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Turing’s Martin Shkreli regrets 5,000% price hike–says it wasn’t high enough
Has anyone found the recorded version of the lecture? Missed it last night... Thanks.
How to Ethically Modify the DNA of Humans
This is called disintermediation. In short, unless you can convince at least 51% of the drivers to join your platform in a very short period of time, your offering will be inferior (longer ETAs, lower earnings per hour for drivers) due to the network effect. As times go on, your drivers will leave the inferior platform. This is assuming that your app is at least good as Uber's.
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If your project does not generate any (or enough revenue), then it might make sense to purchase a $20 theme from websites like themeforest.net or wrapbootstrap.com.

These look polished enough that your customers won't know that you purchased a theme v/s hired a designer (they don't care anyways)

Once you have enough revenue coming in, you could then hire a designer to create a custom website for you (if you still really want to).
It looks like real time locations when I've taken uber, unless you mean not real time as in slightly delayed time to get GPS, go to uber and then back to my phone.
If you have enough public transportation there's a good chance you don't actually own a car...
Eh? I don't think it relies on your phone... the car has its own cell radio for this very purpose.
SAAS JOBPORTAL
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Single purspose app or Multi purpose app?
Which one is better and why?
For debugging I use the debugger that comes with CIDER. It is the simplest debugger I've ever used, on par with edebug.

Honestly wondering: what do you wish for in clj debugging?
That's what the surge pricing system is intended to do, to some extent. However, significant variance in pricing removes the reliability and consistency of the service. Designing a UI to allow the user to see the supply market and set a rate xyr's willing to bear would also be a nightmare.

Surge pricing aims to balance the supply/demand curve and a consistent experience, resulting in more future rides.
One idea is to use machine learning for training drones planes and quadcopters....that will make a startup different than others! Actually applying ML in a product will stand out in the market if the job is done properly.
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nice one ,WHY SAAS ?
Once, I was using a struct for some simple data. I added a very simple member function to sanely format the data. I thought I was going to be hung in the code review for not using a "proper" class.
That the defense didn't object to this, or ask the alternate ("Does anyone in here intrinsically trust the police?") perplexes me.
Preaching to the converted
"Distribution of harmful matter to minors." The law requires a warning that says it shouldn't be sold to minors. Instead, they put on a sticker with a snarky remark about how some people might find the contents objectionable, "but life is like that" (something like that). So kids were buying the album and parents were freaking out when they found the poster hanging in their bedrooms.

There was never really any notion about being charged with obscenity. Most people reject that out of hand anyway. The issue was that there is a law that attempts to ensure parents get some warning so they could decide if some materials may not be appropriate for their kids. The matter before the jury was to decide if that poster was that kind of material, and if the snarky sticker was sufficient warning.
A great deal of the maladies in the US in particular occur outside economically viable areas of public infrastructure projects (high poverty, violence, substance abuse, etc). Drunk driving is alarmingly common outside major metro areas but they're just not caught as often due to less strict / able police forces (never mind the small town tyrannies like with the Alice Walton drunk driving case resulting in the dismissal of the officer that pulled her over). A lot of these regions don't want a lick of public infrastructure due to cultural reasons as well. So how can we expect stubborn grandparents to admit they have "a problem" and have them do the equivalent of putting themselves in a nursing home metaphorically speaking? This is a major political problem at the root of a lot of the US's internal conflicts in my view having lived near the rural Southeast a lot as someone from the suburban west coast.
Those are more along the lines of tools a driver uses for assistance. I draw the line where if the car rear-ends another vehicle, a judge would never place the responsibility on me (because I wasn't even behind the controls).
It's not just tech skills at all. The network effect is particularly multiplied with Uber, as the feedback loop is far stronger:

* The fewer drivers you have, the longer ETAs there are.

* The longer ETAs there are, the less drivers earn.

* The less drivers earn, the less drivers there are.

* Rinse and repeat.
That's amazing that they purposefully sabotaged it! How did they go about doing so?
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Cars are still bloody expensive. Many many people make the decision not to buy a car when they live in a city with good public transport. It's only in places like Australia and most of the US where you practically need a car that ownership is ubiquitous. Elsewhere people find that there are better things to spend all of that money on...
Singleton? No no, those are ALSO evil. No, we need to use a dependency injection container to provide that object instance.
isn't billion megaton bombs only a factor of 10 larger than 100 million megaton bombs? It's a 1000% larger but not 1000x. I'm just saying.
The author explicitly says he will use a code of conduct, and you should too.

