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What gives you the idea that am I spectating? I'm a developer who votes with my choices and I've been in this industry for over 20 years. I just don't have a problem with Microsoft's tactics because I'm not an idealogue like you.

You on the other hand are being completely impractical by expecting Microsoft to just roll over and work towards a goal that they don't agree with technically and philosophically. I wonder how you feel about Apple and their choices?

So go use your other browsers and don't use anything from Microsoft. It's funny that you even have a choice since Microsoft is apparently in control of the whole industry!
Sub-$5 WiFi just got a lot easier by direct-programming ESP8266
You don't have to guess, the post you're replying to showed 11% of users had 1234 as their PIN, and has a detailed analysis of common patterns, such as birth years and PIN pad patterns (2580). You should read it, it's interesting.
Both parts: that he was involved, and that the wrong-doers didn't stop.

They're still holding office, journals still charge an arm and a leg for publication access, and the last I heard the amendments to the laws that led to this are held up by lobbyists.
How our small startup affords to offer paid maternity leave
> "I am white, privileged, and want to ride on a fancy looking bus where I can buy a Vita Coco.

Uh, lets not place the race card here. In all major US cities we have 100+ years of political corruption, union protectionism, bad planning, kick the can mentality, etc that have led to a shitty level of public services. A non-government competitor can help to keep the government honest as people see how much better things can be. As a Chicagoan, my advice is, don't become like Chicago. We ran full tilt towards the "don't challenge the government, we know best" approach which just led to the corrupt machine politics that is driving the city into bankruptcy. I would love to take a non-CTA bus to work. I can't see how anyone could possibly do worse than the CTA bus system.

>Some critics have raised worries that these bus startups, like Chariot and competitor Leap Transit, will cause the broader public to disinvest in the city’s municipal transit system.

This is a feature, not a bug. I mean, should universities and hospitals give up on their private bus system because it "threatens" the public one? If the public system is so terrible, continuing to prop it up makes no sense.

Personally, the idea that we need to build this ultra-egalitarian society is highly hypocritical, especially on an entrepreneurial forum like HN. Yeah, I'm willing to pay to not ride with crackheads and criminals. There's nothing wrong with that, the same way I bought a house far away from crackheads and criminals.
I wish I could get my k-nearest neighbors dog to shut up already.
Anyone in the United States can get an iPhone 5S (and perhaps even a 6) for free somewhere on contract if they look around. If they really want to spend next to nothing, second hand 5 models are not much more expensive than most budget Android phones and will get far more mileage.

It's not an issue of Android versus iPhone here.
These type of data structures seem to me as the perfect case for formal proof systems.

They are (almost) too complicated to understand for a human, yet sufficiently simple (I guess) for formal tools to deal with.

I'm still waiting for a tutorial that will teach me to use both :)
I don't see how it has done so at all, at least in Germany. Precisely because the industry is so highly regulated I don't see how Uber offers anything that I don't get with a regular taxi.
She wants a ring. She doesn't care that you think it's a scam. What she knows is that you won't buy her a ring. You think so little of her that you won't buy her this gift.

You refuse to compromise; you refuse to budge; you refuse to accommodate her wish. You make her be for this gift, and you still deny her.

You even made her cry, and you post here almost proud of bringing someone to tears because you refuse to see things from her point of view?
I don't think they are really comparable to be honest.

If you look at the type of businesses that BH is involved in, it's things that have "book value," in other words tangible assets that can be inventoried, depreciate and are generally considered durable goods. In "Tech" the vast majority of assets are human capital and it is too "fickle" and companies are very easily supplanted for the really long game that BH plays. Notice that the "tech" they do own is in things like IBM

