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> Why is specific regulation forcing information to be presented a certain way necessary?

Because it never happens like you imagine it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/govt-airlines-should-disclose-b...

> Currently, airlines are only required to disclose bag fees, and even then they don't have to provide an exact price. Some airlines provide a range of possible fees in sometimes complex charts.

> Many consumers are unable to determine the true cost of a ticket because fees are often hard to find or decipher, the government says.

> More recently, some airlines have begun offering consumers not only a stripped-down "base" airfare, but also a choice of several packages with some of the once-free services added back into the cost of a ticket, but at higher prices. With packages and a la carte fees multiplying, comparison shopping for airfares is becoming more difficult, consumer advocates say.

Which of this is good?
> What's the point when your work isn't being acked?

To get the bugs fixed?

Also, we don't know why they didn't get recognition. The simplest answer is someone else may have reported it first. But it doesn't really matter. And I really don't see how "secrecy" comes into play here.
No, because HN is the people he worked for - the people who use him winning the startup lottery to explain away all the losers of that lottery and keep feeding young, impressionable people to the startup destruction machine.
How does one look up what patents Shazam has? or is this a situation where it's possible but any patent worth a penny obfuscates the owner?
They are all worth learning, but no one can know everything.

Knowing how something works cannot be a prerequisite to using it. That is one of the purposes of division of labor in society.
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Completely agree. I love in Melbourne and it is rated as the "most livable city" for some reason. With having a full time job and the constant pressure to outperform everyone else, the ever increasing rent of tiny apartments and the overcrowded public transportation during peak times, there's not much living to be had. That and the weather is terrible most of the times.

I mean sure it is mostly safe and the economy is doing fine at the moment but those are the bare minimum of survivability. The rest, you are paying a premium for.
Depends, for things like bikes (which cost even more to fly with at most airlines) it sometimes makes sense to ship. I don't think it's worth it for most bags though, $25 (common fee) is a pretty low price compared to what it costs to ship 10s of pounds. I guess maybe ground? But yeah it's expensive to ship things too.
Sunnyvale puts two Onizuka parcels (now Google's) on open market (February 2017)
How to read HN? Where's expand/collapse:conversations? Thumbs up/down:voting?
Why does Google want to sell you the same device? I doubt if I’d buy much more than the basics like paper towels, detergent, etc. Most things require research.

Voice as a user interface is a real goal. Let’s hope Amazon vs Google increases functionality.

“Alexa, open the garage door, turn on the lights, and set the oven to 350”
Why these two governments in particular?
You're arguing against a bunch of things I didn't say. I didn't say even a single word about the 'market for airlines' (or about the market for air travel).

My comment was a direct response to the parent comment, which claimed information symmetry isn't cited as a requirement for functioning markets.

That particular statement is untrue, so I replied.
For the average person: none are worth learning
Except that "representatives" of one of the two parties is explicitly trying to help people here and the other isn't. So pushing the narrative of the two-party system being the problem doesn't apply here.

There's been one election cycle since the current administration took office and that party was punished for its hostility to citizens and failure to deliver on its promises. So while the system has severe flaws, it's working as intended in this aspect.
Not really because much of the OSS tech is dual use. Indeed, should Linus be worried that cyber-criminals use Linux?
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It's not up to me to prove a negative. Also, my brain is too small to make sweeping confident predictions about a new phenomenon the likes of which defy existing models. Moreover you'd probably poke hypothetical holes in my hypothetical scenarios. It's a flip of the coin, as far as I'm concerned.

Certainly some BTC were almost literally wiped off the planet, aka Mt Gox.
Can someone argue why this is beneficial for US citizens? I can’t find even a round-about way where this will benefit your average consumer.
The prosecuting Garda Sargeant could not provide a calibration certificate for the speed detector, but the judge still didn't care. It was just a production line
I think the biggest ways we can combat this formula are:

1. Fight DRM. DRM is a pipe-dream enforced by law (DMCA Section 1201

2. Promote Free Software. Proprietary software does not deserve our data.
Good point, this is a great candidate for replacement with a more broadly-defined regulation, like the replacement regulation the white house also ann- oh, wait.
Yes, but also a ton of unlicensed music (most of which came by way of remixes/DJ mixes), which they can't license it to soundtrack cos. Spotify owns one (major investor, created by an employee) called Soundtrack Your Brand. Pandora offers one as well.
Maybe. Or a summary from experts. That paper has high level math in it and just isn't going to be comprehended by most people.
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I doubt that blockchain was invented by a fresh out of school computer science graduate. The breadth and depth of technical complexity (even if just the white paper) that blockchain covers requires time and experience to accumulate.
I like the idea of having something like the Star Trek computer at home. I can ask it questions, instruct it to do things, and so on. I get the allure, at least in theory.

