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I'm currently paying flat 40€ monthly fee for my practically unlimited 4G (max speed 100Mbits) subscription in Finland. 60€/month and I would get max 300Mbits. Obviously the top speeds are not available everywhere, but the in average the speeds are quite good and network coverage is not an issue. We currently have three operators. Two of them are completely local (Elisa, DNA) and third one (TeliaSonera) is active in nordic and baltic countries.

In many other European countries it is difficult (or impossible?) to find subscriptions with similar pricing. In quite many places there seems to be quite low (few gigs) transfer limits and for extra data you need to pay extra. Hard to see how the system could be setup so that the local operators could continue charging their high fees and yet I would be able to roam on their network without paying any extra.

The only way I can think of how we could complete get rid of roaming charges would be drastic consolidation on the operator market. When traveling abroad I wouldn't be roaming at all - I would be always on my home network.

Maybe the consolidation would be good on European level, but I'm a bit worried that at least for me this would mean much higher prices for mobile data. That's why my wish is that EU would just concentrate on lowering the roaming charges to more acceptable level instead of trying to get rid of them completely.
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> Nothing but Sun Glass Huts and McDonalds coast to coast.

This is so amazingly wrong I don't know where to begin.
Ask HN: Transitioning to Management, How Do You Enable Others to Do What You Do?
I'm at the point in my career where I've been recognized for the work that I do and it's led to a few different opportunities. Recently, I've had a lot of conversations with others interested in having me transition from product development / innovation to leadership for product developer / innovation. I'm trying to be thoughtful about how I'd enable others to achieve more than I have and what I could do to help smooth over the struggles I've had while trying to innovate.

Have any of you made a similar transition? If so, what worked and what didn't?
> Cephalopods are very distantly related to us. Our last common ancestor with cephalopods is also our last common ancestor with slugs and hookworms. Yet many species are obviously highly intelligent. Their intelligence seems to work very differently from vertebrate intelligence.

Similarly old low bit-width CPUs are "as" potent as nowadays CPUs according to the work/dataflow they have to handle. Or even OSes, win95 could do a lot that a recent Linux/WM can do at a tiny fraction of the structural cost/complexity. Also text encodings.
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I've used Feel At Home extensively in Australia, Hong Kong and France.

Data is plentiful ( up to 25GB ) but subjectively I found it quite slow

No tethering from iPhones... a real shit and I don't know why they structured it this way

Phone calls are inclusive if you're calling UK phone numbers. Great if you're calling your wife or mates. Calls to local numbers in the country you are staying are not included.

All in all an excellent package. It covers a lot of very common use cases although not truly everything. Costs absolutely slashed.
How can you override the Home button? Did you manage to get this work using the latest APIs as well, or are you using the deprecated KeyguardManager?

(When I've last checked, it looked like Android doesn't want developers to do such things in the long run: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10349685/not-able-disable...)
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Some are, true. But the ones with lots of features, that everyone really wants to use—the ones that you can make games for multiple platforms, and that big development houses use—those... are not free.
I see HN as a more professional version of tech subreddits with a higher standard in both content posted and discussion. I still use reddit to find some stuff but reddit is a lot more laid back and intelligent discussion is less likely to happen on that platform IMHO.
Eh, there's been far worse and their justification for it kinda-almost makes sense. They were trying to avoid 00 in the strings at all costs. It's simple enough to encode and decode: https://github.com/TkTech/Jawa/blob/master/jawa/util/utf.py#...
Interesting that apple seems to be following the same model as they did with their mobile devices in terms of developer functionality. Their view seems to be to start off really tightly locked down and then gradually open up additional features to developers. It makes sense in that its much easier to open stuff up after its been locked down then to lock down stuff once people have built stuff on it.
> I'm all for failing classes pervasive cheating. There isn't enough social pressure in schools to name and shame cheaters.

I'm all for failing individuals who cheat, including every single student in a class if that's the case. It's hard to tell if that's what's happened here. It kind of looks like the prof is (rightly) fed up with a bunch of things and (questionably) throwing a tantrum.

As for pressure to name and shame cheaters, note that it is usually a huge hassle to formally charge students with cheating. I know people who deal with this by giving exams that are hard to cheat on and really hard to pass without having done the assignments. The alternative involves a lot of interactions with the university bureaucracy for each case -- as it probably should.
Why would google do that?

Do you think they would tolerate for a second if you violated their page rank patent?
For me, the main reason I moved to iTerm2 was because terminal only had support for 16 colors (I think ... it was 4-5 years ago). So I just use iTerm now out of habit. I didn't have any other issues with Terminal.app.

