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I run a small web design agency, and I have Magento clients. I started offering this kind of service for Magento. Unfortunately, there is not much 'small fixes' in Magento stores. Most issues or corrections take hours to investigate and resolve. I nicely failed, and went back to per hour billing.
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>He also said that the company's Internet.org initiative – which provides free access to a selection of web services including Facebook, Google Search

How far can users stray from a google search?

>"When you have a student who is getting free access to the internet to help do her homework, and she wouldn’t have had access otherwise, who’s getting hurt there? We want that. There should be more of that," he said.

Is the only research tool available wikipedia?
Fundamentally, I don't really care that they tried to cheat emissions tests. At least when it comes to a purchase decision. The regulators did a bad job at making the testing procedure giving manufacturers a pretty strong motivations to cheat. I expect others to get caught doing similar things.

I'd buy another VW because the one I have has done a good job of getting the little things right in ways other cars I've owned didn't.
> eliminate the massive protections

It would certainly change things a lot, but it would have to happen through the same democratic process that put the protections there in the first place.
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It's hard to make a point about political violence with a maroon rectangle.
VW is a giant company and they're sitting on a giant pile of cash. Anyone that thinks this was going to kill VW is not very bright.

This will affect their status perhaps as the world's #1 automaker, but they'll be around for a long time.
Laws can and are written with long-term timelines in mind. If you're dismantling X, Y and Z, you could specify that X kicks in two years from now, Y starts five years from now, and Z won't kick in until seven years has passed.
The thing is Scala will always be 10 years ahead. I see Ceylon's future as looking like e.g. D - a better language than the alternatives in its niche, but without a USP to justify migration.
To be fair, they're refusing to turn over scientists' communications, not the data itself. This is absolutely the right move, because scientists are people, not politicians. If any scientist has at any point said something that isn't politically expedient it is guaranteed to be used against them in a political attack which will ignore and supersede any fact-based discussion of the (peer reviewed) data/analysis. Basically, politicians who disagree with the science now want to comb over emails to find ways to politically discredit the science.

It's easy to say that the scientists should be more political in their communications, but that doesn't really make sense. Many many people work on this type of project and it only takes one person to communicate something controversial. Moreover, the ability of the scientists to internally disagree about things like the method and degree of data normalization or homogenization is essential to producing high quality results. In fact if the science is done well someone at some point in the process _should_ communicate doubts or counterpoints to proposed data handling strategies. Those kinds of internal disagreement strengthen the scientific result, but weaken it politically. Congress should not be given additional tools to conflate and confuse science and politics.
That wasn't "the same". In those cases, they optimized for the kind of environment the tests have (which regulators encourage as that test is supposed to be representative). They didn't have the computer detect whether a specific run was a test, as VW did.
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Oh boy... That leads on to another thing that most non-technical (and even some technical!) managers don't understand: IT people are not drop-in modular components that will instantly work!

Here's an example: I did some BI work in Qlikview. The existing reports for a particular division were badly written, and were each loaded manually for each client. Due to a number of reasons, we weren't able to change this situation immediately, but we kept what we had running even though it was incredibly inefficient.

Eventually it got to the stage where we needed to get the reports working in an automated fashion. I had a solution I was willing to work on, but was unable to find the time to do it as my primary responsibility was to another BI project.

The manager kept putting off getting new resources, and tried to "fix" the reports himself, only ending up breaking them completely.

The solution that management came up with was to employ a new resource. However, by the time they employed the new person they had 3 days to get the reports working. The problem was that even though the new person understood Qlikview exceptionally well, he didn't understand (and had no way of knowing immediately!):

1. What the dashboards needed to show (not documented)

2. The data sources used in the Qlikview dashboard

3. The way the Qlikview load script had been coded

As the guy was really, really good it ended up taking just under two weeks to get to grips with the underlying data structures and business requirements. The implementation to fix the numerous dashboards took another week. Then fixing any issues took another week and a half. So that was about a month and a half of work to get the guy up to speed, then implement a solution.

Management expects someone to be like a field replicable unit, that you can drop-in and replace on a project. But that is not the way these things work - the nature of people and projects (which are each different) is that there is ALWAYS a lead time - sometimes up to months depending in the complexity of the project - where the new person you employ (no matter how good they are) needs to familiarise and understand the systems and requirements of the business before they can actually do productive work.
Just so we are clear, you mainly reasserted your opinions and gave a hypothetical about a market erosion that Apple clearly isn't in, given the fact that their absolute sales have risen.

