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(a) Cars do obey traffic lights, at least in Shanghai and Beijing. Perhaps you're talking about 10 years ago, or in tier 2/3/4 cities.

(d) People do pay attention when they cross the road. You have to, because cars can turn right at a red light and, even though they're meant to yield to pedestrians, they don't.

(c) Creating an additional lane is rare in big cities.

I'm not saying this idea is workable, but the points you make don't seem the most pressing.
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Creative idea. But wouldn't the accidents between cars under this be a bit more dangerous?
I see it as a welcomed edition :

- they already launched it, not taking weeks like some other industry bozos where they announce something then ship it when no one cares anymore (Google how's that Allo doing)

- Snapchat client sucks balls on Android, it drains battery, horrible performance

- low friction to use the feature

But of course both will survive and can coexist.
You are arbitrarily limiting the scope of risk to a unit of account without regard to what those units of account do or do not afford one in the world. That is too limited a definition to be useful IRL.
> The ability to leave a company and take your business elsewhere is what keeps companies performing and doing better by their customers. They offer cheaper rates, along with better service, etc.

That works well in theory; in practice, a lot of industries - telcom being a prime example - hacked their way around this. You can't "take your business elsewhere" when a private company owns the last-mile infrastructure your apartment is connected with. Or when your landlord decided to sign an exclusive agreement with one.

When I see residential electric/gas utilities, I see a service that pretty much always works as advertised. A service that does what it's supposed to and nothing more. No deep electromagnetic inspection to offer me "zero charge" electricity for my ACME appliances. No "smell packets" injected into the gas line the way ISP inject ads and bullshit into HTTP connections now. I don't even care much which company logo is present on my monthly bill; the total monthly savings I could make by switching providers are worth around two or three standard Starbucks lattes, at best.

The core issue is that Internet access should be a commodity. Telcos are doing everything in their power to avoid that. Like so many other companies, they forgot about the concept of "honest business", in which a customer pays them money in exchange for a valuable service, no bullshit attached.
creator here... problem I had was with discovery mainly. Listing the title of whatever tab was last focused didn't really indicate what was there at least for me. Sometimes I'd check the weather and forget to close it but the other 9 tabs are related to whatever project I am working on.

If you liked the extension I'd love to know what you'd like to see. If you hated it I'd love to know why. Either way thanks for trying it out!
C is the right choice for some performance critical domains, but productivity will be a long way from what a Haskell developer can achieve, especially when concurrency is thrown into the mix. IMHO, I think you are overselling C.
The cumulative impact to low wage native workers is estimated between $99-118 Billion per year.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas/publications/popular/... (page 2)
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> (d) People do pay attention when they cross the road. You have to, because cars can turn right at a red light and, even though they're meant to yield to pedestrians, they don't.

This directly contradicts your first point
I know why the state file exist, sorry; I really meant: The purpose of making the state file mandatory. In particular, it makes first-time setup incredibly onerous. You almost _never_ start with a clean slate.

It's great that you're working on fixing that, but it looks like it will be some time before it's quite there, given the seemingly slow pace of development.

It's nice that Terraform can support untaggable resources, but I don't understand why that's the general case and not a special case. I can't remember an AWS resource that isn't nameable or taggable.
Isn't BC vast and mostly empty though? Last I looked purchase prices in Vancouver island (aside from Victoria maybe) were about the same as or lower than rural areas in Germany.
I was thinking about bootstrapping business and target the small - medium businesses. If I want to tackle the enterprise business it might take 2 years for an MVP, but an alternative for a WooCommerce store shouldn't take that long.
Well the video is obviously just an illustration. If you can do it for trains and subways, I don't see why this bus can't make a turn.
SAP's JVM implementation has NullPointerExceptions that tell you where the null originated from, which is neat.

See slide 17 of https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2014/connect/fileDownload/...
Remind me, does Bluetooth work with non-Apple devices again?
The difference is that the first wave of foreign money that came into the city was from Hong Kong. Generally a lot of these immigrants started businesses in the city and contributed to the economy. This is not the case with the current influx of cash. Houses are sitting empty and there is evidence that it is really hurting the economy.
there is an old book called "sytematics" by john-gall, which also talks about similar'ish things.
Threema does not rely on SMS for login, the identities are not phone number based and trust can be ensured by manually scanning the public key QR of the peer, leading to a clear visual trust level indicator.

Applications should not rely on SMS for authentication or login, or on the phone number for identity.

(Disclaimer: Threema dev)
Experimental, yes; You can download nightlies of Servo at https://servo.org/, which use Servo together with browser.html, a HTML+CSS+JS-based browser chrome developed for the purpose of showing off Servo.
> It took me quite a while to discover this as I don't know a good way to get per domain processor usage and I honestly did not believe that Google would let such major performance problems pass QA.

