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At the moment Apple Pay have only two supporting banks: Swiss bankers and Corner. Now that Twint and Paymit are merging, they have most major banks and shops (Credit Suisse, Postfinance, Raiffeisen, UBS, ZKB, Migros, Coop, Swisscom) behind them, so I think Apple will struggle. Also, unlike other markets I think Switzerland has a very low usage of contactless payments. I rarely see anyone use them but maybe that will change with the rise of Twint (e.g putting little Twint signs next to every terminal).
Is it possible to come up with a more dramatic title? The Pokémon fad is almost over at this point.
I think MS was far more aggressive (some would say, predatory) in maintaining their market domination when the PC was the hot platform of the day ('80s to mid '00s), than Google is now.

DOS/Windows (and Office, another brutally fought-for market dominant) was the lifeblood of MS, Google mostly just wants to make sure a lot of people have cheap, always-on, access to the web so they can monetize their searches.
Not that I condone this culture in any workplace, but it's a damn hedge fund. You can't really expect "bring your cat to work day" or yoga break-out spaces. Looking at the sole-focus of companies like this and the effect they have on our society, it's hardly surprising that their workplaces are toxic.
There is no Pokémon Go for Windows Phone. I think that is the definitive sign that it has definitely lost the war.

This is largely irrelevant. The ART runtime is open, the class libraries are open. So, it is not very hard to add support for Android applications to another system. In fact, that is what Microsoft did with the canceled Astoria project[1], as well as Blackberry before. Of course, you need to build workarounds for Google Play Services, but that is a solvable problem.

The real reason why Windows Phone with Astoria would fail, is that the platform only provides marginal benefits for most consumers (if any). Add to that uncertainty created by exceptionally bad management (two OS rebases in just a few years) and you have a dying platform.

That said, I think the real danger for Android comes from within: Chinese OEMs providing Android without Google Play Services and/or Samsung being so powerful that it could fork Android.

[1] Some people were running Android apps using a leaked build.
I interviewed onsite at bridgewater and it was a very strange but interesting experience.

They take radical transparency very seriously. They record everything, but do ask your permission first(well... can I say no?)

The people were nice. They are brutally honest and let me know what I was lacking.

Watching videos including the crying manager were too much for me.

It doesn't surprise me that fucked up HR situations occur.

The one fun event was watching the receptionist applying radical transparency(assholeism) to a delivery guy. They take it seriously!
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I think that impression might be quite subjective – my impression is the exact opposite. I don't have any numbers either, but most people I know, both Android users and iOS users, are quite happy with their devices. They do of course have minor issues, but that will almost always be the case with something targeting such a broad audience.

I am not sure how I could be more happy with my device. Right now it mostly does what I want it to do, the battery lasts a couple of days, and it rarely bugs out.

edited: changed "really" to "more" in the second paragraph.
That's what makes it sound "musical", not "good".

A lot in music breaks down to establishing patterns and breaking them. Simpler music, like pop music relies heavily on well known patterns, but at least the chorus usually has some element of surprise within the song.

My theory is, that people like music that is just a little (or for the more adventurous a little more) surprising.

With training in listening to music, as a musician or just as an ambitious listener, your taste will begin to widen to more complex music. This is because you begin to recognize its patterns (and only when a pattern establishes, you can break it to create suspense or surprise). Simpler stuff will become very shallow, because it's so predictable (just remember the shameful musical taste when coming of age).

Of course there is more to a pop song than harmony and melody, so even when your taste becomes more sophisticated you might like a pop song for its emotional appeal or some subtile complexity or depth the novice won't even notice.
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> "They want your money to lend to other people at yet higher interest rates."

Banks don't rely on existing deposits to make loans, the loans are backed by themselves, they're created out of nothing. I'd recommend this short video which shows how banks create money from loans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_QC15C7o4A
> This is a fundamental hole in security with no logical workaround.

There is no hole in anything. You're not violating anyone's privacy or stealing anything from anyone. Even the bandwith is given to you for free. It's how things are supposed to work.

You're just exercising your right to privacy by using such a thing.

One can tolerate someone re-inventing/re-discovering steno and making it sound like it's smth new... but not someone having no f idea whatsoever of what "security" means and what his "right to privacy" is... ffs!
The lack of communication from niantic, server issues for weeks and way too shallow "content" is already killing the game. People came for the IP of pokemon on mobile, had fun catching a few of them, realized that the "combat" is a joke, and besides catching the same stuff over and over there is nothing you can do in the game really. Except the usual die-hard fans, user retention rates are going to the ground fast now.

