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You might have missed the announcement, but Germanys system is not a free market, by choice of it's population [1]. You can believe that it should be and try and lobby for a change, but it's an inalienable right in a democracy to vote on what we all consider the rights and obligations we all want to have in a society and sadly, for Uber and its investors, that view currently does not match up with their vision.

[1] We even have that in the constitution, GG, Art. 14, Satz (2) "Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen."
Certificate Transparency for PGP?
I sat near a blind girl testing on the bus.
She way playing that touch-keyboard like a violin and knew where every letter was touch. The phone was on low-volume audio and she knew what she typed.
This is awesome, thanks for the reply!
p.s. are there IDEA / Eclipse plugins that support accessibility?
Reading a Classic:Rapid Development
Katawa Shoujo actually addresses this in-game. One of the game's characters, a blind woman, describes her dreams including sensations from her other senses: smell, taste, touch, hearing. As something I have wondered about, I was really pleased that the game's authors thought of this.
A tribute to "Steroids"

http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/index.php/a-tribute-to-ste...
Great things never came from comfort zones. If you want to reach your goal of financial freedom you're going to have to put yourself back out there.
What is Vitamin B6?
A low-end ereader is $50 these days. They all have audio options.
13 Steps to Master the Flow State in Your Powerful Blog
Can't speak for anyone else, but I haven't been given any solid reasons to discredit things Snowden has brought to light, except by parties whose best interest is to undercut him. He may have got things wrong on a small or large scale and could have deliberately falsified information, but the evidence to suggest this is currently lacking. The NSA, on the other hand, has been shown to operate with questionable ethics repeatedly. For the moment, I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt over them.
I think in many cases its just a fear or making a start, and possibly failing
If Go becomes the next Java, the inventors of C would set the programming world decades back in the past for the second time

That quote succinctly captures the essence of the problem with Go: it's warmed-over hash.
It literally took me 5 minutes to get that, thought we had a typo in the post.
It depends on where you're looking. In my country banking is dominated by Java and I've seen mixtures too and migrations from C# to Java.

.NET has several problems. Microsoft targeted Windows while Java's rise is correlated with the rise of Linux on the server-side. Linux on the server-side is cheap and reliable and people want more and more Linux and Microsoft's cooperation with Xamarin is kind of too late and is meant for mobile phones and not Linux, but who knows. Microsoft also failed to create an open-source community around .NET, while Java's open-source ecosystem is huge and even the commercial tools available are cheaper. Microsoft advertised .NET as being multi-language but dropped the ball later and failed to attract new languages, whereas other languages are flourishing on top of the JVM, keeping Java the platform hip. Microsoft also failed to convince startups to use .NET and today's startups are tomorrow's corporations.
> it seems weird to describe yourself as an underachiever.

It is really not that weird.

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

What I hate, however, is knowing about imposter syndrome and letting that screw with my mind. I think, "maybe I am using imposter syndrome as a way to sneakily support my ego that is only partially supported by reality. Reality does not support my ego at the inflated levels I want to believe in." But then I think - well, I suppose I have to be smart to trick myself in such a ridiculous way, and conclude I actually am smart. That leads me to think that I am actually an intellectual imposter, and it's traditional that I take that as a truth, which my ego has temporarily decided to not believe in, for certain problem kinds.

Lately, I build on top of externally developing habits - like studying, running, meditating, eating healthy, sleeping healthy, working at a normal pace, and having confidence in my own opinions about computer science, logic, mathematics, and programming. This helps me think less about how I perceive myself and how others perceive me, but I can get knocked off my horse once in a while. I just try to remind myself that it's just time wasted that I could use studying, working, or helping other people - which is more thinking about the long long term, rather than each individual achievement.
Uber vs. Lyft: Who's Winning the PPC Battle?
This is cool but in real world scenarios you need more functionality to make it useful. So far I've been using KnockoutJS where I don't need full-blown MVC and can get away with MVVM.
Can you say what exactly is not under your control? I hear that frequently, but most times people misinterpret their feeling out of control with not having the ability to control things in their life.

At 25 I was married, had a house, a riding mower, 3 cars, and everything felt out of control. I had pretty much the same crisis. At that point I was making good money, but my stuff owned me. So, I sold the stuff and started to take control.

One year later, I was debt free and had tons of options. I could have put my few possessions in storage and lived in Costa Rica or backpacked across Europe. I didn't do that, but I could have, and that made a huge difference in my mental state.
Hello. I just want to say that you should reconsider iOS-based devices. I am very low vision and can use iOS perfectly well. It has both built in zooming and text-to-speech (VoiceOver). Many apps, including Audible.com, are very accessible and work well with VoiceOver. If you have an iOS device on hand, check out the Settings->General->Accessibility offering or look at this: https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/. You should also take a look at applevis.com.

