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Having done ZRH-GVA many, many more times than I care to count in both directions, may I recommend the plane.

The flight itself is REALLY quick and very scenic, even (especially?) at night with the moonlit snowy mountains [1], which are to your side, not under you (try to look south), and the stars. You're barely getting used to being in flight and they are already handing over the little chocolate and asking you to fasten your seat belt. Both ZRH and GVA (especially GVA) are ultra fast airports where check-in and security are a breeze (I recommend the mobile boarding pass) and there is fairly little walking. You can definitely door-to-door it in much less on the plane even with checked-in luggage (unless it's substantially changed in the last 3-4 years). Price wise I used to fly that route for 30-40 CHF, very competitive. It was sometimes cheaper to fly to London via ZRH than direct from GVA.

Meanwhile, whilst there are a few direct trains, most have a stop in the middle to change trains (from memory: Bern? maybe Biel or something that starts with L) and you have to carry your bags back out and stand in the cold for a few minutes and stress about whether you're on the right platform. Also, the bag space in second class is quite limited. On the plus side, you avoid taking trains to/from the airports, or getting frustrated with Switzerland's low speed limits on the highway.

I'm surprised the OP uses North American cities as examples of airport connectors. Hong Kong, Tokyo (NRT) and Shanghai to cite three big international destinations have great airport connectors which make sense considering the distances at play. I've always wondered why planners don't send their team to visit the top 10-20 airports in the world to check what the competition is doing.

Singapore is an example of the airport being close enough that you might as well take a taxi and a rapid transit to the "centre" (what is the centre, anyway - CBD, Orchard? there are a lot of hubs) makes less sense. Montreal's situation looks more like Singapore's than Tokyo's.

London is an example of where the extremely expensive airport connector (Heathrow Express) ends up somewhere with nothing except cheap hotels and slow connections, which is why they're finally getting round to building Crossrail, which goes from the Heathrow terminals all the way to all the major hubs (including the City and Canary Wharf, great news for those who have to fly transatlantic).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvWN3jOvvM&t=1m20s
> Cheaper areas are usually cheaper because the economy isn't doing so well.

That is basically not true in germany.
We have a lot of smaller cities which are really close to bigger ones or even have small towns which are having a really good economy.
Let's take Freiburg as an example. The city has disastrous rents and has a good economy.
But, if you live in a town in some counties near Freiburg you can have a way cheaper live and still live in a town with a good economy + a fast way to work in Freiburg, which you don't need since there are really good companies, too.

Take Zalando for example they build a huge building down in Lahr, Ortenaukreis near Freiburg or Rust (Europa Park) which will employ a lot of people (not only warehouser, there will be a lot of office jobs as well) and the city is really cheap to live in compared to Freiburg and has some towns around which are even cheaper.
Exactly, and this is the problem with the state of messaging in 2016. The companies have built their walled gardens and are now actively defending them against "outsiders". It's to the point where I've considered buying an iDevice just to communicate with a few friends on iMessage.
We are pretty much past needing to remember them. Checkout password managers. There are lots of options in that space these days.
There are actually a number of national legal frameworks that would disagree with you. See "everyman's right" in Finland, Iceland, Scotland, Norway, which has law backing it up. Just because in England such a right wasn't recognized doesn't mean that everyone agrees on this.

(In Finland, by definition of "everyman's right", everyone has a right to hike and to respectfully pick berries and mushrooms on claimed and unclaimed property -- in essence, all of society has limited rights on your land.)
Encouraging is not the same as making it free and completely painless for everyone, regardless of their income and how many kids they are having.
Local loop unbundling works very well in the UK.
Nearly all professionals in the west are in that position. They could give away most of their income to save desperately poor people, but they feel that they deserve it for themselves. It's a very broad blurry line between evil and respectable. Mostly dependent on whatever popular culture tells us it should be.
Santa Clara County voted yes on the original BART system. San Mateo County voted no. That's why BART doesn't go to San Jose. Consideration was given to running BART through San Mateo County with no stations, but that option was too expensive.
This is the article [1]. Unless they controlled for g then I doubt there is much value here.

1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12307/abstra...
The native populations of Germany and Austria are the same genetically, and assuming Ashkenazi, then also pretty similar.

So why would you like your son to see himself as "Austrian" and "Israeli" just because his parents lived there, instead of simply as having a genetic heritage in the region that goes back millennia before the modern conception of the German and Austrian State?
> You can also add 14 months of ma/paternity leave (67% of income replaced, max €1800/mo)

Yes, and it's a right, your employer can't refuse it.
If I remember correctly the 14 months is only if both parents take part,
12 months otherwise.
12 months for the wife, 2 months for the husband is typical.

