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Banks make money from credit cards by

* charging a % from each transaction

* late fees

* interest on balances

This assumes banks make less money on transaction fees than they do on the other two when coupled with the potential for fraud... An interesting assumption...
all depends on Oracle JDK vs Open JDK on linux
Fair enough. Exponential growth can be pretty amazing.

But think of it this way. Let's say the total population of Europe was 20,000,000 at some point in the middle ages in the countries from where the Ashkenazi Jews originated (corresponding to the time that there were 330 Jews). [1] This is a very crude estimate, as the population certainly varied a lot. So you're telling me that those 330 Jews out-competed 20,000,000 gentiles to such an extent that, before the Nazis and WWII, there were (perhaps) 10,000,000 Jews in Europe?

That growth seems very high. My guess would be 20,000,000 people overall in the middle ages means at least 20,000 Jews (0.1% of total).

But if there really were only 330 (really only 165 couples?) then they certainly had a knack of "getting it done"! This implies that Jews were much more adept than the general population at "survival", reproducing in each generation regardless of all the droughts, wars and plagues.

One other explanation would be that the 330 starting number is accurate but corresponds to an earlier period of time, maybe 2,000 years ago, not 600 to 800 years ago as the article claims.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography
Let me preface this by saying I'm a huge JetBrains fan.

My one issue with these essentially single-purpose IDEs is that they are intentionally crippled for other languages. I find it very annoying, for example, that I have to edit Vagrantfiles as plain text because shipping Ruby support in another IDE product is verboten. In contrast, I can fire up SublimeText and have support for every language in existence, including config syntaxes and scripts.

Their products are typically very good though, other than that. I've grown completely dependent on PyCharm.
"The 30% IAP cut equals billions of dollars in yearly revenue. But being in this commission business is not in Apple’s DNA."

I would say it is entirely in Apple's DNA. Apple has aggressively tried to inject themselves between sellers and buyers in multiple markets, even where their value add is unwanted and unnecessary.

And I don't fault them at all for that. They're a business and they're doing what businesses do, growing revenue. Trying to get a pound of flesh from the payment industry process is something many players are aggressively trying to do right now, and Apple is no exception.

And of course in the end all fees end up being borne by consumers.

One fallacy that many make in such discussions is the argument that Apple makes so much from hardware they really don't care about the smaller parts of their business, yet they have shown that they care very much about it. Don't think of Apple (or Google, or Microsoft, or any other growth company) as a $N billion dollar company -- every day they are, to the people fighting for more market, a $0 company, because all that matters to the tiers and people involved is $(M-N) tomorrow.
That is absolutely correct.

A lot of non-European people complain that they are indiciferable or garbage just because they are not accustomed to their language and cultural references, which is not totally unlike Blub programmer complaining about the difficult LISP or Haskell concepts.

That and the anglo-saxon mentality on philosophy is radically different (not necessarily better, as its proponents claim).

(As for stuff like the Sokal affair, nobody batted an eye or called CS, physics, biology etc "bullshit" when when tons of Markov-chain generated "papers" were published in hard science peer-reviewed journals -- here's one such incident for reference: http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120... ).
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I really like them and the fact they let you have the eap for free is amazing. Im broke I dont have $200 most of the time to buy an IDE
Running Raspberry Pis as Thin Clients with Ubuntu 14.04
Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Meet “Ginger” (the Segway) (2003)
Unfair! They are providing a damn good service in the current paradigm. They are standing up for something important in a reasonable way. Decentralisation will be the next great hurdle, I'm sure we've all been thinking about it for a while now - no need to dismiss those trying to get something done before then.
This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist 'don't really do anything but damnit feel like you did.'

It doesn't 'raise awareness' (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.

This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don't worry we won't risk clicks to show you).

And that's even if you see it. I've been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn't even going to bother with a banner. I'm willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.

When your solution to a problem is 'don't really do anything about it' don't be surprised when shit happens.
I didn't mean first gen. But later. The iPod + iTunes was the first setup that worked well on Windows that I ever used. And I was coming from a NOMAD Jukebox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_NOMAD#NOMAD_Jukebox_Ze...
I want a smartwatch that has the capability of accurate and continuous heart rate monitoring (à la Mio Alpha or Link) coupled with a respectable battery life. Until one appears, my opinion of smartwatches will remain that they are quite underwhelming.
I'm presuming cdnsteve is in the US? In the UK payment options have improved in various ways. I used to be a fan of cash as the quickest and easiest way to pay for something small like a coffee but we now have NFC where you just hold your card near and it takes like 10 seconds (mostly for the waitress to press buttons), quicker than getting change for cash. Also instant free bank transfers, chip and pin and other conveniences.

