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The idea is sound, but what about those of us who listen to Spotify/Rdio/et al. rather than having an iTunes collection?

There's also Last.fm. Everything I listen to (or at least as much as reasonably possible) get's scrobbled. I believe it's this feed that my songkick account uses. It'd be nice to get integration with that!
Finishing up "Ready Player One" on Audible right now and just started "Neuromancer" the other day.
| You have that guarantee starting with Windows 7. Version is one thing; some nice things are available only in v3+, but v2 is very usable already.

I love me some Powershell. Wrote my first non-trivial PS script in early 2010 that was a major component to building something I would now call "Continuous deployment of Windows OS images."

But I still have way more lines of BAT in production than PS1 because the versioning is a nightmare. v2 was the first really usable release and it ran everywhere I cared about except for Windows PE. v3 got some nice enhancements and support for Windows PE, but dropped support for anything older than Windows 2008. v4 added some more but took away Windows 2008 R1.

If it were just that newer versions of Powershell offered new modules and cmdlets it wouldn't be such a big deal, but the syntax itself has been evolving. This is valid in PS v3+ but not in PS v1/2:

Get-Alias | ? Definition -eq Where-Object

For PS v1/2 you'd have to write it as:

Get-Alias | ? { $_.Definition -eq "Where-Object" }

Many landmines are out there waiting if you need to write a script that can handle multiple Powershell versions.

There are plenty of sucky things about BAT files... But they are truly lowest-common-denominator on any Windows system, there aren't any syntactical landmines waiting to get you with different Windows versions since 2003, and for anything you want to do on Windows that you can do with Powershell you will certainly be able to find a command-line tool that lets you do the same thing with Batch.
> "Well worth the safety tradeoff to me and everyone else here."

It's a tradeoff for a wealthy Canadian traveling the world. It's a matter of necessity for most other people.

The level of privilege in these posts of yours is frustrating. People aren't stupid, they're aware of the risks, they choose not to dwell on them so they can live their lives - but that doesn't mean they won't choose lower risk if it was available to them.
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You don't have to imagine them. They exist [0]. (Sorry, can't easily find a US link.) US government employees all have a CAC, as well, which is a crypto smartcard.

The key stays on the card. The card will do signatures and key generation, and also holds login/etc credentials. It works basically exactly like Malka says: bytes go in, signature comes out. It can likely do encryption as well, but you'd probably use it to generate a temporary key and then to sign the encrypted results, since the processor on cards is relatively weak.

0: http://www.acs.com.hk/en/products/17/acos5-64-cryptographic-...
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You missed the joke. NT was originally a pretty hardcore microkernel, with even things like graphics drivers being in userspace. However, in the name of performance, more and more stuff was brought into kernel space.
Back in the nineties, when Java was still the next big thing, manufacturers promised that we would carry a single Java smartcard for all applications: identification, credit cards, electronic wallets, etc.

As we now know this never happened. The biggest reason is marketing: every company wants to have their own logo on the card, which is impossible to do with a generic card.

Reference from 1998: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/software/pervasive/info/javacard.pdf
WebRTC allows peer-to-peer video conferencing through a web browser without a third party server. Which means there is no intermediary server to record the data.
Car pooling messes with the numbers too much for me to be sure, but the fatality per vehicle rate is 15x in India compared to the US and 62x in Afghanistan.
UberBlack is operating legally as "Mietwagen mit Fahrer" which is less regulated (doesn't need the taxi license), but UberPop doesn't even fulfill those lower requirements.
Since email encryption seems like the topic of discussion today, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in :)
Of course they do. And people write web servers in assembly. But they don't need to do it to use a computer at all.
If a court issues a specific injunction telling you, as an individual, not to do X, and you go ahead and do X, then you would get punished severely--up to and including jail time.

The problem, as I see it, is that we aren't holding large organizations accountable to nearly the same degree as private citizens.
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I've often wondered why incubators like YC don't have sessions that say 'from experience, these are the sort of behaviors that are counterproductive for your startup - watch out for and avoid them.'

I know that as a first-time founder I screwed the pooch in all sorts of ways I could've avoided with a little more guidance.
This is a pretty novel concept. The current electric skateboard competitors currently on the market are extremely bulky, heavy and sometimes difficult to maneuver. The Z-Board's are the first ones that come to mind, though there are many other cheaper alternatives.

Though, according to their Kickstarter page, they're planning on retailing for ~$2000 a board. This is at least twice as much as their competitors. This seems pretty high to me, unless they're planning on dropping the cost as they iterate on new designs.

I could also be completely off and convenience like this is actually worth much more than I'd expect.
Spotify/rdio support is one of the most requested feature so far, so it's definitely on my things-to-consider list.
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Which is really just a more specific form of "Does my landing page actually tell newcomers what's actually going on here?"
It is, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...

but hey.. anything to get free movies!
Support for Spotify/rdio/last.fm is definitely something I'm thinking about for the future, yes!
and yet again, people act like the law of supply and demand doesn't exist, and price-fixing hasn't been proven to be detrimental in every instance in history, ever.
What's kind of neat is that you can put a downright silly amount of MIPS cores on something. Octeon, for example, with like 48 cores:

http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON_MIPS64.html
It's a tough argument to claim your behaviour as civil disobedience when you have a billion and a half in cash and a profit motive.
From the second page of the article:

Android applications are either written in Java, then compiled on the device to the specific required ISA before running (a processes called JIT compilation), or written in the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) to target a specific ISA. Apps written in Java can therefore run on any ISA that Android itself supports, including MIPS.

I think it was explained pretty well, actually.
This is a really good point. An interesting psychology experiment could measure the susceptibility of subjects to stereotype threat after they read a given newsfeed. I hypothesize that because of the "priming" effects of each newsfeed, subjects who read the same set of tweets would score similarly on the stereotype test. This would be in like with the results of the famous John Bargh study where subjects subconsciously decreased their walking speed, for instance, after reading words related to the elderly.

It's a scary thought that the opinions of society can be clustered by similarity of Twitter newsfeeds. That sounds ripe for manipulation and propaganda dissemination.
Vector formats can replace simple images, sure. They can't replace photos. And vector art complicated enough to be interesting can be a huge CPU load to draw... and can often be a LARGER file than a bitmap made at a resolution appropriate for the screen. It's not a more efficient representation for complex images until you start getting to 300+ dpi images that fill a whole printed page.

Source: I'm an artist who works primarily in Illustrator and checks to see how horrible the svg performance on her more complicated images is every few years.
Modeling cards as independent and linear is a vast vast oversimplification. It doesn't account for card synergy, exhausting your opponent's counters, managing your mana curve, managing your hand size, etc.

For example, Shadowstep is an alright card... until you combine it with Leeroy Jenkins. Then it's 6 damage for 2 mana, and basically the reason Miracle Rogue decks exist.

Linear and independent is a reasonable place to start, but nowhere near the goal.
With any kind of attempt at real enforcement, they can't pay. It's a quarter-million euros a pop. If they do a very conservative 10,000 rides in Germany this week, that's 2.5 billion euros.
I'm pretty sure a German court can have someone in Netherlands jailed...
250k euros per ride? How do they justify that?
Well, I for one can't see any issues with an entire country of poorly educated people being given a card that with a flip of a switch, introduce them to the crippling force of 25.5% compound interest.

I wish I had no morals, making money would be so easy.
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usually an individual ends up being given a larger amount of credit than a collective

A critical observation. It's much easier for our minds to simplify down to one name, one face.

Who landed on the Moon? Armstrong, of course. Nevermind the countless astronauts, engineers, mathematicians, and physicists who put him there.

It's not something to be upset about, but good to remember when you hear stories about how one man did this or that.
Sounds promising on paper (can't view at work) but I can't imagine this would be very fast method of getting data.

Just my $0.02, but BT is terrific for things too large for conventional download links. However, my experience with Tor has been that it's only performance for bite-sized data.

At Tor's current adoption rate, BT and Tor seem somewhat mutually exclusive.
Sports teams overcome this. Sure there are superstars, but their team is absolutely famous too. Maybe NASA needs to brand their project teams?
Possibly, but at the expense of laying waste to large chunks of Ukraine and really, really antagonizing a lot of people.
It should be noted that particular rant caused a measurable uptick in the number of comments to the FCC: http://i.imgur.com/QkAysKU.png
Fine amount seems cruel and unusual. $250k for giving someone a ride? Really?
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Actually any peer-to-peer communication system has the property, regardless of the existence of a 'rendezvous' server to get them connected.
Taxis in america (especially San Francisco, where Uber is from) are horrible and downright dangerous. Even the shittiest Uber drivers are better than the average taxi driver. And even if you wanted to hail a cab, your best bet is to try to hail one on the street, because if you call, there's a 50+% chance your taxi won't even show up.

And let's not even get into the joke that we call public transportation here.

This is the problem it solves. A problem that is not nearly as pronounced in Europe.
A question: is the commenting only open to residents of USA?
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A lot of pro-drop languages actually don't inflect for person (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai).
Java was apparently introduced in 1995, and thus has not quite been around for "decades". Close, but 19 years is not quite "decades". LOL

Presumably somebody didn't write 100M lines of code on Day 1.
Ahhh, right, my bad. They weren't terribly clear in the article as to which entity they were talking about, and I'm used to seeing "Uber" by itself to refer to the original "professional" service.
The states could propose a change of the federal law, the Personenbeförderungsgesetz.
great tool, waiting to test it.
but, the state gave them a sticker and collected fees so...
...or get.
The USA could take Canada, Mexico, etc. in short order, too. That doesn't make it a good idea, or even politically viable.
That's not specific to MIPS, though.
According to press reports, Uber is currently subsidizing every ride with a $20 incentive to the driver (which seems a pretty clear cut instance of predatory pricing to me, but Swiss anti-trust enforcement is fairly lax). Once that subsidy goes away, either Uber pricing or driver income will take a turn for the worse.
The fact "email will last forever" is precisely why I believe it is absolutely the best protocol to build automatic services to access and share personal information. I have spoken about it here: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=76

Edit: Someone1234: you don't need to wait for companies to support my proposal. It already works today with Gmail: try my live demo on pm33at@gmail.com - it works by leveraging standard auto-responder features. As to the comparison with XKCD 927, it is invalid: my proposal is radically different from anything that currently exists, because it is decentralized while all current personal information sharing platforms are centralized.

Edit: rakoo: yes, XMPP would work too, and would probably be a bit better than SMTP because it is real time. However in practice building something over SMTP has more chances of seeing success (because not everybody uses XMPP, but everybody has email).
I think that a lot of "startups" are using the fantasy of an email-less world as a marketing tactic. I agree, I don't think email is going to disappear. Whether that is a good thing or bad, it's irrelevant
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AFAIK no. This is a court granted injunction and can be enforced. If Uber continues to offer services their court opponent needs to demand that it's enforced and then they could try and tie that up, but that's unlikely to fly. An appeal should not delay, though the injunction may be overturned later.
One of my favorite things about Ember is how we've incubated a community that tries not to get too "high on its own supply."

We've borrowed ideas liberally from Backbone and Angular when we saw how those ideas benefitted developers working on large apps. Now we have the opportunity to improve our view layer based on the pioneering work of React.js, while maintaining the edge that being used in hundreds of large-scale, production apps gives us.

Ultimately, I believe Ember's biggest strength—a sort of meta-strength—is the willingness of the community to abandon old ideas when a new, better idea comes along. At the same time, there's a tendency to be skeptical and really understand the idea, to make sure there's some "there" there, and not just chasing the latest hype.
It's one of the rare cases where we have punitive damages in the German legal system: lawmakers _really_ don't like willful infringement after a judge said "no", and adjust things to the economic capabilities. with 1.5b$ in the bank, 300k$ sounds about right ;-)
No, it won't. I distinctly remember being told by many people that email would never replace letter mail because email was too impersonal.
It's not a credit card.
Or stop at a red light? Why are we letting lights limit our freedoms?!
The single most important issue with email: Team Inboxes.

As soon as more than one person works with an inbox, it sucks big time.

But I agree - email will last forever, nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature.
Except we all know it's not about safety.
take $20 bucks from a friend for a ride to the airport? FELON!

now thats a sensible policy...
Those numbers don't prove anything except that London is more appealing or open to the French than Paris to the Brits. Doesn't mean that France most skillful workers and entrepreneurs are persecuted and they feel the urge to flee their country. There are many things that could explain this disparity.
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It's that high because Uber did not comply to earlier requests. Early fines were 1k a pop, this is the repeat offender bonus. (still, it's up to 250k).
Thanks! Considering I probably couldn't even spell choropleth a month or 2 ago, I'm pretty grateful for Mike Bostock and his proclivity for documentation (for D3 and mapping concepts in general) by creating working examples. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock is my favorite thing on the internets.
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I've been diving into Haskell more lately from the Clojure/Script world, and it has a lot to admire. There's so much about it that's daunting though.

Is there an analogy for what this pulls off that the poor common-fp-programmer can understand? Sounds like heterogeneous metaprogramming would let subsets of Haskell (e.g. more restrictive languages) also join in metaprogramming, but I'm not clear on why or how.

Definitely looking forward to learning more from the Haskell community and their amazing projects!
More info:

"The new cards carry two photographs of the holder, and a chip storing an individual's biometric information including 10 fingerprints and an iris scan using a system developed by Cryptovision." [0]

[0] http://www.zdnet.com/nigeria-launches-new-biometric-id-card-...
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Geez, VPNs are so expensive.
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The idea is to get the violator to stop breaking the law. It's less about fairness and more about deterring criminal behavior. That's the justification.
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If the fine is too high for them, how about not breaking the order and so not incurring it?
"Docker for Windows" is what hit my mind while reading it. Worth noting it's from MS research, so it doesn't mean you'll see it as is (if at all).
I like: "Office chairs may have wheels, but that doesn't mean they'll get you anywhere."
Does this have the classic XKCD 927 problem (https://xkcd.com/927/)? Also wasn't this what XML was meant to solve (a single unified standard for interop)?

It could "work" but unless you got at least Microsoft (Exchange server, Hotmail) and Google (Gmail) to sign up then it won't go anywhere (which is largely the issue with all email momentum, Microsoft and Google have no interest so it cannot move forward).
Never mind all the other obvious problems that could occur at any stage. The webmail server could change a single setting and record every keystroke. An intelligence agency could push an updated version of the extension which records keystrokes or quietly caches plaintext. A browser update could detect the extension and start recording everything.

Any time you try to make encryption simple and easy for a mass audience you still have to educate the user about risks. Most solutions are not bulletproof enough to keep out intelligence agencies.
The Masks of God series by Joseph Campbell - http://www.amazon.com/The-Masks-God-Vol-Primitive/dp/0140194...

Various myths and themes persist across religions, history and geography.

American Caesar - http://www.amazon.com/American-Caesar-Douglas-MacArthur-1880...

Biography of MacArthur. Interesting for its disclosure of relationships between politics, the media and the military in the absence of real time communication. Also, watch the death of Victorian values during the 20th century.
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>>> I just don't care if I have a 0.1% chance of dying instead of 0.05% and we'd all be happier if we adopted that mentality instead of regulating everything halfway to hell and back.

You do realize there's a reason wearing seat belts in most states is required by law?

http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2009/New+Stu...

"A U.S. Department of Transportation study released today estimates that 1,652 lives could be saved and 22,372 serious injuries avoided each year on America’s roadways if seat belt use rates rose to 90 percent in every state. The new research report, based on 2007 data, also estimates that seat belts saved a stunning 15,147 lives that year. The study’s findings were released today as the Department launched its “Click It or Ticket” nationwide enforcement campaign."
Well, "being a jerk" is not a legal concept; there are many things that are perfectly legal, and still something - to quote Eric Naggum - "that you do not do if you want to be a moral being and feel proud of what you have accomplished".
If Uber loses its appeal on this, and then continues to ignore the court's ruling, then I think this will be a story. Until then, I'd say that Uber will continue to operate and the court won't do much about it, while the appeal is pending.
We're not talking about washing your hands with disinfectant every time you open a door, we're talking about car accidents here. Have you ever seen one? You're trying to be cocky and all, but you have no idea of what you are talking about.

And it's not only about my own personal risk, it's about people I know getting into accidents. Keep your 0.1% of fatal accident risk, assume you know 200 people and do the math to find out the chance than at least one of you will get into one. You'll be surprised, it's more than 80%.
It will function as a debit card.
Yep, the socialist/statist European downvoting mafia is on the march on this story as usual
A team inbox is almost always better handled by a ticketing system or a mailing list or both.
99M loc for dealing with timezones. Before it was a library call.
True, but in practice Hearthstone has been relatively balanced, and allows for a lot of different winning strategies that are all competitive. Right now I can think of at least seven very different decks off the top of my head that have been really popular in the last couple weeks, and it's pretty common to see people hit the top ranks with totally new deck ideas that nobody has seen before.

It's possible that tomorrow someone will find a game-breaking deck that beats the pants off of everything else out there, but it seems unlikely. The thing is, the game is somewhat self-correcting. The more popular a certain deck is, the more other decks will evolve to counter it.
You don't need this app if you're using Rdio though. If you add an album by a band to your collection, Rdio will notify you next time a new album is added to that artist's catalogue.
Ah, the demonization of profit that is all to common in Europe.

Believe it or not, civil disobedience has a definition you and don't get to change it because you don't like how successful someone - or a group of people - is.
> nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature.

Not to mention the ability to reply to those emails to add new content to those products. Building around email as a messaging backbone is incredibly powerful.