skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal of the congestion charge is not to make money off cars in London - it's an attempt to reduce the number of cars in London. The number of cabs is limited largely by the complexity of The Knowledge, while the number of minicabs is rather less limited, so in conspiracy theory land, TfL have motive to ban minicab operators wherever possible.

In any case, it's very unlikely that this is an ulterior motive - there's no reason why the problems aren't exactly what was listed, i.e. mostly administrative failures on Uber's part where other minicab companies are more cooperative with the license requirements.
That’s dreadful! I had assumed that iCloud (rather than Dropbox) sharing would share the original as that is already in the cloud anyway. It would just be a pointer or DB entry

I was horrified when I learned that Google wasn’t going to save full resolution by default. Had no idea Apple would do something similar.
Do Tech Companies Really Need All That User Data?
> In the UK there is no legal requirement that someone knowing a crime has occurred to report it to the police.

Except Uber is a company not a person and not reporting crimes left them without a license.
Of all the things that have been revealed about Uber, this is among the worst:

“The facts are that on the 30 January 2016 a female was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver. From what we can ascertain Uber have spoken to the driver who denied the offence. Uber have continued to employ the driver and have done nothing more. While Uber did not say they would contact the police the victim believed that they would inform the police on her behalf.

On the 10 May 2016 the same driver has committed a second more serious sexual assault against a different passenger Again Uber haven’t said to this victim they would contact the police, but she was, to use her words, ‘strongly under the impression’ that they would.”

Horrible things will happen at scale. But here Uber was directly involved in enabling sexual assault and misleading the victim.

EDIT - some comments believe that this is overly harsh in judging Uber:

1) Uber has had ongoing issues with sexual assault in the US preceding this event. If preventing sexual assault was a priority they would have designed the right policy. Lack of strong policy on sexual assault is an explicit choice:

“firstly it seems they are deciding what to report (less serious matters / less damaging to reputation over serious offences) and secondly by not reporting to police promptly they are allowing situations to develop that clearly affect the safety and security of the public.” *

2) If a serious crime (like this one) is suspected, companies have an obligation to report this and not just conduct their own investigations which will have an inherent bias.

3) Both passengers came away with the impression that Uber was going to take action. If Uber had no intent to take action, this made the situation worse by reducing the likelihood of direct reporting and enabling further sexual assault.

* https://cdn.londonreconnections.com/2013/12042017-NB-to-Hele...
That's perceptual hashing. Check out https://www.phash.org/
Sure:

"The letter concluded by pointing out that these weren’t the only incidents the Metropolitan Police had become aware of. In total, Uber had failed to report six sexual assaults, two public order offences and one assault to the police. This had lead to delays of up to 7 months before they were investigated. Particularly damning, with the public order offences this meant that in both cases the prosecution time limit had passed before the police became aware of them."
> Would it be expected that I had a wife that didn't work so I wouldn't have to take care of sick kids all the time?

In China, having a nanny is normal and pretty much expected even at six-digit salaries, let alone seven. (And it won't cost much more than $10k a year either, so it is a no-brainer and might be even a perk paid by the company here - just like the company car with chauffeur or free meals.)

> Would it be ok to work 9-5?

Also no (unless you are just THAT good and have THAT much leverage to negotiate, which is unlikely). Even a normal skilled job will have the expectation of 50-70 hours of facetime, let alone this sort of high-profile position.
Really neat - it would be interesting if there was an ability to (some how) filter the tweets based on the occupation they are hiring for (technical, sales, retail, etc).

Location based is "to do" which would really great.
Attract mode is where a game cycles between front end, intro video, rolling gameplay demo, and so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_video_game_terms#A

(I expect what they had in mind was using it in shops, either running in the shop window, or as part of a counter display, and so on, and that drove the requirement that it had to run for a week.)
I don't think you understood my issue at all.

The things you mentioned are all just services providing hosted docker.
The Difference Between Open-Minded and Close-Minded People
I think he's referring to the fact that you can get higher than "normal" speed if you dump your weapons and accept damage from the heat, either air friction heating the skin of your plane, or just your engine temperatures. You may be able to maintain it for a short time to evade something.

Its similar to the way you can get your car to exceed design parameters if you risk blowing the engine and disable the speed limiter.
This makes me even more anguished that The Modern Ocean is still stuck in development hell and/or mythical:

http://www.indiewire.com/2015/08/shane-carruth-talks-his-nex...
Awesome :) Cant wait to do some crazy screengrabs with this!
On the screencast it appear that the dialog box have been reworked to be less constraining than in Sierra where you needed to go to Preferences>Gatekeeper to allow execution of unsigned app.

