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The taxi industry is not the same thing as taxi drivers. The taxi industry is dominated by the people who own taxi medallions, not the people who drive taxis. The people who actually drive taxis are oppressed by the idiotic inefficiencies of the current regulatory system, much like Uber is. For instance, cabbies. can't charge more when it's raining. Or snowing. Or if you've asked for an especially undesirable location.
That would seem to make sense. Personally I think this sheds a bit of light on the question as to why Facebook would pay a billion dollars[1] for Instagram. Rather than solidifying its place as the premier "real time news feeder of a certain size" Twitter is off spending its time re-creating a service that a lot of its customers really value. By throwing that wrench into Twitter's way, Facebook gives itself and others time to grow in this space.

[1] We've debated the death the 'value' of this deal which was half stock (which tanked) and half cash. But for the purposes of this point it was a 'big chunk of change' for the newly public Facebook.
Government gets less competent as you go down the chain, because the most qualified people want to work higher up. Municipal government is the absolute worst, except in big municipalities like New York City, etc.
Pointing out a ridiculous statement is contributing. And it is ridiculous. See, e.g., http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid...
Anywhere I can get that training set without DDOS'ing some poor guys mirror?
Just realised you signed up, so you're partly in the know :) It's a very exciting time for us, please help spread the word?

Cheers for the landing page compliment.
THANK YOU!

It's so refreshing to get a comment like that that isn't of the type "Buy low, sell high" or "Make something that is easy and fun to use".

I have to say though, that I disagree with "implementation is hard". Perhaps because that's the more entertaining part I don't think it's that hard. You can do it piece meal and when you're doing it you're also learning your trade.

I too would like to participate in a discussion about what really actually works beyong "Show HN" which is usually overly biased on the technical side or sensationalist.

The one thing that I think is actually harder than marketing is coming up with an idea that actually genuinely new and something people really need/want.

If I hear another advice along the lines "Build a solution to a actual problem people have" I'm going to puke.
I think the market needs something like this badly. I have a pretty big Steam library and I've always used my primary PC both for work and gaming. There are some upcoming games that won't be available on PC (GTA V) that I want to play but I am also not ready to fragment my gaming library by buying a console now. Hopefully something like this will entice and motivate certain developers to start developing for PC/X86-X64 again.

And now that Valve will release an actual console, Steam will be able to cover a much larger population than any of the consoles. People satisfied with performance on the par with Xbox and PS3 will be perfectly happy with this solution, while people requiring more performance will be free to build a dedicated gaming machine and install Steam on it.

I don't know how no other console manufacturers have thought of this. One of the biggest reasons why I never bought a console (thought I wanted one at times) is because Microsoft and Sony don't allow you to access your game purchases on other platforms. I think we're finally heading toward a future where cross platform game ownership will be a reality.
That looks cool.

The thing is, to be honest, I think it's better to keep it at HN for now.

If only because we don't even know if this is something that people will use.

Also, by keeping it at HN it is low friction. To get people to leave HN and use some other service, it reduces the likelihood that it will be successful.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned [LabView](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW), a visual programming environment used by many scientists to control data acquisition systems.

Although the "language" makes creation of functional user interfaces fairly simple, I find the system quite unwieldy as soon as program complexity increases to even a moderate amount.
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As far as the blog article goes, IMHO the typos are irrelevant to the expression of the idea of "begging"/being more transparent about marketing.

But with regard to the marketing effectiveness of the /yourhelp/ page, the typos are problematic.
They say, a successful product must be either First, Best or Free. But that's really really hard!

It's no excuse to give up and do nothing but a lot of stories of success starts with a product that doesn't immediately "sell". Some things just take to mature in peoples heads.
Aren't they really the same?
I have a theory :)

Nexus 4 was built with a "defective" qualcomm LTE chip that LG was able to pick up for a bargain. hence the great nexus 4 rock bottom price.

Now LG have exhausted their "defective" chip supply, they need to negotiate a new deal with qualcomm/google.

This is based on a random comment i read fsck knows where explaining how high spec, short run, chinese phones come in to being.
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Very good point, I've added the following disclaimer:

While scraping can sometimes be used as a legitimate way to
access all kinds of data on the internet, it’s also important
to consider the legal implications. As was pointed out in the
comments on HN[1], there are many cases where scraping data
may be considered illegal, or open you to the possibility of
being sued. Similar to using a firearm, some uses of web
scraping techniques can be used for utility or sport, while
others can land you in jail. I am not a lawyer, but you
should be smart about how you use it.

