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And do you know why that happened? Ever considered the reason?

Just like cameras had a megapixel war, vacuums had a power war. In reading electricity consumption without increasing actual air throughput.

At its height there were 3500W vacuums with less than 10% effectivity. Billions of euros every year were wasted on electricity for this.

Just like the laws encouraging LEDs, the vacuum laws had a major effect, manufacturers could easily switch to brushless motors and did.

I have a vacuum from before and after the regulation here.

2400W vs 900W.

The 900W one creates a stronger vacuum than the 2400W one.

The regulation has not just been necessary, it's also been an amazing success.

Every European saves money on electricity, the environment is damaged less and we have more efficient and powerful vacuums.

And similar with the incandescent light ban. It led manufacturers to new innovation, which in turn meant LEDs quickly became popular and over the years better.

By now 1200lm 8W E27 leds are in every IKEA for 10€.

As a result of these two policies electricity usage could be significantly reduced, helping the environment and your electricity costs.

There's absolutely no way you can declare these policies a failure.

Just like the cucumber regulation, which, after it ended, stores started enforcing on their own, because they need that regulation.
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> “That other monkey has status that should be my status!” – nobody ever went broke peddling that.

Well said. Who needs facts when you can fling shit at the opposing group?

It feels our older biological subsystems don't know what to do with the latest evolutionary upstart: rationality. Some tension there.

I like the distinction between "obviously true" and "common knowledge" the article draws:

> My favorite Soviet joke involves a man standing in the Moscow train station, handing out leaflets to everyone who passes by. Eventually, of course, the KGB arrests him—but they discover to their surprise that the leaflets are just blank pieces of paper. “What’s the meaning of this?” they demand. “What is there to write?” replies the man. “It’s so obvious!”

Coming from the former Soviet block, this is spot on. It's as if societies and social norms have inertia and strive for their own preservation, like an organism. Even at the cost of the individuals (people) who comprise them. In the extreme case, social norms can go against the interest of all individuals and still prevail, as the article points out. How weird!

Or not weird? I guess humans themselves are just such conglomerate of trillions of "individuals" (cells). We can do shit that hurts all of them, and they'll still comply. It's just weird to think of societies as "doing their own thing", because we're so grounded in our human-level perspective.
This is really good. If this is your OC, I would consider printing and publishing it. It's a too long to read it on a screen and it seems like well-rounded information to keep in your book shelf.
Are you just going to ignore all the countries i listed?

Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic all have goverments in place that reject giving more power to the EU and refuse to take in refugees.

In France, Marie Le Pen did not win a majority but had big gains. And Macron, well, he seems to like the EU as long as someone else (Germany) picks up the bill.

Italy: same as France.
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Interesting to see the graphics on this.

Being from the UK and having spent time working in the US, I feel like in the last ~10 years it has become harder for Europeans to immigrate to the US.

Does this ring true for anyone?
John Knoll also came up with the plot for the Star Wars Rouge One film released in 2016. Versatile fellow.
FTA:

The thing that’s new and exciting enough to get New York Times articles written about it is that the anti-PC movement has spread to friendly coastal liberals. From the Democrats’ perspective, the IDW aren’t infidels, they’re heretics.
>> I really want one ring to rule them all

Try Apache Pulsar: https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/
The file I have open right now is 1500 lines with probably 400 revisions across numerous branches. Many of those revisions are going to be integrates across branches. How is my IDE supposed to know which of those revisions are the ones that I care about? And more to the point, how is it supposed to do that _quickly_ ?
Safer, maybe, but annoying to work with: definitely
There is huge gap between "mark you are not robot by pencil" and "well she said she wanted the $500 paint upgrade even though she didn’t write it down". I am pretty sure that more reasonable, but still crystal clear, line exists.

Especially in widely distributed company, with workers of various skill levels and cultures, someone is guaranteed to conclude that "rules in this company are dumb, so it only dumb people fully follow them " - e.g. less compliance anywhere where you can not immediately check the rules.
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Is this true for all versions? If it's a 2nd or 3rd hand-me-down iPad as stated, chances are it's on a lower version.

I forgot that this was even a feature.
Everything you say is so true. In a similar vein, all those ready-made REST libraries that help you shoehorn your business models into 1-to-1 mappings between them and your REST resources/endpoints, have no reason to exist. And yet you still see people battling with them.

