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I am not sure if I agree with the statement that Nokia's market share were destroyed by MS. If I recall Nokia was on its downfall even before Apple's iPhone came into market. I grew up with the 3330, so I always have a soft corner for them, it was my first phone and lasted forever. However, with the emergence of the iPhone, Nokia's fate was sealed. Most people here on HN including me considered Nokia DOA and it wasn't until the emergence of Lumia phones with its incredible Camera that people started to take notice. The comments went from "pfft DOA" to "I would totally consider if they made one in android!".

Strategically I think it was a better plan for Nokia to go with Windows regardless of the CEO. Apple doesn't do partnerships and the only other popular option was Android, which was ruled by Samsung and to compete against them would be to compete against a Goliath. So indirectly I think MS did help them even though it was for their own gains.

Also keep in mind, only the phone division was sold to MS. The rest of the company is intact and still trading in the stock market.
Sounds like an opportunity to develop simpler, cheaper, more reliable closed-circuit technology, no?

Or is there something fundamental about the paradigm that makes that impossible?
I'm new to the concept of object storage. Is the thing which distinguishes object storage from key-value storage the ability to also store metadata?

I.e., Instead of providing (key: value), it provides (key: (metadata, value))?
That's the second tier of the pricing.
"Lesser" is a relative term. My hope is that we replace hydrocarbons quite thoroughly with fusion if/when the tech becomes viable; which probably won't solve the problem but will certainly help.

We'll basically have the same situation as we have with plutonium once the terrestrial/natural resources die out - which is bad but not nearly as impossible as simply not having access to the element.
Without support for proper threads, web assembly programming feels the same as programming a Z80 or 6502 back in the 80s.

And no, webworkers don't cut it, because they don't support structural sharing of immutable data structures in an efficient and flexible way.
The problem is that there are literally too many cabs on the road. Cabs rarely, if ever park, and are constantly driving. Parking, and this may seem counter-intuitive, reduces road congestion. If you have many vehicles constantly being driven, it increases congestion.
Love the article, hate the headline :( What the is wrong with these editors?
EDIT: I can't reply to ori_b below yet, but: he's completely right, I interpreted the parent comment as saying something it was not. I'm not sure "free market" vs. "monopolist" is the best way to name the alternatives here, but I agree that Uber does something more akin to setting wages/commissions than creating a "market" for its contractors. Original comment below for context.

> Uber is a price setting monopoly, the "sole authority" of the price within the Uber "marketplace".

Within the Uber marketplace dilutes the definition of "monopoly" into meaninglessness. Uber competes for drivers with Lyft, SideCar, taxi companies, limo companies, and, well, every other company hiring (relatively) unskilled labor. Uber competes for passengers with, uh, again, Lyft, SideCar, and taxi companies.

A free market does not require that consumers have the freedom to choose exactly what price they will pay for a particular product or service. What defines the free market is the ability to choose between competing products and services.
If you've read Marsh's Do No Harm and you're interested in more stories like it, I strongly recommend When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery[1]. Its author-surgeon (Frank Vertosick) lacks much of the compassion shown by Marsh, but the stories cover his failures more than successes. I find failures and mistakes more interesting, as there are countless ways in which an operation can go wrong, but only one way it can succeed. Though sometimes morbid, the cases are always fascinating.

1. http://www.amazon.com/When-Air-Hits-Your-Brain-ebook/dp/B006...
What do you think about the possibility of using hydrogen as a buffer gas (is that the right term? I haven't looked into this stuff in a good long time...). H/O mixtures are only explosive over a fairly narrow range, so it should be perfectly safe to breathe once the total pressure (And thus hydrogen fraction) are high enough, and I know I've seen it proposed in science fiction, but I'd be interested to know what an actual diver thinks about it.
1 mag 8 = 1,000,000 of mag 4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Richte...

On top of that major quakes happen deep below, not where humans do their thing.
I wonder whether a 'GitHub' for Science wouldn't help things along, just as it's helped the open source software community.

Scientist could have repos with full version control, so you could go back and look at their experiments from day one. All their data would be accessible, as well as their statistical analysis, and you could see the evolution of their written paper.

The repos could start off private, and then opened on the day of publishing, so others couldn't take credit for their work.

Just a thought.
Free software and open source is all about choice. Gnome vs Ratpoison. GNU Emacs vs Vim .. :)
Well I have to run it every time I edit a file, maybe you missed the second half of my steps, so I still need a watch mode thingy which means probably a build script like virtually everyone using Babel is doing.

