skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my perspective, this is the chance for someone to get access to a car that they might not otherwise have and also create a job for themselves.

Someone who is a college student or relatively poor for some reason might view this as a chance to get access to a car for themselves and also make enough money to cover it and perhaps a bit more than that. It might not be a paradigm that would occur to you because your situation is different from that. But I think we need to not turn our noses up at giving people the chance to make what looks to you like a poor wage.

A quick google suggests Nevada's minimum wage is either $7.25/hour or $8.25/hour, depending upon what benefits they have. If you are only making $7.25/hour, then $10/hour is more than a 33% increase in income. That extra $2-$3/hour may seem piddling to you, but for people who have very little, it can be huge and make a big difference in their quality of life. Furthermore, if it also gets them access to a car that they wouldn't otherwise have, this may be hugely life changing. Living without a car in America can be quite challenging.
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> An emergency fund IS NOT an investment.

Why should one have an "emergency fund?" I would genuinely love to hear a good argument for why keeping any cash assets when one has significant liquid investments, as I've never encountered one.

Insurance companies invest their premiums. Why shouldn't I?
When LBJ heard people talking about JFK's affairs, he "would bang the table and declare that he had more women by accident than Kennedy ever had on purpose."[1] It got worse:

At his Senate office, his female workers were fondled, ogled and overworked. Though his own figure was flabby, he was quick to berate any of his "girls" who put on weight. He wanted to make sure the view was good when they walked away from his desk. "I don't want to look at an Aunt Minnie. I want to look at a good, trim back end." He boasted of his sexual prowess and had long affairs with at least two women, as well as casual flings with members of his staff. Robert Caro, who is a dogged researcher, has uncovered the story of LBJ's previously secret relationship with Helen Gahagan Douglas, one of the few congresswomen in Washington during the 1940s. A former actress, she was an attractive blonde whose political career came to an abrupt halt after she failed to join her lover as a member of the Senate. In a dirty campaign for an open seat in California, she was defeated by a Republican newcomer who spread rumours that she was a Communist sympathiser. His name was Richard Nixon.[2]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/04/three-ne...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4728473/A-lewd-crude-Mast...
The data is unchanged. Most ISPs have internal tracking for each request to see how network data flows. You can just think of this as Verizon leaving those tags on - and in this case it owns AOL so it's sharing within the same entity.

Not saying good/bad - just how they treat it.
"Thank you! We will notify you when Gemini has launched in Netherlands."

Bleh.
Yes indeed, and sorry if my comment sounded confrontational. I only meant that the "doesn't need approval" is an integral part of the Seattle mindset.
> read about the rigid way they conduct meetings.

It reminds me of common rules of order, except untested by the courts and not covering the many, many permutations of motions that can arise.

I'd just be inclined to use Robert's Rules or a local equivalent. Meeting procedure works very well, when you use it correctly and consistently.
Not only that but by finding themselves a scapegoat, management has ensured that in the future, honest mistakes will go completely unreported. These execs are clearly more interested in CYA than actual results.
What common use would you find for it that I couldn't do just as well with a credit card?
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Seriously, the headlines write themselves:

"Young Tech Entrepreneur Says People in Poverty Just Need To Have More Money."
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Recently out team "pivoted" to NodeJS from Java. Trying to read through source code for any major projects (ExpressJS, Sequelize, NPM) has shown me that JS follows completely different paradigms when constructing code. Any recommendations for JS pattern books? I will be doing more server side than client side work.

I have been eyeing JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani, JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov (both from O'Reilly), and Node.js Design Patterns from Mario Casciaro.
Room to raise prices in very dense areas maybe. Uber is only viable in a lot of places (like DFW) because their rates are much much lower than the per-mile Yellow Cab rates that came before. Here you had to decide wether the (not all that convenient) convenience of a taxi to the movies on date-night was actually worth $40 each way and a half hour's wait to you. Where at maybe $15 each way and a 5 minute wait with Uber it's a no-brainer.

At least that's my experience.

Never been to San Francisco. But in Chicago or NYC I generally use Uber just because most taxi drivers seem to only drive at 99% of their limits and it's stressful. The Uber drivers are much more sedate generally. IME.
The thing that I don't understand about this logic is that in the event of an economic downturn or disaster, if you lost your job the market would also be on the decline - the worst time to sell. Isn't it better to keep a couple month's expenses in savings, even if only for the peace of mind?
I disagree with this. If you are semi-retired like me, you need to have enough cash on hand to weather a market downturn of 1-3 years. That way you are not selling stocks at fire sale prices to keep a roof over your head and food on the table.
HTTPS is just transit data, they don't need to see that. They can still tell the sites you've visited and really they just want to ID you and optionally make that ID available to others who pay/participate in data syncing.
> So far no one has been able to meaningfully apply mathematics to economics, or we would have computers that can simulate markets like we can simulate tornadoes.

