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I buy most of my books on Kindle (like probably 90-95%). This includes a ton of indie books that are only available (or predominantly available) in electronic form. The only books I buy in print are books by major publishers, which are now more expensive on Kindle than they are in print (this is a new development in the past couple of years). Still, I find electronic more convenient (especially in the case of large books with lots of pages).

In my opinion, this isn't going to hold up long-term. Amazon makes a good point when they say that publishers will make more money (in the form of more copies sold) at a lower price, and I think that major publishers will eventually come around (either that or they will perish). To some degree, digital distribution obviates the need for traditional publishers, and as more popular authors start ditching publishers entirely, I predict that eBook prices will gradually drop, and print books will resume their decline.
Will that leave the car with less horse power or reduced fuel consumption? If so more lawsuits around the corner
A 1.07% increase is a 1.0107 multiplier.
For anyone interested in this a good search term for GS is "serious games". "Simulation and Gaming" is a good journal to browse.
The linked document, '75 Years of the Fundamental Diagram for Traffic Flow Theory' is amazingly in-depth:

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec149.pdf
They'll still figure out who you are and harass you. It's an added dynamic that just doesn't exist with moderation on 4chan

No, 4chan just generates and targets harassment against other identifiable people instead, including those not on 4chan, and the moderators are complicit in this harassment by not removing threads organizing it.
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Funny how leaders rather would declare "state of emergency" than alter the city planning that causes too little housing to be built.
On the other hand, the Apple watch is also nearly 45% bezel: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/apple-... though it somehow looks slightly smaller with the square glass.
Sometimes I find Wikipedia's "haphazard" articles are actually a benefit, because in practice they often seem to end up covering a subject from multiple angles, with lots of examples etc.

My impression is that in many cases this is because there were multiple major authors without a master plan for writing the article, so they ended up sort of putting it all in.

For someone (like me!) who's struggling to grasp a subject, seeing a subject described from multiple points of views, targeting varying levels of expertise, can be immensely helpful.

A traditional encyclopedia article, on the other hand, is probably more likely to be well-structured and comprehensive, but ... I think can be harder to grasp for someone that's not quite up to the material.

It may be kind of ugly, but the "Just throw it all in!" approach does have some real merit...
Why do people chose to use hosting services with no cap, and then complain that their bills are arbitrarily high? You agreed to that in the Terms and Conditions.

Just use a service with a fixed monthly rate for a fixed capacity, and up/downgrade as needed. Of course you don't want your service to be shut down after reaching a limit, but you should be watching the resources as you would with AWS, only the consequences are much less bizarre than a surprise $1,700 bill.
I mean pick up my wife's phone, log in and now it's mine.
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I wonder if technology can somehow play a role here. I would gladly fund some of the "regulars" around here via some type of Watsi-esque solution.

That's what HandUp (https://handup.org/) is doing.
Free GCC tool chains are present for the TI MSP430, TI Tiva Series C (Cortex M4) and also TI Hercules (Cortex M3) series. Apart from that I have tried STM32F4 series with GCC tool chains.

I have personally developed Bluetooth stack using the GCC tools for the MSP430 using the CC246x Bluetooth modules and it was a blast.

So you have a lot of options with free tool chains. I personally use only free toolchains on linux. It is the best development setup and you have a lot of options for debugging and tool development.
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That's not really how homelessness tends to work though.
(Apologies for the tardy reply.)

Many European parties have things like "social democratic" in their name. They advocate social-democrat politics.

Some European parties have "socialist" in their name. They mostly advocate socialist politics.

The social democrats have typically had more electoral success than the socialists. That is why the nations of Europe frequently implement social democracy and less often implement socialism.

So, e.g., none of the parties currently represented in the Swedish parliament has "socialist" in its name, but the largest is the "Swedish Social Democratic Party". (There is a "Left Party", which I think is an actually socialist party.)

In Denmark there is a party called the "Social Democrats" which is, guess what?, a social democratic party; there is also a (much smaller) "Socialist People's Party" further to the left. I think that one is actually a leftier social democratic party, but then Denmark also has a centre-right party called "Left" :-).

