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I am in favor of encouraging plausible, workable economic thinking. Jacobin is better described as leftist fever-dreams with roughly that level of connection to any reality.

Could things work differently? Absolutely. Are they going to work differently because some hack gets off fantasizing about how in abstract theory, the services Uber performs could be better performed by a co-op that pays workers more? No.

All the co-ops I've encountered or dealt with fall into one of three categories:

* Non-functional, incapable of making decisions or delivering value.

* Functional but completely unscalable. May depend on bizarro local economic conditions or be in one of the few cities where people are willing to pay 30% extra for pizza because it's a co-op.

* Function, scalable, and does not operate much like a co-op at the level of service delivery. REI falls into this category.

Uber works because it's functional, scalable, and reliable. You can go to almost any major city in the US, boot up your Uber app, and reasonably expect to get decent service. It is, abstractly, possible for a co-op to do that. You and Jacobin are completely, totally, 100% correct on this point. Things could be different and better for the people who Jacobin has decided matter.

In fact, we all live in a framework where such a thing is possible! If only someone was brave enough to put their labor where their mouth is. Maybe the propagandists at Jacobin could... nah. They wouldn't go for that. They much prefer theory.
Why would the DOD need a narc inside Tor, when it's the single largest funder of the project?
Correct. Presumably if Microsoft gave you a way to change the filename, some people would feel happier. Which is actually a bit sad...
> drivers feel like their services are worth a lot, and passengers simply don't believe it

That's an interesting issue. We see the same thing in real estate -- seller's think their homes are worth way more than anyone will pay for them. I think this is one of the reasons For Sale By Owner (skipping realtor fees) hasn't taken off yet in the US. The FSBO seller will price too high, the home will sit on market for a while and people will think there's something wrong with it so they'll stop considering it entirely. As an anecdote, someone approached us the other day wanting to sell their family home for ~$4M that would realistically fetch about half that based on recent comparable sales in the area. At our current scale we can talk him down from that ledge, but we'd really like that listing process to be self-service and online. Traditional agents will say you need a selling agent there to talk the seller down to a reasonable price but my gut says we could solve this with computers.
Or we should stop overlesgislating. Users are responsible for their own actions.
Yes, basically you need to rename C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_xxxxxxxxx folder. I prefixed mine with an _ character.
For me at least the definition of an open protocol is one where the spec is published and anyone can develop a complete implementation by following it which is free from licenses, royalties, etc.

I don't understand exactly what the proposed business model is or how it works here. If the business model is for Company X to develop and release a new open protocol which requires that implementations pay them cryptocurrency upon use, what's to stop implementers from just not implementing that part of the spec?

Or if the business model is that the protocol is both open and free, and Company X issues some new cryptocurrency in the hopes that people will speculate on it, why would they do that? By this article's own admission business models built around open protocols have disadvantages versus those built around closed protocols. So why would anyone want to bet on this company's future by buying its currency?

I guess the one thing I could see working would be if the company built not only the open protocol, but the initial user base to go along with it. If that user base was large enough before other implementations appeared, subsequent implementers might go ahead and pay whatever taxes the original implementer imposes in order to gain access to that user base. But this would imply that companies shouldn't launch with open protocols, they should only open up their protocol after it has succeeded; and also if the originator of the protocol controls such a large part of the user base, I don't see what stops them from moving those users to new versions of the protocol which progressively raise the fees they charge other implementors.

It bears mentioning that few if any of the open protocols we enjoy today were commercial projects which originated in the private sector and had a profit motive. If we can come up a way to align maximum profits with being open then that is great but it's worth considering other approaches as well. For example if a single, entrenched company controls a particular protocol with a large user base then developing an open alternative might be a good way for a consortium of competitors and other interested parties to collaborate and build a user base large enough to compete. Government might be justified in supporting such efforts as well. If there aren't already examples of governments getting involved when they view their national security to be at stake, we will see this soon.
> I was thinking how useful it would be to have some "bilingual districts" in at least the top EU cities

There are many people who (in my opinion rightfully) complain that when English speaking people talk of "bilingual"/"multilingual" they nearly always mean "native language + English" instead of "native language + another common language". For example in the southwest of Germany many people will understand French, too. But you stated clearly that this is exactly not what you mean.

> I'm considering relocating with my family from Rome

Here also Italian + French or Italian + German would be a very natural combinations for a bilingual district in Rome or Italy (Austria, Switzerland and France border to Italy - thus these combinations would be very natural).
good luck finding any competitor willing to sell you a small fleet of them and let you launch a competing service, not only that they are the ones in control so if you launch a competing service with them, they could disable your cars.

