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90% of your problem can be fixed by you ponying up for the "extra leg room" seats. For the other 10%, it seems a lot easier to just have Kayak give the option of a "seat size penalty" which each flyer can set for themselves. If it's a matter of getting the info, then by all means require by law that data to be given as part of the ticketing search process as well.

But please don't pass legislation that prevents me from saving the $10. I want the money, and I'm willing to sit in a smaller seat.
Bulk of the "transaction cost" in sharing-economy transactions is measured in time (registering, shopping, messaging, verifying, negotiating, meeting). In the case of renting/borrowing that's pretty much a fixed cost independent of the value of the item. So it ends up seeming more worth it for big purchases. I think that's why this type of thing is often seen on school campuses (students have a surplus of time and a lack of money), but not out in the rest of the world as much.

These guys are working in this space but they've switched from a borrow/lend model to more of a store: https://yerdle.com/
I subscribe to Spotify. If they would just let me view "My Albums" (which is basically all I'm ever interested in) as an alphabetical list instead of a canvas of enormous pictures (4x2 fit on my screen), that would make me so happy.

Every time they continuously deploy one of those "please upgrade" popups, which is nearly every day (pretty annoying BTW, can't you just upgrade silently? I've never even noticed anything change after one of these upgrades, I don't care, especially not in the exact moment when I'm about to relax and put on an album), I hope they'll have fixed this.

I really loathe how the streaming services don't allow me to customize my UX in any way. Especially when it's harder to find albums in their clients than in a shelf of CDs.

From what I can tell from random Google Music screenshots, it's also oriented around the "grid of enormous pictures" paradigm. :(
> It's optional; there's no public preschool, mostly just Christian private preschools that are effectively a less-religious outgrowth of catechism

There are, in fact, public, private secular, and private non-Christian religious pre-schools. However, few (though not no) states in the US have universal pre-school (that is, a mandate that every child is entitled to a pre-school education and can receive it at a public school at no cost unless the parent chooses something else.)
However, the tone here is a little patronising if another bidder was just trying to get enough to cover the rent.

Didn't seem the slightest patronizing to me. Brendan just seemed delighted that he could help out. I love that.

More important, any bidder in any circumstance can be outbid by someone else and lose rent money in the process, right? To dictate any other outcome would require a depth of knowledge about the market and its bidders that no one party could possibly acquire reliably.
I think it's a bit of a culture clash. Nintendo of America seems to do what they can, given the short leash Nintendo of Japan has them on.

There seems to be something about Japanese culture that is fundamentally incompatible with the "share everything" West.
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<3 8tracks. In practice, my girlfriend and I play 8tracks sets at home; we very commonly listen to the same set over and over.

Very commonly I'll find an artist I like with 8tracks, then switch to Rdio to listen to the rest of their catalog.

RIP Rdio, you were awesome!
3D graphics and a board-agnostic Hardware I/O library that just talks to mainline kernel interfaces was the hard part.

Adafruit did a video hinting at what this could be used for: https://learn.adafruit.com/processing-on-the-raspberry-pi-an...

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
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And it looks like it includes redshift-gtk to give it graphical controls. Most packages I've used (Fedora, Ubuntu) split them up as redshift and redshift-gtk, and I've only never installed redshift-gtk, despite running a full Gnome desktop.
How do linear types help in distributed systems - you mention sharing (or not sharing) between threads, but I'm also intensely curious re: reasoning about heterogeneous networks. Some rambling questions you might be able to shed some light on -

1. How much of a (self-contained vs distributed) system has to be completely written in ATS?
2. How much of the emergent system can be modeled in ATS to take advantage of linear types while letting some other team(s) work in e.g. nodejs
3. What's the onboarding experience like for a dev new to typed systems entirely? How long before they generally grasp the abstract concepts and how to express them? Are there any particularly difficult pieces?

Thanks a ton for sharing your experience! Like Chenglou, I'm very curious about linear logic/session-types/etc., but very new to the domain.
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Well, my phone number. :)

I didn't try taking some arbitrary bit pattern and expressing it as decimal and jumping to that box.
this story is way too long for the amount of content.

tldr; google homepage pacman game auto played sound, and a browser extension in firefox was silently loading google.com.
It would be less intrusive if you simply put a link to your current resume. There are quite a few people on HN who are hiring managers or at least take part in their company's hiring efforts, and can give you relevant feedback.

PS: maybe an insistence on Word is the problem - PDF (or web) has been the better format for resumes for 10 years now.
IO ports might be doable - https://github.com/mik3y/usb-serial-for-android

Agree with you on 1. and 2. though. One day you'll be able to run full linux on more hardware like this
How do you know you're actually saving anything whatsoever? Did the seats get cheaper as they got more crowded? Or did they just start charging extra for the few seats with a little more room?
It's still faster than the alternatives. Things like Scipy/Numpy are more alternatives to Matlab as is R. Julia isn't fast enough yet. C/C++ doesn't have the built-in matrix/vector support. The latter is what I ran into when I was coding for my Master's thesis, so I just gave up and went with Fortran. For my PhD, I used Matlab as the speed wasn't an issue.

