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> know the idea is that by engaging with more people, one acquires empathy for more people and becomes a broader, more mature person.

I'm not sure where you get that conclusion, but the source doesn't really matter - I think it's a bit backwards. Engaging with more people might broaden your perspective, but I don't think the outcome of engaging with people is more empathy. My experience is that empathy is something you should cultivate if you want to have a better understanding of others and their motivations. This is something you may want to do if you wish to have a relationship of some kind, or to influence their behavior.
I used Venmo for a while and it works well. Square Cash I've found is even better since it skips the unnecessary social part, doesn't hold funds (directly transfers to bank) and somehow people can sign up without having to do the mini deposit account verify dance with their bank.

I'm not sure how this is possible since doesn't that mean that anyone can just input a debit card and start withdrawing money? It is nice though because people can sign up instantly instead of it taking a couple days.
I agree. Have you fired up the Windows 10 preview and enabled the new rendering engine in IE? It's a pretty good step forward so far, and I'd imagine the next build will be even better. AFAIK, Spartan itself should be in the next build.
Reminds me a lot of their previous article: https://medium.com/@BoltVC/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like...

That one had a lot less anger, and just suggested that you should not compete with Apple in their areas of expertise, which would probably be a good idea in the field of packaging as well.
Maybe it is not so different from that: I would get annoyed at such a thing too.

I just want my item with as little human contact as possible, please.
You, and several others in this thread, seem to be dead set on framing everyone who does not go out of their way to converse with people at all opportunities about things they do not have an interest in as people who lack social skills and are not open to new ideas as if they live in a physical bubble.

We all interact with people that do not hold our beliefs every day. We actually do not need to go out of our way to associate with them, mainly because we all have to go to work. In fact, people in general have to work at making sure everyone around them thinks exactly the same way and most can not do that. We basically all have to talk to people about shit we don't care about all day.

It's called polite conversation and it isn't anything I care to engage in in my limited free time, which is of course limited by the aforementioned work where I'm forced to interact with people.

> I assume the people writing them are of above average intelligence and likely have a very creative bent

If you did actually believe this, you would have taken what has been said as, at least, another viewpoint. You didn't, you proceeded to say those holding this view are missing parts of life and proceeded to imply they were immature needed to grow as people.
It is shocking how often we choose convenience over security. Even for really important stuff.

I catch myself doing it all the time. And I bet if you think about it really hard, you do too.

This was a good reminder to me to stop and think about my personal security practices.
Classified emails don't even touch the public internet. Is it concerning that a third party sucked up these presumably sensitive but unclassified emails? Yes. But the title is wrong.
Thanks for checking it out! Just fixed it.
I forgot where I saw it, but the claim is that the new Trident engine has diverged more from the old than Blink has from Webkit.
How do you do a middle click on the pad?
I too will give Spartan a chance, and in likelihood will use it predominantly on my tablets and laptop (since I use IE 11 in those contexts today).

On the desktop, I presently remain a Mozilla partisan, sticking with Firefox through thick and thin. But I have acknowledged that in terms of pure page user interface and interaction speed on a Windows PC, nothing can compete with IE. Its use of GPU acceleration for 2D page rendering makes things like CSS transitions shockingly smooth and fast. The CSS transitions for gradients are particularly delicious; I still have an optional subtle animation in the background of my blog using the gradient transitions. I used to have more animation in my blog (before readers convinced me it was annoying), and IE made Firefox and Chrome look as if they were running on clunky hardware from 5 years ago. IE is the only browser that—even when rendering typical web sites—reminds me that my workstation is a 3770K with a high-spec nVidia GPU. In Firefox and Chrome, I can easily forget how powerful my PC is until I fire up something that kicks off some 3D.

I am hopeful that Spartan will continue to lead in that area of so much importance to me: perceived performance. If it improves its actual JavaScript performance and CSS capability versus IE 11, which I expect it will, I'll likely be quite impressed.
Arduino Pong, Part 1: The display
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple follows the trend and introduces payments through imessage. They could make it pretty simple if they link it to Apple Pay/Touch ID.
Perhaps it's the same sort of private email server Colin Powell was using.
Thank you for the reply! (The rest of the replies to me got seriously derailed....)

So from your code it looks like the only benefit of strict mode is in case you forget to do the validation/conversion it will warn you? I guess that's reasonable. Is there any other benefit?

To me it seems that Ze'ev's proposal would be even better for you - it does the equivalent of the validation and conversion automatically including with an error if it doesn't validate.

You wrote "let's ignore that", but it really seems like to best of all worlds to me. Any idea why it was rejected so badly? Is it because the coercion rules are different from the rest of PHP?
That would make sense, but then you talk with the strangers not with the barista.

