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I wouldn't know if that performance comes precisely because they violate those laws or not, so I'll take your word for it. Per my sibling comment, I wasn't dismissing those valid criticisms for their flouting of the laws. I was merely trying to point out that through whatever means they've produced what appeared to me to be reasonably compelling cars and so it wouldn't surprise me to see them getting significant sales volumes as a result.
Do we know there was an attempt to collaborate with Uber on the strike?
> Furthermore, it misses the larger point that all of their data is readily and easily collected by the NSA already.

Such assertions are counterproductive. They ignore actual statements by google regarding their efforts to improve security against US agency snooping, or Apple's somewhat valiant if ultimately fruitless attempts to defend the iPhone's security against national security interests.

We need to specifically call out bad actors and actions, such as Yahoo's eagerness to CC the NSA on all our emails. We also need to reward positive action with praise. Both are methods to provide the incentives for companies to act in our interests: the companies can point to praise to argue that their principled stand makes financial sense, and the employees deserve the recognition by their peer group.
I finally took the plunge and installed Via, which some friends swear by and is more literally "ride-sharing" than either Uber or Lyft. Was pleasantly surprised to get an email a day later announcing free legal aid for drivers and passengers affected by the ban.

Useless in Queens and most of Brooklyn, unfortunately, but served in my little slice.
No. The Nuremberg defense is to sit there and do something unethical justifying your continued employment.

The ethical course is to resign.
> Why not just use his base's newfound dislike of Yates (the fired AG) as leverage to get Sessions (his AG nominee) confirmed?

Because Sessions was already a shoe-in with the Republican Senate, but there are Republicans in the Senate opposed to the immigration order, and they've specifically, among other issues, cited the failure to legally vet the order. Making Sessions confirmation about Yates opposition to the order wouldn't make it smoother.
Because elon is doing it for the tech. At least that's the image he's crafted :P
I find this kind of strange, given that both of them seem to be sinking massive amounts of money into subsidizing rides. Like, they're going to be all about user retention when people are only going to care about which option is cheapest. Google, or somebody, is gonna come in and mop up on the ecosystem they've created. They won't even have this huge ethical problem of laying off thousands of drivers.
What about the Toyota 86? 2-door, rear-wheel drive. Other than that I agree with you for the most part.

edit: http://www.toyota.com/86/
I have not. The whole purpose of an architecture like this is to turn WordPress into a glorified static site generator, so it doesn't particularly matter how fast (or slow) the application server is. At any rate, I thought PHP 7 was about as fast as (and even faster than, in some cases) HHVM?
So? I have a hard time understanding why a multinational company needs to participate so deeply in the politics and labor strikes of a single city.

New York is big, but I'd imagine the CEO had a focus that included LA, Chicago, London, etc. and that would take away from coordinating with any taxi-strikers in NYC.

Addendum: Did the taxi union contact Uber before the strike to coordinate this action?

I mean it's a 1 hour strike. Is there any real meaning to this? The trains have stopped working for far longer than that.
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Google: copyright infringement. [Crawling sites, taking data at will, then slapping ads on it, not paying the authors a portion of their ads] [4]. Tax evasion. [5--look for google]

Amazon: sales tax avoidance (entire reason they exist) [1] later, federal tax evasion, including the double irish. [7]. Pusher of fake goods. [8] Pusher of fake reviews. Pusher of Chinese goods causing destructive env. practices.

Facebook: selling personal information [2]. tax evasion (double irish) [3]. Enabled zynga (et al) to extort from children [6]

1. http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2016/11/at_amazoncom_s...

2. https://consumerist.com/2014/06/12/facebook-is-now-selling-y...

3. https://www.ft.com/content/ca64f938-5dc0-11e3-95bd-00144feab...

4. https://techcrunch.com/2009/02/11/google-book-settlement-sit...

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

6. https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinku...

7. http://www.businessinsider.com/double-irish-other-corporate-...

8. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-p...

I probably could type all night.
Definitely a pox on both their houses. Doesn't help Lyft that Peter Thiel is an investor.
Another reminder that emotion trumps (unintentional pun) reasoning on social media. I find it depressing that people don't spend any time verifying stories and separating facts from fiction. I would classify the #deleteuber event as a form of fake news.

You know what would be a good personal assistant or bot to build (using ML)? One that detects and informs users about fake news. Apparently the vast majority of people are pathetic at detecting fake news and this fact has real implications.
It was acquired because it was successful.

The failure is 100% on Facebook's side. They could have decided to keep the business up, they decided no to.

