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Yeah; I guess there's the class of obligatory gifts that social circumstances extort out of us. We no longer question why we're going to a wedding of somebody we don't know.

Still, the idea that somebody has set up a list of 'acceptable gifts' sticks in my craw.

I have a friend that always gives a wooden trencher board as a wedding gift for anybody. Different enough not to be duplicated.
I have often wondered whether UK Immigration Officers have a quota to meet...
Every time you make a powerpoint ....
No matter what you are planning to do.. "Tourism, I am here to see the country (see friends, relatives etc)" I almost made that mistake before but remembered to shut up just in time.
That's another of the many virtues of Google Checkout / Wallet... it blocks a ton of transactions based on some dubious anti-fraud checks. I guess regular sellers just move on to a better payment processor but those of us who sell on Google Play are stuck with this joke of a payment processor. Also, Google gets a 30% cut just for exposure at the store and the poor payment processing they do, I mean, support is beyond a joke, it's simply non-existent. Just like when I ordered the Nexus 4 and got in contact to complain about the delays, talking to the "support" staff (when you manage to get an actual human being to reply at all) is like talking to a brick wall with some FAQs stuck to it in post-it notes. I once sent a screenshot to a couple of reporters to show them just how many transactions were automatically cancelled as a side note -we were talking about other Google Play issues- and I guess they didn't even bother to look into the cancelled transactions issues because it looked unreal. I think it got a bit better over time, it's probably 10% cancelled now, but it used to be up to 50% in particularly bad days and maybe 20% average. A total joke.
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I don't know that free speech is granted to insure that oppression can be defeated or overcome by language, but that is a different discussion.

Free speech, as defined by numerous Supreme Court decisions, protects speech that expresses ideas, however distasteful, but does not tolerate advocating of action that will cause harm, nor statements whose sole purpose is to invoke an altercation--"fighting words".

The clear distinction from Oliver Wendell Holmes is that you can yell, "Fire!", but not in a crowded theatre. Free speech is not without limits.

So you can legally say that someone is ugly, but you cannot advocate assaults on people that you perceive as ugly.
If you made an account and responsibly voted on articles you would help prevent that.

More importantly, you're a coward for remaining anonymous while flaming someones post who fairly had their chance at the HN front page.

Someone who would post such a useless comment, like yourself, doesn't belong here.

Color me disgusted.
Interesting project, but probably runs afoul of a whole passel of Apple IP, and so will get nowhere useful.
Yes, that is what we see.
What? Isn't that exactly what taxi drivers are there to do while they are working. That is, take you where you are going? Why would they have been going in the opposite direction if they were picking up a fare, wouldn't they naturally be going in whatever direction the fare needed them to? This comment is ridiculous and seems to just advocate a system of poor customer service.
People drive to movies, amusement parks, etc.
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Great I'm glad you think it's useful. One thing we noticed when building out our company is that it was hard to find and identify the 'must reads' for entrepreneurs. There is so much content around today on the subject and a lot of noise. So consequently we missed out on a lot of the critical stuff because we just didn't know better and it cost us a lot of time. We're hoping to get all the good resources to the surface.
Generally, it's best to get in the cab and then tell them where you're going. Mind you, that may mean you're now in the cab with an unhappy driver, but it used to be that was the only reliable way to get a cab from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
A 1U xserve maxes out at 334 Watts [1]. Each Mac mini takes 85 Watts [2], so 4 is 340 Watts. At 220v that's 1.54 Amps.

Is splitting the power really so dangerous?

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3513
[2] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3468
What about for the ITU? Surely without the support of the Western world it would lose much of its punch.
Would you be saying this if it was salesmen who refused to sell him a desk, or a phone company who refused to sell him service?
The art is beautiful, and it almost looks as if some of them have tiny bits of food included.
Read my reply to see how they're also extra-cautious about selling $1 apps...
Juniper Networks is actively hiring software engineers with FreeBSD experience:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/2012-Novembe...

And they're not the only ones...
It is illegal for taxi drivers to refuse your fare depending on your destination. If their "Off Duty" light is not lit, just get in, then say your destination. If they protest, say you'll call 311 (and start taking a picture of their license).

If the "Off Duty" light is on, just wave them on no matter where you're going.
Maybe it's untrue in your part of the universe. It happens to be untrue in the US:

* Dell Price $1449:
http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd

But for the rest of us, for instance in Canada (where I'm automatically redirected):

* Dell Price $2,344:
http://www.dell.com/ca/enterprise/p/xps-13-linux/pd

On the other hand, the MBA averages (both Canada/US) at ~1199$.

