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The pirate station equipment is not so expensive, and in fact, petty phreakers use it pretty frequently to do basic SMS frauds in heavily populated areas. Maidan protesters have found themselves on a receiving end of false-station SMS frauds since November, so we know for a _fact_ that criminals do operate them.

The government could as well, of course, but I'm going by an Occam razor here.

What do you mean by “military attention”?

This specific instance might or might not have been. I'm just telling you that the pirate base stations have been operating in the Maidan area and have been used for nefarious purposes since November at least. Knowing some of the petty phreaking criminals that do stuff like this, I assumed that it's much more likely to be a prank.

It's amazing people don't understand this is an elaborate mass prank. Pirate base stations have been present in the area since the disturbances began, already being used for nefarious purposes before (SMS/money transfer fraud and so on). Whoever operates these is a petty criminal, not a nefarious government – if I'd have an opportunity to send thousands of protesters anything I want, I'm sure I'd pull a prank like this as well.

Mail.app has these issues consistently, across versions. Which is a real shame, because UX-wise it is a really fine mail client.

Also, threading algorithm changed slightly in Mavericks, leading to many more mistakes than ever before.

At this point, I would be actually happy for Disney IP to be in copyright forever, as long as they leave the copyright law alone and works start entering public domain again.

For most search queries, the results are identical or very similar, although DDG does a lot of enhancement/cleanup.

Just to clarify – there are 108 distinct licenses used. So apart from Apache, BSD, GPL v2, GPL v3, LGPL, there are 103 _different_ license terms used.

IP law, as currently used, is something really overcomplicated.

Orange wouldn't. By this logic, many oddities in color naming can be abstracted over languages, see for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Univer...

I've seen somewhere a test for how many color words are there in the language - only color-words which do not correspond to a specific material or plant which color is emulated are accepted. So “red” or “blue” is fine, as is “piros” or “vörös” - but “sky blue” (color of sky), “ruby” (color of the gemstone) or “scarlet” (color of the Scarlet cloth) are not.

Fuzzy buckets are wonderful for exactly this kind of case. If you're alone, it doesn't matter whether there are 5 or 50 wolves - you're fucked anyway.

On the other hand, if you're a scout for an armed band of hunters, 5 are no longer “a lot”, it is “some” - and 50 is a lot.

That's lovely. The DSL for defining custom blocks seems unnecessarily verbose, though.

Why would a culture that has no trade need numbers? Approximate buckets are good enough for the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

After all, it were Sumerian traders and bureaucrats who gave us both figures -and- numbers -and- a way to write them down.

Can you do headings with Sir Trevor? If so, I didn't find a way.

P word? Which one?

It's obvious — the terrorists that hate your freedoms!

Your skin is brown? DROP A BOMB. You're a Muslim? DROP A BOMB, AND ONE MORE, TO BE SURE. You're a goddamn Ruski commie? BOMB, BOMB, BOMB.

MacBook Airs don't support two ACDs, at all.

Android is essentially GNU-less.

Given that VC-backed startups are obviously receiving far more press than bootstrapped ones, is there any statistics on how widespread are former and latter, and how successful they are, in consumer Web?

Amazing, thanks!

As a bit of a shameless plug (I work for one of the organizers of the event), would really recommend you to tweak the schedule a bit to be in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 25-26 — Investors' Day Central and Eastern Europe will be undergoing, with quite a lot of startups from the region attending (had over a hundred last year) and plenty of opportunity to communicate.

Can we please keep the spam out of HN?

Did you package it yourself or used some package/library?

Soylent Green is people.

Seriously though, an idea of a fake meat modified to taste like human meat is both troubling and intriguing.

Not all of the pig/cow energy is spent on producing muscle mass/fat, essentially, it is eliminated with industrial production.

Initially, it probably will be quite expensive, but it is most certainly _potentially_ cheaper than real meat due to tech advances and economies of scale.

As for farm animals, they will be just bred less. Nobody will mass slaughter them just because there is a cheaper source of meat.

Simple static typing is not, actually, static code is easier to write than dynamic in many cases.

Powerful typing system, like the one Scala or Haskell have, is brutal as much as it is magical.

That's odd, since “overtime is bad, more time is not more productivity” seems to be all the mantra.

The thing is, that for a young, smart person, mechanically giving up 50, 60, heck, 100 hours per week is not that hard, but it gives the nice “hero” feeling, social kudos.

Empirically, in full-time scenario (30+ hours per week), there is no difference in velocity of development work with more time spent; yet, there are toxic social effects.

Basically: what do the people who bash “undertimers” think?