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Fraud. You forgot fraud. We're not simply talking theft. It's fraud as well. Fraud - like the implied violence in robbery - is a violation of the social fabric. To think that it (i.e., fraud) is less damaging naive.

As I said earlier, put people in jail for theft and fraud and you'll see those things decrease. As it is now, too often (white collar) crime __does__ pay.
What I find strange about it there was almost a universal consensus among economists that the Euro couldn't work. The UK was fortunate enough to drop out of the Euro as the Pound/Euro was mispriced in the transition phase.

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

Unlike many ideas in economics, the "impossible trinity" has proven itself again and again. It's not one of the usual right wing tropes like "raising the minimum wage will tank the economy".

Different monetary zones allow price levels to adjust. For instance I was in Montreal and looking at the price of package tours to different parts of Europe and Greece turned out to be the most expensive place to go. If it wasn't for the Euro, price levels would drop in Greece as denominated in USD, it would be more attractive to go on vacation there, manufacturing would become more profitable there, and the Greek economy will recover.

It is true that the Eurozone and the E.U. are different but I am not sure that Brexit voters really know that. What they have seen is Eurocracy has a "democratic deficit" and and inability to handle problems (for better or worse government legitimacy is more impacted by effectiveness than by process or ideology.)
I have been looking for something like this for a long time on iOS. I am not into streaming at all, but I have a large collection of physical media converted into electronic form. (I also very much appreciate your no tracking and analytics policy.)

One feature that I still do miss is to organize or browse my collection on the app by a self-defined folder structure. Most apps offer to sort by artist, album titles, genres etc., but I do not find this sufficient or convenient, especially if your collection is very heterogenous.

For example, I have my pop albums sorted by artist, but my classical music by composer (rather than artists/performer). I also have a large collection of singles which I prefer to have in a separate folder (to not clutter the pop artist directory too much), sorted chronologically. Similarly, I keep compilations in a separate folder, and do not want every artist of a single song in a compilation appear in my overall list, or have all compilations lumped under "Various Artists".

As far as I can see, Decoupled already maintains the files in the user-given folder structure, and technically I can just click on "Files" and then browse through it. Would it be possible however to place this option more prominently on the main screen that is visible when the app opens up? Or even make the options on the main screen user-configurable, similar to how the iOS music player allows enabling and disabling the "Artist", "Genre" etc. entries in the media library?
I have an idea that I believe is patentable that I've been sitting on for several years. I came up with the idea while working for a previous employer, but not in the context of my job (I was thinking how to solve a need in my personal life).

I have never pursued patents (on this idea, nor any other). Would there be any benefit to me to disclose this idea to my current employer as a potentially patentable idea? I have no intention of pursuing a patent on my own. I may intend to actually implement the idea on my own (to solve my own needs), not in context of a business.
the EU could simply force banks to let you withdraw at market rates at any ATM
nuxt.js is an all in one vue framework that has ssr and a really cool file based routing functionality
One of the appealing aspects of Carmax for investors is that they're the only dealership that makes money both on purchases as well as sales. Their appeal for consumers is that they're friendly and transparent, even if it's not the best deal.
For me, I dig Spring Boot and Elastic Beanstalk. It's just:

mvn install; eb deploy
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It has been pointed out (I forget where) that part of the reason the US works as a monetary union is that people are not very attached to where they live. When one area of the country becomes much more successful than another, many people are often willing to move, which acts as a countervailing force to regional productivity differences.

One of the problems with the EU is that Germans like to live in Germany and Greeks like to live in Greece.
Why drive a Bentley when a normal car would do the job?
It seems really hard to justify treating those 8 characteristics as independent, equally important, and all-encompassing variables. The page's attempt to do so amounts to saying it's a peer-reviewed method employed by other music researchers.

But the paper they linked made an effort to address that concern, and weights the features; it includes more echo-nest features, like tempo, mode and time-signature; it uses a different metric; and while it's not the overall conclusion of the paper, it includes a similar measure of similarity over time, but pegs 2015 as the most diverse year since 1963 in general, and 2014 as the most diverse year ever for #1s.
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Those are 21st century solutions for a 1990s problem. And now the Euro exists it would be very difficult to revert to separate currencies (even though that may be preferable)
Freely? My bank charge extortionate fees for translating currencies on a card.
>I think that's profoundly ignorant and belies lazy thinking, especially in relation to Syria.

