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I wish I had access to Mayor Bloomberg on this one. This entire pilot has been surrounded by mysticism. How many companies were allowed to bid for this "pilot"? Why will it take 5 years to mimic what other countries have done already? Why is a credit card company and not pure contactless OEMs or service providers not the ones doing the pilot? Why 5 years to do the implementation?

I bet you that my company (or any other NFC startup, for that matter) would've done the entire implementation in less than 1 year and at 1/10th the cost. Shady MTA, shady!
Chris Hedges, a war correspondent for years, wrote a book called "War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning". I heard an interview he did with Terry Gross when the book came out. He said he realized he was addicted to war and that if he didn't get out it would kill him.

You can see how heavily the loss of that meaning would weigh upon someone after they return from a war to "normal" life. Especially once all the delayed trauma reactions kick in.
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It is a cool tool, but to me it means that people in the SF bay area use the web for housing; other areas not so much.
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure include a requirements that plaintiffs plead on facts rather than possibilities, and have done since the 70s or so. Sowell omits to mention that the Sherman act passed at the end of the 19th century was a response to trusts using novel legal vehicles to circumvent rules against cross-shareholding designed to establish a monopoly. It's not great law (and has arguably been hollowed out over the last 30 years), but market failure was a persistent problem when it was put in place.
Thanks a ton for this info. It helps add to my knowledge of what's going on there. What's also sad, is that seeing a psychiatrist has it's own dilemmas attached to it. "If I see a psychiatrist, what will my friends think of me?", "If I see a psychiatrist, can I still get a government job?", etc.
So it would be kind of like my laptop, only subject to change without my knowing it whenever something was pushed out of the cloud.
Monopolies which no one is free to compete against (e.g., the federal government) are corrupt monopolies. They use the force of a gun to force the will and goods of other to serve their own selfish greed. The founding fathers of the United States understood this, and instituted a federal system in which states were not only free, but expected to compete against each other. Unfortunately, those who seek power and control over others and their rights recognized this obstacle, and have gradually coerced and persuaded the populace toward supporting an increasingly larger federal government at the expense of free competition amongst states. No one is legally allowed to compete with the federal government, and thus any endeavor in which it labors who's sole purpose is not to uphold the rights of its people, is corrupt. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of this corruption, whether out of malice or negligence is of no importance.

There is no contradiction.

A successful business progressing to the point of an earned "monopoly", is still beholden to both competitors and a free market. It has neither violence nor coercion as means to enforce its interests. However, a government monopoly (note the lack of quotes), retains the privilege to force by means of violence any that refuse its product. If you refuse to pay taxes, you will go to jail. If you refuse to go to jail, you will be forced to go to jail. If you refuse to be forced to go to jail against your life, your life will be taken from you. You are not free in this transaction; there is no nobility in the greed of the government to take what it wants at your expense.

It would serve you well to brush up on the definition of a monopoly, specifically as Webster defines it[1]:

exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action

The important distinction here being "legal privilege". The _federal_ government maintains the sole legal privilege to be the provider of many goods and services which _no other entity is allowed to provide_. Google does not enjoy such a legal privilege and is competing in, please excuse the very loose use of the phrase, a free market.

Please do not co-opt the word monopoly so trivially.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly
You're assuming, like he did, that everyone else in this silent majority agrees with you.

That's because you talk to like-minded people, in person and online, almost constantly. It's availability bias.

Reddit is not representative of the community at large. Not even close. That's why I like it.
awesome! very useful. we need a tool like this for general purpose CAD drawings as well!
I'd argue that "low to midrange smartphone" and "free OS smartphone" are two separate markets outside the US and Europe.

Inside the US where carrier phones are dumbphones, iPhones, Google-branded official-partner Android phones, or outliers, you're totally right - Windows Phone has a great shot at taking over the low-end to mid-range cheap-but-still-branded Android phones from LG, Samsung, and Motorola.

Overseas, where "free OS smartphone" is a market niche occupied by 500 Chinese things people in the US have never heard of with no Google branding whatsoever (and no or hacked Android Market access), Windows Phone doesn't stand a chance, because it can't be downloaded and hacked together.
This is correct. It is the same in Australia
>"It doesn't work absolutely all the time, but if it works almost all of the time, customers will be happy."

