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Often a "welcome" email is the canary in a coalmine for a service that will annoy me with repeated unwanted communication.
Modiano is a genius, one of several fantastic writers coming from France in the last 20 years -- see also Marie Darrieussecq, Sylvie Germain, Camille Laurens, ...
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RMT (the union) mainly (there may be actual technical reasons too for some lines, but any technical reasons are likely to largely be a result of knowing that there's no point in investing too aggressively in enabling full automation if they won't be able to make full use of it). Notice the page takes care to point out that current drivers jobs are safe.

It's likely that London Underground is basically betting it'll be easier to just hire at less than the replacement rate and gradually automate more and more rather than risk massive conflict with the RMT for years.
Well, the API has this:

text	The comment, Ask HN, or poll text. HTML.

However, if I look at your current thread:

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8432082

The text field is empty. My guess is right now you can either email the support team at YC and ask or just parse the text.
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Walking like that is only something I ever do when being instructed to march by shouty people, who then proceed to get unbelievably pissed off about it. This is not intentional and I find it very hard to end up doing this in any other circumstances, it just seems like my subconscious enjoys causing me shit.
Kudos on the plain text email. I wish more people did this. Especially if your audience is tech-oriented a fair number of them may be using Mutt or reading email in emacs or vim. Even if they are not, they will likely appreciate a straight email that doesn't look like a magazine advert.
> Why can't every carriage just have the destination that would be most convenient at that moment in time ?

Because subway lines are fixed, have little branching and your carriage can't magically jump from one line to the other? Having independent carriages would mostly be messier, for no advantage.
Care to share any?

Reasons I can think of:

Existing automation may be insufficiently good to cope with adverse weather and unplanned situations. Technology has moved on considerably since the Victoria, Central and Jubilee stock. We're automating cars now, after all. The article mentions a new signalling system being rolled out in support.

Lack of platform-edge doors. TfL have stated they won't run driverless trains without these. These are planned for installation on the Piccadilly line as part of the new stock rollout.
Exactly. Makes me wonder if they actually went through with it if the recipient didn't reply.
Shouldn't this be qualified with "...if you signup to KISSFLOW"? There are certain types of customer that would consider it superfluous, but often a welcome email will have other information that would be nice to have, just so I don't need to login again.

So a rose by any other name, perhaps, but it's still a welcome email.
I don't think this is true. All non-deterministic finite automata (NDFA) can be converted to deterministic finite automata (DFA), and regular expressions are equivalent in power to DFAs

Edit: Actually just read the paper that someone linked to. You're right that their grammar is larger than that of DFAs and regular expressions, but it appears that's because they extended it rather than because they're using nondeterminism.
That's disappointing to hear. Some state court systems do indeed need a lot of work.
In Budapest it seems to be free on the weekend, and I'm sure other cities too.
I see where you're coming from, and they distinct, but I would not say 'completely irrelevant'. The number of toddlers on the planet relates to possible variations (in environment and genetics) and therefore possible discrepancies to the behaviour studied.
Well at least you got me to go answer it :)
Having used both of them, I really couldn't live without Siri to be honest. I'm quadriplegic, and whilst obviously I wouldn't die without Siri my life is immeasurably better with her.

Some of the killer features of Siri for me are being able to to write emails, send messages and get quick answers to general questions throughout the day. She is much better at the first two than she is at the last one though, but even then she is not too bad.

And now that Apple has hooked her into much more of iOS in iOS 8, it means that more of the OS is open to me than before just by simply using my voice. And the "Hey Siri!" feature is one of the best accessibility features they've added so far.
Is there some technical detail in Firefox OS that makes it a good choice for cheap phones? I've come to understand that it's not particularly lightweight, but am I wrong?
While I agree with the author's notian that "some games need balance others don't"[1] I disagree with the premise.

The author says that roleplaying games don't need balance because they are about telling stories, and that "other games" need balance because they are about the challenge, gameplay and competition. I kind of agree with this.

Then he goes on to caracterize games by their capabiblity of being played withour roleplaying. By this logic, he then says that not only World of Warcraft is not a roleplaying game, but Dungeons and Dragons isn't one either.

This is followed by
"You can play board games such as Rex and Battlestar Galactica and even Settlers of Catan without roleplaying… but roleplaying seems to make them more enjoyable. [...] but if you go too far in that direction, you’ll lose. And the goal of those games is to win. Roleplaying, in the end, sabotages the goal of the game."