[1]: Linking to this (parent) comment
I think they mean algebra and higher, not arithmetic. So basically junior high school and better. Even algebra doesn't benefit that much from simple counting and arithmetic.

"Good at math" means different things based on age, but an adult who is good at adding numbers and doing percentages is probably at a supermarket or a waiter, or MAYBE a bookkeeper or a baseball fan, not a "good at math" engineer or scientist. I don't think people are complaining that Asians are taking all the valuable service industry jobs adding prices and computing tips in their heads.

I always found more (Russian) jews in upper level math classes than Asians, though. The most-Asian major at MIT was "anything plausibly pre-med", like bio, chem, or chem-eng. 8 and 18 were mostly Jewish, mostly non-US origin.
Quoting the statement and captioning it with "lol" is not contributing, at least not on HN.

It might have been contributing if you included the codinghorror link up front.

In response to said link, I will observe that it was written 1.5 years ago, and SSDs have been progressing very rapidly in both performance and reliability.
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Yeah, Wikipedia is creative commons so that should be okay?
You are right though I wonder if they have the rights to sports results and weather that they are pulling.

They have even convinced us all to go mark up our page to help them pull stuff like ratings and reviews out.
"Promote" can mean many things. I've tried almost all of them :)

For example, a piece of technology like a library or a framework is useless without documentation.

Sure you can focus just on making your product better and better to near perfection but it's just too boring if nobody is using it. And it's not till people use it that you realize ways it needs to change to.

If you read "Founders At Work" a common reality is that their success is different from what they start out to build. Without feedback from the masses you won't know what it is that people really want. It just won't come to you in a dream.
> Is anyone trying to fill in the hole that instagram will leave?

Twitter's photo system effectively already did.
I'm neither convinced that Twitter would have any interest in creating an Instagram clone (their recent behavior seems to indicate they're more interested in being a media distribution platform for brands than a venue for personal expression), nor that there is any reason to believe its chance of success would be any greater than that of a complete newcomer to the space.
Thank you! I'll take another closer look.
The machines are for testing. They'll detect those through secondary means. If a machine's faulty, it'll cause two cases: (1) faulty software will register as faulty; (2) good software will register as faulty. The third case (faulty software marked as good), is really unlikely, and any time it does happen, a later bug report will give a hint.

A test failure will probably bring up an engineer that will track down the issue, and a re-test will inevitably occur. The faulty machine will eventually (hopefully) get labeled flaky and will get repaired.

Of course, nobody may care and just use a double-test to verify that an executable is good.
And thus we explore a brief glimpse of the tragedy of the commons.
How much are next-gen music services really paying artists?
Great observation, high time someone said it !!!
Yet, there's a libertarian argument for keeping decisions and programs at the most local level possible, since it's most accountable to individual voters. An annoying opposition of facts.

In a place like Hillsborough or Palo Alto, there may be some hope of a retired or free-time competent executive being a local resident and doing a good job for non-economic reasons. Ghetto parts of SoCal, though, have little risk of that happening.
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Show HN: DoutekiDNS, dynamic dns service built on node.js and AWS.
I'm surprised both that the high density worked for consumer devices, and that the rack wasn't prettier.
Yes, I am desperately trying to solve that "feedback from the masses" problem. I have special challenges in that regard.

Best of luck with your project.
It was probably cheaper to force or induce the closure of index sites that are done more as a love of community than of profits, not make nearly as much as the usenet providers themselves.
These index sites, I'm sure, understand the legal costs and risks of continued operation if those options were presented to them. With the majority of them down and out of the way the providers themselves will see a reduction in revenues and may not put up a fight when they fall into legal pressure to close up shop.
There's no practical difference between a method and a class in this case.
Yes.. but why?
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I don't like the way `find` is being criticized, both in the article and in your comment. I won't go into pointless bickering on why it's a wonderful tool and "my stuff is better than yours". Let's keep using the tool we're each comfortable with. But do I really need to point out that, once you go through the initial learning curve, `find` is probably (one of the, if not) the most powerful tool in the Unix toolbox? If Unix's shell power comes from piping commands for streams to flow through, I find that in the vast majority of the cases `find` is the best way to initiate this stream.

And the reason is that it's reliable (unlike `ls`) and isn't wasteful (unlike the most-misused-tool-of-all `cat`). I don't understand why similarly newbie-unfriendly tools (like `sed` or `awk` for instance) never get as much heat as `find` does from people unfamiliar with it. Is it because the name implies that it should be a simple tool?

As for what's wrong with the `ls ... | grep -v ...`. It can break in so many ways like for instance, if a filename contains a newline character. If you think that never happens, you're making the same mistake me and a thousand of newcomers before me made once and never repeated again.

