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It feels like a lot of people are saying, through distorted lenses, that it is understandable that he didn't become the next big tech leader because this or that reason. (Almost as if they "knew all along that this would happen".) Why not be honest with ourselves instead? Let's just admit that our predictor functions got this one totally wrong, and that we should probably each individually, and maybe as a community, learn from this lesson and somehow correct whatever the bug in the function was.
My initial days of running had a dramatic positive effect on my productivity. However once my body got used to running I see no difference. I must admit I have stuck to the same pace and distance more or less. 5k in about 35 mins.
This thing looks great! What's the wireless performance like?
+1 to this, most people have no idea of the laundry list of terrible things Uber did.
I think the best sort of way to think is that world is interesting place where rules valley geeks like get repealed, politicians they support lose election, and the most violent thing they are able to do is probably demolishing a mission style burrito.
If the administration decided they really don't want it, they can go hard line on that, though there's political risk involved.

It's not like the administration has a whole lot of political capital to play with right now. Vetoing their own appropriations bill doesn't seem like a winning strategy, though obviously rational political calculus doesn't count for much in the White House these days.
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But how do we actually get access to the money we put in? I think "sue coinbase" is basically a non-starter given their TOS.

They simply do not reply to any customer support tickets.
I like Uber as a service. But you shouldn't make the argument of 10 years ago. They started in 2009, depends on smartphones to use the app. If it started 10 years beforehand it would be 1999, they wouldn't even be able to really start.
Your comment highlights that there are very different types of security/insecurity to be concerned about.

Hacker OSS types who advocate for the security of OSS based on the fact that the code is reviewable, are implicitly prioritizing security as being an issue of being free of government based attacks on freedom, or perhaps corporate attacks.

The model of security that Apple has pioneered with their “walled garden “ approach is concerned primarily with attacks by criminals and black hat hackers.

In terms of practical concern, this type of security model is far more impactful to most users.

Apple’s resistance to government inquiries is of a piece with its commitment to a walled garden approach.

The resistance to acknowledging the success of this model by OSS advocates indicates a profound myopia, that in my view makes their views on security almost worthless, as they do not include an accurate understanding of what the real world threat landscape actually looks like.

It also fails to account for the game theoretical issues that differentiate different companies approach to security.
Since there appears to be no consequences to making a false or misleading claim, and although I wouldn't call it a solution, one course of action would be to make a claim against their song.

Kick 'em where it hurts.
>We can debate about Uber's business practices until the cows come home, but this is undeniable.

This is really strangely dismissive. Does the "paradigm shift" justify any and all of Uber's unethical actions? If so, why do you think breaking the law and harassing rape victims is either acceptable or laudable? If not, why bring it up, unless you're perpetuating some kind of entrepeneur business-worship over basic moral decency?
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>What happens when people who don't have a limit go from threat to action?

This is already happening, just with greed instead of direct violence. They both have the effect of causing sub-par life quality for the victims.
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https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap/tree/mast...

Contribution info

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Net neutrality is lovely but if people think this is the biggest problem we have coming out of the Trump administration then they really need to consider their priorities.
Is aspirin not a drug or medicine when sold at a gas station?
I recorded a video once and added ocean wave sounds to it. I googled "ocean wave sounds" and used part of someone's recording of the ocean. When I posted it to Facebook it got taken down for copyright infringement.

I appealed and they put it back, so there's that.
> correct whatever the bug in the function was.

You mean the egregious sexual harassing and blatant attempts to obstruct justice?

Or do you mean the ability of people on the HN forums to predict the future?
> The best sort of way to think about this is to imagine Ajit Pai as some sort of Feudal Lord appointed head of the Internet by a King.

Except that's not at all what's happening here. You're just telling yourself this so you can rationalize punching the guy.

> But no - we live in a Democracy!

Exactly. The next step is for Congress to pass a bill re: net neutrality, which is quite possible, and probably the better option anyways. No punching necessary.
This keeps coming up. Uber did not intimidate the rape victim.
As someone who knows nothing about fraternities: what on earth are they competing over? Are they competing over who throws the best parties?
Can employees also cash out in the Softbank deal?
Thankyou. This helped.
Thank you for providing a balanced view that’s so often missing on anything Uber related on HN. There is no denying that Travis threw ethics out of the window and took his paranoia way too far and never matured into a peacetime CEO. But every time a HN user takes an Uber, Lyft, Via, Grab, Ola etc etc you can thank Travis for his ruthlessness in fighting some of the most powerfully entrenched politicians (DeBlasio of NYC as an example) to get you a product type that’s loved by millions.
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Lyft and Uber share the same business model, which is ride hailing. Is Lyft's business model also a total failure?
Vim/nano and NO EMACS!

