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In Boston UberX has wound up being about 75% of Taxis I had taken the same trips with every time I have used UberX. Then again I generally tip 20% in taxis so if I were a non-tipper the prices would be much more comparable.

Admittedly I am only using it between the hours of 12:00 AM and 2:00 AM to get home from bars.

The temperament of drivers has been a welcome change with uberX vs cab, I had a cab ride in Boston which was suspiciously high once (2x what previous identical trips had been), and I questioned how it was calculated and the response was 'It is not my job to know how it is calculated' to which I said 'Actually that is your job', that time I did not tip.
Interesting. Are Adafruit (https://www.adafruit.com/category/112) and Sparkfun (https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/16) certifying each of their wireless module breakout boards, for example?
> If you want/need maximum performance, why are you programming in a "high-level language"?

Because going to assembly offers so little benefit (if at all), that it doesn't justify the huge increase in effort and susceptibility to bugs in most cases (and even then, inline assembly is usually sufficient).

> Many of the highest-performance scientific computing libraries are written in assembly or use inline assembly instructions.

I don't think this is true, at least not for non-inline assembly. Sure, OpenBlAS contains a lot of assembly, but many scientific computing algorithms are more complex than the BLAS routines.

> I challenge you to write a native C++ matrix-matrix-multiply algorithm that generally outperforms the matrix-matrix-multiply available to [...]

Where in my post did I give you the idea that I don't like code reuse and instead reinvent the wheel every time?
Based on the notes in #812695[1] the longstanding text-corruption bug that's appeared in past releases should be fixed thanks to a change in how the layout's handled.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812695#c414
Good point.

Aerospace in LA used to be a lot bigger than it is now. A lot of companies migrated out or downsized over the years, though to your point, some of the more exciting ones are still around. I'd certainly consider it a real possibility for anyone interested.

It's kind of a different world, though. You don't generally see a lot of crossover between aerospace and the startup scene in LA. That's not to say it can't happen, that it doesn't happen, or that more cross-pollination shouldn't happen. Just that a lot of the skills required in aerospace are domain-specialized. Great space to be in, however, if you want to specialize. A good friend of mine spent most of his career at JPL, worked on navigational software for the Mars rover missions, etc. He was coding at the assembly level for most of that time. Which is super cool for people who are interested, and perhaps less so for people who aren't. If one has inclinations in that area, it's a fascinating place to be.
ext4 has some pretty sharp edge cases in terms of performance degradation. For example, readdir() performance is unacceptable in directories that contain lots of dentries (on the order of 100,000s) -- or that ever once did. (Directory read performance was just as bad even with 5 dentries after deleting the rest.) We had to switch to XFS for just that reason.
Brilliant! Loved the minimal interface. Awaiting graphs.

Would it be possible to provide a search bar to search for leagues on the homepage ?

"Keeping URLs safe" seems to be too geeky. I personally don't mind but my friends who join my league won't be so tech oriented.

EDIT: Also, you ask for the league name while creating it. might as well make it convenient for users to use that name. Separately, the URLs for the leagues could be simplified to contain the name instead of numbers.
No, responsive as in "responsive". (reacting quickly).

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However, the parent should NOT be downvoted, people.

Despite total "ignorance" ... of a 2010 article and its aftermath. If you can call that ignorance. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design*

To the parent: the "Responsive Web Design" movement picked a really stupid name, but it's legitimate terminology and I guess the rest of us - and I say this with biterness - have to find some other word for talking about a server that is responsive, if we want to avoid confusion.

For the moment it's legitimately confusing on the part of everyone who uses the word responsive the way the parent does - basically, they took one of the clearest and most positive adjectives you can say about a site, with no downsides for the user whatsoever, and misappropriated it to refer to something completely orthogonal and unrelated (in that it has nothing to do with render speed or anything else that the word meant prior to 2010.)

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The wifi requires you log in with a Comcast user ID and password. It's not an open wifi network, and only paying Comcast customers have access to it.
Consider that Tim's painting doesn't have centuries of aging to contend with- in regards to vibrancy and cracking.
Comcast is pretty solid. I know it tends to get a lot of hate but my experience has been fairly consistent.

