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I feel like it's almost a quirk of history that the PC has become home to so many different operating systems.

Hardware platforms that allow me to swap software on them are very few and far between. The fact that PCs were like this over 20 years ago and continue to be so to this day is amazing.

It's a shame that phone hardware didn't follow the same path. Android's openness (for varying levels of "open") is great and all, but I'm more interested in hardware openness. The Nexus line seems to be the current leader in openness + consumer availability + quality, but it's a shame there aren't more.
The article does not claim this, and the parts of the bill that the article highlights do not appear to unduly target new services. The only statement claiming that Uber is being targeted is in an included quote from Uber itself. If someone would like to have a title that makes this claim, they can write their own post and submit that.
Yeah, as it does in humans, it's "just" the result of a long chain of events. But when it comes to art and my enjoyment of it, I kinda have to pretend there is free will, don't I. "Everything is everything, and nothing matters" is nice for meditation, but not something for day-to-day life. I believe that those who can't delude themselves about reality at least when it comes to free will cease to function. For this reason I also think AI will always have to be limited and/or irrational in a way, since otherwise it would simply realize everything leads to the heat death of the universe either way, and turn itself off, or do random things.

So I pretend there is free will, and therefore the same "product" can mean different things to me depending on what the creator tried to convey. To give a silly example, I somewhat liked the song "I kissed a girl", but now that I know a dude wrote it, I don't anymore. I would fully agree that this is totally arbitrary; but I don't tell others what to like, I just have my own reasons for (not) liking things. And when AI happens I will be convinced that humans partly made it to escape themselves and their responsibility, and so I'll be with the luddites, pouting :P
Reminds me of FEMA requiring carriers to install a chip for emergency messages (PLAN = Personal Localized Alerting Network). [1]

Governments seem increasingly interested in accessing and controlling our phones.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Localized_Alerting_Net...
Why's it have to come out as profits? Couldn't they just be a big lumbering bureaucracy that never gets cut because they never have pricing pressure?

Paying a bunch of idiots to run around and generate paperwork isn't profitable, but the money's still gone.

http://business.time.com/2009/09/16/health-insurance-premium...

Healthcare premiums up 131% in 10 years.. that comes out closer to 9% than 6%. And doesn't include co-pays or anything that insurance doesn't cover.

EDIT: For the record, this kind of industry BS is why liberals support single-payer healthcare. It's not that we're commies or even that we don't understand the inefficiency of government bureaucracy. It's that we'd prefer the dumb public bureaucracy to our current even dumber private bureaucracy. Something being 'private' without pricing pressure isn't capitalism.
sounds like a really ambitious project to me, I cant do anything else then wish the dev team good luck! (and use boto meanwhile the product matures :))
This is a good idea but requires a far better quality of manager. The question is whether a company can find and promote and train them to make good decisions all up the chain (assuming each manager level does the same thing all the way up to the President or CEO). If this doesn't work you wind up with cronyism.
Yeah....I mean Apache and MS have always been so tight, hard to imagine them getting left out ;)
Uber always sends you an exact map of your route. You can verify the billing yourself or prove to a third party that the billing is miscalculated.
clearly, you didnt learn very much if youre telling us this
Or better yet, every time you need to make a phone call, your ownership of the phone will be verified on-site by a blue-gloved agent of the state...

...who will then administer a full-body pat-down. You know, for good measure.
"Every successful engineer I've observed wears socks. Thus, wearing socks is the cause of their success; if you wear socks you will be successful".

I hope the logical fallacies are clear when expressed like that. 1) sample size is too small to draw conclusions from. 2) correlation is not causation. 3) even if something is a factor in success it does not follow that it will determine success (necessary but not sufficient).

Besides, where did the OP express an interest in cashing out? S/he wants a job that is interesting to them.
AFAIK only a small number of "elite" employers offer generous maternity leave, and it's nothing approaching, say, Scandinavian standards.
This is one of those problems where the illustration is severely misleading from the intended theoretical problem. The problem assumes that all nodes share a synchronized time step, but do not have a clock, and only communicate by trading notes, which is an incredibly awkward assumption. The problem works better without the title and metaphor.