Coke for example is a big asset of BH that falls slightly outside of this because the bulk of what makes Coke - Coke, is it's brand. But even still, it has a massive industrial capacity.
imho, if the operations are to be performed in a certain order, use chaining. Otherwise, passing a config object is much cleaner
Im hesitant to say that's the intended result but it is what happens. I found myself planning new districts entirely around this problem with bus, metro, and pedestrian walkways (maybe its just me but right now commuter rail seems to be basically unused and doesn't seem to do anything). So it definitely does force you to think about how you're laying out your city and plan things out beyond then just tossing down a grid and calling it a day.
I think that the ones you really have to watch are the intelligent and industrious ones. They do not have time to stop wondering whether their goal is sensible or not, and being intelligent, they have means to push towards their goal much further that dumb and lazy will ever be able.
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This is a nice feature, in light of the secret gist fiasco with Uber. I'm curious how they're handling versioning of images/binary data via git (e.g. using git annex).
I kept waiting for the payoff from the title. It never arrived. It's not the language her daughter speaks at daycare, it's that she's at daycare. That's the cause of this. Same thing happened to my son and he went to an English-speaking daycare. They grow apart from you, for a reason.
Just curious why you chose to truncate a few lines away from the finish, rather than simply pasting the poem in its entirety? Was it because the last few lines take a vaguely-religious turn, and you thought the audience here would be hostile? I have no strong opinion either way there, I just find the edit interesting.
A glance at the front page finds that it's mostly about new events or commentary; stuff like this is the exception.
Since these seem to be licensed taxis, they should be fine.
Isn't that essentially what the Mayday PAC has been trying to do? The results so far seem mixed, at best.
The author does restrict which core the guest can run on, with a patch to qemu. And the guest is limited to a single CPU/core (-smp 1).
If that's the analogy you're going to use, it's probably worth remembering that the new jobs mechanisation created in the industrial revolution were in horrible conditions where the people using the new technologies died young after being worked to death putting in long hours for minimal wages.
It's liable to customer preference, one thing the public busses are not.
Or, if parent isn't wrong, that the practice of medicine by human doctors will be replaced by the practice of medicine by non-humans (i.e., machines).
With the obvious disclaimers about the TOC and potential safety issues I do like the overall idea. I commute roughly 50 minutes each way by train and prefer it a lot over going by car even if a car is more felxible. The major benefit for me is that I can read (or use my laptop).

I think the "open area" and especially the "opt in share info stuff" has the potential to be the most game changing. I'd really enjoy commuting even more if I had the option to socialize with interesting people. The typical train layout and general no-contact atmosphere on trains isn't really helping much.

Especially in SV I can imagine some quite interesting discussions and talks while commuting. In fact I could imagine riding that bus even if I didn't have to travel which is a pretty good sign.

Aside from "not a travel company/safety" concerns my biggest issue is scale. Doesn't look like a ton of people fit on these buses. It might also work better for longer routes than the typical inner city stuff (plenty of people living outside core SV that wouldn't mind long route buses I'd guess)
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I've put about 12 hours in on my late 2013 13" mbp. For a decently sized-city (10k+), there aren't noticeable performance issues at full-screen and mostly 'medium' display options. Your fans will get a workout and you get about 30 minutes of battery life off the charger, though.
If they can create an actual Windows App Store (not a mobile, but Windows), they could more than make up the cost in the long run with a 30% cut (thats what everyone is charging for stores these days after all).

Not to mention their Office 365, MSDN, etc lines that are mad profitable.
>Take away the seats

It must be wonderful to be so young and healthy and not have any issues that keep you from standing 60+ minutes on a moving and uneven platform.
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It's not because I thought the audience would be hostile, but I don't like those last few lines (mainly because of that turn), and think it's a better poem without them. Do you think it's better to leave it intact?
Well, this is partly true, in that "they" decided to make Linux for themselves, and they were tech people. But a lot of the out of the box problem with drivers are out of the control of the people making the kernel -- device manufacturers guard the design of their devices, and thus they're the only ones who can write the necessary drivers. And with Linux having a smaller share of the commodity PC market than Windows, Windows gets most of the resources devoted to writing drivers.
Today my 5 month project failed, so I’m setting it free
I'm German, and speak that with my son. My son's mother is French, and she uses that with my son. She and I speak English when we converse. He goes to a bilingual French/English nursery school, which has mostly French expats' kids in it, and (happily) four kids that also speak German.

We never really discussed this when my son was born - it just happened, because doing it any other way was alien enough to not enter our heads. Seems to be the norm in Europe.

Yes, I struggle with French (his mum's German is pretty reasonable). I have a secret weapon though - I'm also native-fluent in Afrikaans, which I use when I scrape a shin, drive angry, or tease.

Being fluent in three languages never seemed like a big deal - my mother spoke seven. It is a big deal when you speak to a Brit about it, or to an American. I guess when you're used to chicken, beef might seem a little odd.
I'm the kid of parents who didn't speak my nursery's language, and the parent of a kid who also speaks a different language at nursery.

It's really not a big deal. They may speak a little slower, but they get it. I was a little worried a few months ago when my kids wasn't speaking well, but it's come on very suddenly.

One thing I think about is immersion. When I was a kid, there was only one TV station, and it showed stuff in Danish. You couldn't get away from learning the language when you spent all day speaking it with other kids, and then going home and watching TV in the same language. Nowadays, you can get TV in just about any language you like. I wonder if it makes a difference.
This article feels unfinished. The first example given, of the elongated c with superscript o is not justified. Why the elongation? Why the superscript o? Is this a common pattern in medieval Italian?

