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On an aside, I do like their Mercury Reader extension.

You find some website that's utterly polluted with content, click the Mercury Reader and you've got a very clean readable article (similar to Firefox's Reading mode).

I keep thinking, it'd be nice to have a Lynx Browser-like proxy that reformats existing webpages into readable, but minimum markup. Sort of like AMP-everywhere perhaps. The purist in me only wants to download the 2kB of actual information from most sites, and not the extra few Meg for tracking, ads, pointless styles, frameworks etc...
A user. This app had 2 million downloads.
If it ever is.
"Given that everyone can now buy designer handbags and new cars..."

That's a pretty stupid assertion.
I thought traditional Taxis assumed liability.
I think calling the article "really stupid" is excessive although I agree it hardly brings anything new to the table. That is fine, but the title had me expecting a little more. As it is I find it a poor re-hash of Pierre Bourdieu's work on cultural capital ("The Inheritors"). I recommend it, it's marvelously well-written in French. Unfortunately, I do not have an English translation to recommend.
"having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way."

That seems like exactly the word to use for self perpetuating inequality to me...
180-day holds are generally standard if you're worried about chargebacks.
I don't see much analysis, just an assumption that educating yourself through college or reading magazines is an act of "signalling" your wealth. If you have the means to afford these things I think it's rather silly to assume you're doing so to demonstrate how much money you have...

There isn't much substance here.
Something that most people seems to have missed

> The non SMP Erlang VM is deprecated and not built by default

In 2017, most languages are still fighting to get a multicore implementation. Erlang is ditching their single core one.
The measurements for each metric are tabular, but the taxonomy of problems above them is currently tree (or forest) structured.

CSV export or import for specific metrics would be very easy to add if you'd like it. We already have a rough JSON export of the data:

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And what's the alternative? Should people make a conscious decision to be less educated, less healthy, and less prepared for retirement?
So by admission of the article, they're not really signaling their wealth, they're being more inconspicuous. I'm not even sure what the claim is anymore...
Humans started out with only one very limited language, then spread out to cover the world, and new languages flourished. As technology progressed and the world became smaller, having fewer languages (or at least, a few common languages) made more sense. With the advent of the internet, the world has become so small a single language might be the best option.

Programming started out with one very limited language (machine code), the spread out to cover the world, and new languages flourished. As technology progresses and the world becomes smaller, having fewer languages (or at least, a few common languages) will make more sense. With the advent of the singularity, the world will have become so small a single language might be the best option.=
Wow, I watched the whole video and all I can say is -- huh?

That looked totally painful, and not at all fun. Granted, much of this is due to the fact that it's a touch interface, but I'm not seeing it as very useful.

I'm a huge Lisp/Scheme/Clojure fan, but I didn't find this at all impressive.
Thanks for the suggestions (you, and the other two people mentioning the same thing). I have just started looking at Elixir, and I'm hoping that will work better.

Am I just to assume that Erlang deployment really is as complicated and poorly documented as I thought, since no one suggested any documentation, but three people suggested I switch to Elixir.
Spending more on health, education, and retirement is thinking long-term. Is that a cause or an effect of being wealthy?

Perhaps in the old days, when overt classism was still accepted, conspicuous consumption yielded something for the spender. Now it is often frawned upon in the West, why bother? So the money saved is invested in consumption/investments with better returns. That is rational.
Maybe if you compare it to existing AWS pricing. Otherwise, these are not low prices.
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In response to the statement that "People are defecting on the prisoners' dilemma.", you are saying "What's the alternative? Should people make a conscious decision to get a worse outcome?"
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Maybe I'm just uneducated on the spendings of the top 1% but to me it felt new. To each his own I guess
Because comparing N bits takes time proportional to N.
Microsoft too
Limiting the benchmark to engines supporting matching sets of regexes seems unnecessarily narrow to me. Is matching a set of regexes not equivalent to matching a single combined regex? Something like "(?:a)|(?:b)|(?:c)"? If so, why not run the test with that regex instead, and include other engines?
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
r u sure that you're well informed?

>videos of him pushing others aside for photo ops

Check it out. The Montenegro PM stepped on Trumps foot, both of them react to that.