I've got Google, Apple, and Microsoft phones around, but none are set to answer to wake words. Cortana on my laptop is as shut-off as possible. They all need to be manually-initiated. Transmitting voice without taking a direct, physical action is basically where I draw the line. After all, typing something into a search engine needs a sequence of specific actions. I think that the extra barrier provides the psychological comfort I need.

It's easy to sound like a luddite nutter worrying about some vague conspiracy. On the other hand, it feels like a lot of companies are getting good practice at boiling frogs, slowly re-framing what most of society thinks of as its comfort zone, concerning technology like this.
I intuitively understood that pronouncing can help remembering, but always avoided that - it reminds of people who move lips while reading to themselves.
Yeah, I'd love to know why this hasn't been an option. Seems like the best of both worlds
There's no practical difference from carrying a cell phone with you everywhere.
But they aren't 'always listening'

It's already happened (accidentally, in this case): http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/11/technology/google-home-mini-...

And it will continue to happen, because "prevent this from happening at all cost" isn't a development mandate for the device, and won't be, because they would prefer to capture everything. Google famously captured wifi network and street view data after they were specifically instructed not to by the court -- why would they fail to avail themselves of information that's right there in this case?
I love reading papers that solve fundamental, well-known problems.

They frequently seem so obvious after-the-fact, like "how did we miss this?" Like, here, stated in just a few pages, is an idea that so many smart people have been chasing after for years. And it's presented so well that it seems intuitive, when in reality it was a very difficult challenge.
iTunes Store app
Customers aren't entitled to know what something will cost before they buy it or in a way that enables comparisons.

On the other hand, unless airlines force customers to sign NDAs on pricing or similar, they can and will compare prices and whatever else about the companies (like QoS) elsewhere. Word of mouth, now amplified through social media, can be very powerful too.
Even further. Bitcoin really stems from Merkle Trees which were patented in 1979 [1]. But most of the ideas are present in Szabo's bitgold [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US4309569

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Bit_gold
These Sunnyvale city council voted 6-0 to sell these parcels to Google for a below-market price of $21 million. I can't find any online news reports of this. The Mercury has a print article on the front page of today's "The Sun"[0] weekly enclosure, but this article is nowhere on their website, even behind the paywall. It is also mysteriously absent from the City of Sunnyvale website (a search on "Google Onizuka" returns no results).

[0] "Sunnyvale to sell 5 acres to Google for $21 million", The Sun, page 1
I didn't read the whitepaper for years because I assumed I wouldn't understand it.

When I finally (recently) did I was dumbstruck by its simplicity.

This was a big lesson for me: I should always at least try to understand these big ideas even if deep understanding will probably elude me.
Survey says, 20% of Googlers are working on a side project
There are contexts and limitations. I have no practical use to understand my fridge to such a degree because it will yield me nothing in the future. I just need to keep it plugged in, cool, and not broken. All easy to verify.

I have control of my money and bitcoin is within the realm of learnability, so I'd say it should be required. It is intimate knowledge of a protocol with many working parts that will have a direct effect on your earnings.
> but financed by a small rich minority

I'm not at all convinced of this. Considering that much the properties of the game that land such whales are based on triggering addictive behavior, it seems much more likely that the whales' income profile is similar to that of a lotto ticker purchaser in the US: relatively poor people.
You don't have to invest in those to use them. You can, for example, use someone else's fridge, without first buying a fridge, and thus learn about the risks and benefits of fridges at no cost to you.

A slightly more apples-to-apples comparison: would it make sense for you to become an early investor in a new futures exchange, claiming it'll do "a new kind of futures trading", without having read any papers or textbooks on futures trading?
> You didn't read it.

Whether I read it or not is irrelevant. The fact remains that you opened your argument with a demonstrably false claim.

> And it IS factually correct in that there was state-maintained fiat currency at the genesis of nearly every story

That may be, but that's not what you said, nor is it what I disputed.

> Consider how uninteresting this exchange is

I dunno, I think it's kind of fascinating the lengths some people will go to to avoid saying something as simple as, "You're right, I phrased that badly. What I meant to say was..."
You probably mean "Is Administrative Law Unlawful" by Philip Hamburger?

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo1743668...
They don't have to be absolutely proficient if you've got enough of them.
Dude, any other job that pays remotely in the same range requires way more BS than doing 200-300 questions. If people want to make more they should just shut up, put their heads down for however long it takes, and signal whatever bullshit is required. That takes way less time than going back to school. If it were easy everyone would do it and doing it would be worthless.

