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> There is a reason even Trump campaigned on cleaning up the air and water. Even Americans who think the EPA or OSHA or DOL are out of control wouldn't tolerate the labor and environmental standards that exist in Bangladesh or China.

Trump says anything and everything, and his words effectively have no meaning at this point. To name one example out of thousands, Trump also campaigned on making more people insured, which is clearly not something he has any interest in actually doing.

Rather than looking at Trump for an example of the rightmost side of the "Overton window" (much as I dislike that term) on environment, I would look at politicians like Ted Cruz. Cruz has effectively never said anything about cleaning up the air or water. I think that doing absolutely nothing about the environment is much more popular of a position than you imply. Anti-environmentalism is even a religious concern for many Americans.
Not just with a mouse. The frames can be detected automatically. Imagine a typical IDE where:

while (...) {

Automatically inserted the next `}` and moved the cursor between it. But in the frame based editor, the `{` and `}` are elided from the presentation, replaced with a colored block or frame around the inner kernel of the while loop.

+++ while (condition)
+ --- if (condition)
+ - *** actions
+ ------------------
++++++++++++++++++++++

Scratch (the example in Figure 1) is definitely a mouse driven interface, but beyond that and its visual presentation, it's more a cousin to the frame based model than a precise representation.

It gives you a better (arguable?), structural way to view code, and to edit it with both text input and mouse.
> That use is a crazy small niche, and if you really wanted to blow money on eye catching displays, there are any number of more creative ways to do so.

I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a followup to the simile, but it sounds just as likely that you've missed the point I was trying to relay, so I'll elaborate.

The point is not to wow your customers, it's to make things clear. Different tactics work for that in different circumstances. A high density phone display, an older desktop display, and a 4K desktop display may all benefit from slightly different settings such as thickness in a font. Allowing the OS to optimize for functional legibility based on device and usage specifications is a good capability, in my opinion. That the demo allows you to see how the system works easily through dynamic changes does not mean that's the intended use.

As other have pointed out, just the ability to ship one font for your website and allow it to generate the correct variation based on responsive web design parameters is itself a win in the bandwidth it saves.
Every large organization has instances of this, including Facebook, Google, and the Vatican. It's not right, but it's reality. The only thing is that every other company has done a great job of covering it up, like Amit Singhal who was fired from Google for sexual harrassment, but no one knew that before he joined Uber.
Ok so... a much better deal then?
The cerebellum is part of the brain, and it is responsible for balancing and motor coordination.
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A crash in a stock market index is not a recession. The accepted definition of a recession in an economy is two successive quarters of contraction in the GDP.
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Perhaps it should be actually illegal, like criminally punishible, but it is not.

It is a tort, civil violation, etc...but nobody is going to jail.
Extensive previous discussion

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularit...

and wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
Isn't lisp just lambda calculus with a little more syntax? I imagine you could implement most of it directly if you tweaked the syntax.

I would not want to program like that.
Isn't lisp just lambda calculus with a little more syntax? I imagine you could implement most of it directly if you tweaked the syntax.
What is the point of this comment? And then linking to my past comments? Is it wrong to have perspective and criticism or to express it multiple times?

I get that you're a committer but "overly negative" is as much your opinion as what I say, and my comments are the truth as I see it. I've even spent an hour talking to Ozgun about databases and moving to Citus before so my statements come from being a user, operator and maintainer of dozens of different database technologies in production for years, including postgres right now, and from all that experience it is definitely the most behind when it comes to replication/HA compared to anything else I use.

All of those threads have plenty of upvotes and other user comments so it's clear I don't stand alone here. Perhaps instead of policing my statements, time would be better spent on improving the features and experience of the product.
Perhaps with a sustained PR onslaught that will now magically disappear even if nothing material changes at the company?
I guess how you read my comment might depend on how sensitive you are to the criticisms. All I mean to say is that bad business gets economically punished. Internal culture is part of a business' reputation. I do not condone hostile work environments and neither do most people. This is why they are being punished. Uber must obey the law, they are not exempt from it. But economics has actually been more swift at enacting change here. I just think it's an interesting observation.
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Making use of the fonts on the users machine requires even less bandwidth while allowing the user to view things in whatever font they find easiest on their eyes. Including fonts on web sites has always been about designers getting their way. This is just more of the same.
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Both of which are members of the EU and have no plans to pull a Brexit anytime soon (indeed, populism in Europe sputtered quickly and now seems to be on the wane). As examples of the benefits of protectionism/isolationism, Sweden and Denmark are muddled.
Finally! After years of assholes being assholes because it's not illegal to be assholes, now finally they are finding that there are repercussions.

if you piss off everyone, then you better hope like hell that you don't fall and need someone's help.

tldr: assholes.
Maybe bankers get a pass. What does that have to do with this situation? It's an insidious line of argument.
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API Gateway adds around 200ms to each call for us based on our testing plus another 100ms if it’s inside a VPC. What region are you in? Our VPC has a NAT Gateway so that our Lambda functions can talk to the internet as well.