If you type "about:performance" into the URL-bar and hit enter, that should give you at least a rough overview of how individual tabs are eating up resources...
Really interesting graphs at the bottom of the article, which compare the rise of FinTech and the rise of Python. Makes sense why finance companies use Python--they're usually less interested in mathematical languages and more interested in getting stuff done faster and more easily.
I usually leave several hundred tabs open across multiple browsers at the same time. New window for each project, and tabs within them. Between my own projects, and clients, and research on the go, I find it works for me. I would get little done if I wasn't using the vimium plugin to search my tabs much like Alfred let's me search my mac.

Another use case for lots of tabs is using the great Spaces feature in Firefox. You can fire up and maintain multiple groups of tabs and windows per project. It's a great way to switch contexts. The main reason I used Chrome/Chromium was to have a sense of which Tab was a runaway process. Hoping Firefox v48 is a step in teh right direction.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/do-illegal-immigr...

Labor economists have concluded that undocumented workers have lowered the wages of U.S. adults without a high-school diploma — 25 million of them — by anywhere between 0.4 to 7.4 percent.
Holy - I live 5 blocks from the C$64M home mentioned in the article and pay a rent of 1200$ every month.
You nailed it in the best way I can think of. Owned an Olivetti as a gift, and wrote quite a lot of sheets on it. Thoughts flow more relax, very suitable for creative writing. I loved it so much that even went on to create an app to mimic the typing experience.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/write-only/id590507955?ls=1&...

Here is an interesting story regarding the app. I manually typed one of Hanks' letter (from letters of note) to serve as screenshot, and then after a few months, received a letter from Hanks' lawyer, asking me to take it down. So I took it down, thinking, how did they know. Fast forward about 1 year, then Hanks himself released one app, featuring similar typing experience. This guy really care about typewriters.
To be honest I don't really trust Oracle software. They are usually very expensive and they kinda lock you in their products.

In the case of Commerce Cloud I don't see any pricing information, so I can only presume it's going to cost a lot.

Also a few days ago Oracle bought NetSuite for $9.3 billion. One of their product is SuiteCommerce (http://www.netsuite.com/portal/products/netsuite/suitecommer...)
Then the poster could just instruct the viewers to send their comments to some other social media post/service.
I understand this more than most. The solution that fits best with my experience and ideology is probably a combination of a few things. Just to caveat, this is a thought experiment and while a lot has been done, there is so much friction it is absurd.

I would like to see heroin decriminalized with specific designated zones (cities/towns) which fully supply and allow heroin use. If you are caught with heroin outside of a zone you must pay a fine. If you can't pay you are offered rehab or transportation to the administration zone.

Zones provide free narcotics and needles, ect and have adjacent treatment and medical facilities. This experiment has been run and was somewhat successful.

The thought process in my above statement is that broke heroin users can not interact with society. If a user wants to simply do heroin, there can be a designated development/town that allows it. If a user is outside of the zone, they must have the money to pay a fine (stay well) or they need to go to rehab or a place that allows drugs.

That way, normal people can interact and many users can function in society. If they can not they will be supplied with drugs outside of society until they regain financial independence or make the decision to enter treatment.

However, since this is impossible, I do not expect a legit solution to ever be implemented and thus am not sure where I land. So I would support efforts that compromise in a similar way to my above solution, but really not worth thinking much about as the gov (in US) has not even legally recognized recreational marijuana.
"quotes her spouting more of the sovereign citizen legal gobbledegook"

It's sad that the top comment on this thread is just name-calling.

Why do you consider her views to be 'gobbledegook'?
Is there anyone other than Americans who even believe in IQ? Where I come from talking about IQ will put you in the same category of people who believe in chemtrails.
Isn't pretty much the same thing happening in San Francisco, too? Alongside all the other drivers of increased home prices there. I think SF has shot up the ranks to become one of the most expensive cities in the world now, right?
Used Firefox for a very long time on Android and I can agree to this.

Opera Mobile is another tech that I'm enjoying using more and more.
Ugh, this US/China dichotomy makes for good headlines but I hope the good people of the actual tech industry are able to see beyond it. The supporting examples are ripe with confirmation bias:
- Yes, MoMo is older than Tinder but Badoo is older than MoMo
- Drones took off worldwide
- "walkie-talkie" = sending audio messages are you kidding me
- QR codes were tried and not adopted by consumers in EU a century ago (recall the Economist being all up in arms about how they were going to revolutionize everything back in 08), no wonder companies were reluctant to bring them back

Yes, Messenger surely wants to become wx but with a user base that's infinitely more fragmented -- it's going to take infinitely longer to launch a global payments solution that partners with all banks everywhere and obeys all regulations.

