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> His investors asked him to step down for a reason

Which reason would that be? Which reason is there for a investor to ask a CEO to step other than to protect his/her investment?
How would retaining an attorney work in small claims?
> One of my drivers claimed they had just gotten a new car

That can happen, you don't even need a new car for it. I've bought a car with one license plate missing, and when I went to DMV to ask what to do with it, I just was issued a new set. One other time, on another car, my back license plate disappeared - still have no idea what happened to it, I suspect it was stolen, but I have no idea where (how often you check the license plate on your own car?) or why. It's very easy to steal it, it's just two screws, so it was gone, and I went to the DMV and got another set. Some of my documents still list the same car under an old license plate. So it's not impossible to have several sets of plates for the same car, and it's very easy to get a new set.

Getting license plate btw can be very fast - at least in California, once you're in the DMV they just have a stack of plates sitting there and they take one from the top and give it to you (obviously, after you waited in the line and paid and filled in the documents, etc. - that may take time :) Brand-new car may take longer or if you get them by mail.
That was Uber's argument too. They lost.
Often people don't want to do database admin stuff, dynamodb has none of that.

On the bright side, relational is coming back with RDS, cloud-sql, spanner and cockroachdb. With any luck NoSQL will be forgotten :)
If Subway tells the cops "I won't say who it was", and they say "he hasn't worked at Subway for two years anyway" (this being a bald-faced lie), AND the medical bills from the stabbing set you back millions of dollars... damn right, Subway owes you millions. They're making themselves complicit in the crime by obstructing justice, and making it clear that Subway was OK with the stabbing.
Imagine shop windows that react according to the movements of passers-by

I would prefer not to.
There is a tab in your Amazon account that lists every single thing you've bought from them on that account. I have purchases going back to 1998 in there.

Uber is maybe in a little different position because they're in danger of outing a cheating spouse if they give up that info. Maybe a better option would be to let you access all of your trip info, but have an option to hide certain trips? Sort of like private browsing mode in your browser?
It's sad that some have accepted being hacked is ok and feel there's nothing they should do to stop this from happening in the future...
At least it wasn't another rant about how RDBMs suck and how great NoSQL or mongodb is or why can't I just store data in a json file.

Baby steps. I try to see the silver lining in every cloud.
If the gri-gri actually work as advertised (i.e. the beliefs are true), then there is no paradox for why it is adaptive.

If tribe A is immune to gunfire and tribe B is not, then tribe A will win and in a region with sufficient inter-tribal warfare, we will observe only tribes that are immune to gunfire.
Yeah but that's Australia... ;)
I am not convinced Kamaal was arguing against self driving cars. He might have been arguing that they could be simpler and more achievable. It could be just fine as long as when the software panics it does something sane like slow to a controlled stop and turn on the hazard lights.
> a better product tailored to the Chinese market

What were the differences?
Isn't borrow-checking a sort of compile-time reference counting? Not what people usually think of when they say "reference counting", but I wonder if it's a good way to think of borrow-checking.
im not here to scold you, but this comment is kind of revealing. it shows a need to explain a bad thing by saying that a good thing caused it. while i wont deal with the substance of the argument (which i personally reject), its my experience that this argument's format shows up an awful lot when there is a bias that someone has to bend reality to preserve.

its also revealing that you would even bother entertaining this idea. why not just say "yea. they shouldn't do that."? im pretty sure there are companies that have "disrupted" industries that were not filled with toxic culture.
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> The guy only got $4K. Retaining a lawyer for just that amount wouldn't be worth it, would it? I have no clue how small claims works and how likely it is to have attorney fees be included if you win like you mentioned. The guy had to fly back to Boston again for the second time around. He'd also likely have spent some money in Boston like getting around. None of that was included in the final amount either. I'm not sure if a lawyer or someone more in the know how of how small claims/courts work would have been able to get it. And even if you can, how easy is it to get it.

It can be worth it, especially if - as OP mentioned - part of his goal was to prove his case to Uber, not so much to specifically recover the money. He didn't necessarily need an incredible A++ 10/10 lawyer, just somebody decent who could devote a couple hours to advising him and act as a go-between for settlement negotiations.

Having a lawyer levels you up in the eyes of court systems and corporations both. Is it perfectly worth it? Not necessarily. Is it very good advice for people considering any kind of legal action? I think so.
Exactly. Half the point of the beam is not having that type of code impact the scheduler.

