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Right now Uber is beneficial because it brings competition in a sector that used to have none. There's a huge difference in term of service in cities that have Uber and cities that do not. Taxi service in cities without competition is awful

Just as an example, when coming back by train late at night I along with 4 other passengers waited at the taxi stand from the train station for 40 minutes to get a taxi (and that is despite having called the central before to confirm that there would be taxies). And when the first taxi finally arrived, he refused to allow us to share a taxi to go to different destinations, which meant more waiting. It's just anecdote, but it's something that's happened quite often to me and my friends and it's why we're happy that Uber comes to finally bring some competition.

Of course, if Uber got the monopole on taxi service, I'm under no illusion that they would be benevolent, any monopolistic situation is detrimental to service and prices. I believe though that the barrier of entry to compete against Uber in the future would be much lower than competing against the current taxi lobbies so I don't think Uber would ever get enough shares of the market to be a monopole (based on the money they are losing by subsidizing fares in China and India, I think that owning a big share of the market and being in a monopolistic position is there plan, I believe it's doomed to fail though).
Wonder if anyone has made a study about the IPv6 retardation as a market failure. Underbelly of network effect comes to mind (first mover ISPs get no advantage/payoff even though the change is sorely needed for the system as a whole).
I'm not saying that VR will not be used, but that AR will be a much better technology for the industry, learning applications and general use. There will still be niches for VR, in much the same way there is now.

VR is good for simulations/games. For real world usage, AR will become an enabler. As an example, after having run simulations to learn the basics of flying a plane (using VR), you can then use AR to help you as you do the real thing. You could continue to use AR to assist in providing pertinent information while flying. The same process could be used for any kind of machinery that people must learn to use (driving for example).

AR has far more scope and relevance for applications outside of games. It is also much harder to do right than VR. I'm of the opinion that VR will pave the way for AR.
Polish word for tank is "czołg".
Well, that’s an issue that can be solved in different ways than monopolizing the market and transferring 20% of every fare to foreign investors, though.

Just publish an API for your service, and write an app that can connect to every service that provides the same API.
You can also add healthcare. Huge potential there.
I wish that were actually true in France and in Portugal...
Two (or more) is perfectly fine, on two conditions:

First format it so that everything vital is on page one, even on a multi page resume I should get a good idea about you are from just the first page.

Secondly, and more importantly, only write a multi page resume if you have actually done enough stuff relevant to the position to warrant a multi page resume. Don't pad your resume with irrelevancies just to make it look long.
Please help need advice. What should I do? Feeling very depressed.
Hi All

I am feeling really depressed. Someone newbie of my field with less experience made a very good impression in the community. While I was trying hard to make some impact for years and tried to enter in the field but not able to so much successful and he come and got all the glory.

Sorry I know it is wrong to be jealous. I got so much depressed and feeling very bad and insecure. I am also feeling so much anxiety.

Please help. Need advice. What should I do to overcome this thing.
> I guess the concept of a cap seems odd, when one could let the market decide.

Keep in mind that, like busses and trams, taxis are considered part of the public transport infrastructure in Germany. One particular consequence is that taxi drivers are not allowed to refuse fares, and that fare prices are fixed.
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But that happened already 8 years ago in Germany.

Check out taxi.eu – an app from the Taxi companies, offering the same service as uber. Or MyTaxi.

The German market already went through that phase, competition is there – it’s just not uber.
Hmm, you know when people say that it's when you start dreaming in a foreign language that you can tell you've started getting there with it? Maybe struggling with bad language use is also a sign?

Fun times with their/there/they're: even if you know you're using the correct one in your head, you can't guarantee that your fingers' muscle memory won't get in the way.

After a particularly exhausting week working with MySQL, I lost the ability to type the word "myself." As soon as I start typing "my", the fingers take over and quickly spit out "mysql".

It's infuriating!
You could simply normalise them to not be constantly on then.
You are also free to negociate your own fare. The Taxi to the airport costs 40€ at my place, but I get it for 25 by my local taxi driver, night and day. Uber was more expensive the single time I could legally use it.
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Really that's odd, it's tank in pretty much most languages even slavik ones (Russian, Bulgarian, Ukranian, Romanian (yes i know this one is a Romance one) etc..)
Is czołg actually used commonly?
That's why Uber later tried to hire regular Taxi drivers.

And yes, the regulations exist to protect the taxis from competition, but in turn taxis have rules they have to follow. E.g. they are not allowed to turn you down if they don't like where you are going, because they are considered part of the local transport infrastructure that has to be available. Since they have to take "bad" jobs, they get some protection from others taking only the profitable ones.
It's happening, and it's approaching the critical point. 2016 starts at 10% IPv6 traffic, will end at 25% IPv6 traffic. No sound company today will launch its services in IPv4 only and eschew 10%-25% of potential traffic.

