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Anybody who spent some time on https://community.spotify.com will agree that Spotify does not give a damn about the opinions of their most passionate users (the ones that actually want to improve the experience by participating in the forum!).
Especially since Spotify significantly increased font size and line spacing for no obvious reason [1] and no option to change it back even when this was a (from my perspective) widley demanded feature, I have lost confidence in the community process.

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/ideas/v2/ideapage/blog-id/i...
If I support the NSA can I get some of that money?
By the same reasoning, criminals literally pay the police to lock them up or shoot at them. Isn't that crazy????? No, that's how taxes work. You don't get to pick and choose which government functions to pay for.
The best thing Mcdonalds could do is to simplify their ingredient lists such that anyone could read them and see that they were composed of boring obvious ingredients. For example, if their fries contained just potatoes, salt and some cooking oil that wasn't canola or cottonseed oil and they advertised it, I'd buy them again. If they wanted to be revolutionary, they could go for certified non-gmo. The world needs boring simple obvious cheap food. People are sick of all the questionable food additive innovation of the last few decades.
Agree. I think we should change how we talk about this. Instead of talking about “the successful people” or “the rich” we should say “when we are successful we believe we deserve to be successful, when we are poor [..]”. In psychological terms, there are not difference between we and them, and that should show in the way we speak.

There are bias that we all suffer when we are poor and when we are rich:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865583328/Does-money-corr...

This is not a moral fault of the rich in the same way that it's not a moral fault of the poor. Only if we go beyond this confrontational mindset we can learn something.

As Ortega y Gasset put it: I am I and my circumstance
Whats wrong with GMO Potatoes/Fries?
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I would look at any possible correlation between "article at HBR" and small stock fluctuations in price downward.

It would make a good arbitrage point to make a bit extra money. As one cannot always report the news, one can make it.
Of course, of course... I was agreeing with you :) Nobody here wants to illegally avoid taxes :D

I am the author of the post, and my main concerned are about the fixed cost of run a company from estonia...

There are any expense that you need to pay no mater if you do business or not ?

Can I do my own accounting or I need someone who speak/write estonee ?

Do I need a phisical address in estonia to set up a company ?
What's wrong with canola oil?

Also, you're kind of missing the point that skinny fries without potato skin are low on the list of healthy ways to eat a potato.
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I made a script that plays/pauses Spotify through dbus, which I usually execute by opening dmenu. :)

My keyboard has media keys, but I thought I would prefer short textual commands to having to move my hand to the upper right of my keyboard (and probably miss the key if I wasn't looking?).
There is a fear around anything GMO. Regardless of the actual health effects, it acts as a selling point in the same way 'organic' does.
It's annoying that IETF so behind the times that they still don't use HTML for their RFCs. In the last 20 years they've published 3 specs for hypertext transform protocol, but are still unsure about actually using hypertext yet.

They're probably very concerned about readability on a VT-100 by users who don't have enough memory to run Lynx.

In the meantime the spec is unreadable on a mobile phone screen (their "HTML" version of the RFC is still the same fixed-width text stuffed in a `<pre>` tag).
can someone explain how this provides an advantage over using dig and diff?
Funny how Mael has won quite a lot of hype in the past years (it's still a rare name, sure, but it's much more common now than when I first ...acquired... it).
Can we please stop linking to Quora articles? Just post it on pastebin or something similar. It's silly to post to a place where you need to signup in order to read the material.
McDonalds doesn't sell GMO potatoes.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/11/15/3487642_mcdonalds-r...
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We should think of an universal standard for error messages, some of the points made in this document have caught of guard many times and should be standard practice for errors across all kinds of software.
> I find it funny Google own employees don't rate apps

It might have something to do with how Google runs an internal version of Google+ only for employees.
Anyone else think this is kind of odd? http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
You can also use their embedded player to watch it distorted: https://www.youtube.com/v/6Olt-ZtV_CE

Does anyone know which projection this is?
Also, Trinity:
http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
a simple example is a one-click payment + order action

A user action doesn't have to correspond to a single API call. Your users single click could translate to multiple API calls.

Additionally, as others have already mentioned, a conceptual resource does not have to equal a database entry.

