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The process was very controversial at the time, and still is, and its success is hotly debated – with the claimed benefits including a reduced cost to the taxpayer, lower fares, improved customer service, and more investment. Despite opposition from the Labour Party, who gained power in 1997 under Tony Blair, the process has never been reversed wholesale by any later government, and the system remains largely unaltered. A significant change came in 2001 with the collapse of Railtrack, which saw its assets passed to the state-owned Network Rail (NR), with track maintenance also brought in-house under NR in 2004. The regulatory structures have also subsequently changed.

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/britains-rai...

Citylab

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2012/09/why-britains-...

Science Direct

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S015599821...
I just picked up a Nespresso machine - a Creatista Uno. It's a new, lower end variant of a pre-existing line of machines.

The main difference, aside from the more utilitarian finish and lower cost, is that it replaced the touchscreen of the other models with 6 buttons. The reviews have almost universally praised it as the one to get due to the speed and ease of use - of course convenience is going to rate highly with folks who are into something like Nespresso.
Woah, "extractive" contributors, but the "investors" are AOK?
Nail the CPU and ensure that other isolates on the same process/machine don’t get starved. I meant isolation more than security.
To me this seems like two decisions combined. The idea of making sure that "letters of continued interest, extra recommendations, expectation of campus visits, lobbying efforts," do not play a role in campus decisions (notably, the statement offered no response to recent issues with donor preference at other "top" schools) seems like a common-sense focus on actually relevant factors and an attempt to reduce bias that will no doubt favor more diverse (and more ethical) candidates.

But how does that in any way go along with shunning "supplementary submission of materials, including resumes, research abstracts, writing samples, multimedia demonstrations of talents, and maker portfolios." How is work (most of which, like a writing sample or resume, requires no resources or affluence to create) less equal than academic records which are literally determined by what neighborhood one lives in? Essays aren't bad in theory, but it's only a matter of time before entire books are written by "admissions counselors" on exactly what influential people to name drop and what "shared values" with the school to highlight. Beyond a basic capability (prerequisites) and a lack of contrary evidence (ex. failing classes repeatedly), what could possibly be a better discriminator of student success then the interest they demonstrate through actual self-driven initiative?
I love our open office, but I will admit that it does stifle communication rather than aid it. Sure, sometimes I overhear something that I want to participate in. But more often I use electronic communication so that I don't break the quiet, peaceful office vibe.

The place that communication really blossoms is in the kitchen, and I can see it from my office so I can wander over and chat when someone is in there I want to chat with.
If they want appearance of work, just look at the Kanban board!
Kids love new words. Just make sure you're using them for a reason, and I think you'll be fine. Include pictures.
It was required for us, one semester of “independent study” where you must select a research adviser (professor) and produce a final report. I did mine on “TorCoin” and it was an awesome experience, the only time I legitimately enjoyed school.
I agree, and I feel in minority too.

My current car, Subaru Outback, has groves for some common touch buttons but still hard to develop muscle memory because you cannot feel your way to right button. I hate it. Impossible to not take your eyes off the road to touch radio presets or your contacts.

Same thing with cameras, it is so much harder to use cameras with touchscreens (also I guess menus too). But manufacturers keep adding touchscreens to cameras. I Finally got Fuji x100f which has a lot of knobs and dials for easy access to common settings. It took me maybe a couple of weeks to develop muscle memory for it.

Another one of my pet peeves, I loved Kindle Keyboard with physical buttons. When it broke, I got the new Kindle Touch. I kept accidentally flipping pages. You need to hold it so that your fingers never rest on the screen, just awkward for me. I think physical buttons were great differentiator for Kindle. I returned Kindle and got iPad instead. (I know I could have gotten Kindle Oasis, but it was so expensive for what it does and I keep thinking if I will spend that much money, might as well spend a bit more and get something with extra functionality.).
Court Rules Copying Photos Found on Internet Is Fair Use
In the DC area, an annual Capital Bikeshare membership is only $85. I recently started mixing some biking into my commute and thought about purchasing a bike, but the $400-500 I was looking at for something durable and well reviewed was hard to justify for my fairly chill, all-trails, 1-4 times a week biking home from the office. Particularly when I compared it to the dramatically lower personal overhead associated with the bikeshare. Of course, my living and working situations are fortuitously situated with respect to existing docks, but I really enjoy not worrying at all about "my" bike.
This issue stands for apps as well. I once had someone try to buy [1] my popular Android app just to replace it with malware which would then be pushed to users through an innocuous update. What's so interesting to me is that there's no good way to prevent or even detect this.

[1] https://willrobbins.org/a-clever-malware-tactic-and-why-ther...
To quote the great philosopher Herm Edwards: "You play to win the game!" Right now it's unclear who will win between Lyft and Uber... and their investors certainly don't want to lose.
> You sure do, but you pay someone else to deal with all that nonsense.

