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It ought to have been transparently obvious to Google execs from when Google became utterly dominant in the web search space that the risk of anti-trust violations was very high and if they wanted to avoid being censured they needed to consistently take the high road & avoid using that dominance to force entry into other fields at the expense of competitors. It has always looked to me that Google was consistently stepping over that line in search & advertising often enough that they were inviting anti-trust suits.

The agreements they force phone vendors to sign up to if they want to ship Google Play services with Android phones also stink to high heaven & are an anti-trust suit waiting to explode in Google’s face - that self-imposed banana skin appears to be next on the EU commission’s agenda.

Google can afford to pay any fine the EU is likely to impose of course. The greater cost may be in exec time & loss of face, plus the generalised malaise that seems to go along with losing an anti-trust suit.
Yes, they're still going down the drain

It's a company that has no speed to compete in the modern world

See what divisions they closed/sold off in the past years

Can't say I'm sorry
ES2016? As far as I knew, the ES7 name was being kept, but the ECMAScript script would be updated yearly, as opposed to the 5 or 6 years between ES5 and ES6.
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Yes, but Symbian development was spinning up again, MeeGo had an amazing potential. WP was absolutely not ready to be sold.
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The problem is that places like HN perverted the term "Hacker" by making it a synonym of developer/coder, which in previous meanings covered what you call "DIY'ers".

Everybody around here calls himself a hacker, when in the past it was more an achievement than just a job you can choose.
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So basically now Nokia, Erisson, Huawei or ZTE ( Are there any others ) actually build and run the Network Backend of Mobile Network, while Mobile / Cell Operators does the sales, marketing and customer services?
Actually the Alcatel-Lucent they bought do not produce phones at all ;)
A while ago Alcatel got with TCL, a Chinese company, to take care of the handset business through a joint-venture initially. Then TCL bought and integrated the JV, and kept the rights to the Alcatel brand for handsets. The brand is likely to stay but it's now fully TCL (with still some ex-Alcatel employees).
Well ES6 is so far down the editing path that any additions now are pretty much impossible, but with ES7 coming about a year after ES6 it wouldn't be a long wait for a bigger Promises API to end up in the ECMAScript spec.
Yes, but only in an alternate world where China smuggled white slaves, repressed them for 400 years, and who then went on to become naturalised citizens.

The stupidity!
Hi - I just wanted to say "thanks" for the link to the coursera course. I'm going through it now and really enjoying it.
I think Samsung will pick up Here. Seems like a bargain for them.

Samsung has been slowly building up their own "shadow stack" for mobile. They have everything from the OS up, but map data is a huge missing piece.

Also, I think Samsung's homegrown Tizen OS has some ambitions on the automobile side, and that's a market where Here has been doing well.
I didn't know that was the name of it, interesting, though it sounds like an Anachronism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#System_...
Socialism is awful in the EU. See what is happening to Greece? It's been cornered by virtually every other state in the EU. And no, it's not about broken state economics, that's fairy tales for little kids, it's mostly about not voting what Brussels/Germany wants. They want to set an example to everyone else. The only reason Greece is still in, it's because no one is sure what's gonna happen once it's ousted.

So generally speaking, you either vote for Holande/Sarkozy or you're gonna face the same kind of treatment. And from what I've seen so far, LePen apart, you don't have any other politician is likely to go a head to head with Merkel.
Patents. That's what this has to be about.

Produce little to nothing and just sue for royalties on other manufacturers.
The issue with base load contracts is that they are increasingly being undermined by power that is much cheaper, and reliable almost enough to substitute for base power.

Generally speaking most jurisdictions would have to be stupid to sign up to new long term (20 year+) base power contracts, but that's what nuclear power needs to pat for the high upfront costs.

As this article shows, new storage tech and load management tech makes it likely that base load will be less and less important over time.
ALU doesn't produce handsets anymore. Alcatel sold their handset business to TCL a while ago, and TCL has the rights to the brand for handsets. So even if the Alcatel name will disappear on the network side, it's likely to remain on handsets but it's just a brand for TCL.
Guido doesn't like that tool; they're guidelines, not rules.
Payfriendz
UK startup taking on the P2P mobile payments and targeting the UK's student population. Making payments social through instant messaging and planning on making a big enough impact before some of the other big social players attempt to enter this lucrative and thriving market.
You can install the binaries with a Virtualenv (at least on 2.X, virtualenv on 3.x is a pain until 3.4)
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I do understand that, but it'd be very nice to be able to do some things like timeouts and the like, without loading quite a few kilobytes of another promise implementation.
Its like a vest I guess
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Pumped hydro is virtually all deployed grid-scale storage -- 90%+ (and plus quite a bit as memory serves).

