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Daniel, great question. Postmates uses professionals couriers, much more like Uber does with limo drivers. Our primary focus are also merchants and business that need to offer and exceptional deliver service to their clients. Our aim is to provide a delivery infrastructure within a city. Merchants can then use this infrastructure much like an Amazon EC2 instance.
This device is not meant for someone like you to even evaluate. It is not meant to be used by people who hang out on hacker news or for people who grew up in Delhi and who travel in a/c Delhi metro. It is for poor kids in UP/Bihar who will never have any access to such technology otherwise. You have to see the bigger picture here.
If we could generate random IP samplings by crawling, and if the IP addresses are linearly incremented, then we would have a problem analogous to the German tank problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem) allowing us to compute the minimum variance estimate of the total number of IPs from a random sampling as: max(IPs observed)*(1+(number of IPs observed)^-1)-1.
Are you going to argue that it is? Is GRUB merely a "tool" for booting your computer? Is libc a "tool" for exposing OS-provided functionality to software? Is GNOME a GUI "tool"?
The sad thing about all of this is that the backers of the legislation stand to lose, in the long run, if their legislation is passed.

Consider the VCR. Back in the 1980s, when the VCR was a new and disruptive piece of technology, the film industry lobbied to have it outlawed or at least severely restricted. They lost that battle, and it's fortunate for them that they did. A decade or so later, home video sales and rentals would grow to account for nearly half the revenue of the entire industry. What had initially been seen as a menace came to be seen as a savior. Highly ironic, to say the least, and the irony is compounded even more by this attempted legislation.
Looks fantastic! I've had similar ideas over the years but never executed them. How geographically specific is each Thot?
Unsolved problems in Physics
The droplets on the Pepsi logo, and the pong animation on the Atari, are very cool. Inspiration to better my CSS skills.
Nexus One was released in January 2010. Too soon to be "retired" after only 2 years.

Nexus One was seriously "flawed" for having only 512MB of internal storage. I had to uninstall tons of applications just to update the built in ones.
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it will be built off of android open source project essentially the same thing that the nexus prime will be running. With no new hardware requirements, I don't see any indication of why it wouldn't run as well.
It is too little too late
Seven days and counting. I'm tired from holding my breath for months now.
While on the bus, I don't call my personal assistant and ask her to change my gynecologist appointment, using carefully paced, clear language.
Too bad writing a message invalidates the ballot. Otherwise you could write "Candidate A, with protest"
IANAE, but this always struck me as... odd. How would the failure of the banking system stop people who really only use it for money storage and purchasing convenience from continuing to use hard currency?
There's very little to lose there- except having to take on a two year plan.

Creditworthiness is a major barrier for many people. Many more resent being tied to a single vendor. Hence the increasing market share of non-contract vendors, although they've been taking a beating too because cell service demand at the bottom end is highly elastic compared to food and housing.
Doomed? No.

Doomed to be TBS/FX instead of the cable giants that they were initially pitted against? Quite possibly.
I doubt that anybody 'doubled up' and now pays for both the DVD and streaming option. The reason for the DVD service to exist at all is to do with Hollywood accounting and the way the licenses are counted - the idiocy of this has been discussed here before.

The studios can't start their own streaming service simply because they do not have the branding they think they have. This isn't the 1950s, nobody thinks "I must sign up for MGM's service they have all the best action movies".
HBO and BBC might manage to make separate pay-for services but are more likely to simply agree an extra cost deal with Netflix in the same way they sell an extra cost package to cable. Does HBO really want to get into the writing and supporting software player business?

Then the studios have a problem that they are in direct competition to their main customers - the cable companies that would be delivering these shows over IP. Can we say serious throttling?

Sooner or later somebody in Hollywood is going to manage to get the childproof top off their Lithium tablets and realize that iTunes hasn't quite destroyed the music industry.
> Most of the students were pretty pissed off at him because he ruined

The Univ, specifically whoever booked Stallman (in obvious ignorance), is who ruined their moment. Don't invite a Lion Tamer to fix your sink.
So by the end of the year Android developers will have 5 different versions (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0 and 4.0) of Android in the wild and over 40% of which are running a version that's almost 18 months old (2.2) with no upgrade path.

And they say fragmentation isn't an issue...

