skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's evolving as I learn more on this topic but I think you could pick almost any demographic trait and find easy evidence of unfairness (race, gender [especially for people who don't fit into a culturally imposed gender binary], age, etc)

A common argument I've seen relating to fairness is that "government/society should ensure equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome" but we don't even do that:

"Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination": http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

"Black people twice as likely to be charged with drugs possession": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/ethnic-minorit...

"Seeing the poor cuts support for a tax on the rich - Visual reminders of poverty do not make make people more sympathetic to the poor." http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/encounters-with-poor-...

Instead of developing empathy, we cultivate and celebrate ruthlessness. In my opinion, the widespread lack of empathy is the root of most societal ills.

And these examples and opinions are just about the developed world (obviously, similar forms of them exist in all societies). Imagine the "luck" and "opportunities" you would have if you happened to be born into an impoverished nation or conflict area.
I think this is NOT the case.

You are looking at intermediate data of what's stored in your decrypted blob. Yes, some things are encrypted twice in the Lastpass vault.

The contents considered "unencrypted" by the blog post are actually only accessible after your private key has been provided.

"How can Lastpass show me the Google logo?" It's shown by your Lastpass Extension, after your vault has been decrypted with your password. It's the same reason that Lastpass can show you the password saved for Google!

Notice that request has an unencrypted folder name, "Email." Those folder names are only accessible after the decryption of the entire vault.

URLs are encrypted. LastPass does not know your URLs.

I noticed the article does not include the destination URL for this request, only the parameters. So I can't make a determination as to why this request was made and who the destination server is.

I just tried adding a new site to the "Email" folder, and no requests to remote servers showed up in my Network tab.

IF the LastPass extension really does make a call to lastpass.com with this information, then, yes, there is a possibility that Lastpass can track these hashes in some separate store. But that doesn't mean that the encrypted vault blob has the unencrypted data as claimed.
Shouldn't the arrow that connects psychology to ability also pass through factors like effort, hard work and skill, if you expand that connection? Doesn't that imply the opposite of what you said? That effort, hard work and skill do cause success, but they just aren't the "ultimate" cause, whatever that means?
The potential for autonomous point-to-point freight shipping should pay off sooner than it's consumer business, allowing it to reduce it's investment requirements. Debatable on the timelines though.

You assume though that the network they've built up isn't valuable when you talk about self-driving vehicles. I agree the car tech will be commoditised and to my mind Uber owning their own fleet isn't the best option. It'd be very capital intensive and not a great use of cash.

I liken the switch to self driving cars to the same market as buy-to-let home rentals. If you've got the money why not buy a one (or more) of them, send them out and rent them through Uber/Lyft etc. and keep the money rolling in around the clock. Uber takes a smaller cut but also doesn't incur anything like as much risk.
The state of Linux security
Thanks for the reply - both you and all others. I've been struggling with asthma lately which was quite a set back, but I think that's only more of a reason to try and get into better shape.
The lower fare is because they are not even trying to make a profit.
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I think the point is that you can't serve a malicious version to a specific user, you must serve it to everyone, which makes it much easier to detect.
Medium is having issues: https://medium.statuspage.io/
Then contact IDA and ask when they are releasing a python3 version of their package. Your a paying customer after all...
It's fine you don't care about these things. Are you also suggesting you would prefer to be oblivious to the security of your passwords? Are you also unable to see why other people would very much care about this issue?
Yes. Would be extremely interested.
I live in Singapore and Uber is a little cheaper than the excellent cab services which operated here even before Uber. There is a big competitor to Uber here called Grab. I switched to Uber because their service is good, drivers are gracious and cars are nice and they give me good offers. Last year I took 300 Uber rides, never once taking the usual Comfort Delgro Cab because their drivers suck. If prices were the same, I would pick an Uber over the traditional cab over 90% of the time due to nicer drivers and service consistency across geographies. The rest of the 10% is when I urgently just need to hail a cab.

I don't think you meant to say that Uber won't be a success. You probably meant that you feel it's over valued. Uber is a success. People love it. They pay surge prices for it. I do it all the time. It MAY be over valued but it is already a success. wake up.
I don't understand his point. Maybe I'm dense (today, ha).

If Uber has a (simplified) split cost per drive consisting of vehicle (+maintenance) and/or fuel & driver. If subsidised part is generally covering the driver part. When you replace driver with autonomous vehicle and you remove subsidies, you're left with a sustainable (presumably) model on a certain margin that is already rolling. Rolling in a sense that it is already an established business - people know it and use it. You've used subsidies (well, investors cash) to build a business.

