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Go to a matinee. I see most movies at 10 or 11 AM on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The theaters are usually no more than half-full. The ticket prices are about half-off, so I have over-priced popcorn for breakfast.
From news.istambulcombinator.com.tr , circa 2012 :

>Respectfully, can we maintain the ban on political articles on Istambul Hacker News?

Sure, we can close our ears, and also we can argue that here we only discuss tech all the time. But as long as the world we live in influences tech, and all of us, there should be a political discussion here.

HN comments are one of the sharpest for online forums, and it is a shame that we are not allowed to a medium to read what the tech community feels about the current issues
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>>I wasn't dismissing the criticisms

What you did was the definition of dismissing the criticisms. You bring them up then immediately downplay the issue and change the topic to your "comfortable, performant, nimble and all-round decent" experience, in the same sentence! You end with a criticism of a competitor's car, and close with "I can only say good things about the VW Polo". Your entire post was filled with fluff words praising VW.

>>Whether they're capable of doing so precisely because they violate those rules is beyond my knowledge.

Really? You're not sure if cheating gives you an advantage? Come on now..

>>For the record, I absolutely do not work for VW or indeed in the automotive industry in any way, and I neither gain nor lose any value whatsoever if they flourish or go bankrupt.

Ever have someone give you a very suspicious argument and then have them say "Trust me."? I've never ever trusted a person that needs to tell me to trust them, which is basically what you are doing. Guess what? I don't believe anything you say, because of the way you say it.. incredibly suspiciously.
Seems like Uber didn't really do anything wrong here other than fail on their messaging. Perhaps worth asking why so many people assumed they would be doing the wrong thing though and had little faith in Kalanick's explanations. Flocking to Lyft instead implies people make a distinction between the two in terms of ethics (which Lyft capitalized on) though probably not for any good reasons.

This doesn't seem like a good reason to delete Uber but there have been plenty of those in the past so I don't find myself very sad to see them lose business.
Does the new job need to continue to sponsor under the H1B program? If so that's not comparable.
Determining whether or not to defend an indefensible law is also purview of the office, and a privilege and function of the position.

Considering that she was well within her rights and duties of office, it would be _highly_ irresponsible to leave her key position vacant, especially at this time of so much induced chaos.
I think Thiel overall was right, in that Trump would still be liked by his base even if he didn't build a literal wall. By talking about the wall, Trump was signaling his priorities, and his base were just happy to have someone who they felt had the right priorities, whether or not a literal wall would get built.

I think Thiel just didn't think Trump would go through with it after winning, because he thinks Trump would see that the costs of the actual wall would outweigh the disapproval of voters, and that he could pursue a hard-line against immigration in less costly ways.
>For one great example, look at the plight of OpenSSL. Before it broke way open, how many companies really contributed to it? And how many just used it, not giving a second thought to using it unless there was a CVE?

So you think there were a large number of companies privately fixing bugs in OpenSSL? Or how would a less permissive license forced companies to contribute to a project they weren't actively improving?

And on your earlier points, keeping changes private likely requires more future contribution and maintenance expectations
The sole point I'll argue in this thread is "so did Lyft". If you're boycotting all ridesharing apps in favour of licensed taxis, that's one thing. But deleting Uber and installing Lyft is misguided.
any what exactly does this EO accomplish?

just because Obama identified countries as a potential threat doesn't necessitate that we be recklessly suspicious of anyone who comes from them. it's disingenuous to say it's just a"step forward"

by permanent residents i assume you mean green card holders in which case they 100% were affected unless you believe the white house spin.
I guess by "okay" I meant "not terrible," but you're certainly right; email as identity is not much to be excited about.
Sometimes I think there needs to be a corporate death penalty where a company that does something truly egregious is liquidated.

The problem, of course, is that would also mean putting a lot of people out of work and would also hurt many who may have not done anything wrong.
Do you really believe what you posted?

If tomorrow he says something to disprove one of your points, you will further twist your argument to somehow appears as if he is still doing the right thing.

I don't think anyone but yourself can convince you of what is really going on.
I'm happy to debate the intersection of technology and politics here. But not pure politics. This community has an identity and norms and topics that are and aren't in scope.

An alternative would be to use the same software, same group of passionate people to start the discussion, and the backing of Y Combinator in a different forum with a different identity, norms, etc.

I'm also happy to be wrong / downvoted. It's for the community to decide, but it has to be a choice.
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Trump and the GOP have a mandate to govern, ie. to conduct the normal affairs of the government in accordance with statute and internal policy.