> Child benefit (Kindergeld) goes until the age of 18

Even until 25 if your children have no income of their own, e.g. when they are go to college.
Having owned an Oculus, I can't agree the tech is ready. Personally I won't be touching the hardware again until it evolves to something like putting a pair of sunglasses on, and the image covers your entire field of vision, with better resolution. The black border around the image was disappointing and prevented full immersion.

I also want an integrated tracking camera in my laptop. The less clutter of hardware the better. And a brightness control dial on the side would be nice too. Those little screens are very close to your eyes, having a dimmer would be great - for those applications that seem to think you want full screen whiteness flooding your retinas.
Okay, from now on anyone who uses Facebook can't criticize Facebook. Same with Spotify, Twitter, and Apple products. Not one peep! Come to think about it, that would stop a lot of the whining around here so maybe it'd be a good thing.

Further, any advocates for higher tax rates should immediately begin to voluntarily pay the higher tax rates that they advocate for. You are allowed to donate extra money in taxes to the government if you'd please. So I demand that people put their money where their mouth is.

And while we're at it, I'm sick of these affirmative action advocates at elite universities who always want to give up other people's spots. All affirmative action advocates should immediately give up their positions at elite colleges and well-regarded employers, to make space for less-privileged people.

Can you see how this is not a reasonable line of argument?
If the same study was just girls, would you also object?

The truth is that boys are falling behind academically, I think most normal people would agree that in a well designed educational system, gender would not factor in outcome.
Headline is clickbait; could the HN title be changed to something like "cable companies won't compete because they want to leave acquisition options open?" About as long, and far more informative.
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He said stupid dress code and then comes up with a reasonable one.
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Sure, but it's not like we can just sit on our hands and wait until we are 100% sure of what we could do; the welfare state is already selecting for us. And in my experience, most people are opposed to getting rid of the welfare state.

This means that the choice is not "eugenic or do nothing", it's "eugenic or dysgenic".
Here's recent labor slavery in Scotland

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/28/sl...

The victims feared being killed if they escaped back to their homes, so I'd say it's more than just "wage slavery".
They could have just named hangouts as gtalk and released it.

Then a lot of people would be claiming Google was being dishonest and tricking its users.
Intel acquires computer vision startup Itseez for IOT and self-driving cars
Interesting, which company it is?
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Have you completely missed the HTC Vive?
I force my friends to use Gchat when the chat is turning into long conversation and I want to type on my PC keyboard instead of my cell.

But I'm not sad Google missed out with Gchat. One less product Google dominates with means some other company can innovate in that area and compete.
Before you dismiss XMPP and seek for alternatives that need at least another 5-10 years to be actually usable (looking at you [matrix]) you might want to take a look at how far XMPP has come in the last 2-3 years. The Android client Conversations (https://Conversations.im) is a prime example on what can be achieved with XMPP today. In band images, emojis, End-to-end encryption, group chats…
There's another interesting (at least to me) calculation there.

From the article:

6,500km cable length

148 (& 149) amplifiers

66.5 (& 66.9) ms of round trip latency

Wikipedia says the refractive index of typical optical fibres is 1.44

So the light travel time down 6500km of fibre would be 6,500x10^3/(3^10^8*1.44) = 0.0312ms, and twice that for the round trip = 62.4ms

From that we get that the total latency of 66.5ms is 62.4ms of light travel time plus 4.1ms of (presumably) inline amplifier and terminating equipment latency.

That means each of the 148 amplifiers are doing their thing in something less than 28 microseconds, possibly way less since it'd be easy to assume the terminating equipment at each end is doing a way more time consuming task that just amplifying the signal, so could easily be taking up the bulk of that 4.1ms non-travel-time latency.

Anyone know how those amps work?
The entire article is very confusing re: Google/Alphabet - I thought that Boston Dynamics now rolled up through Alphabet, and was totally separate from Google. Or is the author just pretending/ignoring the Google/Alphabet reorg. Or just doesn't know?

Regardless, seems like the sort of thing that should get a mention at least.
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Gchat was not and could never be that, because Gchat was associated with personal accounts.

What about Google Apps for Work? It's been around for a decade.
We already have a perfect messaging system that is fully interoperatble, works, is relieable and doesn't need a new account because everybody has one: emails.

You can perfectly chat with emails, the problem are that all clients make you use emails as digital letters instead of chats. But you could perfectly imagine an email client doing what gchat used to do.
>Being rich has a dirty connotation in Germany. If you are rich, you better be a doctor or a lawyer, then you get an excuse, other than that you probably did something shady or just benefited from other peoples work. Business school is for people who were too stupid to become engineers. They will earn more, but be worth less, because they won't be a Diplomingenieur

Wow, it's the same situation here in Argentina, word for word. Amazing considering the differences in culture and history.
Also called "raised-bed gardening"? At least it looks like the same or very similar concept.
No, Santa Clara County was out four years before San Mateo County was[0]. The original BART plan wouldn't have reached San Jose in the first place.

