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> Credit card cash back isn't still a thing in EU (or at least Germany)

They will never be a thing in EU, under the current regulations. Cash back work because in the US credit cards charge very high transaction fees. IE: every time you make a payment, a portion of it goes to the credit card company. The The credit card company then gives some of that back to you (hence the name) to push you to use their cards instead of the competitors.

By law, the transaction fees in Europe are really low, so the credit cards company have nothing to give back to you. Credit card is also a far less profitable business in Europe than it is in the US, that is why you see far less ads for credit cards offers.
The Sonos-based cheap IKEA speakers require an internet connection and a Sonos account in the first place or you can't use them.

They were cheap and allowed me to setup multi-room audio for listening to audio books / podcasts, but I hate gear that require internet access to setup/work.
Indeed, it's more about the specifics of crows and less about relative comparison.

Crows are clever beyond tools, but tool using isn't that exclusive and can even be found in fish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKjqXxxp-Q
It depends a lot on a type of app, business users usually don't care much about color palettes and having a dark themes available, and worry much more about how streamlined is the workflow for their particular needs.

> but our tools make it really hard to provide

That's why we build web apps nowadays...
Doesn't an IP-Geo lookup give them a good enough guess? Enough to know your zip and local radio stations?
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Torrents can be seeded from HTTP sources, known as a WebSeed. I've done it with Dropbox and they don't care as long as they don't get a copyright infringement notice. Easy way to use free storage as a CDN.
I don’t know about android, but ios13 doesn’t allow apps to see WiFi networks without location access. So, not Sonos’ choice.
Right, that would be "shared source" not "open source" (or _free software_).

As it is, nginx is licensed under BSD - that would include the many contributions by anyone else (which cannot be claimed if the original project's copyright is found to belong to someone else) - so if the official nginx goes private but the BSD license is found valid, then the community can continue to publish their own "not-nginx" under BSD.

In a worse-case-scenario where copyright of the original nginx project are reassigned and the BSD license annulled, then the community need only replicate something resembling the original codebase that the community's subsequent (and fully legitimately BSD-licensed) patches/changes/commits can be applied to (though this will take some time) - so in either event, the prospective future "owners" of nginx cannot realistically hope to control the world of nginx deployments and the extended nginx developer ecosystem.
Especially now that F5 owns Nginx.
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UK's disused mine shafts could be used to store renewable energy
I do believe that if you put the rest of your income in a saving account, or investment it is counted as spending it.

Become it is not income anymore but an asset.
one of the first golden ages of PC gaming

what an nostalgia bomb
Can confirm -- people (used to) build apartments with extensions in mind, so you would get a permit and plans for a 3-story building, then only build the first two floors. The third floor would then be built 10 years later for children/grandchildren. Greek private citizens are still very allergic to getting huge loans, land ownership is still very fragmented, and tall tower blocks are virtually impossible due to earthquake activity and permit limitations.
Serious answer: it's a dark pattern. No manufacturer should have the right to hide a demand for personal data to use their product. These manufacturers rely on the fact they request it after you've purchased the device, rather than disclose terms of service and requirements prior to purchase. This is intentional so the consumer can not make a fully informed decision.
> This article feels like it was written by someone half-way through [...]

You might be right. I'm not a principal engineer. :)

The first solution in the wild we came up with back then when confronted with this problem, actually was to use a lock-free queue. Only later we figured out, that we did not need the prioritizing after all, and our software worked just fine with all threads having the default priority.
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HA! The fault is, like in other southern European countries, of banks that steal 1% to 4% of EACH transaction, on top of the 0.1-0.5 maximum transaction cost mandated by the EU.

> If governments don't have income then they can't do the things that they need to do.
IMHO the problem is SPECIFICALLY that governments do not do things that they need to do, and yet demand money from citizens. Starve the beast.
What makes you think xml isn't kludgy
Couldn't you have just tried contacting the editor who reversed your edit? I have had only one issue ever since (effed up a public transport relation - that got sorted out by mail, and now we're friends in real life), but my account is also almost a decade old now.
It's the other way around :) osmand is a good alternative for maps.me because maps.me doesn't care about your privacy and has 20 privacy tracker dependencies installed(check out the exodus privacy app). osmand has zero
No, 70% live in a non-rented home (an adult son living in their parent's home is also counted, for example). Also, only 34% are fully paid off.
I think my two replies to your comments are the only ones I've made on the subject of laravel in my entire time of being on hacker news.