Regardless, vi index.html is much simpler.
You are almost certainly misstating the Haskell programmer's question, because C makes it very easy to test if two function pointers are equal (intensional equality) whereas Haskell makes it very hard.
It probably would have worked better if I phrased it in the present tense. Every single time a man abducts a child he is not in jail.
There are always ways in. Kids are learning the concept and demands of precise 'command syntax' by typing commands in to the Minecraft terminal, or using command blocks. Maybe in the future people will be moaning about how kids these days with their gesture and voice based control interfaces never learned the precision needed for coding the way they did when they were younger: by typing in specific sequences of symbols to turn them into 'emoticons' in chat windows...
Irrelevant. Uber is more convenient than a taxi and people are willing to pay extra for convenience.
Is it possible to append all regular ddg searches with !g? I'd like to use Google for my searches but still be able to use the ddg bangs.
Advice accepted. The choice is for the community to make, we will not make that choice unless community strongly wants us to do so.
Here is the Microsoft case which was a corner stone to the contractor vs employee debate:

http://corporate.findlaw.com/human-resources/employee-or-ind...
Verge lamenting the loss of Nokia?

Anyone spotted some airborne pigs?
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=p-hacking

https://blogs.plos.org/scicomm/2015/05/19/p-hacking-megan-he...
s/dilvery/deliver/
I have to bundle it to run it in the browser (or use babel in the client which has an entirely different set of problems). I know these tools very well.
> After all, Frank Abagnale Jr was recruited by the FBI to catch check forgers

He wasn't put in charge of the FBI though and I'd assume he had heavy oversight.
I'm not sure what your point is.

Even if we replaced all energy generation with fusion. And I mean all of it. As far as I'm aware, the amount of waste helium produced wouldn't meet our needs.

Maybe you don't realize just how much industrial helium is used... but it's a lot. According to:

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/helium/mcs-...

As of 2013, some 47 million cubic meters, or 1.8 billion cubic feet, to be exact.

Every MRI uses Helium, as do many other systems, for cryogenics. It's also used in applications where an inert environment is required, which includes arc welding applications (think all those aluminum trucks rolling off assembly lines).
Oh how I'd be happy using a bit more cpu time for that instead of other css3 acrobatics.
They need a cool mobile app..

But also, from their website: "Volunteers must be able to commit to a minimum of eight hours per month for a minimum of six months. Due to the extensive training requirements, we are not able to accept short-term volunteers."

Not exactly "occasional dog owner", though I suppose 8 hours/month isn't a huge commitment.
I don't think the IRS cares that much about losing the income from Uber. On the other hand, killing Uber would send a strong signals to other companies to follow the law.
Is this the first non-partner investment professional at YC?
Why are you bringing this on? How is that related to anthropomorphic climate change?
Why do you believe the network effect would prevail when self-driving transport is available?

When I want to get from point A to point B, it doesn't really matter what my friends or other people are using, I just personally want good service at a good price - and I don't think I'd be particularly loyal to any one provider.

I expect that smaller regional providers of self-driving taxis would be able to compete on even footing with larger companies, once self-driving vehicles are purchasable commodities without heavy R&D costs.
>We're just waiting for the Fed to raise interest rates like they did from June 1999 through May 2000

doing it before elections changes the party in the White House, like in 2000 and 2008. So the question is what movie... err... president Fed would find more entertaining - Bush 3, Even More Dumber or Clinton 2, I'm Back, Baby.
Would be even better if they opened regardless of the results. It's valuable to know what doesn't pan out / what not to try.
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> While I feel your pain, and have spent a stretch or two in life-sapping Grunt Hell, this is kind of a sunk cost: ie, all this setup fiddling is necessary anyway for linting, test runs and so on - not just for the new shiny.

It's not necessary, I'm just wanting to hack at some new API I read about on the web. Assuming I need to set up a test harness, CI, and linting is putting the cart well-before the horse.
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Any idea if wasm / ES6 modules / module loader shims work with object URLs and/or data URIs cross-browser by design?

Doing something similar for Workers, one of the problems we've had is that IE and I think Safari block that, so to make it work we have to fall back on a permanently cached shim that puts an eval statement inside self.onmessage. (Obviously no equivalent to eval exists for wasm, or I wouldn't have a problem here in the first place.)
For those who don't know this codebase was originally on code.google.com and was recently moved over.

Codesearch also powers etsy's Hound (https://github.com/etsy/Hound) which is pretty cool.
Very very happy to see this.

Politically it appears to be a fantastic collaboration.

Technically it looks like they have really thought through this hard -- if you look through the post-MVP plans (https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...) there are a lot of exciting ideas there. But it's not just pie-in-the-sky speculation, the amount of detail makes it clear that they have some really top compiler people who are really rigorously exploring the boundaries of what can be accomplished inside the web platform (SIMD, threading, GC integration, tail calls, multiprocess support, etc).
Ask HN: If Blockchain and Bitcoin tech are secure, how did Mt. Gox happen?
Supposedly there's a public ledger that keeps track of all Bitcoin transactions.

Supposedly Blockchain / Bitcoin are awesome.

So how did Mt.Gox manage to lose track of Bitcoins?
Nah, one MRI magnet uses more helium than 10,000 kids balloons, and you get to charge $5,000 every time you use it.
This. In the U.S. there is a bright line test. That said, many, it is common to see startups and early stage companies skirt these regulations.
https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/06/17/1password-inter-proces...

This particular attack is worrisome because it doesn’t require “admin” or “root” access, unlike other attacks that depend on the presence of malicious software on the system.

It's a weakness.
bwy, I am writing this to you, from a current teacher to maybe a future teacher. I have a big issue with this line of your response:

Otherwise, your efforts may be futilely spent on explanation when all they want is to get things working.

Now this attitude is fine in a work environment, or many other places. But this is death for learning. Learning is not about getting things to work, it is about understanding why things work, so you can apply that understanding elsewhere, to unrelated fields even.

So, for example, I do agree with you when you say: don't go back and explain that the interpreter is this thing with very strict constraints and everything you type matters But I disagree with what you say next: That's not the point. Explain what's wrong, why, and how to fix it!!!

What would be better, in my experience, is to lead the student to find out, for themselves, what is wrong, you can supply the why, and get them to figure out how to fix it. These are what we in teaching call teachable moments, random events which present an opportunity to give the student a deep learning experience, one which will stick with them for a long time.

Your 'explain what's wrong, why, and how to fix it!!!' can be done via google, doesn't add to a real learning experience, and can turn people into cargo cultists.
So I should add that I wrote the article this that this piece mentions, but I posted this synthesis of it instead because I now think it's a more interesting take on the topic. Here's the original article I wrote for the Pacific Standard in 2014:

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/game-thrones-isnt-med...

And a medievalist's response, that in retrospect I largely agree with (I overstated how much more populous and cosmopolitan the early modern centuries -- roughly 1500-1800 -- were than the centuries that preceded them).

https://readingmedievalbooks.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/male-f...

Happy to answer any questions about the early modern period and how it relates to Martin's world (I've read all the books, although I have to admit I only skimmed the most recent one, which felt like it was falling into the same trap as Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series).
When I made the transition over to JS from another language a few years ago, this was exactly how I did it; I expected to have some kind of system in place that provided the tooling I needed to get the language that I wanted, and immediately landed on Node, preprocessors, etc, easing the transition immensely.
I've always wondered how YC is structured legally? Are they an LLC, or an S corp? How is the corporate organized?

I think it seems to be a very efficient organization for a group of smart people putting up some money and make investment decisions together.
GMO crops aren't invented for developing world conditions. They're invented for the developed world that can afford them. They're an extension of Green Revolution agriculture ideas. The core of Green Revolution is a focus on cash crops rather than subsistence farming - high intensity monocropping to create raw feedstock for junk food factories in the global market, rather than immediately edible food for local consumption. You don't eat soybeans. You eat things made in a factory out of soybeans.

Green Revolution is often the cause of rather than cure for hunger in the developing world. Here's an example. Ethiopia is one of the most agriculturally bountiful places on Earth. For thousands of years, it has been farmed effectively, and nomadic cattle herding was a key part of that. In the 1970s, it joined the Green Revolution. River valley land was "bought" and fenced in for industrial cattle farming, raising low quality beef for the European pet food market. This cut off access to the rivers during dry season for the nomadic herders, backed up in force by a now internationally funded army. The nomads were forced to stay in the hills, overgrazing during the dry season. A decade or so later, and the hill country desertified and the rivers silted up, ruining both the nomadic and Green Revolution cattle farming. Suddenly, a peaceful and well-fed land became the scene of a world-shaking famine and civil war.

The picture is much, much bigger than just GMO.
Apparently you've never been poor or lived in a food desert.

Poor people can't buy Organic non-GMO things; they're not affordable. If we ban this, they stop consuming it. Later in life we aren't picking up the tab for their health issues.

It just makes good economic sense and it's moral, too.
I think you're confusing cost of parsing with cost of lexing. A 1:1 binary representation of JS (like HPACK is for HTTP headers) wouldn't decrease parsing time (the time it takes to turn a stream of recognized tokens into an AST) at all, which was the goal here.
Who ever said that Uber is cheaper than a cab? Their strength is to provide great service and convinience not to be cheap.
Production of He-3 is actually a major concern in the nuclear industry. It's pretty much the best medium to make a neutron detector out of because it has an enormous probability to capture a neutron. Neutron detectors are rather important for many reasons, but mostly because they're the best way to detect nuclear weapons.

He-3 is rather rare naturally and was only really produced in quantity as a byproduct of nuclear weapons fabrication. Basically nobody is making nuclear weapons these days (at least in significant quantities) and there's not really any viable source of He-3. Alternative detector media like BF3 is crappy by comparison and the only other way to make He-3 en masse is via fusion, which isn't yet feasible.

So nowadays a tube full of He-3 about the size of a typical fluorescent light can run into the $100000 range (ish, it's so rare that it isn't really sold by anybody).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9147719

and (more recently) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602868
Precisely, yes. As with all internet services we can't really audit what's being collected as simple users, we have to trust them to "do no evil". If tomorrow ddg started logging my browsing history in order to better target ads for instance I probably wouldn't notice a thing.
Mt. Gox did not use the blockchain because it's too slow and expensive for daytrading. And the blockchain cannot currently properly record currency exchange transactions.
dev machines yes.
The laws of physics are time-varying? That seems like... well, let's at least call it not a mainstream opinion.

> The universe exists apart from being evoked by the human imagination, while mathematical objects do not exist before and apart from being evoked by human imagination.

Smolin says this in his conclusion. But when people talk about the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics (at least when I've heard it), this is what they're talking about - not that mathematical objects exist in some nonphysical platonic space, but that they exist in our heads as a game we play - a formal axiomatic system. The question is, why does our formal game, which we think is mostly abstract, suddenly and surprisingly turn out to work so well to model the physical universe? (We don't find that chess works as a model, for example.)

Smolin answers that, sort of. He says that since the basics of mathematics are in nature, it's reasonable that as math progresses, it will continue to correspond to nature. But it seems to me quite a stretch to say that, because the natural numbers correspond to the existence of countable things in nature, and natural objects take up space, therefore pseudo-Riemannian manifolds will correspond to general relativity. To say that is reasonable, it seems to me, requires making a mysticism around nature.
I'd like the fine to be in the form of refunding affected customers for the period they were defrauded.
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this is pretty cool. i need this for HN.
Sure, but Uber previously styled themselves as just a middleman between drivers and passengers - the facilitators of a market, not a force in the market of their own.

Consider a counterexample - eBay is clearly a market. Independent buyers and sellers agree to transactions, on their own terms. eBay competes for the attention of both buyers and sellers, in terms of service and fees, not on the prices of the actual goods in the market.

If the competition that's happening in the transportation market is between Uber and Lyft, and that competition is on the price of rides and quality of rides, then Uber isn't a market, it's a vendor in a market - and thus the drivers aren't vendors within Uber's market, they're just employees of Uber.
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I think Python's behavior of disallowing assignment in expressions is good enough to avoid those mistakes; it's an anti-pattern anyway in the vast majority of cases.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8555320/is-there-a-clean-...

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extract...
Lets select "this spot" as the primary arguing point, okay?

Uber has one job. Connect riders with drivers.

The "libertarian" solution is to provide a marketplace where drivers can sell their services to riders. Drivers can compete against each other by raising or lowering prices, while riders can compete against each other by similarly increasing or decreasing the bid.

Uber pretends to do this, but with a distinct difference. Uber sets all the prices. Therefore, Uber is anything BUT a free market.

Maybe you don't get it because you haven't been paying attention to Uber marketing. But I'm not claiming that Uber has no competitors. What I'm saying is within Uber's "marketplace" of "independent contractors", the drivers and riders are in fact helpless to Uber's pricing whims.

Uber is NOT a free market. But they are trying to market themselves as one. This is a distinct reason why Uber drivers have been declared to be employees.
Friend, a question if I may. Are you reading the comments of those who respond to and attempt to engage with you with an open and generous mind?
>> No, actually, accepting GMO crops could quite well go along with targeting specific unliked business practices engaged in by Monsanto.

> Can you explain this?

The less noise there is about GMOs qua GMOs, the more possible it is to focus attention on Monsanto's (or other GM crop firms') -- or, for that matter, non-GM crop firms -- particular business practices of concern, rather than the kind of technology that goes into creating their product.

> It would seem as the biggest player, they have a huge advantage over other smaller companies. So much so, I couldn't name two other companies who currently compete with them.

Monsanto, I think, gets disproportionate attention for two reasons: (1) it absolute dominates a GM crops in two key markets in the US (virtually all the US GM corn and soy is Monsanto), and its also, of the big GM seed companies, the one that is best known as a big GM seed company, and not as a chemical (etc.) company (though, of course, Monsanto is also a chemical company, so this is completely about perception) -- most people may not think of "GM crops" when they think about DuPont, Dow, BASF, or Bayer, but they're all significant players in the GM industry.
They can't be trusted. They're just not able to abuse it as much as a government. And the worst abuses would already be against laws against, for example, crimes of violence.