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"The price of taxis is held artificially high and really it is a loss for the consumer."

Absolutely. In Bangkok there are more taxis on the streets than all other cars combined. You can find one anywhere, anytime and a ten minute ride costs about $1. No need to own a car, even if you can afford one.

Our minimum wage wouldn't allow for that but there is no reason it needs to cost $60 to take a 15 minute ride from San Bruno into SF. The gas cost + labor cost of that ride should be 1/10th of that. Double that to account for profit, administration and the car and you have a $10-15 ride.

Price it like that and a lot less people would own cars - and there would be a lot more taxis on the streets to account for the increased demand. And a lot of jobs.
You can do repeater less fiber for longer and longer distances no, though -- probably around 1000km.
Google announced at I/O that JB would be coming to nexus devices in July and the Galaxy Nexus on the Play Store is supposed to ship with JB in 1-2 weeks. So pretty much.
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The law puts a floor on non-taxi prices at Uber's current black car price. So 0% of their current black-car fares would be affected. What this does is prevent any future competition on price (like UberX in San Francisco). The law will literally prevent anyone (other than a taxi) from charging less than $15 for a ride, and for no obvious benefit to anyone other than Taxis.

For me, the difference here is clear. When I order an Uber, I have a certain expectation of quality, and I have the option of never using their service if they totally blow it sometime (or I can give a driver a bad rating, and if he/she gets enough he gets booted from the service). If I get a lousy ride from a Taxi, I don't have many alternatives. If a law is passed that prevents anyone else from competing on price, I have even less options.
As a DC resident who loves Uber and HATES HATES HATES the local taxicabs, you are wrong on this. This is not about regulation. This is about an established industry in a city with a one party government that has deep pockets for funding (or defunding) politicians whose election is decided in a primary, not a general election.
The taxicab industry in DC is, like in many cities, corrupt down to a point where it hurts the drivers. The corruption starts at the dispatching offices, where the person taking the phone calls for pickups almost never sends a cab based on closest proximity to the pickup. Instead, they base it on who pays them the most kick backs, or perhaps a family member. In this scenario, the consumer and the driver lose due to a corrupt middleman. Talk to any cab driver who picks you up, and ask them about corrupt dispatchers. If they are honest they might tell you about their own dispatchers.
Uber is good for the drivers and the consumers. It's bad for the middle men and the politicians. Sedans are already regulated, and Uber handles the "taxi" side of the equation by using GPS to determine distance/time for a fair rate.
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They seriously have 40 MM clns? I find that extremely hard to believe.
I suspect that unlike Firefox, which actually brings in money (mostly from search engine referrals, specifically from Google), Thunderbird doesn't bring in any significant money, if at all.

Mozilla is a non-profit (or is it a not-for-profit?), but I guess they're trying to make each project self-sustaining, and if thunderbird doesn't provide any bacon (pure speculation on my part here), then -- yes, that market might look like a waste of time.
Clearly my post came across poorly and not as I intended, as at the time I imagined it to be a softer way of suggesting that his words don't represent his actions. Other ways of saying that directly sound much more personal and less civil in my head, but perhaps not to others.

With respect to your definition, I submit that you misunderstand the element that differentiates respect from admiration, appreciation or value. Further debate seems unhelpful, whatever you call it it's the same behavior.
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Is Chrome for iOS open source? Would there be a way to add V8 back in and release it on Cydia? That may extend the lifespan of Apple products indefinitely. My iPad 1 is already deemed obsolete by Apple and will never receive another web browser update ever, which is obviously retarded. Apple seriously needs to get that giant stick out of their ass.
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If the amendment is passed still titled as the "Uber Amendment," would the law be considered a Bill of Attainder against Uber? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder )
I love your phrase about "pockets of the unevenly distributed future" and will be stealing it.
And the reasons for regulation go beyond consumer protection from shady drivers. Cab companies are regulated in many cities so that they, literally, are part of the public transportation infrastructure. NPR had a recent story about the taxi-towncar debate in Portland that lays out why certain regulations exist, and affords some amount of justification in this debate. Simply put; taxis can't discriminate fares/hours while towncar companies can.