Ask yourself, What other information have you received in a biased form?
"Everyone" is a hyperbole but compared to 1899 it's relatively true, especially if the author means everyone in the middle class
Handmade is actually worse than Etsy for this. I tried creating a Handmade account with the same products I sell on Etsy and Amazon basically said they weren't handmade enough. If you're not making jewelry or textiles, don't get your hopes up.
Redux makes it a bit annoying with the actions/actions creators. I've switched my project (written in TypeScript) from redux to mobx and, since it's just calling normal functions, everything is typed without making any extra effort.
"The new, subtle ways" of signalling wealth in this article are neither new, subtle, nor interesting. You're telling me:

-Rich people bragging about going to/sending their kids to nice schools

-Eating fancy food

-Ostentatiously namedropping highbrow pop culture

are some sort of recent phenomena? Come on :)
What is so bad about the Anki UI? I have been using it for three years on Ubuntu Unity and I'm pretty happy with it.
I especially like how keyboard-friendly it is.
Sorry, don't know why I always get MoneyDesktop and HelloWallet confused. :(

Cool… keep on trucking! :)

BTW, I don't suppose you have Australian/NZ support?
Second this,, why would any who uses Uber take into account the internal turmoil happening within the company when they decide to use the app or not?

The costs of Uber going up or decrease in availability of drivers should matter more.

Drivers only care about their bottom line which is rate per mile/time and frequency of riders.
Did you find any documentation about the data format?
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Yes, though I did not give it. Apparently someone who has my contact details has given it away !!!
There's this very strange and very dangerous notion making the rounds that because some people don't have the means to access something (i.e. a college education) then those that do have the means should abstain out of...what, solidarity? Because it's unfair?

Problems of inequality are complex and have many different factors at play. I think it's extremely dangerous to discourage the wealthy from using their wealth in this manner. We need to explore the root causes of problems of inequality and this type of rhetoric does NOTHING but fester resentment.
At MBA programs with accelerators, committed entrepreneurs often lose funding to polished classmates with Sales skills, but no actual immediate intention or ability to build a business. That is because between VC and high salaries elsewhere, the grind can be too big a leap when you have loans to pay. YC can easily filter that by looking at an applicant's execution experience in the past, or check if their resume shows more blue-chip brands than meaningful growth. For some, the MBA is a tool, for others it's a merit badge.

It felt like 30%-50% of my classmates got enough credits to get an Entrepreneurship major, because they want to build a business one day, after MBA (just not immediately after, and not necessarily VC-worthy stuff). Entrepreneurship through acquisition, running your own fund, joining VCs, leading family businesses, there are a lot more options for MBAs.

The bigger issue is that top 5 tech giants don't help by acquiring or cloning the work of CS MBAs or those who stick it out as Entrepreneurs. With lack of regulation and increasing market power for the giants, fewer people who can make something worthwhile will be wanting to do startups instead of working for 300-700k at a big company. Ironically, of my committed entrepreneur classmates with tech backgrounds, a lot more of those that started hardware, or healthcare, or food-chain, or other distinctly "non-virtual" startups continue today. That's because the virtual/social/saas ones were aqui-hired.

As a techie at a top MBA program (20 years of coding so far), I took VC and Finance classes, Patent Law, and CS Masters classes to round out my skills, while I built my company till 4 am every night. The MBA experience taught me when NOT to raise money. I've been bootstrapping and focusing on users and now run 2 different sites that are growing well. That MBA is actually paying itself back!
It isn't Serverless, it doesn't use any of the current buzzwords, and you can't run it on the browser side (who doesn't want to run a backend scraping API on the browser), so you'll get zero buy-in from any of the current load of entrepreneurs.

I see only negatives, don't think about doing it that way.
It should be as easy as possible to develop. But as strict as possible to ensure correctness. Practically it will be at least as hard as creating the same contract.

I chose strict languages, not assembly.
> enabled nearly 200K drivers to become entrepreneurs

Oh, please. Some argue that those drivers are employees, some argue that they are contractors providing a low-level service, but calling them "entrepreneurs" really is a bit of a stretch.
Using AWS Lambada created that cost structure. Using an alternative to AWS would not.

$150 (at most) dedicated server for instance.
How the (English-speaking) rich signal their wealth: by referring to marvelous works in French that have no worthy English translations. :P
Kalanick is one of the greatest startup founder/CEOs ever.

Honestly I don't care about the sexual harassment, bro culture or greyball. Yes that's bad but it's part of the deal.

He led the creation of a huge and iconic startup. So what if he hurt some feeling along the way.

America should be ashamed of itself for pansy whiffing off a legendary startup founder.

This guy is a conqueror and America is asking him to tuck it between his legs. Shameful and pathetic.
It is unclear to me why this rant was necessary. The field of applied mathematics and other mathematical modeling sub-fields seems to be what the author means when he talks of mathematics as science and of mathematical truths. His criticism would have been much more salient if applied mathematics weren't thriving today more than ever--with the explosion of computational power every field now seeks to make evermore complex mathematical models of the problems they study and solve.
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I haven't coded in a while so decided to update my coding habits by building this. It's built on Foundation 6.

