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Just signed up for Car2Go.com in Vancouver, which launched here this month and offers one-way rentals.

Their model is per-minute pricing with an hourly cap.

You "return" it by parking it anywhere within a huge area (several square miles) that effectively makes up anywhere you'd be car-sharing anyways (living outside this area means you'd be pretty likely to own a car).

You find a car to rent with their android or iphone app, website, or by calling their 24/7 phone number. All cars are tracked using GPS.

Pretty sweet model that is a good substitute for taxis, assuming the car supply keeps up with consumer demand.
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I think the bigger problem with zipcar is having a car sit around for hours while you're visiting a friend or sight-seeing.

As a zipcar user, I often want to drive somewhere that's 30 minutes away and stay there for 5-8 hours. That means I'd have to pay for the 5-8 hours that the car just sits around. (Which means I just skip it and hunt for a cab.)

On the reverse side, on sunny weekends, I often can't find a car to rent. Since I live near a part of the city that's a big draw on the weekends, I bet there are Zipcar customers who visit my neighborhood and leave their Zipcars in parking lots all day. I would pay extra to use their cars for a few hours.
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I'm not familiar with the DCE VM, but DLR is a library on top of the CLR, not a different version of the CLR.
unless you're a startup that sells to the government (e.g. Palantir)
Wow, that author is a truly committed doom-and-gloomer. If I were one too, I'm sure I'd find his argument persuasive. But apparently I'm wearing the wrong colored glasses to perceive his alleged "plague of violent and weird weather in the last few years" as evidence of more than selective attention and status quo bias.
First you have to tell us your budget! You should always have a budget. But also be prepared to stretch that budget

Otherwise, the spec is pretty well written. Some of the finer details will probably come out as the project progresses, but this is a good starting point :)
16 year old here, and I know exactly what you mean!

I've been-there done that, with the kinds of things your talking about... I've released iPhone apps, dabbled into web development, done JS, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, C#, Objective-C, and lots of other things.

My advice is, this is a great point of opportunity in your life- you're living at home, your expenses (room & board) are being paid for, and you're not yet responsible for having job. It's ok to feel satisfied piddling around different platforms and languages, because this is a great time to explore things without worrying about making money.

Eventually, you'll probably find something that you're really interested in- and learn everything you can about that. The things you're learning now WILL be useful later on, I can tell you this from personal experience as a college student.

Since we're more or less the same age, we should communicate! Feel free to send me an email (grahamrexford@gmail.com) to talk, or even if you want help with something, I might be able to assist.
Car2Go (a Daimler company) is tackling this problem with the concept of an operating area. You can pick up and drop of your car from a car2go designated spot or any legal parking spot within this area. Here is an example of their operating area in Austin

http://www.car2go.com/portal/austin/page/mybookings/mapEnlar...

They are also innovative on other fronts such as charging by the minute and a feature-rich touchscreen in each car.
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This looks pretty active: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~magarcia/ScalaNET/

I'm not sure what relation his work has to the core Scala project or team, though.
There is functools.partial:

from functools import partial
def add(x,y): return x+y
add3 = partial(add, 3)
add3(2) # returns 5
You could argue that Microsoft makes it much easier for manufacturers to make and distribute drivers (that work) for Windows than they can for Linux. Linux ships with a lot of drivers because that's the primary way you get Linux drivers.
Optogenetics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLdSbp6VjM
On the upside, Go does not suffer from the common Java anti pattern of returning a semantically meaningful null. Its multiple return means that while it can't return "Maybe Foo", it usually returns something like "Either Error Foo", with the multiple assignment taking the place of a rather primitive pattern match. Also a go function is typically structured like a primitive Either monad - it returns with an error immediately if it gets one, or else it returns from the end with a value.
I don't know how common it really is for someone to casually teach him/herself CS. Sure, a lot of people teach themselves to build websites or mobile apps, but ask them to, say, search/filter their results and it's pretty easy to see there's not a whole lot of scientific thinking going on. Learning Computer Science is very different than learning to code (i'm not saying it doesn't happen, but from my experience most casual coders don't care very much about the theoretical underpinnings - and don't often need to, with modern languages).
I think you should always have a budget, but that it is probably unwise to reveal that budget.

I certainly don't expect to pay a few hundred bucks for this. The spec is clear, and I'll accept a reasonable bid, either for the project or at an hourly rate with an estimate.
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If you're okay with moving up to Canada this may be of interest for you (http://cbet.uwaterloo.ca/).

From what I've heard it's a pretty good program and the startup community in Waterloo is quite active as well.
So we should ignore the inconsistencies?
Yes you can like your own photos. It may be something I stop now but early on it wasn't a big deal.