REST is still HTTP + more exotic verbs + headers + more serializing/encoding options. You can build a small library, specific for you project's needs in a matter of 3-5 days. And on top of that, you don't forfeit any possible future optimizations, which you most certainly will by choosing any ready made library.
The part where OP signs away its rights to go to court over the definition of when their software has to be made available.

If Apple was just a random company only running an app store, it'd be different.

But Apple has a monopoly on app stores for iOS and macOS by preinstalling them, similar to Microsoft preinstalling Internet Explorer.

As a result of being the only possible marketplace for these platforms, Apple can't just act at its own discretion.
1 large egg contains approximately 1.6g of saturated fat. Recommended saturated fat intakes vary by who is making the recommendation, but the NHS in the U.K. says it should be at most 30g/20g for men/women, whilst the American Heart Association says it should be around 13g for a 2000 calorie diet. No idea where you got your 70+% figure from.

Edit: You've now corrected this to 10%, but even that is based upon a very cautious RDA for saturated fat.

Also, consuming 9 eggs by themselves would not cause you overdose on selenium either - the RDA for selenium is between 55-135mg (again, depending on source), whilst the overdose threshold for it is believed to be around 400mg. However, an egg contains around 15mg of selenium - so whilst consuming 9 of them would put you over or at your RDA, it is not an overdose, since the RDA is a recommendation, not a limit.
N.B. this isn't fully open source because it relies on the Stream API: https://getstream.io/

They have a free quota of 3 million feed updates (not sure if total, I'm guessing per month?). Important to keep in mind because the app may be open source, but they can pull the plug on it by shutting down the web service. And so you can't self host it independently.

It might be nice, not saying otherwise, but for example something like Newsblur.com is open source and hosted, so you can pay a yearly fee for the service, while having the peace of mind that you can fork it and self host it yourself should the product die, which is what many of us want after Google pulled the plug on Reader ;-)
I found some of my old code among a bunch of floppies a while back and stuck it on Github...

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...

I used Turbo Pascal at work in an electronics R&D lab - my biggest achievements were a staff time management program and one that 'drove' a Stag EPROM/PAL/device programmer, so a dev could just point to a device firmware text file in one of a number of formats (Intel Hex etc.) and it would be parsed for errors, sent to the programmer, the right device selected, programmed and verified - this saved a lot of fiddling with the programmer itself.

Programmer was similar to this: http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/Stag_PPZ_Zm2500_programmer_re...

I don't have that source code any more but I somehow managed to use TP for some home projects too!

Happy days!
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Just to back this up, I found Elm to be a really good way to learn Haskell. I actually started with Haskell, but Elm allowed me to practice a lot of my functional programming skills and the different way of thinking without getting in my way too much, and in a fun environment with immediate feedback (frontend development). When I went back to Haskell I found it much easier.
Here’s a moderately detailed explanation I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15957517.
This seems wrong to me. If the "why" is not obvious from the code itself then it should be clearly explained in comments. It should not be detective work to figure out why some code is written in a non-obvious way. Otherwise people will be afraid to improve code.
Pascal was a brilliant intro language, but Turbo Pascal IDE – at least for me – made it unbearable (yellow on blue...). It was a bliss when I switched to Visual Studio and C.

However, MPW still holds one of my best programming experiences: I discovered it quite late, on an iBook, shortly before Xcode introduction. On MPW I wrote a simple cli math calculator, where you type your full equation like in a notebook – implementing an array walk with pseudo-regex. MPW was simple enough and clear enough that it was the first moment I thought I could really handle coding.
>I find it interesting that the ("alt")right-wingers that elected a president and rule the internet media and half of TV

Couldn't help yourself eh? You had to throw in the 'alt' prefix.
Yes, they can be both popular and silenced.

Steven Pinker mentions in the Better Angels of Our Nature (and possibly also elsewhere) that a group of people (even relatively small one) can be in a situation where everybody disagrees with some policy, yet everybody follows it, because they believe that everybody else agrees with it.

That's why allowing dissent is important, to get out of such tricky situations.
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During downtime between 2 jobs, I used to look at different languages for like half a day each, just to see what they did differently compared to the ones I already knew. I was mostly interested in concepts, not syntax.

This has helped me to be quicker when picking up new languages or even frameworks. Because, well, nothing is ever really new, right?

(Note that I would not recommend this strategy to a complete beginner. You need something to compare what you are discovering to.)

As for recommendations, I would suggest you look at what kind of problem you're trying to solve. If you could benefit from the infrastructure something like Java EE provides you, choose Java or kotlin (those are mostly interchangeable). For scripting, choose bash or python. For client-side web stuff, JavaScript. And so on.
but thats what Gmail promotion tab is for... isnt it?
I've been maintaining a large (and quite old) in-play gambling system for the past six months that uses Postgres triggers and pg_notify [1] as the core mechanism for broadcasting websocket frames to SPA clients.

Hilariously, it turned out the system was violating a recommendation in the Postgres official documentation for pg_notify:

> The "payload" string to be communicated along with the notification. This must be specified as a simple string literal. In the default configuration it must be shorter than 8000 bytes. (If binary data or large amounts of information need to be communicated, it's best to put it in a database table and send the key of the record.)

The original triggers were invoking pg_notify with row_to_json(NEW), often causing the pg_notify calls to fail (which also caused the underlying insert/update that fired the trigger to fail too, meaning we DROPPED new or updated records) due to the JSON text being far too large.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-notify.html
> This is a good thing - you want this to happen if your device is stolen

How does the device know it's been stolen? It can't possibly tell the difference between "snatched on the bus and in the black market tech's lab" and "oh lol whups I forgot how to used my fingers".

Provide a "my device was stolen" service for the user to initiate lockouts instead (and report the theft to the relevant authorities with location tracking data) imo.
I, for one, am very eager to see what is the official definition of a fake account. Sorry: the European Parliament guided, State Parliament confirmed definition.

Question one: Do either body claim to have jurisdiction over accounts who claim to be from, live in or are friends with European citizen, residents?

Question two: how many pieces of official document will need to be provided before registering, and does a temporary driving license, a refugee certificate, an official copy of your live birth certificate count (all are without photos)?

Question three: is Facebook mandated to confirm that the same piece of information, or the same name, is not used for several accounts; what are the tolerance level for optical matching and recognition?

Question four: is a user choses to change gender…

I’ve got dozens like that.
https://mynoise.net which is a fantastic source of ambient sounds to block out outside noise or help to focus/relax. Made by a very knowledgable sound engineer.
Copy pasta.
Deployment difficulty is why I wrote my own: https://github.com/rcxdude/nobsrss . It's super easy to deploy, but it's super minimal (unlike the way a lot of people seem to use RSS, I just use it for notifications, so all I need is a link to the actual website).
It's obvious, you MUST learn multiple languages. The real question is " When should one learn a new language ?" As you have mentioned that you have a DECENT knowledge/experience with Java, your next language on the checklist depends on what you want to do next ?
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“This app is capturing website history which would be invaluable to third parties.”

Foursquare is capturing location history, which it admits to selling to third parties.

I’m waiting for Apple to remove them from the app store.
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Don't overlook at any books or tutorials from now. Go to the php docs alone. See stackoverflow for special queries only if stuck. Like any langs, start with low objectives. First try to do some maths, display the results. Then work with texts, try to alter contents by program. String, array, object, learn to create, and alter them. Later see by youself what kind of database type suits well your objectives. play with it (Flat files? json?). Wow you can pass external arguments by the url. (Big moment here ;) )

From there start to play with the internet, load remote datas, parse them, put them to your database. Then melt this all. Learn bash php scripting and unix, start to make system calls (exec, system, passthru...) enjoy the speed. Learn conditions (With just if you can do everything...seriously), Learn looping(while, foreach) , exit conditions and timing. Try to recreate basics tools: grep, cut, head, tail, cat.. you will see it is fairly doable and very funny to do.

Get bored? Do some javascript!

You will see personal ideas flowering at high rate. Still keep your objectives as low as you can. Small projects all aside.

Now you have all this in mind, open a book, check other sources code.

Learn security a bit. (Or not it all depends to your objective). Check good practices.

Close the books. Cut the Internet.

Get over this fancy libraries that anyone advise.

Open your editor. You are the internet. Have fun. ;)
Its funny that you mention the light bulbs. Actually, the EU did NOT encourage LED light bulbs for the longest time.

You may recall that they banned some conventional wolfram based light bulbs and instead tried to force compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) to the consumer, not LEDs. This has actually lead to a huge recycling problem. The CFLs contain mercury, the plastic parts are hard to recycle and the glass can not be recycled because it is contaminated.

