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Uber is popular everywhere, including throughout Europe.

And as for banking, well, it's somewhat worse in the USA than elsewhere but it's not like Europe is overflowing with awesome hi-tech banks. Yes there are a few "startup banks" in the UK and one in Germany that I know of, and that's about it for the entire continent. Moreover the vast majority of people don't use them and bank with the existing set of firms, many of which have legacy and decaying IT estates. Look at what happened with TSB recently. Total meltdown. Major IT outages in the UK banking sector have become commonplace; you don't hear about that happening in the US.
Watch out. There may be dragons with that PayPal approach. Although ingenious, and I commend that, you have achieved to end the payments but you have not correctly ended the contract. You may still be liable for the subscription fees, although you're not paying.

Probably best to call and terminate the contract the right way.
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You can remove Google AMP without hurting organic traffic and web performance https://pawelurbanek.com/amp-seo-rating-performance
unfortunately no, i don't know any.

it is frustrating indeed that keto is being appropriated by fad evangelists. it's a diet that needs lots of reading and preparation.

i'm not a doctor, but common sense tells me that a diet that reduces the need for insulin should also help managing t1d, but obviously it's better to consult a professional.
I've done this with Monzo and you get a push notification saying "Declined at XYZ".

They seem to know what they're doing at least
Offtopic: I am a European, and I like to read quality journalism. Which do you recommend, a subscruption to Washington Post or NYT?
You're both saying the same thing from different worldviews. Regulations work to minimize risk, but in the process they can and often do also reduce effectiveness and/or progress in a field.

To take a less sensitive example, NASA refused to allow SpaceX to do retropulsive soft landings for their Dragon crew/cargo capsules without a whole slew of regulatory work, which was just not a very effective allocation of resources for SpaceX. So instead of coming down retropulsively, similar to how they now regularly land their massive first stages with, the capsules come down using parachutes and a not-so-soft 'soft' landing as we've been doing since the 60s.

So you could argue this is safer. But that's not clear. What is entirely clear is that the cost and time effort that would be required to abide the regulatory requirements resulted in the entire idea being scrapped, derailing technological progress on that front. Perhaps with some irony, the capsules will still have the thrusters on the capsules to be used in case of an emergency abort - they just can't use them to enable genuinely soft landings.
I'm not a fan of AMP either; just wanted to point out that it's unfair to say Google should have encouraged better practises when they did just that.

(Not that I'm a fan of Google/any single company having to be that warden, but I digress.)
Thanks for your comment!

While I agree with your overall outline that „something“ is lost from current social media, I would argue that analytics or more specifically analtical mindset in general should not be blamed for this. Analytics is simply a tool that can be used for good and for bad. The real problem are bad overall societal incentives and ideals (i.e., focus on profits and other narrow/short term metrics) which lead to missuse of these powerful and potentially highly useful/benefical tools.

So I don‘t think we necessarily need to resort to an complete change of the tech stack (i.e., web 3), but should simply try to support projects focused on better incentieves and ideals (e.g., Mastodon over Facebook/Twitter) no matter the technology stack. Nevertheless, I agree that web 3 may enable more idealistic/well aligned business models in the long run.

Another thing to push for may be more end user friendly legislation such as GDPR. While it may stiffle innovation by small companies in the short run, having long term standardization around good practices will hopefully create better and enable easier scale up of organizations in the future. Hope some researchers are coming up with good designs to investigate the effects of such legislation on the internet landscape. (On that note, can someone tell me again why impact evaluation of laws is not a standard practice, yet?! How much grieve could be spared if we decided to use evidence and facts to ground legislation...)
Yep, it is currently only a proof of concept until a useable UI model can be found. Thanks for the feedback :)
Why? because he was a teacher or friend to someone who is a moderator on HN? Because he wrote some books? Lots of famous people, scientists (computer scientists and otherwise), who wrote books and died didn't get a black bar.

Every time a black bar is put for someone, his importance is immediately compared to the importance of other great people who died. Frankly I think it does a disservice not only to those who don't get a black-bar, but also to those who do.
They have a new product called TNSR that looks like it can do this.
That’s why I don’t complain that much when my bank wants to replace my card every 18 months or so because of whatever fraud concern they have. A minor inconvenience but the benefit is that it automatically terminates all the subscriptions to services I don’t really care about or that I forgot I even had.
They did announce that they still want to go that route, somewhat: https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/standardizing-lesso...
> Put another way: math isn't really about memorization, either of behavior patterns or of facts.

