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> The underlying problem is that there's no solution that's portable across init systems.

He describes one that would be portable. Even upstart's SIGSTOP hack is portable across any init system that chooses to implement it; no linking to any init-system-specific library required.
Anti competitive practices are illegal, not monopolies.
I'm not sure "List of greatest hits albums" counts as a disambiguation page. If you're going to include lists, there are plenty that have more than 415 links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supre...
A Price Theory of Silicon Valley
The FSI[1] has ranked languages according to how easy it is for English speakers to learn. There are 10 languages in Category I (the easiest to learn)[2]:

Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

[1] http://www.state.gov/m/fsi/

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.go...
You should make that a bit clearer in your copy. Having "proprietary" and "secure" so close to each other in a single sentence can drive more saavy users away.

Other than that, what are you doing to increase trust within the bitcoin system? I have a few friends who work on Wall Street (investment bankers, account executives, etc) and they summarize money as this: "Money is an embodiment of trust. Clients transmit funds to me in amounts with 5 zeroes, or with 7 zeroes, but if they don't trust me they won't send me a single cent."

I think the focus on making bitcoin easy to use with a simpler interface is a side-step.
I feel the need to send an interview request to john.smith@gmail.com
Meet the bttn – the simplest Internet user interface in the world
"it is perfectly fine for a startup to earn a million or less a year, and never even aspire to earn billions, as long as it pays the bills". That's basically the concept of Micropreneurs and Solopreneurs here; also not to take VC funding (at least not until much later) and instead either bootstrap or crowd-fund. It's not as glamorous or much talked about as the Silicon Valley startup scene, but it definitely exists here, too.
For example, http://imgur.com started out that way:
http://thisweekinstartups.com/imgur-alan-schaaf-andreessen-h...
> Just that linking is way more reliable.

Why? Is not linking somehow unreliable? You can't have it both ways. Either it is stable, or it is not.
Using Ember.js without Ember Data [Screencast] (24:25)
Show HN: A New Approach to RSS (Our iOS App Was Approved Today)
Rust is certainly not ready yet, but I think you’ll be surprised how great Rust can end up; I believe it will end up superior to the options available, though its systems focus will certainly have certain cognitive burdens; it is not going to be superior in every way.

People typically associate web servers with dynamic languages. I am ready to challenge that notion; there are various things that people don’t think of that a language like Rust makes possible, and those sorts of things are the focus of my talk at Strange Loop this year, in September: https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/fast-secure-safe-the-web...
Microsoft just announced a "Windows 8 with Bing" product. No word on price yet but it's generally expected to be much cheaper than normal Win8.
China To Overtake The U.S. In Mobile Phone Revenues This Year
Just use DuckDuckGo(http://www.duckduckgo.com).
I think it's curious that we take the idea of a guiding passion for each human as a given, that we believe it's reasonable or admirable to be guided by a singular, unified idea which is somewhat unique to each individual.

At some point in recent history in the West we started using the narrative of passion in relation to success and happiness. We've developed an ideal that people ought to be passionate. Some people, many people, are simply not passionate people, but I don't feel as though that has any relevance on their "importance" in society. Why has the level of passion a person feels become part of the metric by which we value people? Personally, I feel as though it's because we call "passion" often translates into financial success, in which case "passionate" just serves as a euphemism for wealthy.

Furthermore, it's easy for us to imagine that we are passionate about something, only to realize a year later we were tricking ourselves all along. It seems in tech we often misconstrue passion for something a little more akin to an addiction to work because we want to be passionate people, but many of us simply arn't.
What they don't mention is the fact that there is no German IT company of international importance. The only exception is SAP and they were founded in 1972 and IMO have a good chance of being disrupted in the near future if they don't start innovating soon. There may be some promising startups that have appeared over the last couple of years, but there is no Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook or anything even remotely like it.
How to be Innovative when your Boss Isn't
Interesting, they discuss both Opt-Out and Removal of your information. They explain about the Opt-Out process, but mention nothing about how to get your information removed.

Anyone have an idea on how to get your info removed or if the opt-out does that for you?

(Someone should build a list of these data brokers and their opt-out/removal policies and pages.)
Thank You HN – I just published a book after you gave me the confidence
A while back I wrote a post titled "Fire Me I Beg You". It was #2 on Hacker news. It was actually the same day that Chris Granger's light table was announced. [link for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837264]

I used that motivation / social proof to give me the motivation to write a book. It's called Fire Me I Beg you, and it's available now here: http://firemeibegyou.com/the-book

Use the discount code "thankshn" to give you $9 off which will bring the grand total to 99c. The discount code will only be available for the next 24 hours. I'm using the gumroad platform for the eBook distribution.