"...try playing games such as Vampire or Pendragon or Our Last Best Hope or World of Dew or Deadlands without roleplaying, you’re missing the entire point of the game."

This, in internet lingo, is what is called "BadWrongFun", i.e. you can't have fun playing a game in a way different than the intended by the authors.

I don't think there is such a thing as "BadWrongFun". I have this ruleset, I should be allowed to do with it whatever I want. I can roleplay in chess. I can call my knight Tim and have him be the queen's brother. And when he is captured, the grieving queen only moves half the distance. And I can also have a highly tactical dungeon crawl in (let's pick a narrative focused roleplaying game) FATE, completely ignoring setting, theme and story, throwing challenge after challenge at the players. Both of these are OK, and many more.

IMO, the problem with the authors logic is the idea of the objective or point of the game. That when you play Chess you want to win, when you play WoW you want to level up, and when you play a roleplaying game you want to craft and experience a story. I'll refute this with an example:

The "point" of the car is to help people move around and carry goods. But there are people who like to race cars. There are people who like to tune them and modify them. And some like to collect them. Because what people do with something doesn't always match its purpose.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with roleplaying chess, or being a min-maxer[2] in a roleplaying game. People can do whatever they want with their games. Losing in chess is not bad if the player didn't care for winning or losing in the first place.

To finish my rant, here's my last thought: All games need balance, some more than others. But the balance required for a game depends on the context of the gaming session and the players goals for that gaming session.

[1] And I'd reiterate it as "some games need more balance than others"
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-maxing
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It might come down to focus - as a Customer, it sounds like I am a cash cow, as a Passenger, the focus is on getting me from A-B.

The railways in the UK don't work well from the point of view of getting people from A-B, from the point of few of extracting a lot of money from Customers they work extremely well.
No, I didn't say that article itself is harassment. Just that it isn't as even-handed as it tries to appear.

I just grabbed to Vox link because it was one of the more even-handed summaries from the more general news sites, regardless of association. Read both and come to your own conclusion if that makes you feel better.

I suppose I can dig up something by someone with absolutely no association with any of this, but those people generally aren't writing about this at all. That's part of the problem with that particular mess: everyone who can talk about it already knows each other and have probably already been attacked by one side or the other.
District line does not have those trains, as these trains are aimed at the (much smaller) deep level tube tunnels. The subsurface lines have the luxury of much more space for air con, wider tunnels to carry away waste heat, and sections out in the open.
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What's the difference between Android with a web browser and a Firefox OS phone? Literally nothing.

And people ignored WebOS when it was released in favor of Android, even though WebOS used HTML and Javascript for apps and was so hackable you could load a new kernel over USB, and Palm themselves gave you directions how on their official website.
is this in anyway related to webm?

Quality looks very good either way.
Personally I much prefer the Bakerloo. The seats are much more comfortable than anything more recent.

The Bakerloo is pretty low down the list of an upgrade, apparently. Counter-intuitively this is because the trains need substantial refurbishment within the next few years - unfortunately this will be necessary before new stock will become available, so it makes sense to refurbish and then run for longer.
Welcome emails are useful for 2.5 things:

- Confirming that your registration was successful
- Remembering that you signed up for something in the first place
- Finding useful information pertaining to the account and the service: the unsubscribe link, the TO field (for remembering the site specific extension you gave), link to TOS, etc.

Keeping these things in mind would make a whole lot of my archived mail more useful.
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You are absolutely right, but a phone that is few years old and has 512MB of ram is going to load pages faster than this new $35 firefox OS phone which only has 128MB.
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It definitely has a tangible effect. For example the National Rail going east of Liverpool Street runs equidistant to the Central (to zone 4) and District lines, and has more 'person under train' incidents. Whenever such an incident occurs, both those tube lines plus the National Rail line which runs alongside the District are swamped.

The flip side is that it's not enough to prevent suicides on your line - you'll still get unusual peak capacity issues if it happens on a neighbouring line - but at least you can keep your own trains running.
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Hi, AppCodes founder here - we recently made a major design update.

As for adding new features: anything specific you were missing?
People getting stuck in doors, holding doors open, etc. etc. - though I wonder if it would be more efficient to have a person per train or a person per platform for that.
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I asked a PSA why it's slow and she told me that when under manual operation the train is "off the grid", so to speak, and is speed limited for safety reasons (other trains no longer know where it is)

The door closing works well for the DLR -- the PSA checks all the doors are clear and then shuts them all at once. This probably isn't viable for a tube because platforms are smaller and more congested.
"Air-cooling" sounds like a gimmick rather than an actual solution (i.e. proper air conditioning).