So no, I'm not here to defend laravel.
Thanks for this - great explanation!
I’ve been noticing my employees recently will walk away from there desk and find a nice cranny to read some type of business book to help them improve in there personal and professional career. I LOVE it. The craziest thing is we have never had any discussions about continued education, but we do keep a library of great books and resources readily available. My take, when your employees continue to learn on the job, it’s just them investing in themselves which in turn will be an investment in your company, and will ultimately make them better asset to the org. It’s a win win. I love it.
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In the minority but still can not convince myself to buy a device with (mandatory) cloud storage, facial / voice recognition, voice assistant, etc. Moreover and to my surprise without even forcing myself, low pressure point so far. The closest I got was to buy a smart scale for body composition but as I didn't want to investigate which of them could provide me all the features I wanted offline I realized it wasn't a device I really needed after all. Dodged another bullet I guess :).
Not shocked tbh
Tangential, is "ice" ever used in chemistry or other fields to refer to solids other than water? Other than "dry ice," colloquially. Would you ever call solid oxygen, "oxygen ice"?
I like the idea of using Java sometimes. But why does it have numbers and arithmetic? Java should be great at tasks like, "cats are a kind of animal", or "my drawing program can draw both squares and circles." Arithmetic seems so unnatural in an object-oriented language. ;-)

Perhaps Prolog isn't ideally suited to a lot of programming problems -- that's a personal decision to make -- but it's silly to wonder why a general-purpose programming language would have general-purpose data structures.
I am well aware that on HN marketing is looked down upon but marketing is about creating and delivering value to customers. If someone is doing that better than others and getting paid a lot for that, there is nothing wrong with it.
In most EU countries they do, it's included in the final price.

To find out whether the VAT money goes to the state as VAT or gets "forgotten" in the merchant's pockets is left to the student as extracurricular work.
> I we where that stupid we wouldn't be able to learn new languages as an adult.

That is after successfully having acquired a language already. What the critical period theory suggests is that if no language is acquired during that period, subsequent language acquisition is not possible.
Traditionally, last-in-first-out data structures are called "stacks" to distinguish them from queues. In this tradition, "queue" only refers to first-in-first-out data structures.
> We are saying three things. One, that strong encryption is necessary for personal and national security. Two, that weakening encryption does more harm than good. And three, law enforcement has other avenues for criminal investigation than eavesdropping on communications and stored devices (this is just one example).

Also: law enforcement assumes criminals and others are stupid and cannot not apply encryption and information hiding themselves. Plus creating your own chat app is extremely easy, so why even rely on the big and obvious ones, just DIY.
OsmAnd does provide geocoding, but perhaps the address data has been lacking in the areas where you tried it?
Nio job cuts in San Jose reach 200 following more layoffs for Chinese automaker
That's fine. The year is almost over and plenty of other developers can justify using PHP for many things in 2020.
I don't understand this at all. Let's use VAT as an example. The benefit of paying VAT is the ability to make a transaction. If you say the problem is that people do not see the benefit of a VAT because they can also make illegal transactions without paying VAT then the only solution is to enforce bans against illegal transactions so that everyone becomes aware of the benefits of making legal transactions.
It all depends on the profit margin. $500K ARR is easier achievable if you run some kind of marketplace where you have 20-30% margin than SaaS with 90%.
Have you seriously never had anyone offer you a 'discount' for a cash payment? Why do you think they're doing that?
Difficult for the poster to look up every country the link works for, don't you think?
There's an open source version of Maps.me with no tracking on Fdroid for those on Android. It's called "Maps" https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
I don’t believe the helicopter crashed due to its stealth features. It was too close to a wall and had problems with lift.
> what would the statute of limitations be

It is usually 3 years for such cases, but it counts since the moment of time when alleged infringement was discovered.
This only makes sense for people who learned to program using React and only ever programmed in it. Not saying that's your case.

Vue.js uses templates, and the idea of slots already existed in other template languages for years. Angular, ERB/Rails, Razor, Django, Handlebars, Jinja, WPF, even some wikis: all those have the same concept, maybe implemented diferently.

On the other hand, React uses JSX, which is novel and wasn't really used anywhere else before. JSX also has the disadvantage of requiring a very complex toolchain (Babel and Webpack etc), something that Vue.js doesn't require.
So secret courts free from alternative adversarial opinions are abused? Shocking!
“ 1. Start lifting weights and training Brazilian jiu-jitsu.”

Are people more likely to buy if they’re afraid you’ll attack them or something?
This is pretty cool! One thing that bothers me about every traffic simulation I've ever seen, though: all of the vehicles and pedestrians here seem to be obeying the law.

