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Thank you for reading and citing the law in detail. For those who haven't read it[1], I'd encourage you to do so. Unfortunately, the author of the blog post is reading it rather selectively and linking to another report.

Reading through the law, it seems largely sensible. The council lays out its logic for which pieces of the operations of a service like Uber need to be regulated, and specifies appropriate regulatory action on each item. We're talking about aspects like "transparency of rates", "certificates of safety" from mechanics, allowances for handicapped people, and insurance.

In fact, the council lays out a pilot program to assess whether such regulatory action is actually effective, "so that regulation provides a safety net that the public can rely on for its protection while new businesses innovate and use technology to better the lives of Washingtonians." The balance between "innovative" interests and those of consumers is clearly being weighed, and the council will assess "any negative unintended consequences of the pilot program" by next year.

Attacking the caps ignores the fact that they are associated primarily with the pilot program and initial regulation. You can think of it as a form of risk management for a trial, not dissimilar from that exercised in a medical drug trial.

[1] http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=&s3=118036&...
Netflix also has a famous division of monkeys that they unleash to take down servers in the hive, and generally muck about.

They want to break as many things as possible while keeping uptime and that sounds freaking awesome! :D
A couple of things here:

1) "Fresh Mavericks install." He should run Software Update and tell us he has done so, if he's going to write a blog post about whether stuff works.

2) He should file a radar (Apple's umbrella term for bug report / feature request) and share the radar number with us so we know he's at least going through the channels Apple has provided for concerns like this. http://radar.apple.com/

Or... he could just write a blog post, but I'm saying it would likely be more effective if he also did these two things, in addition to his blog post.

Wait, he shouldn't have to file a radar? True, in an ideal world, he shouldn't have to. But you know what they say about ideal worlds...
I rode cabs all the time in Chicago and New York. Fast and cheap. I don't see the big deal about paying twice as much for a service like Uber. Also, are there no millionaires at Uber?
I followed this link looking for a live demo. I was sadly disappointed. This is certainly something I need to experience before passing any judgement.
Thanks for the data point - I've spoken with others and it's been a mixed bag - some say it's slow and others don't. I wonder how much of it is perception of speed vs actual speed. Can you try reloading it and seeing how long it takes to load?
On Linux, you can use 'as', the gnu assembler, or you can also use nasm, which most people prefer over 'as'. I've used both, and I got used to 'as' syntax after a while.

I long time ago I wrote a threaded/fiber system for DOS. It was mostly C, but the task switching and interrupt stuff was all assembly. It's basically an implementation of setjmp/longjmp hooked up with timer interrupts.

You might use it in your day to day if you were a driver developer for something like PCI chipset drivers, network drivers, things like that. Even then, C is usually preferred. I worked for a company that wrote drivers for scsi jukebox systems and they had a compete software suite written in 100% assembly. It was very clean, modular, well commented, and even object oriented. Yes, you can have objects in assembly, you just have to make your own this pointers. Since the language itself is so limited, most good assembly programs have a lot of macro wizardry involved.
Occulus Rift is a pretty cool name

That's an understatement. It's a totally awesome name.
I've noticed maps is considerably slower and less responsive. Google has become corporatized so I'm keeping my expectations in check.
Using the "Why is X" Google autosuggest as proof is meaningless, no one searches for "why is gmail so great" and the same suggestions come up for all popular products and services.
DK1 is ~110° diagonal, 90° horizontal, roughly equivalent (and varies a fair amount w/ the lenses you use).

For comparison, the HMZs OP references are a HFOV of about 45°.
Holy fuck is the "responsive" HTML broken on this page.
marionette should pretty much be prerequisite for using backbone IMO
I have recently made the switch from Gmail to Fastmail as well, and I couldn't be happier. They don't have all the features (calendars are coming soon!), but they also don't have Google+.

In my experience it's a lot faster, both web and IMAP are extremely fast. While the storage is smaller than Gmail I don't find this an issue.

