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> Many companies get away with doing far worse.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that Uber should get away with it.

> Uber more than redeemed themself.

Umm... how?
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That's because they have the b-school skills already so they undervalue them.
Yes, I had read that, it's a very interesting piece. I had some more thoughts on the matter, but that article is definitely worth a read.
Did you see this? http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2017/02/14/pathfinder/
I read this as the culture of cheating teaches analysis of the system (education /testing) and how to identify weak points and exploit them

Then, using the same analytical skills, students are better prepared to analyze other systems (eg security) and pinpoint/exploit their weakness
Sometimes it is nice to be able to do ML in a browser.
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Yes, I was speaking to these routers in particular.

Because if they don't have this, then this is bad security advice against what is considered a targeted attack.
German police cameras have an honored tradition of always facing away at the exact moment when police violence happens, like at the 2009 "Freedom not Fear" protest in Berlin.
Great write-up on a really interesting topic!

Last year I needed the same thing for packing 2-dimensional shapes on a piece of plywood (for CNC.) You would think it's fairly simple and common but I failed to find any FOSS tools.

Any pointers for a good 2d shape-packing algorithm?
I hated this god damned game. The sound effects. The characters. The tropical theme. The color palette. The absence of anything worth knowing about within the context of game play.

You played this game for 15 minutes, and you never had to play it again, because you had already explored everything the game had to offer.

My cousin had the original Sony Playstation and this game, and even to this day, the only game that the original Playstation had, worth owning or knowing about, was and is Metal Gear Solid.
The bogus claim is that it leads to less bugs, not that it enforces immutability. It very obviously does that.
Avoiding deeply nested component trees
I'd love to see unit testing and/or contracts added too. Being able to define a graph, define a requirement for a step, and then outsource development of just that step could be awesome.
I'm sorry for your loss

you should put contact details somewhere if people want to offer their help privately.
Oui, je le devinais haha :P
Cash players still have downswings. Big, ugly, edge of the bell curve downswings. "I worked 60 hours this week and lost five grand" downswings. Downswings where you start to wonder if you're actually any good at poker.

That's the hard part of professional poker. It isn't the maths, it isn't the game theory, it isn't the table selection, it's the psychological resilience. You have to keep making very precise, very aggressive decisions even when everything is going to shit. You have to go all-in on the 51/49 coin flip, even when you've lost the last six coin flips.

It all evens out in the long run, but the long run can be distressingly long.
Of course they do, modern games are a complex interaction of many different shaders operating on all levels of abstraction on many different classes of runtime data that they compose, renew and adapt many many times in 16 ms.

Is the whole CSS debacle a particularly unlikely concept to yield anything close to a reasonable performing implementation? Sure, but that is because nobody has applied the pressure necessary. People won't play a game that doesn't consistently meet a 30 ms deadline but they seem to happily put up with 3 seconds to final render and call it "amazing".
At some point does it cross into negligence and come with steep civil penalties? That would be the best way to stop this kind of thing at the moment.
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This doesn't answer your question, but have you tried interviewing at companies that don't get a thousand awesome resumes a day and thus have very tough interview process? When I interviewed last year I had none of these problems. Perhaps your stress, anxiety, and job performance is not worth a job at a "respected" company.
The "so they could serve ads" meme is facile, reductionist, sophomoric. Actually, the fact that Google et al. were able to identify a profit function that could be optimized to fund the last 15 years of technology is an incredible achievement. In ~2000 it wasn't at all obvious that the internet could find a robust funding model.

Where the funding comes from is practically irrelevant, specially if it is a feedback function (i.e., an economic phenomenon, not "phone the legislature to fund more research!!1").

New funding models are good, too, of course. But the tone of the anti-ad camp is asinine.
Thanks!

Have you seen this? http://svgnest.com/
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.cz/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
Yes, not an exploit - just a modified firmware that they might have installed if they broke in via other means (physical or wifi cracking for example).
Oh I agree completely, but you're adding to what I said. There are many here saying Subway is at fault no matter what.

Eg, if they didn't do anything wrong, the person just randomly stabbed me, many here think Subway owes me millions. What do you think?

I disagree, it seems bizarre to me because Subway can't possible know what crimes all employees might commit and somehow fight to prevent that. Right?