It's cheap, effective, scalable, and highly efficient.

It's also got limited sites and localized environmental impacts.

Where you been hiding?
Linux did this before, but moved to PIC around 1995 as part of the a.out->ELF transition.

ELF actually supports (and always did) non-PIC code on x86 Linux in shared libs, ld.so will do fixups to the code on the fly. See http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/11/03/position-independent...
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Considering that the former president and current head of the conservative party is being investigated in at least 8 different cases, the scandal part is clearly more of a "big party" problem.
There are a number of pump-solar energy storage plants already in use, including some in the US. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectrici... for details.

Its not as sexy as new battery tech, but it works really well and is a very attractive option in some locations.

Outside pump solar, California is planning 1.3 GW storage by 2020. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_E... will show you the status of projects.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_storage_projec... is an interesting list of projects, including battery based, but also things like flywheels.
You forgot Bell Labs.
The better analogy would be saying that China needs more Manchus, or Hakkas, or Uyghurs in tech.
I want to use PyPy, and I have used it for a biggish server-based project I've been a part of.

The issue I've usually had with it is just small things – maybe an module we depend on doesn't work with PyPy yet, maybe PyPy3 isn't 3.3-compatible yet and can't use "yield from", which we use in our code or which our libraries use.

Dealing with those sort of small issues (and/or waiting for PyPy to fix them), worrying about whether the project I'm currently working on can use PyPy or if I need to use CPython instead, etc makes me stop worrying about trying to use it after a while. In my dev environment at least.

I do really love what the PyPy guys are doing though, and when it works it works damn well. Building it from source is also super pretty.
There's a fork which re-enables SMS encryption.

OWS do have a point about SMS metadata leakage though.
My first introduction to a USA sarnie was in a little supermarket in Hawaii. Picked up a 'sub' or what we'd call a soft baguette. When I started to eat it my brother and I fell about laughing at the shear madness of it. There was SO MUCH MEAT in it, like more that 3 packets of ham all squished in. Enough ham to feed us for weeks.

In the UK we generally put one slice of ham into a sandwich. In USA they put two or three packets of ham into a 'sub'. That one sub pushed me and my brother down a road of extreme subs, more meat, more hot sauce.

Oh God, and Taco Bell. I received my order and to my astonishment it looked nothing like the picture over the counter. I kept saying the the lady behind the counter "I didn't order this brown slop, I ordered that delicious looking meal up there."
Surely the programs a good programmer creates should be immediate successes? These are thought leader programmers!
I'm curious to know what this means for a potential Palm revival now, given this: http://www.webosnation.com/its-confirmed-tcl-bringing-back-p...
Aside from having whitespace-sensitive syntax, Nim isn't Python-esque at all. Nim very much encourages TIMTOWTDI over Python's there-should-be-preferably-one-way-to-do-it. Nim also has extremely flexible syntax where Python is rigid. See Nim's pervasive use of metaprogramming via macros, or its inclusion of user-defined symbolic operators (as per Haskell and Scala), or the fact that it considers `foo` and `Foo` and `FOO` and `f_O__o` to be equivalent identifiers, or its inclusion of UFCS.

Nim is a neat language, but comparisons to Python solely because it has semantic indentation are completely shallow (especially so when you consider that Guido doesn't even think that whitespace sensitivity is an important feature).
> Nokia is now a formidable competitor to Ericsson and Huawei, but it won't be on Samsung's or Apple's radar again.

Ericsson maybe, but Huawei is a juggernaut that leaves them in the dust (massive growth both in terms of revenue and innovation, especially in emerging markets) .Alcatel-Lucent was really struggling throughout its existence.
Oh wow, when my friend explained grindr to me he got it completely wrong.
It was needed one comic to not shut up about Cosby being rapist for the whole issue to cause his downfall. That is why it is the Cosby effect. The same as Streisand effect is named after Barbara.
Barcelona usually has a fair bit of wind, but when it stops blowing the traffic fumes are terrible (as a cyclist). And I noticed that as a smoker.
Different names don't scale well beyond a single boolean argument.
I was an under graduate engineer at Nortel Networks in the late nineties and early nougties writing code and building rigs to automate the testing of OC192 tx / rx components before they were assembled and usually dropped under the ocean.

I was amazed at the capabilities of this hardware and the next generation from both Nortel and its competitors,like Lucent.

It amazes me what is achievable but not viable for mass production. Or desirable by customers (good enough).

