skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Transportation isn't a service where it's acceptable to have good drivers who get paid more and bad drivers who get paid less, no matter what mechanism implements that pay differential. There should only be "good" drivers.

Of course, there's no universal authority on what "tipping" actually means but I think many people (both the riders & drivers) understand that tipping is for the "service" portion that's not related to the driving. E.g. carrying the suitcases, pointing out the landmarks like a tourist guide, etc.

The "driving" component of getting from point A to point B in a safe manner, without making incompetent U-turns, etc is the baseline. The tipping isn't for that.

E.g. I usually don't tip the Hertz/Avis car rental bus driver but if I'm trying to carry 3 bags and he helps me with them, I will tip him.

All that said, it's possible that some Uber drivers want extra tip money just for the sake of extra money.

Like others, I also prefer transactions where there is no tipping expected. It would be annoying to scramble for some loose dollar bills to tip the flight attendants as I try to rush off the airplane to make a connection.
How can Bill Gates easily adjust his net worth?

Market does assessing net worth pretty good today.

I haven't said a word about making tax code harder. You can remove a LOT of tax code with this change.
And evidently Faraday is taken by Faraday Future automotive company.
What about the novel idea of incentivizing the restaurant to provide excellent experiences through charging a fair market rate for a reliably excellent experience? You can show your support for this restaurant by being a repeat customer because you think the value proposition that they provide is one that meets your standards.
Site looks super shady, however the technology could work. They're pitching a series hybrid CNG (they do call it fuel agnostic and state Diesel would work too) turbine-electric truck. Very similar to the way hybrid Diesel trains work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_train
Another point on rapid development: SQL databases have some amazing libraries and tooling. I've been working a lot with SQLAlchemy in Python lately and have been blown away by it.

> While NoSQL databases may not force you into a schema for your database, you will pay a toll for this mutability in your application layer.

A while ago I read a really good point on this: There's always a schema. NoSQL / "schemaless" databases don't get rid of the schema, they just move it out of the database layer. It's still there, whether in the application or the documentation or just in your head.
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HN,
Twitter,
Newsblur (though mostly through the app at this point),
Google Analytics/Adwords,
AWQL.me,
Facebook,
Stack Overflow (I rarely visit the root, but find myself getting help here pretty frequently),
Github,
NY Times
Xero FY2016 Revenue Up 67% to $207.1M
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted for this. It's one of my concerns, as well. The idea of inviting Google into my text messages, which is a far more private and unfiltered place than my Google searches in a browser, makes me a bit uneasy. The parent's notice that it wasn't transmitting everything one types is helpful. I send a lot of GIFs, so this would only make my workflow faster, but I don't want to have everything I do with a keyboard tied to my Google account because I'm using a keyboard.

It makes me a bit sad to recognize that my first thoughts and reactions to many Google announcements these days—even silly and playful ones—is to start ticking off and formulating potential vectors for identifying and collecting things about me that can be turned into juicy bits for advertisers.
They can fear and hate me, as long as they are too scared to do anything about it.
http://drudgereport.com

http://www.theregister.co.uk

https://soundcloud.com

http://arstechnica.com

https://feedly.com

https://www.windyty.com

http://www.waveleak.com

https://github.com

http://stabmag.com

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com
This statistic doesn't make any sense if it's an attempt to show how many people are getting college degrees, but I don't think that's what it's trying to demonstrate. It's trying to give some measure of how many young people are having trouble finding jobs because they lack college degrees.

This isn't the ideal measure, surely: percentage of job-seekers 17-24 would obviously be better. In the absence of that statistic, however, it doesn't make sense to try to factor out current students. Having a job while attending university is very common, and is one of the best ways to lessen the tuition burden.
How is a keyboard going to not know what you type or look up things on the internet without having internet access?
I feel like perhaps a lot of the comments here are being a tad overly dismissive because a) Nikola as a name is bit of a rip on Tesla (and I imagine will eventually lead to a TM suit of some kind), and b) because it's not more obvious that the vehicle is CNG -> Electric and not just an EV.

That said, who knows if they'll successfully make it to market. The premise behind the truck sounds quite reasonable, though I don't really get the UTV, but that's maybe because I associate similar vehicles with Dudes going on proctored hunting expeditions.
I don't like the practice of tipping. I want the total price baked in.

