I'm also willing to wager that the HTML on the mobile device was full of bits you didn't need.

But still, there are better models, and there can be even better models.

Again, why do you think this is the case? It's worked, with expansion, for over twenty years. That's a staying power few technological approaches have--maybe, there's something to it. This notion of "better models" really frequently boils down to "I have this one specific thing I need done, and anything that doesn't match this one specific thing is superterribad and clearly needs replacing."

If you want the best performance (which honestly probably doesn't matter that much for your use case), write things in native code as you've done. But don't then pretend that that is a valid yardstick to measure an entirely different tech by.
I get that with the MP3 players and smartphones, but what tablet devices were well established? You had the Nokia Internet Tablets and...nothing. And they were barely more than MP4 players with Wi-Fi and touch screens. The iPad ushered in the modern concept of the tablet computer; rather than just being a media player with a touchscreen, it was a real computing device.
The decision that Google has made is unacceptable and unintelligible to CNNIC,

Standard language of the authoritarian mindset, everywhere.
I am doing a PhD here in Germany and I absolutely love it. It's completely free (except for the 300 euro fee per semester, but that includes the UBahn ticket which is like 200 of the 300 fee and is worth it) and I actually get paid really, really well. Plus PhDs are only 3 years and I don't have to deal with TAing and can just research. And because I am a student, I don't have pay taxes because my salary is considered a "stipendium" or whatever. It's quite nice. And where I am living, Frankfurt, which is apparently very expensive, is still cheap to me.

But, as others have said in this thread, there are drawbacks, which have been addressed. But that's true of anything anywhere.

So overall I highly recommend Germany for studies. Plus German is just a cool language to know as well.
Interesting idea, but I think the shirt looks bad aesthetically. Customizing the font, size, and placement of the URL might make this more interesting to me. Also, I made it to the credit card entry point and never saw HTTPS, so I wouldn't complete an order if I was interested in the shirt.
180 lbs of dog in the form of two adult (if aging) German Shepherds!
Look up anything that Bruce Schneier has written on the subject and correlate it with Government statements on the subject.
Ask HN: Best practices for alerting foreign authorities of credit card fraud
We've caught someone in Vietnam using a stolen credit card to make a couple of purchases on our site. The genius used his work email. We contacted his employer, they confronted him, and he admitted to the fraud.

That being said, he is now refusing to pay for the purchases he's made. We've given him multiple chances to right his wrong, but he continues to argue.

I'm tired to wasting time with the emailing back and forth, and have decided to turn him in.

The problem is, I don't know how.

Is there a proper procedure to follow?

Thanks in advance.
for the international roles (i.e UK) are there relocation packages available or can it be done remotely?
Not when you set it to ground burst and look at the fallout. A nuke in Florida can leave fallout up the entire east coast.
The developers themselves have clarified. Software that is not actively maintained should be assumed to be insecure.
The developers themselves clarified the situation within the week. Unfortunately, that was not as widely reported as the shutdown since it doesn't provide fertile ground for NSA conspiracy theories. The short answer is that software that is not actively maintained should be assumed to be insecure.
What's the use for Bitcoin?
Here's what I don't understand about iCracked...I get that it's a "sell the shovels" type of business, selling phone repair tools and supplies to people who want to make some side income.

McDonalds was the first large-scale pioneer I can think of with that model (selling franchises and equipment). They also make it easy to understand locations, and standardize pricing.

However, when I submit a request on iCracked for repair, it doesn't tell me "oh go to Joe's gas station", or anything. I have to submit contact info and hope someone calls, and that's just not convenient. There's not even upfront, guaranteed cost information.

So, are there any competitors in the space that would do more of an uber-like concierge service, where for a fixed fee someone will come to me or a coffee shop near me and fix the problem, or pickup the phone, or tell me when and where to drop it off? That seems like a good growth area.
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Maybe if his batteries were around 20%...
The DannyBee comments you linked are entirely about Facebook, React and the BSD license. They are not about Microsoft, the CLR and the MIT license.

At any rate -- the MIT license for CLR is not amended. The patent grant is separate from, not an amendment to, the MIT license.
TLDR: Its a relatively easy way to create encrypted digital virtual drives.

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Details:

Truecrypt creates a .txt file - via a GUI - which is complete gibberish... until you unlock it. It is then a mounted drive.

At time of creation of the Truecrypt volume you:

* set the drive size - it can be very small (ex: 1mb) to very large (many GB iirc)

* set the access credentials. This can be a password, or it can be a password and key-file - that is a file you must pass in addition to the password. The file can be any kind of file. A jpg, an MS Word doc file, a OS iso, a .pem or .ppk... it doesn't matter. I think the hash generated by the file is essentially a second passphrase. Change the contents of the file and you change the hash... it doesn't work. Pick your favorite picture among the tens of thousands you have backed up several places online... and it's much less obvious than the one or two .ppk files you have tucked away in you lastpass account.

