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I don't disagree with you. There's no inherent "right" to earn a living as a taxi driver. A driver chooses to enter that "market" with their service, knowing how it works in advance.

But the $1500 rent real taxis pay to medallion holders is now going to Uber. This disruption really just replaced one middleman with another and switched to a per-ride model instead of flat rate monthly.

The increased insurance cost (I heard it was double normal insurance rates) will go away, since most people will not tell their insurance companies they are using their car for business. That means insurance rates will go up for all of us over time as accident and claim rates go up.

All I'm saying, I guess, is it will clearly lead to a reduction in driver incomes overall. I can't see how this business model can lead to them making more. The average wage will be below minimum wage, because how can it not be?
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The EU may have just banned the anonymous sale of online goods and services
I'd go even further and be proactive. Prohibit names with obvious potential to cause problems during sign up, e.g. fail to validate:

*google*| *iphone* | *microsoft*

with a "username not available".

It won't entirely avoid the problem -- you can't stop the truly determined from creating problems -- but it will stop the casual lol's.
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No, if CNet had the vision to establish a marketplace, they would have fallen victim to "Embrace, extend and extinguish".
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Seems sort of ... logical.
We're going around in circles I think.

The entire problem is that the users have no idea prior to installing the software, whether its legit or malware. I don't see anything in what you've proposed that solves the root problem. Yes, we can look at peripheral problems like cleanup and revoking certificates but those only affect users AFTER they've already made the choice of installing a particular piece of software.
> I'd like to test the idea of mandatory comment before downvote.

I'm not sure there is much to be gained from that, but if explanation is viewed as necessary I'd prefer a comment attached to the downvote that is hidden from the main discussion but visible on a link from the title line of the downvoted comment (with a link title like "5 downvotes"), so that downvotes don't increase the screen real-estate associated with the downvoted comment and its associated subthread in "normal" view, but the rationale for any downvotes is kept.

I think requiring normal comments associated with downvotes, and thus increasing the prominence of downvoted comments, is directly contrary to the whole purpose of community moderation.

But, in any case, I don't really see a problem with the impact of downvotes under the current system that warrants the increase in downvoting cost that requiring comment would involve.

> Also I have a feeling some people who definitely don't understand HN culture has got downvote privilege over the last 6-18 months.

I think the culture is continuously evolving (both from the ground up and from the admin side), but I don't see anything particularly surprising recently. I occasionally see a few downvotes that seem unwarranted -- either on my own comments or others where that's evident by graying -- but they tend to get neutralized by upvotes over a little time, and that's pretty much not a change from the past.
Was about to post a link to the same thing.

As far as dangerous culinary experiences go, the risk if you get it wrong is up there with eating blowfish.

Do not be tempted to do this as your first experience in handling liquid nitrogen. Get to know the stuff first.
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That person consumed actual liquid nitrogen. The cardinal rule of culinary liquid nitrogen: don't ever serve a guest liquid nitrogen.

The nitro-muddling technique in L.I. is designed in multiple stages to prevent that from ever happening; for instance, if you shake a drink with LN still in it, you'll hurt yourself before you manage to serve a guest LN.

You're not wrong, though. You need to know what you're doing or you can hurt people. It's for that reason that we actually didn't play around with the stuff (freezing random stuff and shattering it, for instance); we just followed processes we knew would work.
"For the lone game programmer that day has already arrived.

Twice."

If one sees 'the art of lone game programming' as a genre then this might be true. One successful lonely game programmer leads to a gold rush of many lonely game programmers digging the iKlondike for gold.

But I am pretty sure that there is always room for the brilliant idea that no one can grasp when you pitch it. I personally would have talked Notch out of the idea for Minecraft with the usual arguments (blocky graphics, not state-of-the-art, there's no real goal, etc pp). And when I played it, I was like - omg, I could have done that.

There always will be a lonely (game) programmer doing something extraordinary that you didn't think of in the first place or even despised. And then there is the next Notch, and I will again say - omg, not again.

And some of us have big ideas and don't dare to join the art of lonely game programming.
The only issue I'd really be strict about is that you're not doing anything with the errors.

Specifically, you've:

1. Encountered an error

2. Detected it

3. Printed it

But you've continued execution, and some of those errors are clearly not going to let you continue cleanly.

If you couldn't call git on the command line (i.e. it is not installed), then what are you going to do with the stdout? And if git was somehow replaced with something that only returned a status code and no output, then what are you going to do with no output?

The important point is that errors can be thrown because errors can plausibly exist in a way that affects you. You should handle them, logging is fine as a bare minimum but you probably also want to return and exit out of the func in a way that communicates to the thing that called the func that "Something went wrong, and I don't have the results you're looking for".
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What about multipath? I measure a 1/2 decrease in signal strength, is it because I got 1/sqrt(2) times farther away, or because someone opened the fridge door next to the router?
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Some devs of the community around Photonstorm/Phaser seem to make a living with games.

But it seems a different story. Most of them do mobile-mini-games they sell to sponsors and game-hubs, or they do some promotion games for companies.
Monument Valley is visually gorgeous, and I like a lot about it. However it has zero depth as a game- you can easily move through it by tapping randomly on the screen.

Also it's built by ustwo, and while they're lovely people, they're far from a small one man shop (they have hundreds of employees in several offices worldwide and know what they're doing when it comes to marketing). I don't think Monument Valley is a strong case for your argument (Sword and Sorcery is a better one, but they rode on the original iPad announcement, which is a strategy you can only use once a decade)
OpenBSD (and Linux) runs on the Sharp Zaurus, they are neat little devices for carrying around an SSH terminal.

http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html
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You mock, but this kind of tinkering is basically the foundation of mathematics.

I suggest reading Lockhart's Lament, linked on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament

Relevant quote:

> For example, if I’m in the mood to think about shapes— and I often am— I might imagine a triangle inside a rectangular box. I wonder how much of the box the triangle takes up? Two-thirds maybe? The important thing to understand is that I’m not talking about this drawing of a triangle in a box. Nor am I talking about some metal triangle forming part of a girder system for a bridge. There’s no ulterior practical purpose here. I’m just playing. That’s what math is— wondering, playing, amusing yourself with your imagination.
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I stay with my N900. I did not see anything better.
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The Oracle comic made my day. I've despised their software since forever.
In my experience, trading desks are less overtly sexist than in the old days (that I've only read about) but there is still lots of profanity and other highly offensive "colorful" language.
5m room size / speed of sound in air = around 15ms. Unless the amount of variation in latency in the phone's speaker + microphones is much less than that -- which I suspect it isn't -- that wouldn't be particularly accurate either. (Even that aside, it's going to be rather non-trivial to get anything useful at all with a non-directional speaker in an enclosed room with several other walls, ceiling, floor, and other objects).
Ideally, all investors want to invest into a top fund. But that is hard to do because of capacity constraints and because you don't know ex ante which fund will be in the top 5% in the future - so this sort of performance close to the mean seems pretty good.
The trouble isn't the recipe. The trouble is in people following it, while probably drunk.
Even faster way:

Write code, Ship product, get promoted, tranfer.
No, he said that he believed his company had a high likelihood of becoming worth that amount, and that he did not expect their acqui-hire numbers to go that high. Also note the part where they argued with him about whether or not he had actually received a reasonably part of the X million, which indicates to me that they did not expect they'd have to pay all that much at all.

He said that against a backdrop of having done a sale at half the value he listed in the past in the same niche with a much smaller potential market. He might very well be wrong, but he gave a reasoning that is not all that unreasonable. If he didn't believe in the potential value, he presumably wouldn't be working on it.

What he complained about was the deceptive initial implication that he was talking to someone wanting to acquire the product, rather than an acqui-hire. Had the e-mail been from someone identifying themselves as a recruiter, wanting to hire him, and indicating that there would be room for talking acquisition to compensate him for giving up the business, it would have been a very different situation and presumably he'd have said no at the outset.

The section you quoted is where he points out to the recruiter that if it is an acqui-hire, presumably they do not have the budget for the kind of amounts that would make the job worth it for him to give up his company over.

There was no "generous rock-star offer". There was a deceptive approach where $2m was indicated as the maximum that might be offered for an acqui-hire, with no indication of what kind of salary he might get offered. Having dealt with Google recruiters in the past, I know how cagey they can be about salary and total offer value, and frankly in the cases I managed to get a range out of them, they were not worth continuing conversations with. There's no indication of a "generous rock-star offer" in the article.

It may not have been interesting to you, but the audience here includes a lot of people working on startups for whom this kind of situation might be relevant. Maybe not Google. Maybe the cap isn't 2mill. But I've been in similar situations before, and it sucks. It's ok to get angry at deceptive approaches even if you make good money.

(For my part I'm not surprised to see yet another story like this about Google - I have nothing but bad experiences with Google recruiters whenever they've approached me; each time I get less inclined to ever want to consider working there)
Yes. The second cardinal rule: guests don't get to play with LN. Three people at our party were allowed to handle it. I mention this in the post, under "isolation".
I've heard that before. You were very productive coding, almost too busy and if they promoted you then they would be one good coder short. It was easier to hire somebody fresh with an outside look to think long-term. I expect you will soon be heading a 'special projects' group as a perk to keep you motivated (that group might build a second website or launch in another country or create prototypes so that could be great).
The only thing you could have done would be to insist on becoming a/the CTO from the beginning and not let them hire anybody on top. Were you cut for that from day 1? Often investors add pressure to replace parts of the team with 'more experienced' experts, that can also affect founders (being stripped of CEO and president titles).
I think you're overestimating how expensive S3 is. You'd have to be storing a lot of data before running your own infrastructure becomes more affordable (especially factoring in employee costs)

Not to say it never happens, but 90% of people are better off just using S3.
It seems if they were that clueless, they would have had many more opportunities to change default browsers without realizing it.
Or write an article to warn others who might also be taken in by this kind of behaviours, so they don't need to waste their time on it.
It's a puzzle-box/adventure-game-type experience — mostly a beautiful and interesting toy to fiddle with in your hands. Some people enjoy that, others don't. I personally love it, and I can see that a lot of App Store gamers do too. In that particular genre, it's a gem!

From what I've read in interviews, the team was comprised of about 6 people, and they didn't do any marketing or advertising.

Another recent example of a pay-up-front game hitting it "big" is Wayward Souls by Rocketcat Games (almost $10!!), though they have more of a pedigree.
A notebook and a pen, does the trick for me.
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I don't have a lot of time right now, so couldn't find an explicit listing on Uber's site of their driver requirements (I don't have the app and don't want to register - so I imagine it's behind this page[0]), but here's a third party listing of requirements for non-commercial drivers[1]. There are also commercial driver versions of Uber services, which I imagine would have more stringent requirements.

Please let me know if [1] is not an accurate representation of requirements for non-commercial drivers.

We may be focusing on different segments. To me, the commercial version is just a taxi-hailing service with a custom pricing model. This is not too innovative - just a convenience application on top of existing services.

What I consider the innovative portion, and the (I will admit unclear in my prior posts) focus of my argument, is the non-commercial service.

[0]https://get.uber.com/drive/

[1]http://www.ridesharingdriver.com/uber-driver-requirements-qu...
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Syncthing? That was not developed by ind.ie.
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The alleged red-handed part is that Verizon used Title II to build out fiber lines under the guise it was improving its telephone service, but was actually using the fiber for broadband services which it does not want regulated under Title II. Sounds like the proverbial "having your cake and eating it too".
For a middle manager running a technical unit the job is often to serve as a buffer between upper management and workers. This doesn't necessarily involve lying to people but rather focusing on different priorities with different groups.

A middle manager is two APIs: one for upper management to interface with the workers, and one for workers to interface with upper management. The two APIs have distinct areas of responsibility, but both of them should include sanity-checking on their inputs rather than just passing them on to the layer above/below, and sometimes they should definitely throw exceptions.

This is what makes middle management a difficult role: it is literally two-faced. Internally, however, there should be a single state machine that maintains some kind of consistency, balancing the current corporate direction with the well-being of team members and the desired career track of the middle manager.

Unfortunately the ideal balance often involves all parties being about equally unhappy.
And, honestly, they are not that hard to learn. Compared to the amount of time it takes to understand the semantics of "stdout", the time required to learn the spelling of "stdout" is nothing.

In a world where millions of Chinese programmers have to use keywords written in a foreign language who am I to complain?

There is little reason to expect that reforming POSIX spelling is going to be any more successful than reforming English spelling.
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> You can't "purchase" a public good

Sure you can. Indeed, one of the dominant theories of contemporary economics is that market failures in public goods should be handled by turning them into property rights and privatizing them.
They should do the same with AT&T:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/2015010...
I'm aware. I think that only further proves my point.
The arXiv.org link towards the bottom of the article points to [1] :-)

[1] file:///C:/%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Coyarie%5CLocal%20Settings%5CTemp%5CarXiv.org

Proof: http://imgur.com/p2Qk6gy
Thanks for the reply, I do agree its the negativity everywhere being thrown at us, it really takes a toll on people who really care about these things.

I already do avoid news sites and news papers when possible, thanks for the advice and the extension recommendation
It really depends. I have an older dedicated GPS receiver that absolutely no way will receive a signal indoors. My iPhones all do a pretty good job. (FYI, you can only get signal strength on an Android phone; Apple's CoreLocation API doesn't provide that or some of the other detailed satellite data.)
I agree with you to some extent but I am not sure the professions you mention are actually as safe from automation as they might seem.

For instance a radiologist who has a very long education behind them and make $300K is in bigger risk of being replaced by image recognition software than a house cleaner.

With regards to art music is being made in large parts by machines and we are now at the point where humans can't hear the difference between a piece of music made by humans and machines.
I was going to respond with the same thing. Since you beat me to it, here's the link: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-cha...
1) Getting quality clients
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I agree. I should probably just add something like this at after every log:

log.Println("ERROR", err)
return out.Bytes(), err

Or just:

log.Println("ERROR", err)
return []byte, err

But I figured since the error will eventually get returned at the end anyway I moved on and kind of forgot about it.
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If (and I believe this), workers can be more productive with more leisure time, these companies will eventually prevail.

Why try to regulate the market into doing it as she implies by comparing European countries, where by the way, unemployment is very high for the young? It is the surest way of doing it wrong.

Nothing prevents companies from offering more vacation time, but forcing it with regulation will prevent a host of other good things to happen.
Did those three drink anything?
I take adderall, I don't know if you have ever been tested or anything, but I find that I function so much better when I take my medicine. Also I noticed that when I stay away from coffee after I take my adderall I am more focused. If I just drink coffee though I become focused for a short time.

Also like Someone1234 said, Exercise. It helps to clear my mind and focus on what is important at that time. I function so much better after running or doing some type of exercise.
I'd love to see a googler from the appropriate side respond here and present their side of the story. That seems to be the difference between the engineering and business sides of google... if this was a critique of one of google's technical products, there would be multiple googlers here responding in this thread by now.
You first need to identify if you are in this position, which the "experienced" author previously had some experience of.

Personally I'd use social engineering to get the information I would need to prove this and dig our all the information I needed about Googler #1 and #2. First you need the real contact details. More appropriately you need to make sure that the numbers quoted in the emails aren't throwaways.

Ideally you need access to a corporate phone directory, which these days are harder to come by as a physical book. Years ago you could easily approach the right person (smokers outside are good because it is easy to start a conversation with a smoker especially if you smoke as well) and offer them a couple of hundred dollars for the internal corporate directory phone book). Cleaners are also a good target as they have access to lots of areas.

You'd be surprised how many people will give that book over for a small amount of cash.

As a secondary bonus, once you are finished with the phone book you can sell it on to a headhunter. They pay big money for such a useful item.

These days that kind of stuff is harder but not impossible. Social networking has made it easier to get information about people and what they do, who their friends are and where they hang out. People are lazy about their privacy and that is useful if you are trying to dig up information on someone, especially easy if they have an uncommon name.

Fight dirty tricks with dirty tricks is my opinion.
Unfortunately technology is full of people who may have a first but are clueless about the world of work and end up in trouble or taken advantage of.
The Intercept also posted a similar piece, in article form: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-cha...

An excerpt:
But this week’s defense of free speech rights was so spirited that it gave rise to a brand new principle: to defend free speech, one not only defends the right to disseminate the speech, but embraces the content of the speech itself. Numerous writers thus demanded: to show “solidarity” with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. “The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack,” announced Slate’s editor Jacob Weisberg, “is to escalate blasphemous satire.”
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