It's Nokia and Symbian all over again.
Firt all the buzz about Lumia 800 and then this crazy prototype, is Nokia on its way back?
For a site called hackernews, it surprises me that people actually care about this. There will be so many available roms for ICS with source code release, and any phone that is at least running CM7 should have no worries. Its almost impossible to brick a phone during the root process and for a 2 year old phone to not attempt to root at this point, would not be using your hardware to its full benefit.
Maybe someone served him Parrot Benedict?
The problem is content. Netflix doesn't have much in the way of IP for streaming video. Their streaming service has always been lacking, but it used to be the only viable option to watch videos. Starting next year, they'll have even less content, when they lose the rights to all the Starz content.

Netflix took the risk of establishing a new video business model. They proved streaming video works, now will have to compete against a host of future players for content rights. It seems like studios have more to gain by going it alone and cutting out the middle man (netflix).

Netflix has to weather a storm, and hope for some breaks along the way. I see the major studios trying their own thing first. Aggregation might be key, I'm not sure I'd want to have accounts with several movie studios to watch their movies. But I think it will take some time to get to the point where that's obvious to all the major players. It's not clear that Netflix will still be around by then, and even if they are, it's not clear that the studios will find them the most appealing option. It's very possible that the major studios would get together (a la hulu) and cut out Netflix altogether.

Netflix has their brand and their recommendation engine. The brand has taken a hit with all their recent missteps. I'm not sure that their recommendation engine will get them through. It's not trivial to replicate, but can be done.
To be fair, the repetition is how the system SHOULD work. Do you think the first attempt at passing a women's suffrage bill passed?
It's the equivalent of "use feature qw(switch say state)". "use feature" allows "new syntactic constructs, or new semantic meanings to older constructs" to be enabled in the current scope.

http://search.cpan.org/~flora/perl/lib/feature.pm
Not at Home Depot. The employees there tend to only know where things are in one small section of the store. And for other sections they send you on a wild goose chase where every employee you ask tells you a completely different section and you cannot find what you are looking for in any of them.
Can NOKIA stage a comeback?
they've pivoted because the idea didn't work, its now http://blockboard.org/
Hi,
Just wondering, with appfigures, do i need to include a library in my app so that it'll send data to their servers? If not, it sounds pretty neat, and i'm definitely interested.
Yeah, let's just allow them to pass their restrictions bit by bit in subsequent laws, arguing that "as it is we can still get around it".

It doesn't matter if we can get around it using a public DNS server. For one, tomorrow they can even outlaw using non government compliant dns providers).

What hackers tend to forget is that such problems are not technical, are political. "Bypassing" by technical expertise is not a solution, it's monkey-patching a system that's broken and dangerous.

1) Even if geeks can bypass some restrictions, they too tend to lose --content, community participation etc-- if the general populace cannot do it just as easily, or is scared not to do it.

2) Even the cleverest bypassing can be outlawed.

3) One should not trust one's self to always be one step ahead of the government in the bypassing game.

Take P2P for example. Say you're totally bypassing the P2P download restrictions with some clever hackery that makes you untraceable online, be it Tor or whatever. What good will it do if the authorities can come knocking on your physical door and find that same illegally downloaded stuff in use on your computer?
I know more about Perl than I do about Python so I can't comment on Python's execution of its chosen philosophy, but I certainly prefer it as a philosophy of programming language design.
Case in point. Harry Markopolos is a fraud investigator who works for institutional investors "big dogs", not the SEC.

He looked at Madoff's returns, the strategy they claimed they were using and took "4 hours" at home to figure out that it was fraud.

Here is a choice section of Markopolos's testimony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1A7LdW0Y_s
I also thought that this bit was charming:

I start being afraid to express my appreciation of anything, because they would get it and give it to me at any cost. If it is night, and the stars are beautiful, I hesitate to say so, lest my hosts feel obligated to try to get one for me.
What hard currency?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but bank consumers only perceive it as "money storage". In reality all deposits (after a certain point) are loans to the bank which then get pushed along/through/down/into the financial system. That's why runs on banks are so bad - the money isn't there.
> Looks like I have to contact my local congressmen again.

Yeah, you and some giant company with tons of cash to finance his next campaign.

Guess who's gonna win his support.
You don't trust your local bank to store your $10 bill - but you still trust the central bank not to print a billion of them tomorrow?
You should self-publish it and see what happens.

If you already have a PDF that looks good, Lulu is a good choice (http://lulu.com). If not, check out my startup, Leanpub: http://leanpub.com.
I thought of this, too. This submission seems like a lesser rehashing of this classic.
that gets bigger each time after a major financial deregulation law package passes..its an uncanny correlation..uncanny as most congress people and senators seem to be okay with overlooking it as long as their political war chests are filled with lobbyists dollars..
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How is this working out for Australia? I understand a blacklist/firewall was put in the place there?
Looks great. Citing a specific use case (whether in a particular area or event like a concert) would really help your intended audience understand how the app can be valuable.