And so far no one has requested that feature. It is a good idea though
> entropy dictates you will always have defects

Not exactly. Entropy dictates you need to add extra energy to remove the defects. Or more accurately, metal without defects has lower entropy.
I don't think the title is misleading, and it definitely isn't intentionally. Half of the post is an email to Zipcar proposing it, and the title needs to be short.

I think the other issues you identified are real, are solvable, and are addressed in the post.

The post explicitly says not to allow a one-way trip to empty out a lot/neighborhood (permanently vanished car). An "I miss this car" button on the Web site would make it easier for Zipcar to know when to reward someone for parking a specific car type in a given lot.

In many cities, Zipcar has dozens of cars in the urban core. The use here is going from Seattle to Bellevue or Mountain View to San Jose, not BFE 1 to BFE 2.

I agree that Zipcar hasn't been not particularly interested in solving this problem. I think that may change now that they have competition in most markets.

As far as less revenue, most of the trips this enables aren't happening today because so few people spend $60-$80 (day rate) to drive 30 minutes then park for 8 hours.

If someone could book two one-ways cheaper than a round-trip, it would be because it's helping Zipcar. If my driving balances out two one-way trips booked earlier, I'm helping reduce Zipcar's costs by slightly altering my behavior (driving different cars).
Acrobat Reader sucks, so I don't install it. I squelch Java's nags because it's disabled in my browsers and I only have it for running Netbeans. I am probably more lax in my Flash updates than I should be (because I don't see them, I squelched them as well), but I run FlashBlock in Chrome so I'm not overly worried. Microsoft Security Essentials updates through Windows Update and never bothers me.

I've gotten revalidation prompts, but never failures; I know they can happen but it's never been an issue for me.

Seriously, I honestly don't know why so many people have trouble with it, but I have had a pain-free experience since installing Windows 7. Even Vista was pretty much problem-free, although MSE wasn't around then and I did get occasional AV nags.
What if such a system would only allow one-ways if A) nobody had reserved for any extra gap created (or the gap-cost were charged and split), and B) another person was intending to do a one-way in the other direction, with a similar-grade vehicle? ie, only fairly-precise trades / N-way rotations. This, of course, makes one-ways to/from small cities very hard to achieve, but it gives you one-ways in cases where it does work for almost free.
No, I think it's pretty definitively misleading without context. And there's a simple, short solution: "The Zipcar Prize proposal: ..."
The way I solved the autoconf problem was that you have one arm machine do the actual building and a cluster of powerful x86 machines running distcc with cross compilers. So this way it builds really fast and the package build system thinks it is native without any problems.

Honestly a little surprised this would be news. Doesn't everyone have an arm cluster or a distcc type setup like the above?

Edit: Back when mac's were PPC I did the same trick and had a handful of x86 Linux box's with apple's gcc setup for cross compiling running with distcc. Made the OS X builds run much faster.
I hope any of them get enough traction that I don't have to fight to code in something other than java :)
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Agreed.

Macros and reader macros ;-)
I agree, computer science is an applied goal-oriented branch of mathematics.

Many people simply don't read math papers for casual intellectual stimulation.
Thanks, I knew what the image was, just not why it appeared as the thumbnail.
I agree, but without a CS degree then its likely what you're doing is a study of programming but not actual computer science.
There are several decent Scala-esque alternatives to the built-in XML support (with has many things broken about it). For instance: Anti-XML http://anti-xml.org/ and Scala-Scales: http://code.google.com/p/scala-scales/ they can't replace the functionality of the built-in support (need to alter parser/compiler for that), but are considerably more sane than the default functionality in scala.xml
It was a mistake. A better effort would have been to implement a first-class Macro system a-la Lisp. You can see here that Nemerle supports macros and makes dealing with XML like relatively painless as if it were built in: http://nemerle.org/About/#ID0E6G

Macros for the win.
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So basically only one user can login per UUID? There are no means of unregistering the device? A user can log in on multiple devices but can't logout. Also store the APNS key @ device_register you might wan't to sent pushes in the future. Put password in basic auth and use ssl (at minumum)..
If you are going to make fun of people, make sure to read what they write carefully. Otherwise you might make yourself to look less intelligent than you are. It's not persuasive to try to make out that the person you have a disagreement with is crazy.

Andi really didn't write what you say he did, and he certainly didn't write "anti-technological arguments about expecting technical solutions to problems as being a "religion"." in one comment or multiple other comments. It's really pointless to try and put words into people's mouths like that.

