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It's a good laboratory to test out memes and narrative framings for distribution more broadly. It basically winds up working like a big genetic algorithm for developing viral content.

Also, while the extremists might not be able to vote in numbers to turn an election, they can definitely make the internet a sufficiently unpleasant place for discussion that they have a chilling effect on support for everyone else.

Many Clinton enthusiasts were hounded into "secret" or private subreddits and Facebook groups because of the intensity of abuse they received. Most of the more leftist and Bernie Sanders supporting spaces were, likewise, spammed with so much FUD content that it was impossible to have a productive conversation about anything else. They were a seriously disruptive influence on the capacity for anyone else to organize.
From the driver’s perspective, is there any difference?
Since this is HN: sniff the Accept-Language perhaps, and guess from that; but please do keep the alphabetic list as well, in case you guess wrong.
If including your race gives you a leg up, then I think you should do it. I saw a whole lot of casual racism when I was in college, and if that was indicative of the experience of others then you don't owe the rest of us shit.
https://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/directconnect-us-east-1.rs...

We are investigating increased packet loss possibly impacting some AWS Direct Connect customers in the US-EAST-1 Region.
They have another car to drive themselves around when they aren’t working for Uber?
This is a known issue for google management, and in this case 2 managers had the same failing. It clearly seems systemic, and you seem like astroturfing for yur opinion of google.
Growing up in Russia I’ve seen the propaganda spread within the country, I have no doubt they use the same tactics abroad as it has become so easy/cheap to reach unwitting users on social platforms.

I don’t think Russia had/has a specific goal I mind other than disruption. I don’t believe they necessarily wanted Trump because of some evil plan/agreement. The evil plan is to take advantage of gullible Americans and create instability. Of course it takes more than just a Facebook campaign and it helps that the US is already pretty devided as it stands and there seems to be a perfect political storm to take advantage of.

If you see how they talk on Russian TV about the “decline of the West” and how bad every politician is, pretty much 24/7 you’ll probably better understand where it’s coming from.
Maybe it is uninformed, but the media certainly doesn't help in it's coverage of nuclear disasters. Speaking as someone with very little understanding of nuclear physics and energy, how it seems like nuclear power plants are amazing right up until they don't work (see Fukashima, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl) or the fuel rods are spent. We still don't have long-term nuclear waste storage plans other than cordoning off certain areas and burying the spent fuel underground[1]. From the same article, nuclear plants have massive 'ponds' 7-12 meters deep that store highly radioactive spent fuel rods for a few years until they reduce their reactivity and heat to something more manageable before disposing of them. When decommissioning a nuclear station, what do we do with that water when in the meantime? Especially if it really is true that a nuclear plant's lifetime is on the order of 50 years[2].

Don't get me wrong, maybe nuclear is the optimal answer to Earth's energy needs. But also, maybe the tech is just not there yet, and certainly the media's fear-mongering needs to be more tempered and more informative to allow public acceptance of nuclear. Otherwise we will probably still keep getting NIMBY responses

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...

[2] https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm...
Reddit's the_donald community was pretty instrumental to DT's success, IMO.
Lol, that Youtube video, at the end the AI pauses the game of Tetris forever so as not to lose.
Is anyone else using golang dep[1] as their vendor/dependency tool?

I’ve used it and it works great (much better than glide, gb et al) but I don’t see it in the wild too often.

[1] https://github.com/golang/dep
This is just a ridiculous comment. Why does originality matter here at all if it is helping someone?
Can't speak for Amsterdam, but it'd be a very reasonable salary in Sweden for a developer with 5-10 years of experience.
That's not even remotely true. If you look at the subreddits with whitelists, the whitelists almost always include Al Jazeera, RT, and plenty of other non-western media.
Sigh, don't perpetuate this. Being an underrepresented candidate may (or may not) help you with getting your foot in the door for an interview, but no one is getting hired if they're unqualified.
Yes, it's ironic that greenpeace was created to battle nuclear, but if they didn't fight it, we'd probably have much more advanced nuclear tech with almost zero waste, and hence much cleaner world.
So, a lot of it is in the documentation, but if you don't know Rust, then you might not infer it. This kind of thing is tough, as you need to balance audiences. The API docs assume you already know Rust.

For example:

Point 1 is known because the Item type is &str.

Point 2 is known because, well, that's the norm, but beyond that, SplitWhitespace is parameterized over a lifetime

Point 3 is known because it's an iterator; next() is its primary interface, which returns things one by one.