Bullshit. When stuff doesn't work people are often unhappy as hell. And a computer that just deletes old stuff, it will really piss them off.
I've been using GitX for months and it's pretty good, but it still buggy at times. I've been using the GitX (L) fork, since the original GitX doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore. It's available here: http://gitx.laullon.com/

A few days ago a co-worker turned me on to SourceTree (http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/), which is also free and developed by Atlassian. I've got to say it's a bit more polished and so far it looks like it might be replacing GitX for me.
Nothing ever happened with WebP from what I understand though, but you can still check it out. Just Google and click on any one of the thousand of stories.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20018146-264.html
You kinda missed the point of my comment, it's just demonstrating that there's nothing amazing about any of his examples.

I'm not denying some things are faster in vim, but other things are slower.

What I take umbrage with is when someone posts a load of examples like this where they can all be done in your favourite IDE but the author's just too lazy to find out if they could be and so declares the magic of Vi or Emacs compared to [insert everything else here].

Often it's like saying 'look my car's got windscreen wipers, all your cars suck'. Um, mine has windscreen wipers too dude.

See my response to vacri, if you've any examples, please do share. I honestly will switch if I could see a sizeable productivity gain.
The webkit inspector is also great for that. you can paste js and browse it in a nice way.

On most pages you can even just open the inspector (cmd alt i) and do $.get() to inspect json from random places
1. Save thousands of lives by donating to charity (it costs about $2000 to save a human life: http://givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF).

2. Do whatever you wish to do, every single day, such as spending a year studying philosophy while travelling the world, or deciding to learn salsa for a year and a half.
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Today I remembered what was the most tantalisingly interesting thing about XCode back then - the distributed compilation. The idea that you could have a team of people and my computer would steal spare cycles from yours (and vice versa) when mine was compiling and yours was sitting there waiting for you to hit the next key...

I never had anything large enough on XCode for it to actually matter enough to me to get it working though.
add me to the list of pick-ups
It also makes it possible to disseminate misinformation faster and to form plausible astroturfing efforts at a low cost.

Reddit has hared off after Evil People who upon closer inspection turned out to be innocent. This is a property of mobs in general, which is why most western-style liberal democracies have such maddeningly slow and inefficient designs.
Let me just say thank you to the author. I pretty much over think every aspect of my life. Its good to have this little reminder.
You can't give up. It took us (hall.com) over 6 months. You can always change. We went from companyline, to halleo, to hall.com. Other pointer, test the domain with users to make sure it works. Our story: http://blog.hall.com/post/13936429456/how-we-got-the-hall-co...
maybe that will take some of the challenge out of it
The author's blog post claims this:
Chrome Canary, WebKit nightlies, Firefox Nightly: 64%
Chrome, IE10PP4: 63%

source: http://lea.verou.me/2012/02/exactly-how-much-css3-does-your-...
Oh noes! I almost cared about the virtual thumbs up! Call me when I can spend karma on caffeine and maybe I'll start caring. ;-p

It's a quote about war - in a thread about war. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
I agree with you.

Since the Build conference I have been hoping that they would make WinRT available on WP8.
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we would love to chat with you about what you need it to do! shoot us an email @ support.

p.s. I am one of the founder of Upverter
Yes, and I think that is the point they are making. There is no "free" mail. It costs money- so you can either pay for a service, or have your privacy mined for ad revenue.
My application Library Inspector is also pretty useful if you are a developer: http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/software/library-inspector

If you are developing Mac and iOS applications it is especially useful as it gives .a and .dylib files custom icons indicating their architecture.
Integrating Google Analytics into your company loop with a Excel add-on
> CAPTCHAs on an API. Never thought I'd see the day...

You could argue that this is essentially accomplished through API keys/secrets and rate limiting.
I've seen job listings embedded in <meta> tags, in HTTP headers, all sorts of odd places. The trick is that some smart person stumbles on it by accident, posts it on their blog, then gets picked up by a major tech site.

It's fantastic publicity.
Never saw the point in wasting time to learn an arcane editor from the '70s.

Well apparently you wasted your time learning an arcane command line interface from the 70s.
Probably because WP7/7.5 phones will not be upgraded to WP8. Why waste money marketing a device that will effectively "go away" this October when WP8 is released? Microsoft has already decided to invest heavily in WP so it makes much more sense to save their marketing dollars until their long term/future OS has been finished.

For those that are unaware, WP7 and WP8 are built off of different kernels.
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It is already available as beta for Linux and Mac OS X as well.
First off, I really like your point - it's good to note that most Android phones sold in Europe and the US are paying for the OS.

