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I think it is missing the point - the protests are not against digital innovation, as much as Uber would like to point so.

Not about innovation per se, but about recognizing that even with all that
internet stuff added, Uber basically still runs a taxi service, just like
listening to an audio broadcast over the internet is still radio. Uber is not
about "sharing rides", it's a regular business.

The essential difference between Uber and the other apps is that Uber uses unlicensed drivers, while the other apps use licensed drivers.

Taxi companies in Germany need two kinds of licenses:

* Each driver must have a drivers license that allows commercial transportation
of passengers. The regular drivers license doesn't cover transporting people
for profit. If you do it anyways, you're essentially driving without a
license, which voids your car insurance. Apparently, passengers don't even
have to pay unlicensed drivers, because the license is required for
transportation contracts to be valid. According to Wikipedia, the
commercial license costs about EUR 400 for 5 years and requires a medical
checkup, clean driving and criminal records, and you have to prove your
knowledge of the place you're going to drive at. "Uber Black" drivers have
such a commercial license. "Uber Pop" drivers don't, they just need a
clean criminal record. So they are probably not insured if they drive for
profit.

* Each taxi company needs a concession that grants the right to run a taxi
service, but also requires the company to fulfill its public role:
operate the service day and night, don't decline any passengers
(e.g. in order to wait for more profitable destinations), and take the
official rate. Yes, prices are regulated, probably to protect both passengers
and drivers.
To get a concession, you have to prove that you are
able to run a taxi / rental car company according to the law, and pay a small
fee for each of your cars. It's not expensive, but the number of concessions
in each city is limited, which is why there's a "black market" in some places.
You can't sell concessions, but you can offer willing drivers a shortcut
around the waiting list by selling them shares of your company [1].

Uber doesn't have a concession, they want to be a bit more flexible with regards
to privileges and rights. Real markets are inefficient, and "disrupting" them
can also mean that customers might be worse off in the future. For instance,
when no real taxis are left, and Uber decides that its service should be more
expensive in bad weather... [2] Or when Uber doesn't want to pick you up
because of your bad rating, but there is no other way for you to get home.

[1] http://www.derwesten.de/politik/so-funktioniert-der-betrug-i...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5221428/uber-surge-pricin...
Not sure how it is in the USA, but unmetered data plans do exist - here in Ireland it's the equivalent of ~$27 for unmetered 4G data (with a certain limited number of calls and texts included)
Another thing that has been predicted by theory first was the laser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser#History
You're obviously in the US I take it? I'm in ireland and have a UK sim card too. Both my providers (granted, same provider in both countries) give me unlimited data, for 20 euro/25 pounds a month. I also get calls and texts included in that.
The quintessential Hacker News response! :D
I remember this test! I outscored the entire art department at my workplace, with an uncalibrated monitor to boot. The worst scorer? The art director. He clocked in with a score of 37. Luckily, his job has a lot more to do with layout than color precision.
Good luck finding a community of any significant size that hasn't had some drama in the past.

Ruby, Python, and NodeJS have all had their fair share of issues. Even GitHub had a fracas.

Nobody gets a free pass, but mistakes will be made. At what point do you call those problems resolved?
Trickle down totalitarianism: why everyone will be listening in soon
Having dealt with cpuid, there were plenty of caveats with how AMD did things vs how Intel did things. I can totally see Intel first checking to see if it was Intel and then punting just due to complexity and testing. Keep in mind that this article mentions p4 and athlon, so Intel would have also have had to care about Cyrix and Transmeta as well, which were different as well.
266 years is nothing, there are quite a few myths, despite overwhelming evidence of contrary, that are being perpetuated for over two millennia.
Crawling your book, i stumble over several codes that use flags instead of "return" to exit, by example, you use two flags for searching on an ordered list.

These kind of codes are not great for beginners because they tend to think that setting the flag is equivalent to exiting which is as you know an illusion.
Name me another that's shown this much contempt to a core contributor?

Joyent has never apologized to Ben or thanked him for his years of efforts (despite many from the node community and other contributors having done so).
Its a shame that Tmobile US has such odd gsm frequencies than the rest of the world, and as such are unsupported by any of the FFOS phones so far.

With their embracing of prepaid plans combined with inexpensive smart phones could really open up anytime information access for people who cannot otherwise afford it.
Google Believes the Internet of Things Needs a New Network
I'm not mocking the loss of meaningless model numbers. I'm mocking the suggestion to switch one lot of meaningless numbers for another.
Why you should re-purpose your old marketing content, when writers block hits
Note that other companies had been working on switched resistance crossbar latches with metal oxides before HP, they just didn't have a fancy name for it.
The US is at 8% IPv6, I think that's enough of a base of early adopters that I could believe as soon as there was some actual pain involved with v4 we'd see some fast changeover.