Next, it jumps to something very much resembling the modern percent sign without an argument as to why it's the same thing. Why would the c close? Why would the p be omitted? Is the bottom symbol a modified c or a modified p? Why did the elongation get detached from the C and move above?
I'm probably in the minority here, but for me the biggest appeal of the SimCity series was the aesthetic and music. The music in particular.

I absolutely love what I have seen of Skylines so far, but it seems to be missing the SimCity charm — that urban soundtrack, the way the buildings light up at night, the unique architecture and art style. I'm hoping mods will fill in all these areas.
The Vim mode in RStudio is rather disappointing. Doesn't even have support for macros.
> The latter being the type you attempted to describe.

From the schematics it seems that all Cherry keys have the same "mechanic" internally, the tactility is added with external plastic latches – unlike buckling spring keys, where the spring itself clicks during actuation and drives the switch.

> Is it a true statement that these switches essentially open and close a contact which in turn opens or closes a circuit? If so I would argue that although probably much cooler they accomplish the same thing as cherry switches :)

No doubt that all electrical switches, be they IBM or Cherry, are less cool than true mechanical ones. :) But there's still noticeable differences between the different technologies.
Ah but the level of detail and graphics?

I could see the contrusction workers actually working, moving vans with families, kids boarding coming out of the house, boarding the school bus (actually walking/climbing), going to the school, playing on the swings, the sand, the slides, people actually walking in the park, a car actually owned by a sim being parked at work, etc. SC5 is praised for this level of detail in its model.
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I'll admit the video is a little cringe worthy with hipsters and Vita Coco. But your criticisms are unfair and unfounded. Airplanes sell a range of seating options that have a price to comfort ratio. Train travellers have always had multiple cabins and pricing choices. Car services range from cheap taxis to black cars to take you to the airport. So there's no reason bus transportation can't offer an alternative to the current offering that's more expensive and therefore has better amenities.

In general I'm completely bearish though on these new types of public transportation options. We're about 10 - 15 years away from self driving electric cars that could fit 2 - 4 or 8 people based on design that will optimize route choices and pick you up from your door and drop you at the door you want to go whether that's 3 miles away or intercity. And the economics are already there ($6 probably gets you a long way is a Lyft rideshare right now) Leap could pivot to support that new model but I think super large vehicles on fixed routes is going the way of the dinosaur.
They specifically mention that they'll eventually intelligently figure out where they need to stop based on who signs up for a ride on the smartphone app. That seems like a pretty big potential win, in that they could do all sorts of creative things to minimize or control stops on the way.

It's worth a shot. I like seeing experiments like this that public transit can't do, even if it ultimately ends up failing.
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Your statement to an extent is correct, but at the same time it also supports the fact that those who have the ability to pay more for something are not privileged to be able to.

I would love to see the public transit systems improved, busses included. The issue here is that the privatized system and frills that the Leap busses have, which for all intents and purposes are mostly unnecessary, scream upper class while coming across as if the goal is to improve the entire public transit system, when in reality it isn't anywhere near the case.
If you're taking from drivers that means less cars. If you're taking from public trans, that means the city has to lower the number of buses on that route because the competition has taken their customers. Win-win as far as I can see.
I imagine Microsoft still make a good bit of cash from OS sales but mostly from manufacturers buying in bulk for new PCs, not so much from individual upgrades. It's the individual upgrades they are giving for free. Dunno if it's China only or if we can get them elsewhere?
Which HDS do you have? I'd like to have a better flashlight for getting through the woods in the dark.
Tim Cook on Apple's Future: Everything Can Change Except Values
I'm wondering the same thing - does the spec saying that it doesn't support Intel graphics just mean that I'd have to dial down the resolution, or is it a hard stop?
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> On the other hand I can get by with writing Haskell and OCaml without writing tests.

Well, I never want to have to maintain one of your Haskell or OCaml projects. If you think you can get by with any language without tests you are wrong.

That being said, yes it is easier to deal with lack of tests in a staticly typed/compiled language than in a dynamic language like clojure/ruby/python/perl/etc.

The main point I'd like to make to you is you aren't complaining about Clojure per say, you are complaining about dynamic languages in general. It just so happens clojure is the one you are picking on.

Either way, you might like Shen (http://www.shenlanguage.org/) though it is very much academic and has few tools around it, it is very much a HaLisp, though i'm not sure about the ML part.
Here in the Netherlands Uber drivers are being driven off the road, threatened and they have their cars marked (http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1038/Rotterdam/article/detail/3911575...)

Its crazy. I for one can't wait until the taxi mob is competed off the market. Taxi drivers here are more often than not complete a-holes that try to scam you every chance they get. I for one welcome uber with open arms. I'm sorry for the nice taxi drivers but your business is deeply ill.
Completely agree w/ you here in terms of language design.

