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I don't see the current technology making car sharing/ride purchasing more convenient than owning a car anytime soon.

I respectfully (albeit strongly) disagree.

I used to own a car and after my ex totaled it (she was my ex already when she smashed the car and we're still good friends) I didn't bother to replace it.

Instead I bought a share of a car sharing cooperative and for the few times a year, when I need a car their offerings are more than adequate.

Granted, there are a few factors that make this arrangement work very well:

Public transport is so abundant and flexible where I live that it's super rare that I ever need a car.

I have, literally, a dozen cars that I can hire on short notice (peak hours like Saturday, excluded) within a 5 minute walking distance. The models represent the range from a Smart to a Mercedes transporter

The vehicles are always well maintained, clean and if necessary outfitted with winter tires in a timely manner

When I need a car, I couldn't care less what model I'm driving, except maybe: a Smart is not too ideal to transport bulky goods

I don't have to bother with the dirty business of owning a car

It's much cheaper than owning.

If you need a car during peak times some planning is advisable. The worst case was when I needed to take a tram for a couple stations to get to the nearest available vehicle.

So, I think it really depends on how it's organized, availability of vehicles and the quality of public transport. So you don't need a car most of the times to begin with.
Sodaplay. Nostalgia level: sbemails.
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Out of curiosity have they gotten netflix to work on the Pi yet?
Wait, the information you type into a text editor or draw in Illustrator is not copywritable in Germany?
The Android alarm stops after an hour of snoozing. That's reasonable, but I've also been bitten by the "you have snoozed enough already" behaviour.
On stock Android the snoozed alarm is a notification. You can dismiss it directly from the notification panel.
We're offering a similar service, spoke to the owner of LES yesterday who is quite [happy][0] with us offering the community a similar service since it's not really profitable but more as an effort to help the community and offer something cool.

[0]: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/658755/#Comment_658...
It would also be worth noting on this site that it will be discussed in the house of commons tomorrow[1].

[1] http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#!/calendar/Commons/M...
iOS gives a notification, but swiping it opens the clock application instead of disabling the snooze. Oh, and it removes the snooze notification.

To disable the snooze you have to remember which alarm triggered and switch it off (then back on)
Generally you want to favor 1 corner. Try to only use down/left. Use right only once your bottom row has 4 so your "Main" block stays in the bottom left.
0, in a suitable color space.
What about if the program takes a variety of inputs which influence the output? (At some point there has to be a transition, since e.g. books are "just" the output of some program.)
A great success by the threes team for sure.

But I have to wonder what if that final version had been banged out in the first weekend, would it have been recognized as the winner? Would a team then stop innovating and switch to build it (and saved 1.2 years for who knows what else)?

From a product dev standpoint i'm torn. There's a lot to be learned through iterating through complexities, challenging everything and ending with a simpler solution. But there's plenty to be lost by the argyle distractions as well.

HN, how do you do know when to stop brainstorming and ship?
Likewise, never had any issue and being able to set up different alarms on weekdays and weekends is really nice, I've no interest waking up at 6AM on weekends but have to do so on weekdays. And disabling the alarm puts me at high risk of not remembering to enable it again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body

If something is perfectly black, then that means that the radiation it is emitting is a perfect black body spectrum, unadorned with spectral emission and absorption lines. If you were to raise its temperature to 4000K or so, it would emit white light, but it would still be "black".

This feature would indeed make it useful for calibrating equipment, as the radiation emitted from it would be very predictable, depending on its temperature.
For me Android gets this exactly right. I've trained myself to swipe left to snooze, right to turn the alarm off. It's all muscle memory for me at this point.
Better idea: make a phone with camera rotated 90 degrees!

When I had old Nokia phone I didn't have to rotate phone to take horizontal photos.
I'm routinely surprised at the popularity of articles in this category. It's no secret that eating less and exercising more leads to a healthier person. Is it just the variety of systems and self-discipline utilized that is found so intriguing?
Curious they're explicitly naming this the "final evolution".

First up, I'd be surprised if they continued with a "Raspberry Pi 2" soon. The RPi is still very adequate for its original goals in education and will likely remain so; it hasn't ever been quite enough for people wanting a cheap server or media center except for those with very modest needs. Given their announced goals, I doubt that the creators are going to cater to the second group with a hypothetical RPi 2.

One thing that can be improved upon the original Pi is a more open SoC, but currently no SoC vendor will be able to provide a significantly more open one. Even if you pick an open source friendly SoC vendor like TI, there are currently no GPU designers for these SoCs that have open source drivers. It is unlikely improvemants can be made in that area that anytime soon.

