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> all atoms and their distances are affected equally because the forces that determine those distances also change.

Is that true? If the expansion of space didn't affect anything, wouldn't we not see any of the redshift?
We bred with them, but evolution has been heavily eliminating the traces of the breeding and they are generally often linked with diseases. So they do not seem to be on equal grounds. And as for 'us' - speak for yourself, but much of the human race has no Denisovan or Neanderthal ancestry.
Taxi drivers in my European country are subject to some requirements that make a lot of sense and help keep people safe. I've user Uber a lot and it's great but anything to up the quality of drivers is good. I've been down one way streets multiple times in Uber's, I've been in multiple near-misses, I've never had these things happen to me in taxi's. Not all taxi drivers are great either but the even the bad ones are better than the average Uber driver.

Obviously this is all city specific but I think a valid counter point to the 'unnecessary regulation' argument at least where I live.
And even when the searcher is VERY specific that they want Yelp...it's right in the query.
Clickbait.

It's the same.

Unless you care about a particular use case, when it isn't.

Measure, profile, refactor....
Are you saying "best NoSQL db" is an oxymoron?
Burdensome? Taxi licenses are limited so taxi drivers can keep their cartel against
the entry of competitors. It is impossible unless you're politically connected.

That's why Uber is so great: it is destroying this stupidity.
Depends on the taxi service as well. Black cabs in London have a fairly tough test (the knowledge) to go through and only those can be hailed from the roadside.
Not C macro-like source code manipulation as dummy string but as more smart structure like AST.
>top-grossing game by worldwide iOS + Google Play revenue

Does Google Play work in China?
Sure, but not before email itself becomes irrelevant.
What is the saying, "Cutting off the nose to spite the face"? As Europe continues to add laws and regulations targeted at American tech companies they will further prevent any innovative businesses from growing and thriving in Europe. Also before you respond, I am really not interested in legalist arguments, especially when the laws themselves were designed by and for entrenched interests.

It's been 17 years since the internet has become widespread, how many successful information technology companies have come from Europe, a continent with 500 million people, many of them well educated? Maybe it's time to look inward.
John Hawks has a good little post on this from just a few weeks ago [1]:

Anthropologists usually do call Neanderthals “humans”. Ironically, experts differ more from each other about how to define species (and Homo sapiens with it) than on how to define human.
Neanderthals did interbreed with the descendants of African early modern humans, and Neanderthals are among the ancestors of people living today. For many, that is enough to recognize that Neanderthals are Homo sapiens.

...

What the data do show is that the populations that existed at the time of Neanderthals (and Denisovans) were a lot more different from each other than anybody living now. That makes the current variation of humans, including the idea of race as we usually understand it, a bad model for what was happening at the time these populations lived, more than 50,000 years ago. So we are working to find new ways to talk about these kinds of populations that will be accurate, and not rely upon our understanding of people in the present.

His longer post[2] covers more of the rapidly shifting ground in the story of human origins, which is becoming a more fascinating story almost by the day.

[1] https://medium.com/@johnhawks/this-is-a-great-question-e69bf...

[2] https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-story-of-modern-human-orig...
It is not a cartel protected by the government against external competitors.
Say you're creating a programming language and you know everyone is going to love it and use it. You add some nice features like if statements, switch statements, and for loops which allow the people that use your language to decide when certain code runs and shortens the syntax for common patterns.

Five years down the line your language is losing popularity fast, because all the hip new languages have an "unless" statement which is the opposite of an if statement. They have for-each loops, cond statements, and their if/else statements return values, so you can write less code to do those common patterns in those new languages than your language.

You rewind time 5 years using a time machine and this time, when you create your langauge, you add all those cool features, only to realize in another 10 years your language has lost popularity because there's a new set features they want, lambdas, argument piping, etc.

So this time when you go back in time, you add macros to your language. Macros are bits of code that allow people using your language to write code that produces more code. Now, you don't even have to write an unless statement, you can let the community write one for you and release it as a package. Anyone at any time can effectively add features to the language in their own project.

That sounds fantastic, and it often is, but macros need to not be abused. If a developer writes a bunch of code using lots of his own macros in your language, anyone reading that code later is going to be very confused seeing that many language features that aren't in the language docs, because that random developer wrote them himself. Functions are much more explicit than macros, so if you can write whatever you're trying to write as a function instead of a macro, you'll be better off. For every success story of a language becoming easier to use because of macros, there's another story of a different language becoming frighteningly complicated due to macro abuse.
OP mentions it, but this was what bit Microsoft in United States v Microsoft (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C...)
The median age of cars and light trucks in the US is around 9 years. That means it will take 9 years for this system to reach 50% penetration, once it becomes available at all, which is probably 3 years away at least. At the rate things are progressing, do you really think autonomy won't be a solved problem, or nearly so, in a dozen years?