Point 4 is the "impl<'a> Iterator" bit

Point 5 is known because the return type of split_whitespace is this iterator, not Box<Iterator>

Point 6 is related.

If we repeated all of this stuff in every single bit of docs, it might make it more useful for some audiences, but also kinda destroy the docs for intermediate/advanced Rust users.

I'd love to make docs generally more accessible, but I'm not aware of any great solutions to this particular problem.
I dislike Taleb, but in this case he's right. Conventional, standard, advice in anywhere but the US is that over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment cause harm and should be avoided.

The problem is that Taleb is packaging up this standard advice and pushing out as some wisdom he has that he wants to impart to the masses.
Uber's autonomous driving technology was at the core of the Waymo/Uber lawsuit/scandal. I'm a little surprised by how easily Google/Waymo gave up and accepted a settlement.
If someone who worked for FooCorp raped someone else who worked at FooCorp, then FooCorp fired the person who was raped and kept the rapist, then I'd stay very very clear of FooCorp.
I'm sure it was - so much so that Reddit had to change policies and their algorithms significantly because they were getting flooded by it. r/the_donald's activity and prominence died very sharply right after the elections, and I can't believe that Reddit rolled out their changes right after said elections; I prefer to believe the trolls and bots just stopped or slowed down a lot because mission achieved.

However, I'm still waiting for Russia to massively benefit from the Trump administration.
In other words, this mess could be due to a lack of true leadership. They're reacting to one criticism then the next, without really having a coherent, defensible idea of their own.
the uber car is leased/rented for the day from uber itself or from a 3rd party who collects prius just for this purpose.
> The US government has already charged 13 Russians, linked to the agency, with attempting to manipulate American voters using social media.

Is that illegal now?
Subprime leasing programs.

Initially the lease looks very attractive, because you get a swanky new car, combined with bonuses and stuff that you get as a new driver.

Few months in, the incentive turns into a shackle. You start realizing that incentives are dwindling and the monthly payments are eating into most of your Uber earnings, which was masked by higher new driver incentives initially.

At this point, loss aversion kicks in, and forces the driver to drive crazy number of hours every day, just to make a decent profit over operating costs and the monthly due for the car.

With more such drivers in the market, and an ever dipping price for rides, $/Mile reduces.

That's the incentive.

update: If you think Uber/Lyft in the US is bad, talk to Uber/Ola drivers in India. Many of them are sleep deprived and driving, to make ends meet. And often barely earn enough to justify the costs.
Michel Houellebecq was doing simple (back in the nineties) web dev for the European Parliament while writing his first novel.
Unless the screenshots are faked, Google has racist/illegal hiring practices. There's no narrative here: just Alogna's own words being published publically.
If i know my fellow countrymen, most people in Norway will shrug this off. That is if the news reach them at all -- I haven't seen this reported in any Norwegian mainstream media so far. We live in discouraging times.
There was definitely something going on in 2006. Reddit has always been rather left-leaning, but for a ~6 month period the top of /r/worldnews was nothing but "Immigrant commits <crime>" and similar. I'm sure some real people got drawn into it, but there was definitely some funny business.
I think cultural enrichment from single adult males fleeing territories with conditions so bad that they couldn't even being their women and kids is much more important than your self important privacy. Go check your privilege.

Edit: why this tone? Because straight tone is considered racist by the collective "hackers" who forget statistics when it is against their narrative
A lot of trolls are sincere though, or at least are indistinguishable from them. I mean I've used nazi symbolism and whatnot ironically / "for teh lulz" in the past, but if you looked at that shit if you didn't know it you'd be sure I was serious.
Google has produced some amazing software and continues to do so. I work with Kubernetes and Angular 2, both of which originated there. The quality of design, implementation, and documentation is a model for accomplishment in computer science. As an engineer it's hard not to envy the folks that got to work on those projects.

So...I think it really depends where you work. That's true of all big companies as far as I can tell.
As a white Irish guy from New Mexico, this attitude irks me as well. No, I'm not the same as every other white guy out there. (I have far more interesting "gringo" stories than a white guy from Connecticut.)

No one should be judged or labeled by their skin color or ethnicity.
I think your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning this morning.
Indiscriminate dragnets are essentially standard tools, possibly the primary tools, of signals intelligence these days.

