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> The size of the market is to a large degree irrelevant. The taxi companies are going to advocate their interests -- mostly informally and without thinking of themselves as lobbying -- whether they're in a $5 million market or a $50 million market.

All I meant is that there is some fixed cost to lobbying local government for favorable regulations regardless of community size, and it's probably not worth it for local governments which are too small to have a sizable taxi market.

> Honestly, prior to Uber bringing all this into the spotlight, how much thought did you give to taxi regulations?

A fair amount, but that's because I read a lot of libertarian stuff, and taxi regulations have been a major topic of libertarian economics as a textbook example of regulatory capture (perhaps second only to tariffs) for much longer than Uber has existed. The Machinery of Freedom, a popular libertarian book proposing a legal system without government, discusses taxi regulations at length, and it was first published in the 1970s. Libertarianism aside, I think taxis have always had a reputation in pop culture for being bad experiences, but I agree that the economic and political debates we see now involving ridesharing were never common.
It depends on the nature of your faith beforehand, and your lack of faith afterwards.

If, as a child, you were just dragged along to church by your parents at Christmas and Easter, then when you grow up and realise you don't believe, so stop going, that's one thing, and there's nothing really "taken up" about it.

If you were a regular adult churchgoer of your own volition, perhaps with a lay position within the church, or even part of the clergy, then apostasy, is a strong act that might be called "taking up" your later position, even if the later position is a lack of one.

Similarly, if you become a normal atheist who simply doesn't believe in any gods, then there's nothing to take up.

However, if you become an evangelical, proselytising atheist like Richard Dawkins, then you've certainly taken it up.
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I'm reminded of the Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying, and how easily his character is able to manipulate the society he is part of because he lies and no-one else does.

In Dyer's privacy-less utopia, it just takes one person to break the rules, to keep things to themselves, to create a power disparity.
Prior and subsequent to reading the book, I suggest you read some of the critique the book has recieved, as the topic is quite anecdotal.
When the Australian dollar was down on the US, ~50-60c, the prices didn't seem so out-of-whack. Now that it has risen to 90-100c, it seems crazy. The prices have stayed around the same, rather than dropped as you might expect. The exception is real estate, which grew at 30-40% some years in the noughties, an industry so distorted that if it doesn't grow by 10%/year now, analysts run around claiming the end of the world.
Then it did its job! When I first came to this thread I felt super sorry for the original author of the page, who most likely didn't post it to HN. Such off-hand, unconstructive cynicism can crush somebody's self-esteem.
Mining. See this link for example

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mys...
It will be hard to top the love we've gotten here in terms of making our night. This makes our month.

But if you happen to have a handful of professors who could use pol.is in class this fall...
In a company like Amazon, only one person can push for such a product, eg Jeff Bezos himself. For whatever reason, he just liked the product idea. Very few people would appreciate such a product as sales number shows. It is just a worse version of New Coke without Classic Coke.
This is a really dumb strategy though, breaking the rules means not being constrained by the social norms and trying something new, however, it doesn't mean being an a-hole and doing purely malicious stuff at all. That's very unentrepreneurial.
While the $33 is impressive price tag, just a reminder that you can buy a "Chinese" Android tablet with twice as capable hardware (800x480 screen, 512 MB ram etc) for $50.
NAT != firewall. You can have a firewall without NAT.

Probably the sensible thing to do for IPv6 is to make the default to block the ports of specific applications people don't canonically expect to be visible from the internet, like Windows file sharing or telnet or HP JetDirect, but allow everything else so that VoIP and other P2P apps will all work properly.
I do think that society cannot evolve towards ideals that go against the human nature. Lets be honest here, we're humans, we have flaws - any ideals that do not work within the constraints of human nature are bound to fail.

Lets do a thought exercise - at extremes, what would be like if every human would be connected to the thoughts of other humans? What would be like if your friends would hear every dirty thought you have about them in a moment of weakness? What would be like if your wife that's miles away would be able to feel you admiring a hot chick passing by? The outcome is simple to grasp - in order for us to survive, we'll stop being humans - feelings for one would not belong in this world, which would raise the question of why we'd want to live our miserable lives anymore?

And if you think that we should at least have privacy of our own thoughts since the line has to be drawn somewhere, then you just acknowledged the need for privacy and yes, where should the line be drawn is a very good question and the answer should be that's up to the individual, because a heterosexual white male doesn't have the same problems as a gay afro-american.
CA model is broken (>500 of CAs, race to the bottom in terms of price, security is not a part of their business model). DANE is no better. What we really want is to be able to withdraw trust. There is no point for me to trust some Iranian CA. Why should I want to trust one? Today - I have to trust it, because you can't just remove CA without breaking a percentage of websites for you. And you can't normally erase CA from existence, because on single CA rely many customers and each of them will have broken website.