You know why apps start in wx? Because there is no single app store.

Yes -- China has some awesome mobile stuff going on, but this whole "TIL Chinese people also use the internet and it has other stuff???" fascination is just sad.
> Chrome for example doesn't even let render processes touch OpenGL.

Except on Android, where I believe it does in fact let them do that.
There wasn't any fancy shadows, compositing, etc. The CPU was all spent calculating layouts and doing "stuff", before the images even rendered. My guess is some suboptimal code buried by a kilometre's worth of abstractions. It's not that FF is doing something slow (that I know of), it's the mess people have built on top of HTML/JS/CSS that ends up with non-junior developers creating monstrosities.
"Mr. Song said the buses were fully capable of turning corners, though the cars underneath must wait until the buses have passed before turning themselves"
> JVM switches that allow that data to be accessed but with performance issues. Can't recall where I read that.

Would love to know how to do that.
> standardisation of parts, measurements

This is what probably single-handedly enabled technological civilization. The original walled gardens, craftsmen making each according to their ideas and workshop setup, were putting a cap on complexity and reliability of things. Without standardization and commoditizing, there's no way for one to specialize on providing parts for the solution.
Show HN: Easiest way to share pet videos on mobile
There are a lot of mobile video sharing platforms out there, but we feel there is a huge and deserving vertical that is currently being neglected, PETS. Pets are wonderful companions, and my pets are my family. With all the technology improving/changing our lives, VR, AR, robots, bots; the everyday simple caring of our pets still makes many of our lives a little bit better.

Technology should make celebrating our love for our pets easier, richer and connect other likeminded pet owners/lovers together. Pamily is a place for pets, of pets, by pets.
The interesting parts about foreign buyers is that the best story always seems to highlight the super rich, but its not like mansions are the only things going up in price.

I'm sure that a price increase in land results in a "rising tide" effect for all homes, but because someone is willing to spend 64M on a mansion, does it mean condo's should be worth more too?

The city is pretty, but there aren't exactly a massive pile of high paying jobs, nor do we have much of an economy beyond resource extraction, satellite offices, etc.
Impressive, and although I upgraded from a GTX 970oc to a GTX 1080 founders (stock) when I went from dual 1080p to a single 4k for a bit more room developing, and something playable... I don't think I could have talked myself into spending another $400-500 for it.

Definitely looks like playable 4K gaming with decent settings for this card.
Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?
That's an odd definition of an investment. My MBPr was definitely an expense, and I love it.

I suppose the enjoyment I have received from using it could be considered dividends of sorts, and so I could see calling it an investment from that perspective. But not financially.
So true... I've seen quite a few qualified, creative types that can't spell as well.
It's a strange wish, because the only reason the police were intertsted in arresting her on Aug 1 was because she steadfastly rejected and resisted police authority previously. This was specifically a micro (idiot) rebellion against govt authority, there were no other (non-derivative) issues involved.
"Japan's collapsing standards of living and poorly run economy" - can you possibly explain what you are talking about in more detail?

If anything, it has gotten much better to live in over the past 5 years (Fukushima Daiichi residents excluded).
A time-based settlement mechanism would have prevented the Bitfinex attack
Not necessarily. It's entirely plausble that they set the price lower in order to boost the number of subscribers and thus their political constituency.
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And that's mainly due to what, though? AJAX? (Ignoring other enhancements.) And I'm excepting out a lot of "apps", because the browser has gotten more powerful, sure (and software dev has progressed). But mostly content sites that aren't heavy on any real interaction, iow, sites I "surf". Things just feel ... sluggish at a UI level (not the old sluggish of watching progressive JPEGs slowly refine).
It's sad to see the recurring condescending attitude of HN crowd towards China and it's recent (and well deserved) technological prowess. C'mon guys, all said and done, China is kicking ass. You've got to give credit where it's due.

Cutting edge or not, the next century will be driven by China simply because the momentum that they have generated.

The only thing that still remains a red flag for me is China's lack of democracy and political instability that may come due to it.
My contract states I'm not allowed to disclose such information. And I'm pretty sure their contract will say the same.
> All mayor features were available since v3. Though then the development stagnated and little new outstanding new featured were included in newer releases.

Are you serious? LINQ (okay, that was 3.5 IIRC), the TPL and async await fundamentally changed how I write C#.
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> On add-ons, I very much appreciate Mozilla having a good review process, but those add-ons have no isolation and everything is allowed to run even in private mode.