They’re, well… indiscriminate. Since intelligence operates in secret, I think it’s fairly disingenuous to consider their use governed by guidelines about who can be spied on. You don’t even know who the person is, until you’ve already spied. All oversight will be conducted in secrecy, and we already know that in the US, the NSA they made a mockery of the concept.

We could ban the dragnets entirely, but I can’t see many militaries agreeing to handicap themselves relative to adversaries who will continue to use them. The very best a Norwegian could hope for at a long shot is that Norway won't spy on them, but Norway's allies will and share the intelligence. Also, every other country in the world (and private companies) will be spying on them.

I think this may be a lost fight.
50% actually makes a lot of sense given the nature of the market.

In my opinion, the high art world depends heavily on the manufacturing of taste, brand, and scarcity for survival.

We have a $100,000 valuation for a painting that would never exist if we didn't get a bunch of people together who agreed, perhaps by mutual delusion, that the painting is worth $100,000, despite all the other artworks by other artists that are comparable that sit in other galleries for a meager $1-10K--if they'll ever even sell for that much.

This market only exists because both the artist and the gallery foster the illusions necessary. And the artists brand depends on getting into a high-tiered gallery just as the high-tiered gallery depends on attracting well-branded high-tiered artists.

So the market has decided a 50% split, and remember these splits are actually negotiated by the people involved since these are very high touch markets.

If the artist complains to much, there's always some other artist to groom. If the gallery complains to much, there's always another gallery for a "worthwhile" artist.

Now compare this to how developers pay 30% for a fixed price app in a store.

Given all the voodoo in the valuations, I could easily see why a gallery could negotiate for 50%.
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Your comment made me remember that Richard Stallman calls Uber for Guber (Refering to Goober; another word for a peanut), because they pay peanuts to their drivers.
"Google said that it would “vigorously defend this lawsuit,” adding that it has a “clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity. At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse pool of qualified candidates for open roles, as this helps us hire the best people, improve our culture, and build better products."

You'll notice that official statement from Google did not claim the allegations were false nor that the events by the recruiter's manager did not take place. Defending yourself vigorously doesn't mean you're not guilty. Usually we see companies come right out and say that the claims are false. Google didn't do that, I suspect, because this is almost certainly documented in emails and formal communications. If this guy knew he was stirring the pot and causing issues and making claims of illegal activity, I doubt he didn't put at least some of this in email to protect himself. I'm sure Google performed a preliminary investigation once the lawsuit was filed and found internal emails which clearly show this guy documenting what he was told to do and his objection to it. Emails which the guy probably CC'ed or BCC'ed himself on so that he would also have a record of some of it is probably included/mentioned in the lawsuit when it was filed.
PHP is often used because it's mature, reasonable secure these days, and has world-class encryption libraries. Lots of companies develop web applications in it....

But if you're developing a web application that you host and also want to offer a private version of for enterprise use, this is somewhat appealing because it's the first step of being able to package the PHP app within a Go binary that runs on a lot of platforms and not have to release your source code.

Sure you could write it in Go from the start, but if you already have a bunch written or want to use less expensive developers, this might work out one day.
Unrelated, but this reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwMzZtU5H7I
No they wanted full time people, that is why they were giving bonuses if you did 30 rides or something your first week (I dont remember the exact number) but they wanted people on the road a lot.
This x 1000. Learn and grow. When the market is rewarding you for that personal growth and you know you’re definitely adding more value. Move. Life is too short to be working at a place that does not reward growth.
As a socialist... You're right about Twitter and the history of political debate. The era of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster was also the era of Senators beating each other with canes.
I enjoyed the Guardian's (satirical) digest so much:

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/25/skin-in-the-ga...
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> Their endgame isn't a better United States, it's a divided United States.

But again, if we're concerned about a divided United States, why is there no concern over divisive speech generated within the United States? I mean one of the things the Russians did was organize a resistance march. So... Russian-organized resistance march = bad. American-organized resistance march = good (we had one of those too, unless those dastardly Russians were behind it as well). Huh? How does a resisting a legitimately-elected president do anything good for this country? How does that NOT sow discord? That was the whole point! And yet, we don't see a problem with the domestic actors taking these actions.
>>In China, they use a dictatorship that is effective enough in providing a good lifestyle so mostly young people there don’t complain too much.

This is not correct. There are plenty of people complaining. It’s just that they are censored and silenced.
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> I'm not sure how Uber et. al was originally promoted to drivers, but I've originally seen it as something like "I'm heading home from work, let me turn on my uber app and see if anyone around me needs a ride going in that direction".