You should also check with his local government to see what services are available for the blind and visually impaired. Even with no vision, one can live a happy life and still be an active member of society. All it takes is some help learning how to navigate the world.
Or at least compensate employees somehow if their shifts are cut short. Something like a flat-rate $10-20 inconvenience fee for cancelling hours and any additional commute costs (if they have to take the bus instead of getting a ride).
I have sometimes wondered if technology could be used to make some house-elves more visible. When I buy an apple or some meat in the grocery store they are simply opaque to me. Their production is completely invisible. Was it a farmer in my home country who produced it, driving around in his comfortable tractor, or was it a hard pressed third world farmer whose children go uneducated despite his best efforts? Knowing this through some technological means, even to an imperfect degree, would probably affect my choices.
Firstly, don't be ashamed of your acqui-hire - that's a hard thing to pull off and you should be proud that you didn't fall over like 99% of all startup companies do.

Secondly, take some time for yourself. Assuming the terms of the acquisition were favourable, you should have a fair amount of financial freedom (at least for a few months). Take some time to travel and see parts of the world that are new to you. For me, travel is a very effective "reset" that helps me examine my life and the world more holistically.

After founding a startup and working hard to see it succeed, you're probably used to a fast-paced cadence and it's hard to relax into a less high-producing role. Time box your relaxing so you don't feel like you're just giving up - but give yourself some space to live.
Haskell on Android
hi archagon, thanks for the feedback. it's nice to hear from people who would consider using itripd. Yes, at the moment we only support one pin style. But, the current pin system does cluster very well so you may find that the existing clustering system works well for your trips with many pins in close proximity to each other. I will experiment with some other pin designs in the meantime. There is no mobile app at the moment but the site functions well in the browser on tablets and phones. Thanks for the link to your trip :)
It's likely to get you shot or sued these days.

I know personally of a few instances where regular citizens have aided police with a concealed weapon, but were told to leave by the same officer before backup arrived, so they wouldn't risk legal action.

There have been a few in the news where the responding citizen died in their attempt, though. In the recent case where two officers were killed in a pizza place in Las Vegas, the "bystander" that was killed immediately afterward in a WalMart was an armed citizen. He saw one of the shooters come into the store, so he drew his weapon and tried to get behind him. He didn't see the other shooter, who the shot him in the back and killed him.

There was another instance in the Southwest - I think it was Texas, but not sure - about a year ago. A guy walked into a courthouse and shot someone in the courtroom during a trial, then fled. He was engaged by an armed citizen while trying to get into his car in front of the courthouse, and killed him before fleeing. A quick search couldn't turn up the details on this one, but if you're really interested I'm sure I could dig it up tonight.
Show HN: Polish startup 'lappsy'. Is this a serious competition for Vine?
Many SMEs Unaware of Auto Enrolment Burden
> How do you cope with that? Seeing your future as an underachiever pains you. What do you do?

For myself? I work out what I want to achieve and go work on it. There are several problems I'm interested in at the moment: visual IDEs and complexity, computer aided research planning, local-proxy based encryption, sousveillance as a peer to peer service...

Do I have a job in any of these areas? Well, yeah, one. But that's besides the point - I don't stop working on the others because I don't get paid for them, I just tinker at home. If I lost my job on the one I'm working on at the moment I wouldn't be in a 'The world is over, can't work on what I love.' position, I'd just find someone else to pay me to work on something that interests me.

I feel like you're maybe feeling lost because you want to work on great things but don't know what those are. Might be wrong? The worry there is that great things isn't a thing you can steer towards, it's a magnitude - and in so far as that magnitude lines up with someone's values it's an opinion. You could almost call the want to work on great things an expression of longing for a goal.

So:

What interests you? What problems keep you up at night? What has hurt you in your life? What might you like to help others with? What have you enjoyed and would like to see more of in the world?

What are your current strengths? How well do those fit addressing the earlier problems? What do you have to do to make them fit better?

I feel like sitting down for a few hours with a sheet of paper and answering those sorts of questions might make you feel a bit better. Even if you can't think how to steer A towards B immediately, you at least have a starting point to begin looking into what you'd need then.
The link should probably be directly to the post

http://buglabs.tumblr.com/post/94633748906/dweet-tm-now-with...
Mark Zuckerberg and Other Tech CEOs Pour Ice Water on Their Heads
The big advantage of the Chromebook over Windows, Macs
For what it's worth I wouldn't have a kid without $1 million in liquid assets set aside for him. It seems evil to me to have a kid without enough money to feel confident he'll never have to work for money. But then most people think I'm nuts.
> but did that at the cost of reduced competition, increased prices and granting disproportionate privileges to the incumbents.

