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Ask HN: How do you feel about Twitter DMs for customer support?
For some reason I've been having awful product issues lately. My first resort is to send emails to the company but when they don't get back to me I eventually reach out on Twitter. From there it's the same old song and dance. They require me to follow them (I don't want to and immediately unfollow afterwards) and then we cram all the details of my issue into 140 character DMs where we can't send each other hyperlinks (due to Twitter's weird thing that hyperlinks in DMs == spam).

I guess I'm just wondering how other people feel about this. It feels like lazy customer support where my experience is being compromised.
Doesn't work unless cookies / local storage is enabled:

Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document. processing.js:9503

Not sure why processing.js needs local storage to work.
This looks interesting, but I'm not sure whether it's worth tying into a complex project using angular. I have found angular already has a large learning curve for new developers, and adding another layer with its own syntax on top of it adds some complexity that I'm not necessarily convinced that is good in that situation.

It looks alright though in terms of what it offers on first inspection though. It does solve some problems that I have found myself having to solve in a similar manner with homebrewed code & structure.
Inline Objective-C Code in Haskell
Around here car taxes, road taxes, "environmental taxes" on fuel etc adds up to a whole lot more than the combined price of road maintenance and so on. Also none of it is earmarked for environmental purposes.

Point is: While I'm mostly happy with the tax levels a little honesty would be appreciated.

Edit: Why the downvotes? (BTW: I live in Norway ATM, go read up on Norwegian taxes if you don't trust me.)
In most U.S. jurisdictions, a bicycle is traffic, just like a car. If you think they might take the lane, the legal thing to do is to leave room for it to happen safely.
Idris is dependently typed but I think it actually looks more like Agda and Haskell...
There's plenty of other languages where the words for "female" and "male" are different for people and animals.
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"Pacific Fruit Express" and "The Great Yellow Fleet" are great books on the railroad technology development to provide produce West-to-East. The fast-trading of ripening fruits were redirected several times on their trip east via telegraph commands.
At least it sort of defied Betteridge's law.
In this case, the click bait is so horrible that I still remember the last time it made the rounds. Fool me twice...can't get fooled again.
Plenty of Singapore looks similar, and works fairly well.
Haha, "misandry."

Great way to out yourself as a redpiller; I sincerely hope you gain the emotional maturity necessary to overcome your mail privilege/entitlement and have a fulfilling life.
iMac, 1998.
So, clicking http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fata..., it doesn't explain how they assigned "fault", or which part of the data that came from.

This seems like an important thing to explain :)
Interesting example, though in this case the challenge isn't distinguishing modes but in surviving switching between them.

But you also neatly capture the reason for modes: they provide more capabilities and make a tool more useful. Again the main UI/UX problem isn't that there are modes -- we deal with modes all the time: inadequate vs outside voice, kitchen vs. bathroom activities, behavior with your BFFs vs. your boss or a customer, stadium vs. museum. It's just that these are so totally and fully integrated into our experiences that we don't often think of them as modes. But they are. And the behaviours are learned.

The trick in UI is to make the distinctions so obvious that the user responds like this. Behavior in a given mode is obvious, using the wrong behaviour a glaring error.
what about moped drivers? They are constantly getting killed around here. I know a few people that only use them because of the gas savings. It use to just be people that had DUI's. At any rate a human life is the most precious thing there is IMHO, and we should be doing all we can to preserve them. I enjoyed the article.
That article contradicts you, i.e.

> Poland

> Jay-walking is an offense. One may cross only at recognized crossing points if there is one within 100m. If caught by the police, the typical punishment is a
> fine.[citation needed] The same applies to crossing at a red light.

> Kosovo

> It is illegal to cross the road where there are no proper pedestrian signals or signs, resulting in fines of up to 20 Euros.

Furthermore, just because jaywalking itself is not illegal does not imply that pedestrians receive right of way to cross anywhere.
I've heard nothing but bad things about him from people who have "experienced" him person. It's a shame but douchey, sociopathic behavior is often rewarded in our system.
Seems like open is a requirement, since not all the numerals are closed and I'm not sure how one would morph between open and closed spines. Playing around here (http://www.victoriakirst.com/beziertool/ anyone know a similar tool that has bookmarkable results so we can share work?) I'm thinking three control points should be achievable (haven't found a way to make a nice looking 4 yet, but most other numerals aren't that hard to pull off).
Start with mandatory insurance and bike registration. But I guess that's an 'unpopular' idea within cycling community.
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If it's self-supporting, it can weigh more because you're not limited by what the soldier can carry.
When people do awful things in a business context they say "it's just business."

Can't turn around and say, "at work this is my personal communication."
One interesting bit of research tends to look at the wild variety of crops -- "crop - wild relatives".