For example, a much better metaphor would be schoolchildren passing notes among neighbors every time the teacher turns their back, coordinating a simultaneous outburst.
I was introduced to the Dweck book some years ago and it made a big impact on me; I essentially had a fixed mindset and needed to "see" it in order to change it. Another really good book is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow", which, for me, anyway, extends Dweck's growth mindset concept to an operational level. I have recommended both numerous times to good effect. I'm not so sanguine about the blossoming of talents; our system of education does not encourage the growth mindset, for the most part, until it's too late and learning it later in life is hard.
How about, prices start reflecting true market sentiment without a huge manipulator artificially propping prices up on its own make-believe exchange that doesn't allow withdrawals and reports fantasy trades?
I guess you could go back to 1957 and lecture John Myhill on this, or we could all just ignore the academic priority and rename the problem as you like and after you. For some problems with obvious racist or sexist "jokes" we do need to rename (and the original "jokesters" don't really deserve or respect for their original naming). But is this one really such a problem?
I think protocol on HN is to use the title associated with the article, not to create your own - even if it seems better.
Is a Uber or Lyft driver required to accept any pick-up?
It would be a dumb idea to take your device to a revolution in the first place.
A yellow pages/directory for the investment and trading community
That's pretty much what Hailo is. It's not yet as widespread as Uber though.
Stripped Implementations might be dropped from Java SE 8
Why not with guns that put out happy birthday / surprise flags? Like in cartoons!
And as Yelp, eBay, and other reputation sites have shown us, it turns out that reputation economies are useless once everyone rates every transaction/buyer/seller 5 stars.
n+1 is great. Sometimes it's a nice antidote to tech since they are also very interested in literature and culture. Their print version isn't half bad, either.
The nicest thing you can say about being associated with Bitcoin is that it's "seedy".
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This. I'm so grateful to Brightbox for having relieved me from the rvm/rbenv madness. Same painless packages on both development and production. Priceless.
It seems like every day I'm reading some new news article on how over bearing and strong handed California laws are. I used to hear people joke about moving out of California to a "free state" and never paid much attention to it but now I get it.
Is the license the same thing as a medallion?

If they just want to ask someone to pass a test and/or background check, that seems fine. If they refuse to issue one because there is a limit, that works against consumers.
That's a great answer, thanks!

The second question is. "How could you have uncovered the explicit
expectations earlier in your interactions with the company?"

Having been in a similar situation, I started asking myself same question. Any advice on that one?

The first thing that comes to mind is a recommendation from someone I know, but there's a lot of situations when getting it is not possible.
That's not clearly the point. It may be inferred but it's hardly clear. The 1k license seems a bit excessive but some of the other points, registering, abiding by current mileage standards, having insurance...all seem completely valid and like places Lyft and Uber are taking advantage of missing regulation and, to some extent, rider's ignorance of the situation they are in if there's an accident or some other mishap.
New keyboard interface?
Gay and Lesbian Theme Song
The Azure API is much more complex that any other providers: implementing it without introducing a dependency on the Azure Python SDK [1] is going to be complex. Just have a look at its source code (e.g. [2] and [3]) to get an idea.

All drivers available in Apache Libcloud have been implemented without introducing a dependency on a custom SDK. Why make an exception for Azure? Note that the complexity does not come from the Azure Python client API but rather from the Azure REST API that is in my opinion much more complicated that any other provider's.

Azure has some specific idiosyncrasies (such as deployments, certificates management, VM images that first need to be transferred to a blob container) that make it harder to fit in the simple and unified Libcloud API.

[1] https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python

[2] https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/ma...

[3] https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/ma...
Couldn't you make the same argument about the absolute limits of neurons and synapses?
Every time I read "anti-theft technology" I get chills..

You should immediately call your representatives to stop this.
Ask HN: Exciting hobbyist communities nowadays?
Is it even possible these days to enter a hobbyist community and be working with things that will change the world in a few decades? Much like creators of the first Mac meeting at their local computer club (with Wozniak showing his designs to people)?

What would be some exciting hobbyist communities that are working on cutting edge stuff that we might take for granted in a few decades? Hackerspaces seem the logical choice but sometimes it's more of the same everywhere. Are there spaces working in exciting new things?

Can you share information about communities where the level of excitement could be compared to that of working in a garage in the 80's? I'm interested in anything minimally related to technology. Is biotech where the fun is these days? Can the average Joe dream of creating something life changing in his garage?

I know these are all very broad questions. No precise answer needed (and this is my first time asking anything on HN, sorry for mistakes).
No. Too many opportunities for abuse.
I thought this was already being done via IMEI blocking.
There's already an easy way to do this (that I remember reading somewhere is already being done in Australia).

When a phone is reported stolen the carriers just need to blacklist the IMEI so it doesn't work - removes the incentive to steal devices. I don't remember where I originally read this (probably here), but the US carriers were not interested in doing this because they don't see stolen phones as a problem that hurts them (arguably it gives them more business).
The problem is that healthy teams already give feedback at teachable moments. The whole point of a Performance Review Process is to force unhealty teams into barely acceptable behaviors, and provide a thin veneer of justification for compensation choices made by management.