A "mandate" makes it sound like Trump, with a minority of the adult voting-age adult population of the United States has received the right to transform the country wholesale, which simply isn't true.
There are other stories like this on Tesla Motors Club and Tesla service always goes above and beyond to get it right. The service guys gave me their card when I picked my car up. When I have an issue, I send them an email and get me scheduled immediately. They've taken care of a flat tire that they didn't need to (on Xmas eve, nonetheless), fixed almost every issue, and have always gone above and beyond.

When we had the flat tire, it was on Xmas eve, they worked to get our car towed to the service center and even offered to deliver it to us later that night. We left the key in the trunk and went Xmas shopping and it got towed just fine.
You won't get a VW that still uses the software this is about any more from a rental agency. Firstly, they were recalled. Secondly, rental agencies in Germany (and most countries at similar levels of development as far as I can tell) have about a 12-month turnover in their fleet.
What I think alot of Trump supporters are taking seriously is the phenomena that is the left feeding off It's own hyperbole, it's pretty disturbing.
> I learned a lot more from making the cards than I did from studying them

I found the same thing. The discipline of boiling things down into their essentials really forced me to pay attention and really thinking about the reading material.
> I'm thinking of the model that: Profit should be made up by charging more than the cost of duplication.

That's what we already do. Duplicating content without the copyright owner's permission is copyright infringement which is illegal.

> I would argue that Kickstarter does the same thing as the current model, but has none of the same safeties in place. I agree it's not apples to oranges, but I think we could put those legal safeties in place.

Corporate bonds are a relatively safe way to lend.
> The ban is a temporary measure and has nothing to do with religion.

As an example, Rudy Giuliani, who seems to have been involved in drafting it, explains that it does: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr... and also explains why the language of the order does not contain a religious test.

> Alien permanent residents from the affected countries are not currently banned. They never were.

This is just plain false, the "immigrant and non-immigrant" text was part of the original executive order, and the DHS spokeswoman said it applied to greencard holders. Later the administration seems to have reversed their stance on this. (Here is a later overview: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-bann...)
It's a Subaru Impreza with a different body. It's a nice car but it isn't a Toyota. They also tried to market it in the US as a Scion until that experiment also failed.
I agree and already had commented so prior to my post on this thread.
> All I'm saying is that it would really suck to be someone caught at the airport in the mess...

Then imagine how it must feel to be one of the people affected by the ban.

That's the point of the strike: "Oh you think this is inconvenient?"
Thiel is a big investor, Icahn is a big investor. Both are closely tied to the Trump administration.
We all appreciate the work you folks are doing keeping up with the moderation, I'm sure there's a lot of it.

But I hope I don't detect a note of dismissal here. I think it's reasonable to question examples of flagging such as this one, which kept a trending story off the front page for a critical period that almost allowed a much inferior duplicate to take over. Considering these situations carefully will keep the community standards healthy.
In that case, maybe cancer would be a better term.
The Acting AG at that time? The current FBI director, James Comey. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Who is the first doesn't matter. Who does it best, though? That is the real question.
They don't have to but their customers are similarly free to opt to not use Uber and, even, to call for other customers to do the same.
CRT would have the same effect
There's a startup called Flywheel that has been selling shovels to taxi cab companies -- in the form of electronic dispatch, payments, navigation and GPS-based metering.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/22/flywheel-expands-uber-like...
I do not know what you would think that.

A crc32 will miss an error if and only if crc32(error-pattern)=0, which happens in 1:2^32, assuming a full-cycle polynomial. While these patterns are easy to characterize, and are independent of the data (neither is true for a crypto hash), the probabilities are the same.
> JavaScript will settle, and hopefully, CSS will erupt and everyone will cry fatigue until it settles.

Sounds pretty accurate. My perception is that a large part of the JS community has started to settle on React with Redux/MobX for state management.. Facebook also really lowered the barrier to entry for React with create-react-app. CSS is still up in the air a little bit, with many different solutions still being used. Sass, CSS-in-JS, CSS Modules+PostCSS and most lately styled-components (which is very promising, but lacks features like universal rendering out of the box).
"I'm #deletingUber to show how anti-Trump I am!"

uses Peter Thiel backed Lyft instead

funny thing is, Trump supporters are now deleting Lyft in favor of uber.

nobody does an ounce of research anymore.
Green card holders were initially included in the ban. DHS assumed they were not and the white house clarified that they were. Now green card holders are not included.

