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> I'm no fan of Uber, but if there are LEOs trying to use your product fraudulently (e.g. fake data, ordering an Uber not for a ride but to impound cars), doesn't it make sense to try and stop this sort of operation?

If it's actually fraudulent, then, yes, you should stop it by suing and getting an injunction against the illegal government action.

If it's just enforcing the law that you are breaking, maybe you should quit breaking the law rather than engaging in elaborate technical means to conceal the violation, and expecting that won't cause additional problems when it is discovered.
This is all good, but still -- I am not sure that something that relies on resources provided by other people can be called a "fundamental right": for one, there will always be a question of exactly how much healthcare access is a right. And even if people agree on a number, what if the required resources are not available in the same amount any more? Are people's rights now violated, and if so, by whom?
yes if the food safety inspector is not performing an inspection a restaurant has right to refuse them service. Uber was deny inspectors service while they were not doing announced inspections. This is like saying you cant refuse to sell alcohol to a minor if you know they are part of government undercover sting. Uber is able to identify government agents try to perform a sting and preemptively refused them service
Soy protein, maltodextrin, and canola oil blended with a multi-vitamin doesn't sound healthy. I suppose it can't be worse than the occasional discount 10-pack of Celese frozen pizza. Paired with a vitamin, of course.
>> Beyond the "providing liquidity" argument, another side effect of HFT and arbitrage strategies that one might see as valuable is the promotion of global invariants across the financial network, which is rather complicated distributed system. Would it make sense if there were two very different prices for something at two nearly identical venues? If large block of a stock is dropped on one exchange, would it make sense if there were no effects on the price of the same name on adjacent exchanges?

i dont disagree with arbitrage and liquidity, and a globally invariant price for goods. i just think HFT isnt really improving that in a meaningful way. i ask you- at what timescale does it stop mattering? thats really what im saying. not that liquidity and invariant prices are suspect, but that things are happening on such a minute time scale that it doesn't matter. hey, i could be wrong, but no one has argued why going from milliseconds to picoseconds is improving our lives. thats the thing i would like explained.

>> What does it mean to "create value?" By what standards is value assessed?

tough to pin down, but surely its more than how much money it makes you... right? of course it varies from person to person. but i think its very lazy to say that its "whatever someone will pay for it". then value changes when laws change. i think most people probably agree that some things that are able to be sold for alot are not a value to society. i think its fair to say that there are some basically invariant things that are valuable.

>> In the absence of any direct harm to another, under what circumstances should someone be deterred from engaging in profitable activity

probably shouldn't be deterred. my point was that it looks like this is more like a game people are playing, with no real positive externalities. didn't say it was bad prima facie. i think its weird that people are very strongly clinging to the idea that it has some wonderful benefit to society. seems like a pretty weak argument, and kind of pathetic. its ok to to just admit its a game, and its for the players. poker players dont go around claiming they are providing everyone a service. i just get the sense there is an ingrained idea in our culture that there is some nobility in "finance" that i dont think belongs there in some cases.

>> Is the assumption that profits accrue to those who provide value to others utterly false, or just false in this (and possibly other, isolated) case? If merely the latter, why in this case?

not utterly false, but far from universally true. very difficult, broad topic that i am, or course, not in a position to say definitively. we can all point to cases where almost everyone agrees that someone gets overpaid, or underpaid. seems like a lot of people readily accept the dual premises that success == making money, and that money is a proxy for value. i take issue with both- i think its important to think about success and value more fundamentally. it seems like a lot of people have a tautological idea that you are paid what you deserve because its what you got paid...
Yep, like casinos, we should regulate banks to avoid allowing them to provoke the worst impulses in people. But at the end of the day, in the current environment, people need to be able to take care of themselves. Regulation should not be treated as a substitute for discipline.

And I agree that sugar should be regulated and taxed, or that we should at least do more to educate them on how destructive it can be to health.
A blind != a hologram projecting a false image while you do something illegal inside.
Looks like an interesting project. Will take a look deeper in the next few days.

Though I have to say, I haven't trusted password managers which sync online since the beginning. Just doesn't feel right. And the various hacks over the past few years seem to validate that.
Sure. And that's why the feds should stay out of it.
I can only hope this means SpaceX will soon be not only landing on a barge, but launching from one.
Most aviation accidents are due to pilot error. I would rather have a debugged AI reduce overall accident rates than the once in a generation Sully heroics. Most commercial flights are already on the autopilot from 50' after takeoff until taxiing after landing. Already in CAT III landings or above FL280, the autopilot, not the human pilot, must be flying. Expect more of this in additional phases of flight.
I found that strange as well. Chip and signature, or swipe and pin are the common options. Both miss the entire security aspect of chip and pin.
But if the health inspector never says he's the health inspector, but you have a suspicion he might be, and doesn't say they are when you refuse service, could you still refuse service?

