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What is it about CRUD over HTTP that drives some people nuts? A bit too much overhead, not perfect for high performance/low level data channels, and not perfectly standardized. But it piggybacks over a wildly popular level 7 protocol that takes care of security in a well tested way, already plays well with proxies/load balancers, has thousands of implementations in most languages, is well understood by network admins and usually already handled if you're shipping software to customers. It has a lot going for it.

Sure - everybody ends up reimplementing async jobs and polling... some people prefer XML/json/edn/etc... some people get pedantic on 3xx and non-200 2xx status codes... differing standards on referencing other objects/collections/etc... some people use POST where they should use PUT (or insist upon using PATCH and OPTIONS). It has just as many faults.

But it's wildly successful for are reason, and dismissing it probably is going to result in relearning a bunch of hard-earned lessons about integrating across lots of very heterogeneous systems and environments.
Right, him and Jim Bakker. Common factors? Money and power.
I think the authors say that the pain relief itself is only part of it:

> Lucas suggests the main reasons for the switch to cannabis from prescribed meds is due to reduced side effects, better symptom management and a feeling that cannabis is safer than prescription drugs.

Also, looking at http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/understanding-pai..., it seems like chronic pain doesn't necessarily (?) mean severe pain, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
Thanks for your comment. If you have the same test with cloud server or some public website , perhaps it will decrease some.

I've used multiprocessing/threads/geven/asyncio before. And I will have a full test with these libraries.

Thanks again!
I'm not defending Kalanick's behavior, although I do think it is regretful he ended the interaction in the way he did. Public figure or not I think it's unreasonable to expect anyone to completely waive their expectation of privacy. There are right and wrong ways to pursue a grievance, IMO this was not the right way and two wrongs do not make a right.
The timing of this is interesting. A few days ago, the White House press sec claimed cannabis is a gateway to opioid use: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/2...
I'm sorry, but its not. A "big deal" would have been not engaging in subprime lending that most likely put the driver in this desperate position, where he's recording the CEO in some last ditch effort to get the broader community to acknowledge his humanity. Or any of the other myriad atrocious things they've done to their customers and employees.

This is up against the wall PR BS. But the fact that people believe it explains a lot about how we got where we are with Uber.
To this native English speaker it came off as self-aggrandizing.
This is by far the funniest thing I've ever read on HN and the fact you created a fake account to do it makes it even funnier, I think.
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You underestimate the average programmer's aversion to Lisp syntax, despite it being the clearly superior syntax.

IME it's a learned thing from only knowing languages that at least superficially resemble ALGOL.

JS is a first language for a lot of people - because their goal was to make a website do something. Scheme would not have been any different.
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I was diagnosed with chronic pain syndrome, and when given the opportunity, had my doctor switch my prescription from opioids to cannabis.

I don't think that one can appreciate how effective it is for chronic pain, until you've had to use it for that.
Especially when your net worth is six billion dollars.
Keynesian demand side capitalism has proved to be great.

Unregulated supply side economics appears to lead to massive exploitation and monopolies.

That being said socialism and capitalism work together everyday in America. See highways, education, plumbing, etc.

It has been argued that Socialism/government regulation is needed for Capitalism to work optimally.
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I don't live in SV because I didn't want to be in a bubble. I made that choice 15 years ago.

You seem to have it all figured out, including how Uber has brainwashed me and how the only imaginable scenarios are the ones you've written.

> Woman beats her husband regularly for years. Eventually, he gets up the gumption to ditch her. When he tells her he's done, she bursts into tears and promises between sobs that she'll get help and do better. You buy that, too?

Would I stay if I were the guy? Probably not. As a 3rd party, I'd certainly support the woman's admission of guilt and her effort to get help.

What kind of society would we be if we did not have services to support people who sought help?

Again, if you only seek perfection in CEOs, you're going to end up with better liars.
> Humour is generally downvoted on HN, because us programmers (mostly) take things too literally.

No, humor is generally downvoted on HN because most of it is lazy, and no one wants HN to turn into another Reddit. Lazy humor is a Reddit staple, and there's already far too much Reddit around as it is. Good humor tends to fare reasonably well, and considerable allowance is made for attempts which fail to be funny but still show effort - otherwise, I doubt I'd get away with doggerel in rhyming couplets [1] and similar such excesses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13546379
In my limited experience, HDMI is the new VGA in terms of availability. Projectors, TVs, screens all support it (even if it can't drive 10-bit modes or the max refresh rate).