I mean, on the surface level that's true. But obviously we could reductio ad absurdum this claim - would a mathematician be able to work if they lost all their memories every day? Clearly not!

It's something of a matter of how good is your memory, plus how actively you use it. How many people who complete PHDs can still prove the PHD 10 years later? Not many. Which is not to say that you can or should use Anki to learn something as complicated as a PHD dissertation, that clearly won't work. But when learning a new topic, it's a very helpful tool, and it makes sure that even if you now focus only on linear algebra, you'll still recall at least the basics of, say, set theory, which most mathematicians who don't actively study probably don't use much.

> It's nothing like what higher mathematics demands, which is much less about rote memorization and much more about deep understanding of the intricate interconnections between a comparatively small number of concepts.

Well Anki certainly won't help you actually do higher math :) But I find it is surprisingly good at making these weird connections, because in the middle of learning say modern algebra, you'll suddenly need to recall things from linear algebra, and suddenly see interesting new connections. Or things from real analysis, which will make you go "hmmm, so that's why a field is defined this way" or something.
Another thing to consider: Google is blocked in China, so AMP doesn't matter if you are looking for a truly global presence.
I'm quite sure if you add up all the unique people who read an article on nytimes.com, or watched one of their videos, they are still slightly ahead of most youtube stars.

I also tend to discount arguments that the NYTimes has shifted its tone due to economic pressure. Journalists, even some I know at lesser publications, consider it a point of pride to always do the opposite of what corporate management tells them to do. While the CEO can obviously redecorate the foyer etc., it's almost unheard of for management to get involved in editorial decisions.

I would attribute the NYT's changes to a general trend towards colloquial style (i. e. casual fridays). The Republicans' turn towards destructive populism has also made it far harder to pretend it's just business-as-usual.
Good job Monzo is looking to expand there then :D
Even the Financial Time is starting to drift in that direction...
I seriously wonder if OCD could be is created because of our lifestyle in society. Yesterday I went to a coffeeshop (creamery in SF) and there was this crazy bathroom where I had to scan a QR code to get in. The door automatically opened, I walked in, and it automatically closed behind me. When I washed my hands, the water faucet detects motion and it has a built in air dryer as well. When I'm done, I pushed a button and the door automatically opened.

Afterwards, I thought about why such a crazy bathroom was built and I realized that my entire bathroom could be done without me touching anything so I could keep myself clean. It made me think about all the germs in every bathroom door handle and all the hands touching it. If I didn't consciously stop myself, I could see myself becoming slight OCD.

At the same time, I wonder if someone who practiced true altruism would ever develop OCD. If I'm only focused on helping others without thinking about myself, would it be easier to let things go?
The destination server would still get a request on preload if there is no proxy operated by Google, no matter how you enforced the standard.
> It's all about convenience, right?

I think quite a few people (myself included) would disagree with that. I think optimizing for convenience is exactly what we shouldn't do in many cases.
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I don't know about the legality, but it is certainly common place over here even with periodicals that seem reputable (I recently cancelled New Scientist: sign-up was done easily any time online, cancellation has to be done by phone call inside office hours).
Doors are always unlocked for me, I have to go back and try it a few times. Or the dog will 100% somehow get through the other doors in the way, pull the handle, then run into the road. Also if I sleep with the bedroom window open he'll 100% definitely jump out of the window when I'm asleep. Fun times.
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Is 100M$ a year profit, not revenue but profit, a low amount for a newspaper to make? that seems to me like a fair amount to be at the top.

If other newspapers make a tenth of the profit, that should still be an acceptable market? no?

Edit: with 3700 employes (per Wikipedia) that's put their profit to be about 27000$ per employee. That's 4 times as much as walmart. From what I can tell it's also more then IBM and probably higher then most non-tech, non-oil businesses
Moving to something else entirely is even more costly than just moving to the next major version.

The EOL for JDK 8 has been known for quite some time now.

Architects who haven’t taken that into account yet have been negligent regardless of Oracle charging for future updates or not.

Migrations almost always require quite some effort but there was plenty of time to prepare in this case.
So use the surplus to lower taxes on poor folks?

Like, you can't fight the laws of economics. We don't have to like them, but can't we work within them rather than coming up with economically inefficient solutions which are bad for everyone?
The NYT is still far ahead of the WP. I like to get the actual print edition once in a while. On the weekends, it's positively massive.

It's also far cheaper than any comparable subscriptions in my European country (Germany), at least for the first year.