Seriously, thank you.
Another somewhat different case in point: Bloomberg L.P., started with a $10m personal investment, took no more than 30% outside investment (which was eventually bought back) and grew to a $8b business over the course of 30 years. "lifestyle business", really?
It could be replicated by a third party, but thanks to Apple policy, using such a third-party component could be grounds for removal from the Apple App Store.

What Apple can do and what it should do are not necessarily the same things. While it can establish privileged APIs, it should not. While it can attempt to support outside developers as a hardware company while also competing with them as a software company, it should not.

If it is easily demonstrated for this particular API, it may be present and less obvious elsewhere, including a serious API. The only way to know for sure is to inspect the code.
Do Not Combine Baby with Hydrochloric Acid
iOS users do switch to Android. You don't see it all the time because users (in the US at least) are stuck in 2 year contracts and phones are an expensive purchase. But they do.

Does Honda have a "local monopoly" on sedans because Civic drivers don't usually switch to a Kia Forte overnight?
The binary is large, but the memory footprint small. And the startup time is small, too… servers that start up in under five milliseconds—delightful for me, with my Django background.
Web accessibility, as we commonly use the term, pertains to creating a website that disabled users can interact with an navigate. It does not pertain to those who choose to or are forced to disable JavaScript (the RMS example). Creating an accessible site is a challenge regardless of what technologies you pick, for sure. Just as saying "just because your screenreader supports JavaScript does not mean you have no accessibility issues", just because your website uses JavaScript doesn't mean you have accessibility issues. A plain HTML website can have accessibility issues. So can a JavaScript one.

AFAIK, nothing in WCAG says you must have a non-JavaScript fallback to adhere to their standard. If you can back that up I am all ears, I would be interested to read it.

> Google making this change makes it possible to have your non-fallback JS-only application be indexed. It does not make it more attractive from an SEO or accessibility viewpoint.

The attractiveness of JS heavy development is not in an inherent SEO or accessibility benefit. Absolutely true.

The benefit is a development style that is more productive, giving me more time as a developer to focus on solving the problem at hand, be it business logic, SEO, or accessibility. You can debate this benefit, but don't imply that single-page apps cannot have SEO on par with HTML sites and good accessibility.
I wonder if they analyzed the Messi factor correctly against Spain...
Disrupt what? Building custom hardware boxes and paying people to gather their behavioral data? I can't see a lot of young hackers jumping on this problem.

Nielsen's actual business is getting data (staggeringly enormous amounts of data - not just TV watching but consumer purchase data, retail POS data, etc), and then leveraging it. If you want to disrupt something, it's the collection and use/sale of this information.

However, there is a strong network effect here. The value of the data you collect is proportional to how established you are and how much participation/penetration you have in an industry. Big companies (like TV/media companies, retail chains, and manufacturers) want big data from big providers. They want large amounts of reliable data that speaks for an entire industry, nationwide and worldwide, to inform their very-high-dollar decisions. If you can collect that, and convince e.g. Walmart that your data is worth buying, go for it!
What broke Washington
When I googled, this PDF was the first result: http://www.uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Transportatio...
Because Germany boldly pushed forward to innovate a commercially viable electric car oh wait never mind..
Mozilla can't port their browser to iOS, isn't that a bigger issue than this?
It depends on:

- Cost of school or Debt Load

- Type of Degree

- Reputation of School

- If you finish

They all need to be weighed together.
I don't know that manufacturing and distributing trousers is as much a great idea as it is an industry that has made money for hundreds of years. It's well proven that money can be made making clothes, the question is whether you have the business skill and domain knowledge to do it yourself.

Trying to bring back sock garters could be a great idea. I would call them 'sockspenders.'
YCombinator originated from the East Coast (Boston/Cambridge, MA).
Las Vegas. I know it isn't a typical case but it is definitely pedestrian unfriendly and largely if not entirely developed post-car.

Edit: Even along the strip itself it is hard to take a direct line and you need to go over bridges etc. Walking from the main part of the strip e.g. Bellagio to the convention centre is only a couple of miles but is a pretty unpleasant walk. Whether it is better than waiting for a bus/taxi from CES probably depends on the condition of your feet and the shoes you are wearing.

I do understand that in the Summer it would be a pretty unappealing walking any distance at all.
Well, I live in Germany so go figure.

And please stop with your condemning talk! The ladies returning from a supermarket go often over 120mph over here on their way back home (legally!), you can see Porsche test drivers going full speed at 2am on an Autobahn almost every day, yet the accident/fatality rate is actually lower than on interstates in your country (I assume you are from the US). People here are drilled like crazy to obtain a driving license, unlike driving around the block and doing simple parking, and they behave well on the highways, letting faster cars ahead and not blocking them going 65mph in the fast lane or hastily switching lanes.

