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I've never understood why iTunes is the way that it is, except that was already available on Windows, so it seemed like a good vector for devices. It really is a jumbled bag now though, and seems to go through significant UI changes every release for no good reason (hearts? stars? iTunes has them both!)

OS X used to have a separate syncing application, iSync, for PDAs that was simple and generally worked. I was dusappointed when the moved everything into iTunes (really, calendar and photo setting in my music player?)

What is the concern with USB and power? I really like lightning and MagSafe.
I don't think your interpretation of the downvotes is correct.
Agreed. I used to work in a library, and was able to do something similar with our scanners.

The only thing "new" might be the recognition of being able to pass "alt-?" key combos through PDF-417 barcodes, which are becoming more and more ubiquitous, while the scanners still just pretend to be keyboards.
How do you know that FooBar (TM) Barcode Scanner isn't presenting as a HID to the underlying system? The keyboard's not accessible so the kiosk mode probably isn't protected against alt-F4, ctrl-alt-delete etc.
> I'm not quite sure what the end-game is, here?

My guess is that it's to show that (1) Haskell is pretty awesome, and (2) EC6 is pretty awesome too. In reverse order maybe?
The entire thing has become a joke. It's all fake and manipulated and people are making tons of cash for nothing.
I'm in the UK at the moment, but have a US region Play Account via a Gmail account (a trick I learned to be able to install OpenTable for US reservations when it kept offering me UK restaurants).

The key is to use a VPN to surface from a US IP address, they are limiting install to GeoIP.

After you have installed it, you can open the app and choose a different Google Account (a non-US one) to use with the app. But it will always do a GeoIP check on opening the app, so you have to keep using the VPN. This allows you to access your existing Google Music and YouTube accounts even though you just installed under a different account.

As for the app, works really well. I like the audio vs video toggle at the top, and that it's picked up on the things I've listened to or watched within Google Music. The auto-advance onto the next video feels more intuitive than the Google Music "Start Radio..." button, and the recommendations are good.

It's also really really nice to have the music play in the background, screen off... and then to make it foreground and at that point it resumes the video, sync'd perfectly. They do seem to be playing optimised audio tracks from videos, not audio tracks.

This is just a better interface for music than Google Play Music which feels too cold and sanitised for something so emotive as music. This stands back a bit, let's the music and video step to the front.

The only catch. I can't pay for it using my UK account. So it looks like I have a couple of weeks to choose whether I want to shift my Google Play Music subscription over to my US Play Account or not. Right now... I'm thinking not, and to wait. But who knows how long the wait will be.

For the curious about bandwidth requirements for HD video over VPN: https://goo.gl/photos/BG7JeTxe8UNbWMGL9
a) closed source

b) what does this exactly bring to the table comparing with Erlang/Elixir, Rust, Haskell or Go?

I think that chances of this project getting traction are low. So question is, why?
The curfew was put into place last night, the first time it has happened since 1944 apparently, but it was lifted again by this morning. It's still recommended to not go outside unless you have to, but not forbidden. (Very recently a car reportedly with four heavily armed people in it broke through a police barrier, driving towards Paris - nobody knows if directly connected yet..)

It's still quite a tense atmosphere here.
Just to clarify, what happens at Christmas is the first proper language release (as specified by the test suite) that will be accompanied by a conforming compiler release, ie the main focus is still semantics, not 'production readiness'.

That said, Rakudo of today is more usable than Rakudo of days gone by, though there are still issues (my personal pet peeve: parsing speed; hopefully, automatic precompilation will land in the not-too-distant future, which, would mitigate the problem).
Those behind the study appear to be of the view that it can't be done:

"This study could not be designed in a double-blind fashion due to the nature of meditation training and placebo conditioning. Specifically, placebo cream could not be applied to all groups because this manipulation could potentially elicit analgesia even though the subjects were informed that the cream was inert (Kaptchuk et al., 2010). Furthermore, whereas subjects in the placebo-induced analgesia and book-listening control groups were clearly aware of their group assignment, subjects in the mindfulness and sham-mindfulness groups were blinded to their intervention assignment. For the mindfulness and sham-mindfulness groups, responses related to psychosocial influences (i.e., demand characteristics) presumably were minimal given that no significant differences in “perceived meditative effectiveness” were observed (p = 0.88; Table 2)."
The news media was suggesting that France and European internal border security has not been so rigorous.
> But investors may also like that Roscheisen is a seasoned CEO, having led the solar power tech company Nanosolar for roughly eight years previously. (It was wound down in 2013, after raising roughly $450 million in capital over its 11-year life.)