I haven't used the XMPP servers yet, but it seems to have the same features as non-hangouts GTalk.
I've been happily using Go to build a side project for a while, but I don't do anything special to profile the memory usage or optimize it. Do you have any resources you recommend for learning more about it? You seem to know a good bit.
Yea you're right - it's definitely a biased sample but still shows others are experiencing it to some degree.

I do the same check for "why is fastmail" and get "why is fastmail down" - I suppose slow is better than down.
Here's the datasheet with schematic: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm393.pdf

Ah, the days when 9 transistors could change the world.
Success outside the dress code
Sitting here thinking the same thing ..

Can't say I've ever had performance issues or even a moments downtime whilst using gmail since it was launched.

Is a paid vs. free solution even comparable?

It's also a bit weird to compare the requests made on initial load considering these web pages are arguably meant to be kept open- but regardless, shouldn't the browser be caching these?

I think a more fair & thorough comparison would be to investigate what gmail has that other solutions don't by introducing the larger initial overhead. I'm guessing a lot of cross platform compatibility code and plenty of code to integrate to Google's other services.

In which case, I would say if you are concerned about the initial page load and having more responsive interface (once again, no complaints here) and don't need integration to Google's ecosystem, you may not be the target customer for gmail. Which is okay.
Sure, there are some applications in which we may need to squeeze every ounce of efficiency out of our programs, but in this day and age you’ll be hard pressed to come any where close to the code optimizations made by modern compilers.

Does anyone who regularly writes assembly really believe that it's difficult to write better code than a modern compiler? This isn't my experience at all. Instead, I'd say that with just a handful of tricks and a dozen hours practice you can speed up just about anything a compiler generates. The issue is not that it's hard to beat a modern compiler, but that it's rarely worthwhile.

It's almost as if there is some compiler-writers-protection-racket out there that threatens anyone who doesn't bow to the powers of the modern compiler. The wonder isn't that they generate perfect code (by and large, they don't), but that they can optimize as well as they do without introducing bugs left and right. The relative rarity of compiler bugs is the impressive part, not the speed of the code generated.
Well if we're offering our suggestions for alternatives, I'll throw Outlook.com in the hat. I use it daily and find it as easy to use as Gmail, if not easier. Perhaps it's missing a few features that Gmail's got going for it like the tabs - but that doesn't bother me that much.
Passing judgment based on a "why is ..." auto-complete suggestion seems flawed, as the searches are heavily biased to the negative end.
That's the whole point - the problem is not with regulations or laws as such, but with harmful regulations or laws.

Protecting consumers from fraud is a good thing, as it promotes good service and (indirectly through increased trust) grows the economy, and makes people/customers/voters happier.

Protecting companies from their competitors is a bad thing, as it promotes bad service from being outcompeted, and (by allowing inefficiencies to stay unchecked) hampers economic growth, and prevents people/customers/voters from choosing what they want.
> More and more people today are put on drugs to deal with problems that used to be dealt with naturally and without side effect.

You mean like HIV/AIDs, cancer, autism, epilepsy? Of course there aren't side effects if you aren't treating.

> more and more average people who don't really need these medications still get on them because they enhance their concentration and productivity

You are begging the question. First you are assuming their is some growth to the number of people being treated that don't require treatment. Secondly, you assuming that they are bad because they are "mind altering."
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Wasn't the plane flying in the middle of the night? Is this a false-light image, or would it have been light by the time the plane reached this location? I'm skeptical.
I made the same switch a couple years ago (GMail -> Fastmail) and have had the exact same (pleasant) experience. Fastmail is fast and has sane defaults, a powerful filtering system, and good spam detection. As a bonus, I don't have to worry about Google reading my email to show me relevant ads. I've gladly spent the money to have reliable, fast, standards-friendly email. The only thing they lack is two-step authentication.
1,375MB/s Thunderbolt SSD
Yea - I was a bit hesitant but ended up making the switch anyways. It looks as if the other comment mentions that they do have it so I'll check it out.
Sorry, I'm either not understanding or I still am not convinced you are correct. p-values don't assume a normal distribution. A p-value is the probability of generating an equal or more extreme value of your test statistic under the null hypothesis. Normal distributions are nowhere in sight.

The only way that the Normal distribution comes into play is that physicists are measuring the smallness of their p-values by stating a number of standard deviations from the Normal mean that would have the same p-value.

I'm finding this discussion helpful by the way. I have worked in applied statistics but not in any fields which use this "sigma" scale or would talk about "sigma values".
Chaos monkeys meet entropy gremlins.

(Watch out for water.)
I think this is an example of why American exceptionalism is so dangerous. If other countries were to implement policies that Baker has proposed, put in place, followed, etc., then it would be bad, and I suspect Baker would be able to recognize the badness. But America can do it because, well, America is already the Land of the Free, didn't you know? So obviously those abuses can't happen in America, because America is the Land of the Free.

That's how he can dismiss the evidence, because that's other countries, and the lesson doesn't apply to America.

Probably this doesn't bubble up to conscious awareness, and perhaps in Baker's case I'm being too generous and he really is just a straight-up fascist. But for average folks, who don't have any political power, and who nonetheless buy into this nonsense, I think this is a common frame they use to convince themselves.

This is the great danger of nationalism.
A similar library that I wrote: https://github.com/ianb/walkabout.js
According to the Fastmail webpage, they do support (optional) two-factor authentication: https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html
Zibcoin: One Millionth Of A Bitcoin -Why?
I can hear a sound, the woosh sound as it goes over your head.
> Show me a world-class writer who doesn't obsess about his writing with every waking moment.

> Show me a master painter who doesn't paint every single chance she gets.

Well, there's Dante Gabriel Rosetti, who decided one day to give up painting and become a poet. While he is remembered more for his paintings than poetry, his poetry carries with it the essence and soul of his paintings as well as the imagery. He decided to paint with words. I don't think he obsessed about writing all the time. As he put it, though, "A sonnet is a moment's monument."[1]

This gets at what I think is an important point though. All of these creative endeavors require real-world knowledge. Hemmingway went out on adventures. For Tolkein, writing fiction was not his day job (teaching about medieval literature and linguistics, however, was). You can see their respective works that the live of the writer and the other obsessions beyond writing are what make the author.

Similarly with programming, yes, it is a technical endeavor and yes it is a creative one. However just like writing the great works of fiction, these don't come out of nothing. They require a context grounded in other knowledge and experience.

[1] http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/medievalism/areading.html Note that this was the introductory sonnet to "The House of Life" which chronicals Rosetti falling in love, getting married, coping with his wife's death, and finally finding solace in his religious worldview. The poem, despite its abstract nature is full of classical Greek imagery and something one could probably write volumes about. At the same time, it is an exposition on why he wrote poetry, and it provides the framework for fully understanding the hundred or so sonnets in The House of Life in that way. There are love sonnets, and sonnets which, as he puts it "in Charon's palm it pays the toll to Death" (i.e. allowing the dead and the living to begin to move on).
You know Gmail is free? And Fastmail costs $$$?
No, it's 150 per TNC. Were it 150 total, they'd effectively have a medallion program.
Software is different because it is a direct representation of the math, while the mechanical computer would have considerable amounts of engineering involved to create mechanical analogs for the desired computations. In software, an implementation of an algorithm, a description of an algorithm, and the algorithm itself can all be the same thing.
I've always found Gmail reliable, but I've seen plenty of performance issues in the last year.

I now have personal email on Fastmail and work on Google Apps. The difference is quite striking. It'll take a good 20 seconds before all of Gmail is loaded, Fastmail loads in under one second. Gmail will easily take 300-400 MB of RAM in Chrome after a few hours, Fastmail is around 40-50MB.