In an application (front and back end) there are probably three data models: whats in the database, the "resources" transferred over the API, and what the client has locally (in memory or disk or both) and these three don't necessarily have a 1:1 mapping. For example, in an application I'm working on, the client stores a transformed denormalised version of the resources that allows easy filtering/searching/sorting in the UI, the API resources are very regular semantic "things" and the database stores them in a way that is easy to index and perform access control checks on.
I hadn't heard about this yet, but apparently it's been around for a couple of months. Here's an article I found - http://www.roadtovr.com/youtube-now-supports-360-video-no-vr...
The point of labor is to turn raw materials and energy into useful things and perforn services. When robots do this, those who own raw materials and energy will have increasing power.

I would invest in farm land, mines, water and solar panels. In the future we will have automated mining and prospecting robots that are tied to automated foundries that are tied to 3d printing and other forms of automated manufacturing. Within a small area you could have a fully vertically integrated brick factory or metal chair factory.

In the Soviet Union they once built a iron smelting factory out in the middle of nowhere near a big iron containing mountain. The engineers said they should build it near a population center, like in the west. It was very inefficient in the end because once the deposit ran out they had to ship the iron and people in to work there. In the future, the factory will be containerized and move itself around to where it's most convenient and that doesn't have to mean near a population center, because it will be fully automated.
It would be crazy, if criminals obeyed all the other laws and paid their taxes responsibly, as well as voted and participated in representative democracy. Which is why they don't.

Plus, to complete the analogy with our subject (which I mention explicitly) the police would have to be for-profit, which would be a terrible idea. But to answer your question, yes, it would absurd for criminals to vote in for-profit police that they choose to finance, and have shoot at them for profit.

The difference is that the public aren't criminals, and are protected by minimum sane levels of black-box surveillance for their protection, which they pay for via taxes. It's not supposed to be some profit-making activity. it's not "against" the public. the public aren't criminals.
Reminds me of the bit Chris Rock used to do about taking credit for stuff you're supposed to do

"I take care of my kids, I take them to school!" he says proudly

"That's what's you suppose to do you dumb M---F!"
You are right. Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display.

Love the piece still though.
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And they don't even support FLAC!
The smile on his face is telling. It reminded me of another old legend of music, and unsurprisingly, they were jamming together not long ago:

http://imgur.com/6UnkEd5 (from http://www.jambands.com/news/2012/12/04/bernard-purdie-joins...)

Hoping people will listen to his style and be inspired to make their instrument sing as well.
Everyone talks about McDonald's like they are doing something wrong, but as evidenced by the recent strong performance of the stock price, they are doing exactly what Wall St. expects, which is to provide mass-produced , uninteresting food to billions of consumers all over the world, which is a very profitable business and they have returned billions to shareholders in the form of a very high dividend. You cannot compare McDonald's with Chipotle or Shake Shack..it's a completely different business model and economy of scale. McDonald's is not dead, dying , or going away..they are just being McDonald's, that all.
You might be right. The pieces in question are on the third row from the bottom, second and fourth from the left. They really have similar details.
Simple: weather.
It is like someone videoed a VRML world.
Thanks Johnny Cash: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Management consultants typically don't have specialized expertise. They are generalists with good pedigrees, which makes them trustworthy in the eyes of their clients.

Management consultants often get called in to vet risky projects management is considering. The idea is that if a trusted outsider OKed the project, and it fails, then management at least didn't act irresponsibly in undertaking it. There's a surprising amount of ass-covering in this world.

The other scenario is when a decision needs to be made that will inevitably hurt someone in the company, so it's hard to find an impartial insider. This is why management consultants get pulled in for re-orgs, for example.
Well, I think the important thing is not whether there is slavery, but whether there is suffering. If the robots are programmed to be happy as slaves, voluntary slaves, is it so bad?
Also fit well with World Wide Web + Write Once Run Anywhere : any OS in any locale.
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Love https

This will be awesome for the worldwide enforcement of encryption.
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It is a pitty I do not use visual studio. But anyway, congratulations.

Any other Rust ide suggestions on MSWindows?
I have seen RabbitMQ and the like use it, it's still very good for its purposes.
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Yes, because it's not anonymized if I want it to be, but is indexable with my real name instead. Even if I remove my G+ account, many 3rd party services will index that data and keep it public.
Massively interested but I've been unable to see it after looking at it for 5 minutes with 3 people. Would you mind posting a screenshot or something where you show it??
What happens when the homeless from other cities start making their way to Medicine Hat?

I'd like for this to work out long-term, but it strikes me as unrealistic. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
There's nothing fundamental stopping cars breaking a normal speed limit, either. /s
Hopefully they do not kill mingw support, since this was their intention some time ago.
Why would anyone want to block ads? /s

http://imgur.com/xxq9RjU which then redirects to FT front page.