I remain unconvinced.
The article mentions €6.7bn set aside, but their trimestrial loss is $3.48bn only. IANA-financial-analyst, but they're still profitable after scandal. Here are a few points of comparison:

- Revenue 2013: €197 billion (over 1 year)

- Profit 2013: €6.4 billion (over 1 year)

So the scandal cost them 1 year of profits, 3% of their revenue.
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> Because of the massive depreciation on a new car the minute you drive it off the lot.

Does the car depreciate? Or is it that it can no longer be sold as "new", making many of the incentives irrelevant. If the "new" car gets 0% financing, and the "used" car with one mile on it gets market rate, then of course there can be a higher sticker price on the new one.
You gotta love the eagerness the HN world has to label these old companies as idiots.. Never mind that 'kanban' came from the auto-industry. I say that tongue in cheek, there probably are some changes that could make the industry a lot better, we need dreamers to try.

The actual integration part isn't the problem, I don't believe. The dealers themselves could probably do that with a little help and some changes if you could deliver them a crate of all the parts. When you buy a Honda accord, there are at least 3 different power train options, a 4-cylinder manual (do they still make this?,) a 4-cylinder CVT, and a 6-cylinder automatic; and Honda has been amazing at actually reducing the number of options over the years. Do you build the power train on demand or do you attempt to forecast sales and stock an inventory? That's a very significant part of the overall cost. Many of those parts are forged and then machined both, just building the head takes some time and precision, let alone assembling it... there are interior changes that have to integrated as well, from the dash display to things like paddles for shifting in some formats.

With a lot of modern cars, I wouldn't be surprised if the rolling chassis for the different models is very nearly the same but subtly different depending upon the power train. Toyota has the highlander, it's a very popular platform, it also comes in a hybrid configuration, I suspect that are more than just some subtle changes to a lot more parts for that. Same with like an all-wheel drive as an option type products... or convertible roof. I think the navi-option on some mass market cars results in a different dashboard molding.

If you limit "options" to color and seat materials, this is an easy problem. The auto industry practically invented options though, like Ford and Lincoln and Mercury were the same vehicles for a long time, the fake options helped sell way more product. Today when you buy a Camry, it's almost like there are four or five entirely different products that are all labeled "Camry" from like an entry level spartan 4-cylinder edition up to the hybrid limited that costs nearly twice as much. The market seems to like that. That's the trick, if you could some how convince the buyer that they had real options but they didn't... Maybe electric motors are a big part of that, take performance off the table as an option and things can be made more simple.
Of course it's a money issue. We pay teachers garbage for working harder than anyone else, who wants to do that job? If you got the A-types who go into finance or law or medicine into teaching you'd see a very different scenario play out. Right now it's essentially all-volunteer. People call it "a labor of love" but a double-time job paid at part-time wages is what they mean.

Teachers don't make money or have respect. I'd challenge you to do an excellent job in that scenario.
I also recall the problems with exploding Firestone tires on specifically Ford vehicles from the early 2000's that probably killed around 250 people and injured thousands.
Firestone was fined $500,000 and I can't seem to find a record of Ford being fined anything except settling and losing as well as losing a couple of lawsuits as a result of it.
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I'm often annoyed by "blockchain" projects, but this is a very cool application of blockchain technology.

Does anyone know which blockchain the Media Lab is using? The actual Bitcoin one, or Namecoin, or some other one?
Don't read a coding book . . . you need to work through the examples and code along with the book.

I recommend starting with (this is the same advice I usually give everyone just getting their feet wet):

Head First HTML and CSS

Work along with it using Sublime Text (editor) and MAMP or WAMP (OSX or Windows, I recommend using a mac if possible).

After working through part of that book. Buy a domain and a hostgator account learn about DNS, point your A record to your hostgator account and start FTP'ing (Filezilla client) up a website to your hosting, view on your domain.

Once you complete that book, learn some javascript/jQuery, there are head first books for those too, but I think you can learn this from the web.

teamtreehouse.com is a great place to learn.

Next back to Head First PHP and MySQL. Work through that book, working locally and on your hosting account.

I would stay away from odesk now upwork and try find local clients first or connect with friends/clients online (craigslist and twitter are better than upwork), better pay, less headaches.

Once you have some PHP and MySQL knowledge next I'd recommend Wordpress. There is a head first book for that too.

Install wordpress on MAMP/WAMP locally and on your hosting account. Install some free themes and free plugins. Modify a theme, make some posts.

