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It's definitely highly intelligent but just as definitely something that implies a sort of double-or-nothing attitude.

IE, Anything is on the table here, it seems (an attitude that can foster creativity certainly). For example, in the end game would Uber's enemies fair badly if they caught a ride in Uber's automatic cars? Indeed, the cars might even be seeking out people for "accidents".

There's reason even the most innovative Mafiosos often don't make it to old age.

Note also:

"Perverting the course of justice is an offence committed when a person prevents justice from being served on him/herself or on another party. In England and Wales it is a common law offence, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverting_the_course_of_justi...

"Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsified, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under Title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice

And we're talk systematically evading regulators world-wide. ianola but my legal-fantasy mind could compose for people facing a millennium in prison. I assume the reality would be a slap on wrist if they company's influence falls.
Ok you peaked my interest. How do I clean with mud? Are you simply using a "Sandy mud" as an abrasive?
Alternative architectures is definitely the most pragmatic thing to go for. I was going off on a bit of a tangent from the article and just wondering if anyone has tried redoing the 70's - 90's without trying to be compatible with any existing technology but still learning from the mistakes.
Of course, but it's inaccurate to attribute identical behavior to all local governments as if they were part of a single hierarchy.
EDIT: After re-reading your statement, it doesn't appear you meant customers. Leaving my statement below anyway.

> If you're still doing business with Uber in 2017, it's because you don't want to know or you don't care who you're dealing with.

Or because I don't really have an option. Cabs are still terrible and require me to carry cash which I don't, and lyft doesn't work on my phone.
Nation-states, at least large ones such as Japan and the United States, might not be the best level to apply a "diversity without, uniformity within" policy though. It probably makes more sense to control mixing at the city or county/prefecture level.
Eh. Building high income housing on a vacant lot might help bring down housing prices overall, but what you usually see is dense small units getting demolished so less dense but more expensive units can go up.
I never got my grubby hands on a Firefox OS device. All of the reviews I read were unanimous in their dislike (because of framerate issue, primarily) though. What happened here?
In years past when I'd be on group trips and sharing a room with one or more people, there were definitely those who would turn on the TV as soon as they walked into the room. Always drove me crazy to be honest.

I'm certainly open to believing it's a generational thing. If you grew up watching whatever happened to be on I could see you more accustomed to TV-as-background than something you turned on to watch a specific thing.

On the other hand, in airports/bars/etc. I see no shortage of TVs blaring today. Maybe this is driven by the preferences of an older generation but I'm a bit skeptical.
What is going on in this world? I was reading news today that the parties on the right side of political spectrum are gaining ground all over Europe. US already has Republicans in power. Every country is becoming more nationalistic. What is driving this change? AFAICT there are no major issues that should have caused this.
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The EU is not a sovereign country, its political and economic union. The US is under no obligation to accept all 28-member countries as equal.
> Even if you build new units only for millionaires, that takes the millionaires out of competition for other high end markets, which then makes people who were previously marginal for those units get them, and takes them out of competition for the next tier down, etc

I wonder how unit size affects this. E.g. if you knock down a block housing 20 poor people to build a mansion for one rich person to occupy.
"The main reason for the vote is the way that travellers from some EU countries are treated by America. While most citizens of EU countries can travel to the United States without a visa, those from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania must still obtain one. Because the EU demands equal treatment of all its citizens in such matters, it says it is legally obliged to fight back."

I won't say it's a good idea - the vote is not even binding, btw -, but at least there's a reasoning behind it. EU wants to be treated as a country[1] and no country accepts different visa requirement for their states.

[1] Maybe
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Those are extremely impressive specs for the size. Great find and thanks for the link.
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> The old adage that no one on their death bed ever wishes they worked more, is 100% true.

https://books.google.com/books?id=e7OYYKACSiIC&pg=PA43&lpg=P...
I thought of the same thing when I read this. I have to admit, this was really smart and "naughty" on their part.

I'm not happy to hear what kind of company Uber is, internally. However, they seem to operate how VCs want companies to act and "disrupt" markets. (Minus the harassment stuff.)
Yes, mostly just to learn more about it.

Finally managed to get it working and get all my sensitivities and categories set up the way I wanted them. Wasn't fun at all.

Before I started I had this idea I was going to use it all the time for all my data. That didn't last long.
That being said ESTA is a visa with a fake nose.
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Just leave their jurisdiction.

Their "jurisdiction" is invalid, so why should we leave?
I still can't get my head around rust. While all those features definitely make sense, I find it very confusing sometimes.