Why is it ignorant and lazy? The US has been backing the Syrian opposition since 2006, and arming them since 2011. Additionally, it was the US invasion of Iraq and the subsequent mismanagement that allowed ISIL to gain power in the region.

Mostly beside the point though. The US has been an active participant in the war for a while now, and other outside support doesn't change that.
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> windows shut all the time

Windows don’t need to be shut all the time. Just when I’m sleeping, or want some quiet. (I don’t live in an acoustically-isolated environment, either.)

(That said, I and most people I know in Manhattan run air conditioners more or less constantly, while we are in the apartment, all summer.)
There's a big gap there for sure, but the gap between (say) France and parts of eastern Europe is much larger
It seemed strange to me that the protected mode text warning gives a long winded explanation on 3 ways to disable protected mode first, and leaves the most desireable (change the bind address or password) option for last with a much more brief and less helpful explanation.

I would have done a long detailed explanation on bind addr/password, and a "you can also disable protected mode by looking up how to do it on XXXXX" at the end.

Based on my experience with product design decisions, that detail right there probably had a huge impact on the actual adoption of the desired choice.
It isn't arbitrary, it minimizes the chance of a car/bicycle collision. Most car drivers are bad at interacting with cyclists. The downside for someone in a car is a messed up bumper and scratched paint, the downside for a cyclist is injury or death.

Bicycles are in a 3rd place between motor vehicles and pedestrians, of course they can transition between modes in ways that cars or pedestrians cannot. So can people on skateboards, skates and the myriad of personal electric vehicles.

I am extremely cognizant of how I operate a bicycle around pedestrians, the onus should be on the person operating the dangerous device in the interaction.

Cars don't own the road. Look at the history of jay walking and how the person car dynamic has changed over time.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
We’ve eradicated the Guinea worm just recently or have effctively done so at least with no new cases reported.
fastest for me is just plain Sinatra and postgres. this is the gold standard of simplicity imo. and hosting for me is taken care of with Docker and an instance on Digitalocean. deployment is literally rsync and docker-compose up.
> but countries in the E.U. can't

Do you mean countries in the euro?
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There'd still be a mental overhead though, and it's notwithstanding the fact that the euro is more than twenty years old, at a time where paying by credit card often meant someone was physically copying your card number and details so it's unsurprising that they didn't account for that fact.
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I do actually have deeper knowledge about partisan alignment in the greater population. Even if I didn't, the conservatives did not rank Trump worst. They ranked Buchanan worst, Trump was #40.

When you say this: "Donald Trump is objectively (ranked by presidential historians of all political parties) as the worst president in the 242 year history of the US."

That usually means that presidential historians of all parties ranked him worst, or at least that a poll controlling for party/political leaning as a variable concluded that he was worst. Neither was the case here.
tl;dr someone tries to use a portable language translator called the Pocketalk. She tries it with English <--> Japanese and it doesn't go well.

This outcome can easily be predicted when, in anticipation of using the device, she first tries using a software app to translate the idiomatic "all bets are off".
The Bentley in this case 'requires' some ridiculous permissions (read phone/call status and ID? wtf), so the Bentley is some proprietary mess that is likely doing things it shouldn't.
This isn't a bad start but I'm not a fan of the UI. I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn which you can sort of demo at http://hn.premii.com and it has a few bugs/quirks because it isn't super actively maintained but the design is just really solid. Gestures work well (Swype left from an article to go back), colors are great (and user choosable), dark mode included, fonts customizable...

I think you have some steep competition, that's all. It's a great start to get something out there though!
Scientifically illiterate people are scared of GMOs in other news water is wet.

Also in several places malaria was eradicated using engineered mosquitos sure we didn’t use gene editing but rather much more coarse tools like radiation.

We’ve been producing GMO for 15 millennia if anyone thinks that throwing sperm at the wall or irradiating seeds is somehow not genetic engineering they need to get their facts in order.
Not on the same scale, there is no US state as wealthy as Luxembourg nor as poor as Bulgaria.
> part of the reason the US works as a monetary union is that people are not very attached to where they live

More significant is our fiscal union. My taxes in New York and California support Mississippi and Iowa. (Politically, this requires the citizens of a country to see themselves as one.) The EU missed, in the last crisis, an opportunity to form a banking and preliminary fiscal union.
This is correct.

...it is also why php is not really any significantly better choice than any other framework/language combination.

The benefits of ‘plain php’ (simplicity) disappear quite quickly when you’re doing anything non trivial.

