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I don't want to talk with patio11 or you or elpachuco or anyone else about their politics or religion - at least not on this site. That's where I draw the line. I want to talk with you about hacking and startups.

I'd be happy to talk politics all you want if you drop by Padova and we go out for a drink. Not here though!
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Yes exactly. And to take your specific example, Japanese health regulations with regard to meat are much more strict than US regulation. I've eaten things raw in Japan (pork, beef, fish, etc.) that I would never consider doing in the US. Choosing the lowest common denominator for the sake of improved trade will cause problems and get people killed due to culture differences. And as you say, totally ignores the wishes of the local electorate.
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A much more visual, accurate and easier to understand explanation of lift:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-wings-really-work
beautiful guide
Current KDE is very nice. I've yet to see the incoming Plasma 5 - it'll be included in Kubuntu 14.10.
Ask HN: If GitHub is social coding, why can't I 1:1 communicate with users?
good resource but too long
Well in that case you have to have it tied with your name, so it will only work for contracts; and only about half of the people here are on contracts.
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True. Well, I have a dual-sim phone, so I keep one as mine, and the other one of the country where I am. So it's even simpler :) But I get what you are saying.
> Not sure if there are companies that forbid it,

Today probably most companies disallow any private web surfing.

Inofficially it is often tolerated if you don't overdo it.

> and if that would be legal.

It is.

> But it is certainly not the norm.

Believe me, it is.

The reason is simple: As soon as you're allowing private surfing you have to respect your employees' privacy. That means that you must not use software or equipment to track web use (apart from special agreements with the works council).

Same goes for private email. If you allow that, you cannot have your admins look into emails anymore. You cannot easily backup mails without telling your employees all the details. You cannot simply reject mails. And so on.

It's a huge hassle.
Yeah, Rungis is hardly secretive. So much not so in fact that my GPS seems to take a perverse delight in directing me through there anytime the autoroute is closed for whatever reason :-/
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Also it's extremely difficult to fire a German machinist; labour laws are employee-friendly in Germany and unions are strong. Many companies reduce working hours in difficult times rather than laying off workers.
Reminds me of debates in the movie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film)

About what is to invent or not.
> But ask most Parisians if they’ve heard of it, and they’re likely to shrug and shake their heads.

As every other commentator just said, nothing about Rungis is "secret" and everyone knows it exists; what's true is that -- in theory -- you have to be working in the food industry to be allowed to buy there, but it's so not secret that there are organized tours for laymen/tourists:

http://www.rungismarket.com/en/jaune/visiter_rungis/index.as...

This is also misleading:

> Many [products] end up packaged and promoted in different ways to make it seem like they’re coming from different sources.

Rungis is a MARKET where sellers and buyers meet; products actually come from "different sources" (very different sources indeed) and not "from Rungis" -- they are only sold there.

What you buy on eBay doesn't come from eBay!!
Regarding typing, I think a lot depends on the keyboard you are using. With default keyboard, yeah there's no way I'm typing more than a couple of sentences, as you said.
But with a better keyboard (e.g. Swift on Android), I can easily type a few paragraphs. Because text prediction and spelling correction is so damn good, I just need to press the keys roughly near the one I intended (e.g. jekko -> hello).

Although, I could type natural languages, there's no way I'd be typing code. Simply the number of special characters required makes it very slow and frustrating. And if you need to be mobile, you can just buy Chromebook (or similar device), install Ubuntu/Arch/whatever and happy coding.
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nice piece
Early "tracking", putting children in a performance-related track, is a big problem in Germany. It seriously hinders the educational success of those put in lower tracks.

However, these tracks are only superficially about academic success. The reality is that it's more about ethnicity and parent's background. Turkish children are seen by many Germans as genetically less intelligent than their "pure" German peers. You won't hear that sentiment very often, and I find this attitude absolutely horrifying, but this has been shown by social studies and opinion polls. The result is that children from a foreign or poor background have far less chances to get into the academic track, and a lot of people think that's purely because of different abilities.

The result is a system that struggles with social mobility, compared to other European countries. And some part of it actually has to do with early vocational training, because choosing an apprenticeship when being capable of a well-paying university degree does hold back social mobility.
1.4ghz is the base clock speed, but it can clock up to turbo frequencies of 2.7ghz. I don't know why Apple doesn't use that figure instead.
I have a chronic disease that require regular check ups. My neuro, a very experienced lady, always tells me that she can instantly spot when a patient is taking a generic. I have always thought that she was showing off. Well, maybe not.
I think this is a good resource, but I really have a problem with how aggressive email list building is becoming. A myriad of pop ups doesn't make for good marketing.
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HN has a thread about part 1 of this writeup,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8190023
The A8 isn't a huge improvement over the A7, and the A7 was a collosal jump in performance, still more than good enough IMO. I mean there are people out there using A5 processors and the A7 is 4-5X faster. The A8 is only about 30% faster at best than the A7.
This reminds me of a comment from cockeyed.com's article about the price of an XBox One from the rent-to-own shop Aaron's [1]. The concept is the same, large payment up front is much cheaper than renting, if you can do it.

