skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is addressed plenty of times in this thread.

Futher, specific to your question: the court doesn't care one way or another. They'll take his testimony if he wants to give it, and they'll have it even easier to make a decision without. A civil court is also unlikely to be in a position to grant any immunity.

Neither google nor the court care about the conflicts of interest on the defendants' side. I'd even agree with you that at-will employment is evil, and legitimately pleading the 5th shouldn't be enough to fire someone. But specifically in this case, Lewandowsky could be fired even if he were employed by the French government – he could then sue himself, and the findings of the google/uber trial would probably determine his claim of wrongful dismissal.
You should familiarize yourself PBS Digital Studios. They have several high quality Youtube channels. CrashCourse, Space Time, Infinite, etc. are much better at using the Internet medium and specifically video for learning than Khan Academy, with high production values for a Youtube series though they have different objectives. Khan Academy is like a traditional classroom via the web.

The PBS shows are bingeworthy. Seriously, take a look at SpaceTime. It's so much better than anything the Science or Discovery channel puts on. And I've binged on several topics in Crash Course
If you understand pointers then from a cursory glance at this tutorial you should be fine.
Prolog's mathematical foundation is sound but the devil is in the details, and very soon, you encounter two of Prolog's most glaring flaws that lead to spaghetti code worse than what even BASIC ever produced:

- It's dynamically typed

- The cut operator
It's also interesting to note that Mehmed II claimed the title of Caesar after his conquest of Constantinople and that geographically there was a lot of overlap between the greatest extent of Eastern Roman and Ottoman territory. Oh, and not only did a Constantine found the city, but it was the 11th Constantine that died losing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)#Ottoman_Empire
From your link:

For purposes of this paragraph, arson of property does
not include one burning or causing to be burned his or
her own personal property unless there is an intent to
defraud or there is injury to another person or another
person’s structure, forest land, or property.
This is disingenuous at best.

Before Uber, how many of those "independent contractors" were in the market?

It's fair to criticize Uber's aggressive and shady practices, it's also fair to acknowledge the enormous changes that it has brought about to the transportation landscape.
>Getting into a car is a necessary risk to living a fulfilling life.

Haha. Really? These car advertisements really work.

>Taking up smoking has little upside.

Again. Really? Are you saying there is no fun in smoking?
Economists like to use natural experiments—when comparable populations are exposed to different conditions through policy or chance. It would be interesting to compare Austin (no Lyft/Uber) to a similar city in the vacuum between the locally-grown solutions coming in and U/L leaving. I'm not sure how robust the findings would be though.
Awesome. I made a CLI tool (lisense)[1] to add licenses to repositories when you are developing them.

[1] https://github.com/pravj/lisense
Media consolidation certinaly hasn't helped. It does seem to me that individual journalists are making their views known more commonly and it's definitely easier to spot when they're actively engaging their audience on social media. Part of me wonders if them being encouraged or required to participate in social media causes some bias towards getting approval from fans.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that news organizations being further driven towards higher profits also causes them to follow consumer trends and popular stories in "their audience" rather than doing more investigative journalism and objective reporting. It's almost like social media and popular opinion drive the story rather than just tipping off journalists to where the story might be, its lazy and probably cheaper.
Worked somewhat well on mobile, now that impresses.
Consumer protection law is very strong in Australia & New Zealand. I'm glad to see government taking a tough stance towards what amounts to corporations weaseling out of doing their fair part.
Note that Uber was not the only taxi reform in NYC. A quote from the paper:
"For my analysis, I use data from collisions that occurred from January 2007 through
July 2013. This period includes Uber’s entrance into the New York market in May 2011, allows
for a substantial pre-intervention period, and omits two potentially confounding entrances in the
New York City transportation market that could influence the alcohol-related collision rate. The
first entrance occurred in August 2013 as New York City introduced a new form of taxi
medallion to serve only the “outer boroughs” of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and
northern Manhattan. These “boro” taxis were painted green rather than the typical yellow
medallion taxis, and banned from picking up in lower Manhattan, where most street-hail yellow
taxi rides originate."

Note also that Uber in NYC is operated by TLC-licensed drivers against whom it is very easy to file a complaint for dangerous driving, which is different from many other cities. I used NYC's lovely 311 app to file a complaint against just such a driver for shouting at me after he drove at me head-on in a 2-way bike lane. I expect he'll face a significant fine.
I've worked a bit on it. My solution is not incredible or anything, probably there are far more efficient and/or elegant solutions out there. Mine is not done yet but I'm going to continue with this one later and by then the activity in this thread will be over so I leave this link here now.

https://github.com/eriknstr/puzzles/blob/master/zebra/soluti...
Can you please explain this..

