skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git is actually a great example - if you just memorize a few magic git commands you really aren't using the tool correctly and can end up in state that is unrecoverable (at least to you, the magician). Better to spend an afternoon understanding how git works (again, mostly) and be equipped to survive such circumstances.
This is normal. Jouranlists dig deep into the trouble culture of Uber because the finding can sell and generally very interesting to research on. This has happened to every company with bad press.
If horrific violence / imagery affects you long after putting a book down, then I would say definitely don't read Blood Meridian - and I say this as someone who counts it as one of his 3 favorite novels.

It presents man's intellect as the apotheosis of 4 billion years of pain, suffering, death, and destruction. Man as the ultimate practitioner of the ordering principle of the universe: War
A pre-order on an app, seriously?
> Poor form? You could squeeze the bag and get almost an identical amount of juice. They should provide some sort of actual value to their customer.

I can squeeze a honeydew by hand and get plenty of juice. Pomegranate not so much. Kale, not at all. Celery? Maybe a little, but a few drips compared to what a juice press would give me is not at all in the same ball park. Do any of the juice packs contain hard to squeeze fruits or vegetables? The exercise is left to the reader, who can't do their own research without a $750 spend. Poor form.

> Was the NYT article on Uber and Unroll.me poor form?

I don't know which Uber article that you are referring to, but Uber is in the midst of a sea of bad press and is plenty flush to buy the help of a quality PR firm to see them through it.

Unroll.me - if you go after them, you should talk about how Mozilla uses data along with chrome, facebook, the television networks, netflix, etc. It's lazy to villify a single firm when there's an industry full of questionable practices.

> Why don't we just require that businesses provide some sort of actual value? If they're producing value, they can prove it, and the product will succeed or fail on the market

Not every product produces value. In the world of IT, software in general, and most certainly "cloud services", value should absolutely be questioned more. But it's certainly hard to be a consumer watchdog while at the same time doing the same thing. Especially when your biggest source of revenue is a series of other companies doing the same thing.

> But being able to get the same amount of juice by squeezing the bag isn't some "fake news" drive for clicks.

Are you sure about that? The video looks to me like it was created with the intent of going viral.
I used something called "dichotomic keys" in middle school, which are basically search trees ("does the leaf have lobes? If yes go to page 20")

I've looked for an app like that for years, seems yours is, thanks!
What do you think? To just ask the questions is a way to muddle the issue; perhaps offer your opinion and something to support it.

I've seen the same types of questions posted multiple times regarding Uber. Uber the victim, picked on; everybody does these things. I even saw someone say that the long list of executives that left Uber was normal. It's a cynical, and false, view of humanity and the business community.
This is a good idea. I'd love a version of UnRoll.me that I could host on my own servers.
Also have to take into account that hardware is ridiculously cheap nowadays. You can rent quite a lot of raw computing power with the salary of one engineer.
I've read the OMeta paper, the object models paper, and most of the VPRI papers. I'm generally sympathetic to their point of view -- I hate bloated software.

But what has been built with these tools? If OMeta was really better, wouldn't we be using it to parse languages by now? They already have a successor Ohm, which is interesting, but I also think it falls short.

I'm searching desperately for a meta-language to describe my language, so I would use it if it were better.

I think they generally do the first 90%... but skip out on the remaining 90% (sic) you need to make something more generally useful and usable.
I'm with you there - this seems like a large oversight that should have been prevented. My original comment was more referring to all the bad press in general. I just wonder how many sketchy things modern tech companies get away with that are only discovered when the watchful eyes take notice.
From an entrepreneurial standpoint, yes.

If you have $120M in venture funding, somebody should have stopped and asked the questions - how do we protect the brand? And what are the dangers to this brand?

That's a pretty enormous miss.
I'm going to repeat my previous answer to your previous question, as I posted it late and you probably didn't see it :

Uber supposedly has no competition relation with drivers. Adding that drivers may choose to work both for Uber and Lyft, this gives Uber leverage against a category of population they have been known to abuse. The danger here is the combination of undue knowledge and a de-facto dependency relation in the hands of a known offender.

In your example, you're saying Uber had to offer several hundreds of dollars for drivers to switch sides. However, nothing is said about how this spying contributed to this : maybe the offer could have been bigger. Maybe some drivers were precluded from receiving monetary deals because of it. etc.
I never post here but this saddens me greatly, his ideas spoke to me on another level.
No Country is worth reading. I loved the film but didn't make time to read the book for a while. Really enjoyed it when I did.
Can't it be fixed by a driver instead?
Is there a demo account somewhere? I'd love to try it out, but I have some difficulties compiling
Great work! Could you add the function to export to static site? In that case, i would be awesome tools for writing blogs!
I was asking questions because I am not well informed on the history of this sort of thing, and considering this is a forum of people who work at tech companies, I felt that some may be able to lend some insight.

