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I was in the market to buy a printer that I wanted to use with Linux. I looked at the compatibility chart for Epson printers. Every single one is supported. Made my life easy. True to form, it worked out of the box. Avahi found it. Used the Cups web interface to install the driver. No issues.

On the topic of supported platforms, when I bought a new laptop, I went with Toshiba because, at least with the Japanese models, every single one supports Linux.

The fact that I can buy new, off the shelf equipment and have it work on Linux with no issues is really what is new for me. You still have to do your homework, but I remember the days of having to look around for used equipment to make sure that it would work with Linux. Those days seems to be over.
This sounds more like having a distributor than having a landlord.

Imagine you create a craft beer. You can't build a relationship with all of the bars, restaurants, nightclubs, gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores that sell beer. So you sell through a distributor, who has all of those relationships. The amount of product you sell is now at the whim of that distributor.

You own the product. The distributor owns the means of getting it to the audience. You can sell some direct, but not as much as the distributor can. So you go to them for volume.

You can increase sales by creating a better product, so consumers demand it (i.e. high quality content). You can provide incentives to the distributor (i.e. paid ads on FB). You can do some of your own marketing to make it appear more valuable. But ultimately, you have to sell to the distributor as much as the end customer.

And if you're in a popular category (content/craft beer), the more people that enter, and the more product they have, the less share of shelf-space (which is like the facebook feed) any one product is going to get.
Seems strikingly similar the US Real ID Act.

The question simply becomes one of, do we truly need a card to identify ourselves to any government or private agency? Currently many places require multiple proofs, so how hard is it to fake/corrupt a singular one? Honestly how is a chip going to protect from someone stealing your card and using before you can alert authorities? Are they PIN protected?
No one is. If you want to donate your time there are a million non profits that will gladfully take the donation.

There is no reason this process has to devalue everyone else's work on a paid job.
Captcha'd downloads are the worst: no restarting, no automation, no direct linking.
Additionally, if you dislike terror threats and completely broken democracy, you're going to not-love how they interact with opaque and treacherous software and online services in the future.
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One of my co-workers bragged about purposely siting next to manspreaders. She was really proud of it. I guess she thought it was part of the fight for equal rights? I don't know, I'm so confused by this world sometimes.
>> if the "lower" individuals would experience anything of the meta-experience.

> Have a look at a stadium full of people watching a football match. It really does from some angle look as if there are two giant organisms.

Moreover, if you look at the phenomena like "the wave" (aka. Mexican wave), it seems that the "lower" individuals do experience something more in such a group than they do in small crowds. I've heard that being in a big crowd can in some way override individual instincts and reasoning patterns.
My thoughts weren't really centred around arguing that to be honest. It was more to do with the author's tone, which took a rather tone-deaf attitude as to why certain folks were disappointed with the outcome.

The outcome of the auction happened in a way which was allowed by the parameters which defined it.
It would depend on the situation. This one, I believe, they were bound to accept the lowest bid. However if the lowest bidder failed to complete the work they could move up the ladder.

Most major contracts are, I think, 'Lowest bidder technically acceptable'. Which requires the bidder to meet minimum guidelines in their quality of work. So price is not the only factor, though it is a major one.
Both Xilinx and Altera are using ARM AXI protocol for the FPGA-CPU interface in their current SoCs.
Did these logos change? The first group look the same as before.
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> Doesn't it need to?

No. That's applying a personal preference - one that I also have - to the rest of the population. Most, and quite possibly almost all, users have chosen features above interoperability.

Yes, the situation could change, but no, it doesn't need to.

Contrast with, say, mobile phone number portability in the US. While one can still argue for or against requiring it, users obviously actually cared and used it. Even when XMPP was popular, very few users left Google.
Did he say “wisened” or “wizened”? (2004)
What language is this exactly? I'd love to research a bit more. Just any search terms to point me in the right direction.
I think this is a classic case of a leaky abstraction. The developer probably assumes some relatively benign behavior from GPS, and treats it as a 'true' record of the user's position in cartesian space. Throw some grade school geometry at it and you've got an app!

Doing it right in practice requires understanding the nature of the measurement itself, Bayesian notions of uncertainty (does iOS even report positional uncertainty from GPS?), and probably some sensor fusion -- using accelerometers or even gyros with different noise signatures to arrive at a better answer. In other words, a lot more sophistication than just reading x,y values from a function lookup. (I don't mean to cast aspersions on the actual developer mentioned in the article; there are valid reasons not to do these things, battery life being one obvious one.)