I am by no means an expert and am reporting what watching the time differences between Lambda reporting and our network calls shows.

Edit: this is by no means a deal breaker or anything. Just something that shocked me when I first noticed it.
Because these companies are not taking commission right now. Once they start taking commission on these transaction Apple will jump right in to take their share of that profit.
I mean, the two parties have a diametrically opposed view of how the world works and what their own moral obligations are.

One party thinks they're trying to make good games, and getting paid in the process.

The other party views the rest of the world as a potential money machine, and they're just optimizing around which lever to pull to maximize their return.

Matt Levine had a fun article[1] about this happening in a different context. 'FERC built a terrible box, and the box had some buttons that were labeled “push here for money,” and JPMorgan pushed them and got money.'

One approach isn't necessarily 'wrong' and the other 'right', but bad things obviously happen if you thought you were working with a business partner, but instead you got a shark.

[1] http://dealbreaker.com/2013/07/electricity-market-rules-were...
And if you declare types in SBCL as fixnum (register-sized ints):

CL-USER> (disassemble #'foo)
; disassembly for FOO
; Size: 19 bytes. Origin: #x100784BCCB
; CB: 48FFC0 INC RAX ; no-arg-parsing entry point
; CE: 480FAFC1 IMUL RAX, RCX
; D2: 48D1E0 SHL RAX, 1
; D5: 488BD0 MOV RDX, RAX
; D8: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; DB: F8 CLC
; DC: 5D POP RBP
; DD: C3 RET

As far as overhead goes, the SHL makes room for tag bits (and notice that's only done once, not per math op), and CLC indicates that the function doesn't return multiple values. That is not significant overhead, and will absolutely destroy reference Python in speed.
I just started looking into D, and I was wondering about its future as part of my evaluation. Now, I feel it will benefit from being part of the GCC 'canon', and gain more of a user-base, and contributors.
Perhaps the original reply was (in a subtle way) pointing out that Sculley might not be as pragmatic about his own firing from Apple?
They absolutely could plan it without his consent. Uber is still hemorrhaging money. They'd be lucky to make it through 2018 if those investors turned off the tap.
Facebook tried that. Did it work? No.
>I honestly see Lyft managing to outpace Uber in the next 12 months.

Perhaps in the US. But Uber has a large presence in a number of other countries, while Lyft has none, AFAIK.
> But really, what triggered all this was acting like jerks.

If you trivialise illegal activity as "acting like jerks", then none of this really holds much water. They've been jerks the whole time.
Your analogy is incredibly bad. Imagine if GrubHub itself provided the menu and contracted out to semi-anonymous restaurants to cook the food; then imagine that it wasn't salmonella or the like, but rather that the cook had pissed in the food; and THEN imagine that GrubHub refused to tell the police which restaurant cooked the meal and then blatantly lied to the cops that no food from that (still unnamed) restaurant had been on GrubHub's menu for two years anyway.

In that scenario, you're damn right you could sue GrubHub; they'd be complicit in the coverup of a crime.
> he says it is less sexist than every other place she has worked (especially after all the press), and she likes her job

I'm sure you're paraphrasing, but these things are not equal.
It's definitely not to be more like China. I like the concept of being a more idealized 1950's-style superpower. Far less sexism and racism, while leading the world in science, technology, and culture. The most practical way of achieving that is by taking the best people from other countries and bringing them here into the U.S.

I think it's possible to be a superpower and maintain America's identity while also having the population be as happy as that of Sweden's. That's how I view(ed) the country heading during the 2008-2016 years. Maybe I'm naive but I was seeing a lot of social issues change for the better. We were working towards gay rights. There were discussions around discrimination and racism. We were also bringing a lot more attention to the healthcare issues we have here. There's a trend around being healthy and educated. There was even talk about wages, work/life balance, and the cost of living. I figured things would improve as these discussions began to get louder and take up more of the country's focus.

My views are starting to get a lot more cynical nowadays. I wouldn't mind if the U.S. just turtled and gave up on the dream of being the best. Is it silly to want to be the best country on Earth? Do people from outside the U.S. share that same mentality or is it just some culturally-imposed ideal that the U.S. has?
I'm not sure how the Uber fallout is a surprise to anyone. As an analogy, take every major political scandal you can think of - Monica Lewinsky, Watergate, Iran Contra, Chappaquiddick, etc - and imagine a single elected official perpetrating them all within the course of a year. How do you think they would be treated?
A while ago I tried installing Slackware 3.0 on Virtual Box out of nostalgia, and it was everything I remembered and worse. I only managed to get XFree86 to start up in some 300x200 mode that would pan around the 'virtual' size. Getting networking working required a kernel recompilation.