I'll take your admission about how you 'made fun of a guy' as you agreeing that is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations.
Please accept my inclination to never post on this subject on HN again as a sign that I was not trolling. It is always exhausting to try to explain what is to me a fairly intuitive and moderate point to an audience that seems quite devoted to misinterpreting it as another salvo in a battle I have no interest in fighting. I am just deeply tired of doing it reflexively out of some weird sense of obligation that you or I or someone will be the better for it when experience tells me in <h1><blink> that boiling replies are never going to simmer down.

I have no obligation to explain anything to you, nor you to me. Let's leave it at that.
Cool, do you have a link I can share or something? Sounds fascinating.
Good point - my first reaction was just do two one-way trips, but I imagine a lot of the sight-seeing that people want to do isn't within easy walking distance of a zip-car lot.
I was referring to the markets part.
Of course, many people don't ever cross the gulf between "i can haz programming" and actual computer science. That doesn't mean they /can't/ self-direct themselves.

http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?page_id=152 (from HN recently)
http://overhack.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/self-directed-compu... (my own)
and we would too if we weren't slaves to technology.

I think the brain naturally wants to be engaging with the world, but technology is fooling it into thinking that it is, when its really being very passive. So we sit and stare, sit and stare, while our fingers get all the exercise.

Wii need a better way! ha ha
Guess #3 is off my list.

Obviously, the whole "intentional misleading" does not apply here. In general, I think it would benefit Twitter or at least the trademark holders, if Twitter introduced the opposite of a "Verified" badge: a "Unofficial" badge - which the user in this case can activate without needing approval from Twitter, if Twitter does not beat them to it.

Of course, the adverse effect is that it would also serve to point out how ruthlessly Twitter enforce their ToS, once one of the accounts are seized.
Except it doesn't look like they actually have a trademark. There actual name is a longer version of the username.
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Disagree. Scala's syntax is already complex enough and flexible enough to all but eliminate the need for macros. XML literals were a marketing gimmick. More conventional XML support in a library would have been adequate.
Thanks. Title changed.
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>> Please note the sole purpose of trademarks is consumer protection

Not true at all, although it's easy to understand why someone would wish that this were the case. The sole purpose of trademarks (really trademark law) is to protect the holder of the intellectual property.

Market confusion is a test used to determine whether a trademark infringement has taken place, but it's only one of several possible tests.
You need a sharp edge to cut the meat. In practice I find coding in Scala much easier than coding in C++.
It would make for an interesting Firefox/Chrome plug-in. When you visit a site, have a indicator of some sort that warns that the site _may_not_ encrypt your password. Although, this could become obnoxious and there is no way good way to verify this.
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> by compiling and running code during the build process

They don't do that when used in cross-compiling mode.
The Atlantic is, IMO, an excellent and approachable publication today, however, as a regular reader, I must note that they still let the pompous and pedantic flag fly in the book reviews that appear in the final pages of each issue.
You might be better off having 2 people, one to make your web API and 1 to handle the 'backup' portion of it. One is programming and 1 is systems work, and it can be difficult to find 1 person that does both well, and it affordable.
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Yes, one user per UDID for now. If you want to unregister a device, you can email me, and if we get multiple requests, we'll code a solution.

Storing APNS sounds like a good idea.

As for security, I am ok that this would be susceptible to a wifi sniffer. We will note that it is insecure for users, but they won't care. If we get a bid that implements security, we'll consider it, but I'd rather have it work than be secure.
Why counting Martinique as a country ? If we do this for every French departments, Swiss canton or German landers etc. , we will probably have a lot of "countries" with higher ratios.
Sacrificing quality for profit works in the short and maybe mid term. Long term they'll lose their core audience and be replaced.
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If you want to lend your Mac to a friend, you setup a new account for them and then use the parental tools and simplified finder to restrict if needed beyond the new account. It is actually pretty easy.
Don't hire any employees, just use contractors.

You get the added benefit of not having to pay for their healthcare/dental/other benefits.
It's actually funny you should say that. I actually love learning languages, I've picked up Spanish over the last year taking classes and talking with a Mexican friend on Skype, just talking about an hour each night in the language. I'm starting to learn Chinese now too, just because its supposed difficulty is somehow attractive to me :) But thanks for the suggestion, I'll be sure to stay open-minded.
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except that Twitter has a global namespace, and trademarks are what, national?