I don't think I follow? I've got a class of problems where I might want to restart my application, and a class of problems where I might want to restart the VM/machine. I don't see how adding containers in between the two helps.

> Any language-specific solutions like .war files have no answer for binary dependencies or utilities provided by a package manager, and they're entirely right not to try and solve that problem.

JVM culture steers away from depending on binaries on the host system; in the rare cases where you want JNI then something like https://github.com/mrburrito/jni-loader is the standard approach IME. I think I've used literally two system libraries in my career, and both were standard enough that I was content to include them in the OS baseline. Appreciate that other languages do approach this differently.

> The other advantage is your deployment artifact has a single identifier, so it gives you a much nicer story for rolling back a bad deployment.

I don't see how this is different from any other kind of deployment?
Future of Robotics and AI
Running robots, self-driving cars, underwater transformers and supercars drifting in space are now the reality we are living – not a movie trailer. Unbelievable things become real every day. And many of the scientific advances of the past years, in spite of being disciplinary versatile, have one thing in common – artificial intelligence. AI and robotics are entering different industries at a rapid pace, from agriculture to stock market, transforming work processes and entire businesses, offering more efficient, safer and more precise problem-solving.

Are we moving to a utopian society where everything functions effectively, people live long and happily without the risk of cancer, heart attacks and AIDS? Will we live in a reality where robots fulfill all the tedious and dangerous work and solve all the ecology problems? Or will people be mere puppets in the hands of an ultra-powerful artificial brain that can decide to erase the humanity at some point? Let’s explore the topic.
https://skelia.com/articles/future-ai-robotics-heading-judgment-day/
This may be a topic for a different conversation, but I also remember reading during the aftermath of the 2008 recession that the high property taxes in Texas were also one of the things that helped keep the state relatively unscathed from all of the same issues with rampant speculation/price increases that plagued similar areas like Florida and Nevada.
Wikipedia blacks out for European vote
You can use the plus system.

foo+sitename@yourdomain.com
Digg v4 Launch Story
“Ridesharing isn’t a profitable business” - this isn’t true. Uber and Lyft both have many cities that have positive unit economics. IIRC the North American market as a whole is profitable for both companies. Both companies are losing money because they are plowing into more and more growth (a la amzn), not because the business is bunk.
The headline reminded me of once reading the McDonald's investor relations website, where they claimed there was so much upside to investing in them because they were hoping to eventually deliver "just one meal per day" to each of the World's 7 billion inhabitants.

Now to be fair, they claim to feed 68 million people each day right now, so they are on their way.

But there is a reason that in a free market, they are unlikely to ever create the pseudo-monopoly they desire.

And with public transport, Uber and Lyft have even more of a hurdle to clamber over.

Firstly, in many parts of the World the public transport system is government-owned in some capacity. You can buy Citibike, sure, but it's not actually possible to buy the London equivalent: it's operated by the Mayor through the public sector entity Transport for London (TfL).

And this is in in the UK where there is extensive privatisation in the bus and train markets, so you'd think there would be opportunity there. Maybe now: the free market experiment on these quasi-monopolies has been widely considered at least a partial failure and the appetite for nationalisation of the train network has never been higher.

Developing cycle networks is reasonable. I despise the "leave anywhere" bikes, because they are already cluttering up London in reaction to the government owned scheme. However, I can see how this is super attractive for some classes of customer, and the cost base is low enough it wouldn't surprise me to see the mayor follow suit and mimicking their platforms.

But a wholly integrated stack? I'm sceptical.

A system where I could book a point-to-point journey from say my home to my girlfriend's mothers (180 miles away) that incorporated car from my home to the train station, the train itself and then a car at the other end would appeal, but only if it was significantly price competitive with me doing that myself right now, which ideally requires advance booking, a model that Uber is specifically uninterested in.

It's also not obvious Uber/Lyft needs to own or operate most of that stack, and owning it may actually make it less attractive.

Given an Uber or Lyft app that did this, and a third-party app that used APIs to integrate and give me wider options and more competitive pricing, I'm not likely to go with Uber or Lyft.

Uber's & Lyft's only option then is to try and eliminate in its entirety any sense of competition. This rarely ends well.

So you then end up with a race to the bottom on price, and that's unlikely to lead to profitable businesses, unless they try and borrow budget airline business models, which again, models itself on advance booking price/yield management, a model Uber and Lyft seem to be trying to avoid.

