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One way to learn to appreciate Lou Reed is to realize he was extremely literary. His express goal was to combine the rock/soul music he loved so much with a form of poetry you don't hear often in other artists. Leonard Cohen would be a notable exception.

Read the opening stanza of "Rome had Juliette"

Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Columbus to New York

Betwixt between the east and west he called upon her wearing a leather vest, the earth squealed and shuddered to a halt

[...]

I could hit that light with one good arm behind my back said little Joey Diaz

He contrasts intricate word smithy with blunt harsh statements.

Read "ecstasy" then listen to the song. Read Street Hassle, then listen to it.

I showed my friend the lyrics to Baton Rouge last night at a Lou Reed tribute in NYC after we had just heard it and she teared up for 10 minutes. She claims to not really be that interested in lyrics.

Then for context on something like metal machine music, understand that people like Xenakis were exploring those ideas too. Pure tone and noise with no concern for meter or key.

He really was a visionary.

Source: I was a friend and collaborator with Lou Reed for many years.
Your statement is false.
People seem to be defending Uber by saying they're disrupting taxi cab monopolies. But Uber themselves is positioning themselves to become a monopoly. It's naive to think that once they're there they are going to have the people's interests at heart.
Philosophy is not some sort of church where everyone praise some emotionally agreed upon idea... You seems to be turning this into some sort of us vs. them game based on your faulty projections, so I hope to stop here. (Btw, If you are getting your ideas about philosophy from popular youtube channels like https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel or https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdY... , maybe I can understand why you have such misunderstandings)

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If you happen to be interested anytime, you can start with some very introductory resources I bothered to look up for you (most are video, they are easy to consume):

+ Donald Hoffman - computational theory of mind, someone closer to HN's demographic (https://youtu.be/cUhrK82seVY)

+ John Searl is good speaker so try his talk (https://youtu.be/rHKwIYsPXLg)

+ Some thought experiments (remember that thought experiments are not highlighters of issue, not complete arguments) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz0n_SjOttTdUVuUqefi6...

+ If you want to know what a complete technical work looks like, here's one I've been reading: http://a.co/2xF4PPB

+ Not agreed upon but a fun one to not include - about: what is philosophy: https://youtu.be/dp8aTYUrPi0

+ Science vs philosophy sort of video, slow but good discussion in there: https://youtu.be/9tH3AnYyAI8

+ http://a.co/i96KFPs

In the unlikely case that you become very interested, you can look up "Introduction to philosophy of mind syllabus" and go through the materials and/or books of your choice on the subject.

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> What is the philosophical method for interrogation an empirical phenomenon

That would go into philosophy of science, which I have absolutely no familiarity with. I'm guessing, to a philosopher of science, 'empirical' isn't such a simple subject as recording something that scientist would call it. I did watch this very interesting video once about phil. of science: https://youtu.be/5ng-t0o7E-w
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It's gone off the Internet for the user and everyone.

Why are ppl defending this tactic because you use it at your startup and try to justify it as right when it's SO WRONG and hostile to your users.
Ask HN: How should a programming interview go?
I've seen a lot of complaints over the years about the white board interview. I've been subject to them. They're kind of terrible, I agree. Never in all my years of development have I had to write my own BST or manually implement Bubble Sort. Riddles... I hate riddles as just a point of life.

When I have to conduct interviews I do two things. The first is a sample project. Something with the minimum range of skill for whatever I'm interviewing for should be able to do in about an hour. For iOS development, implement a master-detail application using a table view and this file. Everything else is up to them. Impress me. Second, an oral examination of the technology. How does memory management work? What is protocol oriented programming? Nothing earth shattering.

But I've also heard a lot of people complain about the sample project. And I agree that requesting people check your commit logs or read your blog is time consuming.

So, how should a programming interview go?
> IOM and UNHCR estimated 1 million refugees back in December 2015. More since then.

True, but they have not been 'imported' by politicians. These people fled from the war in Syria. Germany has a right for these people to ask for asylum in its constitution. Unlimited.

> Criticizing European politicians is hate speech

Claiming that European politicians give a shit (his words) about their citizens is not 'criticizing' anything. It's just hate speech against politicians.

