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There are (were?) lots of taxi co-ops. Unfortunately, they've been demutualizing over the last 50 years.

The issue, in the US at least, is the IRS. There's a fairly massive legal grey area in how to treat patronage (distributed profits) for members of a worker co-op. Are they dividends? If so, they should be taxed at the capital rate. Or are they bonuses? Then they're taxed at the income rate.

But the IRS doesn't want to give any guidance on this and other issues it created with co-ops. You literally only find out the day they sue you whether you've been doing it right. And, if you put up a fight, they always settle instead of pursuing the case to judgement, in fear of setting a precedent.

Oh, and good luck finding a lawyer or accountant specializing in co-op law to help you out.

The problem with worker co-ops is not that they're infeasible. It's that decades of lobbying and IRS paranoia have hobbled the model. Ironically, they work fantastically well here in the developing world. It's an extremely efficient way of pooling risk, aggregating labor, and achieving economies of scale without selling off a massive stake to VCs.
https and HTTP/2 are not the same thing, though. Until HTTP/2 traffic is the vast majority when compared to HTTP/1.1 with TLS, you can't claim https and HTTP/2 are the same.

For example, if you terminate your secure traffic on an AWS ELB (or using S3, or CloudFront), you are serving HTTP/1.1 with TLS. And will be for the foreseeable future.
It's pretty inefficient. Consider the communications are AM based, line of sight, and a single frequency can't stand two transmissions at once, or the transmission as a whole is garbled. But that's how directives are given and acknowledged between ATC and pilot.
Is this really going to be that different from things like the Arch wiki?
his "above statement" is not at all absurd, it reflects the thinking of somebody who is drawing a parallel because they are clearly educated in the Nobel prize attracting (i.e. hardly obscure) field of microeconomics; if you can't see that, am I right in guessing you have not studied micro? Cuz if you did, you missed a chunk of it.

| HN is a weird place to bemoan prices when many here are seeking unicorn valuations while disrupting industry

HN is a place where many seek unicorn valuations which are only achievable from monopoly rents. Monopoly rents are what the headphone USB trick is attempting to collect (see bundling). That's what makes it pertinent to state "weird place to take this side" especially so vociferously... well, weird side to take unless you are not educated about econ and are unable to decode what's actually happening.

If the software producer did not try to enforce copy protection through the USB scheme, they would presumably face the problem of people copying the software and buying aftermarket headphones. In a large scale industry like operating systems (Microsoft Windows) such rent seeking behavior is to be deplored because prices of individual copies of the software should approach their very-inexpensive marginal cost. But the marginal cost of a niche piece of software such as this ADA software is complicated by the difficulty in earning back the development costs. This is the justification for patents, etc. whether you believe in it strongly or less strongly or not. I am less strongly a believer, but I'm not a pussy who downvotes people who disagree with me.
IsoHunt launches unofficial KAT mirror
Definitely. In fact it's the overseas teams that I really want to meet. Finding out whether they have their own 'destiny', or are simply coders-for-hire, is incredibly important.
Everything processes user input. Whether a numeric user id or some text.
Nope... The triangle notation is actually awesome because it does NOT put all the focus on the fact that EXP, SQRT an LOG are functions, and it actually promotes thinking at a higher level than first order functions: it's about an expression than can generate multiple functions or a higher order function.

Let me explain:

Let we define

EX(b, e, x) := { pow(b, e) == x }

And then the notational rule saying that "substitution a parameter for a star/asterix in an expression is defined as the value obtained by solving that expression for the substituted parameter", so now we have:

EX(b, e, *) == pow(b, e)
EX(a, *, b) == log(a, b)
EX(*, e, x) == root(e, x) # or sqrt(x) if e == 2

And here you go: "triangles notation" in "words" :)

And from this on you can go much easier to much deeper questions than the ones you get from staring at the graphs of 3 different functions that don't seem to relate much to each other.

Classic mathematical notation is great for doing very basic physics and engineering... but horrible for anything deeper. Only thing is that people doing anything deeper are smart enough to be able to tolerate a few horrible notations and probably even like them because they scare the "peasants" away :)

But we should be prioritising what's best for education, not for the macho-ism of uber-physicists or uber-mathematicians, so go triangles go!
Another business that does this is the hearing aid racket. An audiologist examines a patient, comes up with a patient's profile (some kind of EQ / convolution map), and then loads that into the hearing aid using proprietary programming cable and software.

There are other settings more under the preferences category than DSP, like what profiles go on what switch setting, beeps, things like that. But these are all guarded jealously.

The aids are very expensive, more than $5k, for what's now ancient tech. They've only recently gotten BT and only then at the high end, more like $8k for the BT models.