Is there something like rust for c++ programmers?
> is there any negative press or revelation that could actually sink Uber at this point?

They're the Trump of the startup world.
The 2% is a good point but for me the savings of not wanting to part with my Washingtons has been more than 2%.

You're not liable, but that doesn't mean it doesn't cost you anything to get it straightened out (time).
Except for packing the wrong Wi-Fi card in some models.
Does anyone ever get quality responses from that thread?

Maybe I'm cynical, but I've been hesitant to post there with reservations about poor-quality leads and spending time dealing with them.
> It's simultaneously ugly, verbose and cryptic.

> All the `.iter()` and `.iter_mut()` is verbose and could easily be inferred from context ... If it truly must be explicit — and allowing implicitness as an option doesn't preclude allowing explicitness as well — then introduce new method call operators to go along with the dot operator.

When you design your language based on feel on not based on principles that guide what should be defaulted to, you end up with a language that fits only very specific people. Designing based on principles allows people to learn the principles and then use intuition to guide them to in the direction of the correct feature or solution.

You pointed out the list is inconsistent. In my experience, when people have inconsistent feeling a about something that was designed with a consistent methodology, that's because they haven't yet grasped or accepted that methodology and are trying to shoehorn their ideas from other systems into it without recognizing there may already have been a very conscientious decision made about exactly those issues, and likely with more information to base the decision on.

> Rust should've been designed with C++ binary compatibility as a first-class goal. Yes, this is very difficult, and would require compromising aspects of the language design. But it would be an enormous boon to Rust's adoption rate

There are plenty of languages that sacrifice in the name of adoption. Too much and it's useful in the short term, but a losing proposition in the long term. Too little and you may never see enough adoption for it to matter (barring other sources of adoption).,
Accepting more immigrants doesn't have to mean destroying own culture. I don't see why Japan can't promote and preserve its own culture while accepting immigrants. Is coexisting that hard?
I saw a demo of someone getting the external video card working, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kUgkXeTDw

But it required patching BIOS to allow the user to toggle some legacy settings.
And don't forget that 'payment processing' is never free. In fact, it is never even a flat fee despite the fact that it does not actually cost anything more to transfer a larger number over a network than it does a smaller one. Yet people seem to have no problem handing over the majority of their economy to 'processed' payments which empower banks with the ability to do nothing less than levy taxes and exert the same sort of control over the economy that was previously reserved to the federal government. If they wish to restrict the availability of money in the economy, they can simply raise the payment processing fees. If they wish to boost their own profit margin, they simply raise the payment processing fees. They show favoritism by giving large companies big discounts on those fees, revealing them not to be fees actually needed to pay for a service being provided but merely a chunk of money they take simply because they can.
I believe developers currently build "luxury" housing as cheaply as they can and still command the same high rents.

You're correct that it is possible for developers to build much lower quality construction and command the same prices. However, this is only true in a scenario where all developers do the same thing. Generally, developers have some level of competition discouraging that - other developers, existing stock, etc.

(EDIT: Also, much of the cost of construction in areas such as SF is land. Cheap construction doesn't make land cheaper.)
What's the reasoning?
There are too few billionaires for this to have any significant effect.

http://marketurbanism.com/2016/06/27/do-the-rich-cause-high-...

NYC has 5,600 ultra high net worth individuals. If each of these people has 10 flats in NYC (rather than the 3 you hypothesized), that's only 56,000 flats taken off the market. NYC has 3.4 million housing units. http://www.nycrgb.org/downloads/research/pdf_reports/16HSR.p...

The rich are just a tiny drop in a very large bucket.

The more inequality we have, the fewer rich people there are and the smaller this problem becomes.
And why should we discount an opinion just because the source is from outside the country? Internal biases are every bit as severe as outside biases.
the picture in the article is of the UK Border, but the UK is not part of the EU common visa policy.

as a result, this reintroduction of visas for US citizens will not apply to US citizens visiting the UK (even if the change occurs pre-Brexit)
> It's easy to imagine engineers working on small parts of the system, and never really connecting the dots that the whole point is to evade law enforcement.

If you worked at Uber, would you work on a feature meant to prevent lyft employee from using the app to poach data about car locations and hailing rides to recruit new lyft drivers? That was supposedly the original reason for this.

Plenty of people do work to keep corporate secrets safe.
https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp exists, I haven't read it though. Or at least, not in a very long time.
Some of the best events in history have been the destruction of cultures.

14th amendment.

VE Day. VJ Day.

The collapse of the Soviet Union.

