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>> barking of dogs, grunting of hogs, wailing of cats, rumbling of rats, gagling of geez, humming of bees, rousing of bucks, gagling of ducks, singing of swains, ringing of panns, crowing of cockes, cackling of hens, scrapling of pens, heeping of mice, trulling of dice, curling of frogs and todes in the bogs, churking of crickets, strutting of wickets, scratching of owls, fluttering of fowls, routing of knaves, snorting of slaves, farting of churls, sisling of girls, with many things else; as ringing of bells, counting of coins, mounting of groins, whispering of lovers, springling of plovers, grouting and spinning, baking and brewing, scratching and rubbing, watching and shrugging.

What a phenomenal passage. I've never read it before, but when I got to "farting of churls" I wanted to get it embroidered on a wall hanging.
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It is entirely legitimate to point out that somebody the submission is going in the wrong direction, yes they spend a bunch of time on it, but that is sunk cost and better they not waste any more.

GP was to the point, but not mean and added something to the discussion (even if you disagree with it). You, however, were rude.
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Most of this bailout money will go straight back to paying interest on the bad loans that caused the crisis.

If that's the case, then Greece shouldn't have much of a problem. If X% of the money will go to paying interest, then the Greeks can default and their budgetary shortfall is only (100-X)%.

So why is Greece so keen on having other people send them money?

Also, no austerity can be imposed on the Greeks - Greece is a sovereign nation. Greece can choose to trade austerity for money, or they can choose to default and do whatever they like (although of course they will need to pay for it themselves).
Apple's actual market share is less than 20% of all smartphones worldwide, though their share of profits is at 92%. This is not about their phone selling more than other phones (they aren't necessarily), but rather how Apple manages profit margins. Their phones are much more expensive than the competition, command premium prices and thus yield premium profits.
> "Disabling Java in your preferred browser is for now is a better option. Use a secondary browser with Java enabled to view sites you absolutely must visit and which require it."

Do news sites say things like "Not using Safari is for now a better options" whenever somebody reports an exploitable security flaw in Safari or WebKit?
Spain and Italy have cut their deficits in half.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/spain/government-budget

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/italy/government-budget

Robust growth predicted for Spain :
http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/spain-economic-forecast-summ...

Robust growth is projected over the next two years, driven by very supportive financial conditions

http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/italy-economic-forecast-summ...

After a long recession, the Italian economy has started its gradual recovery. Output is projected to grow by 0.6% in 2015 and by 1.5% in 2016/
Go is not the new C. It's not up to the same tasks, full stop (memory management being the number one killer.) C is still the new C, and your best low level bet. (Rust should take over, but people don't do what they should.)
Does it "matter"? If I 'install' it (don't have to be online to use it) and, it appears on my dock, and doesn't spin up fans every 2 seconds, it's native enough.
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I'd rather just game on my 3DS or PS Vita instead - phone battery life is still miserable with intense games, and performance is also questionable.

Phones are just not built to be a good gaming platform as is, and I am not convinced they will be comparable in experience for at least another decade, if not longer. The technology isn't optimal yet.
In 2015, not proportional to that profit difference, no. iPhones are not dozens of times better than all Android phones. There's something else to it, the construction of some sort of successful moat that allows them to charge more.
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Ask HN: What is the most crucial knowledge a non-technical founder should have?
Hey all,

I would like to get your thoughts on the subject.

- If you are a non-technical cofounder of a tech business, what would be the first things that you wish you should have known from day 1?

- If you are a technical cofounder, what is the topmost item in the must-learn list for an ideal non-technical cofounder?

I am not asking for which skills, rather for more specific things e.g : They should know about how internet works, how coding / programming works, they should understand the basics of the service architecture etc.

Thoughts?
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Hardware is nothing without software.

They make more desirable phones because they make iOS.

People don't so much care about the iPhone; they want iOS and the safety, convenience, and integration with the Apple software ecosystem.

Apple has leveraged this into a hugely profitable position by making the only hardware supported by this OS.

The iPhone is crap when evaluated on battery life or camera quality, for example.

It's software that's eating the world.
Most people are diagnosed around 60. Anybody who gets it before 50 has a form that is considered "Young Onset PD"

source: http://www.parkinson.org/Parkinson-s-Disease/Young-Onset-Par...
I've used apt pinning before though, and I'm quite sure rollback of a package update that has a dependency conflict with the old version is not as easy.