A good friend works at a fitness tracker company, and he reports that the raw data they have to deal with is insanely ugly. There's a fair amount of algorithmic house cleaning that goes along with good distance/speed estimates.
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The last thing I need for my 5 year old girl is a Barbie asking her if she feels pretty and filling her with consumerist ideals. I understand the power of data for analysis and influence and refuse to lend her impressionable mind to their interests.
Argentina is lovely, and not just Buenos Aires. Good god, the wine. You can have an incredible wine-tasting vacation in Mendoza or Cafayate. If you love the outdoors, there's Tierra del Fuego - which is also the jumping off point for Antarctica. There's more that's purported to be great, too.

At the moment, the key is to bring all your money in American dollars, and never touch a credit card - the official exchange rate is set by the government, and has no relationship to reality. Exchange your money into pesos on the black market, and an already affordable country gets even more so.
Sorry to break it to you, but tax evasion will always exist.

There is a HUGE financial incentive to find alternatives and a simple example would be cryptocurrencies.
The article is totally misrepresented by this title, unsurprisingly. The notable thing about the paper is that the authors found a way to exploit non-linearity to separate pumping and emission with a particular nano-structure which is impossible with linear optics.
Thank you Colin. This has given me a lot to think about.
Here are the links to the app -
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clickeinst...
iOS-https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clickeinstein/id1042178529?l...
Thanks a ton!
You're missing the fact that corporations make tax law more complicated precisely because they benefit from the complexity.
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>Is that so? How do you figure? How do you get an item to a buyer that will never be a buyer because he never heard of your product?

That's a problem of the seller. Including the seller of bad goods (who has the opportunity to promote them over good stuff via a bigger advertising budget). Not a problem of the buyer or society at large.

Besides, as I said, billions of products are sold every day with zero advertising (all the generic brand items we buy).

>Society is not made of people who are 100% consumers. People need to sell stuff to make a living. Advertising is a way to sell stuff.

Selling stuff without advertising is also a way to sell stuff. We managed to do with 1/20 the advertising just few decades ago, and almost 0 targeted advertisement compared to today.

Besides buying stuff you don't really need just because you're conditioned by 24/7 advertising is not that good for consumers anyway. That's how people end up in debt.

>Go ahead an try to sell people "crappy products" with advertising. See if they buy.

You mean like the $100 billion "bottled water" industry?

http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/27/news/companies/pepsi_coke/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/19/nestle-...

Or selling "brandname clothes" to 10-20x markup all around the world similar to quality (and often made in the same factories by the same people) to much cheaper alternatives?

In fact you could take away "crappy products" and replace it with "equal quality products" and my argument would still hold: you can artificially promote the brand who spends more on advertising over the brand who is equally good, and might even be cheaper.

>We can argue until the sun comes down about what is "essential" or "beneficial" to society, but that's entirely subjective.

Something being "subjective" is not the same as "entirely arbitrary and "anything goes", unless we've lost all sense of purpose and reasoning.

Taste is subjective too, but a home cooked meal with fresh ingredients is better for you than McDonalds and Hot Pockets, and that's a scientifically verifiable fact.

>I also don't understand the very common belief expressed around here that it would somehow be a good idea if humanity were reduced to its "essentials" or to stuff that they "really need". Art isn't essential. The internet isn't essential. Comfort isn't essential. Entertainment isn't essential.

Only if by "essential" we only take into account the survival aspect. If we take into account our emotional well being, then arts and entertainment, and occasionally comfort, are essential too to one degree or another.

On the other hand, an always updated smartphone, the latest adidas, a sports car, etc, are not "essential" by any measure. And it's a good idea to reduce them, because their endless production is also environmentally harmful.
Actually it does something kinda sorta similar with Facebook Pages and Groups. Especially now that lots of people write directly on their Pages instead of in a blog. You can "like" the page which is similar to following RSS.
Admittedly, this is a lot different, as Facebook decides what you see. You are not guaranteed to see all the postings and you can't "save them for later".

But it seems to work, at least for the bigger part of the population.
This is been tried to varying degrees and failed. It's really difficult to get the major players to work together.

However, I'd say that VW is probably the closest analog. Their car platforms are largely LEGO-like components that can be put together in varying configurations as needed by their different product lines. They have a handful of major platforms that underpin the majority of VW, Audi, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, and Bentley, and they are working on unifying Lamborghini with Porsche and Audi.

I know it's not what you're envisioning, but the reality of manufacturing places limit what can be done. Tesla is such an insignificant player right now that what they are doing manufacturing-wise is not yet relevant to the industry at large. They sell thousands of cars a year while the major industry players all sell millions. Tesla can survive with inefficiencies that would destroy Toyota.
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> Just ask a motherf*@&er to move.

Even that's not even usually necessary. I tried to avoid manspreading when I realized it was a thing, but I can't. I have testicles. Sitting like someone without testicles is rather uncomfortable. That said, if someone is nearing the seat next to me, I will (and anecdotally, so will everyone else I observed) pull my legs closer together to accommodate.

