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I am surprised that more comments do not share this view. It is a cool technology but i worry that there are too many ulterior motives behind wanting to control your wallet on your phone. I also am not sure if the convenience factor is high enough encourage use. I can already tap my credit card against the gas pump or even at a Starbucks but I think I only done it once. I would not use it to get coupons or targeted ads pushed to my phone. Expense tracking is the only use case that interests me but with so little coverage it would not support that yet. Think what will happen is you will have a Visa app, MC app and an Amex app and then have other apps that will interact with them securely and letting you control your privacy.
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It would really depend on the semantics of the booking and the system. Another alternative would be

DELETE /booking/:id

Which is basically a more correct HTTP version of your last option. Otherwise, I would lean towards your second option (the PUT), as I would think that what you are doing is telling the server what you want the state of the booking to become. What happens server-side based on the PUT isn't really your concern as a client of the API.

> more specifically we want to trigger the "cancel" action

I'd posit that this is actually something that the API user shouldn't need to care about.

Good question though, I've often pondered it myself.
What is this for?

On Linux you can read most (all?) of the file systems FUSE supports already.

I don't really understand the MaxOSX use-case. Do many people really want to mount ReiserFS on OSX?

ZFS support is nice, but I'd imagine that http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ is a better route to that.
I already started another ReiserFS on FUSE project here: https://github.com/albertz/reiserfs-fuse

It is also based on the GRUB source but I plan to directly modify the ReiserFS code to make it much faster.

However, as I already copied all files I needed for now, I'm not sure if I will continue working on this for now. So feel free to overtake this.
Replying off the top of my head, but IIRC once astronomical phenomena became known and observable, these could provide constant "clocks" which could be verified at different points on the Earth's surface. In particular, transits/occlusions of planets, moons, or stars could be viewed from different points. While observations regarding the Earth's moon are subject to some parallax, by the time you're looking at other planets (or their lunar systems), the error is minimal.

We're talking Keplerian / Gallilean times onward (telescopic observation and orbital mechanics) for the most part, though some observations may have been possible / performed in earlier times. Turns out that Gallileo and Halley proposed such methods in 1612 and ~1683.

Accurate navigational chronometers came along in the late 18th century.
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Does wrapping everything in spans and divs impede SEO in any way?

i.e.
Google aside, does Bing and other crawlers interpret:

<span>Perfect</span>

To be the same as:

<span>
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Also...

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Think of cool points as HN karma. You get points if things are hearted after you heart them (double if you were the original person to share them).

Search will come soon...that's another beast. :-)

Glad you found some good music! That's what we're aiming for.
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No kidding. Usually it's "...what the fuck?" when reading the documentation.
Even omissions should cause sentences in the essay to be false though. Is there really not one sentence you believe is false?

(Also, would you mind being civil? I'm doing it; you can too.)
Before jumping all over the rich, consider whether you are one. For example, if you earn $100k or more per year, you are IN the top 5% of income earners. And if you have a total net worth of ~$200k or more, you are IN the wealthiest top 5%. Easy to imagine that many HN readers are in these boats.
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> [HTTP is] a mind-bendingly terrible protocol in its own right

Could you detail your thoughts on this? The more I work with HTTP, the more I get impressed with how usable it is. Granted, it's not suited for some domains...
Not so subtle, but user CANWorkSmart seems to have created a bunch of shills to comment on his (now dead) post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010356.

Might be worth it for a mod to kill them off...

edit: the '-----' appears in place of the 'reply' link when the post can't be replied to (in this case because the submission is dead?).
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Reply to jcitme:

All of your comments are [dead] and you are probably unaware of it. There is a weird heuristic here that does that occasionally to non-trolls.
Court isn't the only route to patent invalidation. When a plaintiff sues a defendant for patent infringement, there are usually two defenses brought up: "I'm not infringing on your patent" and "even if I were, your patent is invalid." Prevailing on the latter defense begets invalidation.

Third parties can also file ex parte or inter partes reexamination request, through which the third party can ask the USPTO to reexamine the patent to verify the patentability of the claimed subject matter. The fee for requesting an ex parte proceeding is $2520, and after filing the request, the third party no longer actively participates in the proceedings. Third parties filing an inter partes request, after paying the $8800 fee, may continue to participate in the proceedings.
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No idea how many people. But earlier, ReiserFS was quite common on Linux. And I have a lot of USB disks still formated with ReiserFS.

