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>What do we tell the taxi and truck drivers when Uber shows up with self-drivers, etc.?

Its will be almost like magic how the need for manpower at checkpoints in Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and beyond will profligate in direct proportion to the discontented, unemployed masses. Good thing the Evil Putin is asking for it!

Depopulation and employment through violence and war aside, though, its simply madness to think there is a solution to mass automation and the rise of AI as far as workers are concerned. We are going to have to totally rethink the way our society operates. Hopefully we will be wise enough to do this before we reach a crisis point but more likely we will be forced to address the issue after everything starts falling apart.
Windows symbolic links to files are distinct from Windows symbolic links to directories. The default security settings in Windows Vista/Windows 7 disallow non-elevated administrators and all non-administrators from creating symbolic links. Symbolic links do not work at boot.
I might check that book out.

One thing that strikes me is that you're right - these things are unequal. Uber develops an app but this has made it very difficult for anyone else to get their foot in the door. Given enough funding they can also just wait out any smaller competitors while still sucking the life out of their "non-employees".

They skirt the law and are not being held accountable for the misery they cause, there's no doubt about it.

Maybe what we need is an equaliser. Instead of having an Uber app there is a taxi app and it gives you the choice of which carrier you want and let's you compare prices for a trip.

That doesn't solve all problems but it does make it friendlier for new people to compete.
It doesn't sound like you have ever been to a poor country.

> It's also about job security, your chances of getting promoted, autonomy, fulfillment, and so on

For a large number of people in the world, they are wanting food, basic safety, and healthcare.
Here I would recommend watching the excellent documentary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_13 about the 13th found complete T-Rex nicknamed Sue at the very same area, and its decade long legal struggle.

I found it very strange that this article already named it 15 having found only the head yet, and not mentioning at all on which area it was found in detail. Esp. if it's on the Indian reservation they'll face big trouble again sooner or later. But any private ground is a problem, even with a contract.
Entirely logical in political terms. When under pressure to "Do Something!", cook up a solution which sounds big but has minimal real impact
No, it cannot be disabled via a policy in Linux, because it is regular FS operation, not a filter.
Ok, fair enough, edited.

but I was replying to this statement.

> to pander to users who are apparently too stupid to notice that the focus is somewhere

[edited] OK yes that was an excuse
in my experience the bundle works great, and I'm very happy that I don't have to use home-brew.
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Given muons can catalyse the nuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium I wonder if you could extend this to your own very low power fusion reactor? Not quite sure where you get the deuterium and tritium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
If you crash at (3) you can -- at least in principle -- have "link" pointing to garbage (most likely an empty file). That is, the dirent points to the new inode, but the actual link-text got lost with the crash.

Now on modern filesystems, a non-huge symlink will be stored in the inode itself and presumably enjoys some sort of atomicity. But there is nothing in the standard about that.
Programmers can buy an awesome mouse with a back and forward button anyway ;) and infinite wheel.
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You say "removing ones that fail", but surely that's the point here — it only fails for users who don't know what's going on.

If I deliberately reenable backspace as 'Back in browser history', I've no right to complain if I lose web app state; and if I get burned often, I'll disable it again. If I use it without any problems, what's the lose on Google's side?
Is there any particular reason you're using mbox rather than maildir (single-message-per-file)?

Mutt offers quite good header/index caching, and there are other tools for improving on that.
I never used it because I didn't want it to spray binaries all over a system directory. Macports is completely self-contained which I consider to be a much better design decision and less likely to cause me problems.

To turn your question around, who uses Homebrew instead of Macports?
Works globally, processes payments, eliminates bad drivers.
Isn't this unfair competition? Government meddeling with free market?

Also, does anybody know if taxi medallions expire?
Many frogs and reptiles carry salmonella, so total eradication would require much more than vaccinating chickens.
Paraphrasing the X-Files, the content is out there. It might not be exactly what you are seeking, but it is out there. It's not going to be 'Running Kubernetes in Production on a Roller Coaster' (note: this is obviously made up) - e.g. hip and timely - but maybe some articles that were translated/paraphrased/borrowed from the original English news. The key, as you may already know, is consistency of action day after day. Don't just do it once a week for 2 hours, every day for 10-15 minutes will work much, much better.

> I just can't stand books with grammar exercises or using Memrise for more than 10 days... and flashcards for tough words.

I too dislike grammar books and I have stopped using Memrise. It was too much work to 'water the plants' and just answering a question required excessive game playing (multiple choice etc.). With flashcards, if it has not already been imparted to you, please write down the entire sentence. Context is so important.

> The problem is that compared to English there's not enough Spanish content I like (Reddit, HN, non-fiction books).

Yes, it is true that the overwhelming majority of medium and long-form content is posted in English. Because that is what the majority of the target audience can understand.

