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>The Coasian revolution and public choice schools have since challenged this narrative quite significantly

And yet, Microsoft in the 90s and early 00s still happened. And there doesn't seem to be anything in what you've said that would demonstrate that we no longer need anti-trust laws (which are one form of regulation).

>The so-called "robber baron" era was not one of truly unconstrained capitalism at all. The "robber baron" era had the strict mercantilist and interventionist policies of Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List and the American School economists in full effect.

A "No True Scotsman" response at its finest. But it doesn't really respond to the point: removing regulation without putting some other constraints into the market is basically asking for a return to the 19th century market. And no one has come up with something that really works any better than regulation for many of these areas of the market.

>I can't give you a straight example of a "non-governmental regulation that doesn't ultimately derive authority from government," though in fairness this is ambiguous.

But, again, the entire point is that lassez faire supporters can't even give an "ideal" replacement for the government's role in regulation, consumer protection, anti-trust, or even dispute settlements that doesn't basically do exactly the same thing as government. Only being less transparent, and more costly to new players in a market (e.g. "binding arbitration").
I hate to sound oblivious but don't companies have the right to refuse service to anyone with almost no reason at all? It does seem a little extreme to me to deny service like he did regardless, but on the other side of things it really seems like consumers just like to complain about companies products but they end up buying them anyways. It's like they're trying to board a ship and sink it at the same time. I feel like the guy was trying to help the product by voicing his opinion but it certainly struck the wrong cord with Elon.
What does it mean that the LXC backend has been deprecated?
That's just hiding the liability under "product safety regulations". Undoubtedly when there is a manufacturer defect that causes a serious injury or death, the NZ government prosecutes them.
Uber will reimburse you if your driver screws up. It would be better if they didn't make mistakes in the first place, but this type of accountability never existed among yellow cabs.
As long as you can communicate the change to other branch users, I don't see the problem?
Rebrand until it sticks?
They also apparently re-upholster your couch and put the buttons back in different locations...
"Home aglow".

(aglow: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aglow)
That left a seriously bad taste in my mouth at the time; not sure I'd ever want to pay for services from that founder.

At best, it was neutral-meaning and _awfully_-executed.
> wouldn't stand a chance serving users-needs in 2016

I'll allow some simili-troll (only in appearances) rewrite :

... wouldn't stand a chance serving users-needs-that-they-think-they-have in 2016.

Trends go both ways, people think new shiny will make their life gloriouser so they run after that, then business run after that 'need' because that's what the milk machine wants. This leads to a constant spiraling where trends wave in and out, shifting properties by tiny amount most of the time. Maybe that's the best the universe can provide, and if businesses didn't play that game they'd take blows too deep to sustain.

I don't know how to describe mobile. I believe it will be the tail of the so called computer era, not a next phase. If I extrapolate, soon we'll have thumbnails computers in the single digit Watt consumption and GFLOPS. They won't be a thing anymore. Maybe I'm going Kurzweil too much.
I clicked "Get Maru" and signed up for the mailing list hoping that granted me access. They have a beta version for Nexus 5 but that's it. I unsubscribed and noted that I thought their execution was poor and that they wasted my time.
The 404 error pages are rather amusing:

http://inspirationui.com/tags/254

^ Tags should really be you know, actual tags, not tag ID's though, how are search engines supposed to know what each tag is outside of the URL (which is the easiest indicator I would assume). Only just noticed this about tags.
Watchlandia App: The “Siri, WTF Is Wrong W My Apple Watch?”
Lessons of Demopolis
People mocked the laundry-folding robot at CES, but if one that works and isn't too expensive hits the market, then I will absolutely get one.
I can send you one, I only need your email.
Show HN: Shark – A fast sparkline generator for Fish shell
Strange, I don't.
I noted that they look to repoint your brick work also.

Also, I have a cleaner but prefer them to leave some of the spiders in my house. Those spiders hopefully deter the more dangerous ones (redbacks, white-tailed, etc) and their webs hopefully frustrate mosquitoes.
Not to mention that service credit is more than I've ever gotten from Amazon when they've lost one of our VMs due to underlying hardware failure.
Iranian Revolutionary Justice (BBC Documentary) (2015)
I was thinking about this the other day. Sure Maru is a version of Microsoft continuum for android, but I wish there was a different implementation of this concept.

I wish that when I plug in my Android to my computer using a usb cable, I get a popup on my computer for the desktop version of the Android operating system.

Had MS implemented this, Continuum would have been far more relevant. Because as of now, you need far too much new hardware to make it work. Maru is also the same thing.
Sure. In an ideal-sane-world, it just means they're calling "dibs" on using it as a motto or tagline for instructional material.
That's exactly what an NSA stooge would want us to believe...
Nothing on there about this case at the moment:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/search?q=virnetx
My guess is that we all have predispositions to developing certain types of cancer....consider the medical histories of your grandparents, parents, and siblings for (approximate) guidance...