If you bring a HDMI-capable Mac to a client and something doesn't work, it's their fault. If you bring a USB-C Mac and forget the dongle, it feels like a faux pas on your end.

Though to be fair, it was an aberration that the last (fantastic!) rMBP had a useful video port. Historically, portable Macs always needed crappy adapters.
But it's interesting to see that "capitalism" is becoming a dirty word, when in the cold-war era it was the opposite of "communism" which was a synonym for "evil".
> Russia addresses their worst nuclear contamination problem by putting a shed on it.

Ukraine would like a word with you.
Semi-related to the Baidu speech research:
http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/02/23/machine-learning-s...

The work is done by Mozilla
Not mentioned in article but I assumed car companies looked at what the majority went with and if any skew would swap to the other side. This would make filling potential quicker as most station have pumps that operate on both sides. This way if most cars had left side tanks then it would be advantageous to have a right side fill as slots are more likely to be open.
Hmm, you make some good points. I accept that I may have not contributed to the conversation as much as I would like (though "contribution" wasn't really my intention, but your point stands).

However, I will say that the latter part of your post is the kind of comment that I was expecting, for better or worse.
I can't file an issue on GitHub but the project is missing the license and the WordPress standard copy seems to have been removed.
Not before everyone left has red hats.
I live in the UK and the place is covered by CCTV including private hire vehicles, but we also have the Data Protection Act, which makes this kind of thing illegal. I know if I am being filmed in a taxi because there must a notice prominently displayed, and I also know that the only way this footage will ever be used, is if I attack the driver and it is used as criminal evidence against me, or if make a complaint about a driver and he uses it to bolster his case with Transport for London.
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> Sample size of 1 each way?

That's not even it. Not only is it a sample size of 1, you are responding to a situation you know nothing about. Why did she fail? You have no idea, because it's not even your own anecdote. The fact that you're willing to jump in with "that is such bullshit" without even having the barest picture of the situation shows that your response is 1% motivated by the anecdote and 99% from your own biases and emotions about the issue.

In other words, your response says more about you than about the story.
> Capitalism (in the free markets sense) is great. The problem is that gobs of money are stolen from poor people like me by the government

How much can the government be stealing from you if you have no money? The government is in a position to help you, by providing you with social services, with financial benefits, by providing police to protect you, not to mention debt forgiveness (you mentioned your family is in bankruptcy). None of these things come from free market capitalism; they come from socialist policies intended to help those at a disadvantage. And there should be more of that -- health care, education, etc. Of course, corruption and inefficiency in government exists and is a problem, but the ones stealing money from you are those at the top who are constantly seeking to pay less in taxes, do less to protect to the environment, lobby or contribute (aka bribe) to profit at the expense of public good, outsource or automate away their labor, etc. You mentioned the negative impact of common practices of bankers and Wall Street -- those kinds of things are natural consequence of free market activity.
Unless you mean before written history then no. Governments have been mediating property disputes at least as far as the written word and likely though the last 100,000+ years.
> meanwhile those struggling from inequality, not being here, will fail to have their voice heard. And so the echo chamber ensues.

Those struggling from from inequality are struggling from relative deprivation, not absolute deprivation, while the latter is the only thing that rationally matters. I don't give a damn that Bill Gates is a ridiculous amount richer than me, in fact I admire him and want to be rich too someday. I have enough to survive and buy books, why should I worry about my relative wealth? People on the poverty line in the US ($20k) actually make 2x as much as the global mean wage ($10k). I doubt the people that currently complain about inequality today would be willing to give up >50% of their wage to alleviate it on the global scale, rather they will make arguments about "standard of living" as if they have some fundamental right to live better than those in Africa, poor India, ect... meanwhile I would rather be lower middle class now in US than Rockefeller 100 years ago.

I'm taking a pretty hard stance on this because I feel pretty strongly about it.
It's useful only for predictions. Unless, GPU (Possibly with WebCL) support will appear, it will be impractical to use it for training.
The survey you linked to is from 2011, and it was mentioned in the article as a precursor to the April 2016 Harvard survey that the article was written about.

I think this is the 2016 Harvard poll the article was referring to: http://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/harvard-iop-spring-2016-po...
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Isn't the industry getting a little fatigued by now?
Would be great if opiods never left the hospital.
At the time the dramatic drop in heart attack rates was reported, I was quite surprised, to the point of incredulity.