Here are some Spanish speaking websites for you to read:

Reddit/Digg like:

Meneame - Sort of like Digg, in that it has short article summaries across many topic areas (including technology and general interest news).

https://www.meneame.net/

Barrapunto - The Slashdot equivalent. Biased towards sysadmin-type articles and knowledge.

http://barrapunto.com/

Subreddits in Spanish

https://www.reddit.com/r/espanol (like Reddit in English (cat pictures LOL etc.) but Spanish sourced

Country/region-specific subreddits
For example, Chile
https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/

Comics
Mafalda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafalda
Very famous Argentinian comic book.

Non-fiction books
Gutenberg Press (Spanish). Most are out-of-copyright old.
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es

Ted talks in Spanish

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-language/spanish

Short-form content (Twitter, Facebook)

Register another Twitter account and just follow people/news who tweet in Spanish. It is quite easy to find these accounts - search for keywords like 'noticias' (news), 'ciencia', (science), 'creo que' (I believe), 'la crisis' (the 2006/2007 financial crisis), (your own keywords)

Warning, understanding the Spanish used in short tweets can be quite challenging as it is very terse and concise.

For the biggest challenge, microcuentos (also on FB, hashtags, instagram, etc.)

https://twitter.com/microcuentos
It's my computer, my screen, my browser, so I reserve the right to decide whats shown and what isn't.
In my area, Uber is better because their drivers don't treat me like shit - and I'm not talking about being servile, but simply greeting me back and not ranting the whole way about how rides should be $20 minimum. Before Uber, I took a taxi only in emergencies, simply because it was more often than not an unpleasant experience.

Their association is also corrupt as hell, so they can't even claim that over Uber.
With a hell of a lot of pounding of square pegs into round holes.

The places ecommerce does and doesn't work well are quite specific and pretty well structured. Helps a lot to not read what the boosters are saying.

Or at least supplement that with other P's of V.
Json is flawed in any way possible, imo. It was intended to be edited and read by human; it can not comments, trailing commas, non-quoted keys. It was planned for universal exchange; it doesn't contain dates, full-floats, byte arrays in readable form. It can't have backreferences for graph exchange or per-packet string interning.

Even "obvious syntax" argument is wrong. "Key": value is not what comes to mind unless your parents spoke to you on js.

Why it is still here: legacy that was easier to read-write than sgml-flavoured monster. Other arguments are nonsense.
I love puns just like everyone else, but when you have a word that precisely describes the thing you have, why not use it instead of using a clever metaphor?
I'm on the road 30-90 (or more) days a year.

I bring my own:

Shampoo (Cant stand the smell of most hotel shampoo), Soap (I like Dr. Bronners in the Bar, also, see above), Toothpaste (I'm preferential to colgate with fluoride), Deodorant (Unscented), Aftershave, Q-Tips, (2) Razors, Antacids plus a bevy of other personal care products.

I don't use most of the toiletries left by the hotel, they don't smell good (though they seem to do just fine with cleaning) - Mostly I just don't relish smelling like 'Citron Citrus Explosion with Mango and Green Tea extract' for 3-4 hours after I shower. The rest of the stuff is so I don't have to go look for a 7-Eleven or Drug Store (usually in the middle of the night) in a strange city to fix whatever ails me. It also helps make travel more bearable, because then I feel more like I would if I was at home.

So I suspect the real reason hotel's have no toothpaste in the rooms, is most travelers prefer to bring their own.
I doubt that Facebook would ever turn over his information to you or his family. Your best bet is probably to file a missing person report with the police.
Does that not depend on the software though — the likelihood that you have "powerusers", the difference in usage between novices & power-users, the learning curve, etc. etc.

Look at something like Photoshop — the level of configuration options is immense, but thousands of professionals use it daily without issue. It just has sensible defaults that can be restored easily.
Oh no, this like a "cannot unsee"-picture. I will never be able to stay at a hotel again without being troubled by the lack of toothpaste.

It begs the question: What else in the world do we not see until we see it?
I own a 2.5 years old i7 X1, and it made me start contemplating abandoning ThinkPad brand after 10 years of loyalty.

The battery life is poor (3.5 hrs max), and I had to replace the CPU fan a few weeks ago (free of charge, thanks to 3y warranty).

What's worst, however, is the deterioration of customer support. Lenovo has introduced this 'community' concept where users are expected to post their woes to a forum, hoping that a mix of other users and Lenovo affiliates (not sure whether they are employed by Lenovo, or just volunteering) would solve their problem.

It's stupid to the point of hurting their sales, for example in cases where you want to check compatibility of an accessory you want to buy.

But more importantly for me as a customer, if I forked out a premium price for a top of the line product, I want to be sure there's a quick way for me to reach a live person to address my problem; I don't want to have to post to a forum for a community to solve my problem.