>If the host knows what is behind the doors, and you are only given two chances, and the host can open a different door from what you picked, isn't your chance of winning zero?
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9 Ways to bridge the gap between your “inner animal” and modern life
> I would love to know to what you are referring with the inconsistent beliefs.

You could build frequentist models for the odds of 0 to 1 inches of rain falling in Cleveland tomorrow, 1 to 2 inches, and 0 to 2 inches, and the odds of 0 to 1 plus 1 to 2 don't need to add up to 0 to 2 inches. You can justify all 3 models, but they are inconsistent. Bayesian models don't allow that. I read about this in Aaron Brown's "Red-Blooded Risk". Here's an online source asserting "frequentists can have two different unbiased estimators under the same likelihood functions." https://chenghanyu.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/the-strengths-an...

Here's one saying that Bayesian models are self-consistent: http://bactra.org/notebooks/bayesian-consistency.html

Here's Eliezer Yudkowsky giving examples of my other point, that frequentist models can encourage sloppy behavior from scientists: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1gc/frequentist_statistics_are_frequ...
The alternative is not to write multiple `ls` commands. The alternative is to let `ls` list directory contents and to leave filtering, sorting, or customizing the output display to a separate utility which specializes in those.
I'm guessing you're not a high school principal.
With that level of honesty you'll never be the CEO of a company like Yahoo.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/
Not op but I think the shitty buses comment goes like this. No way any middle class person(wealthy,etc) with a car is going to suffer through a bus ride. Unless we has a 10x improvement with a so called Tesla of buses. With government today I really don't see it.
But it's not convergence. It's making the look and feel, and some APIs similar enough someone could target multiple machines.

I want convergence. Real bloody convergence. I want to hook my laptop's /dev and /sys , port applications over to my phone, continue using them, until I get to work, and then expand them back out there. And all the while, they would never quit, halt, freeze, or die.

Or I want to be able to collaborate on a program, send it to a buddy, have them work on it, and then get it back.
When I tried out Prolog, I was struck by the inelegance of is/2. There has to be something like it, because no one knows how to write an interpreter for

arcsin(X,Y) :- sin(Y,X).

However, MetaPost can do that for linear expressions. You can say (in Prolog syntax)

midpoint(X,Y,Z) :- Z == (X+Y)/2.
two(X) :- midpoint(0,X,1).

And the MetaPost interpreter will find the solution two(2).

Does anyone know of Prolog extensions that can solve linear algebra problems like that?
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The problem is police departments across the country use civil forfeiture to fund day to day activities and it's a policy that gets a candidate the support and endorsement of law enforcement at the municipal and state level. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-...
The situation was depicted in the fictional TV show The Shield fifteen years ago but it turns out, the truth is not worse than the crazy stuff they told in those fictional stories.
The courts are actually pretty first-class. Take a look at the transcript posted elsewhere in this thread for a reference to the transparency of the system, and how this judge is defending it. Supreme Court cases also make for pretty fun reading sometimes, and there's no denying that judges tend to be extremely smart and conscientious.
Yeah, I think it's quite likely that the patent charges, for which how Uber/Otto got to the designs is immaterial (except in terms of enhanced penalties for willfulness, which Levandowski's knowledge, with or without the documents, may be enough for), may be the real killer.
> Are credentials not verified when hiring someone?

The verification work is probably outsourced to some company that does that kind of background checks. Or just takes your money and doesn't do any work, as the case might be.
Lua is great for extensions, isn't it?

I forked antizez's editor to add Lua support, and posted it here in the past:

https://github.com/skx/kilua/

That works well for me, even with the minor omissions, and is well-paired with my console-based mail-client - again scripted by lua:

https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
Fairness, one way or the other, is hard to quantify here. CEO's get compensated a lot more than other employees, in a lot of different ways; you could just as easily argue that isn't fair either. Besides, at the bottom, the CEO is taking on debt that could find him/her bankrupted if the company fails. I don't think it would be responsible to even offer that facility to all employees. It might not even be legal, if the employees are not accredited investors, though I'm not sure about that.

I should add that I don't have any knowledge of who pushed for the deal, and how it was set, but I doubt the CEO strolled in and just asked for the loan. I'm assuming it was part of the compensation package that was proposed or negotiated by the board and their comp consultants.
From the company's POV, this is a cashless exercise. Theranos has loaned $25M to Holmes who paid it to Theranos. This is a common structure. Dunno why the WSJ didn't see that.