Wordpress is a popular ecosystem and there is lots of work there.

Leveling up beyond the items above is creating web applications.

You can create a simple one from scratch using PHP and MySQL this is a good way to learn the inner workings of an app from scratch. Once you explore that for an app or two you can move on to a framework.

For frameworks I would go with Laravel (PHP) and/or Rails (Ruby) those are the most popular in each language.

LaraCasts.com is a great resource.

Good luck.
There is also ScrollMagic http://scrollmagic.io/
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I used www.roadster.com to buy a new car online for my father in law. It gives you a great price up front, and its experts do all the work of negotiating, handle your trade-in, and deliver the car to you, so you don't have to step into a dealership at all. Roadster's available in California so far. Check out their reviews http://yelp.com/biz/roadster-san-francisco
It was a tough sell, but it literally created the modern art market - which is largely used as a store of value for very rich people, and not for the cultivation of artistic expression.
>. Taxi drivers didn't necessarily lobby for market restrictions

Drivers are out in the street protesting anything that allows ride sharing and demanding further restrictions. The idea that employees are innocents is riduculous. This ignores 100+ years of unions, associations, legislation, etc. Its the rank and file demanding these laws, not shadowy men cutting backroom deals. If these deals get made its because the rank and file have a enough political capital to make them happen.

>Essentially, the incumbents have been lied to for years

This seems to be politically biased. These people know exactly what they're doing. When the Chicago Teacher's Union marches and claims low pay (instead they are some of the highest paid teachers in the nation), they know exactly what they are doing. When cab drivers block streets to protest Uber, they know exactly what they are doing.
Cookie editing is still missing. Without this feature a wider adoption of FF dev tools or its full utility as a wedev tool is impossible.
Yes, I voted for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031192. Please do the same. Thanks.
This might be impractical, but is it possible to record gdb traces using a different processor, as long as that processor has access to the RAM the program is running in?

For example, could you record gdb traces with a GPU in a PC with hUMA?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-HSA-hUMA-APU,22324.html

That could allow for gdb traces to be recorded constantly without a CPU performance hit (traces could be truncated if/when the size grew too large).
Not a dupe because it didn't get significant attention (and since it looked good, we invited dnetesn to repost it). But we did merge the two comments there into this thread.
It's not exactly 'broken'. When you go to the home page it geolocates you, and then forwards you to the correct home page for your location. Admittedly it then makes it feel a bit broken...
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Thank you for this outstanding article.

Perhaps I missed it, but how exactly do you implement the timestamp logging? Do you use your normal application logging, or some other mechanism?
This might be a better technique if the suspect does not know what the psychologist is looking for, but probably still does not work if he does. So ultimately it still isn't very usable in the real world.
It's reasonable for governments to tell owners that they must get a software update or stop using their cars after some reasonable grace period while also forcing VW to compensate owners for their losses in doing this (eg. reduced performance). Essentially protect the environment as intended while getting VW to foot the bill.
No. Public schools don't get to pre-select their students and then claim to ourperform other schools because they just picked the best ones. Public schools are not faith-based. Public schools do not have enormous administrative salaries
Yes. Zero-Rating is bad.

But you can’t say they "banned" or gave a "heavy blow to" Net Neutrality.

They created a very limited law, that provides some of the protections of Net Neutrality, but most importantly, it creates more competition between ISPs.

But, as most of the other protections of Net Neutrality are anti-monopoly laws, the ECJ might end up ruling that, if one combines this law with antitrust laws, these protections are implied.
They also don't have to be available for two years. Take the deal, cash your check, and tell SunTrust you're unavailable when they call while sending a notice to your state labor board.
3 five ounce glasses of wine with lunch is not really that bad for or all that much to drink. At 130+lb you would probably stay under .07 BAC which is still legal to drive in the US.

Alcoholism generally involves either heavy drinking or life impairment issues.
No fake contrast. I am responding to the OP who seem to want charter schools to go away based on a claim that they are somehow bad.

Success Academy was started because the public school system failed to educate kids in Harlem. The philosophy have since then been copied at other schools with success my son is in Williamsburg.

This isn't only about the curriculum but about the very approach to teaching the kids AND the parents involvement in their kids education.

The difference between today and back then I feel is best illustrated by this http://i.imgur.com/LglSapk.jpg

Success Academy fights this with tooth and nail but in return require quite a lot from their teachers.