To show that I absolutely do believe in the value of a code of conduct...I'm also adding a code of conduct...to the Discourse project.

If you maintain an open source project, I strongly urge you to consider formally adopting a code of conduct, too.

He acknowledges feeling safer doesn't make you safer, but says you should make people irrationally feel safe anyway.

The words in your quotes do not appear in the article - did you get them from another post of his?
Civil trials in the U.S.(as opposed to criminal) are an entirely different sort. Google "U.S. Tort Reform" and you'll find treatises on the subject.

I agree, it's a total mess.
Because I want to be able to consistently know how much an Uber ride will cost.

Particularly in emerging markets, one of the biggest appeals that Uber offers is that you don't have to compare prices and haggle with drivers.
"I just hope it offers the same kind of experience Uber does: drivers are ranked, and thus can't act like taxi drivers."

On Halloween, I saw this older Uber driver pick up/take home one groups of drunks, and idiots all night. This driver had a black Uber approved SUV. One passenger insisted on taking a 10 foot tree branch home to her destination. She tried to stuff it into his new SUV, and ripped the headliner. The driver offered her water. She then told the driver if he didn't get her home, with her light saber she would leave him a bad review. He let her hold the branch outside the SUV. Her light saber was scratching the new paint.

Passengers shouldn't be able to leave any remarks, unless their was a major problem with the ride. People have gotten way to finicky, and think they have a right to review every aspect of this sharing economy.

While I watched this guy smile, and open doors; I thought how would I handle these people. I think it would be along the line, "Get in this 4 door Uber approved chariot--that I'm still trying to pay off. Shut the F--- up, and I'll take your drunk a-- home. If you keep quiet, I won't throw the mineral water at you."

I guess I wouldn't get a good review?
Standards compliance ensures a good mobile browsing experience?
Timezone updates need to be fixed
> kernel, oh, how I wanted to like this. Every CRC32 operation consists of a write to and read from a socket...

Why didn't they extract the CRC32 code from the kernel and try it directly?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/lib/crc32.c
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...
Discovering Open Source in China
Good list, but I guess it's quite universal, not for women only. But anyway, keep up the good work and keep women in tech! :)
Akka to the rescue
I'd say yes. Pony up.
Funny how GOTO is bad, but "break"ing out of a FOR loop is acceptable. The break is a very specific case of a GOTO.
The author may be autistic.
Looks great. Why such emphasis on "Ember"? Does the target audience really care what front-end framework is used?
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Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew),
but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
How about if length contraction means that 1 meter is now fewer length quanta than before?

I mean if spacetime is emergent why limit ourselves to an intuitive sense of what distance is.
I particularly like the new Westminster station --- you get off the train, leave the platform, and you're at the bottom of this huge vertical space, full of support girders and zigzagging diagonal escalators. You ascend through this, with new views becoming visible at every turn, and eventually the ceiling comes into view overhead, looming over you before the escalator passes through it...

It reminded me intensely of some of the Portal 2 levels.
Hot code reloading is best used for a scenario where you cannot afford to restart your system, usually because it drags a lot of internal state around and reconstructing that state is expensive.

Typical use cases include several gigabytes of in memory state which takes a long time to read in and get hot when redeploying or a large amount of long-running TCP connections.

For most other uses, we just do rolling upgrades in Erlang as everyone else is doing. It is somewhat simpler to get to work, and immutable architecture is to a certain extent easier to manipulate.
Have you tried DuckDuckGo? With the exception of maps and directions, I actually prefer their search experience to Google's.
the solution even though people won't like it is to put a tax on fuel and reinvest that into public transport, or give people 'miles' they can use with public transport so they don't feel robbed.
> And with the spacing being what it is this probably won't work out favorably for Makani. Still, it's a super interesting project.

I think I understand why you'd say that, namely there isn't an infinite amount of land that can play host to wind generating equipment. But I think traditional turbine farms already have a large spacing; 6-10x rotor diameter. If you've got a 50-100m turbine then a spacing of 300m-1km isn't unreasonable. The Makani equipment might need 50% more space, but probably not 500% or 5000% more which would really make it unattractive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#Wind_turbine_spac...

