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telecom monopolies are government enshrined

Telecom monopolies are not by government intent by rather by regulatory capture.

As a capitalist, I hella want to exclude others from the market. If I can get the government to do this for me, then I'm willing to pay the lobbyist fees to make that happen. In the IP space the only reason I'm willing to slave away at invention is the possibility of a patent, a right to exclude, a limited monopoly.

As a capitalist, the absolute last thing I want is a free market. Thiel puts it this way: competition is for losers.
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>"The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate [...]"

This kind of thing worries me a bit.

This past week I've taken two Lyfts where the license plate provided in the app didn't match what the driver was actually using. One of my drivers claimed they had just gotten a new car, but that's a bit odd to me since when I bought a new car it took several weeks to get my license plate.

So there should be ample time for a good driver to ensure their record is up to date.
> you know exactly how good you are at all times

Ever heard a poker player tell a "bad beat" story?
Sad to hear, I demoed a system with a Tobii sensor and it performed very well (even with my glasses). We were wondering about the effect of the constant IR blasts (are they continuous or pulsing?), thanks for the input.
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My own experience working with Postgres, discovering nifty features or trying out new ones, and articles like this make it clear for me that I'm unlikely to ever need anything else. By the time any of the applications I work on could grow to the size in which Postgres wouldn't be a good option, I'd hopefully be in the process of selling it anyway.

I'm quite ok with that. It's such an awesome piece of software.
I wonder when the MSM will realize that nobody believes them when they say 'the Russians did it!' This article sounds like it came straight from the plot of an 80's movie.
Nope. They just need to provide "an API". Got a hundred banks? That's potentially 100 integrations you'll need to do - the barriers remain in place an everyone is happy.
great resource, your click-bait repo is a great tool and I would love to add it to my product (https://oko.ai).

What is the best way to contact you? I would love to know more about you and your side-projects!
Maybe its just harder to parse through then. Whenever I go through the prime videos, I have a hard time finding good content to watch outside of Amazon created series. Where as with netflix, lots of good new, exclusive stand up content and newer videos such as disney classics.

Amazon outside of its own created content seems to lack.
Can you give any examples of small categories? I can't think of any, let alone get my brain round what kind of thing they would be.
Much of the restaistance is nothing to do with taxi medallions:

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/business/media/uber-emil-...
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Thankfully, clicking CANCEL opens the PDF anyway.
That's the best explanation I've yet seen of why he left.
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If you enjoy this sort of thing, you might try Marvin Harris' book Cannibals and Kings. It's pretty old now - I read it in 1990 - but it's full of thought-provoking illustrations of how apparently bizarre superstitions and practices can actually be adaptive.
This Engadget post doesn't have much more than a summary. The linked researcher's page [1] has more information. These radio imaging project always seem to have interesting results, but I have not seen a lot of commercial development of the ideas. Does any one have good examples of in-use commercial applications?

[1] http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/3DThroughWallImaging.html
uhh so is this supposed to be web devs meet state machines?

I see they've invented a new name to label the innovation as such.
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Awesome work!! Great story about how awful the legal system is given the amount of effort and work you had to go through. You deserved a lot more than just that $4k.

I personally feel bad that it's only after reading this that I'm going to stop using Uber as well...despite all of the terrible stuff that's going on over there, I was willing to strike up to "growing pains" or "bad apples", since I wrongly believed they were 100% committed to their users. That's clearly not the case so there's no more Uber for me.
Less than 4 years to become the dominant language for iOS development, thats pretty fast.
"the worst thing Uber did was not be sufficiently cooperative with the police investigation."

Lol, as if that's acceptable for any company in an investigation. I'm not sure if you're playing coy, but your words are trying to insert doubt into his story when there really is none.

They blatantly tried to make this guys life much more difficult than it needed to be and their track record has shown they really have a culture of not caring about this stuff no matter the "narrative".

Quite frankly, I'm surprised this comment was voted to the top.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples

"cleave" and "sanction" are probably the most familiar examples here.
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Best not to confuse this demo of their parametric font, with the idea of parametric fonts in the first place. This page tries to vary the font as you scroll etc., which is just a (suboptimal) way of interactively demonstrating the font parameters, but not the point.

For a better demo (that does not use the same tech), see http://www.metaflop.com/modulator -- you vary the parameters, then a fixed font is generated that you can download and use. (I mentioned this in another comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604890)

As for the value: the entire Computer Modern family of typefaces (used in TeX/LaTeX and friends) was generated with METAFONT which embodies the idea of font generation through "pens, programs, and parameters" -- the regular, bold, italic (even typewriter) variants of the font, and at various point sizes, are generated from common font definitions. Similarly the shapes of the loops in say p and d, etc. This ensures consistency and lets you experiment. (Though to be honest, very few people have successfully designed good font families with this approach.)