The second thing they could improve for their education goals in the inclusion of a dual core SoC to be able to teach about concurrency. That would probably be quite a bit more expensive than the current Pi, for a feature that would not present that much more value for education.

So I'm wondering what they mean with this 'final' comment. Will they simply stay with supporting the current Raspberry Pi models? Or will they start developing a second Raspberry Pi? Or will they develop other computing devices for education?
I saw your post on /r/legaladvice. Good luck pursuing this further!
Over the years I've found the more I charge the less grief I get.
Yes. More than one person's hands at the company are almost assuredly dirty here. Maybe not directly, but indirectly.

No consumer packaged goods company, least of all a giant like Kraft, puts anything onto a box without many layers of approval and rounds of creative review. In this case, the buck presumably stops with the brand manager for the Mac & Cheese product. I doubt he or she would have even thought to ask about the IP origins of the maze when conducting creative review. Nevertheless, he or she bears some responsibility as the owner of the review process.

Most likely this maze was lifted and passed off as original by someone a bit lower down the food chain: an agency staffer, a freelance designer, or an artist at the company. But there is virtually no scenario in which that person's contribution wasn't reviewed a half-dozen times by people with managerial authority. At CPG companies, the package is an incredibly important and borderline sacred thing. Nothing gets onto the package by accident, and as such, it would be incredibly difficult for Kraft to argue its way out of responsibility.

Another possibility is that Nickelodeon (the owner of Spongebob) provided the artwork, including the maze, to Kraft. This makes identifying the proximately responsible party a bit trickier, but Kraft still bears a burden. It would also mean that two companies, and possibly two brand managers, had eyes on this.
On iOS at least, you can disable snooze entirely on a per-alarm basis. That's pretty much essential for other alarms than wakeup, even regular ones.
Mobile games have been around for 6 years ( and that's really pushing it, I'd argue that we only have 4-5 years of actual mobile game history to look at ) compared to 30+ years of AAA studio type of game dev. We are still learning what works and how to build games. More and more indie devs are figuring it out. Those are the people that are worth investing in. One of the underlining points of the article (granted it's not pointed out) is that a lot of the same people are finding repeated success in mobile games (Ridiculous fishing, canabalt, Threes!), both devs involved in Threes! and all of the advisors mentioned in the article had already succeeded in the App Store.

The comparison to Tetris is also valid. It's a very popular, simple to play, hard to master game on a wildly successful platform. A game that draws in large numbers of non traditional gamers.
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Hi Ian,

I think your product is great !! I was wondering how you manage to automate and feed prices to AirBnb since they have no API ?
How about putting HAProxy or nginx in front of those servers to make port 80 available?
If you mean: when Some Guy complains that publisher.com/somePage turns up in search results for Some Guy, publisher.com should put Disallow: /somePage in their robots.txt, then I don't share your POV, because google can still index publisher.com/somePage under the stupid EU law. They are just not allowed to show it in results for the specific search: Some Guy

Suppose publisher.com/somePage has the following content:

So, Some Guy did this really bad thing in November 1963.

and Some Guy successfully complains to have this page removed from search results on his name.

Then searches for really bad thing November 1963 would, and should, under the current implementation of the stupid EU law, turn up publisher.com/somePage in the results. Just not searches for Some Guy.

Robots.txt isn't flexible enough to allow this, I think.
A value of 0 is not the same thing as a missing value.
Meanwhile, I'll be over here actually enjoying the programming I'm doing!
#000000 is in the device-dependent RGB colorspace. Its correlation to a device-independent colorspace depends on—you guessed it—the device.

This (absence of a) color can be represented in L* a* b* coordinates as L* = 0. (a* and b* are then irrelevant)
And that's almost exactly what the macro expands to. It's just some nice syntactic sugar on top.
Sure, copyright infringement, plagiarism, but not theft! Copying is not theft! We need to hear this more often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7axyrHWDQ
On an early 2000s Ericsson phone they used the proximity sensor for snoozing. You could wave your hand over the phone to snooze it (and similarly to silence the ringtone when somebody was calling).

To disable the alarm you would actually need to press a button.

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/user_reviews.php?phone=44

I bet there are lots of UX innovations like this in older devices waiting to be rediscovered... I wrote about that last summer http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/leap-motion-virtual-interfaces/
We're happy to do that for any clients via a ticket. We cannot guarantee it for everyone since it takes time, but we are certainly happy to do it.
I find your statement puzzling. A GNU extension is by definition not “strictly valid C”, compound literals are valid C because they are defined in C99.
"Horizon: Take videos by holding your phone vertically!"
That can't possibly be that simple. Allmost all movies, songs, images and programs made today are outputs from programs.
How interesting. For example, this one was recently linked via the Twitter account: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616585674&oldid=615...