If Makani a 50% lower capital cost then you'll probably see regular turbines continue to be sited where their higher capital cost is effective and Makani equipment deployed where the traditional turbines are uneconomic.
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There's no reason to suspect that consumers (or indeed drivers) will only use the one service though. Consumers are focused more on specific availability than average availability, and just because Uber has more drivers doesn't mean they won't sometimes only be able to offer the second quickest time and lowest price to a person waiting in a specific place. Provided there are enough drivers to ensure that it's worth consumers' while checking their app, the service can remain viable. Traditional telephone-booked taxi services usually aren't local monopolies.
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So a jury being lied to by the state attorney is better than a jury which did their own research (with all the faults this includes)?
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Well, a good example would be linear regression. We know pretty much all there is to know about its asymptotic behavior, and can prove that its results are "maximum likelihood estimates."

Similarly, Bayesian statistics (a.k.a. probabilistic programming, graphical models, Bayes networks etc.) has a rock solid mathematical foundation – both the statistics behind it and the sampling algorithms (MCMC).

Of course, many mathematical statistical methods started off as hacks too. The invention of the L2 loss function, I imagine, must've gone a little like "alright, let's try to find the pattern here, let's draw the line through this series of points that minimizes the sum of the distance of each point to the line... hm, I don't like how this looks, let's try squaring the distances instead and then minimize that sum so we punish large deviations from our line a bit more... oh, that looks better."
According to the Intermittent Fasting site, 8 hours of sleep is part of your fasting:

http://antranik.org/intermittent-fasting/

This groks with everything I've learned about dieting and exercise. Some people like to work out in the afternoon because their bodies are at peak-warm-up. While I like to exercise first thing in the morning because my body has to find energy in my fat stores after fasting through eight hours of sleep.

Try weighing yourself before bed and when you wake up. You'll find you lose a pound or more for exhaling carbon in your sleep:

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193556929/ev...

Here's how it works for me: go to bed at 9, get up at 5am, skip breakfast, and put off lunch until 1pm (drink lots of tea during the day). What I've found is that I can't eat enough calories between 1pm and 9pm to gain weight.

I think these researchers are on to something. Different dieting techniques work for different people, so it's good to have lots of options.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10661192
Point about keywords is important, could be somehow highlighted or put in the top.
In addition to the other points, the thing simulating us need not run on our physics, or even resemble our physics. They may have infinite computational power. We don't, but that doesn't mean anything about them.
I agree that we should be using using open / standard format for data and images, but no general rule can be deducted from the fact that one particular FOSS software was better than a particular proprietary software, and in this particular case it looks like which OS they were running on had nothing to do with the better diagnostic.
Sketch competitor written in WebGL launches with 14M in funding
This isn't a new position for him, unfortunately. Here's a link to a video[0] of him in 1998 explaining it at a commencement speech.

I guess this could be taken out of context, and he's actually just being sarcastic, but I don't think so.

[0] http://www.buzzfeed.com/natemcdermott/ben-carson-egyptian-py...
I have heard that one of the reasons for building the Crossrail lines is to provide enough spare capacity that they can get away with closing one of the other lines for an extended period of time for long-overdue extended maintenance.

In other words, they're currently running at n and want to instead run at n+2.
Uber driver fined for driving hire car without licence (Australia)
It will be really interesting to see who would be the first organization running automated Taxi. I think as long as Google isn't dumb enough to let go its pioneer engineering team members they are still the front runner. The only thing is that they don't have the a manufacturing capability. Now that they poached Tesla's lead engineer in the area, a Tesla - Google join force is actually more likely, Tesla has more need for Google now.
Sorry, I didn't articulate my first point well. The shooter in the Port Arthur massacre cited the school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, as an inspiration for his crime. That happened the month before Port Arthur, and was heavily publicized in the month leading up to the Port Arthur shooting. The harm is that, by the admission of a mass shooter, the publicity surrounding another mass shooting inspired him to commit another one.

