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Sweden deregulated its taxis in 1990. There is now no limit on the number of taxis (though drivers do have to pass an exam), and no restrictions on what they can charge. The deregulation did produce a big uptick in the # of taxis in Stockholm.

There are now some complaints in the other direction about the deregulated prices, especially because some less scrupulous drivers are trying to deliberately trick tourists into paying outrageous prices. Prices have to be posted in windows, so of course no Swede or tourist paying attention would take a taxi that charges $200 for what would normally be a $20 trip. But you only have to trick a handful per day to make it a profitable scam. Just need to get some tourists who either don't realize that rates are unregulated in Stockholm, who didn't see the rate sticker, or who did but didn't mentally convert the SEK to something they understand.

A bit on that: http://www.thelocal.se/16868/20090112/
> hang-dry your clothes

That's actually a great way to utilize solar energy, and the done thing here in Italy, which, despite having its problems, is not a poor country.

In winter, you can put the clothes near a radiator/heater and that's pretty effective too.
The free market did not solve the problem of rapes, robberies and assaults in London's unregulated private late-night taxi business.

No, it didn't.

Now, you can argue that the people getting into those cabs should have known better, and that morally you ought to have the right to run one of these services. Law is the rest of us telling you where you can stick your absolutist morality while we find a nice balance that allows people to live the best they can with minimal restrictions.
Government is just an abstraction. There were early taxi companies that lobbied for a monopoly for themselves. They asked for laws to establish a hard limit on number of licenses available. Then, they cashed out nicely because supply of taxis was limited with police force, but demand was growing. Later taxi drivers just had to buy the permit and now they are also interested in keeping the existing laws (or they lose a lot of money). There is no magic at all, pure economics + violent intervention via police.
The threading model is part of the "Mechanical Sympathy". Multiple threads can write into a ring buffer, without locks. On the other end, coming out of the ring buffer you can have one thread (which means that the biz logic never needs to lock anything and can be blazingly fast), or multiple threads doing something with the event independently (at LMAX they journal to disk and replicate to backup machine). These threads can process the event in parallel. And you can "pipeline" or stage threads, so after both journaling and replication are complete (and not earlier than that) the event is passed to the business logic.

Then if the business logic needs to do something slow, like network I/O, disk I/O, database access etc, you would set up one or more other Disruptors for that. Instead of doing the slow task in the biz logic thread, you'd post a task for that on the helper Disruptor. That way the business logic can stay single-threaded, uncontended and blazingly fast.

When the slow task (disk I/O or whatever) is done, it will post a new event onto the first Disruptor, so the business logic can pick up the result and process that.

So it's all asynchronous, all event-driven, but pretty flexible.

In Log4j 2.0 there is just one Disruptor that takes the log message, puts it in the ring buffer, and passes control back to the application. Coming out of the ring buffer the event is passed to the normal log4j loggers, parent loggers and appenders.

It is not completely zero-garbage, but all ring buffer slots are created up front and re-used during the life of the process. Coming into the ring buffer, log event parameters are copied into the ring buffer slot without creating new LogEvent objects. Slots in the ring buffer implement the LogEvent interface, so coming out of the ring buffer, the slot itself is passed downstream, again avoiding object creation. Other parts of log4j are not that garbage-conscious so there is still room for improvement in this area.
For what it is worth:

a) I think decline will start at latest by 2020, probably a year or two earlier. I came to this conclusion by looking at past declines and current regional production data. Exports decline has already started in about 2005 - oil producing countries consume a larger part of production by themselves. Major oil price fluctuations can be damaging, because too high prices cause demand destruction and too low will bankrupt marginal producers.

b) We don't know what type of decline to expect, but it might be steeper due to EOR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_oil_recovery) techniques depleting the fields faster.

c) We don't really know how large part of the global recoverable supply we've consumed, because it is likely several OPEC-countries have reported exaggerating reserve data in past in order to increase their production share.
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Except it doesn't. The market finds a way to screw the consumer, it has been like that since the dawn of recorded history ("Caveat Emptor!") and we no longer stand for it, sorry.
I live in Eastern Europe. How else do dry your clothes apart from hanging them?
> I don't know about Stockholm, but in US and France taxi drivers must buy a taxi license for many thousands of dollars/euros that effectively allows them be a part of a monopoly

In Sweden there is no such thing, that's why the post says it's deregulated. All you need as a driver is a special driver's license (~$150) and what you need as a taxi business owner is proof of financial stability ($15K in the bank).

The Swedish taxi market is already extremely liberal in comparison to most places.
>Personally, I'm a fan of modern nuclear technologies

Me too, liquid-fueled reactors, in addition to having a safe rest state, can utilize nearly all of the fuel in them, as opposed to the very low utilization of solid fuel designs (current tech).