He is doing what he said he would do, as you pointed out. So to me, "seriously but not literally" is not holding up well.
Change the question to "who owned maintenance of the code" and it becomes valid. The kernel of the question is in fact interesting. Distros have far too much software for any reasonable person to assume they maintain all of it.
I have been using it on a project and it has caused issues. However I think once .NET Standard is released adopting .NET Core won't be a problem. Plenty of other open source frameworks and libraries have similar issues.

Also it is important to realise that ASP.NET Core is not the same as .NET Core (asp.net core can run with .net core or .net 4.5/6).

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cesardelatorre/2016/06/28/r...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introduci...
You're not a tech company. You build human traps
You gotta break up your paragraphs more.

It improves readability.
But you don't break the strike by removing surge pricing and increasing everyone's pick-up time, you break it by keeping surge pricing, so that the drivers chasing the surge swarm the location in order to boost their earnings.
> The development of science and technology was only possible with scientists and engineers communicating their results via mailed journals, for starters. Everybody benefited from that, not just the scientists and engineers themselves.

Then you can improve patent protection or other mechanisms for compensating scientists. Subsidizing mail for everybody is inefficient.
Legal trailblazing costs a lot of money. Attacking entrenched establishments costs a lot of money.

Uber was never going to be able to solve the ridesharing problem for just Uber, and its competitors are going to be unhindered by the massive amount of money Uber has spent on changing regulations.
If a well known company fired a GC for not following a CEO order to do something illegal, the NYT would love to write about it.
It was the Taxi Worker's Union that participated in the Strike, not Cab companies.
Is it really fare for Uber to force their contractors to stop working and making money in "solidarity" with this union? If Uber drivers wanted to support the strike, they could have stopped doing pick ups.
Seconded. People who know what they're doing buy Garmin watches. Highly recommend.
"Local" is grown from the same exact seeds as the large farms most of the time. Because of market forces local farms actually have higher overheads due to the laws of scale.

You might have to pay double-triple for the variety you like.
How do you know Surge is automatic?
She was fired for outright refusing to do her job [1], encouraging her subordinates to the same, and for going public about it.

[1] "to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned"
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Not the article I was looking for but from the Atlantic in 2012: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/hidden-c...
> President Obama signed a list of countries into law

> using the exact list that President Obama signed into law

Yes, it's the same list of countries... with much, much broader restrictions placed upon them in this instance, to the point that some of the restrictions may violate the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (point[0], counterpoint[1]).

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigratio...

1. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444371/donald-trump-ex...
If you're going there to protest, take the subway. It's not like you've got luggage or anything. And the work stoppage was only against picking up fares, anyway.
Lighting fires under people about diversity issues actually sounds like something we sorely need.
I agree. It appears as though shocking political news stories are going to be the norm in the short to mid term. As interesting as they are and as useful as it is to discuss things with a sensible crowd like HN, I fear that the focus will inevitably be pulled away from the main topic at hand. There are lots of other venues to discuss these issue if one so wishes.
The product itself looks great. But paying some marketing firm to dress up Instagram models in outfits designed to evoke the feeling of a greek village seems like a questionable use of money.
Because we all live in one society?
The end of the surge pricing wasn't until after the strike.
I have a friend at Uber. We have had conversations involving the word "geofencing".
If she is unable to faithfully discharge her duty to execute U.S. law, she should resign. She offers no argument to support her claim that the order was not lawful, other than her self-evident personal disagreement.

Do you know of a credible legal argument that the president is not allowed to issue instructions to the Department of Homeland Security via executive order? Ms. Yates apparently does, but she doesn't wish to share. If there is such an argument, why would it apply to President Trump's EO tightening immigration enforcement but not President Obama's EOs loosening it?

There is nothing in Trump's EO that singles anyone out by religious affiliation or background. The EO uses a list of countries that the previous administration had already highlighted as high-risk. The EO imposes a temporary ban only, for the explicit purpose of reviewing the processes used to grant visas to nationals of those high-risk countries. I'm really not seeing anything blatantly improper or illegal here.

Where does the chief law enforcement officer's obligation to enforce the law as enacted by the people of the United States cave to his/her personal proclivities or opinions about that law? It is the duty of the AG to execute the laws as written. If we allow the AG to ignore the laws we set up based on matters of personal opinion, isn't that a large subversion of the democratic process?

Principled stands like this should truly be exceptional, and clearly and obviously justified. If you're getting into minutia about whether something may or may not be legal, we've set up a system of judges whose role is to make these decisions. In the meantime, it is the DoJ's duty to enforce the law.