When this was a thing, most of the pics I saw on Tumblr were photos of guys being shamed for spreading even while the bus/subway/metro/whatever was only half full, and there was no reason for anyone to have to sit uncomfortably.
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I've seen a number of ads saying "Come work in slightly smaller city and pay less rent."
The state is not your adversary. Taxes weren't invented to harass and punish you. This exact type of thinking is why we have this problem.
I thought F# and Haskell were at least on the same level of performance, if not faster. Is it not the case?
so... when is this coming to android?
Really like quite a few Lambda stuff in Java8, sadly once you need to touch any of the intrinsic types it gets ugly real fast. Wanted to do some byte manipulation with Lambda and I'd be creating a new Byte object for each byte I touched.
> Using a not very popular programming language can actually make it harder for you to hire people.

This is a very popular opinion, but I never see anyone taking the time to bring actual arguments. Do you have any experience hiring people or are you just spreading this seemingly self-evident claim?

If a language is popular, wouldn't more companies want to hire for it, which would make recruiting harder? See http://blog.activelylazy.co.uk/2013/05/27/choosing-a-program....
Also, being popular means that it is being known by a wider audience of people: isn't it harder to filter through all the applicants who say they can write in the popular language?
Doesn't Lightroom use a MySQL database to store the users metadata/tags?

Windows Vista/7 Photo Gallery did the right thing, it stored the users metadata in the pictures (EXIF, XMP, etc metadata formats) inside the JPEG/etc formarts. Windows Media Player stored the song user rating in the MP3 files in their ID3 tags too. iTunes does the contrary, stores everything in a SQLite db.
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Can't really take spec literally anyway. Even at equal build quality, that phone does not need to work in a 2007 environment. The original iPhone in 2008 could run everything that was available in the App store with almost the best experience. There is going to be more tradeoff with this phone which is also going to be compensated with an order of magnitude larger ecosystem.

It is still amazing that technology has evolved to the point of finding a similar phone 2 orders of magnitude cheaper. Especially when you think of all the stuff that were going on at the time of the iPhone like the OLPC. Good reference point also to compare with today expensive technologies that ship with subpar performance, like all those "smart appliances" that cost thousands and offer ridiculously small performance, or car entertainment systems that even in luxury cars can be beaten by a 10$ phone.
>There is a difference between something that is legal and something that is illegal but difficult to prove. You seem to be conflating the two issues.

Isn't that what he said? That many of the schemes are clearly illegal but the authorities just lack the resources to investigate and prosecute them (from what I've heard from people who work at HMRC it's not that at lot of them are "difficult to prove", it's more like shooting fish in a barrel and more convictions would be trivially achieved by hiring more staff and the higher ups having the political will to do it). The rest of your post is irrelevant given the above.
You can use, for example, elaborate if-else constructs that firstly try to determine type of the value, then check for values.

That's nowhere near pattern matching. Two concepts make pattern matching vastly superior to if-else constructs:

- Non-exhaustive checks by the compiler.

- Destructuring
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For people getting into Java 8, jOOL is a great, small library with a "Seq" class that fills in the gaps missing in j.u.stream.Stream:

https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOL

E.g. if you're coming from groovy/Scala and wonder "why doesn't Stream have this method?", Seq probably either already has it, or the maintainer will be open to adding it for you.

So, use jOOL. It's great.

That said, I still cringe that we have to do "someCollection.stream()..." (or use fill-ins like jOOL) at all, because these methods aren't on j.u.List/etc. itself...

My naive impression is that the JDK designers fixated on making streams support parallelization (because fancy!), and so made some compromises on the API, when in reality 98% of collections are small/not parallel, and I assert a non-parallel, more complete API (e.g. more default methods directly on j.u.List/j.u.Iterable themselves) would have been a net-win to most programmers.

And the parallelized version could be a separate library/jar/something.
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I figured that out when I was 3.
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Actual ads? Pieces of media payed for by someone?
Nicely done.

IMO, could be improved by going back to the 1950's when there was visual and physical separation of a computer's components. The physical separation of storage vs. processing really drives home the point of how a well designed should look (granted that today's well designed system requires separation of components in software vs. hardware).
> Has anyone been able to play with the phone and see if the bootloader is locked?

I haven't, but if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say it's locked. Even if it could be unlocked easily, it's not likely you'll find anyone developing for it. It's not listed on the XDA Developers website, which is the authority on Android phone hacking.

> I also can't figure out who the carrier on this phone is.

It's in the first line of the article:

"Walmart is now selling a TracFone-branded LG smartphone that costs $9.82 (it also ships free if your online order total tops $50)."

