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Your comment reminds me of the ev2. Back then, the first electric vehicles were being piloted on the road, and then California tried to create some sort of mandate to force all vehicles to eventually become electric. The mandate backfired because car manufacturers were now trying persuade the state that no one wanted electric cars, eventually causing all electric cars to forcibly be taken off the roads.
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Can this have any opportunity of be a real product in stores? What do you think HN? I'm just curious if future is already here...
Well, MVP just started. I was working on that idea part time and only few months ago at last switched for fulltime. Question was more about expectations from such project. Even from technical side.
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yes, you are right that it's not a pure product. publicize actually does the media outreach, and we're 100% transparent so companies can see what we'll send, who we'll contact, and more. i think the problem we tried to solve is that historically startups could either pay traditional pr firms $10,000+ a month (many which can't afford it), or founders can do PR themselves (many which don't have experience in this area or the time).
i think the current PR industry model works well for larger companies that aren't price-sensitive, but we wanted to create a PR service that minimized risk (we provide a 2 week money-back guarantee and prices are as low as $320/month) and maximized ROI for a market (early-stage startups) that I think historically was underserved.
Yeah it is becoming a bit bloated. Honestly I think all they had to do was add import/require and support 64 bit integers and numerics and the language would have been good enough.
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Yes, some laws are silly. Worker protections though? I don't think there's much to cheer about when the reason many of these sharing companies are so profitable is because they basically eliminate using employees for their "unskilled"(read: job markets with an excess of employable people) labor.

Also I would dispute that people(edit: this is basically impossible to prove, it'd be nice to see some data) see the sharing economy as "morally good". I certainly don't. Not because I don't think people should be allowed to share, but because I don't think corporations should be able to 1099 what are obviously employees in order to cut costs.

edit. I guess I'm getting downvoted because worker protections actually are considered a bad thing here? smh
> Delaware at #1 is $112.K per person GDP

Is that real, or a side effect of the number of companies which are basically ghost-chartered in Delaware?

> Delaware does have a higher CO2 emission rate per capita, tho (nearly 50% more than California)

I wonder how much of that is due to increased heating necessary during winter...
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

Same developer/ for advanced users

I have been using it since it was HTTP Switchboard and works wonders
Report: short term rentals have a net negative economic impact to SF [pdf]
Wasn't there some speculation that twitter itself had some bots auto-generating fake users, sending fake tweets, etc?

Even if they are not doing it, others certainly are for various reasons. I have always wondered what the true user count is.
In that case... I wonder if reordering things (e.g. CSS rules) could improve the compression ratio.
Every dollar of electricity generated from coal costs several dollars worth of health problems, its a net negative for a nation before you even consider climate change. Basically anything else is a better and cheaper option.

The only current problem with wind and solar in the US is the lack of it. There will need to be changes as it gets to a higher percentage of the grid but we already have various solutions for that, the main reason for not rolling out the solutions is the lack of problem to solve.
Is some of that CO2 imaginary, traded corporation pollution-points?
Fantastic. I was on the fence about lookng at Python in my spare time. Now I'm bound to do it at some point. VS is amazing.
"The hubris you have in saying this is farcicial. The fact is that you as an individual do not have the skills to out-negotiate this leviathan."

How so? I own my own business now (multiple, actually). But when I didn't, I easily negotiated my rates. How? I commanded a certain salary or I walked. When you have the skills, this isn't that difficult. I don't need a union.

Once I was hired, I always made myself valuable. I was only ever let go once when the company went under. The rest of the time, the company would try to do anything to get me to stay.

" but the notion that you as an individual have super-negotiating powers, and that only losers when faced with a pack of lawyers need their own pack of lawyers, is risible"

When are you ever faced with a 'pack of lawyers' when getting a job?? If it's reading and signing a contract, It's not that expensive to get an attorney to read it over.

"Why are they hiring you? Because for every dollar you make in salary, they are making $1 + $X off of you. They wouldn't hire you otherwise"

This is how capitalism works. You are leaving out the fact that companies take almost all of the risk. If projects fail or products don't sell, the company pays the price. The worst thing that will happen to an employee is that they need to find another job. If you want all of the profit and take all of the risks (which most people don't want to do), start your own company.