Of course, this relies on a presumption they will build a sustainable model on replacing drivers with autonomous vehicles. It also presumes they will not venture into other, (potentially) more profitable business like logistics.

One thing is certain. They are positioning themselves for a great catch which relies on few key components working in the (near) future.

I think real hazard for Uber is regulation (autonomous vehicles for example) and market regulations (see taxi debates in Europe).
I post this now because the author (Balaji Srinivasan) has recently been named as a contender for heading the FDA: https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/12/fda-trump-oneil-srinivas...

Note that "exit" here is not synonymous with "secession", but instead refers to Albert Hirschman's contrast of "exit" and "voice" as two complementary approaches that individuals can use to influence the society around them: http://peterlevine.ws/?p=11887.

In this context, the option of "voice" includes the approach of reforming institutions from within, while "exit" leaves them broken and bypasses them with new alternatives. Given Srinivasan's embrace of "exit", this makes him an intriguing candidate for overhauling a massive federal bureaucracy.
It was during my first months in my PhD when it wasn't clear what I will do. My idea was to define the theorems as operators of planning algorithms and then to use the planning techniques to create new theorems or probes. But planning is not good for long plans as theorem proving, so we moved to something simpler: linear equations and A* algorithm. Then we found the math equations have different representations for the same thing and the branch factor is quite big. Moreover the heuristic of trying to minimize the equations doesn't give good results some times. That is why the prototype works for the example, but for other examples the a* gets lost in the search because of branch factor and equation representation.

The problem with the equation representation is that if you don't find a good one, then you cannot make searches in hash tables efficiently. You end up with a lot of equations duplicated with different representations. And the representation, I used trees for it, was important for the operators.

Planning was a very nice idea because the algorithms already deal with the heuristics. But algorithms as FF http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/2542/s14/A1/hoffmannebel-F... wouldn't work due to the branch factor and the relaxation of the problem it performs.
Wine is not an acceptable workaround for using 1Password. Either they write and release a Linux client, or I don't pay for their service.
It's interesting to me how a few of the effects are still baked into the textures, which means they still can't let the user rotate their camera. Most people feel there is an advantage to playing on the bottom side due to camera perspectives, and allowing users to rotate their cameras could nullify this disadvantage.
For us the school district and city are both the same set so all the property tax funding is pooled together and divided among the schools based on student population and other needs.
Yeah, good point, although URL escaping is particularly easy.
> It's hard to tell the difference between spreading opportunity and spreading results.

That's because having an opportunity at time t+1 is a result at time t.

You can't spread opportunity without spreading results.
I've heard of old geek jobs but hadn't checked out the site until now. Looks like a great resource, thanks.

> Recruiters work for employers

Just curious if there are recruiters who specialize in working for remote employers.
As far as an investor in Uber is concerned success means valuation going up; failure means valuation going down.
At the risk of sounding too Paul Graham, how much of what you're talking about is due to poverty more than inequality?
You can. Buy a taxi medallion. In buenos aires they are worth about 25ku$S, and uber has been made illegal but is still operational.
Yup, i actually own it, it's great! Granted, there is still a fair bit of meta, heroes to learn, etc - something i've been avoiding because i've been busy working on side projects.

These days with very limited time i've been focusing to co-op friendly time, so my wife and i can play together. Even though i enjoy Battlerite/Dota/etc, i need something that gives me my game enjoyment (whatever i want at the time), and also builds relationships with my wife/etc.

That was another bad thing about DoTA, she's not big into PvP games and DoTA is the king of those bad-manner gamers haha. Well, maybe Xbod + CoD holds that record... but imo, DoTA players hurt you more, hah.

Anyway, these days we stick to offline co-op games. Astroneer, Divinity Original Sin, and Pit People. All three are excellent for their respective genres (though, 2 of them are in early access and short on content).
And plenty of low-hanging fruit on the documentation :-)
I'm always impressed by how well hugely popular games like League and CSGO run on bottom-tier machines. Maybe it really isn't all that impressive and its just the number of poorly optimized bloatfests out there that skews my perception
Here is interview with Overwatch SEs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH2ZPgYujQ
In my opinion, giving large scale subsidies to customers seems like a business anti-pattern, and is surely gonna kill a lot of startups in near future.

I have been sold to the Idea that Investors are killing any Internet "Business" by advising Founders against simple & straight-forward business plans. They constantly ask founders not to monetize earlier and wait until founders have no choice but to trash out the company/app to advertisers. The End Result is that founders get more and more scared of asking their customers for money.

If It was upto me, I would take 1000 paying customers over 100k free customers any day. Also this would mean free customers(subsidized customers in Uber's case) not hogging company's valueable resources and company could better serve lower number of paying customers.