Although I've never been a smoker, both of my parents smoked a couple packs of Kool cigarettes every day from the age of 20 until their mid 70s. The fact that it took more than 50 years for them to kill my mother (small cell lung cancer) and my father (massive stroke) leads to suspect that the dramatic reduction in heart attacks was faulty statistics, otherwise few smokers would live as long as they do.
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Arise ye prisoners of starvation! Arise ye wretched of the Earth. For justice thunders condemnation, a better world in birth.

I mean, sure, most Millenials probably equate capitalism with neoliberalism and socialism with social-democracy, but hey, given that interpretation, yeah, neoliberalism has ruined quite a lot of our lives.
Unfortunately, I don't think any sort of epiphany will undo the damage that has been done.

Looking beyond the employees at Uber who have had to suffer through a toxic culture, I am troubled by the fact that the largest private company in the world has done some shady shit[1], and has largely been allowed to get away with it. I shudder to think of the founders out there who are thinking "Maybe it isn't so bad to be a dick. It seems to be a key component of Travis' success!".

[1] exercise for the reader
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That attention schema theory is interesting but it still doesn't solve the Hard Problem: why information about colors looks like colors, why information about surfaces feels like a surface... how a biological system could experience joy or sadness, orgasm or terror, etc. They seem to be solving the very narrow problem of self-awareness, but not awareness in general. And I'm pretty self-awareness isn't a prerequisite for general awareness. (Just ask experienced drug users.)

To be fair, no existing theory can explain subjective experience, so it's not a knock on that theory specifically.

There seem to be a subset of human beings who have convinced themselves they aren't conscious, even though it's not clear who they think they've convinced or who did the convincing. If you're one of them, that's okay... it's just not a conclusion I would personally endorse ("I" being whatever force is selecting the words that you're currently reading).

P.S. If something concludes that it's aware, then is it aware it has reached that conclusion? And if so, would that lead to an infinite regress? Perhaps that's what consciousness is... an infinite regress of awareness. :)
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Yet "socialism" is an even dirtier word according to the survey results. What we really have here are young people who are fed up with the low level of economic opportunity available to them, relative to the level of opportunity they expected to have.
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> , cannabis and CBD oil aren't nearly as effective as opioids for relief from severe pain, right?

Taking opioids for pain relief is a dangerous route as doctors are now more likely to cut your Rx off if they suspect abuse. IF you are addicted and/or still have significant pain, you may have to resort to street drugs with unknown potency and purity.

I'd rather go with the medication that won't lead down a life-threatening path. If the treatment is worse then the symptoms, it's not really worth it.
> Support them getting help, respect that we're all human and frail and subject to fall, but don't let them keep their fucking job.

Yup I agree. It'd be up to the board whether he remains as CEO or not.

I find his statement interesting and worthy of support because I've never had a boss who would admit when he made a major mistake, much less say he's seeking help for it.

I think the chances of Uber improving with a new CEO are small. It'll just be someone from the same culture. If Travis really intends to seek outside help then that may do something to change the culture there. I don't see any benefit from calling for Travis' head. It's not something you or I have much influence over.

Jim Collins' Good to Great convinced me that leadership consultants actually work.
if you asked practicing mathematicians whether or not the philosophy of foundational mathematics, the hilbert programme, and wittgensteins consternation on the notion of equality were at all relevant...you would get a pretty dispassionate 'of course'. for whatever reasons most of these topics are taught in the philosophy departments and not the mathematics.
Yes but you see this is my point entirely. Instead of engaging with the discussion you have this aloof cynicism. I didn't even say anything particularly in support of capitalism, yet you dismissed by point as "what you expected." How do you persuade others to see an alternative perspective if you don't first validate their opinions?

For example, I'm willing to engage in dialectics about the advantages and disadvantages of a capitalist system (for example, see my other comment about this article), but you didn't really say anything other than "you make some good points, but this is what I expected."

Take a position. You don't diminish an echo chamber just by observing that it exists, you have to engage with it and attempt to improve the discussion. I called out my potential bias and took a stance. You've not really done either here, which ultimately diminishes the impact of calling out the difficulty in the first place. What was the point?
The original article and this post have a very poor headline. The study covered pain relievers, anti-depressants, and sedatives. The people were not just suffering from pain. Some had mental health issues. Some has gastrointestinal issues. I suspect the reason why cannabis was so popular is because it helps with a lot of conditions instead of just one.