"By the way, workers in the same jobs, one union and negotiated by a team of lawyers, one non-union - studies show the workers who have the contract negotiated by a union statistically get a better contract, more wages etc"

Of course they do. Because most unskilled people (and people that have negotiation skills) end up getting low-paid jobs. The unions prop these people up and force a company to pay them way more than they are worth.

I have had family that joined an auto union. One of the big things they did was force companies to hire two workers for one job. The result? One person would work half the day while the other person golfed, went to the bar, had fun, etc. Both were paid a full wage for the day.

It's things like this that bankrupted the American auto industry.

A few years back, I went to a trade show in Vegas, because my company had a booth. We had to pay $500 for 1 person to setup a table and another $300 for someone to connect our computers to the network. Both took about 5 minutes. This was because the unions ran the show.

Unions are also the ones opposing services like Uber. They are trying to use political force and violence to push them out in many cities (and succeeding) and so many people in the tech industry are against this. Yet, they can't put two and two together and see that this is how the unions work everywhere.

I've seen it far too many times for you to tell me otherwise.
> It is NOT about monitoring stuff that is occurring outside that state, which is the intent of the watch

The added utility of a mindfulness reminder is fairly effective for a lot of people. The 'standup' reminders were a core component of the watch introduction by Apple.

> Nobody has to be instantly available to everyone.

True. I guess the idea is that the watch notifications are less disruptive to general life.
hmm in what way do you think it looks bad? I just double checked and the screenshots on the page are correct. I can see that some letters (MN) are too close together on the site. I'll try a different font version to see if that fixes it.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have a look and add them all if they work. But my internet right now is damaged so it might take some time.
Huh? I love prime. Never had issues with it. I have my own account though. I wonder how many people share prime.
The character limit is part of the usefulness in Twitter, for me - make your point. Be succinct.

This is why I hate people doing things like tweetstorms.
EMC and VMWare (and Cisco) have a partnership for the vBlock managed infrastructure device. VMWare has other managed device platfroms, like the EVO:RAIL, which runs on the hardware provided by other partners, like Dell or EMC. Or the vCloud, a VMWare managed service provider.

Overall their marketing seems a little unfocused. And these managed infrastructure devices are so large (physically, monetarily, resource-wise) that you're really tied into the one you chose, it's not easy to demo more than one of these at once.
I am running a payment platform that uses go, postgres, and several third-party APIs as well as offering one myself.
> That would require a central authority to verify signatures.

Nope. Each site would be its own verifying authority. All I care about as a site is that the sites which feed me are responsible for what they send me; all each of them cares about is the same. If any one site gets bad enough, I'll start to reject their articles.
I'm a .NET developer so to me this is a slam dunk. How does the Python crowd feel though? I'd guess the majority tend to be Microsoft-adverse. Why wouldn't you use VS when it seems to be so ahead of the competition?
I didn't even know it was possible until I read this article. My girlfriend (who lives with me) just logs into my Amazon account when she wants to order something so that she get the free two-day shipping.

We have a Roku 3 with the Amazon Instant Video app as well. I've never watched anything through the Amazon app but she does occasionally (again, using my account).

Knowing his will make things a bit easier, I guess, although we had pretty much worked around it just by sharing my account. Had I known, though, I probably would have shared the shipping with my (and perhaps the girlfriend's) parents.
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> And the Vim equivalent of org mode is what again?

VimWiki: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

Not 100% of the same functionality, but close enough for me as to not matter. For the missing features, I have the rest of the OS.
Maybe one could freeze it. :)
An inliner might break NotAdd, but why would it need to preserve it? Presumably an inliner is meant to be a homomorphism, not an isomorphism - i.e., it only goes one way.

Also, FreeBool[A] (the example given) actually handles substitution quite well. The `flatMap` operation will properly flatten things out:

And(A,B,C).flatMap(C => D & E) = AND(A,B,D,E)

Yes, the compiler did help me get that right.
So a company that does $2B/year in revenue isn't a real business?

Overvalued, maybe. But that's real cash.
For those who have used this:

- Does it perform better than PyCharm?

