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> although if possible groups are sat together

At times they have taken this to a new low: upselling the benefit of sitting together. The seat assignment algorithm is probably optimizing profit, not retaining groups.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/07/30/airlines-and-parent...
I like Bitcoin a lot, but this is just wishful thinking. If you can't trust the bank, the place that has handled your money for decades, why would you trust a magical internet currency app that you can't even easily exchange for cash?

I went to read /r/bitcoin this morning but closed the tab pretty quickly, after reading all the cultish comments. That place is too much for me sometimes. I only go there for the "X now accepts Bitcoin" news, but there hasn't been any of that in ages, and the sites that used to accept it are now even phasing it out.
Remember the size is a consequence but it means it's a header of a subsection of an h3 which is then a header of a subsection of an h2. It could throw off the emphasis used in some screen readers or screw with a reading layout.

It's honestly probably not a big deal but it is an improper use of syntax and could mess with accessibility software in undesirable ways.
Still one more month to go as a free app, but in the first 10 days, Firo has gained 80,000 users.

Source: I'm the dev. :)
We are working on creating a smart ecommerce platform for women's clothing. People face following two problems while shopping online -

1. They are not able to buy all the matching things which can complete their look. Please visit here to see what I mean - http://www.janjuaclothing.com/black-white-net-dress . There is a section called 'Complete The Look'. We recommend items in this section based upon the current dress. This would be all done automatically. We are working on it

2. Finding the right size. We are also working on this. We will recommend perfect fitting brands\clothes to our users based upon their size. We are going to do without asking a single question to our users.

I am looking for a co-founder who have strong background in sales\marketing\business development especially in fashion industry. I have technical background. My email is in my profile.
A politicians' goal is to get reelected. If not, their party will quickly replace them with someone who has that goal.

Budget cuts, when they are made, are done in the places where they will minimise the political damage to the party making the cuts.

It's not that nobody can come up with saving money in the bureaucracy, military&secret services, government subsidies, etc. It's just that they are costly in terms of political power and therefore not discussed at all. And the easiest things to slash are things your own voters don't care about and the easiest taxes to increase those that your voters don't pay.

I doubt that any kind of economic thinking goes into these decisions.
Some claim the Germans intentionally inflated their currency to stiff the French who held crippling levels of debt over the Germans.
No offense to the bitcoin fanboys, but greeks overwhelmingly want the euro, not bitcoin.
Mexican Coke isn't any more significantly expensive than US Coke.
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As an investment - brilliant. As a value store - rather too risky. It's not like they can use it like a regular currency with no infrastructure for it.
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indeed, and I'm (just about) old enough to remember this from the first time around. what on earth do people from America make of this? Mind you, they must have had chimneys over there to knock down too, so 'appen they had their own Fred to do it
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> Are you taking as given that this never happens under capitalism?

Of course it's not foolproof. But the feedback loops that supply and demand provide mean that resources are more likely to be spent on things that at least some people want.
It's a big deal if you care about the semantic structure of a document.
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I remember reading an article that pointed out that despite the large investment in Bitcoin startups and so on in 2014 that the number of non-speculation transactions stayed pretty flat. It sounds like a decent metric and I wonder if that is still the case.
Yeah it seems you're right. The article makes it sound like they are comparing a page with Google's "knowledge graph" results at the top, with one where those are removed and the normal search results are at the top.

But what they are actually comparing it with is a made up results page where they replace Google's knowledge graph reviews which come from Google+, with reviews that come from Yelp. Obviously there are far more Yelp reviews than Google+, so people thing that page is better. But that totally ignores the fact that Yelp reviews are not trustworthy.

Edit: Here is the (very blurry) comparison: http://i.imgur.com/PMnSt0m.jpg

Notice that it doesn't mention that the reviews on the left are from Yelp.
1. He's talking about default within the Euro, which doesn't seem to be in the cards any more. As he notes (in a linked article), their ability to stay would depend on the ECB continuing to support the Greek banks. In reality, the ECB froze their Emergency Liquidity Assistance program yesterday, and Greece has imposed capital controls to avoid further bank runs.

2. This article was written three years ago, when the rest of Europe was in worse shape. It's not clear how a Greek default would affect the rest of the continent right now.

3. I have nothing against a reasoned argument that default is Greece's best remaining option (like yours, thanks!). What I object to is the semantic stopsign "FUD" in response to a situation that is legitimately uncertain and scary.
This isn't an article, this is just copy-paste from Ayn Rand.