I would characterize the Japanese social changes after world war 2 as far... far... more intense than the destruction of cultural institutions described by the comment above yours.
Right, but the EU is saying if the US doesn't, the EU will require visas from US travelers.
I think developing infrastructure with the express goal of evading law enforcement* _is_ very shady, and then proof that they did just that is indeed proof that Uber is shady. I agree that there are other reasons beyond their dedicated law-avoidance infrastructure to consider Uber a shady company, but this leak alone is certainly enough _proof_ to label them as shady.

* even if it is simply by adapting pre existing infrastructure created for a benign purpose
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Immigration of skilled labor is always valuable. Japan, the US, France, Germany, etc should always welcome it, and should have policies that allow people with verified and needed skills to immigrate.

However, drowning your citizens in a sea of immigrants is cultural suicide. If your culture is such that it has allowed your ancestors to build a country that immigrants want to flee their own countries to live in, then your culture is worth preserving, rather than allowing it to be replaced by the culture of those who would happily flood into it.

That means, you can't solve your demographic problems by opening the floodgates. Instead, you need to fix the economic problems that are making people hesitant to have children in the first place.
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> AFAICT there are no major issues that should have caused this.

Populism and a perception that a more globally-connected world is concentrating the benefits of growth into the assets and control of a handful of individuals instead of "a rising tide lifting all boats." Also, the message that some politicians have been using ("trade agreements are evil!" "immigration is bad!" "the EU is making us abuse you!") has taken hold and people are pushing back against the perceived wrongs.

(I intentionally made no judgment call on the accuracy of these perceptions.)
What's the logic there? The EU is under no obligation to allow Americans to travel without a visa.
It's invalid because you don't like it? I don't like many things, doesn't make them go away.
> Because it'd be a lot cheaper to build

No, the point is it wouldn't be a lot cheaper. Granite countertops aren't more expensive in NYC than they are in Topeka. Compared to the price of the property making an apartment "luxury" is pretty cheap.
Also, corporations - as a rule - don't have huge armies made up of many people with guns, tanks, jet fighters, nuclear bombs, etc., which they can use to impose their will on you.

It's a lot easier to divest yourself of a bad relationship with a company, than a nation-state.

(And no, "move" isn't a reasonable response to this, so don't waste your digital breath with any Somalia references).
How would you say, prevent me from accidentally removing more servers than I should using the change boundaries Skyliner provides.

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@scandox: Here's some insight from an Enterprise VoIP perspective that you may find useful, from CiscoLive last year: https://youtu.be/zbjT3Fy4y1s
There are a subset of HN users who think HN needs to be 100% technology or it's not appropriate.

Personally I find almost any topic fine for HN.
That would make sense if they didn't go out of there way to identify potential investigators and law enforcement. I don't see how they could create a system to target law enforcement and then say they didn't know they were.
Are you serious? It is largely a reaction to globalization and the refugee crisis.
I don't think there's going to be a book for "winging everything". Just do it!
Nobody is saying the US is under any obligation.
It is frustrating, I agree. But those days can be had again if we get people to pay attention, focus on facts, and become engaged in the process.

The reason gerrymandering, (I will not include voter fraud), access restrictions, etc etc is still a problem inspite of being identified as a problem is the collective will of the people to demand that these wrongs be correct.

Imagine what the 2016 campaign and election would look like if everyone cared enough to learn and vote. Imagine what your town or state would look like if we could get 80% voting rates... [eyes twinkle as I stare off into the distance thinking of what could be]
> an argument could be made that this is more of an extension of one's fifth amendment rights to remain silent than it is evading the law

Not to mention freedom of association.
Venice, Marina Del Rey, Culver city areas are all not bad. Santa Monica is one of the most expensive areas in the country, though, so just be aware of that. Venice cheaper, but since it's LA, that's still gonna be up there in terms of rent/housing.

I can't give any more info, since I personally stick to downtown, hollywood, silver lake, and north hollywood (in other words, far away from the west side).
Exactly the same situation here.
I guess the alternative is the Dell XPS 15?
Evading the government ability to regulator you through deception is illegal - generally more illegal than whatever it is you're covering up.

Government have to work that way. If lying to and evading regulation wasn't illegal, no regulation at all would be possible.
People can reasonably disagree about whether a piece like this gratifies intellectual curiosity or not, which is the criterion of ontopicness for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It makes sense that the reactions for or against are more intense, because the article touches the emotions so intensely.

