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A quick and short answer is which one is your target customer segments want most.
Comcast has a monopoly because regulations and high costs of infrastructure make it difficult for competitors to emerge. Somehow you think they deregulation of the taxi industry will recreate this situation. Cost of a car and the regulations gone? You've already called a uber monopoly?
DIY is still a pretty big pain, I've tried several different kinds from those pages. I have to give Mathmos and/or Lava-Lite credit, they /do/ have the chemistry down pretty well. The commercial ones are far more reliable than homebrew.
There's a leak[1] talking about windows 9 possible being partly free, but some features are subscription based. That would give them the incentive to solve the security issues.

[1]http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/the-in...
> Thus, perpetuating a cartel with huge entry costs.

The key difference being that in germany at least, there is no such thing as a cartel with huge entry costs. You'll need a properly licensed car, commercial insurance and a special drivers license that costs about 250 EUR plus a few weeks learning. (my uncle got his license in a week while at the same time going to university). Then you can be a regular limo-for-hire driver. If you want a step up and become a cab owner, you need to paint you car white and spend a few hundred euros for the license (don't have the exact numbers ready) and fill in some forms. Then you're a cab company. Everyone who wants to in Berlin can be a cab driver. Used to be a typical student job and there's still a lot. There's no lack of supply. It's not like in NY where you pay a million USD for a medallion.
An amusing side project for anyone with the chops would be an LLVM backend to bash.
what if? - Randall Munroe - https://whatif.xkcd.com/book/
I didn't take calculus in high school (I'm not even sure it was offered, actually. But, football!), so in my first semester of college I got hit with limits right out of the gate. I didn't know there was an alternative until much later.

"My understanding of infinities and infinitesimals is that they are 'not numbers,'"

Nope, they're perfectly good numbers. Check out the origins of "nonstandard analysis" in the mid-20th century for the one stupid trick that makes mathematicians jealous. Or something.

Now, irrationals and complexes? Them's not numbers; them's eeeeevil.
"The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity" by Steven Strogatz

http://goo.gl/ybI6KP
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Thanks for the link to SQRL, I hadn't seen that before. Very cool.
Open source RDBMS are gaining in popularity, but jobs can be found elsewhere
Mytaxi works pretty well in Germany. They basically offer the same kind of functionality like Uber while making use off the existing drivers.
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Google's two-factor auth has several backup mechanisms: you can print a list of single-use codes[1] or use a backup phone[2].

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en&top...
[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1188780?hl=en&top...
I found it quite "meh" by the end, too much details about their private lives and didn't like the hyperboles when describing more "technical" stuff (e.g. when they built the engine for commander keen, described as something revolutionary never done before, i don't remember it was the case...)

Read that after the GREAT "Commodore: A company on the edge" and was expecting something with more gritty details (both technical and about the business) was somewhat disappointed.
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> I would fault my phone company if I could no longer make and recieve phone calls and send and receive SMS text messages.

We went through this when cell networks decommissioned analog service and again when the early digital stuff was phased out. It turned out not to be such a big deal – once the phone company hit you with a higher bill to support the old equipment, almost everyone quickly decided learning how to use a new phone wasn't so bad.

This is similar: companies are hoping that the rest of us will subsidize their IT decisions with increased development and support costs. The difference is that most places lack a mechanism to pass along those costs so they're rarely confronted with a cost comparison.
I think it is changing, I work for the civil service in the UK and there is a drive toward more in house staff than contractors.
I get this a lot, usually at the end of contracts - I've been freelance/contracting for more than a decade.

Taking a break works, that's what I do.

But you've said that you're running out of resources? That's probably the most scary thing in the world, seeing your bank balance fast approaching nil. Doubly so with a child on the way.

So let me throw some ideas in the air:

If you can do IT-type stuff, try to do some low end IT admin/roll out work.

You could work in a Cafe/Bar but you'll find that unless you're quite depressed the increased social interaction will actually pick you up faster.

If you're feeling particularly misanthropic, then shelf stacking, gardening, casual laboring will probably work.

When I've been burned out I tend to avoid socializing, physical activity and sunlight. So I make things worse for myself. Actually engaging in those activities brings me out of it.

I think I'm rambling a bit, hope it makes sense.
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Beyond good and evil, the problem is actually the noise.

The simple Follow/Unfollow button is not enough since Twitter got mainstream. You have to do a lot of manual maintenance to keep your stream relevant and interesting.
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There's a bunch of stuff (maybe half the book) about digital electronics. It's frozen in time in the late 80s, but that's sufficient for me right now.

I think there's a third edition coming out soon, which should help bring its digital stuff up to date.
Who wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1?
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I am regular HN'er but I am nervous and hence using throwaway account. I bought a site/business on Flippa for xx,xxx (mid five figures). I really believe in that business and the seller has been very cooperative. He has already started the training/transition but we have not done the "Legal" stuff yet like Starting Escrow etc yet. We are planning to do taht in a day or so.

If any of you has bought/sold stuff on flippa, please share your experience of how to go about Escrow etc ? What should I keep in mind ? What about legal stuff ? Do you get your own lawyer or use Flippa's standard docs ?

Just to mention that I am very comfortable with how the seller has been so far and we have already spent at least 10 hours discussing the transition/training and he has even shared some of the accounts with me. He is very reasonable and I do trust him. He feels the same. But still, I want to ensure that there are no loose ends in this transaction. I can also email you if you give me your contact info.

I hope you all understand why I am keeping this private right now.
> The present career change does seem a bit like selling out.

Anandtech, by all indications, seems to be continuing to grow and be very profitable. All indications are that Anand is quite financially secure.

So I can't see him making this move unless it's something he really wants to do, as opposed to being lured by the money.

Can you blame him? After writing about technology for so long, surely he's gotten the itch to play a more direct role in its creation.

Imagine if you were a fan of baseball your entire life, and had been covering it for years, and you had a chance to actually go and play for a major league team. It could be a dream come true.
So why can't we let Uber disrupt the SF market while still sticking to regulations in germany. The market and the problems of the market are obviously different. The most annoying thing about Uber for me is that they try to shoehorn a solution that fits large US cities on a market that's a bad fit. There's an app that does the same as Uber just for regular cabs. It's such a better market fit, Uber could have done the same, but no, that would be boring, they need to DISRUPT!
>Quite true, also very different from the claim I was responding to.

Not really, you just quoted one part and are acting as though that's my entire claim. If you're just going to strawman my arguments here then, fuck it, I don't want to talk to you. Like I said, it's circumstantial evidence, since their cooperation would have come after the Snowden documents were released, but it's still evidence. We know they're being targeted, they have people on their board who love this shit, and their silence - in stark contrast to most other PRISM targets - is deafening. Again, this isn't a court of law, the burden of proof is lower, and if you're not open about what you're doing, then it isn't unreasonable to assume you're in bed with the bad guys.

This isn't birther or truther or whatever else, conspiracy theory territory. I'm not making any leaps of tortured logic here, so don't paint me with the same brush. It's pretty straightforward and at any rate, all I said initially is that they hand over data to the US government. You appear to agree with me on this after all, you're just giving them more benefit of the doubt with regard to their level of cooperation.

Just to be clear, let's draw a distinction between mere complying with NSLs to the extent required by the law, and cooperating with the NSA on these illegal spying programs. They are not the same thing, and Dropbox is likely doing the latter. Yes, they certainly receive NSLs like anyone else, and some level of cooperation is required by law, but they are also likely to be designing their systems with ease of access for the NSA in mind. It is not unreasonable to think the NSA has automatic access to their data. Other PRISM targets have been pretty open (at least in comparison to Dropbox) about what their cooperation entails, what they are required to do, and what steps they take to safeguard their data. Dropbox has been utterly silent, and that's the most damning thing. Perhaps this would not be a fair conclusion to draw, had they not made the utterly stupid and incomprehensible decision to allow Condoleezza Rice to join their board of directors, but they did, and it is.

No, you are foolish if you think Dropbox is not giving their customer data to the NSA. That's nothing but wishful thinking. Absolutely foolish and naive. Much more so than if, in 2012, you thought the NSA wasn't snooping on emails, et cetera. At least back then the scale of what they are up to would have been something of an extraordinary claim - that's not the case anymore.
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I've passed many algorithm interviews without knowing the answer beforehand. It's very possible, people just don't bother to learn. Any good textbook on algorithms will give you the tools to create new ones. Mostly it's application of a few basic concepts, like big-O complexity, divide and conquer, or dynamic programming. Go through 100 problems on Project Euler and this stuff will become second nature.
As I recall, there was a fluff-up between Bishop Berkeley[1] and the Newton camp regarding the issue[2], in the 18th century.

"Mathematical historian Judith Grabiner comments, 'Berkeley’s criticisms of the rigor of the calculus were witty, unkind, and — with respect to the mathematical practices he was criticizing — essentially correct'."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analyst
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No.

Take Lua on a date instead. Much, much friendlier language, and very powerful to boot. She even pays her part of the check.
You'd likely be surprised then. I work in a plant, and seeing a live plant can relieve stress. At least it does for me, much in the way a glass of water on a hot day can. Otherwise, the whole day is beige office interior or the drab metalic grey of machinery. That, and plants make places _smell_ better. (Offices in factories really aren't closed systems...)

So, as counter point, I look at a plant and feel happy. I mean, if it can survive here, then I probably can.
> I think it would be loss of authenticity

Loss of objectivity, maybe - I mean, I don't think we'll see him publicly praising Samsung smartphones any longer! But authenticity? You think he's going to be doing things he doesn't care about or believe in at Apple?
Nope, small companies that don't think about growth while they have the time, cement bad practice.

"Run your small business as if it were a large business" is more about conscious decision-making and awareness of consequence. Do your admin, make sure payroll is documented and people are paid on time, make sure that managers pay attention to work-load and communication, develop work practices that support people rather than assuming everyone is committed to 24-hour days ... sweat the small stuff so that your employees can get on with the thing you hired them for without concern.

It's all those assumptions that get small businesses as they scale. And then - if they survive - they become horrible, impersonal large businesses.

A small business is like a small child. All the potential is there, but surround that child with all the clutter of a poor environment and it will become an adult that perpetuates the system it was raised in.

"Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man," said the Jesuits. They knew what they were talking about ;)
Code complexity does not increase linearly.

100 M lines is stupendous.
I don't think so. The idea is to provide for Windows the same kind of lightweight containerization as docker/LXC provides on linux. So if it were to work the same way, you'd install IIS into your container, and run the container on a host. Having read through the post now, which doesn't have a lot of detail, it seems to me that the picoprocess and library OS concepts are a consequence of not having true kernel-level support for namespaces and something like cgroups. Docker and LXC containers don't host a minimal OS, they share the existing kernel in well-defined ways.
> I also don't recall why the "sleep" command is in there.

Probably this issue? http://superuser.com/questions/629227/tmux-prints-12c-whenev...
Tasks in any project would easily go into 3+ levels of complexity, depending on how you'd structure your tasks.More often than that, the less structured the tasks, the more difficult it is to remember, track, and prioritize them. If there's not a need for this, task management solutions such as Asana would not have the feature to append a list of subtasks to a subtask indefinitely. Microsoft project is great for handling large scale projects but you'd need to deal with the complexity that comes with it. Quire wish to address the need for task hierarchy without making a task management solution difficult to use.
I don't even know what to say. I understand what you're getting at, but it doesn't seem to be in very good taste. As well as "user friendly (women involved in the development)" (what does that even mean?)

It has hints of subtle (and not so subtle) sexism, and even if you reworded it, it's not really an "Ask HN" kind of question. Even Stack Exchange doesn't like these kinds of questions.
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You didn't know what I was asking?

On the front page right now are two posts like this: "Mailvelope," "Drawbridge." Product/project names without accompanying descriptions are meaningless but this is the norm.

Why are submission title guidelines enforced so rigorously except for these cases?
Disclaimer: I have no slightest idea about economics. And I'm not sure the following is a good idea. So, don't listen to me.

As I get it, you probably want to let users start for free when their requirements are small, and start changing as they grow. I suppose everyone has different needs, though — some value ability to spawn a dozens of tiny private repos, but some want just one for a relatively large team.

Then — just a wild idea — maybe assign some value for resources and services you provide and give a quota of what's free? Say, maybe, the formula could be repository count multiplied by collaborator count, so mediocre usage will stay under the threshold, raising either repo count or collaborator number alone (possibly, until the number is sufficiently large) still wouldn't be enough to leave the free tier, but raising both would nearly instantly require paying for your services. Something along those lines.

This probably could be confusing to customers (although some flexible cloud providers seem to deal with it with those fancy price calculators page with resource sliders), but maybe you'll think something. Or not.

And it certainly depends whenever your customers actually want such flexibility and there's enough diversity of use cases among them. Maybe they don't care and everything fits into something simpler. Then, for me, I think it's BitBucket's model — even though most of my repos are public (and are on GitHub), I have two private ones (on BitBucket), with no collaborators.
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Don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
This is pretty much the solution given. I've encountered a similar problem before (draw a bunch of overlapping squares with differing z-values) and done it similarly. The difficulty you end up having is that a stack doesn't give you a fast way to find the maximum height (what building/square) is on top at any given point. Hence, the article suggests a max heap.
Using Fedora 20, `which ksh` returns nothing. I would think people wanting to adopt a language like this are more likely to be using Linux 2.6 than AT&T UNIX, but I would suspect you're wrong about which one is now more prevalent now anyway. I can't remember the last time I used a *nix box that didn't have bash (or a VERY similar shell) installed by default, and this is certainly a huge step up over having to write both batch and bash independently anyway.
This seems to me to be more along the lines of work into exokernels: most of the "kernel" runs as a library in user mode.[1] The application still has a full range of functionality available. The "45 API calls" is not what the user process can access, but the interface between the, untrusted, user-mode kernel and the, secure, kernel-mode kernel.

[1] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/areas/os/Qual/papers/exokernel.p...
I haven't read or heard a single argument from Uber why they consider the german laws unjust apart from "It costs us too much money" and "We need to disrupt". They're also not lobbying to change the requirements for all taxi drivers, they are lobbying to be exempt. That's lining their own pockets, not political pressure aimed at changing unjust laws.
It seems like such a strange example, doesn't it? Judging by what's happened on the mobile side, Facebook will be the last thing to disappear if net neutrality goes away.

Youtube on the other hand, I dunno. It is a video hosting site - probably ripe for the capping/throttling/whatever, but it's also a much higher profile target then something like Netflix.
Is there a page which documents all of the possibilities? Or is it just a series of:

clicking on "..." (adds|removes|toggles) class "..." on "..."

along with the "target" selector?
Good. It seems bizarre that something as ordinary as a trip in a car needs extensive regulations. Obsolete laws should be challenged.
My wife and I are a year or two away from a cottage endeavor. I'm not sure why I'm wired the way that I am, but hermitage has a romantic appeal. Distractions and potential interruptions make me anxious. My disconnect with nature and the food that I eat does as well.

It's an odd juxtaposition -- I love technology. I just dislike what comes with it.
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I agree they are way better off asking for forgiveness than asking for permission. But then Uber (or it's supporters) cannot get all butthurt when some regulator puts them in their place.
This must be amazing to have inspired so many people to sign up about the same time this got posted and share their brief opinions on how cool it looks.
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Uber is mostly present in major markets where Taxi companies are more of some sort of mafia than a mom and pop business. The truth is that these very same companies are present in smaller cities as well and asking a driver what he thinks of who's working for quickly shows that they share their hatred with their customers towards the terrible service they have to provide for very little money in return. These companies keep most profit, while Uber, Lyft, Sidecar etc... only take ~20%
I never liked MS Project. It is more like a tool for manager to control us, or to make a story for budget:)
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Exactly this!
And that's exactly why a global 'disruptor' doesn't really make sense, because there isn't so much to disrupt. Uber grew out of a very local need (in San Francisco), which ended up translating quite well into other US markets as well as some international ones.

Frankly it didn't translate so well in many other international markets. The Germany example is a great one where tons of small taxi cos co-exist peacefully. Many other markets like Turkey are the same.

But even if you have large established companies, that isn't always such a bad thing that needs 'disruption'. I had a 50SGD coupon to try Uber (Black) in Singapore last year when I was at a conference. I took a Comfort Taxi to the conference (booked via app, taxi arrival 3-4 mins, took me straight to the right hall of the conference center in 20 mins. Cost about 18SGD) and then took Uber back to downtown. Uber ended up costing me over 70 SGD (i.e. even with the 50SGD coupon it was more expensive than the taxi). I had to wait 15 mins for it to show up (the app showed 5 mins away, but the driver drove in circles and couldn't find my location even with GPS, driver barely spoke English, driver didn't know one of the main streets downtown that I was going to, so I had to direct him). You can book taxis via phone, SMS, web or app. They are cheaper than Uber. Taxis are clean, regulated, always use meters, accept NETS and Credit Cards and if you want a nicer one you can get a Chrysler or Daimler for a little extra fee. Nationally regulated 'surge pricing' exists too.
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Is it the Uber app/office or Uber drivers that will continue to work despite the ban? They can say what they want in the press releases, but it's the drivers that are at risk and will be making the decision.

(or did I misunderstand and it's actually the company that will get fined?)
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