- How is Windows working for you as an OS (to develop Python on)?
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I write Python professionally, and it will be pretty hard to get me away from PyCharm. I don't see anything in the blog post that indicates a feature PyCharm doesn't already have.
> There are a number of semantic inconsistencies in JavaScript that need fixing, but the ES6 and ES7 additions do nothing to fix those, they merely add new features (read: complexity) to the language.

This, one hundred times. The current excuse for JS's surprising behavior is legacy and the fact that it was built in ten days or something.

Now that we are not in such a hurry, could we please fix the thing? It's not like new ES6 code is backwards compatible anyway.

I'd argue that we don't need many of those features. Lua is tiny, has a tiny interpreter, has a fast compiler (LuaJIT) and has been resisting new language additions and doing fine anywhere it's deployed. It helps that it has a nice design from the start.

But it doesn't have brackets and semicolons. People just love those, it seems.
Exactly. Winning the lotto is essentially impossible as well, but millions still play because there's a (ever so small) non-zero chance they'll hit. This would basically be celeb lotto.
I like VS but is this fundamentally better than PyDev? I've become accustomed to Eclipse so I get auto-complete and full interactive debugging already.
I don't think you quite understood my point. There should not be a pop-up at all. Ever. Period. You have calls-to-action all over the site. Having one more pop up while the user is trying to read or navigate your site will do nothing but alienate them.

Like I said, it reeks of desperation. Every time something pops up over the actual content of your site, you might as well just replace the text in that pop-up with "please, please, we beg you to give us your business!" Because that is all anybody sees. I assure you.

Source: Web developer of 18 years, watched companies literally go out of business based on similarly poor user experiences that I could not talk them out of.
I used it as my primary editor for two months, which IMO is more than enough time to give to a project like that. I was efficient in it, but none of the supposed productivity gains came about. On the other hand, in my IDE I can control-click on a method name to jump to it, or hit ctrl-r to rename something across the entire project, or hit alt-enter to automatically import a symbol when I know the name of a class I want but I can't quite remember the namespace it's in. Those things really do save me a lot of time; but the efficiency comes from the development environment being able to understand the code structure, not from being able to stack key commands.

If someone wants to use vim I'm not saying they shouldn't, I just think it's vastly overhyped.
I believe they think that. I don't really believe that they do.
Yeah I think it was just the strange kerning and size that it was displayed in. I know ProFont has bitmap sizes other than 9 (10, 12, 14, 24, etc.) but I'm not accustomed to seeing any other than 9 used for programming is all.

I have a patched version of profont for windows that correctly supports the powerline glyphs which I use in mintty. In the end, when I have everything configured (ClearType disabled, MacType excludes mintty.exe), it looks exactly like my above OS X screenshot.
I'll just say that I don't want to dismiss anything except for exaggerated marketing. I think it is reasonable to say that I should ignore it though.

> I think the paper is excellent. First, there's a big gap between academic papers on a topic and the experience of actually building a real system that works for real movies. It's unusual for people in industry to take the time to write up their experiences building these systems, so I salute their making this contribution to general knowledge about rendering systems.

I'm %100 with you. I love seeing the results of cache coherency used in a real scenario. I was only trying to say that the actual imagery could have been done in other renderers, albeit with more pain and I would guess more attention to level of detail.

So I'm not trying to downplay anything except for the idea that the actual movie itself couldn't have been done without cache coherent batch ray tracing, when in reality it is a big optimization that came from a bit of a leap of faith, which I think is significant enough to pay attention to.
It also depends on the DPI of your display. The classic Windows font renderer sacrifices accuracy for readability on low DPI displays. If the stroke of a font was going to be 1.3 pixels wide at a given siW Windows will just crop the extra 0.3 to give a crisp edge on low DPI displays. Unfortunately on HiDPI displays this can needlessly make the font stroke very thin.
> Unless, of course, you have a closed system everyone cooperates in; which is nothing like current email and cannot be rolled on gradually.

I was writing about NNTP, not SMTP—they are different.

> You cannot wipe out spam without losing the decentralization element built into current protocols.