Also, there is still no really good cross-platform filesystem (at least for Linux + Mac). HFS+ doesn't work with journaling on Linux. ext3 is read-only on Mac (afaik; has that changed? not sure). FAT is too primitive and also does not have journaling. NTFS is too less Unix-like. And ReiserFS was not supported at all under Mac. Now, at least it can be read. (I also thought about porting over the full think. But that is much much harder.)

I'm not sure about other file systems. But to my knowledge, there is no filesystem with journaling which can be read and written by both Mac and Linux.
No, it's worse than downloading the "sha1sum" app, because you only have to download "sha1sum" once. You can use a variety of out-of-band methods to verify the file that you can't reasonably or cost-effectively do with a website.

A website is essentially "installed" every time you visit it.
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Yep thanks thats more of what I was expecting to be under pinning it.
I have no reason to believe that they are. It seems to me that the burden of proof is on those who are making the accusation that Google will be collecting this data. I am suggesting that we have no idea, and in fact I think it would be pretty shocking if Google were actually to collect that data. Hence my accusation of FUD. But if you have some sort of evidence please share it.

Here's a thought experiment: my Android phone has a camera in it. Do you also believe that Google is collecting every picture I take without my permission?
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How do I know that my file is never leaving my computer? To verify that, I have to verify every line of Javascript code influencing that page, every time I use it, to make sure it isn't spiriting away my file contents or feeding bogus SHA fingerprint values back to me.
This is missing a few salient points:

1) REST is not suited to complex multi-variable queries or transactions

2) REST should be a stateless transaction

3) REST read results should be cacheable

4) REST can use headers to specify content-type/mime-type

REST is not a suitable replacement for all client-server interactions e.g. complex, sql-like queries over many variables. It is best suited to URL-like queries that produce singleton docs or lists of doc IDs.

REST in its most common form is a protocol over HTTP and thus can (and should) take advantage of HTTP's methods to provide CRUD:

Create = POST
Read = GET
Update = PUT (although POST is fine)
Delete = DELETE

This negates the need for:

/story/395/delete

or

/delete/story/395

instead use

/story/395

and send it a DELETE method.
All posts have that '-----' bit at the end of the comment with font color '#f6f6ef' to hide it after a certain amount of time as that's the background color. I'm not exactly sure why this is though. Perhaps pg could tell us?
Not picking on this article in particular but whenever I read these types of stories I get the feeling that people don't make a clear separation of these two very different issues:

1. The bottom is worse off relative to the top in terms of wealth than they were before.

2. The bottom is worse off in terms of wealth (quality of life) than they were before.

People seem to imply 2 when they talk about 1. but they are very different things.
You bet we are. But it doesn't necessarily follow that we think that the disproportion is a good thing.
I hate how you have to place a vote to see the results. The data can't really be trusted as you'll get a lot of rubber neckers passing through that cast a throw away vote just to see the data.
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This is pretty damning when you consider it's being run by the Wall Street Journal.
Ask HN: Elitism/Veteran ranking order of links
Instead of regulated democratic order, allow an option to view links/threads and comments where elder's up/down votes are counted more.

Algorithm example:

3 comments, pg, Joakal and noob with respective registration dates from old to newest.

All things equal, their comments would be listed pg (3 points) - Okay comment
Joakal (2 points) - Great comment
noob (1 point) - Thanks for the link

A new account started up just now noobviagra and posts, the posts are upgraded:

pg (4 points)
Joakal (3 points)
noob (2 points)
noobviagra (1 point) - Offers social network equity

If someone has an account older than pg, then their vote would count more than pg.

But, it puts pressure on veterans contributing the votes to best understand HN and not abuse it.

Note: Instead of registration period, it could be replaced by karma totals.
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But it's both, isn't it? Fewer Americans have health coverage, fewer Americans have jobs, fewer Americans can stay in homes. What you hear people saying is that #1 implies #2.
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Woah, wait a second. Small inventors are not filing suits against dozen of defendants in carefully chosen jurisdictions. Often, they'll just target the top few companies breaching the patent. They aren't looking to make a living on patent settlements, they're looking to make a living on the technology they invented.

Soheil Sharafabadi sues 3 Universities over mustard seed patent - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009794832_a...

Jim de Cordova sues one company over sleep mask patent - http://news.yahoo.com/dreamcloud-sleep-mask-inventor-sues-sl...