There's also issues with wanting to use the old Fortran code in new projects and if the new alternatives don't have a good interface for Fortran, it's a bit of a pain to integrate.
Not sure I would trust CINT to pad structs the same way as your compiler.
> The article makes it sounds like the Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue. Wouldn't that make this California case moot?

The Supreme Court issued a (relatively) narrow ruling; the EFF is arguing that this principle can and should be applied to a broader ruling.

This is a pretty standard pattern in judicial proceedings. For a number of reasons, judges are often hesitant to rule too broadly, so advocates push for successively broader rulings until they achieve their goal.

(It also sometimes happens in reverse, with advocates pushing for narrower rulings, but that's a different matter).
Yet DNA is so easy to collect; you don't need permission. I think we'll have to get used to the idea of universal identification. Its inevitable. Better to come to terms with it.
> a view in which conservatives intentionally dismantle good cost-saving government programs while leaving bad ones for the sole purpose of giving government a bad name.

Pretty sure giving government a bad name is the goal for many of the elected conservatives (perhaps not the people who voted for them).
And they just added this awesome jogging feature that finds songs that match a specific BPM.
Whether you want it to be free or not, it's effectively impossible to enforce scarcity over resources that can be trivially digitized. People don't pay for music anymore because it's very easy and low-risk to get it without paying for it, and the internet guarantees it's going to stay that way. Even if you can get everyone to pay for Google Music, that's $10/mo from someone who used to spend $20/CD and potentially bought several of those each month.

The fact is that it's now much harder to collect money for musical recordings. I don't think anything is going to change about that.
That seems directly opposed to the presumption of innocence.

I guess the lawyers have a way of justifying this by separating different states of being "in the eyes of the law".
For an eye-opening experience, walk through the tour of Ceylon sometime. It has the most sophisticated implementation union & intersection types I've yet seen:

http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/tour/types/

Compared to union/intersection types, I find myself craving higher kinded types less frequently. I do feel the absence strongly, however, when I'm writing tools. I think the lack of higher kinded types manifests in the Java community as inferior libraries (eg ORMs) that require more manual-feeding of information via annotations or extra parameters to methods.
They are extremely different.

I made a quick comparison here: https://gist.github.com/alexanderGugel/a10ed5655d366875a280

Basically ied uses symlinks in order to resolve circular dependencies, while ied exploits the fact that require "falls back" in the directory structure.
I would second that competition in the server/desktop/laptop cpu space would be salutary. Intel has had a near monopoly for a couple decades or more, and this has possibly stifled innovation.

I was hoping that ARM would provide that competition, but server side ARM is still a niche market.
I don't think almost any kids can read in kindergarten, and I also don't believe they even attempt to teach it there. Reading starts in first grade. That is, when I was their age. Nobody knew how to read and we didn't start learning it until first grade, and it was done as a group.
Also: https://react.parts/
That's a good point, but I wonder if coming up from below with a cleaner architecture might be able to accomplish something similar. Is MIPS64 cleaner than X86, and could this let them create lower power higher performance chips or manufacture equivalent performance chips at a lower cost?

http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/loongson-mips64-proce...
Spotify does not allow you to upload your music or anything like that. You simply have access to their full catalog, and can choose to download any part of it for offline consumption.
Oh, now I see what you meant. But this has little to do with selecting the
branch, what I was talking about the whole time.
>You could just as easily call the person in back rude for having the temerity to have long knees poking into the seat back.

Given that it doesn't hurt the person in front of them, no, you couldn't.
I was also interested in whether Google Music supported offline music playing since I have rdio and rely on that feature. It looks like it does: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en
One reason I love frameworks is support of older devices. If I write in Bootstrap, I know exactly what level of support I can expect. It helps when I don't have older Android or iOS devices to test on.
Ah, thanks. Needed more punctuation to separate the verbal pauses from the sentence flow.
Saying that surveillance doesn't stop all terrorists so we should stop surveillance is like saying police don't stop all crimes so we should get rid of police.
If they're half-way clever about it they'll hit in places that are perceived as 'soft'.

Note that this is the second attack on Paris. The UK is a harder target because you have to cross a border that is not as easy to traverse as a road and the Spanish police has gotten a lot more 'up-close-and-personal' with wanna-be terrorists than they were before. Belgium it turns out is an easy place to hide for these characters and that's one reason I suspect Amsterdam would be more likely than Madrid simply because it is physically a lot closer. It is also why I doubt the effectiveness of the 'double screening' for airline passengers announced today, none of these guys traveled by plane.

