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I should have probably clarified, unless you're taking the train for fun, no one is going to divert for 6+ hours to get a cheaper ticket. I'm a student, none of us would, we'd just take the coach. We look to Europe and see how they have cheap, quick, comfortable, reliable trains, and then we look at ours...

As multiple people have pointed out you seem to live in a dreamworld where everyone can sit down and work out pricing, and doesn't mind going slower or less comfortably. But here's a thought, what if it's possible to have all of those things at a reasonable price? That's the aim of such changes, by removing shareholders all profits can go back into improvements, just look at TfL. Travelling in London, while not 100% awesome, is still miles better than the rest of the country.

I'm at uni in exeter, it's sometimes cheaper to fly from Yorkshire down there than take the train, that is absolutely ridiculous.

You're the exception, not the rule my friend.
Wouldn’t that be relatively difficult to accomplish when routing numbers are tied to account numbers, as well? My admittedly naive understanding tells me account number portability would require routing + account numbers to smoothly change things. I’ve never setup an EFT/ACH transfer without being required to provide both.
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In Istanbul we have both public (bus, metro, tram, "vapur" across the bosphorus) and private ("minibus" which are smaller private busses, taxi, "motor" across the sea). If we ignore shitty traffic on main roads, the former is a million times better than the latter, almost all the time. The "minibus" are hated by everyone for their stereotypically agressive driving/behaviour, but preferred by many because you can get on/off anywhere, can pay w/ cash, and sometimes it serves some areas traditionally better than the bus network.
Don’t get me wrong, I fully agree. I’m just not sure whether to take anything he says seriously
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That's the wrong attitude. Your resume is a just a brochure that you use to get a potential buyer to get interested in your services. Like in marketing anything else, you should be as specific as you can in trying to fit the desires of the potential buyer.
Should there be some catastrophic collapse in society, I would far prefer that the government requisitioned food and rationed it out. While it’s definitely open to abuse, I think it would do a better job in the short term of keeping people alive. A free market response to a national emergency sounds dreadful to me
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> LWN.net deserves our support.

Agreed. I subscribed a few months ago, in part because LWN.net seems to be the only publication providing significant coverage of the Python Language Summits.
Currently you can spend a little time and make savings, and that's great. You don't like the customer service, you can vote with your wallet. You prefer to pay a premium for a fixed price for the next 2 years rather than gamble on the energy market, that's fine. You want money to be funneled to renewables, even if the price per unit is more expensive, that's fine.
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No idea about the Dutch school system, and my comment is not about the rich vs the poor.

My reflection is more about the general discussion: Is it OK that the court prioritizes "the greater good" over these two individual students? I think I sense different priorities between Europeans and Americans.
For sure, that is the reality we live in. Doesn’t mean it’s a good thing though. There’s even been some push back to this trend, such as Apple reconsidering how they do release cycles due to iOS becoming so buggy.

It also depends on what kind of software we are talking about. A trendy mobile app is very different from a critical database.

I personally prefer software that’s more conservative in its approach to new features. It’s becoming harder to find software that has this philosophy but not yet impossible.
Would this be defeated by having those people use some encrypted voip?
> Mathematics can never truly model reality.

While I don't disagree with your overall point, this claim is pure conjecture. Ironically, it depends on your philosophy of mathematics. If most physicists were mathematical Platonists, then your argument based on this claim falls apart.
This is why AdNet needs to die.

Imagine if you will if a door to door salesman did what developers, software, and ad companies do.

They would:

A) Insist on seeing everything and everyone in your house before even telling you anything.

B) Go back to a van and call every other salesman to share what they saw, even if you said "Not interested."

C) Pose as the mailman, taking your letters, opening them, and dispatching salesmen to your house later.

D) Eventually, your salesman would end up knowing more about your family than YOU do. He starts showing up offering birth control to your teenage daughter. Low-T supplements to your son.

E) You just got your kids smartphones! Now THEY have their very own dedicated salesman! Timmy's can be especially disruptive with his sales pitches during dinner.

F) Uh oh! Why's that Federal Agent talking to that salesman on the way to our house?