Another alternative I want to mention is The New Yorker: It's something like 1 Euro per week for the actual print edition, and it's a beautiful magazine both in style as well as in its content.
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The Washington Post. The NYT is unapologetically taking a side in the culture war and on many issues (campus politics, feminism, title IX, migration..) will ever only let one side make their point. The Wapo in my observation has a much better mix of both sides.
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Weird why is that getting flagged/downvoted? Isn't that a legitimate topic of discussion? It should be possible to at least point out the facts of what happened.

She wrote some tweets in the past that some people interpreted as racist against white people, nyt responded by arguing that it was just a reflection of the hateful rhetoric she received as an asian person.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/08...
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The lack of contributors has a lot to do with Lennart's (apologies if I misspelled his name) attitude early on in systemd's development.

I have no idea if it has changed, as I gave up trying to get things fixed.

The one issue I still have with systemd is the way it handles the kernel's command line.

I work with Chromebooks a lot, using software that isn't ChromeOS. The cool thing is that they can use FIT images so you can load multile kernels and device tree bindings into one image. So I can use the same sdcard on the Acer tegra Chromebook, Samsung's Chromebook, as well as the ASUS Flip Chromebook. However, to boot from sdcard you have to enable developer mode. When you enable developer mode, it adds a flag to the kernel command line "debug" - systemd sees that and thinks you want systemd in debug mode (wat?) Unfortunately there is no way to override this. I've tried passing the log level as info, which sort of works, until journalctl starts, and IT parses the debug flag in the command line and ignores the flag that sets the log level to info.

No amount of explaining this helped and I (and many others who have had various issues) gave up on trying to help make systemd better.

The only workaround to this is to stop using 1 sdcard amongst all of my Chromebooks and use individual sdcards per machine that uses a u-boot built for each Chromebook that does not pass the debug flag.

I like systemd and many of it's features are helpful, but when you run into issues, it's almost always an uphill battle to fix them, even when you provide a patch.
Systemd is not a hominem - it's a piece of software. It doesn't have feelings.

It's understandable that people don't like critique, especially delivered harshly as it so often is on The internet. But that only applies to those who worked on systemd. What I don't understand is why it seems to have fanboys.
Most security features which try to lock things down properly, especially when doing no-access-by-default, cause problems in unforeseen cases.

I don't think it's dangerous to develop better implementations that improve security, even if they go wrong occasionally. Feels more dangerous to me shooting down the attempts of people trying to raise the security bar.
If you read the article I linked, they raised the tolls and used the money to pay for more frequent bus services, and those bus services also ran faster due to the tolls decreasing congestion. So in the end it was pretty equitable given that higher tolls directly funded public transit improvements.
It’s worry some that people have shifted their focus to unedited and often fairly anonymous sources for news. HN is honestly a good example as well.

I’ve written numerous upvoted posts sharing information about the Scandinavian public sector and tech-management, but I’m not a vetted source. I mean, you can’t even tell if I’m Scandinavian from HN.

My squabbling is relatively harmless of course, but it’s not always like this. If I was a different person I could’ve spent my time writing anti-vaccination stuff on another media, and people would have put the same sort of trust in my words. Not HN users, at least I’d like to think so, but a lot of people would have.

That’s insanely dangerous to a free society, because we rely on truth, and right now there really isn’t a lot of it going around.
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Ride on bicycle paths where they exist rather than on busy roads that are right next to them...
Why would anyone pay for news is beyond my understanding. I pay for things I enjoy, not things that make my blood boil.
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I don't think the rest will last very long.
It's not just that, but biology has evolved nitrogenase only once (it's not trivial) and the process is very inefficient. Something like five? Molecules of hydrogen get produced, that's not counting the six hydrogen atoms that get incorporated in to the ammonia. It's enough of a big deal that some microorganisms salvage the leftover hydrogen for energy. There are some microorganisms that salvage their neighbors leftover hydrogen.

Also nitrogenase is very porous and oxygen sensitive so for photosynthetic organisms sequestering the nitrogen fixation away from co2 fixation is a major challenge. Nostoc deals with it by evolving terminal cell differentiation... Cyanothece has a night/day genetic switch, and higher plants fix nitrogen as far away from the leaves as possible.
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Their stock dropped 5% because the market perceived ‘slowing digital subscriber growth’. So not all good news even for NYT.
Upvoted not because I like the idea of giving (unsolicited and shotgun) medical advice on HN, but because it might be interesting hearing from other commenters about what has worked for them and what hasn't.
If you use Revolut to sign up with a virtual card you can just disable the card if you want to unsubscribe and they're difficult about it
That extrapolates to $84,000,000 profit per year. As a comparison, NYT made $397,536,000 in net income in 2000.

https://s1.q4cdn.com/156149269/files/doc_financials/annual/2...