Awesome concept
For a better article: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre...

The short of it is that many of the people that work for the SEC and the Justice Department are themselves financial industry insiders who have no interest in pursuing their friends or ruining their professional futures.
Hmm, you could target iphone wax https://github.com/probablycorey/wax to make a coffescript dev environment for iOS. Wax is a really nice environment.

Using javascript as a language instead of Lua for scripting though seems odd, as Lua is pretty easy to use instead.
Well Apple, who as we know do everything right, also made several hardware updates that left older Macs behind. So who is right?
Gimme Bar vs Pinterest
When Larry left for Perl 6 everyone figured that would be it for Perl 5 and then a few years later when Perl 6 kept not being viable for more than toy use the p5p was forced to figure out ways of extending Perl 5 without breaking old code. That was one of the ideas. This is what is more current planning in that regard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJss-l2XuV8
Cash, issued by the government, one would assume.
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Because most pensions are tied up in the market. So if the banking system deflates and resets, it drops the market value of pensions significantly.

The market essentially is a herd animal. Everything goes up or down together, in aggregate. Since wisdom in the financial market is to diversify, ie, hold in aggregate, a well-chosen portfolio generally does about as well as the market in the long term.

So if Grandma had 100K in her diversified portfolio of low-risk investments and the market exploded 50%, she'd have 50K, which represents a major loss of financial capabilities.

Whether it is better to drop such people in the cold while things reset or whether it is better to keep the cushion going, I leave to another media form, as such discussions tend to be too inflammatory online.
I don't know, but I'd love to hack on an Arduino in C. Or Python, if people want to be noob-friendly.
Now I'm really looking forward to the next release of CCW...
If I can't find the movie I want on Netflix, I torrent it. So yeah, I don't think Netflix is doomed either.
Look for Netflix to start pumping out quality original content. Just like HBO did. It's one of the best ways for them to stay competitive and differentiate themselves.
And the reason the government won't seriously prosecute wall st is because these firms are holding the investment money for all these politicians.
Navigating the switch between being a backend dev to frontend work
I'm a software engineer. So far I've only worked on backend parts of systems. I want to start doing front end engineering work.

What skills should a front end engineer possess that most backend engineers don't? What can I do to build that skill set?

Here is where I'm at now
- I don't know HTML/CSS very well. How should I pick that up? (I found most tutorials online aren't written for someone very technical so they can be frustrating)

- I can tie together mediocre javascript. I can make things work, but I can't write very cleanly or quickly.

- I have no UX design experience or training (other than common sense).

- I can't (yet) turn ideas into mocks via fancy software (eg photoshop, illustrator, ...) Should I learn a tool to do this? Which one? How should I go about learning it?
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i like that description.
For the curious, here's a link to the Google Maps satellite view of the plant: http://g.co/maps/sk9vn
Up to this point, this conversation has been about comments, which can quickly drown a discussion in noise. But here you are talking about votes, which take up no space whether there are one or a thousand of them. That's a completely different topic. They aren't interchangeable.

I agree that vote counts convey valuable information, but that information is not infinitely valuable, so we have to weigh the cost of conveying it. The cost of doing so through comments is way too high, so in the absence of visible counts, a comment's position on the page is the substitute we have.
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These things scare me because I think a significant amount of citizens don't know what they stand to lose, and I think politicians understand just enough to know exactly what they're taking away.
Thanks, mark@theopenalgorithm.com, send your profile links.
As long as our bandwidth and/or content is in the hands of corporations who'd rather fuck us than cultivate virtuous, reciprocally beneficial relationships, we will never be free.

I always worried, as a kid, that one day I'd grow up and think nostalgically back to days before the internet had been made dull and sterile by government rules.

I wasn't imaginative enough then, or even as a young adult, to predict this kind of nonsense would happen instead.

The internet is destined for a bleak period. We care, we're pissed, sure. But most people aren't. Most people don't even know. And wouldn't care if they did.

This law, or one like it, will be subverted in breathtaking and terrifying ways. Thought using the DMCA to shut down early thanksgiving coupon sites was bad? That's going to seem cute by comparison to what you can do when a moronic, bureaucratic authority can disappear entire websites at will.