G) Heck, why are INSURANCE people trying to...is that a BANKER, and what is my HR person doing here?!

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> Europeans are more willing (trained and socialized) to sacrifice individual preferences in favor of the "greater good".

That may be the general case, but in this specific case a school system and court intentionally chose not to allow two students to voluntarily better their individual positions in a way that wouldn't affect the positions of others. That is some sort of perversion of personal greed into a form that instead limits what others may have.
Random note: most educational websites have an option to speed up videos, which I find super useful.

If you don't like videos, maybe consider some textbooks?

Sadly I don't really have any personal recommendations for good resources about CS.
I don't worship market forces and I have no idea if it works in transport or not. I asked for an example of a successful service that works without market forces and I haven't seen anybody provide one yet.
I think using the word "Best" in the titles is a little odd. You may want to consider using the word "Highlighted" instead. You also might want to consider writing a few sentences summarizing who are you, rather than just four words at the top.
I've never understood how some physicists disregard philosophy and do it with a straight face. How else are supposed to understand and make meaning of their findings?

Take scientific realism for example. Roughly, whether our theories have a 1-1 mapping to reality. Are the entities described by, say physics, really exist? Say an electron? Or is it just a concept or a tool we use to understand the world?

A common objection to scientific realism is Pessimistic Meta Induction. Roughly, we've been always wrong about physics and physical entities, even when we made progress, therefore we're likely wrong now (maybe less wrong but still wrong).

I personally find Structural Realism to be a compelling argument -- it's sort of a "third way". Roughly, look, we've been wrong and theories change and evolve but the basic structure of our theories remains intact. Therefore the structure must map on to reality. Full discussion here https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/structural-realism/

That's merely one example of meta questions about physics that physics itself cannot fully answer and only philosophy can help us understand. I think part of the reason we don't have consesus on the interpretation of quantum mechanics is because of this dismissal of philosophy by physicists.
Speaking of which, how would the Equifax breach have been affected by GDPR ? My understanding is that they had legitimate reason to request and store that data, and GDPR is not some magic tool that prevents breaches.
The irony of this article being posted on a website that asks for location information from mobile users every time you visit.
Curious what this magic software on the phone detecting the devices is doing, anyone have any insights?
I think you're self-confident enough.
Interesting, I knew about defer and used it in the past for pretty much the purpose the first example illustrates, but didn't remember/realize it could be used on a per-query basis.

I think if you strip columns for performance reasons for one specific query it would still be better to use Bundles or the equivalent loose select (i.e. session.query(Book.id, Book.title)) instead of query-local-deferred columns, because then you will notice if a code change leads to a down-stream access of an unwanted column for some reason.
> Well, if your app have an orange/red primary color, the warning color is just ignored.

This is incorrect. If you use Material color templates and pick red as the theme, md-warn will pick an alternate accent color.

> And again, I am not saying that material design is bad "by design", I am saying it is not always well used, and that I personally don't like it.

No disagreement there. Some of Google's own apps butcher Material Design. YouTube Music on Android is a usability mess.
ASOUE and altered carbon were pretty good.
Chinese ethnicity doesn't mean Chinese (PRC) national. There's also Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc...
I suspect that some scientists disregard philosophy as a separate primary academic activity. What they are doing has philosophical underpinnings; the have gone with particular underpinnings that work and don't wish to be wasting time re-examining them all the time and re-evaluating them against various other hoky possibilities.

Science does have its answers about, say, what it means to know something about the world. Those answers work for science and scientists; scientists don't feel the need to idly debate about what it means to know something.

Whether or not the entity in a theory really exists or is just a theoretical construct is something that can be probed. The "atom" of ancient Greece was just a theoretical construct based on the hand-waving hypothesis that division of matter into finer and finer pieces surely must bottom out when we reach some pieces which are indivisible. It's not the same thing as a modern atom.

A theoretical construct becomes real when several layers of lower level constructs are empirically validated. I.e. since we can predict and observe the effects of sub-sub-atomic particles, doubting that an atom or molecule is a real entity is just short of lunacy.