That's just not realistic -- especially on Mercer, which is blocked (both directions) every few minutes in rush hour by some jerk trying to make an illegal turn onto a packed street. I'd say the main causes of traffic blockages that I encounter during rush hour are drivers blocking the box, and pedestrians entering the crosswalk against a red hand. I also see a lot of lane sweeping, too, which I assume is from the influx of drivers from California (where it's legal).

I hope traffic engineers aren't making real-world decisions based on simulations that follow all state laws perfectly, but I fear they are.
It's probably collected en masse for analytics or something and is not really comparable to publishing personal information on Hacker News.
Geocoding works perfectly fine for me, especially for simple addresses. Where did you use it?
Facebook is well known for such claims, about Instagram, WhatsApp and other things. Data inference may very well be done locally.
The github-hosted site has only just gone live and the issue backlog hasn't been addressed yet. It'll be looked at in due course I'm sure. (Have to admit I wouldn't have chosen to submit s2o to HN until stuff's been ironed out, but there you go!)
I tried importing a tab from ultimate-guitar (.gp4) and after about 10 minutes fatpick notified me that the tab was ready to play, but when I opened it up the tab was empty. The name was imported correctly, but it looked like that was it.

Since this is a semi-established space that you're just putting a few variations on, concur with other posters suggesting you need to reduce friction. There shouldn't need to be a login process to start playing pre-built tabs, and if users can't already see tabs others have uploaded you need that function soonest.

Will check back later, cool idea in general.

In case you're wondering, the tab I tried to upload:
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the_lumineers/ho_hey_gu...
It's a term used in planetary science too.

Planetary scientists often classify volatiles with exceptionally low melting points, such as hydrogen and helium, as gases (as in gas giant), whereas those volatiles with melting points above about 100 K (–173 °C, –280 °F) are referred to as ices. The terms "gas" and "ice" in this context can apply to compounds that may be solids, liquids or gases. Thus, Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, and Uranus and Neptune are ice giants, even though the vast majority of the "gas" and "ice" in their interiors is a hot, highly dense fluid that gets denser as the center of the planet is approached.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatiles
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Looks like the "Second option" link should point here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-til...

The "all in one solution" link used to point to TileMill, which is no longer maintained: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TileMill
I can't wait to see the Mars helicopter scout on the 2020 rover mission. It's kind of useless on its own but if the design works it would really open up exploration opportunities to validate large scale maps like this. Add some kind of tool bay that it can fly around and 'do science', returning to the rover to grab a new tool.
Glancing through the headers I read that as "Cows could be..."
I thought magpies were supposed to be thieves, but you seem to have an honest one that pays for its food.
As a skill, I think it’s just called “engineering in a competitive market.” Anything you can do to make your chip more attractive to customers is a win, so designers go to great lengths to do so. Things like caches, pipelining, branch predictors, register renaming, out-of-order execution, etc. aren’t in any way fundamental to how processors work, they’re just tricks to make your program run a few percent faster. Designing a simple CPU in an fpga that executes everything in a single cycle and uses on-chip block ram is probably only a few hours of work for a novice. It would probably take you longer to download and install the fpga software!
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Thanks for reminding! Got it fixed now: https://sparrw.surge.sh
Since there seems to be some skepticism about them, I want to recommend this app, that my partner uses and likes, and that claims to be based on maps.me while having removed all advertising and binaries.

https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
Tweetbot is a paid app. Its revenue model wouldn't be fundamentally affected by Twitter putting ads in the feeds it displays.

I'd rather see ads in my feed than Twitter continue to make third-party clients less useful.
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This comment here was what struck me immediately upon reading the story. Surely the Greek state has thought of that? Surely?
yeah, I've worked on something similar some time ago for a small business, the recourses we put in that was not worth it as we had to redo the thing quite soon.
Classic millennial drama. You should care about 2 things: improving your skills (especially the transferable ones) and increasing your pay. If your current workplace doesn't satisfy any of those just move on. Who cares about politics? Did you really think this white knight attitude would do any good?
I would say, yes, in astronomy, anyway. Titan has methane ice on the surface (as well as liquid and gaseous methane). The polar caps on Mars contain carbon dioxide ice as well as water ice.
Good feedback, but FWIW I do believe that a docker container with Ubuntu is a no brainer. Sure policies might forbid it.
Can you not download these games locally to play through DOSBox?
Puzzled by this. It's really really unlikely that you got a ban for one editing error. You can see the list of blocks at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks and actual bans are only imposed for _repeated_ vandalism, edit-warring or copyright infringement. Short-term user blocks are generally imposed if the user isn't responding to attempts to contact them.

