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I don't think the Uber surge threshold is so sensitive that you're likely to be the marginal customer driving pricing up.

More importantly, there's simply no way that you would have 10 different prices. Ten people on a corner might be enough to flip that area into surge pricing, but each individual would not get their own personal price.

It's not like this is something which is untestable. If people actually think Uber is discriminating on price between different users, that's trivial to test.
>Why pretend it is a string at all?

You are confusing the language and underlying datatypes, which is extremely ironic given the criticisms levied against XML in this thread.
"If you're using £1,000 headphones with your iPhone at the moment, you're going to be slightly cross."

So.. maybe just don't buy this hypothetical new iPhone?
Account just created for this ad; "article" is just an ad and remarkably badly devised as an article.
pulls out Sony Clie PEG-UX50 with wifi, Bluetooth, IR, color screen from 13 years ago whistles pulls out Palm Tungsten C from the same year, also with wifi, SD slot, and VPN support removes 1988 Cambridge Z88 from backpack, begins calculating in the spreadsheet app how far we've come
Investors, shareholders, owners etc.
Someone ought to disrupt market and create an app allowing Uber/Lyft/Blah drivers to use 1 device per bunch of providers.
But in normal math it's easy to use n-ary addition.
Depends on the duty cycle ... if it uses 1W all the time and is only on 5% of the time, then yes it is having its savings erased.
Religion is a social pattern and it connects to other social patterns too.

Also I think it is important to scope that "atheism" is usually a shorthand for "Western, Secular Humanistic Atheism" which is philosophically an off-shoot of Protestantism in general and Calvinism in particular. You get a different set of results when you look at Buddhist Atheists or Hindu Atheists for example (because in neither of these traditions is religion dependent on belief like it is in Christianity).

Hope that helps.
Taking a cut in salary in lieu of room to grow or anything else should be decided very very carefully. You must really understand that you actually do have an opportunity to grow; at the very least, you should know that its risky and have evaluated the risk as one worth taking.
I think that would fall in the third type of report they are planning to sell: "The third report, which they plan to sell, will contain raw data from their assessments for anyone who wants to recreate them."
AFAICT the FTDI bricking code was taken out of the Windows Update driver.

I'm glad it's a CH340 - I've had no problems with those, unlike Prolific or (fake) FTDI devices.
If a coop doesn't have to pay investors, they can split that between the drivers and the consumers. Customers will switch apps for cheaper fares, all else being equal.
Because of the limit on taxi medallions, the market value of a medallion was as high as $1.2 million. When drivers lease the medallion it can cost $125 per 12 hour shift or about $85,000 per year -- an amount Uber drivers don't have to pay and thus should result in much lower fares.
Other US cities that are still expensive gave much lower fares.

Also there are many elderly on a fixed income that can't drive or negotiate mass transit easier.
"MAX PER CUSTOMER: 1"

Non-starter. Doesn't even matter if its free if I can only get one. If its "the" pi zero on my bench it means it gets used much differently than if its "a" pi zero.
The post linked has another interesting post in the comments: http://www.defmacro.de/?p=13 . Its about an interview McCarthy gave in the year 2000 to infoQ.
It's up to each person to decide what they find acceptable and act accordingly.
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DSC has 15 percent of the market, by volume. The low revenue numbers is because they sell so cheaply .

As for profits, it's hard to evaluate those since DSC is in growth mode. But in general DSC as the owner of the customer relationship will get all the market power and considering razors cost pennies to make , DSC will probably have a decent future.

But that's outside of the matter. It's about turning a large market into a much small one, and in the process stealing leadership from gillete.
You should really read patio11's article on it, but the short of it is that, yes, you should always ask for more. The simple reason being that they won't rescind your offer but might give you more, since they planned a salary range for that position.
> It is nice to get a quick response

Indeed, it is. But one won't learn anything of value. One just learns the solution to a very specific problem. If one chooses to learn the basics, more often than not one will decide that it is quicker to dive into the problem and fix it than to "troll" tech support.
And yet Calvin himself rejected such a tweaking view regarding predestination. His argument for predestination was simply that some people are good enough and others aren't, and God knows who is good enough and who isn't.

It's also worth noting that both Thomas Hobbes and JJ Rousseau came from Calvinist circles. So I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that the Hobbes/Rousseau (and those closely influenced by them, such as those of Locke) are effectively Calvinism as applied to society and clothed in secular rhetoric.
Some good points, twablalock, but you left out some essential stages in the history.

To start, Marx predicted that the alleged contradictions in capitalism in advanced industrial economies would lead to a workers revolution, with a pre-industrial country going first to socialist economics without the capitalist phase being seen as rather dubious. When decades went by and this failed to happen, it lead to a great crisis in the communist movement. One faction, lead by Eduard Bernstein concluded that revolution was impossible and so joined in with the social democrats, hoping to bring about socialism by gradual reforms.

The other faction, lead by Lenin, stuck with revolution as the means, but lead by a tightly-disciplined group of intellectually-oriented political activists. Lenin also thought that revolution had failed to occur because European nations used the profits from imperialism to pay-off the workers. That is important because he also thought this system, once it had expanded around the world, would lead to a world war that would destroy it, and then all the workers would revolt.

That in turn mattered because Russia, as a largely pre-industrial state, was not seen by marxist ideology as ready for communism, and so it would seem the communists should not try to provoke a revolution there, but Lenin believed that after the European war and communist revolutions there, the industrialized would aid a Russian communist state.

Well the great war came, the Russian communists started a revolution and took over, but after the war capitalism did not collapse. The question then was whether to switch to a capitalist state, or try to go ahead to socialism anyway. Lenin pushed for the first option, then died, there was a long power struggle between Trotsky, Bukharin, and Stalin, with the last eventually winning.

Stalin said he was for the capitalism option, but after a while switched to a brutal, totalitarian version of socialism, and this produced very rapid industrialization, but never a transition to true egalitarian socialism.

But in the meantime Mao took this to be proof that a non-industrialized nation could move directly to industrialization and eventually true communism (as did a great many 3rd world leaders and revolutionaries), and so when he came to power, went ahead with an even more brutal version.

In both cases, Russia and China, totalitarian industrialization eventually stagnated and went backwards. The Russians, under Putin, eventually opted for crony capitalism, the Chinese for a freer but still quite corrupt version.

It's a long, crazy story, full of delusions and failed predictions.
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"Pretending that the driver problem does not exist on macOS does not make it go away."

I never said there was not a driver problem.

I alluded to the user perception of drivers.

Users in this day and age should have absolutely no need to be aware of the concept of 'drivers'.

Do you have any drivers for your Android? iPhone?

The very concept may very well be dated and perhaps there is a a better solution in 2016.
the incident in question involved a driver that was asleep or otherwise not paying attention to the road. he killed himself.
Point me to a nice BT sweatproof headset that also has decent enough mic to use for Siri and conf calls.

I've been through 10 BT headsets and the Apple EarPods are still the best and most flexible all-rounder. It's the equivalent of the inexpensive DSLR walkaround lens to me.
I agree with the free market part. I disagree with the equal redistribution part.
It kinda is. And if you're not someone who naturally picks up on social cues or has a vivacious/charming personality, it can feel like a huge challenge. But the rewards of learning this kink in society is very large: you can make a substantial change in your compensation by learning this one skill.

Its upto you to decide whether its worth it. But do understand that the choice is in your hands.
I'm currently building a cat feeder using a Raspberry Pi and a servo. Is it way overkill? Well, yeah, probably. It's not that difficult to pour a cup of cat food into the dish.

But I'm learning a whole lot of neat stuff in the process. I've spent my entire professional career in software, dealing with hardware only at a high level. So this kind of low level stuff - wiring, soldering, etc - is new to me and something I've wanted to really dive into for awhile.

The point of the exercise is not because the cats need feeding, or that I couldn't buy a programmable feeder already on the market. It's a pretext to learn a new skill and actually create something physical that I can interact with. So much of what I do every day is ephemeral - it exists and bits stored on various computers. This will be something that I can touch and see and interact with. I can look at it and say, "I made that, hardware and software."

And my cats will be happy too. :)
I personally loved the Game of Thrones game. There was interesting combat strategies with their mechanic of sorta simultaneous turns, plenty of around the table politicking, the combat cards and bidding were fun. I haven't played that many other war games except shogun and risk so i might just be missing something better but for what its worth I've really enjoyed it.
> object identity for everything but numbers and characters

Since when is this supposed to be a selling point? Not having compound values (not the same thing as compound objects!) is a pain.
I appreciate that he acknowledges me at the end. Thanks Rob!
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I can vouch that the hammerlab is legit and doing solid science! I've had great interactions with members of their lab and have been impressed by their work, as well as their committment to open source and open science (preprints, etc).

To piggyback, if you are interested in personalized cancer vaccines, we're also hiring at WashU for a senior scientist position that will be working at least part time on immunotherapy and personalized cancer vaccines. If you're an interdisciplinary person, who knows cancer and can code, drop me a line (c.a.miller at wustl.edu)
The problem with the Android permissions page, in my opinion, is that it doesn't give enough information for people that care, and it gives too much information for people that don't. It's pretty much impossible to create any non-trivial app without at least one permission that will cause the permissions pop-up on install. That's the "too much" part. But then, it doesn't show you the actual permissions requested, but instead some general grouping that makes it extremely difficult to know exactly what you're agreeing to without feeling paranoid. That's the too little part.
I'm a multiple myeloma patient, and started daratumumab a few months ago, which is a monoclonal antibody. It's not a checkpoint inhibitor as described in OP, but rather binds to CD38 which is overexpressed by MM cells, and thereby activates the immune system against those cells.

Certainly activating the body's own defenses against cancer cells seems like an effective approach. Side effects are minimal as the therapy is more targeted, but as the article mentions, we just don't understand enough right now about when they will fail or why they fail.

My own results on dara have been underwhelming. The first month raised our hopes of a complete response, but it totally flat-lined by the second month. By month 3 levels were rising again, and now it seems I've bred a more resistant clone. My next stage of treatment may very well include a CAR-T based therapy, or a checkpoint inhibitor.