Their source claims that law requires they provide a certain level of service 24 hours a day, 365 days per year regardless of demand. This includes a large portion of cabs be equipped to accommodate the disabled. Further, they are not allowed to discriminate based on the distance or size of fare.[1]

1. http://www.npr.org/2012/06/19/155305029/its-taxis-vs-limos-i...
I don't think this would make Chrome better but rather make every app that uses this code pretty crummy. What would make Chrome (and iOS) better would be Apple setting up some kind of default app system for links, mail, photo editing etc. Out of very few things, Intent is something that Android still has over iOS. Plus of course Chrome would be better with some Nitro on top :)
You made the mistake of saying negative things about a "disruptive" startup YC-backed startup. By all rights, you should consider yourself lucky you haven't been hellbanned and quartered.
It's rather incoherent article.

At one point he claims that few years from now we'll all be buying the cheapest tablets made by asian manufacturers who'll outcompete everyone on price, because "no one cares whose tablet we use as long as it does the basic stuff".

Then he contradicts himself by saying that Microsoft will win the tablet war because of more desirable software. I guess we do care about the software in the tablet after all.

More fundamentally, even if Google totally fails in tablet market, they'll still be making money hand over fist from their web ad business and from their youtube video business.

Google doesn't care about profits from selling hardware that much. I'm sure they would like to make Apple-sized profits but they are strategic enough to sacrifice those profits to defend their ad cash cow.

Low prices are Google's weapon - as long as a tablet runs Android, Google most likely makes money from the person using it so if they could give Android table to everyone for free, they would. Apple and Microsoft don't have that option, they have to sell them at a profit.
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Also, I noticed that there is no source code in the source repository (a few .xib and .png files but not source).
Good to know, but it's still a bit disappointing that no Mac Pro can do AirPlay.

I wonder if there's a new API coming down the pipe for this. The obvious way to implement AirPlay mirroring, in my mind, would have been to add Quick Sync Video support as an optimization to existing video APIs, and then simply have AirPlay mirroring use that. Then not only could people with lots of free GPU cycles but no Quick Sync Video CPU (alas, like me) use AirPlay mirroring, but other video apps would automatically take advantage of the new performance.
There's a difference though. If you hail a cab, you're getting a random person. You have no idea in advance about the quality of the car/ride/service. It's necessary to regulate that.

Companies like Uber, Sidecar and Lyft have to get by on their reputation, or users stop using their apps. These services don't need the same regulation, because customers can vote with their wallets. Insurance,liability and cleanliness are handled by Uber, Sidecar and Lyft sidestep those issues to bring down the price. Ultimately the customer gets to decide how much risk they want to take on, and what service to use. The answer is more choice, not price fixing to prevent honest competition.
An argument could be made for rent controlled apartments being a net positive. Not just for the people renting them but also for the businesses hiring those people and by extension their customers.
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No. A bill of attainder refers to legislative bill declaring someone guilty of a crime. The Amemdment merely prohibits Uber X's planned business model. UberX would not be guilty of anything unless it went ahead with its planned business model.

What is it with the armchair lawyers on HN today?
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You can often get the previous year for free. They are also commonly given as gifts by sales reps for carriers or data centers.
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That's not mentioned on the page. Can you point me to where you found that info?
It happens also when a business model isn't so disruptive. Regulation ends up favoring the politically connected. The more politically connected, generally, are bigger or more established interests.

This benefits politicians as well, because the ability to change regulations is useful for raising donations. "You gotta mighty fine business here, it would be a shame if we lowered your tariff...."
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Seems to me that properly automated hosts could easily have user accounts automated too, no?
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But taxis still discriminate all the time. Call a cab to come pick you up at your house. They're legally required to come, but there's strong odds that they won't. A lot of taxi drivers will ask where you're headed before you get in. If it's to an area they don't want to go, they'll just take off and leave you there waiting and waiting.

