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>> "They would, yes - but when any big company gets bad press for not paying taxes in the UK (for example Google), nobody uses the excuse "but their staff in the UK still pay UK tax", the focus is on whether the company's profits are being taxed."

Because the tax paid by employees is insignificant compared to the tax the company should be paying.
There are a few steps that are usually needed that you didn't list. You may have done them, but I figure I better check.

1) Your phone must be in developer mode. This is achieved by going to Settings >> About Phone >> and tapping the Build Number item 5 or 10 times (you will see a notification that developer mode is active).

2) You must go into developer mode and check the "Enable USB Debugging" menu. After that, you can plug in your phone (while powered on) and after a few seconds you should see a notification on your phone asking for confirmation to allow debugging from the computer.

3)The "fastboot" command only works from the bootloader screen. "adb" is the tool you can use when the phone is on with debugging enabled. You can run "adb reboot-bootloader" and should be able to use fastboot from there.
> Look at folks like 80legs or other 'distributed' scrapers. They exist almost solely to subvert these service terms.

Not sure I understand, is there a whole ecosystem of web businesses that feed off for free of your search engine, or you meant from several legit search engines or ... ?
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If you think either of those is incorrect for some reason, please state the reason, so I can mock you for your ignorance.

It's difficult to mock properly when all you've given is a question mark. :)
Much of the mysticism and misunderstandings about indian philosophy comes from a very bad habit in the translation of indian works where some words are left untranslated as to give them a magical-religious cool sounding sanskrit aura.

If koti means corner, there is no reason that 'koti' should appear in a translation instead of corner otherwise you are giving it a special importance that distracts from the text's true meaning. Almost every translation of indian philosophy suffers from this fetish for the sanskrit language and as beautiful as sanskrit is, it shouldn't contaminate the purpose of a translation.
For the benefit of non-Hindi/Sanskrit speakers: the pronunciation of "catuskoti" starts with "ch" (as in "chat") and not as in "cat". "chaet" is the prefix signifying "four".
Why would anyone actively limit their opportunities and disconnect themselves from others? ... It's plain loss

I don't think you understand the meaning of freedom. Some people choose to do what you question because they want to. The nature of freedom is that people can do what they believe (so long as it hurts no one else), even if you think it's stupid.
I like this idea, the UI is fast and nice to use.

I built something similar. The idea was to be able to play multiplayer games with people nearby. My motivation was simply to enable face to face two player games as the easiest option. The trickiest part, which I never coded up, was to be able to include people who are further away if there is no-one nearby, otherwise the game became unplayable without a cooperating partner.

I think this family of ideas, connecting to nearby people easily, has real legs.

Code lives on here.

https://github.com/fmstephe/location_server

Comes with a built in tankwars multiplayer demo. Alas the URL to the demo no longer works as I shut down the server that was running it. If anyone wants to try it out I would happily get it running again.

Edit: Are you a New Zealander? I am from NZ myself, always keen to hear from Kiwi hackers.
Yes, but I think the taxi associations only have themselves to blame for all the ceremony required to become a taxi driver. I think a lot of these regulations were created by existing taxi companies to present barriers of entry to people wanting to form new taxi companies.
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Punter: traffic is bad today eh?

Cabbie: me mates are making a point about Uber

Punter: Uber? What's that? <tap-tap-tap> Cool! Let me out
here.

Cabbie: tom tit! :-(
If you think protectionism about Uber is bad just wait for self driving cabs and trucks. This kind of thing is going to get a lot bigger.
Well, if the end result is I can travel a mile in a London cab without selling a kidney, I can't say I'm too worried about Uber coming in.
The Black Cabs in London have a long-standing monopoly on picking people up on the street and providing a metered journey. This is mandated by law. To become a black cab (not always black in colour) driver, it is necessary to take an advanced test called The Knowledge where you are expected to know every London street and landmark along with best routes based on random street closures. It takes about 3 years to study for The Knowledge and there is evidence[1] that they have increased brain size as a result of memorizing all that information.

The other option for people wanting a car journey is the "mini-cab" which can be booked to collect from any specific location but must offer a fare in advance of the journey. In order to transport people for money, mini-cab drivers are licensed and have a background check done.