I don't feel embarrassed.
If there were a visual programming environment that was actually faster, simpler, and more productive to use than typing, fine, I'm sure we'd all use it. I don't understand what his argument is. There ISN'T such an environment, so why is he arguing against the current state-of-the-art (text)?
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You have to get inside the cab before you tell them where you're going, they are legally required to take you once you are inside
I suppose it is appropriate that this riddle appears twice on the page. =)
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Dilettante.

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3s458i/

Just picking one of the many hilariously patronising statements in the essay, the author says "we may be able to do better" than the great philosophers by, in effect, making a big list of things that are true in general, and cause people to act differently.

How do we measure truth? Who decides? What happens when the people who decide become political? What if someone is wrong? What if an action that you thought was true causes someone to do something morally wrong? What is morally wrong?

What if others want to talk about things that aren't on this list? Do you stop them? Are they wasting their time if they ask other questions?

Maybe people in philosophy are looking at things now that will only make sense to others in decades to come. That happens to be my opinion. It is worth studying anything somebody gives their life to very carefully before writing it off as a "swamp of abstractions".
[For the record, my intent wasn't that I'd pretend I was the original author, just that I'd sell the transcribed book. But running with your take on this anyway, and with the usual IANAL disclaimer:]

Morally, you're certainly right: it's wrong to take credit for work that is not your own. But legally, I thought this is precisely what "public domain" means. Disney can make a movie out of Snow White without bothering to credit the Brothers Grimm (or their sources) at all, much less needing permission from their heirs. Public domain works can be used by anyone, in any way, for any purpose.

As one example to illustrate this, Creative Commons provides a way to "dedicate work to the public domain". Their human-readable summary says,

"You can copy, modify, distribute and
perform the work, even for commercial
purposes, all without asking permission."

That's pretty much what I was attempting to describe in my previous comment.
I have made every effort to avoid arguing with people about this. It has basically left me no outlet for discussing it at all, which is something I very much need. This is a big part of my life. It is not going to go away. Being suffocated by having zero outlet is, at this point, a bigger problem than engaging in debate with people have zero intent to be supportive of my need to talk about it. I wish it were not so.
I mentioned this below - I've been programming since 1986. It took me the last 7 years to really nail down that this duality of perspective (high-level, complete system vs. low-level, one aspect) was common across all successful projects I've lead or worked on.

By success I mean something that not only meets the stated requirements, but is also maintainable, extensible, secure, scales, and is available.

I'll leave it at that.
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I think, you see it to theoretical. As a matter of fact, we don´t have valid data about a case just as this. Yes sure, there are examples for this, people being populistic, following the loudest speaker and so forth. But first of all, we are talking about one seat in the national parliament, one of 620, not about being the president of the US or the german chancellorship. The influencing towards the law making process will be pretty limited, if existent. At the same time, I see a chance to get some actual situations about how this works, and quite controlled conditions. I dunno, maybe I am underestimating the stress and such, but could be fun to play with thought around.
I didn't understand why everyone was wittering on about sustainability until I read "Collapse" by Jarod Diamond. It illustrates how dangerous it is to ignore sustainability, and how rare it is in human societies.

It seems to me that we have a choice:

1. Figure out how to cut our population growth to 0%, and then educate everyone on the planet as why they should do this instead of breeding to the max. Our kids will be happier than us.

2. Breed to the max until everyone on earth (and maybe Mars) is only just hanging on by their fingernails, probably living extremely unpleasant lives of violent competition and constant starvation. Our kids will be less happy than us.

Sadly I think option 1 is unlikely due to the tragedy of the commons.
I'm sure there are just as many occasions where European custom officers are friendly and efficient and fix mistakes.

But I can assure you that this story happens with US customs as well - if they think you are there to work in the country without a work VISA, you will get detained and it is not pleasant.
Maybe people wouldn't be so ready to dismiss you if you didn't lead off with such awful arguments for your position. You give an emotional story about your own personal improvement, then complain when, what, we don't read your mind and realize there's more? If you're thorough, show it. It's completely unreasonable to start off so weakly and then complain when people call you on it.
Can the title of this be changed? I assumed this was some new payment system all NYC Cabs signed up for except 5. Where as the title is really 'Dear', i.e. a letter to.
> Some people are even ordering a second phone just to see if they get a shipping notification

I got mine before the shipping notification
You should avoid doctors then, for not to become part of the "problem".
They are legally required to take you anywhere whether you're inside or not.

