skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does not work for me in Firefox or Chromium.
Ah, fair enough; I agree completely. It should only have taken a flags argument.
This is much more the case. The digital reputation system works better than all the taxi background checks. The routing works better. And it eliminates insane rules which effectively make taxis drive half the time without passengers (e.g. restricted pickup zones -- if a taxi takes me to the airport, they can't bring someone else back).
Comfortable? Exactly how does $1200 per month come anywhere near paying housing, food, and clothing even for one single person?
A capsule hotel in Tokyo (First Cabin Tsukiji) I stayed in had a small tube of toothpaste (unbranded), and toothbrush, which they changed every day. The toothbrush was really small and difficult to use, and toothpaste was as generic tasting as they go. I still used them a few times just for the novelty of it.
Not sure it takes fewer drivers to satisfy the demands of customers. As Uber like apps make getting a ride cheaper and nicer the useage is presumably going up so there should be more drivers but making less per hour.
From my experience, the votes are rarely a sign of a constructive comment.

For example, my top comment is the one in which I basically said that learning natural languages is hard. Pretty original remark, huh? In my second most popular comment, I posted a link to a funny image that didn't have much to do with the conversation. And my most downvoted comment is a detailed explanation of why I'm not impressed with Twitter's plans to use advanced machine learning.

I am not arguing that we should abolish votes, since I don't see an alternative. But tweaking the existing system to see if it becomes better is a sensible idea.

Also, I would like to make a point that comments at the bottom of the thread aren't always off-topic and boring.
If you bring them home. In the supermarket eggs are not refrigerated normally where I live.
Exactly.

There's another possibility that nobody really likes to think about: automated trucking won't even start for decades or more. The railway industry is a good example of this. Trains run on dedicated pathways with hardly any traffic, they're the perfect example of a system that should be entirely computer controllable.

Yet the world still has many, many train drivers. Computers could have and arguably should have replaced their jobs long before we even started thinking about the infinitely harder problem of cars and trucking, but outside of a few well known projects it hasn't happened because:

1) There are very few computer programmers in the world who can develop and lead ultra-high reliability automated driving software projects.

2) Of those programmers, many aren't interested in rail projects, partly because so many programmers are in the USA and Americans don't use rail much.

3) The companies that need to buy the tech tend to only have civil engineering expertise at the top and no software engineering expertise, making it impossible for them to select the best providers in the market, meaning the market doesn't force evolution towards better technology and project failures are frequent (markets need informed customers and there aren't enough informed customers in the tiny railway industry for this to work well).

4) Drivers unions are very powerful and railways are often state owned or at least heavily regulated, so there's little commercial force of will to pick fights with the workforce.

The London Underground is a good example of these dynamics in action.

Everyone here is assuming that the trucking industry will immediately adopt auto-driving technology if it's available. But that's making some big assumptions.
Uber's reputation system and screening and similar play the same role (together with normal vehicle inspections). Uber vehicles in Boston are in much better shape than cabs.
Ik heb vluchten naar Stockholm op Where we fly voor 78 € gevonden
As a transition solution, this is genius!
I'm a very happy backspace user (to the point where I wrote an extension to bring it back), but alt+arrow (or cmd+arrow on a Mac) are one-handed on laptops--which more and more people are using on the regular. There are reasons not to remove it, but this isn't really one.
> automatically running `brew update` with every brew command run

This is not accurate. We run a minimal version of `brew update` at most once per minute when you run `brew install` or `brew upgrade`: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/5504e2c1320d52f8a92a33...

You can set this interval with `HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS` and disable this functionality with `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE`.
A very good one if you are interested in (mostly .NET-based) application architecture is Jimmy Bogard's blog on Los Techies:

https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/

Some great posts:

https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/13/10-lessons-fro...

https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/20/10-lessons-fro...

https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/10/08/favor-query-ob...
My wireless Mac keyboard has a big key in the upper right corner with a left arrow on it. No way to tell if it's backspace, delete, or left. There's also a key in the lower right cluster that has a left pointing triangle on it, along with three other keys with triangles facing in different directions. Then there are two big keys on the left and right sides with upward facing hollow arrows on them. As well as keys with double left and right facing triangles on either side of another key with a right facing triangle followed by two vertical lines, and also another key with an upward facing triangle with a line under it. Not to mention the key referred to as "option" that's labeled with the word "alt" and a branching symbol.
In Boston, Uber drivers make much more than taxi drivers. Taxi drivers pay around $200 per day to rent a medallion from an investor (medallions were $600k investments at the time Uber came in). They had to work insane hours to make a profit on top of that.

Most Uber drivers are former taxi drivers, charging less, but making much more in the end, both by virtue of spending less time waiting, and by not paying rent.
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I'm just going to go ahead and keep using Tor.
In retrospect, "social" was the wrong word; what I really meant was "a place people already have an account and may contribute" i.e. a large, established community.

I'll leave the question of "is it a social coding experience?" to the experts.
Have you tried Jamendo?

https://licensing.jamendo.com/en
A Python interface to AFL, allowing for easy injection of test cases
An anonymous person is calling for this, requesting other anonymous person to reveal themselves or be doxxed.

