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The problem here is unfair competition: in The Netherlands taxis are bound by the 'Wet Personenvervoer' (Law persons transport). Uber can encourage drivers to ignore the law, because it has deep pockets to cover for legal costs of drivers.

I agree that the taxi market is ripe for disruption, but this is only fair if other taxis are not bound by that law as well.

Another question is if we want complete deregulation. E.g. I would personally want to be sure that the driver has proper insurance, etc.
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Perhaps it is just that they are music videos and not CD releases? They must be mastered differently anyway as they often have extra sounds or a different length, right?
That's one of those places where common sense should take over literal English. When someone says 'millisecond differences', there are high chances that they mean 'milliseconds differences', and not exactly ONE millisecond difference.
> I would love to take a non-CTA bus to work. I can't see how anyone could possibly do worse than the CTA bus system.

I don't know where you are in Chicago, but tooling around Streeterville/Gold Coast/Lincoln Park, I always found the CTA buses clean and punctual. I don't think CTA is a great example of union protectionism or bad planning in Chicago (I'd level those at CPS/CPD).

If you can't see how anyone could do worse than CTA, try riding the public transit in the Rust-belt east coast cities (Philly, Baltimore, Wilmington). It can get so much worse.
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Thanks to Brendan it's much easier to sell people on perf. You just link them to Brendan's slides.
The problem is that Uber wants all the gain without really taking on any of the responsibility, costs, or consequences beyond the bare minimum for PR and marketing purposes. In essence, they set up a system to parasitize an industry through corrupt practices.

I am all about competition, but they don't want to compete, they want to undercut the market to destroy it and corner it so that they can then implement regulatory capture at a later point.
while coming across as if the goal is to improve the entire public transit system

Where? In their website, all the copy seems direct at the potential customer; I saw nothing about the goal being an improvement to the entire transit system.
Yet another Chromium reskin, with semi-mandatory "social" features? No, I don't think I'm the target audience.
I doubt you'd get a different answer with anyone else. Screen cracks are always considered damage. Users lie so unfortunately in the very rare case like yours you get screwed.
> but it's iterative; it's definitely "picking up the pieces"

Do you mind elaborating?
Now if only they would add an option to do this to more than just music videos. There's still millions upon millions of videos on Youtube with audio volumes all over the place. It seems like iMovie produced content is especially loud but that's probably anecdotal.
Some serious diamond astroturfing going on in here. I've never seen anything so obviously stupid defended so thoroughly on HN.

> Still, if you can get by without the investment, good for you.

I think you might be a little confused about the definition of 'investment'.
An initial config object would probably be ideal, and then you could have the chaining to supplement those values. You could have the initial method take in the config and use the values in that in place of the defaults. So

textures.circles()
.radius(4)
.fill("transparent")
.strokeWidth(2);

could initially be

var circles = textures.circles({
radius: 4,
fill: "transparent",
strokeWidth: 2
});

and later updated to be

circles.strokeWidth( 1 );

Which works rather nicely especially when the config object is generated dynamically.
Your right, I did miss it, I apologize. That'll teach me to read code so early in the morning.
The mechanism of ordering and accepting a ride via a mobile application, as well as giving feedback both ways, is a new innovation (and the established taxi services seem very reluctant to adopt this kind of innovations.)
well, for _most_ articles I do mind reading them on time because the discussions they create around me will fathom quickly after the trend/buzz has passed. So you do want to be there when discussions happen.

Talking about discussion, it happens a lot that I don't even look at the article and just look at the HN comments. I think I'm not the only one who would say HN is mostly HN because it has great comments.
Haha, grow up. Useless to him !== useless to her. Marriage is dependent on compromise and negotiation, among other things. The world is chock-full of nonsense, and you will have to navigate it, whether you do so single or married.

Good grief, I don't think I've ever seen so much bad dating advice in one place as the comments in this thread, lol.
College papers are distributed for free all over a college campus.

I don't know if I've seen a paper version of the Seattle Times in the 3 years I've lived here.

College papers tend to be much shorter and filled with hyper relevant news.
You mean utilizing resources in a more efficient manner? I think it could be called that.
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Have you listened to the remixed Vapor Trails? It's phenomenal IMHO. There are tons of little quirks in the songs that you just couldn't hear before. Plus they might have added a few tracks to each song.

I'd love to hear what somebody who actually knows what they're talking about compare the original with the remix. I'm a huge Rush fan and could discuss them for hours.
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Every car should have a proper insurance, right? At least here it's the law.
Diamonds are a very poor "investment".

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...

Thanks goodness my wife isn't into "shiny things".
Yeah that slide is a little confusing because they messed up the second step. JS Facade is supposed to be where Dart Facade is and vice versa.