That's not how Uber was originally promoted to drivers at all. Uber was originally promoted to high-end professional car drivers.
I love how you’re comparing it to something widely disparaged precisely because it was a (racist) lie, then continue to admit as much.

No, it is nothing like the “birther” idiocy. Nobody knows if it was enough to move the needle in this election. But there are simply some people who don’t want another trial to find out.
>I've always looked up to tech because it's a realm where we Asians are judged by our skill level and output

Do you think model minority or "Asians are good at math/science" stereotypes have any impact here?
Agree with this. Even just reading the first 50 pages or so will likely make you much better at your job.
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Management is responsible for the environment that is created in a company.

Please don't blame employees that are complaining about stressful working environments - their plate is already full.
Not entirely true. The ceiling is much higher if you can show that you deliver serious value.
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This assumes that people want to do coffee / burger flipping on a fixed schedule. Most Uber drivers I have talked to like the flexibility.
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Where is T-SNE? ;)
And every major road in Oslo has been tunneled to keep the city pleasant for pedestrians.
Yeesh. Documentation of quotas and racial/gender discrimination in hiring. This is as clear-cut as it gets.
Well, it is on its way out, have you missed the news regarding vgo?

https://research.swtch.com/vgo
Don't forget the 20% time, which is long dead. That was the one thing that really made them seem unique to me.
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> see if anyone around me needs a ride going in that direction

Do they allow you to set a destination area so that your fares are limited to this, or do you just get to review and accept fares so you can choose ones in the right direction? I wasn't aware it could be used to just pick up someone going the same direction.

I can see something like that doing very well, but I can also see how Uber might want to brand it slightly differently, as those drivers may be slightly less invested in driving for Uber and might be more likely to flake or not be as accommodating to passengers.
> Couldn't these people make more money (and not have to replace their car in five years) flipping burgers or the like?

Yeah but would you rather flip burgers and smell like french fries the whole time? Driving people around is not completely unpleasant in comparison.
I was going to say "if I call washingtonpost.com links pro-American tilt", would you subscribe to that view? But then you'd say "but the RT is state-sponsored!" to which I would say "there are many mechanisms to influence media other than owning them, see e.g. Manufacturing Consent" etc etc.

It's like we're running around in circles with this conversation, neither side seems to be getting to the other side.

Instead I'll take a more pragmatic approach. Could you please share one of these RT.com links which you say have a pro-Russian tilt? I want to see if I agree with you. Then I'll share a washingtonpost.com link which I think has a pro-American tilt; I want to see if you agree with me.
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Impressive but my side projects are even cheaper to run because 1/3 of the way through I lose excitement, never finish them and then don’t do anything with them. ;) Nice post!
> - Don't use U2F because FireFox doesn't support it

It does! Open about:config and switch security.webauth.u2f to true. It'll Just Work.

I've in the recent past modified a barebones Perl webapp to try and understand U2F better, see https://u2fdemo.darkpan.com/

I've been able to log in / use U2F from:

* FF on Windows and OSX

* Chrome on Windows, OSX

* Chrome on Android using either a OTG cable for a U2F USB key, a Bluetooth U2F key, and a NFC U2F key (works if you install Google Authenticator)

* Unfortunately, not FF on Android as I can't find how to enable U2F there yet :/
This may not be illegal at all.
Like all other countries, we have foreigners living in Norway. A small subset of these are bad actors. Most notable we have a history of Russian agents and ISIS members in the country. Intercepting all communications filtering for these non-Norwegian citizens/terrorists is not illegal.
It always has been, in the form alleged here.
Certainly all these things exist! And they are beautiful.

But every platform amplifies certain behaviours more than others. The question is, which way does Twitter lean, on balance? Think about all the times you've seen people disagree. After interacting on Twitter, how often do they grow together vs. further apart? Come away holding each other in respect vs. contempt?
That people think vehicle wear costs are negligible is how Uber manages to convince people to drive for such low wages. People are bad at math.
The maintenance, insurance and depreciation cost of driving Uber an unlimited miles a week is $214 a week, minus a profit margin for a company like Hertz: https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/misc/index.jsp?targetPage=Ube...

So any study that says it is more expensive than that to drive for Uber is wrong.
Where there is smoke, there might be fire. Its not unlikeley related to KPIs set by high managment (given the news around Google in the past). And further down the food chain managers want to look good and do these things.