An industry that matters so much. With no backbone there is no network in so many places. Perhaps a few mergers will unlock the doors?
A pigeon is a naive person being conned. It probably refers to the "pigeons" movement of French entrepreneurs opposed to taxes on sales of companies.
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That's interesting - so who moved from static to dynamic languages because of LightTable? Actually I'm not seeing any movement from static typing to dynamic typing in recent years, so wondering what you're talking about.
But Germany, at least, is happily cooperating with the NSA. And didn't Poland host CIA black sites?
Please stop using jpg when you should be using png
Is it just me, or does this bug anyone else?
I see way too many charts and screenshots as jpg images.
Love the idea, and hope that it grows into something bigger.

For any book of historic, literary or intellectual interest you often need notes, perspectives and connotations. Especially the older a work gets, for even things as the meaning or use of English words can change. For the best books you can sometimes buy annotated versions, but the Genius-approach of annotate anything lends itself particulary well to books.

For now I fear only free books (like Ulysses) can be handled site that crowdsources annotations. But crowdsourced annotations on all books, provided you own a license to the work of some sort... wow.
More than the fines is the ability to impose changes on their business practices. Imagine if Google could no longer require OEMs to bundle various Google products in order to get the Play store.
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There is however, an important security benefit from PIC: ASLR. It's not a silver bullet, but can stop a range of vulnerabilities from being reliably exploitable usable unless an memory leak is also available.

Even if you so far as control the instruction pointer as an attacker, you might just not know where to jump to in the target address space...
You could look at the linked documentation. I think it makes it clear.

PS: I don't use D.
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More interesting would be what is!

What I know: I will pursue harder tasks after consuming Sucrose and caffeine, while without consuming these unhealthy resources I might not. Also, Glucose availability to the brain is not really related to either consumption, though, afaik.

Would be happy about what others have found, especially from people with a more scientific approach than mine.
These articles that assert low take up of Python never quantify in any scientific way why they think there is low take up of Python 3.

It's opinion presented as fact that Python 3 has low take up.

Without tangible proof I call bullshit.
Yes, you declare the parameter as

Flag!"async"

And then the possible values are Yes.async and No.async
This exploits D dispatch operator: http://dlang.org/operatoroverloading.html#dispatch which in general is great for implementing this sort of dynamic feature in a strongly statically typed language as D - everything is checked as compile time!
"Blacks in Oakland frequently question why I would live in SF with people who don’t look like me"

This is the most racist thing I read whole day.
There's no proof that women are systematically targeted to be ousted from the tech field. I haven't seen any research papers with any clear evidence of this other than that there are more boys than girls in a particular field.

I'm sure there are other occupation with the same thing. There are too many Fillipino in Nurse career I don't see any body saying to diversify it. There are tons of Vietnamese in nails, my uncle and mother included. I don't see people saying that there should be other race within such jobs. You can argue that it's not a great jobs but what about nursing?

We can encourage more women and minority within a field which is fine. But to make it seems like a problem is a problem. Because of this people such as women will use this as an excuse. Look at the CEO of Reddit, she used this and sexism as an excuse.

So before we jump the gun and say such thing such as racist and sexist, we should carefully find the cause and not jump the gun. We do not know if this is intentional or an unintentional the consequences of culture.

I mean hell there's a lot of Asian going to university and a lot of less other color such as Black. Is it because Asian are racist against other races? No, it's culture and the Pew report for Asian Americans have backed this up. That Asian American parent believe an education is important.
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I usually don't care if my booleans are extensible or not.
Isn't promoting your own crap just dogfooding paid inclusions?
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I've seen this in practice a lot in jQuery and many people with jQuery experience. You end up with methods like showFoo / hideFoo, enableFoo / disableFoo, and then you have to continuously write if-statements like this:

if (someCondition) {
showFoo();
} else {
hideFoo();
}

Instead of:

setFooVisible(someCondition);

The point being, creating lots of different methods for each variant reduces one's ability to use other abstraction tools, like variables, to control parameters.
The author correctly uses eldest and youngest later in the article. To use 'older' in the example there would have to be a comparison, older than...

Yes, English is my first language and the example I quoted is a mangled form of it. For a broadsheet newspaper writer it is poor style at the very least. But, as this is HN, you'll of course tell me WHY I am wrong, not just make snide remarks. I look forward to being corrected. :)
You don't need to run mincore() on target pids - you just need to write a tool that opens(O_RDONLY) and mmaps(PROT_READ) each library file, then calls mincore() on each page in the mapping to find out which pages of the library are loaded shared.