Even so, that doesn't rule out another attack in Spain - or even Madrid - nor does it rule out an attack in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen or anywhere else in the Schengen zone. Weapons and easily radicalized youths aplenty.

It's a matter of time before the next attack, but that doesn't mean we should sit still. It means the plan of attack needs to change, possibly radically so, but not after sufficient reflection on why the current approach does not appear to work as well as it should.
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I said to myself, if it's not UMD, I'd be worried what was No. 1. Memories of riot-police assembling like storm-troopers in fraternity row before a football game...
Forget the "-ish". Actually, forget the "native". Their app is no more or less native than Rdio's was.
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I'm utterly baffled at how terrible the Playstation 4 store experience is. I can't help but think it's somehow intentional, but for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Yup. I'm working with weather code myself; in my code a matrix mult is ~25% faster on intel versus gfortran due to this. (edit: this is still within the range of "viable competition" to me though).
> Airlines don't offer rows where the seats in front don't recline as a feature (although rarely the seats in wing exit rows don't recline).

They often do: bulkhead seats. However, these have other tradeoffs. [0]

[0] For a quick rundown: http://www.seatguru.com/articles/bulkheads.php
In Spotify, instead of "saving album to My Music" I choose to create a playlist of the album. It's just drag and drop to create the playlist on desktop.

I choose to sort those into folders based on genre/artist/album, which works well for me.
I did one of the code reviews for the Pac-Man doodle (and actually, the part I was responsible for reviewing focused specifically on sound, so this was kinda my bad). We had an early sneak-peak: Marcin was a UX designer for what was my 80% project at the time, so he'd passed it around the office looking for feedback.

One of the factors we'd identified in the post-mortem was actually the difference in Google culture vs. the rest of the world culture. When we heard strange whirring noises coming from nearby computers in the office, our first impulse was "Woah, that's really cool! We're seriously going to launch this on the home page? Can I help?" While at many other offices, if you hear strange whirring noises from an employee's computer, the reaction is "You're fired!"

Similar cultural mismatches have been responsible for a few other gaffes, eg. Google Buzz was a huge hit internally because pretty much everything inside Google is (was?) public anyway and people are very tolerant of different opinions, and it never occurred to us that people could be seriously harmed by others' knowing details of their lives.
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Has our legislative branch behaved rationally in the last few years? Recently they threatened forcing a default for unrelated (to budget) issues. And in the not to distant past they voted a law that prohibits Medicare from to using it's bargaining power to negotiate for lower drug prices. You know something that would save every tax payer quite a bit of money since Medicare is one of the larger budget line items.

Based on past behavior you don't have to be overly cynical to think a useful program like this could be eliminated.
If anyone does this, consider getting a 3 month Chinese visa first (they've recently been a pain to get in Vietnam due to frosty but thawing relations - Chiang Mai or your home country are good bets) and continuing either to or from Yunnan in China (where I've lived mostly for the last 15 years, despite being Aussie, and trying LA and London). I've done part of the HCM highway by motorbike, but a lot of cycle touring in the region, eg. http://pratyeka.org/bike/southern-yunnan.html - never took a laptop though, that's nuts!

It's a shame the author skipped the Cham monuments in the middle of Vietnam. It's truly fascinating to see such robust physical evidence of ancient Hindu civilization amongst a modern, Sinitic one. This is part of the real beauty of Southeast Asia as a region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_S%C6%A1n

My family are actually about to spend a couple of weeks down in Yunnan's Wenshan prefecture on the Vietnamese border. It has great karst scenery, villages historically inaccessible except by boat through cave systems, cliff tombs, neolithic cave paintings, etc. That's just one corner of Yunnan (we also have Tibetan zones, tropical zones, etc.)

Another good option cycling out of Vietnam is northern Laos, toward Phongsali from Dienbienphu - really 'out there' villages, still real - and you can include your bike on boat trips down some of the rivers in the area.

Finally, if anyone's dead serious I am thinking of shipping two Weta trimarans - http://wetamarine.com/ - I sail on Fuxian Lake in Yunnan down to Halong Bay for a sailing/camping exploration of the archipelago before selling them. Been once before by public boat, there's some great beaches!
Yes, that's a very good point. But it is so much more dangerous and hard than splicing into some fiber optic cable. It also requires more manpower.
yeah $10 is kind of crazy, probably subsidised prize. I keep my older phones too, have been using old android devices as Airplay receivers for music, hooked up to speakers in different rooms.