But there's another market to consider here, as well: Android can be a free OS overseas because it's freely downloadable and the source can be quickly ported to a random device made in a random Chinese factory, which Microsoft will probably never see or care about (and hence never demand patent licensing fees for).

This is a market niche that shouldn't be underestimated - ever looked at the "Phones" section on DealExtreme or had a friend come back from China with some kind of weird dual-SIM concoction? These are immensely popular in China and India, and now instead of paying contractors to write horrid proprietary dumbphone OSes, their manufacturers can pay contractors to quickly bake together an Android port (often with hacked Market access).
Some advice from someone who sat on Google's Hiring Committee for about 20 months: https://plus.google.com/101174951617223562800/posts/2UE1Y815...

Having said that, Cracking the Coding Interview is a fantastic book for technical interviews. I've always been skeptical of this kind of book, but after having interviewed at Google, MS and Amazon, I can say that most of the questions were similar to ones from the book, if not directly from it. So thanks for writing it Gayle :)
This comment is here because the hacker news comment system is a great example of bad design.
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You've pointed out the exact nature of the problem. They made a killing that day, and they probably will continue to make a killing as long as naive investors believe they can beat the market (whether with timing, or security selection, or both).

The only way around this is to educate investors about things like this. Because let's be honest: those guys at Wealth Magazine (at least the ones running the place, I presume) know full well their customers are wasting their money. But the fact is, it's revenue for them, and as long as that spigot is still flowing no way are they going to bite the hand that feeds them.

It's a conflict-of-interest situation, rather than a lack of knowledge on the part of the folks selling these financial services. You can be sure the guys (and they're usually guys) at the top aren't buying funds based on advice from Bill Cosby (no offense to the actor's other skills).
Can you wrap the autosave feature in a conditional that checks for authenticated session?

You don't need to save work for non-logged in users. I just personally think it's very powerful to have a way to demo the app.

Alternatively can you set up a dummy demo account that new users can use?
you can always map <leader>y to yank line except for end.

Mapping the leader to , and it's even nicer. then all you need to do is ,y and you get the line in fragment mode.

nnoremap <leader>y 0y$

or if you want just first non whitespace char you could do an uppercase y for the leader command. swap the upper and lower to make it how you want. seems like this would be a more useful command to have:

nnoremap <leader>Y ^y$

edit: saw that you found a workaround by pasting in insert mode. ctrl-r" any other ways to paste in insert mode?
It is for this reason (2.x markups) that I am working on an ecommerce startup idea. I like the idea of selling actual product, making actual revenue and knowing what your margins will be.

While manufacturing your own clothing is much more involved and logistically complicated, its relatively easier to become an online retailer and buy clothing at wholesale from existing brands and sell that. That also helps me mitigate my risks (my domain knowledge is technology and not apparel manufacturing/sourcing).

On a side note, I am currently looking for co-founders. I have a technical background and have almost completed coding the site. If you are interested, my email is in the profile
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Hi Rob --

Perhaps you could broadly discuss how you made the economics work? As I understand it they had a site that they were putting virtually zero effort into, so they must have wanted a pretty hefty multiple of the annual income. Because even if that income was declining, it was still taking zero effort to generate. You, on the other hand, had to have assumed you could make the revenue grow significantly via active investment, right? You did mention that eg broken sql or query parsing was leaving a ton of data and/or money on the table as it were, but you couldn't have known that ahead of time, could you?

So maybe you could explain something like:
eg they wanted 3x annual profits, and I made assumptions x, y, z around potential growth via active marketing, etc. Or perhaps you dug up some competitors to imply that future revenue declines would be more rapid than expected? Also, perhaps you could explain how you came to your opening offer -- did you literally email them and say hi, I'd like to buy this and here is my estimated offer, or did you get some numbers first? If the former, how did you ballpark the income?

Even if you don't care or have time to answer the above questions, thanks a bunch for being willing to share these things. I feel like these deals must happen pretty often but there isn't much of a public guide to doing them.
I replaced my Symbian Phone with a WP7 phone.

When I got the Nokia, I went out and bought an 8GB card for it. It peaked at about 1GB of usage - I could have stored all that on the phone's memory instead.

My WP7 phone has about 10GB free (more than half). It's not an issue. My wife has an 8GB iPhone, memory is not an issue (are you baffled that iPhones don't have removable storage?)