A retired engineer sues Clorox over bleach patent - http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/082407/businew12306_32368.sht...

A Pennsylvania woman sues Victoria Secret over bra patent - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/75307539/Pennsylvania-Inventor-S...

There are dozens of stories like this. The profile of a small inventor case looks nothing like these patent troll cases.
Are you aware of http://news.ycombinator.com/classic? May check that out, if not. I think it operates similarly.
Not even close. A $100,000 income puts you at about the 75th percentile, not the 95th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distr...
Sure, it might if you show the data that proves it.

But showing the data that the top has increased their % share of the wealth does not prove that.
Using SSD is kinda "throw more hardware at the problem so that we don't need to fix our precious crappy software" type of solution.
Some PG thoughts on distribution of wealth:

http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
"Years: 1995.0, 1996.0, 1997.0" Awkward data presentation or are you planning an 'interesting' way of specifying something like May 1995 as 1995.5?
I'm going to assume that at least 25% of swearing in Ruby is attributable to William Morgan: http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb
Nope, now I know. Delete it before it gets more known?

I don't know how else to find out about HN's unknowns.

Edit: Are the comments also biased in veterans' favour?
Is that in the US? seems very relaxed to other countries I have been in. I've been declined in London, Ireland, Austrlia, Thailand, and New Zealand over my signature. From emeory I have never been checked in Spain which is notorious for credit card fraud... and I dont remember getting checked in Germany either... although I may have used a standard debit card with a PIN while I was in Germany.

Anyway I have my sig upside down on my card to create a point in time when I can proove fraud has begun (because travelling is a b/tch and after every trip I end up replacing my card and filling out forms to reclaim fraud).

I often get pulled up and have to show a secondary ID, my passport or something to prove my upside signature is infact upside down.
Ack, no, just using the wrong format string. Will fix it soon, thanks.
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I'm surprised at the Javascript figure. I leave a few swears in server-side script but the only people that will see that are other programmers; Javascript, anyone can read that.

That said, I've found a couple of rants in my old JS from the IE6 days that, well, if I clean them up they're not really sentences.
I fit into this category. Put it this way, it takes time, hard work, persistence, more time, and money. The first version of my site was nothing but a wordpress blog. I eventually hired someone to build the version that I had mapped out on paper, and it now is 3 years later and very profitable :).
"A typical American male who works full time is earning almost exactly the same as his counterpart was when Nixon was president"

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/09/po...

(More to the discussion in the article, ) As long as we continue to structure tax cuts as we do, and as long as an attempt to get the wealthiest top percentages to pay at least as much as the middle class in taxes (on a percentage basis, mind you) is called "class warfare" by the GOP, it's not likely to change (the response to the "Buffet clause" in the last two days or so). It's not hard to understand how our politician's priorities influence the outcome embodied by the title of this post...
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At a most basic level over the period relative wages for the poor haven't moved a lot but the absolute basics such as food and clothing prices have come down a heap.
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A month ago, I wrote a paper on the emerging mobile payments ecosystem, which devotes a section to Google Wallet, its strategy and the challenges it face. You can read the whole paper here: http://www.box.net/shared/fsiv1bu7ugrpp814aucx

Google's Strategy:

Google has indicated that it will not collect an interchange fee on transactions made through Google Wallet which shows that it has its eye squarely focused on the Payment Context. Google understands it stands to gain very little from the current revenue and expense sharing arrangements in place today for traditional payments. Google expects to employ a strategy similar to where they made Android a compelling “better than free” option to handset makers by offering to share a portion of search-based advertising revenues generated through the Android ecosystem.

Google also plans to lease space on its wallet solution to banks for free, compared to ISIS who will charge a rental fee. Google however has not made clear as to whether it plans on controlling the secure element outside of Nexus S, on handsets that run Android, despite not being in direct ownership of the master keys.

Challenges to GW:

Google Wallet's secure element resides on the handset, which is different from Carrier led mobile wallet initiatives(e.g. ISIS). Google Wallet is designed to be interoperable, so as to attract more partners, but so far its olive branch has not been met with reciprocal affection from other players in the payment ecosystem. If ISIS Carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T) mandate that any and all mobile wallets must work through ISIS to function on their carrier networks, Google may be forced to modify Google Wallet so as to work with a SIM based secure element.

Also Google Wallet’s launch outside of U.S may run counter to European mobile operator’s current business model where they charge fees to banks and other service providers for putting their NFC applications on SIM cards owned by the Telco’s. As Google attempts to court European banks to be part of the Google Wallet initiative, this could deter European mobile operators from adopting Android handsets if Google continues to unilaterally control the embedded secure element. Even though Google Nexus S supports SWP (Single Wire Protocol) that allows a mobile operator to put the secure element in the SIM, Google has opted not to enable this capability in Nexus S.

It would be great to hear other opinions on what I outlined above, and within my paper.
They aren't as different as you think. Even if wages remain the same at the bottom while wealth at the top increases tenfold, the poor are worse off. They are worse off because they will see their political power decrease, especially in a country like America where that is so tied to money, and they are worse off because income disparities decrease quality of life across the board (i.e. for rich and poor alike).

There isn't the clear separation that you are putting forward here.
As the legend states, the graph shows family income not individual income. If you and your spouse both earn $100k, you'd be above the 95th percentile.
Yep, I picked up a trick while backpackign across Asia for this. My signture is upside down on my card. So if I refute any claim that appears I can point out the fact and show at what point the transactions started.

I travell alot and I've had my gear stolen a few times, and atleast once a year (usually a month after I get back) I have to go through claims processes to remove charges which start appearing. Total pain, and why I'm suspicious of another system that looks atleast as bad as whats already out there.
That's household income, not individual.

$100,000 or more; percent in group: 6.24%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
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I know that the most popular tag in our issue tracker is #fuckie.

It's particularly fun to pronounce allowed as if it rhymed with "ducky".
It hurts people's innate sense of fairness though. When you see the people who manufactured the crises repleting their losses with money from middle and working class american's it is upsetting and does indicate the system has problems.
It blows my mind that the functionality of his programs are better then some applications found today.
His first example;
A task list with drag and drop nesting ability (there's an app for that).
Groups the items by location (It think I saw something like that in iOS 5).
With a click it shows his route how with quick links at each location to the items he needs to pickup (I haven't heard of an app for that).

Seriously, how is this not built into my cell phone yet?
Unless in your circumstances it's easier and safer for him to just say yes. In that case go right before lunch, or late in the evening --I guess.
Hm. I agree with your worry completely. Still, personally I found great value in studying the subject. I find it difficult to say precisely what, though.
What proportion of a person's wage does he spend on e.g. entertainment vs. food and clothing now compared to 40 years ago?
I wonder if sharding in some clever way could alleviate the problem. Some way of having another instance processing queries while other one is flushing logs.
Sorry about the repeated misspelling of Madoff. It won't let me edit it now.
I know this is wealth and not income, but I get sick of the media (and politicians) using the "top 1%" or "top 5%" label.

When it comes to income, the top 1% includes an attorney making $250K and a hedge fund manager making $10M. I imagine its similar for wealth. My guess is that distribution curves spike somewhere past the 1% mark.

Maybe I'm biased because I barely make the cut and don't want to pay more taxes, but it seems odd to use such an arbitrary cutoff for reporting and (especially) policy decisions.

And please tell me if I'm wrong or off here–I'm geniunely interested in this.

EDIT: downvoted? Seriously?
I don't disagree with you but I've seen a number of articles that simply present the fact that the top have increased their % and left it at that as proof of something bad happening.

If what you say is true then that is the argument that needs to be made before reaching that conclusion, that's all.
Mortimer Adler has written some philosophy books that are accessible, like How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization.

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Once again, this is a statistical aggregate. As difficult as it might be, please do not picture a filthy rich old white Scrooge character stealing cookies from poor orphans on the street when you read numbers like this. As the author clearly indicates, these numbers are in relation to averages, not real people. Movement between income groups is an area of current study, but I've seen numbers as high as 40% moving from one statistical group to another inside of a year. The rich may indeed be getting richer, but it may only be a small percentage of them who stay in that group over a period of decades. There might be many new arrivals and many people leaving each decade.

Of course, it's perfectly fair to say that the disparity is important whether or not the same people are involved year-to-year or not. I'm not trying to get into that part of the discussion. I'm simply trying to point out the difference between stereotypes and averages and real, live people. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. (old joke)
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WSJ, Economist, Forbes, none of these pull punches. You want a stark look at these kind of numbers and the issues around them, they all provide it with no hesitancy or softballing.

Don't be surprised when someone talks about the money they've made. They think they have it rightly, just as many feel slighted. No shame in the game of the wealthy.