Could HN get in trouble for hellbanning/shadowbanning the wrong people too?
They can now, but couldn't for a loooong time. The damage is done, and everyone now just expects lower prices for iOS apps without realizing that they are (subconsciously, perhaps) pricing in the "it might suck" insurance when they no longer really need to.
Roughly half the people in a swing state would tend to be people that agree with you (because that's what a swing state is...).

Edgy though, you hit that mark.
Not really. For textbook obstruction one would need a criminal investigation that Uber was seeking to stymie. There needs to be an underlying actual crime. Whether Uber has committed any crimes is not clear. They will more likely bring conspiracy rather than obstruction charges.
Holy cow! Don't ever dream about getting into node.js then!
i dont disagree with the basic framework. but why is going from milliseconds to picoseconds important? im pretty sure its not. thats all
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I would choose Python/Django. As a Python developer you can build that app in a couple of days.
Uber is not obstructing any investigation. They are proactively denying service to all LEOs. The mere act of driving or not driving to an LEO for whatever reason is not breaking of law.
This is why I hoped Trump would win over Clinton. Look - even a lot of Republicans are repulsed by this administration. I knew (because of how large the Bernie or Bust movement was) that Clinton would lose if she won the nomination.

I myself wrote Bernie in, simply because I wanted to see how things played out, and I dislike the Clinton's w/ a venomous hatred, and feel back-stabbed by DNC.

But I also felt that perhaps we need the Republicans to take power with the WORST leader imaginable for 4 years -- nobody can ruin the republican party brand better than Trump can. After 4 years, democrats might just start looking like the party of conservatism, and values that help more people. If anything more people will be hurting after a Trump presidency and be open to progressivism...

Here's a good article that shows though that Neoliberalism as an ideology is over, and the winds of change are pushing for Nationalism or Egalitarianism to come in and take over...

https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/10/why-bernie-sanders...

Trump is a short-term win for GOP, but a long term win for dems, because he will ruin their image/brand.
On top of that, it will make things much cheaper cutting the need to carry an extra 90~kg (the pilot), a huge interface with commands that must be operated by the pilot and a cockpit to carry him. Not to mention the human errors, and efforts invested in training them.

Humans will most likely be used in "decision-making" roles.
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So Uber is now Theranos?
If a police officer pulls me over and finds that I was driving without a license, they aren't going to let me drive away and file a case the next day. They're going to impound my car. Following that same logic, if a jurisdiction requires licenses for commercial taxi drivers, then operating as a taxi without that license will result in your car being impounded. Why do you feel these should be treated differently?
I'm 6'4" and around 190lbs. My maintenance, when lifting weights 2 times a week for 2 hours, was 2700. A more normal schedule would be 4 times a week 1 hour each, but I combined my work-outs because I was too lazy to travel to the gym that often.

I got a membership at a gym closer to my house, so now I go something like 3 times a week for 45 minutes (overall less, but likely more intense), so my maintenance is even lower now, probably.
> Cities make laws that are up to them

> Company seemingly undergoes systemic effort to break such laws in cities across state lines

> Fed gets involved to investigate possibility of racketeering

Not seeing the problem here...?
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Personally, I tracked my calories for 6 months and found out whether I'm losing or gaining weight. I averaged 2700 and didn't appreciably gain or lose. I cut down to 1300 and started losing weight.
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I heard of cases where police officers would request rides in places where it was legal to pick someone up but there was an increased chance of the driver making a mistake and doing something they can ticket.

If LEOs decide they want to waste everyone's time in what's basically entrapment, I've no problem with people wasting their time back.

Imagine they were doing that to a pizza place, ticketing delivery drivers? How bad would the pizza place be for letting the phone ring? For saying "Yeah, we'll get that right out to you..." and doing nothing?

(I don't know enough to say whether (or to what degree) the system was misapplied; it might well have been. Just that not all law enforcement use is automatically legitimate...)
>The point of artificial intelligence is not to create a conscious intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do.

No. If it isn't conscious it isn't intelligent. There is no AI without consciousness because a non-conscious entity cannot make decisions independently -- react intelligently to its environment.
My preferred example: I want to prove to you I know how to do a card trick. I have you pick a card memorize it and put it in the deck. Then I am able to reproduce your card. I can do this a million times to convince you, but never reveal the method of the trick to you. As long as when the verifier picks a card they don't show it to anyone, any other spectators can't know if we are colluding and can't determine how the trick is done.