And at that, it's copy-paste of a character in one of her objectivist-utopian fanfics beating up a strawman based on a misquote of 1 Timothy 6:

> But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
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> (1 Timothy 6:6-10 ESV)

The subject in view there is one of Christian priorities and contentment; for a Christian, faithful service to God must be held of much greater value than wealth, and therefore contentment with what God provides is an essential characteristic of a devout Christian.

It's not "EVERY EVIL ON EARTH COMES FROM MONEY"; indeed, the idea is far afield of Christianity. In the view of Christianity, every evil on earth comes from the sinful heart of man, whether or not money is even involved.

Rather, the actual statement -- the one Rand misquoted to distort into an easier strawman to fight -- is that a wholesale devotion to procurement of wealth is itself a wrong that leads to many other wrongs.

The really interesting thing, I think, is to see how the actual quote and its context does apply to Rand's strictly-utilitarian view of others.
Pretty obvious to the HN community, but perhaps worth making it obvious before this becomes a public thing that this is definitely not even remotely law-enforcement proof, just in case someone thinks of using this to tweet something illegal. You know it's only a matter of time...
Another reason to just have artificial delays in trading. If every exchange had a minimum of, say, a minute after an order is submitted until it is executed (during which time it couldn't be amended or cancelled of course) it seems you would greatly reduce the risk of "flash crashes"and unnatural manipulation of the market.

I know "market liquidity" is an argument for allowing HFT, but haven't hard a good explanation about why the economy would suffer so much if the ultra high frequency trading just wouldn't exist.

Note: I have about as much knowledge about this as people who suggest how SpaceX should improve. Just sayin.

Of course computer systems everywhere will have issues with an extra seconds (deltas being negative that can't be etc) but most of those systems aren't trading systems. Why is it that "markets" are in the focus of this? At y2k we were worried about planes falling out of the sky. Surely there must be worse things than stock market computer systems being confused?
I read that. I still don't understand how an h4 directly under an h2 impairs accessibility.
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I'm probably underselling it actually.

Since excel 2013 came out several spreadsheets which used to function in 2010 no longer do, and anything over ~50mb has become significantly less stable.

I've spent literally days debugging excel tools with VBA split all around between sheets, modules, classes etc with no documentation. Not to mention that additional logic lives in the various formulae inside worksheets (which may or may not be dynamically updated multiple times during code execution and then trigger a worksheet_changed macro).

The value of source control is pretty limited for an excel sheet, and I've been in a situation whereby a source controlled sheet could no longer be saved without excel crashing. The end solution was to copy all of the modules/sheets/extraneous code into a new workbook. A highly manual process. It appeared to work - but good luck proving I didn't screw it up.

Links to other workbooks are significantly more unstable in 2013 (they're probably a terrible idea anyway, but the company considers it the best way to affirm the data being used for calculations is right).

Excel 2013 launches differently to 2010 breaking every excel tool which relied on launch args.

I can probably find a bunch of other reasons that excel is something that literally gives me nightmares. I'm not exaggerating, and based on a few conversations with people in various finance companies this is far from isolated to myself and my company.
When it came out the PS2 was a rather cheap DVD player considering it also was a gaming console. I think the PS3 was among the cheaper if not the cheapest bluray player when it was released.
And I found pretty cool that my ps1 was able to play audio cds with a neat interface.
I have yet to meet a [CS]PRNG that cares about the passage of time.
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Except at least in my experience their results are Awful. I'd be really curious to know how often their predictions actually matched reality.

Not to mention flat out bugs

http://techsuxor.blogspot.jp/2011/05/google-weather-on-mobil...
What Greeks want is the government to not steal/hold/control their money as they are now doing, bitcoin solves that problem and doesnt require stashing money into a mattress.

This little Trezor device sitting on my desk (photo comparison versus plastic credit card shaped card) stores equivalent of dozens of thousands of euro safely and securely ;)

http://i.imgur.com/A8iDEBm.jpg
They already do that. Chasing after Matlab compatibility is no fun, but someone has to do it.

My impression right now is that Octave is too small for the Mathworks to take us seriously. It will take a lot of work to make Octave grow into something big enough for the Mathworks to acknowledge our existence. Hopefully by the time Octave is that big, we will have the means to defend ourselves, if it comes to that.
I'm surprised that no one in this thread (or on the broader Internet, as far as I can tell from a cursory web search) has any information the status of this "Revolution R" package that Microsoft recently acquired.

Is it a clean-room reimplementation of R? (like the relationship between .NET and Mono) Or is it a "distribution" of R? (like the relationship between Debian and Ubuntu?)