Would be nice to use them for voice control too, I am hoping Amazon will release some Alexa apps/APIs that are not tied to specific hardware
to direct influence on lawmaking

And whose fault is that, the huge and powerful government's for being so easily susceptible to corruption or much smaller and in no way as powerful businesses for seeking easily-obtained influence? Since the rules are set by those in government, it seems rather disingenuous to point the finger back at those using those rules to their advantage.

If we were serious about dealing with this specific problem, we'd join hands in implementing term limits, lobbying regulations, much stronger limitations upon politicians' ability to enter the lobbying community after leaving office, stronger congressional ethics controls regarding prosecution for obvious quid pro quo relationships, etc.

If we'd take the bait away, the corporations would wander off on their own.

And that's bad because?

It's a deception. It puts the blame on something that is only part of the problem. It refuses to even acknowledge the collusive nature of both business and government.
likewise, still waiting on a response. Probably rejected, but would be nice to be emailed about it.
>Two .map-s one after another is code smell (and also a bit slow). Why not combine them into one?

I believe they are automatically combined before the results of the stream are forced.
Maybe nobody cares yet because nobody has made a sufficiently compelling alternative.

Almost everyone I know has at least some bands they like that aren't one of the few acts at the top. Local bands, side projects, anti-establishment punk bands, whatever.

My little working class town is a miniature hotbed for small bands. They don't all make weird punk or whatever, tons of them make music that would be really nice for café ambience.

But from visiting cafés around here, it does seem like the only music that exists is the repeating top 20. I don't think anyone actually likes this, though. I certainly don't.

Somebody could make it fun and easy for cafés and friends and whoever to play that music. That would have a very real value.
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It's not intentional. Just like Nintendo, Sony is just very helplessly ignorant about many things. Even their webstore has childlishly naive failings. They recently added a wishlist, which has a maximum of 100 entries, and doesn't automatically remove games bought. As well, when they update the webstore, on tuesday, it becomes a literal minefield because they update every single item slowly, over the course of 3-4 hours, in production, and often the storefront will display different prices for items than you see in the cart.
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You have to use 3rd party apps to get Google Music outside the browser, but it's still essentially just using the regular web page with the addition of being able to use the media keys.
Too bad the now-defunct Rdio button on my Roku remote can't be remapped.
Some background on it here: http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/apple-music-comes-to-androi...

He's being a bit cute with the "little hamburger" remark, but I still chuckled. Better than invisible "swipe from edge" menus if you ask me.
Oh yeah, I have some of those old playlists cluttering up my sidebar... Wow, I didn't know there were folders! Thanks, that might work for me too.
I use gear music player for google music https://www.gearmusicplayer.com/. It's fantastic (but not free).
I have nothing to say about your other issues (I haven't experienced most of them; I'm quite happy with the service), but the banner at the top of the More (…) menu takes you to the album of a song, which then easily leads to the Artist page. Do it all the time, takes me half a second.
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What I'm seeing a lot of is discomfort with the seemingly arbitrary nature of social interactions and making judgments based on them. We nerds (and I am among this bunch) don't really like the fact that popularity, "emotional IQ", and social influence are not quantifiable, but we are judged on them, anyway. When someone wants to be judged on very clear metrics, being told there is a mysterious "other" metric that seems to reside in the head of one person, is uncomfortable, maybe even frightening.

The thing is, however, that everything you do will also have this metric applied to it, by everyone you interact with, and it is a metric that impacts success. Any sales interaction you have, any hiring process you implement, any investor meeting you have, etc. All human interactions will be judged with this metric in addition to the other metrics. Is it "fair"? I don't know. But, it is reality. Given that, having someone who is good at it, on a team that is otherwise not good at it (and having read pg on nerds and popularity, I can surmise he considers himself not terribly good at it; nerds in general are famously socially inept), is worthwhile.

Which raises the concern that the social ineptitude of a technically brilliant founder might prevent them from getting into YC (and I think that is the fear being expressed in this thread). I can say that most YC founders I know are charming people; nerdy, mostly, but still charming and socially adept, at least when interacting with similarly nerdy peers. Is this a prerequisite for startup success? And, is it actually what is being selected for when we talk about this "social radar"? I don't know. I don't think I have this particular skill strongly enough to recognize a hit and a miss on these metrics, though I can spot technical fakery a mile away (and there's a surprisingly high number of applicants who are technically incompetent trying to pass for competent; I suspect few make it past the application process).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

While Vihart is talking about youtube in this video, her discussion of Edmond Snow Carpenter's "They Became What They Beheld" is very relevant to this situation as well. (note: Marshall McLuhan may have written an early version the book)

Too much medium, not enough message.
> More politics: there are a dozen states in the USA that have declared today "we refuse to take any Syrian refugees"

There are a number of state governors that have said that, which might actually mean something, if the US Constitution allowed state governors the authority to make that kind of decision, rather than reserving it exclusively for the federal government.