Why would an investor like this? "This guy must be good, he burned through 450 millions in 11 years!"
It's a tragic accident, I don't see much in terms of liability. If you use a swing hanging from an old tree then yes, something could fall on your head, why would that have to be somebody's fault or responsibility except for your own?
I've seen lots of free photos and icon sets released. And typefaces. Often this is a good strategy to build a portfolio and get attention. It's certainly not done to the same extent as in the programming world.
> As demonstrated by the instant downvote of my comment, media that isn't explicitly controlled is generally self-censored to protect the mythical reality supporting the war effort.

The downvotes of your comment don't demonstrate that.
You're making insensitive assertions with no evidence to back them up. Further, others have made more intelligent contributions on the rights and wrongs of certain state powers without getting downvoted.
I think of this as a SO feature where out of date questions would point forward to the newest related question. This could easily be a moderated feature. One would think this preserves the evolution of the language is some sense. It is incentive also for people to capture such knowledge :)
No idea about other industries, but in game development artist expected have have relatively huge online portfolio in order to get a job. Of course most of that portfolio wouldn't be made of well-paid (if at all) works.

Of course it's not the same thing as releasing your work under permissive license, but most of content on sites like DeviantArt artists wasn't paid for.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response!
> This is a false-flag attack designed to motivate moving western operations in Syria from covert to overt. There are already Russians and Chinese in Syria so this could literally kick of WWIII if no one stops it. Unfortunately the media is so well controlled that the ubiquitous war propaganda is generally not questioned.

> As demonstrated by the instant downvote of my comment, media that isn't explicitly controlled is generally self-censored to protect the mythical reality supporting the war effort.

The instant downvoting of your comment has got very little to do with a global conspiracy and media control and far more to do with the fact that your are seriously deluded. Your comments are of the type "I am the only sane person in the world"
Thanks for clarifying that.
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Mailur aims to become the future open source replacement for Gmail
I'm proud to announce the alpha version of Mailur.

It is already usable as an alternative Gmail interface with a set of unique features:

- internal lightweight tabs
- linking few threads together
- composing emails with Markdown

Public demo: http://mail.pusto.org/

Short demo video: https://vimeo.com/145416826

Github page: https://github.com/naspeh/mailur/
I was thinking of modes! Nice guess though :)
Unfortunately TypeScript doesn't support higher kinded types, so you can't write interfaces for most of Haskell's most popular typeclasses.

And there is something that a dynamic (and/or gradually typed) languages will never be able to do: function overload based on the function's return type, e.g. like Haskell's `return` :)

edit: oh wait, after monad of no return its `pure` :D
What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?
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Well, Android with Material started focusing a LOT on how things work, how animations have to seem natural, gives guidelines on language and explains how to structure your app.
> Frankly many "dumbphones" could rival iPhone when it launched

Did you live through these? I used most of the pre-iPhone Nokia S40 smartphones and owned a few of them, both "consumer" N-series and "professional" E-series. They only rivaled iphones in the checkbox sense: features were technically present on the phone, anything beyond that was missing, the hardware was usually insufficient, the software was garbage on both usability and performances, the overall experience was utterly miserable. After I finally switched from my E70 to a 3G the only thing I wondered is why I hadn't switched earlier (answer being I didn't want to lose the checkbox of 3G support, never mind that I'd have had more utility from 2G on an iphone than I did from 3G on an E70).

And dumbphones didn't come close (dumbphones were what non-corp US users used).
That's great! Is there any ETA or discussion I can follow?
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And they really haven't done any optimizations for speed yet. Larry mentions that in his talk.
Shades of FusionIO, perhaps?
In my mind it doesn't achieve either.

Functional programming isn't an end unto itself, it's one of several strategies for breaking programs down into manageable chunks. Without showing how this type of tiny function is used in journeyman Haskell code, nor showing how the translation to ES6 would apply to real world JavaScript, it just feels like functional wankery.
It really seems pointless when I've been using Google All Music Access for over a year and have access to all the music I know and love, all cached on my phone for offline use.
Not everything is a false flag attack. People are down voting you because you provide zero substantive evidence to your claims. Personally I am against a violent response as I know it's futile yet I still believe this attack was legit ISIS. The problem was caused by war and won't be solved by more war.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein
Built into many car stereos and older devices.
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Thanks for the clarification. So what does it mean to release "a language"? Is there a specification in addition to the test suite? Is the specification frozen from that point on? Or will it change, but only in backwards compatible ways?
I could only speculate how specific applications (e.g. at airports) are built.