It seems like this is another doomsday prediction. Evidence would make it persuasive.
> Non-chiclet keyboard with decent layout

This. These cheap keyboards are very annoying.

I hope Lenovo produces the old IBM style business quality keyboards for their brand new models.

@Lenovo: have a look at your great T410 keyboard, build them again: http://cdn6.bigcommerce.com/s-blhknq8/product_images/images/... (only the cursor keys are a bit too small, otherwise great)
Testify Brother Testify.

As some one who used to wok on international standards for British telecom IPv6 is a total F&^%ing disaster and this was obvious back in the late 80's

When the original ipv6 group is 19 ivory tower academics and 1 guy from Bell labs what do you expect.
I'd never thought that I could be identifiable via the unique combination of factors.

Another spooky js lib (http://valve.github.io/fingerprintjs2/) generates a fingerprint using the following sources:

* UserAgent
* Language
* Color Depth
* Screen Resolution
* Timezone
* Has session storage or not
* Has local storage or not
* Has indexed DB
* Has IE specific 'AddBehavior'
* Has open DB
* CPU class
* Platform
* DoNotTrack or not
* Full list of installed fonts (maintaining their order, which increases the entropy), implemented with Flash.
* A list of installed fonts, detected with JS/CSS (side-channel technique) - can detect up to 500 installed fonts without flash
* Canvas fingerprinting
* WebGL fingerprinting
* Plugins (IE included)
* Is AdBlock installed or not
* Has the user tampered with its languages 1
* Has the user tampered with its screen resolution 1
* Has the user tampered with its OS 1
* Has the user tampered with its browser 1
* Touch screen detection and capabilities
As an user of a X201 with an SSD, that's not really the case, the differences of blinking rate are noticeable.
>> Right now Uber is beneficial because it brings competition in a sector that used to have none. There's a huge difference in term of service in cities that have Uber and cities that do not. Taxi service in cities without competition is awful

My city (Southampton, UK) has competition already, without Uber.

I guess the situation is different in different places, but to me there is no value proposition in Uber. In fact the prospect of a large multinational taxi-corp moving in could make things worse if it damages the ecosystem we have in place here already (and have had for many years).
See a quote from Matt(hew) Ahrens (zfs developer)[0]:

There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use
of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. [...] I would simply
say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a
filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS.

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Well this really helped me in my situation, hope you will also feel good:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://ghurfa-books.s3.a...
Does anyone know if there are plans to incorporate "powerline" symbols, a la https://github.com/powerline/powerline? Or are those already Unicode compliant, and simply missing from most font libraries?
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Yes that is the same where I live (at least the fixed prices).

Come to think of it, I have no idea if we have a cap here!
So simple!

Let's just hook into every country where Uber has taxis to create a mega app that will allow you to travel to any country and have access to the following:

- Ordering of taxis via the app

- Takes credit card information (atleast securely)

- Ratings of drivers to weed out the bad ones

- GPS to show how far the driver is, how far you are from your destination

- Your destination syncs to the drivers device, so they know where the fuck they are going for a change

- Tax invoices on completion of drive

- Allow to change from business / personal accounts on the fly.

- Semi good customer service

- Fare estimate (including surge pricing, surcharges) to destination

- Split fare easy

- App that is on both iOS AND Android

- App that doesn't suck and crash.
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It's an incredibly small niche, but for someone from the US traveling to Europe for business, Uber (and similar apps) are useful to remove the need for cash (i.e., use credit cards -- particularly corporate Amex) in booking a ride.

I've used this in Paris and Munich in the last year.
No it hasn't. This is just a myth.

DVD/BluRay were all successful purely because the largest CE companies put their might behind it and pushed it forward. Arguably the Playstation was a far bigger influence.

The Web never had Porn for quite a while (I had a 1200bps modem and remember the early days pretty well). Sites like Yahoo, Netscape etc were the reason the Web was successful. Porn was mostly Hotline Client, Usenet, Private FTP and BBS accounts. Even then Porn was never popular until Quicktime came about.
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> - HDD and network activity indicator lights

Also, a battery and power supply LED that is not _on the back of the device_, so I can actually see them while using the device.
Well, the idea was to do stuff like

