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Multiple causation, as usual. They manage to push themselves as a payment-processing man-in-the-middle in an Asian-style ride-sharing service. Same for AirBnb. It is automation (payment processing) of "third world's" practices. Very clever in retrospect, but it is a matter of chance that these particular startups picked up momentum. Like Facebook.
The performance model is different than for strict/imperative code, but not really more difficult to reason about. And GHC has good profiling tools.
>I could elaborate

Please do.
Usually The Truth (in human matters) doesn't exist. Most human matters are nonsensical - or so complex that there is no way of knowing "The Truth".
Facebook just fix the biggest issue with (i)beacons today : You need to have an app that read them install on your device to get notify. This was a show stopper for most small business application as you will have needed the small business app installed on your phone. Now you will just need you costumer to have Facebook installed and they certainly do. This could revive the (i)Beacon industry.
I am afraid we are comparing apples to oranges.

First of all, any single shopping cart is typically accessed by one single process at a time: the user's browser. I can of course open two or more browser sessions, but this is not a typical use case, it definitely has an upper limit (how many browser tabs can I use concurrently?) and most importantly, lost or duplicated transactions are easily spotted and corrected (you do get plenty of chances to revise your order before paying).

A bank account can be "hit" by different sources at the same time (just think of a company bank account, not just a personal one) and most importantly, duplicated or lost transactions are much harder to prove and rectify.
That was before it became a political imperative to drown the government in a bathtub.
I love public transportation, and I love how good Denmark is compared to other countries.

But this is not to say that we haven’t had absolutely execrable forays with our trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4.

What I mean to say is that, sometimes, public transit is less something to “figure out” than something to “get right”. We got public transportation right, but we’ve been doing our darndest to fuck it up on multiple occasions.
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You might want to google "rescue industry".
MultiDex brings its own problems with it. First it makes compilation times even worse, but it can also lead to unpredictable crashes during class load for Android < 5.0.
Before using it, you really need to try to get under the 65k limit instead.
Funny you should say that, I used http://www.changedetection.com/ to make my own for that very page
> In the long run Taylor Swift will make more money from a free trial than if Apple offered the service without a free trial-- because more people will sign up and ultimately end up with royalties going to Taylor.

Someone did the math and came to a different conclusion: https://www.baekdal.com/opinion/taylor-swift-is-right-about-... . Assuming Apple Music generates $ 10 billion in revenue per year, artists never make up the cost while Apple saves $1.6 billion the first year of Apple Music.
Fantastic! The whole site is great. My kids have been pestering me to let them do stuff like this and I didn't really know where to start.

Bookmarked.
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What is the level of opportunity for these young women (and lets call them women that is what they usually, calling them girls makes them sound like less human and more of a commodity) in the origin countries.

Fighting pimps and such is all good but cut off supply then there is no need to deal with pimps. Are hiring laws enforced in these countries?
And to think the UKUSA agencies tried to cover up this clusterfuck by having the Murdoch rags blame it on Snowden.

(JRun and Windows XP? Really?)
Except that's now how human visual perception works. Movement is distracting and one of the main reason people hate banner ads (which historically have been extremely attention grabbing, occasionally resorting to strobing for maximum attention).

Our brains are geared for paying attention to things that move, especially things that move irregularly (like poorly looped gifs).
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renting out isn't sharing.
Give munin another chance, I find it's the easiest to setup from the list.
Political correctness in USA is very destructive.

It's amazing how blind so-called "compassionate-class" can be of other cultures. In latin culture, being masculine is normal. In other cultures, it's not frowned upon to court a women in public, it's romantic.

Americans are often due for a huge culture shock if they decide to live abroad. Many shelter themselves in tour groups or resorts.

I highly recommend Americans humble themselves and realize they're not the center of the Earth.
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It would seem to me that managing a large organisation like Sainsbury's has more in common with managing a large organisation like Network Rail/Generic TOC than being able to drive a train does.
indeed, they are the super-middleman because digital platforms can grow much larger than analog ones.
This is the shit the NSA should be worrying about. Securing the US IT infrastructure against nation-state intrusion. Not dragnets of everyone's naked selfies.
Occasionally. And a lot of energy is dissipated snapping the tether. Sure, it's not perfect.... but canopies on F1? Nah.
And how is Australia's continental train service, then?
No, they are not really expensive. Let's take your example of Frankfurt -> Berlin.

A 2nd class ICE ticket (without any reductions) is 123€ (1st class is 203€).

Going the 550km (Google Maps estimate) by car will cost 247€ (estimated by the ADAC, the largest German automobile club, for a VW Golf VII).