Not far from my city is probably the most hardcore racing circuit in the world open for public - Nürburgring, and what other car would be suitable for reaching 200mph if not one like perfectly serviced Murcielago? Yes, it's risky. So is eating HFCS in all your food daily and sticking to high-carb diet, depriving oneself of sleep due to working long hours or not taking vacation to recharge due to constant stress.

I am not talking about stupid reckless street racing - that's very uncommon over here.
This shouldn't dissuade anybody from trying. That's the whole point of business. Going out on a limb. Read the rules, follow them, and if it doesn't work out... at least you tried.
That's kind of my point, these things which are seemingly frivolous at first have actually evolved into "trillion" dollar entities that we all rely on. That's pretty fucking radical. Did we all need Instagram or Snapchat a decade ago? No, but now because we all wanted these services, they have a foothold in both our personal and business worlds.

My point was only that while these social networks seem obvious, and boring, they are in fact pretty radical.
While it's comforting to apply the word's meaning to all different kinds of things, the word "monopoly" is by definition tied to a size and scope of entire markets, types of goods, and services. It doesn't really apply to services within services unless those services are entire markets, and even then it's iffy at best. To say 'I have a monopoly on my toilet', while technically I control all access to it, is incorrect because the word 'monopoly' applies to all toilets in a geographic area specifically larger than my bathroom. There is some gray area in the definition. A more appropriate use of 'monopoly' is, "does Apple control software on all tablets?", no. 'Does Apple control all tablet software in the new york area?' no. 'Does Apple control all popup widgets on all Apple Tablets in the New York area?' Yes, but that is not by definition, "a monopoly".
"Why articles that start with 'Why' are not worth reading"
I'm not disagreeing that the article is a bit silly, but electric cars aren't the best thing to pick:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/new-vehicles/bmw-i/i3/2013/start....

NB The i3 has been getting great reviews and is only £25K or so in the UK after the £5K you get back from HMG.

Edit: I just checked and a base Tesla Model S is £50K after the same rebate - so I don't think they are competing.
Since less youth are getting driver's licences/cars than before, I wouldn't be surprised if that is what happens. A family buys a self-driving car that drops off and picks up everyone when needed. Driver's licences will drop within a generation, the tests for a licence will get harder and more costly. Inspections and registrations will also have higher qualifications, so old cars will be either scrapped or kept as a hobby or collectors item. Thinking more and more about it, I'm loving the potential future.
The point more accurately is that coupling to the interface used to communicate with your collaborator I.e. If you were to refactor the way that the test object communicates with it's collaborator (without changing it's external behaviour) you are now forced to update the mocks. If the collaborator is only used within your test object and nowhere else in your system the communication between them doesn't need to be pinned down, the test should just test both of them at the same time. This is the difference between a white box test (where your mocking has to expose implementation details) and blackbox testing (where you can refactor without breaking tests).
This theory could be accurate in this case or since this is a niche product he may have not asked people that had this need.

Since I'm not his target market I wouldn't have liked the idea but I'm sure people who already like Dockers would have responded more favorably to what I see as just a better version.
Engineering Prints
"[...] In Quebec, you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you went to an engineering school [...]"

That is actually true in most (all?) provinces.
The rich could spend less percentage wise of their income (they may also spend more since they have more disposable income), but they could also spend more in a real dollar value wise which would generate more tax revenue.

Taxing consumption already occurs: For example, if you drive a car you pay the gasoline tax and therefor pay more than a person who doesn't drive a car (who doesn't have to pay for fuel). Similarly, sales tax. The more you buy, the more tax you pay.
The flag has been removed but you can hide the icon by using an entry in the Chrome menu.
Have you ever played any 3D game on a 2D screen, where you had to click on a position to tell the on-screen character to go somewhere? Did they always go where you wanted, or did you encounter problems created by projecting 2D points into 3D space?
I think the fact that the article title has a capitalized "S" in "systemd" speaks for itself -- ie. the author doesn't know much about systemd nor has followed systemd development.
I hear ya. And I don't think it's going to be quite so bad in the future. I doubt we'll see a time anytime soon where "traditional" cars completely disappear, but I bet cars like a Murcielago will be relegated to an even-smaller niche than they already hold.

The best analogy I can come up with is this: Plenty of folks still ride horses, it's still possible to get a horse-drawn carriage in many places, and there are more than a handful (though not much more) of Model Ts still on the road. But in all cases, that's not the majority anymore, and those that do that do so as hobbyists. I bet that's the future we'll most likely see, at least in the near term (~50 years).
Is all the gapping, creases, and folding a feature of the Fiat?

A little extra work on tension/tucking would have given a better fit and finish.
The problem with solving this problem is that the entire dev team and anyone that demos it has to fluently know all the languages being used. I highly doubt even they all know german, spanish, mandarin to such a high caliber that they are able to detect common language vs robot translated garble.