I prefer this example as it is easier to visual knowing how to do a card trick than it is to understand how you would identify the number of beans in a jar. It also allows you to further explain things like collisions as a magic trick can have multiple methods. Or how by observing enough cases of the trick and "thinking" really hard you might be able to figure out how the trick is done. The crappier the magician the easier it is to figure out their trick.
Uber is the prototypical example of what happens when you give a pack of fratbros too much VC money. The exact same thing happened in the late-1990s dotcom boom (And bust, 2000-2001), people have not learned their lesson.

beenz

flooz

webvan

pets.com (albeit, their business model has been vindicated by amazon many years later)
Yes, Uber does have the right to remove you from their service, for mostly any reason -- probably even because they think you're a "narc". But Greyball went way beyond that, and actively misled "suspicious" (probably sting agent) users into thinking cars would come, when they never did, wasting their time. That crosses over into interfering with an investigation -- the combination of "wasting someone's time" and "because that someone is an investigator".

Wasting the time of an abusive user? Probably okay. Kicking off law enforcement officers? Probably okay. Deliberately wasting the time of investigators? Probably crosses the line.

Compare two scenarios when an undercover officer is investigating a biker bar for dealing meth:

Scenario A: The officer seems somehow off to the bartender. Bartender glances around at his buddies, who shake their heads. "We don't want your kind in in here, get out."

Scenario B: Officer is identified as a cop. Bartender invites him to sit at a table far in the back with no view of anything. Any time the officer gets up, he's told to leave or sit back down. They have members stand within earshot of him and pretend to plan out fake meth deals at places where nothing will actually happen.

In A, the bar is on firm legal ground. In B, they're not, and that's basically what the Greyball program is.

Note: insights drawn from the earlier discussion about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785564
Pretty sure they have a hiring freeze. Who would they be recruiting at this point?
Actually LFS teaches you about the whole GNU Userland, getting a kernel up and running with busybox is much easier. This project does just that - teaching you the bare minimum.
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>Not seeing the problem here...?

Nope. Let the cities enforce their own laws.
Through the magic of open source, one could be made!

https://github.com/bitwarden/browser
I mean, if the feds really wanted to get in to it, Uber is probably guilty of money laundering.

Their service was illegal under local law, Uber moved the money from their illegal activity in to the banking system and across state lines and a slew of other things that would likely trigger the very broad money laundering laws. Interstate transfer of proceeds from a criminal activity is almost certainly an activity the feds can look into.

I'm guessing the feds can also "assist" the local jurisdictions in the case that the local criminals are an interstate organization that has been committing a slew of crimes across the nation.
I'm not an expert or even particularly up to date, but I heard that other websites could see the client certificates installed. So a third party website might recognise the client certificate and know things about the user.
Ic, thanks for the insight.
It's staggering to me how much time and effort we have to put into our build system for our C++ project at work. Having come to the C++ world after learning Rust, I'm constantly pining for the dead-simple "just works" nature of Cargo.
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The biggest deal here is that it removes the "individual mandate". Without the mandate, costs on the exchanges will got through the roof, so basically no one who doesn't qualify for a subsidy will be able to afford them. That said, catastrophic plans will once again be a viable option for many people.

In short - it changed a flaws nationalized healthcare program into an expensive entitlement program for low-income earners.
What does this example scenario have to do with the federal government getting involved in taxi regulations?
You can view the CDA (xml) documents here:
http://intelsoft.com.au/challenge/index.htm

CDA are xml document conforming to a schema specified for medical documents.
Nothing prevents you from making an XXX-2 app and selling it separately, just looking at the app store front page gives quite a few of these. How is it different from a paid upgrade?
I wonder, how does nginx and haproxy handle long/persistent connection session? The connection itself can't be terminated since there is actual client, established connection with a backend beneath. Will the reload be failed? (Something like, "connection termination timeout; can't reload; try later"). For web workers probably we won't see this; for most of the time, the connection is terminated after request done.
Pretty straightforward decision really, OP know python and it's suitable to the task at hand. Additionally they will need some sort of database (sqlite would be a good start).
Do you have any special expertise or qualification in this area? I ask only because what you're describing is a perfectly reasonable-sounding but naive view on how depression works.

It's not as simple as "easier/more efficient = more emotional energy to get over depression". In fact, you might have it backwards. Therapies such as behavioral activation therapy[0] exploit the fact that our mood can follow from our behaviors. (You might be familiar with this, for example: force yourself to smile for thirty seconds, and see how your mood changes.)