Your grandparents and parents provide a good real-world "preview" of the possibility(s) that genetic make-up might predispose one to certain infirmities, illnesses, cancers...

Maybe you should be on guard against those evidenced, to the extent possible...after all, you're very much like them...?

Did they live a life that eventually led to any medical conditions they experienced...?

Should you avoid the life choices that they made...?
Any idea on the priority of getting a container with working systemd ?

https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/5773 and https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/3629
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Pretty much everyone agrees on the basics: avoid white flour, sugar and processed foods. Get enough sleep, get sunlight and exercise.
At my last couple jobs there was actually a running joke that any time someone updated their LinkedIn profile it was because they were looking for another job. It seemed to actually be mostly true.

I work in tech.
Me too please?
Being married to your partner doesn't make much difference with respect to British immigration law. It just makes it somewhat easier to show that you really are in a relationship with someone. If she applies for a new visa on the basis that she has a partner who's a British citizen, then her partner will have to meet the income requirement regardless of whether they're married or not.
Right - but Square/Stripe/Braintree supply the merchant account and the processor for me, so I can sign up, pay a transparent/upfront fee schedule, and get payments delivered to my (standard checking) account.
>Community powered social platforms don't exist without the community, and private corporations exercising extended "we don't give a crap about the users even though we have millions (or hundreds of millions) of them" patterns must be... corrected.

The big difference here is "Community powered social platforms" don't pay a tax like citizens of the government do.

And, like some of us are trying to undo today, representation in a government/corporation skews heavily towards those that pay the bills.
I thought the same thing; they probably collect the email to notify you once they actually do have cleaners available. However, a much more frictionless approach would be to only ask for an email after the search, like "Would you like us to notify you once cleaners are available in your area?" That's more genuine.
The process of letting someone go is punishment for doing a poor job hiring
You are approaching this as a presentation and not achieving success. Try treating this as a business and each steering committee member as a VC. This means treating each member of the committee as an individual stake holder....your job is to convince EACH of them on what's in it for them....

The CEO is subtly trying to tell you that....
Stop Relying on F**king A/B Testing
I had ignored the AU case, good point. I did address the fact that it only indicates a single data point in the past that would be incorrect now.

It is a minor leak of information, which theoretically means it has value. The challenge is extracting that value.
The biggest performance issue I've encountered is with long lists. The most basic implementation means you will have to instantiate a new component for every item in the list even if only one of them has changed. I haven't spent that much time looking into it, so the bottleneck might be function binding (I hadn't thought of that before) but if anybody has an approach to this any ideas are appreciated. Maybe only pass an id as a prop and grab the rest from context?
Can private companies not offer dividends to their stock holders?
>Along with Zcash

Have you read about Monero or Bitcoin + Coinjoin + Joinmarket?
TrumpScript: making programming great again
So AWS will help Oracle customers move to Postgresql then?

Are there any features Postgresql is missing that Oracle has? That couldn't be developed in the Postgresql code base?
How do they make money? The cleaners can set their own hourly rate and get to keep the tips. If Homeaglow simply takes a cut, say 10%, then the cleaners don't really get their requested hourly rate though...
Intermediate Floating-Point Precision (2012)
Very exciting project! I'd love an invite if anyone can spare one. Email in profile.
And the Netflix iOS app is rated 2.5 stars.
Correct. They're definitely not targeting people that are just beginning to process payments.

Their intention is to likely attract really large merchants/platforms, one way or another.
Bernie Madoff stole $18 billion in his ponzi scheme.
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Most importantly - don't overeat and try to stick with eating within 6-8 hours a day, i.e. one or two meals only, no snacking, no liquid foods (soda, juices).
Late to the party, would really appreciate an invite.. Cheers!
The rickroll defense. I like it.
Yes, but you're missing some context. Specifically the theory that, historically, business profits have always been limited to a set percentage of overall GDP. Everytime it tries to expand beyond a certain point, the market seems to correct either through increased competition driving that number down or labor pushing back to get workers a greater share, or government taxation/regulation (in a few rare cases) pushing this back down.

It may seem like a historically high range of a few percentage points is no big deal, but it would be very surprising for that amount to stay constant over time and (when you account for compounding effects), it actually would be a big deal if it did stay at that level.
I love this. It found everything I threw at it. I hope the Fox lawyers don't take it down.

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=THERE%27S+A+STUFFED+PEPPER+...
And they're likely not including merchant accounts that will have their own price attached aside from whatever Visa will want to use their gateway.