Also, Angular 2.0 is going to be written in TypeScript (which will be compiled to plain JS) but you can use ES5, ES6, TypeScript or Dart depending on what you want to use for your application.
I think they are actually pretty well paid, even factoring those things in. Do you have a source?
I've got an Air with Intel HD 5000 and it runs ok. The framerate is a bit low, but for a simulation it's fine.
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Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?
Equity for employees is commonly part of an employment package, but:

1. It's rare for startups to succeed
2. It's rare for non-owning employees to be able to exercise shares/receive money when the company sells due to the structure of VC-backing/ownership and the resulting order of who gets paid/when

We all hear stories about when employee equity does not work out. Are there any examples of when it DOES work out well for an employee with equity?
Except that workers did not go to the same job every day, nor did they return to the same house when they were done. No sim has a history; every move was to the first available location that an invisible "seeker" agent found. So, by not having history, more agents had to be used in order to find available locations. Not to mention that water and electricity were basically implemented as "wandering" agents that just randomly walked the grid and "deposited" at every location they passed until depleted. Which, in turn, meant even more agents, because they had to be populous enough that the random walking would ensure visiting the entire grid.

TL;DR: There were a lot of decisions SimCity made that directly increased the number of agents required. This in turn directly impacted the #1 issue about the game: City size.
Integrity also means different things to Warren Buffett than it does to other people. Ripping someone's face off in a business transaction is a desirable quality to Warren Buffett.
I was hoping for U2F but I guess it's not ready yet. :)
I've been a huge Rush fan since I was a little kid (thanks to my parents for that). I loved Vapor Trails when it came out even with the poor sound mixing. The remixed version is even better in my opinion. To me, it's just a fuller sound that's much more enjoyable.
Not to mention the fact that it's the first decent city building game that runs on Linux!
> Amazon - or its customer, actually - pays for the delivery of goods on the said roads. That delivery price pays, among other things, for the wear and tear of roads, more than enough.

Unless the delivery company is also paying some sort of branding royalty payment to a brass-plate in Luxembourg, in which case you have to fall back onto consumption taxes, and the regressive nature of that mechanism.

In any case, the roads are only one, er, concrete example; the profitability of a company like Amazon, or even its simple ability to operate, relies on a whole swathe of services which are provided to companies and to citizens through the government.
At that point why not make it free for everyone, even the Pro version, charge more for CALs if you wish.

You can more quickly retire older versions if the new one is free too, saves money.
In the US, they're mostly 12 ounces.
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I kind of agree, I often feel like I'm addicted to online news. I dislike it's shallowness. I despair at it's ignorance to history and context.

But then, following the news teaches me stuff about the world and how it works. It reminds me how complex the world is and how dangerous. It educates and it coins me.

I've always wondered how Aaron found the courage to live his life and fight for his ideals like he did. Maybe ignoring the larger scope was one of the reasons.
What happens when those circumstances have disadvantaged a child in a way that cannot be recovered (for example, I've seen a documentary on over medicated children who were screwed up by the medication so badly that they still have clear issues even years after being taken off).
Listening to Jordan ramble at the bottom was really fun, seeing his personality come through. He taught me my discrete class just a year ago, I got so lucky.
I expect that the naive traffic sim implementation is to simulate everyone following their GPS perfectly. Real humans seem to have a bit more randomness and a mix of different driving patterns.

I wonder how regular GPS use has changed real-world traffic patterns?
Good point. Spinning Jennies and Uber taxis work as scapegoats; often the mental change is the hardest.
Even the steam version required hacks for me on Windows 7 and still crashes. Skylines is good enough to replace SC4 for me though.
The point is, changing spouses is expensive if they all want a diamond ring. So that custom is a shield against heavy spouse changing.

The whole marriage thing is also extremely expensive. I suspect for similar reasons - so that people think twice before throwing it away. In that case they also have angry friends and relatives who invested into expensive travel and presents and probably wouldn't be too happy if it was all for nothing.
>If you structure it so that the city paid a royalty to the entity which established the line for a few years, they could probably do a fair amount of good.

This is very much how the UK's rail franchising system fails to work.

Rail is complex because you have obvious economies of scale when you have the same entity managing rolling stock, tracks, other resources, and R&D.

The UK's rail franchising is the worst of all possible worlds. Economies of scale are impossible because separate companies own the rolling stock, run the rolling stock, and maintain the track. And no R&D happens at all now.

Worse, companies regularly scam the gov by collecting subsidies while they can and giving up franchises early when they're expected to start repaying some of their profits.

So this is not necessarily a good model.

>I think it would indicate that the city isn't making enough of an effort on the mass transit side of things.