Edit: I don't really know how to spell "customer".
In the US, if you know MAC address of a given device, you can pay for access to realtime location data of that device from Skyhook Wireless:

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/products/precision-location

https://www.cnet.com/news/exclusive-googles-web-mapping-can-...
Your tin foil hat is on a bit too tight.

1.

The NSA already has that data they have your home address (this is public) and can see you connect to gmail servers at times you are normally home for. We've already seen evidence this is well within the NSA's capabilities based on the Dread Pirate Robert's trial.

2.

LastPass's RNG is closed source so if your threat model includes the NSA you've already lost as it is very reasonable the NSA knows every password LastPass could ever generate for you.

3.

LastPass's encryption/decryption is ALSO closed source so there is no reason the NSA can't just subpoena them to update your client with a faulty crypto.

4.

LastPass Apps/Browser phone home once unlocked. If subpoena by the NSA they can steal your password there.

Seriously if you have a threat model that includes the NSA you've already lost.
Japan is not a person. No people should be held responsible in its entirety for a mistake of the political organisation governing them. Even in most democracies, minorities get to decide on cases concerning the people in its entirety, and during the WWII, an absolute monarchy with religious powers was in effect in Japan.
Just when I'm reading about that product, a pop-up appears, "Enter your email for free shipping (and "news" that won't clog your inbox"). There's no way to dismiss the pop-up. I was considering buying the product before that happened. It's such a strong signal that the site operator is a scumbag that I won't deal with them. It means the site is about collecting e-mail addresses, not selling and servicing products.

The popup is coming from "justuno.com". They're in San Francisco. They have a CEO with a beard, as if they were cool.

Add to block list.
Is really not that hard to make C extension support Python 3, you're either using an extension that is no longer maintained, or its author(s) are stubborn, which is a different kind of problem.

Making code compatible with python2.7 onward means that you can't use any new features from 3+ and the code is plain ugly, I don't know if you wrote 2/3 compatible code, it is not as enjoyable to do.

I think Django's approach where the LTS will still work on 2.7 (and LTS is for 3 years, which is until python2 itself stop being maintained) is fair.

You still have 3 years to fix things and if you want to use latest Django and be cutting edge, you probably should use latest Python as well.
Disagree, they are profitable in many territories already. Check your facts.
It's funny you make that claim but are only 1:20 away from it.

Same with your friend who can do 30 . . . .

You probably only have to increase the number of slow miles you run per week to get to sub-20. That's the usual advice in r/running.

For 30+ pullups, I never said it was easy. A program I like is the Strongfirst Fighter Pullup program. Another is the Armstrong program.

Most people don't train for those goals explicitly and they aren't aware of the programming and other lifestyle choices that will take them there. There's a difference between easy and achievable.
The vault is a local extension. It does not run off lastpass.com, unless you actually log into the website-based online vault.
Well, weither you like it or not, it's been such a hot topic we can't deny it's a PR success. Now everybody is talking about mozilla, and sharing this branding and logo.
People said similar things about Facebook/Instagram. Or even the internet as a whole (Paul Krugman).
> Step one is acknowledging the truth: your initial circumstances dictate your future. Once this is acknowledged, we as a species can begin focusing on making the initial conditions ideal for everyone.

The "we as a species can begin focusing on..." part seems to be framed like a choice. But if the choices of the species as a whole are the weighted sum of the choices of the individuals comprising it, and if the individual choices are strictly determined, then the future of the species is strictly determined too (that is, it is the result of society's strongly determined responses to a chaotic environment).

And I'm not saying it isn't (I don't know one way or the other). Just curious if this is what you meant.
an even better solution is who gives a shit about the logos, this a security product.
He addresses that notion:

>In this regard Uber is pretty different from other fast growing startups.

>Economies of scale won’t help, since Uber has a high fixed cost per unit associated with their service - the drivers - that won’t become significantly cheaper as the service grows.

>Network effects are mostly irrelevant for Uber’s business. Yes, they need a large supply of drivers to make the service viable, but this isn’t an advantage of Uber compared to regular cabs which have sufficient availability in most cities. I also don’t see a potential network effect in Uber’s global availability. Most users take rides in their home city and they would happily switch to a local competitor with lower prices, even if that means they would need to use a different service when they are traveling.

