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Alternative approach: Require people keep everything they buy for 10 years. They'll be quickly fed up with their houses full of old broken gadgets, cardboard boxes and used wrapping foil.
I have the beginning of some lyrics for this fine composition. Ahem:

God save the Regis ...

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Set on top of the stack.

I.R.Q. time!
Okay, but at that point you're talking about things that are way beyond the capabilities of an iterative loop. I think my point still stands - that implementing a tail recursion in place of a loop is not something you will have to pay for. Both structures will map to the same instructions.
At some point you have to leverage 3rd parties in order to get your business to function. To me, letting an ad company run javascript on your page is something akin to letting hired contractors in the real world stroll through your office unwatched. Yes its' a security concern, but it's also necessary to operate a business.

In reality, we don't have a lot of truly secure facilities, but instead rely on legal process to stop bad actors, and make people whole after the fact.

On the web, there's always been a push for total security, which I don't think is useful nor particularly realistically implementable.
Am I reading this right that they did $500k of revenue in August?

'The round came together over the summer, but “we’ve grown revenue 80% in two months,” and racked up $500,000 in August, Petersen says'

What does that mean, 'racked up'? Surely they are not 'very profitable' and also worth $300m on a $6m revenue run rate...right?

Also -- seems like a great company and power to them. Just confused by that line in the article.
Disabling media router from source is apparently more involved than I thought it would be. Could have changed the default setting in a new user profile, but disabling it with a command-line argument is probably more like what I'm looking for here.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833477#44
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Spyder IDE 3.0 released
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That's not exactly true, cities can and do still have limits on the number of cars, case in point Seattle:

hhttp://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/03/seattle-city-cou...
If I understand what you mean correctly, you end up with just a private onion network. What's the gain in that case over setting up a dedicated VPN network instead?
Yea, in Africa they have what is called a free market. Here we have local political corruption in the name of 'safety regulation'. I suppose it is cultural in the sense that we have come to expect terrible service and products.
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But, when I'm spoiled with built in immutable persistent collections and awesome concurrency semantics, am I not also desiring those features in other lisps.
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i think its pretty good at extracting heartbeats. maybe it would be interesting? i tried some libraries but didnt have any luck, maybe someone on here does this kind of thing more often?
> ..assuming that the given student enters a CS program with no prior programming knowledge

This is bizarre to me. It's like someone signing up for a music degree having never played an instrument. Maybe you'll cram enough to pass a test on the theory, but it's useless knowledge. It's unanchored and will float away.
I think visualisations need to be a seriously terse summary, leaving out most of the detail apart from one or two critical dimensions where you're looking for the pattern or trend. A latency distribution heatmap can make a lot of data points visually useful, but you can't cram in five other dimensions and still make it work.
*compliant

so sorry
It's the opposite.

Once fully self-driving cars are completely actualized, then ridesharing companies like Uber will collapse, because the entire thing becomes a commodity. Right now, there's a lot more to Uber and ride-sharing than just matching cars and riders. There are layers of complexities that are created because you need to deal with real humans on both ends.

Once you get rid of human drivers, anyone can build a ride-sharing system. It just takes enough money to buy enough cars, and the ride sharing app, and that's it. Uber would then be competing against anyone and everyone, and then it's a race to $0, maybe even it turns into a free ride if you watch ads all drive long.
That's not a fix.. the default is that any link like that gives complete control over the page. Its a ridiculous default.
The problem with Uber is not the business model, it's the hype that leads to overvaluation as you properly show. Too bad the article does not make that crystal clear.
Those cars are registered and taxed to the state, county, and city where the driver lives. These aren't scofflaws driving in from out of town- the municipalities are getting at least their fare share from the drivers to maintain the roads.
I'll just google the "Braumeister model 50 L brewer" mentioned in the paper and here you go http://shop.speidels-braumeister.de/en
The title is very click-baity. A better reading would be the embedded source it links to[1].