.. actually let me ask you this:

In what scenario should Subway not be held liable? So many here blame Subway in my scenario, when they were not even involved.. so what does a company have to do to prevent being sued by employees random, un-predictable actions?
This is on our roadmap after the release, but we kindly invite you to help us design and do it the best possible way! :)
Agree! And it's not just limited to math.

I used to study for my engineering entrance exams with the Problems in General Physics book by IE Irodov. They were some of the most challenging and creative problems that I have ever solved. They are quite interesting and require critical thinking to solve. Even the problems I later studied in actual engineering courses didn't come any close.

The books by Russians in any of the STEM courses are really well written and approach problem solving in a way that most American and/or Indian books don't.
If we want laws to fix this, penalizing large companies that damage others wires due to gross negligence sounds like a good start.
If they care so much you'd think they'd care about being effective. When was the last time the assassination of a leader of a functioning democracy changed anything for the better?

And in this case, guess what? You take out Trump and you get President Mike Pence! He's mostly been off to the side so far, so I wonder if many outside of the US have heard his name much, but he's arguably worse than Trump. Definitely a lot more religious zeal.

Whatever the crimes those at the top have committed, if they lead a functioning democracy then violent action is about the least effective option you have at removing their policies. If some people are that pissed off then they should dedicate themselves to the cause, start or volunteer for political movements, even perhaps run for office themselves. Be a political force on whatever scale they can mange for years as opposed to a violent flash in the pan for a few minutes. Attempting assassination is just a last show of selfish, pathetic despair, and only makes things worse for the rest of us.
I'm not familiar with modern VFX software. But couldn't you just take a snapshot of the server and then load that onto a box in the future if you wanted to re-render it?
I'm sure Shapeways [1] already optimizes the heck out of its own printing, but if not you should consult for them.

They print using laser sintering and I'd imagine a 37% improvement in efficiency would be pretty nice for their bottom line.

[1] https://www.shapeways.com
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> So I precompute all possible rotations of the BVHs (24 rotations)

24 times faster, or, as we say in algorithm analysis, no times faster!
"zoom and enhance" is one of the ways 4K is used today in Sports replay to see details that might not be visible in a 1080p recording.
As far as I know you don't have any input into how a margin call is executed.

I'm not all that familiar with FX (despite having traded), and I have no clue how it works with blockchain thingies. However, for the couple of brokerages I've dealt with (Fidelity, for example) you do get a choice in how it is executed for equities. Fidelity gives you the dreaded "courtesy call", and you've got three days to cough up cash to make up the difference, the stock bounces back in those three days such that you're not in margin trouble, or after three days Fidelity sells it as a market order if neither of the first two takes place.

But this scenario? Man, it just sounds skeezy. One single sell order at a low enough price, and your whole account gets liquidated at rock bottom prices without you being able to do anything to mitigate it. The skeezy part comes from the fact that there was someone on the other side who bought your coin thingies at fire sale prices, and moments later made a fuck ton. Considering that there's no equivalent to the SEC for blockchain coins that I'm aware of, it sure sounds ripe for market manipulation. I don't know enough to walk through the details of how it might work, but seems to me you use a confederate to enter a sell order at $0.10, and you have an outstanding buy order for one ButtLoad of coins at $0.10. Your buddy's order goes through, and seconds later the rest of your outstanding order is filled when the margin calls hit.

(As an aside, I swear I've seen this happen with equities. One weird order goes through at a way-too-convenient price, say $24.95, when it's been trading at $26-$27 all day. My conspiracy says the $24.95 hits all the stop orders sitting at $25, then turn around for a quick couple of bucks profit. I have absolutely no evidence that isn't circumstantial, though.)
Today was my Mother's Birthday, she passed away three years ago from a Brain Tumor. At the time (and still now) I didn't know how to deal with it, and having two younger siblings I felt a responsibility to be strong for them. The only obligation you have is to be there for them when they need you. Don't underestimate the value of making them a meal, going to the grocery store with your Mom, the little things go a long way at times like these.

All I can say, and I know it sounds cliche, but time really does heal wounds. You will still be sad when you think about your father, but the panging inescapable fear and pain that you're experiencing now WILL subside.