Basically, the whole topic will be dead in a few weeks if niantic continues this path. A great example for a missed opportunity.
Is nytimes.com down? HNed?
According to the reference in [0]: "As at the end of June 2013, there are 197,800 ATMs in use on the [Chinese] mainland, of which 100,700 or 55.28% have been upgraded with the serial number enquiry function. According to schedule, by late 2015, the serial number of every Rmb100 note withdrawn from banks by members of the public can be traced."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948081
Unfortunately, it has been found that the principle-agent problem is just to much to overcome in this case.
Type class instance parameters must be explicit in Scala, whereas Haskell can usually infer them. That might make a free monad approach more interesting in Scala.

However, if you really want to introduce this complexity in Scala, you will probably first write some nice high-level code, then discover that it causes a stack overflow, then have to learn about the TailRec monad, figure out how to stack your (free-like) monad on top of it, therefore learn monad transformers, which you probably wanted to avoid by using a free-like monad. A library may solve part of the problem for you, but you will have to be aware of your own stack usage all the time. And when it works you should tune your JVM garbage collector for many (many) short-lived objects.

I would either keep it simple in Scala or choose a language that supports this kind of abstraction in a less painful way.
and skype got _really_ bad over the last time

a team in my co just started using slack,
i want to give mattermost a try...
Classpath issues such as yours are very common in Java. I suppose that's why building a fat jar is part of the getting started section of the docs.
This doesn't solve the higher level problem.

If you depend on A and B and both depend on C, you now have the npm2 style heirarchy of nested dependencies.

As with all 'use submodules' solutions, the devil is in the detail with the nested heirarchy of dependencies and version resolution.

I mean, fwiw, its quite nice for simple 1-level-deep dependencies, but this isnt a simple problem. What if A -> C@1.1.5, and B -> C@1.1.9. Do you install both? Only one?

You might still be able to solve it somehow, if the submodules are required to have semantic version tags on their versions, you parsed the entire hierarchy and then resolved conflicts (somehow), based on the semver semantics... I guess?
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No, I was one of the first 25 indiegogo backers, haven't received anything.
Thanks! I indeed contributed this idea - I think that's something that is definitely missing in the remote work environment, those casual conversations.
It's actually worse. The current rate limits are:

> The current rate limits are 20 certificate issuances per domain per 7 days, 5 certificates per unique set of FQDNs per 7 days, 500 registrations per IP per 3 hours, 300 pending authorizations per account per week and 100 subject alternative names per certificate. See https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limits-for-lets-enc... for more.

Which means that you can add at most 20 subdomains a week. Any more than that, and you are SOL.
The major Canadian political parties hold leadership elections open to party members (indirectly through convention delegates mostly). Party membership is entirely a private undertaking, and generally just requires a small financial contribution and a promise that you don't already belong to another party.
Erm... Abstractions? In REST? What abstractions?
What are the most beautiful Math Olympiad problems?
I work as an independent contractor, self-employed, for a US company. Currently we're using Transferwise.com for payments.
You'll probably need to fill in a form W-8BEN (Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting (Individuals)).
For example, the well-documented resistance of project leaders to agree to be paid according to prediction markets about the expected project outcomes

Is that a serious proposal? I've never heard of such an idea.

Prediction markets failed spectacularly to predict the outcome of the recent UK referendum despite an abundance of polling data and the only major uncertainty being statistical (not many people were changing their minds at the last moment, I guess). Most obviously because prediction markets tend to be quite shallow, and the types of people who use them bring their own mental baggage to the table. Why would a project leader be willing to submit to such a flaky and moreover gameable scheme?
It takes more time and energy than the team realizes, which would otherwise be spent building the app.

Its the frontend after all... what matters is UI and features. Component communication patterns and all this low level stuff is time lost.
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I don't think this is true. There's nothing new or interesting about Pokemon Go that we haven't had for years. The only new thing is the branding.

The lesson is more that to get mass appeal, it's the story that counts, not the technology. Technology is just a method to connect the story to people. Pokemon Go is popular because it is 'real world Pokemon' and lets you catch 'real world Pokemon'. Without that story, the game simply doesn't work. It's the user filling in the lack of an actual game with their own imagination.
It is for people that aren't socially adept (which one can learn btw) and this is of course also one important criteria for sexual selection.

My view is that it is not in the interest of women (who mostly do the selecting while men do the approaching) to use a process for selection that obfuscates if the approaching person is socially adept or not.

It is maybe just my experience, but generally women do know which men are interested and which are not, even if the male didn't make an approach yet.
I'll give you an idea: Let the PR do the talking.
The problem with big table/hbase is that it isn't just a hosted instance - you've made it mostly work with the same api, but it's not the same beast. That you have a modified version of the Java client and a page detailing a heap of differences is not a minor detail.