The BBC has an excellent series, downloadable as podcasts. Here's the episode talking about Nikolai Vavilov.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023wd2y
OK, now tell us how to police it. "Just do it" doesn't count.

And then there's the fact that a large number of cyclists ride because they can't afford a car, let alone the insurance. How do millions of American's get around if you take their bike away, their only means of individual transportation?
Interesting that he assumes all the strap options are available at the "starting price" of $350.
Where do you live? I am genuinely curious. This is a local issue, and you are speaking in global platitudes. If no one near you wants to bike, fine. Make everything an interstate. But if there are bikes all around... it appears someone near you does want to bike.

I doubt the bike trails near you are even a minimally spanning tree of every place a person needs to go.
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In general, it is not good to illegally share a lane with anpther vehicle. If you want to pass, move to an open lane.
We already have a gigantic fusion reactor at the centre of the Solar system. All you need to do to power manufacturing in space is find ways of harnessing that energy.
The most accurate description of cat-human relationships I have ever seen.
The tradeoff is in minimizing the overhead while maximizing the utility of the modal switch. Because that's what modes offer: clusters of functional utility grouped by association.
> Did someone just reinvent setf?

Haskellers have been at `setf' equivalents for a while now. They call them lenses. (And add the Haskell secret sauce, to generalize setf and mapcar and reduce etc into the same notion.)
Mine is on there but the password is a simple one I use on sites I don't care about and never used it for my gmail account. Can only assume it's been scraped from another site.
I feel the problem is that we're deeply over-trained to read cues for what a car will do, and less so for bikes. To whit, if a bike _could_ dart in front of me, I assume it will. Much like a squirrel, deer, or inner city car in a traffic jam.

Edit: actually, I would probably hit the squirrel. Swerving/sudden speed changes are often far more dangerous. Hopefully the point holds: if you always feel the need to fail safe, then expect congestion and traffic problems.
How does that help, other than economically discouraging cycling?
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Many frameworks allow you to route URLs to actions instead of mapping to a file. I just tested it in one of my Symfony projects, and I was able to route /login and //login to two separate controllers.

Furthermore, it's pretty common to rewrite URLs, doing things like adding/removing trailing slashes, whatever. So it wouldn't be too difficult to have it condense multiple slashes into just one.

For example, this link worksfine:
google.com//////////////////////////////////search?q=foobar

Google search tries to cover a lot of typos or be pretty user-friendly for people who don't understand tech. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a grandma out there who thinks http://google.com//search is the correct method.
I think people who haven't visited southern england may not realize this, but stonehenge is just one of many rock-circle formations of various types. When we were there a couple years ago, nearby we visited one that encompassed an entire town and seemed to be 2-3 miles across. It was more impressive than stonehenge (in terms of effort) though in rougher shape than stonehenge. The unique thing about stonehenge is the rocks placed on top of other rocks.

But rock circles are not unusual in that area.

It reminded me a lot of the Yucatan in Mexico where there are a variety of pyramids of similar architecture at various sites (from Cozumel to Palenque to Tikal in Honduras) in a region. Or the mounds in the Louisiana area (also ancient constructions.)
Twitter is a terrible way to provide support, but it works for shaming companies into providing support. Ideally you would only use Twitter for the initial shaming and then you'd switch over to some Web/email system for the actual support.
What problem does your solution solve?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703285 (166 comments)
This smells a bit of a slighty dangerous throwback to the "windows everywhere" days where Microsoft tied everything into Windows. It makes me wonder if they understand that the Windows brand itself is a liability moving forward. Nokia had the same problem - just like "Nokia" had become synonymous with "dumb phone" in the consumer's mind, so too has Windows become associated with "legacy business computer at work that I hate". I feel that if Microsoft wants to succeed they need to chart a future that succeeds without being chained to something with such strong associations in people's minds - even for those for whom it is a good association, it is the wrong association.
The same consequences as if it were a motorbike.

Legally, a bicycle has the same legal right to the road and lane as you and your car does. You must not encroach on that.
If there is no bike lane, then legally you shouldn't be passing a cyclist unless it is a passing zone (broken yellow or white line), in which case you should have plenty of room to use the opposing lane.

If it's a solid line with no bike lane, then it's the same as if you were passing a car, i.e., illegal. I've been ticketed for that in SF.
Accidents happen. All the time in fact. By one calculation 17,589 per day in the US [1]. Most of the time both people are in a steel cage and escape unharmed. About 115 people per day will die (also [1]).

There is a level of accepted risk tolerance in our choosing to let people drive cars. Accidents happen. People will get hurt. People will die. And you know what. Yes. Yes it is ok. The benefits outweigh the cons by multiple orders of magnitude (not that there is a unit of measurement).