$259,753,000 per year net income in 2005: https://s1.q4cdn.com/156149269/files/doc_financials/annual/2...

That comparison puts it into perspective for me. Until I looked up the comparison, I thought $84M a year profit sounded fantastic.
I for one welcome our new big tech overlords.
The greatest marketing trick the NYT has ever pulled off is presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era.

Nothing could be further from the truth. I think the most recent Sarah Jeong controversy and virtually all reporting on migration, feminism, campus politics etc shows this. Mind you this is from a European perspective where I see almost all reporting about politics here as copying off talking points from the far left.

This is the true genius of their marketing though: They are actually as polarized as any other source in the culture war, but market themselves to an audience that likes to think of themselves as rational, objective, sensible.
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There was a set of articles in the newspaper yesterday in this aftermath of a month of tropical heat in temperate Europe. Climate scientists are now more inclined to publicly link this extreme weather type (and many other structural changes in the weather) to climate change. Good, because for a lot of people it stopped being some abstract thing.

But a painful observation made in the op/ed pages is that the general feeling is that this is just how it is; we can't do anything about it. That sense of being able to tackle problems and shape the world and society in a way that benefits us — it is gone.

Many people just submit to the notion that they can't do anything about it. Usually because 'doing something about it' on a personal level means sacrificing luxuries (consume less, buy less, stop flying half way around the world for a holiday twice a year, reduce your energy footprint). Climate change is an inconvenient truth, and a lot of folk seem quite content to just give up — consequences be damned, or rather, ignored.

Some flee into convenient falsehoods. Claiming that, yes, climate change is happening, but we don't have any influence on that, and did you know that [insert denialist trope].

A lot of people do continue to do what they reasonably can — balancing their modern comfortable lifestyle with genuine attempts at affecting change. Even if it means just lowering their own personal footprint and voting for the politicians are at least willing to explore solutions. But it's not enough, and that risks making one feel that all efforts are pointless.

We're clever and resourceful enough as a race to deal with this problem. We're also too self-centred (on a national, tribal, and personal level) to actually do more than take the absolute bare minimum of measures; and even those attempts are watered down time and time again by the leaders of the world's nations. Because either they don't understand the problem, or because they do and don't care.

It's all so very sad.
Wall Street Journal was the same when I wanted to cancel my trial online subscription. I imagine that a lot of newspapers are similar now.
For spanish speakers interested in the subject, here is an interview with another member of the team, Pablo Selaya, about this research.

https://www.ivoox.com/principio-incertidumbre-calzadas-roman...
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That was what I thought of immediately. https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/nae-pasaran-featu...
> A few weeks later, I was emailed a "resubscription offer" which genuinely frustrated me as you might imagine.

If it's a single one, I don't think they're overdoing it. Resubscription offers are pretty much standard practice. I know some people who regularly cancel their cellphone contract after the minimum duration in order to get discount offers for the next contract period.
@dang: Any chance the url could be changed to the non-amp version?
I’m not alone then. I moved my subscription from the NYT to FT looking for a less politically slanted product but the tone at the FT is definitely going in the same direction. Any suggestions?

P.s I have to phone the FT to cancel my subscription apparently.
Can you say more about why it's a good thing that they hired Sarah Jeong, who has a history of racist and sexist tweets?
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Or you can just open an article in Incognito mode.
> a lot of music that sounds alike

It always makes me laugh when a MC/DJ has to say their name during their music, because it sounds just like everything else and sampled pre-existing music so heavily that you couldn't identify the artist otherwise...
Is it a legitimate topic for discussion though?

If you can become president after calling Mexicans criminal rapists, I think you should be allowed to be a journalist after those tweets, especially when you’ve expressed regret and remorse for posting them.

People really should uninstall twitter though. I mean, I’ve never written things that were racist, but I’m really happy there isn’t a permanent record of everything I’ve ever posted online.

What I do find interesting is why the same people who are angry that Alex Jones got banned seem to want her fired. And I guess you can say exactly the same about the people who want Trump banned from twitter, but are fine with these tweets.

Over all America seems like such a circus these days.
Go to your bank and chargeback/dispute the transaction. This will make NYT’s card processing fees go up (and enough chargebacks will cause their acquirer bank to drop them).
He has already called them and terminated the contract. They have just not processed the request.

Not paying is a sensible path in this case I would say.
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