> $2,082 for a game console? Have you lost your mind?

> This is a ridiculous retail proposition. What fool would sign up for this?

> Not me, but I couldn't help noticing that Aaron's Xbox price ($79/month for 24 months) is the exact price and duration of my AT&T wireless contract which I signed to take delivery of my fancy new Galaxy Note smartphone.

> This is embarrassing.

[1] http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/aarons_and_rentacenter/ps4_x...
Hi Rene
I agree that really aggressive list building can be annoying and can harm the brand more than it helps it.
I don't suggest you use all my list building tips at once, but you can experiment and see which ones bring the best results, ROI, and choose the ones you feel fair on the user.
There was a story here not so long ago about how the FAA relies on voluntary reporting of near misses, and so fail to act before an outright disaster occurs.
4-5x the CPU performance, huge improvement in GPU performance, thinner, lighter, better battery life, better wireless connectivity.
Because once upon a time people agreed with them and that support lead to law. So it's important for us to attempt to understand exactly WHAT they were agreeing too, and why, and to uphold that. IMHO our interpretations of laws should NOT change. We need to maintain the interpretations and come up with new laws if sentiment changes.
I grew up in the UK and have lived in Germany for almost ten years. When compared to the UK each of those points is broadly true.
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Ah, nice. A factual document about this. Can't believe they have already brought out books about this when the aircraft is still missing.
I just think a comprehensive genealogy is important enough that it should be managed without bias or discrimination.

I wouldn't criticise the Catholic healthcare system, it has helped too many people for that.
Unless/until Go gets generics, I stand by my statement. A horrible type system that severely limits expressiveness is worse than no type system. Even TypeScript's type system is miles ahead compared to the one in Go.
codingbinary: your account has been hellbanned for several years and most people never see your comments; looking through your comment history I can't see why.
Yes, keep test all options and dont use all once
New iPads come with special, multi-carrier “Apple SIM”
It's amazing how stupid people can be when oxygen deprived. My dad had decompression chamber training with the Aussie air force. They gave everyone a clipboard questionnaire with some simple puzzles. In oxygen-deprived state most people were writing off the edge of the clipboard and on their legs.
> Yes, and the value of out minus in correlating with the complainant's bandwidth experience.

That would be true if only if that's the only extra thing you would be doing on the node though. Even then seems like pretty thin evidence.
Anyone has an idea how this works? Did Apple become an MVNO?
Have you tried Reddit News [1] ? It has a very large button at the bottom of the screen that says "Sidebar" which will show you the subreddit sidebar.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news
How large was your /usr/local folder before upgrading? Mine is currently at 12GB and I wonder whether I should try to reduce it even more.
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Hopefully this is not too much off-topic but one of my best school friends was murdered on flight UTA772 in 1989 (he wasn't the target of the bomb, just one of the consequences). Seven years later his mother forwarded me his camera that had been discovered in the wreckage. It was pretty beaten up but it seemed to me that there was still a film in it. I managed to ease the film out undamaged but by now it was way past its process by date and had been lying in the desert for a while so I wasn't at all optimistic about the latent image. With technical help from Kodak and a very good lab we eventually managed to get some usable images off the film. To my amazement there was, when greatly enlarged, one picture of him. Grainy and colour distorted but definitely him. This picture was some source of comfort to his family as his body was never discovered which, as is always the way with these things, adds immensely to the distress.

So on MH370 there might be other useful sources of data in the wreckage apart from the FDR.
Germany is good at training its workers mostly because of one the last if not the last industrialized country in Europe.

UK and France thought industry as dead decades ago and lost their know-how by moving plants overseas.

Meanwhile Germany has kept his knowledge in-house and trains the best technician, ingenieur especially in machinenbau (mechanical engineering).

A decade ago at the KIT, machinenbau graduate were most sought-after by companies than computer scientist.

(btw I'm french)
Good piece for marketing geeks
Is hostility or prejudice towards another racial group based on political correctness not racism?
I had the exact same problem on an iMac. I've noticed, that it happened, when I've left my Wacom Cintiq "on" overnight, while designating it as a second monitor.
Just give you one example, that you can apply to almost all of the industries:

- Product designed and developed in Cupertino, CA

- Product build in China

- Product build on machines from Germany

- Product imported into the US

- Product sold to consumers

----

- Machine designed and developed in Germany

- Machine build in Germany

- Machine imported into China

- Machine sold to Flexconn & Co.