Prosecutorial discretion refers specifically to prosecuting someone under the law. It does not apply to the government's own lawyers refusing to advocate for or defend the government's position in hearings about the very legality of the Orders issued -- this leaves the administration without fair representation and stands only to prolong the litigation process.

If Ms. Yates could not in good conscience fulfill the duties of her position, the appropriate course of action is resignation. If she refuses to take this course, it is the president's responsibility to relieve her and install someone who is willing to uphold the laws that the people of the United States have installed through their duly elected representatives and executives (including the president).
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You'll be happy to know there are ongoing fraud investigations in Germany against several engineers and managers of VW and their contractors. An investigation into the CEO at the time of the cheating (Winterkorn) was launched very recently when they got testimony that he was informed of the cheating a few month before it was publicised.
"The Taxi Workers Alliance had asked all drivers, Uber included, to not pick up at JFK"

Uber isn't a driver. What does the taxi workers alliance have to say about taxi dispatchers? Did cab companies participate in the strike? For a company to do this might very well be illegal collusion. Individuals can strike, companies aren't as well protected.
I'm no fan of Uber but come on, this is so stupid, and dangerous for Lyft, because now they are stuck into this kind of pandering. Do they really think these customers will be loyal? at the first political blunder, with enough outrage, they are done. They are pandering to a crowd that is never happy with political posturing. They'll learn it the hard way. Uber absolutely did the right thing here. They chose not to play with fire and play the long term game.
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What I find fascinating about this is that humans and many other branches of the tree are Deuterostomes[1], which means that when the cells first divide the first 'hole' goes on to form the anus [2], rather than the mouth. This is in contrast to the Protostomes where the first hole forms the mouth.

I mean obviously it makes sense that a single-holed animal used it as a mouth - the anus has no use without the mouth - but (in my naive understanding) it means that somewhere beyond this ancestor, certain groups of vertibrates split and went in opposite directions despite both being (presumably) decended from this thing.

It fascinates me that there was some mechanism to cause this, rather than all animals forming in the same order, if we did indeed share a common ancestor that only had one entry/exit hole.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterostome

[2]: The clever observer will note that this means that technically, very early on, each of us is little more than an arsehole ;)
Owned BMWs and Infinitis before and Tesla Service is way better.
This, and events like it, are more important than Trump's inane immigration policy. Too bad it gets flagged.

Also the article links to the Facebook memorial page for Anwar al-Awlaki, but it's not available anymore. I assume it was when this article was published yesterday? Did Facebook remove it?
The control flow for repetition is in fact called "repeat" in some languages. I don't think the word "loop" stuck around because the metaphor of paper tapes is particularly compelling (especially since we stopped using those a long time ago), I think it stuck around because it's a good short word that means the right thing. And, for example, it's pretty awkward to say something like "a for repeat", but "a for loop" is nice and simple. We probably would have ended up on this word even without paper tapes.
That is fundamentally not different from a fine, which is ultimately also paid completely by the investors.
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has nothing to do with religion.

After what Giuliani has publicly stated and explained, how can you say this?
>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.

The worst part is, this problem will only continue. It's so easy to fake news these days, and lets say a bot was built to vet authenticity...which bot do you trust, the one made by CNN or breitbart? it just feeds back to the original problem, except a bot doing it would just increase the volume of bias news stories that are "vetted" by their version of the truth.
CGI and visual effects are one way to attempt to mask the lack of a compelling story.
Article 2, Section 2: [...] "he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."

It looks to me like he has the ability. As you said, even if he doesn't, he can still make it happen as long as he's in office.
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Distributing them would imply it's a top-down company-sponsored/encouraged protest and not a grassroots event that the company permits.

Even still, having to wear company swag if done offsite was just an example of why it occurred on their campus. There are many other reasons to have had it on their campus rather than at LAX - including time away from office, the photos of having it at their campus, so on.
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the timeline provided does not confirm this tho
And Michael Flynn's son[0].

0. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/michael-flynn-muslim-b...
Kalanick and Musk are basically the only two remaining adults in SV. Musk basically said on twitter, "I'll go and talk to the guy". Everyone else is more concerned with political correctness and virtue signaling. Hundred thousand bombs dropped into five countries on that list -- not a goddamn peep from anybody. 2150 people killed by drones -- same. Iraqi refugees banned for half a year -- no one has even heard of it. Cuban refugees banned permanently -- okie dokie. But god forbid anyone gets stopped on the border, no sir, we can't have that.