ThinkPad franchise has gone down the drain after IBM sold it to Lenovo.
What aspect of Uber is better than a regular taxi?

For one thing, with Uber, those of us who don't live in a major metro area don't have to wait 30-60 minutes for a cab that might or might not even show up. There's always an available Uber driver nearby.

Think about it. How would Uber have gotten any traction in the marketplace if it weren't better than the incumbent taxi operators in some substantial ways?
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You're going to want _both_ light gathering _and_ range.

Keep in mind, a planet is probably going to be moving a lot over the course of a few hours. A 24 hour time-lapse of the Earth will give you a lot of pretty colours. But not much by way of a useful image.

You're trying to see something tiny and dim a very long way away, next to something which whilst also tiny (relative to the Universe) is far, far, far brighter.

A long-duration moving-apature exposure of a remote planet next to a dim star seems to me not to be an ideal candidate for high-quality imaging. I'm not sure a large-baseline, large-collector array would do much better, but at least it could narrow the time interval somewhat.

(Though I think you're still basically going to end up with a glared-out, underexposed, blurred pixel.)
I don't think it's looking down on athletics or sport specifically, but more the ridiculous edifices that have been built up around them.

When you boil it down, sports are play, it's a "childish" activity. Which is fine for adults to engage in, but then you have all of these absurdities built up around play which can even go so far as to ruin the whole purpose of play (fun, camaraderie, personal excellence, teamwork, etc.) People get overly attached to their favorite teams, living or dying based on their success or failure on the field, and loving or hating those who like the same team or rival teams. There is so much money in the mix that players can not only make a living playing games but can become enormously wealthy in some cases, which distorts sport in odd ways sometimes. One of the worst examples being the ways that athletes injure themselves for their sports, such as those in boxing or football who endure brain trauma which shortens their lives and the quality of life, or those in many sports (baseball, football, running, bicycling) who take performance enhancing drugs in order to get ahead. Then you have cities that spend hard earned tax dollars to subsidize sports, with no good economic data to back such choices.

Sports are definitely taken far too seriously today, often to the detriment of sport itself. And that creates numerous situations that are rife for parody and derision.

Imagine an article detailing how some folks dedicate a huge portion of their life toward following, oh, let's say Magic the Gathering. How they spend every weekend dedicated to it. How they spend so much money on the hobby, and on various accouterments related to it. How they regularly get drunk while watching matches. How they will refuse to be friends with someone if they enjoy playing the wrong color deck. How they have gotten into several fights over the game. We would view someone like that as being outside the bounds of normal society, as being an unusual person, and as someone who engaged in pursuits that justified derision. But when people engage in precisely the same sorts of ludicrous behavior when it comes to sports, we see this sort of behavior as normal and even borderline acceptable. Merely because it's familiar and commonplace. But it is ridiculous, and it is worth pointing out how ridiculous it is.
I use MacPorts on my personal Mac because the whole system "feels" higher quality. When I install, say, FontForge, I get a usable font editor (that requires X) on my Mac. When I do so with Homebrew, I get a crippled command-line utility. It's predictable and boring, which is how I like my infrastructure.
> The blog itself uses Google Adwords

I didn't know that because I use an ad blocker :-)
NY has some pretty fucked up food truck regulations. Because NY won't increase the number of food vending permits, a huge number are now sold on the black market.

http://www.voanews.com/a/black-market-vending-new-york-city/...
Anecdotally, I've hit my mouse's back button way more often accidentally than I've gone back accidentally by hitting backspace. And backspace does have the benefit of being able to type it with one hand.
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> there were luddites who tried to resist, but the solution was not to start subsidizing weavers

It is not fair to history to keep repeating that. The historical luddites were not against technological change.
My (NaI based) gamma spectrometer disagrees.
> Also, using version control systems as distribution and deployment systems is a horrible anti-pattern and I really, really wish people would stop doing this.

Remember leftpad!
(...) if future warfighters are to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage an emerging generation of artificially intelligent machine partners.

There's something eerie about the sound of that.
Missing pieces from Backend as a Service
What is that feature or component missing from current backend service providers, say Search and DB Rules in Firebase?
I think the argument against feature flagging this (that this reduces app complexity) seems a bit thin.

Normally you want to reduce the number of options in play so that you don't need to think about all the permutations when making future changes — if you introduce a feature in the future, you're not stuck supporting edge cases.

But the whole point of this change is that they don't want the backspace behaviour overloaded (if it's bad UX); so it seems unlikely this would interfere with changes down the line?

Annoying that adding the toast and creating a browser extension was probably more work than adding the feature flag would've been.
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What is socioeconomic mobility (of a person) in this discussion ? Is it rate of change in salary ?

> If people who could have been top-notch scientists, engineers, civil servants and entrepreneurs were prevented from doing so because they couldn't move up the ladder (and inversely, rich rent-seekers couldn't move down), society is deprived of their contributions and is worse off.

Why are they being perevented ? If I am the CEO, would not it be against my own interest to prevent my employees from making a contribution ? What ladder is that you speak of ? It certainly cannot be salary. Is there a caste system in company ? If people are being prevented based on their position in social ladder (such as caste system) does it even matter if they have more income ?
This backspace as the back button in web browsers never worked very well for me, and only seemed to work when I was entering something on a webpage. It never bothered me that it didn't work, and I never found it useful, but when it did seem to work, it would destroy a long post. I support the removal, or disabling by default.
I completely agree with you that this could be meaningful if it's used to improve taxi infrastructure, although I'm skeptical that the government will be able to effectively allocate money to build software tools that compete with Uber and Lyft. But regardless, why is the MA taxi industry waiting tax ride-hailing apps? Why not just ask every taxi driver for $83, which seems like a small price to pay for job security?
Agreed. There are several issues here that are all conflated.

One, the value of exercise and friendly competition. I don't think anybody is discounting that. Two, the social construct of forming into teams for purposes of increased participation. I'm a little iffy on whether this is at play in the article or not. Three, the institutional nature of sports, specifically professional sports. This seems to be what all the hubbub is about.
As long as taxi drivers have higher salaries and are better protected this is a good move.

I very much salute the innovations uber enabled. Only there should be a law which guarantees a decent minimum salary for uber riders. No good to allow an income-race-to-the-bottom for drivers.
it's much better to have millions of people exercising, rather than a huge stadium and 20 people doing sport

entertainment vs real sport for everyone
Let's say the code of something you are running locally has a SQL injection vulnerability that allows someone to run arbitrary code on your machine (let's imagine you are running a local copy of your client's WordPress blog with dozens of plugins you don't know where they came from). When the user you, the intruding code runs as you, with your privileges. When the service runs as a restricted user, that's all access the intruder gets.

Next time you go to a meetup, try to do an nmap on your surroundings.
> 200 years of government regulating to make the transition less painful.

i find that hard to believe - what was done in the last 200 years to lessen the pain of any transition?
It looks like hckrnews shows only stories that have been upvoted, even if you select "all" (I couldn't find any stories with less than 3 points). That would exclude most of the junk that you'd see on HN's "new" page (like ads for escort services, etc.).

The disadvantage of that filtering is that you'd never have the opportunity to upvote good stories that nobody else has upvoted yet.
That's not particularly relevant. Constitutions change to reflect the will of the people; that's why the Constitution of the United States has an amendment process (and many, many countries update and change their constitutions much more often than the United States does!). Further, while arguments exist that try to push the notion that social welfare is somehow unconstitutional, none that I am aware of have ever stood up in court.
Bringing my own shampoo is a hassle, because I buy shampoo in normal-sized many-use bottles that are quite large and might leak.

Bringing my own soap is even worse, because nobody wants to carry around a slimy wet cake of soap.

Bringing my own toothpaste is easy, because it's small, and I get the brand whose taste I'm accustomed to. Also, I've got to bring my toothbrush with me anyway, so the toothpaste as well isn't a big problem.

Now, shaving cream, on the other hand, is an item that's a bit of a hassle to cart around with me.
"The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism." --Joan Violet Robinson
> I don't consider installing Xcode to be an unreasonable thing to do to

Neither do I, but you can get away with just the command line tools. It's even on the install instructions.
Oh, there most certainly is a bottom. Uber being cheaper for more people doesn't make rent cheaper for the person who's had their income slashed--or for everyone else that you would blithely reduce.
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Learning question:
so the tag was on an orphaned commit? What ways could this be resolved?

The obvious and chosen one was to tag a new release and explain to people that the old one isn't accessible because of a muck up.

Would of merging it back in worked? that would of fixed the "<nwc10> the tag is for a commit which is not a parent of nqp master" right?
The last bit is problematic, as one of the criticisms against them is that they don't eliminate the bad drivers. People drive with all sorts of criminal records which they tried to spin as something positive.
How has it declined?
... and work constrained to that ship in a bottle. No thanks! I do a lot of interaction between Bash and the rest of my OS X userland. That is something I found completely impossible with the Linux subsystem on Windows.
There is a wonderful podcast series dedicated to your question http://99percentinvisible.org
> Given that we all have different interests, hobbies, religions, and political beliefs, yet we all need to cooperate so that business and society actually can work, we have invented sports so that we have something common to talk about.

Odd that it's impossible for us to talk about our different hobbies with one another. I wonder if that's ever happened in human history. Probably not, I guess. But hey, how 'bout them Bearhawks?! Did you see that ludicrous display last night?