While you might want to argue that if you drive a lot by car, those costs per km will decrease, the same goes for travelling a lot by train.
If as a business owner you're not interested in your customers' privacy, remind me not to do business with you.
Laziness doesn't take away determinism. I agree you may have some surprises but they all make sense when you understand them. I've only ever had one really baffling problem due to un-evaluated thunks building up and it did not take long to find the root of it using the profiler.
Let's be fair though. American culture and American standpoints are not any worse than others for these reasons, merely different. One person's "political correctness" is another person's "code of conduct."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaly_Mam

is an example.
CPU's should be able to be given a binary blob, and nothing bad can happen

That's great, but what happens when it wants do to I/O? You need a route out of the sandbox, ie an attack surface.

I don't think it even needs new hardware. Normal OS-level memory protection is good enough. What it does need is new software, to allow you to run a subwindow as another user, with a permissions-granting system for those occasions when you want to allow it access to the crown jewels like the microphone, accelerometer and GPS.
A huge problem with F1 is how the money is divided. Ferrari gets 100 million for being Ferrari, championship winning teams get well over 150 million and the small teams get nothing to 10 million.

If the money would be divided more fairly the changes between the topteams and backmarkers would be a lot smaller, and teams like Manor might actually find themselves somewhere in the midfield of F1.

The concept this guy drew looks nice, but I don't think it is realistic. He says F1 should have more simple rules so designers have more freedom in designing beautiful cars. Problem is; they don't want to design a beautiful car. The teams are only interested in fast/efficient cars. Give them more freedom and they won't come up with the McLaren in this post but probably with some horrific looking car just because it gains them a few tenths of a second.
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Well of course I don't mean to completely replace the government.

But how about making it more lean? How about modernizing with the times? How about making it all much more transparent and accountable? Couldn't open source software do all of this?

We could start with systems that are used by smaller, poorer countries & grow from there.

A visa processing system might be a good start.
The Marshall plan supported the rebuild of Europe after the WWII ("supported" in a much stronger way: it was based on donations, not credit), for a long time. Without that, Europe would have probably needed a longer time to recover - which would have been bad for the world (and particular for the American) economy.

Let's not be naive here: the Americans did this because it was in their interest to do it. Long-term, it payed-out. And we need to learn from them in this regard: it is in the interest of Europe to "invest" in a stabilization of the Euro-area. We need to make clear that for a long-term solution, sacrifices and restructuring is necessary - but those can only go so far.

Greece has done whatever it was able to. They have no more reform margin. Greece is technically bankrupt, and the Euro-area has to bail it out. In three decades time, we will be happy. This is the first serious crisis of the Euro: how we handle it, will define if the Euro has a long-term survival chance - even if it does not mean immediately collapse. Letting go of Greece will destroy the Euro; which is what lots of short-sighted euro-parties (or self-interested outside parties) want, interestingly.
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> Van Overbeeke makes other practical changes to his cars: They’re stripped down, free of many of the aerodynamic doodads that add cost and complication to car design.

Just because you have skills in one field, don't assume they transfer to another.

Those "doodads" have been through a metric fuck-tonne of windtunnel testing & modelling.
I've long had a soft spot for low probability, high-return science.

I've looked around the net also, but not recently.

The problem in the past was 1) sites set up by folks looking to scam people, and 2) people who were emotionally not well and unable to discuss such matters critically without getting into conspiracy theories and emotional-reasoning-based discussions.

Both of those things kill it. If somebody could come up with a way to have reasonable and critical open-minded discussions of things like this? Sign me up.
> Is there anywhere in the world where the train system is 'really good' for a majority of people?

I think Switzerland comes pretty close to this. Granted, I was only a tourist, but was really nice seeing how you could take a train from Geneva to any of the towns bordering Lake Geneva almost all night long, at pretty good intervals. And they were always on time, at the minute.
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It is if you live there. You share space and cost.
This is probably just part of the story. The other part is that most systems that are that old are probably black boxes by now. Everyone who knew at one point in their life what those systems actually do has retired by now. 'Simply' adding encryption, even with other libraries as mentioned in another comment would require knowing what these systems actually do. There is no magic encryption blanket that you can just toss over things.
Note to self: when there's something I don't like, get a celeb to voice their support!
I think you might underestimate how big is the error in the normal (wifi) location sensing (e.g. see here[1]). Bluetooth beacons add a much more localized spot, so much less likely to pop up the wrong place on your device, which is very important for this to be any real use.