Norway's main social-democrat party is called the Labour Party, but they also have a "Socialist Left Party" which is actually socialist.
I don't mind paying higher taxes to support the poor. Only a minority of the population will voluntarily support the poor, and even if they do, only a tiny fraction of their income would go toward it. Forcing everyone to "donate" a more-than-tiny chunk of their income to help those less fortunate than them, is the ethical thing to do.
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Hello, I'm the author of this article. From what I can tell it appears that both NeoKylin and Ubuntu Kylin (a collab between Chinese state actors and Canonical) have simply adopted the Kylin name purely for its familiarity as meaning "Chinese OS." The original Kylin was a government project based on FreeBSD whereas NeoKylin:Fedora::UbuntuKylin:Ubuntu
These cities create the homeless problem by enabling the lifestyle. It's a taboo thing to say but spend enough time in different locations and you learn very quickly that the homeless are shameless opportunists who go wherever they can most leech off society. My entire childhood growing up I never saw a single homeless person despite growing up in an impoverished rural area. It was viciously cold outside in the winter and people were very quick to take advantage of local services and get themselves back to a position where they could afford shelter.

These days I live in Ann Arbor and we have a fairly serious homeless problem (I get harassed on the street nearly every time I walk downtown). The city itself offers excellent resources for the homeless to both survive and "get back on their feet", a situation that has not gone unnoticed by surrounding districts which have literally loaded up vans with homeless people and driven them 40 miles to dump them in Ann Arbor.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/11/ann_ar...

The homeless are absolutely a problem, but you're naive if you think anything done to address the problem on a per city basis is going to fix anything. This is a national issue that calls for expanded mental services, more rehabilitation, and strict policing. Anything done on a smaller level will just encourage migration of homeless to take advantage.

EDIT: I'm fine with downvoting, but I do ask that you give me solid factual and evidence based arguments for why my point is wrong. Implying I lack compassion is neither accurate or a useful discussion of how to address this problem, and that's where my interest lies when I make a comment like this.
Here's a scenario. I need to make a call but my phone is out of charge. "Here use mine." you say as you hand me your handset. I login on your handset, make my call, logout and hand it back to you. The call came from my number, charged to me I just happened to use your handset.
... what I'd like is maybe some sort of system of adding links between different encyclopedias, so a user can easily move between articles for a given subject in multiple places...
Ask HN: Anybody working at Customer Support?
If you work on the field I'd love to talk to you. I want to learn about the kind of work Customer Support teams do and find out whether there's any opportunity for innovation in the space.

Also, I'm based in London so if you happen to be here as well I'd be more than happy to buy you coffee or a beer :)

My email is bernatfp@gmail.com
No because who will enforce the result - outwith the Culture/ Alien Space Bats
You are already being forced to pay for homelessness. Directly in the form of things like hospital bills, but also indirectly in terms of inefficiency. Less workforce, public safety, progress etc.
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Rates of mental illness are higher in the homeless population than the general population. But it's important to recognise that most homeless or vulnerably housed people do not have a mental illness; and that sometimes it's the homelessness that has caused the mental health problem.

I totally agree that the solution is not "just build more homes", but needs to include better access to debt management; better access to drug and alcohol rehab; better access to work; and better access to MH treatment.

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pd...

> According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 to 25% of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. In comparison, only 6% of Americans are severely mentally ill (National Institute of Mental Health, 2009). In a 2008 survey performed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 25 cities were asked for the three largest causes of homelessness in their communities. Mental illness was the third largest cause of homelessness for single adults (mentioned by 48% of cities). For homeless families, mental illness was mentioned by 12% of cities as one of the top 3 causes of homelessness
Ugh. Does this mean firefox will not get this feature now?
Yes there is a better way - we don't treat any form of involuntarily property exchange as a crime, and let the market see what the natural rate of redistribution is. /sarcasm
Yep.

Even if Amazon would claim the money you owe in realtime, they probably wouldn't shut you down if your prepaid hits zero.

I use a prepaid for my Kindle purchases and Amazon processes the order even if the payment gets rejected, following up with increasingly insistent reminder emails.
For the likes of ABS to work the car needs to know the speed of all wheels.
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> My entire childhood growing up I never saw a single homeless person despite growing up in an impoverished rural area

You didn't look hard enough.

Here's an article about homeless people in Ulan Bator, where temperatures reach -40.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/underground-and-off...

http://visura.co/user/MikeA/view/40-96
Isn't USB data lines differential?
You should submit your findings to some independent media like mediapart or ASI.

Edit: it is already circulating in some media, but has not been pick up by other yet.
I don't think you could find democratic support for replacing taxes with voluntary donations...