Of course in this modern age the strangers are on their computers/phones/ipads so I don't know how well it will go.
> The two are not bijective. You can be a very interesting person to most people while still finding most other people not very interesting.

Indeed, that theoretically can be true. In every instance I have ever heard of, witnessed or been made aware of in any way, however, it holds. The plural of anecdote is not data, granted.

But ask any advice columnist. If you find other people boring as a matter of routine, that's not because they're boring, it's because you are.

Same as with any other part of life. If X keeps happening to you over and over again, and X is statistically uncommon, then either you have weird luck or X is related to something inside you, rather than something to do with the world at large.
Best case scenario: the employee and customer feel a little uncomfortable at being expected to discuss a delicate subject with a stranger.

Worst case scenario: one says something the other disagrees with, and the screaming and recriminations begin.
New 3-D Printer Uses Light to Build Objects in Minutes
Their goal is to have as many people running the current OS as possible. Every exception like that they make is an exception that keeps people using the old versions and keeps them scrambling to maintain them.
Not necessarily. The source code might only be of interest to their competitors, not of general interest. They might be at a disadvantage for redistributing some development that they paid for and is giving them an advantage.
Wow this is amazing.

Our business plan is that vcs will just give us money.
Because this is San Francisco, and we have an idea.
You could, but between how inexpensive CDN bandwidth is when purchased in bulk, along with Apple's desire to control a user's experience so its always positive, a torrent swarm doesn't make sense.
What is satire?
What's the word with Firefox performance? My company's app is critically slow in JUST Firefox. It's an Ember app, but we use D3 and Immutable.js. We aren't doing anything weird AFAIK
I don't see why "they're effectively the same, but I chose X and have been using it for Z years now, and I'm widely considered an expert" would be any different from...I don't know, denying that they're the same.

If anything, denying it would be evidence of ignorance, no?
It's obviously not a precise analogy :)

However, it gets the point across; taking a bunch of bits from disparate well-functioning systems and smashing them together doesn't guarantee that you'll get another well-functioning system.
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> I do realize that there are more countries like this,

"More"? I wouldn't be surprised if it was most.
I like to remap those keys to AltGr and/or compose. Makes it much easier to type accents, proper punctuation…
I skimmed through the comments and thought "What is Venmo and how terrible am I for not knowing about it sooner?"

I then searched for the term on the page and noticed that the term is largely clustered around two threads; one of which the users both drop the name so much I had to check if they worked for the company.

No offense to those who enjoy Venmo and its services, but this thread is a great example of HN commentary echo; it's way louder in here than it actually is.
> No native English speaker would ever think to try “Greco Unification” and consolidate the English, Russian, German, Swedish, Greek, and other European languages’ alphabets into a single alphabet.

This actually is a pretty good idea. Cyrillic, Latin, and other "Greco" scripts share quite a lot of characters. There's no need for both А (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0410/index.htm) and A (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0041/index.htm) beyond ASCII and other legacy compatibility.
"We could make a copyright license which only condition is that you can not sue someone, or that you can only sue companies and not people, or some other from of harm reduction."

Every company in the world will get around this.

"We could make a copyright license which only condition is that you can not sue someone"

So what would you do in the case of a copyright violation? If you can't sue to enforce the license, what's to stop anyone from violating it? And that includes the GPL and its provision on opening the source of things using it.

" They argue that you must have the malicious aspects, or its not free enough to be useful."

There needs to be some way of enforcing the contract. And that's how contracts are usually enforced: In the court system.
Thank you! It is amazing how many people confuse good packaging with pretty packaging.
Maybe it is my impression, but is there too much text in the homepage in a few blocks?
Less text = more likely to be read, IMO

Plus, like someone said, more screenshots or a video would be more explanatory
My favorite syntax sugar in Scala. Especially in future composition.

Is there a good theoretical (not technical) reason why we can't mix types in a for-yield structure? There is an implicit conversion from Option to Seq added, so I can mix lists and options, but is there a fundamental issue preventing mixing other types? e.g. in the basic math of it?
10K likes to 13K dislikes on that video and comments now disabled.

Guess that indicates how much people like Snapcash.
Maybe, so.

Still why the issue with labeling your products? They label products with aspartame even though that one is more safe than sugar.
Correct and I don't find this surprising.

While the separation of lint from the compiler might have been a mistake made as an early performance trade-off I don't really see how that was a false premise of the philosophy of trusting the programmer. Given the history of trade-offs made in the name of performance it doesn't seem like correctness and safety were big concerns.