NNTP was never decentralised like SMTP is. Each NNTP site had a very limited number of feeds, set up on a social basis. There was no concept that anyone could submit articles anywhere; rather, users submitted articles to their local site, which forwarded them on. In this environment, cutting bad feeds out would have worked (or at least, kept spam to a manageable level, which is all anyone really cares about).
When you say ahead of the competition, what do you mean?

Ive used it before (2005, 2008, 2010), but it was just another IDE. How have things improved?
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> the people

A certain subset of the people want this. Others (such as those in areas where rent and property prices have been driven up by AirBNB) don't.

> These companies are doing nothing wrong in the eye of the people

I've only rented an AirBNB place once, and when I did one of the neighbours gave me a blast about how having new people going in and out of the AirBNB rented apartment was disturbing his peace and the security of his own apartment. I can understand his viewpoint, and I doubt he's alone in it.

I'm not saying that AirBNB is right or wrong, and I get where you're coming from - I just think you're oversimplifying the complexities of public opinion on the matter.
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I've picked it up three times now, and every time the plugin combination I chose (nothing outside if what's included in Spacemacs, and using a fully supported install) would lock up the editor while using full CPU 3-4 times a day.

The minor upgrade in functionality wasn't worth the instability.
He has incentives to downplay the problem in public, though. He doesn't want the studios who license their content to Netflix to ask too many questions.
IMHO, if we are more united and concerned about our professions as a whole.

We'd organize to have professional licensing boards to artificially limit the supply of "licensed" coders and raise wages (e.g., American Medical Association that regulate MCAT/MLE Step exams, State Boards that administer bar exams etc, PE/professional engineer licenses).

But I'd like to consider coders as less calculating and more socialist that allows people from non-traditional backgrounds make the effort to join the ranks; and also heed to its "blue collar" technical roots than try to aspire to be elitist like doctors or lawyers.
I must apologize as well, starting with saying it's straw men is just a tad too passive aggressive.

We are if nothing else viewing the world through the glasses of our own experiences, and as such I must ask that you take my comment as such as such (I'll explain in just a second). There may yet be a better system than naked capitalism, but from experience socialism / welfare states can be a slippery slope, where the masses vote for ever increasing entitlements that does little to alleviate their circumstances.

The countries you have mentioned are indeed the epitomes of good governance and social responsibilty, but they have one other very important characteristic going for them. They are mostly homogeneous. I don't think the USA can say that of themselves anymore and from experience that complicates things quite a bit.

My rose tinted glasses :) . I am from South Africa, another non-homogeneous society with deep scars where we have slowly seen the expenditure of social grants (state welfare) creep up with very little to show for it [1], up to the point where the entire economy is risking collapse [2], not so much because of the expenditure of social grants per se, but because the society here have adopted an attitude of entitlement and looting [3].

So I guess my point is (and was poorly made), be very careful of the law of unintended consequences.

>>"I think it begins with education."

Maybe, who knows. I personally don't believe that anymore.

>>"merely because they represent an average citizen."

I think as in most discussions, balance between viewpoints is what must be sought. Certainly the average citizen must have at least some forms of state provided protection from the rich and powerful and poverty safety nets. But I have also seen the opposite where the poor votes for larger and larger royalties for themselves until the most industrious of society simply packs up and leaves, not willing to part with their earnings with no compensation in return. (Again my rose tinted glasses, in South Africa 2 million tax payers pay 80% of all taxes, and supports 18 million social grant receivers and 2 million salaried government workers. That is not a sustainable situation).

[1] http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/10/02/growth-in-social...

[2] http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/06/28/south-africa-fac...

[3] http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-20-analysis-a...
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I've been using Input Mono for a few years now. I think this is the longest I've stuck with a particular monospace font.

http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=python...
I recently went travelling and used it. An old woman opened the door to the apartment building for me when the lock was giving me trouble, then was then confused then concerned that she didn't recognize me.

I used it once before, in Barcelona, staying in the flat of a wonderful couple who we got along well with and it was like visiting relatives.

This time, it felt like we were saving a buck, and the owner making a buck, by scaring old ladies. I guess it's back to hotels and hostels.
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