Re the iphone I think it'll use the same NFC terminal I just paid for my coffee with at Pret. Being able to wave a phone rather than my bank card is a bit ho hum. I guess for sums over £20 I could use my finger print rather than having to enter the pin as one does at the moment. The advantage seems a bit marginal.
I don't know, but I do know that Google Wallet has some kind of 'ghost' credit card number - that's the one that gets sent to the terminal, then presumably Google charges my actual card in the background somewhere.
That would be a valid point if people actually wore unfashionable smartwatches for their usefulness. Their lack of mainstream adoption up until now says that's not the case.
That's still quite early in its life. And before the iPhone. The iPhone then capitalized on iTunes' success.
first, "strength" is not a thing. You need to be very specific what you are talking about. Scratch and crack resistance are very different things (one usually measured by taber, and the other by various other methods), and combining them is meaningless.

So is "crack resistance". Do you mean when someone tries to indent it? DO you mean when flexed in some other specific way? Do you specifically mean when dropped?

Materials have very different properties depending on what you are asking.

You can't just combine these very different things into some measure without some actual methodology for doing so.

"you just sound like a person who hasn't worn a watch for very long, or don't have a range of watches to compare against each other.
"

I have done both.

"and i disagree with your fundamental point, which is that sapphire has no value on a device that lasts only a few years. of course it does - it's extremely strong material that withstands impact.
"

This is just fundamentally false.
Sapphire does not withstand impact compared to gorilla glass (or almost any glass).
Sapphire is also very well known to be brittle.

But you don't have to take my word for it, it's been tested:

http://www.ubreakifix.com/blog/sapphire-screen-drop-test-the...

Sapphire cracks at 3ft drop, gorilla glass doesn't.

Additionally, my little materials science book on moh's hardness actually says:

"Brittleness basically indicates how resistant the material is to plastic deformation. A very brittle material will, when placed under stress, break/fracture rather than bend. In the case of a sapphire crystal versus a glass crystal, the sapphire is considerably more brittle. As a result, a sapphire crystal is more likely to chip or crack than is glass counterpart if both are subjected to an equally hostile stress (banging, etc.)."

You can find plenty of research on both if you want unbiased sources. I'm a bit lazy to go look it all up for you, but start here for sapphire:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.2058.pdf

Short version:
Sapphire is brittle. It fractures and chips when dropped or deformed in that manner.
Most ion strengthened glasses are less brittle. Relative to sapphire, they tend not to fracture or chip when dropped or deformed in that manner

There are of course, materials that are even better for drops, but worse for abrasion resistance, like polycarbonate.

Additionally, once cracked or seriously scratched, the game changes for both, of course, as it's a matter of crack propagation, etc.
I guess this is like saying my Nokia 3310 lasts a whole week compared to a smart phone.
"tried a little the samsung (a joke) "

This needs more words as to why you found it "a joke".

I had no trouble reading either the samsung, or the LG, under sunlight.
You could make an argument that CloudFlare is centralization, but you could ALSO make an argument that CloudFlare, by letting smaller sites continue self-hosting but using CloudFlare for scaling, is also more decentralized than the realistic alternatives.

I'd ALSO prefer a world where everyone can get 10G to the home/office, great power, and global anycast with a bunch of sites around the world, from an infinity of vendors without strong content controls. Unfortunately, the alternatives to CloudFlare-like services seem to be:

1) Inability to resist DDoS/traffic surges/etc. -- if you're popular or controversial, this isn't great.

2) Hosting with large global entities (AWS, Google, etc.) with much more restrictive content policies, and with greater control over the technical stack you use.

3) Setting a pretty high floor for cost or technical competence to host a site (you're a clear outlier on the technical competence side in 2014, with colo'd boxes. sadly)

I love being able to spin up a random VM on my personal colo'd hardware, behind CloudFlare, and know it can deal with attacks or load; it would cost me a lot to build every random thing entirely on its own.

There are some potential issues with using CloudFlare for certain kinds of sites (turning over SSL keys, for instance, if you want us to handle your https traffic), but we have technical solutions to those, some of which we've presented over the past year, such as "keyless ssl", where you continue to retain custody of the private key and we just ask you every time we need to open a session to a new user.

It's not a perfect solution, but I think using CloudFlare is actually the best available choice for a lot of sites, and we're trying to make it better all the time.

And yes -- the end of Net Neutrality probably wouldn't hurt CloudFlare very much; it would arguably make it harder to run a site without it, or without going to some kind of provider who has also negotiated with the access networks. This isn't really a commercial decision so much as a "we like the free Internet and support it" decision.
Just so you know, what you are saying doesn't contradict what I am saying.

You're saying that there are technical concerns, and that those are a large number of the concerns expressed.