* you can have a "hidden volume." Say for example somebody drugs you and hits you over the head with a wrench to get your Truecrypt volume access credentials. You give them the credentials, they unlock and mount the drive... and inside is your grandma's banana bread recipe... not your bitcoin wallet details. You gave them the passphrase to a "dummy volume." If you follow the instructions correctly regarding this you can have the actually valuable information hidden within the Truecrypt volume. There's no indication that any particular volume has a hidden volume in it or not. So there's a kind "plausible deniability" about what's there.
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They are very good at building cheap servers, and running them cheaply.
May I ask how much a student should expect to pay for housing and food per semester?
XamarinStudio has gotten a lot nicer the past two-three years. That might be worth a go. I've also had varying success running VisualStudio well in VirtualBox.
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...exchange data between, a Mac, a Windows machine, and a Linux machine.

Just use PGP, probably the gpg [0] software. You can set it up so that each machine knows the others' public keys, or you can take a shortcut and copy the same private key to all your machines. Encrypt and decrypt as you like. This is "hacker" advice, however; gpg is not a consumer-oriented tool. You'll have to read some documentation and keep your wits about you. But that was true of TC as well, wasn't it?

[0] https://www.gnupg.org/
I think a curated list of React Native components would be great...Please dont stop!
> It prevents your computer from loading undesired piece of JavaScript in case of a MITM attack.

Only if the site you were visiting was over HTTPS, which it was not in the Github attack. Saying that you should remove this certificate if you don't want to participate in the Github attack or similar attacks is simply not true.
Thank you for your work on this! I will surely give it a try.
If that's true, why does propaganda exist?
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Overall, I'm really interested in problems at the intersection of computer science, machine learning, and medicine! Just submitted a research paper involving the use of custom neural networks for predicting CT findings in emergency department patients, and now I'm looking for a company with which to work on larger machine learning projects.
Keep in mind, the Dropcam only helps if you know the thief. We had a theft in our old office and caught the thief on Dropcam. The police saw the video and noted that they had seen the guy at other thefts as well. My obvious question: "anything that you can do about it?" And unless ubiquitous CCTV with face recognition is widely deployed, the answer is basically no.
This all happened when the Snowden leaks were coming out. I always assumed that they were served with some type of National Security court orders, papers, threats whatever the Govt sends out.

Similar to what happened with lavabit. I doubt the devs did anything, more likely they were asked to do something they felt was shady. They could've seen the storm that was brewing on the horizon.
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That doesn't explain why the innovation didn't happen in, say Somalia, where there are no government regulations to speak of.
Thanks for this! Sure, let us look into more customization. I also get your point about HTTPS. We use Stripe and your credit card information goes directly to Stripe over HTTPS.
As far as I can gather the Dutch authorities are not able to retrieve TrueCrypt keys. I can not say the same about BitLocker and FileVault. If the US knows how to get into TrueCrypt volumes then at least they are not sharing that knowledge with foreign allied agencies.
I think Apple sees the differentiation (besides the fashion options) in offering Apple Pay. But, last I read there were some real world issues with it that plague all the other mobile payment options out there:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/04/like-all-mobile-wallets...
I wish I would have known these things on graduation from high school. Limiting one's options to US schools can be hazardous to your financial health. Our system is terrible.
Agreed. My flash drives have a (portable) copy of TC on them and a container. I don't consider it secure (how could I, considering that I use it for shuttling things to/from machines I don't own), but it's a whole lot better than nothing.

If there's a replacement for this use case I'd really like to know about it.

Ditto:

If you're using FDE for your system disk, it is desirable to know that in the event of the OS becoming unbootable that you can open it using any old OS. Especially in the case of laptops, where you won't have any guarantees about what other machines are available.
I'm curious--any pointers to example packages?
What if remote workers from other time zones are happy to work hours based on a +/- 6 hour time zone from PST? It's puzzling why there would be a specific band of time zones from which candidates are permitted to already be living, instead of a specific set of hours that you state in the job ad, asking that candidates only apply if they are OK working those particular hours.
Somewhat related: I remember that in the late 90s a Mitsubishi subsidiary, SUN-A, was tasked with developing transformers for Toyota's new hybrid cars. It'll be interesting to see if building a megacrop will be better than building a market place with various competing companies/contractors for this technology (Not that Tesla will prevent such a market place to develop -- indeed one already exists. I just mean it'll be interesting to see if Tesla will benefit from dominating by themselves, rather than delegating to existing market leaders).
Why we need more Bitcoin exchanges
It's a bit of a marketing trick. 3% from the guest, 7% from the host, or vice versa. (Not sure or course if it's exactly 3 and 7%, just the general idea)
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Let's start with making them free.
Are the medical/abortion costs really lower than providing everyone with unlimited plastic with a little lotion on it?
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It would be even better to minimize the number of people transported.
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Microsoft to consolidate the Kinect for Windows around a single sensor
I guess the scale of the war and whether it deserves the moniker of a World War depends on your geo-political perspective. Both U.S. and Russia, are involved in military operations all over the world, and it's a little silly to call that a "desirable state of affairs" just because they're not fighting each other.