Also, Tesla will continue to generate losses until they hit full scale and stop growing, at which point they will have the economies of scale that they need to deliver profits. Amazon's "profits" or "losses" are miniscule in comparison to revenue, because they are reinvesting so much. Uber has huge losses because they are taking a loss on each ride; which would be fine if they would get something out of that growth. Amazon gets better distribution, better deals with manufacturers, and other economies of scale. What efficiency gains does Uber get as it grows? Uber pool? Is that going to be a big profit source in the future?
Client support is not "real progress" contrary to popular adoption views. Neither are standards, now I think about it.
Good point! I was under the impression that he had admitted that he was guilty in some form. It's unclear to me now if he did. I don't know if anything he's said and done in the aftermath may be considered an admission of guilt. So my previous comment might be incorrect.

It's also unclear if a pending impeachment might be considered a "conviction" if it's just a likely outcome and not an actual impeachment.
Thats exactly what I do for generating a new password.

LastPass always thinks I want to replace credentials for subdomain sites. all the time.

When I have a password saved for foo.com
And then I try to save a password for bar.foo.com.
LastPass, for all that is holy and good in the world, stop assuming I want to replace my password for foo.com damnit.
How to Read News Like a Search Warrant Application
The author's not making the point that there is no margin, but rather that with self-driving cars it'll be a quick race to the bottom against competitors, thus eroding whatever margins Uber is left with after replacing human drivers.
Amazon and Tesla both required large capital expenditures to get running and get more efficient. It's not like Amazon was actually losing money each sale like Uber is.
Yeah, LastPass. I sometimes copy and paste the auto-generated password just in case it loses it. I've had many occasions where it would flat out drop it after I save the site and now I have to immediately password reset because the password is nowhere to be found.
> 1. Uber/Lyft don't own the cars. They are leveraging car owners capital

In Singapore they tried out the model to own cars because car ownership is pretty low here in general ~10%. They bought cars at a massive scale. This model seems to be working for them and they have expanded this model to other countries. Check out Lion Car Rentals. 100% Uber owned.
There's a Docker repo which you may find useful: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs#docker-usage
One way to implement a consumption tax is to measure everyone's income and then subtract out whatever they've saved in the bank or otherwise invested.

That doesn't mean such a tax is not ridiculous for other reasons, though.
Maybe. The article is talking about luck, without talking about what exactly "luck" is. If luck is defined as favorable circumstances, then the article really is talking about initial conditions cascading into good opportunities. I believe talking about the good opportunities without talking about the conditions that gave rise to them is harmful. It creates the illusion that you can just create the good opportunities without the appropriate conditions.
Just a tiny nitpick, if I may: most builds are reproducible, but not all. Out of ~5000 packages, ~600 are not yet reproducible.
FYI, ur FB share isnt set up
Same here, wrote a time accounting system for a local photocopy shop to keep track of how much time people were using on the (rented by the minute) computers.

For $50. I was 15. Knew nothing of business. Good 'ol days :)
My father and I have somewhat productive political conversations: He's fiscally conservative, I tend towards the liberal side of the scale.

Drilling in to find what we really disagree about, it seems to boil down to two concepts: (1) I view success as a matter of luck that your effort can make better or worse. He views effort as the single most important deciding factor in success in life (2) I'm willing to tolerate an amount of "unfairness" in people getting help they "don't deserve", while he finds this very offensive.

I honestly feel that if considered luck to be a larger factor and effort to be a lesser factor, his political stances would change pretty dramatically. (same applies to me in reverse). I wonder how much the social willingness to accept luck as a factor impacts popular political positions. (Perhaps not much, as the author in the article promotes a consumption tax, which is generally seen as more regressive)
It has support for Gnome Keyring or KWallet (IIRC, default is `--password-store=detect`). If you're using either, then it's the same.
The carbon bubble in the form of the market cap of carbon-extraction industries. Though it is possible there are non-burning uses for petroleum that will sustain the industry in the medium-term future.
It's possible to believe that Uber's future valuation will be lower then it currently is, and also believe that the traditional taxi companies will not be the big winners. Or to believe that they will be the big winners, but not because medallions will become valuable.
Facebook Slammed for ‘Racially Biased Censorship’
Elected == accountable...generally speaking. Of course there would be corruption and errors. I would trust it over a hegemonic oligopoly though. Have to google the principal-agent problem though. I'm not familiar with that term.
> "luck" is not a good choice as a word here. They mean something like a chaotic event that ended up being positive to them.

Isn't that what most people mean by "luck"?
My hunch is yes. I decided to do some quick math.

-NYC has ~13,605 licensed taxicabs.

-The average annual net income for a NYC taxi (in 2015, probably a bit lower now) was $58,555.

-$58,555 * 13,605 = $796,640,775

This figure is for taxis only, in one (big) city. It leads me to think that $70 billion is not an absurd number, globally.

edit: sources:
https://www.yellowcabnyctaxi.com/blog/new-york-city-taxi-rev...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City