That only proves those problems are incredibly hard - and require incredible resources and work to think about in a formal, precise way. It's also worth noting that you are therefore no more likely to be a good economist by guessing and waving hands than you're likely to be a good meteorologist by spinning make-believe stories about which way the weather should be. Failure to understand the meaning of this point is a source of tremendous amount of stupid decisions and pointless politics.

Also, don't confuse logic with math. The former is just a subset.
>You'd have to get drivers to voluntarily give a cut of their take home to pay for insurance, the car, etc. without having a way to track what they actually make.

This is exactly what they do now, they just don't pay Uber, they pay those companies directly. But as a company with employees, they could negotiate a deal to get cars for cheaper, negotiate a better insurance rate, and save the driver the hassle.

But then we've come full circle, inviting regulations that drive up costs. This is an attempt to stay on the edge of that.
This has been an age old question since Mp3s were created. However, I'm going to disagree with you there on saying that CD quality = 192kb. I've heard 192kb files and they sound like complete garbage. If you're looking for true "CD quality" that would be LPCM 44100 Hz 16 bits stereo for a bitrate of 1411 kbps.
> They have a bootloader now.

The systemd people have a Grub/Grub2/LILO replacement!?

Would you be so kind as to link to details? :)
I just heard this on the radio - "it was down to a few software engineers". What nonsense.
Germans almost always pay with cash and rarely use credit cards. It's cultural. I think it's one of the reasons why Greece is getting screwed so hard by the troika: cultural norms and the societal moral confusion v/v debt.
> > And of course, one must hold accountable those who abuse that trust.

> How? And how would one ever discover the abuse without examination?

Because there are inspectors general whose entire careers are built upon investigating the claims of whistleblowers. Anyone who does have legitimate access to information about classified programmes is able to legally contact numerous IGs authorised to investigate those programmes. The entire incentive structure for IGs is designed to reward them when they find wrongdoing.

But, as I noted, one also has to be humble enough to recognise that just because one thinks something is wrong or illegal, that doesn't mean that it is.
Not necessarily - they could be self-insuring. Given their historical chargeback data, they've got a fairly good amount of information about how much money it would cost them to eat chargebacks. Lyft may suspect that they're getting their money's worth in terms of non-pay driver compensation, loyalty, and marketing.
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In NYC drivers may times work with both companies.
My backseat survey had most drivers say Lyft riders tend to be more chatty and friendly, while Uber riders tend to be busy with their phone and not say much.
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> The only reason people need to rent is because of the requirements to own (down payments, emergency funds to cover your mortgage in tough times so you don't lose your equity)

So, in other words, the landlord is selling a service? In exchange for a monthly fee, you don't have to do any of the crap (down payments, mortgages, property taxes, maintenance) it takes to own a home?

Do you view farmers the same way? If it weren't for the fact that you need to eat to survive, you wouldn't have to buy their product! And what do they do anyway? Just plant some seeds in the ground and wait for them to grow! Those damn leeches!
I like ridesharing, great market offering for consumers and drivers. Using a rental agency like this is good because those cars are underutilized and that can help people without cars provide service. Initially, i was going to snarkily compare this to cab companies, and the point still stands the economics arent great but it is a decent trade in some scenarios.

I don't have a car, and I would be willing to drive lyft for limited funds AND access to the vehicle. Sure you couldn't take the car on vacation, but if you could make a bit of money and knock out some errands locally, I could see this catching on. The magnitude and evonomics might not be there for everyone, but the cars would just be at Hertz so it could be a positive thing for both parties.
If you really want to wrap your service startup in a bash script, I don't think systemd precludes that approach.
> I've long maintained congress would be much more representative if eligible citizens were randomly selected for 1 congressional term, like jurors are in juries.

And like jurors in juries, wouldn't we then be governed by people not smart enough to get out of their congressional term?
Thanks. I thought it's more for meta information (I know VLC uses it to identify audio by meta tags). Looks like they support acoustic fingerprinting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz#Fingerprinting
Oh I agree. I was in Seattle in 2005. My girlfriend was here in the 80s to 90s.
The same has been happening with NIMBY's in the bay area for years.

I silently follow a private facebook group for a bay-area city (which you need prove you're a resident of to get access) and it's an echo chamber of xenophobia, anti-tech bias, and misguided hate.
Interestingly? Seems this undermines the entire paper, because it's not that they don't know, but rather that they don't care.

Most don't serve us anymore- they serve the people that put them there.
I tried with some niche content and got some weird combinations, but it still gave me a good ideia on how to write something about it in bullet points, which is really nice. Keep it up, I'll definitely keep checking.
Okay I laughed at this more than I should, but a hat tip for employing "literally" in a cromulent fashion.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354692
Don't go somewhere that doesn't do what you want.

I'm not arguing that there's total freedom to go to grad school and do what you want. I'm arguing that no one is forcing anyone to be in grad school doing something they don't want.
Quite an interesting update. Good to see ripping and replacing of code with external deps where needed, and exposing some more kernel functionality (around cgroups especially).

Pity the comments are largely the usual moronic and entirely non-technical nonsense that infests the topic at HN. Sub-reddit commentary quality.
My savings account is pointless. The interest rate is about 0.01%. The question should probably be restated to get a more accurate response in how much of their own money people actually have access to in emergencies.

I have over 10k in checking, more in 401k/IRA and 0 in savings. The last time I had 1k in savings they gave me 1 cent in interest.
How the hell is this a case of Poe's Law? It's an even-handed treatment of a contentious subject. I recognise that there are legitimate concerns, but that not everyone may be permitted to determine to his satisfaction whether those concerns are correct or not. I recognise that folks must be trusted, but also that they must be held accountable.

Where's the crazy, nigh-parodic fundamentalism in that?
The animosity isn't specifically at MMM. People who think "have you tried spending less" is insight, thats what who we hate. Believe me poor people are way ahead of you on the spending less money idea.
What exactly is the big aversion to tracking? The vast majority has shown (via actions, not internet noise) that they don't care so what exactly is the big downside?

Not arguing for/against, just want to know reasons beyond "i just dont like it".
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The outdoors is exactly why I want to get out to Pacific Northwest. I always find myself chasing nature here. Thank you for a great tip!
Absolutely agree with this point. I hear the same argument for restaurant waiters and I hate this tipping system that even has suggested tipping tiers. It only tells me that owners of these establishments are not paying their employees correctly. I know of places which don't even disburse the tips back to their employees (when tip is part of receipt)!
NZ, Australia, Scandanavia, France, even England I've got around largely without much in the way of cash.

Interesting that Germany is different.
If you 1 starred the driver, and then complained to Uber, they'd be able to see the drivers rating as a retaliation.
I never dreamed Apple would in any way officially support, or even acknowledge the existence of, ad blocking.
And some people feel similarly about gay people.
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Not for me. Work is interesting. Attempting to build some dogmatic hierarchy of which things are OK to talk about is silly.
Probably not BSD. Does Netflix work with Chrome on BSDs?
Agan it probably depends how you define poverty. If you live somewhere where the land provides enough food for your needs every day, you probably don't need $2 per day.

If you define poverty as never knowing if you will have enough for the next meal then the $2 cutoff is again probably fairly irrelevant.
Zombie cookies are ones that are added to HTTP responses by the ISP, so that even if the user clears their cookies manually or opens their browser in incognito mode then the tracking cookie persists.
You're in Missouri so that might feel like it's a lot of money because you're living in a place with a significantly lower cost of living (10% lower than the rest of the country) but also a lower median income ($45,321 last year).

So for you that median income would be a 14% increase over what you expect - in an area where your buying power is also higher than the rest of the country on average...

So I understand the dissonance.
>many people don't understand it enough to think of it as anything other than bad.

And what could transform public opinion of the software to the positive, over night, better than Apple adopting it?
Apple shipped launchd and made it open source ten years ago. They did their part, it's now FreeBSD's job to integrate the code.
I find it disputable that parallelism is all that desirable. In systemd's case it requires the introduction of the dependency system with its multifaceted job queueing modes and transaction management that easily make up its most brittle edges, at least w.r.t. to its service manager, specifically. Seemingly innocuous configurations can result in cyclical transactions and dependency loops, and the internal graph engine bookkeeping these relationships provides very little debugging context at all.

Considering parallelism is about startup optimization, a much better option is to load a process from a checkpoint image, e.g. one taken by CRIU or DMTCP.
I just spent two weeks in the UK as a tourist. I had a wonderful time. Perhaps it was me? But I used cash much much more than I do in the US. I pulled out my credit card in a pub and got scolded. Perhaps because I was outside the big cities?

It might be me but I perceived the culture in smaller town Scotland to be more cash oriented than I am used to in the USA.

I personally saw more people pay with cash than I am used to.

I still love your country and will go back at any time.
But Nixos, which doesn't follow the FHS, still uses systemd...
> It's not immensely more complicated...

Anything that requires DBUS is (at minimum, because it now depends on DBUS, which is -itself- rather complicated) substantially more complicated than a script that does

exec "$@"

Surely you can't argue with that?
If it's "heavily subsidized" then it's not free trade and free markets...

(unless you were going for sarcasm there)
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Zombie cookies in particular are insidious -- while you are actively trying to conceal your identity by proactively deleting cookies or using incognito mode, your ISP re-adds them without your consent.

This kind of aggressive and underhanded behavior should be shamed as it violates the trust that users have in their ISPs.
> the single biggest problem with Storyboards is that it doesn't work well with text-based CVS, namely Git

The way LabVIEW solved this problem, being a proprietary and graphical language, was the inclusion of LVMerge and LVDiff tools. You could configure Git to use these to merge or diff the files when needed.

Hopefully Apple gets this fixed soon.

Edit: someone tried to make something like this, although I've never had the pleasure of trying it out. Perhaps someone could try it and tell us how it went with his or her project: https://github.com/marcinolawski/StoryboardMerge
Another born-and-raised Seattleite here. Grew up there, went to UW, etc.

Seattle lost its "soul" a long time ago. For me, Almost Live! going off the air was really the bookmark that Seattle was quickly becoming a homogenized west-coast city (no different really than SF or Portland).

I don't really think Amazon is worth singling out, either. Amazon doesn't help, but Microsoft's a monolith that's been around for quite some time. They used to (and still do) pull a shitload of the UW CSE graduating class straight into MSFT, and nobody wants to live in Redmond or Bellevue until you're starting to think about a family, a house, etc. It also goes totally unmentioned here, but biotech was/is huge in SLU.

My point being, money's been flooded into Seattle for quite some time now. If they wanted to keep Seattle "Seattle", i.e. different from the other west-coast cities, the time to plan that out was 15 years ago.

I also think it's hilarious to hear people bemoan the death of the hill, and even more hilarious to see signs like "rich kids leave" and shit like that. I bet they weren't around a decade ago when the gay community used to say the exact same thing to hipsters that were flooding into the hill (myself included), even down to the insinuation that all hipsters were rich kids. Hilarious to see history repeat itself.
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gummiboot has been integrated as reference implementation of systemd's bootloader interface.

It's (unsurprisingly) much simpler than GRUB2 (as is every other bootloader in past, present, and presumably the near future).
Make it pay really well and people won't try to get out of it.
Sure, much in the same way you can use daemontools without strictly following its FHS requirements. Or more likely you'd be using one of its many derivatives, as vanilla daemontools is rather old by now.
Fair enough, "rich kids" can also mean fresh-out-of-mom-and-dads' with too much money and not enough impulse control.

I guess the reason I assume the backlash is against 'kids' and not 'rich' is, to use my own anecdote, most everyone I know in this industry who might be incorrectly classified as "rich kids" came from much humbler circumstance, and they also try to keep perspective on their extreme good fortune as you do.

Perhaps it's the circles we run in, but most of the people I know personally who would be caught in the crossfire of "rich kids" are aware and grateful daily of their massive advantage because of the stark contrast to their childhood economic experience - and it makes them work twice as hard to make sure they maintain it, as well as pay greater attention to those evils.

I feel like the truer crime called out by "rich kids" is reveling in privilege, oblivious at its cost to others - that total lack of societal awareness I tend to associate with children, which I guess is why 'kids' seemed more backlash appropriate.
everyone does this, so far I only saw only few independent tests, but in every one all diesels wre over limit

http://www.focus.de/auto/ratgeber/kosten/unregelmaessigkeite...
We have direct evidence to the contrary. Uber disallows tipping and pays somewhat substantially less than Lyft.

It's great that you want people to be paid sanely for the job they do, but the fact of the matter is people largely aren't in this industry. Uber doesn't allow tipping, and doesn't pay particularly well. After factoring in depreciation of their vehicle most drivers are going to be bringing in something like $10/hr.

We live in a culture where businesses won't pay their employees sanely. Until that is fixed I want the ability to show my gratitude for a job well done with a tip. "Blah blah use cash!" Sure I can do that, but it's inconvenient for a number of reasons and the reality is that most people won't do it.