I personally have worked at one hardware company that was extremely ethical, and none of this would fly at any point. Now I work in a very regulated business making medical devices. I'm just trying to expand my perspective past where it is.

That said, this all seems very bad to me and reflects poorly on a company that has grown by consistently breaking rules.
Salvaged for a robotics project?
Precisely.

Now imagine a publication that only presents the results of the other 3%.
Like other ecommerce site affiliate programs (e.g. Amazon, eBay), the affiliates earn commissions on everything the user purchases from iTunes, like movies, music, etc. - not just the apps they promote.

Still requires a lot of volume to make decent money, but maybe not as much as you imagined.
If it does exist, it is limited to military use afaik. I don't know of any commercial or FOSS platform like that. I was thinking more like a small usb-chargable chip that you carry around that could be used no matter what phone you are from, or to record verifiable messages.

The hurdle is creating an algo that can derive all previous signals to verify non-live recordings, but that can't derive the future signals without a private key. I'm not sure what existing bodies of work there are in that domain.
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Maybe see about volunteering? No snark--they could probably use the help.
How does one get involved in a climate R&D group? Any more info you can share?
Please list the available languages on the homepage or About page. I didn't want to sign up without knowing whether you covered my target language.
Looks like count_bits loops infinitely if given a negative number.

The wiki (https://wiki.python.org/moin/BitwiseOperators) says:

Of course, Python doesn't use 8-bit numbers. It USED to use however many bits were native to your machine, but since that was non-portable, it has recently switched to using an INFINITE number of bits. Thus the number -5 is treated by bitwise operators as if it were written "...1111111111111111111011".
Only slightly related, but I've always wondered about an app that told you what crop was growing in the area you were driving through. Often they're recognisable, but sometimes they're not. No business case for it, just to satisfy curiosity.
Your last sentence is my point, particularly this phrase: 'but that would nevertheless be a biased presentation'. Who cares? Trying to eliminate bias from everything is a fool's errand that will tie people up in pointless minutiae - just like whatever happens when warming sceptics are let near anything resembling a debate. These people want to sow confusion and division, so much better to ignore them, especially when their position adds nothing to the discourse.

We've already solved this problem: Professionalism. Quality professional culture is preferable to pointless nitpicking anyday.
Fresh out of college? Aren't dropouts all the rage nowadays? By graduation, you're ooooold, and old people only have stale ideas.
I agree with you and I'm looking forward to checking this out if/when it launches. I was only taking issue with the title of the original article, which suggested this was a direct countermeasure to "fake news" rather than an attempt at better news. I think Jimbo is more concerned about bridging a divide between journalists and audience (hence his mention of comments sections) than he is about drowning out some fly-by-night spam mills.
Interesting. But I think she might have a different agenda wven if she did have such verbal mutual understanding with the board. For someone like her becoming CEO becoming a savior is important. She probably eventually pushed her technical agenda wanted to save the company and make profits so she can stay there long.
> The only thing that can hurt you in this industry is that you stop learning and stop growing. I tell my employees to always learn something new every month.

I am lucky enough to work in an environment where we work with many technologies in a rapidly-evolving area, and most of us have multiple responsibilities, so I can say without fear of hyperbole that, on average, I learn something new every day, be it how to find the signing cert needed to verify an ADFS OAuth2 JWT, or configure Gitlab EE correctly to authenticate with an LDAP server. I think I would simply croak if I had to do a conventional job.

-- 58 year old attack dev
This was mentioned as part of an Uber story, and HN picked up on this detail as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397
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Using that logic, you can never trust a single doctor because you need to see 20 of them to get a balanced perspective.
> How much of this is cultural, and how much of it is a result of being examined microscopically by passionate investigators? Or is Uber really just that bad?

How does the first question affect the second? Assuming the stories are true, Uber really is just that bad. Whether other companies are too shouldn't be relevant in this context, or at least it shouldn't affect how bad all this is.
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Your blog post is very interesting, replicated it in a game against some of my friends too. Very easy.
Bad article, but meanwhile in Munich/Germany: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15369850/lilium-jet-flying...
Not to divert too much, but what is it about this moment that strikes you so? While I love the prose, reading carries no sense of tension in my mind.
I would have called him the W-ster and respect parent's wishes
Company backed by Larry Page tests flying car prototype
Because all usable standards are fuzzy, including the one you favor.