I don't agree with Merkel in many things, but I'm pretty sure that she cares a lot about Germans. Practically every German politician does.
They don't need physical access to compromise your firmware. I thought that was one of the things the original article claimed, at least. The EMs firmware can be updated remotely if the system is plugged in (whether powered on or not).
I'd rather go homeless than work on that.
Well, for a very unintuitive value of "maintain their own people". A low birth rate has pretty direct effects on that.
It does seem like it's adding up that way. Heck, it may be the best move for him financially. He has roughly 10% of Uber shares , and if his resignation make the route to an IPO easier and removes some downward pressure on the resulting price...
It might be. For example, I'm in the US and my friends that /work for Apple/ can't figure out how to get me a Korean keyboard like http://www.apple.com/kr/shop/product/MB110KH/.
This logic would imply that companies don't deserve rights or personhood either.
If said private company is spewing pollution into the water system, then not doing business with them doesn't change that.
so, your view is that the displaced and disadvantaged are simply degenerates.

sure, keep kicking them from locale to locale. doesn't solve much and systemic abuse doesn't win many points.
> ghost town

They've wedged themselves deeper into your mind than you even know (referring to their logo.)
Serious question... do you or have you recently lived in Japan?

Japanese people don't think things are going so well.

Many knowledgeable non-Japanese don't think that things are going so well.

My personal take is that Japan is taking a huge gamble by taking on a massive amount of debt relative to their GDP. The piper will need to be paid at some point.

John Mauldin had described the Japanese economy as a bug in search of a windshield. Based on what my Japanese friends in the financial sector say, they agree. Everyone is just crossing their fingers now and hoping that something... anything... happens to force a redirect. No one is quite sure what this will look like (I personally think yen will take a big hit, but that's just a guess).
Yeah, no. Move is about as reasonable as any other libertarian nonsense.
And the thing frequently in common with California gentrification stories is building restrictions because god forbid the neighborhood look different than it did 40 years ago when a bunch of new people want to move in.

Of course when you limit the supply to 1/10th of what is desired, only the richest people will get it.
At this point, it doesn't matter whether he's leaving because of accusations or if he's leaving because of everyone else's accusations – let's assume the latter because that's more charitable.

This is what a PR tailspin looks like. All your good people will leave, all your bad people will have to be fired, and consumer demand and driver supply will be affected. Perception is reality, and that means Uber are in real trouble here and it's gonna cost them a lot – maybe most of the exec suite – to get out of it.

The key question is: who benefits? This is corporate politics by insurgent means, so I wonder who is emptying their opposition research briefing against Uber and why. Could even be an investor who wants to force leadership out, possibly as a prelude to driving Uber to an exit.

Those tactics don't work unless the dirt exists, so this really, really doesn't excuse anything which Uber may (and, on the balance of probabilities, there's more than likely fire to go with this smoke) have done. And I don't think it's likely the individuals alleging harassment in particular are part of this at all, so anyone coming trying to impugn their motivations can go pound sand; but, as a byproduct of their legit and serious grievances, they created the environment where this kind of power-play can be made.

So who benefits?
It's not an argument. Getting people to "stampede" to you is trivial - just drop the prices well below market average, and the herd will quickly follow, regardless of whether or not your service is actually better. Doing that is difficult (that's the point of competition), but becomes much easier if you can blatantly break the law and get away with it.
I try to not work during my splits. So I'll work 940am until 2pm, go home or the gym until 5pm then finish at either 10pm or 11pm. 6 days a week.

So about 56 per week. I try to take every second Sunday off.

During my split I'll prepare my wife's dinner, (cooking it if I can ahead of time), on my days off I enjoy cooking for friends and small parties.
Like I said, concentrated interests, diffuse benefits. The benefits are too small to me to be worth my time to go out and organize for it. That is why this problem exists. It is the reason why hairdressers require licenses, it is the reason why teachers can't be fired, and it is the reason why we don't have a carbon tax.

If you're arguing that all those things are good and consistent with the will of the people, then sure. I suppose that's a consistent position, even if absurd in its consequences. But I don't think for a second that you believe all three of those things are good simultaneously.
Your stated reasons aren't valid. I think they ported Mozilla until 2002 (Russ Cox, maybe?). There was also a compat layer: APE.

As a counter to your argument: a system that has little capability compared to the well-established alternatives, starts from nothing, yet takes over the world: Linux.

I really believe there was no greater reason for Plan 9's failure to catch on (or at least it's ideas) than my peers not being interested in their own education.
On so many levels. I don't think making out with someone at a company event is OK, period. Even less if they also work at the company. Even less if they're your report. Even less if you're powerful within the company (i.e. a tone-setter).

To be clear, the reason it's not OK is that a professional context should not also be a sexual context. It's not about protecting the person you're making out with. It's about everyone else. This is the same reason that excessive PDA in the workplace can be sexual harassment of other employees, even if both parties to the PDA are consenting.
I don't know if it's true at Uber, but uber is not a typical big corporations and it's often not true at startups.