Everyone has an Ayn Rand period, almost everyone grows out of it. Don't worry.
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I'm turning 49 on Saturday. The number of balls I see dropping just past 50 is a little worrying.
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A bit OT, but when I was programming actuarial software, with access to the mortality tables, I was interested to learn that most people need to get to the age of 105 or so before the chance of them making their next birthday is less than 50/50.
I agree. It will be more easier to write some custom request handling logic in Javascript.
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It's not about the age.

The guy is just more uninformed about the web development landscape than you are. He's like the Java or Microsoft of 2000's, that only knew their own part of the development landscape. In other words, Blub to the bone.
>Accept social invitations, even if you don’t feel like going out.

>It isn’t enough to rely on random invites. Get your calendar out and map out your social life. Make sure your week is scattered with social activities.

This is the worst advice possible. I did this when I was a freshman at uni. Just saying yes to every invitation. Disco, birthday party, cinema, whatever. I thought it'd reduce the loneliness. But I never ever enjoyed it, and I felt lonelier than ever before. Then, at some point, I got a tinnitus from a disco visit. It's not loud, luckily, and I can barely make it out throughout the day, but it's there. But that was when everything changed. I started saying no to everything. Now, I maintain very few relationships but they're much deeper. And I'm happier like that. Don't ever say yes to things that don't feel right.
Probably one of the best episodes of the original series for the message it delivered. The sad reality is that far too many planners who delve into these games come up with the idea they can actually win with "acceptable" losses.

The quote that shows the futility of war games is “No Battle Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy” from German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke
A proposition I have come up with: Loneliness is wanting or needing some particular kind of interaction with other people, and not getting it. (Consequently there are different kinds of loneliness for each different desired interaction.)

... I would try to compare this with the content of the article, but I find it difficult to interpret. First, the title appears at odds with the studies: "respond more negatively to social stimuli", without qualifiers, implies "to [all] social stimuli"; while the studies apparently showed "electrical activity ... was more extreme than that of non-lonely people when shown negative social cues", rather different from all.

Second, its presentation of the studies seems to be cut off: it describes the precise setup of each study, the numbers of people in each group and of positive/negative, social/nonsocial words, and then goes into general commentary. The only description of the results that we have is three paragraphs earlier, where it says the abovementioned about "lonely => negative-social is even worse" but doesn't mention the other outcomes. I don't see a link to either study. In theory I could assume that the fact that she didn't mention the other outcomes was because lonely people were equivalent to non-lonely people in the other scenarios, but the inappropriate title and the way that it's presented as a non-technical article for non-technical people don't give me faith in such an assumption. So unfortunately I don't have much to go on.

(Actually, it sort of looks like someone took a technical article summarizing the studies, and a "discussion and advice aimed at a general audience", and interleaved several paragraphs from the former into the latter. Well, anyway.)
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You'd do very well not to try not to hold this opinion in your mind:

"the homeless are shameless opportunists who go wherever they can most leech off society"

You've basically tarred a whole class of (often vulnerable) humans with your predisposed judgements. It's a dangerous thing to do.

I'm in a privileged position, and in all honesty, I don't know enough about homelessness to make particularly informed comments on the subject. You need to start with compassion and an attempt at understanding otherwise you won't get anywhere.

Look at the situation in Europe right now, there are literally millions of refugees that will become part of the homeless class. "shameless opportunists"? I think not.

What about the kids born into it?
I hadn't really thought about this until my wife pointed it out to me a year or two ago but I apparently have "weirdly good" face and name recollection. My wife on the other hand isn't all that good at it. Not bad but not great. I would say about average.

I am also a very sociable and chatty person. I can and do chat to everyone. On the tube. On a plain. Waiting in a queue (I am British after all!). You name it I will chat to you. My wife on the other hand is a person who doesn't like to chat with people she doesn't know. She gets nervous striking up a conversation whereas I just start it without giving it a second thought.

I have wondered if these are related? I am naturally very observant. I remember car reg plates, addresses and telephone numbers with ease. I can't remember if I trained myself to do this or it is just a natural ability. I suspect it is a little bit of both. Remembering IP addresses and directory structures in my early years and teens no doubt helped strengthen those skills.

A couple of months back I did this test [0] and apparently got the 'super recogniser' title with ease. If you think you are good at remember small details it is quite a fun test!

[0] https://jfe.qualtrics.com/form/SV_e3xDuCccGAdgbfT
> the legs always move within 30 'microseconds' of each other

> This is critical for the powerful jumps that are this insect's primary mode of transport

> even miniscule discrepancies in synchronisation between the velocities of its legs at the point of propulsion would result in "yaw rotation" - causing the Issus to spin hopelessly out of control.

