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Isn't this how ASOS [1] started? It used to be called "As Seen on Screen" and you used to be able to buy, say, the same baseball cap as David Beckham or the leather jacket that Tom Hanks wore in Movie X etc.

[1] www.asos.com
Right now, the AM site, Glen's site and am-grid. This is the first time we've shared what we've been working on.
NYC Subway fares are always $2.50. Really, as confusing fares go, this is nothing compared to DC's Metro. At the top of the machine, above the head of anyone who can actually fit in the train, there's a massive listing of fares to each other station in the system (on and off peak, which are different). In order to fill your card perfectly, you need to know exactly which stations you'll be using and when. Granted, most tourists will be traveling within the distances that get the minimum fare, and off-peak, so they could just go by that minimum fare. There's just no actual indication of that fact.

Oh, and if you want a plastic RFID card rather than magnetic paper that will fall apart within 3 trips, you need to spend $10 for $8 of fare. (EDIT: And another commenter mentioned something I'd forgotten: those paper farecards also come with a $1 surcharge per trip.)
Lot's of phones still let you change the battery and pop in a memory card. Off the top of my head I know the Samsung S4, S5, S5 mini and Note 3 all let you do that. As does the LG G3 and G2 mini, and I believe the G3 S will as well.
Actually I would also like to know.

It keeps being repeated in online forums and given the current state and new direction with IL2CPP, I can only assume it is actually true.
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We're letting a poor product slide because it is groundbreaking. The Moto 360 has pushed the whole Smartwatch world forward by it simply existing, we now have circular watches which are barely bigger than a traditional clockwork watch, that's a big freaking deal (running Android with an LCD screen no less).

Will I buy the Moto 360? No. The battery issues are not something I am willing to put up with, and frankly I think eInk is a better watch technology than LCD displays for that reason. But I cannot ignore how big this product is. It is HUGE, it is the iPhone of the Smartwatch world.
I thought it was great. The concepts are not simple and, for me at least, took time to process.
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Do public agencies in other countries also try to scam the public out of additional revenue?
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The "scandal around depression quest" is a bunch of lurid sexism, nothing more [1]. And "white knight" is a term invented by Redditors and not used by intelligent people. It may surprise you that plenty of men don't think of ourselves as part of some kind of "team man" fraternity where we have to stick up for "our side", and can't object to harassment of women, just as women also do.

[1] a bit more discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267425
I'm wondering how scalable this service will be outside of cities. I just moved into a new apartment and I'm shopping around for furniture - exploring craigslist postings, etc.

I drive a sedan and while I'm willing to drive half an hour or so to pick up furniture, I can't fit very much in my car.

Renting a truck is sort of impractical for moving just one item. If I could use Shyp like a taxi service, waiting twenty minutes or so for a courier to come and pick up a large item, and then having them deliver it directly to my place for a reasonable fee, well, that would be pretty amazing. I'm not sure if that is feasible, or even part of the vision of the company, but I want it now!
Considering they talked about MST during the announcement AND there's not really any other viable way to drive this display, it's a pretty safe bet it will use two inputs and MST.

The snark is because your objections are lazy, and unimportant.
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Sounds a lot like a dark pattern! If not dark, at least gray.
The Gear HMD is so cheap because it can dump a lot of development cost on to the Note 4. If you had to do another Note 4 version just for the HMD, then it'd probably put the price point at $1000+
In Holland it's much worse. You aren't allowed to use public transport unless you have minimal 20 EUR balance on your card (or agree to be tracked and I assume have your travel data sold / 'lost').

This applies for return journeys, so after the first leg of the journey you need to make sure there's 20 EUR left or you're screwed.
I agree. This article seems to be aimed at frat houses playing GTA. In fact, I betcha you could replace the word "gamers" in this article with anything and it would still work. In my gaming experiences, fellow gamers (even hyper competitive ones) are for the most part intelligent, inclusive, nice people. If anything, this article is a gross over-generalization of a population.
Sony's 2014 screens all support 3840x2160/60p, HDMI 2.0. Bit laggy for mouse work though.
This makes sense on the surface, but the confounding factor is that the NYC MTA cards are rather flimsy. Bend these cards just a little bit and they sometimes don't scan as smoothly. The trivial inconvenience of social pressure while attempting to swipe an inconsistent card with a bunch of other people behind you waiting to push through the turnstiles is enough to cause me to consider purchasing a new card.

Yes, most of the time we're just refilling the same card over and over, but these cards also have an expiry date of 1 year. This is still a good hack to keep in mind.
There are proposals to bring back postal banking, including small loans:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014...
Of course you're right. But especially these days even getting together and playing music and singing songs is full of "consumption" in the sense that you relate what you're doing to what you have consumed in the past. "Oh that riff sounds like Coldplay" or "What if we tried this vocal thing like Adele does in this song?" These kinds of influences are often unconscious. Even trying to avoid similarity to existing culture is tied up in the consumption of that culture, as has been the case with every revolution in art since the Renaissance.

I would love to hear more examples of culture that you would claim aren't tied up with consumption. The only examples I can think of are cultures that emerge from things like suffrage and oppression.
>Their pop culture section is garbage.

But probably generates more revenue than their hard-core news. I think all media outlets have struggled with this. A sad state, for sure.
Oh, how I wish Carmack and Oculus wouldn't have sold out to a company like Facebook. I really don't think they needed the money that fast, yet it seemed like they sold to the first company that would offer them $2 billion, even if there are few companies that would've been worse than Facebook. I still believe Marc Andreessen, the Oculus majority holder and Facebook board member, forced the decision more than anything else.

The rest of the team feels like they were duped into the deal, and then fed some BS that they then told everyone else, too, about how much they "needed" the deal and how great Facebook is going to be for them.
If what you have is mainly text, I highly recommend Workflowy. I have a top-level header called "Brain Dump" where I put any thoughts I have during the day, then I move them into subcategories when I have time.

The combination of Workflowy (with tagging), Pinboard, and Dropbox feels "right" to me.
each ride with the magnetic paper also costs $1 extra, to incentivize using the RFID, but the RFID cards stop working after a month and when they do you have no way to get the balance off of it the way you do with a paper card. yay!
NYC app offers unlimited $10 car rides in Manhattan for rest of 2014
great article, thanks for posting

I will use this next time I'm in NYC visiting, I'm frequently leaving with small dollars or change, and I end up losing the card or forgetting about it [as MTA's plan]
Can you pay in part with a MetroCard and in part with coins?
Depends on your perspective, I guess.
Instead of this, set up a non-profit payday loan company that offers loans at market rates, but uses the profits from the loans to offer free financial planning and education for its customers.
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Wait, how long has it been like this? Haven't lived in NY for a few years but they used to give you a nice round number bonus. This is the crappy kind of thing businesses do that governments should specifically not do nor need to do (trick you with dark patterns, force you to give a no interest loan/gift, etc.). And I should point out it's regressive. That $1.95 matters a lot to some people. Incredibly shitty, IMO.
Yes. If you are a daily commuter, you should be buying the unlimited card anyway. If you live in NYC and just the subways frequently (as I do), then you just refill when you run out. Whether there is $2.45 or $0.00 when I run out and need to refill doesn't matter to me. No matter what I'm cursing at the train that invariably pulls in at the moment I run out of money and hustling to the nearest machine to refill hopefully before the train pulls away. Which is why I would never waste the time to enter a specific amount.
The bonus appears to always be 5%, so it doesn't really make much difference.
If you don't want to use your card any more you can get the money back, though. Minus a 2,50 administration fee, of course.
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I really hate to defend payday lenders but payday loans are VERY high risk. Everyone always hears about the poor person who paid $3900 in interest on a $700 loan but no one ever hears about the eight other people who took out $500 loans then never paid them back. I'm not sure a non-profit org would do well in this sector, it's not for the faint of heart.
ATM failed to see the usage predicted by it's proponents in the 90's. The reason for that is that most of such statements about ATM as the new unified network for everything were mostly marketing bullshit disconnected from technical reality.

ATM is essentially circuit-switched technology lying somewhere between L1 and L2 that allows for efficient QoS for different services sharing same wire at the expense of ludicrous framing overhead and creating networks of such channels with reasonably simple and fast switches. The QoS part is mostly irrelevant today as faster interfaces made the problem significantly easier to solve so is the simple and fast switching. ATM's orientation towards end-to-end circuit-switched channels is what allows fast switches but also requires some external control-plane that builds and tears down the virtual channels, which I think is the major reason why ATM (and OSI in general) didn't catch on, on IP, you just send packet with destination address down the wire, with ATM you have to establish connection first (by using something essentially out-of-band and centralized).