In other words, I believe the limiting factor on v6 adoption is no longer technical or interop, instead it's lack of problems with v4.
It might be. I'm not arguing that it is the ultimate best metaphor to use, but these things do tend to be adopted organically and become very entrenched.
Buying the 4-hour support package for your servers is so worth it. You don't have to pay for remote hands since the vendor will dispatch a tech to replace/upgrade bad gear. If you handle your monitoring correctly, you can get a tech sent out to hot-swap a dead drive before you even realize it's failing.

In terms of picking a good colo, find one that has high security ratings in an area that doesn't have fluctuating power. If they're in Florida, make sure they're Cat 5 Hurricane rated. If they just happen to also have an entire floor dedicated to government hardware, or are on the same power grid as a hospital, and have buried fiber/power lines instead of exposed, even better!
Or if you do all your work directly on the file in the RAM disk, you have to deal with filesystem overhead constantly.

Not so. Take a look at the Linux kernel implementation of memory-mapped ramdisk files. There is no "filesystem overhead". Zero. The kernel pretty much sets up the page mapping and then is hands-off.

Even if your memory mapping is backed by a file on a block device, the only overhead is occasional paging to disk. This happens on the order of SECONDS… not "constantly"!
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Both that keyboard and the space cadet have fewer keys than an IBM PC keyboard.
I'll take one too! This took me Skrollr and week solid.. And that was after all the photos and design was taken care of for me!
I think the storage size thing is just as silly as anything else. I often wonder why they bother. My best guess is it allows them to advertise a lower entry level price while pushing people to go for the mid or higher end when they get to making a decision. Ever notice how the low-storage Apple model is always just a little bit too low?
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See my edit to the previous comment - now I actually think that the symmetry isn't proven by HP approach (but this doesn't make it any less interesting/promising).
Averaging expenditures across the whole population is very misleading. Do you take the average of incomes in the US, and assume everyone in the country must be doing pretty good? Outliers like silicon valley tech workers might spend 9-11% of their income on food, but there are plenty of people spending a much larger portion than that, but their paychecks still aren't enough to buy comparable nutrition as those people who really only have to spend 9-11% of their cushy paychecks.

Have you tried to buy nutritious food on food assistance? Better hope a church or food pantry (if you car-less wastes of space have one nearby) can help make up the difference, or just go back to eating those big macs and fries because you're just too stupid to eat healthy (only costs 11% you numskulls, get off your lazy asses!)
Map of the 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook
I understand that doing an database cluster is a hard problem and even harder to make easy to use, but this seems really complicated to set up. I'm not a fan of needing "transaction managers", "coordinators" and data nodes, I would like these to all run on the same server.

Of cause Postgres-XL may not exactly be designed for my use case where I just want to be able to have one node fail or take a server down to do upgrades. Ideally it would be as simple as the built in Postgresql replication as become.
As usual, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Uber's numbers actually seem a lot more believable. The author didn't even appear to be trying to be "reasonable" or "fair".

The two biggest problems I see are 1) author doesn't acknowledge that Uber behavior is probably very different from regular yellow cab behavior (ie, has the author even heard of the airport or surge pricing?) and 2) I don't think it's appropriate to allocate all of an auto's expenses as "business" since it's almost always a personal car.
I'll go a step further. Extremism on my side of an argument is more likely to damage me (albeit unintentionally) than extremism on the opposing side.
The important thing here is that while Intel is driving this, the code must be landed in browsers, which are not owned by Intel. Those browsers are not going to ship code that only works on one type of hardware, or is weirdly unoptimized on some hardware.
Falling in Love with FluentIterables
> If speed and compilation is a concern, let's start with having proper types in javascript.

That is a much harder problem, especially since you brought up performance. Getting the interaction between dynamically typed and statically typed code to work in a way that's both easy and natural to use and allows compilers to get significant benefits from the statically typed code is an unsolved research problem.
Sure, why not? Consider:

The Gulf of California is narrow. In a ship, you want as much room as possible between you and unknown shores. To prove California is not an island, you would need to explore the Gulf a long way (700 miles) to reach its northern limit.

On the safer west side, you don't know ahead of time where to expect the top of the island. If you travel 1500 miles north, you might just assume the top is still further north.

Even on the west side, no settlement north of the Gulf was established until 1769 -- just seven years before Baja was determined to be a peninsula.

Most of Baja in those latitudes is desert. It's hard to make a living there, so there's not much incentive to explore.
> Because human brains are magic?

See, this is the problem with this virulent strain of Scientism making the rounds right now. There's this tendency to divide ideas into two camps: "explained by our current understanding of physics" and "magic". It seems like a knee-jerk reaction to religion, like anyone that posits that we don't have a complete understanding of reality is therefore a crypto-theist. It completely misunderstands the nature of scientific progress, the evolution of our conceptions of reality in response to empirical evidence.

