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Because that's what shares represent. I 'give you money' to try to add wealth to the economy. If you do anything illegal, you burn. Not me.

Economics and law 101

Edit - just want to clarify - if the company execs do something ILLEGAL, they should go to jail. Shareholders WILL get punished beause shares will get a hit. But how is it fair to start punishing the company overall with consumer activism just because there are allegations of misconduct?
But are they your lawyer, or the union's lawyer here? Companies have lawyers too, but they're not your lawyer.
I assume that by 'obscure' you mean 'outside your-state, USA'. Here in the UK, rectangular manhole covers are the overwhelming majority.
Why exactly do you need Uber in the city with arguably the best bike infrastructure in the world and no hills, whatsoever?

Oh, bad weather?

As far I recall Amsterdam has absolute stellar public transportation and if that doesn't cut it an occasional taxi ride is probably a valid option.

Oh, there's no app (which I doubt)? What about, like in the old times, just give the dispatcher a ring?

To each his own and you're responsible for maintaining your moral compass.

I for one never used and never, ever will use Uber. No matter what. This company is morally so reprehensible that I could never justify throwing any money on them.
This guy/girl nailed it. It took me a while to realize the distinction really exist in the method constraints imposed on the process of reasoning within each of these paradigms. I found it helpful to think of it as two different computational models. That although often agreeing on their outcome, the process of arriving at an answer differs quite significantly.
Paul Craig Roberts explains the stakes here:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/02/18/stakes-trump-us-p...
Collect user feedback or die
AMD does not support ECC on consumer platforms after AM3+.
Socket FM1 through FM2+ are all incapable of supporting ECC.

For socket AM1 there are reports that it may be ECC capable, however no actual products exist that implement this support.
> 3) ) If you wanted to play DMRed video, you would have launch separate application. In my eyes, that's acceptable price to pay for 1)

It's a price I'd be willing to pay, but as a Linux user, one that I usually can't pay because few organizations care enough to write applications for Linux. Before it was supported by Chrome, If I wanted to watch Netflix, I had to use a brittle set up that involved Wine, a dodgy PPA, Silverlight, and a fake User-Agent string to pretend to be Windows. I jumped onto Chrome Canary to get Netflix support DRM at the earliest opportunity. I have no idea what I'd do today since Silverlight has been discontinued.

I can understand why people wouldn't want to use Chrome with DRM, but I cannot understand why anyone would say it shouldn't exist/no-one else should use it. A sufficiently motivated person belonging to the first group could possibly create and maintain a patchset to keep Chromium DRM-free.
It is good to see the support here. I am unpleasantly surprised at the comments admonishing her for not lawyering up, though. She bothered to write publicly, which is more than anyone outside the situation could rightly ask. She wrote very well on painful, personal events and I think can be proud of how she handled it. It opens the door for others, and Uber management is going to have to deal with it one way or another this week.
I did it this morning. A service rep sent me an email later to confirm I was marked for deletion. I wonder if they have a human read through all of them.
It might be true that not everyone that goes there is like that but it is a fair bet that everyone that stays there fits in.
> That view would be a lot more legitimate, IMO, if we had a functional government trying to carry on normal business for the benefit of the people... An analogy that should ring a bell with many HN regulars would be the new technical manager with zero technical background who was hired because he's the CEO's nephew, who happens to be borderline mentally challenged but makes up for it with defiant corruption, extreme nepotism and flamboyant temper tantrums.

A lot of hyperbole gets thrown around, but do you legitimately believe the US government is no longer "functional" and run by "borderline mentally challenged" people?

You don't have personally like the newcomers to the top levels of the US government, but you're deluded if you think they're not capable people (or good at playing a game) acting within a system that's been built for hundreds of years.
Human brain is bound and conditioned by the shared physical environment. The process of evolution accumulates so-called hard-wired heuristics which reflect what usually happens in the environment. This is the machinery behind of some intuitions or Kant's "apriory knowledge". The "knowledge" is represented as a structure (circuitry), not information.

What is obvious, anything which could not be captured by the senses and does not directly influence the chances of survival and reproduction cannot be represented into a brain structure and cannot be the source of related intuitions.

Abstract concepts and generalized notions would necessarily reflect observable empirical phenomena, not imaginable.

In other words, this is another hipster's nonsense.
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I've read various accounts online about ketogenic diet being beneficial for mood disorders. Here is one such example [1]. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I'd say it would be interesting to test this in a clinical trial.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/1rclay/my_severe_soci...
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I read these news articles with a critical eye, and "only vague finger pointing" is a good description of the content of every single one I've read, letting the reader's mind fill in the blanks to match their partisan agenda.