The articles that I mentioned in the other comment are better at seeing what's the point.
Funny. But watchdog or security robots already exist.
You're a fool if you think that a Microsoft charger is going to "smoke your $2000 laptop". Everything Microsoft sells is guaranteed to be agency certified, which is going to make sure it doesn't short out and destroy things. The chargers you have to watch out for are the shady counterfeit ones on Amazon that are pretty much guaranteed to not have agency certifications and range anywhere from "probably ok" to "fire hazard waiting to happen".
Ah I didn't notice the distinction between storing the serialzied form (which would be non empty) and storing the record itself.

Yes that does suck quite a bit and seems like a pretty bad decision.
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Yes, we did. Quoting from the post:

> If you didn’t know, FYM Hot Sauce was the first sponsor for the professional DotA 2 team, “Team NP. [...] When Team NP (who had never qualified for a major tournament) made it to the their first major tournament, held in Boston I decided to go and support them.

> If someone tried to run off with a bag full of hot sauce in one of my other suitcases it would be awkward and ultimately not a huge deal
I have to flag you because you are not discussing this in good faith. You are constantly dodging questions, and trying to put words in people's mouths.
If you are not actively looking for a job I would recommend identifying what kind of job you might want. Use that to inform your summary.
It sounds like you were rude to the support staff and that made them unwilling to investigate further. Something about honey and vinegar.
> I personally take security very seriously

Respectfully, your users don't care about technical security if you get compromised - they care about their financial security. Please do reconsider your stance on liability, I found myself wincing while reading that disclaimer.

It pains me to say it as a techie but insurance is more important than security in this case. It'd be great if you were iron clad against all hacks ever but it'd sit more easily if there was insurance backing it up. What if you get a rogue employee dumping out all the credentials for example, not all attacks come from outside.

If you don't trust your security enough to assume liability, why should your users?

> FWIW it is not currently possible for users to move money with Teller

I don't believe it's so much a compromised service or API that's concerning, it's your credential storage. The data you hold does allow users to move money if compromised.

Having picked fault with your service enough, it does look like a great service and I'd love to use it one day. Best of luck!
It apparently did mean that to Uber, which is the topic at hand.
Very compelling. Without staking the hedge fund doesn't have any knowledge of how confident you are in your estimates. If you can put the value of a coin up against your confidence estimates then you are giving that information in a very real and binding way.

Do you have another way data scientists can give estimates of their model's ability to do better than chance and be held accountable for that estimate? Additional prize pool based on giving good reliability estimates seems like an excellent way to do it.

The tokens are not the value of the numerai fund itself. They are merely a tool for the staking process.
We built IOpipe[1] to address these issues by offering our own wrapper[2] that sends telemetry to our service. IOpipe aggregates metrics, and errors, and allows the creation of alerts with multiple rules per alert.

[1] - https://iopipe.com
[2] - https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe/
Those jobs are not well paid compared to small businesses that used to thrive in local communities.
So what? Even at Uber, 90% of their employees, the ones who actually made the company as valuable as it is, won't see much in terms of reward for it, and they'll have sacrificed that work-life balance to do so.
I could totally use the "making you feel as good as new when you wake up" part, though.
On Lyft, the driver doesn't know that you tipped or how much. I fail to see why this would be any different.
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The vast majority of fonts are not stored as bitmaps. Most font formats store glyphs as vectors with a variety of additional information for pixel hinting, ligatures and probably a handful of other details that I can't even think of off the top of my head.
hah similar thing happened to me. I provided them with my renderings that I made and everything showing they were home made. What I thought was crazy was quite a few months later I wanted to buy something on etsy. I couldn't log in so I emailed etsy staff. They told me my account was disabled. I asked them if that was only from selling things and they said that nope, I couldn't buy anything either.

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> “State election officials are very sensitive about what they perceive to be federal intrusion into their process,” Johnson said, noting that he often encountered officials pushing back and arguing that “it’s our process, our responsibility.”

How many state officials will now step forward, accepting responsibility
for (presumably inadvertently) sharing "their" process with foreign hackers?
Sounds like Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.

(not a joke, this is a tongue-in-cheek but serious project aimed at transitioning to a Star Trek type society).
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In the US one party promises free education, free or reduced health care to the majority of the population, etc etc.