This is a feature. Whether those privileges are disproportionate is up for debate. There are very few actual privileges in germany. It would be an easy thing for Uber to just get some licenses for Berlin. They don't want that though, because the regulation also places burdens on the license holder: No right to deny a ride, even if you're making a loss, fixed prices, etc.

> It seems reasonable to increase their utilization instead of setting aside a dedicated pool for taxi services.

There's no requirement that forbid use of taxis as private cars. Nobody in Berlin does so, since a cab makes more money when it's driving, so drivers share cabs. But the town where I was raised, the local cab driver would use it as a private car.

> Some of the same very goals like trust, safety and quality have now been achieved by Uber and the like without the same costs thanks to the reputation and review systems long employed in the internet.

Looking at how reputation and review systems get abused and gamed on the internet, I'd rather trust the Berlin administration, as incapable and weird they sometimes are.

> This is clearly desirable.

I think sticking to the regulations is clearly more desirable than disrupting them. Who's right here?

> Change is clearly overdue in the taxi services

I actually don't think that's the case, at least not in Berlin. Some adaptions, sure, but nothing dramatic (like does a cab really have to be white? It's useful when you're trying to find one, but a sign on top might be sufficient).
NerdFit: Why Techies Love CrossFit
Backblaze wrote an article last year where, based on the government agencies that have expressed interested in building their own Storage Pods, including the CIA, they conclude:

"So does the NSA store surveillance data on Backblaze Storage Pods?

We don’t know for sure and certainly the NSA is certainly not publishing their storage architecture. However, between the multiple government agencies using and exploring Backblaze Storage Pods and the pods characteristics as highly-dense, cost-efficient, and open source systems, certainly makes them a very likely candidate." [1]

[1] - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/is-the-nsa-using-backblaze-st...
Sure. Your opinion includes implicit assertions regarding all the things that go into "sorting out education and jobs". In particular, the core assertion is that it's possible to do so and that it is something that's feasible or a reasonable expectation in all cases (hint: it's neither, in some cases and in particular cases involving poverty and families on the lower end of the income spectrum). You're implicitly asserting, almost to the point of making it tautological, that people who aren't born into privilege ought not have children.

The assumptions are the usual assumptions born of such thinking (e.g. that the poor or the uneducated are incapable of sorting out their own lives, much less of "properly" raising children).
No, he wants rich white people to understand what the rest of America has been going through for years. That way, maybe they'll devote their political, social, and economic capital to reforming these abusive policing practices.
For a "Growth Scientist at Tilt," you're not very good at subletly in your blatant marketing spam.
So nothing from the last week?

I don't care that much. I just didn't think you made a very good argument in that first reply and felt like pushing back on it.
Do you make a distinction between "managing up" and "managing expectations"? I've always chosen to do the latter and view it as the same as "managing up" and your comment makes me realize that this might not be the only perspective.
"Ah but degrees don't guarantee you stable employment."
If the degree benefits your employment chance, you should have done it before you have kids. If the degree does not benefit your employment chance, then why do it at all? Either way, finish it before.

Look, what I don't understand is people having kids, knowing fine well that they don't have the time and/or money to support them and then whine for public funding and about a lack thereof. The whole thing is completely self-inflicted. Why should the state support people who lack the most basic amount of foresight and coerce everyone else into paying for their faults?
I disagree, the media in the UK is popularist, they gleefully attacked businesses over zero hours contracts.
> That's consistent with my experience with approaches like the site you cited, which is that it doesn't help me procrastinate less, but vastly increases my stress and panic associated with a deadline as the consequence approaches, when it's too late to work effectively.

That GP's quote describes my exact experience with Beeminder. I lost a bit of money there, while procrastinating even more because of huge amounts of stress related to failing the task and losing money I can't really afford to lose.
Hi personlurking, well it's not really a huge problem right now because the site has hardly any content :) But, to answer your question the trips are generally ordered by popularity (views and likes). Thanks for the feedback
Can you kick the exorbitant proprietary vendor fees?
I have a hard time believing this is a real appeal for sympathy and advice. It sounds too much like a parody.

If it is true, then you're probably doing the right thing by quitting your current job. You don't want to be the bad apple. As the founder of the acquired startup, the acquiring company would have made it abundantly clear if they wanted you to stay by providing "golden handcuffs" as part of the deal. But since you feel so comfortable quitting just after the aqui-hire, I suspect you were not given any such incentives. When you understand why, you'll have a better perspective on how to make yourself and your next role more valuable to everyone. "Make something people want" applies to people as well as products. Maybe especially people.
St. Louis County police will no longer be involved in policing Ferguson
Not to detract from the point that's being made, but most of those photos weren't close to equivalent.