Now think, where productivity takes place.
The UK degree system is far more about assigning people to "middle class" (with degree) or "working class" (without). When people were entering careers at 16 they were being pre-sorted at age 11 into the two types of secondary school.
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Yes its pretty well known outside France too. And the comments about knowing how sausages are made are just stupid. The government selling a stake hardly seems like the end if the world.
Of course, the finance folks all have Windows laptops that cost the same as Apple laptops, "because we're finance".
Hundreds of years? Do you know when mormonism was started?
I thought this would be a link to the classic 1993 Wired Magazine article “Copywrong”¹.

① http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.03/1.3_stallman.cop...
I know a fair few teachers in Germany who work in a 'Gymnasium', which is essentially the top tier secondary school. An equivalent to an old UK grammar school concept.

This is going to sound pretty harsh, but while it is hard to generalize, there is a strong tendency for children who come from Turkish backgrounds (especially boys) to be disruptive influences in class. This starts at an early age, and thus tracking tends to dump these children in Realschule and Hauptschule.

This disruption in class is especially the case with female teachers, for whom the boys hold little respect for. Their culture appears to hold little respect for women in the workplace. The father's hold similar disrespecting views at parent evenings as well. The effect is reversed with male teachers.

This is cultural problem on both sides and as a result the children lose out. Children that could have been successful academically are penalized both by the system's inherent failure to integrate migrants and as a direct result of their family's misogyny.

Germany likes to think that it is "Multikulti" [1], but my experiences so far seem to show a multi-culturalism that is a "pretty sheen" over the top of suspicion and disrespect. London has a far greater multi-culturalism than I have seen here in Germany.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multikulti
FYI, even when NoScript is operating in blacklist mode rather than whitelist mode, it still offers a bunch of protections. The Tor Browser Bundle ships with the NoScript extension enabled but configured to operate in blacklist mode.
Really? How about the part of the Flynn effect that is caused by improved (micro) nutrition? In other words, adding iodine to salt improved IQ scores (in areas where the soil was deficient) -- but it also improved real intelligence.

I consider it likely that some of the Flynn effect is an artefact due to schooling, newspapers, books, TV, computer games, etc, but some of it seems to be very real.
Only GPGMail will cost money, the other parts of the suite are still free.
I don't think this is entirely true, the UK has plenty of manufacturing. It's just "lean" or capital-intensive. Tends to be small runs of high-value products rather than mass manufacturing.

What has mostly gone is the "factory floor", large businesses with lots of workers to engage in labour disputes with. You can do car manufacturing in the UK so long as senior management culture isn't British or it's a tiny luxury car company. But British Leyland are as dead as old Detroit.
I hope you have seen the below from jcheng: I literally just came from my local Apple Store where I got my Retina MBP serviced for two clusters of hot pixels. The Genius had to look up the policy to see if it was covered, and came back saying that Retina MBP screens will be replaced for even a single defective pixel. We were both surprised.
> I know some very successful, top-of-the-bell-curve people who are religious.

LOL. Or maybe it wasn't on purpose?
The London markets are fragmented, Smithfield for meat (still central there are some startups upstairs), Billingsgate for fish at Canary Wharf but due to move again, New Covent Garden for fruit vegetables and flowers in Vauxhall. You can visit all of them but most stuff is wholesale quantities only.
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The "unreliable" in UDP doesn't mean "expect this to fail", it just means "things are not guaranteed to arrive, and if they do they might not arrive in the right order".

So "make sure you can handle (where "handle" could simply be "safely ignore") failed/unordered transmission" rather than "expect failed/unordered transmission".

If you can't cope with or ignore missed/unordered reception, wrap your comms in a stream based protocol (TCP, one of the other existing ones, or some contraption of your own) that manages reordering and retransmission as needed.

Maybe there is a better word to cover that then "unreliable" which sounds quite definite, but I can't think of one off the top of my head.
We built one that gives movie/tv show suggestions with every new tab. There's a link to buy that movie on Amazon which uses our affiliate code. Here is the extension: http://goo.gl/eiYqco

It was published last month and two purchases were made through our Affiliate code, so I would say about $5/month
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A private conversation would not be social because only two people benefit and everyone else get nothing from it (e.g. It would be anti-social!).