Joking aside (I'm actually a vimmer ;), is there any use case for aiohttp if you are using django since django now offers channels?

PS, please don't start a flamewar, they are both good.
I asked an AWS solutions architect about this specifically and they said they had no plans to implement it yet (that they knew of). I’d like to see someone offer this too
There's always going to be a large element of chance and random error though. And he was pretty damn successful for awhile anyway, until the misdeeds caught up with him; who else that's emerged on the tech scene in the past decade was as successful?
For the reverse, I wrote a WASM-to-JVM compiler: https://github.com/cretz/asmble.

I think WASM has the ability for us to finally cross the language boundaries without marrying ourselves to C/C++ ABI. But at this early stage, there's no common stdlib for all languages to share.
Could be because he uses Datomic, which uses Datalog, a subset of Prolog.
Maybe he should hire private security and send the bill to Comcast.
This article only hints at what was well known at the time-- that this was simply the first step in an attempt to outlaw cryptography altogether.

The next step was to either pass a law requiring key disclosure, our outlaw cryptography alltoegether. If you think that sounds far fetched... remember at the time this article was written they were trying to jail Phill Zimmerman for writing PGP.
In India or any poor country with a large population you don't need hi tech scifi methods to control a population. The country is reasonably stable ie not falling apart like Syria or Venezuela because brutal systems of control are already in place. People who are suddenly worried about state control are seriously clueless.
> I'm not one to readily or easily condone violence

You just did.

Over a relatively minor repeal of legislation. Because ISPs might take advantage of the repeal.

> like "punching nazis"

Then you just label your opponents nazis and you can feel justified assaulting everyone you disagree with.
Making about 320k/yr, with a 47:47:6 split between cash, stock, and bonus. 4 years with the company.
What are the salary ranges for the Front End and Back End Engineer roles?
The question is if this paradigm shift was more valuable than all of the negative things he did. If he didn't come up with it, how do we know someone wouldn't have done it a year later? We shouldn't rewrite history, but I don't think he deserves all that much credit for thinking up an app for cabs with drivers not needing a permit and using their own car.
Do you have any actual evidence of that? Sounds like an even more implausible scenario than the Venezuela one that turned out to be just endless hype.
At least one of the recent exploits needs to be mitigated at the OS level (I haven't looked at the details carefully, but I know Microsoft and Linux are working on it). Is OpenBSD affected and if so, what are they doing to mitigate it?
Don't think this is right on one detail.

Spectre2 should allow malicious JavaScript to read data from other processes.

Running browser tabs in separate processes (e.g. Google Chrome's new Site Isolation) should protect data from Spectre1 alone but not Spectre2.

See the table here:

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/more-details-about-m...

If that's not right I'd love to be corrected.

Probably no known exploit of this yet.
For those that are wondering but skimmed the page: It looks like they're thinking about SPA framework (Angular/React/Etc) and have a subproject to support them.
Uber was not "at the wrong place at the wrong time." They did a whole bunch of shitty things.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/uber-trav...

All happened under Travis's watch. One or two isolated incidents could be the fault of a few bad apples. But for this much bad stuff to happen, the CEO is asleep at the wheel. If he couldn't handle that responsibility, he should have bowed out sooner.
You're talking about support for checkpointing every epoch, but a 30 second shutoff would require checkpointing every N mini-batches, which is not a typical use for checkpointing.
Netflix also does that to an extent, but just with "the web", like we're in the 2000s or somthing. The Canadian government just waived applying sales taxes to the subscriptions. wtf.
I suspect Youtube's Content ID and flagging system is the way it is to placate companies like Disney and Viacom who couldn't care less about fair use, but do like arbitrary power.
I think this is a foreshadow of what's to come with quantum computers. While side channel attacks aren't directly related to quantum computing, they're of a similar character. Quantum computing will enable new kinds of analysis that aren't possible to do quickly right now, and exploits based on it will very likely take people by surprise in the same way that this one has... even those of us who saw it coming. It will be a weird, unsettling feeling when these classical cryptography algorithms, which everyone trusts so casually right now, start actually being compromised.
When has any tech company ever had to face any sort of repercussions for bugs?

I wholeheartedly think they should have to. But they don't.
Every so often, I come across an old blog post or other content with a YouTube video embedded in it. About half the time, it'll have been taken down by a false-positive copyright claim. It seems that YouTube videos can't be permanent, only ephemeral; as a long-term hosting service it simply doesn't function.
That's not entirely true. Lyft paved the way for UberX.
A cam recording of a movie is still copyright violation even though the cinema movie and the cam recording are different numbers.
Listen at 1:45, whole piece is amazing though.

https://youtu.be/JFIGoB7rK70?t=1m40s
Knowing Coinbase uses AWS, they were my main concern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16066221

They answered fast.
US copyright law has very stiff penalties for false copyright claims. Just sue YouTube directly.
You must have a really fast internet connection.
That's a pretty serious detail. Does that mean someone could read the clipboard?
Did Uber change the world or did ubiquitous smartphones with GPS capability change the world?

While it seems obvious that Uber may have hastened the process is it really arguable that people would still be using their phone to call taxi dispatchers in 2018?

Seems to me he capably profited from a trend. Which is great. But did it unethically. Which is, obviously, not ethical. It's not clear the world really needs more ethically compromised multinational companies.
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Meatheads will compete over anything
For someone who was forced out of the company he founded and then sued by his VCs, maybe he didn't watch his back enough.
This statement doesn’t make it clear, but they have been patched (same fixes as High Sierra)
That's simply not true. AMD i not vulnerable to Meltdown only to Spectre.
Being asked to join a startup as co-founder. The startup itself totally flopped. But I learned a ton and was subsequently recruited for an entirely new class of opportunities.
Finally, high-performance remote display!
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Curious... What's the best chat tool these days for agile development?

Would like it to be a content nexus: IM, capturing status notes, tech discussions, piping messages from build server and github.

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I wonder if some of it has to do with perception. When you begin a new habit, or change up your routine, time seems to go a bit slower than usual, and thus maybe you feel that you are more productive?
Did you ever consider what a tremendous waste of time this competition with other frats was? Trying to determine how many people were at their parties? Are we supposed to take this seriously?
They compete over things that seem absolutely critical in your early twenties, somewhat impressive in your late twenties, and foolish at best by your mid thirties.
It was probably a YouTube internal content ID claim and not a DMCA takedown request per se.
As you said, I could imagine that maybe, maybe a specific white noise file is copyrightable. This would be similar to how typeface copyrights work. The specific font file for Helvetica Neue is copyrightable, but printing out the letters, tracing them, and digitizing that to make your own font is legal (in America at least).
>"Spotify alone can make or break an artist, ..."

Really? Name one artist that Spotify has broken exclusively.

>"Chance The Rapper is one of the biggest names in hip hop, and a relatively big personality in pop culture as a whole. He's fully independent."

That's great but until there are enough Chance the Rappers Spotify needs the big 3's catalogs.

I'n not sure why you felt compelled to list all those statistics, nobody is suggesting streaming hasn't grown in popularity.

>"Can you afford to have ANY of your top talent pulled from Spotify?"
Yes you certainly can. The streaming markets has no shortage of players now - Amazon, Google, Apple, Pandora, Deezer etc. Spotify needs the labels more than they need Spotify.
Travis is to Uber as Ross Ulbricht is to Silk Road (but for transportation).

Both made a practical business innovation but crossed a sensitive line and so they were attacked/penalized for it.

But the cat is already out of the bag; the idea and technology to fulfill their goals cannot be stopped.

In that sense, attacking an individual innovator is futile; at best it's a short term setback for the market they are trying to serve.
Ask HN: Have you used Dokku recently? Would you recommend it?
I'm considering setting up Dokku for some of my personal projects(in production). I'd be setting it up on a single dedicated server.

Would anyone like to share their experience with it or any gotchas? Any alternatives.
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When you accept behaviour like this, you set the standard not only for your political allies, but your political opponents too. That is good for nobody.
We know they obtained her medical records in an attempt to discredit her, and Travis knew.

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-indi...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/07/uber-exec...

That alone should disqualify Kalanick from serving as CEO. Instead of firing the executive who took the records immediately, he gave his implicit approval by considering the records.
I bought the most likely overkill UAP AC HD to solve for the density problem. https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/ At the time, I was under the delusion I'd be building a smart home. I have since dialed back my requirements but have (hopefully) excess wi-fi capacity.
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You know the saying "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Well it can just as well apply here. He could just be at full tilt.
It wasn't allegations of sexual harassment and/or legally-questionable business practices.
The cover band's claim that they were acting in good faith would likely hold more water. Not sure if you want to be playing games with the law like that.
He was forced out for doing a bad job, not because of a power struggle simply for power. If I'm a cashier at my grocer and pay every customer a dollar too much in change, I'm going to be fired no matter how much I "watch my back". The only difference is the employee doing a bad job was the CEO, so other measures were needed to fire him.
Why exactly would a rightist government attack pot business? It's business and rightists are supposed to be pro-business and anti-regulation, are they not? Is this effort just actually backed by alcohol industry giants sponsored lobbyists or what?
Was it because Steve Jobs tried to discredit a rape victim to protect his company's image and his personal holdings?

I must have missed that part when I saw "Jobs" in the theater.
I meant physical cash in large quantities.
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The United States federal government says that it's illegal.

The [whatever state] state government doesn't say that it's illegal.

So it's illegal. They're breaking US federal law. That's all there is to it. It might not be illegal according to the state law of whatever state you're in, but a state can't override US federal law. If it's illegal federally, then it's illegal in the entire United States of America.
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Yes. Without billions of subsidies from VCs, both companies are long gone.

I'll leave it up to you to conclude whether or not trading $0.60 for a $1 can last forever.
Where have I said that there help for boom is the main thing that they are delivering?

There involvment will help and some of their work will be upsteamed and that will help other people do the same. Also the maintainer will work for them and have access to a lot of knowlage and get some time to maintain the project.

Also there are many interesting projects that do care about using better tools such as Chisel, you also don't need 'leading edge processes' for every application either.

Any improvment on Boom will help projects such as Low Risc.
What's really amusing is that you need to pretend that you have actual social contact with people.

You should just go back to jacking off over pictures of Milo and Travis.
No, it's informed and clearheaded. We aren't well served by conflating trademarks (which, at their best, help with consumer protection via anti-fraudulence) with copyright infringement, or patent power. The similarities are far and few between, and mostly not relevant in any discussion. The term "intellectual property" is usually used by people trying to snow someone or someone who is confused about what's going on.
Glad to see coinbase communicating proactively to assess their own risk factors and let them be known
I've seen quite a few developers buy and use these with mixed results. One key thing I've seen that people have really struggled with is multiple external monitors. For that to work you usually need some USB C dock which is a nightmare.

Personally I've had much better results with Lenovo T and X series because they typically have more conservative hardware that is better supported by upstream Linux. Also their dock is not USB C.
As an Uber employee who has seen the company fight one battle over another for the last 4 years, he absolutely deserves most of the credit (and conversely all the blame from the fallouts). Uber formulated the following approach to get ridesharing in the hands of everyone:

1. Operate in legal grey areas to get a product infront of consumers. Build a large enough network of riders and drivers to prove the product market fit.

2. By the time, politicians and the connected taxi cartels realize the magnitude of the change and seek to outlaw it, rally their own voters to back Uber.

3. Under pressure, have politicians clear the path for legalization. This has played out in more cities than I can remember.

Step #1 before #2 is what made TK and Uber different. The level of ruthlessness it requires, I’d have a hard time substituting others in his position.
Such threats have to be taken with a grain of salt. Daniel Tosh famously gets thousands of death threats, all from fans. Anyone who has run a website or had a clip go viral has received such threats. Many a cop or prosecutor has still gone to work after receiving much more personal and specific threats. I interviewed for an internship once where I was asked point blank whether I would be able to work the day after some angry person screamed such a threat at me in court. For a controversial federal official to take pathetic online threats as a real danger, absent any actual evidence, is at best a convenient reason to avoid an appearance. At worst, it's plain cowardice.