Its not EU regulation that made the LEDs popular, it was consumer demand.
Hungary elected Viktor Orbán, a notoriously anti-EU, anti-immigrants hatemonger.
What makes you think it's even possible to master a single language without learning others?

My experience tells me that monoglots reach false maxima because there experience isn't broad enough to realize that there are other maxima to climb.

Java is still, probably, my strongest language, but I strongly believe my craft would have stagnated around Spring/Hibernate if I hadn't taken the time to figure out how problems like typing, dependency injection, persistence, IO etc all work in other ecosystems.

Pick a language that is good for the market place you care most about. Mobile go with C or Swift. Science probably python. JavaScript if you like the web and if you like the perks of working in an Enterprise Java won't hurt.
The body regulates cholesterol balance via the liver, and this is most influenced by genetics. Dietary cholesterol simply is inconsequential, and the old warning against too much dietary cholesterol was just bad medical advice based on incomplete knowledge of cholesterol metabolism.

I eat between 4 and 6 eggs per day. We'll see what happens in 50 years, but I bet CAD won't be a significant problem because of my good genetics.
Royalty free music is a pain. I wanted to licence a music track for use for YouTube and a podcast, but it's just unclear if that requires different licences, and if it's a series, it may only cover a certain number of episodes and expire after some time before you have to buy again.

I did discover icons8's free music selection which is actually very good: https://icons8.com/music/
What happens if your family gets blown up by American missiles while vacationing in X? Would a strong reprimand be your preferred answer?
It just seem quite petty thing to get angry about. Reading those two things takes less then additional half second and on update you can delete the comment if you don't like it. I have seen project behind schedule and it was never because of tiny things like this.

Also, you are likely to find out that comments like this are often result of people just auto-writing them at the moment e.g. writing it was faster then reflect on it. Which is not necessary good thing, but it is saving time in expense of little bit less effective code.
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The reason you're passive aggressive isn't clear to me. I used the "alt" prefix to reinforce the irony of the name "alternative" right being the mainstream right movement. Is this why you're angry?
I think you are hiding something. Are you selling user browsing history? And don’t tell me user acknowledged it. They never read your terms of service. I’m sure if they knew, most of them will freak out.

Also your competitors might be a step away from getting banned. If you are doing shady stuff then I’m happy Apple is taking action. 30k/month, jobs, my company, etc... is not going to cut it. They are just sensational arguments.
First: I appreciate you actually making a point, instead of just down voting other opinions.

They were massive problems before, i agree, but adding more than 1 million refugees over the course of 2 years (in the case of Germany) adds a very real problem to the housing market and we should be honest about that. You can not blame so called right wing populists for hoping on this issue if other parties fail to even talk about it.
Poland is not anti-EU, it just opposes the migrant quotas due to variety of reasons. The society also has a generally negative view on multiculturalism and forcing the refugees to live where they will feel unwelcome and oppressed doesn't seem like the best idea.
I suspect that both Tom Pennello and Chris Lattner would also qualify by your criteria.
Does it count if it's in a cake?
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The same person that would be able to write readable understandable comment about that horrible and complicated stuff would be also able to refactor it and make it clearer.

That is why. The person left comment on literally one thing in that code he is able to explain.
Voicing a opinion is not spread fear. Jesus, sometimes HN is worse than 1984.
Looking at these career options, it seems all of them are easily attainable with a Masters or even a Bachelors if you get some good work experience straight out of university.

The question is if you take one of these career paths: was it worth it?

Perhaps you could have been finished with academics years earlier already working in these positions.
Sure, so:

- If you highlight more than one note it automatically scrolls, you just need to leave one note highlighted at a time and it'll stop scrolling (this isn't obvious in the UX, so I need to change how it works, maybe adding a checkbox)

- You can delete notes, just hover over them, click the green tick, then go to archives (bottom right), and delete them from there.

But thanks for the feedback, I want to release an update which helps get on top of these common questions.
you can make an account and still not consent, e.g. to be tracked because they can't prove that 'being tracked is necessary for reading quora'. the two are orthogonal
This is tangential, but in 1933 major bankers, including JP Morgan, allegedly (and, in my mind, likely) plotted a fascist coup via a veterans' organization. The summer before, 17,000 veterans, most in their 30s, had gathered to violently demand payment of their WWI bonuses. The bankers plotted to foment and channel this anger to overthrow FDR, whom they despised. They failed in the early stages thanks to a retired major general that they approached to lead it instead exposing it to Congress.