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Actually, Navteq is no longer an independent entity since 2011-2012. The business unit is now called HERE [1] and mostly divided between Germany and the US.

It provides maps services for MS, MapQuest, Garmin, Amazon, Yahoo! Maps, Yandex, BMW, Oracle GIS...

But the Navteq brand still exists.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...

Navteq is part of Nokia. And Nokia Here [1], their maps service (used by MS, Yandex, etc), is actually mostly divided between offices in Germany and the US.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...

Edit: added a reference to Nokia's company structure.

Another point of view on the protests: http://abrazilianoperatinginthisarea.wordpress.com/2013/06/1...

This started because of a raise in bus fares, but the fact that more and more people are protesting has a lot to do with police brutality in repressing the first protests.

Most people in Brazil don't usually protest (nor actually fill complains when wronged), due to a variety of reasons.

But whenever there is a protest it is quickly classified into either: a) "just vandalism", or b) "peaceful protests".

For what the media/elite calls as 'a)', the typical Brazilian attitude is quite weird. Most people in Brazil have this very fascist view that police should be brutal with "criminals". Whoever they might be. As long as not themselves.

However, for the rarer cases where 'b)' happens (and is viewed as such by most people), which was the case here, it might be different. In the current case, police brutality backfired and became one of the main reasons for the escalation of protests and its spread to other cities.

PS: I'm a Brazilian citizen.

Brazilian citizen here too.

While there are programs for income redistribution, and they do make an enormous difference on the lives of most of the poor people that receive it, it is far from enough.

The Bolsa Família program pays from USD$ 16.00 to a maximum of USD$ 153.00 (few people get the max amount) per month to a family. This benefit is payed to some 12 million families.

Just to give a more general view of the context. Brazil has the concept of a minimum monthly salary, that currently amounts to USD$ 334.15. But many people (even if employed) don't get a minimum wage per month.

On the other hand, while Brazil has the world's 7th biggest economy (already adjusted by purchasing power parity), the bottom half of the population (~85 million people) only get 13 per cent of all household income.

I'm familiar with that. And the guy proposes 22Km as the limit.

Besides, a lot has changed in the use of airspace and space in the last 8 years.

Yet, I don't know of any authoritative source for the actual current claims of most countries.

As far as I know there is no international agreement on this. Altitude can vary from 30Km to 160Km.

Most countries seem to claim somewhere between 70Km and 100Km as their airspace.

If someone has more details on this, it's very welcome.

As far as I know, the company keeps the goods. And the more high-priced items (laptop, TV, etc.) can't be paid in cash on delivery (only credit card or Internet banking accepted for those).

In China you can have Amazon (and other major e-commerce firms) ship things to your home or office and pay in cash on delivery (for most items).

The amount of delivery people in Beijing, especially near lunch time, is quite impressive.

Actually, when I submitted the article I changed the title to "Singapore Institutes New Rules to Control Media/Websites", as the original title was also not that good.

HN moderators came up with the current butchered title.

I have lived in Singapore and still have many friends there. That's one of the main reasons for me to submit this article.

I really liked the place, but for the complete control on media by the government and for this kind of measures to both stop criticism and "assure a peaceful society".

I'm really not sure if PAP would have the support it does if people could freely criticize it.

Another interesting related effect has also to do with how Singaporeans see themselves in relation to creativity and spontaneity due to the way things are structured there.

But USD 2k is a whole lot of money for people in some of the countries where they'd need to resort to this to put something on the Google store. Not something you'd easily have access to.

And there are also the issues in sending that money abroad. It's not so easy in many of those countries too.

The cooking and spices comment applies to insects too. I didn't say you have to eat insects by themselves. I still prefer them over chicken.

If we're talking about not using much seasoning/condiments/side dishes, then nothing beats nice beef.

And, in my opinion, chicken's dark meat is much better than the white.

It depends. Some coconut larvae taste great by themselves. The squishy inside of barbecued silk worms are also pretty good, for example.

But for many insects, yes, the seasoning is what counts. Or they can be just part of a more elaborate dish.

Most of the world population is in Asia, where many don't have that negativity. Other huge chunks of people in Africa.

I can definitely see, with time, other places "adapting".

I currently live in Asia, so it's relatively easy for me to find them. Where are you based? If in the US, I suggest looking on the Internet for some cicada recipes! Roasted.

Most insects can just be fried. Sometimes people add some salt, or some other sauce/seasoning and that's it.

For crickets, yes, when fried they just become salty and crunchy. And you can eat the whole thing. Which is great with beer. :)

For spiders, I've only had the larger ones. So there is actually some "meat". And the taste reminds me of crab.

Not really. Especifically in the case of the bird flu, that was mentioned above, chicken get them from birds in the wild. So commercial poultry sometimes might have its advantages.

I disagree that chickens taste better than most insects. My experience is quite the opposite.

Chicken is usually more bland, I guess. While insects vary a lot. Some can be pretty tasty, others quite awful.

I guess I qualify. I usually make a point of trying new food, and insects were no exception. After trying some I really became fond of them.

Of course, occasionally I try some new ones that turn out to have an awful taste. :) But the same applies to other food anyways.

In many places people have no trouble eating them; some are even considered a delicacy.

From the ones I've tried, some are actually pretty tasty. The best are: bamboo worm, barbecued silk worm, fried spider, water roach, and fried crickets.

If anybody is curious, I can comment more on these and others. :)

One of mine had a road sign with a city name in Finish. That one was easy. :)

From my point of view the guy does a good job of showing the three cases.

Would you have a specific suggestion to improve his presentation?

Porting is to make something that runs in a platform/environment run in another one.

Not necessarily having to do with coding in another language. Sometimes it's just a recompilation, or providing a new hardware abstraction layer (HAL). But sometimes it can lead to major re-development of the whole thing, be it using the same language, or a different one.

Well, in that case you'd need to include Belize and Guyana.

My comment was just a reply to the mention of there being only two English speaking countries in America/Americas. Not about the page title.

There's also the Bahamas, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Belize, and Jamaica; where most of the population speak English or English-based creoles.

And if you count countries that have English as official language there are also Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Saint Lucia. At least.

All combined they have a summed population of more than six million English-dialect-speaking people.

This one is much easier to read: http://robertspage.com/dialects.html

And, at parts, also more interesting. Even if not as detailed.

Am I the only one who read that as "grew up in Hacker News"? :)

On a slightly more serious note, I got 93% North Central. As a non-native speaker, I have no idea why or how.

Just look at Brazil's income distribution program: Bolsa Familia.

It has been shown to improve local economies and people's lives. Even though it is not completely unconditional and doesn't quite get to provide enough for basic needs.

I'm not really interested in those two specific examples used by the OP. My question was more along the lines of the beginning of your reply.

The association of the features you mention with 'our' view of democracy is part of why I personally associate "democracy" and "good".

But, for example, why is it "bad" if people democratically choose a government with values different from ours? Shouldn't the 'voice of the people' be of enough value?

While this helps showcase the problem in nomenclatures and how people relate to them, I personally don't feel there was that much to this specific claim/complaint.

The population at the 'British Mandate of Palestine' (which resulted in the name of the unit in the British army at the time) was mostly of Arabs. Especially if you also count parts of Transjordan that some claim where also "Palestinian".

Agreeing to definitions is usually hard, and especially so in that region.