Uber drivers in London must have the mini-cab license so this is a question around the black cab monopoly. As with any government-provided monopoly, the incumbents are keen to maintain the status quo while the newcomers are fighting for change. Any advances that Uber makes will benefit all mini-cab companies and most importantly, passengers.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/677048.stm
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If their knowledge is of any value to consumers, consumers are going to choose them over Uber. If not, then nobody should care. I can learn how to program stuff for MSDOS, doesn't mean it'd be worth anything these days.

As for regulations and licensing, it shouldn't exist in the first place as it only raises prices and prevents legitimate competition.
It's easier for Comcast to offer products to compete with Netflix than it is for Netflix to offer products that compete with Comcast.
Well, if you do so with the intent of charging a passenger for distance traveled, yeah. The taxi industry is heavily regulated, and circumventing those regulations is extremely questionable. Certainly it does not seem to be a fair market.
I just submitted a blogpost from the Tor Project (Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy) which covers everything between removing the microphone (from a Nexus 7) and baseband software to recommended apps and configurations.

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7715041

Original: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
The problem is that there is always going to be a new Windows Server release, plus a new SQL Server release. Even if you keep your licenses, are you going to stay on that version for the lifespan of the system? Likely not. Then you start to pay. For the database, the OS plus SQL Server Standard is still going to be around $15K (this was around 4-5 years ago when I was involved with this). Now this is just one instance. Multiple that by multiple servers and instances and you will reach upwards of 6 figures for your costs.

I guess the numbers work out differently for cloud but I don't imagine they would be that far off. For example, if my Azure costs are $10K a month, from that cost is likely $2K-$3K the Microsoft tax. Keep scaling your VMs and servers and that margin starts to look a bit less palatable.

If you know the limits of your business, then it's probably not an issue. I think the sweet spot would be to use Postgresql for the database and Microsoft for the rest, as most of the cost is SQL Server for systems that aren't in the full Microsoft eco-system (BizTalk, SharePoint,etc.)
Same here. Although this ugly link seems to work: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/delicious-social-site...
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A Job Application is one thing

An application for a company to get an investment something very different. (And Y Combinator can use whatever criteria fits them best, they're picking companies, not people)

Also remember, YC payed for the interview, hard to think they didn't have a legitimate interest at that point.
To put that into context, there are 25,000 streets covered by The Knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...
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When they announce it on the BBC beforehand?
There are ways to hold a protest/demonstration/march legally [1], though I've no idea a.) whether what they plan would fit what's allowed on that front b.) whether they have informed police etc.

Could well be they're going down the "prove we're not just normal congestion" road.

Edit: forgot the link. [1] https://www.gov.uk/protests-and-marches-letting-the-police-k...
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The impression is that Uber are somehow freeing customers from unscrupulous and gouging taxi drivers. Taxi customers aren't being freed, they're simply under new management.
Interesting twist. I just played it and loved it! Feels like playing chess!
YC: Unfortunately, we were unable to get to believing that you had a strategy for supplanting Yelp as the top Google search results — having worked on SEO extensively in the past a better product often times isn’t enough. // You clearly have a product that is better than what else is out there. I encourage you to spend more time on figuring out customer acquisition (possibly through non-search channels). In any case, we are often wrong in our decisions, and I hope that you continue to build your business and wish you the best in doing so.

YT: The feedback about beating Yelp in Google Search results and looking for ways to get customers other than search channels – pretty solid indicators that they hadn’t understood what we had told them.

To me this seems like a pretty solid indicator that they (YT) hadn't understand the feedback they were getting, or knew what to do with it. This is a shame since it makes YC less likely to give feedback in the future.

Embrace feedback, don't explain it away. Especially if you are a fragile upstart.
See Akamai's response: https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/04/clarifying-state-of-the-int...

("This data encompasses connections from both residential and business connections, and as such, represents a blend of the observed connection speeds. (The report has never claimed to measure only residential traffic.) Having said that, we believe that the number of residential connections to Akamai's platform greatly outnumbers the number of business connections, so the potential skew caused by higher speed business connections should be minimized.")

