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I've had great success with Peppermint and Aloe vera. Both plants are useful, can take a lot of abuse, and doesn't require any green fingers on your part.

- Peppermint can be used to make tea, mojito, as flavour for ice cream, or you can just chew on the leaves as a snack.

- Aloe vera juice can be used to relieve itching from sunburn or insect bites.

- Need more plants? Just break off a bit of your old aloe vera or peppermint and shove it in some wet soil.

- And of course, both plants are decorative. :)
Putting it on iphone allows UberCab to collect a profile for all drivers and customers and make that profile value (ratings) publicly available for future riders and clients. Transparency is good but recorded transparency made publicaly available for future decisions becomes powerful.
Far from being mutually contradictory, these concerns have actually been closely linked throughout history. The phrase "bread and circuses" is often associated with the fear of powerful elites manipulating pop-culture levers to control the masses, while the term "noblesse oblige" is common a shorthand term for the idea that powerful elites bear some higher responsibility for maintaining order in a world dominated by easily distracted masses.

Elite, high-brow HN readers wanting to know more might be interested in Eric Alterman's 2008 New Yorker article, "Out of Print: The Death and Life of the American Newspaper" (http://nyr.kr/11PL44), while the mass of low-brow HN readers might prefer the 2006 Mike Judge movie Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/).
If you need help accessing the credibility of this article, it links to a page that claims the christmas bomber was staged.

http://musicians4freedom.com/?p=5016

"The fact that authorities initially lied and denied this was the case as part of the agenda to hastily install scanners after the staged Christmas bombing incident was clearly a case of mass public deception and one of the primary reasons why the scanners need to be removed now."

So uh, yeah.
Interesting how a nsfw link makes it to the top of HN between 9:30 and 10:30 AM :-)
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You're quick to dismiss all prospects for a mobile-device-assisted reputation system based on v1; assume instead that it iterates a number of times and eventually chiefly helps the dispatchers identify bad actors, rather than customers.

With digital cameras and other low-cost person and location tracking technologies, it's not easy for drivers to take riders on any ride other than that which was contracted, nor for providers with bad reputations to borrow the identities of others. Branded quoted dispatching has returns to scale -- perhaps it's even a natural monopoly -- and incentives for self-policing. So bad actors can't just hop to another of multiple dispatchers and get the same amount of business.

Floating rates and open entry can restore service to areas that regulated rates sometimes cause to be unserved -- because they're comparatively hard to get to or dangerous, and there's plenty of business elsewhere.

And finally, for all the supposed protections provided by regulation, a city with strict regulations will also have a bunch of gypsy and counterfeit cabs -- and in SF, if local media reports here are to be believed, many of these are indistinguishable from the 'real' thing, even by most police/enforcers. You get in one -- and you get indistinguishable service as from other cabs, because the operators want to be cabbies, not robbers. And yet -- iPhone dispatching could give out a 1-time single-word-password more secure than any cab 'dress'. So if this were really something to be scared of, a branded iPhone dispatcher can provide more assuarance than the city medallion authority.

There is a valid concern at the heart of taxi licensing -- but it long ago grew into primarily a cartel, using that original justification to enrich incumbents, doing more damage than benefit. And, the restricted medaliion program is a solution from another era; let us try to get the same benefits with new tools, and see how it works.
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Being able to switch services or rent someone else's credentials are different problems than being able to cheaply create a new positive profile on a given service. Switching doesn't help you much if there's one dominant dispatch service that everyone uses, and renting someone else's credentials drives up the price of scamming the system.

This is kind of a silly argument, though, because my main point was actually agreement that a taxi review system would probably be horribly broken. I just don't think it would necessarily be broken in the exact same way that eBay's is.
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I think they have to be using OpenGL, as they are "coming back to Mac" and AFAIK directx is no where to be found on Mac. Also with the simultaneous release for both the Mac and the iOS version, I'd think there must be lots of reusable code around OpenGL that'd made the porting to android not an extremely daunting task.
This drastically idealizes UberCab profiles. That's easy to do now when UberCab is largely an abstraction, and the sole provider. It gets a lot shadier when UberCab is one of 10 companies doing this, when the market segments along lots of other attributes (high-end and low-end providers &c), and when it starts to become worth it to game profiles.
Yes, my proposal is to reduce the wages of current cabbies, increase the wages of future cabbies (the people currently making $25k/year, or perhaps who are unemployed, who would take jobs as cabbies at $35k/year) and lower the cost of taxis to consumers.

As for the number of vehicles, that's an issue not primarily caused by cabbies. A congestion charge (levied on cabbies and drivers alike) and eliminating free parking seems like a solution to that - it works pretty well in London.
GMail didn't support delegation or folder sharing last time I checked. Those are important requirements for many organisations.