Honestly this just sounda like Google m/o (aka embrace/extend/extinguish 2.0) at everything.

Gmail sort of supports imap and smtp but in several ways it's broken, but users don't care that it's google's fault, they just want their free email.

Big table is not hbase it's just sort of compatible, but developers dont care they just want to drink the cool aid.

If Google really wanted to commit to anti-lock-in they would focus on runningc open source software that they use their infinite budget to tune to absolute best performance, combined with contributions back to those projects, to improve them where tuning alone isn't enough.
> "Some argue that free banking without central banks was a very stable period. https://mises.org/library/free-banking-theory-history-and-la...

The Mises Institute isn't an impartial source when it comes to the economy, they have a clear agenda, pushing for free market economics.

If you've read the book, I'd be interested to know what it makes of the Panic of 1907:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
Another reason for it being "much easier to integrate with existing JS code" is strict evaluation.

Haskell is lazy, which means using GHCJS to compile it to JS produces code full of explicit thunks (think of promises). Both Elm and PureScript are compile-to-JS-languages that inherit a lot from Haskell, but not it's laziness.
Except, you can't use internal CAs anymore on Android devices.

Adding CAs to those is now impossible since Nougat.
Sander sent a [Pull Request](https://github.com/facebook/reason/pull/647) to [Reason](http://facebook.github.io/reason/) which adds JSX syntax (which many React developers have found helpful)

Reason doesn't yet work with Edgar(OP)'s React bindings yet, but it could easily (and therefore JSX would work as well).
CheckiO wants to launch a platform for Open Source projects
That's 100% Eclipse's fault however, nothing to do with Jersey or Jackson.
How can Xiaomi is not sued yet?
In Windows everything really wants to take up the whole screen. If you drag a window near an edge, it'll try and maximize! If you double click, it maxmizes! If you click the button, it maximizes! Shoot, in Windows 8 they wanted everything to start in full screen with that modern UI.

As much as I love overlapping and reasonably sized windows and having many windows strewn about my very large monitor, I'll see a post on Reddit about how websites aren't designed to look good when maximized on a 21:9 monitor, and then I'll face palm. It's weird.
You can expect an environment where sexual harassment is not a common occurrence though?
I would like to have a live stream or videos available for the event. It would allow people who can't travel to gain knowledge.
scalaway is also perfect for personal projects
https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

- €5.99/Month (4 x86 64bit Cores; 4GB Memory; 100GB SSD Disk ;1 Flexible public IPv4 )
ok, so the article made this claim:

>[emacs users] tend to be touch typists.

That really made me wonder: aren't most programmers touch typists?
I've watched while my wife, at a Thai bank, is told by the cashier at the counter "I'm sorry, your signature doesn't match close enough, it should look like this <shows signature-on-file> can you try it again?" when filling in a withdrawal slip for 200K (about $7K USD).

I had something similar years ago in Australia. I went into a branch, my signature had changed a LOT, and I couldn't match the old one. So they promptly updated my signature on file, based purely on the fact that I had my card and knew the pin (I don't even remember showing them my ID).
> I hear this a lot in retrospectives but was this really that challenging? ... I remember learning to type `help`

I assume you grew up in an english speaking country.

The submitted article is about Oman in Arabia. And for me too as a German 7-8 year old kid the command line help page was inscrutable black magic incantations in latin.
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Or you pin your own CA root cert and keep the keys off the net.
No one said that, but these people need to either work on improving themselves (which most people definitely can) or they have to deal with the fact that a vast majority of women will never be interested in them.

There is no IT solution that we could come up with to change this and it wouldn't even be desirable in the first place.

Sexual selection has the purpose to ensure that only people with desirable traits get to breed and while it isn't perfect it is my opinion that it still is the best process known to us.
American jurisdiction has no power in China.
> Any set of best practices are opinionated.

"Best practices" are supposed to work sensibly in most cases. REST only works
in a small subset (read/create/delete and nothing more), other cases being
stuffed collectively under HTTP POST umbrella, so you need some RPC protocol
anyway. This is very far from working sensibly.
Also consider http://vertx.io/ - very interesting, especially for the Java EE guys looking for something less stateful.
Kudos for doing that. I didn't realized about it.

Common API even in non-perfect way is so much better than everybody reinventing the wheel from scratch, because some tiny use case doesn't fit in the previous API.
I think current high end devices are pretty good. Both Android and iOS. Especially for "ordinary" users. There's a lot of room for improvement for power users, though.