@media(max-size: 200px) { #container { background: url(tiny_mobile.png); } }

@media(max-size: 400px) { #container { background: url(small_mobile.png); } }

@media(max-size: 800px) { #container { background: url(medium_tablet.png); } }

@media(max-size: 2000px) { #container { background: url(large_desktop.png); } }

@media(min-size: 2000px) { #container { background: url(retina.png); } }

Not always loading the same image is a good idea on mobile.
Except this is not a zero-sum game. Some of the waste created by this machine of competitiveness is our constantly improving standard of living. In fact, I'd say that this sentiment(that all your hard work and stress leads to nothing) pretty much exemplifies the middle class. The kids from poor families don't want to stay at the same relative advantage, they want to do better than you so they can lift themselves out of poverty. Perhaps what you're sensing is the pressure from a large poor class trying to improve their living conditions by competing with the middle class. C'est la vie.
> if it was allowed to spread freely

Everything is bad when it's driven to the point of absurd. But this description:

> if it was allowed to spread freely, might collapse an entire country and kill thousands or more in the ensuing chaos

is something that the former can become much easier than the latter.

I've seen how a country goes from a western democracy to a quasi-totalitarian state myself. When you describe US and european surveillance programs as something that leads you towards totalitarian dystopia, it's a little like a boy who likes to cry "wolf". These dangers are real indeed, but they don't come where you think they come from, and they are not the only dangers in the universe you have to be afraid of.
> Can you run docker containers in userspace?

Yes, and it increases the attack surface even more in some scenarios. Now, an unprivileged user can create new namespaces and do all sorts of things which were previously limited to root.

With "clear containers" (very minimal KVM VMs), you get the overhead down to <20MB:

https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/

Also, RAM is cheap.
"just 208 cars were actually delivered in the fourth quarter of 2015
[...]
In fact, by the end of the year, it was producing 238 a week."

So, supply is outstripping demand? Or do they have a problem delivering cars to customers? Or is it just latency between 'produced' and 'delivered'?
What the fuck is wrong with you people? It's one thing to be privacy advocate. It's another thing to bring this thing up to this level of idiocy.

Please don't do this. It poisons the conversation, and your point would be more persuasive without the personal attack.
Ditto, was in Berlin recently and was very impressed by the taxi service. The taxi driver slowed down and asked us if we needed a ride, was patient when we got out our address on our phones for the AirBnB, and even suggested a faster route. He gave us a detailed explanation of the cultural sites in the area. €11.80 to take two people with 4 luggage bags about 5 kilometers.
> No sound company today will launch its services in IPv4 only and eschew 10%-25% of potential traffic.

The thing is, no sound company has to. No consumers have IPv6 only. Everyone is dual stack. By not deploying on IPv6, you don't lose a potential customer, you just make them use their existing IPv4 connection.
10 years is quite a long time.

Today 10 years ago we didn't yet have Twitter, for example. BlueRay was only a year old. I imagine many folks were still looking at CRT televisions as something to buy for their family.
They have the "Do not mix Modes of Anonymity" section from the Tor docs. It clearly says that there's mode(3): only location privacy, no anonimity. The State of the Onion talk at 32C3 mentioned using Tor for non-anonymous usage, e.g. for securely getting to Facebook via their onion service.
It is an option, anyway.
I've always thought it's easier to make a good impression when first entering a new field/job/school/whatever, the real trick is maintaining that good impression for a long-period of time. One success will buy you a certain amount of 'credit', but eventually it runs out. Longevity and endurance are the key.

But you should also think about working with this newbie, perhaps together you could achieve even more success?
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After the Oberon derived OSes from ETHZ there is hardly any university pursuing OS research in memory safe languages, so congratulations on the work achieved so far.
This is definitely not true in several European countries like France.

But for me you missed the biggest point - credit cards. Some London black taxis take cards, some pretend their machines are broken, others don't take the cards in the first place which they will proudly tell you with a big user-unfriendly notice in their windows.

The second two ruin it for all the black taxis, as I can't flag any taxi down unless I have actual physical money, which I hardly ever have, because I don't know which of the three it will be.

Issues like price, time to pick up, knowledge of the area, even wanting to support local businesses etc are irrelevant if I can't pay them.
Agreed - and if the various city-specific taxi companies can organize themselves enough to do that, I think they'll become a lot more competitive with Uber. I'm not holding my breath though.
>Did you miss Zuckerberg pledging $45 billion to his foundation last month?

I did forget about that yes. Its not quite what I meant though. Its not about the money. There is a bit of a loss of "star" power at work here here. Take the hyperloop example - it sounded a bit outrageous but because it was Musk that proposed it people had a serious look at the numbers. Had I proposed a plan of equal technical merit it wouldn't have gotten the same attention.

Thats why I think people like that should leverage that.
AHCI and NVMe don't support this type of activity polling so I don't have a clue what your X201 bases the HDD usage off but it's really not the old IDE standard LED blinking, which makes me thing it's either faked intentionally or the same thing that will happen if you plug in a modern SATA to a motherboard with HDD activity monitoring it will just blink erratically regardless of what is actually happening.

modern SATA drives doesn't matter if they are still mechanical or SSD's don't work the same, your OS doesn't work the same when you save a file it doesn't mean that it's being written that moment, it can be in RAM, it can be in your HDD's cache or it can be written down.

