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You're definitely right, the ability of either government or business agents to legislate away competition must be banished from the realm of the economy. If you don't do that, you won't keep a free market.

However, lobbying is not a problem of the free market. It's a failure of establishment of one.

If such models were studied, and one were actually trying to make a free market work, it would encourage a specific law that should have been installed with the separation of church and state: the separation of state and economy.

It should exist for the same reason the church is separated from the state, they can do nothing but corrupt each other.

Start with something along the lines of: 'the government may pass no law impeding free trade' and or 'the government shall have no power to regulate commerce' - and go from there. The interstate commerce act of 1887 was one of the first major anti-free market laws the US Government pushed through.
$3/meal is more expensive than kfc / mcdonalds? Maybe if you live in the US and only eat a couple of items off the dollar menu every time. In Canada a meal at McDonald's is $10...

And I am one of those people that used to live on McDonald's and Burger King all day every day.
Ignore him, he'll go away eventually. There's not much you can do so "don't feed the trolls" is the best you're going to get. Of course, some people think differently - see Maddox's page of hate mail for example.
Ok, time for some personal opinions. I agree that binary compatibility is important, and that Typesafe's recent focus on stability has been correct. I do however think that the planned focus on Java 8 to the exclusion of all else is misguided.

* Scala on Android users are very worried by this direction, because Java 8 doesn't and won't run on Android; Typesafe has not put forward a good narrative about Android. If Typesafe is simply abandoning any support for Android that's... possibly a reasonable commercial decision, but rather upsetting for those of us who were using it. Either way, more clarity would be better.

* Scala users, including users who use Java libraries in Scala, are mostly unconcerned about what bytecode their code compiles to - if it does the same thing either way then it doesn't really matter whether it's Java 7 or Java 8. Performance and code size improvements are always welcome, but not worth freezing the language for 2 years for.

* The only users who really benefit from the Java 8 support are users who want to use Scala libraries in Java (since they want to be able to e.g. pass Java 8 lambdas as callbacks). This is evidently a constituency that's commercially important to Typesafe, since they put a lot of effort into making Play and Akka usable from Java. But I don't think this reflects the wider Scala ecosystem at all; most Scala libraries are written to be used from Scala, with little if any concern for Java support. IMO the primary (not exclusive, but primary) focus of the Scala compiler should be supporting Scala programmers (some of whom desperately want features like partial type application), not providing libraries for Java programmers.

* So who are the users who are actually benefiting from this? Only those who are both cutting-edge enough to be moving to Java 8 (and to use Akka/Play), but conservative enough to not want to use Scala for their code. That seems like a fairly small set to me.

I agree with the value of documentation and deprecation cycles, and that there are Typelevel projects which should make more effort in these directions.

> Like every time I tried playing with Scalaz, I ended up with stack-overflow errors - not to diminish their skill or efforts, as yes, they are amongst the very best developers, but these people are too idealistic to address the needs of projects that solve real world problems.

Huh? That's not a question of idealism, that's just a bug - and "practical" programmers introduce plenty of those. I've never hit a stack overflow in Scalaz FWIW, but sure, sometimes programs have bugs. I've found the typelevel projects to be relatively high-quality code though.
The Beginning of Big Twitter
that can be solved with very simple things like diet and exercise.

Not everyone can afford to buy low fat organic produce at a boutique farmer's market that's open when they're at work, or requires a car to visit, and charges a fortune in terms of price-per-meal.

Not everyone has the time, money or knowledge to make a home cooked vegetable-rich meal.
Ask HN: Looking for Country/TimeZone/Currency Database
Can any one share an OpenSource data set that contains Country/TimeZone/Currency
Unlocking TFS potential with Eylean
Steve Yegge: Rhinos and Tigers (2008)
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't attacking OCalm, nothing against it, I'm curious about Functional Programming, I've yet to try them for serious projects. It's just not in my toolset currently. Also I'm trying to maintain a rule whereby I don't install software I don't use frequently. OCaml might be nice, but I'm rather unlikely to use it as much as I use the other programming languages in my system. I appreciate that this solution is offered as a web service.
I did, a good while ago. I think there is definitely a family resemblance, but I don't remember it very well (aside from remembering that I enjoyed it). I think there is almost a genre of Florida novels that take full advantage of that state's unique oddness.
I hope it's not the command and control signals to a Russian fail-deadly nuclear deterrent system.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/1205/ . Checklists are an insanely super cheap way to provide a repeatable process. They're not sexy, perhaps, but they're damn useful.

There are three factors here for me:

I automate things if it will save me time.
I automate things if it will provide necessary reliability to the process.
I automate some things which annoy me to do manually, even if I can't justify it on either of those basis.

The second one is tricky. When things go pear shaped in new and interesting ways 10 points into your automatic scripts, do they correctly and automatically recover? Mine generally don't. I'm going to react better to things going pear shaped.

But my coworkers don't necessarily have the same attention to detail with my checklist. This can be because they're not as familiar with the tools, or simply don't believe the rigor justified, or necessary.
Nobody seems to care about these laws until some high-profile company starts breaking them. 10 years ago where was the outrage that GM wasn't allowed to sell SUVs directly to customers? Where was the outrage that ordinary people (ie creeps) weren't allowed to put a "taxi" sign on their car and start picking up strangers at night for money?
The Heritage Foundation is hardly an objective source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
the one-pass compiler nature of the original language for example made Pascal compilers so much faster.

When I first saw Turbo Pascal compile I couldn't believe my eyes. I was used to the c compilers (well, one in particular) that used 4-pass processes- and each pass seemed to take longer than TP.
And yet you can still buy Apple stuff at any major retailer or high street store. The retail lobby doesn't seem to mind much.
we use hasgeeks for most of the req.
Dealing with Servers Still Suck
looks quite good, but would be better if desired color will be copied on click
NASA invites public to submit messages for asteroid mission time capsule
It's a lot easier and cheaper to just eat fresh, healthy foods

"fresh foods": So now you need to have enough space in a working freezer to store all the fresh vegetables/etc that you buy at a much higer price then junk food. Or you need to have enough time off to go to the boutique farmer's market that obvioulsy isn't in a poor-person area like where you live in.
My take on this problem.

"The Beginning of Big Twitter" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8262519
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Cheap is one reason, but also...

When you're functionally illiterate and have spent a few years living on the streets, are not good with money, and have a generally chaotic lifestyle, then you may well not think about going to your local supermarket to buy a cheap tablet (even if you know what a tablet is)

For some folks, their lack of ability to cope with (and fit into) modern life is truly incapacitating.
Adding two-factor gets rid of the security questions and would have prevented them from getting the password though.
Pillow and iOS 8: HealthKit
I dropped the font, didn't realize it was so bad until somebody emailed me. Saw a screenshot, yikes.
>Want to make a ton of money 1 year from today and have good credit? Spend your days with an MLS subscription finding under-priced homes to flip in a couple weeks. You'll be a millionaire in a year I guarantee it.

Considering only 3% of Americans are millionaires, and assuming >3% of Americans would like to be millionaires, in order for your statement to be valid is if whatever you wrote was some sort of never before thought of revelation.
There is no standard.

Lenovo and Apple place the Fn key to the left of the Control key. Most others place them the other way around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fn_key#Fn_and_Control_key_place...
A map with (almost) all connected devices
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I take it you've never been on the breadline then? There have been times in my life when £5 has been a lot of money, when taking a 2hr walk (each way) to work for the first week, was the only option. It might not seem much, but then if they do buy it, what next? There is no starbucks in their neighbourhood, the library is two buses away, and none of your neighbours have wifi, or are happy to share it with you.

Plus if you are living a chaotic life, keeping hold of something like this, keeping it secure, dry and charged can be a mission in itself. And when times are hard what is going to be the easiest way to get some money (for bus fare to that job)...

So yes, if you are in the right location, with the time and means to get to an open wifi connection, and have the spare money to buy a tool like this, then awesome. But a lot of people aren't.
I meant "interesting" of course ;)
Tesla comes to mind here. They are competing with giants like GM, Ford, VW. But they have a unique product and revolutionized the electric car industry. I think if you want to make it you need to be very unique and different from other products. You can also try targeting a specific audience at first instead of everyone. Maybe women of certain age and background. Or make it something cool to have for the younger generation. You will need a killer feature that makes you distinct from others.
C# is definitely more of a Java child than C. C is its distant ancestor, not a parent.
just an fyi. the font for the actual copy is too small.
The K810 is quite a nice keyboard, IMO better than the Apple bluetooth keyboard in terms of feel. It appears to be functionally identical to this new K480 and would appear to have the exact same physical keyboard.
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Americans should be more cautious about claiming a true qualitative advantage over places where political involvement could be considered futile.
You don't have to own a Mac to own an Apple keyboard - they're compatible with Windows, OSX and many flavors of nix
GitHub as Your Recruitment Platform
Banks catch less than half of card fraud. The rest is caught by cardholders, and if you don't catch it, you pay for it.

And that's just known fraud - a lot slips through and cardholders pay for it unknowingly.

So you have to check your charges carefully. While you may not be liable in most cases for the fraud, you have to catch it first. Use an app like BillGuard for that (FD: I work at BillGuard).
There's no such thing as an objective source.
I agree from a distance people don't care. What I've learned is we have to actually live it, for some time, for it to register. Short term experiences people count as inconvenient. Long term experiences people realize it's a problem.
Testing Mobile Games Automatically with Image Recognition
Very cool and useful product. I can't help but feel like I'm in some kind of cycle though, because I felt the same way about a KVM Switch 20 years ago.
The article boils down to a basic fact: "The unexotic underclass are unexploitable." Despite all the dancing around this fact, it pops out in the article like a pimple on an ivy leaguing debutant's nose in their weekly dermotalogist face cleansing.

There is more than a hint of the populist a. randist philosophy throughout this article. Maybe this is a cult, and it goes without saying.

The privileged group (such as the author's) consider themselves hero's and the saints of today's countries, the ultimate problem solvers that defeat the overbearing complications of governments and regulation. The expectation of privilege versus the torrent of their own baser instincts that pervades their own reflection, is one even a clever author can not mask with the vanity of the wealthy with the needs of the exploited and poor.

Lets get straight to the point. The 'exotic' underclass are in resource rich regions. Investments into these 'entrepeneurs' is miniscule to the massive profits from the resources from the "emerging third-world countries".

The article is a complaint, that the unexotic underclass is unexploitable. Nothing much else is expected from the a group of sycophants whose main desire was to wheel and deal financial sludge on wall street.
I'm not sure about purchasing used cars, but after 2011 or 2012 all new purchases no longer have the ad valorem annual tax. It's just $20 or so a year to update your vehicle registration now. So the tax is shifted to an upfront tax that's lower (over the life of the vehicle) than the previous ad valorem tax revenue. While I like the savings, I'm not sure I understand where they intend to make up the revenue differences.
Your resubmission actually counts as a single upvote on the previous submission. I think this is in place to prevent too many duplicate stories.
Excellent post! The easiest way I can think of to help the poor is to change their core values which lead to things like being single mothers and joining the army as a last resort. However, that will seemingly require a ton of investment in education and birth control, which is political suicide for now. You can give them money and time, but you can't give them the ability to disregard their peers' values towards unprotected sex and getting married at 18 and not caring about school.
Beware though kids, the reason you don't have start-ups in your country is because you ask uber to follow your laws.
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Oh boy. What a mess.

So there ARE two sides here.

Side 1 is the "I want to have a startup so that I can do something important to me.

Side 2 is the "I want to have a startup so that I can do something important to others. I will find some way to make this important to me as I go along.

Side 1 folks are tweaking on a moral crusade. Let's change the freaking world, folks!

Side 2 folks are deeply ignorant. I do not know what people want that I can make. Maybe they want better restaurant recommendations based on blood type. Maybe they want job recommendations. Maybe somebody would want jobs for cats. Has anybody done that? Beats me.

If this were a war to improve the future of humanity, Side 1 folks are always the ones charging up the beach on D-Day. Rally after me, men! The cause is just and victory awaits!

Side 2 folks are always trying to find a better way to make the machine gun fit to the machine gun mount. You know, if the bearing fit this other way, machine gunners would have a bigger field of fire....

Side 1 guys are the evangelists. Side 2 guys are the plodders, plodding along. Tinkering.

There is no right or wrong answer here. One out of every 10K or so of the change-the-world guys actually change the world. Very cool! One out of 100 or so of the better machine gun mount guys actually do something that somebody, somewhere finds useful. Very cool!

My problem is when the Side 1 guys go on these long tears about what the rest of us "should" be doing. Dude. I've been working and living in the startup scene for a long time. Am I supposed to get all emotionally fired up because of social injustice? Or perhaps just go do something other folks might find useful? Because that thing where you run on passion for a year and burn out? That's not so much fun.

I love charities. I love hobbies. I think it's fine to have something that's a cross between a hobby and a charity. Perhaps this is what the side 1 guys really want for the rest of us and they are just doing a bad job of explaining it. Or perhaps they should just leave the rest of us alone while we go try to make something useful to somebody, anybody.
I don't bake, I only cook so your specific example I don't know.

I'll also admit that when I'm dialing something in ("needs more X") that obviously that's not prepped ahead of time.

Anything else I find it easier and cleaner to just have a bowl of X ready to go. It goes in the dishwasher within minutes of using it, and my cutting board and such was already cleaned.
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Who says they have escaped detection? There have been alleged time travelers like John Titor. Additionally, Titor and some other claimed time travelers have said the many-worlds hypothesis is correct, meaning that own history and experience does not necessarily provide them with the ability to make accurate predictions about our future.

Additionally, we don't actually have any way of detecting time travelers if they decide not to do silly things like leak future information on Twitter.

To be clear, I don't actually believe there are time travelers living amongst us, but studies of Twitter posts are very far from being conclusive, and there might be very good reasons why time travelers do not or cannot predict the future or just aren't very common anyway. For example, perhaps time traveling technology is legally controlled and extremely expensive, like nuclear weapons. The future of humanity is not infinite, so there's no guarantee that even if time travelers exist they should amount to any substantial number of people visiting any substantial number of times for trivial reasons like time travel conventions.
Are the major MOOC providers doing gamified study on mobile phones? I think that could be effective for basic stuff if it's not already being tried.

A bit like Duolingo which is really well done.
But the app only runs on OSX.
Apple Denies iCloud Breach
Maybe I am just confused then. The link you provided is to an app available on the Mac App Store.

EDIT: dialed down the snark
Time to learn about logical fallacies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Yup. The fish custard may have actually turned out had they followed the recipe. And there are fish-custard-y recipes from other cultures that turn out and taste great...
Unfortunately, this is the future. I say unfortunately, because I think if we could see the final version, we'd recoil.

The sharing economy, at heart, is about the monetization of spare capacity. So far it's mostly been physical assets, but spare time is next. Anywhere you find a poor person watching TV (or, god forbid, reading a book) there's spare capacity ready to be monetized. And, why are they sleeping so much? They could be working.

The sharing economy is also about getting around transaction costs. Ideas like "minimum wage" and "minimum shift length" can be viewed as transaction costs that services can route around.

A marginal hour's unskilled labour isn't worth very much. There's always been exploitation of this fact, but web services have the potential to scale it up.
> Start with something along the lines of: 'the government may pass no law impeding free trade'

I might be misunderstanding you by thinking you just said that the government should never regulate trade; to dispel my confusion could you please explain how your idea of state/economy separation will handle coordination problems? How will it avoid tragedy of commons, or other race-to-the-bottom kinds of situations?
A few things that spring to mind:

- Facebook is more about real time communication and chat. Reddit is more a forum oriented system with a lot of Subreddit (very hard to monetize). Facebook bought Whatsapp because it was eating up it's market which is the real time communication.

- Facebook have more information about it's users (age, location, friends, ethnicity, interests..etc) which make it more valuable for marketer > ie more money. Reddit knows less about its users and their online ad serving system is in the beginning stage at most. Reddit users also tend to know more about technology (adblocks) and are more sensitive toward ads.

- Reddit need to take a lesson from Digg or even the recent changes to Slashdot. Introducing anything new to this kind of communities might mean their downfall. The market place seems like a good ideas but not fully explored.
Here's a related post about a Twitter data mining exercise I did on the Hacker News community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252252

And the outcome of this exercise - Top 1000 Most Followed by HNers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252323
Just because something isn't currently happening doesn't mean it will either. You're ignoring the fact that, if Google started abusing your information, people would stream away from them in droves and Google is more than aware of that.

Your monarchy analogy doesn't work either because, in a monarchy, you don't have the choice of leaving it other than leaving the country. With Google, and every other internet company (they all track you), you can leave on a whim.
Second the suggestion of OpenHatch: http://openhatch.org/

If you are a college student, try getting into the Google Summer of Code next year: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014

If you are a high school student, The Google Code-In contest may be of interest (dates for 2014 haven't been announced yet): https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/
Anybody knows how it's possible to get this on Gmail's UI?
Seems cool!
In product terms, I think so but I really think this has to do with the founders. How long are you willing to hold onto your vision? The got an offer and sold-out. To some extent its a function of expected payoff for the founders vision and reaching their capital utility function.
> It appears that Norway, Austria and Germany, amongst others, do not see a balance in favor of the benefits.

Germany just approved a minimum wage.

> Unsurprisingly their unemployment rates are low.

I have never bought this argument. A business hires employees because it has some amount of work it needs to be done. The amount of work to be done doesn't change as a function of how much workers are paid.

Arguing that the minimum wage causes meaningful increase in unemployment is just as silly as arguing that paying CEOs huge salaries does.

You can argue that a minimum wage makes things more expensive: that's likely true, but I'm okay with that.

In any case, if a business requires paying its employees pitiful wages in order to be profitable, that business is unsustainable and should fail.

> I would rather work for some wage (as I did) rather than exist (and get used to existing) on handouts from the wealth created by other tax payers' work.

When wages fall so low that workers can't reasonably afford to live, they might as well be unemployed: there is no functional difference.

I agree though that we as taxpayers should not be required to subsidize corporations unwilling to pay employees livable wages. The solution is a higher minimum wage.