Will this technique of 'ripping holes in the bacteria' cause high collateral damage of the 'good' bacteria in our bodies? We can't design and inject medicines that destroy all bacteria, else we risk dying in other ways.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/health/does-this-25-year-ol...
That's true, and is what I meant by my worry that cities will crack down to maintain the status quo.

Doing so is easily done as a consequence of Uber being centrally controlled, with full tracking on all its cars. A city can trivially know exactly to the minute how many cars are in operation via Uber at one time.

However, regulation of that sort isn't what Uber wants, they want a situation where supply is unbounded and people only compete/control demand.
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You understand that the people at WaPo who you got that argument from are just using it as an excuse to take back control of the industry with political maneuvering. The solution to not enough high paying jobs is to raise demand for workers, and lower supply. Not pass a law requiring all workers to get lots of benefits they may not want coming out of their paychecks.
Nice, but you don't need Math.abs to stay within the 140 chars limit:

t?i++:i=0;for(j=1080;j--;){a=b=0;k=35;for(;k--&&a*a+b*b<4;)c=a*a-b*b+i/540-2,b=2*(a*b<0?-a*b:a*b)+j/540-1,a=c;x.fillRect(i,j,1,S(k/9))}
1) construction costs don't scale down linearly with square footage. Every home needs a kitchen, a heater, a bathroom, a foundation. This makes micro homes much more expensive on per foot basis
2) using construction costs from rural areas with low cost labor. Majority of home construction is labor with materials and overhead the rest. Contractors in SF are highly sought after due to hyper demand and charge double the figures here
3) seismic reinforcement in SF significantly increase construction costs
4) the cheapest anyone ever built anything in dense urban areas is $250/sq ft. My architect here says $350/ft is a challenge in SF for 2000 sq ft build. Good luck!
In the past I have used ssh port forwarding, LogMeIn Hamachi, and tinc. All seem to work ok.
The creation of medallions had nothing to do with the number of cars on the road at peak hours, or regulations about race. They were created during the depression in NYC to protect jobs for taxi drivers.
For Facebook, that is absolutely false. Their last known valuation prior to IPO based on a raise was $65B (March 2011), they IPO'd at $104B.

And Box had a small downward valuation shift (-36%, -$0.9B), between last raised valuation and IPO.

Uber's numbers even giving them liberal growth potential of 500% places them at around $33.75B (-50% current value, -$34B).
As criticism of Uber goes, this is kind of weak.

Uber's big problem is simply that they lose money. They still have to use investor capital to buy market share. That shouldn't be necessary at their present size.

Also, Uber has run out of investor financing and is now using leveraged loans.[1] Those have to be paid back. Their 2015 financing was a six year convertible bond. The bondholders get the right to participate in any future IPO at 20%-30% below the IPO price. Their 2016 financing is similar.

Uber may be Webvan 2.0. Anyone remember when Webvan had their little trucks running around everywhere in major cities?

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-raises-1-15-billion-from-fi...
Clojure ideas are beyond Clojure.
What would you cite as an example of a badly designed macro?
Uber is not available in Germany but when i can't get a cab i will usually resort to public transport because i mostly use a cab when i am not allowed to drive anymore or parking in that area is impossible. Also a 20 minute Taxi ride alone can easily be 15-17EUR in Berlin, so it's kind of a pricy alternative when public transport would be 2,70 EUR for the same distance.
That's not how reliability works. If you use 3 different layers that the traffic needs to pass through, you have 3 different layers that can fail. That means less reliability, not more.
1) that's the primary implication of paper
2) their claim is a 3-5% improvement of extraction and no sparging required, thus a 30% saving's in power & water
3) given that malting is now done with cavitation ( ultra-sound ) its clear that this does not santize, as by defn sanitizing kill's biological life, including bacterial organisms.
4) Boiling hop's for 0-120 minutes is well understood and complex, I doubt you will find DogFish 90min-IPA, coming out of a 30 nano-second SONIC-SESSION.