This is not targeted at your average merchant.
The token comes from your acquirer (eg Stripe), not the bank-- the acquirer is the one holding the card info, then when you submit a request to your acquirer, they perform a lookup on the token, grab the card data, and do the real lifting of charging the card.

For a company like Visa, this should be a trivial feature.
Right: Assuming treaties were intended to override the rest of the Constitution is basically making the claim that everyone who ratified it back then was an idiot.
This calls for follow-up research on how the absorption ratio varies with distance traveled. Please excuse me while I apply for some grant money.
I'm more worried about the following post in that thread:

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We were loyal customers of DigitalOcean for over 2 years. We showed up to work one morning and had a client email stating that their website was down. We checked, sure enough. We tried logging in to our DI account and it said it was suspended. After searching around, we realized our CC had expired. No biggie, we'll just update it, turn the server back on and be on our way.

Nope. We had to contact customer service to get back in to our account. After updating the card info we realize that all our droplets are gone. We reach out to customer service again in which case they let us know that when a CC expires, an automated process kicks off and deletes the droplets. We've been a customer for 2 years, surely they could pick up the phone and call us. We've spent thousands of dollars with them.

Plan B, let's restore them from the backups we've been paying for. Nope! When they delete your droplets, they also delete your backups.

This is where we ask to speak to them on the phone and are denied. I then ask if they are insane and why they would delete someone's servers and backups via an automated process without a human at least checking to see if it is a loyal multi year customer who has a simple lapse with their CC expiry.

We had to find a backup on a developers machine from over a month prior and rebuild data using various megtods that took close to a week. In the end, DI gave us a $500 credit.

You get what you pay for. Anyone who uses DI for production or anything more than a hobby app is playing with fire. They do not care, they are apathetic, they will screw you over and the throw you a credit for their terrible service as a half assed apology.
It has a fucking kitten in it!

I love kittens, but jesus... that's an embarrassingly egregious appeal to das cute!

Overall, this is epic comedy. 5 stars, would recommend!
Where have all the readers gone?
I never voiced a categorical opposition to all forms of regulation. I just have a general preference for endogenously emerging one over exogenous statute. Remember we are discussing theory, not the actually existing mixed economy. Of course a Microsoft can and has happened under the latter, though legal action also took place.

Nor was that a "No True Scotsman" reply. It's straightforward history. The Hamiltonian program prevailed over Jeffersonian democracy.

Granted, you're failing to draw a distinction between the state and government in the abstract sense of having governance. I would dispute alternate forms of governance being less transparent. If anything, the principle of subsidiarity by which issues of governance should be handled at the most localized and decentralized level would ensure greater transparency and a more effective participation.

"Consumer protection" has been handled by trade associations, private standards bodies and other institutions for centuries. Modern states have largely not devised any particularly new or innovative approaches, merely shifted the ownership thereof.
Land is a scarce resource. Downtown properties in urban cities, beachfront properties, lake front properties.

Access to a hot new chef's 5 star restaurant on a Friday night.

Energy consumption can not increase without bound. Every human on the planet can not have a 10GW datacenter to simulate their own perfect Matrix where they are King of all creation. The thermodynamics of waste heat certainly puts limits on potential energy utilization for 15 billion humans.

Your inability to conceive of limitations that are certainly present, is not an indication that those limitations do not exist.
from the Hagakure
Can you elaborate? How might this resolve the issues mentioned in the article?
Thanks! I've heard of Popper and Kuhn, but just be seeing those names (and looking up the others), I realize I structured my question poorly.

In last year's CACM article "The Tears of Donald Knuth", Thomas Haigh writes about Knuth's Kailath lecture titled, "Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science", concerning "The History of the History of Software", at http://www.thecorememory.com/THTHS.pdf. Knuth presents the reasons he studies history, then describes how he believes historians no longer care about the subject matter itself, outside of some historians of mathematics.

Haigh's commentary, available at http://mags.acm.org/communications/january_2015?folio=40&pg=... , gives a more sociological explanation for the types of history that Knuth wants to read - "Historical work on computing framed primarily as a contribution to computer science", vs. the "Historical work on computing framed primarily as a contribution to a subfield of history or science studies" which is more common for trained historians, and how it fits into funding and research structures.

I understand how to do the sort of history that Knuth is interested in, because I am deeply embedded in the chemical information world. I also know that many people have worked on these sorts of histories, even if Haigh and Knuth say it's less common now. Are there any lessons from those experiences? If so, how do I learn about them?

In addition, Haigh writes "The truth is that regrettably little history of computer science, whether dumb or deep, has been written by trained historians even though the history of computing literature as a whole has been expanding rapidly."