An MSR using much more common Thorium could potentially be used (economically) to produce carbon-neutral fossil fuel replacements.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thorium+remix
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I wouldn't use it over a normal taxi even if it were much cheaper. Other than the safety issues that sibling poster points out, there is a small but non-zero chance that my driver gets pulled over by a cop, that then discovers he's doing something illegal and I miss my plane.
I'll probably get down-voted for this but "powerful insights" for fantasy sports? Really?

Amazing that people are putting their collective intelligence and resource into fantasy sports.

Like sports? Get off your ass, grab a ball and some friends and get out on the field/court.

What about pivoting to a site for finding local people to form recreational teams? I'd use that!
Mind if I ask how you explained it to her (in what I'm guessing was a relatively short time)? It seems to me that most explanations of the bill are very biased one way or another, or don't mention enough detail to be worthwhile.
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> But they are also [...] an innovative [company].

Not really, at least not as far as Stockholm is concerned. Unless by "innovative" you mean that they innovate in their ignorance and refusal to comply with regulations not matter how sensible those are (or, according to TFAA, how people attempt to help them: it was noted they could get their application certified as a meter and people have come forward to help with that, it would seem uber didn't even try doing that).
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Looks very cool, but seems to require both wine AND mono :(
Some clothes — if taken care of properly when worn — actually barely need any washing but merely being swapped regularly and ventilated. In fact washing and drying them can dramatically reduce their lifetime. Unless I end up soaked one way or another (rain, running...) I don't wash hoodies and jean's trousers as much as I did.
Well, here in the UK, if they want to know about food safety then the star rating from the government mandated hygiene check is posted on the door to the premises, letting the consumer know the cleanliness of the kitchen and the safety of food preparation practices.

This, like car safety ratings, is something rather hard to judge by a cursory look around the place. We also consider these two things important enough for regulation as they can result in illness, injury or death.

Shoes, well, if your shoes fall apart very quickly then you have a statutory right to a refund, rather than a libertarian 'right' to bitch about it and hope to damage the business. Other things are regulated similarly.

It's not a question of someone choosing for you, it's a question of society coming up with standards and regulations to take the danger of unscrupulous or negligent merchants out of the picture.
"Most gun violence in the US is carried out with handguns by gangbangers, muggers, drug dealers, and other such criminals, not by unhinged psychopaths."

Yep - this is why ending the war on drugs will solve 70% of the 'gun-violence' problem.
Well, it would be dangerous to let those developers write application code in C++.
Tumble drier. I've never understood the things. (<-- UK-based).
Pretty small when you take out the unnecessary Drug War deaths. And much smaller than people who commit suicide via poor food choices, smoking and not wearing their seatbelt.
> Global warming is a lot scarier than "peak oil"

Honestly I always figured the global warming hysteria was mainly a cover for pushing "anti-peak oil" policies without having to admit the Emperor is naked. Cutting carbon emissions by 10%, a carbon tax in Australia, etc., doesn't strike me as really being able to put a dent in a catastrophic global warming were it actually occurring, but it does seem a reasonable approach to reduce fossil fuel consumption in the near-term.
I don't have a daily reading list, as I've found that it harms my productivity. I usually let the problem I'm trying to solve drive me to reading and research. Other than having something to talk about at the water cooler, I've found that trying to "stay informed" or "keep abreast of industry trends" are just excuses for not doing real work.
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Wow..is was dood to know..looks like china is itself is big electronic world..!!
http://consumeconsume.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
http://www.contemporist.com/
http://randomghost.tumblr.com/

Contemporist currently showing errors and occasional CloudFlare messages - load issue? It's architecture/interiors/furniture.

If you like futuristic concepts, Random Ghost and its infinite scroll will eat your day. It's amazing.

Consume Consume is an incredible mixture of bizarre, awesome or amusing images. A good, occasional break from the grind.
Not sure if you're joking or not ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer )... A couple of years ago I was sat on a train passing through Flanders (one of the richer regions in Western Europe), next to a Texan family. The husband noticed a clothes rack full of towels on a terrace, and exclaimed 'Look at that! Did you see that?! They don't have a clothes dryer! Those poor people, we should thank God we were born in Texas!'. Which was followed by much commiseration about how hard it was to find a proper church on holidays.
Wow..is was good to know..looks like china is itself is big electronic world..!!
We embedded engineers think the same thing about stuff like Rails and Sinatra. Where's all the fun in making your own web stack anymore? =)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer
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Exactly.

I had invested time in Spool, and when they got acquired by Facebook, all I got was a bookmark list in a mail attachment and no more service. No readable article, no offline video, etc.
Works for a single or maybe a couple, but as family size grows this quickly becomes impractical.

With my family of five, this would be a nightmare.
Dryers. Spin the clothes at high heat. Damaging to delicate stuff, but fine for blue jeans.

However, that's in part because the eastern half of the U.S. is very humid. Even in the summer, anything that is out of direct sunlight will take a long time to dry. A typical 30-degree summer day in NYC will have a dewpoint of 23 (and yes, it's as icky as it sounds). In California (where 30 degrees means low humidity and is quite nice) you could probably hang-dry.
"People always say the chant 'free market doesn't work' without giving any explanation or examples"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure

You're welcome.
(With how many creative people there are doing web work nowadays I'm always amazed that design trends seem to stem from the most recent/popular OS.)

What's great about the Metro style is it makes responsive layouts dead-simple and it cuts the design process down considerably. Sure it looks boring, but that's okay for now because I spent years hearing about wet floors and jelly buttons and skeuomorphism and...

It's refreshing to be able to pick a few colors, pick a few fonts, put it on a grid and be done. To me it almost feels like laziness, but it's a nice change of pace from the days when a single button took hours to design/build.
The average is for them to fund 2-5 Phase 1 awards at $150K and then 1-2 Phase II awards of $1MM each based on the most promising of the Phase I. Given recent changes to the SBIR program, note that Phase I SBIRs can now be for $150K and Phase IIs at $1MM.

It can happen, but is rare, that they would fund nothing on a topic in the solicitation.

And as you say, compelling results out of the SBIR work can lead to follow-on work that is >> $1MM.

The short of it is, the Navy is interested in this topic, and if you have a small tech business with innovative ideas in this space there is a great funding opportunity here for you to advance your tech and grow your business.
There are strong libertarian strands in several swedish parties so there are some comrades in arms. Quoting Ayn Rand in parliament has happened.

But even as a libertarian leaning swede I find myself quite annoyed by Uber. In the 1990s, IIRC, the taxi market was striktly regulated and finding taxis where a problem. Now in Stockholm there are many, many taxis all over the place so I personally don't get what problem Uber is really trying to solve here.
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When you’ve got an idea, and a team, and you’re raring to get started on hacking for a potential startup, a question that often comes up is, “well, what technology should we use?” (hopefully you’ve answered the necessary, “what problem are we solving and how are going to solve it” questions first).

And hopefully, long before that, you've answered "Who cares about this?", "How will I make money?", "Is there actually a big enough market?", and so on...
Why do you think it is a lot better off than Hungary? There's not a very big difference between them in terms of human development.
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This is brilliant, in principle. Getting some odd segfaults to do with libpthread-2.15.so on Ubuntu 12.10 though, so not sure what's going on there. I'll dig some more then file a bug...
True, but the other languages don't necessarily help with that, either. PHP doesn't prevent programmers from writing code susceptible to SQL injection attacks. Ruby doesn't prevent programmers from writing poorly-performing web apps that are brought down or rendered unusable with a even minimal level of traffic. It's dangerous to let those kind of developers write any code.
Gruber left in February 2012 [1]. Hypercritical continued until December [2]. Build and Analyze the same [3].

Siracusa and Arment both said they thought the shows had run the course. Siracusa is also a regular on The Incomparable [4].

[1]: http://5by5.tv/talkshow
[2]: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical
[3]: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze
[4]: http://5by5.tv/incomparable
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The SBIR program is the largest Federal source of non-dilutive seed-stage funding available. The program is highly competitive, but this funding is available exclusively to small (e.g., < 500 employees) businesses.

The intent of the program is to drive technology development and new business creation and spur innovation in areas to meet identified national needs (in this case a need by the Navy).
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"Unregulated" in the terms of a taxi market means that there are no price regulations and no limitations on the number of cars.

The licenses needed are minimal compared to any other taxi market:

* Driver's need a more stringent driver's license ($150)

* Business owners need to prove they're running a serious business by passing a test and showing proof of enough capital to run the business. This application required an administrative fee of under $500. This is absolutely nothing compared to the 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars needed in other countries (where it's often impossible since their numbers are limited).

These requirements stem from the dangers of unprofessional drivers - unregulated taxi drivers in Sweden have been linked to robberies and rape of passengers. It doesn't in any way create a taxi monopoly. My mom could start a taxi business in Sweden.

The regulation is mainly pure consumer protection. The same kind of regulation that covers supermarkets: approved measurement devices (approved taximeter, same requirement as approved weights), upfront about prices (sticker on the window, same as having proper pricing on your shelves).
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cloud66 provides the full deployment stack on EC2, rackspace, digitalocean and others. You can deploy any git repo and it will analyse the code and configure the ruby app based on the gemfile (postgres, memcache, redis, etc) and install it.
This is a complete fallacy. Any black market, by definition, will have a higher incidence of other criminal activity, because people who are willing to violate one law are often willing to violate others.

