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Well, part of the innovation with Uber is that they're able to deliver the same or better service without the regulatory cost. If the feedback mechanism functions as well or better than special licenses/health checks/knowledge tests/what have you, why not pass those cost savings of that innovation on to consumers?

The regulations sound good and all, but I can tell you from personal experience that Uber takes feedback very seriously whereas dispatcher companies and regulators couldn't care less about it and pretty much nothing's ever going to happen to a taxi driver that was rude to you or took a circuitous route.
You can cache maps in google maps for android.

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273567?hl=en&rd=1
Yes, I meant "guessing" the right size based on the user-agent string as the best approach (since it doesn't rely on the browser doing the work, it will work with any browser, including old ones).

But I also maintain that a single image of relatively small size can be used for all form factors if its quality is good enough (resized by the browser based on CSS instructions); you can at least double the size of a "good" image before you begin to see problems.
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> The central problem with SQL is a lack of modularity and reusability. The syntax is easy to learn, it's just onerous to do complex things.

From what I understand of it, the author here is describing a completely different avenue by which relational programming language could be made more powerful. Namely, through a higher-order type system. This is surely more powerful a proposal than merely providing a mechanism for modularity on top of SQLs existing interpretation of the relational model.

> What we need is a higher level language or tool...

ORMs and framework layers that compile to SQL have been around for decades, and while they do allow modularity, they remain a source of perennial dissatisfaction^1. Why is yet another such language or tool what we need?

If modularity and reusability really was "the central problem with SQL", surely the problem can be called solved given all of the existing solutions that you describe?

^1 http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Compute...
Doesn't that mean I would be downloading all of the image data and only using part of it?
Much web scale
uilang – a minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers
Is there any evidence Uber is actually less safe? I mean beyond the fact that a man blessed by state aegis checks taxi's breaks while regular plebeian mechanics do the same for Uber, what is the evidence Uber is sidestepping completely sane rules and not just red tape made to look like sane rules?

Not anecdotes like "Uber driver did X" - I'm sure for each such anecdote one can find "taxi driver did X" but real data on the scale of Germany - or any other scale like this?
The touchiness of certain varieties of nerds with bizarre hobbies occasionally just makes them look worse.

If you have a weird hobby, people are going to make fun of it. Heck, if you have a mainstream hobby then there's someone out there who's going to make fun of it too. There's no point in getting upset when they do, just laugh it off.

Everybody on this planet is a bit weird in one way or another, and we should all reserve the right to make fun of each other for our peculiarities.
And becoming a bit snobby about chocolate helps as well. Single plantation chocolate is delicious (and for obvious reasons dark) and their prices make you want to eat less of it anyway ;)
Nowadays a phone and a desktop computer are at about the same level of complexity in terms of code.
Which is what I said, right?

HTML 4 - vendors implemented the spec incongruently and failed in their own special ways. XHTML strict - standard parsing rules with strict failure mode. HTML 5 - standard parsing rules, suggested (but not required) rendering behavior for browser uniformity, and well-defined failure behavior.
Good point. I would compare it with human speech. Human speech is a powerful mean to communicate and for this reason it is thus very tempting to develop artificial systems that can communicate in the same way. But human language is far from optimal. In the same way, I believe that human brain is powerful but far from optimal.

The strength of human brain is its ability to adapt to fast changing context. The solution (function) it finds is however usually far from optimal.

I also think that the future of computing is the development of systems that can efficiently adapt their rules of actions according to execution context evolution. The programmers of today will then become trainers.
A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers
'Uber of 250,000 euros ($328,108) per ride'. I don't think this is accurate.
Financial Times on Germany's Uber Ban
And here we get to the heart of the matter: Individual or group responsibility. Everyone is responsible for their own insurance. Every individual has to communicate an estimate of the miles/km they plan to drive in a year to receive a correct insurance. If you fail to do so, you will loose your insurance. No need to regulate this extra and above the systems already in place. As for yearly or 2-yearly checkups of the car, both are also tied to usage. Most people will drive in and around the city, not accross the country. (This is also why Rand has a place in this discussion promoting the über-individual. I also don't always agree with her conclusions but she did address a lot of concerns of her time, half a century ago).
Also see "Why Johnny can't code" by David Brin: http://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/
In theory yes. In practice 99.99% of mainstream Java developers will run their code on Oracle's JVM.
> Well, part of the innovation with Uber is that they're able to deliver the same or better service without the regulatory cost.

What regulatory cost?

Professional liability insurance (which is mandatory for the transportation of people) and higher frequency car certification are not 'regulatory costs' they are costs that industry and government have arrived at as a reasonable compromise between the pull of the market and the ability of taxi service providers to make money whilst providing a safe and professional service to the customers.

Regulatory costs would be 'buy a permit at $1M' or something like that. I don't see that in this judgement, it is just about Uber totally ignoring the law.

> If the feedback mechanism functions as well or better than special licenses/health checks/knowledge tests/what have you, why not pass those cost savings of that innovation on to consumers?

I'm all for that. If after Uber complies with the law their margins are such that they can operate more efficiently they will own the market.

> The regulations sound good and all, but I can tell you from personal experience that Uber takes feedback very seriously whereas dispatcher companies and regulators couldn't care less about it and pretty much nothing's ever going to happen to a taxi driver that was rude to you or took a circuitous route.

I've never had a German taxi driver that was rude to me or that took a circuitous route. (I wished I could say the same for my hometown, Toronto, Bucharest, Rome or New York, the other places where I regularly used taxis).
>>> I think there's also not that much room for disruption in the Uber case, at least in Germany

I suspect there is, otherwise there would be no need to ban it.
The article states that the final problem on the Boston globe redesign (meant as a proof of concept for responsiveness) was that image prefetching feature to speed up rendering which happens before html parsing. Thus they needed a way for browsers to parse that information separately ahead of time.

I guess that it should be possible though for browser to parse a html fragment rooted on the picture tag, and then plug that tree back later on in the full document tree when it is constructed. Or is it simpler to search for picture/img attributes? Oh, there's this whole implicit tag closing business in html though...How do we know where to stop parsing a fragment? At least attributes values stops at the end of a string literal, or on a tag end. Perhaps that's the reason why they went for a dsl in attributes.

I agree with you though, it's cleaner your way, and perhaps xhtml could use that approach in the future?
I noticed the same sort of thing (many years ago when I was a student), going from processed foods to cooking fresh. I mainly did it to save money (a bag of potatoes was cheap), but noticed less colds and acne as a side effect.
You're giving out excellent advice and I have no idea why you're being down-voted. It seems to me that some folks can't stand to lose their scapegoat, which currently happens to be sugar/fructose, as saturated fat was in the 80s.

As for the empty calories counter argument, sometimes you just need energy/heat and simple sugars are a wonderful source. The average healthy person is eating between 2500 and 3000 calories a day. So even if you're eating half of them as junk you're still leaving enough room for nutrient dense foods.
Carbs(aka glucose)

No, these are not equal. Carbs covers all carbohydrates, including starches, cellulose etc. Glucose is a simple carbohydrate - what all carbs are broken down to by the digestive system, if they can be broken (cellulose, i.e., can not be digested by humans). So glucose indeed may raise insulin significantly, while more complex carbs by a lesser and slower degree.

If you don't eat carbs your body doesn't release insulin so you can't store anything as fat.

This is completely wrong at least on two counts. First, proteins also raise insulin significantly, just as much as carbohydrates. Second, you certainly can store fat as fat on a low carb diet, and you will, if you keep overeating.
Thank you for your elaborate response. Even if some of those requirements seem a bit anachronistic and overly bureaucratic, it does make more sense why Germany thinks it's a good idea. If it is that simple it shouldn't be that difficult for Uber to find a compromise and go legal.
The broader issue here is that Europe and especially Germany has a regulated market. The voters voted for that for generations.
It is not only taxi but all sorts of professions that have similar or even more restrictive laws.
>Taxi companies are regulated for a variety of reasons Correct. But mostly because they made a mess of their nr1 job: transporting people

This is not how I feel about it in Germany. Whenever I needed a cab, I got one, for a fair, reasonable price. Might be a little longer if I'm out in the fields or when a thunderstorm hit Berlin and there's no public transport, but sooner or later, I was picked up. Taxis are treated as part of the public transport system here, they have obligations (must transport everyone for the same price, must provide basic service at any time, regulated rates, ...) and in return receive benefits - effectively a monopoly on the taxi market.

Now, if we decide to repeal the benefits and allow UberPop, how are we going to make sure we fulfill the obligations? No, surge pricing is not a solution. There's probably a solution, but I'm very much not convinced that Uber is the solution, so until someone presents a genuinely better system, I'll stick with what we have. It's not perfect, but good enough.
Came here to ask for the same thing.
Considering phase is very important when designing filters, and just looking at the magnitude can overly simplify what happens.

Just look at what happens when you use only the magnitude or only the phase information to reconstruct an image:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/
Per dollar, where should I advertise my startup?
Wikipedia has some numbers [1] on life expectancy at various time in history.