Lots of allegations with zero proof.

3 hashtags.

I'll fire up a few more relays on September 1st.
I'm in a similar situation to yours and been reading some positive reviews about this https://slimbook.es/

They seem to be very responsive in terms of doubts, questions, etc. but as most small companies their main disadvantage is brand awareness when compared to Dell or Apple. But of course this is greatly compensated by a cheaper price.
> Uhhh, how about "suck it up and do it anyway"?

You have it backwards.

Humans have always had to suck it up because this is the default, natural state. But one would think in XXI century we could do better. That we can show some civilization, some compassion, instead of telling the unfortunate among us that they should suck it up. They're not our slaves to be forced into productive jobs, or resources to be used up and discarded. They're human beings - with dreams, fears and hopes. The deserve some help, or at least, some consideration.

(Not to mention, the next day it may be us who will need the same.)

EDIT: changed to sound less personal - it wasn't my intention for it to sound like it was aimed at the OP.
I switched from building from quarterly branches to trunk a while ago, so those packages are actually updated with the very latest every few days.
I also feel that moot a.k.a. Christopher Poole made a point for anonymity online. [0] In his talk he states that by eliminating voting mechanisms he ensures that every opinion has the same weight in a discussion, as simply chronology matters. The problem here is that power is shifted from the community to the moderators. But advantages are a)unpopular opinions aren't voted down into "inexistence" and b)the discussion starts out more unbiased as every opinion appears chronologically.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1UEAGCo30
The question was meant as a thought exercise aimed at my fellow developers. I was hoping they would ask themselves, "What will I do once my field is disrupted?" I was hoping that they could feel a little empathy for others whose livelihood has been turned upside down.

(I'm not directly responding to you, just your points which are typical responses.)

The general response when faced with uncomfortable questions is to avoid facing it - a "it would never happen to me" sort of rationalization. Or it would be an "impossible world" where my field would be illuminated.

Take "go into law" for example: I think the recent unemployment rate for new law graduates is something like 25%. Medicine is another field ripe for disruption (except nursing maybe).

"Just get another job" is another popular "let's not really think about the unthinkable" response.

It seems like many "answers" to the disruption problem boils down to "let them eat cake" and I was hoping to break through that.
I think the problem is Eternal September. Some facts and patterns have been discussed exhaustively and truth has been found. At some point the community has to move on. The backlog is open, society or the web does not gain from duplication deluding every discussion. People can just lurk a bit if they fear downvoting and losing imaginary internet points.

But I also like the strictness of the often critiqued stackoverflow moderation.
But mostly are. Lets assume 90th percentile rule - 90% of comments below half of the page are worse than comments on upper half of page.

While some comments might be quite good below, if you have limited time and want to be more successful at cutting "crap" you will hover only around top comments. Not a perfect thing, but this is what makes this place different from Reddit - you can be almost sure top comments will be valuable, cleverly funny, starting some interesting thought and not funny image, joke or offensive.
Lyft is losing a fortune.

>According to Bloomberg, the ridesharing startup took a net loss of $127 million in the first half of [2015], off less than $47 million in revenue.
Better safe than sorry? Are the handlers required to wear the rubber cloves during the operation?
What does an "alt" key even look like? Is it the one labeled "option"?

http://www.cultofmac.com/3147/opinion-apple-keyboards-need-b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_key
I live in Boston. Taxi drivers are jumping to Uber and Lyft wholesale. They make more, and perhaps more importantly, the income is steady. With the taxi system, medallions cost about $600,000 to buy, and were owned by rich investors.

Cab drivers rent those medallions for around $200 per day, and after paying off the investor, kept any profit on top of that. On a bad day, they'd lose money. On a decent day, they'd work a 16 hour shift and make minimum wage. On a great day, they'd make a few hundred bucks.

In Massachusetts, the law is designed to protect those investors (who lobbied for it) -- not cab drivers. There is nothing in the law which is not corrupt.

Self-driving cars will cost jobs. This just costs the very rich their investments in medallions, which prior to Uber were a full-proof investment.
Of course you're right but we're talking about two different things. I was telling you about how humans cope with complexity in science. You wouldn't get anywhere in science if you would always start from the most detailed theory. Instead, you try simpler models first and if they accurately describe the phenomenon, there's no need to involve quantum mechanics (which often renders problems almost impossible to solve).

On the other hand, if you tried the classical theories and notice that there are things unaccounted for, then you go and look for more detailed theories to apply to your problem. That's the normal way you do research and that's what happened here.
Both links contain figures about non-native speakers. And it seems that native/non-native Chinese speakers are more numerous than native/non-native English speakers.
Er, either prices float to their natural level and there's no problem (i.e. Uber's profits are reasonable), or a competitor comes along.

Come on, keep some perspective. Uber is a taxi app. We're not talking about a Manhatten Project of software here. Duplicating the Uber experience is easy. 99% of the effort they're putting in there is the fights with all the governments, regulators, taxi unions etc.
The main self-interested reason: we use analytics to judge what packages and options to remove. If no-one using analytics uses software: next time it requires non-trivial maintenance work it will likely be removed rather than fixed.
Also, what if you forgot how to gain access to your account?
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I think I'll join you in that. Advocating, from safe anonymity, that victims of sexual assault have to relive their abuse publicly for the peanut gallery? Yeah, how about no.