And the judgment as to whether a particular fuzzy match is good enough is, in essence, an aesthetic one.
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Sadly I'm not the creator of this, only the messenger.
I was hoping someone on HN would be able to explain how this actually works.
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Sorry about that, I was hoping someone on HN could explain more technically how this actually works.
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>41% can deadlock the network

Can't you have a "reputation". If a node is consistently acting in bad faith you blacklist it.
In the Apple Pie scenario, you'll find most apple pie enthusiasts can go down the stack a few layers. They'll talk about important aspects of the right flour, the apples, etc.

In the specific case of opsolutely you're in a tight spot because there are several better abstraction options available than your closed source invite only tool. Kube and Mesos both offer better support and tooling and both have several options for an extensible and automated software deployment lifecycle.
My advice, FWIW, is to really think hard about what others here are saying as well - don't move just now. Do your investors have a really good reason for you to go there that is provably critical to the success of your startup? Many of these people just want to keep their investment where they can see it. As someone who has moved countries frequently (now on my 8th) I can tell you that it is massive investment in terms of time and money, both of which you are probably better off putting in your business. The USA and SV aren't going anywhere, they will still be here in another year or so (at least, i'd like to think so) when you are past the helter-skelter startup days, and will be in a position to create some more breathing room. In the meantime, nothing stopping you from popping over when it is absolutely required.
Shareholder value went up very quickly after she came on board.
Here you are again, twisting my words! Amazing. No, I did not say anything like that about PRISM. I said exactly what I said-- that I was not clear enough in my original post, but I clarified myself immediately after in response to you. I wrote that original post in a hurry and did not take the time to read over it like I usually do. And I've already elaborated on how the NSA uses other agencies and businesses as tools for its surveillance, to avoid direct ownership of the information that they can request at any time. Again, STOP twisting my words to serve your narrative.

I gave you links, but I will humor you with another:

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

> . . . recently published FISA court order demanding Verizon turn over all customer phone records including who is talking to whom, when and for how long—to the NSA . . .

Oh look! FISA being used to demand all of verizon's phone records! All of them! And what are one of the programs that FISA feeds into? Oh yeah, that's right. PRISM. If you do not consider this to be a dragnet surveillance order, you are just lying to yourself. So there is yet another verifiable source highlighting the scope of PRISM.

here is the relevant court case:

https://www.eff.org/cases/first-unitarian-church-los-angeles...

Do I need to physically take you to Titanpointe to see it for yourself? Here is a link explaining what that is, I already posted it once but clearly you have not been following through and reading these links.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
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Is it really a fine line?

Lyft explicitly say you can't use their API to compete with them. How can violating their terms of service be in any kind of grey area?

I'm not posing rhetorical questions. I'm asking you an honest question. Why would you think it's okay to use a service in a manner that the service explicitly prohibits?
The actual Occam's Razor is useless unless adapted. How does one count "assumptions" -- if we take Wikipedia's word for what it states -- or "entities" -- if we take the version I first learned?

Most versions that actually work can be lightheartedly equated to a "Principle of Least Foofarah".
The subconscious becomes way easier to understand once you meditate a bit on the structure of the brain and do a little reading on the split-brain condition.

The two hemispheres of the brain are connected by a neural superhighway called the corpus callosum. If you cut the bundle, then the hemispheres can still communicate, but the bandwidth is cut to a trickle. In this situation, the hemispheres develop divergent personalities and they can often fight over broader executive control of the organism.

With the bundle intact, the halves settle into roles, with the left brain taking the conscious aspect. The right brain forms the unconscious.
What are they alleging it spied on?

I hear about test operations and the targeting of international traffic.

Was there domestic targeting for non-test purposes? Or even any domestic targeting at all?
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Well for one, it's against Apple's rules to do this. And just because it's "industry practice" doesn't mean you get a free pass.
It seems there's an assumption in the article and in the comments here that "more EVs == net positive impact on pollution / greenhouse gases". This is not obvious at all. It depends on the way you produce electricity, and when 75% of it comes from coal, you may end up worsening the problem. This could be a smart move if the automobile market had a bigger inertia than the energy one, but I doubt it's the case...
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As a general purpose goal, beyond helping people with the most severe disabilities ,
This doesn't seem like that useful of a goal(especially compared to other possibilities) , why is there such fascination about direct brain communication, even among really smart people ?
> It's one thing to be dumb, quite another to be extraordinarily gifted and to use that gift to do something which has no upside at all and plenty of downside

One could extend this argument to engineers who work for nefarious, privacy-violating ad companies, invasive surveillance...
I am whitest of the white. I know calculus. I know differential equations. I know debugging. I made the debugger in TempleOS. The first thing you always do when starting fresh on bare metal is write RS232 drivers for the console, then do a debugger.