I would never choose php without one of those framework stacks; it doesn’t scale, its prone to hideous security issues and its a fugly mess of reinventing the wheel.

Frankly, anyone doing this these days has no idea what they’re doing.
The "bouquinistes" of Paris, yes. There used to be more of that style along stretch across from Cooper Union before the IBM building was built. That's why I loved that they included that one woman who is still there hawking used books on the sidewalk.

Definitely give Argosy a visit, you won't be disappointed. If you are a bibliophile and want to see the rare book offering on the 5th and 6th floors you can do so by simply making an appointment ahead of time. But even just visiting the other 3 floors is more than worthwhile. Cheers.
Both the syntax and the built-in Script Editor application are unhelpful and confusing. I find even C++ more approachable.

In recent years they've added JavaScript bindings which solves the syntax and editor problem. But most documentation is still presented for AppleScript coders so you have to mentally translate what you want to the AS first and then to JS, so it's still basically useless without extreme mental energy. And good luck debugging.
Now this sounds interesting. I’ve been wanting to dig into Kotlin for awhile now. Were/are you a Java dev, or did you go into Kotlin without Java knowledge?
This is how carmax works. They’ll never give you the best offer, just a convenient process.
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> That's not an undisputed fact.

We can produce steels today with much better metallurgical properties by design. Japanese steel at the time used the folding technique to overcome low carbon content. Thats all my point entailed. And as to what enthusiasts think, all I can counter with is the audiophile community. I wouldn't take their view without some salt especially without some comprehensive analysis. Steel from Spain at the time was also vastly superior to the steel being used in Japan.

Ref:
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/mechanical-propertie...

Quote:
The material and mechanical properties of samurai swords (Japanese swords), made using a traditional steelmaking technology (tatara), are investigated experimentally. The quality of these swords appears to be low because of the presence of a large number of inclusions, including oxide- and phosphorus-based structures; however, their mechanical properties are relatively good because of their fine-grained structure and high residual stress.

endquote

Also, take the metallurgical properties of turbine blades, there are alloys we can only recently produce based on analysis of bonds between the atoms. While its posssible a past civilization could have come up with these alloys, the neither needed them, and lacked the requisite knowledge to make them.

And the roman cement was largely a product of materials. Aka volcanic ash. We lost it only in that the inputs were largely lost. But this all digresses mostly into arguing analogies which is a bit of a rat hole.
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I don't get it. They all look practically the same, just with different color schemes and splash backgrounds?
Physical cash is on the way out.

People have been saying that for a long time, but one catastrophe after another with the alternatives reminds us that sometimes having a simple, reliable, anonymous means of paying for things isn't such a bad idea after all.

I'm in the UK. A major bank here has just spectacularly screwed up a migration to a new IT system, and for several weeks many people and businesses have been unable to use the most basic and essential facilities. Just this past week, Visa had a major outage and people were unable to buy food in shops or fill up their vehicles. While those were particularly bad instances of things going wrong, it's not as if we couldn't find many more examples going further back as well.

Obviously cash has its own downsides, particularly around counterfeit currency and the costs of handling and securing it. There is no perfect solution to making payments. But I suspect predictions of an entirely cashless society are still a long way from becoming reality for most of us.

You can do payments through mastercard/visa lines, and wired transfers are straightforward.

That very much depends on where you are and where the business or person you want to pay is. In some places, electronic transfers are quick and easy. In some parts of the world, they are expensive, slow, and rely on technology that feels like it came from another era.

The major card networks are the single biggest blight on the payment landscape, because they suck in almost every conceivable way except for being so widely established, but that last point means disrupting them is a very tall order.

FX conversions are straightforward when everyone has a phone.

But many people won't bother to do that conversion. If you're advertising prices in your native currency and your customer has a different currency, that can be a huge barrier to conversion. Most people don't know or care even roughly how much of their local currency equals the advertised price in yours. This effect is at least moderated if you're advertising in a very big currency that some people have encountered before, which basically means the US dollar or Euro if you're in the West.
Strongly agree. I loved AWS Lambda both for pricing and for developer convenience/efficiency, but managing the network infrastructure beneath it finally irked me too much, so I switched to pushing a Docker container to Heroku and haven't looked back. I am tempted to believe that a lot of teams might be forcing themselves into over-engineering/overkill to jumping right to AWS where it's not needed.