Changing it from "corporate lawyer" to "attorney". I assume that someone believes the latter is more "on message" for the Congressman's campaign efforts.

I imagine most of these edits are similarly innocuous and subtle, but it's interesting to see what things the folks up in Washington think are worth having an intern update to help facilitate their plans.
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I personally find Threes to involve quite a bit more strategy than 2048. The game is also remarkably polished with legitimately excellent music and a ton of personality. It's been a while since I checked up on the myriad of 2048 clones, so maybe something's changed, but none of them that I tried seemed to have either the same degree of strategy or polish or charm that Threes has.

My introduction to this "genre" was through the first web-based 2048 clone posted here on HN, so if anything I should be biased towards that. But when I picked up Threes I was just flat-out impressed with the cohesiveness of the experience, which went above and beyond 2048 in basically all ways--strategy, art, etc.

At the end of the day, I imagine it comes down to a few simple things. First, Threes is not free. Second, difficulty calibration. Threes is probably just too difficult, which prevented it from hitting critical mass as fast as 2048 did (which is, IMHO, trivial in comparison). Third, sound. Since it's a mobile game a fair share (if not majority) of players will play on mute and hence won't really get to enjoy the music of Threes.
> It's hard to beat the zero waiting for a given trip, and even if you include the implied waiting time at the end of your prior trip (finding a parking place, etc)

In Helsinki, the urban architecture is essentially designed for horse driven carriages in the 1800s and the city is surrounded by sea from three sides. Parking is really difficult to find and expensive. Unless you're going to the city center with underground parking spots (which are rather expensive), taking the bus is going to be faster than driving to the city center, searching for a parking spot and finally walking to your destination.

Renting a parking spot in Helsinki is more expensive than renting a flat outside the metropolitan area. It would cost me 200€ per month to rent an underground parking spot near my office. Any other parking options would need a 5 to 10 minute walk which would kill any time savings I get from driving a car and not a bus.

This coupled with the ridiculously high taxation and cost of ownership for automobiles means that taking the bus is almost always cheaper, faster and easier than driving a car.
A smartphone isn't any less secure than a laptop... I could say "lost your laptop and you give away the keys to everything" just as you said the same for smartphone... It's up to the user to decide what security they put on their devices. On iPhone at least, everything is really well encrypted out of the box. Most people don't put passwords on their laptops either.
> the order of a megabyte
which is not acceptable for loading a web page.
My sleepy self got real good at math when I set puzzles to disable the alarm.
He was probably misquoted. Or perhaps they need artificial star on very black background to get best contrast.

Good reading on subject:
http://www.astrophoto.net/calibration.php
Hrm, great idea but not in practice?

This is a demo from youtube. Looks even more shaky than the default camera app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-S5SgQFVg
i certainly hope so.
> It's hard to beat the zero waiting for a given trip

What if it's 5 minutes and then no need to seek parking - which can take a long time ?

And what about being driven and able to surf/rest instead of fighting traffic ?

Hell, from reading user reviews of google's bus service it seems that public transportation can easily win the comfort battle. All that's left is winning the total "time to destination battle". And according to simulation results - car sharing can to 1.5X of regular trip maximum and less on average, And that's without "right of way" preference - with can have a big effect on those numbers.
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I think people would rather read or watch about other people losing weight than actually doing something about it. Seriously, it's hard to lose weight, stop smoking, etc. If anything, at least it gives people momentary hope and a few take changing their diets seriously instead of looking for a miracle pill or momentary diet.
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Fasting reminds him of what true hunger is and therefore avoids eating throughout the week when he is not truly hungry.
Overdesign is why Threes sucks and 2048 is a masterpiece.
What if the "World's Quietest Room" is colored like this... Just wonder :)
Pick up the phone and call around until you find out what their limits are before some approval is needed, you can probably even explain what happened, and that you just want to invoice in an amount that can be approved, then just submit an invoice for under that amount, with a note that upon payment you will give a one-time license for the already-printed kraft boxes.
As you say, it could be some freelance designer or artist whom they commissioned make the maze, and that artist committed fraud against both their customer and the real producer by passing KrazyDad's work off as his own. The company can't really double-check against out-and-out fraud. (I still think they should have financial responsibility, paying the real artist what they paid the supposed artist, even if they are morally off the hook.)
One state has not had that frankly insane practice for more than two decades. I have seen some examples of helpful reforms where I live. Minnesota, where I now live and where I grew up, has had largely equal per-capita funding for public school pupils statewide since the 1970s. The state law change that made most school funding come from general state appropriations rather than from local property taxes was called the "Minnesota miracle."

http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/18public.htm...

