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This caught my eye.

> Supervisor Jane Kim wrote on Facebook after the incident that Muzzafar had self-identified as an Uber driver. Uber later released a statement saying the driver had not being "doing a trip on the Uber system" at the time and Supervisor Kim later revised her statement, naming him as a "non-taxi, for-pay driver." Uber declined to clarify to SFist whether the driver may have been available for Uber rides at the time.

Supervisor Kim's statement, in the link below, raised questions about the standard of driving of those working for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, etc:

>In addition, the driver was a non-taxi, for-pay driver. Certainly this incident raises questions regarding the driver training and selection process for the increasing number of ride share drivers on our city streets. While emerging driver service apps fulfill an important need for flexible on-demand transportation in San Francisco, we must examine a universal baseline of scrutiny and safety oversight for these services. http://sfist.com/2014/01/01/7-year-old_girl_struck_and_kille...

Is it unfair? The following comment on SFAppeal lists a string of accidents involving Uber drivers in San Francisco.

http://sfappeal.com/2014/01/uber-distances-itself-from-drive...

Finally, here is Uber's statement, where they emphasize that the driver was not actively "doing a trip" at the time.

http://blog.uber.com/2014/01/01/statement-on-new-years-eve-a...
This article missed so many of it's own points its hard to see why it's being voted up. I've never seen how surges and pricing are vague, it's right in front of you in the application. Home Depot has accidents and deaths in their stores and you don't see the author complaining about a lack of community there, and arguably, driving is a much more dangerous than shopping.

The title is link bait and the complaints are a shallow attempt at expanding the authors personal exposure as a community manager.
And latching onto a tragedy to complain about a company and community as a "community manager" yourself is in poor taste.
There have been pretty much no hypervisor exploits seen in the wild but plenty of admin hacks. (This is basically the same as Andrew Hay's argument.) I want to give the OpenSSL people the benefit of the doubt when they say they saw Bigfoot, but... are they experts in virtualization? Or are they using loose terminology (e.g. considering dom0 or vCenter to be the "hypervisor")?

(HTP is stuck in the scarcity trap, so I should probably block off a weekend to work on it.)
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Well one reason might be because iPhones are pretty expensive. If people can afford that, then they do have tendency to shop online. They have money!

On the other hand, Android is distributed in tons of low end devices too, making a smartphone available in the hands of a person who did not think he'd have one and he's unlikely to shop online. And such users do make a large user group.
I thought that was for the tunnel they were boring? I suppose it is true for overland routes as well, but I always thought the bigger obstacle for highways has been land rights.
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Unless you already have a dog, I don't think that will be a net cost savings.
This is a line from my article:

"Is it Uber’s responsibility to do something here? No."

So no, I don't think they should take the hit for this, and I don't think they're legally culpable.

Perhaps I didn't make it clear in the article: I think Uber is making people dislike them through their lack of empathy in this and other situations.

This is bad for Uber, and I'm suggesting they change this. That is all.

So, now that we've covered that...

I think your point about Uber staying out of your business is valid. Some people prefer that, and perhaps Uber doesn't need to try to build a strong connection with their community. As I said at the end of the article, I don't think this attitude will kill Uber, but I do think it'll make it lose some customers. Maybe, to your point, that's totally ok because they're keeping the type of customers they want. Would be interesting if that was their strategy!
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You work modulo p, yes, but the group is the set of points of the curve. The qubit bottleneck seems to be the Extended Euclidean Algorithm to perform modular divisions, which requires the greatest amount of space. Check [1, §6.2] for details.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/0301141
My wife taught at an inner city school for 5+ years. Pay was competitive and they paid for her masters. Her school loans were just forgiven (around 5k) for doing this. It was a net win for us vs teaching st a suburban school.

She loved it and it worked out great for us, but the education system is a disaster and I am glad she isnt teaching anymore.
No, iZettle is completely mobile and my point was that Square is swipe based while iZettle is chip based.

Here's a picture of the device I've tried: http://blog.bookingbug.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/izettl...
I agree completely with you last statement. Honestly I find it a little bit disgusting that somebody would use a car accident as a means of marketing themselves.

