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Traffic doesn't have to increase with higher density. That's what public transit is for, and cities like New York or Tokyo (especially Tokyo, which has very little traffic jams) manage to increase density without scaling traffic proportionally.
I remember back in the late 90s I had bought some Borland JBuilder IDE (shrinkwrap, at software store of course), so when Eclipse came around it was awesome.

And don't forget how ugly those Swing-based IDEs were because of the ugly, non-cleartype fonts in IDEs like Intellij. Eclipse used SWT which used native widgets if possible.

Eclipse had a plugin for just about everything, but the plugin-hell got to the point that I ended up having many installations of eclipse because the plugins for various languages, frameworks wouldn't play nicely with each other.

But one thing that always drove me crazy about Eclipse that never got fixed was the intellisense/code completion. They could never get it work without pushing some key combination instead of being able to autocomplete on the fly like Intellij, Visual Studio. So you either had to wait to get to the dot to some code completion or manually press ctrl-space which drove me crazy. I read that there was some strange architectural issues deep in the bowels of Eclipse that prevented anybody from fixing that, but who knows.

By the time Eclipse 4 came around I didn't really have a need for it anymore, but remember that they were pushing that web-based IDE and didn't think that spending limited resources for that was a very good idea.

But I'm happy that Eclipse was out there and thanks to all the devs that made it happen.

On a side note, is Netbeans much of a thing anymore? I'm guessing after the Oracle takeover, it fell to the wayside, but it was probably on the downslope even before then. That was a snappy little IDE though.
It's a shame you got downvoted. I was interested in this article because I hadn't realsied before the controversy around his aquiring of the treasure.
It looks like them publishing a retraction. Who do you feel is censoring them in this instance?
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If someone sold my body in part or whole then they are selling me. For most people,their intimate private lives and the essence of who they are is just as important as their body.

So, if facebook collectes such intimate detail about a person and not only made it known to third parties but used that information to manipulate the person,then I would it is that person who is being traded.

Who can I claim to be without my private life,secret thoughts,desires and my identity itself? Even 19th century american slaves had some private life and kept information about themselves secret from the slave masters (of course I am not comparing their hardship,but the small privacy they had) and they were literally sold at markets.

The grand trick of the modern economy is that they have consumer behavioral psychology figured out: convince them they made the choice all on their own and take away as much of their intangible freedoms and possesions as you can -- "if you can't touch it, it isn't real"
Unfortunately people do care that much about branding. On the bright side, the gopher isn't going away, it's only being relegated to a mascot role, like the Rust Crab.
I suspect that if Will Oremus wrote a shorter version of that post on reddit or HN, he'd get downvoted to oblivion. The meme of "if you're not paying for it, you're the customer not the product" has become a moral chorus.

I'm ok with repeating that meme as a defensive mental checkpoint. Say it to remind oneself to limit data as much as possible to prevent its monetization for Facebook's advantage.

However, I also understand the author's point that it's a thought-stopping soundbite that miseducates people on the economics of multi-sided platforms. The "you're the product" labels us as sheeple. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have another neutral word to describe audiences as quasi-non-paying-customers. Another example other than Facebook might be jazz festivals in the USA.

A lot of jazz festivals organized by cities have free attendance. If the attendees don't pay, how do they pay the musicians? The cities rent space to vendors in the park to sell food and drinks. It's so critical that they sell enough food & drinks to break even (or make a small profit) that they make rules preventing attendees from bringing in their own food.[1]

It's a multi-sided economy: (1) the attendees, (2) the musicians, (3) the vendors, and (4) the city

The interesting point is that when I was growing up and attending these free festivals every year, nobody said, "you know at the Jazz Festival, you're not the customer, you're the product." There was no derogatory meme like that for those shows. (Even if there was, most of us would still go because we want to go see Herbie Hancock play piano.)

There is a similarity between jazz festival attendees and Facebook users ... the consumers of free services in a multi-sided exchange ... but we don't seem to have a non-derogatory label for it.

[1] http://www.nejazzwinefest.org/festival-dos-and-donts.html
words directly affect thought. while some substitutions can be overkill, it can still help the reader better perceive the precise thought the writer wants.

this idea is at the core of books like 1984, for example.
In North America bees are mostly an agricultural tool. Honeybees are the only reliable way to polinate large numbers of crops effectively. Bees will be trucked around all over the country for an entire growing season - always heading where pollinating is needed. The threat isn't so much with our bees as it is with our ability to continue industrial agriculture.
Get it right the first time.

If you can’t, don’t pretend to.
Fortunately, if you want that sort of thing in Lisp there's always the iterate library: https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/

It looks pretty good to me, and I hear good things about it, although frankly I've always just used LOOP.
I am guessing this ban includes diatomaceous earth?

I don’t believe you can actually get rid of bed bugs without it.
Look at the original report that the graphs are based on. I think that's where the useful data is.

Braintree's fraud prevention is poor and based on generic metrics. One of my businesses had 32% chargebacks with their service.
For most cases CloudFormation is great. And if you're wondering why you'd want to use Terraform you probably don't need it :)

If you do choose to learn and implement Terraform however, you gain the knowledge of a tool that can support many cloud providers and can even manage environments that span multiple providers. e.g. CloudFlare + AWS, etc. In addition, you can package up your solutions as modules and share them with others.

I chose Terraform because I have services running on multiple clouds and I also prefer to use tools that have value outside of a single ecosystem.
I would be careful to underestimate the North's ability to fight a war. You don't need cutting edge technology with the sort of topography they've got. Look at a topographic map of North Korea. It's mountain ranges and valleys. Dense veg, steep drops, spots for tunnels, rapid currents. You could put an army from the 50s in there and have a hell of a time getting them to quit.
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You could use a service that detects if a phone number is prepaid or voip.
You made up some headlines to illustrate some point but they don't, that's all. Maybe you do have a valid point but what you're describing doesn't support it at all.

How can you independently verify the attacks are partisan?

No news organization would describe the thing in that way because it's not factual. So that's an easy one.

If you feel my headlines are not good enough then I would encourage you to think creatively

I'm not inclined to think creatively to make your bad argument better. It's your job to make your argument not bad.
My knee jerk reaction is that this is a great move. Save the bees! Regardless of whether this is a good or bad move: Who voted for this initiative? The EU is a dictatorship of unelected bureaucrats. Who was the person that said: "Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation." What is the significance of this statement? What was its context? watch?v=KN27x27LuDs
The UK (well; Michael Gove) has promised to back a total ban on neonicotinoids:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/09/uk-will-...

The UK will back a total ban on insect-harming pesticides in fields across Europe, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, has revealed.

The decision reverses the government’s previous position and is justified by recent new evidence showing neonicotinoids have contaminated the whole landscape and cause damage to colonies of bees. It also follows the revelation that 75% of all flying insects have disappeared in Germany and probably much further afield, a discovery Gove said had shocked him.

Like I say, that was Michael Gove who said that. So we'll never know for sure until we know for sure.
Don't you think your comments would be more convincing if you had sources?
Sad to say, but I think you did... although I'm pleased that it still works and you still get enjoyment out of it.

They were notoriously unreliable. My mum had a full-on meltdown in Currys over it in 1988, and she's not a meltdown kind of person. My best friend also had one, which also used to go wrong regularly.

This is all anecdata, of course. Still, both the manager of the local Currys (Dorchester), and the owner of the nearest proper computer store - Compute-A-Tape[1] in Weymouth - both said at the time they had nothing but trouble with the Spectrum..

Maybe something to do with the Dorset air but as much as I loved my Spectrum it caused me endless grief.

[1] A trip here was a rare treat, although sadly the place closed down sometime in the 90s.
To think bitcoin is a database is laughable.
Removing stories completely is akin to hiding the fact taht you failed in your journalistic responsibilities. It would be better for the integrity of the journalist if the story remained available with the details of the failure plastered above/below etc.

Don't erase your mistakes - own up to them.
In particular, I find these assertions troubling and controversial:

> "Cynics might not believe it, but Google and Facebook didn’t adopt the free model in order to serve advertisers. On the contrary, they adopted the advertising model as a way to keep serving their users for free. Google did so only with great reluctance [...]"

> "That helps to explain why Google and Facebook really don’t think of their users as their products—at least, not their main products. Their leaders have always regarded advertising, and by extension users’ attention and data, as means to the end of building the products they really care about: Google search, Google Assistant, Facebook’s news feed."

This runs contrary to all we know about these companies. For example, "common sense" knowledge about Google has always been that it's primarily an advertising company that happens to do search very well and is technologically innovative. Now, common sense is wrong often enough that it's reasonable to question it now and then, but what evidence has the author to support his assertions? I'd be interested to know if there's any actual evidence that Facebook and Google would ditch advertising if they could (instead of it being their primary business).

I find the author makes several extraordinary and unsupported assertions which contradict all we thought we knew about these companies. He may very well be right, but he really should support these assertions.
Has anyone considered this idea? That modern computer-modeled and wind tunnel tested cars are just dramatically more aerodynamic than the insect-killing cars of our youth?
If you really care about your customer you should be worried about false positive. I hope as a business you do not cancel customer orders because your fraud detection system has flagged them.