And I suspect most others have similar reasons.
Every restriction that Apple made makes total sense for the short/medium term. Watch faces need to be impeccably programmed or are likely to dramatically reduce battery life (some of the existing ones use OpenGL). Developers shouldn't be redefining the behaviour of force touch or digital crown before users have had a chance to properly learn them and access to heart rate surely had FDA implications.

Tim Cook has stated that the focus for iOS development through to version 9 and likely a release or two afterwards will be performance and stability. Only then if Apple can push the battery life a few extra hours will they likely open the platform up a bit more.

Fully agree with the author how amazing it is seeing so many buggy apps after having a week to play with my watch. Even from some of the established players e.g. getting quota exceeded errors using Twitter.
Maybe, if there is evidence of coaches regularly traveling at twelve miles an hour or better. But Mark Twain, in Roughing It, gives eight or ten miles an hour as a good pace for a stage coach. I was never more than a decent recreational runner, but I could sustain six minute miles for an hour, and seven minute miles for three or four. That is not the sort of running that trains one to compete at elite (even high school) distances in the mile.
The last ten years have shown that to be false.
I'm an avid Redditor that is migrating to HN. When I experience Reddit withdrawal (it's a thing!) I realize that in my experience HN is a much more intellectual community. By that, I mean that the general HN community seems more driven to teach and learn about all kinds of topics. Reddit has its fair share of that (with more diversity due to a larger user base) but intermingled with a slew of cat memes, etc. that really contribute nothing to my life. People in some demographics may use it to procrastinate doing work, but I am working on finding more productive ways to do so. Certain subreddits such as /r/personalfinance can be useful for life advice, however, and it seems that many more AMAs are done on Reddit than anywhere else.
Except that it's often convenient for encodings to sort lexographically and numerically the same way. There are several multi-precision number formats with this property, but they're all either equally slow to load on any endian machine, or faster to load on big-endian machines.

Also, on a 64-bit big-endian architecture, you don't need specialized string comparison instructions to get efficient string comparisons. The code is only slightly more complicated on BE architectures that only support aligned 64-bit loads.
From the article:

Ethan's comment about the wiki page above is quite critical: "This comparison on the wiki is both inaccurate and skewed, as it contains incorrect bug data and mixes new features that have not yet been implemented. This has apparently been done with the intention of trying to make Nagios look bad in comparison to Icinga."
Heck, me too—I can think of several projects I worked on but eventually gave up on. If there was a way for me to get paid for it, still work on it, and have other people help out as well? Without having to operate my own storefront?
Agreed. While both places have their fair share of ego-stroking, HN seems to have a much more condescending tone.
I've been looking at alternative shells a while back and Fish looked interesting indeed. What made you choose this one over regular Bash and ZSH? Also, how do you deal with incompatibility issues (if any) and different environments (f.e. when SSH-ing to a server)?
I've found quite a bit of convergence when it comes to skepticism, realism, pragmatism, criticism, and like qualities.

Where HN differs the most to me is the lack of jokes or comments that really aren't directly related to the post. On Reddit, jokes, in-references, and memes are often very highly upvoted. On HN, that seems to be frowned upon and downvoted quickly.
I was referring to top-ups. Top-ups in France are crazy expensive, most major carriers charge over 30 cents per minute without a monthly plan and that's well over the current max for roaming.
Assume all you like. The written police reports all say "officer safety" and "feared for their lives", but it has become more common these past few years, with the rise of camera-equipped mobile phones and retail establishment surveillance cameras, for a video to surface after the report has been filed that completely contradicts the police perspective.

For instance, the report says "suspect reached for my gun" while the video shows "suspect attempting to flee". The report says "aggressive posture", "belligerent", or "combative stance", and the video shows "police employee suddenly attacks someone for no apparent reason".

This is exactly why Wisconsin took away the ability for police to investigate their own public mistakes and clear themselves of all wrongdoing.

So we cannot assume anything. We know that it is at least theoretically possible to employ people as professional police with a lower annual body count by examining other countries (and also that it is possible to kill more per year). Without an open process to examine and investigate the police-involved deaths, we cannot say with certainty that any percentage of them, from 0% to 100%, is due to intentional malicious acts.

It is certain that a positive percentage of all police reports involving use of force are falsified and later contradicted by bystander video recordings. And that is exactly why Colorado is implementing a "right to record" law, with a $15k penalty every time police interfere with people recording them doing their jobs.