One thing the article gets wrong is the cost. Insurance pays up to $10k per infusion, but co-pays are capped at < $10k per year. There is a huge market for these novel agents, and insurance companies are on the hook to pay for FDA approved treatments. From what I can tell this is driving massive R&D investment and a large pipeline of new potential treatments.
i agree with this.

o.p., if you have not told your boss how much work is your limit, then obviously they are going to continue giving you more.
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> crammed into a pair of headphones

Headphones have a lot more room for electronics and than do phones. Even a small volume-control module in line in an in-ear headphones would have a lot more room than is currently used by the audio circuitry in a phone.

> The long-term fix for audiophile users is probably going to be to move to external DAC/amp units

That's the current solution for audiophiles, and digital music connections, wired or wireless, will support this better.
I'm impressed.

The code lives up to its goal of being a good example of programming. As Kernighan says, it shows the value of handling special cases early and of recursion. (It's also a good example of how pointer-arithmetic and nul-terminated strings should be used, but the less said about that, the better).

Students are likely to not notice the tail recursion, so converting this to an iterative version is probably a nice exercise.

But notice that explaining regexps is a non-goal of this example. There is an underlying state-machine here (encoded in a combination of the instruction pointer and the `text` variable), but it is not very obvious. For that, Russ Cox' articles are the go-to.
(Reposting my comment from your other thread): FWIW, if you don't need hardware, you can turn your phone into such a "button". Apps allow you to add a widget to your home screen and can be configured to make arbitrary HTTP requests.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.rmy.android...
+, × (or ·), 0 and 1 are standard notation in algebra for an arbitrary ring's addition, multiplication, additive identity and multiplicative identity. In that context, 1 + 1 = 0 isn't automatically false. It's just a statement that holds in some rings (e.g., F_2), but not in others (e.g., Z).
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There is no such thing as a plain language EULA. They are legally binding contracts and therefore must use legal terminology. Even when companies do provide an alternative "non-legalese" version, there's always a clause indicating that the legalese version takes precedent in any legal interpretation.
It feels like you are shifting the goalposts here, but I potentially misunderstand your original objections.

In your first comment, you say that "maybe the babies had just completely forgot about the experimenter and his wrapped-up hands and didn't even "tap" the box but more like "bumped into" it hands-first". That is, we can't judge the intent of the babies and so we can't determine why they use their hands instead of heads.

I agree that we can't ask babies what their intent is and have them verbalise the response, but that is not the same thing as being unable to determine intent. Indeed, asking and listening to a response is just one form of setting up an experiment and evaluating the response. Of course there may be reasons we can't think of, but the scientific method gives us a framework to explore those ideas.

Hypothesis: babies can recognise constraints upon action when observing action. When mimicking this action later, if not under the same constraint, the babies will modify the action in order to achieve the outcome of the action as simply as possible.

The null hypothesis here would be every baby performing the same action regardless of constraints observed.

So, if after seeing the button pusher with hands tied, and at other times without hands tied (using different babies in each case of course), we would expect to see no difference in how the babies pushed the button. If they were simply "bumping into" the button with their hands, they would do so an equivalent number of times in each group of babies. Assuming everything else was controlled for (which we can't know for certain, but is reasonable to assume) then the hypothesis holds.

If the babies were "moving completely at random" we would expect to see completely different outcomes then what were observed.

Your objection about rationality is probably more about scope or context of definition. The researchers seem to be using 'rational' as a shorthand for 'understands constraints and can remove them in order to achieve the desired outcome'.

For example, if the observed uses their head to push the button and their hands are not tied, it is 'rational' to believe that the head must be used to push the button. If the hands are tied, however, it is more 'rational' to believe that the head is being used because the hands are tied - the constraint is recognised.

Finally the second paragraph says "all infants who watched the adult perform under both conditions" not "all infants". That is, there was a group of babies shown both ways to push the button, and those babies chose to use their hands every time and not their heads.
I remember reading that the original IBM PC motherboard got an Ack from the keyboard when it initialized, and if a particular bit was set in the ack character it would read boot code from the keyboard port. Apparently it was just for testing though....
Indeed. The only reason I can see the other side to this is that I have been married to a woman from a Indonesia for over a decade now. It has been a long process to understand the cultural differences. And I have enjoyed studying anthropology quite a lot.

The one thing that does save things a little bit is that Westerners are usually so out of touch that there really isn't much room for us to do much that doesn't just effectively turn into disengagement. But even that poses real problems. I do my best to help engage in dialog on both sides of very culturally bound issues in order to try to foster some room for dialog through disagreement but getting Westerners in general (and Americans in particular) to accept that an issue like abortion or same-sex marriage is dependent on culture and other cultural institutions (such as how family relates to the economic order) is virtually impossible.

That also gets to what is wrong with multiculturalism in the US, namely that it is being pushed by people who hate culture generally.
I've tried Camlistore in the past, just because of that ideal I have in mind (if I remember well).
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