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I completely understand :). It tends to be easier than you think to acquire calorie-dense foods though, depending where you live (in America it's a cinch). Others have also commented on ways to consume calories elsewhere in this thread, but the key for me was "dirty" bulking. 3000 calories/day would be impossible for me if I were restricted to lean chicken meat, broccoli, and brown rice. However it was really easy (and enjoyable) when my meals consisted of:

1. Chipotle burrito bowls with extra meat: At least 1000 calories in this alone with a significant amount of protein.

2. Protein shakes with whole milk. Or fruit/vegetable smoothies with whole milk and yogurt.

3. Natural peanut butter (the kind you need to stir) for dessert, washing each mouthful down with whole milk. Alternatively I'd also have some rocky road (for the peanuts it contains) ice cream.

4. If I ever missed a meal and was significantly low on calories for the day, I'd eat a few slices of pizza to compensate.

It wasn't the _healthiest_ diet plan, and I definitely gained a lot of fat, but it's not like I looked awful - after ballooning to over 160 pounds, I still looked skinny due to my height. Once I got to a satisfactory level, I began to eat healthier, meanwhile my strength increased dramatically.
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"The Republican governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, decided to buck this downward trend by announcing that he would schedule eight killings in 11 days, in order to use up a batch of the sedative medazolam that was expiring at the end of this month. Had all the executions taken place, it would have been the largest mass execution in the US for more than 50 years."
From your own link:

>Some people are susceptible to seizures caused by strobing, flickering, or flashing effects.

>Most web content is completely harmless to individuals with photoepileptic tendencies. Even most animations, videos, moving text, and Flash objects do not present any danger. However, some developers insist on dramatic effects of flashing or flickering lights and strobe-like effects.

Most developers use animations to get rid of strobe-like effects caused by things like pop-in or quick scrolling. Blindly disabling all animations would make things _worse_.

Its why most browsers animate discrete (mousewheel) scrolling: prevent accidental strobing effect caused by aliasing.

>These kinds of knee-jerk reactions from people in the industry are exactly

I'm trying to be factual. You can't even bother to read the links you share. Blindly disabling all animations would be the dumb knee-jerk reaction.

>Listen to the people who are saying these things make them uncomfortable

They aren't the one making drama. People like you are. Look at how emotionally compelling your argument is. Yet not based on facts, and if you would actually have epilepsy or would know anyone who has, you would know this.

> instead of dismissing it out of hand, like most the commenters here are doing.

People are dismissing the masturbatory judgement displayed by unrequested/unwanted judgement heroes. No solution ever comes from moral indignation. The polite thing is to keep the judgment-toy in your pants and only whip it out for a select special few.
The best workout is the one you do. For a lot of people, language learning have some tedious rote memorization elements.

And not everybody have access to an "enthusiastic teacher"

These two things combined leaves plenty of room for "methods, apps and tricks"
Don't make comments like this if you don't understand why people use Ruby in the first place.

Maybe your code is performing acceptably well, but if someone comes up to you and says "Hey, would you like some free performance with this drop-in replacement?" you'd be stupid to say no.

There's a difference between performance being critical and performance being important.
> My issue was that I see myself as a pretty moral person, but if I were working for a startup and was tasked with "Implement a way to know how many Lyft drivers are out on the road," I could see myself doing something very similar to what Uber did, and also feeling mildly clever about it.

Being pretty moral and having strong work ethics are two different things. I believe (or at least hope) that our profession mostly sees itself as moral.

However, in terms of ethics, we suck. We rarely take time to think about the consequences of our action, and what impacts it may have. We rarely build elaborate thought about what we should and should not do. Therefore, when the time comes to do something, we are left unprepared, we cannot envision the moral dilemnas of things and the consequences of what we do, and we go for it without even thinking about it.

This is why so many IT people end up doing things they may regret : they are not necessarily immoral, but they never thought seriously about what they should and should not do in their job.
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jotux would probably need to paste in a few pages from before and after to give the tension context.

The pistol mentioned was taken from a dead drug dealer. The someone next to the truck would drive most of the rest of the story.
The 6 million number is made up