As a rule of thumb, never parse the output of ls (http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs).
This seems like something directly out of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and it plays into what Dr. John Dewey referred to as human's basic desire to be important. Any time a person takes responsibility for someone else's actions, they feel a sense of power over that person. Whether this is good or bad depends on how they intend to use that power. In this case, it's being used in a way that affects a positive outcome for both the author and the people around him. In other cases, this increased sense of power can lead people to believe they have power over others which can lead to corruption (you know, 'absolute power corrupts absolutely').

In general, this seems like something that should be done in moderation. A willingness to accept responsibility for some things and be proud that you aren't blaming someone for an outcome you created is healthy. At the same time, feeling as if you have the power to affect everything is not healthy. Some things are just outside of your control.
I'm not at all surprised. Average every day people are asking for this, not professional coders. The uptake of projects has a lot to do with installability - if they can't install it, they can never use it or tell others to use it.

"The target audience consists of users like me" and "we're using AngularJS+D3+Symfony specifically" = you're not really an average developer - certainly not an average PHP developer, and certainly not an end user who might want a dashboard.

Personally, I'd say keep it with PHP for now. If it gets users and grows, so be it. If not, and you have time to branch out in to other tech based on real business needs, branch out at that point.
I'm sure this would be a much less impressive headline if they wrote "Less than one tenth of one percent (0.07%) of Facebook's registered users voted against Facebook's Governance Changes". I'm guessing TC is advocating in favor of voting 'not to accept' the changes.
The axiom of choice makes everything simpler. Which helps a lot when we're talking about things like infinite dimensional vector spaces.

That said, it is a theorem that absolutely no theorem of number theory can possibly depend on the axiom of choice. So absolutely no "real" consequence can come from accepting or not the axiom of choice.
I know OpenSSH and OpenSSL come from OpenBSD, and are widely used for sshd and SSL, respectively. FreeBSD may contribute to the greater environment in a similar fashion?
I know someone whose team was accepted into a recent batch without an idea. They never really settled on an idea and eventually split up acrimoniously.
It IS distracting, if all the default themes built into Sublime are any indication of how it's used now. Everything pops in conflicting colors that would make an interior designer scream in pain. But, it can also be used to make the parts you don't care about fade into the background, and better reveal the shape of the code you do. I prefer to purposely downplay keywords (blue) and comments (dark green), and make hard-coded numbers and strings obvious (red). All this on a black background with almost white text. A drastically reduced palate with plain colors.
Except for electric vehicle improvements and SpaceX, these are the technologies that actually excite me about our near-future.
Your third example is often cited as an unintuitive result, so I wouldn't mind getting rid of it. The first and second are easy enough to consider collateral damage, which we already have plenty of in basic math. But the fourth one is harder to give up. What would it look like without the axiom?
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Ugh, real nice. The country which I live in is in 72nd position. Given the next elections here, I wouldn't be surprised if we dropped even lower.

Third from last in ALL the EU nations isn't something a country should stand for.
Surely they won't be that dumb and will just default via Chapter 9 city bankruptcy? I'm mostly wondering who's dumb enough to trade good cash for bad debt on those terms.
Does this step on the unistroke patent that Xerox holds that they used to sue Palm over Graffiti?
I already mentioned those. They aren't cheaper.
Most interesting part of article: "To Facebook’s credit, it gave this vote a fair chance. It emailed all its users about the proposal, let people share the fact that they voted or the current results with friends, and showed those posts prominently in the news feed. Facebook could have minimized visibility of the vote with fewer sharing features and less feed presence, but didn’t."

And then this comment: "The share button, which was recently added since it wasn't there when I voted, doesn't even work."

No big surprises here.
I'm a bit confused here. The site is "Hacker News", however I'm seeing more and more wikipedia articles posted here which are not news at all. I think Banach-Tarski paradox is a fascinating thing, and when I first heard about it (years ago) it blew my mind, but posting wikipedia articles with neat, but old facts is not exactly the news.
if you don't want something to be scrapped, don't publish it on the internet. scrapping prevention reminds me of blocking right-click and other ridiculous solutions back in the day. hey, if I can view it, it means the data reached my end point.
This would have been nicer had it launched about 3 weeks ago. Square-wallet gift cards would be great easy holiday gifts.

(it also seemed like an obvious feature ever since Square launched. Running loyalty and gift cards is one of the ways to get out of the 1-2% gross margin ghetto for just processing visa/mc, which is one of the big problems with a payments startup. Even if you process hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions, it's hard to make enough from the fraction of a percent left over after variable costs to cover your fixed costs, let alone turn a profit. Yet, even on day one, you need huge scale and high reliability.)
Yes, there's already some people cheating. I'm not sure if it's in this specific way but there's reports out there, for example I saw this one this morning: https://plus.google.com/106910446343644147596/posts/JYaepWnd...

As far as I can see, the only real way to prevent this kind of thing would be to have checks in the backend. E.g. if you've "travelled" hundreds of kilometers in a couple of minutes, that's a pretty strong indication that you're cheating.

As long as it's constantly recording and reporting on your GPS location, I think it should be possible to come up with heuristics for when you're actually moving and when you're faking. But it seems they're not doing anything like this at the moment.
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In other words:

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Right. I use more established solutions which only allows for 2 Mac Minis and has roughly same power draw/heat as my previous dedicated.

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html
Maybe some hope, but as far as I can tell municipal government in Silicon Valley is still the domain of the most provincial and short-sighted people in the area.

Occasionally you get lucky and get someone like Bloomberg heading up your municipal government, but even with prestigious gigs like that (the mayor of New York is arguably a more important person than most Governors) quality people are still few and far between.
I image the Official Steam Box from Valve (OSBfV) wouldn't actually be that upgradable. I would want something that would fit aesthetically with my TV, XBox, etc. Trying to make the OSBfV cheap enough to entice consumers, yet pack enough of a punch for "gamers" (I really dislike that stereotype, but that isn't the point) would, I imagine, require not quite interchangeable hardware, much like the XBox. But, don't discount that Steam could easily release a OSBfV1, 2, 3 etc every other year with the latest and greatest (that fits in the form factor and budget constraints).
Gift cards as generally implemented today are awful. You pay for something now that often doesn't get used for a long time. In lots of cases gift cards don't get used at all. IIRC it's something like 25% of the time. It might be a bit less with digital cards that you can't lose, but it'll still be significant. It's disappointing that Square's offering doesn't adress this core deficiency.
Patrick, this is condescending. I doubt you meant for it to come across that way, but that's how I read it. Most of the posts in the original thread could have conveyed the exact same information in a less dismissive, discouraging, and sometimes even hostile tone--it would have made them more valuable to our community.
This depends greatly on where you are. In a well regulated place like NYC, you are absolutely correct. But in any place where you must negotiate a rate, which is common outside of the G8, you do so before getting in the vehicle.
Outright, total slavery used to be the law in most countries. If and when one hastens the removal of an immoral law by celebrating its breach, and this is accomplished without trading something even more dear to you in the process, do it!

How does one decide which laws are moral and which aren't? The fundamental purpose of any proper law is to protect every individual's right to use his mind to sustain his own life. Any law or regulation that interferes with that right, no matter how desirable the intended outcome may appear to some, is morally and practically wrong.
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I'm going to guess you are making a joke, esp. the ctrl click to deselect. I did not even read the rest of the article, once I got to the word visual, I did a quick scan for an example, none found, came here to see what others thought. Second read, maybe u are not making a joke? While not mentioned, how would u automate that?
But keep in mind that you have to be a square merchant in order for your customers to use this. Passbook uses barcodes.
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All servers fail randomly and so do hard drives so not sure why Mac Mini would be any different.

Also they rack mount very easily:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html
Smart. I like these slew of super simple, quick sites with useful information. Reminds me of: http://www.isitajewishholidaytoday.com/
that would be interesting. My app got rejected was with my brother + best friend. very skilled engineer and designer willing to leave their jobs at a certain top tier search firm!
Seems like one a situation where the language in one cultural context would be insulting, but in another, is merely a literal statement.
The interest rate charged compensates for the Chapter 9 risk.
I can confirm that isn't necessary. It shows up as a search result when I search for "github" on my iPad's App Store app right now.

I imagine the devs were wise enough to include "github" in the list of search keywords that you're allowed to attach to your App Store submission.
It's working for me now, so it looks like you resolved it! Thanks you!
Right tool for the right job. If I want to select all the pictures of my niece out of a folder of bad snapshopts, then a gui is a nice tool. The command terminal just can't browse images very well (at all). If I want to grab the source files from a legacy application which used a deprecated function and the files span several hundred directories, and I want to make a minor text replace, and then run my test to make sure everything compile and works still, the GUI just comes up short in a serious way.
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It's on topic according to the guidelines[0]. If other visitors weren't currently interested it would not be on the front page.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Too bad the US Constitution was created to deal precisely with this issue. If only it didn't state that "No state shall. . . make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts."

Quick, call your representative and ask for the California Moon Beam amendment to be passed!