Maybe they are now and that's why I find the Mirage project interesting... but C still has its uses and I don't blame C for human error. The specification isn't terribly difficult to digest and the tooling is rather good these days.
Oh. I did not know. my friends are working there.
That's a surprisingly small percentage, in my mind.

Do you have any insight as to why? My first guess is that it's non-HNers who stumble across it because of a google result or similar.
"No interface" actually means "no mobile phone interface". Let's not kid ourselves... interface is still important.

Take the author's critical example of a smartphone app to unlock your car. Yes, that's terrible. Now, let's look at the actual interface - the key. I've owned two Subarus now. I loved the keyless entry device on my 1999 Outback. I feel the keyless entry on my 2010 Forester was a step backwards. I accidentally trigger it when I don't want to. It's unreliable, often taking several presses to work. It adds an extra button I've never used that is redundant functionality.

How about another interface? We recently got a new turkey baster, made by Good Grips. It has a built-in rest. Turkey basters get greasy-dirty, and you keep using them off and on for hours. The rest keeps it from getting grease all over your counter. That's a great user interface!

The problem isn't "no interface". The problem is "there's an app for that". Not everything falls under smartphone convenience. That doesn't mean it doesn't have a UI.
I don't use much extensions, so that's never been too big of a deal for me. I'm using Opera although currently trying Vivaldi[0]

Vivaldi has a cool story, former Opera guys that want to make a browser for the power user, not your mom- which is basically the only browser that actually targets me as it's intended audience. The downsides are it's only in technical preview mode and they pretty openly admit to tracking your usage [at least their openly admitting it, everyone else does the same expect maybe Old Man Firefox]

[0]https://vivaldi.com
There's absolutely nothing in the GPL that prevents any of those people from using your code.
Hrm, well I barely acknowledge that I have an account so I wouldn't really say I've been missing them, Bob.
Interesting this is built using gevent since in Python 3.4 things are moving away from gevent in favor of Asyncio. The last time I checked (a few months ago) gevent is only supported on Py2.7 unless you're using a fork that has patched Py3 support which still has a number of outstanding bugs. I'm curious what the migration path is going to look like to 3.0+ since 2.7 is near EOL (2020?).
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I hope for the best for you with this. In my experience, the mixed results are part of the process. Think of it more as R&D costs rather than "loss" per se, and it may be easier for you (and your investors) to think about.

Management is hard. We're all learners when it comes to working with people, especially when some of the people are smarter than we are. Keep learning!
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that wind turbines were effectively unsustainable due to the materials they are made of and their actual lifespan not offsetting the initial financial and environmental costs.

Now, I understand that this project is supposed to provide greater versatility and efficiency using cheaper materials, but it seems to me (by no means an expert on the subject) that these kites are considerably more prone to damage by their very nature too.

Honest question, is this really solving a problem?

P.S.: this website is absolutely horrible to navigate.
"$44 to get $40" => $4 in fees for using another bank's ATM. This is very much within the ballpark range for USA at least.

Sidenote: Usually such fees are O(1), i.e., independent of the actual amount being withdrawn (and even applies to non-monetary transactions, such as balance inquiry).
Honestly, I am prepared to welcome a clean-start browser from Microsoft that rips out all the layers upon layers upon layers upon layers of legacy support and emulation layers it had accumulated. That, not the browser itself, has been the increasing problem with IE in this decade.
> The only other thing I'll state is that Life is a Turing-complete machine, so with right initial states it can "do" any computer algorithm.

This only hints at the more important part: only a Turing-complete language can implement Life. Thus, an implementation of Life in a particular language is proof that that language is Turing-complete.
> specific and important avenue by which Heartbleed leaked secrets is not possible without unsafe code in Rust.

Alright. Please clarify. What is the specific and important avenue by which Heartbleed leaked secrets?
This is what chatroulette should have turned into.
> but it is winning for development even as a newbie

Not sure Carmack qualifies as a newbie when it comes to anything programming-related.
If you were expecting it eventually, maybe it was there all along...
> is your guilt or innocence determined by the details surrounding how the gun got to the sidewalk?

Yes. Entrapment is a valid defense against criminal liability. The article tries hard to argue that this should be viewed as entrapment, and that information that might have swayed the court, such as background words of the investigators, wasn't available during the trial.

Your scenario is hypothetical. If the police set up the circumstances so he was convinced that his neighbors were being robbed and kidnapped right in front of him, and a planted gun were at his feet, after being invited to a half-day presentation on the moral righteousness of Florida's Stand-your-ground law, and he picked up the gun to protect his neighbors, who are actually police officers in disguise, then yes, the circumstances are very important in judging his guilt under the law.

