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Well, I don't know about the others, but I'm not "pushing" (you know, I'm not Jeff Bezos and HNews is not Washington Post) it, even it's not non-sensical claim, in my opinion.
Besides, there are lots and lots of examples here on HN that same story gets posted multiple times and sometimes they even appear on the Front page in 2-3 different threads.
And it's funny how people feel offended and react religiously whenever someone shares their (unpopular) remarks on Darwin's theory.
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I wonder if the OP still uses a Credit Card?

How is giving one company info on every transaction I make for decades, different than giving one company info on every link I click on?

My link history seems to me to be a MUCH noisier signal than my purchase history.
Maybe you learned the wrong moves ;)
> A 60 mile round trip is probably about the longest daily commute you could manage in many parts of Europe

I think you're quite underestimating distances in Europe. Here in Belgium, it's common enough to commute from West Flanders to Antwerp, a 100km (60 miles) commute one-way. My case is a bit special as I commute from Antwerp to Lille in France (130km or 80 miles) although only one day of week thankfully.

30 miles one-way is the average commuting distance for people who live in Wallonia and work in Brussels, for example[0]. Looking at the stats in France[1], I see that the median commuting distance for the 1.7 million people that commute between two different urban areas is 30 miles, meaning half of those have a commute longer than 60 miles round trip.

Such commuting distances are not nearly as uncommon as you seem to think.

[0]https://mobilit.belgium.be/sites/default/files/final_report_... (Dutch) or https://mobilit.belgium.be/sites/default/files/final_report_... (French)

[1]https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1280781
A language needs to develop hand in hand with and by the community that uses it. If the community withers, the language withers.

I suppose you can try to bring a dead language back to life in a new community, but that's academic, artificial and distinct from natural languages. [Edit: I don't want to say it's black or white but that the discontinuity probably leaves at least a scar in the language and in the community depending on how carefully the revival operation is performed.]
Don't think of it as a conspiracy theory. Think of it as the golden rule: people with gold make the rules.
That's assuming that this company manages to buy every single wrecked Tesla. Given that they're a French company I would assume that this is only economically feasible for Teslas that crash in the EU, as otherwise the cost of shipping across the ocean would make a significant amount of the price. There are much less than 5000 Teslas a week just going to the EU.
Changes from c++14 to c++17 are nowhere near as dramatic as c++98 to c++11, so you can go with Scott Meyers and fill in the gaps from cppreference.com, for example.
I suspect you bought a ticket that can be made active any time, so you could buy it in advance if you wanted. To make the ticket "active" you have to stamp it using the pillar thing with the automatic date stamp at the station. Common mistake, but understandable you got an earful because you might as well be pretending you didn't know how things worked and are actually just riding again and again using the same pretend-ticket.

Similar with bringing a bottle of a brand that the store sells into the store - how are they supposed to know if you brought it in or if you just took it in the store and opened it there on the way to the cash register? (which, by the way, is not super uncommon either and generally tolerated)

German police are not allowed to collect fines on the spot, it's a corruption prevention measure.
> Or you could do a two second google search and find photographic evidence: http://www.biyubi.com/tecnologia.html

All of that sounds very interesting, but as edgarvm points out, it's not exactly evidence. Reads more like a product brochure than a research paper detailing how their claims are possible.
And how "free" is it when we pay the taxes for it? Public healthcare is a term that is less likely to trigger red flags, pun intended, in the minds of conservatives who react to "free" or "socialized".
I'd love to learn all about the coding/mechanics etc that goes into game development, but I have zero imagination when it comes to good game ideas. I feel like I would need to partner with somebody a lot more creative to be effective.
That was exactly my thought as well. Their causality chain looks completely backwards to me.
> Consider if you upload a book to Amazon to sell they are taking anywhere from 30% to 65% of the sale.

What about Barnes & Nobles? What about your local library? The difference is competition/choice.

I'm not even arguing about the 30% on the shop or even the existence of fees. Fees makes sense if they add something. They are well in their rights and it's fine that they do it in the app store.

What I'm arguing about is forcing them to use that as payment gateway IN the app. That's not value added, VISA does it for 2.5% (and less) already, Paypal too. That means that they directly remove choice to gains from you.

Buy a magazine over Amazon and see if inside there's an offer to subscribe using others means. Go on Uber on Android and check if you are forced to use Google Wallet.

> Apple probably gets called out the most because it's open to anyone, popular and it's fees are transparent but it's really the same across most digital platforms.