[0] http://www.bart.gov/about/history
Some FPS games make the mistake of limiting field of view, which can cause motion sickness on regular monitors. A wide field of view and high frame rate greatly improves things.

With VR, it's a combination of frame rate and as the comment above mentions - too much movement. In No Limits 2 rollercoaster for example, you can walk around the park and get on the coaster, ride the coaster, then get off and walk around again - it's too much. The best VR I saw was sitting on virtual chair and things happening around you.. or the chair slowly moves through environment with deliberate and smooth velocity.
>ok, since so many of you protested, I must have gotten this one wrong.

Frankly, I'm worried that your only conclusion is that you "must have" gotten it wrong because of all the complaints. This wasn't even a borderline case. The decision was so plainly wrong, and reeks so much of politicized moderation, that anything but an outright acknowledgement of why seriously calls into question your ability to fairly moderate discussions on this site at all.

You're free to moderate your site however you want, but people who don't fit into the Silicon Valley hive-mind are going to be driven away by this animosity towards different perspectives.

After something like this, a little more than "I must have gotten it wrong" is necessary if you want people to trust you.
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I come from non-EU country and recently got a job in Germany, you can not get agreement from the federal employment agency to take that position if there are German citizens, or people from other EU countries, who would be qualified and interested in that position.

I think the company also had to agree to allow employment agency to, either anonymously or publicly, publish ad for the job themselves for a couple of weeks.

Source from the federal employment agency:

>Die Ausländerbehörde holt die Zustimmung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ein: Dort wird geprüft, ob es für die Ihnen angebotene Stelle bevorrechtigte Bewerberinnen oder Bewerber gibt. In diesem Fall können Sie für diese Stelle keine Zulassung auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt erhalten.

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/web/wcm/idc/groups/public/docu...

Note: There are different types of visas, and this might not be a requirement for all of them, but it was the requirement for me.
Being able to use Gaim/Pidgin doesn't count as interoperability dude.
Those protocols worked only because somebody bothered to reverse engineer them and this "interoperability" only worked half the time. I know because I was using Gaim/Pidgin for Yahoo! Messenger back then.

Today at least they are using web technologies and I get to use Facebook's Messenger, WhatsApp, Hangouts and Slack on Linux without headaches.
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I had the DK2 and pretty much the same thing happened, boxed and shelved after a week, after I tried all the best demos - although for a different reason: the eye-strain and nausea was too much to bear for me. I couldn't really explain it since other people, family members and friends, could wear it just fine for any amount of time. I wear glasses but neither lenses or any settings offered relieve, guess I'm simply too sensitive to enjoy current-gen VR. Also the DK2 drivers were glitchy - had to plug in an old 19" monitor because the only way the rift would run at its designed 75Hz was with a primary monitor that supported it too, it's been a real hassle to switch from a nice 27" 1440p display to 1280x1024 and back, only to get really bad judder ingame because either the game wasn't using the latest SDK version or my GPU couldn't keep up (gtx 670 with an i7-2600k). Direct-To-Rift mode should have fixed these issues (judder primarily) but it rarely worked for me.
Note that I never tried the CV1 or any other HMD so far, nor do I really plan to. My DK2 experience has been sobering but I am hopeful for future generations.
I just give the conversation its own browser window, then I resize at will. Sure the defaults could be better, but it makes more sense to use the window manager anyway.
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The fqa on 9front for Abaco simply says "no"

Which is amusing.

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Including Godwin himself.

I'd always assumed it was a clever piece of off-the-cuff satire, and related to ill considered or reactionary responses in a debate.

It hadn't occurred to me the whole thing might a po-faced social experiment. Still, history is written by the victors* and all that.
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I wonder if 3 monitors side by side would be good enough to replace your headset with Elite? Combined with headtracking so when you look at left monitor, the view shifts slightly with your head movement? Or is it that you're completely enclosed in the world more important?
Email isn't fast enough. Gchat was/is faster.
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I won't go into too much detail, but this is just flat-out wrong. "German-ness" is emphatically not genetic. "spirit and character" are not either.

You're just trying to have a "filthy migrants are all criminals" whine dressed up as something other than bigotry.
> Because DEP aka W^X will mark the section of memory containing the string as non-executable, so it will segfault when the instruction pointer hits that address. You can disable that security feature though with a compiler option.