We really need open hardware and software, so home users can get an audiologist to compute their profile and then do what they want with it.
Bruce Bethke: The Etymology of “Cyberpunk” (2000)
It's a department within a large company, so the Glassdoor data may not help. But thank you!
What of it?
That map drawn by Joseph Smith looks awfully similar to a 5280x5280 .PNG I made a while ago, minus the 6-lane expressway and the 5-lane arterial roads.

Based on that thought experiment, my opinion is that there is no way this guy is ever going to get a town of 20000 people in one square mile of Vermont and still sustain a modernized economy.

In my image, I tessellated a square mile into 9600 rectangles, each 88'x33'. 928 of those rectangles became 50'-wide arterial roads flanked by 8'-wide sidewalks. 320 of those rectangles became a 176'-wide expressway corridor with 8 double-crossover overpass interchanges to the arterial roads. (These road areas would also have utility conduits underneath the road surface.) The remaining 8352 lots have an identical access easement for 18'-wide streets, 20' on each side for perpendicular parking, and another 4' on each side for sidewalks.

I assumed 60% of building lots would be residential buildings, with average occupancy of 4 people per residential lot, for a maximum of 20045 residents, with a total of 15776 on-street parking spaces, and 223 of the 640 acres left over for parks, commercial buildings, and government buildings.

The image ignores potential geographical obstructions, so the only way you could get all 29 local access streets, all 8 arterial roads, and the expressway to go through is to build on flat, featureless land, as one might find somewhere between Wichita, Minneapolis, and Indianapolis. In Vermont, there's no way.

And if you are intending to build a city in America without reserving at least 1.8 parking spaces per household, you're going to have problems. Some of the non-residential lots would have to be dedicated parking lots or garages, because the non-residential buildings need more than 1.8 parking spaces per unit cell. About a third of your permanent "residents" are going to be cars, and half of your money-importing commercial visitors will be cars. If you plan your whole city around temples, rather than truck routes, sewers, and optical fiber backbones, you're doing it wrong.
Jolla reverts claims of piracy of Sailfish OS by Indian partner Intex
As nfjstjstns notes, very often there is "a small second battery connected to the baseband for emergency purposes".
Not sure flow based programming necessitates a GUI any more than object oriented, functional or procedural programming does...
Show HN: I started a literary magazine for machine-generated text
In addition to being supported by the community, we (Lightbend) offer commercial support for Scala 2.11. If you're paying Oracle for Java 6 support beyond its EOL, perhaps you'd be willing to establish a commercial relationship with us as well? That said, the vast majority of our customers are eagerly upgrading to Java 8 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7346224, https://info.lightbend.com/COLL-2014-10-20-Java-8-II-Survey-...)
There's a new push for higher quality in China manufacturing. Last year, Li Keqiang publicly shamed China's ball-point pen industry for making shoddy products. This resulted in CEOs on TV looking scared.

There are some neat innovations coming out of China. One I particularly like is the development of LED power supplies that don't use electrolytic capacitors.[2] Currently, LED lamps tend to have power supply failures before they have LED failures. With the elimination of electrolytics, the power supply outlasts the LED. It's a clever piece of electrical engineering, with a 4-phase oscillator. Transistor count goes up, but transistors on an IC are cheap. The effect is that LED lamp life doubles and the power supply size decreases.

[1] http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/10/world/why-cant-china-m...
[2] http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/164083/1/Content.pdf
It's not about fairness, it's about accuracy. You can't accurately say this is just comparing HTTP and HTTPS; it's comparing HTTP/1.1 and HTTPS/2, why can't you just say that?

It's especially irksome that "httpvshttps.com" complains when your browser doesn't support HTTP/2, saying the results will be inaccurate. If the site were called "http1vshttps2.com" I would agree, but it's not.
Devops vs. SRE: Delayed Coverage of the Dumbest War
How does this work with the language? Do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese? My experience was that English didn't go very far in Beijing.

Contrast that with Sweden where the office language at a tech start up in Stockholm is most likely English.
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No reason it should blow your mind. Aside from the fact that Fortran has been around decades longer than Elixir, it is still the language of choice for vast areas of the scientific and technical industries, because of certain ways it works that no other language offers for high-speed computation.
IMHO, when AWS uses HTTP/2 and not HTTP/1.1 over TLS, then you can start claiming that https === HTTP/2. Until then, you've moved the goalposts well beyond what most of your peers would consider to be reasonable.

As a side note - what is the standard regarding multiplexing for terminating HTTP/2 proxies: i.e. how much multiplexing could make it across that boundary? Or is that a bridge we haven't crossed yet?
If you are the one responsible for pulling an idea together, even if you stood on the shoulders of giants, you should be able to profit from what you've done.