In the end, ATM is widely used today, but mostly as pre-existing way of handling QoS and framing on top of some unrelated but relatively slow L1 technology (ATM is the first higher-level layer of both UMTS and xDSL)
It's basically the same here in London; although if you're a local you're more likely to have an annual (or monthly) pass or possibly automatic top-up if you pay as you go.
I'm not convinced it is a giant ploy to screw you, I think it might be a hold over from before the last fair raise. I don't remember the bonus changing, but the fair changed.
I think casual and needless depictions of violence against women constitutes more than "just" sexism. Would you agree?
Odd, my wife and I have both had ours for many years and they still work fine.
Ha I never knew that. Here's where they say it now http://www.asos.com/asos-as-seen-on-screen/cat/pgehtml.aspx?...
I expect relief pitching would quickly re-enter the picture. Starting pitchers pace themselves to go 7-8 innings (100 pitches is the unwritten rule, as much as I hate it). They might be able to deliver a higher quality start if they are targeting 80 pitches (or 5-6 innings) instead.
That's only for trains. For bus/metro/tram you only need 4 EUR on your card. See https://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/reizen/tarieven/instapenbasistar....
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I introduced the score multipliers (hitting the same color twice) to discourage staying in one spot the whole game, but I guess it is still a prevailing strategy.
That's a great idea! Would both the player and the balls wrap around, or just one of them? Also, what are your thoughts on having the entire playing field in your vision, or having a locked camera on a much larger field?
>What would be the solution? Collusion between states to keep tax rates the same?

Yes. If the result of states competing in this area is harming citizens, then it should not be practiced. It's also not fair to competing businesses. We all pay the same federal rates without issue.

I'm open, but not keen, on states having different tax rates. I'm 100% against not enforcing those rates consistently, as is the case with abatements.
If you live in the city and use the subway often, it is easier to get a 30-day unlimited ride pass. Lots of employers will even provide monthly unlimited ride passes as a pre-tax benefit via TransitChek.
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Not really. Nobody is making 5k 27" TVs.

Small TVs are all 720p or maybe 1080p. Computer monitors stop being 1080p at about 22".

Widescreen is popular because monitors are sold by diagonal, and the more rectangular the screen, the cheaper it is to have a big number. (The other interesting scheme going on these days is lying about the diagonal. My 31.5" monitor is called "32 inch class". My 64" TV is called 65 "inch class". WTF!?)
Not that I know of. The article also said "ween" instead of "seen", so maybe it just needs a couple quick edits.
I agree that there is public interest in filming cops.

But...

Being under a camera all day isn't something that correlates with being a cop. No matter how much you want it to be.

If you say "Hey cop, I'm going to film you all day. No, you can't film me back", that singles out the cop from the civlians.

I don't know about you, but I wish my police felt more like civilians than paramilitary.
If your card expired with balance still remaining, you can exchange it at the window for a new card, transferring the balance and not losing anything. Or you can do it by mail.
Sure, but what games feature that? Must be stuff I'm not playing.

GTA5? Sandbox game. If you run over or beat women in that game, you should probably look in the mirror for the problem.
This is the antipattern that "Microsoft Points" used to use, except there you were forced to buy a round number that wasn't divisible into the quantity you wanted.
If you're more in the market for a chrome-and-platinum vacuum and don't care as much about the performance

Is no one listening here? I said I care about performance, and build quality. Why can't I ask for both? Perhaps the Dyson performs well. I said I don't have experience with it, but the quality looks cheap. When a product advertises itself as being premium and top of the line, and asks for a high price, I expect both of the above.

Likewise, when I spend money on a phone or laptop, I expect it to feel solid. Don't sell me a $1,500 laptop that's built like a $300 Dell Inspiron.
It also exists on Firefox
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I love the way they do it in Taipei. They have attendants at every station where you hand them your card and cash. 2 seconds later your card is updated. It's actually faster than using the machine as there's never a line.
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Really, the only people I see likely getting caught out on this are tourists leaving with unused balances. The argument that "they get the money sooner" seems like nonsense to me. They get the money when you put it on the card, either way.