I can see the attraction of this system from a strictly engineering point of view -- it would be nice not to be limited by line of sight. But how many collisions between vehicles have you ever heard of where the drivers literally couldn't see each other until too late? I think these are pretty rare. Seems like occlusion is more of a problem when pedestrians or cyclists are involved, as they sometimes pop out unwisely from behind parked vehicles; but they're not going to be wearing transmitters. Also, radar provides some ability to see occluded vehicles; transmitters are not even the only solution to that problem.

So, given the threat to privacy this system would represent, I don't see that the benefits approach the costs.
Some of the smartest, most successful and most driven people I know are highschool dropouts. It's a shame we put such an emphasis on grades, which really just reflect someone's ability to spit out things that have already been figured out - not any proof of ingenuity, curiosity, or the ability to learn on the fly.

(before the replies - yes I know a lot of dropouts without any ambition or discipline as well - but living in a highly educated community it's easy to note many of the "educated" people really lack ambition and ingenuity whatsoever.)

On an anecdotal note, I dropped out of high-school got a job in tech and went back to college - I went to a top 10 university (graduated) and didn't learn much I couldn't have taught myself. It did help me get more interviews though.
Awesome. This will be a super useful reference once I want to migrate the library to C++.
To any New Yorker, Uber is a black car service... you can't hail an Uber on the street. And the current compromise between Uber and NYC is that Uber cars are licensed exactly like black cars. Done.

(You actually refer to the street hail thing in one of your other comments, surprised you didn't mention that here.)
Good point, I was only searching for explicit "threading.local" references. So there are 4 more or so.

Django uses thread locals in some places where it's needed, but that's beside the point though. It doesn't put thread local objects at the core of its API. Passing an explicit request (real or fake) into functions is much more testable and generally better than relying on a 'request' global, IMO. Same with all the other app globals [1].

A better, more specific argument about Django's use of magic is the models. It uses some dark black magic voodo metaclasses to implement those. Apart from that, the forms, admin, app registry, urls, views is pretty straightforward.

But hey, it's personal preference. I like flask mostly: for some situations it is amazing.

1. http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/api/#application-globals
So use taxi, if you like it so much. Keeping people "safe" against their will and with money from their own pockets is evil, to say the least.
8Bit Photo Lab on Android is pretty good.
You can also interestingly get the raw sensor data from the Pi camera too, as in before the demosaicing is applied.

I wonder, this may be silly, but could you not potentially get a slightly higher resolution image, if you just created a pixel for every sensel. Than if you were to apply the demosaicing algorithm then convert to grayscale.
I heard in London that cabbies also have to know all sorts of landmarks/touristy types of attractions by heart.
No, I believe the parent was calling web access foolish. POP3 forces you to have your own data.
It's not anti American though, it just so happens that US firms are the first of these types of companies. The rulings that are set apply to all companies equally so Chinese and European firms are bound by the same rules.
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In Germany you can get up to ten years for doing that.
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In London they have to pass a test called "the knowledge"[1]. It's the "hardest taxi test in the world" and quite impressive. It ensures taxi drivers actually know what they are doing and where they are going, not just blindly following their GPS.

> To become an All-London taxi driver or Green badge holder you need to master no fewer than 320 basic routes, all of the 25,000 streets that are scattered within the basic routes and approximately 20,000 landmarks and places of public interest that are located within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross.

> It takes the average person between 2 and 4 years to learn the knowledge, a lot however depends on how much time and effort they are willing to dedicate in learning it.

1. https://www.theknowledgetaxi.co.uk/
> innovative businesses

what's innovative about pirate taxis? they're as old as taxis
Our small town implemented scramble crossings in the city a couple of years ago. People didn't ask for them, the council installed them as a seemingly progressive move.

Overall though, the response has been fairly negative. People just felt uncomfortable adopting the system and walking diagonally across an intersection. Drivers in the city are extra frustrated at the longer wait times at the lights now. There have been loud calls to scrap the entire thing and go back to the older system.

Not sure if it is the same in other cities, but the old way would let turning cars through at the same time as pedestrians, but pedestrians always had right of way, and it was up to the turning car to wait for pedestrians to clear before completing the turn. Gave some 'see and avoidance' responsibility to the driver.

