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There are two major steps that Uber needs to make before achieving their driverless dream.

1) Achieve driverless tech at a safe enough level that they don't carry a huge insurance/legal cost

2) Build out a fleet of cars, maintenance regiment, security team etc.

1 seems to be a huge sticking point for them. And for 2, uber has never had to have large carrying capital costs. They spend on ads, subsidizing rides and legal battles, not purchasing and maintaining vehicles.

Right now they have successfully externalized a lot of costs to their drivers. That will go away. They also still won't have customer lock-in even if they achieve the dream. Others will be hot on their tail and then they'll be back to a race to the bottom where the core competencies are: fleet maintenance, ride optimization and capital costs that far outstrip their current operation.

They have an advantage in ride optimization, not the rest of it.
Hopefuly nobody is forcing me to use that language XD
Build your own toy version of the following:

- compiler

- neural network

- graphics engine

- web server

- physics LP solver

- JIT compiler

- garbage collector

- memory controller

- operating system
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Would you make that comment about women and POC? Because they are underrepresented in Silicon Valley as well.
I was diagnosed in college. I went through a few relationships and got attached like crazy, early. That drove the person away and I'd get desperate/angry. Rinse, repeat.

Prescribed a drug that made me much more depressed and started cutting. I stopped taking it, and later met the person who is now my spouse. Early in the relationship I got fraught that it would end, so I tried to end it preemptively. That didn't work, thankfully.

It was really a relationship where I could for the first time just be myself and not "front", so it just felt right. My pysch was not convinced and warned me, rightly so. But, we moved away from that college, got married, have kids, and really haven't had any emotional rollercoasters since (over 10 years later).

But occasionally I have emotional scares/thoughts but they usually subside. Also, since I'm on a throwaway, when we first had our first child I kept getting murderous thoughts about how to kill it whenever I got frustrated. These scared me, and through some introspection, my own aim seemed to be to get an emotional response from myself. Especially since these thoughts typically included how I would immediately regret harming my child and how others would react.

So I feel like it's still there, but my hormones leveled out or something happened to allow me to manage it.
If Uber, Tesla, Lyft or any other player lives long enough to have a fleet of self driving cars with cheap rates and high availability, I am really interested in ditching one of my own cars. But of the 3 I think only Tesla is in a reasonably good position to pull this of.
If anyone wants the "old" bitcoin back, there are plenty of altcoins that are still worthless!
If you want a less popular coin you can even fork btc or anything else, that's the beauty of software.
Nothing has changed. Bitcoin is totally replaceable.
It isn't really about encryption, as the title implies, but about deleting communication records (whether encrypted or not).

> However, companies have an obligation to preserve records that may be reasonably seen as relevant to litigation or that fall under data retention rules set by industry regulators

Seems pretty clear that Uber violated this.
Hmm, thanks for your thoughts. Yeah I actually removed all mention of the paid version shortly after posting here because I think I might have jumped the gun on it. I'm going to expand this beyond Gmail to work on any website with a text box very soon.

Perhaps limiting number of evaluations is a better way of doing this. I'll see. Thanks for the idea.

As for browsers, Chrome is easiest to develop for. I'll expand to other browsers once I get a working, proven concept worth maintaining on both platforms. I know Firefox's add-on API is mostly compatible with Chrome's extension API, but Mozilla rejected my last extension because of some obscure security issue I have yet to figure out.
I don't know if this is the reasoning, but I don't see any immediate contradictions in having different standards for individuals and corporations.
I disagree. I joined a conversation a few years back about gun ownership. I said I support people's rights to own them and in fact I owned one too. The result was an argument about how now because It was known that I'm ok with gun ownership, one of my counterparts now felt threatened at work and requested that i'd be moved. So while I agree there is a difference between batshit crazy and conservative, there's also a difference between batshit crazy and liberal of which there are many on both sides.
Yes. I often explained that CS was more like a math degree than an engineering degree.
The EPA range probably uses a profile more like a commute from one point into the city versus another. It may not be an adequate representation of what a Lyft driver actually does during their work hours.
* Healthcare isn't a right. It's the product of someone's hardwork and as such, you have no "right" to it.