I don't quite see the big picture here. CityMapper might be the people to watch in this space...
True. Userscripts and userstyles should be a part of the browser itself. Userstyles were at some point, AFAIR, at least on Firefox.
ImmuniWeb Mobile App Scanner
ImmuniWeb® Mobile App Scanner is a free product available online, provided and operated by High-Tech Bridge.
https://www.htbridge.com/mobile/

The service can test mobile applications for the following platforms:

Android
Native Applications
Hybrid Applications (Cordova, PhoneGap, React, Xamarin)
iOS
Native Applications
Hybrid Applications (Cordova, PhoneGap, React, Xamarin)

It promptly detects the wide spectrum of most common weaknesses and vulnerabilities, including OWASP Mobile Top 10, and provides a user-friendly report with the discovered issues.

The following automated tests of a mobile application are provided:

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Simple Behavior Testing for privacy and malicious functionality
Or sequester then from your competitors, like so much carbon
This has been going on for years and Google has done nothing about it. These days I don't use any extensions where a major organization's reputation doesn't depend on them not becoming spyware. Truly a shame; I used to get a lot of benefit out of extensions, including a similar one named Stylebot, but now I don't trust anything other than Adblock Plus and the React Developer Tools to not covertly become malicious.
City of Espoo is testing, 6+ km hole for energy, google for "Otaniemi drill hole" for more information.
The point is that systemic issues in society reduce opportunities of minorities/females that otherwise would be as competent or moreso than whites or males.

For hundreds of years and most of recorded history, non-whites and females have been seen as inherently less capable and intellectual. Only in the past 20-40 years has Western society (as a whole) made explicit, respectable attempts at giving minorities credit for their capacity to lead and to learn.

I understand your point, and I don't think your opinion is of malice: I used to have the same one. And it is tough, because unlike some other societal issues, college admissions is a zero-sum game. Therefore, no matter how noble the idea, it seems pretty shitty that a smart, motivated and passionate white man would get passed over at an elite university in order to allow an equally passionate, motivated person of color who isn't as smart (on paper).

Diversity is useful for its own sake, and giving historically suppressed groups of people more opportunity is noble. How can we do it equitably? Perhaps use the government to better higher education instead of trillion dollar tax cuts for the uber-wealthy. But that wades further into politics.
But, how does bringing K8s into the mix solve the unreliable network problem?

If anything it brings in more components/complexity/headache...

If you could run your pods offline, you could run your software app offline. If you could trust your Kube repository, you could trust Se repository for your App..

What does K8s bring to the mix that is actually useful in solving a problem than the superficial ones?
abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06355
Pretty much for every reason tech was more open and less user-hostile in the 80s and 90s.

In my opinion, companies should make hardware. Universities may develop tech that touches our data, and companies should stay far, far away from that.
How Uganda's social media tax works with WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter blocked
"Demonstrated interest" is a term of art in college admissions that refers to demonstrated interest *in attending a particular school".

They're not talking about extra-curriculars, which might demonstrate interest in STEM or whatever, but don't count as "demonstrated interest" in CMU.
Bring back frames!
This is a crowded area with python-gui and even tcl/tk, i.e. script language for desktop GUI development
Note: in the study they read an article about a different polarizing topic before the conversation, not an article about the topic they were about to discuss
can it spray on people walking there?
Research papers deserve no mercy. Mine what you want out of them. Only reviewers have to read them whole.
At which point people would outrage and the government buys it out for political capital. Still sounds like a win win to me.
Awesome project! Why does it shoot water from the nose though, shouldn't it be shooting from the back?
>It's whether the approach is more effective than alternatives. My experience is that it's not.

It obviously is more effective, since you can prove parts of your programs behavior throughout at compile time -- whereas contracts depend on passing through some particular code.

Besides those are two different things. You can have types to do the heavy lifting AND contracts a la e.g. Eiffel
I have a Python 2.7 code base that has to be supported on an outdated Ubuntu instance which only supports up to Python 3.2. I really should upgrade to a newer version of Python 3. However, that requires replacing that instance which is overdue but not a small undertaking.
I agree that Matlab has a right to be paid for its product, but it is still nice to have a free alternative.
Anyone with talent knows they can go get full pay in exchange for BSing for another couple hours a day and taking a long lunch. Easier to save that money and plan for early retirement.

We need to see a gradual reduction in expected working hours in the US. 30 is a good target.
Last I checked, there is no option to turn off automatic updates. Maybe that's changed.
haha . yes. When I recorded the video (see youtube vid in the bottom of the site) it actually sprayed a couple of times on us.

This depends on the wind however.
I drive a 2011 MINI Cooper S and have owned a 2007 and a 2003. Every generation has its share of wtf when it comes to dashboard switches.

Take my biggest peeve, the blower switch on the 2011: If you press "increase" while at max blower, it stays at max blower. If you press "decrease" while at min blower, it turns off. If you press "decrease" while at off, it goes to min blower.