Shame on you, Evan Hamilton. You even submitted this yourself.
>"$10 to whoever shows me where the apology is in this. Still looking…" - carpeaqua

So true!
As a chip tuner ... "What do you expect?" :)
yeah, making things complicated just for the sake of making things complicated sucks. that said, model forms are one of the most useful parts of django, and they use metaclasses, although for all i know, ModelForm could have been implemented another way.

i only know about that part of the django implementation because i was trying to set up some kind of class inheritance and found that things were behaving strangely. so the conclusion in this case was that the use of metaclass allowed some cleverness in the implementation of ModelForm, but it made it difficult to layer more cleverness on top of ModelForm.
Got you. Thanks for clarifying. Yeah, most of world is using chip based CC
I would be more interested in the decompiled binaires at this point, you know the stuff being released directly into the wild from the site :)

Unless you could point me in the direction of a repo that looks like this[0] (posted in this thread, and project I've been following along with others), that corresponds to the binary I posted above.

[0] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Thanks to everyone for your feedback on the title of this post. I was trying to catch the eye and, in doing that, misrepresented my point. This article is not designed to hurt Uber...it was born out of frustration at their public response to this situation, and designed to point out that they, like many companies, would benefit from a stronger focus on their community.
Last year, the student loan system was $50 billion in the black.[1] So it's a cross-subsidy rather than a taxpayer subsidy. And that seems perfectly fine to me. My wife and I took loans for graduate school, and both came out with high-paying jobs for our trouble. I think it's totally fair for people like us to subsidize the people who pursue public service. The system helped us out, and now we're happy to help out the system.

[1] This number is likely to decrease as time goes on and more people take advantage of the loan forgiveness, but there's quite a cushion at the moment.
Here's the CFAA:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just pointed to the part of the statute you're referring to, because I don't follow your argument.
You'd have to use fiber. Copper between buildings is susceptible to ground loops and one lightning strike frying the entire network.
This is a horrible tragedy but it is coincidence that it was an Uber driver. I live in SF and it could have easily been a taxi cab, regular driver, a cyclist, or a even a muni bus that hit this poor family. Every day I see at least one, two or more people that fall into those groups treat stop signs and reds as yields and regularly make turns without looking or slowing down for pedestrians or cyclist. Poor driving (and pedaling) is a damn epidemic here.
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We practically took the same picture. :-)
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(Sorry about the orientation first 12 seconds)

Just saw your channel. It feels like you and I did the same trip! lol.

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Having lived in the area, I definitely agree. I think on the Peninsula it would be higher. Our federal system doesn't deal with these geographic disparities well, especially when it comes to things like federal taxes and college aid. $120k/year in a place like Mississippi really is wealthy though.
I definitely see them as mostly Republican/Conservatives, but because of them even democrats can always legally obtain guns. The USGov can never remove the right to bare arms, or the pro-gun people will flip out. So a semi-unknown number of guns remain in the public's possession preventing the USGov from ever trying to really take over. Best chance is for USGov to slowly erode privacy/rights as they're doing, but I think the NSA leaks have messed that up and put all kinds of people, even republicans, on guard. If a civil war actually happened, I think the pro-gun people are a wildcard that the USGov cannot depend on. I think they'll actually split up and a significant amount of them would side with democrats because of their desire to "protect the nation & what the USA flag stands for". With the NSA leaks, I think a lot of them feel like they've been fooled and are now just "pretending" to be republicans, but deep down inside they wouldn't defend the USGov in a civil war.
I also think there are a bunch of military personnel who are "just following orders" for now but would defect in the event of a civil war too. Someone(s) just has to be the martyr to get the ball rolling.
Having been on both sides of this fence, once as a manager, and several times as an employee, I think the idea of "unlimited PTO" is too suspect to smart employees, and the only real viable option as a good (productive) developer is 3-4 weeks vacation, and not complaining about "crunch time". The problems arise when "crunch time" turns into "all the time". It's at that point you've just got to take advantage of this market and make your exit. 2 weeks for the first three years on a job just isn't realistic, when you realize that that extra 10-15K means missing out on things you enjoy or need to take time off for.
It's not magic. It's very close to just 10% of (AGI - some multiple of federal poverty line), applied either to an individual or a couple.
I was just going to post that. Mike is a man who knows his stuff.
> Poaching the lead dev to work on your own fork is a hostile move

That's an argument one can use when asked to spend more time with kids.

> it provides a reasonable excuse for the delays, since nobody was able to take his succession immediately

Huh?!? Open Source model not working or what?
I expect innovative startups based around the consumption of alcohol to do well.