* Making college education free for US citizens is a terrible idea.

* We've taken the idea of "sanctuary cities" way too far.

* Gun control is a bad idea

These are a few conservative ideas that I think plenty of people would be afraid to express in a workplace that is disproportionately filled with ardent "liberals".
Or they could be pulling a groupon.
Just a guess, but from what I understand they spend significant $$ on driver-side acquisition and retention, perhaps even moreso than customer side. In addition to the signing/referral bonuses, they have regular weekly bonuses for hitting a certain number of rides.
Different ones are treated differently. For BPD, at this point the pretty well-recognized standard is called Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy
And yet many job listings for programmers demand you have a CS degree…
What is treatment for BPD, if you don't mind me asking?

I confess to a personal interest as I've sought at times for things like anxiety and depression, and frustratingly enough would not be able to tell you what treatment I was actually receiving under the name of therapy.
So if an organization says that its employees should always use an ephemeral messaging service for communication, it's inherently in the cloud of suspicion?

Because that seems tantamount to saying that literally any communication between employees of the company (even verbal) must be recorded? What if all this communication had happened between them in those 'long walks' they took in San Francisco?
> Did we not ask the same questions about Amazon and now they proved they knew what they were doing?

Yes. They never came close to bleeding money at the rate that Uber is, though.

> Can't Uber continue to operate at a loss for a few years until they can switch drivers for self-driving vehicles and significantly reduce cost instantly?

No. They don't have years, at least not without raising more money. And when you start looking like you won't survive, raising more money becomes much harder.
He listens to podcasts for 5 hours or more per day, not 5 hours of content in less time.
As someone who had a close personal relationship with a borderline for years: get out. A divorce will be nasty, particularly with a borderline, but a lifetime spent with such a person will not be a happy one.

With any kind of mental health, the person “suffering” from it has to be the one who wants treatment, and with BPD, most of the suffering ends up outsourced to others, which eliminates that motivation.

I know this is hard to hear, but part of BPD is an inability to form healthy relationships. The flip side is that it takes two people to maintain an unhealthy relationship. You’re not helping her by staying in this marriage; at best, you’re enabling her and at worst, you’re suffering from her mental illness at least as much as she is.
My grandfathers mechanical calculator (German): https://i.imgur.com/jBDUHPp.jpg

He used it even though he had an electronic calculator. Common business calculations seemed to perform much faster and more reliably than on the electronic calculator (1980s). You had to check every single number and operation you typed into the electronic calculator, but you could do quite a bit without looking, just by feel, with this mechanical one. Multiplication for example, you just turn the crank handle for each round.
They're both connected in this instance. A person with a personality disorder is really on a continuum of insight in which schizophrenia is the most extreme example and represents a complete dissociative break with self-awareness.

I'm not claiming that the kind of dissociation a person experiences when psychotic can be treated by therapy. Pharmacology is essential, and actually I do think after awhile therapy can be helpful (I have family members who have had psychotic episodes too).

The lack of insight in both cases is a product of dissociation. In a personality disorder this is a "mild" chronic state (compared to psychosis) which is amenable to very long term (years+) therapy, unlike psychosis. It is why BPD people with quite severe dissociation or who have episode of severe dissociation report mildly schizoprenic-like problems with their identity (eg. thinking that they are multiple people, lost time, etc.).

I was assuming his BPD friend had this background state, which would not preclude treatment. Treatment would, in part, be to deal with that.
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Amazon has diversification, an extremely profitable web services, and logistics department covers competitive losses in e-commerce pricing and shipping. I do not feel Uber has the same diversity in its revenue generation, wondering when they are going to drop their uberEats platform.
Slightly off topic, but I didn't realize that this was a series of tweets (a thread) that was extracted and re-presented as a coherent essay.