OTOH what's done is done and I don't think one needs to eschew an idiomatic concept just because the people who designed it suck at naming.

Another example is 'case class', because of its heritage I have colleagues who insist it should only be used for pattern matching purposes. I strongly suspect that if the designers were to do things over again that what we know as 'case class' would just be called 'class'
I can't comment on UberX, but regular Uber should absolutely be subject to regular taxi/safety/liability clauses

Do you mean uberPOP? AFAIK, UberX is like regular Uber, but with smaller cars and lower fares.
Think of you as someone on a boat in the middle of a nasty storm. The fire alarm is sounding, but you have no evidence there is actually a fire at the engine room or whether it's serious. Do you issue an abandon ship order and head right away to the lifeboats knowing they probably cannot withstand the storm or you try to assess the fire before doing so?

Also, mind you, the impeachment has no legal basis as it can only be based on misconduct that occurred during the current term. This doctrine has been tested and established right after the reelection amendment was introduced.

And, finally, this is the first time the fire alarm sounded, despite the fact we had numerous immense fires all over the place (we all know that, right?). Do we really want to shoot the person who turned the alarms on? For the first time we actually seem to have a fire alarm and teams actually assessing its extent and causes. By running to the lifeboats we'd turn our backs on all that, as the people who would run the country are the very people at the center of the fire.
No kidding. This article just ends. Very pointless
It was a realistic simulation of a dystopian society in which people had no long term jobs or housing but were simply assigned to one each day based on proximity.
I have a ThinkPad 440s, which is a beefy machine in other respects, but has integrated graphics. I can't currently play the game due to rendering glitches :/
Interesting point of view. Choices of style apart, there are situations where textures are useful. Like for example the case faced by swayvil (see the comment), or when you need b/w printable images.
Another good reference is "Semiology of Graphics" of Jacques Bertin, he has a good opinion about textures.
Parent didn't say the status quo can't be changed, but that voting isn't an effective way of changing it.

Women's suffrage is a good example, since voting was exactly what they wanted to achieve, and so they had to do it - without voting!
They're in a super competitive market (Other public transport, Lyft, Uber etc) If they don't provide a valuable reliable service they'll pay the ultimate price. Public transportation companies may or may not have a better TOS but the question is what happens to them if they don't hit their TOS? Nothing because they're taxpayer funded/subsidized.
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It isn't a "class based" explanation. The poor and those riding the expensive buses are the same working class. I find it strange that the "middle class" considers it distinct from the "working class" when they themselves are also working class.

If you don't own a business, you are in the same class as 99% of the population.
My entreprise has migrated from XP to Win7 last year and is in no hurry to migrate again.

I think the strategy of microsoft is to accelerate the migration of users, even if it is for free in order to stimulate entreprises to migrate earlier and more often.
"As such, each PIN entry takes approximately 40 seconds, meaning that it would take up to ~111 hours to bruteforce a 4 digit PIN"

This is where a longer pass-code + TouchID is valuable.
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Interestingly enough, while it looks bizarre in a video game, this is functionally how left/right turn bays work in some large urban one-way streets in real-life. See, for example, this NYC intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/SCFrQ . The left turn lane is a parking lane until one is within half a block of the intersection in question. While it isn't as extreme as 2 lanes to 6, it's very similar. So... is it a hack for the game, or is it a hack for real-life, or neither?
It was median new housing developments. Not the housing of a median family, nor the housing of a median middle class family.

Again, Warren's claim is that median middle class families live in old homes. And even if they didn't median middle class homes are potentially smaller than median homes.
My wife is a native French speaker, and she's always spoken French to the kids. Unlike the author of this story, I've never really felt like I was getting left behind.

Before the kids were born, I spent a while studying an Assimil course (a fine course, from a French publisher, for people who like to learn mostly through osmosis with some notes). Afterwards, I plowed my way through 450 pages of a French non-fiction book, understanding maybe 75%. So when my wife started speaking French to the kids, I could kinda-sorta follow.

Several years later, I decided to improve my French. I forced myself to speak it as much as possible, and I read another 10,000 pages (about 40 novels' worth). I also bought DVD box sets of easy series and watched them straight through. Happily, my brain decided, "Oh, so it's French or nothing. Better learn some French, then."

Today I watch French TV and read French novels without much trouble. I can converse with French preschoolers, but adult conversation is a bit tricker—my spoken vocabulary is more like that of a bookish 9-year-old than that of an educated adult. On a good day, this doesn't slow me down much. I could probably work as a programmer in French, but I'd have trouble negotiating a consulting deal without more immersion.

Ironically, I currently speak French better than my kids do, because I get more exposure. Given the right environment, the brain seems to adapt.