So, I agree on the no tipping policy but painting tipping as racist because people may tip along racial and gender lines is ridiculous. That's the same as saying when people date and marry they are expressions of racism because people typically intermarry.

So it dilutes the whole meaning of racism and reduces it to a politically weak tool.
Should. Should. But that's not the way reality is right now.
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This is why land value tax makes the most sense. Land cannot be moved offshore, it cannot be converted into another form, it can only be bought, sold, leased, rented, or otherwise built upon. All of the things you do to land affect its (unimproved) value and this will be reflected in the tax rate.

The hard part is figuring out how to calculate land values. The good news is that we can find an algorithm to agree on and then put it in force, avoiding all the jiggery-pokery that goes on with taxes and accounting regulations.
I think I pretty much agree about all of those changes except for "the work necessary to get something to display on a screen". This was much less in BASIC on machines like the Atari 400/800, Commodore 64, Apple ][, and IBM PC that could boot into a BASIC interpreter. Then you could turn on the machine, type

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD"
RUN

and see something on the screen.

In more recent environments you have a text editor and IDE or shell, which likely introduce more steps (even the concept of saving your code in a file!). I've also seen people worry about how much harder it can be to make a program display graphics compared to the BASIC era (which generally had built-in language primitives to go to graphics mode and start drawing stuff, which may at least require importing a library in contemporary languages and maybe installing a library).
nytimes, hackernews, reddit, youtube.

Starting to really dislike reddit though. For a while it was great as long as the subreddit wasn't one of the defaults, but even some of the relatively esoteric ones are starting to get very noisy and have really low quality content/discussion. The whole upvote system just encourages voicing arguments that appeal to the lowest common denominator, and then rephrasing the exact same opinion in the follow up comments. I guess hackernews isn't so different, aside from needing to earn upvote/downvote privileges.

But the biggest complaint about reddit is the amount of blatant marketing, especially in subs where people are reviewing products. I've seen threads where every post with 30-50+ votes voicing a complaint got voted down to <-20 within a few hours. I saw this happen in /r/audiophile regarding Schiit and I've had a bad taste about reddit since.
They're not going to raise rates, and they're not going to raise what they pay drivers.
Apple's third party keyboard message might be surprising, sure.

It should probably not surprise you that the authors of your keyboard software are theoretically capable of seeing what you type on your keyboard though, if you think about it.
I'm always saddened when I don't see MultiValue[0] databases in the list, but the reality is that there's almost nothing that's open source in this space.

My first real job was doing development on a custom application built entirely in UniVerse[1]. It was a really interesting way to work and mirrors a lot of what the Open Source NoSQL databases do, though it does it differently. Instead of storing the schema with the records (e.g., a JSON document), a record was simply a list of data elements (fields), each field could have multiple values (or not), each value could have multiple subvalues (or not), and there was a lower level that you could go to in order to store multi-line text data.

There was a dictionary attached to each file that primarily drove the query tool. You could also build calculated fields (I-descriptors) to do primitive joins, among other things. If you had a file containing invoices, you might have two fields to list the item number and quantity (these would be repeated for as many items as are on the invoice). You could then use an I-descriptor to follow item number over to the items file and pull the description, price, etc.

The entirety of the application ran within UniVerse. When users logged in to the unix server, their shell would run a script that would set up the environment and fire up UniVerse. The UniVerse LOGIN paragraph would then show a menu system and allow them to do their thing. Everything was written as either a paragraph, roughly equivalent to a shell script that ran UniVerse commands, or a BASIC program. The dialect of BASIC natively understood dynamic arrays, which were a 1:1 match to the structure of the records on disk.

UniVerse also had a built-in way to execute SQL queries against the multivalued data. In the invoice example above, the item number and quantity would be associated in the dictionary. These would then be exposed as another table by the SQL engine. You could go "SELECT A.INVOICENO, B.ITEMID, C.DESCRIPTION, B.QTY FROM INVOICES A, INVOICES_ITEMS B, ITEMS C WHERE A.@ID = B.@ID and B.ITEMID = C.ITEMID" and it would know that INVOICES_ITEMS is really part of the data in INVOICES.

It was a really cool system and I wish there was something like it in the Open Source world. Sadly, development on MaVerick[2] seems to have stalled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiValue

[1] http://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-universe

[2] http://www.maverick-dbms.org/
The article admits that information from eight drives is "a hopelessly anecdotal number"... then goes on for several paragraphs to imply that these eight drivers are evidence to systematically disprove Uber's claims about racism and sexism.

Completely bogus.
Yup.

An early stage startup will give you every reason not to jump on board. But the current state of the industry is riddled with inefficiencies most self created due to managerial decisions made half to a quarter century ago (then adopted by competitors). A lot of these make adopting new methodologies and technologies impossible.

I'd rather work on solving problems then working around them.
on taxation, I always believe that "you" should make the tax reasonable enough to render its avoidance obsolete. Close all loopholes with flat laws and just force them. On the other hand there will always be some corrupted official to create another loophole in the process...
The point of tipping is to empower the customer and measure their satisfaction. Because the customer has a considerable portion of the bill at his discretion, staff are going to be focused on making his experience as enjoyable as possible. This is what the restaurant owner wants but couldn't feasibly accomplish through direct management.

I used to be very uncomfortable with this power over people's pay; who was I to determine how much money someone was worthy of? But it's not about that. It's about rewarding good service and having a good incentive structure. It's about making sure that the customer comes first.

In this day and age I imagine tipping is also good documentation for performance, should someone need to be fired. Otherwise, the owner might find himself on the wrong end of a bogus discrimination law suit.
They do answer the questions with pictures. But the pictures look like http://xkcd.com/1597/ and the answers are perhaps not what you are expecting. (-:
All the more reason to develop better robots for terrestrial exploring.
I think it should be: The bacteria's ability to oxidise stuff into methane and carbon dioxide is of particular interest. (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave the cave is full of co2 and methane).
I realize you are replying to part of the discussion but your comment seems to be a nice point in support of the original article and I would like to see if you agree.

You mention one strand of western philosophy, "the Western Analytic (mostly anglophone) tradition" that believes its work is most closely related to math but then also point out that, while practitioners from that school are open to participation from non-westerners, they often face "conceptual and not just large linguistic barriers" at engaging with such contributions.

You seem to be saying that there may be value in these contributions but that we lack the cultural framework to understand and engage with them. If that is true, even though this is the portion of philosophy most consciously focused on mathematics-like deductive reasoning, doesn't that suggest an insufficiency in our current programs and perhaps argue that we need to expand our coverage if we are going to engage with practitioners in a global field?
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I remember when i was working at a fruit stand company, they said we could not be tipped... However that did not stop this guy from New York from tipping me, i recall he said, "For the service you provided i could not asked for anything else, where I'm from if you get good service you tip" I find it funny because it's directly against that whole "racism bit"
yeah I assume it is something like that but I just don't see how that gets expressed in feet.
Yeah, it can be a bit guessworky, but that's only because it's bleeding edge stuff. The corners are being sanded down and things are getting better rapidly. I've been happy with the amount of work that I've put into my setup versus the results. And my setup is definitely not one that causes my computer to explode. In fact, I've never had my host machine fail. The VM only bugged out once. This is after long sessions of CS:GO, Overwatch, Game of Thrones, StarCraft 2, etc.
SSL Proxy.... terminating ssl... sort of breaks the idea of ssl
It's hard to call T-Bills an investment and many wealthy people have quite a few of them, or other investments designed to hold value with minimal ROI.
This should be called what it is: a PaaS that automates some of your continuous delivery pipeline, specifically the deployment of your containers across a cluster of servers.

It's disingenuous and not likely to generate a lot of enthusiasm when you glom onto the flavor of the month (serverless) and try to recast a technology that pre-dates it (PaaS) as being serverless, when in fact its not.
"...Yet the fact that she had just sued her former venture capital firm for discrimination tends to prove Pao is all-in on this egalitarian thing."

Is that sarcasm?
"10% of 17-24 year olds have a college degree..."

No shit! When you include 17-21 year olds who have not been in college long enough to get a 4 year degree (and barely a two year degree for 20-21 year olds) the numbers sure look a lot lower!

Great reporting New York Times... wonder why you're struggling with top notch number manipulation like that!
So why did the economy grow so much better when the taxes were higher?
By hoard I meant "be the owner of". Doesn't matter if it's cash, real estate, stocks, bonds or shares in a lemonade stand.