I haven't tested the beta so this struck me, can someone confirm?
I'd be interested to know what rights, in English law, Uber think are being breached here:

> Uber hold a position not to report crime on the basis that it may breach the rights of the passenger. When asked what the position would be in the hypothetical case of a driver who commits a serious sexual assault against a passenger they confirmed that they would dismiss the driver and report to TfL, but not inform the police.
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I'm not sure what your issue is (and how it's connected with the op's claim that 99% of foreign aid is lost along the way to the people that need it).

But either way, from the graphic you linked it seems like on average, more than 75% of the money you give to these charities ends up being used for charitable activities, with the larger part of the remaining money used to raise more funds. Fundraisers on the high street are occasionally annoying, but I'd be extremely surprised if they are the largest drain on that remaining 25%, particularly compared to other efforts.

On a personal note, I have no major issue with them (except agreeing that they are often annoying), wouldn't change my opinion on foreign aid or charity over them and cant help but feel that anyone not donating because a percentage of their donation would go towards their salaries is looking for a convenient excuse rather than actual reason.
* Yet.

* That we know of.
How is this an argument against black cabs? Bus lanes in my city are usually empty. Allowing cars on bus lanes would actually lower congestion.
Everyone I know does. I do install afresh each time.
Snow Leopard was a boring release, but a very nice OS. This release feels like it might be similar.
> How about the fact that black cabs wait to be hailed longer period of times because people choose Uber drives, thus adding more cars on the road instead of using the ones that are already there?

You can't be serious..

- Price

- Accessibility

- Customer service

To name a couple.
> Why do people frame this as "Uber vs Black Cabs"

I can't speak for others, but my tuppence as someone born in London, and who lived there for >30 years:

1) Black cabs are really expensive. So much so that I can count on one hand the number of times I've paid for one out of my own pocket.

2) Black cabs, despite the terms of their licence, are known to refuse to pick you up if they're going the other way, or refuse a fare if you're going to South London (where I was born).

3) I used to drive to and from work every day. Part of the journey took me along the A4/M4 towards Heathrow. There was a traffic jam every day, going home from work (towards Central London). This busy road had a bus lane. I don't recall ever seeing a bus going past me in that lane, but plenty of black cabs did. I don't see why a black cab should get to skip past the rest of us waiting 20 mins in traffic.

4) There are many taxi ranks where taxis wait for fares. For example, near Kings Cross station. 100% of the drivers leave their diesel engines running whilst they're waiting, right next to the pavement where people are walking. I don't like this unnecessary local pollution as I'm walking by.

5) Congestion charge (see my original comment).

Overall, my point is this: Uber and minicab firms work within the same road usage framework as other car owners. Black cabs are somehow exempt from this (which is unfair to begin with) when, given the time they spend on the road waiting to find a passenger, they cause much more congestion and pollution per passenger-mile than other cars.
>> why don't we just get rid of the idea that you 'own' your partner's body?

I don't own my partner's body, however I expect emotional exclusivity, and that's also what I want to give. Sex, closeness, trust and emotional bonds are all tied up together.

It's not "erotic competition" and to me the use of that phrase just belies a lack of maturity - it's never "just sex" for me, and I wouldn't want to be with someone for whom it was.

If something else works for you, great, but please don't frame it as progress or freedom from ownership. Progress is allowing everyone to choose the sorts of relationships they find fulfilling, with no persecution or shaming. Not calling what works for others insecure or arcane.
While I do agree that monogamy is a simplistic view, the view you propose is equally simplistic.

While polygamy is potentially more rewarding than monogamy, it is also much tricky to get right. Given how many people struggle with monogamy already (and most often, it should be said, not because of the exclusivity), it's not really surprised it became the standard.
Raspberry Pi IoT Project Using Artik IoT Platform
I had to install WeChat for work. What bothered me more was all the permissions it required to function. As I recall, it wanted access to my contacts, pictures, location. At each request, I tried saying no, and the app exited.

I assume the Chinese government got access to all my contacts, pictures, etc.

I really wish that apps were required to function in gracefully degraded modes when denied access to permissions they want. And I wish they had to explain each request.
Mongo is something that people wanted to believe in, but it lets people down.
Billions of VC investment money. Actually, I don't agree with the GP. In my view Uber represents one of the biggest transfers of wealth from VCs to the common man in the last three decades. When the funding eventually dries up and Uber are forced to raise their prices, the common man will just move on and leave Uber to go bankrupt. It's beautiful really (at least the LP money coming from pension funds etc. is finding it's way back to the originators in the form of discounted travel rather than going up in smoke).
> In the UK there is no legal requirement that someone knowing a crime has occurred to report it to the police.

No, but there is a requirement as part of London's minicab license to do so in "severe" cases, and to report to TfL in less-severe cases.
I think it is people getting high on their own supply.
It doesn't matter because Uber are the ones trying to get their license renewed.