So what do you get in the end? This unimpressive video to native speakers and skeptical one to non-natives.

The fact that at the start of the demo, she asks him if he knows german and he said no should be a red flag for the impending bad demo.
Yes, goal average is about 2.5, very likely one of the weaker teams gets 3 or more against.
Apple is your counterexample. Made in the US for US markets first. Apple products have always been cutsie.
Ask HN: why does your startup have/not have a team page?
While I do love this and think it is going to mae for a fantastic future, why wait also, for this and ignore fixing two of the biggest blights in the SFBay area; train and bus service.

BART is a cancer, Caltrain and Amtrak have service schedules designed by morons and make, I think, literally TWO farking connections to BART.

There is a hell of a lot of improvement that could be done to fix public transportation in addition to working on this.
I wear a variety of kinds of trousers - jeans, chinos, cords, these weird linen things - and i don't think i've ever noticed wrinkling as a problem.

Maybe it's the way i wash and dry them. Or maybe it's just because i'm sufficiently fat that my body stretches the wrinkles out of everything i wear.
Alec Guinness's 100th birthday – "those bloody awful, banal lines…"
I don't think anyone ever recommended that you store your wallet in MtGox long-term, either, but a whole lot of people did it and it's not like when that went sour everyone said, "Oh well, it was stupid of us to trust Mt Gox!"

Also, the fact of the matter is that this is subject to the problem that every person everywhere can secretly try to attack every wallet everywhere. One person getting their (physical) wallet stolen when they go out is upsetting for that person, but if someone figured out a way to steal 30% of all peoples' physical wallets at once, you can imagine that would be seen as a catastrophe, which is exactly what you're looking at given the monocultural nature of software. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem for someone who knows the risk and knows what they are doing, but those people don't need the convenience this app purports to offer anyway. Best of luck, I hope I'm wrong.
Does the Tesla not pre-date the I3?
Downvoting shouldn't be used to silence opposing view points, but it is regularly used this way here on HN.
After a year of development we got super lucky and were approved the first time we submitted to the App Store (woo!).

Our app: Browse

Our website: http://browse.im/

App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/browse-rss-feed-reader/id778...

Tired of the way RSS and news readers behaved by default, we set out to make an app that would allow us to read our content in a new way. We built Browse on these principles:

* Your content should never be rearranged on the screen

* Your content should be shown to you the way the content creator intended

* You should never have to read through a list of headlines

* The most recent content is the most important

* The speed at which your content loads is critical

* Comfortable and ergonomic use of the app is a must

We hope you like it to and would love any feedback you have on our 1.0 release.

A big thank you to all of the developers who have launched products on HN this last year. You inspired us to push on and get our 1.0 out the door!
A Guide to Living in a Post-Privacy World
Alec Guinness's 100th birthday was last month.

"Guinness said in a 1999 interview that it was actually his idea to kill off Obi-Wan... 'What I didn't tell Lucas was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo.'"
Considering poor people have to both have some of their money taken away due to income tax, and pay a tax on whatever they purchase, having just one of those could provide a net benefit.
Classification of products also matters. That bump in durable goods manufacturing? That was an order for 10 submarines. Our manufacturing is highly dependent on military spending. That's not enhancing the quality of life here.
I have been blocking Google Analytics for a very long time now. It seemed no brainer to me. You may want to do the same.
It depends on if you are going to actively take advantage of the resources you are paying for or if you are just going to passively get spoon fed information and coast through the whole experience for a nominal piece of paper that said you jumped through hoops for 4 years.
>before times "got hard" the shift to a services based economy was seen as a good thing.

More sold as a good thing. The same media outlets that were pushing the 'transition' into services were part of larger conglomerates that stood to benefit from overseas manufacturing.
Why even have these rules in the first place to be 'gamed', karmic systems end up converging towards a circle-jerk anyhow. blegh.
> They’re caused by culture, and luck and magic as much as and more than they are caused by the “three factors”

Germans don't believe in luck and magic, maybe that's why they make great industrial engineers :)
Although you're right that it's surely a complex process.
We'll have to wait and see how much and which investments really pay off, but in the meantime it is nice to live in an environment where billions are invested (check out http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/ to read details about a new European wide program).
I didn't have a startup in Vancouver, but a prominent angel investor in Vancouver put some money into my NYC-based startup, and I flew out there for a couple of 'portfolio summits', with companies largely-based in Vancouver. I liked the group I saw and people I met, but a) that was years ago, and b) I don't know if they were representative.

Hey, if you want to talk to someone in Vancouver about the local start-up scene, why not shoot me an email? (It's in my profile.) I can ask my old investor if he's willing to hop on the phone and answer a few questions.