Please read about Convergence by Moxie Marlinspike. It solves the removing of trust problem.
One thing to keep in mind is that Google only suggests getting an Uber if the user already has the Uber app installed on their device. So while this integration does give Uber an advantage in getting more rides, it doesn't help Uber get new riders. Not sure if this affects the post's argument or not.
Technically it's EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JavaBeans is a pattern where you need to adhere to particular coding conventions (getters, setters, naming of said getters and setters).

I also used to work with these a long time ago (EJB 1.1 and 2.0). A lot has changed since then though, and EJB 3 has solved a lot of the pain points (arguably pushed by the success of concepts used in Spring and Hibernate, whose authors served in the JCP for the newer JEE specs).
The percentage of government controlled TLDs is rapidly declining though. And making the CA an integral and evident part of the domain and url is a vast improvement to the current state of affairs.

Is the USA-controlled DNS root a problem here? Hopefully interference would require highly visible and suspicious changes to the DNS root.
> Yes, the taxi companies are trying to shut down Uber and Lyft using regulation, but they are just trying to enforce a legal monopoly granted to them by the cities in which they operate.

If I buy legislation that allows me to extort consumers then when I extort them afterwards it is legal, but it's also as evil as always. There is a reason why illegal and evil are two different words.
It's because Uber is the fastest growing tech-startup on earth right now.
> juggali

I lost it at this. Can't contain myself. Maybe it's because I'm from Michigan. sprays Faygo everywhere
As for Sydney specifically, it is actually very space constrained. With the ocean on one side, and the Blue Mountains on the other side, there actually isn't a lot of room for expansion.

Melbourne has vast swathes of open land in all directions, and housing prices are nearly the same.

I asked the question to a friend, and he replied that I just don't get it: the people who already have houses aren't interested in reducing the value of them. Almost all federal politicians have multiple properties. Why would they legislate to do that? So we have negative gearing that will never get solved, lots of foreign purchasing driving up prices, and no-one willing to pull the pin out of the electoral grenade and start dealing with our housing bubble.
Dropbox does the UDP broadcast thing. Try dumping packet in pretty much any LAN today and you see their broadcasts flying around.
People are just tired of all the legacy technologies push. The web should become actually open to new technologies and languages.
I may be missing something, but this doesn't seem secure at first glance.

Assume I decompile your app and look at your algorithm. If there are only two inputs (service name and master password), then I'm only missing the master password.

If I get a couple (or more) of your passwords, I can probably figure out your master password, since I know everything else. That could be done via Android malware or several successful hacks.

All of a sudden, I have a universal key to all of your accounts. That's a worst-case scenario in terms of security.

The risk is significantly lower if the master password is sufficiently complex, but not many users use complex passwords.
You obviously wouldn't be having that conversation with me. You might want to consider that others might not use a phone the same way you do. ("Anyone" is a pretty bold claim.)

Though I would really love it if you could show me where to get a $99 iPhone.
I know that Dropbox uses multicast packets to announce itself to other nodes.

I'd have thought that encrypting the local address with the public IP address of the gateway would be a better solution?
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In the case of EJB and so on, it's not just OO concepts. You also have declarative distributed transactions and nesting of these transactions, role based security with a shared context. I thought the concepts were originally based on CORBA, which is even older.
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That actually makes a lot of sense. For quite a while, I've been trying to imagine some rules for how some parent system might guide the laws of physics behind our universe, and your comment seems to have lit a bulb in my head. I haven't yet read the source link and I wish I could offer more input on it right now, but I'll have to check it out later.
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Not a problem - all of the enterprise IPv6 networks I've seen (not that many, but some) have deployed their IPv6 in RFC 4193 and they use IPV6 NAT at the border.

Your average IT Enterprise director/VP has little to no interest in having end-end routing of IPv6 to their internal workstations.
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It's a synthetic number. From the article:

"We don't disclose exactly what we pay for transit, but I can give you a relative sense of regional differences. To start, let's assume as a benchmark in North America you'd pay a blended average across all the transit providers of $10/Mbps (megabit per second per month). In reality, we pay less than that, but it can serve as a benchmark, and keep the numbers round as we compare regions."
Offhand remark regarding the title: everyone can recognize the brilliance of a 5 year old doing calculus, because it's still sort of in the realm of something people may have encountered, and can compare to their own experience. Compare with someone who is, say, 30, and doing some topological quantum lattice tensor dilithium crystal quark extractor thing, it's just "blub" - it's so far beyond most of us we can't tell much more than that person is quite smart at something we know nothing about.
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How many of those are actually well monetized? Almost none. How many of them contribute a major portion of revenue back to the company? Absolutely none of them.