...

'Ultra-Sound Assisted Extraction' is now being applied to all foods. To Coffee, and of course our beer.

Sonic's can effect the germination of malting barley, and like in this article replace the milling/malting phase of the brewing process.

The question to ask is why? Why apply sonic's to germinating grains? So they may germinate quicker. Why apply sonic's to malted grains, to break them up ( mill ) and to extract the sugar ( mash ) to a higher efficiency?

Why would you want to do this? More efficient mashing? ( 3% ), and germination ( maybe save 6-12 hours ), because if you brewing 100,000 liters of piss-beer an hour this is real money to be made.

Currently BUDweiser only buys the best malt, & hops. A ultra-sonic system that improves efficiency say 3-5% allow a cheaper or lower quality product to be bought and fed into the system.

What does all this mean for the home-brewer? Nada

What are the health effects of ultra-sound on germination? Nobody knows and nobody cares. Chemically what does ultra-sound do to our food when the starches are converted to sugar? Again nobody cares, google it, you'll not find a mention anywhere.

What is the benefit of changing the modern ( 500 year old ) brewing process? Nada. Belgium Monks got it right a long time ago. Like we used to say in Unix back in the 1970's, "If it works, Don't Fix It".

Slow-Food, and Slow-Beer people. That is what's best in life.

LED lights were sold, over neon, over incandescent, now we find out LED is bad, when will they tell us the ultra-sonic processed foods are bad for our health? Probably only after the corpses are on laying on the streets.
Usually I would not mind but then again if I am tired or busy which I usually am when commuting. I don't feel like listening other people problems.
While this might look like a good short term solution for new car payments, expecting it to last over the course of a loan is extraordinarily dangerous.

With every rental comes mileage and wear and tear on the vehicle, devaluing it. Not to mention the fact that it is being used as a rental requires disclosure upon sale, permanently devaluing the car below comparable vehicles.
probably tmi but any / all of the following:
- SSH (direct or tunnels)
- VNC (usually over ssh or VPN)
- RDP (usually over ssh or VPN)
- VPN (openvpn or ipsec)
- MicroTik Router at home with site-to-site VPN to my DC and Office
- Mobile Hotspot (always a must when traveling)
- Last resort: Dial direct with 56.6kbps modem to DC when there is an internet uplink failure or DDoS attack.
So candidate doesn't understand his most important function and also wants to tear down nearly every regulatory agency we have in hopes that the people will just make it work (this has been done, did not work)? No thanks, not impressed. Luckily he has no chance of winning.
yea this globalist hack is saying that uber is doomed because they will get laws passed to put them out of business. It has nothing to do with research or investing
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I love the reference to the 1k demo "JenterErForetrukket". Here is its link on Pouet:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54663

Unfortunately, that demo is not that portable, and I was unable to find a video of it.
Part of it is business model, they've outsized their market potential which is a failure of their model.

It's a bit of a chicken and the egg, because it's absolutely related to their valuation. That valuation is based on a flaw somewhere in their model potential, which feeds back into the model of potential (via expressing oversized outside interest).
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Uber's biggest problem is the rate at which they burn cash and their $70B valuation which imo will be very hard to justify in the next 5 years. If that hype train stops getting funded, it might crash badly.
India has been launching rockets and satellites since 1960s. SpaceX wasn't there, then ;)

ISRO launch vehicles (PSLV and GSLV MkII) do have competitive advantages in launching commercial payloads (up to 2.5 tonne). They already have a commercial/marketing arm called Antrix Corporation[1]. Also, there are a few private launch brokers like Earth2Orbit[2] who can procure ISRO launches. However, ISRO doesn't yet have heavy lift (4+ tonne to GTO, 8+ tonne to LEO) launch vehicle. They are working on it, and they have a new heavy lift launcher called LVM3 (aka GSLV MkIII)[3]. First developmental flight is scheduled in Dec 2016.