What are the tools, methods, and approaches that a trained historian can bring to the field? Should I learn any of those methods to improve how I do my research? Should I consider taken some graduate level courses on the topic?

On this nuts&bolts of doing history, I know nothing, and wonder if there is some way to find out.
> That's a funny double standard you have right there with how you don't feel the need to audit GitHub before using it.

Where did I ever say I use Github with confidence?

I've answered this several times below: I use software all the time that I do not feel confident about.

My statement was about hopefully being able to use GitLab with confidence, which is a goal that is only attainable because I can deploy it on my own hardware. It's made easier by the fact that GitLab is open source.

If GitHub melted tonight, I'd jump on GitLab tomorrow, but I wouldn't feel confident about the security of my infrastructure.

That doesn't mean I feel confident about GitHub. AT ALL.

I'm not attacking GitLab.

I'm not inflating GitHub's security or importance.

All I'm saying is that I'll hopefully have the opportunity to review it before a nuclear GitHub meltdown forces me to blindly deploy it and not feel confident about it.

Can we all agree that that's an uncontroversial notion? Or is that too much to ask?
This looks like a concept based around Debian Chroot. There are several apps on the app store that will install a copy of debian in a chroot inside of android, and then when it boots, you can connect to the desktop via vnc.

Here's one app called "Complete Linux Installer" (looks outdated) that does this: https://goo.gl/5ryu5x

It certainly works, though there has definitely been limitations caused by the speed of the hardware and the latency that vnc introduces. I've never tried this on an external monitor and external input devices. There's also a gap because you need a separate vnc client.

Maru, if it exists, seems to work off the same concept, but with some polish. They have an install of Debian that can run on your phone. The Maru app will run in the background and detect when an external display is connected. This tells it to spin up the debian OS. Then it must do something to connect to debian's desktop (vnc, nomachine, or proprietary solution), and output that solely to the secondary screen.

This last bit seems the most magical to me (and probably device dependent), but then again, my experience with android and secondary displays is somewhat limited to the mirroring that happens when you attach a monitor. Alternatively is the chromecast concept where your app turns into a control and the content is sent to the chromecast. Maybe the concept of running an app entirely on a second display is a native android concept these days.
This is the first ad platform I've seen that is innovative in a good way, instead of the usual remarketing/tracking/native/data whatever bullshit. Seriously, awesome idea and execution. Have you gotten any press for this?
Would anyone mind sharing an invitation? I've been waiting in line for close to a year.

My email address is visible on my profile.

Thanks in advance to the HN community!
Yes totally this! I spend a huge amount of time in #docker on Freenode pointing people at resources to solve their problems. I am fairly regular in my "there is no right answer, just the best answer for your environment" attitude, but I always point exactly at what you've said: "But if you do it this way, there's a huge amount of prior work done solving this problem versus the way you want to go"...
This

I was always getting grounded, parents would take away everything, send me to my room, all I had in there was a Tandy.
Preserves the permission, user, group, time-stamps, and complete original name and path. Granted, there's a small overlap with what gzip also provides, but a tar file is as close to the original as you generally gets. Oh, and exotic: support for sparse files (if enabled).
> My email address is visible on my profile

No it isn't :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012814

and many others
>Once you find a cleaner you love, directly connect with them
to always get them back

Never used Homejoy, was the above always a feature?
Dropbox works with the NSA to hand over customer data. You are absolutely right that something like this would go over like a turd in a punchbowl at Dropbox HQ.
Obama wants to tax oil companies $10 a barrel to pay for clean transportation
One time my CC expired on DO because there was a fraudulent purchase on it and I had to get a new one. I got a brief e-mail from DO noting there was a problem charging my card, and updated it the same day.

What if I was on vacation, and didn't see this e-mail for a few days? shudder

In what world is automating the deletion of customer data a good idea?
I realized that I updated my profile in a different tab and forgot to hit save!
Sure, sometimes it's more convenient to work at staying dry...especially if you need to be dry for a reason--work, an appointment, grocery shopping, etc...I'm pointing out and advocating something different...

Getting wet or cold; neither "causes" sickness...that theory was debunked years ago...

I commute to work in cities for some of my gigs, but don't live in them...my leisure time is mine...getting wet..?...It's just not that big of a deal when I have no pressing business...fear of getting wet is no reason to miss the magic of standing out in the rain...

We lead different lives, my friend...and both are OK...
Indian scientist develops world's first vaccine for Zika virus
Simple use-case I cobbled together after reading this:

Show HN: Signed Blogs with Keybase.io file system [1]

It's ugly as anything (no stylesheet), but just wanted to demonstrate what I think could be an interesting use.

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11039145)
>They keep adding more apps to the core OS image that can only be updated with a full software update now.

This is a huge drawback for Safari, both on desktop and mobile.