Aptitude has always handled that just fine for me, downgrading the dependencies as well if needed.
Europe is taking losses. Banking is becoming a risk-free businees, I wouldn't call this capitalism.
If it were that simple, wouldn't they have more than 20% market share? It seems clear to me that iPhone owners are paying a premium for the branding, which is pure profit from Apple's perspective.
More desirable as in; people are willing to pay more.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/03/27/firefox-39-tracking-protect...
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I'm talking from a graduate perspective, but the courses I TAd for undergrad were not what I would call 'primitive engineering' as there is an emphasis on analysis and rigor.

It is a science to be able to build programs and prove things about them. It is way more abstract maths than anything in engineering (linear algebra still has some physical grounding in reality, where category theory is more for the organization of mind).
An FPS is certainly more technically demanding than War.
> they really don’t have much to complain about.

Really? I'd complain quite a bit about a 25% GDP drop, regardless of whether it was "overinflated" to start with.
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Well, ignorance also tends to fuel any number of flamewars...

In my experience with RDS as a MySQL admin, Amazon was not using sane defaults for quite some time, which resulted in a remarkably non-performant product. Thankfully, they listened to feedback, so over the course of a few years the MySQL RDS instances started to become much more dependable and useful. I'd be happy to use one today, which is something I couldn't have said too long ago.

And even with RDS, having a DBA available (even just as a consultant) is still quite useful - it's unrealistic to expect your developers to write ideal SQL. You can get a long ways with RDS if your queries and schemas are well tuned.
Or along with Sedgwick's old algorithms book. Reading it at a fast pace will give anyone a good survey of algorithms. I read the Pascal version, and it was clear enough to pick up a fair idea of many things.
>> The attack leverages a three-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Common Controls CVE-2012-015

MSFT provided a patch long time ago for this. Wouldn't it imply that applying MSFT's patch is enough?
Lenders already took a 53.5% haircut in 2011. In return, the Greeks were supposed to implement structural reforms and privatization. They delayed implementing that until 2014 at which point they officially repudiated their side of the agreement (but kept the money).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#2...

So yes, so far, only one side (lenders) has taken losses.
Which would indicate desirability, no?
Buffer overflow in the jpg, png or bmp decoder libraries?
Oh no, we must disable Java.
To achieve what? If you are executing Java locally it already has full disk and network access?
Absolutely folks are not rational. The entire existence of the 'payday loan' industry proves that.

Rationality is also subjective. What you'd do, with your safety net and well-off family and house with no mortgage, is entirely different from what someone one check from homelessness may choose to do. And it may look irrational.
Replying here to keep all the trivia in one place, but here's a spoof Werner Herzog short "documentary" on Where's Waldo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek
Too much choice makes users unhappy.

I thought that was well enough known from UX research that it shouldn't be a controversial decision?
Ask HN: Give direction to artist for developing technical skills as backup plan
I know an artist (primarily painting and drawing) in her late-20s who lives in a small US town (2-hours drive from any major city). Not starving but hard-pressed to live solely off her art. Didn't complete her college degree, work experience is very minimal, and doesn't have any other well-developed skills. Smartly, she wants a backup plan while still pursuing her passion. I've encouraged her to consider tech as an option because: 1) there's a push to encourage women in tech which might give her opportunities she wouldn't otherwise have; 2) there is much she can learn for free if she's self-motivated; 3) she likes the idea of "designing websites to make them look better"; 4) tech skills can be a great source of supplemental income for short durations; 5) I once convinced her to start learning HTML by taking a free course on the Web and she seemed to enjoyed it (but didn't stick with it more than a few days on her own); 5) she's good with Photoshop.

She thinks she could invest a little of her minimal savings to take courses (unclear how much). I've suggested 3 areas to research: graphic design, UI/UX, and programming. I explained that, although GD is where she'd see the most overlap with her current skills and, thus, be the easiest transition, GD has the least applicability to most tech jobs and likely would be much more useful for certain jobs in advertising/marketing (both of which she's not interested in). She really likes the idea of UI/UX but admits her organizational skills aren't good and her thinking strikes me as not hierarchical or data-driven (and sometimes even a bit scattered). She thinks she could stay motivated in a coding class because others would be pushing her, but learning on her own isn't going to happen.

Any advice? She's such a good person, enjoys learning, and wants to support herself but self-motivation, especially in the early stages until she develops self-confidence with a particular skill, would be a challenge.
If you're hiring remote sysadmins, I'd work for you. I love carrier-level challenges, but not enough to move to Montana.
This is true, fewer models make buying easier. Plus if you buy the current generation you are getting "top of the line", last generations still on sale is still usable.