I mean, they have the data so they think it works. I just don't know who it works on.
Reason 1:

1. Company creates GMO.

2. Company visit farmers and make them offer.

3. Farmer don't want to buy for whatever reason.

4. Company buys land near farmer, plant GMO and wait for
bees to transfer genes to farmer

5. Company sue farmer for copyright infringement.

6. Farmer cannot afford lawyers, went bankrupt.

7. Company offer to drop the case if farmer buys their GMO.

8. Farmer eventually lost the land, company buys it, plant their GMO.

Reason 2:

1. Company want to improve plant, they have 2 choices:

a) make it more resistant to pest

b) make it more resistant to pesticide

2. Company chose b), then (allow farmers to) dump copious amount of pesticides on crop killing everything nearby.

3. Poisonous monoculture crop, bees are starving.
Thanks, I see your point. It's very practical. But I think this would not convince anyone that there is a 10 billion dollar business potential behind it.
These should be normalized for the number of births per year.
Actually McDonald's is not doing that. They're food sales has been suffering the last several years and the article is all about the other means they've been using to expand their market cap and "increase shareholder value". It's not dire straights, yet, but they have been losing market share consistently and this specific industry is constantly under threat from upstarts like the ones you mentioned.
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Perhaps my understanding is way off, but I don't think it's possible to reuse a connection across different origins (unless perhaps the IP address of the server was the same for those origins)
Python with Qt on top of C++ would probably be my choice, if pure C++ isn't an option.
The authors argument seems a bit muddled:

>The losers. A prime means of value extraction, stock buybacks snatch returns from workers and taxpayers who have contributed to the value-creation process.

A company buying back stock does not really "snatch returns from workers and taxpayers." They use earnings to buy shares back. If they overpay then the people selling their shares gain, the remaining shareholders lose out and if they underpay visa versa. Workers and taxpayers are not directly effected.
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RBS is a hidden gem. I like to think every research domain has something similar. Thanks for sharing the video -- that's cool. :)

(one of the things we did in one of his classes was learn about the history of printing and then prep & print our own folios using that press. pretty awesome, and a new perspective on the rapid pace of technology.)
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Canola contains small amounts of eurcic acid, which is bad for heart health and 80% of it is gmo and thus treated with tons of glyphosphate before harvest. Glyphosphate is classified as a possible carcinogen by the world health organization. Gmo varieties are engineered to resist glyphosphate so the farmer can apply more of it.
I like the app: the UI is amazing! I hope to see some technical posts about Swift on the Snappymob blog.

I have a small suggestion. I think the homepage copy would work better if you edited some of the clichés: "Make the app your own" and "Let Your Voice Be Heard" could be improved, for example.
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It sounds terrible and inhuman, but there is definitely some similarity to the target voices. It's much easier to detect the similarity when you compare the different voices to each other saying the same phrase, instead of just listening to one in isolation

Alan Rickman seems clearer than the others.
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That's pretty reasonable, if libre or boring started using it (especially since they both have other advantages over open).
You're making the mistake of thinking that only "OS vendors" are interested in languages like C++ or Rust, or that such languages are only interesting for the kernel space or embedded stuff. That couldn't be further from the truth.

Languages without a GC are a requirement for anything real-time and desirable even for soft real-time. A lot of applications fall into this space, including audio/video processing, real-time bidding systems or game engines. There's a really good reason for why a lot of software being built for the finance industry is being built in C++.

> not all GC were made alike and being able to use value types also helps

Value types don't help quite as much as people think, value types only help avoid some unnecessary boxing/unboxing, relieving some pressure from the young generation and that's it. The problem is storing a lot of data in memory which will imply heap management and dealing with a big old generation, no matter what you do.

And there are only 2 GC-enabled platforms suitable for many soft real time use-cases (but not all) and those would be Java and Erlang ... Erlang because it was built for such scenarios with its lightweight processes and the per-process GC and Java because it has fancy incremental and non-blocking GCs available, like the one from Azul.
Thank you! I hadn't yet had time to actually go and compare them. I'll have a look at monodraw as soon as I have some cash available (my car is sucking me dry...).
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What, you think Europeans don't lie and cheat as well?
You delightful pedant!
Overengineering is the biggest problem with the craft today. True craftsmanship is about giving the customer something appropriate to their needs, not making a magnum opus every time.
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This is really interesting: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Acting shocked at something doesn't make you right.