> physics itself cannot fully answer and only philosophy can help us understand

Philosophy can't make us understand anything. Philosophy just wants to entice you into endless debating whereby what you understand is a growing body of philosophical hypotheses.
Your attack against Xi Jinping's wife is shameful and obviously a bannable offense. It's shameful most of all to whatever point of view or country you're representing. Who would want to be associated with something like that? If you want to continue participating on HN, please don't ever do anything like this again.

The rest of your comment is also the kind of nationalistic ranting that isn't allowed on HN. People on both sides of every strongly-felt line perceive their opponents as trolls. If you have evidence of abuse, please email us so we can take a look; we ban accounts that do that, regardless of which nations or opinions are at issue.

But please don't post insinuations without basis. By 'basis' I mean specific links or data. Simply having an opposing view is not enough; it's too subject to how one feels. The site guidelines mention this, so it would be a good idea to (re-)read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Is there a pattern of downvotes whenver there isa negative story about China

There isn't such a pattern than I'm aware of. What you're probably seeing is users flagging stories that they feel are off-topic for HN, presumably because they lead to nationalistic flamewars.
To be honest - I know a thing or two about development. Also, I know a thing or two about big projects at bigger companies.
E.g. around the dot-com bubble it was "web designers" -- now they're a dime a dozen.

In the 90s/early 00s there was the biology/bio-engineering/bionformatics trend -- everybody was thinking of going into biology when I went to university -- that dried up soon as well [1]

[1] https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bmb.20...

Here's a good list written by another HN member:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8864737
Consider people who buy concert tickets and immediately resell them at higher than retail prices. I don't personally object to that, but I note that it makes a lot of people angry. It's not terribly clear that it makes things "better globally, by definition" either. The same number of people get to attend the concert with or without resellers. The band and the venue don't get any more money with resellers in play. The only set of people really better off are the resellers, who strategically mimic interest in attending but immediately trade their dozens of tickets for more money. That's a very narrow, rather than global, improvement from strategic trading.

The same possible dynamic with schools is, according to the article, one reason school trades aren't allowed. Strategizing traders could mimic interest in attending popular school X, but really intend to trade a school X place for their true preference later. Everyone who isn't strategizing that way is worse-off or no-better-off when the strategic behavior is allowed.

Note that more complex rules with more potential for strategizing don't just inconvenience individuals. More complex tax codes or regulatory codes, too, tend to disadvantage e.g. small businesses that can't afford legal teams to strategically take advantage of non-obvious consequences of the rules. The small businesses aren't "envious" that bigger ones have a higher laywer-to-engineer ratio. Small business employees aren't necessarily any more foolish than big-co employees, except in specific matters of legal interpretation and strategizing. They just want less exploitable rules so that facially-optimal and actually-optimal behaviors stay closer to each other.
It isn't clear that your sample is representative of the population of "software technology."
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Lets be honest here, all the countries fighting for these islands will use an origin myth but historicalities is not the real reason for the fight, these islands have likely never been populated by humans because they're too small, they're arguing for shipping and natural resources reasons and historicalities is just part of the bs added.
What rarely gets discussed in this case was that old, working code was modified in a critical way in order to accommodate new code when that didn't need to be done at all. It was actually a failure in the software development process.
Except that's unnecessarily inefficient and still incomplete, since it doesn't tell you anything about what to do with multiple games that predict the same symbols, about what sort of games you should focus more effort on, what should you do with games that don't produce the right symbols, why you should or shouldn't modify game rules that fail such tests so they pass such tests, and more.

Philosophy informs these questions. For instance, a scientific process modelled on Solomonoff induction would give you more insight on what kind of games you should set up and why, which games are better than others for the same symbol outputs and why, to what extend modifying a game is a valid approach, etc.
This is a false equivalence, China is objectively much worse.