Why should public transport be profitable? It provides a valuable economic service, in that it moves employees to and from work.

Demanding that it should make a profit is like demanding that pedestrian walkways or the freeway system should make a profit.

Infrastructure is a public and corporate good. You can certainly debate who benefits from it the most, and who should pay for it on the basis of the economic value of those benefits.

You can also debate if perhaps it's not as innovative as it could be - something which is often true of both public and private transport systems.

But there's no obvious non-ideological need for it to be run on a for-profit basis.
I suffer from the opposite problem: my mother speaks a language I don't. She is French, but despite giving me a French name never spoke to me in French while I was growing up. She'd speak to her family in French, but never to me or my brother.

I've studied to B2 level on my own and managed to osmose a fair ability to distinguish words and sounds, but I'll never be able to get the native-level fluency I could have. It's something we both regret.
With Unicode these predefined functions have to be large and complex. You won't be able to use them on embedded systems for example.
The --without-openssl option is particularly attractive on Linux systems if you distrust openssl's code.
"Funkmietwagen" (rental cars with a driver you that picks you up and drops you off and can be hired instantly by phone) are actually very common in most parts of Germany I've been to. Many businesses offer you to call one instead if you ask them to call you a taxi (though I think they have to explicitly tell you it's a Funkmietwagen rather than a taxi).

That said, Uber isn't really solving a problem here. There are already call-a-taxi apps (though they don't seem to have been very successful) and the only value add Uber provides is that it encourages an entirely illegal business model (i.e. transporting persons without the required qualifications, no insurance coverage, no guarantees and no reliable pricing).

Sure, UberBlack may be a nice idea if an ordinary taxi is beneath you or socially inappropriate, but other than that Uber simply doesn't offer anything new.

Note that Germany and the EU in general have very strong customer protection laws. The health, safety and protection of the passenger is an actual concern in the local market. Uber (and similar "disruptive" services) gain most of their appeal from entirely disregarding that.

It doesn't matter how appealing your business idea is if it doesn't work within the restrictions of consumer protection.
Also father of 2. Wife breast-fed both kids to about 14 months. I frequently gave a bottle (of breastmilk) to the first. Second wouldn't take the bottle at all. I never felt left out of the process. I changed (and still change) diapers and contribute in other ways. Mommy mostly handled bedtime until breastfeeding was over - now I frequently handle bedtime. With the second child, during the first year I handled most of the first-kid duties while my wife took care of the baby. I don't see a problem with this at all. My kids (5 and 1) are always excited to see me when I get home, so much so that my wife is more likely to feel left out than I am. Insinuating that breastfeeding causes kids to look to the mother as the last line of comfort is ridiculous in my opinion. Women are literally MADE to do this and I don't care what modern "gender equality" proponents might make of that statement.

Edit: I do want to qualify by saying that I do recognize that it's not possibly for every mother to breast feed and I'm not even trying to argue that breastfeeding is superior. I only take issue with the idea that breastfeeding negatively impacts the father's participation.
Yes, that's true. But in the long run, with YouTube being such an important player, the results should be positive.

The record company's mixers have been escalating a loudness war for years, in an effort to make the most impression on listeners. And the result of that is poor sound quality.

Now YouTube comes along and says "we're resetting you all back to a standard overall volume". Suddenly all that escalating loudness hasn't accomplished anything (or very little; probably there are ways to game the system a little), at least when listened to through YouTube, which as we said is hugely important.

If they're no longer able to compete in loudness, and the vain attempt to do so damages the quality of the recording, then in the long run the mixers ought to quit doing that. It's not going to save Death Magnetic, it's too late for that, but maybe we can reclaim fidelity in future recordings.
Apple's website in 1998
Not to mention the danger of them possibly being sex offenders, rapists, murderers. Who knows!
Actually, vehicle insurance can (and in many countries, is about to be) checked and enforced automatically, for all vehicles. At least here the police cars are getting register-plate recognition cameras that automatically check the annual inspection and insurance status of vehicles it sees, so there will be not that many uninsured cars around, Uber or not.
Thanks; I missed that story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131921
If it's so obviously stupid, then why do people do it? Maybe you haven't thought about it enough.

Peacock tails seem pretty stupid, too - but they have a purpose.
That's not the kind of style I was referring to, but choosing among the many ways of doing things in Scala.
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It's cheaper. Until something horrible happens or goes wrong. It's exactly the same as airBnB. There's a reason these things are properly regulated.
Unfortunately languages other than English are not pushed very hard in American (public) education. It's really quite sad compared to the rest of the world. My first exposure to another language in school was 8th grade, which was the choice of an elective Spanish or French class. To prevent having to take a class at the college level, the minimum requirement (if i remember correctly) was only 2 years of a foreign language in high school.