Want to work in finance? Have fun doing boring shit and working long hours for years. Doctor? Blow your 20s on 4 years of school + several more years of residency and maybe a fellowship. Lawyer? First, get into a good law school then spend an enormous amount of time working to get your billable hours in. And if you're a woman and want kids, good luck balancing all that with starting a family.
I currently love both Go and Lisp. They are the opposites of each other. And good for different things.
Thanks for the ear worm, Harry Dacre from 1892!
Satoshi is a regular Japanese name - don’t think it a portamanteu (ex. Director Satoshi Kon)
It seems to me, an understanding of financial systems and macroeconomics is much more useful (or at least as useful) in evaluating a currency than the technology behind it.

There's plenty of people who understand the blockchain quite well who have a pretty ... imaginative understanding of monetary theory.
Yes I do, accumulation over time.

Though most of the other I have are mostly affecting only me and my personal life. This one is affecting my professional life in a significant way as I have spent years pushing firefox to my clients cross platforms as a champion and good example of floss, and each of these changes not only impact my credibility with my clients but significantly increase support requests in a limited time period.
I'm also deeply unhappy about this particular one because I witness first hand how it impacts the daily life of people have a hard time dealing with computers (older people, handicapped kids or all kind of computer illiterate people) and robs the of their confidence and freedom to use their computer. I have a hard time dealing with these inconsiderate short sighted decisions as if everyone lived in California was breathing tech.

This mozillazine comment sums it up better that I could : "Mozilla devs are making far-reaching and very short-sighted decisions in a vacuum." and I cannot agree more with it.

I do have other major gripes but these are only towards mozilla not firefox. I actually thing that mozilla disappearing would be possible of the best thing to happen to firefox, without the arguably stupid decision making at the top firefox could be a top notch browser, or could have been sadly.

It's hard to argue that Mozilla has not mismanaged firefox when the former mozilla CTO says so in a blog post where he also mentions that mozilla head of marketing uses google chrome everyday.
People have been generally receptive to Alexa/Home, this helps those companies gather additional voice data and supervision from various different people. Plus perhaps they will start making profit on the devices themselves.

What is insane about that? It seems like a great business idea, even if you don’t personally like it
Except Samsung is Korean, not Japanese. Hmm, it must be... SANRIO!
It seems like giving a direct, non-voice command makes sense.

I'm thinking of a repurposed Amazon Dash button[0] embedded in a watch, perhaps in a smartwatch app, or glasses, or key fob.

The general flow of "doing things" has almost always had a specific turn-on function -- starting a car, opening a browser, kicking off a work project, and so on. Rarely should things maintain a holding pattern.

[0] https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/amazon-dash-button-te...
> So the things that I did wrong.

> Started Marketing too late. I probably should have either started with a Kickstarter, pre-announced the book, or found a publisher. Book marketing is competitive enough that I needed a better plan than I had.

I've done three Kickstarters for comic books. "When your Kickstarter is running" is not the time to build your fan base.

My method was to post pages online for free as I drew them. Once I had enough to be worth publishing in a book, it was time for a Kickstarter for a modest print run. I typically met my goals within the first week, if not in the first weekend, because I'd slowly built my following while drawing the book, instead of once it was all done.

This works well for me, and for a whole ton of other independent comics creators. It would probably work better for someone making an abecdeclarium than for someone making a lengthy, difficult graphic novel about a lesbian robot with Philip K. Dick problems; a short verse with a cute drawing about a nerdy subject is exactly the kind of thing that people love to hit the 'share' button on without prompting.

You do have to be cool with a lot of people seeing your work without ever giving you a single cent for this to work. Just think of it as something like the Red Hat model, where you contribute to the Linux kernel for the benefit of everyone who uses it, and get paid by a far smaller number of users to support it. :)

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(Of course "get my story about putting together a Programmer ABCs to read to your kids on the front page of Hacker News" ain't a bad piece of promotion either, given how many people are saying "ooh I just ordered it for a kid in my life".)
at least with a cellphone you can use AOSP.
I've stopped buying devices that require some nebulous "cloud connectivity" to function. It's no longer an exchange of value that benefits me. My personal data is valuable and I see no reason to just hand it over to companies for no compensation. That's what you're doing when you use one of these cloud connected devices. You're giving up real value to gain nebulous value. At least that's how I see it--you might disagree and that's OK.

Particularly annoying are those devices that should be able to function without phoning home via an internet connection:

Security camera? Shouldn't need to phone home. Camera should turn on and stream directly to my display device. There's no need to connect to the mothership.

Thermostat? Shouldn't need to phone home. Device should let me control the temperature of my home and respond when I command it remotely. No need to connect to the mothership.