At least America doesn't jail or kill its political activists and journalists, doesn't have what is effectively a dictator for life, doesn't directly control all media in the country, has a semblance of real democracy, doesn't keep it's states by threatening them with military action, doesn't overly and actively censor it's citizen (although it does spy on them).
The willful negligence from our governments in the (in)security of our communications infrastructure is criminally obscene.
This likely won't work for long. Detecting fake profiles seems like a solvable problem with ML.
Brought back great memories. In the early 80s, I used this chip to build a small analog synthesizer. My dream was to build an Elektor Formant but had to settle for the 76477. But I learned a lot from that exercise
I can’t really interpret your comment any different way.
Where I live in Seattle, one reason for the high cost is Chinese cash buyers snapping up real estate to move their assets out of the country.

China's authoritarian government's policy is world domination, and I don't think we should be helping them.
Once nice counter example to this is Black Mirror, which I think really benefits from being completely episodic.
Ask HN: What to do with copycat in software world?
We created a small software and published it recently. The competitor who is a bit longer in the game took all of our nice small visible features and copied it.

Did you have similar experience before? What would you do in this case?
Schwab refunds unlimited ATM fee, whereas USAA refunds up to $15. Schwab also has worldwide no foreign transaction fee, something that USAA doesn't have.

IMO Schwab is still the best because I travel a lot. There's no downside to keeping an empty brokerage account
I mean, yes it can. Its not a zero sum game, you can be bad in one area and good in another. Just don't forget your weaknesses.
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I have an accent and when people repeat what they think they heard I'm usually blown away. It's totally not what I said at all. I repeat what I said to a friend and they'd understand it perfectly well because they are now used to my accent. So the researcher and the article are wrong in that sense. Our brain absolutely fills in the gap and a slight change in accent will throw it off balance.
For the most part routes that connect people with people and routes outside of normal commuting hours.

This isn’t about socioeconomics if anything poor neighborhoods would have more people commuting via buses than richer ones that can afford petrol, parking and rail passes.

What bus operators like is predictable routes even if you fill only 4 busses between 8-9am and again between 5-6pm it’s a very good route because it’s bother predicable and that most of your users would likely buy seasonal tickets.

So essentially routes that connect people to places are very attractive but routes that connect people to people are not.

This means that there would be much fewer routes that connect neighborhoods directly especially within the same socioeconomic level which forces many people to change at a city center or at any other service hub to get to their destination.

This also affects commuting routes outside of rush hours and especially night buses.
It seems unlikely the parent post is going to agree with you that the US government is oppressive.
>Legally murder is an oxymoron. Murder is the unlawful killing of another.

That's the pedantic definition though -- not the one that goes beyond what "the books" say. By that metric, the killings of their own people by Nazi's, Communist, and right-wing regimes, where also lawful (the state dictated that those people were to be killed).

And not only people have been calling government/law approved executions "murder" for ages, academics have as well. E.g:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

>2. Do you really believe there is never a justifiable reason for the state to kill a human being? I'm just curious, honestly.

"Justifiable" is a pretty low bar. A false-sense of increased security, or a request for revenge can also be used as justifications for capital punishment.

But why exactly do you find this difficult to believe?

Dozens of European countries have already decided that "there is never a justifiable reason for the state to kill a human being" -- and voted so.

Those countries still have had e.g. pedophile serial killers, and other such creeps, in the half a century or so without capital punishment, and are totally fine with just keeping them in jail.

Not only it is less hypocritical ("murder is bad, unless we do it judicially") and cheaper, it also prevents killing innocents, and allows for the possibility for exonerating evidence to clear them at a later date.
A direct link to the footnote, as the above is unreadable. (Hint: don’t use code formatting for quotes. It is semantically wrong and is unreadable on many devices.)

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"China’s Claim to the Spratly Islands Is Just a Mistake"

Actually, China's claim is political not historical.
It doesn't "stand", because you're not welcome to haul that kind of trash into Hacker News just because people sling it elsewhere.
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I'm not sure how you lose out.

All those travel options are still there. But now instead of paying something (but a bit less than other people) you're paying nothing (the same as everyone else).

I don't see how losing your cheaper price is a disadvantage if you're now paying nothing.

People who like obscure routing hacks can still optimise for stuff - quicker trains, more scenic journeys, nice rolling stock, not Virgin.
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A better analogy would be if I gave you a book for "free", then take the cost out of your paycheck.