My point is that it can certainly be sexism depending on the company in question.
I'll also add that if Bitcoin had started out completely anonymous like Zcash, it likely would have been outlawed in many countries by now including the US and China. Certainly no exchanges connected to the traditional banking system would be allowed to exist.
Move them off to an industrial park so everyone can complain about traffic and how every lives so far from where they work, instead of having live/work neighborhoods!
Some examples that illustrate your assertion, please.
People with bad experiences are usually the loudest. I don't think Razer would continue to be in business if problems were commonplace. I suggest going to your local Microsoft Store or Fry's Electronics if you have one near you. Both carry Razer laptops. You can see one, buy one, and if necessary, return one, all in one place. Brick and mortar. Good stuff. At least that way you get to see one before you make the big decision.
There's truth to what you're saying -- neighborhoods change -- but it's a matter of degrees. In Econ 101 it's called a "positive externality", a public good that arises from economic activity but is not accounted for in private transactions. That's what neighborhoods like Venice have going on and it's a function of a lot of activity by artists, small businesses and rather humble folks, who all collectively benefit as a result. It is not being charged for; it relies on voluntary cultural contributions back to the community to sustain it.

A relatively large, well-funded corporation swooping in to soak up those benefits, without really offering in-kind cultural contributions, threatens to destroy that unique positive externality that Venice has.
It seems to involve the ethical dilemma of a radar detector.

It is similar, but I think an important difference is that Uber, as an organization, was deliberately flouting the law and also building tools to avoid suffering the consequences of that behavior.

I'd say it is similar to the difference between an individual using a radar detector for personal travel vs. a trucking/shipping company equipping all of their vehicles with radar detectors and making it a company policy to violate the speed limit.
You are correct.

From the benchmarks, it seems a single thread can fully utilize all resources from an Intel processor while it can't on the new AMD ones and that's why their single-thread performance is lower and their multi-thread performance is higher.

We should keep in mind the benchmarks know nothing about the new AMD parts and how to keep all parts of the processor busy.
You need a PKI infrastructure to implement AMT/IME.

I used it a few years ago to automatically build classroom computers for training classes. The trainer would pick a configuration, and a complete server and workstation environment would be installed.

You can also do KVM from a powered down state, brick the device, or validate that management engines are present.
Yeah IIRC width subtyping for modules was the only thing they didn't have complete inference for if you didn't use large types, so this is a huge win. Though I'm nearing the end of the thesis and I'm afraid there may be some things about 1ML that don't jive with this (1ML elaborate to full Fω and gives you explicit access to existentials and higher kinds, which are possibly difficult to unify with the work here).
Couldn't a lot of the downsides with the credit card system be at least fixed somewhat by anonymization? E.g a card that generates new numbers for each transaction stops the store from tracking my purchasing habits.
Similarly a store that doesn't record any more than the amount to the cc company limits what is recorded.

I'm not saying this is in the interest of either retailers, banks or credit card companies - but it should at least be possible in theory to improve on the status quo e.g by regulation.

The best solution imho would simply be a credit card you can "charge" with plastic cash from your bank account, instead of going to the ATM. The amount stored on the card is then used like cash and then it's re-charged from the account when it's empty.

All the cc company sees is the charging withdrawals and the retailer doesn't see any credit card information as the transaction is made with "cash".

I have seen attempts at this (e.g in Sweden 10-15 years ago) but none successful unfortunately.
I would love to have the opportunity to do this is my working life projects as most of the time while I'm doing iteration1, I have various others breathing down my neck about getting the next list of tasks in the sprint done as well.
Time, and keeping others away is my hurdle.
I mean, not to be flippant, but... that's just like your opinion.

Of course not anybody can make a well-performing web app, just like not just anybody can make a well performing Android app. In some ways, yes, it is a little more difficult.

But speaking as a C programmer who was pleasantly surprised by the change, it's not that difficult to make a performant web app. I've never had a problem with it.
In real world (as opposed to theoretical libertarian utopia), voluntary market interactions aren't that common. People are trivially manipulated.

Consider that the entire marketing industry is literally about taking away agency from one side of the business relationship.
People were using rice as cash in Japan back in the 8th century. Or arrowheads. Depends wether you want to eat or wage some war. AK-47 rifles would be the modern equivalent of arrowheads.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_currency
Taken literally, this makes it sound like an insanely inaccurate algorithm. Here's my algorithm for predicting whether someone will commit suicide: always say they won't. Since the suicide rate in the US is around 13 per 100,000, my algorithm is >99% accurate!