Also, cannabis has a much milder effect than prescription drugs and fewer negative side effects. It's not much of a stretch to imagine someone using it in place of a prescription drug when their symptoms are not as strong.

A "friend of mine" who suffers in excruciating pain for days from the occasional kidney stone smokes weed and takes ibuprofen rather than go through bottles of prescription pain killers. They have tremendously negative side effects if taken over a long period of time that he would rather not experience on top of the pain. After seeing his sister get addicted to them after having surgery, he doesn't want to risk them destroying his life.
The logo isn't as nice as the most voted one. But I get the philosophy behind it though, probably the biggest reason it was chosen.
But my heart still remains with the other logo. It looks so modern and can go with different color palettes.
Upholding the rule of law (punishing fraud, theft, murder, and other infringements of the rights of others) is the job of the government in a free market system. Protecting consumers from themselves and picking businesses to subsidize/grant privileges to is not.

The gray area, which I consider to fall in the 'upholding the rule of law' category, are consumption-based regulations or incentives, where a practical piece of society (like burning fuel) infringes on the rights of many others to a small degree, and this is where a carbon tax could easily fit in a free market system. In fact, it could be argued that the system is freer than if there were no pollution taxes at all, because then people would be allowed to infringe on the property rights of others (via shared atmosphere, oceans, climate) unhindered.
Err I have had my 15" rMBP and have never needed a dongle. It supports thunderbolt/displayport and HDMI. I can connect not only to multiple monitors easily without dongles, I can connect to TVs.

The all USB-C design of the new Pros is not very Pro friendly. It should be the base MacBook.
That's Ukraine's problem now, not Russia's :)
The idea is interesting, but you a forgetting something. In cases of extremely low cost (like $1), sometimes the payment process itself is seen as more costly than the payment itself. In other words, people may be willing to spend $1 for an additional sentence, but would they be willing to get their wallet, pull out the card, type in the number, name, billing address and security code? I bet not.

Beyond that, using a card would force users to attach a real identity to their account, even if it's not public. A lot of people wouldn't like the idea of that.
> That's bold. I can't remember hearing any recent CEO saying this.

On the flip-side, it could simply mean that he's been told to get leadership help or he may be replaced. (Uber's board can do that, I assume?)
You are right. But with more codes or tools , it could do this too. It's just a quick demo for distributed crawler. If you moniter traffic of your target website with js rendered content, you will find json file and json api. And what you need next is just the same code in my article.
Not if you consider size, battery life etc. part of the spec.

The Mac Mini was competitive in 2011/2012, especially if you let an authorised repair shop install a second drive on the cheap.
If the engineering interview is broken as TFA implies then surely the companies employing these practices will lose out to rival companies. They will be forced to change their hiring culture to be able to identify good programmers. The fact that they have not, testifies to the strengths of the current interviewing culture. It identifies strong programmers from a very large pool of applicants using limited resources. Sure there's a lot of false negatives but that's a much lesser concern than false positives. The alternatives proposed (like doing a project together or looking at past work in Github) are prohibitively expensive to do at scale.

Since this issue comes up so often in HN a reader might think that there's a strong consensus in the tech community about the demerits of the current system. However, that would be a false conclusion. The losers under the current system complain a lot but people who have positive experiences don't feel the need to share their side of the story.
Oh, I read the article.

I'd rather believe the scientific studies which showed a 17 percent drop in heart attacks.
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> "REST is nothing but loosely connected guidelines that nobody uses in the same manner"

But is that really a huge problem?

Look at more rigorous rpc standards with more rigorous standards and formal interface definitions: RMI, xmlrpc, CORBA, SOAP, Thrift, AMF... I'm sure there are loads and loads of real world systems using these and they have their place, but REST has succeeded in a large niche that they have not.
Yup, see stuff like https://crates.io/crates/webplatform
While true it's beside the point that was made earlier on. The Parent complains about "dongles", but really it's not much different than having to plug a portable computer into all of the accessories that are there already, there's just something extra tacked on. It's not like other vendors and set ups are immune to this; my previous work place had a Dell contract and their desktops came with some stupid video card where there was only one out-put and the only way to get dual monitors was a Y splitter from Dell.

In custom setups, if your card isn't Dual [connection], you use an adapter for DVI or HDMI, and so on.

Apple does have a lot to answer for, and their idea of "dongle for everything" does get tiresome and Apple should be above that. But it's not like it's unique to Apple or even new in the computing world. This has been standard for a long time.
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