TracFone is one of the many brands of conglomerate América Móvil, and sister brand of Walmart-sold Net10 Wireless and Straight Talk Wireless. They are MVNOs, leasing spectrum and bands from the major US carriers; I've used Straight Talk in the past on both AT&T's and T-Mobile USA's networks. At one time TracFone was Sprint PCS only, but I believe you can get TracFone devices that use any of the major carrier networks now.
Honestly the whole thing smells like a hit job. It is one thing for the parent to supposedly "smell alcohol" but then they went all private detective and started rooting through the man's trash (and supposedly found something with unidentified brown liquid, soda? alcohol? coffee?).

Then this:

> The city Department of Education charged Sloan with drinking on the job and sexual harassment because he had asked a group of moms that day, “Anybody want to go on a blind date?” Sloan said he used the joke to put people at ease about his disability. But in August, Sloan settled with the DOE by agreeing to retire.

Clearly someone wanted him out (e.g. group of parents, admin at the school) and used these things as pretext to accomplish that. Too bad. Happens a lot if you follow the news around teachers in union areas getting dismissed (e.g. "teacher of the year dismissed for [minor infraction]").

I suspect a group of parents took issue with him and his style of teaching, and had enough clout (and made enough petty complaints) to have him removed.
I never tried it, since so far i am using xmpp as a gateway to some service, but sovereign has something related to xmpp - you might want to check it out - https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
How do corporations make tax law? They influence tax law, but they don't have the power to pass laws.
From the article "The reason for the shift is the global, austerity-era push for countries to share more information on tax arrangements. "
Dunno. I wrote the whole css for winterbe.com from scratch. To be honest I don't find both pages like similar besides white background and gray subtitles. :-)
I have a million problems on my Fedora, printing is not one of them.
It's almost zero-configuration.

I wish all OSes were that easy wrt printing setup.
Solid emotional argument there mate. /s
I've only done a little bit with Xilinx's HLS which allows you to write "C/C++" which gets synthesized to hardware. I put C/C++ in quotes because it relies on lots of pragma directives to tell the complier enough that it can synthesize the hardware that you want, to the point of it almost being its own language entirely, There may be a few applications where this is particularly well suited, but at least for what I was doing, it was easier (and fit my mental model better... ymmv) to do it in HDL.

Edit: System Generator is pretty awesome though!
Maybe it's just that that's the tooling/language that the author knows. I've been guilty of writing a tool in the language I'm most familiar with whether the greater community thought it was a good idea or not.
One of my co workers wears a gray hoodie every day, but is the only person that constantly gets told that she doesn't look like a dev. Just happens to be a black woman. Seems pretty annoying to me.
The state is occasionally my adversary and occasionally my ally. When it comes to the question of how much of the money that I earn must be surrendered to prevent me from going to jail, the state is my adversary.

Taxes are routinely used to punish and influence people. Alcohol taxes, tobacco taxes, fuel taxes, they all have the dual purpose of raising revenue and discouraging behavior that the state wishes to limit.
Looks like it's actually lower than most other Western countries:

http://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-cancer-fre...

But I guess red meat is just one of several (many?) things that can affect cancer. For example, it seems that there is an inverse correlation between selenium in the soil and cancer:

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/128/11/1845.full.pdf
There are two kinds of ADS in my book:

One kind is an appeal to the person in some general fashion. The usual forms apply. There isn't much of a value add, beyond the appeal. "Ours is 2x better", or "You will feel GREAT!", etc...

The other kind is a value add, in that something of value is given in return for a bit of mindshare or implied consideration. This is HN, and a lot of other content marketing type approaches. Some use forums for discussion, others blogs, still others white papers, and or maybe things like apps, or data one can make use of.

In my own personal thoughts, I refer to this as, "give 'em a cookie. Who doesn't like a free cookie?" And when they take the cookie, they will often give you that little bit of consideration, or a contact address, opinion, something.

Musicians do this by dropping free to play and sometimes free to download tracks. "Here's your cookie, I'm selling more in the store."

I'm generally OK with value added type advertising. I like my free cookie, same as most people. The non-value added ADS are often trading on shock value, or their ability to interrupt you, or some other inane thing. Noise.
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> It is if the world unites against them.

It is if "impossible thing happens", which means it isn't. The world doesn't unite against anything, that's not the world we live in.
Brian Hayes did some experiments with running on a track and connected them to this paper: http://bit-player.org/2015/the-long-run
What many forget, but is fairly straightforward, is that tax planning is usually performed by accountants and lawyers at an hourly rate and is largely disconnected from the sum involved. Therefore the ROI of tax planning increases dramatically with larger sums.

i.e. spend $50k to setup some complex structure to save $60k in taxes? no thanks, spend $75k to save $1m? i'm listening...