> "This precise synchronisation would be impossible to achieve through a nervous system, as neural impulses would take far too long for the extraordinarily tight coordination required,"

> Interestingly, the mechanistic gears are only found in the insect's juvenile – or 'nymph' – stages, and are lost in the final transition to adulthood

So, how do the adults or other grasshoppers synchronize their jumps if the nervous system can't do it and cog-wheels aren't involved?
What exactly is a real-world test then? The procedure has to be nailed down to be accurate, and at that point we're back to optimising for a given test procedure again.
Apart from this there are other issues to consider when you have to go through different certifications required for different domains. When you have MCU's in automotive,industrial,medical and millitary (invasive instruments) it is better to go through safety critical MCU's with built in core protection to pass through different certifications. Apart from this thermal considerations play a big factor when you go through different qualification tests.
> At the moment biking is dominated by young fit and generally healthy people. That may be silicon valley but it isn't the general population. I see lots of young parents going to work by bike, but do they take their kids to school on bikes? Does grandma get to the doctor on a tricycle?

Where I live kids, young adults and old people are the most prevelant cyclists. Grandmas who have riddden bikes their whole lives, they don't own a car, and it takes less effort and is faster than walking. They're not particulary fit, usually overweight and they ride easy and slow as hell. You don't need to be young athelete to cycle. And kids cycle to school on their own. Obviously there are exceptions, nobody's suggesting banning cars altogether, but the average old person can cycle just fine and so can a school aged kid.
Can you elaborate?

Are you saying the assumption that the curve will change significantly is questionable or that the effects of the assumed change in the curve change are immaterial?

IE, if we accept an assumption that the curve will shift such that average life expectancy at birth is 110 50 years from today, how is this immaterial for a 30 year old today? My common sense understanding is that their chance of kicking it in the 30-35 age bracket is locked in, but once they get to 65, the curve will have shifted enough that their chance of kicking it between 65-70 (a more substantial risk) have meaningfully decreased.

Take this extreme scenario.. say we accept Aubrey De Grey's most optimistic (and probably misquoted) prediction that "the first person to live to 1,000 will be born in the next two decades," then that seems to obviously affect people alive today materially, especially if they are young.
Is there any way a person with a mental illness get a proper treatment in US?

I mean, for some one who is unable to work because he has, for instance, schizophrenia, clinical depression or alcoholism, is there any option apart from indigence?
Do you intend to handle content that doesn't fit within the specified page size, i.e. let it roll on to next page? Or let it stretch the div and break the A4/A3 page size as it does currently?

I guess you'd need JS to handle the content rollover.
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Why do you assume that people would be "better off deciding where to spend their money", and that "resources would be better spent"?
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Yeah, it was a huge pain. I usually deal with fast GIFs by left clicking on the GIF at the required frame and then dragging that away from the GIF. That's the only way I can deal with such GIFs other than decompiling.
Yes, impulsive, creative, wild, dangerous, bored people doing riskier things have 2x mortality. There's a lot of things that'll increase it a lot more -- like different geolocations.
Is it ethical to put people in cadges who don't agree with you (or your group) on property redistribution? If you get enough people together can they own the minority's things? Does bringing up a controversial author mean anything?
Yeah it really depends to be honest. Born n raised in Amsterdam and if I look out the window, there's parking separated lanes, but if I cycle down my street and take a right, I get merely curb-separated lanes, and if I take another right I'd be sharing (without even dotted lines) the street with cars (although for these streets there are lots of speed bumps and speed limits and one-direction traffic, mostly for people living there to park their cars rather than actual travel). So it's far from 'everywhere' in Amsterdam.

It's hard to say how much of the cycle lanes are parking separated. I feel like it's quite a bit but then I also look at streets like the marathonweg or stadionweg (check google maps street view) which have been peds | parking | bikes -dottedlines- cars, since forever and still are to this day, despite there being room to switch the middle two around.

But it's quite clear that wherever possible, this is what streets are being modified to all the time, construction just finished infront of my dad's house to modify the street for improved safety for example. I wouldn't be surprised if say the marathonweg and stadionweg would look more like the apollolaan before 2020. In the case of the stadionweg it's a little tricky as it's often used to drive through, past the olympic stadium onto the highway, it's pretty damn packed during rushhour so construction isn't a bit tricky to plan.