Google is good at launching products, they're not good at maturing them. Chrome is a fantastic piece of software, and it fulfills it's purpose for google quite well, but it's not a product in the way that AWS or the kindle is a product.

Google is good at development, excellent in fact. But they get stuck in the hard middle parts of product development. They fail to monetize products well and they fail to mature products into their full potential. Partly that's because product development at google is basically just play-time. As I said, revenue for google derives from a tiny subset of products (search and network almost exclusively), everything else is just a side project. As such, when a product doesn't meet its potential or doesn't bring in billions in revenue that is not an issue at all at google, it's the expected case. In some ways that's good, but in other ways it's bad. Docs/drive has stagnated relative to what it could have been for years.

Amazon is almost diametrically opposite. They productize well, extremely well, but they have a horrid working environment in regard to devs.
It'll be fun when people start buying USB-powered cigarette lighters because they've been obsoleted from cars :)
"If I get a couple (or more) of your passwords, I can probably figure out your master password, since I know everything else."

Not really. The algorithm returns a portion of the SHA-256 hash of the concatenated master password and service. SHA-256 is widely believed to be a one-way function (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function for details), meaning that it is essentially computationally impossible to get the inputs from the hash, or even many millions of related hashes. If such an attack exists, it represents a major vulnerability to electronic infrastructure worldwide.

If you want to give it a shot, the first screenshot uses my actual master password (which I've been using for years). The password generated for "app store" is "35463F2465b%". I'll probably put the source for the program on github.com/alexbecker tomorrow.

Granted, if the master password is sufficiently simple to guess the app is not secure. But that's unavoidable; the entire point of having a single password is that you can afford to make it secure.
That might sound like a convincing argument while a negotiation, but IMHO, remote or not, salaries should be negotiated based on skills of the worker and not the cost of living of his/her location. Ultimately, you get what you negotiate for.
To me this isn't additional regulation to standard contract law. A transaction is a contract between two parties, if the contract is intentionally deceitful you have the right to dispute it. So this it's great that they're putting it in print, because nobody's going to sue over a couple of items being added to your basket.
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That depends on the website you want to create.
> is that really cause for a self-aggrandizing snarky comment?

I think it is worth addressing this. In my day job we are dealing with the ongoing effects of not doing http content negotiation a while back, and an article that perpetuates bad practices (even by the omission of simply failing to mention anything else because it's not the point of the article) is not helpful.
Considering PNG has been around since 1996 and HTML pages can load arbitrary images and fonts, we don't need pure CSS icons. We have purpose-built formats for images. This CSS image project is just for fun.

The whole "[something] in pure CSS" began when people realized how awful table-based layouts are. First it was layouts, then full-blown designs.

This is almost like the most extreme version of that trend, almost to the point of parody.
Thanks for reply how about a e-commerce website
That's all good and fine unless you also have some requirements about the geometry and behavior of outer div. Then you need to add another div and give it display: table but that interferes with the structure of your document.

Also you might want outer div to fit the space it lies in and height: 100% does not always work.

Basically somewhere around transition from IE to Firefox and from transitional to strict DOCTYPE tables were broken beyond repair for layout purposes. We have not recovered since. Flexbox brings some hope but not necessarily salvation.
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This is mostly a framing issue. I am sure you are having "something" that is different from your competitors. The "Unique Selling Proposition" is getting increasingly replaced by the term "Value Proposition". And "Value Proposition" can be anything your company overdelivers - maybe your service is better, maybe your servers are more stable, maybe your user experience is better. That should be possible to argue a lot easier.
Don't know why this is being down voted. Reposting:
> That answer contains no information. Why did you give it?
has caniuse.com replaced quirksmode now as the canonical source of this kind of information?
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I generally refer to the OEM software as "value subtracted software"; it's only there as a weak effort at de-commoditising the hardware.
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Market leaders can always improve. Amazon needs to get their act together and start delivering on features.
Do you have some consulting based examples on that approach? Would love to see that.
Some people like to do things just to see if they can do them. This project is interesting not just because CSS is not meant to do this, but also because CSS is so half baked.
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The point is not containerization with Docker (vs. something else), but showing a project that can be used as a login shell. I.e. I think a good chunk of the challenge was gluing everything from sshd to the running individual containers.