With that said, something like the situation you described with the cure for cancer seems like a prime target for eminent domain. The government can, in theory, force you to sell them your patent for a reasonable amount, if it's in the public interest.
Windows+10+Manager+1.1.6+Serial+keys+Working+Download
Pretty stupid article, -1 flamebait.

One thing I have always wondered about these waterfall comparisons is why http 1.1. is slower.
Since http 1.1 has keepalive, a browser should be able to send multiple requests upfront to the server, and the server can then stream them back. The lower limit on transfer time should therefore depend only on bandwidth.
That's a fairly harsh interpretation. A slightly different interpretation with the same result is that wealthy individuals benefit, and enjoy the benefits current system while understanding that it's broken and unfair. It doesn't have to be lip-service.
I'd like to see brainwaves being used as passwords. And the fun accompanying the government forcing suspects to think "unlock"
The current system screws over newcomers in favor of longtime residents. Rent control and Prop 13 mean that if you've been living in SF for a couple of decades, you're paying bargain-basement prices for either rent or property tax.

Asking people to vote against their interests doesn't work very well.
I don't agree. English in Beijing is not so common, but Hong Kong its very common.
I'm pretty sure if there were a negative effect of chickens on our reproductive rate, we would have discovered it any time in the last couple thousand years living in proximity to chickens.

That said, they do stink. I don't blame the mosquitoes at all.
I maintain that a web framework is probably one of the least interesting things that's enabled by a language like Elixir, a VM like BEAM, and a foundation like OTP... but... for whatever reason web frameworks have become the criteria by which we seem to measure languages these days.

That said. A chat application is really, really well-suited to Elixir.
The point seems to be size and minimalism (under 1k lines), not to compete with vim.
I completely and utterly disagree with you; language and word choice matters a lot: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/wol...

There is a lot of implied sub-communication that comes with word choice in human languages. Only an idiot or a robot would take everything by its literal meaning.
Yup, because somebody else might have even the same idea before.

Also, idea's are generally speaking very cheap.

In a world where progress is made in "smallish" increments it doesn't make any sense to allow exclusive rights to the first one to apply for a patent.

Furthermore, other industries that mainly idea-driven like fashion industry are less about protection, but more about advancing faster.
"but if neighboring areas are too far from each other I allow them to split, tearing the city along its most severe economic divides."

Interesting that, from an artistic standpoint, the high delta's in nearby neighborhoods house price leads to a more interesting sculpture. The city may be 'torn', but in this case it's a good thing... assuming you think mixed neighborhoods are better than the alternative (gated communities and slums).
I also like:

Blockchain Company's Smart Contracts Were Dumb: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-17/blockchain...

Bitcoin Bucket Shop Kicks Bucket: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-b...
But its a game of cat and mouse with which VPN providers are currently blocked.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137853 and marked it off-topic.
Yes you could, but you still end up with this dependence on a lookup when you store revocations.

Once you do that you lose the stateless benefit of cryptographically signing the object, and at that point you could just store the whole object and give the user a lookup id to the object without the complexity of cryptographically signing anything.
At some point during some school work I felt I could sense when someone tried to call me on my parents landline. More then half my life has passed since then and I have never felt close to replicating so I guess most likely my subconsciousness figured out some patterns in who called when.

Another observation though: I worked professionally with radar systems for a while and IIRC one of the oldtimers mentioned one isolated case where a person had been able to tell when a certain radar was transmitting in his sector. (Radars often only transmit in sectors turning away from the population.)

But, to be honest, I haven't heard about it anywhere else and most people who claim to sense that kind of radiation either refuses to undergo blind studies or fail them so if you treat this as anything but an old wives tale you have to do your research :-)
Definitely, I'm still not sure it's giving the 100% accurate size in memory, however it is definitely a step up from sys.getsizeof.

I've fixed the bug causing the above, thank you for the call out!
Agreed, I'm a big fan of his writing style: Easy to understand, with just the right amount of wit and sarcasm. Makes seemingly boring subjects fun to read!
Yup. Frequently, in mathematics, we have some ternary relation r(a, b, c) such that fixing values for any two arguments uniquely determines a corresponding value for the third. This encapsulates not only the relationship between a^b = c, log_a(c) = b, and b-th root of c = a, but also the relationship between a + b = c, c - a = b, and c - b = a, the relationship between a * b = c, c/a = b, and c/b = a (as well as the non-commutative version of this where we have separate notions of left- and right-division), and myriad other such ternary relations.

In all of these cases, a triangular notation is apt for expressing and emphasizing the structure that any two arguments fix the third.