Whether the R implementation here is non-GPL, or whether it actually is running in a "fork-and-exec" separate process, I'm sure that Microsoft has their bases covered. They know more than a thing or two about software licensing, and certainly wouldn't take any risks of subjecting their flagship enterprise database to the GPL.

However, I'm completely uncertain as to what the legal status of Microsoft's R implementation means in terms of libraries that one can use from CRAN (aren't many of those GPL'ed as well?).

For me, I work in the real world, where you're not allowed to touch the GPL with a 10-foot pole, so this is of idle curiosity only. I'm not sure if Microsoft is trying to appeal to academia here, or if it's just a P.R. move in general... but if they expect to sell this to business users, then they're going to have to put a LOT more effort into clarifying its legal status.
How are those inside Greece supposed to get their hands on Bitcoin in order to start this process? Seems to require that someone is willing to pay Bitcoin in exchange for olives or cheese, or tuition, or surgery, or whatever you have to offer.
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But why would you place this tab on a live site? It's a great tool for developers, but there's no need to place this in production imo.
Traffic did grow. Hence the block size debates now playing out. However its growth was not wildly unanticipated or anything like that.

I agree that Bitcoin and Greece have nothing to do with each other. They have a form of "hard-ish money" at the moment in the Euro and Greece's problems would not really be fixed by Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin reddit is pretty cultish at times, yes.
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I wish they expanded the family / "mom" branch a bit.
There's our project, Paperize: http://paperize.io (spoiler alert: we're still invite only/early access!)

It's a web app, not a code library, but we're solving similar problems. We love Squib though, keep up the good work!
> Except the UK economy has been expanding for a long time now and it's still described as using austerity.

That's why I wrote that the UK was engaging in austerity. Past tense. Osborne abandoned austerity in 2012 (though the Cameron government's economic policymaking still does not show a clear strategy and the UK's economy is still pretty fragile [1]).

That the term "austerity" is sometimes used imprecisely (especially in colloquial speech) is not something I disagree with; however, austerity is not synonymous with having a balanced budget, as the OP claimed.

> Spending your way out of recession [in the midst of large pre-existing debt] has its own supporters and detractors. I've generally come to the conclusion that whatever your budgetary preference you can find an macro-economist to agree with you.

First, these are not the only two alternatives (fallacy of the excluded middle and all that). Second, critics of austerity do not rely on "finding a macro-economist to agree with them" but on the pretty clear evidence that at least for the ongoing crisis, austerity has been unsuccessful (change in government spending has been correlated with change in GDP; i.e., less government spending => less or negative GDP growth). In short, the hypothesis that austerity leads to GDP growth has so far been falsified by the evidence we have.

[1] Loss of real GDP and lower real wages compared to pre-crisis levels; a recovery largely fueled by consumption (in part, ironically, because of increased net migration to Britain) and rising housing prices, which is not sustainable in the long term.
That's sad, I tried to buy a plane ticket the other day and keep reminded how horrible the process is every time. I need to remember the Visa Secure thing password, and charging the CC fails three out of four times for no reason, and I have to restart the whole process again, etc.

Half of it is shitty website UI, but the other half is card-related. I wish I could just scan a QR code and pay. It's amazingly easy with Bitcoin, and integration is very easy, too, especially with Stripe, but it hasn't caught on. Too bad...
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Actually it is quite easy to exchange for cash, this week I had a localbitcoins meetup and sold 5000 euro worth of bitcoin (most of this I bought out my nerdy interest back in 2011 for peanuts), we met in coffee shop and had a nice geek to geek chat about bitcoin :)

Will use this towards replacing my old car.

Speaking of localbitcoins, the volume of trades just keep on growing and is a good indicator of the general bitcoin "economy"

http://i.imgur.com/uV6Asfc.png

http://i.imgur.com/sZ5qyel.png
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> I work in the real world

I must work in the imaginary world, since we are allowed to use GPL'ed stuff at work. In fact, I got hired at my current job to improve GPL'ed stuff. And I don't work in academia.

Whenever I hear stories about how big companies can't touch the GPL, I always call "bullshit". Of course they can; and in fact many large companies do. Some, sadly, are just full of inefficient bureaucracy that feeds their employees big fat lies about how the GPL will destroy us all.
<h4> under an <h2> has nothing to do with accessibility. Its just some people think it makes sense to have smaller headings after bigger ones and not the way around. I for one think that it sometimes is important to use an h2 after an h4. This has nothing to do with semantics btw.
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This is partly true but misses the point: if you're slashing social security spending and using the excuse that any government spending will lead to catastrophe, while still spending on whatever your political supporters want then you're lying to people, plain and simple. People have every right to be angry about that.
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All my hotel purchases in last year have been with bitcoin via Expedia, using a credit card form (and trusting it doesnt get "mistreated") feels like something from another era to me.
Yeah spot on. Accessibility is not something you show an award for. It's expected it will work on its own.
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Why are contacts sorted alphabetically?