(What is it with the rampant "whataboutism" defending Uber?")
Why I always recommend Arch Linux
Your second part is not true. As the blog post makes clear, Uber cars drive under the license of a minicab firm (as personal hire vehicles), and are therefore exempt from the congestion charge.

Given your first point, could you please share the like-for-like data on uber vs. black cab time spent waiting to be hailed/booked? That sounds very interesting.
I think he meant copy-pasting files.
I was referring to the GP comment:

> There's also Google's terrible reputation of poor and unreachable support, as well as the unappealable terminations of service... some companies have had service terminated leaving them with no recourse. Google's offerings are as much software as hardware, and having Google drop your account...

That's directly referring to cloud services/software support, not hardware support; I'm not making any claim about the latter.
1) and 2) make it sound like Uber potentially going away would have more influence on other Minicabs and not so much on Black Cabs?
The article details this, ctrl+f for "Understanding the economics"

i.e. they are subsidising rides themselves, temporarily.
And how many of your passwords need to leak for that scheme to be completely transparent?
They're losing $2bn a year - that money has to be coming from somewhere (as elsewhere noted, VCs.)
VA and mumps is what it sounds like to me.
It's broken and walk away.
There will be a pretty high amount of embarrassing material here if this gets dumped.

Senior leaders at large companies tend to use firms like Deloitte for their most controversial and sensitive potential projects, ideas, etc. And they confide with them with a lot of candor.

I would not be surprised to see unabashed discussion of tax evasion, for example. Or leaders within a single company using Deloitte to undermine their peers. Or debates of the merits of layoffs designed to be age discriminatory.

Basically, there would a much higher percentage of "good stuff" in a dump of these emails than say, in the Sony dump.
That's easily solved with a blood test before you engage in a sexual relationship with additional partners.
> At each request, I tried saying no, and the app exited.

That's not true for the iOS version.
Please read on http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/297: "The contribution from Oracle provides full C1 and C2 support for ARM, putting it on par with other architectures."

So from now on the OpenJDK will be as fast as Oracle VM on ARM!
I haven't used them but http://fairpixels.co seem quite active here (not affiliated in any way)
Some of the people on my team have headphones in all day every day... that makes all the time Do Not Disturb.

This post shows that you don't trust your team to communicate. If someone is interrupting so often it is disrupted it is up to the team to communicate that. And if need be, have a manager mediate.

You should also be able to tell someone who interrupts you at an inopportune time that now is not a good time and ask them if they can wait.

On the flip side, the rest of the teem should know that other people's time and concentration is important / expensive and be respectful not to interrupt when not necessary.

Programming especially is a team sport. Doing this is not being a team player.

I'm all for social cues to tell others now would not be a good time to disturb you. I just think this kind of absolute is not the right way to do it.

With that said, if it works for this particular team. More power to them.

Edits:

Also, I have headphones in all the time because I like to listen to music. But I don't mind be interrupted (I'm a manager, it's my job to keep people moving and if they are stuck I want to know). So am I only allowed to listen to music when I'm in DnD mode?
Quis audiet ipsos auditores?
I see, I think we're not discussing the same article ; you're probably refering to the article at the root (that I'm not done reading yet), not the one posted by the user a few posts above.
Nobody is doing enthusiast overclocking on these, they run hot enough at stock to need AT LEAST a 120mm closed loop cooler.
I think part of the problem is that these just occurred in 2016. In combination with Uber supposedly keeping information and not reporting assaults (according to the submitted article) it makes it very difficult to make a good comparison.

Someone else asked how Uber assaults compare to the general population and I honestly can't find much apples-to-apples information.
You do have backups, right?
> Asking for open-sourcing the client parts will not help you anyway, because the server parts are still running on Google servers and you won't be able to replace them.

It wouldn't be ideal, but a big improvement. Providing a clear API to Store, Maps, Mail, etc. would (1) allow developers to publish their own client for these services (that e.g. don't display ads, or don't track the user, or obfuscate/anonymise the information they send to the servers), and (2) allow competing backends to be developed and allow the users to choose between them without having to change the mobile OS.
Study: Clean Design Really Is Better
Priya’s affair is neither a symptom nor a pathology; it’s a crisis of identity, an internal rearrangement of her personality. In our sessions, we talk about duty and desire, about age and youth.

and...

"“You think you had a relationship with Truck Man,” I tell her. “Actually, you had an intimate encounter with yourself, mediated by him."

This article (and others like it) make me kind of think that (A) much of psychology should not be treated as an objective science (2) Objective science is not the only useful contribution. Therapists don't have to be scientific.

People get a lot of relief from being able to narrate their life and their feelings. They find beauty or comfort in exploring motivations (from a subjective POV). It can be liberating (and effective) to act within a narrative, to have names for things. A lot of our best art is dedicated to this sort of thing, especially romantic literature.