HDD activity LED's haven't been doing anything real for over a decade now...
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Just.

What about the coordinating those? What about review system for drivers?
Uber is popular in my area (NJ, US) because of those taxi companies:

1) Never being open late at night
2) Not having apps/hard to get a hold of
3) Not speaking English: not a problem in itself, but having to fight with them because they missed your exit, or they're taking an insane way to get there, is made harder if you cannot communicate.

Uber is super simple, relatively cheap, and almost always available.
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Remember that Hong Kong supposed has "freedom of the press".

Yet China has detained now five people.
This is cute, and definitely a good educational resource about mature foss HCI applications, but this will not give the degree of quality that many have come to expect from assistants as simple as even Amazon's Alexa. Sirius is much closer to what you want.

http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/sirius-suite/
Oh, hi! How would that work?
Note that adoption in the US is 25% (skewing the world average.) See https://www.google.ca/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-c...

Many American ISPs distribute both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to their users, and almost all mobile devices have some sort of IPv6 connectivity.

With Happy Eyeballs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs), and the other common transition technologies, IPv6 is largely transparent to most users and works quite well.
I have 2~3 pages. I write quite a bit about what I did at my last positions and list the most important projects that I worked on and explain briefly what I did for those projects. So far the only comments I have received on my resume are that it's impressive.
Good luck trying to stop a bot army that uses IPv6
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Or maybe no one does the work and he is not allowed to exist. Lots of poor people just die from treatable diseases for example, and no one is forced to take care of them.
Didn't they reboot middle of last year?
Given that several of my local taxi services already cover a lot of this with their apps - Ordering, payment, GPS, invoices, account management, fares etc - it's my guess that there's already an enterprising software house out there selling skin-able apps for most of this.

Hooking it into multiple systems would be the technical challenge, the rest seems a solved problem.

Oh, and some folks (probably mostly Europeans) don't really like the driver-ratings thing. It's an end-run around little things like employment rights. A ratings scheme for the individual taxi companies providing the services perhaps is useful, but not individual driver ratings.
"..the standard of living for the rich has risen and the standard of living for everyone else has dropped"

Really, standard of living has dropped? Just to pick one counter-example, something like 500 million iphones have been sold in the past 10 years, and over 1 billion android devices were sold last year. Compared to 10 years ago, we've given half of the planet 24/7 access to the sum of human knowledge. Seems like a pretty good step up to me.

I think what you mean is wages have fallen, but standard of living has risen dramatically and only shows signs of accelerating.
I used to complain about IPv6 until I got it. It just works, and per-byte 93% of my data traffic is IPv6 now.
I can't seem to get it to resize elements.
I'm using chrome, and I have a simple layout, just the root and two children, but no matter what I do to the settings of the children, they won't resize.

I find the concept very useful though.

It would be nice to rename elements.
I would hope that the warranty covers such a defect.
You are seeing the tipping point of a new industry. Products will be made in volume. The critical difference is that there will be lots of revenue generated, which will fuel further development, accelerating innovation.

The original iPhone was a bit of hype too, right? The Apple Watch? Bill Gates showing off "pen computing" in 1991?

https://youtu.be/eenDjMXfVBQ?t=142

Personally, I don't see the point in being "that guy" who feels the need to explain to everyone that the nascent technology is hyped. Your comment can apply to most technology. In fact, someone should create to "AI" to announce the overhyped AI that we're going through.
It's good essay, but there are some theses which I don't know if I can agree with them.

He claims that theory cannot be expressed.
"(...)the knowledge held by someone who has the theory could not, in principle, be expressed in terms of rules"

Imagine that he is right and programming theory can't be expressed in words. Imagine if this was true.

Imagine there is no GoF book, no established design patterns (design patterns imo are just programming theories expressed in terms of rules...),

Imagine there is no Knuth books (if trees couldn't be expressed in terms of rules, then it would be pointless to write books about it).

Imagine there is no conferences about e.g. AngularJS or React architecture etc.

Because theory is in programmer head and "can't be expressed"

Maybe my thinking is flawed. Maybe Naur meant by "theory" something like "inner insight". If so I would agree with him. I see this quite often. People read books about design patterns and still don't understand underlying principles behind them. They just use them without deeper thinking (and they overengineer code often).

Although Naur wrote this article in context of one program but I think that programmer is building theory not only for current project but also for whole programming field. Programming skills are often independent of technology/project/language).