[1]: https://gigaom.com/2012/08/17/how-much-better-is-gps-over-wi...
America _does_ have great trains. The world's best, in fact. They're just used to carry freight, not passengers, which actually makes much more sense for most of the routes given the distances involved. [1] I can't find a more recent direct comparision, but in 2000 38% of freight in the US went by Rail, as opposed to 8% in Europe - by 2010, that rose to 43%. At PPP, US Rail transport is the cheapest in the world, including China.

There are areas of the US where high-speed passenger rail would make sense, and it's a shame that more hasn't been done in that area, but I do think that since the industry was deregulated the market has done a good job of concentrating rail investment on areas where it actually makes sense.

1 - http://www.economist.com/node/16636101
What will they become when regulation catches up with reality?
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>> "F1 has got pretty boring, and the drivers think it could be better. I hope they simplify the back wings so racing can get closer... at the moment most of the overtakes are done under DRS, so driver skill isn't so much of a factor in race position."

Quite subjective - a lot of people find the current format very exciting. It seems to me a vocal minority who don't remember how boring it can really get (i.e. the Schumacher years). As for overtakes if you watch the last couple of races there has been some great race craft. DRS isn't perfect but when it works right the driver is given just enough help but still has to work really hard.
The meteoric rise of Eddie Cue hits a bump in the road here as the supposed uber-negotiator at Apple left them in a bad position with no leverage against independents who had literally nothing to lose by withholding their catalogs from the Apple Music launch.
That only works between celebs (Apple is a celeb as well).
Japan > England >> USA. Just being able to take the TGV from London to Paris is mindblowing.

I define great as it being generally possible to get where I want to go on the train (this is the most important factor) and then as a bonus it's usually competitive with driving, busing, flying, cycling, or walking in terms of comfort, cost, and convenience.
I'm confused by which metric Australia is bigger then America? Since America is like 25% larger in landmass and has more people in some of its larger states than the entire population of Australia.
That rather proves the opposite: 6s Clojure startup time, for reasons that aren't obvious enough to be included in that blog post.
Ask HN: Is SASS development stagnating?
I fell in love with SCSS on first sight and it has greatly helped me improve my front-end programming. From time to time I think of features that could make it even better. However, when I went to propose them I found that they are already proposed, like optional imports [1] and importing .css files (besides .scss) [2]. Some are closed, even though they are still planned for some point in the future.

While I understand that it's a large project and it should be not easy to manage it, the date is from 2011 and 2013. Further investigation[3] shows that from 2007-2011, the top contributor Natalie Weizenbaum (nex3) was really active (~4k commits) in the site but now she seems to work for Google[4] on Dart. The 2nd biggest contributor made ~494 commits, or 10%. Third one made 40 or 1%.

As a SCSS developer myself [5] I am interested in seeing SASS advance. I am of course not saying this in a negative tone, I am unable to contribute myself with ruby. I tried to contribute with some issues but as mentioned they are already filled.

Is SASS development stagnating? If so, what can we do to help it keep going? (for ruby but also non-ruby developers)

[1] https://github.com/sass/sass/issues/779
[2] https://github.com/sass/sass/issues/193
[3] https://github.com/sass/sass/graphs/contributors
[4] https://twitter.com/nex3
[5] https://github.com/picnicss/picnic
I used to have one, but I lived in a hard water area, and the felt evaporator scaled up and is stopped working.

IIRC a sipping bird is powered by the heat differential caused by cooling of the evaporator. This thing seems to be powered by centre-of-gravity changes caused by motion of hygroscopic material.

I suspect that IRL it would very quickly stop working due to gunk in the water affecting the hygroscopic material, but it's a very neat hack nevertheless.

I wonder if you could build a passive humidifier out of one of these? Float one in a container of (clean) water and attach some fan blades. As it spins, it pushes water into the air. At the very least it'd make a fun executive toy.
Not really. It's big, but most of it is uninhabitable. And it has less than a tenth of the population of the US; 23m vs 318m.
At what point will you stop justify said "code of conduct"?
Asking for Raif Badawi.
Yes. That's partly how I got the Alan Turing apology in 2009. Really helps to get celebrities on board, particularly because it gives the media something to write about.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/how-alan-turing-finally-got...

On August 18, 2009 the petition made the national news with a major
story in The Independent, and at the same time the first celebrity
name appeared on the list of signatures: Richard Dawkins.

With one celebrity name and national press I began to think the
petition might really get noticed. The following night Richard
Dawkins and I appeared on Channel 4 News to talk about the petition (Dawkins was filmed looking regal in his garden; I was filmed in classic programmer clothing: bad shoes, dirty shorts and a crumpled shirt).
You could argue that Greece found itself in war against the financial markets. They share some of the blame (like everybody does in any war), but the markets won, so they could provide reparations for the defeated Greece. As in the Marshall Plan example, it is in the interest of (some) financial market players to ensure that Greece can come back to the table, and specially to ensure that the Euro-area has a long-term prospect.

