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One day when I was feeling mischievous, I was thinking of an app called SubUber where you'd coordinate with your favorite Uber driver(s) directly and call (or one button press) to request from them a ride. Then, your ride fee could be Uber's original fee minus 20% (or whatever you negotiate or some other meter-based fee).

What I'm saying is, if you as a passenger create your own approved driver's list network, you could get the same services much cheaper.
Here's an interesting Wired interview with Podkletnov on his anti-gravity work from '97 : http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.03/antigravity.html...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ministry-of-d...
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It should be harmless to the organs. If they can be carried around in a freezer I'm sure they won't get damaged from being injected with freezing salt water.
> Agriculture is the most important job on the island. Every person is taught it and must live in the countryside, farming for two years at a time, with women doing the same work as men. Parallel to this, every citizen must learn at least one of the other essential trades: weaving (mainly done by the women), carpentry, metalsmithing and masonry. There is deliberate simplicity about these trades; for instance, all people wear the same types of simple clothes and there are no dressmakers making fine apparel. All able-bodied citizens must work; thus unemployment is eradicated, and the length of the working day can be minimised: the people only have to work six hours a day (although many willingly work for longer). More does allow scholars in his society to become the ruling officials or priests, people picked during their primary education for their ability to learn. All other citizens are however encouraged to apply themselves to learning in their leisure time.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book))
ext4 can be resized while mounted (using resize2fs). It can only be extended, not shrunk however.
The whole site should be https and never load assets that are not -- from the start. Especially since it's an investing site with access to sensitive information.
A lot of people are complaining about putting this into CSS, but I think that people are forgetting that using null transform hacks[0] is already the status quo for making animated elements more performant.

What this property does is lets us continue doing the same thing, but in a way that the intent is clear ("I'm using this property to make the animation on this element more performant" vs. "I want to add a transform that does nothing"). Furthermore, it lets the browser decide if it wants to add any optimization, and it can decide which sort of optimization is best.

While it would be nice if we didn't have to do this hinting at all, the fact of the matter is that it's hard for the browser to predict what will happen on the page in the future, and we're already having to do this (just in the cryptic null transform way), so it's nice that the web platform is letting us do it in a standardized way that communicates our intent clearly.

[0]: http://aerotwist.com/blog/on-translate3d-and-layer-creation-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
This article lacks coherence. The housing crisis is caused by a lack of supply relative to demand. Tech workers are part of the increased demand but cannot be blamed for the lack of supply. The taxi industry is being disrupted by new services because it failed to adapt to the needs of customers. This is called creative destruction and has always been common. The problems of people lacking jobs or not being well paid are complex and involve many factors. Productivity and compensation have come apart and the business environment has been transformed in many ways most notably including much higher volatility such that big companies now last around 15 years instead of 50. Sharing itself isn't even all that interesting.
That's actually my point. Since upgrades, etc... all are reflected in our bill. When ISPs cannot charge Netflix and the likes in the long run, wouldn't it be reflected on the Consumer's bill? Or will the ISP business become less profitable than expected (from the eyes of ISPs)?

I see that ISPs (companies) generally want to make more money. Attempting to charge Netflix is an attempt at that. If they are not able to charge Netflix this extra amount, wouldn't it be logical for them to charge consumers more?

As it appears in Netflix's statement, their network is congested. If ISPs want to keep their profit ratio and offer better services to their consumers. Somebody has to pay more. I doubt they would settle for anything less.

Again this is just me. I would be interested to hear if there would be anything preventing ISPs from charging their customers more...
And what about those jurisdictions where you are responsible for file sharing that occurs on your network?
Like I said, usage is changing.

I studied AI shortly after the "AI Winter", which is where I got my definition. Strong AI---working towards a general intelligence---was strongly out of favor, especially with funding agencies. It still remains so (but see Watson). But solving limited problems heuristically (or statistically) that are not otherwise algorithmically tractable (a loose translation of "would appear to require general intelligence") has always been a fertile field.

Turing's argument, which is a philosophical argument, is not meaningful if you put any limits on it---time, topic, behavior (really, Parry is better than the Doctor), which is why it is better thought of as a thought experiment. If you have limits such that it can be gamed, then yes, it is fair to say "you only need to simulate intelligence well enough to fool the judge." Which makes it uninteresting.

But the question is, if you can "simulate intelligence" well enough under any conceivable circumstance (and yes, all actual human beans will fail here), how can you say that it cannot "actually think"?
Interconnection points are by definition part of two networks. The question is whether the congested interconnect involves Verizon at all. I would hope that, before writing this letter, Mr. Hyman would have done his research and verified that it is indeed an interconnect that Verizon is involved with. However, it is an unanswered question.
I won't buy a NEST after the Google acquisition; nice to see other players entering this space.

Laughable how long it took them -- Honeywell should have completely owned this market.

Next up for disruption is home security.
This is surprising to me. I have resized many ext4 partitions while mounted (as / even). You can't shrink them. Yes. But you can grow them. I don't think shrinking partitions is a common operation and IMHO that alone wouldn't warrant a switch of the default file system.
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I'd only change it to "... blaming drivers on your toll bridge when you're the one ..."

The drivers (customers) are paying for the bridge!
> Am I the only one who thinks Uber prices are ridiculous compared to the yellow taxi

2X - 3X compared to UberX or Uber? If I recall correctly, Taxi + tip is approximately equal to UberX.
My guess is that Arc - the lisp language running HN created by Paul Graham - was new, and coding and maintaining a database driver was out of question.

Today, perhaps the way to go would be to use some sort of json webservice interface to a database written in another language rather than writing a driver.
Your question is backwards. ISPs can choose this option to save themselves money.

I suspect that the real reason that ISPs like Verizon are resisting, is that with open connect in place there would be nowhere left to hide and blame the internal ISP bandwidth problems.
I'm annoyed by the headline. I know it's meant to grab attention by seeming counter-intuitive, but as it is, the headline is simply wrong. This medical procedure does not involve "killing" the patient. It involves cooling the patient down internally to essentially suspend them, so the doctors have a greater window of time to perform the necessary procedures. The best way of doing this happens to be to temporarily replace the patient's blood with a saline fluid, and if you think that's "killing" the patient, then I suggest you grab the nearest dictionary and smack yourself with it.
Avoid recruiters like the plague. Go to Meetups in your area. Got my current job through doing that and it's awesome.

In DC, the custom at tech Meetups is to have a 10-minute "who's hiring" litany before the talks start. I'm pretty sure it's that way in most other cities, too. For mid-to-senior level devs lately, I hire pretty much exclusively from the pool of people I see as regular attendees at deep-language meetups. They are spending their free time getting better at their craft: best 1st-line filter ever.
Yep.

If your odds are already very low taking a risk for better odds seems like a good deal to me.

You're most likely dead anyway why not try something new to give you a better chance.
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The sun orbits the Earth, but that's fine, once you get used to the way things are.
Isn't this basically the same argument Facebook, Google, et al. use when you ask to be completely purged from their systems?
Glad you like it ! Yes being able to chose a set of rules for each league would be a good idea ! I'll try implement it soon .

If this is popular in the Spanish speaking world, I should try to translate it in Spanish. In case you are up to do it, that would be great ! my email is tistbajean AT gmail DOT com !(there is one file with every sentence in the site, I would say around 10-15min of work)
In fact, that $5k is probably close to what you'd spend just on parking and insurance in a major city like SF (i.e. your costs if you never used the vehicle but already owned it). If you add in car payments, gas, maintenance there is likely a significant savings from using Uber vs owning a car.
Do you guys use IPv6 at all with your server/client connections?
While I agree this is a bad idea---the whole incident shows they have a direct link to the hearts and minds of their subscribers using these ISPs and are not afraid of using it (the biggest development in the net neutrality fight since AT&T's Ed Whitacre opened his foolish mouth and started it 8 years ago)----they could punt subscribers on these ISPs by simply not renewing subscriptions as they finish.

I'm sure they're not representing they'll be providing their service forever, and e.g. issues with content providers means they can't even promise they'll be supplying access to any particular stuff beyond what they outright buy or produce themselves.
The article states that there is separate bandwidth allocated to the public wifi. I wonder if there is a way to bridge the two together? Say wired into your own and wireless into the public and get twice the bang for your buck.
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I had my doubts, too: it seemed like a very strange way to "leak" the response, and the wording and phrasing weren't perfect. ARS seems to have called a spokesperson who didn't deny it, though:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/netflix-refuses-t...

Or at least ARS has a spokesperson saying the "letter speaks for itself," which suggests authenticity.
>I believe the core problem here is that ISPs and infrastructure are owned by the same companies.

Exactly. MSO (Cable) & Telco ISPs that offer video products are already prioritizing their own VoD (Video-on-Demand) offerings over data to ensure QoS (quality of service). Whether by over-provisioning the virtual circuits to their customers, not amortizing the data consumed against a hard or soft cap limit, or directly peering the VoD servers with the edge routers, ISP video gets the priority because that is where the big profits are. There is no value proposition for BIG ISP to provide free peering with their competition.
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I understand the problem scenario with ext3/ext4 journalling you're referring to here and below.