[1] http://www.antrix.gov.in/

[2] http://www.earth2orbit.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_Satellite_Launc...
Most companies ask race during the initial application process.

Being a government contractor, this 100% happened at some point or would.
Some companies, most of them I'd wager, don't give two shits about the Twitter sphere. So he does that, possibly opens himself up to further legal action, and then... profit?

This is awful advice.
Unlike the USA, China doesn't allow foreign companies to compete there. The only exception is Apple, and that's after they almost had a revolution from the unmet demand, and Apple is still given a hard time.
This really should be the link instead of the PDF.
I spent weeks on that algorithm. It is only through daily katas that I still remember its rigors.
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Ironically, Amazon has resurrected Webvan with several of its former higher-ups [1].

Maybe Amazon will wait for the Uber/Lyft flameout and hire the nascent companies' experts to make its own profitable service.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-amazon-webvan-idUSBRE9...
Haha! Yea! NASA also has one, named RapidSCAT.
I have welcomed Uber to Europe with open hands but I really don't understand why they consider they should not apply to same laws as it has been put to Taxi drivers?
I once created a little python script that would find an input search term in a WhatsApp chat archive. I have a similar chat with friends with almost 4 years of history, and a lot of daily activity, so it was cool to get a snapshot of what we spoke about.

But this is a much more useful, and novel, tool.
Thanks.. can you tell I haven't done nearly as much .Net for the past couple years? ;-) Though the .Net core stuff has me relatively excited for the platform again.
The most common alternative, and the actual net change, is taxi driver. The only difference being a 50% reduction in wages.

It's a giant app-based redistribution of wealth from the front seats to the back seats.

And even if the alternative were unemployment – how does that mean that there shouldn't be a standard for such kinds of work? If people have to accept any working conditions because otherwise they'd starve to death, is that really an argument for the mighty benevolence of the free market?

Considering that it appears as if there's plenty of food to go around, it doesn't strike me as the perfect outcome of 300 years of capitalism that we apparently still need to have 10% of every generation suffer, not because of any real scarcity but as a necessity for the other's motivation.
A LOT of bug fixing... but then again, a lot of those issues may be less of an issue wrt having enough for docker/lxc container support.
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Thank you sir!!
.dev used to be a fake TLD, as did .local. Both now exist.

Don't assume what doesn't exist now won't exist in the future. ;)
Yep, and the same can be implemented in any language that supports functions-as-objects (for example, javascript).

It's a practical solution/workaround, but isn't quite composable/generalizable as first-class support for TCO (unless the community is willing to follow some convention like "TCO-like behavior is a 'good thing' and so libraries should try to support and interface compatible with `trampoline`".

This is a little bit like `function` / yield in newer versions of Javascript. It's not TCO, but it is a strong community convention (with the assist of special syntax to enforce the semantic).

Clojure is a great example of how practical/tasteful decisions by language author can create re-usable abstractions that are really powerful (even while at the same time working around limitations of the underlying technology).

Some might also argue that TCO is "bad" because it's less debuggable (e.g. when an exception is thrown, the stack trace is gone). We can see the same phenomena with non-blocking IO, for example. So maybe it's a Good Thing to have "less general" semantics in a language (e.g. function, trampoline, and loop/recur may be good-enough while at the same time preserving debuggability).