Call it all wealth and throw a % on it. Make it progressively increase up and 0% on anything less than $X. We could call it a Robin Hood tax.

This will also have the incentive of causing the wealthy to invest in riskier things. Ex: 5% growth doesn't make sense with a 6% wealth tax.

EDIT: Moved some sentences around.
The article read like it is written by someone who has never understood how to use a SQL database.

To quote Mr Torvalds himself:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

Something that i struggled with before i learned how to use a SQL/relational database was to actualy use the database relations in my code. I first specified the relations in the database then i basicly redid them in the code.

The way i tend to program these days is to have basically all my relations restrictions and relational rules in the database.
Whenever i want to change something you just alter stuff in the database GUI.
Most of the application code will just follow along.
I've paid for fake likes on my FB pages, the reason was no-one liked them when no-one else did, so it was just to get the ball rolling. As far as I could tell they all seemed to be genuine accounts in Turkey.
> shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain

This is refuted by the existence of tax free municipal bonds. Tax rates most definitely affect investment choices and strategies.
You need tariffs for things that aren't land, things that can move.
>>Google is a web/cloud services and advertising company.

Google is actually an AI company.
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> Scala's strength is precisely that it's a mutt: Want to write imperative code? Sure. Functional? No problem. How about a type system that far more featureful than Go? That works too.

This also essentially describes C++. This is also why both languages can be so terrible to use: every library has its own dialect.
Tipping would mess Uber's reviews. The drivers would give a good review just for who gave a big tip.
I like what you are saying. Generally, people have less money than what you would think they have. The people who have the $120k job and want to chill are incentivized to consider leaving if the jobs aren't there. This is not a calm area of the world so if you want to work and chill out there are much better places to be no matter the stage of the cycle. They aren't the sorts of people that start companies or join the earliest stage ones that I was attempting to appeal to.

You are right though that sometimes economics dictates the situation and people have to leave due to not being frugal enough during the good times. You should always be prepared for a rainy day.

If one entrepreneur or early stage employee reads the article who is on the fence and it convinces them to stick it out, then it was an article worth writing.
Haha, I hear you. Yeah, cloud-native would've been worse I agree. What's SRE mean? Site Reliability Engineering? Or is my guess way off?

Btw, I really enjoyed reading 12-factor app [1] compared to most since the page was a clear description of obviously good practices and debatable recommendations that were at least clear. It was also about apps with a list of 12 things to consider. That fits the name. Page was over 70% specific justifications and technical answers with almost no hype or zealotry. I was impressed the cloud crowd was capable of that. Mainstream needs to do terms and explanations that way more often. ;)

[1] http://12factor.net/
From that page (my emphasis):

> In a nutshell, a plaintiff in a trademark case has the burden of proving that the defendant's use of a mark has created a likelihood-of-confusion about the origin of the defendant's goods or services.

In this case, the defendant was not selling goods or services i.e., not engaging in trade.
What's the best way to get an invite to Lobsters?
Yes, I've even done it myself a few times over the years. But one thing I don't like is that most don't follow the OS theme. I'm not a fan of every app having its own, ala "skinz."
France might pass a law that makes it illegal to send after-hours work emails
For entertainment:

Comic Rocket (https://comic-rocket.com/), which means I don't need to manually check any of the comics and stories I'm reading; if there's an update, Comic Rocket will show it.

YouTube's "subscriptions" page (https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions) directly, to bypass the worthless front page.

For information:

LWN (https://lwn.net/): best news on Linux and Open Source in the industry, and the next best thing to reading all of LKML.

Twitter. Becoming increasingly tempted to use the mobile version even on desktop.

Various blog "planet" aggregators: Planet Debian (http://planet.debian.org/), Planet Freedesktop (https://planet.freedesktop.org/), Planet GNOME (http://planet.gnome.org/), Kernel Planet (http://planet.kernel.org/), and Planet Mozilla (https://planet.mozilla.org/).

Almost everything else I don't bother visiting daily; I just get notifications via email.
Our intellectual property system gets in the way again. Why don't all the limited government, anti-regulatory people complain about this?
Apple's Tumble Worsens as Stock Hits Lowest Since 2014