From her POV, she doesn't have beneficial ownership. I think that has tax consequences.

http://www.financeandflipflops.com/cash-vs-cashless-exercise...
Jolla licenses SailfishOS to Chinese consortium (with plans to invest $250m USD) [pdf]
> because sharing is reciprocal.

This didn't sound right so I looked it up[0]

No mention of it being reciprocal - which makes sense for almost every use of "sharing" I can think of

When I share my sandwich I'm not receiving any other sandwich from anybody else (perhaps if I was I'd share more often)

Anyway, its not easy to defend Uber and I don't want to be labeled that way - since I've boycotted the service more than once, but some of the arguments in this thread on this page seem really petty

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sharing
I made significant changes to antirez's kilo editor myself, adding in support for Lua-based scripting. I use that for composing emails, again in a lua-based mail client that I wrote myself.

For coding though? I usually use emacs. It's just so damn customizable..
I appreciate Masterpiece Mystery and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood as much as anyone.

But unfortunately I have to agree with some of this. I watched the election night coverage on PBS. As more states started turning red, the host looked like she was about to cry. And she looked like she was physically in pain, or wanted to spit, each time she said the words "white working class" voters.

So it comes as no surprise that those voters, and the candidate they elected, are going to want to pull the plug.

It's a real shame, too. How could they not see this coming?
5th Generation Project in Japan ($400M and Prolog in the '80's)
13" MacBook Pro - Late 2015

- Mac OS

- Battery Life

- Build, screen, and trackpad quality

- No Drama or tinkering necessary

- Great local support for the couple of incidents over the years
Fascinating. Where can we read more of these transcripts?
I've spent enough time tweaking, extending, and rewriting emacs lisp that I sometimes feel like I wrote my own emacs.
Does Udacity have any plan to expand outside USA and in other ventures? Like Bangalore maybe? I am an AIND student.
Normally you don't join a conversation this far gone, but you are making an exception this time because you want to join in the beat up a user who made a joke and let's make him pay for it thread?

Hi come on in!

:) <-- Not violence
This is interesting, given Canonical's announcement today to abandon Ubuntu Touch.

SailfishOS is one of the few alternatives to Android and iOS.
Are you suggesting it's unfair that different employees get different compensation deals, presumably based on their value to the company?
How can you use DCG in a productive way? If haven't found a good way when there is left recursion. Memonization(tabbling) only sometimes helps and refactoring the grammar into non-left-recursive takes a lot of time and is error prone.

What's your solution?
Yes. Judges have extreme latitude in what they consider and how they run a trial. Consider the recent case in Hawaii ruling on the travel ban. Quote: "The Court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has."

(The reference is to the President's statements before and after the election)

Many seem to be surprised reading this transcript. Yet the tone this judge is using isn't anything special. You can see that he takes extreme care not to disadvantage one side, without pretending to be some sort of soulless automaton.
The choice of Prolog:

The Japanese Fifth Generation project was a
collaborative effort of the Japanese computer
industry coordinated by the Japanese Government
that intended not only to update the hardware
technology of computers but alleviate the
problems of programming by creating AI
operating systems that would ferret out what
the user wanted and then do it. The Project
chose to use PROLOG as the computer language
for the AI programming instead of the
LISP-based programming of the American
AI researchers.

... and eventual failure ...

A bold 10-year effort by Japan to seize the
lead in computer technology is fizzling to
a close having failed to meet many of its
ambitious goals or to produce technology
that Japan's computer industry wanted.
After spending $400 million on its widely
heralded Fifth Generation computer project,
the Japanese Government said this week that
it was willing to give away the software
developed by the project to anyone who
wanted it, even foreigners.
i can only offer anecdotal evidence but from my experience, uber is much more popular in the outer boroughs than the new green cabs. in addition, up until late 2016, you could hail a green cab via Uber via their taxi mode.

i think Uber is mostly responsible for this trend precisely because they compete with yellow/green taxi's and continously drive down prices. lower prices for consumers mean its an easy decision to choose an Uber vs drive yourself when drunk.
The proposed deal involves Holmes's shares in Theranos? What value do those have now? I assumed the company is total loss at this point.
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The Japanese government spent US $400 million in the '80's (a lot in those days) to try to jump ahead of "western" computer technology via its "5th Generation Project". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047780

The basis for it all ... Prolog.
> but is it fair?