To me, that's a good thing. I don't like walled gardens because then you, the commoner, have to beg your benevolent ruler to please allow a particular use-case to be supported in their fiefdom.
Thank you for your Monday morning psychiatric diagnosis of the deceased's mental state.
I'm upvoting this post, the article reads like sponsored content is rife with factual inaccuracies. Not sure if Paul Mozur is a shill (must be hard to report the truth from Dongcheng) or just incompetent.
I'm currently reading "On Writing" by King and he recommends 1k/day and allows you to take a day off each week. He also recommends the obvious (room with a shut door and no distractions) and lots of reading (he averages about 80 books/year).

I recommend the book, the first half is an autobiography of sorts which is also interesting.
I believe that the technical term for the HN attitude towards China is : sour grapes.
The hole bay area is like that. Ive heard of like whole housing projects getting bought out by foreign investors out in Santa Clara, stable place to keep money I suppose.
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IMO you're unjustifiably downvoted. As a previous reply already said, other services rely on sms auth as well. So why is only Telegram critizised? You can see from previous HN top stories that the mistrust in this service seems especially high.
Well, one has to grant them that they at least did use meaningful labels for their strings. You can figure out how to use the app from that alone.
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If executing a bench warrant is so dangerous, maybe police should be more careful about how they serve them. For example, surveil the target and approach when the target is not holding a gun.
Notice also that the Raw Log loads instantly and is very responsive, in the same Firefox that struggles so much with the fancy travis log page.

I think it is unfortunate that insanely heavy web applications, which can kinda get away with it in Chrome, are forcing everyone to Chrome.
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It basically means the lacking of credit systems and mature fraud detections. If you lose your (credit) card or leak your credit card number, the bank won't probably reimburse your financial losses. Compared to credit cards, mobile payments may be more secure.
Traveling to major cities in China (and Korea) is like a preview of where the US will be in ~5 years from a technology-society integration perspective. Easy payments on your phone, electronic communications for official notices/correspondences, mobile-electronic interactions with government, many/most people playing games and socializing about them, non-personal-car transportation (taxis/didis, buses, bikes), hyper-dense cities as populations urbanize.

It makes sense that China (and Korea) have leaped ahead. They have relatively high average IQ populations. They have cultures that celebrate education, intelligence, and hard work (not sports and broism). They have heavy governmental investment in infrastructure (eg internet, cell networks) and they heavily regulate industries so as not to stymie utilities such as the internet.

Hopefully the US and Europe can create a cultural shift (particularly the US on this front) and can see more government investment in infrastructure for technology and ease of access. If so, the US/Europe will maintain/grow their competitive edges vs China at least, as they have better property rights, fairer courts, more developed financial markets, more meritocracy of opportunity, etc. Korea has the best of all worlds in many ways, but not a large enough population or enough natural resources to be a contender for one of the top few economic powers in the world.
It's just media doing the thing it always does. Inducing outrage in any way possible. It's too late to call Facebook Messenger an "ISIS chatting app", but consider that e.g. whenever Facebook adds any kind of even remotely useful feature to their service, they're immediately portrayed as stalker paradise by the media.
"New York has actually built an elevated train that travels above car traffic (and can't collide with it)"

Is this really better than a standard elevated railway? Trains fit much more than 300 people, already, today.
I don't think it does. Turning right on red may be legal. Not respecting pedestrians is different.
Wow, thanks!

Has this been available fo a long time or is it a recent improvement?
I grew up in China, and I'm now living in the bay area. I just went back for a month for vacation. I too saw a more living mobile ecosystem.

and wechat is indeed in the center of this system. For example, a fruit stand would now accept mobile payment via wechat. those who run fruit stands are usually farmers.

I think it makes a lot of sense to build mobile payment into a a social app. because any currency would require a social network. and transferring money is a key social activity.

building independent mobile payment without the support from a mature social network is a bad idea, for example square and apple pay (only useable in the apple ecosystem, a partial mobile ecosystem).

China never seemed to have a credit card era, it jumped directly from paying cash to paying with mobile. whereas in the U.S., credit card is so convenient, people don't want to change.

for many years, wechat has been combining new features with its social network, whereas whatsapp wanted to be a pure chatting app and missed many opportunities.

you can use wechat to order food at restaurants, you can log into public wifi with wechat ....

This is just one example. Another thing I noticed is online shopping. At the gate of our apartment, each day, there are many deliver guys on tricycles. They have a more efficient and cheap delivering system.

For example, in the yard of our apartment we have storage cabinets with password locks. The deliver guys won't deliver each package to your door, as it is inefficient, especially because apartment buildings are tall in China, you have to take elevator. Instead, they put packages into one of the cabinet doors. And you will receive a password on your phone. Put the code in, the cabinet door will open. you can then get the package.

This is not a complex idea, but hard to implement in the U.S., because we don't have the same population density here. When you build an infrastructure like this, you want to serve as many people as possible.