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It is already expensive at peak times - transport is not free in time or money.

The change doesn't have to be MASSIVE. For example shifting by 15 minutes may be enough to better match capacity. The most expensive would be point to point direct service for just you. But the driverless vehicle could pick up several people for a lower cost to them, but taking more time.

ie the worst case wouldn't be substantially different than today with its limits and hard routing/timing on public transport. It will also be easier for competition to come in compared to today which will help.

It is still possible to provide social services. For example in Britain my over 65 parents get free bus passes. Lower income people can be subsidised in similar ways.
that's the point, it's chaotic, not random.
I really do think this is the solution - if carpooling can be made as simple as checking a box, with time savings, and money savings, the only downside would be sharing a car, and a lot more people would do so. Demand and traffic would both be controlled by dynamically pricing 'private' vehicles.

Your phone could also learn your departure time, and automatically determine when there are cars available / pricing is optimal to tell you to leave.
You don't need to live in a city at all. I grew up in a village in Sweden, population 4000. The village itself was walkable/bikeable, and there was a bus to the nearest city (pop 90K) until 3 AM every night, departing every 20 minutes during rush hour.
While I'm not arguing against your overall point, your example is not a good one. Volley was unnecessary. It only got attention because Google did it but the community was already on top of the issue. From shipping their own, newer Apache Client libs, through koush's ion and picasso, to Square's okhttp, networking on Android is full of good libraries to use. Volley didn't anything dramatic to this and, judging by the amount of attention it has received, it was someone's side project.
That's a great article. Thanks for linking it.
It sounds like the leap seconds all have the same sign. If corrections are always being applied in the same direction, that implies a second is not as close to 1/86400 of a solar day as it could be.

Maybe we should redefine the second. It is currently defined as "9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."

9,192,631,770 * 35s / 40y ~= 255. If we adjust the definition by 255 periods, TIA and UTC would stay in sync much better.
My home VPN is unable to connect right now. I use a noip.me domain. The actions of both the courts and Microsoft are extremely concerning to me.
I'm currently reading This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works, a regretfully titled yet excellent book. [0]

Edge.org, in its annual question to prominent scientists and 'thought leaders', asked them "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" My favorite ones so far include the many offshoots of natural selection and evolution, plus all of the stuff about the brain.

I recently finished The Cold War: A New History, a great primer to how we got to the geopolitical situation we are in now (at least the major western/eastern powers), and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was an awesome birds-eye view of modern science. ★★★★☆ to both.

My next book is going to be about AI; let me know if you have any recommendations. (I'm not sure I'm ready for GEB.)

[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062230174/
This. We generally don't send employees to either WWDC or I/O. As a result, the tone, attitude of attendees or company reps don't matter to us much at all.

Our users and testers care about a great software experiences. So what matters most to us are stable, well designed and supported software platforms and ecosystems that let us deliver great experiences.
Maybe he was referring to something like this? http://youtu.be/wDIiPIJmXcE
A big selling point of Tesla cars is the performance, which is irrelevant if you are not driving. Teslas are sold as fun to drive, to people who like driving.
Do however be wary if you use it in a car. I've found it quite flaky. That includes randomly stopping for no apparent reason (on content that was fully downloaded), random crashes, forgetting things (like it was playing a list of episodes not just one), starting to play 2 hours after I pressed play, forgetting position and the list goes on.

They were responsive the first time I contacted them (before buying) but ignored my emails after I had bought and found issues like the above.

If you aren't in a car then you can resolve most of those issues by pressing the right buttons in the app. However while driving you can't, hence it mattering a lot more.
Indeed I am. Thanks for your efforts!
The challenge for mass transit systems in the United States is that if the operating costs are so high that it requires heavy subsidization from taxes it becomes a very tough sell politically. "Our taxes are being raised by how much to subsidize the subway???"

Perhaps that's just a failing of how mass transit systems are sold to the public though. If your mass transit system takes several hundred thousand people off the road every day and significantly reduces gridlock it makes everyone's commute better and wastes a lot less time and gas. Maybe that's how these systems need to be sold rather than, "It'll run profitably after X years."
This is not the same statement. If I have one path which has a certain amount of bandwidth and subsequently double it (making the road twice as large), the overall speed of the system must either increase or stay the same (the latter if the system is under capacity).
It's good to set expectation up front with each other, and a performance plan is one way to go about doing it. The downside to completely getting rid of a co-founder is:

1) They're likely going to take /some/ amount of equity with them (have a vesting plan!)