Data plan usage has never been an issue for the people I am around - even though I imagine it is for some people. And if I cared, the data usage available from my carrier via my phone.

The way I see it, those are listed just so that there is something that everyone can get their head around when comparing specs.
You should check the Hacker News freelancer thread of this month [1].

I.e. I do front-end and back end development and my rate its around $45 per hour. Its probably on the cheap side, but I am trying to extend my customer network.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537882
Yep that's the one. My startup's office used to be right above them. Cool guys.
It's really not much cheaper - if you look at the Zappos financials from when they were acquired, their margins were razor thin. All of that "free" shipping costs a lot of money.

The real opportunity to lower markups is in manufacturers selling direct.
No, not more
This just seems like an everything and the kitchen sink list. I am not convinced supporting every possible use case leads to an approachable/efficient language. It seems akin to arguing my car should also be a boat and an airplane.
I'd like to see some numbers related more to where people applying/going to prestigious schools are actually from, and application density for a given area.
Well, aside from the fact that a) Antivirus was already a thriving market and b) No one but Google could create "bouncer" for Google's Android Market.

It is a further admission that Google needs to apply some more order and curation to their marketplace.
Ask HN: Is it normal for companies to purchase stakes in other companies at IPO?
I was just thinking, do companies typically/ever attempt to buy IPO shares?

I.E. Do you think Google, as a company, is going to try and buy up a ton of shares of the Facebook IPO? Why or why not. Would this be good or bad?
While I agree that companies that rely on open source software should give back to the community (new projects, bug fixes to things they're using, etc.), we have to admit maintaining new open source projects costs time and money. When you're a startup trying to get a beta product off the ground, I suspect you'll prioritize having a better product first, and open sourcing things later.

(Note: I'm not in any way, shape or form related to Upverter)
Is it possible to pipe something into already opened ssh connection?
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The violins are not a metaphor for race. He is saying that if every asian applicant plays violin as an extracurricular, and the university only wants five accomplished violinists (because they also need some cellists and flutists et al), then being a violinist effectively stacks you up against all the other violinists vying for a spot.

This is relevant taken in light of the reputed homogeneity among asian applicants.

The remedy is nothing you haven't heard before, either. Stand out. Take up falconry instead of piano. There aren't many falconers.
Fields medal winner Tim Gowers on online review systems
Is the purpose mainly just to prevent spam / completely unqualified candidates? Its rather trivial to do the post for anyone with dev experience so I can't imagine its much use to actually gauge their skills
Make a request to any zappos.com page and look at the response headers. Found this while checking out their site prior to flying out there.

They've got flair.
Fourth, the government happily interferes in the market on behalf of its buddies at Carrefour by implementing planning regulations that would make it near impossible to open a competing mall.
This reminds me of one thing and makes me scoff at this

"This is the end of a two-year battle, a decision without precedent," said the lawyer for Bottin Cartographes, Jean-David Scemmama."

French candle makers http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Out of curiosity, what were you missing from Linux?

That's not to say I don't miss things from Linux (/proc, XMonad to name two), just nothing all that much.
No, I take that back, I read it as you meaning the company!
I had a similar thought recently, that it is a good thing to accept my emotional reactions, but that I did not have to embrace them.

(further explanation would involve rambling about the reaction being part of who I am but the embracing making it a bigger part of who I am)
It's advice from 20 year olds that think they know everything and that these "epiphanies" regarding happiness are really going to impact their lives.
This list is more about default library a language should come with rather than language design.
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IBM

https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?job_id=SWG-04...
If you don't want to go near Excel, or you want to schedule your data fetches from Google Analytics from the command-line, my colleague open-sourced this earlier this week: https://github.com/datascience/google-analytics-export-to-cs...
That assumption doesn't seem to be supported by the data. What are you basing it on?
You're only being punished if somehow you can claim you deserved a spot at any particular school. This is what this discussion is about, how one determines "merit".
Jason looks great. It definitely makes JSON management easy. I loved it and even donated money.
That quote seems to be talking about the "social graph", not Facebook. Facebook pushes the "social graph" as part of their product, but I don't think they'd claim Facebook is the same thing as the graph.
The more I read this article , the more I feel he is not talking about _language_. He is talking about _library_.
Solving the "direct from wholesaler" for American made goods is a monster opportunity.

$65 is a lot more reasonable that $155 and I'd buy twice as many at that price ;)

Etsy comes close but a startup that focused on a niche and curating quality could be a fun and profitable challenge.