You are not calling out others, you didn't even named one in your comment. You are justifying their fees by the competition that does similar fees. You may want to change how you formulate your comment if your goal is really to call them out.
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Regarding number 4) this seems very similar to the board game Stratego [1] where part of the squares can not be stepped on. Also you only see your opponents pieces when you attack!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego
What ever happened to Biodiesel?
We are heading to AOL-type internet where you enter keyword in address bar and go to a single direction -- shopping, weather, search, stocks, email, etc.
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That seems a little circular? If all it needs is a community, and you 'bring it back to life' in a new community, then the language has all it needs to be 'natural'?
These small, simple things are the reason why I truly love technology.
You are definitely right -
Google (News) provides a huge benefit to news publishers, it is responsible for most of their traffic, and still German Lawmakers tried making a law against that so that on top of all what Google does for the publishers, they should also pay for that privilege - the infamous Leistungsschutzrecht[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190730230113/https://www.cis.u...
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Yep, in the UK the Police budgets are stretched so thin that pretty much nothing except for actual murders and violent attacks ever gets investigated. And I don't mean it in a "it will get investigated at some point" way - I truly believe that for example stealing a car in the UK(outside of London) right now is a crime without any consequence. All you're going to get from the Police is a case number so you can call your insurer, no one will ever look into it. And again, that's not really the police fault - it's the stupid austerity that has slashed the budgets so much that there are simply no investigative policemen left on the force except for the worst of crimes.
That's great! Just add a download with bundled javaFX please.
403 forbidden, can someone help us out?
Imagine if we spent the same amount of money wasted on countless JS frameworks to build Xanadu...
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Wire's "not tied to a phone number" part is good but constant delayed messages and lack of (useful) time stamps for each message (a la Signal) make the app pretty much unusable for me (and probably many others).
Sure, but this isn't Audi that is indicted, but an individual. And he isn't even an employee any more.
> collective shrug when Apple hides the URL, but if Google does so we get huge outrage and assumptions that this must clearly be done primarily for malicious reasons.

Who uses Safari? People depend on Chrome on all sorts of platforms. Screwing with the URL field affects millions of people.
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Can we all start moving back to firefox yet?
Curfew is a city or county ordinance.

Charlotte, NC or Mecklenburg County curfew age was 16 and under when I was growing up.

Also the 17 year old age restriction for "R" rated movies is a suggestion. I hope Regal Cinemas as a business continues dying off for changing their policy to be 18+ when I was 17, and then reverting their policy back to 17 when I turned 18. My stepfather would buy a ticket, escort all of us into the theater, walk back out to the ticket box, demand a refund for his ticket, and leave us to watch. Silliest company policy ever.
From what I'm told should be thousands of stories like this, why can't you find one where you can prove that the person died? It's all rumor and second hand stories. If someone in my family died due to someone refusing them medical care I'd be all over the media about it.
More individuals are using mobile apps to conduct financial operations which were historically outsourced to banks and brokerages.

Turning market data into information is still not easy.

The terminals used by professional traders are out of budget for most individual traders.

https://TradePath.app is a mobile first progressive web application for individuals who want to create trading systems by quickly and easily combining and tuning standard indicators and candlestick patterns, no coding required.

Test your system on stock from NASDAQ and NYSE and see how well your system works immediately.

Feedback welcome !
> I understand the point you’re trying to make, but your argument sounds dangerously close to “why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?”

We absolutely need privacy even with nothing to hide. My point is that pornography is not any more of an important issue than anything else. It simply sells more clicks and make people take more when news are reporting on it.
As someone who has been very poor for quite some time, and is now doing quite well, I can tell you first-hand that my patience has improved a lot. The most obvious reason is that I am now at the liberty to not do certain things, not accept certain deals and so on.
One library that is trying to be the mid-term between native performance and ease of use is Revery[1].

[1] https://www.outrunlabs.com/revery/
> I suppose you can try to bring a dead language back to life in a new community, but that's academic, artificial and distinct from natural languages.