I experience a chronic, mild to moderate form of depression called dysthymia[1]. For me, there are two things that can make a world of difference in how my day goes. One is leaving the house shortly after getting up, which prevents me from starting the day by flopping on the couch and wasting hours online, then feeling guilty. The other is taking a shower after getting up, because if I don't, I generally won't leave the house. Both of these actually take effort, especially some days, and your read on things would suggest that just not doing them would leave me more time and energy to "try to get over" my depression. But in fact, it's precisely the immediate investment in myself and my day that makes the difference.

As it happens, cooking also ties in for me. I enjoy cooking, generally, and I feel proud of the food I cook for myself and especially for others. On the other hand, here's what happens when I order a pizza: I feel guilty about being lazy, and I feel hopeless about the prospect of getting out of whatever funk I'm in when I can't even get myself to put together a meal. That said, I take what I can get: I was alone a couple Thanksgivings ago, and had been in a low stretch for a few weeks, and it was a victory to make myself get up and go to the gas station for Bugles and Swedish Fish, rather than ordering in.

I'm telling you this personal stuff, which doesn't feel terribly comfortable, because I constantly hear naive bullshit[2] about how depression works, and it is supremely unhelpful. It is not simple. And my experience isn't going to be the same as anyone else's. But the person who has to scrounge up a meal, pay bills, and take care of others could absolutely be doing better than the person who "has it easy", because they've got structure, activities that get them out of their head, and others who they can be responsible for or even live for.

I'm not saying Soylent shouldn't be on the market, and I'm not saying pizza shouldn't be able to be delivered. But the idea that thinking about how all these factors fit together is "silly" and worth dismissing is really wrongheaded.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_activation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysthymia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
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Airbnb released a tool called Synapse that'll do most of this service discovery and config rendering for you.
They're "optional", but the miners can pick and chose which transactions they include in a block, and the larger the fee they get from the transaction, the more likely it is to make it into the block.
We redacted the name and street address. Even if it's publicly available info, posting it here crosses a line that in general it's a bad idea for HN to cross.
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Once you've started using language package managers, it become very apparent that they have huge value, that apt-get doesn't bring.

In particular, you get the exact version of the library you want. If you've ever had the experience of trying to make your software work with multiple versions of its dependencies because different OSes ship with different versions, then you'll know how annoying this is.

This is particularly true of run-time problems. If they don't compile, then that's relatively easy to fix. If there's a difference at run-time, its often way more expensive to fix.

With a package manager, you get the exact version, but you also can use different versions for different apps on your system. You can also upgrade without breaking other apps (new security version) or not upgrade if there's some good reason not to.
How can a concentrate cost less, by weight, than the thing it is a concentrate of?
I switched to Lyft a couple of years ago and have never looked back. The straw for me was when Uber sponsored a police militarization conference in Oakland (http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-is-now-sponsoring-a-police-...).
I've just started using Clojure (another Lisp) and I use IntelliJ IDEa with the Cursive plug-in, with par-infer to deal with the parens.

It works like a charm. I can have a REPL and my code right in front of me, I can cmd-down to go to a function definition, and it's overall a very pleasant developer experience.

Now, I did experiment with Emacs, so I do understand what you're talking about -- kill-ring-save and the related key bindings made zero sense to me, and I was having trouble doing things I'd do easily in IntelliJ.
Imagine losing 40% of current jobs. Just simply imagine that it is a reality and nothing can be done to change that.

Now, think of all the biggest companies in America and who their primary customers are: Americans living in America.

Take away income from 40% of Americans, and ALL businesses lose 40% of their business. For many businesses that's enough loss to go into Bankruptcy (just look at malls/retail sector right now).

Furthermore, as more places go out of business, more jobs will be lost.

However, give everyone a basic income that pushes them decently above poverty and -- it removes stress -- stress which causes illness, medical costs, and crime. It also gives people spending power so the businesses that were struggling don't need to struggle any more. It also let's those in power 'control the people' which is what they like to do anyhow, and why the aspire to own 99% of the wealth in the first place. - - If people lose their homes, toys, tv, media, --they can no longer be placated, and they will turn into an uprising like we haven't seen since the Revolutionary war.

Top all this off with global warming and water wars, and we're in for some dystopian realities in the next 3 decades.
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No, it's not.

But it is a convenient solution for when you want a quick, kind of nutritionally complete meal that's convenient.

Of course, the founder didn't really position it that way? The hype was all about it being a meal replacement for ALL your meals - which is what caused your problem.
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