I'm saying that his personality and previous history with PulseAudio are a reason that those technical concerns are expressed far more often (and with more vitriol) than they otherwise would be.
Both. You have to build a pretty significant architecture which meets PCI compliance (so e.g. hardware firewalls, hosted in a data centre with sufficient physical security, etc. etc), which makes it hugely expensive, and technologically demanding. Then you have to sign a contract with a bank or banks in order to get the process going, which is the red tape part. Then you get to handle all the systems responsible for handling fraud, chargebacks, extra customer service, and so on. And then you pay higher rates because you're doing worthless volumes, even assuming that the banks will deal with you at those volumes.

Once you're done that, you've built a small-scale, inefficient, featureless, and altogether shitty version of what Stripe will offer up to anyone with an e-mail address, and it's taken you six to eight months to build. Oh and your app is out of date and all your competitors have taken your customers.
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Apple has a trade in option for iPhones, perhaps this will extend to watches, or perhaps the second hand market will be strong.

If not you can send it to cash4gold.com ;)
One reason why I suspect Apple could be different in this regard is the fact that they famously have only a single P&L. So whereas in other companies divisions and the SVPs running them would jealously guard every piece of revenue that was rightfully theirs, Apple as an organization could be better equipped to avoid that — if deemed beneficial to the overall business.
The most popular apps on phones are indeed the ones that occupy all cores ;-)
I agree CISPA/PIPA were better, but that's because it was a much more clear message, and a more clear threat to all big companies.

The sad truth is ending net neutrality actually helps enough big companies (access networks for sure; large content sites who can pay, to reduce the threat from smaller sites...) that it's not going to face the same kind of opposition from tech.
They become expert in problem solving.
For the uninitiated, there was a fairly positive critique[1] of Elixir by Joe Armstrong, the creator of Erlang, last year (at least that's what got me hooked to Elixir).

[1] http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
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I expect there will be no stand alone apps, they will be extension to iPhone apps. Therefore you need an iPhone app with a watchKit module in it to use it on the phone.
Huh, I wonder why. Because it seems my submission is being penalized for being submitted hours before it hit the general media.
Apple discontinues the iPod classic
I really hope they add the ability to customize your toolchain in the later releases. I'd absolutely LOVE to ditch eclipse for CLion for use with arm-none-eabi and openocd/gdb :D This would shake the embedded world. I absolutely love JetBrains' IDE's for every other language.
Inability to resist DDoS/traffic surges/etc.

I heard a rumour[1] that you guys drop users on smaller plans when they get hit. Supposedly people get an e-mail

WHY WAS MY SITE TEMPORARILY DEACTIVATED?

CloudFlare runs a globally distributed network serving millions of websites. Sometimes a large DDOS attack to one of our Free or Pro customers may degrade network performance. In these cases, we may temporarily remove the website under attack to avoid network degradation.

and they're on their own. Is it true?

[1] http://www.webhostingtalk.pl/topic/49090-cloudflare-polski-o...
Dropit: Claim your personal url to receive files
depends on what you want out of the job.. Are you looking to establish yourself as a good engineer?
Hoping to make big money?
Looking for a good salary, perks etc?
Floola looks perfect, will check this out at home. Thanks!
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This is very usefull for those people that keep our phones in bags rather than pockets.

The more I think about it it more I think this watch isn't aimed at me...
I don't really thing GCD counts as "2nd grade" - have you actually used it? It's really nice.
It feels as if you're just using the story to see your own preferences confirmed. For all you know from the facts as displayed by the story that was a perfect family and the dad never knew he made the woman pregnant. It is also possible the mom had several sex partners before the marriage and did not get pregnant. It may not have been all that casual, relationships do end.

So if you want to draw unfounded conclusions go right ahead but the story definitely does not confirm your chosen beliefs.

In fact, if there is one thing that you can take away from this story it is that mere information was capable of destroying one of those homes full of love you're going on about without either partner ever breaking their marriage vows.
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Your brother should instead use a programming language with a cross-platform, free software implementation.
No, the "infinitely adjustable" comment refers to the Milanese Loop:

http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch/

It is, by definition, infinitely adjustable, since the band is sized continuously and attached magnetically (so that any part of the band works as a sizing point). It does not have discrete holes, like most watch bands.
Of course. I meant the second point.

> - A way to spawn plugins through vimscript. This was fixed [here](https://github.com/tarruda/neovim/commit/acf17dbefef379ecb8e...) and will replace the initpython/initclipboard options. This alone will be enough to implement the golang proposal.

This is neat.

Thanks for all the work, btw, tarruda. neovim is a great project, and you deserve a lot of credit for pushing ahead with it.
A lot of the same companies that would win with anti net neutrality legislation being passed also supported SOPA/PIPA so I don't see the big tech divided don't do anything angle being applicable.

No one is willing to do anything that would give up ad revenue or clicks.

Shit like this makes donating to the EFF feel like a giant waste of money.