There's a tradition of stories like this (very) occasionally making the front page and getting rich discussion. I think that's a good tradition—as long as it's not overdone, which goes for any genre of story.
Actually building a massive building doesn't sound like a bad idea. They want to try it Tokyo.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/architecture/tokyo-mile-hi...
Music, entertainment, and branding cannot be separated in the mainstream. Let me put it this way - a large reason I listen to The Weeknd is because of the interesting lifestyle and excess that he portrays through his branding, his music videos, and his whole persona/vibe.

It's never just about the music, which is why you see a ton of amazingly talented SoundCloud producers that no one has ever heard of. They understand the music but lack the branding and persona development that gets people to actually stick to their music.

AI produced music will be like computer generated art - too distant for most people unless there is another component on top of the music.

That's my initial take. Curious to see what people think of my opinion.
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Also not a geologist, and not familiar with local geology. Packing so much water in a very small channel really helps water erode anything. If i remember correctly, it's thought Niagara falls moved a few miles in a day. That seems terrifying to me, it's a long drop down. Waterfalls slowly work their way upstream, obviously. Less obviously, a little weakness lets more water though, compounding the abrasive effects. Which allows more water, which cuts away the land faster.

So yeah, i don't think the dryness had anything to do with destabilizing anything. Water is just really good at cutting. The dam created a huge reserve of water, so lots is available to cut.
> What is going on in this world? I was reading news today that the parties on the right side of political spectrum are gaining ground all over Europe. US already has Republicans in power. Every country is becoming more nationalistic. What is driving this change? AFAICT there are no major issues that should have caused this.

This is what it is like to be in a filter bubble.
> Sufficiently advanced AI would be aware of the bias of its data, much more than any human ever could.

I am unconvinced that we've proven that - that seems like a hopeful wish.

> Usually that involves not using emotionally-loaded "hand grenade words" that bypass peoples' rational minds, and using clickbait headlines written by malicious editors. AI could be made to avoid both.

It also involves being very, very careful about presentation of data. "Black people in the US are convicted of more crimes" is a perfectly truthful statement - but it turns out that there's an awful lot of nuance to the reasons as to why, which rarely ever have anything to do with one's genetics. And yet there's a good many people who will take that statement as suggesting that black people are inherently significantly more likely to commit crimes, which isn't even close to what was actually said.

Specific speech patterns and words also lead to bias. You can quite easily write two articles stating exactly the same set of facts with very little fluff, and still result in differently biased articles.

Or, in other words, facts without reasons behind them tend to further bias, and it's only once you have reasons that you can actually start to suggest policy.
That is absolutely true, however the majority of European sway is with Germany, and the lost tourism would hit other countries (Greece, Spain, Croatia) much harder.
No kidding. HSAs are great if you're healthy. Soon as you have a chronic condition or two where you need to see the doctor on a more than biannual basis, you see where they, and the rest of the insurance system really starts falling apart. A friend I have has several chronic illnesses and is on a pretty typical high deductible health insurance plan you get when you're making $15/hour. Because of this, she can't afford to get treatment for those chronic illnesses due to that several hundred dollar annual deductible just to get into the door. Seeing a doctor would help her greatly, but she's screwed because of the penny wise, pound foolish situation these kinds of plans offer.

In contrast, I'm on disability and on Medicare. Medicare means I pay $6/month for prescriptions which have a "retail" price of $2k, and my copays for regular, non-preventative, doctor visits are $10-$20. Even the doctor fee is because I'm using one not fully within the medicare system. This actually makes it possible to get treatment, even while seeing doctors who specialize in my various medical conditions. Thus I'm getting better, and don't have to balance treatment and finances.
>If I understood the full scope of the application, I like to think i'd decline to work on that. It's easy to imagine engineers working on small parts of the system, and never really connecting the dots that the whole point is to evade law enforcement.

It reminds me of the VW emissions cheating case:

"Hey, have it detect whether the test cycle is running and emit a signal if true."

'Um... why would the system need to know that?'

"Uh, because we don't want the car to freak out when the wheels are turning but it's not moving."

'Oh ... seems legit.'

"And you -- have it minimize NO2 when it gets this signal. But don't talk to him."

In the Uber case, employees might have been told, "oh we want to offer a special discount to law enforcement" ... though even that seems seedy.

But (per my original comment) I don't see how they can keep the circle small. What do they tell support employees to say when someone reports not being able to get a ride despite all the fake cars around?
Not OP but I recently installed OpenVMS 7.3 on Simh following this guide [1], (ignoring the building Simh part) and it works like a charm.

[1] https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html