Plus with just 2-3 models apple only has to pay for engineering and designing 2-3 models. Plus it saves on the software testing (which despite that still is a bit buggy).

As long as your use-case meshes with apples things are good.
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And would that not mean that their phone is more desirable? Lots of things are desirable that are not affordable and are not, therefore, purchased in vast quantities.
So? Loans carry an inherent risk with them. Banks and other institutions chose to take that risk and sometimes it doesn't pay out. Why should we protect private institutions from a risk they voluntarily assumed?

Banking is not risk free, nor should it be.
> A buffer overflow vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment with processing PNG images may allow an untrusted Java Web Start application to escalate privileges.

Java Web Start: In computing, Java Web Start (also known as JavaWS, javaws or JAWS) is a framework developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) that allows users to start application software for the Java Platform directly from the Internet using a web browser.
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But what happens if you forgive 50%, 60% or even 100% of all Greek debt? Sure the Greeks have some breathing room and don't have to pay crippling interest for a while. But it won't fix the rampant corruption, nepotism, mismanagement, tax evasion, and downright fraud that seems to be quite systemic in Greece. At least that's the impression that I have, maybe incorrectly and unfairly. I don't know.

But the point is, if you forgive the Greek their debt, how do you know that they won't return to their old ways and ruin their country yet another time? How do you know that you won't have the same problems again 15-20 years down the road? And should you bail them out again then?

I'm not saying the proposed solution is great. It's not. But my impression is that the Greek are hemming and hawing, and doing their best to avoid any structural reforms that would prevent such a crisis from happening again. They don't seem to take responsibility for their mismanagement and they don't seem to see any reason why they should change their behavior. They put band aids on some parts and the people suffer, and the creditors are partly to blame. But no one seems to be interested in getting rid of the systemic issues like corruption, tax evasion and fraud.

I think that's the difference. The creditors don't trust the Greeks to fix their country because they don't seem to think any of it is their fault. But the creditors did trust Germany to fix its problems after WW2.

EDIT: replaced "debtor" with "creditor".
Neither statement is unreasonable.

In this case, it's an easier statement to make, though, because Java is totally unnecessary for the vast majority of users. I've had it disabled for many years.
The browser is native code, the app is compiled to native machine code. There are no virtual machines involved, except the JS VM on the browser (and this doesn't need JS).

So it's native at least along those lines.
And that kids is what you get when you deal with carrier update plans for your devices, allow bundling of crapware with the phones and do your best to kill your operating system with fragmentation ...

A political decision that was bad is keeping on giving.

Apple victory was given to them
The banks have taken some losses as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#c...
Might want to check out some of the side projects posted on sideproectors (disclaimer - I run this site)

https://www.sideprojectors.com

I suppose, it could be the opposite of what you're asking. These are side projects that people want to sell. But many of them have recurring revenue.
Yet, in at least North America, equivalent "high end" Android smartphones cost the same on contract and even off contract than iPhones. I can get an older iPhone 5c for free (probably a 5S is I go with a smaller carrier). Where are people paying a "premium" for the iPhone?

Is is that not enough people choose the flagship Android devices to move the needle? I'm genuinely curious/asking because it seems/appears there's some parity (price) between the current flagship Android devices and Apple's newest.
You should file a bug. That's absolutely unacceptable. (And I didn't see this happen, so I suspect it wasn't intended)
All the money is in the flagship phones. If Apple has a good year for flagships (like finally releasing larger phones), and the others have a bad year (like the underwhelming Galaxy S5), Apple is going to make most of the money.
One of them has been switching to patches with the intention of quitting.

I believe that damage to the lungs is a real possibility, especially if the voltage is too high in the coils.

I can see no possibility that vaporizing tobacco extract is more harmful than smoking raw tobacco, either from a lung health or a cancer perspective.

I think vaping wta is a prudent harm reduction technique.
I admit I lol'd.
Move fast and break things.

At least they're not a bank.
Second this in general, although I don't think du (and consequently ncdu) will show anything about disk space claimed by deleted but unclosed file descriptors.
That was the biggest attack vector but not the only one. Many of these image exploits also applied to e.g. pure server-side software that happened to use the java standard library to process user-submitted images.
Maybe it's just that your expectations don't match what Nintendo is aiming for. If you're looking for high-end graphics, you'll have to go elsewhere.
That surprised me, too. I'd have thought they'd have an API for all this kind of stuff, so the front end page rendering part simply couldn't make these mistakes.