"September 10: The day like every other day we won't inconvenience you, please click our ads."
Actually, most of the uses of the word "emergent" I encounter are exactly as the LW article describes. If you'd replace the word "emergent" with "magic", you'd learn nothing more and nothing less from a sentence. [0]

As for feeling foolish after playing with evolutionary algorithms - I'm not the OP but I can relate somewhat given how I saw people learning evolutionary algorithms and neural networks at my university (and I'm pretty sure it's not a local phenomenon). Evolutionary algorithms are usually explained as inspired by biological evolution, with implicit (and sometimes explicit) note that "evolution made us, therefore evolution is superpowerful, therefore evolutionary algorithms - which are just evolution in code - will be superpowerful too!". Except they're not, and the whole concept is bullshit. It's a belief in Random Number God. Throw enough shit at the wall and something will stick. Evolution is terribly, terribly inefficient, and so are the evolutionary algorithms.

Sure, this inefficiency gives them some interesting properties that may help them avoid particular types of local optimas, etc. But those are mathematical features of an algorithm type, and have nothing to do and share no power with evolution, or magic.

The whole problem stems from people trying to transfer virtues of biology to computing by using a surface metaphor. There's a post on LW that covers it nicely:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/vx/failure_by_analogy/

"So... why didn't the flapping-wing designs work? Birds flap wings and they fly. The flying machine flaps its wings. Why, oh why, doesn't it fly?"

Or about neural networks,

"A backprop network with sigmoid units... actually doesn't much resemble biology at all. Around as much as a voodoo doll resembles its victim. The surface shape may look vaguely similar in extremely superficial aspects at a first glance. But the interiors and behaviors, and basically the whole thing apart from the surface, are nothing at all alike. All that biological neurons have in common with gradient-optimization ANNs is... the spiderwebby look."

I encounter a lot of similar "medieval thinking" in CS departments. I don't know why. It probably goes in common with the concept of not caring about how the world works.

Oh, this one is also good: http://lesswrong.com/lw/rj/surface_analogies_and_deep_causes....

[0] - it's also a good trick I picked up while hanging on LW; if you don't know why something happens, label it as unknown explicitly. Say "this process is driven by magic", or "caused by Divine Intervention" instead of trying to invent equivalently-informative but sciency-sounding labels like "emergent behaviour" or "spontanous self-organization". This way you'll never forget that your theory still has holes that need to be filled in, and you won't accidentally confuse yourself (or others).
Guess I'm hanging on to my 3.5" 4S until it dies, and then probably trying to fix it for as long as I can :-\
Wait, Windows had UI guidelines?

(Winamp was very popular on Windows, it had no UI guidelines whatsoever)
As a primarily front-end developer, this is a gift from heaven. I'm part of team Hoodie so I'm biased of course, but I'll add this to all my existing and future projects now <3
It is a reasonable option. It also happens to be shared by those complaining about the effect of tech companies on the housing market, who don't seem terribly popular around here.
In addition to the interpersonal aspects:

* George Doe, rather than John Doe; an alias possibly chosen for gender ambiguity, bringing to mind George Elliot

* Uninhibited display of emotion with emphasis: "fell in love with", "so exited about", "so confused", "freaked out", "immediately felt empathetic", "really devastated" - there's loads more. Men tend to take much less vulnerable verbal positions.

Interestingly, a coworker just brought up this article beside me a few minutes ago (not knowing I'd already read it), and he too thought it was a woman writing.
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"People have heard of Net Neutrality."

"People" have, but most of the internet-using population haven't. Not saying this is the best method, but don't be fooled into thinking that everyone is aware of what's going on.
> What I don't get is how the init system of anything can evoke such emotions. It all goes way beyond expressing preference. The flamewars and vitriol that have been spread are disgraceful, and people are seriously considering switching to different operating systems because of whatever package runs their daemons and their startup scripts. It's embarrassing.

It's partly a hang-over from toxic communities and people ignoring all the evanglist advice. Linux had a lot of early discussion on Usenet. One feature of Usenet was robust discussion (often under people's real names) which could devolve into hateful flame wars. This was not limited to Linux discussion, but includes Vi vs Emacs, the pronunciation of gif, BSD vs GPL licences, microkernals, etc etc etc.

There are also people involved in this current argument who are difficult to talk to. These people have help create a totally toxic environment.

It's not limited to linux. There are several megabytes (doesn't sound much but don't forget it's just text) of arguing on Wikipedia over m-dash, n-dash, hypens and etc. and that place has rules to supposedly encourage collaborative behaviour.
So, what kind of 1.0 release is this?

- It's Keynote time/September 9, so we call what we have, crashing bugs included, 1.0.

- We culled the features that do not work reliably yet, polished the good parts, and called it 1.0.

- This is a/the set of features that we consider to form a good product, and all features work reasonably well.