But then I like drinking, so there may be some observer bias.
Reading your post was refreshing. Thank you!
I definitely see things through the lens of community management, as marketers may see things through the lens of marketing. I haven't seen Home Depot's response to the deaths in their stores so I don't have any comment on that, but it's likely I would if I saw them. I wrote this post based on my disgust at Uber's response and the lesson I think companies should learn from it.

Lots of folks have complained about the surge pricing notifications, which is why I'm repeating those complaints. Perhaps Uber has improved that messaging since the last, highly-publicized round of complaints.

I appreciate your feedback on the title and I agree. I've updated the post and HN title. Thanks for keeping me honest...that was a lame move on my part.
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It is questionable if "independent contractors" that do 100% of their work for Uber will be considered such.

In general, companies are responsible for accidents caused by employees performing work duties under the respondeat superior doctrine. Notice that the "performing work duties" part has been stretched pretty far in cases; a drunk driver coming from a company party where alcohol was served could still cause liability for the company.
No.

Simple logic: The defacement was amature at best. If the group has a 0-day in a hypervisor they would have gone to multiple hosting companies and multiple attacks would have taken place, there are many more targets that are worth much more than openSSL.

Most likely, the administration panel of the hosting company was comprimised through malware/phishing. Seriously, if a group like this had a 0-day in hypervisor then they would be doing much much more damage.
Agreed. Thanks for the feedback, I've updated the HN and blog title. Lame move, thank you.
Agreed, thank you for calling me out. I've updated the post and HN title.
There isn't a decent client for Android that can edit a Gist very easily. I keep my to-do list either on Google Tasks or as Gmail draft.
His bias notwithstanding, it is correct that bitcoin does introduce some innovations but in its current form it also has a host of major disadvantages.

The most likely outcome is that, like the internet, its final form will in no way resemble its first incarnation nor will it be for the same purpose as its creator intended. The most likely outcome is that some of the useful and innovative features will be absorbed by existing payment system to create a 'hybrid'.
Fixing bugs in a large open-source project while I should have been studying for major exams was what landed me a Google Summer of Code position, which (I assume) is what landed me an interview at a major tech company.

Safe to say that a huge proportion of my current income is directly due to "productive procrastination" :)
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PG would say the type of procrastination in the NPR article (missing the vehicle registration date) is "good" procrastination.

http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
Wont always work thoughwith every lock. What does work is a drill. All cylinders must be made of soft non-corrosive metal like brass.Just send a big enuf drill down the cylinder and twist it with a screwdriver, quiker;)
The locations where the amplitude is minimal (0) are called nodes. The antinodes are where the displacement is maximum. Ultrasonic baths scan through a frequency range so that the standing waves produced by the drivers move around, hopefully covering the whole bath in one scan.

So yeah, the feeling would be similar, but not exactly the same, as you're also in a different medium.
I worked for an iOS developer in Finland this summer; it's an amazing but peculiar country. Some elements that might help make sense of the news:

- those numbers are only for DNA: it was the operator that I used, great service; it is a relevant operator on the market, but apparently not the best for international roaming or the countryside; Helsinki coverage makes it a preferred option for the savvy, but not the most senior crowd who travels abroad quite a bit;

- the tech scene is extremely tight-knight, sprung out of Nokia; most of those have close ties to some of Jollo developers and have internal information on the project;

- the country is not only fairly small, it includes SuperCell, Rovio and that’s the tip of the iceberg: dozen of thousands out of the 600k-1.3M people living in Helsinki or around develop for mobiles; most people openly describe how the country made a conscious, political, country-wide pivot from Nokia’s experience in sparse mobile code to iOS games and apps; half the people there seem to personally know game developers;

- iPhones 5C and 5S were not available early this summer and as you can imagine, this was a significant, professionally dire problem (on that note: Seriously, Apple!?); people flew and came back with fistfuls of the things up long after Finnish resellers suffered shortages; I believe that operator subsidies on the handsets are not significant (but I can’t say for sure: as a foreigner, I couldn’t hold a contract myself).

Because of that, I’m assuming that operator sales of smartphones are a biased sample; traffic data would be preferable for actual use. However, even that usage is skewed: most people have a mobile platform written in bold on their LinkedIn profile, or ask one who has before buying a handset. That they sold significantly is a great sign however: if the product wasn’t good, local buyers would have heard rumors before — and many people buying are actually considering developing for the thing.
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Ask HN: How would I convince my friends to not apply for the NSA?
Two of my friends are interested in working for the NSA after graduating college. Does anyone on HN have a good framework / facts I could use that would help me convince the two of them that their skills would be better used elsewhere?
> the oft referenced Shor's algorithm, for example, can factor a prime in polynomial time, which is immensely faster.