Re: the tourists, Metro in DC has an approach that I assume is for charging tourists more, which is that paper farecards (instead of the reusable SmarTrip card) get a surcharge of $1 on each trip. They're very open about the surcharge, so if you don't like it, then you can get a SmarTrip; however, it would then take a pretty involved computation to end up with zero balance at the end.

I'm actually pretty favorable toward the DC policy. Increasing tourist revenue (who probably are going to be pretty willing to pay slightly more for limited subway use) in a tourist-heavy spot seems like a reasonable approach to subsidizing the heavier commuting users of the system. With Metro specifically that may not be a huge deal because so many people have their commuting paid for as a benefit, but I like the basic idea.
I think you misunderstand how network effects work. What you're talking about is too localized and transient to really be considered network effects -- I can also share rides in a normal taxi if I hail a cab with 2 friends. A key component of a true network effect is that it enables exponential scalability: Facebook is the textbook example here in that it becomes more useful the more people use it. Another key component of network effects is that they enable platform lock-in by creating enormous barriers to entry for potential competition.

Uber enjoys a small amount of the second component through their large driver network; but taxi drivers are more or less a commodity so there aren't really barriers to entry for a competitor to go hire a bunch of drivers. With Facebook, there's more lock-in: even if lots of people are on a competing service, if YOUR friends aren't, it has no increased value. There is no such personal component with Uber.

Eventually, what I see happening are a number of competing services popping up that drive down the payments that drivers receive. This will eventually bottom out the market for taxi drivers to a supply/demand equilibrium point, which is exactly what's supposed to happen in a commodity market.

My guess is that Uber's long-term plan is a brand play: everyone with even a little bit of future vision knows that self-driving cars are right around the corner, and Uber is trying to establish itself as the premier on-demand transportation service before that happens. Because once self-driving cars ARE available, anyone with deep pockets will just be able to buy a fleet and put them on the road. If Uber can establish itself before that happens, they'll have differentiated themselves with the strength of their brand, which again is the optimal strategy in a commoditized market. But I see Uber being the #1 company in a crowded market with a ~20-30% market share; not 70-90% as is often seen in markets with strong network effects.
Most of them are in completely sealed cases with no openings at all (they charge via induction). They're at the very least rainproof and likely would survive for a while under shallow water (depends on pressure, etc).

Smartphones suffer because of the holes (e.g. headphone jack, micro-USB port, button border, etc).
I've had DC Smarttrip cards last years. Actually, I've only ever owned two since they were introduced. They definitely don't stop working after a month.
It is the same reason why hotdogs are sold in packs of 10 and hotdog buns are sold in packs of 8.
It's a kneejerk response to the massive backlash that ensued out of the recent Zoe Quinn scandal and the debate on journalistic ethics in video game media that erupted as a result. It's actually been boiling for a long time, but Quinn was the last straw.

Censorship and silence didn't work, as the Streisand effect snowballed this into something far larger than it would have been otherwise. Now this is an attempt to divert attention away.

It's a curious thing, gaming journalism. It is perhaps the most puerile form of "journalism" there is. It would be insulting to even call it journalism, it's blogging, plain and simple. Video game media is also the only one I know of that insults its target demographic so frequently, in an attempt to look socially progressive.
This made me lolz.
Why would you want your FPGA to have circuits that aren't used? And why don't you want constant expressions to be pre-calculated by the optimizer?
It's a bit similar with Lending Club. They give out the loans and you buy the notes for those loans from LC.
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It's almost as if you can't classify the whole by the actions of a subset.
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Putting money on the card barely makes sense at all if you use the subway frequently. My honeymoon was in Manhattan for a week, and we were out and about every day. For a $30/person flat rate, you can use the subway unlimited times for a week. Even if you only use it 2 times per day, that's $35 at $2.50 per ride. The $30 was a much better deal for us, as we used the subway many times every day to get to museums, food, etc. For a month, it's a $112 flat rate, which comes out to ~$25.85/week. That means if you use the subway more than 10 times a week, it's better to get the month flat rate.
If your complaining about being on camera in public spaces, that a whole separate issue.

My opinion: It's more helpful than hurtful. The benefits far outweigh the cost. But that's a discussion for another day.
Sure, after years of essentially no regulation and Google paying a massive fine.