Thankfully, Google is doubling down on a similar business, so we have alternatives.
I personally love my i3... I get about 120 miles on pure battery, but once the range extender kicks in I get about 40 mpg on a small 3 gallon gasoline tank.

It actually works out pretty well, because 99% of my driving is well within the 120 mile all electric range, it's super quiet, and accelerates at any speed! For the 1% of the time I need to go on a longer trip (longest so far is about 250 miles), I simply treat it like a motorcycle trip and fill up gas every 50-60 miles, after exhausting the battery.
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Only indirectly (I did warn you I was gonna bullshit a bit). One obvious way would be in a spherical projection onto a flat surface, but that makes it harder to explain the basis of the curvature first.

I apologize for being so vague; I'm trying to develop something more solid related to this idea, but I'm at that in-between stage of not being ready to properly articulate it yet.
If Apple can do it, Tesla also can. No court is going to reverse it.
It's not your place as an appointed official in government to grandstand and get your picture in the news. You are not an elected official, you're there to represent the government. Unfortunately, the conversion of politics to reality tv has affected everyone.

You resign. That's ultimately a greater statement anyway.
Would you write an app that stores important passwords in plaintext client side if your boss demanded it?
It should be called Front-End Developer Handbook Early 2017. Or even early Feb 2017 ;)

Now seriously, how's the front-end progressing currently? Has the pace become a bit more humane?
Uber used to be spot on with their messaging, at least at in New York City. I wonder if this would have happened had David Plouffe's not left [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/yes-z-can/
Standing in solidarity by preventing the people who are protesting from getting to and from the protest is inane.

Without the lipservice they paid, I'd have actually believed the taxi union was rallying against the the protesters.
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So far we have no evidence that Uber attempted to take part in the strike but we do have evidence that Uber knew about the strike (temporary cessation of surge pricing) and didn't take part in it.
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In short, the crypto itself looks okay (I'm not a cryptographer!), but the auth form you see is served over the network. It doesn't send password back - just passes it to browser runtime, so it would run KDFs on it - but you won't know what you'll get served next time.

As for the protocol - there is WebDAV. Seriously. It's functionally equivalent to what their blob storage does, except simpler, vendor independent, and doesn't mandate any particular auth schemes. Oh, and their auth protocols are total mess (BrowserID, HAWK _and_ OAuth - three different protocols are necessary to just talk to the damn system!). I get it, three teams were working on different pieces (accounts, tokenserver and the actual sync blob storage), but they could've at least tried to not invent that up, but use something standard. Or, at the very least, settle on a single protocol.

I'm saying this as someone who had spend some time reading docs and reversed engineering the rest, and had implemented almost-working (sans some undocumented oddities and a few lazy omissions leading to glitches, but it mostly works-for-me) standalone sync1.5 server - same functionality could've been done in a much more saner and simpler way.
Thought the same thing.

Remember in the early days when Tesla owners would claim some wacky thing or other about the car (unintended acceleration etc) and Musk would publicly say "Nope, got the logs right here on our server"?

Seems nearly impossible that a trouble code as bad as "car will be undrivable" wouldn't be logged like crazy somewhere.
One hour Uber. One hour. Just had to support the taxi strike for one hour.
I'm not saying much more than I'm actually saying. Uber subsidizes fares. Those subsidized fares are putting pressure on cab companies. When we ask ourselves how we feel about cab companies being squeezed, we should consider that this isn't a natural state of affairs; it's a distortion of the market by speculators, and probably can't stay this way.
HN has an international audience. Most of us are not allowed to post about our own countries' political turmoil, so we flag other countries' politics in return.
Something like half the sales are in China. They don't sell a diesel there. Across the rest of the world sales are way down.

They would be way ahead of Toyota if they didn't cheat.

The other thing to remember is that cars are engineered a few years out. It will be a while before they compromise quality to make up for the large fines.

Cheating doesn't mean you win.
For the curious, the line of succession for AG after deputy goes:

1. U.S. Atty for E. D. Virgina (Now the current acting AG)

2. U.S. Atty for D. Minnesota

3. U.S. Atty for D. Arizona

Interestingly, this is set by executive order so it may be changeable - though limited to those eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, I think. (And I guess we can argue all day over the constitutionality of that under the appointments clause)

Source: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/1...
* The ban is a temporary measure and has nothing to do with religion. President Obama signed a list of countries into law for enhanced visa scrutiny and President Trump used that exact list without modification, directly referencing the statute in which it was codified. They'd already been identified as terrorism hotspots that warranted additional scrutiny from immigration officials by the Obama administration. Trump just took it a step further and temporarily halted immigration from these nations while his administration reviews the policies to ensure they're sufficient.