Actually, Shor's algorithm is for factoring composites, not factoring primes.

Don't feel bad about that little word mixup. You are in good company. Bill Gates did it in his book "The Road Ahead".
Really? Citation needed here; at least in the US, that's the norm for white-collar jobs.
This post made me realize that Shopify had a POS system as well, which is great for online+IRL stores, but it's also iOS only. That's completely frustrating, because not only do I not want to buy an iPad for a single application, but the store I need a POS for already has a perfectly good PC at the counter, and if we upgrade we'd strongly prefer a ChromeBook.

I'm still surprised and saddened that even companies who completely rely on the web, like Shopify, reach for native mobile apps (and often leaving out Android) so quickly. I suppose there's still a ton of work to do to make HTML a better option.
> I'd gladly pay $7/gallon for gas not to have to worry about healthcare (even if you have insurance, it will often fail you at the worst time) or, in the future should I have kids, education costs.

I wonder if there are arbitrage opportunities for the education of the children. You live in the US but you have your kids study in Europe - French universities for example are free, so if the kids can speak French it will be cheaper to have them study there, and as Americans their chances of admissions must be pretty high.
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How do you know he was referring to Mark and not Randi? They both have the last name Zuckerberg.
Somewhat related: where can I buy laptop-sized (13 inches and up) LCD screens that I can connect to a Raspberry Pi? I looked at eBay a while ago, and all I found was replacement screens for laptops, which neither have connectors that work with the RPi or backlight.

Edit: Of course I could just buy an ordinary LCD desktop monitor, but those are big and bulky. I'd rather have something slim and compact like a laptop screen, but without the laptop...
Interesting, I have a bunch of Cat6 running on conduits in the ground between two buildings (about 80m apart) and they work fine. How would ground loops/lightning affect the install?
As is this episode as well (the second segment):

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The biggest problem, from my point of view, with language is the construction of objective statements to convey subjective values.
This isn't an issue with convenience, this is an issue with Snapchat failing to fix a vulnerability.

How relevant is find_friends to Snapchat now? Is it really needed? Are they getting that many users building relationships for it? Is it worth damaging Snapchats image?
Did Apple completely stop Brazilian production?

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/24/apple-now-selling-brazil...
Haha, but the race is long :)
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Make a user story and see if anyone close to you, friend or family, can identify with the user story. If not, ask around on the Internet. People on HN are generally helpful when looking to validate an idea.

Honestly the best thing to do is build it though. The worst thing that happens is that you have another thing you can add onto your resume.
Sounds like some data cleanup issue. Definitely an outlier that should probably be ignored.
In my mind, the core reason not to work for NSA is that their organizational values and behavior are incompatible with our Constitution and with civil society.

Some people think that's important, some people don't, some people don't view the NSA's values and behavior the same way that I do.

I think the most important thing is for your friends to think about whether or not the NSA is compatible with their ideas about the rule of law and about decent human behavior. If they can look clearly at what the NSA has done (directly, and what they've supported such as secret torture, secret prisons, indefinite secret detention without due process, drone strikes against children, etc) and say they want to help do that some more, I'm not sure anything can be done for your friends. If they were my friends, I'd tell them "goodbye", just as I would if someone I was close to wanted to join the KKK or become rapists. Once they're inside the national security system, they're unlikely to voluntarily associate with people who don't share those values, both because of the personal discomfort and because of the risk to their security clearance.
Maemo/Meego and Symbian phone have that since a very long time.
Have you tried Apache Hive? I believe it was meant to make Hadoop easier to use by way of SQL-like commands. Something like Qubole might be able to help too.
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I agree, I don't think SO would benefit from disabling voting on old questions. Don't you want to encourage people to write answers that are useful long after the fact?

The only benefit would be preventing the kind of bullying the OP. It would curtail systematic downvoting of past answers out of spite. But it's an extreme response to what I understand to be a rare problem.
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I wish more places let you pool your time off into a group that other people could take. At every job I've ever had, I never use any of my vacation, and it would be nice if I could give it to other people who are "vacation people".

I don't know how feasible a system would be though (I've heard of places that do that for regular PTO, but not vacation).
They had at least one Jackie Chan movie there.
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