However, HN runs on FreeBSD, and my understanding is that the combination of soft-updates + journalling there actually do provide atomic rename, even in the case of catastrophic failure. McKusick talks about it here: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/suj.pdf

Also, just to anchor the discussion a bit, the HN code does use the "write foo.tmp; mv foo.tmp foo" trick all over the place. (Or at least, the most recent version of news.arc I've seen does.)

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/arc.arc#L841
Thanks for the info, interesting the first four you mention are commercial products. Two you may find interesting: avian vm, and xml vm at one point could translate jvm bytecode to c for compilation with gcc.
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Maybe it will, or maybe it won't. And if it will, it may come after Netflix' US business is irrevocably damaged. It's not a sane choice for Netflix to make.
It's corporate infrastructure that is the nightmare, not the fragmentation.
Bob's argument is (more or less) that it's easy to set up a thought experiment in which you imagine setting up closed causal curves, but that the devil is in the details.

Earlier in the paper, he argued that the new physics will still have its own causal structure, in a well-defined sense involving initial conditions and differential equations. If you start with complete and well-behaved initial data, his argument is essentially that the state of the system will always evolve forward in time in a consistent way (and in particular, there's no way for closed causal curves to arise out of nowhere).

So those last paragraphs that you're asking about attempt to interpret that conclusion in the context of a thought experiment aimed at creating a grandfather paradox. Geroch's answer is to say "the details will depend on your precise model, but the math makes it unavoidable that something about the model will make your plan impossible". Maybe the experimenter's normal-matter hands just can't ever move fast enough to push the special fluid past light speed. Maybe FTL-fluid is explosive when it comes in contact with normal matter. But the ultimate mathematical conclusion must hold.

(I won't swear to have worked through every step of these arguments in detail myself, but Bob Geroch is a world-class expert on this sort of thing. The one caveat that I'd add is that I think his arguments here are classical, and that bringing quantum mechanics into the mix might change things. It's possible that it would only change things in topologically disjoint sectors within a general-relativistic spacetime, but something like that might conceivably escape his premises.)
If it works, it'll also be used for soldiers. These are not usually rich people, and not predominantly white.
Building with AngularJS in Boston, NYC or San Fran?
Killing a patient to save his life
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Libcontainer is now separate from docker
Analogies are always flawed. Must we really continue to dive deep into every one and point out all the flaws, or can we start to just read them at the face value they were written at and move on?
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>>> Mr. Hyman would have done his research and verified that it is indeed an interconnect that Verizon is involved with

Is it even possible for NetFlix to know this?
> However, that would just mean that the games with consumable IAPs will switch to subscription IAPs (where the subscription is short - probably a few hours to a few days at most).

Apple already thought of that, and it's specifically prohibited by the App Store Review Guidelines:

> Apps may only use auto renewing subscriptions for periodicals (newspapers, magazines), business Apps (enterprise, productivity, professional creative, cloud storage) and media Apps (video, audio, voice), or the App will be rejected
A developer introduce his music site to reddit, users dismayed by UX
Isn't that true with all bridges though? You don't have to pay for each use, but you sure paid for the construction and potentially the upkeep (or are likely to have paid).
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I wonder if you could simply wrap the modem in an aluminum foil (provided that you have your own router connected to it).
I have to say as a visitor to London last year I was pretty happy being able to get wifi all over the place without using my phones data plan.

That being said I'm also happy I bought my own cable modem for my comcast internet service.
Amazon building up 3D printing team
How do you define intelligence, then?
They might be learning faster than humans!

If so, why? My guess: the humans spend more mental resources "modeling" what's going on. They need to "understand" their strategy before they change it. The chimps are probably just trying different tactics, and being more empirical - sticking with what's worked recently.
Why not?

type Saveable interface {
...
}

func save(a Saveable) { .... }

save(a); // ok, assuming A is Saveable
save(b); // necessarily ok, given than A is Saveable
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Thanks! Could you explain a bit more about how Alcubierre can't be used to send information?