Depending on your scale you may using 3rd parties like Sift science, Stripe Radar or Roll your own fraud detection system.

Flagging orders as potential fraud is the easier part these days. The difficult part is how to come up with a process to verify these flagged orders. This process need to be simple and quick. Because essentially you are saying to your customer we think you are a fraud and can you prove that your not.

Banks merchant checks to verify flagged orders is extremely cumbersome. They require you to call a special phone number (which is different for each bank) provide customer Name, Billing Address, Billing Phone and Credit Information. Then they can only give you a response whether it is a match or not. They can't tell you whether it has been reported stolen or anything else for privacy reason. At scale this is a very time consuming process. It becomes even more cumbersome if you are security conscious business and do not store customer credit card information. In that case you have to communicate with the customer asking them to call you to provide your credit card information again.

There are solutions like 3D Secure but they are not widely supported and adds its own problems. It is high time credit card companies start providing merchant with a 2nd factor check for transaction. For example maybe once a transaction is placed with a merchant. They can trigger a 2nd factor check where by the bank automatically send a code to their email/phone number on file. If the customer is able to provide a correct code merchant can proceed with the order.

Fraud detection will always remain a point of contention between customer and businesses. I just hope business make sensible decision based on their situation. For example I have seen legitimate customer with all the above cases mentioned in the article.
I use http://hnapp.com/ to set up a custom RSS feed to filter out various topic keywords I find uninteresting/irrelevant, and then use Feedly to view the RSS feed.

If you are looking to reduce the amount of time you waste, I've found some success in using the Strict Workflow extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-workflow/cg... ) which combines a browser blacklist with the Pomodoro timer.
Doesn't this mean that eating any meat, or your own body chemistry, would also cause headaches?
IIRC, it was the way that Eclipse did/does the "explorer" window. It always had extraneous (meta stuff) in there that always drove me crazy.
> These things seem quite different from each other.

Two things that are often considered "undesirable" by the people living near them.

That's why there's room for skepticism when self-described YIMBYs actively root for other neighborhoods to take on these and other "undesirable" projects. In addition to demonstrating their public display of enlightened urbanism, it also happens to be in their interest to keep these projects out of their own neighborhood.
According to NPR's own standards, it is unethical to remove erroneous stories.

> “We are guided by a newsroom policy that says it is inappropriate to remove content from our Website. If a report is inaccurate, we will correct it and state why it has been altered. If relevant new information emerges, we will update or do a follow-up story.

> “But our content is a matter of public record and is part of our contract with our audience. To simply remove it from the archive diminishes transparency and trust and, in effect, erases history. This is not a practice engaged in by credible news organizations or in line with ethical journalism.”

http://ethics.npr.org/memos-from-memmott/how-to-explain-why-...
Please understand that this shipping of bees, by truck, as pollinators is NEW, is and always has been CONTROVERSIAL. Industrial agriculture is rife with blunders on huge scale. (supporting references on request)
I find it strange that the de-facto thing to do for fraud is to simply not accept the order. Why not report the fraud to authorities instead?
Apple exits Wi-Fi game, AirPort routers discontinued after stock sells out
Gopher mascot and no logo was fine. I do see - I cannot call it a trend, but multiple individual instances - of companies going from a better logo / brand image to a sometimes worse one (this is purely subjective opinion on my part, of course, not based on any objective criteria at all).

Another example is Google's current logo of the company name. I don't find it attractive - flat and sort of dull. But the one they had earlier for a long time, was attractive, the colors sort of seemed to gleam or sparkle, and the overall effect was pleasing, even though the colors were the sort of primary colors you find in the kindergarten.

Note: All this said just as a guy who has no UI design expertise at all, just speaking as a layman to that field.
The keypresses go directly to the password box BTW. That is, you don't have to "swipe" or hit return before you can type your password, you can just type away your password and hit return.
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Wow, a full retraction!

I'm holding back on the kudos for NPR's editorial accountability until we get some context.

The subject of that story was a hedge fund guy who didn't like the search results appearing for his name and the legal expenses that went into trying to change them, the piece was sympathetic to him and it was framed as a story about 'net privacy and the lack of regulation around it, but of course it wasn't about privacy it was about censorship, two concepts that are too often conflated nowadays what with publications falling all over themselves trying to extol EU regulations.

The bottom line is that the so called "right to be forgotten" is as nonsensical an expression as it is a policy.
You mean evidence like this?