The results of mincore() in one process with a shared mapping of a file are enough to tell you how much of that file is loaded shared system-wide.
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Both have nothing to do with SIP surveilled through black boxes and intelligence agents being cleared to destroy informatic systems.
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LinkedIn for one:

http://www.quora.com/Is-LinkedIn-getting-rid-of-Scala
I used OVH services for a long time, very good customer support, best quality/price ratio for Europe and some of their machines are extremely good. It would be a shame for France to lose them.

France is known to be very interested in mass surveillance, but what scares me most, it's that the European Union seems completely ignoring the topic, leaving countries to deal with this topic. I am lucky to live in Europe, but outside the EU, so we don't have to deal with these strange regulations, but I am concerned about the impact that this law can have in a short-mid future with all other countries. I really don't want to see UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc... follow the France's example, starting to roll-out laws in the name of security and terrorism fight.

This must be stopped at a higher level (EU), because also other countries are extremely interested on this topic.
Surely he explained the part about meat in between buns?
I was working at a place trying to do smartphone type stuff with symbian way before it was cool and have been a MeeGo fan since the days when it was called Maemo so I'm about as a big a fanboy of both as they come.

But the truth is that Symbian had simply been stagnant for too long and would never catch up and MeeGo for all its potential was just another platform with even less backing than WP and even less ready to be sold. Had they decided to really go for it with on of Symbian or MeeGo a few years earlier and gotten on the smartphone bandwagon then I might have my MeeGo Lumia device I so wanted, but they didn't and by the time they realized their mistake it was too late. As much as I hate to admit it and as much as it didn't necessarily work out very well, going with WP was probably a good decision at the time
Apart from William & Mary I have never heard anything about any of those schools.
As for William & Mary I think that I have heard that it is an above average liberal arts college.
I could google it and the rest of the list, but that is honestly my level of knowledge of them.

Are they considered to be something special in the Southern states ?
Exactly. Perhaps it's time for a new catchphrase:

"Correlation not being causation does not require dismissal"

But it might just lead to:

"Correlation not being causation not requiring dismissal does not imply truthiness"

and we're back where we started :-)
> Guido doesn't like that tool; they're guidelines, not rules.

Yes, a lot of people need to get that memo

I don't like it as well, but it keeps a group of developers in check. And it can be configured, so there's that as well

Too bad autopep8 produces bad results out of the box
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I don't share your view. Encrypted SMS functionality was not ready for the masses with the key exchanges, meta data leakage and was source of many bugs. Now users are never confronted with keys and other scary stuff :) Furthermore, most of my friends have switched from WhatsApp, so they did not use the encrypted SMS functionality in the first place.

I'm very impressed with the apps Whisper Systems have delivered. Please support them to accelerate development for even better encrypted communications!
What about letting kids choose what they want to do with their lives ? I used to be a music producer and learned everything by myself. I grown up in a white neighbourhood. I was the only emcee around, producing Hip-hop music, influenced by the Beastie Boys. I started coding really young. When I got the internet, I learned a lot about Hip-Hop, I was passionate. My first website was related about my passions, sharing my passion about football, skateboarding, drawing, etc. I wouldn't code if I didn't had a passion. What's the point of coding if it's not useful, if doesn't solve a problem ? You need a point! Let's do fun stuff, stop forcing kids with your mentoring bullshit and who cares if the kid is white and his mentor is Persian, or if he's idol is Bob Marley! There's better ways to work on our communities, families, etc.

Your `you get more black ppl in tech by having black people in tech` sounded exactly like one of those Xzibit memes: a joke!
If you want to join Five Eyes, you've got to have some desirable data to share.
My first language is Portuguese.
Functions are first-class values, so what's wrong with:

(someCondition? showFoo : hideFoo)();

You can also pass in arguments if they both accept the same parameters, eg.

(someCondition? show : hide)(foo, duration);
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Interesting though the Compressed Air storage could have some "interesting" failure modes.

Back when I was an Engineering Technician my thermo fluids lecturer commented that if the main reservoir for the labs compressed air system burst it would flatten the entire lab block.
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It's shares only (all-stock) deal. No cash changing hands. Did you read the Recode article?
I would really prefer using storyboards that debugging through each line of codes. Not to mention the hierarchy of views that makes it hard to read sometimes. Autolayout is fantastic but i'm not sure about the limitation when it comes to complex UI(it's kind of vague for the term complex actually). Apple introduces a new feature on autolayout this year where you can install/ uninstall constraints depending on size classses. This is really helpful if you care about the app orientation.