Even after all that, there wasn't much it could do. I'm not sure why I insisted on running that instead of Windows 95.
Pretty much this.
Kale is effectively wild cabbage, it's a salty leaf that is common in Europe as garnish or a side dish (usually boiled).
It pretty much can grow anywhere it's an extremely cheap crop to produce and it was 100% marketing fad that capitalized on the ignorance of consumers.
I suspect Huffington is behind a lot of this.
that person has been elected president.
Racism is a term that has different meanings to different people. Does it mean believing that your race is superior to all the others? Or does it mean believing that there are non-surface level differences between different evolutionary groups of people? Or does it mean simply having tribal instinct to help out people who you perceive are similar to you?

Under the standard to which european-americans are held in US employment law, this would almost certainly be classified as illegal discrimination. Imagine if you had a company the size of infosys which was 93-94% european-american. Even though the US is somewhere about 60% european-american I think, I suspect a non-european-american would almost certainly be able to bring a successful discrimination case against the company (my gut feeling).

In this scenario, we have a company which is 93-94% east indian, out of a US population of around 1%. There has to be around 6000% more racial discrimination going on to make this happen than would be required to form a 93-94% european-american company in the US. I don't know if this will be ruled as discrimination though -- my gut feeling that the vast majority of US anti-racial-discrimination enforcement is aimed at european-americans and not other groups (this is called a double standard e.g. hypocrisy).
Somehow it is ending up being neither
You don't think ale is a type of beer?
This guy may be a huge asshole.. but he is not anywhere close to why Uber has been having problems.. though I hope his resignation helps the company. Obviously his resignation followed immediately by their "180 days of change" campaign, in app tipping etc.. was a well planned move to get some heat off them
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Travis was not anywhere close to being responsible for the amount of heat he has taken lately... but this + their 180 days of change, in app tipping and things is good for the company and hopefully will make the drivers a little happier..
As to the parents points at hand - they got away with it. So, not "that person". All of them.

Your cute political comment ignores ridiculouslness on your side. It's all the same trash. Either party. Don't be a homer.
I wish I had but more than one upvote to give!
who cares about rural broadband? let's get decent internet in populated areas first
PS I am an Uber/Lyft driver.. never thought I would be but an experiment in hustling up a little extra cash ended up working out great for me
The Chronicles of Amber, again.
Well he did say there was no way in hell Uber would IPO. What's a poor billionaire to do when faced with an obstinate CEO messin' with their payday?

PS the rest of the Uber story is IPO in 5..4..3..
My term for this is "minesweeper"
Contracts are power stuff that overrides most things. If you agree to something then people, and courts, will hold you to it.

I expect it is in the agreement they require you to use before you join Etsy.
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I am a regular Web Developer with a keen interest in learning ML/AI. The problem is I don't know much about it. I like Math, but it has become rusty after years of Coding(not programming, you know the difference).

Is it too late to start from scratch in ML/AI? I cannot afford (financially and temporally) to invest in a formal education, so any efforts would have to be my own (MOOCs, Books etc.)

What are the views of the community?
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If your point is 'Taxis can't compete with Uber because of the medallion system', then you're probably right.

But if your point is 'Uber was primarily successful because they found a way to get around the medallion system', then I don't think so.

The reason being, livery cars were around long before Uber, are much more comparable, and they also did not have to deal with medallions. So, why didn't livery cars put the taxis out of business a long time ago?

I think the real reasons for Uber's success are:

1. Livery cars were a hassle to arrange. Uber solved this by using smartphones with GPS.

2. Livery cars were slower to pick you up. Probably because there weren't enough drivers on the road. Which is probably because there weren't enough riders. Uber solved that catch-22 by subsidizing the rides to jumpstart a positive network effect.
It's a mouthful, but it's certainly sensible to me. Searching the web tends to be a lot like "duck duck goose".
[Former] Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf made 473 times more than the salary of a median employee, according to Bloomberg. That ratio of CEO-to-employee pay puts Wells Fargo at No. 33 among S&P 500 companies and third highest among financial institutions on the list. He earned $19.3 million in total compensation last year.

Add in the other highly paid C-level people in WFC and

Split that with the median paid and below employees would mean about $3000/year.

For a full-time teller making about $30K/year that is a 10% salary difference.