Is a question for the shareholders and board to ask.
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ls | filter-hidden | sort | add-directory-slashes | mark-symlinks | mark-executables | colorize | display-in-grid

This seems really inconvenient, but who cares because it's ideologically sound!
It's done in order to start the clock early for capital gains. If you excercise shares at the same time you sell them, that transaction is treated as regular income. If you excercise the shares early by purchasing them, then they can be taxed at the lower capital gains rate down the road. There was a response in the thread that asked if this is fair -- to that I would answer that when the purchase is handled as a loan, it is a real liability to the employee (usually the CEO or founder). If the company tanks or the clock ticks too long for a liquidity event, the note has to be paid. So this could be a very risky proposition for an average employee, even it were offered.
Lyft has a decent presence in Los Angeles and a number of people, including myself, find it to be consistently cheaper.
Um, shouldn't that be "misled"?
That's why I say you cant prove a probabilist/statistician wrong about probabilities of an outcome in any finite amount of time.... Its always good to be in such a business except for they cant be proven right either (in finite time)
> Culture is descriptive, not descriptive.

This seems to either be a typo, or clever in a way that I don't understand.
The CEO won't go bankrupt.. these loans are backed by the stock as collateral. But there should be a law that all such plans and purchase agreements are available to all employees if available to the execs.
It's not really about fair, or founder vs. employee. It's a liquidity thing. The following is an example I totally made up, but it'll sort of give you an idea of how it could work.

Say you found a company, the company is still private, and you outright own shares worth a billion dollars. Selling private shares is a pain in the butt. You can do it, if you find a buyer, but it can be a lot of work.

Now let's say you want to take $25 million off the table. While you can't easily sell your shares, you can borrow against them. Any bank will lend you the money, because you're securing the loan with your billion dollars worth of stock. The risk of your stock collapsing from one billion dollars to zero is fairly low. The stock can drop 97.5% in value and still be enough to cover the loan. If you default on payment, the bank simply seizes your stock.

Now let's say an employee joins the company when the stock is valued at $5/share, and that employee gets 100,000 shares. The stock goes up to $20/share. The employee's stock is worth ($20 - $5) * 100,000, or $1,500,000. The employee wants to borrow against those stock options. Before that can happen, they need to be actual shares. The employee needs to spend $500,000 just to own the stock. If the bank will loan money that is worth up to 10% of the value of stock in a privately held company, you couldn't even take out a loan big enough to buy the all stock in the first place. You could maybe buy a few of the shares, but if the amount you want to borrow is too small, the bank simply won't bother, because it's too much work.
May be intentionally?
I grew up in New York City. When my Dad retired we moved to a fairly rural area in Pennsylvania, about 90 miles west of NYC.

Our next door neighbor there, age mid 30's, had never once been to NYC, and he never saw any reason to go. This was a cultural shock for me, because who didn't want to at least visit NYC???

Some people are just less adventurous than others.
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> In other words, the premodern world was indeed a place where most people didn't venture beyond their own village.

According to this thesis[1], 40–50% of Romans were born outside the city, that sounds like quite widespread mobility!

[1] http://www.academia.edu/245988/Migration_and_Mobility_in_Imp...
The parent was not comparing labor vs. capital, but rather labor vs. labor e.g. the set of all software engineers at a company. It's perfectly reasonable to expect the salary distribution to fit a bell curve.

And I disagree with your conclusion that this would likely increase wages for all employees. In the least, it's very likely to penalize high performers by redistributing their wealth to low performers, so employers can maintain the appearance of "fairness".

It's equally likely that this would decrease wages for all employees. If the incentive to perform well is diminished (e.g. "why work harder if you won't be rewarded?"), then it will lower the bar for quality across the board, providing less value to employers, ultimately pushing the price (i.e. wage) downward.
> theoretically it is impossible to distinguish a biased coin from a fair one if we toss to infinity

correction: if you replace infinity by any large finite number your statement is correct.
Lots of languages (c.f. python) do negative indexes with the first one starting from zero. The last element is indeed -1, because the element selected is simply the array-size-modulus of the index. It wraps exactly how you expect, and a few tricks use this.

CSS grid's negative indexes, hilarious, don't even get this right. If the first element is 1 then the last must be 0, right? No, it's not. Nor is it -1. It's negative two. Don't ask. I don't know.
What gave you the impression that Lyft has 50%? Thats certainly not been my experience.
It's great to discuss ways to improve things, but that is different than suggesting that the whole thing is rotten to the core and needs a re-work from the ground up. The productive way to do this is to identify specific deficiencies and propose targeted incremental improvements to address them. This is what all the people involved in various standards and implementations on the web have been doing for years. This is working, progress is just slow and difficult, as it is with most things that are worth doing.