It's easy to picture human progress as millennia of trudging through continually-decreasing ignorance and finally arriving at the Correct Answers, but this can be a dangerous view. Science works best when we aren't constrained by dogma -- when we're allowed to "think outside the box" and consider the world in new and revolutionary ways.

People in the thrall of this Scientism often act like raising the Hard Problem of Consciousness is some kind of intellectual weakness, that we're just not able to "get over" the fact that subjective experience happens to emerge from physical matter. Nobody here (or at least not me) is saying that the Hard Problem means that subjective experience is "magic" or that we have anthropomorphic souls that float up to heaven with angel wings when we die. The Hard Problem of Consciousness is still a scientific problem, and I'm not saying it can't be solved by science. But telling me that Strong AI will basically solve this issue (and that any protestation is an appeal to "magic") comes across as hand-waving; the simulation of a conscious entity does not help me understand why being in the world feels like anything.
You do have time to correct my thinking because you attempted to correct it.

Mark your words?

You talk about being in the nutritional dark ages then mention eating fresh animal meat

No evidence exists anywhere that human beings should consume meat. Our digestive tracts are 4X longer than any other animal that consumes meat (which leads to rotting flesh in our body (not ideal)) and in repeated tests the sight and smell of fresh meat fails to incite child salivary glands but fresh fruit and vegetables does.

Unlike actual carnivorous animals which are equipped with the teeth, claws and digestive means to eat meat. Young offspring naturally hunt other prey and salivate at the prospect of flesh/organs.

To paraphrase yourself - mark my words, we will look back on the human consumption of meat with the same horror that considered bloodletting as a medical practice.

Disclaimer - I eat meat despite the huge risks to my wellbeing.

Test - Leave a toddler in a playpen with a rabbit; trust me he won't attempt to fucking eat it. He has not been social conditioned to see the consumption of meat as normal.

Leave an omnivorous or carnivorous animal in a locked environment with the same rabbit. You will need a new rabbit.
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The Core of Computer Science: Alan Kay's "Triple Whammy"
OP might need to interview a few professionals, because I talked with a retirement advisor (free via work) shortly after college and they basically told me "You're young, you could lose all your money tomorrow and it won't matter in the long run" and basically gave the normal advice of "buy index funds."

Similarly trying to find someone now that I can pay for advice is difficult because there's no one around working with young professionals. You either need a few mil in assets, want them to manage all your money, or be 10-15 years from retirement.
I run a virtual machine exported over samba for ZFS, I think that's much better than a read-only version.

But if you're going to give a link to something that doesn't meet basic requirements, say so. Otherwise it looks like you're disagreeing with the claimed lack of windows support.
And you could execute binaries directly from storage without "loading" them into memory first.

Linux already does this. Program code is cached copy-on-write in shared memory. The fact that, say, bash has to be loaded from disk once is pretty much irrelevant. After that, the kernel's just managing pointers.
Is it possible to hire a latex monkey for converting libreoffice documents?
The same reason <ul> has a closing tag but <li> does not: HTML is SGML where certain tags can be made optional. XML specifically did away with this and made all close tags mandatory (even on contentless tags, which is why xhtml requires you to do <img />).
I get it. It's very clever. How's that working out for you?
I know it's expected of TheReg, but the opening lines made me laugh:
"TransLattice gobbles StormDB upstart for Postgres threesome.

Lashes PostgreSQL, -R, and Postgres-XC together for unholy database tryst"
For it to be an actual memristor it would have to be. Really curious about what it is that they will be unveiling.
The Brilliant Machine That (Almost) Never Was
Choosing the Right Startup-5 Points to Consider
The frequency of saliors (and settlers) in the region were very low.

Also any voyage to west cost of the Americas at the time had to sail all the way around South America.
Are there some tools or just research that deals with a more generalized description logics or logic programming approach to program generation which actually includes much of the work done in projects like BER MetaOCaml or even just regular type theory etc.?

I have always thought that programming languages and other tools like databases should be built in reference to a common semantic base so they could be automatically interfaced etc.
Denial of service attack
closer to 50-55.
None of this is shocking except for maybe how unavoidable sharing all this information online actually is. The default settings on most devices are not designed with privacy in mind. In order to avoid this type of data collection, you'd have to walk around with a dumbphone, avoid using any bank-connected services and basically only log on to the Internet via a VPN. Ironically, this usage pattern is so far out of the ordinary that it would make you stick out like a sore thumb.

In the decade between this type of data collection becoming possible and the mass populace becoming concerned about it, I fear we've passed a threshold we can't un-cross. This type of technology is so intertwined in our daily lives that avoiding it isn't a realistic option.

Things like Apple using random MAC addresses to scan for Wi-Fi APs are a start; but too many devices (Android included) use default settings that are far from secure. But it's up to the companies that make usable, mass-market devices to ratchet up the security, and I fear that they have little incentive to do so when their own ambitions include the same type of data collection.
HP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory ‘by 2014′ (2012)
I'm not sure where the concept came from, but it just seemed natural. The specific design was ours, but I'm sure somebody's done it before!
>> "Hotels are big portals between the black and white worlds".

When I read that, I thought of people making trips that they would prefer no one finding out about. Affairs, etc. I guess that's also a legitimate use case for adopting BTC.
Doesn't mean he didn't use something similar. David Hockney made this point in 2001 (if I recall).

Besides, Brunelleschi used a mirror to demonstrate the effectiveness of his perspective drawings in the 1400s: http://zeiteye.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/c1450_brunellesch...

Durer used string and moveable panel in his perspective studies: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/durer.....

And of course, there was the camera obscura. I can't believe there wasn't any development in drawing aids in the 400 years since Bruneschelli's demonstration.
Another potential solution to block 'read receipts' is to turn off image loading by default. Its not ideal - because you don't know what images will load until you load them so you may be tempted to load images when you think there may actually be some image content there.

The benefit of this approach is that all marketing email won't be tracked as well.

disclosure: i'm a co-founder at Streak and we offer read receipts for gmail.
I'll take that tradeoff in exchange for 10^6 larger capacity, any day.
It will take 1e4 times as long to completely fill that device proportionally to an older one, yes, but that's still two orders of magnitude faster than it would be to fill that equivalent amount of space with the older write speed.
> It was completely programmable with all source code. It was also not for 'playing' around - for that it was too expensive. As a software developer you could focus on your task and the whole operating system was supporting you. There was no piece of software that was not accessible in a few mouse clicks. Everything could be inspected, everything was up for modification. Software was live and dynamic. Not dead and static like today. There was no boundary between software development and software usage.

This reminds me of Smalltalk environment like Pharo. I recently realised that there were so much things in common between Lisp and Smalltalk environments (by Lisp environments I mean what we have today like SLIME+Emacs or LightTable). I also think that LightTable has a huge potential for being a successor of Lisp machines and _really_ integrated development environments.
I do put multiple machines in the 4U. I feel sheepish about sharing pictures. My setup is not as trim as I would like. Hopefully my description will give you an idea of what it looks like.

For the boxes, I have a 1U enclosure holding two Mini-ITX motherboards. Then I have a 1U switch, it's nothing special, cheapest gigabit switch that got good reviews. And then for my load balancing and SSL, I got a Kemp Technologies hardware load balancer. It's got a little ASIC in it that offloads the SSL from the servers. I think I can sustain 200 concurrent SSL requests, which is fine for me right now while I develop my app.

In my 1U holding the servers, each server has a two disk software RAID-1 setup. I can't physically get to the colo but once or twice a year max, so I need to be able to withstand a drive failure here or there.

I think I get a drive failure about once every 2 years, and one ram stick failure so far. I had one motherboard failure, but it was a VIA technologies chip/board, and since then I have switched fully to the intel-produced slim Mini-ITX Atom motherboards, and those things are rock solid - just wish I could get 8GB of ram for them for more memcached goodness. ;)

I don't even know if my dual Mini-ITX server enclosure is sold anymore, it's kindof freakish especially with heat. Since I built this box I have been investigating "shorty" or "short depth" 1U enclosures. I wanted to be able to pack in the servers, and you're allowed to bolt servers to both sides of the rack. So by transferring my servers to shorty enclosures, I should be able to spread the heat out a little better and max out my space. I think I have space right now for 3 more shorty boxes if I need to expand my cluster.

Edit: for physical access, you just call the support line and either ask for remote hands/smart hands if it's something simple like rebooting a box for you, or you can schedule a time to come in. I've never been turned away from coming in the same day and when I want to. I am usually alone in the server room when I work. With all the cooling equipment and servers, it is very loud in there. Sometimes I just wear earplugs to dampen the noise. They've never charged me for smart hands, but I don't ask very often, once a year maybe.
The title should be edited so that the year it was written is appended. Tack a (2012) onto that title.
How many old and frail people do you think were cutting around prior to the 18th Century?

I would wager not many.

Humans have to die from something at some point. If you have compelling evidence that fast food reduces your life feel free to post it.

A number of journals have begun to dispute that obesity even causes the conditions we currently associate with it.
Edit2: Good catch
Edit3: Technically yes, but I should move the blocking logic to the background script completely (webRequest level)

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A safe play, quit when the company is actually cash-flowing and can replace your current salary/benefits, etc. Founders running out of personal cash is an all too common pitfall.
Two coffee pots or one?