Worked for Trump to get elected, turnabout is fair play?
Nobody said principles come cheap.
Ask HN: What process/tools do you use to conduct a software design review?
What process and tools your team uses to present and get feedback on changes that they are going to implement? For example some new feature in your app or refactoring of an existing part of your system? I’m thinking more about architecture/backend/infrastructure part rather than front-end.
Are you just giving up on improving working conditions in the industry then?
He can be a rational actor and still a moral hypocrite.
I can't get https://getmirrorshades.com/agent.js!
"While I think the stated concern about a 'deep state' is rather exaggerated,"

We've been involved in a lot of scheming stuff esp in Middle East for decades. The same names keep turning up in the higher ranks regardless of who is President in U.S.. Especially Cheney's. We also find a lot of it comes from the CIA's meddlings despite the public not wanting any of those particular operations. At one point, they were straight-up funding themselves with drug money to do whatever they wanted with their own private military. Recently, esp with Iraq, it's close-knit groups of civilians in think tanks, civilians in defense contractors, executive-branch officials who sometimes pull six digits on side from defense contractors, and Congress committee reps with stock in same companies. There's definitely a deep state going on.

It got cemented, though, when continuity of government legislation was enacted after passing of State of Emergency and Patriot Act. The power it gives the executive branch, esp ignoring Constitution and accountability, is likely why they reinstate it every year. I imagine Congress is just too afraid to fight with them. GAO said Congress hasn't even read any of their reports on the NSA and such. They're totally uninterested in reigning in deep state whether it's not giving a shit, making money off it, blackmail via surveillance system, or death threats.
The X240 (and probably X250/260, no way they changed much) is pretty easy to take apart. Just a few screws and there's just one board, with easy access to disk, RAM and mini-PCIe. I haven't seen the old ThinkPads in person, but I have seen e.g. big-ass HP Pavilions that look like a nightmare to disassemble.
if you think the civil service people are non-partisan you have completely missed the boat. There are very politically bent people in the system willing to cross whatever lines necessary to support their party. This has been made evident more than once in recent history.

The reason they are not losing jobs is for the most part in many countries they are immune to job loss unless they get arrested and convicted.
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Uber has no real alternative

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And when you see that do you wish they'd never been hired due to this insurmountable hole in their knowledge of data structures or do you take 30 seconds to tell them about sets?
I'd also like to point out that there's a huge policy impact of one method over the other. Since Frequentist and Bayesian methods disagree in how we should construct and evaluate models then almost of all scientific practice is impacted. In practice it seems that good science can arise from either method, but duality here leads to a great deal of policy confusion since things that are taken as holy by many scientific practitioners are given to questioning when you introduce a complementary method.
I hadn't even heard that one on reddit before, is there any evidence, even an out of context quote?
They actually are when they make HN front page and you're an HN lover.
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That case would have been decided under the "preponderance of evidence" standard, since it's a civil trial, not the "beyond reasonable doubt" standard (used for criminal trials) or the "beyond a shadow of a doubt" standard (which is exclusively for death penalty cases).
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We have some pretty excellent public transport. National Rail isn't great when compared to its equivalent in Europe, but TfL is _excellent_ compared to many European cities, if a little more expensive.

As someone who can afford Uber, I feel no real need to use it on a regular basis at all.
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I can only assume that the creation and sharing of this article is meant as a political act, since there is no way that this will move the growth needle.

If you want to change Uber's culture for the better, you need to persuade those that work within it and have klout to use it. In order to do this, first you'll need to believe that there are good, kind-hearted people that work there and that aren't happy with what happened.

Telling a small number of people to 'delete the app' or pointing the finger at everybody that works there isn't going to do any good.
You mean he was forced to step down by the pressure users put on him http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/03/schwarzman-uber-ceo-forced-to...
> I like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food.

I have to disagree in part here - No matter what is going on with the ISPs networking etc I want to be able to see status updates. Hosting off-network is great for this.

In DigitalOcean's case they can of course use multiple of their own regions I suppose, but if Cloudflare does the job the box is ticked for me
While I understand the context is "stupid inteview questions", I would not say Big O-notation is useless, even for non-Google companies - just read some of the stories at thedailywtf.com to learn how bad it gets.

Also, there's a difference between asking "How would you solve X (in Y language)" and expecting a line-by-line code sample. In the former you should be able to talk about how you would structure the code, what input/output you would need, how to set it up, data stores, etc. whereas the latter is (virtually) impossible without help from Google.

While it would be lovely to hire candidates by "everything it says in the resume", the truth is that only works for really great hire... which you don't know until you've talked to them about how they work, what they've done and how they like to solve problem.
I live in Amsterdam and mostly bike around, but sometimes you need to get a car for whatever reason.

Uber's much cheaper. I've had a car from the airport into the city go as low as 17 EUR, usually around 25. Hailing a taxi costs at least 40 EUR.

It's also very convenient to know the location of your arriving taxi for knowing when to leave a party and leaving out several minutes of explaining the route to the driver.

It's also not uncommon for taxi drivers here to drive you a much longer route if they think you're not a local and don't know where they're going. It's happened to me, and several of my friends. Never happened with Uber.

I've also found service with Uber to be much better. The first time I tried it here in Amsterdam the driver offered me a bottle of water and asked how I was doing. That had never happened to me once here in Amsterdam. The customer ability to rate drivers does wonders for service over traditional taxi companies.
What are the alternatives to Uber in Canada? Even a basic feature set (request a taxi with calling a number/hailing on the street) would be worth considering in these circumstances
If shareholders were held accountable in a much more direct way, perhaps they would spend more effort ensuring that the companies they invest in didn't break the law?
Lyft has the same legal and regulatory issues as Uber, they just don't seem to have as many sleazy people. Most companies are not ever in the news for employing terrible people, so I don't think it's that hard to believe.

Honestly the worst thing I've seen from Lyft is this blog post[0], in which they celebrate someone, driving at 9 months pregnant, who decided to pick up another passenger when she went into labor instead of going straight to the hospital.

[0]: https://blog.lyft.com/posts/2016/9/6/chicago-special-deliver...
For such simple metrics (visitor count and referral), wouldn't it be possible to use server-side tracking, e.g. by parsing an Apache access log? Are there any packages out there to do simple analytics without requiring client-side tracking?
how does that make them hard to "not read"? unless you are in fact curious about them...
Yes these sort of trips aren't cheap, but I still consider them good value for money to see corners of the world that are stunning and completely inaccessible otherwise. Note that it is possible to get significant discounts when there are sales (eg Black Friday) or last minute when they have spare cabins to fill. I've done a few other similar trips and I've never paid full price, including one to Antarctica where I managed to get nearly 70% off.
More resilient maybe, but not Rowhammer-proof:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/once-thought-safe-d...
There are several tools out there for doing this, if you're storing your data in databases.

SQL Server has Master Data Services. There's also Talend. There are other master data management tools available.

Depending on how you use your data, there are tools for improving data quality that tie in with those as well.
I would they lost some for their support but also others for later portrayal that was inaccurate in both directions. The media in the last decade has clearly taken a political side and they don't seem to understand that. There were even stories this week of the media reporting on the media! When the press becomes the story it has failed.
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I think startup is a pretty generous term for the growth stage that Uber was in at the time
You might find these posts interesting:

https://explosion.ai/blog/part-of-speech-pos-tagger-in-pytho...

https://explosion.ai/blog/parsing-english-in-python

These days I would say these articles are better indications of solving NLP problems with linear models -- tagging and parsing are less important than they used to be. Here's how I think about doing NLP with current neural network techniques: https://explosion.ai/blog/deep-learning-formula-nlp
Uber CEO promises “Urgent investigation” into sex harassment claims
"your" Internet?
If someone asks you the "best" way to do something but does not give you context for the problem being solved then the question is stupid. There is no all-purpose "best" way to do anything when it comes to complex systems. You use the "best" way for the problem in hand that may be shared memory, pipes, writing to a file, RPC, etc.
Sean Spicer did explain this as a situation where both of those members were not excluded from meetings and could attend any meeting they wanted to, just that they were no longer required to attend every meeting.

As long as that's true and so far there hasn't been any reporting to say it isn't, I don't see the issue.
Because as a shareholder you own and share part of the well or ill-being of a company. You can pressure the CEO directly since the shareholders control the company. So shareholders can and should set the ethical framework in which the company acts. If that framework doesn't attract business, then that's their loss.
DHH just couldn't help himself and had to mention President Trump. Yawn.
Yes, I'm aware. That's why I pointed it out as something that a union could change.
Worryingly they did this completely voluntarily.

To me this is a form of censorship together with the recent removal of fake news sites.

The approved web is what we'll have eventually with little resistance.
I see! So is it reasonable to say that the jury "proved" that there was no problem?

edit: Hah, judging by the downvotes, it's not! Hehe, this is the first time I'm super-happy to be downvoted. :-)
Benefits over ga? Honest curiosity
according to this

https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/200/200.h...

the burden of proof is

> A party must persuade you, by the evidence presented in court, that what he or she is required to prove is more likely to be true than not true. This is referred to as “the burden of proof.” After weighing all of the evidence, if you cannot decide that something is more likely to be true than not true, you must conclude that the party did not prove it. You should consider all the evidence, no matter which party produced the evidence.

so in Ellen Pao's case, she (and her lawyers) could not convince the jury that her claim was more likely true than not true. In other words, she argued her case and was not persuasive enough. I'm not a lawyer though, and I don't know if there is a requirement for Jury unanimity or just simple majority.
> If we break down IQ into verbal and math components, some people have very high verbal IQ and only average math; some both.

Yes but note that verbal and math scores are highly correlated. Likewise, basketball and football are different skills, and some people are much better at one than the other, but if we look over a population, being very good at one is a strong predictor that you are much better than average at the other.
In Travis's case, what's "chummy" in the first place? Agreeing to serve on a forum

That's exactly it.
Of course, you acted like a smartass for no apparent reason.

You will never be asked to reimplement a library function on your job, these questions are used to see how you approach a problem, your reasoning, etc...
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>>Strictly saying this is confirming behavior as we don't give any guarantees about scheduler (just like any other language, e.g. C++). This can be explained as "the goroutine is just not scheduled".

Not a GO developer. On a multi-processor machine, how is this a conforming behavior? Is "scheduler cannot give any guarantees" acceptable?
I've actually used (politely, of course) many of these answers in interviews, whenever I felt the interviewer was trying to show off or read from the script instead of actually judging my abilities.

"I'd google it. Anything less would be a waste of our time." That cuts through a lot of bullshit. After saying that at my last interview, we got into actual problems (structuring a program, building an API, writing code to approximately simulate real world problems, data structures). Had a good time, got hired, and loved working with those people.

On the other end of the spectrum, I've been torn to shreds in an interview for not being able to write a fast hash table implementation in Java (didn't know Java at the time and the interviewer didn't know Ruby/Python/C) in an hour of trying. That was soul-destroying.
Bentley has abandoned OpenDWG but the software that is built on it has continued to improve. IntelliCAD is not free, but there are enough companies building on it, that it would be difficult to kill.

My employer is a member of the Open Design Alliance [0] working on IntelliCAD. I work a layer up, building plugins for both AutoCAD and IntelliCAD. Free trials are not hard to find, so you can decide if it will work for you.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Design_Alliance
> I never found out the BEST way to share data between programs

Come on, add another layer of indirection! When given a problem to solve, hand back another problem.

In this case:

Q: "I want the SIMPLEST possible way to synchronize two threads. What is it?"

A: The SIMPLEST possible way to synchronize two threads is a global maximal element (not necessarily unique) of a poset induced by a partial ordering on possible methods for synchronizing two threads. If the induced poset is totally ordered, and assuming that at least one possibly way of synchronizing two threads exists, then there exists a SIMPLEST possible way to synchronize two threads. If you hand me a method for comparing two synchronization methods for SIMPLICITY, then an algorithm retrieving such a best possible solution is trivial, but at this point you must define define what you mean by SIMPLEST before we can move any further.

Mr. Double PhD was trying to be clever.
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> Only one of the largest public transport systems, a large and growing cycle infrastructure, other private hire via large and local minicabs, black cabs and even motorbike taxis.

- regarding large: yes, but you also have only homeopathic coverage in some places, or wait 20 minutes for a bus (line 274, I look at you).

- The cycle infrastructure only covers certain areas in London central, north of kings cross you're on your own. It's also dangerous as hell since the streets are so narrow, buses stop all the time in front of you.. etc.

- black cabs, minicabs, taxis .. last time I rode with them it was 2x the usual uberX price

I would be happy to turn to an alternative for Saturday night trips but all things above considered - uber has no real competitor in terms of price/value. Or at least non that I know of
I would argue however that in some instances its a bit ambiguous if it is 'stealing' in that way with Youtube. While i think there are obvious examples of this (user freemusc69 certainly is NOT the legitimate copyright holder or the artist known as Kayne West, for instance), I do not believe official music video uploads like those from Vevo to youtube on behalf the recording artist or the record label are piracy in the same respect....or why would they even bother?

I think the bigger problem the music industry has with youtube is semi-legitimate: They used the non-official uploads as a leverage to get them to sign en masse for Google Play Music / Youtube Music Key instead of doing the proper thing and enforcing the DMCA take downs of the music at scale. They could easily do most of this algorithmically by doing sample checks with automated software and it would likely work most of the time (plus, they could work with rights holders/publishers/record companies to maintain a 'white list' of channels that wouldn't be scanned if they're uploaded by the channel owner unless an actual DMCA complaint was filed against that channel and it turned out to be legitimate).

Like most things, the real story is very complicated, and there isn't usually a good vs bad side as the water is very murky in the details.