And I dispute your later assumption that police are more heavily armed because they need to be to counteract criminals that are more heavily armed. They are more heavily armed because they can use civil forfeiture seizure proceeds to buy decommissioned or surplus military equipment. These "toys" are then used to conduct no-knock raids on people not known to be armed with anything at all.

If you stop assuming things about the police that tend to paint them in a more positive light, and look at only the facts that you can prove, the naked numbers are frightening.
Precisely. Ever since Reagan, Public schools are dwindling to Private with a token appreciation and control from the state.

My parents also told me of a time when one could work a summer job and pay for the rest of school year. Long are those times gone.
Here are 10 of them:

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Moore's law makes it faster, but Wirth's law compensates for that dearly. Let's also not forget that pesky Amdahl making our bottlenecks stay bottlenecks, as some things are just fundamentally wrong for performance.
They are now capped at 0.07 actually. National ones are not capped, and that's exactly my point.
From my understanding file is a pretty simple program, why does it need to care about privilege separation?
No, it's a collective of small companies who profit off the stupidity and false-validation of anti-GMO "activists". Every time a anti-GMOer googles "Why GMOs are bad" and clicks the first link someone who is pushing that propaganda gets paid.
Then do the Patreon model where the modder is "hired" by the community. The modder/s decide a minimum wage, and then see if the community is willing to continue to support the mod creation.

The beautiful aspect of this compared to selling products is that everyone involve know what is expected from each other, the responsibility to fix bugs is established in the beginning, and its very hard to sell someones else mod as your own.
I thought this was basically apparmour:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor
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I switched to Iterm2 a couple of years back, my main reason back then was that Terminal.app was missing a lot of features which I had gotten used to when using Linux (Terminator it was, I believe).
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Less pancakes, bacon, fries, pizza, hamburguers (and more vegetables and grains). Such greasy food might have sense on a hostile cold weather but that doesn't mean its good on the long term.
I 100% agree that the recruiter would have an adverse reaction to a city name that they have a difficult time pronouncing. I disagree that a recruiter is going to look at a city named "Rehab" and think "hmm... might be a drug addict" even subliminally.
Thanks for the info, as an outsider, it is a bit difficult to wade into the long discussions.
The compiler doesn't do the parsing for printf at compile time for the common cases? That's semi-surprising.
A great read, thanks. Incredible that he survived that fall.
file is indeed a pretty simple program. Why allow it to do more than it needs to?
Not ignoring the benefits to GMO, but how can I be sure any long-term health risks are aggressively watched for by the Cargill's and Monsanto's of the world? The US and EU are reasonably good at food safety, but managing food-related health risks is much more complexly difficult, and few in the lay public even appreciate the distinction.

Will the producers spend the budget to proactively and aggressively seek to test for health failure modes once the product is accepted by regulatory bodies and even consumers? No.

Even if they happen to find suggestions of a potential defect, will they pursue those hints with well-funded efforts for timely conclusions? No.

If long-term harm is found, will they continue to sell the product unless forced to retract by regulatory action or consumer backlash? Yes.

Let me put it another way. Say there is a $10B annual profit on $100B annual revenue for just one GMO product. It is all on the line, including the hefty annual bonuses contingent upon that profit, by the personal action of the executive board upon the results of a study that isn't well-publicized, but internal scientists say the study's conclusion of a strongly-suggested causal link are legit. Through inaction, "we need to study this more before taking drastic steps", yet another profitable quarter and bonuses are assured. What do you reasonably expect to happen in the real world?

The historical record conclusively shows the food industry as a whole does not work with extremely long-term (decades) health issues. They generally leave that up to the medical industry, which introduces an entirely different set of problems. It is only recently that the lipid hypothesis is coming under much more rigorous scrutiny. We continue to flood our supply chains with simple carbohydrates, even after ample evidence showing how they play a large role in harming our bodies when consumed in large quantities over decades-long periods.

Understand I'm not claiming this is by malicious action. This is simply what happens under our current incentive structures and our current civilization's culturally-driven risk assessment mechanisms. As a species so far, we're pretty good at responding to fast-acting risks on short timelines, but as the risks' effects become more diffuse to detect over longer timelines, our capacity to respond, especially through committee-heavy organizations, is sharply diminished.