How? If the evolution of language in continuous use with s community is natural, so is it's revival by one (e.g., spoken Hebrew.) Dividing human behavior into “natural” and “artificial” is arbitrary.
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Content of PDF (12 MB): Scan of K.E. Iverson's Elementary Algebra, 178 pp., published by IBM in 1971 (Technical Report 320-3001, Philadelphia Scientific Center)

P.S. Uncorrected (mostly) OCR of Preface:

PREFACE The present text treats the usual topics expected in a second course in high school algebra. It differs from conventional treatments in the following respects ;

1. The notation used is simple and precise and applies to arrays (vectors and matrices) in a simple and form manne r.

2. Arrays are used extensively to give a view Of functions by g the patterns produced by applying them to vectors They are also used to clarify cs whi ch use vectors directly , such as linear functions and polynomials

3. The precision Of the notation permits an algorithmic treatment Of the material. In parti , e expression in the book can be executed directly by simply typing it on an appropriate computer terminal. Hence if a computer is available, it can be used by students for individual or collective exploration of relevant mathematical functions in the manner discussed in Berry al Even if a computer is not availab the treatment pres s the essen of computer programming in a mathematical 1 i e , as the precise definition and cation Of functions

4. The algorithmic approach is the same as that used in my Elementary Functions, a text which can be used as a continuation in topics such as the slope ( derivative) of functions, and the hyperbolic, exponential , and logarithmic functions

5. The organization of topics follows a pattern suggested by considering algebra as a language; in particular , the treatment of formal is deferred much work has been done in the reading and writing of algebraic sentences These matters are discussed fully in the Appendix a , and any teacher may be well—advised to begin by reading this appendix.

The pace of the text is perhaps best suited to a second year course, but it can also be used for a first year course the early con all Of the essentials such as the introduction Of the negative and rational numbers When used as a second year text, th ese early chapters can serve not only as a brief review, but also as an introduction to the notation used.

This text grew out of a summer project undertaken in 1969 in collaboration with my colleagues Adin Falkoff and Paul Berry of IBM, and with five high school teachers—— M John Brown, now of Dawson College, Montreal; Mr. Nathaniel of Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Massachusetts; Miss Bates Linda Al vord, Of Scotch P High School, Scotch plains N.J.; and Sisters Helen Wilxman and Barbara Brennan, of Mary I:nmaculate School , Ossining , 1 am indebted to all Of N.Y. these people for much fruitful discussion, and particularly to Messrs. Falkoff and Berry for helping to set and maintain the direction Of the project.
Apparently no one here has been on locked down wifi where only ports 80 and 443(TCP) are available to the internet. Thats not that uncommon to see and is a completely legitimate reason to start this project. Theres nothing "wrong" with udptunnel or wireguard other than it doesn't use the transport protocols that the network that he is on allows.
That could be a useful feature for decentralization, we could finally serve a mirror of a blocked site with its real origin. Of course, it will probably not be designed by Google to be any useful I guess.
OP here: We recently released a software package that lets a boat owner monitor their vessel without any proprietary hardware. It's open source (https://github.com/floathub/sfh), and the above linked article is essentially a walkthrough of how to get it working on a Raspberry Pi. Thought it might be of interest here, please let us know if any questions.
Gateways are about 200$ fully assembled, it's not that expensive. (Source: I built a gateway with 8 channels)
and how is a user supposed to know who to trust for this information, if there are multiple sources?

They could choose the provider they trust most. Which, for the majority, would probably be Google.
Check out this example: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/yandexdataschool/Practic...
If this seems like random shit rules to you, make sure to check out this amazing video about Kriegsspiel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seIA9tukDs

Seriously awesome information based system design way before computers, it seems like such an advanced game/simulator. One of the things I'm most interested in is how sophisticated past humans could get with their tech & circunstances they had at their time, this is one of those to me.
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> how do we expect these users to know anything about addresses

Here's an experiment: walk down any street in the US. Actually, scratch that, because there's a good chance that you live in SF or Seattle and your streets are filled with computer programmers.

Call a random number in a random area code. Ask them what the difference between HTTP and HTTPS is.

The users already don't know.
If the 'Stanford marshmallow experiment' [1] is to be believed, patience (well, control of delayed gratification) at age 3-5 is correlated with educational attainment, BMI and even divorce rate in adulthood.

(Note also that subsequent studies [2] found much less significant results than the famous study - and another study [3] found evidence of, as you say, a reversed correlation.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impu...
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...
While I do prefer Python over R, the idea that R will just "die" simply because it isn't as popular as Python is ridiculous. There is a very large user base, good ecosystem of tools, many talented people actively developing in/for R - it's a great tool for so many purposes and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Also, which languages have been truly popular historically and then died? Only Pascal comes to mind. (I'm sure someone can correct me on this.)
What angst? Python 3 is a better language than python 2. Python 2 is still supported, but everyone is encouraged to write python 3 from now on. I have been a python dev for years and I think the only change in python 3 that actually annoyed me rather than make me happy was support for function argument unpacking.
Very cool - UMass Amherst is home to some rad peeps
Full of statements long since discredited and only promoted by the most extreme anti-creationists. Like the Discovery Institute, cited.