This new feature GMail have announced is trivial and unimportant compared to many other features they could release.
dual 20"s 1600x1200. windows 7 w/ ultramon.

i'm fairly newbish... juggle 1 of (zend studio | eclipse | vs 2010) with photoshop, filezilla, putty, firefox, and notepad++.

currently i'm developing php that runs on an ec2 box w/ memcached... i can't get true memcached on windows and not really a vim/emacs/whatever hardcore text editor type. also need windows for photoshop and whatnot. any tips?
Can someone with a scientific knowledge tell me if we'll one day have technology to package the full body scanner into glasses? That will open a massive can of worms for humanity :/ What happens when everyone can see everyone else naked...
"I had an Atari 512 STE. Clearly the superior choice."

You do realize that thems is still fightin' words? The Vi/Emacs war is a pillow fight compared with the Amiga/Atari ST wars.
I don't mean to detract from the article but it's worth pointing out that those are absolutely fake/photoshopped images and not at all actual scans.
You are too organized for me.
I'm not sure how that would work, but anyway I was talking about architecture and CAD for that only. How would you design something in your proposal? By writing code to glue together a bunch of objects? You need WYSIWYG editing, otherwise people could just write povray scripts and do everything locally. Maybe I'm just not understanding what you're proposing?
pretty similar to mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/llimllib/3679964891/

but with a 17" macbook instead of the netbook and Vim instead of Wing.
Well that's one way to increase your billable hours.
Not my site, but you may also find http://usesthis.com/ interesting. It has short interviews with well-known developers/designers that focus on the tools they use and how they work.
No, neither of those are it. I saw it on HN within the last two weeks, but I couldn't find it in a reasonable amount of time.
http://i.imgur.com/ZCADh.jpg

Beautiful Vancouver weather today...
All getting well paid .. are they getting any equity? Do they make more (meaningfully more) money if they do a good job? What incentives do they have to do a better job other than not being fired?

Are you sure of the reasons why their performance is bad? Are you sure it is not the case that you are giving them bad instructions, and they are following them as best they can, but because the instructions are bad the overall product is bad, and when you ask them about it, they decide to agree with you that their performance is bad, rather than telling you the truth that it is all your fault, because they don't want to anger you and risk getting fired?
Having read 'yummyfajitas closely for awhile now, can I take the liberty of predicting that he will acknowledge the NYC congestion problem, but suggest that we should be addressing it with a market-based solution that targets it directly, instead of as a side effect of regulations?

I agree with you not him, because I don't trust the process that will generate the market-based solution, and I think the medallion system actually pretty much works in Chicago and NYC. But that doesn't make the argument much more productive.
Here's a great J.C. Bradbury piece on why revenue sharing really does nothing for competitive balance.

http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2010/08/rev...
TR42 was once public but later overran by anime and insulting people. Invite system allows us to operate an incredibly close knit community (300-400 active users) which has been around since about 2000/1. Furthermore, an invitation is half the battle... membership is still based on whether or not the community votes you in. From a commercial designer's perspective, we have more freedom to share behind close doors.

Because of the trust that's formed the last decade, we've had meetups all over the world. No matter what country you're in — there's usually a rooter who's got an open door. In addition, TR42 isn't just about art... it's a living community and people share very personal details that they don't want index by spiders or viewable by the general public. I'm not going into specifics but it gets very personal.
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"Freeloader" is the best term I think. It even sounds like "download." The problem with piracy is that it's a tragedy of the commons with the people who buy media subsidizing the consumption of the rest, so that seems like a fair word to use.
Was going to delete this item but maybe someone will find this useful. I assumed JS was active since the query string contained the variable "post_form_id_source=AsyncRequest" which to me seemed like an obvious nod the now ubiquitous xmlHTTPRequest being used. While it doesn't prove conclusively that there wasn't JS running, it does make it plausible that it was purely an HTTP connection kept alive by X-Cnoection header. Im still fuzzy as to how this works or how its done but ill post a quick excerpt of what i found after some searching:

"Missed Cneonctions

This header:

Cneonction: close
and its variant:

nnCoection: close
were two of the headers which first spurred my interest in HTTP headers.

imdb.com, amazon.com, gamespy.com, and google.com have all at various times used these or similar misspellings of connection, and I’m not by any means the first to have noticed. My first thought was that this was just a typo. After more consideration, however, I now believe this is something done by a hackish hardware load balancer trying to “remove” the connection close header when proxying for an internal server. That way, the connection can be held open and images can be transmitted through the same TCP connection, while the backend web server doesn’t need to be modified at all. It just closes the connection and moves on to the next request. Ex-coworker and Mudd alumus jra has a similar analysis."

source: http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h...
I'm surprised image filtering technology doesn't have a way to just view a silhouette of the skin. I.e., establish the skin color gradients and then remove them...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Percent_Doctrine
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Ubuntu on VMWare = problem solved.
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." --Oscar Wilde
I don't see a difference or a free option. Anyway, you're asking to have a fairly "deep" relationship with me without my knowing anything about you with that TIN link. I don't know if I like your product well enough or whether it meets my needs to justify giving you my name/email. That's important info to me - I get enough emails already so why should I make an exception for you?

