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> Regulation is often not about being inline with market economics

Regulations usually aren't about being inline with market economics, otherwise they'd be unnecessary. Regulations are only inline with market economics in some instances of market failure regulations (e.g. monopoly regulations such as local loop unbundling mandates). Usually, the whole point of regulations is to create incentives which don't match straight market economics in order to effect different behaviours from companies (such as improved service or standards of conduct)
"This sounds straight up criminal. Carrying a GPS enabled phone and mapping the route driven should gather enough evidence to persuade regulators to take action."

Do you think that is more efficient/effective over just going to another "taxi" company? Because that's how you'd solve the problem if you didn't have a cartel/monopoly granted and enforced by government.

Additionally, do you think it's fair/efficient/effective for us to legislate against scenic driving? Because, some taxi companies might offer that specifically, and not as a ploy for more money.

Following from that, do you think it's efficient/effective to clog up regulations with such minutiae exceptions/details as above? So that even new competitors into the "taxi" business need to comply with countless regulations.

Face it, as soon as you make exceptions, you need transparency. To get transparency you need to enforce compliance, to enforce compliance you need to make sure the players conform to whatever method you come up with to ensure that they aren't breaking your minute detail/regulation. And that means increasing the barrier to entry into that market, which means less competition.
Is it also weird that Apple called their maps, well, "Maps", when Google has been developing their own product called "Maps" for so long?
It depends on what you mean by "supports". If you use myisam or need DDL statement rollback MySQL is still not a great option.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_Postgre...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/implicit-commit.html
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For us, it's $1500 for the first application, and $750 for subsequent ones.

On issuance, you just get a plaque.
Drop your prior art suggestions on:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10128/prior-art-f...

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10122/looking-for...
The biggest reason is money...

Or the lack of money to not use a private jet :P
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That's almost exactly how it worked at IBM. Plus there was always pressure from management to file patents.
Was looking to something that looked more like the life-cycle of Java servlets. The problem was avoiding to connect to web services before they are ready to serve requests, and creating an easy template for deployment. Try it!
Twitter will use Stripe to put the “Buy” button in tweets
Ingenia – The Next Generation of Text Analytics
This is why I IPv6: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
>Breaking a bad law can be virtuous, but I suspect in this case it's neutral at best.

It's not "breaking a bad law" that can be virtuous, it's the case. Sit-ins are/were virtuous because the cause (civil rights) was just. The cause here is primarily "Uber and its investors want to make more money".
Now let groups date: Boom, Match.com acquisition.
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I, too, assumed that the $15/hour had to do with the cost of Polis.
caniuse.com provides broad outlines, quirksmode is much more specific and PPK hasn't really worked on the new non-mobile stuff so far, as far as I've seen. Nothing on flexbox for instance, although he does have box-sizing: padding-box.

caniuse is good for "is there a chance this will work?" or "could I use $some_feature in my new project?", quirksmode is "why doesn't my use of $some_feature work in $pile_of_shit_browser?!?!?!!!"
Goddamnit, bump keys aren't skeleton keys. Holy sensationalism.
This is what I am always saying in relation to funding,
even though I usually don't mention it directly.

Any capitalist will profit from backing you through thick & thin.

So much so that you need to choose your capitalist as carefully as they would choose you, or even more so.

All the best.
>If somebody said "let's hope this law spreads throughout America", you wouldn't assume they meant just the US, would you?

That depends on whether the law is federal or not.

But devoid of context I would expect someone to use 'the Americas' if they're talking about both continents, not 'America'.
If you're looking for something that has a podcast/youtube series checkout http://signaltower.co/
The mafia wouldn't care about laws. So the mafia would keep secrets but law abiding citizens wouldn't. So there is a fundamental asymmetry.
Judging by the article, I'm thinking the way to become a billionaire is to manufacture cheap 3D printer and drone parts.
Great museum- I never really appreciated Van Gogh until I saw his paintings up close (and lots in close quarters)-- the texture is amazing.
silly question, is there a (known) web site for making (small) bets among individuals, keeping escrow, doing odds etc? I thought about this as a 'startup' idea but I'm scared of the laws, esp. US law
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A Fancy Cooler Has Stolen the Title of Most-Funded Kickstarter Project
Chrome for Windows optimized for high-res displays
Think of it like people who quote movie lines too much, like Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Hasta la vista, baby" in Terminator 2. When the line first came out, it was interesting. The repetition kills it for a while. It can eventually make a comeback, a nostalgic throwback, less a reference to the movie itself and more a harkening to our shared experience of it.