You could ruin lives and throw drivers in jail but that just hurts society even more (imo). Ruins lives, costs the state money, and doesn't even change behavior. Accidents are accidents after all. You either have cars and accept that there will be accidents or you get rid of cars [2].

So fuck it. Yes. Yes it is ok. Accidents happen. We should, of course, work diligently to reduce risk and improve safety. And we do. But accidents will happen and people will die.

[1] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100109053104A...
[2] Or maybe get rid of human controlled cars. Cyclists raise your hand if you want to ride against the risk profile of a driverless car!
And then let's add some taxes to make this proposal even worse!
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Compared to gas.
Not everyone. Around here however more and more people bike.

Me I drive the car some days and the bike other days. I wish for bike lanes equally much when I'm in the car and when I'm on my bike. (I'm a biker so I'm allowed to say this: Yes you are allowed to ride you bike in the main street around here but it shows a real lack of understanding when you have a row of cars queing up behind you, and a choice between a sidewalk, another route and several less crowded streets to choose from and still choose to use the main road.)
Last time I checked (last decade, I suppose), "everyone" agreed Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU and MIT had the world's best CS programs, with a big gap before the next "tier".

I'm willing to believe, maybe back then, but especially today, that some Ivy's are ranked high in the 2nd tier.
Call me cynical but how do we know that Apple didn't secretly just pay him to write this review?
Biking on the streets with cars is like walking with bulls. Yeah, you can probably do it and be fine, but it will never be safe.
Well - apart from the fact that Windows 9 is rumored to have the old UI for desktop PCs and the new tiled UI and app store for devices.

Users will never be able to move from trad PC to tablet to phone to Xbox. The hardware ecosystems, UI models and user requirements are just too different. IMO it's nonsensical to pretend otherwise.

The Apple approach of creating fundamentally different operating systems with significant convergence and overlap while also simplifying interaction and data exchange looks like a much more intelligent solution.
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> I think Putin's little war with the West is going to have massive gains for the US spacefligt

Did I miss something or did everyone just forget that it's the United States that started that 'little war', wrt. space flight?
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Are you seriously suggesting that we need more than, say, one person per language to type the things Tim Cook says into twitter? I think you're overstating the journalistic impact of MacWorld.
That seems like treating the symptom, not the problem.

How will insurance or registration stop cyclists from getting hit by cars? It hasn't stopped cars from hitting each other.
My perception is that Chicago is generally more car-oriented than NYC, and that although Chicago has a pretty good public transit system, NYC's is much better.

[According to wikipedia, Chicago has a car mode-share of about 60% vs. 30% in NYC. However, that's probably dominated by commuting, and my guess would be that non-commuting uses (such as going to bars) would show an even more dramatic difference...]
Excellent point. Emacs's modality is in a different dimension than vim's. And includes vim. :)
Now in his defense he's a watch guy not an Apple guy. He is just now aware of how the world works.
A company that aims to 'empower people to be as smart as a hotel'
Ask HN: What would you consider a good web framework 'tutorial app'?
Assuming that you are a newbie to a framework (though perhaps not to the language it is written in), what are you looking for in the 'build your first app' tutorial commonly included in the docs?

Good examples of 'tutorial apps' would be welcome as well, including why you liked them.
Moreover, if you're a bicyclist and there's no bike lane (or insufficient bike lane) so you'll have to bike erratically if you don't take the lane then take the lane. Signal, make sure it's clear, and do it early. The safest thing everyone can be is predictable.
Avebury?

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/avebury/
Online advertising revenues per reader are through the floor compared to magazines, and everyone's going online now. You can sell a page in a magazine going out to 20-30,000 people for $5,000 or more. Getting $100+ CPM on a Web page doesn't happen.
See Singapore for the best exponent of this argument (with all its pros and cons).
The graphics are excellent.

I'm curious about the code organization: it seems that processing.js contains both the application code for the clock as well as the libraries for interpreting the Processing code. Is that true? Is that the best organization? Would it not be better to have have a processing.js which is the interpreter/libraries and a bezier_clock.js?
Actually we all hope that with more facilities living much closer to your work becomes more viable.
Roads are dangerous by their nature and bicycles are unpredictable and unprotected modes of transport to use. It is entirely understandable that there will be a large amount of lethal accidents involving cyclists, particularly on roads which aren't designed to accommodate them safely.

Choosing to cycle subsequently bears significant risk and those who choose to do it surely carry a large proportion of the responsibility if they get injured, not mention the risks they pose to drivers by causing traffic to change speed and be forced to overtake.

I understand cycling where it is safe to but am not convinced cycling on major roads is worth it.
Where's the data showing bananas are more heavily treated than any other fruit?