Then there's clicking on emails. Once you've browsed for emails in Fastmail you'll understand why I thing Gmail is slow these days.

Also Fastmail's IMAP implementation is much more reliable.
Not yet ready for a switch?

There is still a simple, clean, basic Gmail https://mail.google.com/mail/h/

For more light weighted https://mail.google.com/mail/x/
Whatever is essential needs to be reliable. Granted, there are several ways to do it, of which state monopoly is only one, and I reckon, often not the best: centrally planned economy works rather poorly, as demonstrated by the Soviet Union.

But you do need to ensure the reliability of your chosen mechanism. You can't just unleash the market on it, and hope for a good result. Unconstrained capitalism doesn't last, as demonstrated by its numerous crises, most notably in 1929.

Most of the time, the government will just heavily manipulate the market into doing what it wants to do. American farms are heavily subsided, for instance. Doesn't work too poorly, and lasts quite long.

Even if you strongly believe in free market and cut-throat competition, you need to ensure the market stays free somehow. You don't want any challenger to actually win.
That's true for any language, and any platform. The language can't save you from having to, at some point, understand how to properly engineer software.
I have about 12.5k messages in my inbox at FastMail, and another 26k in separate folder. Both inboxes load instantly, and the infinite scrolling is seamless. Jumping back-and-forth between message and list view is equally quick. While they currently lack features like a calendar, they do have a lot of powerful tools -- I have several domains and email accounts conditionally filing mail into several folders, with custom personalities/signatures when replying from each folder. Very happy with it, and the devs take bugs seriously whenever I message them. (To be fair, it's usually just UI edge cases.)

Edit: Just to quickly elaborate on the infinite scrolling: FastMail takes the total number of messages in a given folder and uses that to calculate the size of the viewport. When you scroll to a given position, it fires off a small AJAX request for just the messages that are in view. Since each message is a fixed height, it gives them a lot of flexibility for calculating what to show.

Also, FWIW, they do support message threading.
What I appreciate most about the PS4 is how the system is architected. I love that PS4 just consumes a lot less power then a PS3 and Xbox One. You can tell without even looking at the specs because of the size. It not only consumes less power but gives you the performance.
I have accounts on both gmail and fastmail, for different purposes.

Gmail has become bloated enough that it's really only usable on modern hardware. I have an older laptop I use when I travel (don't really care too much if it gets stolen, damaged, etc.) and gmail is painfully sluggish on it while Fastmail is still quite usable.

Fastmail has also, however, become more bloated than it used to be. I preferred their UI from a couple of years ago, but have grown to tolerate the current one.
While true, Google has made a big mention of pointing out that everything in the Play SDK leverages their cloud, and that they make all the APIs that can't inside of AOSP.

You can still geolocate inside AOSP, it just isn't as efficient as getting the location Google already has for the user in their cloud.

Stuff like the new Printer APIs and the new Storage APIs are solid evidence that Google isn't closing up Android. Only opening it further and making it more useful for everyone.

Developers followed location APIs to Play SDK because it was more efficient. Better for battery, and faster. Who wouldn't make that switch?
Having made the switch to Fastmail a while ago, I agree with the comments - mostly.

While Fastmail is fantastic, it lacks the implementation polish of Gmail. Two-factor authentication is there, but not via a popup like on gmail. You have to enter it in the web-form. This is a hassle, because I use LastPass and it's a bit fiddly. Further, under Fastmail you create new logins in addition to the master account password. The new logins can have two-factor, but the master can't. So there is a small vulnerability in that at least one password without the protection of two-factor.

Secondly, the spam filters on Gmail are far better. Fastmail has got a bit better, but it's still worse when compared with Google's offering.

Thirdly, Fastmail costs. While I'm more than happy to pay, I doubt many people would switch services from a free to paid, just because it appeared to be slightly slower.