Anyway most active people on GitHub list their email and/or twitter handle. Contact them those ways for 1 on 1 discussions.
The idea that something will enter the public domain once its market price has been established is nice, but my problem with this scheme is that it needs so much fine-tuning. How should the prices increase? Exponentially, adjusted for inflation? Will the prices be much too low for much too long, or will they rocket up at unreasonable rates for some kinds of media?

I think the best scheme for works entering the public domain is modelled on eminent domain. That is, a work may be "seized" (and its owner duly compensated) by a government when the utility to the public of it entering the public domain is great enough.

Obviously there would need to be a lot of structure around it, because it's going to happen all the time. There might have to be a registry of copyright owners. There might also be taxes or regular charges levied as in your system.
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Care to share the most... er... painful painpoints? We're about to embark on a journey of implementing a SSO solution and are evaluating Windows Identity Foundation.
Maybe confusing the WiFi password and the admin password? I just got a new modem/router today and the WiFi is WPA2 secured by default with a random passcode printed on a sticker on the base of the unit... but once connected, the login for configuring the unit itself is your standard default admin/password deal.
That's because the average consumer is generally unaware or apathetic of all the negative aspects of DRM - until it inconveniences them massively - and it's to the advantage of the companies that they be kept unaware. The convenience aspect is appealing but you can have even more convenience without DRM. I don't have to "lug around physical books either"; I have a few hundred DRM-free PDFs on my laptop which runs a free and open-source operating system, and I can read or copy between devices or do whatever else I want with those files, whenever I want.

Let's not forget what could happen if we let these companies and their DRM schemes take over completely: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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2) Are they able to handle cyclical family trees, such as described in this famous stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/6163683/67591*

Their current software spec for GEDCOM can't even handle same-sex marriage.

GEDCOM is rapidly becoming a poor choice for reflecting current reality.
No, not really. I work in a games studio and our usage on individual workstations goes above 32GB when compiling our project. Due to technical and licencing issues it's also not something that can be relegated to a remote server farm for compilation.
Interesting. Did you know that the Mormons baptise people multiple times in the name of dead people? It's based on a misinterpretation of 1 Cor 15:29 I believe (that verse is referring to being spiritually dead). They buy up records of dead people and baptise new members multiple times using the names of the people on the registers. I often wonder if this contributes to the count of members? Can anyone enlighten me?
This is such a great article! Literally, goes through the highs and lows and gives a lot of context to the tweet storming Marc!

Required reading for any founders. You can see the parallels between him & other founders as they metamorphize from boy wunder (mustang car, late to meetings...) to this:

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Andreessen's transformation from a smug dreamer to a realistic doer has been closely monitored by others in the industry. Patricia Sueltz, general manager of Java software for IBM, has noticed that Andreessen no longer talks about Netscape going it alone. Instead, he's open to collaboration. ''He's a more pragmatic businessman,'' she says. John Doerr, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and an Andreessen mentor, says Andreessen isn't a wild-eyed rebel anymore. ''He has retained his fresh point of view about what's possible,'' says Doerr. ''But now he listens much better. He has grown a lot, and it's not over.''

====
Yes, I realize the kids have no representation and I should have elaborated on that. The community leaders who supposedly are representing the kids at the city hall protest should have been their voice at all those meetings. It would be outrageous that the city council didn't think of the kids when they drafted the policy.

Parks and recreation general manager Phil Ginsburg said that his department made that decision after notifying 700 community leaders and all residents within a quarter-mile of the park in English and Spanish and holding three community meetings back in 2009. He said that the new system left the park open for drop-in play 96 percent of the time.

With the park open for drop-in play 96% of the time surely there was evening time for the kids? Did nothing come from notifying 700 community leaders and holding 3 community meetings? Of course the parks board may have ignored all the recommendations, but what do they gain with a paltry $27 per reservation fee? I don't think the community activists will be happy until they get rid of the reservation system. There was probably a lot of compromise in the park plan and here we are with one side complaining.

Yes, some issues go over a kid's head and many adults too.
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Adoption, children from previous marriage, artifical insemination and trans people are situtations where the family tree continues.

Family trees also work sideways. If someone's brother marries a man, then that other man is the uncle to that person's children.
Very impressive. I notice that the new Mac Mini has dropped in price to £300 here in the UK, although of a significantly lower (rubbish) spec than the lowest model we've seen before. If this runs fine, it looks like an attempt to make inroads into the "PC" market, as £300 + a screen is really in the economy PC market area, no?
And now just image a world where these records where forgotten or never created: The holocaust could not have happened. I really don't like collection of data, and especially not this kind of data.
Great comparison, thanks.

I guess I'm missing the point when thinking "there's no way his head looks even remotely the same, almost 35 years later".

I was wrong, it looks identical. That's just scary.