Uber, Apple and Google have all taken the approach that they will rely on their own autonomous systems retrofitted onto existing cars or potentially build new cars instead of relying on anything the existing car companies make, otherwise it makes no sense for any of them to be investing billions of dollars into research if they think they can just go to Ford/GM/Tesla/etc. in 2020 and buy enough cars to launch a fleet service.
The last two installs I did, on deadline day, I had to click to enable Cortana.
neural networks != AI
It's actually totalitarian dictatorships that get me passionate. Try reading my comments again. Or, just keep saying "communism" until it becomes what I was talking about -- it worked for the vast majority of Western culture.
Even after 8 or 10 hours, a shower is refreshing and you can continue working.

When working on tight deadlines, might be too tired to drive and taxi/Uber not always an option.

Even in science buildings at universities having nothing to do with startups, there are showers.
America can reduce its carbon footprint by 5%, save 300,000 lives/year, and save about $400 Billion dollars a year without spending a nickel.

If the 66% of the American population that's obese or overweight would just stop overeating, all of the above could happen overnight.
On the Cognicast there was an excellent tangent (all of them were good) in episode 106, where Michael Nygard bemoans with the fellow Cognitect Craig that, despite all the hate from the JSON generation, the failed promise of XML was the ability (again, that is part, not the whole) to have separated data and presentation with schemas, so you would not have to redesign endpoints all the damn time.

http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/106

This is just one view, and I am sure I will be mercilessly downvoted, as this is a gross simplification of that point, but it was one of many gems in that episode. I might finally review XSLT as this once again affirms things other devs told me when they said do not write off XML, in the complexity of it is something interesting.
Info on the Longhorn project: http://longhorn.ms/
The data says otherwise for the midwest. We are going through abrupt climate change, there are global effects and it's accelerating.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/regions/midwest
It isn't a question of karma, but of community, which you omitted to consider.

The suggestion has come up over the years that HN should just have comments without usernames. The answer is that that would be a fundamentally different site, so we're not going to do it. If that's what you prefer, you're welcome to start such a site, but please don't gnaw at the foundations of this one.

This has been on my mind because I think it's time for HN to go through a fresh round of defining what it is and what it isn't, and the above is one thing it isn't.
Well, if we are talking about common sense. I should never make a payment transaction online. Never send personal details to doctors, freinds or family. Never provide information under nda to parties online.

This isnt a problem of common sense, this is a problem of encryption, who has access and how easy it is to force access. Saving emails could also prove things in the courts defensively if necessary
I'm British and I've been in Germany on and off since 2007. The first few years of learning the language were hard. I spent most of my time with German speakers, and after a few months they got tired of all speaking English for my benefit.

At first spending time in a foreign language environment is immensely tiring. I'd be ready for bed every night at 9:30 just from the mental exhaustion, but after a while things start to click.

To start with you start to get the gist of the conversations going around you. Then you'd start to participate, and finally you'd have a pretty good idea of what everyone is talking about and would be able to converse with everyone in a social environment.

My German is still full of mistakes, and my 5 year old speaks better grammatical German than I do, but people understand me, and that's enough for me.
True, but you'll still not be completely integrated on a social level until you speak the native language.
Cygwin itself is a huge mess and a big compatibility problem, and it's not really fair to blame those issues on any particular software distributed by Cygwin.

Emacs has a perfectly good native Windows build available on its download page, and it works great and it supports Slime just fine.
AFAIK (I left JPL over ten years ago), mostly C.
Hilarious what you can turn into an article these days. The basis of this "clash" seems to be two single tweets.
Not Goodbye, but a bientôt
I think the genderedness of this kind of labor explains much of it.... try Google Image Search for "secretary" or "assistant".

https://www.google.com/search?q=secretary&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=assistant&tbm=isch
I understand the metaphor but its really disgusting that you have this kind of language on what should be a superior environment. Delete the comment or explain the metaphor in depth would be preferable over the caustic form its in right now. If I could downvote, I certainly would
Firefox, by contrast, “had turned off [ASLR], one of the fundamental safety features in their compilation.”

Firefox has had mandatory ASLR since 2012.

After more investigation, this appears to be about Mac OS X specifically (which isn't pointed out anywhere in the article) where the Firefox executable doesn't have the PIE bit set. But note that the Firefox executable does almost nothing, and all web rendering stuff is in a huge dynlib, which is loaded with ASLR.
Crawlpy: python crawler with login (handles CSRF), dynamic depth and save to disk
Stonemeier uses Kickstarter more or less a preorder system, with some higher level donation tiers for absurd perks like your face in the game. KS does not require that your project finish, but it does require backer rewards delivered. The most popular backer reward tiers includes the actual game, priced at basically MSRP.