There are always tradeoffs. What's nice about general TCO is that the composibility of unrelated libraries/DSLs is more probable whereas with conventions like trampoline, DSL/library authors need to understand the advantages and design the DSL/library in a compatible way in advance. As Clojure shows with lazy sequences, this can absolutely work given enough community awareness of the convention.
I had an identical experience last month with broken examples and packages, trying to get started with react native. Additionally, it seems many features are ios only.
There actually are correct fake TLDs, specifically reserved for this exact use case: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
This is good advice in general, but seems a bit misapplied here- most eye doctors are likely to make more from selling you unnecessary services now then by subtly lying to you in order to damage your eyes :).
Was there a regulatory obstacle to UberChina that was in the news? I was under the impression that Didi simply outperformed UberChina, from having a superior local perspective. The difference between Didi and dead or dying car-sharing services was that Didi had enough financing to withstand the race-to-the-bottom on pricing and driver incentives.
It's more like 8 years of Metafont, and 24 of its corpse clinging to TeX like some sort of husk.
Yes, I believe so, in that the typical failure mechanism is the failure of that seal, letting wash water (inherently full of degreasing agents) against the bearing, where it eventually (over perhaps hundreds of wash cycles) washes out enough of the lubrication in the bearing to get steel on steel in the bearing.

From there, the rumble and looseness quickly follows.

The bearings themselves I believe would run for fifty of years in the typical washer duty cycle (~8 hours a week, 400 hours a year, 20,000 hours in a half-decade), if they were running in a typical (non-washing) machine setting.
In the last two weeks I interviewed three candidates with masters of science C.S. None of the three knew the memory size in bytes of a double precision floating point variable. None of the three could explain scenarios in which they would use an array over a linked list.
This has definitely changed. I'm using the current mainline kernel and it includes proper configs for the BBB. Works pretty much hassle-free.
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Would love to upvote if you started with "They" because it's exactly what happens.
Europe is not comparable to the US. Your public transit systems are far more developed.

Even in Seattle, (which has a decent public transit system compared to where I grew up) you can be expected to wait an hour or more for a bus if you're traveling in off-peak times. Buses from the city to the inner-ring suburbs stop running around 11:30pm, so if you're planning on staying late in the city, driving or Uber are your only realistic options, given that many taxis show extreme reluctance to take people out to the suburbs.

What's worse, is that sometimes the buses don't even show up. I remember once I showed up to the bus stop 10 minutes ahead of the last bus. I waited for an hour and the bus didn't show up. I tried calling a taxi, but as it turns out taxi companies want you to be at an actual address - giving them a random intersection doesn't cut it. Fortunately, I was able to call a friend who, to his eternal credit, drove me home, but if I'd had Uber in that situation, it would have been a lifesaver.
Taxi drivers were already considered contractors. In fact, they are in a lawsuit against the taxi companies over that: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-26/news/chi-suit-...

Which costs of employment that taxi companies paid is Uber bypassing? Please be specific instead of relying on rumor and propaganda.
Taxi licensing has been around since before cars. The "medallion" system with tradable permits may be from depression era New York for all I know, but just about every locale in the world has come to the conclusion that there needs to be a limited set of permits.

You can push the prices down a little with unlimited competition, but the few dollars you save aren't worth the indirect costs associated with taxi driver desperation: tax fraud, gouging, barely running cars, outright extortion, etc. (Of course, if the municipality decides to pad their coffers by auctioning the permissions/medallions, you get all that in addition to lower competition.)
"fare share"

I assume this was an accident, but it's actually better.
Creating reusable functions and types and whatnot is also creating your own DSL, as another poster hinted at.

However the main problem with bad DSLs is that they aren't composable. Which really means users have to learn the right sequence of events and the right context in which certain actions function properly. People often complain about awkward symbols or unfamiliar constructs, but really, they are missing the forest from the trees.

This is why plain pure functions are always better, because they are composable and reusable, being the missing ingredient of many DSL authors.
This is a new version of Godwin's law, ...

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Trump approaches 1"
The No Phone is also revolutionary phone. Watch their tedx talk.
http://www.thenophone.com/
Another thing to mention: having guarantee of TCO supports higher-level control-flow abstractions (capturing continuations), which is also an interesting outcome...
I retry GoToMeeting wtih Chromium from time to time, using Debian/Testing just to be sure it isn't too old. Still, no luck. Most parts of the page do work, but there is no audio.
tl;dr: average may differ from specific.