Like some others have said, as long as it doesn't screw around with my own connection, then it's not a big deal. Plus I'll now be able to access internet in a lot more places that didn't have free Wi-Fi before. It's really useful for me since I only have a 200mb data plan.
But couldn't you apply the same argument to many things which cause an initial slowdown (and possibly janking), such as static assets (which won't be cached and may need DNS resolved) and JS which will be interpreted until it is jitted. Also the cpu caches will still be cold. Why is this different?
The only bright spot in that article is that the math doesn't contradict general relativity. Everything else points to its being a curiosity that would disappear if GR were more integral with Quantum Mechanics.
Still the best developer toolset, on any browser. Unarguably once its combined with FF native tools, and the webdevtoolbar.
I agree that Google needs to either move on with their Dalvik VM, or switch to something else. I vote for the latter.
I am not sure how much visibility this post will get still, I built inBoundio because I wasn't able to find a simple marketing software and the once available in the market were costing $2500/year so I thought to build one which is like Basecamp for Marketing costing $29-$49 and has less and simple features.
Cablevision's Netflix offering is in fantastic "Super HD" because Cablevision did the right thing and let Netflix store and manage content inside Cablevision's network so it doesn't flow over peering edges. The quality is shocking.

But then, Cablevision in general is shocking -- when you compare to most other cable ISPs. I can sustain 130+ megabits day or night on a 100 megabit service tier, with the reliability of dial tone.

Other ISPs need to follow the Netflix/Cablevision partnership model. People who have that, worry about moving and losing it.
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We have been working with redhat for months. They're amazingly active maintainers of Docker.
Chrome 35: No longer possible to install extensions except from webstore
Not true if you have static IPs. For that, they require you to use their modem, even though many CSRs will tell you otherwise. I bought two modems, on the advice of CSRs, and when I tried to activate them I was told I couldn't. Only after the second, was I told the real reason. (For the first, I was told the modem was the wrong model and the CSR I spoke with gave me incorrect information.)
Maybe because it doesn't seem to be their main priority (where's my sandbox at?):

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/178587-firefox-is-still...
> One study was done in NYC which showed that making the busses free would actually save them money

I wouldn't go that far either -- but why not decouple the functions of driver and ticket checker. This is already done in some systems and seems to work well. The people pay for their ticket at the station instead of the bus and stamp it themselves when then board (with a time stamp). (or avoid the process by buying monthly pass).
Then people can board directly through the back doors as well because the driver doesn't need to check.
Periodically, a ticket-checker or police-type of person comes through and gives fines (lets say $50) to those who don't have a ticket.
UberX is significantly (40%-50%?) more than a NYC yellow cab. Its basically $6 base for uberX (versus $2.50 for yellow cab), $.75/minute for in-traffic in uberX (versus $.50 for yellow cab). Also uber's threshold speed for traffic is much higher than NYC's (below 11mph = traffic for uber, vs below 6mph = traffic for yellow cab), which means that more often than not you are in this (more expensive) price tier. Its hard to average over 11mph if you are going cross town in Manhattan.
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Netflix should beg Verizon to sue them for false advertising. You can imagine the PR coup when Netflix comes out victorious.
In Seattle, over the last 8 years I've averaged 2933$/year on my car (which I own outright). That includes insurance, licensing fees, parking, gas, maintenance, tickets, rental costs, gps, and tolls.

I don't think you can make a compelling case for a taxi service vs car ownership based on cost -- but rather convenience.
It was a few "millions".

Remember, too, that only a small percentage of customers have chosen to upgrade to 100MBit, so you can only amortize it over them. We did the business case beforehand and it didn't really make sense to be honest. We did it to keep the regulator happy(er) (we're not in the US).
Haha, hi there. As you can imagine, I've been to your homepage before.
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Those are based on hacks with slower execution and bulkier APKs as the Java tooling.
It's not about a car, it's about the parking.
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Network isolation would be my biggest concern if I had to deal with this. However, since I long ago got rid of Comcast's cable modem and installed my own, and have always had my own wifi router plugged into it, I thankfully don't have to worry about it.
This reduces to the same problem mentioned above (which is essentially the halting problem). The browser has no way of predicting which elements you will add or remove these classes from.

Automatic preparation would be possible for transforms/animations that are applied in pseudo selectors such as :hover, but not in any other cases.
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On a side note, Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS) is an open source clone of FL Studio. Although its not on par with FL Studio's experience and features, its pretty neat and has all the essentials in place!
You can see the security advisories here:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/
>So the DSL infrastructure?

It's not so much about the last mile anymore. Since most customers want bundled voice/data/video, it's about linear video channels and that means content. The big players are always going to have more clout in negotiating the best rates for their bundled channels because they have the most subs (subscribers). Even if FCC mandated unbundling of the CableCos' HFC plant and the Telcos' FTTx plant, no one will be able to compete with the big boys on content.

Also, alot of these plants were not designed for interoperability with other vendors' equipment and troubleshooting would be difficult to impossible. It's no longer as simple as a 2-wire local loop (twisted pair) that you can break out from a split bank to your own frame and DSLAM. The technologies share the same physical media -- think bus topology like a token ring. One faulty ONT in a B-PON or G-PON network can impact service for ~30 customers.