I've been scratching my head for years trying to think of a way out. But I just can't. The most powerful means of distribution and communication in human history is either in the hands of inept, short-sighted, unimaginative buffoons or subject to regulation from the same.

I'm excited for the practical and technological revolution that upends this control. But I can't imagine what it would look like or how it would work. And that leaves me a pretty sad panda while we wait for it. But – this kind of stupidity is bad for everyone. Even the morons who want this law passed. So I'd like to believe that this period will pass with the same inevitability that will bring on its start.
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I knew with foresight that it was the correct premise because I saw it working already in other formats. The only question remaining was "what is the best format/execution to make it work?" and that is the uncertainty of which you speak. Innovation allows us to rapidly fail and learn so as to come up with the correct solution. Tourism Australia's answer was to keep creating multi-million dollar marketing campaigns, which teaches us little and wastes millions of dollars, and takes months of retrospective analysis to learn anything. All that we've learnt from the marketing campaigns is "People aren't as interested in Australia as they were 20 years ago." With a tech startup solution we would have learnt a number of things through observation of how the target demographic interact with each other and with tourism operators, plus what they best respond to, and therefore how best to promote Australian tourism products to them.
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I don't have showdead on and i see your comment just fine.
I do like American government acts.

I always picture the governor in Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles:

"Patriotism is good isn't it?"

"Yes Governor"

"So I should sign this PATRIOT act without reading it?"

"Yes Governor"

"Parasites are bad aren't they?"

"Yes Governor"

"So we ban them ?"

"Yes Governor"
....

If only Mr Obama had found a way of making his health care bill spell out "IF YOU VOTE AGAINST THIS YOU ARE SO GAY" ACT - he would have got it through.
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Never really said I did. But the fact is a lot of people still use cash, and would continue to do so (regardless of actual value) after a banking system crash. At least, I perceive it would, unless governmental authority also broke down. Then we are back to a barter economy.
Actually, from my perspective as a contracts lawyer, this rider is far from what I would call clear. Like the GPL, it's a helpful document, and cheerfully neurotic, but it leaves lots of room for dispute and confusion. Specificity != clarity.

Likewise, verbosity is not an indicator of a good contract. To the contrary.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/rumors-tors-compromise-are-...
A post by Andrew Lewman on this topic.
The fact that media companies are unwilling to let any one company have a full listing of all movies is one of the major failings of the industry. The videogame industry has the same fundamental problem but the near monopoly of the Steam service actually does them some good in my opinion.

The problem I think is rooted in piracy, at least as it is practiced in first-world countries where convenience is worth more than price. Piracy has several built-in practical issues, because it is frankly inconvenient to be conducting illegal business, and DRM provides another inconvenience. But despite these endemic problems with piracy, it does offer a huge convenience: universality. The legal movie market is fragmented and therefore a pain to deal with, where the black market is very universal, with mirrors of content on all the major distribution channels (torrents, rapidshare/HTTP sites, and USENET are the big three).

The interesting thing to me is that all three of these distribution channels have successful paid services springing up around them. There are private VPN services you can pay for to torrent from a foreign IP. Almost every HTTP distribution site such as rapidshare has a premium service you can pay for to get more volume. And USENET has several news servers that retain data for years and offer direct encrypted downloads. So it is clear to me that people are willing to pay for the benefits these services offer.

If you line up the pros and cons, I would say that legal services win out on almost every count except two: price and universality. The success of grey market services and nearly-universal services in other industries (iTunes, Steam) tells me that price is not the real blocker, if only movie studios would get their act together and let distributors license everything in the world.

I would love to see a world where cable TV providers, digital streaming services and physical retail services all had access to the entire catalog of movies and competed on price and convenience. The current world where services compete with content catalogs and exclusivity just seems unsustainable because it is worse for consumers in the long run.
Well, there's nothing stopping you from using GCC to target the AVR chip directly. As for Python, what about this project: http://code.google.com/p/python-on-a-chip/
While it's broader in scope, I found the marketing lessons in Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise to be very valuable: http://www.amazon.com/Walking-High-Tech-High-Wire-Entreprene...

By now they could well be subsumed in e.g. Steve Blank's work, but it's not a long read and the price is right. And they walked the walk: they developed a device that the could fabricate on a lab table top, but it required different thinking from hardware designers. That plus their quasi-pivot (actually just doing the numbers and figuring out which of the two businesses they were doing (selling parts and consulting) they should focus on) are also worthwhile, even or especially if you're in software.