* Alien permanent residents from the affected countries are not currently banned. They never were. Neither are dual citizens.

* It is true that non-diplomatic visas have been temporary suspended (not canceled), but this applies at border crossings only; persons currently in the country on those visas do not have to leave.

* There has been 18 months of warning in the form of the Presidential campaign. Trump promised something like this up and down. He was taken seriously, not literally, and he seriously implemented a 90-day stay on the travel of foreign nationals from areas with high terrorist activity, using the exact list that President Obama signed into law. He did not literally implement a ban on Muslims, or indeed, any other religious group, despite the literal meaning of his prior comments that did explicitly mention Muslims. Likewise, his statements about "the wall" seem to be flexible to the point of something more like multiple layers of well-patrolled fencing.

To me, "seriously but not literally" appears to be holding up really well. Trump is not betraying the intent of the voters who elected him, but he is also consulting with his advisors and legal experts and implementing things that accomplish the intention within the constraints of practicality and legality.
Not if they're saving you from being shot. One of the features of a secure-phone is failing secure.

If you want a regular phone running whatsapp, use that.
That's interesting. I totally see this as a valid argument (and I don't disagree that this might be politically motivated on the judge's part). However, it seems to me that

>any clear conviction that the law was unconstitutional

is the wrong way of going about it. I would think you'd want to be pretty darn sure that the actions you were carrying out were constitutional before doing them. That is, I'd much rather people not enforce a law that might be unconstitutional, but isn't, than enforce a law that is unconstitutional. Err on the side of caution.
RE: non volatile position storage

Some of the industrial equipment I've designed at work uses Omron servos with encoders that use their own motion to provide power to the position tracking electronics, so you can disconnect the cable or otherwise lose power and not lose your zero, even if the machine is moved in the interim. No batteries required. Very cool product!
Oops, sorry, the option is supposed to be --url, not --route. I'll submit a fix for the blog.

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Can someone please help me understand why traditional taxis haven't adapted the same tech as Lyft and Uber? You're right, there really is no moat. Tech is mostly a big ol database. Is it due to disjointure among small companies?
Quite the PR coup by Lyft, since they were doing the exact same scabbing at JFK. In this waning neoliberal order, I hope the best protest people can muster is better than being deceived by most cunning brand.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/01/2...
Of course, if you think the submission is inappropriate for HN, please do flag it. I would hope that you're not doing so out of spite, however.

When you say that you're not "allowed to post", would you elaborate?
I feel like the comparisons to Nixon's actions are quite a bit strained. At the very least the magnitude of the actions is vastly different. Nixon was shopping around for a AG that would remove a special prosecutor investigating him.
They found scapegoats for sure, but not many are really confident the real crooks were caught, and more importantly, faith was never restored in the Chinese milk industry.
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People will care if and when Uber figures out autonomous taxis and can continue their ridiculously low prices without losses.
Work, school, life, monopoly.
Many times when you must use a certain product.
Yes, one of my wife's patients would bring in some of his from time to time, and it was the best popcorn I've ever tasted. Haven't had it in a while though.
> It will be a while before they compromise quality to make up for the large fines.

That's not how business works. Absent an existential threat, their calculus regarding the quality level required for optimising profit is not influenced by the fine.
Crowds are wise enough to know when other people will get it wrong
If it can be done someone will eventually do it. Make sure you do it first, or your enemies/competitors will do it first.

It's really just a rational survival principle.
> He may be a lot of things, but stupid people don't make it into the White House.

No, he's like a smart person. (Trump in speech to the CIA).[1]

Really, if this isn't proof that stupid people do make it into the White House I don't know what is. If Trump was really smart he would be in control of the situation and not headed for an impeachment (hopefully sooner than later). The guy is a living trainwreck and he's taking America with him, that his main advisor has actually stated that his goal is to burn it all down[2] and does not seem to care if he destroys the civilized world as we know it as collateral damage doesn't help one bit. For every day that this passes it will take a year or more to undo the damage, assuming it can be rectified at all.

A couple of months of this and it will have gathered momentum to the point where the divisions have become so enraged that a shooting war is a real possibility, which could be one of the goals, to purposefully lit the fuse so momentum will take over and they can enact even more ridiculous measures with the cover of an actual emergency situation. It's not like that trick didn't work countless times in the past.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OG6itojBiI

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=bannon+wants+to+burn+it+all+...
I don't think this is correct - the pardon authority only applies to acts that have already been committed, as far as I can tell. He could maybe keep pardoning everyone every day for crimes they committed on the previous day. Would make an interesting paragraph in a dystopian novel.
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Interesting article. Seems that many standard operations cost half as much under this model.

The problem is that with medical problems you often don't have time to shop around, and if things go bad, you need a whole bundle.

I think there is no way of getting around insurance, with the single payer model demonstrably being best. We seem to have a system that is half-way between private and single payer, with inefficiencies that nether pure model has.

It does have the great advantage, however, of maximizing health industry corporate profits, and that in turn leads to lots of campaign contributions.
Are drivers paid more that they earn? Maybe in a couple of newer, high competition markets like china but I dont believe this is the case across the majority of the world.
The decision to prosecute a defendant or not (or defend a statute, or not) is at the discretion of the prosecutor, barring some sort of statutory requirement.

The President isn't a king, whose orders are to be followed regardless of the Constitution or prevailing law.

Both the President and the AG serve at the pleasure of the People of the United States, and Trump is about to find that out the hard way.
Uber broke the strike by breaking the strike. This absurd focus on whether surge pricing was a multiplier or disincentive is a complete distraction.

The taxi drivers reached out and asked Uber for solidarity. They dispatched drivers to break the strike. They made their bed in the court of public opinion, now they can lie in it.
Respectfully, can we maintain the political detox on Hacker News? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

I'm personally as engaged in reading and debating politics as I ever have been, but elsewhere. As dang put it: "Political conflicts cause harm here."
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In March of 2004 John Ashcroft's Justice Department determined that the Bush Administration's Stellar Wind surveillance program was illegal. While Ashcroft was in the hospital being treated for acute pancreatitis, President Bush sent White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card to tell Ashcroft to sign a document overturning his department's ruling. He refused.

He remained Attorney General until February 3rd, 2005, when he resigned the office.
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As someone who is only just finding out about all this, I don't fully understand why the cab drivers stopped picking people up. I think the fact that people were using Uber (and Lyft) to leave the airport means they needed to (which is ESPECIALLY if true if surge was in place for some period of time and people still willingly took it). As poetic as they might think it is, taxi drivers not welcoming people into the country is, practically speaking, very similar to the airports not welcoming people into the country.

All I'm saying is that it would really suck to be someone caught at the airport in the mess, maybe with a few kids you've had to endure protecting/managing for a 5-10 hour flight, and the cabs aren't going. I'd be pretty upset at the cabs, even if I stood with the protesters (which I do). (Keep in mind, this would also include people coming from the many other countries not called out in the EO.)

Side note: I think it's crazy how quickly so many different SIGNIFICANT articles are hitting #1 on HN and Reddit. The ban, the judicial pushback, the firing...I think I'm all caught up, I sit down at home, throw open HN, and there's an entire sub-story that went down about cabs, Uber, and Lyft sitting at a new #1. It's all too much for me...
I interpreted the disabling of surge to reduce the incentive for drivers to make an extra buck off of the strike. Does Uber have the ability to nullify an area temporarily so that pickups can't be made? I mean, obviously, it's technically possible, as they set up special zones for airports. But I wonder if they have app behavior to handle a situation in which they need to tell users that pickups are temporarily disabled in an area on an impromptu basis.
Time to break open a seed vault and see who's right. We give young'uns the old stuff and see how they react. And then make a fortune if you're right, and make nothing if your parent comment is right.
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Executive officers have an independent duty to consider the constitutionality of orders they enforce. Indeed, they can be held personally liable for violating "clearly established law."
Peter Thiel will go down in history as Trump/Bannon's useful idiot. He might have come up in short term betting correctly on Trump but he is down on long. If he thinks that he is going to get a piece of the pie after Kushner/Tillerson/Preibus(establishment) have had their take, then he is in for a cake.
This is an example of the economic principle of goodwill. Uber has a poor reputation that leads to actual losses, but the negative value of the reputation is difficult to quantify. Conversely, Lyft has fostered positive goodwill that strengthens it in indirect ways.

This controversy will likely blow over with a small amount of damage, but it's a reminder of the vulnerability that Uber's management style brings to it. I think they should pay careful attention to how much people really want to hate them.
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SEAT does pretty well in Mexico.
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And from experience, they're hands down the best option in every factor but convenience. Air poppers are basically flavorless (you need the oil), and electric auto-stirring machines are bulky and don't get hot enough.

The brand we've always had is Whirlypop.
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