With scramble crossings, all that judgement is taken away and everyone has to stop and wait for the lights to tell them what to do.
Most places restrict the number of available licenses

However, The EFTA surveillance authority is looking into if Norway is in breach of EU rules by restricting taxi licenses, so it could be opened up. We are governed by the same laws as the EU

Uber should comply with rules, but we really need Uber and similar services

I was in Paris and Barcelona last week:
In Paris I could easily take an Uber and everything was a breeze
In Barcelona I had to take taxis. I paid with credit card, and the drivers charged me in NOK without asking, against MasterCard rules. I even said I wanted to pay in EUR at one occasion

To submit a complaint I had to fill in a paper form, and post it by mail with the original receipts. The receipts from the credit card terminal don't even have the taxi information as in Norway, so not sure they can do anything either.

It's frankly ridiculous

Taxi drivers in Barcelona was even on strike to protest against Cabify and Uber that want to compete on equal terms, while they are protected through draconian systems that have no accountability if you have a problem
While in my mind, I think you're probably right, it shocked me to see this written down... and upon reflection, I wonder if it isn't even lower than that. 0.1% is 1 in every 1000...
Although it is not entirely that easy in the UK, if you want to be a London black can driver then it is very difficult, as well as what you already mentioned there is also "the knowledge" exam that must be passed. Which is quite possibly one of the toughest assignments I have ever witnessed.
I’m sorry, but have you actually written tools to take apart obfuscated and minified JS vs. webasm?

I’ve actually done that to research and break some systems, and webasm is an order of magnitude worse than JS.
Columnar data stores are not like CSV, at all. Check http://database.guide/what-is-a-column-store-database/ for example "Each row can contain a different number of columns to the other rows. And the columns don’t have to match the columns in the other rows (i.e. they can have different column names, data types, etc)" This nonsense of columnar stores being a fixed schema is repeated in the next step.

Graph databases misses AgensGraph which is arguably one of the most exciting database developments nowadays.

Seriously, all you have to say about Aerospike is "cool name"? And MongoDB "not a database" is a very tired joke.
True: it's just anti-progress or at least anti-anything-that-doesn't-fit-a-hundred-plus-year-old-notion-of-how-things-should-work.
What do you mean it wouldn't be profitable?

I am not paying the taxi driver money because they are a safer driver.

I am paying them for the convenience, and the ability to not take a car with me.

Also, taxi driver incentives are wrong. A taxi driver, even though they have lots of experience driving, have an incentive to drive very quickly and therefore dangerously.
That is to a point. In a way, it is a cost of doing business if you weren't doing it before. Sometimes it can make it difficult for places with a low margin (restaurants). But I think the overall effect - more folks having more spending money - is positive, even for the shareholders. It just takes some time for those to recover the initial loss.
Another difference I appreciate is that UK traffic lights cycle red -> yellow -> green. So, given a red light I have at least 1-2 seconds that's safe, and usually more since the timing can be inferred from traffic patterns (cars won't get a green light while there is active cross traffic). I always look more at the vehicle lights instead of pedestrian lights -- I don't particularly trust drivers to pay attention to pedestrians or our signals...
Nissan has its own TLD.
What if Siri was one of us?
Just a millenial like one of us...
Just a stranger on the bus...
Tryin' to make her way home?
EU countries are democratic. It's not against people's will.
Use -std=gnu++14 then.
Will the Android app be open sourced as well?

Btw on my phone the notifications are never cleared, always showing a super old message from hundreds of days ago for me. It's annoying because I cannot see why I got the notification. I wonder if this is already in your bug tracker.
The Knowledge: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-te...

"It has been called the hardest test, of any kind, in the world. Its rigors have been likened to those required to earn a degree in law or medicine. It is without question a unique intellectual, psychological and physical ordeal, demanding unnumbered thousands of hours of immersive study, as would-be cabbies undertake the task of committing to memory the entirety of London, and demonstrating that mastery through a progressively more difficult sequence of oral examinations — a process which, on average, takes four years to complete, and for some, much longer than that."
There are Uber-like services in Europe that somehow still manage to comply with the law, while bringing the same benefits to the end user. You don't have to ride roughshod over regulations and worker protections to be innovative and thriving.
Nope. I said GUID, they said VIN, I was clarifying that I was talking about the license plate not the VIN.
I am a (mostly) white American with some African-American ancestry, including several freed slaves. You're absolutely correct that freed slaves were always at risk of being re-enslaved in slave states and even sometimes in states where slavery was theoretically outlawed.

The solution that one of my slave ancestors and free seamstress wife came up with was for her to buy his freedom from a plantation owner. They then carefully recorded the bill of sale from this purchase in the country book of sales each time they moved, which was how a genealogist was able to track down their movements (and from his research[1], I connected a known branch of my family via primary sources, which was later re-confirmed by DNA testing). Clearly, this meticulous record-keeping was done as a shield against re-enslavement, although they likely still lived in fear.