In the Upper Paleolithic, life expectancy at birth was 33 years, and by 15 years of age the total expectancy went up to 54 years.

In Classical Rome, life expectancy at birth was 20-30 years, and by 10 years of age the total expectancy went up to 45-47 years.

In Medieval Britain, life expectancy at birth was 30 years, and by 15 years of age the total expectancy went up to 64 years.

This looks kind of mixed to me. Certainly, as you point out, people weren't "dropping dead at 30". But dying around 45 or 55 is not what people nowadays would call a "fairly full adult life" either.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy...
Benjamin De Cock (creator) wrote a post on Medium about the philosophy behind uilang: https://medium.com/@bdc/the-educational-side-of-uilang-92d39...

EDIT: This thread should probably merged into @benjamindc's own submission here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8256416
This rant has no relevance to the article or to anything much in general, save perhaps as an obvious illustration of projection and the proverbial chip on one's shoulder.

The maladjusted low-life vagrant in the article should consider herself lucky that all she got was a slap on the wrist for this. She very much embodies the majority archetype present at those protests: the entitled, middle class out-of-town suburbanite hell bent on stirring up trouble in a city which has up until then been extremely tolerant of the juvenile, disruptive behavior of extremists it's native population largely disagrees with. These dirtbags spent six months trashing, pissing and shitting on an iconic neighborhood with no real purpose to speak of. The only mistake the city made (and forced the police force to uphold) was allowing this charade to go out beyond the first day it started, at a massive monetary and logistical cost despite an overwhelming negative sentiment against this movement from the local population - the only one's whose opinions really matter.

What's is truly amusing are the many sentiments of those in the comments immediately rushing to condemn the police - clearly, non-native arm chair judicial hobbyists drawing the entirety of their opinions based solely on one-sided articles. Its amusing because save for a few of the pre-planned, large scale "demonstrations" (read: interference of traffic/public transportation and harassment of native New Yorkers just trying to get to work) the police were there NOT to keep the OWS protesters in check; they were there to PROTECT them from the rest of New York which was irate and on the verge of tearing them apart. Had they not been around to guard these parasites and ultimately clean up the filth and squalor they had created, the NYC Vigilante justice would have been far less measured in their response.

No one took kindly to these fuckers attempting to infiltrate and occupy their backyard and rightly so. Let's have assholes fuck, shit, piss, and bang drums right outside your door for over 6 months straight and see how you feel in the end. Then let's multiply that by 100 - let's see who you call to help sort that nightmare out.
US and Comcast situation? The market is huge(pretty much everyone needs Internet), the profits are huge as well, yet in a lot of places Comcast has dominated the market.
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Well, Uber will never have an accident. It will always be some guy who happened to have a friend on board. That's the beauty of it, you are offering a professional service but the moment there is any kind of trouble you can fall back on being a private individual driving his car.
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Then perhaps the price of taxis is not so important as to break the law to provider cheaper taxis.
By that argument I could say that the drug market in the US is in dire need of disruption, since otherwise there'd be no need to ban the sale of cocaine at Walmart.
0-hour contracts for the whole workforce, forcing farmers to earn less, stocking food of dubious safety

If you can find people freely willing to provide labour services at the price you offer, I see no problem. As far as "forcing" farmers to earn less, how are you going to achieve that? Coercive appropriation of goods is a practise strongly restricted in modern capitalist societies. Finally I highly doubt there is a good market for unsafe food products, though I am sure for some people it would be an acceptable risk - if you are discovered faking the quality of your food products though I imagine you would go out of business pretty quickly through the standard feedback mechanisms of capitalist society (the media, consumer outrage).

Doesn't sound like a very strong business model to me unfortunately.

Before Uber can righteously challenge European legislation, they should prove that they have ways to address the issues that generated that legislation in the first place: are all drivers insured? Are their vehicles safe? Etc etc.

Why can't we simply let people decide for themselves whether they want to ride in insured vehicles or not? Are people too stupid to calculate probable risks and rewards and make their own economic decisions?
So, what you're saying is... every hunter-gatherer died before they were 30? Sounds like an average to me.
What Uber does has nothing to do with Silicon Valley and startups.

It's the same exploitation through evading labor and safety laws dozens of shady companies have done for decades.

If a transportation company exploits East-European truck drivers, or a building company exploits construction workers it's disgraceful, but because an American company does it by using a phone app it's suddenly cool and "disruptive"?

I'm glad that we have a level of protection in terms of privacy, consumer and worker rights.