However, if some specific vendor was susceptible to this attack, it would just be a stupid, obvious and easily fixable input handling bug in their product.

But the linked article doesn't even demonstrate such an attack against an actual application ("BadBarcode is not a vulnerability of a certain product"). Just a trivial "demo" where they use a virtual keyboard device to enter commands directly into a windows shell and then get excited that it works...
Which begs the question, if what you describe is so, why is there so much apparent violation of such beliefs by Jihadists? More generally speaking, this is a question that has bothered me for some time, that if they are such true believers, how is it they are so willing to violate clear and obvious tenants of the Quran?
This is a losing game for us. If we don't make ANY backlash, then the terrorists will be encouraged to repeat attacks, as they see there are no consequences for their actions. Additionally, French will be more afraid of Muslims and will surrender whatever they have to them even more willingly, as they would feel helpless. On the other hand if we make backlash, more muslims will radicalize, again, increasing terrorism frequency. The only solution I see is finally admit that multiculturalism is a lost cause when only one culture actually trying for it to work (us), and expel all muslims that don't fit our culture, PLUS invest heavy money into converting current muslims to be more like us. Ban certain practices, etc.
An Ansible alternative written in Go would be perfect.

I like Docker. Though some initial automation to config Linux distro with a Go based tool would be awesome. (no Python/Ruby stack)
I think too much time is spent thinking only "obvious" features are well designed. If it's not obvious it's poorly designed. It doesn't have to be this rigid dichotomy. I think Jason Fried put it best here: https://medium.com/@jasonfried/the-obvious-the-easy-and-the-... Some stuff should be obvious, but some can just be easy, and some - just possible. Putting things into those three buckets vs trying to cram everything into obvious is where we make well designed things.
>Here too, the cream colored background looks gorgeous on paper and just weird and out of place on a webpage.

Sounds like a case of habit. Or would you say Hacker News background color look weird and out of place too?
To me it is easier on the eyes, but more importantly having white as an accent color is useful to emphasize or separate graphs and figures from the main text.

I can't agree more with your general point though. Mindless copycating is a plague.
When you pay money to stay in a place with advertised amenities (I'm assuming the swing was part of the listing, idk) it is expected that you can use those amenities without dying... Basically whoever makes the listing should ensure that the product they are offering the user (the abode + amenities) is hazard free.
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I really love the web design, and the whole purpose of the site, I was shocked not to see Twitter as an option for registration, but that's not a deal breaker since at least Github was available. Great work!
Thats real the "verb" use of "Google" :)
That's by design not mistake. Within the Schengen Area borders are pretty much left open. Even flying you might be asked for ID by the airline but won't be by border control. If you drive from France to, say, Belgium, you'll just drive past a "Welcome to Belgium" sign.
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Full-on /r/conspiratard material.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiratard/
A normal distribution assumes independent random samples. That clearly doesn't happen in a market where people and algos are reacting to the same news. Moves end up more like step functions in both panicked or excited market and will then overshoot buying and selling.
Its The Verge. What did you expect ?
Tree branches are hazard free right up to the moment they snap.
The two are nonexclusive. If you are a disaffected/disenfranchised third-generation Algerian immigrant, you have a predisposition to pick a fight with the old colonial power, and you just need an excuse. Same if you come from Syria or Egypt and are well-educated; you have no idea of the amount of propaganda and West-blaming people in these countries grew up with for generations, because of things like the never-ending problem with Israel/Palestine, the Iranian coup against Mossadiq, the Iran/Iraq war and all the other conflicts "we" had an active role in. In the '70s, a lot of violent action was justified with marxism or fascism; today they can be justified with wahabism. If a particular religion was so magic, we would have had "islamic" suicide bombers for 5 centuries, and we just hadn't. You can't make chocolate cake with just chocolate.

> Of all western countries, we would not expect these attacks to be against France so many times.