DEP is a kernel-level security feature no? Since the kernel is what sets up the .text and .data sections.
They are shifting people off benefits and cutting their entitlements whilst deriding beneficiaries at every opportunity. State housing is being sold off (or they are attempting too, but judging by Friday's news that they have botched it, it isn't easy to find a buyer) and much is sitting empty. Welfare recipients do not receive enough to cover living costs, and payments have not kept up with inflation at any stretch. A welfare recipient is vastly worse off now than 10 years ago.
I can't tell from those figures (on mobile and the linked site behaves badly) but do they include state pensions? Also, are you sure they are right? The figures are in millions?
3D TV's were pushed by the manufacturers as a way to sell more tvs. Consumers are demanding VR as evidenced by the oculus kickstarter and preorder volume.
I'm thinking about something like this, thanks for posting your link.

My father's house has a greywater septic system. The treated water is sprayed on an "orchard". The trees don't get watered when people aren't in the house, so most the trees are gone. I'm going to plant raspberries. :)
Unless Vive is an actual room you strap to your head, then no.
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Why are those PhDs working in cafes, rather than working in their field in the UK, like many other Greeks?
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He's thinking philosophically, not politically (trying to influence people). We should be quite free to think and discuss things in an objective way without having to continuously show that we agree with contemporary morals.

It might turn out that such a line of reasoning leads to the useless conclusion of "nothing is wrong" but it's certainly worth trying nonetheless. What we do know is that our current set of morals is somewhat arbitrary and could easily be full of "evil" things that make us no better than slaver owners. We just don't know because everyone agrees with us.
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If you disagree with the editor, you can revert their reversions with justifications and bring it to attention on the talk page, though.
Your link describes a dumb study. I also doubt that for instance, dumping truck loads of unwanted library books in kids' houses would necessarily impact on their potential for being paid for their services in the future. A thoughtful choice of books provided by their parents would likely have a different outcome.
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A household robot that could

- do the washing and ironing

- cook meals

- clean and tidy the house

- take parcel deliveries

- watch the house for intruders

- feed and walk the dog (and tell him off if he does something bad)

- change bulbs, repaint some walls while you are on holidays

Would be like a new revolution similar to washing machines or dish washers, freeing up lots of people (mostly women) time and for instance giving them a better chance to focus on their career. People would be queueing to buy one.

Less sexy but a much bigger market than another Terminator in my opinion.
Wikipedia reminds me of Web 1.0: plain, informational text with minimal formatting, and liberal use of hyperlinks.

But it's better than the old web. It has revision history, proper licensing, suffers less from link rot, uses consistent and readable styling and, of course, it is collaboratively edited.

Shame about the centralisation, though.
This is admittingly more topical with the Israeli and Jewish side than the Austrian.

I would like him to know and acknowledge his cultural background, the same as I would like him to be able to speak Hebrew (at the very least so he could speak to his grandparents and extended family). And I don't see anything negative in that, there is no limit of having only a single identity.

I also don't see what genetics have to with it. Indeed my grandparents had to flee Europe for similarly phrased reasons (being ashkenazi didn't help them at the time) and I find them just as distasteful now as then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts

> The Inclosure Acts (or "Enclosure Acts" in modern spelling[1]) were a series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights to land that was previously considered common. Between 1604 and 1914, over 5,200 individual Enclosure Acts were put into place, enclosing 6.8 million acres (2,800,000 ha; 28,000 km2).[2]

> Prior to the enclosures in England, a portion of the land was categorized as "common" or "waste". "Common" land was under some kind of collective control.[3] Called the open field system, a single plot of land was divided among groups, often a lord and employed or participating peasants.[4] This facilitated common grazing and crop rotation.[4] "Waste" was the only land not officially claimed by any group, often cultivated by landless peasants.[3]
Even more previous generations' people would make the same argument: "Is telephone really a necessity? We lived without telephones and we were fine, our life was fine" and so on. Replace telephone with telegram or a car for even earlier generations.

Now the problem with this argument is that we're not living in that generation. We're living in the present generation, where a decent, if not high speed internet is absolutely essential in order to progress. Can you still live without internet in the present generation? Sure. But is there a remote chance that such life would be comfortable and painless? Absolutely not. Not even a chance.
The whining words were not needed.
Where I live, it's a legally mandated monopoly. Before Verizon FIOS came on the scene, there was one cable provider here. Way back when, it was CableVision, then Adelphia, then Comcast. We now have the choice of Comcast or Verizon. I've been switching back and forth between them for years. As soon as my promotional price ends and they start inching up my rate, I jump ship, rinse and repeat.

I'd love to have a third player in the game to add more pressure to keep the prices low.
Are you kidding? For every soldier in the field, how many households would pay for having a robot to do their washing, cleaning, cooking, taking parcels, caring for the dog, etc. It's a huge market. And no export restrictions!