Media player? Shouldn't need to phone home. I have a library of files I'd like to play and don't care for any online services. No need to connect to the mothership.

I used to have a rule: If I don't have root on the device it goes on the guest network (no internal network access, only Internet). I still have that rule, but it's time to up the rule to "no internal or external network access without root".
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I think I see where you're coming from here. When I see something typeset with Latex/in the Computer Modern font...the quick assumption I make is that I'm not going to understand a single word of it.
Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.
I don't really think this reading necessarily makes sense considering whales are usually compared to small fish.

Also, not the 19th Century anymore and anybody hunting whales is doing it for meat, because the "rock oil" revolution happened a long time ago.
It doesn't require CUDA. You can run it on a MBP with no discrete GPU. It had been previously available under the name of Graphlab create, then went closed source briefly after the Apple acquisition, and is now back to open source it looks like.
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I pledge to finally get a CNC milling machine for the basement...and use it.
I read Spotify.

I am not sure if this is a good thing at all, sorry, just don't think it's a good thing.
Ugh, you're absolutely right and I can't speak enough about how much this annoys me. I run up against issues caused by well-intentioned "get your location from your IP" lookups at least once a week.

Completely ignoring the aspect of VPNs (which is huge), I've also been fighting this mentality for the past few months trying to prove to Coinbase that I'm a US citizen with my US bank account (however I signed up from an IP in Croatia!), and being completely unable to do mundane tasks like browsing/editing my Google Photos photobooks since I wasn't on a USA IP.

Can we please, please, please stop tying IPs to location? It's obnoxious to have to set up proxies just to prove I am who (or where) I say I am.
Technical ability, motive against USD. Lean more towards Iran than Israel. Who knows! Just a guess. I personally dont think it could have been an individual without help.
That is the beauty of it. It is only eight pages long, but fundamentally changes the concept of money.

The only thing that people should recognize is that it doesn't really try to explain the game theory behind it. It is a technical paper. When it all sinks in, it becomes clear that it is pure genius, but that certainly took me a while to grasp.
I use both regularly. SoundHound is my go to by default but I use Shazam as a backup. Shazam is more successful normally but I like SoundHound more for whatever reason.
It isn't required.

A lot of the value in things like the stock market is to disseminate the various information asymmetries in the form of price.

There's a reason guys like Paul Krugman write books on economics rather than trade the market.
I don't how your last question relates to a resume length though. I had a candidate with referral, 28 years experience and a impressive resume. All my colleagues were intimidated to ask him coding questions and he tried to weasel away from that but I insisted he do a quick C linked-list insert question and he said he didn't know much about pointers either. And things started falling apart from there. Some of these people are very good at deflecting questions and guiding the conversation so you know nothing about them in the end except what is in their stellar resumes.
I know all of these things... My brain just does not like the squishiness in most cases, or how silly and contrived most examples that I have seen are.
From a game design perspective, though, it really encourages adding tedious gameplay elements.
The sad thing here is that the GOP has seemingly given up all pretense of doing anything for the people. This term in Congress will probably be looked back upon as both a disaster for the country and a generational boon to the GOP in terms of setting themselves up for political donations for many years to come.

This is all made possible by an increasingly desperate and increasingly irrelevant white "Christian" movement that seems to have completely bought into the ends justifying the means to the point of electing a pedophile over a Democrat (Alabama).

Interestingly this actually seems to be right out of Vladimir Putin's political playbook. Putin's stranglehold on power was and is made possibly by him placating a politically active conservative movement within Russia that also feared sliding into irrelevance and that their beliefs and way of life were under attack by what they perceived to be an increasingly hostile and militant progressive class.

This simply won't change while the vast majority of people will vote for their particular party no matter what. And that goes both ways.
I'd write a story about a kid who found a incredible machine which did exactly what she asked it to (even when it made no sense). And because I think it's an important thing to teach, I'd show that, as the kid tries easy and hard tasks, she gets better at doing them.

Children are sophisticated learners, and are quite able to understand metaphors & use analogous reasoning to understand new concepts.
What is an interesting moral dilemma? A bad actor benefits from free software made to benefit everyone? The bad actors would still exist in a proprietary only environment, just need to buy more licenses.
This is the world in which we live. A very select few feast while the rest fight over table scraps.

And then we argue over those table scraps while those who feast couldn't care less.
Reality seems to disagree with you.
Shazam has an Excellent patent. Very broad coverage. A lot harder and less effective using other means for this purpose.

https://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6990453
Well they're contrived because a realistic example would have a ton of code having nothing to do with the concept
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
Massive consolidation of major companies and rampant inequality.
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