I have read similar comments to the ones here about scaling and cost, so I might bump into that at some point.
Not really. There was a pretty good chance of the state of Jefferson happening, then WWII happened and screwed up that plan. Secession would be really tricky given California's dependence on the states around it for power, water, etc.
I don't think they are misinterpreting anything, just explaining their point in a way that looks like misinterpretation to you :D

Let me try another way.

1. Some children, of which I would have been an example, when sat down and told about the marshmallows will interpret this interaction as a test.

2. Believing that they are being tested, some of these children, of which I would also have been an example, will want to pass the test.

3. Based on previous experience, some of these children, of which I would have been an example, will believe that they pass the test if they get the maximum number of marshmallows.

To be fair, what I would have considered the correct answer may have depended on how exactly the scenario was described to me, but considering various options I think almost every time I would have thought waiting was the correct action - this is obviously through the lens of hindsight rationalisation so I have no way to support this idea.

All that aside, it appears that even if having some desire to pass tests makes a child more inclined to "pass" the Marshmallow Test, it doesn't provide any significant predictive power on the outcome that was measured when you also account for the socio-economic factors discussed in the article.
I hope that we will see a different and more rational handling in italy's case. In fact we should allow countries to leave the EU if their economy is not strong enough. It just doesn't make sense for anyone to have the same currency. Right now, everyone treats the "dropping out of the EU zone" as a failure and a stepping stone into a complete EU collapse, but the EU shouldn't be a prison. Having the same currency and no option to devalue for a country leaves you strangled and tied to the big guys (Germany, France,...). Let italy, portugal, spain and finnland drop out if they want, let them devalue their currency and let them get back on their feet, otherwise we stumble deeper and deeper into uncharted dark territory.

Ofc it's not as easy as I'm stating it here, if they drop out of the EU, Germany and others would be in deep trouble due to the massive credits they gave everyone to make them stay and dependent
Krugman, who's also talked about how the Euro is a mistake, has talked about this. The difference between the EU and the US is, pensions and social security are federally managed, so even if Appalachia is bankrupt, the pensioners still get their pensions, and state legislative bodies would not have to agree to bail out other states. Meanwhile in the EU, German politicians were fighting each other asking why they should bail out Greece yet again.

I would imagine if the US had a similar union like the EU, the blue states would've long told the red states to go to hell. Although interestingly states with money would have the influence (like Germany in the EU) and would've probably pushed the smaller states around and gotten more liberal politics.
If willpower is the strongest indicator for income then controlling for parent’s income leads to some strange circular reasoning: willpower is not a strong influence of income when controlling for income.
Ask HN: Does really every software engineer in the US earn ~100000?
Hey HN,

I am a software engineer in Europe and I would guess the average software engineer makes ~40000 (around ~28000 net) euro a year (~47000 in $) if (s)he does "average" software dev (so between junior and senior).

Now obviously you can negotiate salary (which I recommend) and exceptional senior devs do make around ~80000 here in Europe I guess, but here on HN I always read that most devs make around 100K (even if not a team leader or just fresh from the university or even self-taught), but if I would propose that kind of compensation to some company I am sure that it won't work out. I know that Google & Co do pay decent salary here in Europe, but other (software) companies would roll their eyes if I would demand a salary in this category.

Of course it is not that easy to compare as you are automatically insured in Europe (I don't know how that works in the US, I often read about some 401-thingy) which I highly appreciate but I don't think that you guys pay 50000 for taxes and social benefits/year?

So is my view biased as I hang out on HN too much, or is salary in the US really that much higher?

Or is it implied that you just make your 50 - 60 hours a week (at least in my area most people that do full-time are <=45 hours a week)?

Thank you for your comments.

//edit: Obviously not everybody, but let's say the 50% percentile.
That's a very good point, I didn't think of this lag. Now considering we just did this thought experiment, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea for any mission to Mars in search of life to have some cheap way of identifying Earth-based microbes, by, for example, coupling a cheap microscope with some machine learning. It wouldn't replace DNA sequencing, but it could be 95% there. Oh, and by the way, assuming we do find some extraterrestrial life form, wouldn't we want to find the way it encodes information as soon as possible, rather than wait for a decade or more for a follow up mission?
The reverse part is that he's running the real hardware with an emulated cartridge ROM, rather than a (dump of) a real ROM on emulated hardware. It's explained in the video.
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Now that I think about it how is athleticism not considered a parameter of IQ? If you can learn to shoot a basketball 10x faster and with more accuracy than me, isn't your brain learning faster than mine?