This explains the somewhat "weird" cadence.

On topic: it makes a lot of sense.
as companies are apparently persons, do they have the right against self-incrimination and the right to remain silent?
Agree with your good suggestion, and extend with rosalind.info for kinda the same experience but for bioinformatics instead of math.

Now what I'd be VERY interested in is an implementation of a list of "Like Project Euler, but for X" where X is all manner of things. WRT various values of X, I know there are periodic security challenges but nothing long term/permanently ongoing, I'd greatly enjoy being proven wrong. I'd be particularly personally and professionally interested in "Project Euler for HFT". How about "Project Euler for VLSI design"?

Yeah, yeah, If I want it, I should do it, and its true I probably could, other than the lack of infinite spare time.
I'm pretty sure my wife has it too. She had a trying childhood and parents divorced. The counselors we have seen are happy to take our money and not look beyond false front she presents to them. They are also keen on validating my feelings instead of believing me that there is something wrong with her. She also cut off ties with family when they did something innocent. She calls her in-laws toxic, and tells our children that.

I'm wondering what to do as well, and I don't feel at all hopeful for the future. I wonder if I divorce if my children will develop her same problem.
I don't know if I'm moving the goal post here, but as far as I know POC and women aren't per definition known for doing the opposite of what made SV successful (-> not conserving old stuff, but trying new and innovative things)
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Or Apollo...
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Wouldn't a link direct to the source be more appropriate?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pub...
If I were hiring, I would ask, "What things outside of development do you like to do?"

I don't have evidence to back this up, but I strongly believe a team of well-rounded people will out perform a group of extreme nerds over time.
My comment:

> a similar article complaining about technical interviews

From this article:

"The interview will be 8 hours long and will include meeting our entire staff, as well as some practice problems to determine your problem-solving proficiency. Problems will be done on a whiteboard in front of our hospital directors and will include chemistry and biochemistry problems like identifying hybridization states and lipid synthesis."

"When you click on this link you’ll be taken to a 30 minute test where you’ll read mock cases and identify different problems with them. After you take the test, we’ll let you know if you’ve been selected for a phone interview."

Can you explain how those are unrelated arguments?
If you view the societal impact of technology through the lens of systems thinking one conclusion might be that it concentrates economic power. The actors in society which have the means by which to create and leverage new technologies (i.e. automation) will collect much more economic and political power while those without the means will increasingly find themselves with less leverage, less political and economic power.

If you can even partly agree that his is one effect of Silicon Valley's modus operandi of relentless, and often ambivalent progress then should we not at least attempt to counter-balance this effect?

Imagine you could take a god-like view of the evolution of the human species' capacity for forms of civilization over a long span of time, from something like feudalism to a more robust, modern democracy and then imagine observing from this perspective the increasing anomalous occurrence of an entirely new phenomenon which totally upheaves and restructures forms of order within these budding civilizations. If you could imagine these phenomena, at first isolated and only marginally impactful upon societal structures, becoming more and more frequent only to eventually reveal that what lies in the wake of many of these events is an increased clustering of those who benefit from these events and separately the clustering of those who do not, would it not seem as though the evolution of social order may be regressing? Falling back to a baser form?

Perhaps these events are "disruptive spikes" in an otherwise smooth, positive trajectory and we should expect bumps along the way as there have always been with progress. Or perhaps the sum total of our society's approach to harnessing technology is surreptitiously eating away at the very core structures of our evolved forms of fair and just society.

Shouldn't we err on the side of caution and at least, if only at first in our intentions, set on a path towards consciously designing ways for technology to better benefit all of society and not just the narrow aims which seem to reverberate from the past?
Which views from 'conservative ideology' would get your fired? I am sure you won't be fired for arguing for fiscal conservatism, lower taxes, or for strong national defense. Gun rights might get you some pushback, but I doubt you would be fired for it. I know so many people in the tech industry who are very pro gun-rights.

Anti-abortion views might get you some pushback, but you probably won't be fired unless you are harassing coworkers about their abortions.

It gets a bit tricky when you get into some other traditional conservative views. The problem is that there are positions shared by conservatives and racists, and while you can certainly hold some of the views without being actually racist, it is tricky.

Anti-immigration stances might get you into trouble if you express them in terms that appear racist. If you say you don't want muslim or mexican immigrants, you are going to find yourself in trouble.

If you are against gay rights, you are going to get into trouble. You can say it is unfair, but if your political views involve wanting to deny rights to your coworkers, you are going to have a problem.

Bottom line, there are certain political views that are just wrong. If you are against rights for some of your coworkers or if you have racist beliefs, you can't expect to not have consequences.
Amazon hasn't been operating at a loss. They have been reinvesting all the profits into expansion: eg. warehouses, shipping, webservices, etc, which have intrinsic value. Thus their balance sheets showed losses.

Uber has been "investing" in expanding the customer base, but, this expansion has been a money giveaway. Also, customers can walk whenever they want to.
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The concept of spoliation of evidence is usually well-established. Is that the charge against Uber here?

Or is the charge that they in general did their communication on Wickr?

What happens if the service I am using has an inherent 24-hour window after which all data is erased? What if that window is 0 hour now? No data storage.

If FB deleted all data about a druglord (who used FB for some nefarious purposes) after she deleted his profile, will FB be considered guilty of deleting evidence that could have been used to incriminate her?
It's the same as engaging the handbrake while driving. If someone rear ends you when you do that it is your fault, not theirs.

The expectation is that if you reduce speed at a rate associated with braking that your brake lights should come on.
lol it doesn't take a finance degree to posit that losing 1.5B in a quarter is pretty bad, if not historically bad for a non-public company.
I am surprised no body has mentioned Exercism yet. Go to exercism.io and there are around 60 problems for PHP that you can start working on it. The good part is, it has tests built into it. You can gradually work on a solution by progressive approach and thus passing each test successively.
Yes, that would be the best solution.
For iMessage specifically (which is not ephemeral), the judge would just order you to unlock your phone and show the messages, or provide your iCloud password, and jail you for contempt if you refused.

Sarbanes-Oxley requires corporate record-keeping and outlaws interference with investigations. While it doesn't specifically mention ephemeral messaging, it would seem to preclude its use in anything business-related. So it's not "trying to prove a negative" so much as it seems to be saying these applications are illegitimate for business use period.
If that company is subject to data retention laws, yes.
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As a litmus test, how do you feel about this statement?

It is ok to be white!
So let me get this straight. You're saying to take the output of some coreutils tool, pipe it's output text through something that parses text into json, manipulate it with another program, pipe that out through a program converting json to formatted text, and finally pipe that to some other tool.

And that's simpler than just having the tools input and output tables of typed object data directly (can be represented in json for all I care) how?
Just a generation ago, most households paid for newspaper
subscriptions, and even some magazines.

I'm forming this hypothesis on the fly, but I wonder if people had a deep-seeded notion that they were paying for the delivery (the paper, ink, on their doorstep) vs. the content. "I pay for you to bring the news to me" where today, "I come to your forum to hear what's going on."

I'm also wondering if there needs to be more journalism as a public good—or a nonprofit. Not tabloids or 24-hour-newscycle hysteria, but true investigative reporting.
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Lol, you're fucking dumb, kid.
It's just the free market adjusting!
Not being in the US, I have a variety of friends including communists, feminists, social democrats, libertarians, free-market opportunists, and conservative catholics.

But under no circumstances would I legitimise what currently passes as a "conservative" in the US by associating with them.

Just take the current Trump vs all of Britain disagreement as an example: I think Brexit is among the worst ideas, ever. Yet I would never turn down the opportunity for a tea with Theresa May, because we share a fundamental understanding that it's probably a bad idea to endorse xenophobic hate groups by retweeting their fake propaganda.
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