This party is still not in power. I don't think its a foregone conclusion that people vote themselves bread and circuses, which is I think your primary point.

On another front I find it hard to believe that UBI if it ever comes to the US will be set anywhere above poverty level. In that context anyone who voted to take money from people in poverty and use it to build roads they would probably be laughed out of office and rightly so.
Sure, run after a speeding car flying into traffic, leave your other bags behind, risk your life so that you can stop a corrupt uber driver from robbing you. And if he refuses to give you your bag back, just fist fight him. Man up and take some responsibility!

Every day I hear something so ridiculous from Uber I can't believe it. Seems like Lyft's biggest advertisement should be "Lyft: we're not uber"
No, that's not how it should work at all.
The summaries are not good. They will point something out like "five key points are made" without stating those five points...which would presumably have been clearly stated in the article. Did you try other APIs/services/software?
Fat finger?
I am indeed proud that Iain is a member of our core D dev team! We're very fortunate.
Aside from, well, bitmap fonts, fonts aren't stored as bitmaps...
You run close to the metal, eh? Then you might find this project interesting to hack on:

http://nerves-project.org/

FWIW, the class for it was the first class to sell out for the upcoming https://elixirconf.com/.

Here's a great presentation by Garth Hitchens on Nerves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O39ipRsXv3Y (he uses it in production at his company, http://www.rosepoint.com/, which builds sort of vertical-market marine navigation hardware). He mentions some performance stats as well.
absolutely no abuse of power in Banks' society

':-|
Make sure you have your full profile filled on LinkedIn, as recruiters pay to access their database.
Any plans on support for more American Banks, such as Wells Fargo?
Banks' society is explicitly post-ownership; it's fully-automated luxury anarcho-cyberism. It relies entirely on benevolent near-omnipotent AI.

Banks himself was distinctly anti-capitalist.
Indeed, my thoughts were along your lines.

Communication is key to Conway's Law. The different ways that folks communicate, and the bandwidth of the communication channels that they use, and the time taken to converge on shared meaning during a conversation (e.g. agreeing what some jargon means mid-conversation) all affect the communication patterns which arise, which in turn affects what gets built.
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I have an Amazon Echo because you can write your own skills for it.

Yea, I got Google Home as a gift. I'm totally baffled by how locked up it is. You're not listening to/interacting with anything by anyone who doesn't have some type of agreement with Google.
"I just didn’t buy that a company could just get away with that business model. Hire anyone with a car, facilitate everything, and have no responsibility for what happens in the cars."

If I got food sick from something I ordered off GrubHub could I sue them?
THere will be this thing called bitcoin -- you do everything you possibly can to buy up as much as you possibly can then you hold it till 2017... if you don't hold it or lose the wallet you'll want to commit suicide, so don't do that.
Rust doesn't use reference counting (until you want to use it)
No, but you could if their delivery driver robbed you.
The bad guys in David Weber's Honor Harrington novels are based on this idea. It's an interesting take on what might happen.
Hey Stevie, I was at the HN London where you gave a very memorable demo on reverse-engineering mobile banking apps. Stoked to see to how far you've come and congratulations on the Teller beta launch!

Even back then you had caught the attention of banks. I'm sure they've threatened you many times. But now that banks are taking you more seriously and returning your calls, how are you going to convince them to work with you instead of against you?

And what happens when, if they haven't begun already, try and legally DoS you?
> I'd probably be unemployable

There's no reason for any of your information to be shared with the prospective employers here, no? The flow of information here is from the employers, via Google, to you, not the other way around. Your information, plus what you type, would just filter that info down to what you actually care about.
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I have worked on software projects across multiple verticles over many years and I have found pre-existing domain knowledge (or lack thereof) to be utterly immaterial.
> It could also be that people who exercise a lot might be less likely to sweat outside of exercise time.

Nope, I sweat pretty profusely throughout the day. Antiperspirant keeps me a part of civilization. FWIW I'm at a healthy weight and in good shape, just genetics.
Why would you keep having more and more children when you didn't have to? I have it on good authority that most women aspire to do other things than just pop out as many as they can.
Is the intent of this really in the data science/visualization space, or is it really designed to be a complete web application platform?

In other words, is this for quick one-off visualizations, or can you see someone wanting to use it to build a fully-functional web application?
Well-off people haven't been known for their high birthrates.
if grubhub's practices meant that you received food that made you ill, you may have a case.
Uber and Lyft are here to stay and if not them then someone else. Cabs suck.
Civilized societys resepect property. They are entitled to it, because it's theirs.

Besides, who would invest in a country where people have such a mindset? And what is with companies owned by local and international shareholders?
I don't see how that couldn't be trivially tricked.

