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It might not be broken, but definitely overlooked. YC is supposed to provide the experience part of the business for these companies, and they are obviously not doing it if there are so many cases like this one.

But to be fair, I don't think any other accelerator focuses on this part. Most, if not all, accelerator only focus on growth and momentum, because that is what ultimately that is what gives the best ROI.

But in most cases, problems like in this particular case become obstacles for growth. I think YC should add provision of experience to the YC formula. What is the point of having so many experienced investors and founders in the accelerator if their companies are so bad at doing real business not only growth.

This is obviously all speculation, since I am not part of the program. Just commenting on the fact there are so many cases like this one in YC companies. So take my comments with a grain of salt.
for now, it's iTunes focused, so I'm using that data, looking into expanding to other services/sources
Another item for the endless startup checklist -- "is my landing page title informative enough to serve as an HN link?"
When Uber re-launched quasi-legally in Austin, TX, some drivers there told me Uber promised to pay any fines they incurred. Whether the German government fines Uber and/or the drivers, maybe they're just hoping to throw money at the problem.
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Will Imagination actually publish specs so that Linux is able to implement anything without reverse engineering? The history of binary blobs on PowerVR is not encouraging.
Thank you. I'll go outside now and ponder things.
I thought the policy was to use the title exactly as it appears on the article?
I thought the deadline was a month or so ago.
You type your message in a special window/box, controlled by the plugin so the webmail can't read it. In fact, Mailvelope was audited to check that malicious javascript in the server can't read your plaintext.
In fact, gpg-agent is a required component of GnuPG version 2, which was released ~8 years ago.
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Powershell is actually a really nice shell/scripting language. I often miss its power, simplicity and not to mention the immense amount of flexibility having all of .net accessible when using a 'nix box.
> Why is the normal distribution important here?

There may be a terminological confusion at work here. A normal or uniform number shows no internal pattern:

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

Quote: "In mathematics, a normal number is a real number whose infinite sequence of digits in every base b[1] is distributed uniformly in the sense that each of the b digit values has the same natural density 1/b, also all possible b^2 pairs of digits are equally likely with density b^−2, all b^3 triplets of digits equally likely with density b^−3, etc."

There are also pseudorandom generators whose purpose it is to generate results that agree with a normal or Gaussian distribution, for particular purposes.

http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Gaussian.html

Quote: "This note is about the topic of generating Gaussian pseudo-random numbers given a source of uniform pseudo-random numbers."

The problem here is that a normal number shows a uniform distribution of its digits among the possible values, and the term normal distribution is sometimes used to describe this outcome.

> In programming, people often start from the uniform distribution, don't they?

Yes, and as set out above, this starting point may be described in a confusing way.
Once I read somewhere: "You don't go anywhere and for more money seated in the same seat". I never forgot it.
Excellent choice of bearings.
There are several papers on Pennebaker's home page[1] that may provide more information than the NPR article. "Pronoun Use Reflects Standings in Social Hierarchies"[2] specifically surveys 5 studies, only a couple of which would obviously have the problem you describe. But there are a lot of caveats involved.

Speaking of correlation and causation, inferiority can definitely result in points marked as opinions or as uncertain. Depending on the setting, of course. In my experience, anyway.

[1] http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Pennebaker/H...

[2] http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Pennebaker/R...
I think Uber is overlooking the fact that EU has much better consumer protections in place, than those in the US. Lets see if it pays off for them.
Thanks for that. I tried to submit my startups, but I get "You need permission. This form can only be viewed by users in the owner's organisation.", unfortunately.
It'd be nice if you all commented instead of mashing the downvote button. I believe there's a real psychological cost to being afraid of every little thing.
I've been wanting to build something like this, different vertical. Would you be willing to share the source, techniques, or write a tutorial? Just trying to learn and would love the help. Thanks!
Two reasons mainly: 1. being able to scan the user's iTunes library, and 2. push notifications (could have done email, but I find it higher friction).
Basically everything the app does?
Library scanning and push notifications, definitely, not sure about iTunes previews...
This is not about evaluating what is objectively better for the consumer. There is much less tolerance for the "ask for forgiveness, not permission" mentality in Germany than America, and this ruling proves that. If a competitor like Lyft goes into Germany now, plays by the rules, and shows respect to the existing order, I would not be surprised to see them welcomed and take a huge lead in Europe.
Agree. Besides, point by point (from the article)

1. No freshmen wearing hats on the quad. -- This is a classic stylistic indicator of manhood. By telling Freshmen to not wear their hats, it's a way of identifying them to their peers as new students.

2. Taking off one's hat when passing a senior student. -- This isn't about subservience, it's about creating an atmosphere of collegiality. It's why in the military junior ranking personnel salute senior ranking personnel: because saying hello is a great way to create common bonds of friendship and fealty, and because you need some sort of rule of who should say hello first.

3. "No Freshman should be saucy... or speak to a Senior with his hat on." Again -- this is anachronistic. But only insofar as wearing a hat while talking to someone was a sign of higher social status. Harvard is raising men to serve in the public sphere, and deference (or at least its outer edifice) is important to get ahead.

4. + 5. (same as above -- just good manners)

6. Privacy. Similar to 3, 4&5.

7. ???? No idea what this means -- though these seem to be ranks of some kind given the linguistics. Perhaps these are "Freshman" "Sophomore" "Junior" "Senior" and then "Professor" in 19th century student lingo?

8. This is a great lesson for anybody. When asked to do something, do it quickly and efficiently. Wish I could teach my peers this skill!

9. This is the 19th century version of digital privacy.

10. This is just basic standardization for executing code. They're just telling everybody what phrases indicate the end of the command.

11., 12. 13. - more good manners. Freshmen seem to essentially be social media tools. Want to play a sport on the green? Send out an invite (i.e. Freshman) to get your friends. What would you prefer, that they get a slave to do it? If it's a Freshman, at least they can rationalize it by saying they're simply investing in a system which has a 3-1 ROI (i.e. for the next three years they'll be able to utilize the same system to their own benefit).

14. This is a good rule for kids who are likely to be a little wild. It's like forcing people to log in to Facebook in order to comment -- the thought will always be there that at any given time someone might come in and see what you're doing. Also good training for public life. Getting used to public scrutiny.

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This sounds so obvious yet I cannot find anything on the Blue Googles about anyone even trying.

But yes, obviously.

(https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/02/13/using-cryptosti... close ... so close)
Hacker News is as much, if not more, of an echo chamber as any Twitter newsfeed is. At least on Twitter you can choose your echo chamber, and if you desire, even fill it with opinions from diametrically opposite sides of an issue. You can simultaneously follow @GoldmanSachs and #OccupyWallStreet, for instance. You have no choice on Hacker News, except to subscribe to an echo chamber generated by some nebulous algorithm subject to in determinant cognitive trickery.

The reason Hacker News and Twitter enjoy such high engagement rates is precisely because they are echo chambers. Groups tend to share opinions and tastes, so naturally enjoy the same clusters of reading material. I enjoy the echo chamber at HN, because the opinions of the group that composes it are important to me. I haven't been able to hook myself on Twitter, but I imagine it's because I haven't found the right echo chamber yet.
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What exactly do I gain by using Uber? I see it's all the rage on the internet, but I still fail to grasp what exactly it is that I'm gaining through its usage. I'm from a medium-sized city (500k-1m) in Central (or Eastern?) Europe and I can use either public transportation or get a cab literally wherever I may be.

Why would I want to have a non-registered driver who does not adhere to taxi-standards pick me up and pay provision to a multi-billion dollar company that's trying to set itself up as a monopoly?

What niche is Uber filling in that I'm unaware of? Is this the re-invention of an mp3-player as an iPod? Because it sounds cool?
The FCC ended up extending the comment date by a month.
People do still assemble their own hardware and write their own dedicated programs for that hardware. The blossoming micro-controller movement is a lot like PC's were back in the day.
for the first period, yes. then they extended the 2nd period.
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Most probably in the next few months yes!
I would like to see some examples as well. The only time I've seen performance issues is with third party commandlets (or very lean hosts).
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One big item that almost all bug trackers is missing is a structured way to record "steps to reproduce". If you're logging a true bug, then the QA analyst and developer will need to reproduce it. But how? Sometimes, a bug only surfaces when the steps are followed in a very particular order. Change one step or move one action, and the bug "disappears", which gives rise to the infamous "I can't reproduce this", resulting in the bug getting put on the back burner. So tracking these steps is crucial.
in the US, we generally believe in "innocent until proven guilty" - especially before banning an industry
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Well, Uber Black is the properly licensed service with professional drivers and properly licensed and insured cars. It's in operation and not affected by this injunction. There's some nitpick about whether they should or should not be allowed to pick up people from the street, but that's minor.

The service affected here is UberPop that allows any private person to use their private car with domestic insurance to pick up people and transport them commercially. Uber has decided that this is the market they want, but that's just not legal in germany. Private persons that want to just earn a little on the side won't spend the time and money to pass the test and get commercial insurance. Since UberPop targets private persons it's also an invitation to tax evasion, but that's a different issue.

Uber could restrict themselves to the legal business model but have chosen not to.

There is a barrier here and it separates the people that want to be professional drivers from the non-professionals. The professionals are allowed to transport people for commercial motives, the non-professionals are not. This separation exists in a lot of areas, for example when producing and selling food, construction work etc. If I want to provide a professional service that has an associated risk, I must pass some certification that shows I at least roughly know what I'm doing.
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Pfffffff sounds like the law already existed and a court has simply acknowledged Uber's drivers are breaking it - we'll see how profitable having to pay heavy fines is.
They extended it because the website died when everyone tried submitting comments near the deadline.
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Love the idea. My first thought is that the icon looks like an alarm clock.

Currently, the way I track album releases is by following every conceivable artist on Spotify, which will then notify me. What I like about this is that I can then stream the whole work, for free. However, Spotify doesn't always have works when they're immediately released. Additionally, I have to follow the artist in the first place--there's no library scanning. There's also the chance that I'll have work by an artist in iTunes but won't have ever followed/listened to them on Spotify.

In other words, could you also make a Spotify plugin which scans listening history, and combines this with your iTunes library?
A bunch of college campuses (including where my ex went, pace university school of law) had College ID cards that were also mastercards.

They also forced you to activate them (she asked repeatedly if she could avoid them), so you could not just disable the credit card functionality.

What mastercard has done here seems the logical next step.

At pace, this was called the "pace onecard".
Unfortunately, your 2FA is unusable for me. I have pretty bad cell phone reception in my home and cannot receive the SMS messages.
Also, it's unusable for anyone that travels outside their home country and cannot receive SMS messages.

We've been waiting for ages for another 2FA option from Namecheap, either Authy or Google Auth. Now I'm just registering my domains elsewhere and when my Namecheap domains come up for renewal I'm jus transferring out.
To be fair, counties or cities can limit demand, but they're limiting demand to "these current 200 tiny companies because with 10 more, no one can make a living anymore", not to "that big juggernaut and nothing else". The law actually demands it (both limiting for economical reasons and spreading the load).

And the reason for why they interfere in such a way is that taxis are considered a mode of public transportation, which was declared at some point a county issue.

Thanks to that we also don't have that mess of three different types of uncoordinated local railway and bus systems that the bay area "enjoys".

(not Xylakant but in general:) Please don't assume your third world style problems also apply to everyone else. (like Uber and their fans do with that endless "taxi mafia" nonsense)
Not to change topics, but FINALLY a note of sanity in the cacophony of JS framework fandom! Could you tell me what you recommend?

What I find is that each framework works really well for about 80% of a project, and then the last 20% get really painful. I haven't found anything that's elegant, flexible, simple, and native.
great, thanks for being quick.
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In no way does Google want Firefox down.

Of course they do. One less browser to support for all their properties, one annoying group in the standardization process less that keeps clamoring for annoying things like user privacy, proper spec documentation, independent implementations or god forbid, tried to oppose DRM.

If Google wouldn't want Firefox down, they wouldn't aggressively market Chrome on the search pages that Firefox users are served.

The "sponsoring" argument is totally lame. Google pays hard cash to shove their search machine down Firefox users' throat and collect the advertising dollars from it. That isn't charity.
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I agree Uber is a bunch of d-bags but you are completely wrong.

You do get to disobey the courts. It's called civil disobedience. You disobey them. You take your licks. It's a cornerstone of progress.

Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral or a threat to society. That's an entirely separate judgment we must make.
I did, in fact I grew up in a Southeast Asian country where the primary mode of transport are scooters. From a young age I learned how to tuck myself in the "well" of a Vespa between my father and the handlebars so we can get from place to place.

It was scary then, it's still scary now. We didn't do it because it was safe or comfortable, we did it because cars were unaffordable, parking even more so, and you still had to get places.

Everyone knows someone who got into a motorbike accident, everyone knows someone who got injured this way. It is a transport mode of necessity, not something to be celebrated. It is also one of many reasons my family ultimately emigrated to the West.
You must be pretty happy with String then, if that's your biggest gripe :-)

Do you really mean Iterable<Character> and not Iterable<Integer>. Because a Unicode code point can spawn two chars.
Honest Question: Doesn't the FCC have the privilege of disregarding every comment and moving forward however they want?
A newborn is likely to challenge you in ways you've never imagined. My best advice is to try to find a short project that you're able to take-on and complete before your child arrives to give yourself a small financial buffer. When your baby is born, take some time off. It sounds like you need it, and it's a natural time to set work aside to focus on your family. Also, you wife is likely to need the help.

Having a kid will require you to learn all new things. Sure - they're not tech related, but it'll get your brain to work in ways it never has before, and perhaps give you a renewed focus about why you're working.

If it were me, I'd also be up-front with my wife about what I'm dealing with. You're bound to be sleep-deprived and at-times frustrated with the challenges of a newborn, and it'll help to make sure she's aware of your concerns. Good luck! Work will come and go, and I'm sure a short while from now, Angular will be considered old-news ... but having a kid is an awesome experience.
That's even more interesting if it's not a German company. I was wondering if Germany could request the records and fine them for all rides after the ban rather than just the one they're caught doing. But if the company is not under their control it may be quite hard.

I'll be following this with interest... can't guess what's going to happen now.
Beta is the next release. It's about to ship in a week or so.
If they do I'll hail Uber cars all day and report. It's 250k a pop, let's see how fast we can transfer 16B USD to germanys funds :)
What's the point? Unless you work at Google, at home, or at a super trendy startup, or in your own big office with a sofa in it, this doesn't really mean anything for you because you have no place to take a nap.
It's not really about fear of dying, although I think it's good for people taking strangers' lives into their hands on a regular basis to be under more scrutiny. It includes drivers ripping off passengers in many ways, refusing passengers based on race or gender, and refusing to go to certain places. You really have to be extra careful about such systematic abuses.
The company in question (Uber B.V.) is in the Netherlands. Because Uber GmbH (in Germany) doesn't have the balls to run this scheme themselves - that would incur a _real_ risk to have their director jailed for 6 months.
I thought it was frowned upon to use Tor for BitTorrent due to the increased load reducing performance for other users.
Is this something they can take to court and tie up in the court system while they continue to break the law?

Not an expert on German law so forgive me if I'm way off base.
Not quite the same thing, but I have a little (physical) keypad that HSBC provided to generate codes to sign in online. It's small, and flimsy, and my almost-2-year-old is fascinated with it -- when she manages to get her hands on it, she presses buttons and talks on it like it's a tiny phone... it's adorable, but one of these days it's going to decide she has "failed" my passcode too many times and it'll brick itself.

And when I'm spending a month or two in Asia, for example, I have no illusions that I could possibly get another mailed to me, if it broke or was lost.

These are great in terms of security, and should be an option for people who need it, but shouldn't be obligatory (I wouldn't use this for my bank if I had a better option).
Oh if only this sentiment would grow in popularity... As a fellow freedom-lover and capable critical thinker, this thread left me in disgust =(

The sad thing is that the obsession with control has real, measurable, and detrimental results. Uber lowers the DUI rates in every city its been introduced? but it doesn't have licenses that are limited by the state, ban them!
> Violations will result in a fine against Uber of 250,000 euros ($328,108) per ride. (via the Deutsche Welle article)

Is the plan to also ignore the massive fines that are likely to result?
> 0.1% chance of dying instead of 0.05%

Even with your own arbitrary numbers, you're casually talking about a 2x increase in the number of fatal accidents, which is not a small number to begin with in any country with significant car ownership.

Also, the real statistics indicate the difference is more like 5-10x that of Germany, per capita:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
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Having name providence provides some amount of deniability though. If there's multiple accounts with the same or similar then it takes deliberate effort to create mistaken identity.
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