Uber is not innovative. Uber is the same old scam all over again. But with an app.
I've been doing low carb on and off for a few years now, and have actually found it fine for athletics. The most striking example is that I ran a tough mudder (20km run through mountainous obstacle course; takes 4-5 hours) on nothing but a big portion of bacon I'd eaten that morning. I still felt full of energy at the end. I'd brought a bunch of snacks with me to be safe, but never ended up needing them. By comparison, I've done some other endurance stuff while not on low carb and there's no way I could have gone that long without refueling.
It is not banned, they are being told to ensure they meet the minimum legal requirements such as car safety and driver safety checks.
I wonder how Germans tolerate thousands of regular "unlicensed" (I mean beyond regular driving license - I don't think Uber is hiring drivers that don't have regular driving license?) drivers flooding the German streets every day. It is so unsafe. When finally German citizenry understands that and bans private driving by unsafe drivers in potentially unsafe cars? Safety first! So I'm not getting how it is still allowed. If you want to get somewhere - just take a bus or call a taxi or even better, just bike - it's more ecologically friendly. I think private car ownership in Germany should be banned immediately - for the safety, of course.
Awesome, they have a very popular game.

Someone who beats it with a computer program should not be negotiating with them for the release of the software. Especially with the nontrivial risk of lawsuit by a multi-billion dollar company hanging over his head.

*Edit - Just to be clear, there was no specific C&D made here. But I would definitely consider legal action a real threat when crossing Blizzard given how many times Blizzard has used legal tactics in the past. In additional to the aforementioned bnetd (which is a more defensible case), there was the implementation of the World of Warcraft clone in the Starcraft II engine that was shut down by legal action. That dude was a kid.

If Blizzard wants you to not do it, they will take legal action.
I've been to 3w coffee in June, and I thought coworkers space moved out of there. Guys who were running [1] now rent small space for themselves in Shekou. My feelings there were similar to [2], that is it's a coffee shop feeling with a lot of power plugs.

(difference between coworkers space and working from coffee shops is that I pay a month/day fee and don't need to worry about buying coffee/eating to not feel guilty of taking their space :) )

There's one more place trying to open but their location is really far even for Shenzhen standards :) (Bao'an)

[1] http://szteam.com/
[2] http://www.coworkplanet.com/coworking-in-shenzhen-3w-coffee/
This has something of the Smalltalk image-based approach (and the author might enjoy using a Smalltalk development environment). IMO the costs outweigh the gains - it's worth decoupling programming a computer from using it. When source code is just text files, you can manipulate it with lots of powerful tools; even better, you can use tools from different languages whose authors never talked to each other. When the shell and the compiler are just user-mode programs, they can iterate much faster, and you can choose one that suits your style. You can use the same program for both, if you really want to - for a few weeks I used tclsh as my login shell - but it turns out the tools you need for programming are quite different from those for general computer use. Division of labour is ultimately a good thing, even if it means less of the population has any specific skillset.
I can see the difference when the action is unseen, and you have to draw attention to it to go to court, but I don't see how it applies to a service done in public like Uber. Should they be suing themselves?
At a guess, insurance companies and passengers alike are not in a position to verify all these issues when they sign up / catch a ride. So some laws were passed and Uber is now ignoring those laws.

That private individuals can lie on their application forms and skip certain tests that are required is not a businessmodel.
like yik yak?
Actually, Newton and Leibniz were all about this: infinitesimals. It was only in the XIX Century with D'Alembert and especially when Weisrstrass was ill-digested that we got the epsilon-delta down our throats.

Evanescent quantities are quite natural to me.
They haven't banned Uber, just required that they follow the laws and regulations that everybody else has to follow. Once Uber does that then they're free to operate in Germany.
Bon boulot Ben!
For any given regulatory issue, there is a core group of self-interested voters or political donators who support the regulation, and everyone else who doesn't care much one way or the other. This results in lots of protectionist legislation and regulation even if the majority of people are neutral or mildly opposed.
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I'm a generalist that doesn't get bogged down with dogmatic views on specific technologies. Instead I strive to learn a very diverse set of technologies in order to keep an open mind and blend the best ideas from each [0].

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Lately I've taken to liking the combination of Clojure & ClojureScript with Om/React, which I've been using to implement a web interface for rtorrent [1].

[1]: https://github.com/blaenk/levee
You will still need to know Objective-C, despite the introduction of Swift
Ok so to summarize: when they are talking to higher-ups, people don't want to make strong claims so they use wordings that make it explicit that this is "only" their personal opinion rather than an absolute truth. And they typically do so by using the word 'I'. Which is therefore a good indicator to detect who's the higher-up.

I would agree with this, but this all very implicit in the post.
It is. Alternative: Up to 6 month of jail for the CEO.
same type,but there are many differences in the products.