Such a process should be designed to minimize the damage of fraud, not try to somehow trick people into being mature teammates.
Same. No download available. As a big MEAN fan I would love to try it out.
Guys, there are worse places to work with no benefits, therefore anything that AOL does is morally A-OK so long as they're higher than the ridiculously low bar of current employment standards.

And hey, this is a for profit company, therefore they have no moral obligation to do anything other than make a profit. In fact they should refuse all healthcare obligations, remove pensions and outsource all their employees to gain more profits. There's absolutely no societal obligation toward a populace on a corporation's behalf. The company just pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and didn't benefit from society to get where they are today at all.

/s
And in tonight's segment of "Shit we didn't need or could do ourselves, but the state insists it be mandatory..."
Exactly. And using unlicensed drivers is not Uber's one advantage over established taxi companies.
MtGox badly needs a financial audit. It's easy to fund operations from deposits and, by having limited withdrawals, hide the fact that you are insolvent.
Sounds like always-on DRM. The rich and the technologically adept will be unaffected, but another hammer will be available for our ambivalent rulers to manipulate normal people.

This shitty DRM better be opt-in.

Fined $2,500 for every device sold lacking this DRM? Only if there is a $2,500 refund for every device accidentally bricked.

I can see media companies loving this. Watching an unlicensed movie? Your phone is now bricked. Mission creep will be inevitable.
The reason why latency in a network can not be zero is the geometry of space. In the real universe the only possible zero-latency (macroscopic) connection is the one that travels 0 distance.
And it's worth pointing out that taxi licenses are really an artificial barrier to entry to keep existing taxi services safe. Atlanta's apparently costs a median 36,000, and in big cities like Boston or NYC, they can run into the hundreds of thousands.

These licenses aren't tied to a driver, rather they usually lease them from a managing company. Safety's got nothing to do with it.

(ref http://taxirisk.com/taxicab-facts-for-atlanta-georgia/)
For n large enough, this visual based solution would not suffice. Light based communication is the fastest on the universe but not instantaneous.

Imagine there exists a line of soldiers, 96 million miles long,...

-Or-

Imagine there exist n datacenters which need to coordinate an action with nanosecond accuracy and are connected by fiber optic cable...
Its not the bias, its the timing - you are using numbers under one system to prove numbers under a future different system. If anything, these numbers show that the ACA wasn't needed as it came into effect years after in passed. Look at the implementation dates to ACA and see what years the data in the graph is for.

Also, article points to same http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/assessing-the-effect... - same group
I am not wrong. They put up a barrier to installing apps, so by default they do not allow it.
I've done most of my trading on https://btc-e.com/. Never encountered any problems. To my knowledge it is also the second largest exchange for BTC/USD by volume ( see: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html - MtGox' volume just jumped a lot in the past days).
lots of projects have 0.x stable for years (then all of the sudden they go from 0.6.7 to 7.0 which is kind of funny!)
I would be able to give you a long list of people for whom I've said no by ignoring, except their emails are deleted. The only trace left of them are entries in my spam filter.

This entire story is about selfish people spamming prospects with no respect for anyone else's time but their own.

Disgraceful.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7189334
It's all very well to say that smartphone thefts are "reaching an all-time high", but what is smartphone ownership doing? I doubt it's reached saturation yet, and one would imagine that thefts would increase in line with units owned...
The double keyboarding was a joke by the writers of the show. Unfortunately, I think the VB GUI was supposed to be serious.
Turn on a light above the target's head. Shoot on target. Demote general for wasting everyone time.
There is one: https://www.hailocab.com
I really don't get your logic here. They're already succeeding by building off their already customized version of Unix and putting it into a phone.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7189334
In the C++ bag of tricks: scoped locks
The talk "How I learned to stop fixing and start facilitating" from DareConf 2013 [1] really describes the core issue here very well.

No matter how much you want to, you just can't always fix things for people in the small interactions that you have with them.

And even fixing it for them isn't actually helpful unless you'll be there in the long run to take that responsibility for them.

That's why, even though it's hard and will make you feel less powerful, all you can do in these small moments is facilitate.

It's about not asking the question "How should (s)he fix this?" but "What can I do in this amount of time we have together to have the greatest positive impact on you?"

[1] http://2013.dareconf.com/videos/wachter-boettcher
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As a Ukrainian, who has seen that smartphones, especially used by citizen streamers, are extremely important for a revolution, I can assure that you are wrong.
That's the best "upvote whoring" I've seen all week. Gets a point from me!

:-)
That's essentially an ad hom. Their product ability has nothing to do with the merits of the HR.
Fine by me, Uber is a scam company. Here is an email I got from them today.

Subject (large text): "Explore NJ this weekend with FREE uberX rides"

Body (small text): "NJLOVESuberX covers rides beginning OR ending in New Jersey, up to $20. Believe us – at these rates, $20 will get you far."

Fine print (tiny text): "Please note that there is a $20 surcharge for trips between New Jersey and NYC."
The basic idea I'm getting is that advice is meaningful and actionable when it comes from a place of domain expertise and prior experience.

"You should allow people to log in using Twitter" doesn't mean as much from someone that doesn't have experience or knowledge of running a system that uses Twitter to log in.

It might be a valuable idea, but it is an idea rather than advice.
A lot of people like having a prototype based language. From an academic point of view, it makes the language "beautiful". From a real world application, it gives you the flexibility to decide how you want to organize your code (do you want inheritance, mixins, etc.).

The pros vs cons of prototype based languages isn't clear cut. It's possible to end up with an ugly combination of things that don't work well together.
Hacker News Daily is a daily collection of all of the stories that have reached the homepage of Hacker News since the morning (currently 10:00am ET or 15:00 UTC).

Feedback welcome.
Exactly. Now that we can make informed decision, we can excise the social/financial cost of regulation and its administration, in exchange for accepting the risk (of making our own informed decision).

I'm a progressive liberal fwiw, not a libertarian.
Android is open source for a very stretched definition of open source.
Smalltalk Performance and Moore's Law
Doesn't the IMEI on GSM and the MEID on newer CDMA phones already solve the problem of stolen phones, and we just don't use this functionality?
Robbery pov
nprogress is still better since you don't need to define a %. Instead it slowly advances automatically until you call .done()
Note that the start of the decline predates ACA and levels before ACA takes affect. http://c9.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/cYL1.jpg
Also some less-known providers such as Brightbox decided to contribute directly to Apache Libcloud rather than writing there own custom Python client SDK.
I generally like the magazine. It isn't mainly about technology, though, if that's what you're looking for: it's more of a literature/theory/politics/arts/culture magazine. Articles mainly about science/technology are maybe one per issue on average, though usually pretty good ones (with some misses).

Another new-ish magazine that I mentally place in vaguely the same genre is The New Inquiry: http://thenewinquiry.com
Bad firewalling advice imo. Use ubuntu's ufw. Admittedl, ufw feels more difficult if you already know iptables, but it's way more robust than the example given there.
> I've been reading about that but I don't think I have what it takes

There is no such thing has not having what it takes. We're fortunate in that you don't necessarily need a degree to excel in this industry. A recruiter asked me just the other week - "how have you gotten this far without a proper education? " - I didn't know how to answer her. What'd you mean, how? I worked my ass off, learned new things and every job I got I made sure it was a step forward, not backward.

It's impossible to learn a new language over night. But dedicate time to it and over a couple months / year - you might get good enough to use it at a real job.

Always make samples of work and store them somewhere. Start basic, and move gradually towards complex projects. Never know, maybe a startup comes of one of them...
If Shaun White is complaining about your course being unsafe, it's probably really bad http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/sports&id=9420...
The HTC One is beautiful, but the battery is atrocious - the iPhone has an incredible battery. The Nexus 5 is also a really nice phone, but the hardware is still not as nice as the iPhone (I admit this is a bit subjective though).

I think you're right that most of the android sales are low to midrange hardware, but there are no real high end options except for the HTC One and Nexus 5 which are not readily available in stores. The Moto X was solid though too - shouldn't not mention that one.

I think people who use iOS probably would not jump to an Apple device running Android, but there are Android users who would jump from their samsung device to an Apple one.

I don't think Apple would do this because they want control over their ecosystem and they want to force people into iTunes, Apple TV, iBooks, iMessage etc, but I don't think it's necessarily a terrible idea.
I don't know that much about Katyn, but Gorbachev and Yeltsin both admitted to this, right? There's no doubt about the documents that they released to the Poles confirming the Soviet orders? What are you talking about?
You've never filtered for the bad reviews? Also, is it possible that you're only seeing the uninteresting storm of 5-stars because the "interesting" merchants don't survive? (I honestly have no idea if this is the case.)
BitLegal: Russia
Breaking down geek stereotypes in open source
Ditto, computers are for one still improving. Who knows what the limits are.

What I think is the problem is that humans do not have a clear explanation for how our intelligence works. Is it really that much of a wonder we can't emulate it?
well ask yourself this, how many jobs and services performed by people should require the permission of a governing agency? Far too many such agencies only exist now to restrict competition. Heaven forbid you try to get into the taxi business, or worse the moving business.

As in, where does it stop or where do we begin? Florist? Movers? Hairstylist? Nail care? Plumber?