And it could then eventually fade away completely, at which point a new movie (Terminator 4D!) could use it and kick off a whole knew wave, completely oblivious to the original, until a cultural anthropologist somewhere writes a paper somewhere that will get poorly summarized in the popular news.

There is nothing objectively, measurably different about when Arnold said it the first time, when your coworkers drove it into the ground around the water cooler, or in later uses. What differs entirely is the cultural context in which we experience it.

And when it comes to "Ahht"-art, it's never about the pretty picture. It's about what it communicates about culture.
let's go with a practical definition like "within all living memory" which most people, I'm sure, presumed from context. very few people need their conversations to include the mental state of those dead for 200+ years simply to achieve some stringent ideal of correctness.
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I have pretty extreme ADD, even on medication, and I could never hope to finish an article like this. I can never leisurely read; I have to skim. "tl;dr"s and commentary are what I thrive on, and ultimately how I derive a large percentage of my present context.

I'm not saying that I can't get deep into technical specs or literature, but when it comes to a form that is largely prose... forget about it. Breadth-first search takes over.
No, it’s the same, with one actually useful on smartphones and one not. The thing is, keeping a smartphone static is really fucking hard, so the correct thing to do (for a default feature – if you have to buy some crazy attachment it’s no longer a basic feature that deserves any space in the camera app) is to not force you to keep the camera static. Which hyperlapse does. it so, so, so much more elegantly and perfectly fits the device, time lapse is an embarrassment in comparison.
You're being sarcastic, but I meant to suggest that there would be value in running those layers independently so that you don't combine errors. If you present it as F[X] then you've thrown away potentially interesting information. IO (IO ()) is pretty valuable, for instance.
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I mean we've known about bump keys and lock picking for more then 50 years. None of this is news. If I 3D printed a set of lock picking tools would Wired run a story on me?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644679

Videos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3650610

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3768363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4297644

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5522865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012844

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228642
I'm also anxiously awaiting the rise of IPv6, but I'm guessing that -- in a sane world -- consumer routers will still default to a stateful firewall for IPv6, thus necessitating the continued need for hole punching. :/
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The one time when this argument actually works and I use it I'm accused of being as intelligent as the Daily Mail! A criminal only has to investigate one arbitrary innocent. But the innocent (or the police) would have to sieve through the data of all other people. And someone only becomes an offender when it's to late. There is no guarantee that he/she could be recognized as a potential thread in advance. Therefore certain information should be only provided to people you have reason to trust.
> "all objects in the DOM tree of the document are owned by their parent, and objects not in the DOM tree because they've either been removed from it or newly created by JS are owned by the GC."

How does this solve the issue pointed out in the article (i.e. a JS object referencing a DOM object referencing the JS object back)? In any case, if something is "owned", then you must ensure that it's not referenced by anything not part of the same "ownership" tree. Otherwise, you can get use-after-free errors. In general, GC is the only viable option for big cyclic object graphs with unpredictable lifetimes.
Is it facetious to ironically conflate a portmonteau with the 2,324th most common word in English? [0]

[0] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/TV/...
Conway's game of life in XXXX (on HN)
Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB of Storage for $10/Month
Yea but that linked list patent... no excuse really. I trolled the vendor once by trying to find out how much they would license the use of the linked list in my existing deployment would be.

I got as far as a lawyer who was able to smell something fishy; because at the time I didn't own a company. Perhaps i should try again...
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If Ford made a vehicle which was capable of powered motion, and General motors did the same thing, they could both say "automobile" and it'd be okay.
There has always been a contrast in Italy between the north and the south regions, due to their varied history, in terms of economy, and not only.

It's not uncommon for a country (I would say it´s perfectly normal) to have areas with an higher concentration of wealth compared to others, but in Italy the contrast it´s particularly stark, possibly due to its very shape.
Well, money is money and capitalism is capitalism. I have a pretty big internal debate about the morality of our patent system, but probably wouldn't bat an eye about proposing/provisioning/filing one for a nice bonus.
'Newbie' covers many experience levels - from afraid to turn the computer on to moving beyond Excel pivot table macros. People need different degrees of handholding.

Not necessarily my favorite, Coursera's Programming for Everybody [1] moves forward very very slowly. Great for some people, drying paint for others. It is taught in Python.

A course I think is great is Coursera's Introduction to Systematic Program Design [2] based on Felleisen's How to Design Programs introductory text. It is possible to register for the last session, from a year ago, and complete the work on your own. It is taught in Racket.

Another course that takes a learn-by-making approach is Coursera's Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps [3]. It is beginner friendly and really encourages "getting into it". It is taught in Processing, and in some ways I think Processing is the ideal language for an introductory course in Software Engineering - it is pared down like Racket's student languages, provides just a pinch of Java pain, facilitates the production of really interesting output, and the environment provides a fast edit-compile-run loop.

For a person who is more oriented toward scientific or mathematical problems, Coursera's R Programming [4] might by a good fit.

Among the various Python Courses, I would probably go with Udacity's Design of Computer Programs: Programming Principles [5] because it is taught by Peter Norvig.

All that said, a book may be better than an open-enrollment class for many people, and there's a lot more variation.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn

[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign

[3] https://www.coursera.org/course/digitalmedia

[4] https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog

[5] https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212
I'm not sure what 3D printing has to do with any of this, other than that bump key was 3D printed. That key could have just as well been CNC'd or cast or whatever manufacturing method.

Unless they figured out this key because 3D printing allowed for rapid iteration.
Sometimes the best individuals make the worst teams. Almost correlated, actually: those with the best resumes tend to think that products are made by individuals.
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I'm just wondering about how much will actually change with IPv6. I already have native IPv6 at home and it seems that my home router (a FritzBox) has a stateful firewall enabled for all IPv6 connections. I can manually exclude individual addresses from firewalling, but that's about it.

At first glance that looks like the right solution: People keep saying that instead of the NAT hack you should have native IPv6 with firewalling for the same or better level or protection. But doesn't a stateful IPv6 firewall introduce the same problems as NAT? Won't I still have to use keepalive packets or protocols like PCP to actually use P2P?

Of course real P2P is easily possible with IPv6 by simply opening up everything. But what are our options for having both security by default in home networks and no need for those workarounds we have in NAT now?
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I suppose that there will be a market for this. I went the other way: traded to an iPad mini. I use my iPad for writing (edit markdown files in Dropbox, using leanpub) and the smaller form factor is easier for my use. Also, for viewing content, the small screen and lower weight is better for my uses.

Now, if the larger tablets were very thin and very light weight, that would be an improvement.
That's not necessarily a drawback.
I have worked places with salaries that were public knowledge and non-negotiable, and places where salaries were hidden and varied wildly. My mentor recommends finding out the compensation of those you work with, and use that when you negotiate for a raise.
It also sounds like the HR person is the one with the real knowledge here, and they are the one in the best position to report this if they are willing.
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I still need to understand how the patent office can still validate such patent.

I've read over and over that the patent system is bad, but isn't it just the patent office being incompetent instead ? Isn't that rather an expertise problem ? Or are experts not even asked at all on those subjects ?

Can't anybody sue the patent office for abusive patents ? Or is it just that the people at the patent office just depends on congress, thus making it biased ?
One could also make a bump key with a blank(ish) key, a file and 3-10 mins on ones time...
It's so easy and you can even order them for small money.
Also ddg has a bang code for hacker news searches: !hn

which submits your search to HN's algolia search site.
shouldn't SVG be more relevant for this ?
Nope. I own a Windows Phone (Lumia 920). It is a good phone, but I would not pay over $600 for it.
"top student out of a top college" doesn't exactly describe a lot of individuals (10? 15?), which makes that compensation value an extreme outlier.
It probably has more to do with history than the shape. The Veneto, where I live, was an independent republic for longer than the United States has been a going concern. The south tended to be bandied about between various foreign powers, feudal states, and so on.
I saw 19 divs when I clicked on view source.
For a nerdy take on it, read John Allen Paulos's book "Mathematics and Humor." It has been quite some time since I've read it so I don't remember if there are any practical takeaways, but I remember I enjoyed it.

Keep in mind there is a big difference between doing stand up comedy and writing jokes. Many stand up comics don't write their own jokes and most joke writers don't have the stage presence to be stand up comics. There is also a big difference between a joke intended to be read and a joke intended to be heard.
>skeleton key

This is the lockpicking equivalent of calling a cracker a hacker.

Also, no lock can be 'unbumpable' just because it has a restricted blank, as by definition in those cases, if the blank can be obtained, the lock can be bumped.

Unbumpable is generally reserved for locks that actually are, by using a mechanism other than pin tumblers (e.g. rotating discs (e.g. Abloy Protec), magnetic encoding on the key (e.g. EVVA MCS), sliders (e.g. EVVA 3KS), or driverless pins (e.g. BiLock)).

High security locks have for a few years been incorporating moving/active elements into keys to avoid duplication, both now from 3D printing, but also originally from casting a copy of the key. As it is, keys witout those can be directly duplicated rather than even needing to bother with a bump key (unless you wanted to open more locks than the key used to make the copy can access).
> If I 3D printed a set of lock picking tools would Wired run a story on me?

Yes.
There were many points in the article why 3D printing makes the old technique more easily accessible.

For example:

> In this video, Holler demonstrates a 3D-printed and filed bump key for an Ikon SK6, a key that uses restricted, carefully contorted blanks that can’t even be created by many key-milling machines.
NAT may kill kittens, but IPv6 is killing polar bears massively.

I recommend the lecture of this:
https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog46/presentations/Sunday/... (deployment document of ipv6) then proceed to the glitches section.

I recommend reading nanog mailing list for having a glimpse on the added complexity of dealing with IPv6 in real life.

Just peak random mails, it pops up once a month.
Like for instance provider turning to LS (Large Scale) NATing or Carrier Grade NATING rather than going IPv6 for rationnale reason: IPv6 engineers are hard to find and LSNAT (+dual stack eventually) since China has proven valid has both a way to handle the scarcity of IPv4 addresses and the need to control user's traffic.

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2014-July/068892.ht...

IPv6 is not bad, it is kind of bloated and requires a tinge more training than IPv4. Plus there are the concerns about privacy (but some IPV6 guru will come up with ULA or another obscure trick. It is IPv6 realm: everything is clear on the paper but is seems confusing to quite a few real life engineers since it requires a lot of RFC stacking in the brain)
S4 was heavily influenced by Dylan, FWIW
It says right in the title, "filed", not "granted" or "validated".
That is not what Alice said. Alice essentially expanded the scope of "abstractness" to include things like "long-standing economic principles" simply "done on a computer". It's a bit confusing because something that should be a prior art issue now becomes an abstractness issue, but apparently it could make it cheaper to knock out bad business method patents so maybe it's not all bad.

These are probably not invalid under the new Alice reasoning, but certainly could be for other reasons for abstractness or non-novelty or obviousness. Someone on reddit looked at the file wrapper and said one of them had received an initial rejection for obviousness and abstractness
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Of course. That's how we're able to play 3d games on a 3d screen ;)
I Was Customer Number One for Uber Fresh Yesterday
The Samsung Galaxy does appear to be the exception.
Personally, of the companies you mentioned, Grubhub is the only one I recall having heard of.

Differentiation can be as simple as name recognition. A canonical example might be "Kleenex". AirBnB is a recent startup that I think captured some of this.

In a growing market with low barriers to entry or an established commodity market, name recognition is pretty much all there is. In a market with one dominate player, "we are not the dominate player" is can also be a meaningful differentiator.

The question is good if it is in reference to comprehensive execution - that is the context includes marketing and advertising in addition to product. It's a bit weaker if it is just about product. Product-market fit is why both Porsche and Kia successfully manufacture cars people will buy.
You may view your value based on your skills alone, but the employer is likely trying to hire you for the lowest rate possible that will keep you happy and make you likely to stay. The local cost of living does play into that partially because someone in the bay area can find a local job with higher pay while someone in the mid west will find remote work to be the most profitable.

Eventually this market should lead to people moving to lower cost of living areas because they are more likely to be hired for a livable wage there.
It's very sad that Uber engages in these completely sleazy practices. I've never used either Lyft or Uber but Uber strikes me as a company that would be best to avoid.

Any company that engages in underhanded attacks at their competition rather than in the marketplace by offering a better service and possibly lower prices is not going to be nice to their customers in the longer run either.
Ouch! All those HTML entities in the code samples make this article difficult to read.