Or, if he came across the button that would trigger a nuclear bomb to blow up NYC, he might press it. That doesn't mean he would actually be able to get access to that button, assuming such thing exists. Nor does it mean that he should be manipulated into believing that it exists, and is in front of him, so that after making a speech about destroying all the running dog capitalists on Wall Street he presses the button, and then is arrested for the attempted murder of 9 million people.

Regarding being turned into the FBI; that's a huge amount of resources spent on something where the best scenario for the FBI is that he's put into jail, where we as taxpayers have to spend even more money. Imagine if we instead spent 10% of that money on psychiatric services for him instead. Was this really the best place to spent the money?

Then again, the FBI and other places get a lot of money to track down terrorists. That's high on their mission list. I don't think of it as something they do for "kicks", but something which helps justify their jobs, or because they want to 'protect the homeland', but because there are so few terrorists, they have little experience to judge who is an actual terrorist vs. someone talking big, or the experience in how to handle these sorts of cases.
Do people honestly conduct this much commerce with their friends and family that they require an intermediary service for it?
Those people in Set A and so on have made their own choice, that they do not wish to share with their users. The only people preventing them from using GPL software is themselves.
It seems that the decrease in women programmers seems to have started around the point where PC's supplanted mainframes. PC's were regarded as a toy by the established IT departments perhaps. I wonder if there is some correlation?
I got a computer TI-994A because I was curious about programming due to those old Radio Shack comic books that showed what computers could do.
I don't find the dinner invitation to be damning in the slightest. Have you all not been around VCs? They're always having dinner, having multiple dinners in one night, flitting from one company to another, to some new prospect, whatever. On this night, he has no plans, his wife is out, so he invites a coworker to grab food after work. So what? Things will get steamy at University Cafe?
Technically we don't know if it did or if it didn't, but your point is valid.
My first foray into the land of ES7
> You kind of sound like a dick

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
I think that's more or less it.

I think what they're doing is a milder version of dynamic soaring, which is a popular technique used among RC glider pilots (and some birds).

The speeds attainable are pretty insane, the current RC record is 505 MPH, which in a rather fascinating twist is faster than the fastest POWERED RC aircraft.

This a video that shows a pretty good idea of what it looks like, at compartively slower speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DegX_we1Mic
Without evidence to suggest that is the case, it's probably best not to make wild claims.
Open source discovery... makes me think of freshmeat, later renamed to freecode.com, no longer maitained since a while ago. And before freshmeat, sourceforge... it was always more interesting to me as a catalog than as a hosting provider.
Actually, I think it's an example of a generation gap. HN skews older than Venmo.

http://www.businessinsider.com/venmo-splitting-a-group-check...
This follows a recent breach at Anthem, another Blue Cross health insurance company: https://www.anthemfacts.com/

Edit: Actually, based on that site and this article (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/premera-blue-cros...) the breaches were both discovered on Jan 29.
get your hundreds of millions of native speakers off their asses and solve the problem! the current internet is in roman glyphs because that's what all the people doing the work speak!
Here's a Ted talk from 2009 about the early version of the tech.

http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_futur...

The tethered airframe converts wind into high-speed lateral motion, sort of like a sailboat would if it were sailing into the wind. These higher speeds can drive the blades faster than if they were simply pointed at a wind source.
Scrolling with a standard pointing device was off too. FWIW. YMMV.
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No, I am not employed by any financial institutions.

At that time my colleague added her Wells Fargo card to Apple Pay and it went through without any notifications from the bank. She has been using this card with iTunes store though.

Another colleague added her F&A Federal Credit Union card and went through with little notifications.

First National Bank of Omaha notifies the email address on file that that the card is added to Apple Pay.

US Bank actually sends a letter via mail that the card was added to Apple Pay.

This could change by now.
There are lots of ways to make people feel good while keeping pay, benefits, and professional relationships professional. Not knowing where OP is from or where their company operates, I'd give them wide deference in terms of ensuring they follow the law, but talking to an HR professional (who should be involved at this point anyway if there are dozens of folks) can give a lot of good ideas on how to make people feel special without breaching contracts.

As a practical example, Dynamighty listed every full time Dynamighty worker in alphabetical order on CounterSpy, but then called out individuals by their major contributions within the longer credits. It's not a perfect system, but it provided a good balance between giving due credit to folks who worked long hours for equity and those who were making normal salaries the whole time.
(I upvoted to offset unsubstantiated downvotes.)

I'm curious what your point is. Do you have any examples of things they are ignoring?

This change is good for both Microsoft and its' users since it reduces bandwidth used on both ends, and and could be especially useful in multiple-computer households. It probably comes specifically from the Windows Update team, where they are working on that product alone, and as such the fact that they weren't (for example) fixing some user interface glitch in the new start menu is quite unsurprising.