Maybe it was too limiting (slow dev) to have change two things anytime they needed different data? Or perhaps at one point there were performance concerns?
For that 20% of the market, sure. For the 80% that buy non-Apple phones, they are clearly more "desirable" to them.
Oh really, you're not going to change the name because 3 people on HN suggested it?

Good on you :)

I doubt it will make a real difference to anyone that wants to use it. If Google can name a language Go, then you can name your product Fuse.
Do you really think taxi drivers prefer to work with Uber because of lower profit? Like masochists?
Depends how you quantify "desirable" but since there are many more Android phones in the world than iPhones, some would say that means Android phones are more desirable. But either way, that really has little to do with profits. If I sell just one item in my entire life for a million bucks, something that cost me ten bucks to make, that is pretty impressive profits, even though it was not desirable since only one person bought it.
But note that there is now confusion in the translation - his first sentence no longer corresponds to the second.

Besides an italian translator could misread the statement and do the translation based on what he read, rather than what was written.
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The danish government used a Java-applet to confirm your identity up until October 2014, where it was replaced with a Javascript version.

Even though it is now replaced, the install-base is still huge because people don't delete the plugins :(
Check out Nymi [https://www.nymi.com/], also in this space.
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Except that Android phones sell great, they just don't make much money for their makers.
Well I paid $1000 including Apple Care for my iphone, so that's a pretty hefty profit to Apple!
Apple captured the top 10% of world's population in terms of discretionary income, and so they are making massive profits. Their key demographic is well-to-do in developed countries and rich in developing/middle-income countries. There is a NYU Professor who mapped iOS and Android devices, and the map of LA showed really rich parts dominated by IPhone.
Mostly because it's just a rebrand of the ESR releases.
You're right, but looking at the long term it helps to be as well rounded as possible. Short term you only need to know what's on the want ad.
> trending into negative territory

i dont get how interest can be negative - i get paid money for borrowing?!
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Isn't this similar to the PC market? The beige boxes became a commodity, and all profits went to Intel and Microsoft. Dell, Compaq, Gateway, HP, etc. all barely made money in the consumer market. How will Samsung, HTC, et. al differentiate their devices?
Neither does Spotify. Visually it's out of place on every platform, and performance on computers older than few years has become unacceptable IMHO.
I would kind of agree with you. I use android because I can simply plug it in and drag and drop any file I want. Yes, there's dropbox, etc. Those aren't options for me. Also, I love the way Android allows data to be shared between apps. I find it very intuitive.

If iOS had those things, I think I'd try switching, just to get something new.
Krugman on the "madness" of the demands and "Killing the European Project": http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/killing-the-euro...
They're two independent projects and architecturally quite different (what with the Dis VM being king in Inferno), even though the 9P protocol and much of the Plan 9 userland was reused.

Plan 9 never used Limbo natively from what I know. Only C and Alef. Limbo was ported to it, however.
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2013/

There's some lag in those appearing, though.
it's better to make the software robust by design and through testing.

But that's a false dichotomy; having SSH in no way prevents you from designing and testing your software just as well.
From what I've read, they were actually trying to get back their own CNC server (which they had somehow lost access to), and the "third-party ISP" (Aruba) was co-operating with them.

I agree that the Italian ROS (which is part of the Carabinieri, a military police force that ended up being the main Italian police force because of accidents of history and a local penchant for fascism) were heavy-handed, as they are all the time. For all our crying about NSA, European law enforcement agencies are typically much worse.
Why is it clear to you that the premium is purely a function of branding, and that physical attributes of the product are not also factored in somehow?

This is not a rhetorical question: I could imagine a study that would explore the influence of brand vs. size, density, materials, etc.
I didn't need to for the problem I was solving.
Also, profit formulas aren't that simple. You have consider Apple's costs vs their revenue for each phone, and also their contract terms with providers vs other phones. I don't know the details. But perhaps Apple earns more for their phone contracts even if consumers pay the same. One thing we do know is that Apple leads the world in an extremely well-oiled production pipeline and network of suppliers that no doubt also helps keep their costs down and thus their profits high. I doubt Android manufacturers are operating at that same margin.
I literally just went there to check if it'd updated!
I'd consider the HTC One series and the new Galaxy S6 to be luxury phones on par with the iPhone or even better in some respects. The build quality and refinement is top notch.
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They did?

KHTML became WebKit. I'm sure many of the original authors moved along with it. And WebKit is far more popular than Gecko.