This is no different than arguing that we should continue drug prohibition because there are a lot of violent incidents that occur during transactions. That violence exists precisely because the activity was forced underground.

Moreover, even if those services weren't illegal, it nevertheless is true that lower cost services will always bear a higher degree of risk. The same thing applies to practically any business. Being poor sucks, but pricing such people out of entire industries won't help them.
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As an undergrad at Georgia Tech you should know that if one of my professors caught me writing some significant digit nonsense like 1.0272303 ± 1.031768 Bq/kg I would not have gotten a degree.

1.0272303 ± 1.031768 Bq/kg or rather 1.0 ± 1.0 Bq/kg means that your experimental error is so large that your result is compatible with both 0 and 2 Bq/Kg. What's the point of adding all those significant digits if you're telling us that your result is imprecise, or rather that your experiment can't effectively tell if there is any activity from Cs-60.

(edit: I wasn't an undergrad at GT)
If anything, it is governments that have, throughout history, a track record of screwing their citizens.
Yeah, so? If it's a monstrous undertaking just to get the system to first boot, how does that help anyone? :)

I think that cave is just as useful without init, and I think that most people who want to package something in paludis are not going to be having boot dependencies (on average I would guess at least 50% of apps are not services. I don't have any hard statistics and that number could be high or low.)
Yes. Most of the people who work in an very HFT firm will be developers and ops people who are good at integrating cutting edge technologies. An understanding of how the exchanges operate is useful but knowledge of finance isn't really required.
I've mostly seen the anti-C-syntax attitude come from two communities. The first is made up of those who prefer Pascal and Pascal-derived languages. The second is the Ruby crowd.

The Pascal community was most vocal in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since dwindled in size. Today, it's often the Ruby community that's most vocal, and they are often very loud, indeed.

Curiously, we don't really see this attitude from the Python community nearly as much as one would expect. I'm not completely sure why this is, but it may be due to many Python developers having extensive knowledge of C and the various languages influenced syntactically by C (C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, and so forth). Due to their breadth of knowledge, different syntaxes just aren't an issue worth getting upset about.
It isn't for my family of four, even with our rather damp UK weather.
It becomes very difficult and often impossible seasonally in some climates. But we might get a lot of mileage by improving the efficiency of these things, and reducing their usage when the weather is nice.

Line-drying also may not work well in high-density housing.
Never was an issue for a family of four, when I lived at home. Tumble dryers normally ruin most clothes quicker anyway. I always air dry mine.
> if I spoke Swedish and knew Stockholm well enough

With some of the drivers I've had, you don't even need those two. Not that it's actually a problem, everyone speaks english and they all have GPS devices.
I don't think their failure to attend the protest was necessarily "we don't give a fuck." If only for self preservation reasons they almost certainly do care. They likely didn't attend because they didn't want to increase the likelihood of the protest becoming a larger story on the media. They're much better off only engaging drivers in private meetings.
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In Sweden anybody can get a taxi license by passing a written and practical test and filing some paperwork. The whole processes costs less than $1000. To actually operate a taxi company you also need insurance and to meet certain capital requirements, but it's nothing that any serious company should have any problem meeting.
I think he's being very generous to the author by not laughing out loud at the suggestion that hang drying clothes is a measure of progress.
I'm debugging this now. If you have anything atypical about your setup it would be great if you could post it to the bug:
https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/issues/292
Personally, I don't care if global warming is real, imagined, man-made, or naturally-occurring. Because, from where I stand, the "austerity" measures and lifestyle changes that have been proposed to combat global-warming (at least in the U.S.) are pretty much all good things that should be pursued, regardless. And yet people (the majority of Americans, it seems) sneer at the thought of making personal or societal sacrifices for the sake of species or generations other than our own. It always frustrates me - the sense of entitlement to not having to care about the downsides of convenience.
The Security/Features page remains up to date (mostly, see below) and while new security features did not land in 13.04, a lot of work was done on client application isolation and better supporting using AppArmor with LXC. Many of these features will land in 13.10 and 14.04 LTS.

The list of applications compiled with PIE is not currently up to date, but is being worked on (part of the problem is a lot of developers started compiling their packages with PIE and we now have to find them. A nice problem to have :). Also note that incremental security features are not usually mentioned. For example, seccomp2 is used in a number of places now and AppArmor improvements such as mediation of mount or the upcoming DBus work are/will not be specifically mentioned.
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Facebook and Hacker News. My friends post a lot of intriguing articles.
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