Stepping back for perspective, this is actually somewhat a good problem to face. This signals our tool usage has gotten complex enough that we are facing increasingly longer timespans of effects, meaning over successive generations we are gradually building up surplus productive capacity to fund increasingly sophisticated and/or complex tools to address ever more complex problem spaces.
It seems like standards can be a bit relaxed when you are submitting an app that aligns with Apple's strategy.
It has a history of vulnerability to maliciously constructed input files. It's often used as a validator ("is this file.jpg actually a jpg or an executable?") and/or run as root.
If I test in Chrome and Firefox on Windows, why would I need to on Mac?
If I'm developing something for the web and I've already done functional testing in Chrome, Firefox, and IE on Windows do I really need to do the same on OS X? Are the browsers (Chrome and Firefox) widely different in how they work between each operating system that separate tests are needed in each browser for each OS?
It's working as intended then.
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Hey,

It's a combination of a few tricks for multiple devices. First and foremost, we use an overlay alert to paint over the whole screen. We detect if that fails to work and let you set our application as the default launcher. The launcher is the application that is moved to foreground when you press home, so that eliminates that. Once you unlock the phone, we disable our launcher functionality and let the default launcher go. We've iterated over the locking for months with over 100k users testing our locking methods for our other lock screen application. Unfortunately, the difficulty to properly lock the screen dragged our rating down over there (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tengu.musi...), however recently we've been getting mostly positive reviews.

Anyhow, locking mechanism aside, any suggestion for monetisation strategies? :P

Edit: rephrase.
I've tried to use it in US (SF and Hawaii), but the data speed was unbearably slow (it wasn't even 2G speed). I don't know it that was fault of 3 or local operators/coverage.
We've always known it's slow. It has a ton of other problems as well, not least of which is pointless duplication. But its speed has always been terrible.
Generally on HN we like to say why we think something is bad, rather than merely labelling it as stupid.

Free market value is a common measure of fairness. You might disagree (eg, you could argue Steam has a monopoly on PC gaming, likewise non-official app stores are rare on cell phones, so it's not a free market), but you should state why.
Such a plan, I think, would require another method of monetization.

Paid apps as a monetization strategy has failed. Advertising I think is failing too.

Free with in-app purchase is making a lot of money but people don't like it.

This is a big challenge for apple.
You can also short cut the system by spray painting your $400 Apple Watch with some $20 paint to make it look nearly identical to the $10k Gold Apple Watch
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In some cases this rule could be bad for customers, too. In Finland uncapped 4G data with monthly price is the norm, and if the carrier cannot charge extra for data roaming in other EU countries, it can only lead to higher prices or discontinuation of uncapped data. Carriers still have to pay each other roaming fees after this rule is in place, right?
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"What would you suspect was the problem, the manager or the workers?"

Well, "the manager's manager" is an option here too. "Mismatch of responsibility and authority" is certainly a fundamental problem that schools at all levels from kindergarten to university have been struggling with as our society goes through its social changes, as we keep loading responsibilities on to the teachers even as we strip away their authority.

Whether or not this is the case, I don't know. As others have observed, there isn't anywhere near enough info to conclude anything here.
I'm a Swede living in Germany. Here in Germany, all telcos basically count your download limit in MB's and you don't get many of them. Speeds feel like 2007, and only one company have 4G (last time I checked, maybe 1/2 years ago).

Seemingly a week after I top up my prepaid, I get a text (of course impossible to get service in English or any other language by the way) about having used up almost all of my lot. And I make sure not to use services that are video or picture heavy.

I have nothing but bad experiences with German telcos - my girlfriend had to fight customer service (hah!) for half a year before they finally let her end her contract and agreed she was right. Same for me when I last left Germany.

If I could, I would throw out my German phone company this instant.
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From what I remember, it's actually does quite complicated things internally. It does some heuristics on the file content based on some rule to determine the file format. You can also add new file formats this way, there is a 'magic' file you can add somewhere in /usr/share for that (I don't remember exactly where). And there is literally thousands of file types to test. Anyway, if you have ever coded in C you know what might happen with complex-byte manipulation...
Compared to Reddit, it's a land of kisses and rainbows.

More seriously, it probably depends on the tone you take. In all the times I've posted here, I've tried to be respectful and I've almost always received respect in turn, even when people didn't agree with me.
Or vice versa...

If I test Chrome and Firefox on a Mac, why would I need to on Windows?
Organic is unattainable except for the elite who pay more and use more land for less crops.

http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230443110457...

which is weakly responded to by

http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/05/response-wall-street-journ...
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If you stick to just the popular subreddits, you are doing yourself a disservice. Subreddit subscriptions are what make Reddit really nice.

If you are trying to compare /r/programming to HN, you really don't understand the purpose of either I should think.
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Though. it's sometimes convenient to have a lexographical sort result in a numeric ordering. For instance, if you're storing timestamps as multi-precision integers using a Rice-Golomb encoding that sorts the same way lexographically and numerically, decoding is faster if your CPU is big-endian.