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had similar encounters with people asking how much longer it will take to get to Ashford as their Eurostar train leaves soon while on a train that stops at Ashford (Middlesex) instead of Ashford International, in Kent

that is a huge generalisation!

London has the largest fish, meat, and veg markets in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_markets_in_London#Whol...) sourcing fresh every day

you don't need to right be next to a field to have fresh produce every day and yes, there are plenty of farms near London

Full title "What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorcycle? Core-js just found out"

hn comments on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136

Exactly that - my partner's company constantly get negative GlassDoor reviews because there is a different company with a similar name in India

ah I see, yeah that annoys me too

it just seems to be the way the bbc do things, the "Rare ingredient..." title is on the main page http://www.bbc.com/travel/columns/food-hospitality, in fact that whole page is massively click-baity compared to the actual article titles

it's a shame we don't hear the kids side in the article

people I know who have done this have eventually changed and allowed/bought a phone as the in school peer pressure was huge and the kids ended up feeling excluded from their social groups as not fitting in (nothing wrong with kids finding their own path btw)

on the side note it looks like that is the deputy editor of the bbc.com travel section https://twitter.com/collectingmiles nothing wrong with promoting your teams work I guess, even if you do so silently

looking down the list of submissions interesting to see which articles pick up comments and which don't

also it seems they thrive on their focus on price - I'm sure a fair part of that is in the licencing of the tie-ins - but you never see them in a race to the bottom

decriminalized only

there is a similar thing in Brighton where there is a whole block of flats built above (presumably at the same time) as a multistory car park

when you park there it does look like they were just dropped on top

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Brighton/@50.8225466,-0...

exactly - I had a similar learning curve (and no CS degree) where I could never remember what certain methods did but I knew exactly what to google for the answer

same for "name-of-movie streaming release date" will give you a lot of seo filled long articles that often just end with "we don't know"

they pay a lot more than that, couldn't find a Spain cost but examples for the UK they pay on average £20,000 per year[1] - the cost varies on the rateable value of the pub

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-set-pieces-blog/201...

FB have already been fined over that "When Facebook took over the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014, it told the [EU] commission it would not be able to match user accounts on both platforms, but went on to do exactly that." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...

There are some great pictures here of the train ferry dock in Dover (UK)

http://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk/the-dover-train-ferr...

actually it was, the whole recruitment contract was for £495m, of which £113 went on the website

from the NAO summary:

> The Army initially expected to launch the new online system in July 2013. As we reported in 2014, the Department failed to meet its contractual obligations to provide the IT infrastructure to host Capita’s recruitment software. In January 2014, the Army passed responsibility for developing the whole system to Capita. After a series of delays, Capita launched the system in November 2017. The Army spent £113 million developing the new system and running the legacy system longer than expected. This was triple the original budget. Capita funded development of the new system and the costs of running the legacy systems from July 2015

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigat...

last years results https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16074793

They're faily common but only the bigger or more disruptive ones make the news, there was one last year[1] that closed a few bridges

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/19/wwii-bomb-di...

The screengrab[1] in the article show's only 96 reviews when the restaurant got to #1

[1] https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1512580232417-n...

(edited to update the image and review count)

> Reviews written by real people on different computers, so the anti-scammer technology TripAdvisor utilises doesn't pick up on my hoax.

It gets a little lost in the article but this and the above quote is all they did for the reviews

Still always good to keep in people's minds.

Personally I use linting rules for this, e.g. for React projects https://github.com/yannickcr/eslint-plugin-react/blob/master...

"The Guardian is now making more money from reader revenue including paid memberships and subscriptions, than advertising revenue."

Oh, I wasn't incinuating any blame with that comment, just that it's not always the case.

I read the article as covering all types of contracting, include my own.

> “One big issue is training,” notes Bidwell. “As an employee, your employer may pay to train you and keep you up to date on new technologies. They will also give you a chance to try new kinds of work and learn that way. As a contractor, nobody is paying for you to learn

I've now been contracting as a developer for as long as I was a permanent employee and I've learnt more as a contractor. Sometimes it's been a bit of luck with a job but the rest is mostly from only having to do the job you're in for - so no reviews, company meetings and the rest, plus I can pick and choose (and afford) to go to more workshops and conferences.

It can be easier to be complacent as a perm employee but less so as a contractor.

A more informative article was posted earlier last month (https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/09/08/tracking-smartph...), and there was more info on the data privacy elsewhere too (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/09/london_tube_trackin...) saying that TfL "depersonalized [MAC addresses] using a salt which [they] then discarded at the end of each day."

nothing wrong with a newspaper doing that, you can read it without paying:

> Receive complimentary access to two articles from The Times and The Sunday Times every week

It is yeah (Larsen C ice shelf)

When this has happened to me they'll stick their logo and contact details on the top

I agree.

The BBC do a similar thing with their football news roundup from the daily papers with "<short overview> <paper name> - subscription required"

This doesn't stop people who do subscribe to the site from reading the content linked to and gives a heads up for people who don't.

The Samsung story isn't exclusive to the WSJ and there are plenty of other free to access news sites that would have been better for the submission. If we ban paywalled sites entirely it would prevent submissions of exclusive content (which could be an interview or journal)