Today most funding for schools is distributed by the state government on a per-pupil enrollment basis.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/mnschfin.pdf

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/SchSup/SchFin/index.html

The funding reform in the 1970s was followed up by two further reforms in the 1980s. First, the former compulsory instruction statute in Minnesota was ruled unconstitutional in a court case involving a homeschooling family, and a new compulsory instruction statute explicitly allows more nonpublic school alternatives for families who seek those. Second, the Legislature, pushed by the then Governor, set up statewide open enrollment

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/StuSuc/EnrollChoice/index.h...

and the opportunity for advanced learners to attend up to two years of college while still high school students on the state's dime.

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/StuSuc/CollReadi/PSEO/index...

And Minnesota also has the oldest charter school statute in the United States.

http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Chance-Passage-Pioneering-Charter...

Parents in Minnesota now have more power to shop than parents in most states. That gets closer to the ideal of detecting the optimum education environment for each student (by parents observing what works for each of their differing children) and giving it to them by open-enrolling in another school district (my school district has inbound open-enrollment students from forty-one other school districts of residence) or by homeschooling, or by postsecondary study at high school age, or by exercising other choices.

The educational results of Minnesota schools are well above the meager results of most United States schools, and almost competitive (but not fully competitive) with the better schools in the newly industrialized countries of east Asia and southeast Asia. It's a start. More choices would be even better.
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Yeah, but the shame is that the author needs to make this bold claim in order to get readership, when the nuances of user experience are not black and white.
Your statement is an exaggeration, but the essential point is correct that many American school systems get poor results for the dollars they spend. Here is data on the issue:

http://educationnext.org/when-the-best-is-mediocre/
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I doubt there are fins inside. It would be almost useless for any application if there were. Surely not? Can't find any reviews online - just repeats of the announcements. Surely someone's bought one?
He already said he tried eating less and it didn't stick. So the point isn't that eating less is a good idea (he already knew that), but which method works for him.
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What did you think the egg holder in the fridge was for ?
I can't find the link now, but just read an article last week regarding a study Facebook did back in 2010 (I think?) to see if they could have an effect on voter turnout. They didn't have a large effect on the turnout, however it was measureable. Kind of creepy to think of the power these giant tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, MS, etc... could really have/or perhaps already do over our political system in regards to how they could influence voters.
I admit that I said that comment from a place of annoyance: during pay analysis, teacher quality matter a lot, and during results analysis, teacher quality doesn't matter.

But as you point out it's not uniform. It's reasonable that teachers make a big difference in some scenarios and not in others.
I believe this gets at the core of RMS' goal. I don't believe I've ever heard him say he's against people charging money for services, but even if he had, his point is that non-free software is inherently defective. I would also pay money for many of these services, but once I've paid I want the software to answer completely to me - don't hold it hostage.
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Social experiments in working are rare especially with control groups. It would be interesting to see what happens.
That blockage was simply low glucose, right?
Before agreeing to give the president the $3.7 billion he requested to hire more judges and otherwise handle the refugee crisis, Republicans in Congress want to toughen the bill and make it easier to deport children. To get the money, Obama will likely yield on the point.

Did you expect these states to be more welcoming to thousands of children from other countries showing up believing some myth about asylum?
I don't see how this can be a valid scientific experiment if the control group is aware of their colleagues working 2 hours less and getting the same salary. How can this not affect the results?
Might be wrong, but I suspect they don't show the inside because it looks like a normal saucepan and it's the futuristic exterior that likely gets them sales. Just can't see how a saucepan with those fins inside would be at all useful, whether they're far more efficient or not. Couldn't stir a sauce or easily cook pasta, etc?
That is definitely the trend, because it allows security to give each authorized person a unique access credential, which in turn allows access to be selectively granted or revoked. When I worked in secure environments keypad locks were a pain in the ass, because every time someone's access to an area was revoked the code had to be changed.
Sigh.

Of course an allegation is evidence. If it was not evidence, we would expect to do as well investigating cases where there have been no allegations as cases where there have. That's crazy.

And what you've done above isn't "unpacking things" - you're using the same terms in the same ways with all the same assumptions.

This is not productive. I'm done here.
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