That said, I really love Fastmail. I'm more than happy to pay and I'm a very satisfied customer. I can't wait for the promised features of a calendar and I hope - one day - there'll be the ability to sync address books.
It very well may be isolated to a few people - my wife uses it without any issues and yet it's noticeably slow for me. I agree with you that the comparison isn't 100% valid but it was more of a proxy for how much crap Gmail loads - it will also continue to make additional requests through the session.

I think the code to integrate the other Google services is the problem for me - I don't need it and it clutters my experience.
Also works much more reliably in foreign countries where Google services may be slow/blocked
You say "monolithic cabal" like it is a bad thing. How about a coalition of technology companies willing to see the recorded performances business shrink a bit in return for better, less expensive, more secure, and more open devices.
Clean code in AngularJS
Java as a desktop front-end language is dead. Sorry. JavaFX is a sad attempt at trying to re-live it, and no one outside of enterprise environments that are pure JVM shops are attempting to use it.
Today's mobile devices, especially the higher-end ones, are quite powerful. They offer more processing power, memory and storage than laptops did just a few years ago, and desktops just a few years before that. So I don't think that "doing it on mobile" is really that powerful of an argument any longer.
Works for me, but someone else mentioned the same issue a few hours ago.
I'm still using Gmail, but I'm frequently struck that every change they make to it is almost intentionally making it worse.

In fact sometimes I feel that way about a lot of Google's products.
I have gmail open in a couple of tabs pretty much for weeks. Were I to actually close and reopen chrome, the vast bulk of the resources would be cached.

This seems to be optimizing an artificial. Or maybe an irrelevant is a better word. It's like measuring Windows boot times -- as is so common with each iteration -- when recovery from sleep is far more relevant to most people now.

Further, and this may sound overly cynical, posts that proselytize a change should have a HN minimum required period before they can be submitted. Saying "I changed from {x} to {y} this past weekend, and boy is everything awesome now!" are invariably followed by the requisite post detailing how much of a mistake moving to {y} was.
It takes 6 seconds for you to load Gmail? Where do you live? I feel sorry for you bro.
lol I'm gonna call this "Twitch Plays the Internet"
Exactly. Try using SWT to do anything like CoreAnimation on the mac with either similar programming ease or buttery results. There's a reason why one should go native for anything beyond a database viewer.
That, and your search results (and auto-completes) are personalized.
I'm a fastmail switcher, too. $40/yr.
Interesting, will try it out for sure.
I bet you this post will let FastMail steal a dozen users from Gmail. Any affiliation, @dangoldin? :P
Ok, assuming your points are correct, you can retaliate against a known, organized force (or person), but you cannot retaliate against a nebulous group of people who exist in different parts of the world, many of whom share completely different ideologies.

You cannot "retaliate" against terrorism any more than you can retaliate against car crashes and deaths from cancer.
You speak good sense.

You are a liability to the Patent Industry (the Patent Litigators, the Patent Prosecutors, the Patent Trolls, the Patent Courts).

Watch now as some fucking moron, who has never built software in his entire life, drops in to say that only with Software Patents does Silicon Valley exist.
Thanks for sharing - I'm only a few days in but have really enjoyed the snappiness and simplicity. I do wish it had better calendar support (for that I'm still on Google) and a bit more polish but so far I'm glad to pay for it.

The spam point is interesting - I plan on using Fastmail for my important personal stuff and gmail with forwarding for everything else. Hopefully that will make for a good tradeoff.
I don't recall seeing that recommendation before this thread. That may just be my blindness in skimming things too quickly. In any case, I think it indicates a wart in the language when you have to wrap everything in otherwise useless let blocks just to get it to parse.
Why wouldn't you just use imap in an email client? I don't see any benefit to using a cloud email service when you can just host email easily on a cloud server..
Yeah, it's time we go back to the basics. The html version is lot faster.
Ha I wish. I'm not even paying for Fastmail yet =) Still have 55 days before I need to.
This. I have no sympathy for "Laws are for other people" as a business model.