Case in point, you can write a faster JSON parser in C and use it (jiffy)...but it's not desirable to pollute your BEAM for the minor performance gain.
Correct. Transit methods measure size not mass.
Forgotten Child in Car Alert
You have mites on your face right now
> ... my bi-monthly reminder not to say anything tounge-in-cheek on HN, lest people trip overthemselves to remind you how you said something tounge-in-cheek and downvote you

just avoid the hassle and use "/s"
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This is a really insightful translation of the Uber Holden report to help ensure diversity in team's of any size.
Butwith GrubHub, you know where the food came from and can take action against the restaurant. In this case, the rider had no way to contact or hold responsible the driver, and that in addition to Uber obstructing law enforcement efforts to locate the driver is what made them liable.
IIRC it's the same as doing it anywhere else. You retain someone to represent you and they do so. In some states, you must appear on your own - but not in MA, I don't think, and you can still have an attorney advising you even if they can't appear with you.
I can think of plenty, but I'm not going to say... Tehehe sorry for the joshing, it's interesting that free shipping doesn't correlate into increased revenues, or at least as much as one would think (although I'd like to see this same test on merchant fullfilled Amazon listings)..
Right – I meant even traditional fonts could be seen as "parameterized" if you were squinting at them through a slightly foggy lens. :-)
You just didn't know the code. Five minutes meant there was someone pretty close to you and it would be fine. Seven minutes meant there was someone that would head your way but he was a little further away so don't trip out about it. Ten minutes meant we're fucking busy but a guy will pick you up sooner or later. Fifteen minutes meant hopefully we'll be hiring some new drivers soon and when we do we'll definitely send one your way. And a busy signal meant it's time to consider public transit.
> but at this point, it basically is.

Normally, I find belly-aching about something not looking right or not working right because NoScript is on is silly.

But I find it astounding that this page requires javascript to display the text of a _blog post_. What is so important that your site completely shits the bed and fails so badly that it shows nothing but a white screen.

Frankly, I think Shopify just purposely sabotages the page because they want you to enable javascript so they can enable analytics and track you across their sites.

Not to mention they load code from Google APIs, Google Analytic, Shopify.com, Embed.ly, Gfycat.com, and Mlveda.com, which means I'm suddenly running code from websites I never intended on visiting. Why should visiting https://fymhotsauce.rocks send a road flare to all those services?

You're right, this is the new normal, but it's shit and we should be complaining.
Huh?

Starting with the title - "unifiers" and "diversifiers" appear to be terms with definitions unique to the author. Except the author never bothers to define them.

This article seems to be a call to "praise" the lowly scientific tool developers and niche combers who don't get the credit they deserve.

This assertion is easy to refute by simply consulting a list of recent Nobel chemistry recipients:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/
> you also have to deal with people that leave negative feedback because of issues that have nothing to do with what they ordered

I gain a little bit of hope for humanity whenever I see a low-star review like "arrived 2 days late" or "wouldn't accept my visa card but I just bought gas with it yesterday and it worked fine" followed by "0 of 19 people found this review helpful".
> The driver seemingly didn't get reprimanded or properly investigated by Uber.

Sure he did. He got a 1-star rating - surely this will weed out the bad agents from the system.
Similarly I bought some gifts there and it was weeks before I gave the gifts, not much chance I'm writing a review for something I haven't even given yet.
Hahaha holy crap!
I called several attorney offices for a small claim court case (max $2k in that particular state iirc) and they laughed at me.
Eh, perhaps "tasteful" was the wrong word. I'm very anti-tipping overall (though will hold my nose and tip where appropriate, because that's just how things are), but I think, in a place where tips are expected, a tip jar is fine, as long as it's fairly unobtrusive and not in your face, and not verbally mentioned. Of course, until now, Uber was not a place where tipping was expected, so... sigh.
>I used to be down with trying to restore things to pre-Caucasians-in-North-America conditions wherever possible.

you'd need at least a 300M bed Mayflower destined for Mars.

>If all humans suddenly disappeared or stopped intervening, what would the landscape look like or turn into? Conditions would prevail that were affected by everything humans have done to date, but unaffected by any future human action. So for example, blackberry vines, kudzu, ivy, starlings, rats, and such, would take over, at least in some places, at least for a while. Is that bad? If humans disappeared, who would be around to find it bad or good?

Chernobyl area. Flourishing nature preserve. Youtube it.
Austria's generous social welfare system and wide availability of other blue-collar-yet-comfortable-pay work should mean that the average joe won't be screwed over too much by this.

Unlike in the US, where laid off folks really have no recourse.
I wrote a blog post about that:

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot...
There's a theory that any market that is subject to higher and higher productivity gains will eventually become highly volatile followed by its collapse.
Uber’s Lesson: Silicon Valley’s Startup Machine Needs Fixing
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With the amount of unused capital that is available in the system these days... I don't know why anyone would, anyone should be able to buy machines and build their own factory. It's just that those assets would not be growth assets. In fact if anything I would think investors would not be interested in investing in that sort of enterprise... as the returns are nominal so it makes sense for governments to run these sorts of things like utilities.
I'm saying the article is muddled and unclear, not Uber.

> "The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th, 2016, just after 11 PM, and the driver had not driven with them for 2 years."

How do we know this is a lie? It could be true due to driver fraud (driving a different car than the one they have registered with Uber). Or it could have been some kind of mixup on their support team.

> Uhhh... what? It violates privacy? Your either complying with the police or you aren't. "There was no warrant" would have been an OK answer, but that wasn't what they said.

"It violates privacy" and "there was no warrant" aren't mutually exclusive, feels like you're splitting hairs here. If a request violates privacy, that's a good reason to ask for a warrant.

Also, you left out this confusing paragraph:

"It was later asserted that they reached out to the police detective to clear this up. They found the information and tried to contact the detective with all the information. If you are curious as to when this happened, it was April 9th. Uber did everything in their power to make the investigation successful and cooperate with the detective, on April 9th, 2017, four months after the incident. They also only reached out to the detective with the correct information once they were caught obstructing the investigation."

It's still unclear to me how exactly Uber obstructed the investigation but maybe my reading comprehension is lacking.
Starlings aren't so bad except that they're natural mimics. In urban environments that means that they frequently learn to mimic urban noise pollution as part of their bird calls.

Here in NYC, you can have the police tow a car whose alarm goes off too frequently or doesn't shut down after a couple minutes. Not much you can do about a bird near your window mimicking the same sound with praeternatural accuracy every 30 seconds, all day long.
I've heard the term "bear bait."

*Smokey (as in the bear) being CB slang for highway police due to the hats.
I don't believe ruling before a magistrate judge in small claims court create precedent in a legal sense, though if you just mean it will inspire others to do the same, agreed.
Yes but I would have more fun coming up with it in 43ms in the first place. No need to artificially benchmark yourself against an old version of code. The market is the real benchmark - without the baggage of recode.

re crap programmers - I don't doubt that this kind of behavior exists, and certainly with the success of the games industry and the extremely low barriers to entry (unity/unreal/steam/app store etc), this behavior may even be commonplace.

If I was you I would have advised the senior dev to find another job. A company that operates like that is looking for code monkeys, not professional software engineers, and any such professional software engineers won't hang around for long.
Harrassment is often entirely one person's word against another. Many of these cases are decided by who the jury believes, if the case even makes it to court—because, remember, most victims don't press charges.

Investigations don't help much in these cases. The pressure isn't to find (often non-existent) evidence, it is to commit to the shitty process of trying to get people to care about you a painful part of your life.
cool - what makes your service different from Yodlee?
It does, but relatively few of those technologies have the desperate money being shoveled into their marketing in the way that containers in particular (and non-RDBMS datastores, to a lesser extent) have. So those tend to get called out explicitly because no, unless you are profoundly out of the ordinary, you don't need a hot new Kubernetes cluster on day one.
What does that have to do with this though?

Plenty of rich people aren't nice.
Well, an attorney might suggest they not use words like robbery. Robbery is defined, as a legal term. This is just simple theft. Robbery requires force, implied force, or fear.

It's going to suck if this guy gets sued for libel.

Theft is often a misdemeanor where robbery is often a felony. They are pretty different things, legally speaking.
I've seen Lyft saying those sorts of things for some time now when I skimmed around while replying to you. It seems like Lyft has been saying this sort of thing since around 2015/2016. For now I don't believe them. But I'll take that back if they do show what the CEO said when financial info is revealed for this year.

And yeah agree with Kalanick and Uber by extension seem to be only content with winning everything. They only gave up on China after spending a ton of money and clearly not being able to win. Luckily they were able to get a decent stake in Didi from the merger and leaving China.
Python + D3 ... that really is an awesome combination!
I agree that representation would be better, but in reality, a D- 4/10 lawyer would still be too expensive to be worth it here.
That's interesting! What do you use to get get a clean version of the article? I tried newspaper3k, but it doesn't always give best results
Learn ES6 first, it will make learning the framework very easy. Otherwise you will never know the vanilla JavaScript from the React / JSX syntax.
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> As bad as Uber might be, they might be less bad than the alternative. In those terms, one may not want to champion the legacy system as better.

The alternative isn't the legacy system, which nobody's saying is better. The alternative is an Uber with decency (even if still bold to break into regulated markets). Or an Uber competitor.
and MUJI, also very successful in China
I would go further. Because Austria has blocked off the tempting and easy path of abusing a labor market to secure a profit stream, other long-term paths were explored that ultimately ended up in a higher level of productivity & profit for society as a whole.
I said failed strategies or technologies, but better would be failed ideas, which is precisely the same point...
Forgive me as I don't know xen that well, but...

Couldn't they just make a copy of the vm, isolate it, and then break into that one? sure the data will be "old", but not by a lot, and it would theoretically be undetectable.
That sounds rad. What was the failure case if Redis choked?
> Parametric fonts are cool. I think it's a stretch to say things like "Opening up to a new era of type design" though. Yes, the feature of "variable fonts" was added to the OpenType specification somewhat recently, in September 2016. But before that there was Adobe's "multiple master fonts", and even before that, there was Knuth's METAFONT, something that could have been a truly "new era of type design" but never took off.

I think the reason it's a stretch to say "opening up to a new era of type design" has less to do with the tech itself, and more the lack of implementation/support. variable fonts seem promising because they were a joint effort by apple, microsoft, google, and adobe (i.e. the major browser vendors plus the major design software vendor), but it won't be a new era until we can finally use these things. when arbitrary axes for interpolation are well supported in CSS using something like a GX font file, and when they're supported in adobe photoshop, indesign etc, I think that will be the point when we can adopt the tech, and when the "new era" can really begin.
I know that when I google an error code and somehow find a bug from debian it's always often obscure mailing list archive.

If I google a docker error code, I often end up on a github issue.
I have been on nearly every end of the economical scale, especially the lower end. I know what it can be like to have suffered, but one solution to a problem does not mean it is the best solution
I thought the problem was that font designers didn't like creating their font in a text editor.

The whole system seemed to be designed to cater to users who were both computer programmers and typographic artists. That's a demographic set that may consist of a single member: Donald Knuth.
That's not why the site is broken if you're using uBlock/NoScript. It's broken because it loads everything (even the text of the site) from 3rd party domains and scripts.
It's true that in small claims you often don't need one to represent you in the actual proceeding - and many lawyers, especially fairly "big" ones, would have no interest. However, retaining one to advise you on how to navigate the process, how to phrase your arguments, how to communicate with the opposing party, etc., is probably valuable even if they aren't running the case for you directly.
Unfortunately it was completely finished. They may be making it again next year. IIRC the cost of materials and time were much greater than their other beers, so it was a bit of a loss leader.
> It is also worth mentioning there has never been a single case of fraud or loss attributed to "screen-scraping"

This response makes me angry. Every service worth attacking will have security problems at some point. You're running a store of bank credentials, which you have to have access to (as opposed to password managers for example which can store user encrypted data). Given enough time, one of these services will get hacked and "this has never happened before" is not going to be a good answer. Someone will be the first one.

I'm happy your service will push more banks to provide APIs. But I'm already doing bank screen scraping for myself because I don't trust services which require my credentials. I hope people consider that risk seriously.
> "mental calculus" is just you projecting your own feelings onto a situation for which you have very little factual information

That's exactly what mental calculus is. When I'm in a normal state of mind, "was the service any good" and "does this person have the money to tip" are also part of the mental calculus applied when I notice you didn't tip.

> I'm going to think less of you as a person

Maybe so. Vanishingly so (that's why it's calculus) depending on the scope of our interaction. If you are a person on the street who I noticed didn't tip the hot dog vendor, I'm likely not even doing this mental calculus at all, unless you've done something else to attract my attention.

If you're my boss, and I casually observe you not tipping on a regular basis, sure it's going to affect my opinion of you.

(If you are the owner of the company where I work and I notice you suddenly have a habit of not tipping, I'm likely to take it as a signal that maybe business is not so good!)
At no point in this thread have I said it was the best possible solution.
Given that the driver did this intentionally, is there anything preventing the driver from taking off with an open trunk? Hell, from the video footage in this article, even an open door wouldn't have done much. He could easily drive a block in a residential area with an open door and then pull over and quickly close the door.
Windows 10 has Edge and Internet Explorer. type iexplore into the start menu
Why is WeChat not an operating system already? At the very least an Android distribution with a WeChat shell.
Threads are pretty awful. It's really easy for messages and discussions to get lost in them and for participants not to realize that more has been said.
So? They disrupted a bad system and drove some innovation into it, what does that justify?

Let's look at the flip side here. They "disrupted" an industry by repeatedly violating the law and undercutting the competition by subsidizing nearly 2/3 of the cost of fares using investment funds. Is that innovative? I'd argue that nearly anyone could disrupt any industry with such a model, regardless of the actual merits of anything else they'd built.

Add on to that their horrible corporate culture, their seeming support of industrial espionage, and the underhand tactics they use to take advantage of their drivers.

It was smart of them to take on a corrupt, broken, and outdated system, because it allowed people, like you, to whitewash so many of their flaws and transgressions.
The link should be fixed to not point at #comments.
Ah good points about Uber being in a different situation.

Yeah there should be some solution.