There are exceptions; they can refuse to take you to Texas, etc. But refusing to take someone to somewhere in the five boroughs while they are on-shift is not legal.

Having said that, get in the damn cab before you tell them where you're going.
LG isn't selling their device directly to consumers, they are selling them to carriers and retail channels. For your statement to be accurate, you'd need to compare the cost to the reseller to purchase either device.
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A valuable skill in life is asking the right questions and knowing how to ask it. I think if the original post asked "theoretically how would one disrupt the cable industry" the discussion would of been much different
This is a common tourist mistake. Flag the taxi, and then get in the car, say hello, then tell the driver where you are going. Only tourists think they need permission to get in the car, and so the drivers will refuse them. Tourists also tend to request unprofitable routes, like going 15 blocks in Times Square.

They are allowed to turn the off-duty light on, and to get one final fare going their return direction at the end of their shift. This rule is coming to an end because the GPS logs have proven that the drivers abuse this rule extensively.
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Sure, the internet can be a cynical place, remote communication seems to wake the worth in a lot of people. At the same time it is full of wonders. Maybe I can invite you to join a discussion about how it could impact in political decision making?
Click along: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891571
norvig's comment didn't exist when I started mine, but by the time I'd typed all my comment in, norvig's had appeared. I toyed with the idea of deleting the riddle from mine, but have decided to leave it.
Did you read it?

I understood it as a call to think more about the tools we use every day -- not just what editor or anything petty like that, but in a big way. The fact that we still edit files in order to write code, and how little has actually changed since the macintosh was released, with regards to graphical programs.
Automation is allot easier on a pre-indexed, pre-QAd, pre-tagged and pre-filtered data than it is on the raw underlying data itself.

Almost all the automation tools spoke newzbin and nzbmatrix.
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While I'm familiar with this paradox (to the point I know that it exists), I understand exactly 0% of maths beyond differential equations.

As a (bio)chemist, this paradox has always bugged me profusely.

Perhaps I should set aside some time someday to grasp a very basic understanding of what's going on here. :p
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HN in this case is what a salesperson would call an "unqualified lead". A good salesperson tries to make sure that they sell their product to someone who will potentially buy it. Similarly, the person who asks a question should try to ask someone who can potentially answer it. Just as the HN community would reject a posting that is a sales pitch for many products, the HN community will reject a question that is too vague to answer.

For reference, here is the original, way too vague question:

> I want to build a cable company that centers around
> viewer types. Basically, it is my understanding that the
> majority of my cable costs centers around channels
> (like fox) that I just dont watch, if I wanted to build
> a system that let customers limit this, where would I
> get started?

Note that he didn't ask this question on a discussion forum about cable television. He didn't specify if he was looking for advice on the technical aspects, the regulatory aspects, or the business aspects. He didn't hunt around in the user profiles on HN to see if there were people with industry experience that he could approach directly. He didn't describe whether he was looking for high level answers like a list of websites that might have more information, or whether he was looking for very specific info. He did nothing to qualify HN as a good source for the answer to his question.
In theory, sure.

In reality, during the day in midtown (and particularly around rush hour), you're more likely going to find a cab that pulls up to you with its doors locked, and a driver who rolls down his window to ask you where you're going.

Especially if you look like you're going to the airport.

If I have to get to the airport in NYC I book a car, every single time. I hate dealing with cabbies' bullshit, and so I simply don't. Even if I'm fairly certain I can get a cab. I'd rather pay more for a service I can count on over one that is a gamble and filled with drivers who are more than willing to deceive their customers.

Edit: context - i live in NYC, work in midtown.
Pssh, it's not abstract enough, it can't be real mathematics. ;P

(But seriously: yes, agreed.)
This is way better than forgiving. When you forgive, you’re still playing the victim, and they’re still wrong, but you’re charitably pardoning their horrible deeds.

That's NOT forgiving. That's playing the victim, them being wrong and charitably pardoning their horrible deeds mumbojumbo. "And then they bitterly stabbed each other again..."

Forgiving means deciding to let go of what has happened; letting go as in not letting what has happened influence your future life and decisions, and forgiving starts from yourself. The act of forgiveness is to free yourself from the past events. It goes like first realizing that past is past, you can't change it and nobody else can change it either, and that ultimately the suffering seeps not from what had happened but from the way how you still take it, and eventually realizing that generally you're just so much better off not thinking about it anymore, regardless of if you win or lose the corresponding power struggle inside of your head.