I'm probably biased, or maybe it's because i went to a smaller school system (graduating class of only 120), but there's not nearly enough available with regards to programming, statistics, finance (you should learn how to at least do your taxes while in high school), language development (foreign and speech), and writing (we really only learn boiler plate stuff). Instead we get more 'teaching the test' so schools can keep what little funding they have.
Same reason a lot of people use Word, revision tracking. Its the killer feature. Source code control, if it were for the normal person, could work but it would need some editor integrated tooling to show all the changes in place.

If you want to replace Word, make this your first and focused feature. The easy, no distraction writing folks are already numerous and successful for their niche.
And the mechanism of putting items in a shopping cart is patented.
There has been a long standing issue with Apple laptops where the keyboard damages the screen. The screen and keyboard are so close together when the screen is closed that it doesn't take much pressure to get the two to rub. This causes keyboard marks on the screen that can't be removed.

There could be other issues with the screen coating but a lot of the pics on this site look like keyboard damage. You need to be very careful about putting pressure on the screen while it's closed.
Skylines is a great game, with great mod support...

...that retails for $30 (can get it for less on sites like greenmangaming.com). That part blows my mind.
It's a good thing that EA botched the new Sim City as it gave small game developers an opportunity to make their mark.
Did you collect any information about your surroundings in that state? Do you feel you were you really "looking" at your physical self, through some other sensory capability, or was it a mental construction?
I guess everyone just has varying experiences with different companies, plus you certainly will hear bad experiences more than good experiences. Myself I have had nothing but great experiences with Apple products, most I have bought new some used. We still have an Apple IIci that works great. I've owned a blue iMac from 2000 which has never had hardware issue and my dad still uses it for iTunes and playing Cds. Also have a 17" iMac G4 from around 2002 that only had a logic board issue but that was under warranty. Still kind of my favorite designed iMac. I guess I would be curious to see what the fail rates are on Apple products (highly doubt they are truly available). For me they are the only company I've always had a good experience with their products and customer service and I feel like I'm pretty jaded with customer service after working in Retail for over 10 years (sporting goods and then electronics).
I'm getting ready to propose to my girlfriend, and reading what you've written has made me immeasurably more excited to become a father. I constantly worry about what we're going to do when we raise our kids and if we'll raise well-developed, smart and productive kids, and this just gave me a shot of confidence that we'll do okay.
Disclaimer: I'm an uber Uber user.

It seem that the German government ensures that everyone gets the same version of the laws. I don't see how that's wrong.

There are generally regulations (and not a few) wrt taxi. Drivers need to pass an exam, get licenses, pay a lot on various taxes, insurance, etc.
Most of all, however, there's a limited number of taxi medallions.

Perhaps not all these do make sense, but that's not an excuse not to obey them.

So perhaps a government authority that ensures that it's own policies are respected is not unexpected.

So yes, Uber contributes a lot to the quality of the transportation. That's why I'm using it.
But I don't see how that has anything to do with the fact that it's one the verge of the law (good or bad) or even against the law in some cases - which is what the German authorities decided.

I don't think this has anything to do with their self-driving cars or the German government taking care of the unemployment problem. In fact, it's probably helping employment.

Now how did this play out in the US?
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The military have a saying:

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Seems appropriate.
What mental change? To accept boring non-innovations as something fundamental?
Best quote ever:
"With the acquisition of Van Tuyl, Berkshire now owns 9.5 companies that would be listed on the Fortune 500 were they independent (Heinz is the 0.5). That leaves 490.5 fish in the sea. Our lines are out."
>Streeterville/Gold Coast/Lincoln Park

To be fair, those are the three wealthiest parts of the city, so there's incentive to make them work properly. I think when you leave the high-income bubble you'll see the CTA isn't like that normally.

>Philly, Baltimore, Wilmington

Those aren't remotely tier-1 cities with the budget we have. Its not a fair comparison. Not to mention, in places like Baltimore, driving and parking to work are feasible and economic options. In Chicago that's not going to work out.
Reminds me a story a friend and former coworker told me. She's of Cambodian descent, and whenever she has to talk to her mom, her mom can only understand her English if she affects this incredibly thick Cambodian accent.

I always found that interesting, having to put on a fake accent so people can understand you.
Exams are obviously rubbish, the last time in your life you won't have the internet, never collaborate because that's wrong, if you can remember things for 24 hours you get a good grade.
Every car has to have third party insurance. Basically covering any damage you do to someone not in your car. Insurance covering damages to passengers in your car is a different insurance, and insurance covering passengers in your car because they are paying you to drive then somewhere is different a insurance again.