My point is that, while you might be comfortable giving out your email/contact info easily and on a whim, others will not be so quick to want to do so. Help them/me get over the hump and your signup rate will improve. You can't improve sales until you improve signups.
First what are you trying to build? A storefront is vastly different from a general company page. A social site is different from a streaming video site. Identify what you want first then find out who the best of breed is.
Agree, but actually I was not thinking about backscatter machines. I had biometric passports in mind while writing... and people missing flights as a consequence.
These example images that they always use to show the effectiveness of the backscatter X-Ray always crack me up. They show big, bright blobs of gun-shaped somethings. Gee, what gun is that for it get past the metal detector?
It's only between 9.30 and 10.30 in one particular timezone.
(I also realize the article alludes to that fact, but several comments here do not make that distinction)
Monitors are cheap nowadays, why can't everyone just get the dual 24+, 27, or even 30 inch monitors? Why have to stay with the smaller screen where one can go big?

Just googled and found 27" for less than $400 on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-B273H-bmidhz-27-Inch-Widescreen/d...
Here's a link showing that the images are almost certainly fake: http://trueslant.com/KashmirHill/2010/01/27/tsa-scanner-porn...
Or use lynx or disable images.
> I wonder why Clickpass hasn't gotten more traction.

Clickpass? (of course, I can Google. Just making a point. Seems cool, though.)

I'd say OpenId was the most recent attempt at making this really work, and failed.
She needs to learn some trigger discipline.
"There's one huge difference between Cascalog and Linq: Linq is part of C#. You can't define Linq in terms of regular C#"

So, the code snippets in this article aren't written in Clojure, but instead in some other custom language? I dont know Clojure, but those examples look very much like that crazy foreign Lisp 'nested parenthesis talk' to me.
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The first time an UberCab driver gets into a wreck without insurance or licensing should be interesting. I can see this being very useful for legitimate car services, but they need to do serious due diligence to make sure their drivers are legitimate. Mike's dream of anyone becoming an UberCab driver would be a legal nightmare.
I had Amigas, 1000 and 2000. I didn't make much use of its graphics capabilities, as a developer. However, at the time, it was the only affordable, multitasking system with a flat 32-bit address space. Not protected, but this was a long time ago. It also had a nice C++ environment, and I could pretty easily port code back and forth between Solaris and Amiga. Good times.
The article mentioned the dangers of clever code and asked for a particular quote he couldn't remember. I couldn't help but be reminded of this one:

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
The code snippets are Clojure, but that's the point. Nothing was added to the Clojure language itself in order for this to be possible. Linq would not have been possible (in it's current form anyway) without adding new features to the C# language itself.
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Make it a glass knife instead of a firearm.
Is any of this related to Chartbeats USP of it being real time? Sounds like any analytic package would show you which areas are receiving the most traffic in a time period.

It isn't like seeing trends now is different to seeing trends in a few hours given that you have to spend resources and time doubling down ...
at work: iMac + 13" macbook with synergy. iMac usually has chrome, textmate, thunderbird, and titanium all on one workspace. fullscreen iterm on the other. adium, itunes, irssi, etc on macbook screen.

at home, same macbook with an external monitor. one workspace is iterm on the right screen, usually photoshop, adium, + other misc apps on left. other workspace is textmate on right screen, chrome and cyberduck (if necessary) on left screen.
Wow - thanks for sharing. Interesting:

* ...the capital gains tax increases coming into effect in 2011 are might just lead to a stock market sell-off in Q410 as investors “lock in” gains at a lower tax rate.

Stock market declines equal lowering of wealth effects which in turn equals lower consumer spending and hits on corporate earnings. This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors.
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I've started doing this on a limited basis. An added benefit: you know what goes into your food.

I've got a higher than average risk for Parkinson's Disease, so it's important that I avoid pesticides religiously. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421091705.ht...) Buying organic veggies helps, but growing is the best way to be sure.
Speaking of Basic, didn't AutoCAD use Lisp for "macros"?
The snippets are Clojure code that use the Cascalog library. Cascalog has the look and feel of an embedded language.
I can almost remember how the arguments went.. Guru meditation sucked more than the bombs, but the 800kB weird-standard diskette format was better than the 720kB one? And MIDI-ports were better than that weird 4096-colour format that noone really used?
When you work for yourself, you decide what's safe for work.
The image used in article is a known hoax (it's a stock image, not a real scanner result).
http://www.tatumba.com/blog/archives/1369

Compare with:
http://www.kelowna.com/2010/04/08/kelowna-airport-using-full...
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No, he's right. The 99% comes from the justifications used to support bad ideas like backscatter scanners. It comes from the well-meaning but misguided (or just unethical) groups and individuals that say, "99% of the time, there won't be a problem. 99% of the people that pass through these will never have to worry about the pictures. We'll be able to stop 99% of all weapons. This is a good idea, 99% of the time."

This is basically about compromise. How much do we want to compromise our principles in the name of a little extra supposed safety? Are we really willing to keep endlessly compromising 1% of our principles ad infinitum for the sake of 99% effectiveness?

We've already made compromises in being willing to let our belongings be searched before boarding a plane; we've already made compromises in allowing those searches to be performed by people who aren't law enforcement; we've already made compromises in allowing our bodies to be searched; we've already made compromises in having to disrobe some while standing in line; and, each time, there have been people justifying it by saying that 99% of the time, this is a good idea.

You and I might not agree with that, but he's not arguing that to us; he's arguing the 99% rule to everyone who uses it.
If you're downvoting because you disagree, at least explain why. The lack of folder sharing and delegation would both be show stoppers if my organisation was considering moving to GMail.

This new auto-filtering mechanism wouldn't even make it on to the interesting features list, let alone the desirable or required lists.
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I'm not saying Erlang is 100% OOP. Not at all. Just the good parts. :)
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Well, surely there exist some police officers/detectives/etc who see their personal career as more important than the ideals of their profession. It would also seem reasonable that, on average, these officers are better at advancing to powerful positions than those who care about ideals.
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Fruit trees can also count as decorative.
A warning: A friend gardening on a fire escape in Brooklyn came home from work one day to find all of her plants gone. It turns out it's illegal to keep things there and they can be removed without warning.

Regarding mint, it's super robust and will expand if allowed to. You can also surround other plants with mint, because most pests don't like the flavor (that's probably why it evolved that way) it will act as a barrier. Ants, mosquitos, cockroaches all don't like it. I grow Pineapple Mint because it looks cool. :)
Have you looked at Reia at all?
Mine's pretty simple:

http://imgur.com/aiyfw.png

VIM on the left; on the right top is a terminal, each tab is a different virtualenv, on the bottom is a bpython shell. All my other screens (OSX) are running Chrome, Mail.app/Adium and VMware (lots of that).
I like Steak, but the main reason for using Cucumber in the first place is to interface with your customers, or at least with people that understand the business side of things on a piece of software. Steak doesn't aim to, and won't replace that.
Does anyone knows of other community based projects offering open-source development platform with payments to contributors ?
I remember hearing that if you called up Autodesk and asked them if they were working on a Mac/Linux client, they would literally laugh at you.
I'm following this story with some interest because it may have an impact on my startup. There are conflicting reports on this[1]. RIM appears to be saying they haven't given anything up, and there is some question whether they can give anything up, given BES is based on PKI and RIM doesn't have the keys.

[1] http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech-now/entry/indi...
Sure, but someone that wants to get a glass knife through airport security can come up with much better ways of doing it.

My dad and I occasionally play a game where we try to one-up each-other with ways to get weapons or contraband through security. There are a lot of ways. These backscatter scanners -- like most of the rest of airport security -- do very little to actually increase the security of the system.

Also: http://xkcd.com/651/
Of course. Your body radiates waves of various types through your clothes, or waves can be bounced off your body, that are not visible to the human eye. The waves can be recorded through various methods and converted to an image that we can see on a video screen. Once we have augmented reality glasses which is inevitable, this will certainly be on the market somewhere. Google for "night vision see through clothes" and "infra red see through clothes".
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I feel much better about workshops that are given for free, although you are right about the delicate balance between reputation and self-promotion. I could feel just as good about offering the workshop as a bonus for existing customers, or for workshops where the price charged is commensurate with the cost to run.

It's possible that I'm just not a very good free-market capitalist. For example, while I want prices to reflect demand, I get uncomfortable at what I feel are extremes. What's a fair price for a drug being sold to someone with an otherwise terminal disease? Does this change with the actual effectiveness of the drug, or just on the 'buyers' belief in the effectiveness?