Also, the U.S. does pretty well on Ookla's survey too, compared to similarly-situated countries: http://www.netindex.com. The U.S. average clocks in at 24.1 megabits. Canada and Australia, two similarly sprawl-y Anglo countries clock in at 21.8 and 14.4, respectively. Germany, France, and the U.K. beat us, though, at 25.4, 33.4, at 26.9 megabits, respectively.

However, drilling down, you can see that sparsely-populated central and western states drag down our overall average: http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States. In the densely-populated Northeast, speeds are generally above 30 megabits. Virginia is 30.3, Pennsylvania is 29.7, New York 30.2, New Jersey 38.2, Maryland 36.8, Delaware 36.0, Massachusetts 34.0, Connecticut 31.4. These are the places in the U.S. that are comparably dense and urbanized as continental Europe.
I didn't know "majorly" was really a word? I mean, a formal word used in writing?

"She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors."
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I was under the impression this was done because the english translation loses some meaning or context.

The idea that every concept can be translated is probably a false one. Ideas are built on cultures, cultures are described by language you can't change one without changing another. So when describing an idea generated by a culture, using a secondary idea and secondary culture, you will lose things.

That is why (for example) nirvana, has a bunch of translations: awakening, calmness, relief, void/voidless, the light, nothingness, or (my favourite) phew.
Because we don't have the context to properly describe that in the west (latin-germanic based languages), so we need a bunch of other concepts that kind of point at it.
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Although I'm not an expert in the history of UK taxis, my impression is that a good number of the regulations were imposed by the government, due to complaints from the public about quality/maintenance/knowledgeability/numbers. That seems to have been the impetus for the original 1662 Act imposing a mandatory licensing requirement, at least: Londoners thought there were too many taxis clogging up the roads, and further were worried about reckless and otherwise un-vetted drivers.

Even nowadays the requirement that London taxi drivers know how to get around London seems popular with the public; British tourists regularly complain about how drivers elsewhere can't even find major landmarks without a map, in a "glad it's not like that back home" sort of way. My guess is that the requirement would be confirmed if put to a referendum. Other requirements, such as the "cannot refuse a fare in central London" requirement, are also pretty popular.
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"So if you are using Iphone or Windows Phone, let me remind you that both of these companies are in the infamous NSA slides for giving access to users private data." I checked the link he refers to and it shows Google is also a Prism company, am I wrong?
Oops, I see now he mentions this.
But in 2014, there should be no need to make people memorize those thing to the risk of their heads exploding. Maybe if the Black Cabs had used their network to create an AI-powered optimal route-finding system, they wouldn't be afraid of competition.
If you're serious about wanting to install CM (or another distribution) on your device I'd first read through the relevant development thread on the forum or mailing list used for the distribution. This is where you'll find out which version to install, which problems you're likely to encounter and - if you're lucky - even ways to solve those problems. You'll find loads and loads of opinionated posts by people who often don't have a clue what they're talking about but that should come as no surprise given the subject matter and the medium. There'll probably be some good posts by the original developer(s) and a core of knowledgeable people, just focus on those and ignore the noise.

For the Motorola X you could have a look at the relevant XDA forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x), there might be something worth your while there. Not having one of those devices I can't tell.
Their knowledge is quite valuable in London (mini-cabs blindly follow the sat-nav and so will sit in traffic for longer, in my experience). Also, black cabs can often make use of bus lanes (of which there are many in London) which can actually result in a quicker, cheaper journey. Perhaps the LTDA should be promoting the benefits of black cabs rather than causing a traffic jam.
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Not just that, but black taxis have to operate under certain constraints and obligations.

Examples are: not having the right to refuse a fare within 6 miles of the centre of London (usually taken as Charing Cross). Being obliged to have vehicles that are accessible to wheelchair and disabled users. Being obliged to take a vehicle out of service if it is damaged in any way (i.e. another vehicle clips your wing mirror or dents your door, and you must take the vehicle off the road immediately and not put it back into service until fully repaired). The full background and criminal record check (one of the few exemptions from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act allowing people to hide their history). And every black cab is tracked 24/7 (revealed in a court case of alleged rape where the victim had claimed an unnamed taxi driver had done it - when locality was narrowed down and the list of taxi drivers in that area revealed they all had fares or did not meet the description the case collapsed). Then there's also the type of licence of a driver has, granting access to inner London taxi ranks vs outer London with various restrictions on both. Black cabs must take the shortest possible route (defined as time I believe), or a route you instruct. Prices are regulated and cannot be surged, etc.