That having been said, that is all the triangular notation does; it does not help with any further structure that may be around for that particular relation (e.g., rules like a^(b * c) = (a^b)^c, which the triangular notation does little to simplify, though perhaps further notational choices could make these also immediate and clear). Still, when that ternary structure is what one cares to emphasize (and why shouldn't it often be of interest?), one should go ahead and emphasize it.
In this day and age, no computer is just a CPU. Each radio effectively have their own CPU and accompanying firmware.

The phone OS is as much in control of that radio (at best) as your laptop is in control of the ISP router.
MIT might be a bit too strong of a switch for the author, but I think there is a better compromise than the AGPL. The AGPL has some worrying clauses in it that make it the actual legal nightmare that people used to paint the GPL with. I realize that may be the intention of the project author, but it does severely limit even other open source developers' willingness to touch the project with a ten foot pole.

I think a standard GPL license would be an improvement that would keep the intention and avoid some of the larger headaches of the Affero version.

Looks like Dokany is already LGPL/MIT-dual licensed though, so probably would just use that if I were building in this space: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
Pretty sure a simple suggestion of "don't think of an open lock" would do the trick. Or showing an animation of a lock opening. Even if the required image isn't of a lock, but of a "password image," the suggestion of "don't think of your password image" will probably conjure it up for most.
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Except that it's an order of magnitude slower than some other tech.
> But why should Twitter profit from a user captioning a video CNN created?

It appears that you are saying you can create something that incorporates fair use of a protected work, but you can't disseminate it, except maybe by some non-profit internet samizdat. That makes fair use a nullity.

Twitter isn't profiting from a work CNN created. They are, indirectly, profiting from user-created content, some of which is based on fair use, by creating a communications medium.
> This sounds more like "the vast majority of software developers like me" and I'm not sure how much value there is in debating something like that. Mark me down for "disagree".

I'm not a fan of this, but lets not act like A LOT of new projects aren't going in this direction because they are.

> the suggestions are so far-fetched as to be laughable.

Yeah, considering git still is a source of contention on the list changing anything in their process seems nuts.

> I have, in the past, skipped over projects when the only means of contribution or discussion is "sign up for our Slack/Gitter/etc. channel".

I understand - and i'm not a fan, but that goes both ways - lot of folks have skipped over projects when the primary forms of communication are mailing lists/irc - stuff that is foreign to them or seems like a hassle.

I do think that stuff like emacs does get hurt by their processes - moving to git was a big step. The devel list is less than welcoming and at times very hostile.
How an AI Will Help You Draft the Perfect 'Magic: The Gathering' Deck
The only points I can pick out are: use node, make sure your db queries are on one index, and make sure you turn off features of modules/frameworks you're not utilizing.

A lot of condescension for 3 small points.
Just curious -- why is evidence of tobacco use a red flag to you?
We appreciate your defending the HN community against spurious putdowns, but adding another spurious putdown is not a great way to go about it.
Granted. Many states allow open carry, which seems more fitting for such circumstances.

However, hunting large(-ish) game like boar with large caliber handguns is a thing. I don't know how they'd fare against bear and moose. It might be easier to tote something like a .44 magnum handgun to and from work in Alaska than a rifle or shotgun.

Ultimately I was just speculating as to why Alaska might allow permit-free conceal carry. It may have more to do with the self-reliance and history of the population than anything else.

I've never lived in Alaska, never hunted anything larger than jack rabbit, and never fired anything larger than a .44-mag revolver and rifle (they are pretty powerful, though).
Ask HN: Is there any submission privileges in hacker news?
Chef Summer Recipes: Prasad Chirnomula’s Sultana Chat
Despite the calls of "it's not fair!", I can see what he is getting at. From the end-user perspective, it doesn't matter what the underlying technology is: if it provides a faster (and more secure) experience, it's a win.

If there was some huge drawback to using HTTP/2, I can see why people might cry foul, but whether they like it or not, HTTP/2 is coming, so we might as well embrace it.
That makes obvious sense, but then the question becomes who has to have insurance on the car that's being driven: the owner/primary user, or the current driver? Generally I can drive my parent's or friend's car without an issue even if I'm not the person insuring the car, because the car is insured, but if I get into an accident the person responsible is not necessarily the driver, it's the insurance holder. Would we require every driver to have insurance for the car they're driving (and if we did, laws would have to chance because you can't currently have insurance "per hour").
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I don't know whats wrong with vanilla rails.
The most I have to do to organize large projects is used concerns.

For better performance I serve up json directly from Postgres.

All these additional abstractions makes it hard to migrate away later to another platform.