Do you have a link for your changeset and what happened?
It's not very difficult to install Ubuntu in a VM or spin up a cloud based instance. The bigger problem is their packages work on at latest Ubuntu 14.04, which is unsupported since April and I'd guess there will be a lot of incidental bitrot that may make getting it running unpleasant.

But none of this matters, looks like there are several Docker based tile servers, which are a relative breeze to set up on any operating system.
>That sounds like an ugly hack and I suspect that tax evasion reporter bounties would probably work better

Giving people an monetary incentive to rat on each other for something a large slice of the population engages in (to varying extents) almost always increases distrust and dysfunction in society. You can sometimes get away with it in some places where trust of government is very high and allegiance to local community is very low but Greece is not one of those places. Right now one of Greece's problems is too little trust in government (part of why people feel justified dodging taxes). Incentives like you described would be counterproductive.
Freudian slip or what? In the German version it says: Via unfairly collecting you location... (Durch das Erfassen der unfähren Position)

Unfähre = unfairly
Ungefähr = approximately
3. Who are you?

I would not call this a great interview question. The variance between candidates is so high it’s inactionable. It also sets a tone that they know nothing about the candidate. With question five, ”Who we are and what we do?”[sic] it seems hypocritical.
What are the biggest features gaps you think are missing from Leaflet.draw -> gl-draw? definitely hear you on the "very lightly maintained" front, but I may be interested in submitting some PRs to gl-draw that mirror Leaflet.draw functionality if there's specific functionality folks are looking for
I was looking for a solution to serve customers and get answers to questions on occasions where personal touch is not available via chat (or I wasn't immediately available).

There are chatbots specifically for customer support but I feel overwhelmed by the effort to set up dialogue logic. Thus Sparrw idea formed and I'm seeing of anyone else has the same need.
Molniya orbits put the satellite at a relatively high altitude when it's over the target area, compared to a low polar orbit. If you absolutely have to get the highest resolution close up photos possible of a whole bunch of Capitalist military sites all over the world, low polar is the way to go, or at least was back when the Shuttle was designed.

Molniya orbits are best thought of as an alternative to geostationary orbits, for applications requiring sustained coverage over large areas up north.
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That's a broad question without one single answer.

In my experience, getting approved to use the API is substantially easier with Facebook than Twitter. Twitter will reject for bullshit reasons, and send you a "there can be no appeal" message. The only way around it is to kick up enough of a fuss with prominent people to get a manual reconsideration.

Once you're in, though, you can pretty much do anything a Twitter user can do. Facebook heavily limits what data you can get - you basically can't get any info about the user's personal profile/feed, or info about a user's friends. Twitter makes all that readily available.

On the other hand, analytics.twitter.com has no API (and hasn't for years), whereas Facebook makes all sorts of analytics info available on Pages.
Wonder what one can do to "prove themselves", perhaps let the cat witness them catch something? Sounds like a great research subject.
You're right. The article is basically clickbait. Tech already existed, and modifying to make it human habitable is hardly a huge jump, even by 1960's standards.
That's not a corporate displute. It's probable cause in criminal law. Ngnix founders are already detained btw.
If you're a believer in rights you shouldn't even play their game.

There shouldn't even be secret courts. Debating their integrity almost glosses over the real, more fundamental, problem.

Secret courts themselves, their very existence, are abuses. That's just my opinion, but I really do think you start down a dark path when you create this type of judicial organ.
Not really related to tech, but I find it interesting that she went from software engineering to being an editor for the New York Times and writing books.

That being said once you've been a whistleblower, even for good reasons, sadly, it is probably harder to find another job in your previous area of expertise...
There's a version that removes "ads and binaries" on F-Droid: Maps (Offline OpenStreetMap maps) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps
Allow me to explain better.

The 30% comes before any tax. Also it does not include payments for taxes, rent and other things.

So, let's say I make €40K/year. My tax will be about €11K. Further taxes, such as owning some property, owning a car, can add €1-3K more. My rent may be €7K.

So now, I have already spent ~€20K but this does not count towards this limit. I still have to spent €12K on various things (food, services, goods, which come with 24% VAT in Greece) or I get an additional 22% tax.

It's madness!
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There is an ad-free version of Maps.me. It is on F-Droid under the name of simply "Maps". I would recommend it to ordinary users who might be daunted by OSMAnd's somewhat arcane interface.
Not only that, a secret court setup specifically for foreign surveillance was used to spy domestically.

It’s why you don’t give governments secret toys and extra judicial powers, the people that run it are worst than toddlers, and more abusive and dishonest.