Simply... the black cab taxi is not comparable to the private hire vehicle (minicab or executive car). The set of costs you are exposed to is significant, as is the set of intrusions and obligations.

I only know most of the above due to another company, Addison Lee, illegally using bus lanes and jeopardising cyclists. Only then did I learn that the bus lane privilege is part of the obligation about accessibility and shortest route.

In this specific instance I find myself thinking the LTDA are acting from a purely preservationist perspective as I think TFL are right that mere facts are a different thing from a taximeter. And if LTDA want to win this, they need to extend the narrow definition of a taximeter to any device that allows metering of a vehicle based on factors including distance travelled, location, speed, etc. As the legislation currently wouldn't treat this https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mytaxicontrol-leading-taxime... as a taximeter.

But usually, my response is that London is better with a fully accessible and regulated taxi service requiring all fares to be accepted than without, and that there's nothing stopping Uber or anyone else accepting all of the obligations that black cabs have in return for operating on the same terms.
Assuming that someone is familiar with the location, of course. Also, many times people want to post the view, how many times are they tweeting their hotel and room addresses?

One could use these (and other) techniques to pinpoint your location from anywhere in the globe, without even setting foot in that location, perhaps not even the country.

Keep in mind that the poster "eyeballed" the floor height. With more work, it is possible that he could have figured out not only the floor, but which window the picture was taken from.

Also, nice call on reflections of safes and notebooks.
Ha. I'd be interested to see anyone manage that.

On top of this, in central London it's pretty built up so SatNav doesn't always work in the canyons between buildings.
"But Delicious remains a niche service, with roughly two million monthly active users submitting links."

I think this is one more reason to not build consumer apps. You can get millions of people to use something, but it still be considered "niche" or "small" and not really make much money.
The right to protest is also enshrined in UK law (within a huge number of constraints).

Other (one-off or infrequent) protests such as Critical Mass certainly obstruct free passage along the highway, but they are tolerated.
Agree that you have to actually be committed to improving the quality, you can't paper over holes in this and expect good results. If there is genuine disinterest at the management level in making better quality software for whatever reasons, you're probably screwed regardless of what you try.

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Author here.

"So was this just a commissioned piece on Julia?"

No.

"Julia is a very interesting new development"

I agree, and that's why I wanted to write about it.

On Python: I've used it, with Numpy, etc., plenty for analysis of simulation results. But you don't run a slow interpreted language on massive supercomputers to simulate the atmosphere. I hope you understand the different kinds of things referred to by the term "scientific computing".
Also, it's rather eye-opening to note how other cultures thought. This is best done by examining their religion or some other foundation ideology like Buddhism.
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Agree, but when discussing privacy/anonymity it would be good if people talked more explicitly about the end result. Because most of the solutions that "will improve your privacy" and/or "security" will do so only against targeted ads and technically inept stalkers. Without calling out limits to which the solution improves our "privacy", we're just creating false sense of security in people.
You're either a minicab offering pre-booked journeys or you're a taxi with a meter. If Uber is claiming they're a pre-booked journey service rather than a taxi then yes, they shouldn't be using meters and that would be illegal. If you want to change the law then by all means write to your MP or whatever, but in the meantime the law as it is should be enforced, even against fashionable companies.
I think what you mean by the first sentence is "most of 2048's fan base enjoys it because it's fun".

Your back and forth strategy doesn't work as you get to the higher point levels in 2048 btw. It certainly may get you to 2048, but not really that much further past that. The fact that the ideal strategy changes as you get to 4096 and 8192 is something that makes the game more fun to me.

If you like Three's better that's great, but like I said, I started with Threes, got addicted to it for a while, and then moved on. I got addicted to 2048 for a lot longer than I did Threes. It's not a matter of one being free or more accessible. 2048 is simply more fun, which is another way of saying it's a better game.