"South Korea’s Foreign Minister tells me in Seoul that “clearly credit goes to President Trump” for bringing North Korea to the negotiating table."

https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/989423486438379520

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Some more evidence, this time of fear and projection: "Why Kanye West's Pro-Trump Tweets Are a Real Threat"

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/why-kanye-wests-pro-...
Really? You think it's wrong to copy in paper another game that tries to profit off artificial scarcity?
No serious news organization would ever describe the Mueller investigation as a 'partisan attack' in a headline. So this is not an example of 'factually true reporting that nevertheless contains bias'. It would just be plain factually inaccurate reporting.
I fixed this finally, thanks to Github user dpvc and his suggested way of writing MathJax config: https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/1988#issuecomment-....
If the question is whether you'll have any - of course you will! You will no matter what method you go with. At scale it's a pretty easy curve to optimize revenue on top of though, and you have to be willing to accept that bit. You know your customer LTV, you know your fraud rate/cost.

Sift gives you direct control of expected false positive rate, Radar hides that optimization under the hood I think?
That's Eric Gamma. And I believe he developed the Monaco editor, which is/was the core of Visual Code, and is part of that team now.
Housing prices not coming down from increased unit implies some sort of market-resistant magical mumbo jumbo in that area. That doesn't sound plausible. Everything reacts to changing supply and demand, and increasing supply will always drop prices, somewhere. Increasing luxury units will mean a vacating of those non-luxury units currently occupied by luxury dwellers.
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Please don't attempt to undermine ones right to free speech and expression.

You're not owed particular phrasing of ones personal opinions.

40 years of reading, debate, and watching people import the "language" of capitalism into their lexicon, and the outcome is largely "denigrating and undermining the majorities innate human agency for the desires of capitalists -- if they can't make a buck off you, go screw."

This is smacking of "No True Scotsman" -- "Don't blame capitalism for other people not doing capitalism right."
If there is anything I want over engineered it is all things infrastructure. Bridges, buildings, planes and boats etc.

Over-engineer them when life is on the line.
I would argue that the city is obligated to facilitate building affordable housing for everyone. Not just high-end stuff.
It's possible to build transit first, if the transit company can also buy the real estate at the terminus, and if the transit company is a private company (not sure if it's feasible in the US).

But for government owned transit, it's not possible to speculate or prospect transit lines, so it has to come after density is developed first.
What do you want NPR to do in this case? You may think they deserve mocking scare quotes around their profession, but these are real journalists trying to fix a mistake following industry guidelines.
Plausible I guess. However, the charade of an extreme regime seems to me to be much easier to fall off and stop caring once the "cheating" begins. Also, I would speculate that an eat-less (calorie-counting if you will) regime prepares one better for the long-term once the goal is reached. Maybe to just internalize the basic idea that it's not what kind of food you eat or how many times per week you're at the gym that matters in the long-run.
30% is an order of magnitude higher than the typical industry fraud-attempt rate. If 30% of orders were charged back you probably had other issues? That's pretty nuts
But NKers moving to SK is akin to refugees since the culture shock could be huge. SK may end up having another brexit.
Michael Abrash's assembly optimizations for the Quake engine.
How can the war end? The entire premise was the pursuit of unified true Korea and I can’t see the North turning a democratic leaf or the South accepting a totalitarian rule.

What about all the weapons aimed towards the South?

Truly suspicious things are happening.. on both sides.
Would you agree that touch-typing is a useful (or even necessary) skill for a programmer? I'd say it is, because it allows you to type without having to interrupt your thoughts with the process of finding where each key is.

For me, at least, learning vim has the same kind of benefit. It's not about getting characters into the editor faster, it's about being able to manipulate text without having to think about it.
> Do other manufacturers, offering 32gb, use desktop RAM?

They use regular DDR4, talking about "desktop" RAM may not be the best for comprehension, DDR4 is available as SODIMM module and lots of work went into making DDR4 significantly less power-hungry than DDR3.

> What kind of compromises would that bring to a MBP?

IIRC it would burn battery ~30% faster when sleeping (e.g. when you close the lid, unless you have changed the configuration to be strictly "suspend to disk", which requires going through pmset and the command-line).
I can't think of a more illustrative example than the fact that some magazine companies will keep on sending you magazines even after you cancel and stop paying them, on purpose, so they can still list you as a subscriber.

You're worth more as an advertising target than you are as a customer. I'd be willing to bet that their own advertising departments are more interested in increasing the advertising value of the subscribers that do respond than it is in actually selling subscriptions.
Huawei has been building its substitute to Android