Here is some actual data from 2009, with analysis for Brazil by a proper agency (ANVISA's PARA, Project for Analysis of Agrotoxic Residue in Food):

http://portal.anvisa.gov.br/wps/wcm/connect/1424b98041ebbfb7...

It's in Portuguese, but you can find a nice color table in page 7 with fruit and vegetable names (rows) and states (columns) providing an idea (red == bad).

Bananas do better than pretty much anything else tested there.
Motor vehicle accidents are generally not prosecuted as crimes, whether they involve bicycles or not.

Bicycles are generally considered motor vehicles so accidents an accident killing a bicyclist is largely treated the same as an accident killing a motorist.
Your post effectively cancels itself out. "yes it is ok", but we should work to reduce risk and improve safety (a.k.a no, it's not ok).

By having zero penalty for negligence permits unpredictable behavior. A higher penalty (higher than zero in this case), one would hope, would encourage drivers to conform.
It solves nothing. He's just hating on bikers.
Yes, their/tech magazines' print business. A lot of print publications are doing well and even growing, but print is now basically a luxury world where the best 10% are thriving and the worst 90% are dying.. whereas it used to be more balanced.
Some European countries put the bike lane on the sidewalk next to pedestrians, instead of on the side of the road next to all the cars. This always seemed to me the safer option.
I have 3rd party cycle insurance and it costs about £20 per year. Bikes are orders of magnitude more safe to others than cars which is why mandatory insurance is such a silly pointless idea. Should pedestrians have insurance just in case they scratch a cars hood when they get hit?
Insurance on a bike would presumably be quite significantly cheaper than that on a car.
Gives me a headache
And the best private blogs are really good. (Even if the average is pretty poor.)
They invited him to the Keynote. They wanted him to be there. It's his profession to write reviews on the watch industry. All signs point to this being a mutual agreement, but of course, we question whether money was exchanged? We can ask that question of any and all reviews for products, no matter the company or the author. I guess what I'm driving at is... Why are you cynical about this particular article?
Right, I thought I'd seen this before.
That's like saying that "being skinny and being in a room with body builders will never be safe" because the larger people are capable of physically hurting you either deliberately or through negligence - in other words, that is an unacceptable response to this issue.
Show HN: Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi
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> Cyclists raise your hand if you want to ride against the risk profile of a driverless car!

Driverless cars can detect cyclists: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/28/google-cars-c...

So, a patient driver who sees me plus never road rages at me? This is one of many situations in which a non-human driver is superior. Yes, I'd raise my hand to that.
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I've been in a few accidents and have never been charged nor seen anyone else charged.

If killing someone in an accident is murder, surely injuring someone in an accident is assault.
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Moments after I read this, California Highway Patrol (Golden Gate Division) issued an alert (which I received via SMS) asking the public to help find a hit-and-run suspect that killed a cyclist in Winters, CA. The alert is at http://local.nixle.com/alert/5265373/
> But there is nothing to support the claim that narrower lanes speed up traffic

My impression is that the opposite is actually true: narrower lanes tend to make drivers feel more nervous/wary, and they slow down as a result.

Lane-narrowing (and "perceptual" narrowing, adding features that make it seem narrower to drivers without actually changing the amount of space) seems to be a fairly common traffic-calming technique.
Or in other words bad driving is socially acceptable. Drink driving used to be OK also.

Why not just ban bad drivers from driving. You would get less congestion, safer roads, and free up driving jobs for more appropriate people.
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Where previously the Windows CE-derived OS shared little more than APIs with desktop Windows, since Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, there's actual sharing of core components.

See e.g., http://j4ni.com/blog/?p=107
Which from the snapshot, shows an IP that's... still online: http://208.70.27.164/hp/device/this.LCDispatcher
A few places in Salt Lake City, the side-of-the-road parking is in between traffic and the bike lane, shielding the bike lane from cars. I'd be curious to see if it makes a statistical difference in accident rates.
I actually already use IFTTT for this exact thing. Anything I favorite that has a link gets put into Pocket. Is that essentially what this is doing?
We here on HN are mostly looking at Apple Watch as Android Wear vs. Apple Watch. This article is interesting since it shows that Apple is successful at completely ignoring these competitors and promoting Watch in a totally different market and environment, where all that matters is Brand, Design and Build. No matter if Android Wear is as good or even better, none of their manufacturers can compete in the luxury space as well as Apple may be able to.
And this is the problem, people going 8 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour lane isn't safe for that person.
Why the performance discrepancy between new and old hardware? Do the immutable trees require more RAM that is more likely to be provided on newer hardware? Also, I would suspect going immutable would require more tuning in terms of allocation.