Wouldn't a spaceship traveling FTL be able to carry information?
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Sure, but they're only using the bridge to drive to McDonalds. It's McDonalds generating all that traffic -- they should pay the bridge operator too! /sarcasm.
The goal of mindfulness, in the traditions I have read. Is ultimately to understand that the act of watching is no different from the thoughts being watched. It is by doing the watching that one realizes over time that there is no watcher. This leads into the idea that if there is no watcher, you/I must be the thoughts themselves. If we are the thoughts themselves, then we are the words, we are the sound waves in the air. We are the patterns in the sand, the correlations in neuronal firing, there is no distinction between inside and outside, you and I, this thing and that thing. The way something reacts is no different from what a thing is.

A lot of things that appear to be bunkum are in fact bunkum. But some things which appear to be bunkum are in fact profound truth.
>Honeywell should have completely owned this market.

True, with respect to "smart" thermostats. But Honeywell already owns the thermostat market, and it's much larger than the "smart" thermostat market.
Why not a fission fragment rocket? We could send a probe to the centauri system with current technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket
Rust's iterators are really nice. As far as I can tell, the idea is to do only one check on each iteration, which doubles as an array bounds check (for memory safety) and a loop condition check (for loop termination). That's much better than the usual "for" loop with an index into a checked array, which uses one check for loop termination, and two more checks upon array indexing. Why don't more languages do that? It seems like a simple enough idea, I blogged about it sometime ago.
In my experience, my macbook pro MAC address can be changed with the bash command listed in the file for wifi (sudo ifconfig en1 ether [addr]), but it will not let me change it to any arbitrary address I want, just some of them, including addresses that start with aa:[rest], ab:[rest], etc., which is what I usually go for. Just tested it and en0 doesn't seem to have the same limitations.
From the perspective of a compiler writer, the most interesting thing about this code is that it contains no bounds checks while still being safe. Using the high-level iteration APIs like map/filter/etc. is not only good for readability, it's good for performance as well. C-style for loops require bounds checks to maintain safety, but there's no need for them with a properly designed iterator API.
I think Hans killed that era.
The science has never been against fathers; only the politics:

http://valme.io/c/mens-rights/88qqs/a-tale-of-two-children-t...

Next to Jim Crow laws, in recent times, there likely isn't a larger civil rights issue in the discriminatory realm than taking good fathers away from their children. 84.4% of mothers are the custodial parents (in the US according to census data). And this has been going on since the 1970s, "hidden" in plain sight.
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Unfortunately here in Louisville/Boulder Colorado, it's either Comcast or Century Link. I have tried both and done my own testing, and Comcast is still the best connection despite their price point.

I could not agree more about latency. My first try with Century Link last year had 120ms latency which is terrible because Comcast was 15ms. CL upgraded my neighborhood loop and got to 20ms which is fine, but the CL upload speed is still crippled at an outdated 768kb/s where as Comcast I get 3.5Mb/s upload. I work from a home office so upload bandwidth is important.

So since there is no other contender that has both good latency and upload speed I use Comcast for now.
Sure I would be glad to! Sending you an email right now.

I am actually just starting a translation service for web sites, apps, documents and basically anything that can be translated. Thanks for letting me shamelessly promote my services haha!
Something rubs me the wrong way about that site. How come all these jobs are all artsy / techy. Where are all the thankless blue collar jobs? I see game designer, guitar luthier, and something called "coffee evangelist" but no janitors.

The whole thing seems like something on Portlandia.
You're right. Legally ERs can't turn away patients. They have to "stabilize" them before discharge.

However not all ERs are equal. It's entirely possible that procedures like this wouldn't be available in a less well funded (read: poorer) hospitals. At least until it becomes what's known as the "standard of care", where the healthcare provider can be culpable for not providing the treatment.

Though, honestly, I don't really see that happening. If this is successful, I would expect to primarily see first adoption in hospitals which already have high trauma rates. Which, typically, are hospitals serving poorer areas.
I find it remarkable that you have an Eeyore, "With Folded Hands" take on the first demonstrably successful action against these last mile ISPs.

Companies like Verizon don't casually threaten legal action, this is really getting to them.

(Perhaps because one of Verizon's unique selling propositions is the quality of their networks, this has the potential for broad damage to their brand.)
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My understanding is that users use their Comcast credentials to login to public wifi.
Comcasts "bandwidth" is a shared pipe that includes your neighbors internet and a your TV channels. The vast majority of that bandwidth has never been dedicated to your private use.
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I come at mindfulness from a Buddhist perspective and I'm certainly not qualified to speak at any length on the topic. With that said, it should be a conflict abating - not inducing. There are no separate 'yous', but the processes that make you up can often be conflicting (I don't think anyone would dispute that). And mindfulness should be a way of reconciling and dealing with that.