It's not a perfect system but I prefer it compared to the public school he first went to exactly because its focus on getting parents back on the side of the teacher and their goal and method for getting the kids to love learning.
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I guess I'm an outlier. Except for 2 family members, everyone I associate with does not get aggressive at all when they drink. Some get chatty, some get tired, and I turn into the biggest goof in the world. I realize there are people who get aggressive when they drink, but it always seems to me like it's "that guy/girl" out of a crowd of people in the bar/club.
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You raise an interesting conundrum, but you can tell of a certain success rate by the number of liars who eventually confess to lying or are found to have been lying.
Art as CIA weapon - sure. Cultural marxism as leftist weapon - still paying dividends.
The core of this is the creation of spatially controlled pressure/density gradients.

I believe you could impart greater force on objects under water more easily due to its incompressibility, but then on the other hand you face greater "inertiality" due to the density/mass of water, as well as the resistance/friction/aerodynamics. I wouldn't want to guess anything beyond that slow movements may be easier to achieve (quick small impulses) but that fast movements would be harder.

The speed of sound also comes into play and which frequencies you thus have to work with, and their propagation. Sound moves faster in water (related to the incompressibility), so one wavelength corresponds to a higher frequency in water than in air. This means you might also have to be closer to the manipulated object (shorter range for the required frequencies).

Another thought is that this could be used in water as a means to propel yourself without moving parts. Instead you just have surfaces acting like speakers that create pressure gradients around your submarine to create a waterflow directed backwards.
I LOVE this. As a developper, I have thousands of tabs open at all time and Chrome manage them very poorly.

Thanks a lot for this chrome app.
Which is the fault of the government department who should have spent time and money on a competent business analyst to work out what was required.

If you outsource your work with specific requirements and don't involve the outsourcing company in the development of your requirements, which they then deliver in full, then you have nothing to complain about.
One thing that gets lost in the comparison between charter schools and public schools is that charter schools get to cherry pick their students. The students not accepted into charter schools are sent to public schools. Public schools then have a higher concentration of underperforming students and therefore perform worse when compared to charter schools.

If you are given the best students and money is thrown at you, you are being handed success. The rest of the schools are being handed failure. When all schools are charter schools then we will see many of them fail and be replaced by more charter schools and the problem will just be perpetuated in a different form.

I wish it were true that charter schools were all about giving students a better education. It is unfortunately not. It is part political and part financial. The political aspect comes from showing success through change (see my first paragraph to understand how that success is gained). The financial aspect goes to the higher salaries paid to administrators. The school districts are happy to pay higher salaries now to rid themselves of unions and more importantly, pensions since charter schools are not unionized. Teachers at those schools work long hours for slightly higher pay. The approach is churn and burn. They hire younger teachers who are just passing through the system on their way to their true careers after they burn out and become disillusioned about the system. Some people will make off pretty well during this growth stage, but the long term outlook is poor.
Spiders spin a number of different kinds of silk, one is sticky and another is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web
You're falling for the trap of perspective. The current decade is just as weird. We just don't know it yet.
Similar thing when giving your phone number to someone hitting on you. Better strategy is to swap two digits with each other, making it easier to remember and increasing the plausibility of an "honest mistake."
I wasn't thinking of particular applications but I suppose that the math underlying clustering algorithms assumes that the distance measure is a metric to name just one example.
> At least not Honda dealers. Used cars averaged around $1000 profit, but new cars were around $200.

I went to the Honda dealer a month ago and test drove a new CRV. The salesperson refused to even consider budging from the MSRP. He let me walk when I said I would only consider going lower (largely based on Truecar pricing). I looked at the details of the cost and there were endless dealer fees on there as well. The whole thing was Kafka-esque and insane to me. My wife and I walked away with nothing and the sales guy left me a VM on my phone every single day for a month afterwards hoping I had a change of heart. The car, while decent, is far from a luxury product and the idea that its so far in demand that they won't negotiate is laughable. The CRV comes at a slight premium of other cars in its class as well.

Meanwhile, at other dealers I can negotiate literally thousands off the MSRP. I find it very hard to believe the Honda dealer is making merely $200 per sale. Considering the real estate they have and cost of running that operation, they would have to sell hundreds of cars a day to avoid bankrupcy.

Oh and the trade-in cost for my car they offered was literally half its market value. Considering the value of my trade-in car and the terrible price offered, my estimate is that they were going to make about $5,000 off me if I agreed. Probably more, especially if I took their financing. Then we're looking at, 2 or 3x that?

There's a reason cars aren't sold at flat prices like other goods. This game they've developed can be very profitable.
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