So you can jam the blower to max without looking, but if you overshoot on the way back down, it goes off and on again!
It's worth pointing out the slight error in the article title here -- Wikipedia isn't organized by countries but by languages. Now granted, most Italian speakers are in Italy, so this isn't as bad of an error as conflating the Portuguese Wikipedia (most readers are Brazilian) with Portugal, or the English Wikipedia with England.

But Italian is also an official language of Switzerland, and fairly widely spoken in other countries like Slovenia and Croatia, and of course the whole expat Italian community in places like the US and Southern America.

And, most saliently, the Italian Wikipedia, like all Wikipedias, is run by a US-based organization, the Wikimedia Foundation. This affects the legal ramifications of this law on the Italian Wikipedia greatly.
> That means that my GDP adds up to $1000, by definition. (I'm ignoring velocity here.)

That's not the definition of GDP.
Nigeria captain told father had been kidnapped hours before World Cup match
Not sure about HSV1 but there was a lot of press recently about the discover of herpes strains, HHV6A and HHV7 in alzheimer's patients brains. As discussed here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591
You probably shouldn't trust AB+ either (but switch to uBlock instead)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_...
> self-driven initiative?

How much "self-driven initiative" is actually self-driven though when it comes to a formal application process, and not influenced by someone in an advisory role? E.g. a parent who's been through the application process, or a careers advisor in a school (if you're lucky enough to have access to either)?
Shakespeare didn't write novels, he wrote plays and poetry.

Edit: I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the HN crowd doesn't care to distinguish between types of creative media.
No this is a sperm whale. It has different characteristics. It is not even centered actually. You can lookup the spermwhale and see that it has it spout / nose on his 'nose' actually :P
HTC to lay off 1,500 employees
>It's sort of an interesting tradeoff. On one hand, it's not desirable for most people to rent longterm, and owning property is an important way to store and grow wealth. On the other hand, you don't want a few well financed investors sweeping in and buying all the available housing just as a kind of depository for funds.

Wouldn't it also disincentivize people from lobbying for zoning laws that are only beneficial to homeowners?
Completely agree. From the article:

"It's all about the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the plant," Lavine said. "Rice plants with higher glucose levels are older and dying. That increase in glucose causes adolescent brown planthoppers to develop into the long-winged adults. The plant really is telling the insect how to grow."

The last sentence is just bad.

If plants had their way, they'd be telling the insect pests to GTFO from the get-go. The whole point is that plant sugar levels are an inevitable and reliable indicator of host status, with higher [glucose] indicating poor (and deteriorating) host quality. Evolution (in insect pest populations) by natural selection has led to insect populations evolving plastic developmental programs (Stay-or-go, via wing size) in response to that inevitable and reliable signal of deteriorating host quality.
So I've lived a few places now (Australia, USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany) so I've seen a few different systems.

Australia has a horrible system called stamp duty, which is a tax paid on the purchase of a property based on a sliding scale of the property's purchase price. This was fine back when a house cost $100k (and you might pay $2-3k to the government). It hasn't scaled with massive housing inflation and state governments (who administer the tax) are now addicted to the revenue.

The median house price in Sydney now is A$1.1m (last I checked). This seems to mean stamp duty of nearly A$50k. When household income may well be under $150k paying $50k after-tax to move is a huge barrier to moving and thus labour market flexibility. Want to move across the country for a new job? Enjoy the $100k in transaction costs for swapping houses.

The US property tax system with almost no transaction taxes is far, far better (IMHO). There are exceptions (eg NYC has a "mansion tax" of 1% on properties over US$1M). Of course this will never happen in Australia because all the existing homeowners, who have already paid stamp duty (even if it was 40+ years ago), don't want to pay higher property taxes.

Of course large parts of the US have voted themselves massive tax breaks for incumbents, the posterchild of which is Prop 13 in CA. All under the guise of "won't anybody think of the retirees?" (when you could individually give them tax breaks if you really wanted to). New York state has a series of property tax caps that greatly benefit established SFH dwellers (and SFH taxes are far, far lower than those on apartments/condos).

The biggest downside to property in at least English speaking countries (and elsewhere no doubt) is rampant speculation. I kind of liked the Swiss system for this in many ways. Punitive taxes on short term capital gains. Also, in Switzerland, when you owned property outright, it's notional rent was deemed income. So there's no point having a property sit empty because you're being taxed on the "income" anyway.
> if your problem is correctly stated and entered in the system, you simply CAN'T arrive to an invalid proof.

How is that different from: If your problem is correctly stated, and correctly coded into in the system using x86 machine language, then you can't arrive at a bug!
I think the parent comment was intended to be facetious.
I wonder how many of those property owners in Eastern Europe came to own their homes before the collapse of communism.
Excellent write up! Wish I saw saw this before I bought my mouse :)
Reminds me of https://svbtle.com too.
Somehow I don't think putting up eight feet walls around these "open plan" desks is not going to solve any problems.