The analogy may seem stupid, but I say it describes pretty well the world we are leaving in.
This is a perfectly valid comment until it's proven wrong. I don't think it should be "LA LA LA I'm not list-en-ing"-downvoted.
Nice one - during my studies I was implementing the The Spineless Tagless G-machine in Haskell - @bartqk - maybe you can find this interesting / inspiring: http://ow.ly/OBXQ6. Or in general search for any paper by Simon L. Peyton Jones. (like this one: http://ow.ly/OBY0K)
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Thanks, I actually found a decent way to work with Webpack and Typescript, still figuring out how to import files/modules and use JS code from TS.
You might want to read the execute summary of this report [0]. It was produced by a panel whom the New Zealand government commissioned to examine the effect of legalising prostitution in New Zealand. The results are perhaps more ambiguous than anyone would like, but at least you know that the report isn't politically slanted.

(For a little bit of context: prostitution became legal in New Zealand in 2003.)

[0] http://www.justice.govt.nz/policy/commercial-property-and-re...
I dont think the americans should take offense at this. It's just a cultural quirkiness, like tipping or haggling.
Unfortunately, it is not true. In germany prostitution was legalized a few years ago and what mostly happened was a massive increase in it. The situation of prostitutes barely improved and human trafficking went up.

But you have to keep in mind that that is also the effect of only one country doing it. What would happen if the whole EU legalized prostitution is a different question.
Acceptable (daily/twice daily trains between major cities), however I was wrong on my first point[1]. I guess the lack of people and the huge, impossibly large landscapes makes it seem larger than it is.

1. http://www.aboutaustralia.com/australia-size-compared-to-usa...
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I'd say there's a bit of Dunning-Kruger effect

Some people will describe their work as "Built an application from scratch that filters numbers based on mathematical properties while also generating said list of numbers based on stakeholders specification"

(This is FizzBuzz btw)

They put on paper everything the recruiter wants to hear, they recognize no weakness on themselves, they "accept all challenges", etc
I don't see this as a zero sum game.

Apple have received a huge amount of publicity from this, and are now being viewed as a company on the side of the artists, and, unusually for Apple, as a company which actively listens.
Good point about air travel. I didn't even bring that into the equation, but the efficiencies and economics are relevant. Particularly trans-continental flights between major cities, like NYC -> LA, or PHL -> Seattle.
Turboprop business is an another airline, eurolot; it changes, but it is often a separate company.
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I don't liked the title of this submission. It wasn't a battle. It was a request from a potential customer, which the company understood and worked upon.
are now being viewed as a company on the side of the artists

Huh? Not by me.
Apple should have done the right thing from the first.

As it is, they're going to have to pay the royalties anyway - without also having to get hit with negative coverage.

The below must have stung:

“We don’t ask you for free iPhones,” she added. “Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”

Apple's very quick U-turn on the issue is commendable.
I just today had my Blunt umbrella[1] delivered, haven't had a chance to use it yet but it's certainly extremely sturdy and claims it'll withstand strong winds and i'm inclined to believe the claims after playing with it.

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This thread made me check out jobsy, they have an image of the NSA headquarters for their 'data analist' picture lol

https://i.imgur.com/1NnMpJs.png
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To be honest, it's a win-win no matter how you look at it. Apple wins, Taylor Swift wins, musicians win. To me, I look at this as an example of how Apple does understand public perception and is a master at making themselves look good in the public spotlight.
There is little mention of the technology used, but if Facebook is really interested in the kind of openness they claim when talking about Internet.org etc., they should adopt an open standard.

The Physical Web project (http://google.github.io/physical-web/) aims to set up such a standard based on existing technologies (Bluetooth, mDNS etc.), but it's being held back by lack of browser support. If Facebook were to adopt this, it would be a huge boost.
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From memory when they do it with babies they just let it evaporate out.
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Not all businesses have Wifi. Does an out of the box equivalent of iBeacon for Wifi exist? I'd be interested if you know of one.
I am currently in NZ and this was has been covered on every news station and have confirmed with friends it was the same in Australia as well as in HK as well. Both Taylor Swift and Apple have come out of this smelling like roses. Taylor for fighting for the poor, struggling artist and Apple for listening to consumers and for being a "historically progressive and generous company".

I can't remember the last time a backtrack has worked out quite so well for a company.