We live in a world where we're connected to our contacts across multiple platforms (email/blogs/social media). There's a tremendous amount of information produced, yet every time we look at our contact lists, 'Aa' is at the top. Wouldn't it be a lot more helpful if our contacts were sorted by their latest activity?

Try Radar for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/radar-stay-informed/id1005993973?ls=1&mt=8
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It is not an investment, it is a tool that addresses some of the problems with legacy payment systems (tho doesnt solve them all bring its own quirks) especially when it comes to borders.

as for infrastructure, it is growing, I have been using bitcoin since 2011 in that time the possibilities for using bitcoin have grown exponentially for me and my company for everything from getting paid from far east cheaply and quickly to booking hotels, to buying petrol to ordering electronics and everything amazon/overstock has to offer.
Not sure if I was pleased or disappointed to discover this was not an implementation of the "all progress comes from pr0n" meme.

Not discussed was the obvious manga / anime / comic book theme. Why the game of thrones and abstract art themes mentioned in the article, and not coloring manga or a book themed on anime? Maybe the copyright/licensing situation is super weird in those fields, I can't imagine no one has ever thought of it.
From
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-skewed-search-results...

>A previously undisclosed report by staffers at the Federal Trade Commission reveals new details about how Google Inc. manipulated search results to favor its own services over rivals’, even when they weren’t most relevant for users.

>In a lengthy investigation, staffers in the FTC’s bureau of competition found evidence that Google boosted its own services for shopping, travel and local businesses by altering its ranking criteria and “scraping” content from other sites. It also deliberately demoted rivals.

>For example, the FTC staff noted that Google presented results from its flight-search tool ahead of other travel sites, even though Google offered fewer flight options. Google’s shopping results were ranked above rival comparison-shopping engines, even though users didn’t click on them at the same rate, the staff found. Many of the ways Google boosted its own results have not been previously disclosed.

>One way Google favored its own results was to change its ranking criteria. Google typically ranks sites based on measures like the number of links that point to a site, or how often users click on the site in search results.

>But Marissa Mayer, who was then a Google vice president, said Google didn’t use click-through rates to determine the ranking for its own specialized-search sites, because they would rank too low, according to the staff report

>Instead, Google would “automatically boost” its own sites for certain specialized searches that otherwise would favor rivals, the FTC found. If a comparison-shopping site was supposed to rank highly, Google Product Search was placed above it. When Yelp was deemed relevant to a user’s search query, Google Local would pop up on top of the results page, the staff wrote.

>Other regulators have found similar practices. European antitrust authorities in 2013 said Google had a different, “specialized” search algorithm for ranking its own content.

>To bolster its own listings, Google sometimes copied, or “scraped,” information from rival sites. According to the FTC report, Google copied Amazon’s rankings of how well products were selling, then used that information to rank its results for product searches. Amazon declined to comment.

>While Google promoted its own results, it sometimes demoted rivals, the FTC staff found. For example, Google compiled a list of comparison-shopping sites and “demoted them from the top 10 web results,” staff wrote. According to the report, Google users in tests didn’t like the changes; only after Google tweaked its search algorithm at least four times, and changed the ranking criteria, did the new results get “slightly positive” feedback, the staff said.

>Google’s efforts paid off, the FTC found. It said Google’s maneuvers reduced Web traffic to rivals, and increased traffic to Google sites.
And considerably lighter. Good for logistics.
I suspect it's similar to my experience with many video-lectures: on one hand, they are almost always filled with enough new information to keep my attention. However, the pace at which this information is fed to me can be just a bit too slow, meaning that my brain has to do too little work to process it. This combination of keeping attention while not activating my own thinking has an ability to put me sleep in a very drastic fashion. As in, trying to pay attention to the lecture and literally falling asleep in the blink of an eye.

The only way to counter this is to download the lectures and play them back at an increased pace - 1.2x to 1.5x, depending on the difficulty of the subject.

Perhaps the novels have the same issue for Kenji: too little stimulation to keep the mind going, even if it keeps your attention.
The next stage of infantalisation. I never thought it would get this bad!
your product reminds me of Quitter's Inc story by Stephen King. Don't know if that is a merely coincidence or you actually inspired by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc.
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