It's absolutely true that consumers are taking more risks than your average GameStop preorder. Stonemeier has an impeccable record, and so his company reaps the ongoing benefits of that lower delivery risk profile by using KS. Another way to think of this is that you are completely free to avoid project risk by purchasing from a backer via BGG/ebay, but will likely have to pay a premium for it. I imagine some people intentionally preorder two, just to pop one up for sale.
For most people you just have to remove "every" from the definition. I don't think they are aware of what's happening.

That and Microsoft can probably turn it in a real keylogger if they want/have to but it's speculation
You should definitely extract the data from the XML. Whether to extract it into a SQL vs a NoSQL DB is a different choice. You're likely to want a DB regardless, for the sake of the efficiency you get from indexing (compared to XML) even with a document store, and the flexibility you get from databases rather than custom native classes and data structures (though you may also want to build those on top of the DB layer).
Such a great idea. There was also a recent proposal to just breed humans to be smaller: http://www.smatthewliao.com/2012/02/09/human-engineering-and...
The problem is that it's very hard to get people to give a shit about macro problems like climate change. People generally own care about a narrow set of issues between the age of 20 and the 55/60 years most of us survive after that.

Another problem is that democracies are poorly setup for solving this problem. Democracy responds mostly to the needs of now without concern for the future (different politicians problem, different generation etc, kick the football down the field because someone else can deal with it once I've got mine.)

So yea, we're fucked. This along with the coming robot/AI revolution we are likely to see in the middle or later part of the century creates a pretty bleak future for human beings.
This is really illustrative of the motivations of Snowden VS Wikileaks. Wikileaks was founded under the idea that you could disrupt governments by leaking their private data so that they become so paranoid that they can't function. Thats why they don't do any curation.

Snowden's motivation is to reform the Intelligence Organizations in the United States. Thats why he supports curation and attempted to make the information that he leaked only have the information to reform.

http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
ARM (Dual-core Cortex A7) based desktop and laptop
There's a quote from the TV show Archer that I think reveals an aspect of the reptilian appeal that was missing in the article:

"Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."

The sense of fear that Archer has is also expressed in our pop cultural fascination with all things Dinosaur (Jurassic World/Park, etc.).

To be able to keep a miniature dinosaur as a pet seems like a great thing.
Open air nuke testing surely produced a generation of dairy cow-keeping farm children with impaired thyroid function. You've pointed out the short half-life of I-131 and that fact, combined with the typical processing times for fresh milk, means that the milk city kids drank was not particularly dangerous. However, the time between our cows eating pasture grass and the milk on my cereal was on the order of two days. Low rates of thyroid cancer and the typically excellent outcomes of care for that should not give the impression that the overall impact was inconsequential. Both I and my sibling have unexplained (i.e. no positive antibody tests) hypothyroidism. Also, I had a super-low draft number for Vietnam, so all of that testing didn't really lower my risk of dying in a war, right?
Ther time scale of evlolution is a few orders of magnitude longer than learning process. So perhaps we are not talking about "hard-wired knowldedge but "physics intuition" in the context of how babies response to those "artificial" magic tricks.

> In one recent experiment, for example, Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins showed 11-month-old babies a sort of magic trick. Either a ball appeared to pass through a solid wall, or a toy car appeared to roll off the end of a shelf and remain suspended in thin air. The babies apparently knew enough about everyday physics to be surprised by these strange events and paid a lot of attention to them.
Consumers can also choose to be spied by Apple or Google instead.
Yes, it includes a small deck of cards with symbols you can use to simulate resistance. Actually people have been using multiple AI forces successfully against n people. I am trying it this week with my collectors edition copy. You can read about how it works here https://app.box.com/s/rj3jrw0rab2uiz02up89kbant5g8ew1p/1/499...

I mostly choose my boardgames based on BGG rating, the existence of a good and practical solo variant and playtime under 3h, examples are Race for the Galaxy, Neandertal, Imperial Settlers, The New Era, Robinson Crusoe with the Lost retheme and Polis
Indeed. There are also many phone/IoT/embedded device vendors that ship devices with the Linux kernel without ever fulfilling the obligations of the GPL.
>> I disagree completely. Uber's inception/success was partly because of existing taxi services' "barriers to entry". Medallions were worth about $1 million each when Uber started in NYC (http://bloom.bg/2aCEeQA). That's a textbook case of an economic rent.

I live in NYC and if you look at my other posts to this article, you'll see I made the point that before Uber/Lyft the medallions went for $1.2 million.