The only advice I have is to go easy on yourself, don't try and "hold yourself" to any standards, some days will be harder than others, but you WILL experience joy again, even if you literally can't imagine it.
Well, I guess this confirms it. This had been the speculation. In fact, there was an article a year or so ago that correlated Massive Attack shows to Banksy "installations."
I'm very interested to see how this works out.
Ok, so taxis. If it is going to be a voluntary transaction, I need to know 1) the drivers background check to make sure he isn't a murderer or rapist, 2) has a clean driving record, 3) has a license, 4) carries insurance that covers me while I'm in his car, 5) is driving a safe vehicle, 6) and what the ride costs. Do you really expect each taxi passenger to sort out all of that info for each and every ride!? Wouldn't it be easier for everyone to get together to set some standards and put some folks in charge of enforcing those standards so that you can just hop in a cab and reasonably expect not to die? Doesn't that sound reasonable? Well that's all the regulation is. If you want to argue about NYC medallions and regulatory capture, you're not wrong. That shit should be figured out. By involvement in government, voting, and citizen action. What you're really mad about is the perceived inflexibility and ineffective nature of that process. But you're also the same kind of free market numbskull who supports unfettered capitalism and campaign donations, which is how a special interest strangles a government body like a taxi cab commission.
"So is it a YES or a NO?"
>diversity is selected for as a heritable trait

I just don't see this as being meaningful. There is no heritable "diversity" trait. You can apply these concepts at the population level, but only very loosely.

The other problem I have is that any metric of diversity decreases over time for a population. Normally when we say evolution selects for trait X, your metric for X increases over time. Instead of diversity being selected for, its more like the gas that drives the engine of evolution. Without diversity in a population, natural selection can't happen. But the diversity comes first.
Yeah, that's fucking terrible
You may also want to give VSCode a go. I haven't used a Microsoft product (willingly) for decades, but it is a really, really nice and much snappier than Atom in my experience with things like key echos.

Their integration for TypeScript and GoLang are first class as well. Overall though I held the same excitement for Atom as you did (and I used to use Emacs for everything because I wanted an open editor in my tool belt) I've really come to appreciate the approach and polish of VSCode.
Yeah, bills went from 2 USD to 30 USD. And the dollar from 8 pesos to 16. If cheap electricity doesn't help technology companies, I don't know what helps. Sure isn't "entrepreneur's laws", because most of projects fail way before really need it, like when the founders (or wannabe) can't pay their bills (and quit their jobs, if they are lucky to have one).
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Just coming out the other end of something like this.

Feel what you got to feel. deal with the pile of shit that's in your lap however you have to. Take time off of work (I took 3 weeks and I still felt like I wasn't really ready). Reconnect with what's important to you. Death brings people together and it can be a positive thing.

Lean on support right now. Just generally take care of yourself right now. Be smart and you'll get through it in a healthy way.
"Some" == "The 1,000 clicks the petition received represent a small fraction of Uber’s more than 15,000 employees."
Cyberwarfare should have been one of the Top 3 (maybe Top 5) issues of the recent election. Instead, it - thanks to shoddy journalism - was a non-issue.

Pardon the editorial but, I remember when the NYT used to matter.
The Knuth prize is different from the reward given for finding a bug in TeX.
Mr. York should be the next to go. Who has someone with so little experience at anything, including life, influence, let alone have serious input, in a company's values?

No wonder there was a culture of apparently unrestrained adolescent male aggression. An adolescent male helped shape the guidelines.
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I wonder if this is loyalty or fear of stock devaluation. I hope it's the former, that kind of thing is beautiful to see in employees.
Uber is in a difficult position. On the one hand, Kalanick has built a massive company. On the other hand, Holder's investigation turned up serious problems with the work culture. And employees, drivers, and investors are caught between these.

To understand it from the inside, the best source I've seen is Susan Fowler's post "Reflecting on one very strange year at Uber". https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
Well I guess that's my point, let's have a conversation about inequality and discuss how much is too much. It's a reasonable thing to debate. Your post seemed to imply that railing against the 1% was inappropriate in some way
As I write this, I'm preparing to travel to a family members memorial.

This little piece of writing by Aaron Freeman always made me feel a little better [1].

"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen."

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675953
> It's already cheap.