When you've already removed yourself from any emotional entanglements it's basically a no-op to forgive someone else because at that point you no longer care about what s/he has done. It's good to forgive others to encourage them to let it go but it's not necessarily for your own recovery.
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I hate his pretentious tone. The Uber drivers do what they do not because they are more respectful, but because you are paying out of our ass for it. You really think they like pulling around people if they could do something else?
It's Apple's Passbook but explained right. Good job.
Does anyone know where they are buying these data sets that link browser characteristics to personally identifiable information? Obviously, companies like Linkedin and Facebook have these data sets but I can't imagine them selling that information.
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Don't forget that a particularly "strong" immune system causes allergies and auto-immune diseases.
Whenever I've been in NYC, I've never had a problem getting cabs. Going to Newark airport however cost me something like $110 if I remember correctly, because the cab driver gave me these special "fees" at the end, it felt like highway robbery.

Now in SF, it's the worst cab situation I've ever seen. I've had cabs that I ordered via the phone never bother to show up, and once waited 90 mins in front of a hotel, as the hotel employee tried to flag taxis as they passed by the line. I don't bother taking the cab anymore. If I need to be somewhere for a day like New Year's Eve, I'll park downtown earlier that afternoon and then take the Muni there.

I just might try out Uber this New Year's Eve and see how that goes.
Does anyone know of a good method for determining memory usage within a python application?
You drive to get to the area - then switch to foot. Compare it to the way people drive their bikes to mountain bike trails.
I don't know that guy but I have the dubious pleasure of workng with a large enterprise with a few thousand users stuck with XP and IE7 and no end in site. They can't even manage an upgrade to IE8 due to legacy apps.
For many people it's easier to understand complex relationships when they're represented in visual form. However, to represent logic in visual form becomes quite damn painful because when the complexity grows, so does the visual area occupied. When you actually have cross-referencing of objects of type X which inherit from Y and have a is-a relationship with Z which is a friend of K it really, really becomes a one huge mess.

While I could imagine such a system being used for very trivial programming tasks by "non-programmers", I find it very utopistic to even imagine that something as complex as even a primitive compiler could be writ.. described in such form with ease. The actual hard part is not to code it out(as opposed to sketch it out visually) but to manage the complexity by designing it in such a way that it makes sense and works as intended.

I really don't see how visual programming would be helpful with the actual act of designing or even understanding a complex software system with different types, constructs, patterns and their permutations. Perhaps it's just lack of imagination, I sure hope so.
This is incorrect. While typically Linux has implemented the spidev poorly (its really just a stub to do the things you do occasionally like sideload firmware into a card) SPI itself it actually reasonably zippy for this application.

Typical "fast" SPI clock rates are 10Mhz on a 20Mhz MCU[1], and with a daisy chained set of SPI parallel I/O chips (they appear as 'one' device on the SPI bus) you can clock the state of all 105 key switches (or 120 if you're using 5 of the 24 bit ones) into an embedded processor like the AtMega328 at 10mS per sample. So that is 100 samples per second. Usable for this stuff but not ideal.

Since the n-key rollover patent [2] expired a number of companies have made chips that implement this for arbitrary sized matrices (given i/o pins) of which an exemplar is Atmel's AT43USB325E [3] which can handle up to 20 x 8 (that is 160 keys). The Atmel part is especially useful because it has a built in USB 'peripheral' port and the app notes for this part show how to easily make a USB keyboard out of a bunch of random key switches hooked to a diode matrix.

[1] http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc2585.pdf

[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US4517553

[3] http://datasheet.octopart.com/AT43USB325E-AC-Atmel-datasheet...
The hardest problem on the mechanical side was connecting the motor to wheels. You will often need to gear down a motor before you connect it to the wheels. Without the ability to custom manufacture parts it is very difficult to cobble something together. The simplest solution is to buy a motor with a prebuilt gearbox, axel, and wheel. I don't remember where I got mine but something like this should work: http://www.amazon.com/KNex-Dragster-Racecar-Rally-Series/dp/...
Hacker News: Criticizes cab companies for using laws to keep Uber out, then criticizes cabbies for not following the letter of the law with respect to unprofitable fares.

Which is it: Do we celebrate breaking laws? Complying with them? Or do we pick and choose the laws we respect?