1) I sign up and get a reasonably high compensation, like 4x basic income
2) While I'm enjoying this period, I build up the skills to get an even more rewarding life situation
3) Move a country and enjoy things even better

Even if it would be permanent treatment for a high compensation over the years, I could freeze my juice and use it whenever I want it.
From what I read, they aren't firing the engineering team. It is primary people in sales, marketing, and administration.
If the food poisoning was due to negligence, I don't see why not.
I'm glad this worked out for the OP. However, I think he may have made a couple mistakes that could have been avoided for a smoother process.

The big one is not retaining an attorney. No, he doesn't have to for small claims court, but Uber clearly had its legal team looking at this. Now, I understand that lawyers are expensive and carry their own issues - but if he'd won the case with an attorney, he could potentially have secured attorney's fees as well. Plus, a good way to make a company cave on an issue like this is to say "direct all requests to my attorney; I'm not speaking to you on this matter."

I realize getting a lawyer isn't always feasible, though, especially in small claims, so I'll assume it just wasn't possible for this case (also, I'm not a lawyer, this is just based on my understanding of the small claims process). Still, giving Uber all the evidence in the case after a suit had been filed but before any discovery had been ordered was a misstep. Small claims court rarely has formal discovery - the process by which each side finds and turns over evidence to the other side. The OP was - as far as I can tell - under no obligation to give evidence to the Uber rep of any kind. He should not have; they used it against him. What he should have done was say "we can discuss this in court, or you can make me whole now and avoid that," and NOTHING else.

Edit: A line I really enjoyed from the piece: "They were a company that shows blatant disrespect to authority, operating illegally in cities and using technology to intentionally avoid law enforcement." Yep. That's Uber in a nutshell. Well played.
I don't fault the driver. He's just following the normal standards of conduct for business transactions in Massachusetts.

I say this as someone who had the misfortune of growing up there.

I'm only being sarcastic about not faulting the driver. Unless you're trying to grow your customer base or know the person you screw them. It's just how things are done.
People in developed societies tend to want more than the minimum. They want to invest time in something that makes them fulfilled and not merely spend their entire life raising babies. Further they recognize that given finite resources that they can do better for fewer kids.

This isn't much of a problem in current developed nations, I don't see a good reason to suppose it will become so.
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Assuming you get a receipt, remember the car number, or otherwise can identify the driver.

I've taken many a taxi ride and can count on one hand the number of times I've gotten a receipt (which was only because it for expense reimbursement).

Having a digital record in a receipt emailed to you or live in the app is a entirely different league of convenience.
> D has not managed to die when it had so many chances to

One interesting thing about D is that we don't have to answer to anybody, so nobody can kill D other than us. We just keep steadily pushing forward regardless.
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They were found 100% liable only after they were discovered obstructing the police investigation.
They're just demoing the parameters you can adjust to build a font. I assume they built the demo the way they did because it's more approachable for most than a long list of sliders with names that might not be meaningful to a lot of people.

That said, the way it works would certainly be off-putting to some. You may find their actual font builder app provides a better experience: https://app.prototypo.io/
I dont think its unfair at all. If uber profits from the trip, they should be ensuring the safety of the trip and passengers, end of story. If uber were a non-profit that simply matched drivers to riders, it would be different, but they are making profit... that makes it a little more on them to handle stuff like this.

If a contractor for a public utility like a phone company comes in your house on a repair call for said phone company and pisses all over your couch and takes a dump in your fish tank, do you think that the phone company has no liability for setting up the whole thing and sending someone like that into your house?
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It's an interesting thought exercise, but I don't think GrubHub is really the same situation. The restaurants that you order from on GrubHub exist as businesses and serve food regardless if GrubHub is facilitating delivery or not. If the GrubHub driver robbed you when they showed up at your house, then yes, I would think you might be able to sue them.
Provided it were priced reasonably...absolutely.
They could be paid equally, but the women will be better engineers. Because a man of the same skill level will command a more senior job.
The tutorials and core library documentation are really very clean.. You should be able to go pretty far just by installing a package and starting through the tutorials, although OP also has some links to more docs too
I'm curious how far this line goes, too. If I go to Subway and a worker stabs me, does Subway owe me millions? I'm really confused how Uber is responsible here.. it just seems, odd, to me.

Now, if Uber as a company promoted (in one way or another) reckless speeding for the sake of fast drop-offs, and I get hit by an Uber driver, yes I think Uber is at fault (and the driver). However, why does it sound like Uber is responsible for everything "during work hours"?