Say, as an example, I own Tim's Bike Shop in Australia, and have @timsbikeshop on Twitter. What happens if there's a US Tim's Bike Shop that decides it wants that Twitter id? To me, both have the same 'right' (I use quotes because it's obviously not a right) to the id, but I win because I was in first. Does Twitter assume because the second claimant is legit the first is not?
You could do a 4+1 program at Harvey Mudd and Drucker.
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I don't want to start anything, but your tone comes across as pretty hostile. That kind of disrespect is more anathema to HN and worse for the community than an affiliate link contained on a linked page.
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Let me know when you figure out how to statically type check those. You could publish a paper or two, I'm sure.
This will certainly make text wrangling in C++ more pleasant. Why all the different flavors though? This seems likely to make code sharing more difficult.
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I made a chart here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2647839
Couple of major issues with this (as an EE who has designed products involving both RFID and E-Ink):

1. E-Ink requires a controller -- you can't get those at wafer scale

2. E-ink has a hard plastic substrate, you can't have it on a flexible substrate therefore it will break very easily under pressure.

3. E-ink requires 1mW to switch + power to the controller chip... RFID can't provide that much power.

4. You can use an NFC equipped phone to do the same thing, much easier (but that has its own issues)

5. E-ink is expensive. It will cost at least $20 in volume for a small display the size of your CC -- even a 120x72 strip will be about $10.

5. You can't easily interface the RFID chips with an e-ink display. Those RFID chips (MiFare DESFIRE, etc.) are all effectively enhanced memories. There is no processing power that you can control to interface w/ an e-ink display.
I don't think so. At least 4 companies' codebase have their own assert/contractual macros specifically for this reasons. Such code will never pass a cursory review at these companies. This is a C-noob bug, IMO.
It's been a very long time since Linux forced me to do anything. Windows, OTOH, is a chore. Install the base OS, install anti-malware, install decent browser, install miscellaneous things, keep track of everything myself... No. I use Linux precisely because I have a life.
A little surprised Cisco comes in for no love ... if your mission is to provide the best platform for routable network equipment, one would hope as long as there are routable networks they should do OK.

Of course, if you don't execute on your mission, dilute your franchise by buying tangentially related companies, gouge your customers, might turn out differently.

Are routers and network equipment going to be a commodity, or is a good platform going to keep providing a moat and competitive advantage?
The Web 2.0 movement was about opening up the data in computer consumable formats and APIs. Nothing more.

While exchanging data over the internet is obviously nothing new, having large organizations provide easy programmable access to their private databases was somewhat revolutionary. The whole App craze was born out of being able to create new interfaces to existing services, thanks to Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 was nothing new from a technical perspective, but it was a revolutionary social shift.
Thanks for the advice (I'm assuming it applies to me too).

I've spent the past year getting really interested in Lisp (I just finished my senior year of high school, in which I took Lisp as an independent study). For a science fair, I got into genetic programming (https://github.com/tsmacdonald/Genetic-Tic-Tac-Toe), and that project got me interested in AI, and I think that I'd like to spend the summer working through Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. This is in addition to my job--doing code monkey, pay-by-the-hour work in Java.

But I've been bothered by a persistent thought: "Sure, Lisp is cool and AI is cool and there's probably interesting research to be done...but you want to make a startup in a few years, and all the cool kids are making websites or smartphone apps. Say...you know Java, you just got an Android phone...you have four (or maybe three) years of college to get all academic with. A professor already expressed an interest in doing FP research over the summer with you. The smart thing to do would be to crank out an app this summer, use the experience to crank out a better app, hopefully make a revenue source for while you're in college..."

But to heck with making a bit of extra money, and to heck with overanalyzing the startup market of 2015. I'll do what I find really interesting, and assume that something awesome will present itself in due course.
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Now it will be easier to keep updated to the source. I can't wait to look inside the source on the nightly builds just to see the what and why of things first hand.
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Technical skills are similar whether startup or BigCo.

I'm talking about everything else. The habits and thinking you'll develop. The way you'll learn to work and interact with coworkers/customers. The things that will motivate you. The way you'll be rewarded or punished. And a bunch of other things.

The environment of a well run big company and a well run startup are very different (for good reasons). You don't learn to succeed at one by working at the other.
If you've got nothing to hide, maybe you need to get a life.
This is reworked from my other project, IERange (https://github.com/timcameronryan/IERange).

Rather than include a full duplication of DOM Ranges for old IE browsers, this API normalizes the most important capabilities of DOM Ranges and TextRanges (getting/setting anchors, and directionality). This can be included in a JavaScript library without much overhead, and any other essential DOM Range capability (deleteContents(), setStartBefore(), etc.), can be duplicated as needed by working with the DOM itself.
Just to follow-up. If you search for Tai Goo and Tim Lively you will get a lot of information, pictures, videos and such about making blades from found material. Some of the processes are pretty crude--making glue from pine sap and deer feces.