What the FCC could do is mandate the reselling of data services like UNE-P with POTS, and the reseller (e.g. Netflix) could then bundle their own pure VoD product for video over the carrier's data platform So, deregulation (unbundling - platform) is one option.

Otherwise, there would have to be a mandated and fair policy for exchange data between ISPs either at free or at tariffed rates across the board, just like voice trunks.

Data is the new voice and the FCC needs to weigh in and start (de)/regulating or this is what the internet is going to look like 10 years from now.

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Orange.fr has been doing the same for a while. This is a newer article but in southern france Orange were doing it in 2012 when I lived there.

http://www.muniwireless.com/2013/06/10/orange-france-creates...

Also my experience with 'free' was that it's vaporware. Hopefully it's improved in the last 1.5 years.
I beg to disagree on this atleast in NYC. UberX is 2x-3x more expensive here.
I've always thought that Netflix was in a tough spot when it comes to cutting consumers off, because (1) they'd be losing money, and (2) they'd need to responsibly refund those consumers or else they'll look terrible.

However, TV networks cut off access to cable provider customers when they can't reach a deal on price... so why can't Netflix do the same? I mean, if ISPs really want to turn the Internet into a cable-like place, they should expect that similar disputes are going to happen.
I'm sure Netflix is carefully choosing every word, well beyond one person's responsibility. This is fire they are playing with, and they know it. They're probably treating this like a legal brief that will end up in court before a judge, because the odds of that actually happening are pretty good.
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I can login and connect to the xfinity wifi at home but, it never works when I try it at a public place. It seems like just another service they advertise but, does not work.
Side by side:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/vermeer.html
Perhaps I misunderstood you but not all consumables are bad IAPs.
FAA OKs first commercial drone flights over land
NASA is made up of the same Science Fiction-obsessed, excessively optimistic people who also probably make up most of the employees of wherever most of us work. Some of them, I understand, even go to 'cons and such. I suspect it's based on disappointment over not being capable of actually launching anything. In any case, they're regrettably not all hard-headed realists like you and me.
That's crazy, can someone with perfect pitch really be that accurate?
Is this definitely going to stay around for the duration of the World Cup? I need something like this for my work tournament and if it gets taken down I won't be popular...
http://tinyur1.co is a better alternative, don't you think?
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I don't know, this strikes me as "real" hardball. Many of the things you suggest are also that, but ultimately this is a political problem and will be won or lost in the political arena. And Netflix is getting a lot of voters pissed off at Verizon, and no doubt other ISPs in the future.

Some of the things you suggest will affect politicians, but the ultimate one is a credible threat of sending them home to spend more time with their families after an election. It's how gun owners have moved mountains starting in the mid-80s or so (the area I'm most familiar with), and if Netflix is playing the long game, it's how they're going to win ... and overall help us win the net neutrality battle.
True, but due to precision limits in measurements you're never actually dealing with this scenario. You always have some number of significant digits which implies you're always going to see a rational number for your measurements.

Further there are strict levels of granularity on a number of measurements, for example you run against the plancks constant when measuring a number of things. So this argument for looking at all of [0,N] falls apart if we aren't dealing with measurements that are continuous.
i'm sorry, this is all going over my head... can i get this in libraries of congress over football fields?
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That JPG is one of the worst arguments on the Internet. It's popular because it works up the rage of "this might happen" netizens, but "might" has been reduced to "doesn't violate the laws of physics."
Firefox is getting more awesome with each update, but admittedly I'm kind of liking Chrome's implement first, standardize later approach to new features, which is why you can get a directoryReader in Chrome and drag and drop support for uploading entire directories. I wish Firefox had that, but it's not a standard so they're not implementing it.
Thanks. It's not linked from the Racket Reference. Clicking on "mutable lists" in 4.10 is a 'did you mean recursion?' experience.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/mpairs.html?q=mcons#%2...

That it takes an intimacy with the code base of a regular repo contributor to find it suggests how deeply buried 'mlist is.Or to put it another way, Racket the language does not provide 'mlist. Racket the ecosystem does but deliberately makes it hard to use (by obfuscation) on the moral ground that mutating a list ought incur the pain of iterative 'mcons-ing...and it's associated pretty-print. .
Most people don't run their connection at full capacity all the time. It's easy to conceive of a router that devotes unused bandwidth to public wifi but gives it low priority compared to requests from the lessor's wifi network. It's not like you have a router and are on the same wifi network as the people walking by in the street.
So, setup your own router, call it "xfinitywifi" and collect Comcast login information all day?
That seems to assume the market only exists to squirt out quarterly dividends for existing blue chips and never issue any new stock.