For abstract truth, I don't think most of this article describes it. In the abstract, I think the answer to the question is simple: (1) People (on average) are semi-monogomous, like a lot of animals. (2) It's hard to use cultural conventions to restrict people's sexuality. see exhibit I "The Gays."

That doesn't mean that a therapist should just tell this lady "you were just horny."
> In China, having a nanny is normal and pretty much expected even at six-digit salaries, let alone seven. (And it won't cost much more than $10k a year either, so it is a no-brainer and might be even a perk paid by the company here - just like the company car with chauffeur or free meals.)

Having a nanny helps, but it only helps with the chore (e.g. dropping off a kid), you can't substitute your own face time with the kids.

> Even a normal skilled job will have the expectation of 50-70 hours of facetime, let alone this sort of high-profile position.

How can companies assume that paying $1M will get them the best talent, while at the same time assuming that requesting 50-70h work weeks doesn't rob them of a lot more talent?

I mean if given a choice between $1M comp and 50-70h workweek, and .5M comp and a sane 40h work week - there has to be tons of people who choose (or had to) take the lower comp?
Unpaid tax and VC money.
> At any rate, there is no other nation or point in time prior to the 20th century that you can pretend those values even exist.

These "values" existed all over the world back then, driven by a scientific movement we aptly named "scientific racism" these days. You know, a whole section of science busy trying to explain why some humans are just so much "better" than other humans based on their skin color, size of the head or other arbitrary physical attributes. This followed right on the tail of an era of colonialization which was also fueled by the racial stigma of "We gotta civilize those heathen savages by enslaving them and taking their lands".

It's exactly those values being so widespread and accepted which lead to the Nazis taking the "next step", which wasn't a really big one. The difference between treating a whole group of people as "lesser humans" by law, having them act as a slave class, and "exterminating" these very same people because there are supposedly too many of them, isn't that big of a difference.

The "values" behind these two approaches are exactly the same, labeling a whole group of people as "lesser humans", the difference was only a matter of execution in how to deal with those people. The US commercialized this behavior by using the slave force, putting a price on people like they are property.
Similarly, forced labor drove large parts of the Third Reich's war machine and economic progress.

This might sound cold-hearted or like I'm trying to excuse the crimes of the Third Reich, none of this is my intention, my intention merely to point out how whole nations can be hypocrites about their own moral position because they didn't kill disfranchised people on a supposedly "industrialized scale", but "only" on a commercialized one.
Anything can exceed its design speed if you override or ignore the design guideline.

I am sure the F-16 may well be faster than the number I gave, but an F-16 has like 20 minutes fuel, maximum, on afterburner. Add in flight time to target, and drag from weapons, and the time taken to accelerate, and you see why they can't do it except on test flights.

I do not think you can find any documented instance of a Viper exceeding mach 1.8 in combat. F-18s recently intercepted a "suspect" airliner at mach 1.6.
Playing card money
That would be my dream too :)
I don't know the situation in London, but Uber in general has improved 2 situations immensely:

1. Normal cabs are horrible. The drivers are often rude, always try to price gouge or even outright trick you. There is no rating system, meaning no public 'oversight'. Hell, cabbies always tried to get rid of regulations, but now that there's Uber they use it like a weapon: that alone should tell you enough about how scummy and opportunistic they are.

2. Booking a ride in a foreign country. Many drivers don't speak English, so good luck explaining where you want to go. You also usually have no idea what a typical fare should be, so (especially around airports) prepare to be hoodwinked.

In contrast, Uber has a set price, easy way to hail and a rating system that works beautifully. Before Uber, I hated cab rides. Now it's a pleasure.
IIRC (but stand to be corrected), they had their hands full before that with GPG major version bump.

It's just too slow a beast, all of that. GPG (and especially email integration) is dying. Let's hope it gets a new life one day in the future.
I was replying to an argument made about how black cabs are worse for congestions than uber cars.
Code Evaluation with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
HNC in computing (uk), I think is called trade school or vocational in the US?

I left everything because I saw some opportunities outside what I was learning and everything was slow, I used my skills to work trading stocks and forex markets with a small independent team. Then the AI and bots came with billions of investment and we moved to another business that ended failing. My plan was starting next year biotech or a medical degree next year as is one of my fav things to do as a hobby, but everything failed and that can't be accomplished anymore.
They're Trying to Hack Your PayPal Account: Analyzing a Real Phishing Email
Skype works O.K. for me.
Ya, milorganite exists, and has for like 100+ years, and I am sure there are others, but the total impact I am betting, is very minimal.
Smart contracts are neither smart nor constracts [pdf]
Wait, are you trying to say Uber are more accessible than black cabs?

They and their drivers keep getting sued for refusing to take guide dogs or wheelchairs, or trying to charge extra for doing so.
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