There's a lot of hip hop being published every day. Franklins will attempt to collect the four tracks of highest quality every week. It's not made to make money, just a place for people to discover four quality tracks every Friday.

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"i have to be an asshole to succeed!" - people who are assholes who are making excuses for themselves.
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Thanks for the link... interesting how quick python is to start...
Code contributions are appreciated as well :)
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It seems that the source build is broken. At least a straightforward attempt to build otp from github sources with latest clang/lld has been failed.
Would you rather everyone be uneducated and poor as shit?

Honestly, this is such an insane sentiment. Things are getting better for everyone! Increased focus on health and education is obviously a good thing for society; you have to have some seriously fucked up priorities if you think jealousy is a reasonable objection to that fact.
Bullshit. He made taxi services cheaper by pumping VC money into the market, with no obvious long-term strategy for profitability.
So your reply to this...

> > This is literally a visa where the requirement is to create jobs for American citizens

is this?

> The complaints that I read are often that they aren't actually jobs that couldn't be fulfilled here, with local talent
Reading "The Economist"? Talking to vendors at organic farmer's market? Breastfeeding? (Not that there's anything wrong with that). All of these signal middle class more than anything else.

The rich people I know display the following marks of belonging:

1) the ability to make a call and solve any petty problem they have (forgot to take a prescription to the pharmacy? Make a call, and the medicine will be released anyway, with compliments).

2) being relaxed and serene like a Buddhist monk

3) displaying levels of trust impossible to the less rich people. Like "you know Bitcoin and how it works, right? Could you buy some for me? Here's $30,000". I barely knew the guy!
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... and are accused of industry espionage, covering-up crimes of their drivers, mishandling medical information, covering-up managers repeatedly using company chat to solicit sex (wtf, I too want a job where I'm paid for doing that), chaotic internal politics resulting in projects being slashed and people moved around for no reason, ...

I don't know, if this is true then they could have expected that some of his innovations may backfire.
If you can't make $370/month from 39M requests, maybe you shouldn't be making those requests in the first place?
Sorry to hear, but this sounds like you friend's fault. How does he really knows that driver took these devices? Maybe he lost them somewhere else (he was intoxicated, after all) or maybe the next passenger took them? If this has happened in a bus, would you blame a bus driver too?
Everyone's feelings matters.
> Isn't that the whole point of abstractions?

Abstractions are the wrong thing to chase.

Just because an abstraction will put you further away from a technical problem, doesn't mean will get you closer to solving your business problem.
Another third of the salaries or another third of the total?
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I'm starting to feel sorry for rich people. They're not allowed to buy nice things because that is just obnoxious showing off, and now they're not allowed to spend their money on education, retirement, and healthy food? Maybe the author should stop bearing around the bush and just tell the rich off for being rich!
Goodness, I’ve never felt old until now.
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The alternative is to tax the rich (gasp!) and provide good education and health care for everybody.
All of your negatives are about the perception of server/serverless, not about the actual benefits. Who knows if this company has investors or if it is actually self funding (judging by the costs, maybe not hard?).
> Erlang solve stuff that is very niche

Well, it's true that Erlang supports some strange, esoteric (at least, esoteric for people outside of telecom) protocols.

But it supports all the "normal" stuff also, as you write:

> Erlang had cowboy, etc.. but it wasn't close to the other MVC language.

Cowboy is actually pretty decent a framework for web development. It's not Rails or Django equivalent, it's similar to something like stripped-down CherryPy, which may be regarded as minimalistic, but it's perfectly functional. And fast. And WebSocket handling is pure bliss.

So, Cowboy doesn't support MVC out of the box, but you can implement this pattern on top of Cowboy in ~30 loc.

> So practicing Erlang to get real experiences in it was hard.

Erlang is different. From its Prolog roots to its concurrency primitives to immutability and tail-call elimination - it's built to be different.

It's not exactly surprising that you can't use it as freely as you'd like immediately after learning it. It's expected. The only thing I can tell you now is that the problem disappears with time. You need to practice Erlang fundamentals for a bit and slowly advance to more complex topics.

In my case, it took me a year to become proficient with Erlang: the main language was a bit of a hassle, but its std library and OTP and ecosystem in general took even more effort to grok. OTOH, after a year of learning and practicing, I was able to write a proof-of-concept web apps in a day, including learning Cowboy. The "proof-of-concept" was fast and solid enough that it reached production stage and ran there for 3 years until finally replaced by some other tool.