But more seriously, assuming they are using some more meaningful measure, for things with such low baseline incidence, you kinda need quite high accuracy of you don't want to be completely swamped with false positives.
Yes while travelling it's a huge cash based society here, but Tokyo/yokohama are really leaning towards cards/suica(the train ticket pre-charge card)/Edi(mobile phone payment system) and such.
> such attempts to hide corporate wrongdoing are aggravating factors

Usually. But I don't believe that is the case here. Uber was public about the fact that they were breaking Portland's taxi rules--they blogged to that extent. Prosecutors had enough evidence to get a subpoena and demand what they wanted. But the cops didn't do that. They chose to collect $5,000 fines from the drivers. That's their prerogative, but that upside comes with a cost.

> Other countries have different interpretations

That might be the case. I am only commenting with reference to American laws and customs.
The "ten-minute build" is an idea from Extreme Programming, and you can find it in Martin Fowler's article on continuous integration[1]. (That's probably where OP got it from.) The reason, as explained in Fowler's article, is to provide rapid feedback. So the person who came up with it is Kent Beck.

[1] https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration....
This is what I'm talking about. I think the sociological and political learning and culture needs to go both ways. The west takes the position of moral superiority to the East in every possible way and thus can't learn. There was some grudging implementation of "The Toyota Way" and Japanese production principles in the 90s after the American auto makers got totally destroyed by Japanese automakers in the 80s, but there needs to be more of that learning going on. Has anybody even written a book praising the Chinese government for bringing an enormous number of people out of poverty and explaining how it goes about its business?
I always say, if I were to get a competing offer from <top paying hedge fund, or facebook> would you be able to match it?

They get the message pretty quickly
Good for you; I also treasure the time I've spent in Japan. I'm not so worried about how Japan is different from other nations, as about how it seems to fall short of its own values. Don't get me started on USA... b^)
Ring doorbell camera sends “end of call” packets to Baidu owned IP space
There is a market for free ride. You are paying, so you would have opted-out from ads :)

Society is fullying assimiling Internet. If ads is the best business model online, it will also be the best business model in the real world as it becomes 100% connected.
>I really wonder if most people get HSAs through their employers. Personally I don't know anyone that does. Everybody I know that has one set it up on their own.

I have had all my HSA accounts through my employer, usually tied to my medical insurance (HDHP). Every time I switch employer or the insurance changes or the HSA provider changes, I consolidate the money from my older account to my new HSA account.

IMO I think lively is good for individuals as there is no fee (I know there are other providers with no monthly fee). But I wonder why would my employer use this service if my insurance provider offers linked HSA and auto-pay for the claims?
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My friends die a couple at a time each year so it's a constant reminder of things. The worst part is, I was trying to write out a list like yours, and I just can't remember everyone that already died.
I imagine a great deal of it is the studios increasing their take. This has been a perennial problem for Spotify and other licensees of other media content. Netflix rolls their own now.

Really, it's hard to imagine a future for Redbox in ten years. Even the convenience of a vending machine movie store is nothing next to me not even getting off the couch.
> So what you're saying is that a direct claim from a high-ranking Israeli politician about a conversation he had, with no apparent benefit to lying about its contents, is not enough?

Exactly. Random people can claim anything. There is no credible source and Schulz never said anything like that on record.

You might want to listen to what Schulz actually says.

> Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, is a "right wing group"?

Repeated only by right-wing groups.

> he also, apparently, has had strong interests outside the EU for as well.

which ones?
> that's 20% of the NY housing

(167,700) / (3.4 million) is 1/20, not 20%?
i can no longer tell the difference between side projects and startups
Like if nuking was the worst thing the US did fighting Japan. Have you heard about firebombing?

That said, plenty of corporations abused and killed innocent people en masse. Some even had their own standing armies to occupy territory.
I'm not teaching them the action of cutting, I'm trying to teach them how to visualise the different aspects of different parts of animals.

Produce comes in amazingly messy and different from one week to another, learning how to prepare itnwith very little waste takes a long time.
People are calling the old BIOS "PC BIOS" and UEFI "UEFI BIOS" nowadays. So feel free to continue to call it a BIOS.
Can you clarify?

Given your praise of the Precision 5520, why would you get something else next time?
It certainly did have http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-...
Yes, but it would clearly be possible to create hardware without that special misfeature.

What isn't possible is to create hardware that can protect you against an attacker with unrestricted physical access.
Minor Feedback: I think part of the point of private hosting is privacy / security. Maybe some info on the landing page or documentation about what kind of security is provided would help people decide whether to use it. Also your npm package could use an actual module rather than just cli tool
Python and Nim are good examples to learn from ;)
No, they simply went around laws that governed their market in order to outcompete other providers, and they are pretty smug about it. They never discriminated between laws that are obviously obsolete and laws that are still important.