The regulations in place are rarely (if ever) enforced. It's an issue for the free market to settle. Let consumers decide if they want 24 hour a day 365 days per year service, and they can hire the company that will meet that demand. If they want drivers to come pick them up at their house, let them choose a company that is willing to do that. Setting an artificial price floor doesn't do anything other than limit consumer's choices.
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And Cabulous app basically provides you the same level of service as a regular cab, but you get one quickly and can track it on your phone as it arrives.
The last time there was endemic food distribution problems in Cuba (the "periodo especial") sort of completely ended before the beginning of the 21st century. It was mostly because Cuba was unable to meet its own demand for oil during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

You can bash the Cuban economy all you want, but feeding of its population is not a good place to start. It ranks among the top american countries (that includes the US and Canada) in the UNs undernourishment rating since 2002. As of 2006 it has also ranked consistently in the top3/top5 of american countries in children undernourishment indexes, sometimes above or matching the USA and Canada.
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The refined App sandbox and new system services (through XPC) are a major under-the-hood change. I don't have time to go through it, but they seem to have changed erything in OS X for XPC (watch WWDC sessions if you're interested).

But I completely agree with your first point. iWork hasn't been updated since 2009... I just can't believe it. It's still not on iCloud so if you want to share files between iOS and iWork on Mac, you have to manually copy and upload them. It's disgusting.
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I think you can both be correct. It's the lifecycle of regulation: it usually comes about to protect people from real edge cases and bad behavior, but then as the market and norms mature becomes a tool for incumbents to resist disruption. It's very hard to remove regulation once it's in place, even when it's so clearly not needed given new circumstances. It's even harder when the rhetoric in support of it was so heavily moralistic, "protecting the little guy".

e.g., Ask any payments startup about how they feel about payments regulation.
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Location based services could be big. Asking "what's nearby meeting criteria A,B,C" requires a non traditional backend.
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It's interesting to contrast this post with all the posts about multi million dollar funding rounds currently on the front page.
Why do you think Go is no suited for web apps? At the end of the day web apps are just servers, and Go is very well suited to create reliable and efficient servers. Go is also one of the languages supported by Google App Engine to create web apps.
Yes, it's a good argument. It shows how the regulation that ostensibly was set up to protect customers does not consistently do that. And what am I going to do with a phone number? Spend 20 minutes on hold before I can tell a disinterested minimum wage call center employee about how my would-have-been $50 missing taxi caused me to miss my $1500 flight so it's recorded in some log that nobody ever reads?

The fact that some people might accept the service-failures listed by the GP as not being bad just shows how low expectations to taxies has become. Luckily some people believe taxies can do better.

Finally, all but the stauchest libertarians would accept a sensible minimum of regulation that would provide a minimum of protection, including mandatory insurance and conspicuous display of photo ID inside the vehicle.
Well spotted. Apparently I had Cornerstone.app misconfigured to not commit sub dirs.
How would it make it crummy?
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That may have been more of an argument prior to the internet -- e.g. now someone can find an alternative place to stay in fifteen minutes on craigslist at a cheaper rate.

That is unless all of the landlords get together and price-fix, though I suspect that would correct itself rather quickly.
Why not just this into a business and charge fanboys $1000 to get the new thing before everyone else?
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These are user features. Snow leopard and mountain lion (as their names might suggest) are all about under the hood refinements. Snow leopard was ten times better than leopard, but the most striking new user feature was scrollable stacks (in Dock)! So, don't judge ML too harshly. I used dev versions and they were rock solid (more stable than anything before 10.6.4 or 10.7.1).
That cable was sold to Cuba by Venezuela. Cuba paid market price for the whole contract. Venezuela triangulated the sale using I believe a French contractor, in order to avoid the economic blockade imposed by the US. Even with Venezuela and France in the middle of the transaction it is still debatable whether someone violated the blockade...

Getting and undersea cable through to you when there is a law in the US that prevents virtually any commercial transaction with your country turns out to be extremely difficult.

I believe the cable is not yet operational because of last-moment technical issues. It was also the first undersea cable to reach Jamaica, though they got another connection from Puerto Rico not a short time ago.
Not only awesome, it's the only reason why I would want to use this. Lets say I hear my iPhone buzzing in my backpack. I know I have my iMessages synched to my mac. Now the guessing game begins - should I pick the iPhone or wait until it has been synched? How long should I wait? Nevermind, what was I doing right now?

Absolutely useless, unless you have started some kind of Apple religion and all your contacts have iPhones.
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a) AFAIK, no (as in, it is not open source). b) The change would not just be to mess with the JavaScript engine: it would require totally replacing out the UIWebView backend they are currently using from Apple and, well, pretty much putting back Chrome. They are not rendering the HTML, Apple's UIWebView class is; it would probably be easier to just attempt to recompile/replace JavaScriptCore system wide to stub into v8. c) According to Apple (whom you may or may not believe), v8 is not actually much faster (if not slower) than Nitro right now, so you may as well just turn on Nitro in Chrome (which is easy to do on a jailbroken device).
Where next for iOS? Is it time for a redesign?
So I guess they're too afraid to take on Google? Or is Bing still a hobby...
I freely admit that I'm not a lawyer, which is why I asked a question instead of making a statement. I thank you for your insight, though, as I see you are a lawyer.
That seemed pretty quick. And apparently it's a minor update, code wise, so hopefully we'll see some action from the CY devs soon. Though, ICS probably has to hit release first.
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First, boot holding D. This will boot a special firmware-based hardware tester (or one downloaded from Apple on latest hardware) that will test all aspects of your system.

It's the first thing the Genius Bar will do.
I can see why Steve Ballmer would say this with regard to Surface. It is a radical departure from their previous business model to compete with their own OS-licensing OEM customers.

But did he really mean "HDC" with regard to Windows Phone OEM customers? That's got to be a typo!
I read this mostly as a fluffy piece urging Google to consider targeting the enterprise instead. That's a fine option, if Google had strong integrated business services already. I'm not sure that it does - not at the level of Microsoft, anyway. Consumer is where Google can play the game and where it has a strong foothold, and we've seen that strong consumer penetration gave Apple a strong entrance into the enterprise market (I see a lot of organisations adopting iPads).

I'm not so sure about its claims about Asian manufacturers likely to turn out market-winning low-priced devices, either - I've been considering picking up a made-in-China tablet for a while, and the prices aren't so much better than the Nexus 7's $200 (a dual-core would be $100 or more right now). And as you point out, Google cares about having tablets run Android, not about profiting from the hardware. What are all the Chinese manufacturers loading on their tablets? Android ICS, essentially without exception.

I do think having an official, well integrated keyboard would be very beneficial to the tablet's ecosystem. That's where the Surface wins - I can almost see it as a light laptop replacement. The writer is certainly correct in painting this as important.
Agreed, that is bullshit. That system is more than capable.

Apple shouldn't penalize anyone in software for paying a small price premium for their ultra-reliable hardware.
Odd. I've never not had that experience.
Do you guys even have any idea why taxis are regulated in the first place?

During the Great Depression, many taxi drivers drove unsafe cars. There were many accidents involving unlicensed drivers of unmaintained cabs. The medallion system was introduced to improve the safety of taxis by imposing minimum capital requirements, i.e., the cost of purchasing/renewing the medallion, and ongoing compliance requirements (insurance, vehicle maintainence, etc.).

Uber has not negated the underlying justification for the medallion system. All it has done is to take all of the risks that taxi companies normally accept and push it on to the drivers and passengers. Uber's disruptive edge is essentially its exploitation of its customers/service providers.

When your business is based around exploiting the financial naivete of others, you have to know that you will only enjoy that advantage for a limited window.
I see Bing as a black hole whose event horizon is strongly attracting those billions of dollars still in Microsoft's cash account.
If you are using a jailbroken device, there are a few extensions that can provide this functionality. I believe the most comprehensive is by Ryan Petrich.

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Not really, Postgres works fine for most of this stuff, and as of 9.1 without PostGIS

'nearby' means ordering your query using the <-> operator.

'meeting criteria' goes in the where clause.

For example to find interesting things nearby in postgres:

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