A guy sitting on top of an armored car with a 5.56 carbine isn't the same as someone manning a pintle-mounted 7.62 NATO medium machinegun. Likewise, a guy with a scoped AR-10 (looks like 7.62 NATO) isn't the same as a guy with an M-82 (.50 BMG).

The vehicle in the last photo looks like a bread truck with some steel plates on it, painted black -- and the one in Iraq isn't an MRAP as the caption says, but has a Mk 19 grenade launcher on top of it.
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argh, sorry about that. can't edit it :(
Thank you, sincerely, for the summary. I really couldn't be motivated to read such a dense piece.
My wife and I worked out a plan: we moved very close to her parents who agreed to watch our children for three days a week. I work M-F days only, no nights, no weekends. My wife works Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Together we make enough to pays the bills, save a little, and have a bit of fun. The children are taken care of first and foremost.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice to make do for your family by moving, whatever. It's always better to sacrifice money than time from your children. As long as you are making it and saving a little and have a bit for holidays, nothing else really matters. Getting rich should never be the goal.
Go to the police. They could probably get a judge to shut down this site.
Why do you want to do great things? Seriously, dig into it. When I ask a lot of people in startups this question and dig long enough, it comes down to money-- they want to be rich, they want to be free.

Fact: I've met these rich/free people and they are largely working their asses off to get more rich (and presumably more free?). The ones who make it (largely) LOVE THE GAME. The few who get rich somehow but don't actually love the game of getting rich are listlessly complaining about being unhappy.

You don't love the game, it seems. The way to be happy/satisfied is to find the game that you love or learn to love the game you're playing. The latter is often what to focus on-- there people with much less interesting jobs that are satisfied with them. Whatever job you have, figure out how to be freakin' awesome at it and opportunities fall into your lap- trust me. Or be the guy who gets by, can't be happy, is always looking out the window.

All that said, don't settle for a shitty job. Get one where you're surrounded by people who impress you in an industry/market that has potential. That's where you'll find your next co-founder.

If you've got great ideas, start side projects. They turn into businesses all the time.

Reduce your burn rate ruthlessly and save $. Seriously, your car/house/clothes are too nice, and you have them because society makes you feel less successful if you don't. Happiness and stuff have virtually no correlation. Get to the point where you're downright smug about your burn rate. Smirk at people who drive BMWs.

Remember that a million years of evolution has made humanity naturally discontent-- do you think happiness/contentedness is a survival trait? Add to that the external pressure of peers who make it big, do "great things", and the river of marketing telling you that you need fancier watches, shinier cars, the newest iPhone. Being happy/content takes smarts and discipline that most people simply can't manage. Be one of the ones who can.
Timing is interestingly close to Amazon Local Register launch from yesterday.

It's not clear from the website what the fees for payments are.

From the screenshot it reads "When you get your first order, we'll ask a few more details to complete the setup."
> How do you cope with that?

Don't underestimate the Mental Game aspect of this personal challenge. An unusually good read on this subject, Way of the Seal by Mark Divine. Here's a recent interview> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_bDMEUF7F8

Mindset is crucial. And a 24-36 month game plan to pay-off debt, salt-way cash, & plot your next move is a smart strategic play.
Open question to readers: do gaming frameworks provide functionality like this? I know that Android SDK, and Appcelerator provide hooks for internalization (and by extension localization). Are there similar functions in game SDKs?
I do like your titles; CEO, CTO, Chief Scientist, Director of Development, and Mr. Database.
I think this make sense when people do a combination of comment, while the company doing well.
There are a bunch of people on HN who would say "Yes, people without X amount of money shouldn't be allowed to have children."

And I think that's a sad world to be in where income dictates your ability to have kids. I think having kids is a right that one should be able to exercise regardless of income and it is a problem with our society that we cannot support low-income families, not a problem with the low-income parents. The fact that we have poverty-level income families with 5 or 7 kids is a failing of the education system. Nobody wants their kids to suffer. If proper education & birth-control & social resources were available a little before high-school, I bet this issue would be nearly eliminated in that parents would know themselves not to have an inordinate number of kids.
There are ways to set a timeout before issuing (a particular) CALL instruction. Occasionally these are important.
I doubt there is anything in the terms that prohibits that.
Honestly, I don't know what I want on Android wear. I'm not even convinced wearables is that great of an idea. So I guess, though non-specific, I'd like an application that convinces me that I should plop down $x for yet another screen.
As a passenger I don't care if the Uber driver has insurance covering me and I should be able to choose to ride in one anyways.