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Whatever you think about Uber, you have to realize that de Blasio's actions are not about congestion or the public's interest.

Let's not forget his original plan to have the city pre-approve upgrades to ride-hailing apps:

> The mayor’s plan to require Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other ride-hailing services to get city approval for upgrades to the user interface on smartphone apps -- and to pony up $1,000 each time they do -- has rankled a broad swath of companies, with 27 signing a letter protesting his plan.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-28/tech-c...
I can buy food with bitcoins just fine. And pretty much everything else too.
But most of the types in your program probably do not quack like ducks. Even the ones that seem duck-like enough that somebody might deliberately pass them into your function sometimes turn out to actually honk like a goose (e.g. bytes vs. str in Python, or unicode vs. str in other versions of Python).

Having used mostly dynamic languages throughout my career, personally, a huge number of the errors I've encountered have boiled down to getting the wrong type of thing — an unexpected null, a Business where I expected a Person, an array where I expected a string, an escaped HTML string where I expected an unescaped one, etc. Sometimes they quack kind of like a duck, but still do it differently enough to trigger faulty behavior (e.g. people and businesses both have names and addresses, but the latter can be in multiple places at the same time).

It usually works right, but in the cases where you're passing sensible types, you'll probably be OK in a statically typed language too — not always, but usually. Static type systems introduce some edge cases where you need to think about the type system even though you shouldn't have to, and dynamic type systems introduce other edge cases where your program's behavior can be unexpectedly brittle. They're both kinds of unnecessary complexity.
They did start an app store. They had a program where they'd package and sell your software. A lot of PC software got sold that way in the early days.
> The business model was made illegal by people who were voted into office to make business models like these illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
>Thousands of people had the entire Quran committed to memory during the lifetime of Mohammad. //

Your comment doesn't address the claim.

Once the canonical written version of the Koran had been established memorising the entire text is relatively easy. Prior to that you would have had to be present when Mohammed revealed the narrations or had a precise rendition of that oration conveyed to you. At times Mohammed only spoke to one or two people when revealing surah. Having thousands of people memorise a number of separate orations exactly without any problem of conflicting versions is really impossible. Conveying the general meaning is within the realms of possibility; surahs revealed to large groups might even allow the preservation of some of the actual wording too.

Take an example - Armstrong's speech when stepping on to the moon, was it "one small step for a man" or was the "a" not spoken? This is probably the most pored over of all speeches ever, millions of witnesses. Did no camel ever brae in the tents of the Qureshi tribe in Mohammed's time?

Abrogation causes further problems to this claim as not only do all "thousands" have to remember the exact wording used but the exact order too, and they have only a couple of months from the end of Mohammed's narrations to learn the last of them. Not only do they need to know the order, for abrogation purposes (to learn the way to act) but they have to remember the narrations in the same non-temporal order as everyone else. I can believe even that many of Mohammed's followers remembered surah, mostly that they agreed on wording, but not at all that they remembered it in the "wrong" (ie not the delivered order) and that the order it was remembered in was identical (ie was "the entire Quran").

Doesn't 2:106 say that Allah causes ayats to be forgotten, those ayats must have been in the original - else they wouldn't have been narrated by Mohammed - but aren't now remembered and so are not in the "entire Quran".

Of course if surah 25:32 (http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=25&verse=32) that says the Koran was revealed piecemeal is wrong and surah 2:185 is right then the whole Koran was passed on in one month (including future conversations) which makes it easier to attain unanimous agreement but also means that [if tradition that the Koran was passed on in 10 days is correct] the hearers were remembering > 600 ayats of prose each day for 10 days in a row; quite a feat for illiterate desert tribesmen regardless of whether they had a tradition of oral history or not.

I'm very interested in the Muqatta'at too - how were written character variations conveyed by the "thousands"?
Is there any reason to believe that urban hiking has a similar effect? I don't go on nature walks very often, but learning to walk my way around my city has given me an entirely different outlook on where I live.

Seattle has a lot of greenery, but walking around is a pretty urban experience.

I think that there is also a lot to be said about regularly moving your body (walking 5-10 miles a day), and the effect it has on your mental state. I wouldn't be surprised if your surroundings play a minimal role compared to simply engaging in physical activity and changing your surroundings regularly.
> I really want to try out coreboot (and also BITS, but that's easier).

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about BITS. (Or if you have fun playing with it.) It's a lot of fun to work on, and it's a lot of fun to talk with people who use it.

> What's the cheapest non-QEMU way to play with coreboot?

A Chromebook. You can replace the read-write BIOS safely, as the system is always completely recoverable via the read-only BIOS. If you want to be able to replace the read-only BIOS as well (by turning the write-protect screw), get a Servo debug board, and read the online instructions for adding a Servo debug port to your Chromebook board. (Those boards typically have the debug header, just not the connector.)
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Seems like a somebody thinks so:

http://uberlawsuit.com/OrderDenying.pdf
You'll be able to contract out the designers directly who made the original icon set. No worries about quality because it's the same person who did the original. They'll match perfectly, and you'll be able to work with them to make sure you get exactly what you want. (Everything will be pixel-perfect, too.)

For instance, if you want a Font Awesome icon that's not in the project, you can contract me out directly. You'll be able to do this for all of the paid icon sets: https://fonticons.com/sets/premium. Right now, we've got 2 gorgeous icon sets from Zach Roszczewski. You'll be able to contract him directly to get any icons his set might not have yet. (If you all don't know Zach, he's a particularly phenomenal icon designer. He did the Airbnb icons that are so gorgeous. The dude's seriously talented.)
I visited my cousins in a little town in Germany recently that is surrounded by walking paths all through town and in the surrounding hills. The town is filled with clinics that Germans get to go to to recover from surgery and other health issues because the walking and nature is so peaceful. Wish I lived there :-(
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> I don't think you can iterate thought the values in an array and in a dict in e.g. python with the exactly same syntax.

That depends on what you mean by "values". The default iterator over dictionaries in python iterates over the keys, so if you use the exact same syntax as iterating over members of a list you iterate over the keys of a dictionary, not what are usually called the values (there is a separate iterate for that, and for key/value pairs). But, yes, dicts and lists are iterable via the same syntax since they both support Pythons iteration protocol.
Ex post facto rationalization.

How is it voluntary (note, even you had to use quotes around this word) if it's the best option they have and/or they have no other options?

Just because some humans in some part of the world at some time did something, does not mean that many other humans also have to do it.
If this is what they were actually doing, and not hyperbole, I suspect you would have a reasonable case to fill out an FCC complaint - see their "Rules and Resources for Dealing with Unwanted Calls and Texts" at https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/2028738...
Keen to know why you had a "Meh" response to Uber or AirBnB...

I am assuming you don't have the same response now and if so what changed.. Did your knowledge of the product change(like, you thought AirBnB was renting Air mattresses earlier) or did the traction the product received change your thinking...
If it takes me to scroll 5 times before I get gist of your idea, you need a better pitch.
I implemented this system for the final project of my computer vision class. Couldn't get it to work by the deadline, but I'm very familiar with this paper. Happy to answer any questions.
Will this attract 'cheap' customers? As a potential customer I think I prefer the idea of a company that profits by the standard of doing my work, rather than a referral standard I have no control over.
That's just political face-saving.
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But people didn't vote people in because of their stance on taxis, apart from small vested interest groups. For most people this wasn't even an agenda they thought about, but because Uber exists, and they see an alternative to the rubbish taxi companies, it's coming to the spotlight.
Has anyone ever talked to one of those w3schools people?

To me they're like a faceless entity in the internet.
Presumably, Gigster has already curated the top resources into a brand you can trust for the projects that they specialize in (and which you want done).
Its interesting that TOR takes a circuit based approach and these guys use a packet based approach... its the same thing that happened in telecom over a decade ago. (its analogous, anyway)
Woah, I should read Tolstoy. I had no idea he was into this stuff.

I've recently been rediscovering Jesus from a new perspective, having grown up with a typical American Christianity and abandoned it as a teenager.

I've been finding that a lot of people from all kinds of backgrounds see the Jesus story and "Christianity" from this other perspective, where his teachings are universal and very subversive as you describe, and quite unlike the christian religion that we see. I've started to see the "kingdom of God" Jesus talks about in all kinds of people from all backgrounds -- including atheists and people who are still in the christian religion, and in all other religions or non-religions. Basically, I'm learning that people are people, and that all people have something good at their core that can be nurtured and brought out.

I've found Jesus' teachings and example extremely compelling to what I think of as the "real" me inside. And it's actually radically changed my life in 2015, in terms of how I spend my time and how I react to the things that happen to me.

What if I really could love my neighbor as I love myself? (And genuinely love myself, to start with.) Then nothing could really harm me.

It's really exciting to see these ideas popping up all over the place in various forms. I no longer see there being one group that is "in" while all the rest are "out", but rather that all of us have bits of this "kingdom of God" in us regardless of what we call it, and it's good and can grow, and it doesn't actually matter what we call it. The point is that it always brings love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, etc, which are universally good things that we all desire deep down.
Shame on me? Bull. Plain and simple. The commenter completely painted the victim in the wrong here. If cops are comparable to semis baring down on the freeway then we need to abolish them completely because they are out of control. And playing nice isn't going to change that.