So I'd say it's worth the effort, but of course YMMV :)
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Simple to reason about.
Simple to code in a short period.
Simple to test.
Simple to replace parts/resources.
Simple to add/remove feature.
Simple to explain.

Assuming simplicity in one area will cause increased complexity in another, what is the most important area to force simplicity?
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What about hot dogs?
This article is an archetypal example of raw, unpasteurized Crab Mentality. More focus on healthy behaviors and education? God forbid!
You're expressing the Harrison Bergeron impulse born from the pathological elevation of equality-of-outcome as an ultimate terminal value.

People get different outcomes, and it's "unfair", and if we can't lift someone up then we'll damn well hold someone else down to make it "fair", even if it benefits nobody to do so.

This is why equality-of-outcome is a harmful impulse. (And it's mostly just raw envy with a layer of lipstick slapped on anyway).
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underwater land grab
Is there a demo video available for this?
I realize that Verizon and Verizon Wireless are now separate businesses. Nonetheless -- and also because of increasing suckage at Verizon Wireless -- once T-Mobile deploys on its newly acquired lower frequency spectrum and fills in some rural holes I need, I'm going to drop Verizon Wireless like a hot potato.

I wonder how much PR and good will damage/loss Verizon's behavior is generating.
Just antagonize some other country into to using their bombs and save even more.
In Edge I'm getting the following error which means no diagram gets rendered:

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With Lisp you can have a productive dynamic language that compiles to native code, even OSes were once upon a time build with it.
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No, but I'll try and do one now!
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How is that an alternative? Both can and should co-exist.

Edit: that is to say, yes, I'm in favor of taxing the rich and universal healthcare. I don't see how enacting those policies would be an alternative to people investing their resources in improving their own lives in ways that are harmless to society at large, if not beneficial.
FWIW, I heard they convinced investors that economy of scales will make their pricing profitable in the future. At least that's what somebody said in this other Uber thread here.

Whether their calculations will pan out is another story. Whether such tactics should be allowed - yet another.
Last time i saw a codebase with gomobile, it wasn't a pretty sight... especially on android. Not sure this is the reason they got bought.
Simple to use ?
Lets take this point by point:

- reduced drunk driving rates by 1/3

Not going to argue with that one, it is good.

- enabled nearly 200K drivers to become entrepreneurs

I used to work in direct sales, aka multi level marketing. They too called the people there "entrepreneurs". Those very people your describing as "entrepreneurs" have been suing Uber for missing money. When confronted by one of these drivers about money Kalanick embarrassed himself. It is a gig, barely a job and not "entrepreneurial"

- provided a valuable service to millions of customers

So do tobacco companies, but we wouldn't qualify that as something good. Doing buisness and having customers requires that you do this.

- Accelerated the shift to self driving cars. That deserves serious credit.

Newco/waymo lawsuit? Is that what your suggesting? The only one who is getting close to this in a meaning way is tesla. They are the only ones with the data and the drive to do it.

Lets talk about other things uber has done

- sexual harassment issues (theres a lot here unpack it at your leisure)

- India rape case and the file floating around corporate offices

- Its creepy data surveillance programs

- Its programs to avoid law and code enforcement (greyball)

- Its program to track lyft drivers (hell) also totally counter to the "entrepreneurs" idea of them

- Its continued flouting of regulation and the law (just file the paperwork like everyone else)

These are the less than stellar things that uber has done to burn through investors money in an attempt to secure their market share. Was it needed? I don't know? Does it paint a pretty grim picture that Uber is a company that is willing to do anything to get ahead? It sure looks like it. Kalanick is the ONE constant in all of this, for him to be unaware of all or most of this would make him derelict in his duties as CEO, for him to be aware of all of it doesn't make him look like a good human being.

The icing on the cake is the lactation room incident (see: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/08/uber-ceo-does-a-riff-o... ). At this point we go from sketchy possible evil CEO to something that looks like it is right out of HBO's Silicon Valley, only in the show the scene would end with him throwing out a woman who was using the room for its intended purpose to put a fine point on its insanity.

Kalanick might have done a lot of good, on a lot of fronts, he also might have been aware of all of the above and either done nothing or actually encouraged it. Uber might succeed, but at this point it is living under a microscope and the odds are that it will be one of the biggest private implosions in the valleys history.
Yes, it's documented. Doesn't look to bad. They appear to do some custom delta compression but nothing too bad.
But they wrote in their TOS that they are not liable....
Was there any issue with underage students taking the class?
It is a selection over a large pool of people. So is dating. Have you dated your fair share of minorities?