Consider the thought experiment given: "Starting with 150 links of gibberish, what are the chances that we can mutate our way to a useful new shape of protein? ... Try to mutate your way from 150 links of gibberish to a working, useful protein and you are guaranteed to fail. Try it with ten mutations, a thousand, a million—you fail. The odds bury you. It can’t be done."

That's a variant of the watchmaker analogy. It's an appeal to incredulity.

But we know that genetic programming and genetic algorithms, which are based on exactly the same described mechanisms, are able to work.

Dawkins wrote "The Blind Watchmaker" which addresses the exact point. Quoting Wikipedia:

> Dawkins' first concern is to illustrate the difference between the potential for the development of complexity as a result of pure randomness, as opposed to that of randomness coupled with cumulative selection. He demonstrates this by the example of the weasel program. Dawkins then describes his experiences with a more sophisticated computer model of artificial selection implemented in a program also called The Blind Watchmaker, which was sold separately as a teaching aid.

If this were an honest discussion, Gelernter would need to address this well-known objection.

Nor does Gelernter, who mentions several times 'intelligent design', is little more than a renaming of "creationism". As pointed out during the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, drafts of the creationist textbook "Of Pandas and People" show that the term "creationism" and "Creation Science" were nearly all replaced with "intelligent design" and, famously, on use of "creationists" was changed to "cdesign proponentsists".

When you see "intelligent designer", remember, that should include "a group of visiting space aliens did it". But usually it's a cover for "God did it."
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The short, unkind answer is that people shrug because Safari is not big enough to care about. You'd see the same apathetic response if Microsoft hid URLs from Edge.
Does anyone know what makes VS Code an exception to this?

Going to be working on an Electron app, so I'm curious about what optimizations have been made there.
certainly some are more ahead than others, but it proves the trend. if only the webbrowser had a better way to manage the apps. a desktop of sorts.

i do realize that we are reinventing everything here. and as some said elsewhere, html is not the best of tools to create user interfaces. not by a long shot[1]. but the dream of a single unified architecture that we can all develop towards may at last become a reality.

[1] actually, thanks to things like canvas or webassembly we are not necessarily stuck with html. we'll be able to create gui toolkits in javascript (hey, js-framework developers, here is your next target: the js-gui-toolkit of the week ;-) or maybe even port existing toolkits to webassembly and then our gnome or windows apps will simply run inside the browser instead.

the day of the linux desktop (for those that are still waiting for it) will be the day of the browser desktop
Yes, definitely FFMPEG-based.
In this day and age, you're supposed to connect to your car via CAN-bus and perform tweaks with firmware and find failures via data from sensors. Even then, you're mostly operate on a high level, like, turn off ABS or whatever subsystem. Guys who started with old-school "get this car jacked" by getting hands greased finally ended up with patching firmware till morning. A quick car repair you mentioned unlikely goes beyond swapping a tire with a spare.
That's how our amber alerts are presented. Alongside a forced max volume klaxxon. It's quite the spectacle when a whole room of people's phones go off at the same time.
> I think the second link is a great read

Thanks!
Your credit card transaction history tells a data-miner what you buy, and what you might buy in future. Or more accurately, who you buy from and how much you spend.

Your browser history can give away your medical data, political leanings, beliefs, and probably say more about you than you're aware yourself.
The more wealth you have, 1) the more likely you have absolutely no desire to spend it all right now and 2), the more likely you're spending money on things that are just as likely to appreciate as depreciate; that can't be called patience.

Spending on disposable goods doesn't scale linearly with wealth. That's why consumption taxes are regressive.
Why do so many people think that electricity is free?
"Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain, often when we experience reward or pleasure. The "dopamine feedback loop" is sometimes held up as evidence that social media can affect our brains in the same way drugs do. The idea is that we become chemically dependent upon bursts of dopamine triggered by people 'liking' our posts on Facebook, or retweeting us on Twitter.

But while it's true that interacting with social media can give your brain a dopamine shot, that does not mean you're getting high. Your brain releases dopamine on an everyday basis.

"Dopamine research itself shows that things like video games and technologies, they're in the same realm as food and sex and learning and all of these everyday behaviours."

This was a year ago - Neither Professor Przybylski nor Amy Orben rule out the possibility that social media can negatively affect human behaviour, but both emphasise the need for further research.