Even if you were saying that such a login shell already exists with another containerization scheme, the fact it uses Docker is relevant to those who are investing in Docker. For instance Dockersh can be configured to run the shell in a specific Docker image; that is you can re-use your existing knowlegde and tooling.
No, they don't have to be nuclear explosions, just conventional high explosives.
The joke going around is "can you unplug your book, I need to charge my cigarette": the lighter will be obsoleted too in favour of e-cigs. Generally it's better for things not to be on fire.
In the US maybe that's true. In my country (Spain), the Samsung flagships outsell the iPhone by a mile, and the S5 was around €650 ($850) at launch.
The parent post said "request"; I'm assuming this is some "seamlessly pay invoice" functionality.
> critiquing the state intervention for being woefully outdated and not inline with market economics

Regulation is often not about being inline with market economics - it is often used to enforce things that companies would not do (because of cost) that have significant impact on employee, customer, and public safety.

The regulations in place vary from city to city, but Uber and co are not just arguing against the out-of-date bits (knowing "the knowledge" which some argue is irrelevant with technological help, and so forth) but the whole lot including drivers having adequate insurance and relevant background checks.

I'm very much in support of new business models thriving, even if it eventually kills the old ones (progress is a good thing) so I'll back Uber wanting a piece of the pie, but I don't agree with the complete circumvention of the existing regulations so I wouldn't currently feel safe using them.
Does anyone know if this is still the same situation on Blackberry?

It really does seem a two-horse race between iOS and Android.
Looks like you have recreated one of the most notorious failures in the recent history of venture capital: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs

I don't think Color failed because of the idea. Their marketing was flawed, and they were trying to create a social network. So are you. I think they eventually tacked their service on top of Facebook, which might be a good idea. I haven't really thought it through.

What's going to be your hook for getting users? I'm assuming the app isn't very useful unless other people are on it, right? Or do you have content from somewhere?
I completely agree. As I wrote, libraries and other features of a platform do matter and of course you need to take those into account when deciding which language to use. It's always very specific to a given situation though, for example lack of "batteries included" libraries may not be a concern when choosing language to embed in your app (like Lua). But in general great language features and great platform features (for example working package manager) are both very important factors that you need to take into account when deciding on language(s) for your project.
Next step: mixed gender beauty pageants.
I've never used iOS so I didn't know about it does this, but I've always wondered why Android didn't do the same thing.
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Very cool.

Thanks for the link and thanks for taking a stab at a hard problem! Snow looks very promising so far... (I can ping nodes on my LAN over it too, which is usually a sticking point for traversal-oriented software - one is doubly-NAT'd, and there's an SSH server with an Ubuntu banner reachable from afar with UDP packets cutting through both brick walls nicely.) I'm impressed! :)

(FYI, building snow on a fresh Debian Squeeze 686-pae (packages: make g++ libssl-dev libminiupnpc-dev libnatpmp-dev) fails for me at dht.cpp line 220 (ambiguous function call) though; I'll have to read the source more to find the right cast or ::namespace to fix it but it compiles fine on amd64 with an identical set of packages.)

I'll definitely be reading the code more closely!
As long as good technology gets communicated well enough to be effectively applied, with real results, there is hope in the world. How we go about doing that, especially for life-destroying subjects such as these diseases, is a matter of great importance to mankind and is thus, alas, subject to all mankinds' cultures. Expressions of technological prowess mean nothing if the basics of human life, in the first place - the real rudimentary stuff, like: water, food, shelter - are nearly non-existent.

Our only hope, is all I'm saying, is in our ability to cross all boundaries and communicate under extraordinary duress, nevertheless, with effective results. So I fully support your position.

I'm encouraged by the community efforts being made to address this; there is, after all, a very large industrial powerhouse that can be directed towards these problems. If we see Ebola-bots on the horizon, better hope they're flying away and not getting closer, uh oh ..
This is a denial of service attack. It is "cheating" and playing dirty.

As a matter of principle, I will never use Uber.
It's funny when nerds don't like other nerds for being nerds. But so typical of human nature...
What about an MD5 of the nickname, blanking the associated email?
For Android there's QPython[1], it's fairly close to PyS60, in my experience.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hipipal.qp...
> someone somewhere will just decide to nat IPv6

And that will be their choice, and any problems caused will be their's (or their customers') to face.

With the current state of IPv4 there is between little and no choice so NAT can't be directly thought of as "doing it wrong", with IPv6 that would not be the case.