I disagree. Given companies like Amazon, it is currently not cheap enough. I would argue that it will take longer before it's 'cheap'. The appetite for 'free shipping' is still growing and it's very different from the demand for airplane tickets. Kind of like with your electricity example, you're missing parts of the big picture.
This was my first thought when I read this. Definitely Y2K flavored.
I lost my son my last year. The most important thing that helped my partner and I get through things was being very open with each other regarding how we felt about what happened. Sometimes the natural instinct may be to bury emotions for fear of upsetting your loved ones. Instead talk to them about their feelings and experiences. That will help all of you understand what you are feeling and know what you need to do to support each other. Also, take things one step at a time. Grieving is slow process, take your time and acknowledge it. It's ok to feel sad, don't rush to escape it. The healing process takes time and the most important thing is that you and your family are there for each other.
> It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.

It seems to be you who is perpetuating the non-sense. Provide some actual data and proof of this and then we can talk. No anecdotes please.

Counter proof: since BC's 15% foreigner tax was implemented, has the Vancouver housing market cooled off? No.
To the contrary, it has actually heated up even more. This indicates that the "illegal Chinese dirty money" that the wonderful local Vancouverites keep spouting is not, in fact, the driver of this growth. It's too bad because they are such an easy racial scapegoat, aren't they?
seriously? A sublime theme that cost money? I don't think i've seen it before. And it's based on Monokai colorscheme. Not much originality here.
All that we've seen is a list of recommendations. How did you go from a list of recommendations with no explanation as to how each recommendation was arrived at to "seems scathing"?
My first thought, but it's an imperfect fit -- the employees were not being held hostage.

Is there a comparable 'syndrome' for cult members, who have joined an organization voluntarily? Not saying Uber employees deserve the same sympathy as victims of cults, just that it would be a more apt analogy.
15k employees and this number obv doesn't include the drivers. Seriously?! What do they all do?
Sparky, chippy, tradie, firey, etc.
Think of the Uber controversy as a trial. It may be a trial by press or a trial by Twitter. But it's had real consequences, like a real trial.

You're a judge in this trial. You've heard the prosecution make a very eloquent case. You've been convinced. You've delivered your verdict. And the sentence has been executed.

But wait. Didn't we skip a step? Is there a missing step in this procedure? Perhaps that's a good exercise for the reader.
Disclaimer: I have not lost anyone this close to me yet, but I have been through several extended family deaths.

I think you need to know that it is ok to grieve. No one is going to think less of you for crying at the funeral, in fact, doing so shows just how much you loved and cared for your father. Let other people comfort you.

However, if you're dedicated to this idea of showing strength, you can do your part to help with the organization of everything necessary as a result of your father's passing. Is the funeral already arranged? Did someone write the obituary and get it published? How is your mom holding up? Can you get a casserole over to her house?

Finally, talk to your mom about all the financial stuff. She probably had several joint accounts with your dad that will be frozen when they hear about his passing. Documentation will need to be submitted so she can get the assets into her name only. All of the accounts that were only in his name with no beneficiaries listed will go into his estate. Every estate gets assigned an executor, and it will probably be your mom. Let her know that you would be happy to go to those sorts of appointments with her. Buy 5-10 death certificates. Each financial institution will need to at least make a copy, and some will need an original.

Of course all that stuff in the previous paragraph needs to wait until everyone involved is ready. In the meantime, force yourself to eat even if you don't feel like it. Make sure your mom and siblings are eating too. Grief always kills my appetite, but you've got to keep eating so you can have the strength to emotionally recover.
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I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but Oded Goldreich is one of the founding fathers of cryptography...

He could get a job pretty much anywhere he wanted to, doing whatever he wanted.
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I too, would like a good answer to this. My gut says that (other than VMWare) the Macbook would be fine. You'd probably get a bit better battery life and performance out of the non-y chips, but IMO, nothing significant. I see a KabyLake Macbook in my near future.
I read the study. It doesn't support the headline.
The cable operator should have been able to seek an injunction after they cut his cable the second time. Clearly Comcast didn't know what they were doing, and were just barreling forward. That behavior should not be rewarded.
This is fake news. I actually read the study, and it's not even close to supporting what the author wrote.
We worshiped the corporate hierarchy so much we protest it's destruction! Even when it was evil!

Some people just like to be told what to do I guess.
This is fake news. The people whose instinct told them that a pro-fossil fuel blog was peddling bullshit were correct.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/news/a2...
As Gruber pointed out, not surprising- it was his company for a long time.