And why not? They have been among the most brutal colonial powers, with shocking behaviour in Northern Africa and ongoing active military engagement across Africa -- in large part because of their ideological bent on absolutist superiority of the French republican model. They actively worked to blow up Lybia and actively support anti-islamic forces there. And of course they have now joined the anti-IS bombing campaign, because they hate to be left behind when there is to engage around the Mediterranean Sea. All the while, they have huge swaths of disenfranchised 2nd and 3rd generation-immigrant youth in their midst that they simply don't know what to do with. They are the easiest target after the UK, but unlike Britain they are not an island, their borders are very porous, and their security services are clearly less effective than the Five Eyes axis. On top of that, this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/14/france-active-p...
Was is this video? http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=5073
The swing was in the photos on the AirBnB listing.

When you make money from your property, using the swing in your adverts, you either need to make sure it's not going to kill people doing normal things (swinging on the swing is normal; getting 8 drunk people to swing on the swing would be abnormal) or you need to put big disclaimers up.

And depending where you are disclaimers might not be enough.

When you invite the public onto your property for a fee you probably need to make sure your public liability insurance is paid up. You can't make anything totally safe, but you need to make an effort to minimise the hazards.
Would you be equally afraid of Capistrano?
Whereas catching knives thrown on upward trajectories...
Wow, I'm impressed! But I'm also prepared. I always mute during TV ads, to reduce brain pollution. None of my boxes have microphones, and most have no audio. And I don't use smartphones.
This is the classic response to criticism of open source projects. It tends to drive away people who otherwise might have been convinced to help.

Unfortunately, while the comment above was rather acerbic and in poor taste, the idea that you should keep your comments to yourself unless you can directly help the situation is not in itself helpful.

For instance, I can point out that you might have a scary looking mole on your neck, and should probably go see a dermatologist, without actually being a dermatologist.
Unless there's signs of rot or fungus. And if you're charging people for access to your property and using the swing to advertise you might want to check the branch will bear the weight of adults.
If you are renting out your property, it should be safe for reasonable use. A swing being part of the rental should be safe to use in a normal manner, not to mention that a temporary tenant cannot possibly be expected to know the maintenance history of any fittings.
I certainly learnt a couple things about general relativity from that article (e.g. the "modern view" (meaning largely, the view from string theory) that "we understand Einstein's equations just as the equations of an "effective field theory""), although it was way over my head.

That blog (Luboš Motl's) has an amazingly large number of long and technical or topical articles on physics. I found this one on Boltzmann and thermodynamics especially insightful and relatively non-technical:

http://motls.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/ludwig-boltzmann-birthda...
Try Headspace. I've been using it for a while and I find it helpful.
IBM totally dominated the computer industry. You couldn't get American funding to take on IBM.
Here's another way of phrasing that.

"Functional programming isn't an end unto itself, it's one of several strategies for breaking programs down into manageable chunks. I would have found the article more interesting if it showed how this type of tiny function is used in journeyman Haskell code, or how the translation to ES6 would apply to real world JavaScript."

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline
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Liability insurance won't save your life if you get hit by a few hundred pounds of tree. It will just move money around. If you want to use an old tree-swing the onus is on you, the user to make sure that it is safe because if it isn't you pay the price. Somebody else might have installed that swing for a bunch of kids weighing 45 pounds and they used it for years without a problem. Then some full grown adult comes along and the branch breaks, either because the rope has scoured the bark enough that it started to rot or simply because it is overloaded.

Trees are natural items, not engineered, ridiculously strong, most of the times and unpredictable when it comes to failure modes. Even perfectly healthy trees can lose branches. Sometimes accidents are just that: accidents.

What could the owner have done to ensure that this did not happen? For all we know he tried the swing himself the day before and it was fine. At least at the time of making the advert it was still fine and short of 'destructive testing' to figure out how much load it supports there is no way to know what it will handle except for trying to see if it supports your weight.
I'm not very well informed on the markets, but is any of this related to the fact that gold is at a five year low and seems to keep going lower at I time that (I assume) people are looking for a hedge against uncertainty (what I thought gold was).
Ask HN: What is the root cause of Muslim violence and how do we end it?
There's a lot of debate on this topic, and it's obviously a problem worth solving, but it seems the problem can't even be discussed without most people getting angry and throwing out ad hominem attacks.
More overt operations in Syria is a plausible outcome, so it's not full-on.
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The test suite is the actual specification; for the language release, it will be cleaned up of things that aren't yet ironed out.

The design documents at http://design.perl6.org/ are companion documents to the test suite, but where the two are in conflict, the test suite is authoritative.

As for changes: backward incompatible changes will result in a new language version.