This branch of my family crossed the race barrier some time around the civil war, but evidently only somewhat, because rumors followed that family into the 20th century, leading to claims of native American ancestry to explain their darker skin (as it turns out, according to DNA testing, I have ~3% African ancestry but 0% Native American ancestry).

Also, while it is true that freed slaves and their ancestors that crossed the race line faced fewer threats to their freedom than those who didn't, their life was often still full of risk to both life and property since their status was often known to many in the community. One son of the family I mentioned above made good as a trader, and became (the then equivalent of) a multi-millionaire. He married a white woman and lived a long life, and upon his death willed his considerable estate to his son, my 4th g-grandfather (wife had passed).

Unfortunately, one of his wife's nephews moved to annul the will and have the estate passed to him as next of kin, on the grounds that the heir was the product of an invalid marriage, as it was between a black man and white woman. The lower court ruled in favor of the nephew, but it was overruled in one of the first rulings of the reconstruction era SC Supreme Court. Alas, the legitimate heir never managed to recoup much of the estate in spite of the ruling, probably because no one would enforce it.

I'm sure this type of thing was quite common back then, and only grew worse as the region entered the Jim Crow era.

1. http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/familydata/grpf1652.html
Or Ghostery. I run it side by side with ublock Origin. It makes the web livable.
Except the part where you could run the whole OS, and a browser, off a 1.44mb floppy.
In most parts of Germany, there’s two types of such licenses.

1. Car-With-Driver-For-Hire. This is what uber falls into. You need a drivers license that allows you to transport people, and insurance for the car that covers your commercial driving.

2. Taxi. This is what traditional taxis are, it allows you to pick up people from the street, but there are maximum rates set by the city, you need to navigate without GPS, etc. These are also restricted by amount.
I wonder how this will work with self-driving cars. Making eye contact is not an option.
It's displaying ads above the search results. That's what google does. It's their whole business. It's not pushing their own review services over yelp, it's advertising alongside search results.
No, it doesn't fit the accepted definition of Keynesian. Indeed, I've never heard of stimulus devaluing a currency. At 2% inflation since the Great Recession of December 2007 to June 2009, we do not have an overvalued currency and we had stimulus spending.

Keynesianism raises taxes to cool an overheated economy and spends those taxes to spur a stalled economy. The trouble is that no one likes taxes and they're easy to campaign against and everyone likes spending and they're hard to cut, especially in your district or on your project.
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That chart looks very interesting, thanks!

Cheers, I'd be very curious to see your prints.

I've just had a little look on google images at some of Edwin Smith's photos, they look stunning! The light in the photos look amazing.

I still have an old Pentax K1000 film camera I think it is, I'll have to dig it out again some time :) I'd really like to get a medium format camera, but they're still not super cheap, I was looking at the Mamiya RZ67 (I'd actually like to try shooting landscape with it, which could be impractical due to the weight, but would be fun nonetheless ;).

10x8 film would be awesome to play with!
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Sounds like what we have in the UK as "minicabs" as opposed to "black cabs" that you can hail on the street. Both are considered taxis.
> As Europe continues to add laws and regulations targeted at American tech companies

Any example of those laws and regulations?
Same in Germany, but Uber wanted to be licensed like a web service, not like a black car service, and argued that instead each driver is operating a black car service, and they should be responsible for insurance.
My comment was less about this specific ruling and more about the trend. In the US, uber was practically illegal just like Europe. The US made it legal (or looked the other way) while Europe (and much of the rest of the world) decided to clamp down on the service with regulations without ever reflecting on whether the laws themselves were beneficial in the first place.

At least in the US, much of the fear mongering over the possible outcomes of Uber drivers not being properly licensed never came to pass.
I think we'll be fine without "innovation" that's innovate exclusively by breaking basic safety and labour laws.

Taxi services across EU (at least in my experience) are usually of significanly better quality than those in US. Well, at least I've yet to meet a cab smelling of piss and shit as opposed to SF.
> However, that responsibility they fail to take in consideration except by lawsuit, does not counteract YELP's BaaS - Blackmail as a Service.

...and that you have reason to dislike Yelp or even think they are hypocritical does not counteract the problem with Google, which is the topic at hand, making your comment seem like nothing more than a defense of vigilanteism :/.
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Steve and a few others have done a little work recently on DotNetAnywhere (DNA) under this branch: https://github.com/ncave/DotNetAnywhere/commits/latest

But aside from these recent tweaks, the code hadn't been touched for about 5 years.

It's just a toy and POC for now, but interesting nonetheless.

JavaScript won't be unseated as the go-to language for web development and web frameworks by WASM, C#, Java, Python, Go, or anything else... at least not in the next decade.

But certainly high-performance pieces will be dropped-in via WASM to interop with JS for things like image manipulation, etc.