The market as a whole is mostly driven by speculation (greater fool theory) and also hopes of capital appreciation and potential buyout. Who in our centrally controlled economy will be declared "to big to fail" and bailed out by .gov next, and how to profit off it.

Also the higher priced stock will obviously raise more money if they issue new shares, and obviously an intense demand for ... car batteries made out of organic tofu plates and acai berry juice instead of conventional car battery sulfuric acid and lead plates ... will obviously IPO and raise funds if the stock prices of other "alternative battery companies" goes up.

One of the competitors is Motif, which has an advertising message of speculating on one month return. Not annual, not the next quarter, speculation on ONE month. So discussing dividend yields is irrelevant to that class of speculator.
Docker could be thought of as a wrapper to LXC, providing some additional management capabilities and tooling. It's often described as a "packaging" format for applications, and you then deploy these applications in containers. So the application is actually all of userspace that you're going to use bundled together, and then run on a sort of "partition" of a kernel.
Wow, this guy is seriously hard-core:

> I needed a CNC lathe to make the legs for the harpsichord and the blue chair. I couldn't find a CNC lathe large enough to make these parts so I came up with the simple hack of bolting a cheap wood lathe onto the bed of the milling machine. Then, I programmed the mill to trace out the contour of the leg while the lathe spun the wood underneath the mill head.

...

> The legs of the instrument turned out to be a few inches too long for my wood lathe so I pulled the lathe out of the milling machine and cut it into two pieces on a band saw. I then bolted both pieces back into the mill, separated by a few inches. Now the lathe could accommodate a longer piece of wood.

Adam and Jamie would be proud.
It isn't an argument. DMGs are fine for development and testing and they can be made case-insensitive. Or you could just, you know, create a separate partition.

If the DMG speed is too slow for development and running tests(not testing with the full live dataset) you are doing something wrong.
> how about REPL, does go have one? No.

What?
https://github.com/rocky/go-fish
"Yet another Go REPL"
An aside: When storing large quantities of things like this my personal preference is to split the id from the end.

I was once i charge of a large number of images of book jackets named by the books' isbn. At least in that population (which of course is an extreme example considering how an isbn is created) the distribution is much more even (that is, the directory sizes are relatively equal) when using the end than the beginning, but I would not be surprised if that is a normal outcome.

Maybe it's an application of Benford's law [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
I fully support drones, but this definitely is going to make life interesting for light aircraft pilots flying around already busy airspace like SoCal at relatively low altitude. Hit a 55 pound drone and you'll feel it.
Rust doesn't have null pointers, so I see no language-level reason why that wouldn't vectorize. LLVM's vectorizer tends to be pretty brittle, so probably tweaking the generated IR a bit would cause us to vectorize. Feel free to file an issue if you have time :)
Besides operator overloading, why can't Go do Numpy?
Oh interesting. That may be it. I wasn't sure whether he was actively using both eyes that way, or if he was tilting the mirror in and out while painting. I think it's probably hard to sort out how well it would work without trying it yourself.
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This might be a first: A Seattle doctor is suspended for sexting during surgery
Eliza with a knobs on. The attempt to pre-explain the kookiness of its answers as being due to the quirky personality of "Eugene" was just laughable.
RHEL can go years without seeing a major version increase. In between now and then, a lot of people are going to want to use containers, including Docker. If RHEL doesn't support them, people are going to use Debian/Ubuntu/CoreOS/etc. instead. So Red Hat is supporting them. They know Ubuntu has a head start on them in the cloud, and they do not want to let them widen that gap.
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General anesthesia also stops brain activity, and you can die during open heart surgery. The time of death won't be the time of loss of consciousness.

It is about conserving information. As long as your brain can be turned back on you're still alive.
Although not true, I always liked to think that taxes on my vehicle, fuel, and tolls paid for the infrastructure upon which I drive. I have no idea whether those are sufficient, but I'll bet in my state they state of high taxes and crappy infrastructure they are more than enough.
I suggest that encountering yourself in your own past would be on the same order of difficulty as plotting the course of a photon across an entire galaxy, to hit a "mirror", precisely positioned to return that photon back across that same galaxy, this time apparently as an antiphoton, to another "mirror", that would bounce the photon back towards itself, prior to the time at which you redirected it across the galaxy. The precision required makes it effectively impossible.

But, given the nature of probabilities, if enough trials occurred, eventually one would succeed in causing something to interact with its past self. How would you even detect if that occurs? The particles that have the highest likelihood of doing this by chance all look pretty much the same anyway.
Mozilla is doing the same. Take a look at the WebAPI overview for some examples:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI