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Taxi thugs? Thug means someone who intimidates with threats of violence to get their way.

Why would any taxi-driver feel like upsetting the apple-cart?
I recently interviewed at amazon and was rejected, the reason I think is that as a senior developer I should have picked up the coding books and do some practices before the interview, for 5 coding questions I only made 4, I misunderstood one of the requirements and failed that, still it's my fault.

What surprised me are two things:

1. the hiring personnel emailed me a few times saying she will call me on the results, it is a 1~2 minute call actually but it took her a few days calling me back saying I was not selected, not sure why this practice is preferred and I would appreciate a simple email or a quick call after the decision was made.

2. more importantly, during the interview, I feel all of them(6 of them in total) are reciting the amazon principles all the time, it made me feel the employees are totally brain-washed, yes I understand company cultures and such, but Amazon just made me feel weird, I somehow sense I'm talking with a group of robots who all repeat the same "principles" with no soul, and they're proud of that.

The second item made me concerned, honestly if I got an offer, I won't go anyways.
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No that's not how it works. Apple can push any iPhone firmware updates they want to without carrier approval.
Installing, powering and cabling "a few hundred" of anything in a datacenter is a big deal. You probably don't have room. You may not have power. You have to deal with hundreds of boxes, cardboard isn't allowed on the datacenter floor (ideally), and just mucking around on the loading dock wrangling stupid stuff like shipping labels is going to suck up a ton of time.

[I'm a C++ dev who likes to help design and build datacenters. It's fun.]
Lots of devices certainly. But headache-inducing logistics? I think getting snowballs via Fedex/DHL, copying them and sending them back is easier than figuring out how to connect the truck to your in-house datacentre. Most won't have a spare 1Tbit/s connection in the parking lot.
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That's exactly how I came to the same conclusion, that only the disclaimer is new.

I am actually quite torn about those disclaimers: once people have officially committed to product placement, any remaining internal unwillingness to compromise writing for placement revenue will break down completely.

The opposite is just as worse by the way: our public broadcasting networks here in Germany are producing some rather popular fiction, and they have started to implement draconian rules to fight product placement (after some sizable scandals where the money went to their contractors or employees instead of going to the nominally nonprofit networks themselves). The result is that any time something like social media comes up in, say, a cop show, they have to make up a new fantasy brand to represent Facebook, Twitter or Google. This severely hampers their ability to talk about the modern world. Imagine for example what would be left of The Godfather if you replaced all references to the "brands" of Catholicism (and Christianity in general) or Italy with generic placeholders. You might as well move it from America to the Shire entirely.

The influence of product placement is there now matter how you spin it. In House of Cards (US), the worst influence might not be in who paid but in who did not: iirc Twitter seems to be pretty much embargoed in the show, even though they are using it for promotion quite a lot.
I believe the point you are missing: The article compares a null pointer deference and network failure.

One of those is routine.

The other is a serious logic error that strictly speaking a correct program cannot be said to do.
The author makes some interesting points, that I haven't seen made elsewhere, although I think they could have been made much more briefly and cogently. Also the Author makes the curious choice to use the metric of "EBITAR" rather than the standard metric of "EBITDA" with no mention of the "rents and restructuring" that his metric exudes. This makes me think he is not all that familiar with financial analysis.

Lots of his article is "Uber's aggregated financials suck and they aren't getting better." This is pretty useless without more data on current per city or per unit economics. Also, maybe give Uber credit for splashing some cash to grow 10x in 1 year? That won't happen again.

The per ride subsidies are the most worrisome. I took an $11 Uber ride the other day, if that was a $22 Uber ride I would have definitely thought about it twice! But you can't really throw headquarters cost into that subsidy calculation- which he seems to do.

For me, the analysis of Uber really comes down to that old chestnut of low user acquisition / user behavior. If every time a consumer wants to do a web search they go to your site (google) and if every time they want to sell their junk they go to your site (ebay) you'll generally have a good business. If there is one thing that Uber has taught us is that the product of "car rides hailed by an app" does have huge and sustained demand. Will the consumer be trained to always go to Uber? Or will the regional nature of the business and low barriers to entry (easy consumer and driver app switching) allow small regional apps to sprout up take flow / demand from Uber.
Really? When did you think that? I didn't see any position I'd relish playing with Black needing a win. Let alone with Karjakin's time disadvantage.

It was a cute ending, but it seemed a very comfortable draw for white from well before.
For GCS, the gsutil program can saturate 1GB NIC using
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What if you just have 13 draws? If you award any kind of points for draws, it seems like you're back to people aiming to draw.
Not really. There is an econ paper that explains why (Xavier Gabaix's shrouded prices theory), but the idea is this:

There are some consumers that are naive (tourists in this case) and you can exploit them (go to the airport, and wait until you get a naive guy).

Now, suppose a competitor can find a way to educate consumers: you print pamphlets listing the true costs and hire someone to distribute them everywhere. Now tourists are well informed, but what's the benefit for the competitor? It just did something expensive but now he faces informed guys that will only pay the competitive price. So in equilibrium no one will teach the naive consumers.
> b) constantly subsidise a system that will keep on losing money

If you take into account the total cost of car ownership you will see that also is heavily subsidized. From car production to roads, parking spaces, oil production... if the accounting is done properly it is obvious that when you make 100 people travel all together in the same vehicle it is a lot cheaper that using 100 different machines to move that same 100 people. Cost wise it is a no-brainier.

I agree with you that lack of political will, and also suburban landscape, are going to make it very difficult for it to happen in the USA.
I played with Vue just now and it felt right. :)
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Maybe this is true, maybe not but sometimes, it's ok for things to be bad for the economy. The economy isn't supposed to always go up and when we meddle in an attempt to iron out the bumps, we only serve to make the future bumps much worse. I wish our leaders and economists would both believe this and succinctly explain it to the public.
Yeah, thought that number was a bit high. Maybe there's something else to it?
I get those type of questions all the time too, and I also feel at a loss sometimes if it's been a while since the last time I went on the hunt. Another place to scrap/pull from might be Slickdeals.com because my friends are looking to get a good deal not just drop a lot of money on a laptop so after finding out what the best model is I end up creating a bunch of filters to notify when that model shows up there.
Everything is sponsored and the rest is badly-written/executed script. "Show your support, send in your twits/texts to get something<worthless> free". Or, "Be the first to see this or that thinly-associated xyz on our site!" The worst is the elementary level, leading interviews, aka fandering to the lowest deninator: "You just blew it! Tell the fans at home how bad it feels."
Moreover that, quite a few people actively exploit that and "drive themselves" for profit.
Especially since a resume and cover letter are also part of the prescreening process. And are also kinda semi dehumanizing and silly.
Actually in my experience:

Internet+phone+tv = $150

Internet+tv = $160

Internet = $165

We literally have tv and a phone line but neither of them hooked up because it's cheaper
That's not a solution because my problem isn't with Haskell itself (and I do familiarize myself with the theory when I find it interesting, and I'm well aware that most of the researchers aren't like that), but with the tendency of people in the industry to market things so enthusiastically, that they basically encourage suspension of critical thinking (and this is doubly annoying when what they evangelize isn't something as cheap as a new profiler, but something as expensive as a whole new language with a new, unproven, programming paradigm). Ignoring it wouldn't solve the problem. And in case you think this isn't an actual problem, consider that over-excitement about promises that couldn't be kept has caused at least two "research winters" in CS: one in AI and one in formal methods. The industry started believing its own hype, academia didn't mind the extra funding, but when the industry ended up disappointed, funding dried completely and research slowed to a crawl.
That's why I called out message passing specifically in the very next paragraph.
Spacemacs is almost a different editor built on top of Emacs, which is fine, that's what Emacs is for, but it deprives you of the magic of growing your own.
At almost every start-up that I've been involved with, the approach has been to grant employees ISOs which have a strike price (albeit very low) that the employee must pay if they want to exercise the options. They then have to run the AMT gauntlet and take on the potential tax risk. So while employees don't have to pay for the option itself, I'm not sure it's entirely accurate to say that employees don't have to shell out hard cash for the actual equity.
I try to refrain from comments like these, but I'll make an exception here.

For that very decision - shutting down the product line - fuck you, FitBit, and fuck the horse you ride on.

And you'd better make sure those last Kickstarter rewards are shipping out soon.
I'd wager significantly less, if they aim to stay married.
None of this is true.

FTP is just bytes over TCP, it's just as prone to problems. HTTP recovery is far simpler because of ranged GETs.

FTP is definitely not better.
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Earth is just a test network for demo purposes. You can create your own with any IP scheme you want or none at all. It's sort of like VXLAN over a P2P network.

This has been on HN at least once before and it's under very active development. The next version is going to have rules and micro segmentation and a bunch of other stuff.
Have you ever seen Stockholm taxies - all these brand new Mercedes, BMW, you name it, with 300+sek for a minimum hail?

This overpriced, malinvested model cannot survive a competition with any more efficient and cheaper service. So these "investments" will be protected by the government for the sake of "the lesser evil" - an ugly status quo. Basically, the problem of UBER is that it exposes these "obese monopolies" protected by municipal govts.

Actually, it should be let to fail. Then a better service would be evolved.
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I suppose either the brand or the whole smartwatch market is in pretty bad shape.
Yep. And as I processors reach their ceiling, I imagine more effort being put on precomputed scenarios so that they become more or less glorified look up machines with instructions stringing them together.
That's just numbers and a bit of text, no?

I guess anything media related is way bigger. I thought of media archives of TV stations, but those are (if digital already) cold storage with only a low-res preview live.
Oh, that's just because the input image wasn't good enough.
Sounds like an excellent opportunity to print more dollars, create some inflation, increase liquidity in emerging markets, and pay off some of the national debt.

Am I missing anything?
Adding a laser beam scales linearly, both in speed and cost. The amount of data we generate, store, and use scales exponentially.
The article says that Pebble was offered $750M by Citizen in 2015. Is that realistic considering Citizen's market cap is (only) $2B ?
Are the AV vendor's code having the same problems that the old version of the file command had that lead to a rewrite on OpenBSD[1]? It seems that way with not doing the fuzzing of inputs comment, or is there a second problem because its the browser?

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439778
"And you still manage to prove that your system is 100x more reliable than human driver."

That's the rub: how do you prove that? If your software stack is 30 million lines of code that was written by god knows who, I would argue it's nigh impossible without releasing it and seeing what happens, which seems morally irresponsible and legally negligent. If you follow strict rules in coding conventions and algorithms, it's easier to statically verify code is probably correct.
The term is more a criticism of the reductionist view of Economics, ignoring human value and ethical considerations.

But the problem with economics is that it is often viewed or presented/used (by governments) as a hard science, while it is much closer to some humanities: a game of deducing, abstracting, and guessing.

Economies are hugely complex and intertwined systems, which are hard to understand and harder to predict, because they depend on so many variables.

Economic models often only work when everything is going well or down an established path, and not when you would actually need them.
I'm leaning towards the browser vendors on this one, AV software has been sloppy and has been known to enlarge the attack surface area. Here's an example from earlier this year.

https://securityintelligence.com/news/bad-medicine-symantec-...

@VessOnSecurity whines about a lack of hooks for AV to hang on in Google Chrome, but kind of laughs at the hooks that Microsoft Office offers (we didn't need them anyway, we read before Office opens the file, etc.) That cavalier attitude makes me uncomfortable.
100PB storage and a total network capacity of 1TB/s across multiple 40GB/s links means pretty serious hardware, before even considering the security and video surveillance systems.
Yes, Erlang's implementation is a big problem, but it's not something fundamental to its architecture. Some new language with a fresh implementation could definitely solve that.
Product placement just kills the pace of the show. My family watched White Collar together, and it had some really forced product placement from Ford. They have a scene where a conversation is happening in traffic, and the car beeps and then does the emergency stop thing. One character tells the other to keep his eyes on the road, and the other one responds, "It's a Ford, it can take care of itself. I'm keeping my eyes on you."

That was so forced and stupid my brother and I still quote it. It was so completely tone deaf that it pretty much cemented Ford as a company that is completely out of touch.

As time goes on, the product placement bit from Wayne's World gets more and more topical.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079250

And again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13071939

Edit: To those who downvoted me, let me just point out that this was submitted less than an hour after the previous submission, hence my pointing at that (barely) earlier item.
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Except you could just put a billboard right there in the airport exit saying how much an average trip to the city center costs for very little money.
But isn't that the same problem with the truck? You also need to get that connected to the datacenter for a week? I guess as that connection has to leave the building, it should be even harder?
Well I use the Sleep tracking feature which I find very interesting (though probably slightly inaccurate).

I find that the only time I don't wear my Pebble Time is when I am having a shower and in those 10-15 minutes I can fully top up the charge on the PT, which I find is a killer feature. Basically, its more/less constantly charged, I wish other Watches (Android, Apple) would implement 'fast charging' to replicate this feature, as I hate having to think about charging any device.
It's actually uplifting! That means that the world is actually a better place than portrait by the media.
Such a simple explanation, makes perfect sense.
Say I buy two bitcoins, A and B, and combine them into a wallet C. Bitcoin A was purchased for $100 and Bitcoin B was purchased for $1000. If I sell half of wallet C for $500 - can I pick "which" bitcoin was sold? Because depending on which coin was sold the tax implication may change.
This one time, I was in a race and Di2 stopped working so I had to try to debug it using my phone while I was riding.. or something...?
Unless my math is wrong, storing 100PB in S3 is something like $2,750,000 per month.

Then what happens in 5 years if local storage cost dropped by a factor of 10, but S3 cost did not drop?

Big risk, no?
NHL Center Ice was awesome when the commercial break came & you got the static camera image as the guy announced he has to hit the head and additional audio of announcers' goings on in the booth prepping for next segment. Of course, it couldn't last, I can pay AND get commercials; just like ad-free cable & ad-free sat radio.
Well lots of countries do have public broadcasting. There is an extensive list compiled here. [1]

It even does have its uses, if it were not for the abomination it is in Germany. If it were not for the fact, that the public broadcasters are controlled by political parties and clearly are everything but unbalanced (ok, compared to the US they are, but non the less).

I would gladly pay the money for them, if it were not for the fact, that most of this goes into financing soccer rights and formula 1 rights. And some "Volksmusik" shit and such.

I have to pay (being a German citizen with our own household).

I could clearly see a real usecase for public broadcasting, not tied to advertising revenue, doing real investigative journalism and doing great documentations. But I am being naive here. And a dreamer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting
I didn't get the popup (probably because of uBlock)...

But this quote stuck out:

Nothing was wrong with our life before Amway – we didn’t join it to fill a void. We were happy, until we were told we could be happier.
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You are correct, I had my math wrong. But don't know if they're certified for shipping, not sure how the sea transport would affect the drives?
>the Author makes the curious choice to use the metric of "EBITAR" rather than the standard metric of "EBITDA"

That was Uber's curious choice, not the author's. They were the only publicly available numbers from Uber.

Edit: One of the screenshots of what Uber shared: http://images.gawker.com/1372623315394702184/c_scale,fl_prog... It's missing the info needed to calculate EBITDA.
> These things are going to grow up very, very soon! We know that. It's scary.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Your post has just a bit too much futurologist science fantasy wishful thinking in it.
relevant xkcd https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
"It ended up cheaper because we did not account for employee costs".

You basically just proved my point: things aren't cheaper if you have to factor in employee cost.
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Really good article.

Some thoughts on Uber Eats...

I used to be an analyst at a VC firm that invested in a food delivery startup (which went broke). Food delivery is not a very attractive business in terms of its profitability, but it is an extremely attractive business if you want to show fast top line revenue growth.

Why so? Food delivery is great because the full order value can be taken as the top line revenue. If someone orders a £80 meal for four, that's another £80 to add to your top line even though your net revenues were ~£8, if that.

The institutional investors Uber will need to attract at IPO will be expecting Uber to have a typical tech company profile - extremely fast growing revenue and healthy losses. Strangely, from the IPO documents I've seen, accounting is very opaque for public companies vs private companies - meaning Uber Eats revenue is unlikely to be separated.

I think there is a possibility Uber is being forced to gear up to an IPO, top line revenue growth from the taxi business is not enough to justify the valuation, so the board has decided to move Uber into food to drive big numbers - but not profitability.
In short, a strong dollar is bad for business, but good for the consumer.

Also, considering how bad the US economy has been, having a strong dollar means there's a whole bunch of other places that are doing worse then we are, which is pretty eye opening.

Seems the global economy as a whole is incredibly weak right now.
My (half) brother is Danish.

The 'anti tax' statement is his, told to me, while I was in Denmark. The Danish tax authorities have to know specific things about your status - including if you carpool to work or not, in order to establish your tax status. They tax in a different way there - they establish your 'effective rate', rather than doing tons of deductions. Whether or not you carpool for example, affects your rate. He indicated to me that misrepresenting anything - even a minor issue to the tax authorities - is a fairly serious crime.

To contrast - the last time I met with him in Denmark, I went to dinner with some of his 'friends'. One of them had just gotten out of a 'halfway house' for murder. He spent almost no time in actual jail.

Anecdotal, but legitimate nevertheless.

The 'anti business' attitude in Scandinavian countries is (or was) palpable, esp. among anyone over say 45. It's a much more difficult thing to illustrate, but go ahead and talk to an older Swede. You'll see what I mean.
So I'm guessing that Uber is going to start a Swedish non-profit and pay all profits to their (likely) Irish entity as tech licensing fees and keep moving.

Anyone have a reason to think this won't be the outcome if they can't fight this in court?