You see this on adverts for new-build flats in London too. "Comfort cooling" often just means a fan blowing hot air around.
This video is not going to convince anyone to use voice recognition.
Quoting @substack [1] "A phone call is a hostile act of aggression. First you interrupt someone with an infuriating sound and then you demand their attention."

[1]: https://twitter.com/substack/status/292461828368396288
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I agree with the OP and with jerven's reply. Just one question: What makes POSIX, and Unix in general, so sacred that an anti-POSIX agenda is inherently a terrible thing, worth being opposed with such vitriol? Unix is just one way of many to put together an operating system. If the major GNU/Linux developers, inspired by Mr. Poettering, want to try a different direction, they're entitled to do that.
Great tips. I have this sneaking suspicion they may end up asking for a "white labeling" service, where they throw their brand on my product. I'm 100% open to this, but its not supported yet. Is selling something that isn't even built yet common?
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Why not go the webm way like 4chan did? (soundless, limited size webm)
> > No self development

> Typically the people who say this are the people who are most likely not to get much from free time to learn new stuff. if you are the type of engineer to learn new stuff then formal training and free time is not going to change your ability to pick things up. If you come to me and say I could not learn X because I had no free time, I am generally sceptical.

I used to feel the same way -- I would spend practically all of my time after work reading about new technologies, best practices, and trying them out in some prototypes that I could then apply to my work. Then I got married. Then I had twins. My priorities have shifted so much that if I'm not given the chance to explore and learn _during_ work, then I'm probably not going to do it anymore. Many companies allow this without explicitly calling it 20% time; other companies will tell you that any time not spent working on a story is wasted time.
Trains of ice? Store the heat as water and run them through slowly overnight. Freeze again on the surface during the day.

Edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5058362.stm
Indeed - quite a lot of stations already have platform staff for checking doors and notifying the driver that it's OK to close. I suppose it would depend on the ratio of active trains to stations as it which is most efficient. I believe TfL have committed to manning all stations after the closure of ticket offices so having platform dispatch staff may be a useful use of labour.
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Academically I agree. But practically, Unix is a fractured mirror of mostly-similar OSs. Adding one more is what everybody always does. Even POSIX was supposed to be some unifying thing, but its fractured too.
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Airplane wings don't work like that; it's a common myth and does not really make sense. Wings generate lift by a rather straightforward utilization of Newton's third law of motion: they deflect air downward. Sails work the same way: they deflect air sideways.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-wings-really-work
Notice how careful they are about pointing out that all drivers currently working will be able to keep working out their careers. They're basically counting on attrition to defang the union opposition. Which is far enough - when you see the time horizon for their investments anyway.
> Is selling something that isn't even built yet common?

When Microsoft "sold" their operating system to IBM to run on the future IBM PC's. They didn't own an operating system, they didn't have a working operating system. At that point they had wrote a few apps for Macs, and a BASIC compiler.

One of their co-founders knew a guy, who might sell them his, maybe, for a good price.

I'm not joking. Stuff that doesn't exist gets sold every day.
20% is still encouraged, but it's hard to fit it in sometimes.
Here's what may be the transit schedule data:
http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/ttc/

For the specific Census data... all I can do is point to http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html, the top level of Stats Canada. I tried to find similar datasets but wasn't even close to successful. CANSIM seems to be the bit where you can download the "raw" data... but finding the right CANSIM table(s) appears to be more difficult than I expected.
Well as with any other "typical" article these are typical families based on what the writer to believe typical to mean, or what surveys declare as typical. Your results may vary.

The other disclaimer is that in some cultures what would be presented may be what the family itself perceives as what they should present, not what they actually consume. There is always that pressure to conform.
Who's handling pathogens? You go to church, and wash your hands when you get home. No Ebola. That simple, most of the time.

The point was, an epidemic requires a vector that easily passes the disease, plus a delay between infection and symptoms. Ebola has only one of those.
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Well, Android Apps run on Dalvik/ART, which is not HTML5/js but I agree, it's not a real difference, except in FirefoxOS marketing strategy, targetting ultra low end devices with heavy (heavier than ART) apps will result in an absurdly unusable system.
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I used to be a heavy Android user until I bought my first Windows Phone about six months ago. So far, Cortana has been one of the biggest[1] reasons I haven't switched back to Android, despite what feels like a lack of commitment and focus from Microsoft[2].

Her location-based and people-based reminders have been a killer feature for me. I can open Cortana and say "Next time I talk to my mother, remind me to ask her for her cheesey corn recipe". Then, next time I open the messaging app to text my mother, or open the email app to email her, or when the phone's GPS realizes I'm over at her house, Cortana will show that reminder[3].

It also works for location-based reminders: "Next time I'm at the hardware store, remind me to buy softener salt". It's been about six months since I've last used Android, but I don't think Google Now could do these types of reminders when I switched.

[1]. Two other reasons: I much prefer "Live Tiles" to widgets or app buttons, and the Lumia line's cameras blow most other phones out of the water.

[2]. According to the /r/WindowsPhone subreddit, Microsoft tends to update their apps on Android and iOS long before they update them on Windows Phone. Additionally, apps on the other two platforms tend to be more feature-complete. This is all anecdotal though, so take it with a grain of salt.

[3]. http://imgur.com/DBQ9sjB http://imgur.com/fll3uCi
That doesn't seem to be the case at all according to the ArsTechnica review: 128MB cripples the phone to the point of near-useless.

The original iPhone had 128MB RAM.
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Scrum is a relief for me. Set a steady velocity, and keep to it. And a chance revaluate every 2 weeks.

I worked in places without any system, and it was awful, such as half finished issues that was never closed. No one knew the real state of the product. Requests where sent in via email, emails got lost, people backtracked without telling you, 3 different people pushing you on to different tasks to the exclusion of the other 2. Where as scrum sets a single direction for 2 weeks.
Good point. I should pay attention to my history a bit more. In this case I could probably whip together the solution in a week or two, so it might as well already be built ;)
They're great! Someone was selling t-shirts with the patterns a while back but TfL hold copyrights on them and the seller was C&Ded.

Here's my favourite, from the best tube line in London: https://dribbble.com/shots/1642243-Tubepapers-Victoria?list=...
By 2060: get rid of the trains, track and signals altogether and turn the tunnels into roads. Connected to the road network but exclusively (so they can go as fast and close together as safely possible) for electric self driving cars with shared ownership, on demand booking and door to door service. That would be progress.
The selection pressure doesn't seem to be that huge to me. There are only on the order of 10,000 human cases. That those cases are caused by trillions of ebola viruses doesn't seem relevant to measuring evolutionary pressure.
> With more consumption and less investment, we expect the economy to increase more slowly than in the counterfactual (no BI). So holding money supply constant (which is of course ridiculous), we'd expect more inflation in the BI scenario than the no BI scenario.

Yes, I agree that it seems like there would be more inflation with BI than without it, though, as I said, that will be irrelevant in policy terms as long as the inflation doesn't exceed the BI cash injection. Presumably the level of BI would be tailored to compensate for projected inflation.

> The real question here, which is more or less unrelated to inflation: why do we want to shift resources from investment to consumption? Do we have a high discount rate and basically not care about the future?

I think the answer to this question comes from the fact that BI is a policy designed to alter the distribution of wealth, rather than the overall level of wealth. You might be keeping the same overall discount rate, but adjusting the distribution of rates across society: increasing it for the poorest in society, and decreasing it for the richest, for no net change. There would, therefore, be no change in the handling of long-term issues.
Is is the same as the ZTE Open C Firefox Phone? because I tried it and it's pitiful. IIRC it's £60 in the UK.

Don't bother with that phone, it's useless.
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Ohh... quick thought you might want to pass on. This study is great for transit access to work... but what about access to parks/recreation and maybe entertainment (this could be tricky because parks are free but entertainment can be anywhere from cheap to expensive). Sort of the other half of the work/life balance.
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Of course they would, why not? That's the point of inside sales.
I am SO excited about the possibilities Firefox OS provides. I do realize it's in early stages now, and there are many hurdles for the Mozilla team to overcome for it to become a real player in the market, but I'm crossing my fingers.

Specifically, I can't wait to see what local developers in developing countries create to improve the lives of people within their communities and societies. With the barrier to entry lower to develop these HTML5 apps (not only concerning the tech stack, but also regarding the cost to buy hardware), I expect the app development community will gain valuable members with more diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

From what I observe in myself and in those around me, I think we are best at addressing challenges we have been personally affected by. Therefore, I think great potential rests in empowering people from all around the world, living in incredibly diverse communities, to create local solutions to local problems.

Mozilla team - keep it up, my friends. I'm rooting for you!
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