2) Getting rid of a co-founder before you reach critical mass will be detrimental to the business. If not, they probably weren't a good pick for co-founder.
I would imagine most DDNS services push traffic to a blacklisted node. Your ISP blacklists the D-IP so that you, as a lowly end-user, can't run something like an email server. So, I would imagine effectively sorting out which IP addresses are blacklisted because of malware infection or simply ISP infection would be very hard indeed...
It's awesome to see this posted - I was (one of) the original creators of code.nasa.gov when we first launched it in early 2012. I've since moved on from NASA, but the agency has kept on posting things to the site as well as on GitHub (https://github.com/nasa). So glad to see the torch continue to burn.

There's a big effort within the federal government to do more around engaging citizens in using (and contributing to) free/open source software, as well as starting to develop more user-centered products and services. If you're interested in that sort of thing, check out 18F (https://18f.gsa.gov and https://github.com/18F). We'd love to hear from you.
Hi Matt, fyi the codeplex page doesn't mention what appears to be the primary website: http://reactive-extensions.github.io/RxJS/ so you might want to get a link added....
We'd be happy to help at knoxpayments.com - plus your margin would go way up at $0.18 per payment - tommy@knoxpayments.com if anyone wants to reach out.

Edit: I realize that they don't want to do the work of integrating a new gateway. I'm not sure the headline "due to payment processor problems" holds up if simply switching processors was somehow off the table.
A lot of these functions transcend javascript, and are a product the functional world.
As a die-hard iOS user... that was a stupid argument to be in. There is a reason Apple does what it does (supposedly to match a real keyboard) but it's not strong and doesn't matter.

And the iOS 7 shift key symbol stupidity should automatically lose him the argument.
I know of a few professional ovens that add humidity by spraying water directly on the heating elements. The trick is to use a very small amount at short intervals. You can't quench the calrod or it will crack.
>>Apple has always delivered far superior tools, frameworks, and ecosystem

Its easier to make good tools when they need to work on 5% market share (Mac only)?

Google Tools are free. Apple tools start with you buying their $2000 machine.
You have to remember, Apple is selling all Apple stuff. Google is selling the web.
If you try to create a classical situation that obeys similar mathematics to a quantum situation, you're bound to get "quantum-like behaviour" isn't it? Wouldn't this be some kind of an analog computer for simulating the two-slit experiment in the classical realm? If so, what would this offer to the interpretation of quantum mechanics that cannot be gleaned from the mathematics itself?
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In early stage startups, the title of CEO has more to do with who's in charge of vision and runway and less about org structure. Decisions are usually made based on an equity stake.
How does Bing predict the future?
Makes sense, it's just a random algorithm which is far from ideal. Just need the time to implement something heftier (Spotify knows what's up http://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/?_ga...).
Sounds a bit like Parkinson's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

"The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource."
Uber already has a few competitors; traditional taxis, limo services, blackcarssf.com, Lyft and Sidecar come to mind.

> people tend to overestimate the amount of jobs available (or rather, the variety of the skillsets these drivers might have).

If this is true, it's a good example of supply and demand telling these drivers that they need new skills. It certainly will be more true in the future when self-driving cars become the norm.
Evolution of life's operating system revealed in detail
If we're sharing podcast apps, DoggCatcher the podcast player is probably the best one on android.
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We do what we can in our spare time. We usually prioritize features by demand. So tweet us and get your friends to if you want something built.
That is certainly true. But in terms of scale even a claimed
5 million compromised android phones just barely registers while desktop botnets of six times that size are discovered.

The bandwidth constraints imposed by most users draconic data plans and the realities of limited battery life further put a fairly low cap on what a mobile botnet can do in this day and age. (both of which admittedly will hopefully change sooner rather than later...)
In what country does a macbook air cost $2K?

Also, many people who use Google tools also have macbooks (e.g. all the Googlers I know), they have to use the tools with something.
That's the whole point of discrimination laws. I don't know if you ever checked but people aren't kidding when they say non-christians, non-whites, ... are more criminal and less smart and ... with the exception of one or two asian ethnicities. In theory saying this by itself is not discriminatory, only acting upon it is, but I doubt most people will agree. But you're going to find actual statistics supporting that. Yet any conclusions obviously are discriminatory.

What's worse is this. Suppose you have 2 groups with each a normal distributed variable (like weight, height, money, likelihood of criminal intent, ...) and let's say a 1% difference in the peak (which is what everyone will always report, standard deviations are also always different, but nobody ever reports them, but when people say Asians are less tall than Caucasians in 1% of cases (real figure is about 6%), this is what they mean). To make things simple, lets say

group A ~ N(100, 10)

group B ~ N(101, 10)

(N(100, 10) is like the "standard" normal distribution for things without reasonable units)

What do you see in practice ? Suppose you meet someone (randomly) from group A and someone (again, uniform random) from group B. What are the chances the member from group A is heavier/taller/richer/more criminal/... than the member of group B ?

E(X > Y, X ~= N(101, 10), Y ~= N(100, 10)) ~ 59%

So in our example, if you meet an Caucasian and an Asian, and there's 1% height difference between the groups, the chance is about 60% that the Caucasian is taller than the Asian. If taken the real figure, 6% difference, then the chance becomes 91%.

This is the problem that causes racism. Tiny differences in a normally distributed variable make a large difference in actual encounters.
Except that only one side presented any arguments on this case.
It lost me when it started talking about cooking above 200C - almost all oven cooking is at temperatures below this, and the more interesting stuff happens much lower than this.
At least it let's the users be more creative than yo.
You can get a Mac Mini that more than suffices for around $600-$800. But honestly, if paying $2000 was the only way to get a set of Android SDKs and development tools of the same caliber as Apple's developer offerings, I would immediately do so. I like the idea of the platform and I believe in anything that makes it easier for developers to build better applications.
Not entirely surprising; there was already a gigantic Source modding community well before Portal 2.
Yet most Android devs I know use Macs....
> “maneuverability as defense”

the Descent series is all about this, even in multiplayer.

Here's a video of two of the best players in the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8eCULTB3IQ (with audio commentary from some of the other best players, starting at around 7%.)
Same here, I was confused this afternoon when my home vpn hosted on a servebeer.com subdomain wouldn't connect. Now it makes a lot more sense, but I'm left with a very bad taste in my mouth.
Yudkowsky's contribution is pedagogical rather than anything fundamentally new. He explains quite well in short the process of "decoherence" and links it well to the many worlds interpretation. He makes a case for why the "many worlds interpretation" is not really an "interpretation", but is just stating what the mathematics says on its face anyway .. and hence is the one we should adopt. In particular, he does a good job of connecting this to "timeless physics" - i.e. the Weyl equation for the "wavefunction of the universe" which does not have time in it.
A lot of the weight on an airplane is fixed, so there would still be a fixed charge to add before weight.

I'm also sure many would avoid an airline where weighing in was required, even if that meant paying substantially more to competitors, the airlines wouldn't save enough to make up for lost business.
I skimmed through the extract presented (didn't have time to go into detail) but I don't see a formal definition of any kind presented in the extract. Could you point me to where it is? And if it's not in the extract, then could you quote it here?

Pseudorandomness is not the same thing as randomness but most algorithms today work on pseudorandom numbers so the concept is important. My impression was that that's what you were referring to.

PS :- FYI I didn't downvote your comment. Actually upvoted as your post made me discover some new math (various notions of randomness by kolmogorov, von mises, martin-lof) :)
How do they know that some data is "bad" before looking at it?

And I'm asking only because I know the answer - that it's impossible, they are looking at the entire traffic and (officially) deciding if it's "bad" afterwards.
> Can you show a single developed country with a successful private transportation system?

Not on a national scale, no, unless you count any passenger rail or air systems as "successful" and "private." But that's not really a sufficient argument. Obviously, it would be nearly impossible to compete with taxation and eminent domain at the scale they are used in modern developed nations.

> Showing that public roads lead to inefficiency and perverse incentives doesn't point to a solution. It just points to a problem. You still have to find a solution that works.

What do you mean I have to find a solution that works? Does that mean I don't get to propose new solutions and argue for why I think they should work?

> I think this argument is bit of cop-out, well we can't make argument how libertarianism would work so we can poke at something government subsidized and tell everyone how it is broken.

I can make an argument for how libertarianism (or rather, a specific societal organization that some might consider to be "libertarian") could work.

> To me it seems this is not unlike Communism argument...

Well, I don't think communism works well in theory or in practice. I am advocating for markets, and there is a great deal of theoretical and practical evidence for why markets perform well.
Instances of malware must necessarily be >= sizes of botnets.
This much more than what parent stated.
I take your point, and that's exactly why I'm not using it in production, but it doesn't seem like Google should have drawn as much attention as they did to it, running a session on it within Google I/O, if it was just intended to be a side-project and not for widespread consumption.

I guess I'm just coming at this with a WWDC mentality, where a presentation would be run only on a completely production-ready and documented framework, and perhaps I/O does things differently.
A million times thank you for that link! I've been needing something exactly like that for a pet project of mine.
Mass transit in the USA used to be mostly operated by private companies, and yes they made a profit.

I don't think anyone really expects government-run mass transit to be profitable, I for one would be happy if it were less of an enormous money pit. Given the level of corruption in most public transit authorities however, I don't hold out much hope.
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The issue is not that you can't do that anymore; it's that the things you (and presumably, your friend) want to do have gotten more complex. That's just a fact of life. It's going to take a lot more effort to write Wolfenstein: The New Order than Wolfenstein 3D.
If I may use you as a random Vim power user, how do you quickly switch between project files?
What makes a site hosting malware per se harmful, and how can you consider malware per se harmful while booters avoid being classified identically? Malware is illegal and obviously a detriment to the internet, as are booter services. Perhaps you're just willing to deal with malware so you don't end up in the same boat as No-IP did here.

Booter services are so incredibly common that the police aren't going waste their time on them, especially since once the cops get the real IP from your convenient obfuscation service, it's likely hosted in China, Russia, or some other country where no action will be taken.
I am uneasy about this situation, but the car wash in question is more like the car painting shop in Grand Theft Auto. Even if painting cars is a legitimate activity, when 75% of your customers are trying to mask illegal activity you should be doing some due diligence to ensure that you're not enabling illegal activity.

I'm not totally okay with what happened here, but I'm confident that it was not a "oops, sorry, we'll ban that botnet" situation. no-ip's primary use case is botnets, and they do have a responsibility to minimize botnet use. They can't claim ignorance given the widespread use.
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My understanding is that doctors net incomes have fallen fairly considerably in the US over the past 30-40 years.

There's an argument to be made that medical benefits aren't all they're hyped up to be. The decades during which life expectancy improved most in the US were the 1910s (for women) and 1920s (for men). This was largely the result of municipal sanitation, sewerage, increased food production, refrigeration, and improvements in pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood care.

In the past 50 years, most life expectancy improvements can be attributed to falling rates of smoking and drinking, and improved automobile safety.

There's a timeline of introduction of vaccines for various diseases, the period from 1920-1960 was particularly active. A few others (notably Hep-C and HPV) have come on-line since.

Acute medical intervention actually accomplishes relatively little.
There's quite a lot of studies on this that indicate the opposite:

"It has been shown that cities of a high density, such as,
for example Hong Kong, have a far lower transport energy
demand per capita than low density cities such as Houston,
by a factor of 18. On average, when comparing 10 major
cities in the US with 12 European cities, European cities are
five times as dense but the US cities consume 3.6 times as
much transport energy per capita. The conclusion often
drawn from such data is that dense cities are low energy
cities." [1]

You are correct that there is more immediate impact to the environment from dense urban areas, but it's outweighed by the gains in energy savings from sharing resources (energy, transportation) effectively. This is why contemporary urban planning tends to push compact, dense neighbourhoods over suburban sprawl.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778802...
Right. In my view it's better to lock in relatively low 10 year (or better yet 30 year) rates rather than roll the dice on interest rates rising. Rates can easily rise to long term norms of 5%.

The market is anticipating that rates will rise, hence the nature of the yield curve.

If the government's assets are long term, shouldn't the liabilities match it?
Those holes account for the vast majority of liquid and personal wealth.

What say you now?
Y'know, there are arguments which could be made for that.

I'm not entirely sure I'm prepared to make it, but I'm not entirely sure I'm prepared to say I wouldn't either.
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I loved this article. Thanks for posting.
There's a cap at 100[1]. And individual apps can set a lower cap if they wish.

[1] https://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html
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The private companies couldn't compete with public subsidized roads that came online in the 20th century. If you want to see transit companies making a profit, try highly dense Japan, and you'll still pay more for it.

As if the USA was a third-world country with a high level of corruption compared to say...China, which many conservatives/libertarians "praise" for its cost and efficiency.
What I don't understand and haven't seen anyone ask is, why Microsoft?

I mean, obviously some shady legal tactics are at work here, but why did Microsoft got to control those domains instead of, Mozilla for example? or Google? even more so, why wasn't control transferred to ICE for example?

Not saying it's a better alternative or even that I agree with it, but it's very VERY unsettling (and I'm not even American) that a corporation can basically say "dibs on this" backed up by a court order!

I would understand if the procedure went some more like, MS cries wolf, a court order is issued and a gov agency takes temporary control. At least it's "the government" doing the policing (even if guided by a corporation or whatever).

What's next now? Comcast and Verizon sending their IP Police to arrest you because they have a log showing piracy was downloaded at an IP owned by you? And they get to seize your stuff and now your house is a Comcast/Verizon store?

Wtf is this? It's so unreal.

Edit: typo
I've met both types of people, those who argue fiercely for either Google/Android or for Apple. Learning to ignore them is the best thing you can do. I don't think they are any more prominent in one camp or another.
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A court appointed a private corporation to act as a police agency.