Sitting in jail innocent and alive should not be the lesser of two evils.
These icons are so nice they make me want to write a bunch of apps just for the sake of using the particular icons...

Ooh weather icons. I think another weather app is needed....
How can someone resist arrest when they are not being arrested?
Yeah I've had fake "employees" as well. When I read up on it, it seemed the general consensus was that you could ask LinkedIn to remove them but they didn't particularly care. Over time, you'll likely end up playing whack-a-mole with fake profiles.
I've gotten several. I still have one recorded in voicemail. It likely wouldn't matter since Uber would call it a "political" call, thus utilizing one of the loopholes so they can spam the heck out of your phone number. All they accomplished by calling me over and over and over is ensuring that I'll never use their service.

Vonage's auto-translate results for the curious:
"Hi it's Molly with Huber and we need your help. We ended the days when you couldn't get a ride home because cab didn't wanna leave Manhattan now married to blog Theo is trying to bring the bad old days back because his millionaire taxi donors are telling him to why on earth would your council member. Ever consider voting for something like that. They should stand up for you. Not orders from the mayor your council member is sponsoring this bill and we need your voice. Please call your council number and tell them to take their name off of mayor-to-bother-as(?) an title bird(?) because you and all New Yorkers deserve a reliable transportation. Paid for by Huber 212-257-1745." "
> a return to our most natural, basic state, which is the law of love

I'm sorry, but this is hopelessly naive. All living things are the products of evolution, and hence competition and the drawing of boundaries between "us" and "them" (i.e. between the phenotype of the reproducing genome and the environment that is used to provide the resources to reproduce) is an inherent part of all life. To be sure, cooperation can be beneficial to survival, but there is nothing in the laws of physics that insures that the cooperative boundary should be the entirety of one's own species. Peaceful coexistence is hard precisely because it is NOT our most natural, basic state. This is not to say that peaceful coexistence is not desirable or achievable; it is both. But pretending that it is a "natural state" is the left-wing equivalent of climate-change denialism. We will not solve the problem of global warming by denying the laws of physics, and we won't solve the problem of inter-human conflict that way either.
I disagree with the article's claim that a donation is a kind of tax.

I make a donation voluntarily, expecting nothing in return.

I pay taxes because I'm forced to, but I at least nominally expect to get some services in return.
Very strange results with rare Unicode characters (I used "𝕳𝖔𝖜 𝖜𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖉𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖐")

https://imgur.com/a/Li8OZ
> Uber's vicious and cavalier attitude towards law in general is really disgraceful.

If a law is wrong and stupid why is it disgraceful for someone to fight to remove it (sometimes that means breaking it)?
TBH, I wouldn't be so surprised that teenagers know that a floppy icon means save, because they use text processors to do their homework, and at least the most popular software (Microsoft Word) emphasises so much that particular icon.

Although being honest, I got impressed by the "tape" icon used for voicemail.
I don't really like Uber's business practices but they do fill an essential niche in New York City.

A couple years ago, the city allowed independent car services to paint their cars green and take street hails. They previously did this, of course, but it wasn't legal. And of course, not every "black car" became a green cab, so this still happens. It's the standard way to get around the outer boroughs of New York.

I watched a very common event unfold the other day in Brooklyn Heights. A woman hailed a green cab. It pulled over and the driver opened the window, asking "where to?" The woman mentioned an address in Manhattan. The driver said, "sorry, green cabs can't go to Manhattan" and drove away.

That is 100% false. Like yellow cabs, green cabs have to take you anywhere in the five boros, but they're reluctant to take you to Manhattan because they aren't allowed to pick up fares there. They have to drive back to Brooklyn empty and not make any money, so they lie to customers to avoid that. The end result is that you still can't get a taxi in most of New York City, at least one that will pick you up near where you live and take you exactly where you want to go.

The "ridesharing services" rectify this problem; I've never had an Uber driver refuse to take me anywhere. If the licensed taxis want to be free from competition, they need to follow their own rules.

Anyway, this Forbes article about green cabs tells the exact same story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngiuffo/2013/09/30/nycs-new-g...
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> Google is pretty strict about side projects done by its employees; its IP release claims ownership over anything

IANAL nor do I play one on TV but I don't know if I actually believe that is legal - and if it is then it's a huge legal nightmare.

Take this project for example[1]. He worked on it before he was an employee of Google and after - does that mean Google automatically gets copyright over the project? What about after he leaves Google? What about if he never touched it while working at Google - does Google still get automatic copyright over it?

[1] https://github.com/snapframework/snap-server/commit/5e4850d4...
>The bank profits from fees we pay to the bank and from interest on loans from the bank, but they have to have the money before loaning it out in the first place. They can't just loan you money out of nothing.

Oh, I agree they have rules they need to follow. The way modern lending works is the bank makes you a loan and then goes looking for funds to cover its reserves by borrowing against your loan document. I'm sure they like to lend out depositors' money because it's cheaper, but they certainly don't need it.

They borrow from other banks if they can, but if not they borrow straight from the Fed at the "discount window". And when the Fed lends money it is literally created by changing a number in a computer somewhere. So ultimately that $1000 has been injected into the economy though the creation of money (which will get destroyed slowly as the loan is paid off).

The point, way back in the beginning, was that the money supply is really only constrained by the amount credit-worthy borrowers are willing to borrow at a profit to the banks. That's why the Fed discount rate has such a big effect on the money supply - by raising it they make unprofitable some portion of loans that would have been profitable at the lower rate.

I'm not sure if the central bank is technically part of the fractional reserve system. But is there fractional reserve system currency issuer without a central bank? I'm not aware of one.

Let me apologize for my tone as well.
They are probably not "mutant" flowers, but "deformed" flowers. Do the offspring have the new shape?For example from https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=mutant+flowers

The flowers in the florist shop are filtered and you only see the good locking flowers.

First image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower-Mutant-1145.j...

> Flower head with a mutated floret cluster (unknown species). (North Texas) [...] 12 April 2009

Second image: http://www.enchantedtree.com/flowers.html (near the middle of the page)

The image doesn't have a clear caption, but it's probably from Virginia in the summer 2004.
I agree with you. Joining a company that has a clear revenue model (or has found a decent way to monetize their user base) and is growing by leaps and bounds seems like an easy bet.

But how many of these companies are out there? Granted, we are a few waves after the deluge of social startups with gigantic user bases and no idea on how to monetize them, but what you describe is still a minority of startups.

And the suggestion doesn't seem to be "join a company that is already doing well", it's "join a startup or create one, instead of going to work for some corporation".

This is what I think: in engineering (and even more, in business), right after your graduation there is this window where you have large and famous companies with deep pockets who are eager to get the cream of the class. If you join them even for an year or two, you have significantly smoothed the rest of your working life.

Sure, you can always join them years later, and you don't need them to succeed - but statistically, the impact of taking advantage of this window cannot be denied.
Does anyone on HN "work" for either of Uber or Lyft?

There seems to be a lot "uber workers this" and "lyft workers that" without much substance.
Wait -- what? Apple Music deletes music without asking you? That seems to be what the article is stating.

Same as this author, I have a large collection of digitized music, most of it ripped from a 500+ CD collection I no longer have complete access to. It's backed up, of course, but sheesh.
Tangential, I'm reading "War and Peace" right now for my book club, very difficult to slog through; just curious for peeps who've read either "War and Peace" or "Anna Karenina," what is so special about Tolstoy's novels, that makes it different than say their Western counterparts like say "Les Miserables" or "Pride and Prejudice"?
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I'm not sure how anyone could think that walking next to a loud highway for an hour and a half (without a distraction such as a friend or music) would be a great idea.
disappointed she didn't include results for that download icon that looks like an inbox

also I do think a nicely simplified telegraph key could be an excellent 'send' or 'communication' icon
The gist of the talk is right, but there are a lot of underlying errors. Kids today know that 'floppy disk' means save because... floppy disk has 'always' been the ideograph for save. They're not functionally mapping it to the physical device. It's a bit like people know that 'a' means the first letter of the English alphabet because... it's an ideograph that means that by convention - even though in handwriting it's written differently. People have been trained to understand what that shape means.

There's lots of these errors of understanding throughout the talk, but the biggest one is the rolodex card icon. It looks like an ID card more than a rolodex card, since the latter do not have portraits on them. Check it out on a google image search; some companies make cards for you with their logo on it, but most cards are blank for your writing, and there is no portraiture. Presented with that icon, photo-on-the-left, text-on-the-right looks like a pretty default ID card. The underlying point is right - that the teenagers recognise the meaning of the icon - the but rationalisation for why is incorrect.

So why do teenagers understand that floppy means save? Because 'convention'. Not because "they're smart, and backward-map old technology". If we had a different icon for 'save', and one company just today started using the floppy, then no-one would understand it.
Well, the linked article does discuss the potential difference between a nature walk, and an urban walk.

> In an earlier study published last month, he and his colleagues found that volunteers who walked briefly through a lush, green portion of the Stanford campus were more attentive and happier afterward than volunteers who strolled for the same amount of time near heavy traffic.
Sure, but NetWare was the industrial strength solution. It was too expensive to set it up at home or at a company with fifty employees.