Still, Uber/Lyft are way, way too expensive compared with other cities in USA and this is from the "legacy pricing" from the pre-Uber/Lyft days. Also, the "surge" pricing is really annoying and makes it Uber/Lyft far more expensive than taxis (they have the Arro app). I've had surge pricing on a Saturday morning! Hardly rush hour when it is raining! (I didn't use it).

>> Besides Uber's barriers to entry are it's scale (low prices and reliable service)

Uber does not have low prices in NYC. In other cities I've used it they are lower, eps. Uber-pool when it is available. Don't take my word for it. Check the Uber prices of NYC vs. Chicago or other large cities. NYC is about twice as expensive.
I used to think that but the unchecked greed of corporations is disgusting. It is obvious that they will act unethically for a buck.
> How could discrimination against gays be the cause for the spread of HIV?

People are less likely to seek testing, diagnosis or treatment if they will or think they will be at the receiving end of discrimination. Avoiding discrimination that could put your job, living situation or life at stake could also prevent treating a disease that does the same.

> You know it's called a sexually transmitted disease for a reason, so anyone that has lots and lots of sexual partners has a higher risk.

You're right, but there's a reason that certain subpopulations have a higher risk and occurrence rate and it has little to do with number of partners.
I'm a computer scientist and software engineer with experience at some of the largest companies whose businesses are about making people click on ads. I now work as an independent contractor and part time on my own startups. Give me a living wage and tell me how I can help and I'm in. (srs)

I think there are a lot of people who might feel the same way.
I think the worst of this is what I call semantic incoherence.

I have a system that has things like <Task ID="6">Blah</Task>. Why is the ID, clearly always an integer in every sample of hundreds I see, represented as a string?

Another favorite: <ExecuteCommand>[CDATA[Batchfile.bat]]</ExecuteCommand>, while a binary or something else will be <ExecuteCommand>"program.exe /argument:f /argument2:x"</ExecuteCommand>.

By the way, this is an enterprise as it gets: a software tool from a four-letter hardware company, quite huge, trying to sell off its software division. I wonder why.

XML is like all other "crap" tools: Java, PHP, SOAP: some people do not grok the spirit of the law, and they do weird things that reflect their discomfort and hurried need to operate with it. Many write it off.

I agree with your points, this is just my corrolary. The sad thing is SEXPR and XML are not far removed, one is arguably a subset of the other, and notice how people lose their shit when you ask them to consider Lisp languages for daily works because "all those parens are stupid" and how the culture surrounding a potentially viable tools makes people close up without delving in with curiosity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXML

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=19453
How to retire without regrets
So keeping a clean car is one of the hidden expenses?
You missed the point. The majority of Americans _eat too much_. Why can't they just eat less and save the planet?
No, this is much more like blaming someone who robbed a bank.

You can't throw an election and then pretend to be the victim when you get caught.
What would you recommend in place of RESTful JSON API's?
From that link:

"He is now referenced in the new Hearts of Iron IV game, as an easter egg achievement, Bearer of Artillery."

http://www.hoi4wiki.com/Achievements

Looks like someone could update the article to include Scythe now.
It's not Wikileaks' job to save the DNC, but they could claim more moral authority if they didn't so brazenly also play a role in disseminating donor financial information.

That's essentially what Snowden is saying. Go ahead and expose things worthy of exposure (by all means!), but doing so in a way that puts others at risk is irresponsible.

If your home gets broken into because the door was left unlocked, is the thief innocent because "you are to blame"? No. Sure, you bear some responsibility for not being more responsible and exercising better judgment; but you're not the one who committed the theft.
This comment is more hot air than substance, and explicitly breaks the site guidelines with downvote-baiting. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12196746 and marked it off-topic.
> Anyone know if something like the Hacker Dojo exists in Berlin? A 24 / 7 hacker, coders, ideas, dreamers sort of space.

Berlin basically invented those things ;)

The other posters posted enough links and places for you, but you might also enjoy during summer for some days the CCC Camp.
Sure, you bet - I will start collecting them as they occur. However, I no longer find new bugs, it seems. I'll break something, google for the error message, and either find something on issues.scala-lang.org, IRC, or one of the Google Groups.

My current code base is not open-source just yet, so reporting self-contained reports may not be possible. (Currently I'm writing an interpreter for a fairly big declarative language using FreeApplicative from cats as the substrate, and I think the sheer size of it along with shapeless and scalaz usage is causing some undesirable feature interactions.

Where would be the best venue for reporting (known) bugs? Is there any value if I can't provide the actual code? Or is just reporting a "I experienced it too" message valuable?
Well we eventually also got Go, but it has its own set of issues.
So the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2035 humans may disappear? What about more recent predictions?