I do call that much more than a "small" raise.
found your reddit AMA after reading this story, super cool. Just ordered a hot sauce sampler <3
As I understood, there is a causal relationship. Not needing children to support you when you get old, and being able to get your first couple of kids past the infant mortality barrier, tend to result in fewer children overall.
There is literally no catch. I just launched this as an offshoot from my main startup, and I have no plans for direct monetizing of Read Across The Aisle. The only way that I benefit is that this app raises awareness for my other startup.

See my response to a sister comment for more details!
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cute comment edit aside, I'm not sure I follow the distinction you're trying to make.

edit: to be absolutely clear, i'm not saying that trump has committed _every_one_ of the _specific_ acts referenced by the parent. but he is the amalgamation of every terrible, wrong-headed political move a person can make, and he's president. my point was the initial analogy was bad, "picture a candidate who's done every bad thing a candidate can do; how do you think they'd be treated?". well, they'd quite possibly be elected president.
Secret evidence is worthless. Without public evidence it's just an argument from authority, and the authorities in question have been quite obviously lying about other matters for years. Trusting people who have repeatedly broken your trust tends to be a poor idea. They might not be lying, but without evidence to the contrary it's best to ignore everything they say.
It's called deep pockets.
This is a marketplace though, I am talking more of direct online retailing.
Business schools might be the wrong place to mint tech entrepreneurs. The number of wannabe tech founders vs those taking coding electives is telling.

And speaking as a technical manager, I'm also deeply skeptical that combing an MBA with a bootcamp/MOOC will make you a proficient technical manager. It might put you on better footing to hire a competent one, though.
I think you have an overly optimistic view of what the deep end of hostile work environments looks like (not that Uber was not notably bad).
It could be limited to only programs that are setuid.
Isn't it true that once you have backtracking in your regex engine that there's no longer a guarantee that there's only a single parse tree?

I've found the hardest part of using e.g. a recursive descent parser is having to correct captured state while backtracking.
Doesn't mean all the policies have to be reversed though
Or keep >4kB objects off stack.
The Play Store user reviews are priceless. Shows that you can't just put anything and call it AI, it has to work in practice. This model is a nice technical demo for reducing the size of a neural net, but bad at what it says it does.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ailabby.do...
Those are interesting facts I never thought about! Thanks for the detailed explanation.
You can be damn sure Uber has a record of every Uber ride ever taken. Even if Uber had incorrect records in their database about which car picked up the rider, because the driver had e.g. failed to update Uber with their current car and plates, there is no plausible reason why Uber would believe that the ride itself had never occurred, because they have the rider's account information. They could have produced "rider account X requested a trip in Boston on such-and-such date, we matched that person with driver account Y, and driver account Y was registered in 20xx to Vernon Dudley, 4 Privet Drive, ...". But they deliberately didn't provide that information.

"this article is muddled and confusing"

Reality is muddled and confusing. Real life never has the clarity of an omniscient third-person narrator telling the reader the actual facts of the matter.
I have sympathy for the guy on a personal basis. It sucks to lose a parent. I have none for the guy as a businessman. I wouldn't be terribly sad if Uber failed.
At that time, a lot of people (supporters or not) were under the impression that Trump was okay with legal immigration.

The travel ban made it clear that's not the case (it affected legal immigrants).

In fact, Bannon had spoken against legal immigration before the election, and continues to do so:

"Legal immigration is the real problem"

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/st...
Similar to the article author, many just don't have experience with relational db's and have only heard that they aren't flexible and don't scale.

They don't realize just how easily performant Postgres can be - and often so easily by sticking basic indexes where they are needed. Similarly they may not realize the amount of data and load PG or MySQL can handle just fine.
w.r.t. "hiring discrimination is bad ... it's also illegal in the US".

Discrimination is not illegal in the US. In fact, it is the basis of every hiring decision and every interview. However, in the US, there is a list of criteria which the government has made illegal to take into account in hiring decisions. For anything not on the list you are free to discriminate (intelligence discrimination, ivy league education discrimination, culture fit discrimination, etc...).
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Which is a blatant lie, or else Uber wouldn't bother with the expense of driver background checks and the like.
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Aw. I wrote something last year to translate old documents with plain text boxes and arrows to Unicode line drawing characters. This was a small part of another project. It's here:

https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/blob/master/src/Util/picf...
Perfectly reasonable response, but we are actually not doing anything with individual user data, and we have no plans to do so. We don't even have any plans to do anything with aggregate user data, though we might eventually do that.

The reason that permissions are needed is that the extension monitors how long you read on each website. But that data never leaves your computer — it's just used to compute the stats we show you in your dashboard.

Read Across The Aisle is related to my main startup, BeeLine Reader, and it was just something we did for fun, and to help with polarization of news consumption.
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