Ah, but it IS about the tools they use. That was my whole point regarding Australia's ban on automatic and semiautomatic rifles following Port Arthur. The ban on these types of weapons has correlated to a dramatic decline in mass shootings, because ready access to those types of weapons allows you to shoot lots of people at a high rate of speed. The after incident report of the Port Arthur shooting showed that the perpetrator killed almost a dozen people - a third of the death toll of the entire incident - within the first thirty seconds of the attack. Why? Because the shooter had a very accurate, high-rate-of-fire weapon carrying thirty or more rounds in a highly enclosed space. (Most of the people he shot were less than fifteen feet away.)

Now, would the incident have had the same death toll if the perp only had access to, say, a handgun? Possibly, but I doubt it. I know from my own experience with firearms that a rifle is substantially more accurate and holds way more ammo.

Australia's ban and reaction to this incident makes perfect sense to me, and two decades of empirical evidence seem to suggest their policy choice was absolutely the right one.
Yeah, unfortunately one way review systems take the "customer is always right" mantra to the point of permitting blackmail. At the very least, unreasonable customers should be possible to report.
Because design patterns, basically. I designed this page and have never seen codio.com before so I'd say it's just a reflection of common design paradigms for marketing pages.
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671897 (article from a day earlier, efore the statement was released)
> When Times New Roman appears in a book, doc­u­ment, or adver­tise­ment, it con­notes apa­thy. It says, “I sub­mit­ted to the font of least resis­tance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the black­ness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.

Nicely worded. Even if you don't want to bother with typography at all, Times New Roman is rarely a good default. It was designed for typesetting tall and narrow newspaper columns, not A4 or Letter width letters and memos.
Note that the writer is the famed Ingrid Daubechies, who was one of the main driver behind wavelets and early works on sparse representations.
Well, given that it is much easier to destroy a system than it is to build one in the first place the actual method doesn't really matter much. Take your pick. How would you sabotage a system?

In this case they canceled the contracts on a bunch of facilities that were crucial to operating the old system and that would take a very long time to set up again.

But the whole idea of a non-revertible change-over without at least a period of having the old system on stand-by just in case all by itself is totally reprehensible, especially since their testing regime was comprised mostly of 'let's go live and see if it works'. Of course they didn't mention that little fact beforehand, only afterwards was it made clear that any attempt to move back to the old setup was going to be fruitless because they'd 'closed the door behind them'.

I suspect that they knew full well the new system wouldn't work properly and that if a revert would have been done this would likely trigger some serious backlash so by saddling the client up with the new system and making sure they could not go back they forced them to accept the new situation no matter what. Job security by any means.

Only that part ended up not working.

I've never seen a clusterfuck like this before and I really hope I won't ever see one again.
For one thing, the app experience would be significantly more complex for users because the consumer would need to choose between drivers based on pricing.
> I think of him as Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men. We will share this role.

You can tell me how this means he's not comparing himself to Henry Fonda.
> And with language support I don't have to introduce new names for each occurrence;

Having <LHS> as a name is only useful I think if you don't want to give it another name? I was asking what's the downside of giving it a name.
That's not thinking, that's an attempt to stop thinking. We already know things we can do that would be far more interesting and dangerous to live with, if we just had control over genes. If all that we could do is make "a tall person", there'd be no debate. Your brain is probably recoiling from the possibilities, because you simply can't accept them, and reaching for denial and bad humor in an attempt to cover it over, but that's going to be really, really dangerous in the near future. You'd better look reality in the face instead of trying to mock it or it'll blindside you, and the same goes for our regulators and bioethicists.
According to that paper (table 3), the UK is number one per capita, and Germany is rank 5.
Funny anecdote: I was recently contracting at a company that was OOP gone amuck. Everything written in Java ca. 2001 style. Lot's of message wrapping and unwrapping. Lots of dependency injection fun and games.

At some point, their lead developer tells me about some guy they had for a job interview a while back, and as the story goes they had him through a code review where he was berated for using a static helper class. Apparently his reply was something like "You're using static classes for view helpers? But that's insane!". The morale of the story as told, was that clearly he didn't know right from wrong and was passed over. I didn't know what to reply to that.
Airline companies typically have ancient stuff running but from a productivity point of view that old stuff beats the 'new' stuff hands down. It just works, has 0 overhead in terms of eye candy and so on. Ok, you can't play minecraft or solitaire on those machines but that's probably a benefit.