What can I say, I just can't see how there's much difference between 1) a woman being very forward with you and 2) a woman being very, very forward with you. There is a difference, but it's a difference in degree. If one is a good thing it's pretty unlikely that the other is a heinous, horrible thing.

I don't see how it would very traumatic any more than a woman hitting would be very painful: possible, but not the most likely outcome.
Well....

I've been raped but also have (what I would consider) rape fantasies. My sexual assault isn't at all like my rape fantasies. I can't say I understand it either but they are totally different in my mind. My fantasies are different in that I have fantasies about resisting my husband (someone I trust completely) who then holds me down "against" my will and "forces" it on me while I struggle to physically "resist" but ultimately lose. It's roleplaying and when you are roleplaying it isn't like reality by definition. When I was actually raped it was different but I'm not going to describe that here because I don't want to have to defend myself.

Of course that also has absolutely nothing to do with whatever that creepy dude was talking about comparing yellow lizards with breeding rapists. We can just also say the best rapists aren't the kind that are strangers who jump out of bushes (the kind that society hates). My rapist was a charismatic "lady's man." My rape was never reported but many years later my rapist is currently sitting in jail for raping someone else. Part of me feels like I'm responsible for the other women who he raped after me because I never said anything. I'm also sure the other woman who reported him probably got a lot of backlash too.

It probably helps that my assaults was a very long time ago and I didn't start having these fantasies until probably a decade later.
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Everyone talks about McDonald's like they are doing something wrong, but as evidenced by the recent strong performance of the stock price, they are doing exactly what Wall St. expects

And consequently that implies people believe the expectations of Wall Street are wrong, or at least not in line with what the majority of people believe is right. I think that's probably true.
Yeah the robots will take our jobs.

Just 1 question - finance is the pioneer of commercial application of digital machines. Not talking HFT here at all. Algorithms in trading stocks/otpions. Algorithms and programming in valuation in private equity. Algorithms in insurance and lending. Automation is everywhere. How come jobs in the sector only grow? Both in the big employers and in new employers.

How about an example closer to the HN crowd - BI. Such a prolifiteration in self-service BI. You previously had to wait 2 weeks for IT to update the cube, now you can do your analysis yourself in 50% of those cases. Corporate BI and reporting jobs should be declining because of this automation, right? How come the sector is exploding?
I was a bit surprised to see this admission:

> In the interests of full disclosure I should add that I was also persuaded to commit a series of small crimes during my sojourn at the hospital, and which I hope I can safely confess at this remove of half a century. I stole pituitary glands. About a hundred of them over the months. A research hospital had need of them—pituitaries produce a multitude of hormones, including the one that makes us grow, and I proved myself quite adept at finding them: a quick probe inside the base of the brain with my fingers, and the pea-sized gland would pop out of its cavity like a snail out of its shell. Each time I collected a jar full, a furtive man in a white coat would come around to collect them, handing over a five-pound note in exchange. If ever I felt squeamish, the man reassured me that those to whom the glands belonged would be unlikely to feel the loss, nor to complain.

There was a big scandal in England over the unauthorised removal of organs. Partly this was because doctors weren't explaining properly what they were doing to people who had no understanding of what was involved - "Can we remove some tissue?" instead of "can we take the heart of your dead child?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal

> The Alder Hey organs scandal involved the unauthorised removal, retention, and disposal of human tissue, including children’s organs, during the period 1988 to 1995. During this period organs were retained in more than 2,000 pots [this is a UK term of art for plastic formalin-filled containers of various sizes which are used to store tissues in pathology labs] containing body parts from around 850 infants. These were later uncovered at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, during a public inquiry into the organ retention scandal.

This was discovered by people investigating another scandal - the Bristol Heart Scandal.

And it's not as if the science was any good. A lot of it was low quality; partly because the documentation of the organ origins was so poor.

Dick van Velzen did great harm and mostly got away with it.
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Hmmm. I think it has well evolved beyond being a medical term of any kind and is now just an expression for somebody who is being stupid. There is a big difference being somebody who is stupid (something I would never say someone is), and somebody who is being stupid, which most of us do at least once a day.
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You can 'program' humans that way too. Doesn't mean they aren't slaves and it doesn't mean it isn't bad.

And anyway I suspect that your use of the word suffering implies a rather narrow definition of suffering that counts only material suffering as important.