Here's what I'd love to have as a developer / power user.

1) Even better multitasking. Like ability to leave something running when I lock the device -- even at cost of battery life. More control, please.

2) Browsers could still get better too. Apple and Google should take a look how Opera Mobile removes need for horizontal scrolling while zooming.

3) Maybe some input device innovation could be done. Touch is nice, but it's not perfect. More precision would be often useful, but without clumsy stylus and such. Voice controls could be improved as well.

4a) For Android, updating and support issue needs to be solved. Apple seems to typically support its devices long enough for this not to be a real issue. It's unacceptable to just drop support after 1-3 years. There should be a clean industry standard way to install a new operating system. Failing that, vendors should for the very least offer an extended paid OS update service past the usual 2-3 year support period.

4b) For iOS, I'd really want more control of the device without need for insecure jailbreak. This is the main factor that keeps me using Android for now. I want to have completely free access to my files. I want to be able to execute dynamically generated code (even if it's running in a sandbox or needs to pass a validator of some sort). I want more control over how the UI works. Etc. Insecure or confusing for non-technical users? Put it behind a switch "advanced mode".
It's up for me (and I doubt HN could single-highhandedly bright down nytimes.com).
If the RAM is user-upgradable, this will make for an excellent dev machine. Given it's a chinese laptop, it will surely not be locked, so Ubuntu will run well as well.
looking at it I wonder how good the track pad is.
Another tip: don't ask for support via a ticket, but just call them. That works a lot better. (At least their German support does)
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And perhaps there should be some government-approved body to decide how one goes about becoming a specialist. Perhaps they could organize a system of specialist education and exams so as to ensure that members of the public aren't duped by charlatan specialists.
Thanks- I initially thought this was hosted on arxiv (it's on a MIT server).

This paper from the same conference also looks good:

http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/veryconference-paper5.pdf

"Locally Bijective, Non-Noetherian, Ultra-Liouville Random Variables and Parabolic Lie Theory"

"Good" as in "it was probably generated by an LSTM RNN".

Full papers listing here:

http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/

And main conference page:

http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/

For the benefit of other July fools like me :0

P.S.

This one is of special interest to me: Evident Logic, a logic programming language based on a new logic, made special by "not the rules that it has, but the rules it lacks, so we wish the reader good luck in figuring that out":

http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/veryconference-paper8.pdf
Are you saying Ubuntu runs well on all laptops which are not locked?
This PAC exploit was already published in 2015 in Russian: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3...
While people do buy helmets over the internet, they almost always test one beforehand to see if it fits them properly. More so on a 1500 USD purchase. Did Skully even had a single international order?
How about a smaller (but not thinner) phone that is strong enough to act as a laptop when hooked up to monitor/keyboard/mouse?

That would be cool. Give me a 3GHz i7 quadcore with 500gb ssd that I can also put in my pocket and have the battery last 2 days.

Always having 2 or 3 expensive computers on my person seems dumb.
American voters have the possibility to register as Democrat, Republican, Green, another party of their choice or none (NPP). Depending on the voter's State and which party he intends to support during the primary process, the voter may or may not be required to be registered under a specific party preference in order to vote during the primary.

For example, the Democratic New York primary is a closed primary which means only voters registered as Democrats have the right to vote. However, the Democratic Californian primary is an open primary which allows voters registered as Democrats or as NPP to vote.

Voters can change their party preference at any time but they may be required to be registered under a specific party for a certain period of time in order to be given the right to vote in some States. For instance, in order to vote in New York you needed to be a registered Democrat for the past 6 months prior to the election date. This is a disadvantage to candidates who are well supported by independent voters (NPP) as many of them did not change their registration on time. That said, these rules are those of the party and while they can be considered unfair, this doesn't qualify for election fraud.

An election fraud tactic the report mentions is "registration tampering" which consists in switching the registration of voters without their consent and knowledge in order to suppress their right to vote. There have been numerous reports of registration tampering across most States with voters being switched from Democrats to Republicans or from Democrats to NPP and so on. Registrations seem to have been switch electronically (change in the database) some even involving forged signatures.
for what should be sued? Squares with lightly round edges? Oh, using "Air" in a notebook's name to suggest that it's very light :).
His statements in 2016 might appear rather obvious, but this video was taped 20 yrs ago! (Bezos still had hair)

He was without a doubt way ahead of his time and his success is evident.
If my experience is anything to go by it is 90% reading the little explanation written next to the art, then 10% looking at the painting before hurrying onto the next thing.
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It shows the bandwith bottleneck nicely.
People shit on Xiaomi here but even imitation requires some level of artistry and finesse. This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet.