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It's actually really interesting, some of the backwards compatibility features. For example, directory hashes that allow fast name lookup are hidden inside of "empty" elements of the previous list format so that older drivers can still find files in the newer versions of the file system.

Many structures also include their size, so that drivers can tell how much functionality any given element supports by which fields it contains or omits.
...worked around its few weaknesses...

Details please! What are they and what did you do?
Time kills all deals.
The only time I cared about classmates' grades is when there was a curve. Adjusting a 92 to be the threshold for a 4.0 is a curve BTW. A lot of schools dont do this.
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Hey Paige - If I negotiate a potential financing with Arena, and it doesn't work out, will you take all of my emails and publish them as well?
> All the regulation in the taxi industry was driven by the players wanting to control the cut-throat competition that existed before regulation.

The difference is that traditional taxis had no monopoly power. They were (and are) undifferentiated commodities—I don't even have any idea who owns a cab I'm in.

Uber's network is a substantial moat which protects it from undifferentiated price competition.

Again, how do you propose that a competitor would build a viably competitive network in an Uber city?
loads fine here in Australia :)
have you tried proxies located in Finland to make sure it's not just your ip/subnet?
You are misunderstanding. The $500 limit is specifically for "goods". Not services, for instance.
An argument for that idea of making laws expire by default unless renewed.
Services like Uber definitely need some regulation. I drove from downtown SF to the Castro this evening, and witnessed 4 separate incidents of Uber drivers being reckless and/or discourteous. Things like: driver stopped in the leftmost lane, at a green light, because he suddenly decided that he wants to turn right instead of left; driver stopped in the right lane to pick up passenger, when he could have just stood in a parking spot a few yards down; driver stopped to pick up a passenger at a corner, blocking the crosswalk.

I'm all for "disrupting" the taxi industry, but please don't disrupt traffic because you're too lazy and/or clueless. Is there a way to report asshole Uber drivers?
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All a matter of perspective.

My basic understanding is that deals are complete when signed off. Where's the lack of integrity in that?
Are we.. I am not so sure..
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Yep. A better example would be to make it so that 10% of the students get 6 extra points and the rest get none if more than 10% choose 6 extra points. This way everyone that chooses 2 is punished if the go over.
There is nothing stopping us from creating a web app. But the use case is less priority for us as most people are getting connected using mobile and we want to stick with it.

Thanks
And no you can't leave a message in locations.
Speaking as a former Bostonian, it's also nice to have a fenced yard to let your dog out in the winter instead of bundling up to walk him around icy sidewalks.
What does it have to do with Uber? A lot of drivers are doing that, and don't even get me started on taxi drivers in New York City, they just do whatever they want on a road.
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One of the things he suggests is resource management, though, the file example. It would also be trivial to implement his vector sum example with syntactic sugar designed for resource management. E.g. in Java's try with you would just square in the constructor of something that implements closeable, sum in the try-with block, then square root in the close method. Ruby is even easier since you would just pass a block into a method and the method could do pre and post operations before running the block. In both cases these things are usually used for resource management, but they can easily be used for this.
I've never heard of a property manager that charges more than 10%... When you add 1st month's rent plus 10%, the first year is higher than 10%, but that's about it.
Thanks! The site's been running for almost 2 years now. Going steady! :)
The problem happens systematically and the system fails to correct it because it lacks the proper alignment of incentives that keep it from working against the public.

That's pretty much what corruption is.

Would you say the same of third world traffic enforcement because the system is trying to stop the practice of shaking down motorists?
I doubt that Intel is blind to the desires of Microsoft and system manufacturers either.
>> if people are serious about a deal then they need to move quickly, wrap it up and sign it.

exactly, you see this with recruitment.. when a company meets the right candidate they move very fast...

Anytime I did interviews, I had a 24 hr deadline for me to mentally strike out a option. Everytime I got a job, I was contacted almost within an 1-2 hr of doing the interview.

Any delays means they other party has other good options, same applies IMO here as well..

So in this case unless they sign on the dotted line pronto and give a cheque, things are still up in the air
Hi! I see that you are new to Hacker News. Welcome.

It's unlikely that anyone cares about your opinion re: Scala's syntax and cherry-picked abuses thereof. I certainly do not. My comment was an attempt to point out the sarcasm in the root comment.

Have a nice day.
Ahh. I should fix those.

You can check out our own Q&A site (eating our own dog-food). We use Postatic to run our own community.

http://self.postatic.com
Same situation in Georgia (outside of the tech industry), but at least you're in EU (unlike Georgia, yet...) ;)

As for corruption, the low-level part of it (e.g. cops taking bribes) is eliminated here, fortunately.
"The system" isn't equivalent to "the intentions of the people who built the system"... it's what actually occurs in every day life.
We don't have a self-hosted model yet. But we'll probably look into it in the future. :)

We do have a simple ranking algorithm. Hmm, how could we allow our users customize this... that's a good question.
PHP (Laravel) + Javascript, Postgres.
None of these will apply a square to N items, and then the inverse (square root) to the sum of those squares.

This is really more like map-reduce, with an additional inverse step deduced from the inverse of the function that is used for the map step.

With map-reduce, we can map all the inputs individually through a square function, and then reduce with +. Okay, that brings us to sum of squares. "Under" adds one more step: to "undo" the squaring with a square root, and without being explicitly given the square root function.

If we have a zoo of functions that are all associated with inverses, we can roll this into a single operation. Say a functional combinator under(T, P) which takes a processing function P (which takes one or more arguments) and a transforming function T (one argument), and produces a new function F which is of the same arity as P, such that F(a, b, c, ...) calculates T_inverse(P(T(a), T(b), T(c), ...)).

The we have under(square, sum)(1, 2, 3) to take the norm of 1, 2 and 3.
Yes, it would seem so. Not an expert but my guess is the earliest use of diacritics appeared around 100 years after Mohammad's death. So even, being generous the claims they make in the article don't hold water.

The probability is fairly high that this is a very old piece of animal skin with some Quranic text written about 100 years or so after his death (being generous).

It should also be noted that there is absolutely zero contemporary historical evidence for the existence of Mohammad. Zero.

We have piles and piles of contemporary historical evidence in multiple forms (statues, tablets, pottery, artwork, etc.) for many important and lesser important persons in history both much more ancient and equally ancient, but for him, nothing. It is only after a significant time gap after his death that we find a trickle of evidence and then a torrent. Exact same thing for Jesus.

If anyone is interested, Tom Holland's "Islam the untold story" is a fascinating introduction to this sacrilegious line of thought.
That's because it's free. For now. :) It'll come one day I'm sure.
I am so going to this! My 13yo son is going to be so excited to attend.
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The author seems to be getting at something very similar to the notion of "bidirectional programming" [1][2]. It's a concept that's closely related to the indispensable "lens" library in Haskell [3].

[1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/lenses-etapsslides...

[2] http://www.janis-voigtlaender.eu/papers/ThreeComplementaryAp...

[3] https://github.com/ekmett/lens
It's interesting because handwritten notes are seen as one of the last symbols of human authenticity. The unique drawing of each letter seems to prove that a human invested time and thought in directly communicating with you. There was no copy-paste. There was no form letter. This was not a bot. And, based on the length of the note, there was provable effort involved. Both a Turing test and a proof of work problem. The world's oldest Captcha.

And so begins the devaluing of that proof. Just like when marketers started reproducing the "signature" on every sales letter with blue-colored toner, mimicking the authenticity of a hand signature.

I don't write handwritten letters, and I don't romanticize the past. But our dwindling ability to assess the authenticity of incoming communication is slightly unsettling.
I think you're adding unnecessary complexity into the analysis. Whether we call it a floppy disk or refoofoofah, clicking on that icon saved your document. Thus, we would expect this behavior to generalize given a similar icon in a slightly different environment/app (stimulus generalization).

Using the word "meaning" here is problematic because it comes with some intellectual baggage (e.g, connotation). What does anything "mean" really? The most straight forward answer to me is it "means" what it does. That is, function is meaning, especially in UX.
Well, any contract between the dev and Gigster almost certainly requires that dev to certify they are permitted to perform the work and that performing the services (to spec, including the spec that they are work for hire) are not in violation of any other contract.
Nah.

It's the "fourth extended" filesystem, not the "thirty-fourth extended" filesystem. Hopefully we'll have something else to replace it before we get that far!
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This was calling me out ... sorry didn't notice. But I did it on purpose - no woman around me has ever had problem with beer or pong. They only had problems with running out of beer. So these specimens that take offense are like a different species to me.
I used to use icomoon, now I use fontcustom - using a free tool like that in combination with the noun project (thenounproject.com) I pay for only commercially used icons once ($1/icon usually). What's nice about that as a non-designer is I can prototype for free and only pay when I'm confident enough to move forward with the idea commercially.

I'm not sure what the advantage of a $49/year subscription fee would be when this option already existed.
Of course, not all function is invertible. The exact rule is described at: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d202n.htm
> which is why you can even hail a cab from the Uber app if you want

How? Is this specific to SF? I've been there a couple times and never saw this option.
Advertising to people with intent to buy is still advertising, just the most lucrative and expensive kind.
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It's more pronounced because Uber drivers are waiting for their passengers.

In Seattle, the behavior of uber drivers has started to mirror Taxi cab drivers: surly attitudes and aggressive.
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Yes, Google[X] (aka "Special Projects" on their job search portal) is a very different beast to Google proper.
Wait, most?

Do you mean most that aren't autogenerated ones that stop being mined a few months in, or do you mean to include those?

I'm a bit surprised about "most" but if you mean "most that do something" then I could believe that, but I am still surprised.
Can anyone related to this explain to me why Yahoo Weather is listed under their "success stories"? As the PM on the project, I can say without a doubt this was not done externally. It was built through the sweat and tears of the wonderful engineers and designers on the team.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fie0qrk7ecpphib/weather.jpg?dl=0

This just seems like blatant lying to me.
provided you final build, tests and do some sanity checking under JRuby, it should surely meet most needs?
Driving for Uber (or a rival) hugely increases the likelihood that you'll want to change your destination suddenly eg when you get a job. That makes it more likely you'll do something dangerous to get somewhere more quickly - your review depends on it, and consequently so do your potential future earnings. I'm not sure that's a reason to regulate Uber but it is a problem, just as it's a problem with taxis.
>Again, how do you propose that a competitor would build a viably competitive network in an Uber city?

I would pick mid-size markets and optimise for unit costs. I would settle on a single fuel efficient car model (or two) and then work on making my capital and servicing costs as low as possible. I would use trained and experienced employees and implement tracking technology to ensure that the drivers are polite, prompt, efficiently located, and don’t drive the vehicles like taxi drivers do (helping keep wear costs down). I would then bombard the local media market to achieve name recognition and app take up and then run a price war to gain market domination. Since I had optimised for unit cost I should be able to defend this domination against new entrants as long as I kept my pricing at just above my costs. I would make little profit, but my market would be defendable. Rinse and repeat in each new markets.

I don’t think such a business is worth the effort, but all it take is one person who does.
People also start companies, which is even riskier. Angeling into one startup may be better than never trying anything at all.
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> That does not mean I use it for production.

Any particular reason why? (I'm just curious, I do absolutely nothing with ruby)
Variations existed in the written form not in the recitation because diacritics (tashkeel) were not standardized. It's a common misconception that the Quran is memorized through the written text. This is not how it is transmitted. Look up Tajweed, which are the rules of pronunciation of the Quran.

Furthermore, memorizers of the Quran can trace the chain of narration back to Muhammad himself. So there couldn't be any forgery or manipulation. Uthman doesn't have the power to erase people's memories.
> It's unbelievable to me that people dislike Uber and think they're just some "scam" backed by venture capital.

There is a flip side to that, as well. Uber has engaged in questionable tactics, and their drivers are from the same pool as Taxi drivers.

I've had uber drivers accept the fare, then immediately cancel when they figured surge pricing will kick in. I've also had drivers not pick me up from my location, one who would not turn down their christian music when asked 3x.

Uber's support staff is good, and any hint of poor performance results in a 1-star review.

When I first used Uber, the drivers were great. Now with more uber drivers on the road, there is more variance in the service you get.
> Investors, if you want a deal, cut a check: it's not complicated. Founders don't have time for your games - you're the one with the cash, they're the ones with burning ships actually doing something.

this makes it sound like investors simply crawl out of bed one day and say something uncomplicated like "mm I feel like giving money away to some startup for breakfast"
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Google gets copyright over any code contributed during the duration of your employment - that's what happened in the project you link to. If he doesn't touch it while working at Google, there is no such code. You're supposed to disclaim any open-source projects you wrote before Google employment - I did, and then didn't work on them while employed.

It is somewhat debatable whether this provision would stand up in court, but do you really want to fight a court battle with Google's legal team?
> Uber's star rating system and insistence on keeping drivers only with good ratings is part of why people enjoy using the service. Drivers can't pull shit like that and get away with it.

The star rating system works well, but given the number of drivers Uber churns through, you're still likely to poor service.
> Apple commodified fun computing

This never happened. Even today, where Apple enjoys revenue and popularity, the computers Apple sells still take less than 5% of market share and they are business computers, certainly not considered "fun" ones.

> made it affordable

Until just a few years ago, Apple was -- rightfully -- considered to be selling computers much more expensive than the competition. This image changed a bit these last few years but even today, a Mac Book Pro costs comparatively 30% more than the competition.

Apple was never about being affordable. Ever.

> They died when they couldn't keep up with Apple or PC hardware.

Atari and Amiga died for one reason and one reason alone: Windows.

When they died, Apple was close to being bankrupt as well and it only survived thanks to Bill Gates saving the company by injecting cash in it (mostly forced so it could sustain anti competitivity accusations).

> IMO this is why MS completely failed with Win 8/10.

Uh? Are you talking about Windows 8 and the upcoming Windows 10? Windows 8 was a pretty big success, even though it never got as popular as Windows 7 or XP.
Url changed from http://www.infoworld.com/article/2946566/security/core-linux..., which points to this.
>There is no history for something like UberPool

Actually there is a lot of history for this - go to any third world country and this is how most of the taxis for locals run. It is actually one of the outcomes of a lack of enforced regulation since competition drives unregulated drivers down this path.
Move clock 25 years back and you can replace Romanians with Poles.
Thank you for the compliment!

Nowy Friends is not a friend-tracking app: you don't see friends on a map, the app doesn't track where you or your friends are.

If you're asking how to restrict who of your friends can know when you're nearby (e.g., Jack and Jill, but not John), then, in its current form, you cannot do this. We have ideas on how to build such a feature, but our current ideas make discovering your nearby friends slower.

Regarding advertising availability only at certain times, the app enables you to go in stealth mode, where basically advertising and friend discovery are turned off, it's as if you turned bluetooth off for the app.

Finally, when you talk about sharing your position with a friend, do you imagine this happens when they're nearby? For example, you're in an underground pub, and Nowy Friends tells you that Jack is nearby, but you can't see him, so you'd like to send him your GPS coordinates? If so, we think GPS coordinates is not the best option as it may not be precise enough. You could, instead, text them to set up a meeting point or the 2 phones could coordinate to show the same color, and then you'd raise your phone and look around for a phone showing the same color as yours.
touche!
but there's a new Microsoft in town! I hardly think after being the biggest contributor to OpenBSD [1], they would build a underhanded way of trying to kill Linux.

I'm trying to understand if there is an attack vector that is prevented by not allowing coreboot.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/microsoft_donates_to...
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Are you lead / only developer in the company? What suggestions do you have?
I'm moving into a non-IT company as the only developer. What are the do's and dont's? What suggestion would you give?
Me and my team also have our own favorite route of doing it -- Illustrator, then our own script[1], then straight to IcoMoon.

1. https://github.com/razorfish/illustrator-layers-to-svg
I don't get it. What does it do and how does it work? The videonis cool but the website is sparse on details.
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These benchmarks are very small and do not run long enough for the JIT to really kick in. Many of them are also so synthetic as to be meaningless.
I'm glad to have helped fund the kickstarter. It was advertised to come with a linux distro but at the time but they didn't have many details about that. Glad to see that they're becoming part of the mainline kernel. Developments like this are going to increase the popularity of linux and smaller computing devices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609022
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I don't fully agree with the classification as a false friend.

"Landesverrat" describes an act of information disclosure so grave and dangerous that it would fall under "treason" in many jurisdictions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

Less strong forms of "mere" espionage are also covered in §96-§99 StGB.

As for your comment on the Federal Prosecutor: I'm not an expert on the legal system, but I would expect that he can file charges (like everyone else) according to whatever his investigations turned up with. I don't see how your link says otherwise.
> Harvesting the vast amounts of water on the Moon – the equivalent of the Great Salt Lake in Utah – could make the project commercially viable.

I didn't know this. But anyway, I live by the Great Salt Lake, and it's more like the Great Salt Puddle. Would that amount of water really sustain a colony? I suppose the base would have the most efficient water facilities ever invented, but still, it wouldn't last for long unless the water was recycled forever.

(I see, later, they refer to finding such ice as 'prospecting for gold' - I'm optimistic about our future in space, but this water situation is tricky. Ship it up there, maybe?)
Somewhat off-topic: Amsterdam's city center has recently seen a huge explosion of ice cream parlors, to the point where the center district now wants to ban any new ones.

Ice cream parlors, not "coffee shops" or "massage parlors" are currently the most hotly debated topic in Amsterdam's tourist area...
> I certainly do not.

What a coincidence, I do not care about your opinion either!
Yeah, but I'd love to see the legal mess untangling that. There would be at least 4 parties to such a lawsuit - Google, their employee, Gigster, and the company who bought the MVP. IANAL, but I believe that such a release absolves Gigster of any legal liability, but wouldn't protect the client from having Google lay an injunction on them for using source code that belongs to Google. If somebody warrants that the goods you are receiving are not stolen and it turns out they're lying, that doesn't prevent you from having to give them back.

The way IP issues usually surface is during diligence for an investment or acquisition, anyway, and most investors won't go anywhere near a company that can't prove they own their IP.
You guys make some good points & jokes, but to clarify, I was objecting to the "profits" part of "profits go to those who work hard to earn them". Under communism, workers own the means of production, so the profits of their labor go to them. Under capitalism, workers get paid a wage but the company profits go to the owners, who generally aren't dripping with blood, sweat, and tears after an initial startup phase.