Their use of "Direct Action" is real cute, too; we know what that means among the screaming twitterati here in 2016. Which of the women who've come forward, or the women in leadership roles within the Tor Project, are they going to dox and send death threats to? (The answer is all too frequently "all of them", because that's how these "ops" work.)
From what I can gather it seems someone is angry that a guy named Jacob Applebaum is being accused of harassment.

My first thoughts are: I don't know any of those people, tor is open source, they should settle this in court like everyone else and keep tor out of it.
He mentions toothpaste is standard in Asia which is also my experience. The standard delivery mechanism is a sealed plastic bag with a cheap toothbrush and a two-time use mini tube of unbranded toothpaste. (So it's not like you're using a re-filled tube someone else used the night before)
NASA yanked a lot of material away from their NTRS (NASA technical reports server) some years ago. A lot of research papers that I would have needed in my research were gone. I can find some of that stuff via Sci-Hub but not everything.

At one point I was looking for a retracted paper and I even contacted my local (non-US) representative (the contact that was listed in NTRS) to try to get that paper, but they didn't even try to help me.

A lot of the retracted papers were fundamental research dating back to the space race era.

Glad to see more research being published but really, a lot of it was previously available but got yanked due to politics.
SystemTap enables the same kind of analysis for a few years already. And it works well with older kernels (starting from 3.2, but really from 3.13). Of course, an in-kernel solution is better (and I believe that SystemTap will soon use it).

It's unfortunate that SystemTap never had much visbility. It also comes with a huge libraries of tapsets.
I don't believe that you can downvote a comment that you reply to - so you would have to downvote first, and then reply.
The analogy most certainly does not fail at closer inspection.

Do you disavow all innovation? Does innovation render people who don't have degrees useless?

Certainly not.

Quite the contrary, innovation makes them more productive and increases their wage earning ability.
Working with IPTables
> What aspect of Uber is better than a regular taxi?

It's wildly cheaper (1/4-1/2 the price, depending on UberPool vs UberX), the app is more convenient (faster/easier to activate for a ride, better feedback while waiting), and if there's a problem with the ride of some sort, I'd rather deal with Uber than some random city's department of livery licensing. Not driving in a clapped-out Crown Vic with loose wheel bearings and 3-5 warning lights on the dash is a bonus.

For most people, more convenient and absurdly cheaper is enough to answer your question.
I would actually assume, that most people will downvote comments that are bad or don't fit the conversation. Or least that's what I am doing.

Getting privilege of downvoting is not that easy to get and this weeds out a lot of trolls right there.

When I see "Reddit style" comments, offensive, emotionally incorrect - I will downvote. If I don't agree on argument I will never downvote and if the poster is actually explaining himself well, will upvote. Same with people that seen their mistake and correct themselves - they always get an upvote to encourage them.

When I see someone wrong, but can't be sure or the case is open for discussion I will never downvote and if I see at the bottom comment section such a post, that got downvoted without people actually giving reason why - I will upvote it.

Its different to downvote comment like "Lol, tits or GTFO" and downvoting "I think Donald Trump would be better for Silicon Valley because: here insert 20 sentences of actually good ideas and thoughts". I cannot accept personally downvoting based on different way of seeing things. And while some of my comments might be sided - downvoting is not for expressing your agreement or disagreement on a matter as long as it is presented in "HN" quality style.

edit: sorry for making this comment as "I am" "I think" "I do", but overall it was intended to describe of what I think downvoting is for in my opinion and opinion of few people on here that I know.
That is like saying take back the washing machine, since it took away washer women jobs, of which my Irish grandma was when she emigrated.
Change, flow, adapt, is life.

And work is not something you do because you just get compensated for it. Some one pays you what they think a task is worth, and you take up that task, because you are not able or not wanting to move up or horizontally to another job.

It takes energy at the most primal level to accomplish work. The problem with politics is that people then think energy can be printed and everyone can be made happy with an endless supply of happy. We try our best to be compassionate, and hope for everyone's well being, but in the end, work needs to be done to gain something.
> If the folks at the bottom are continually stressed about money

I'd say this is the key. It doesn't matter whether your bare-minimum cheapest apartment is an old wooden shed or a pretty newly constructed flat with heated floors, two bedrooms and a lifetime free subscription of Netflix. It doesn't change a damn thing if you're two paychecks from getting evicted and going hungry, raising your children on the streets.

More and more jobs are turning transient, transitional, on-demand. This may be more efficient, but this hit the poorer hard, because there is no way in hell you can do any financial planning for yourself if you don't know when and how much money you bring home, or if you'll have any job at all next week. This is one of the bigger things that keeps poor in poverty.
That's a really good point. I opened an issue: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/429
I hope they label the charge "Taxi Bribe".
Seconding this; especially

if you find a well-written comment you disagree with, you might even upvote it and disagree in text form.

Making this into one of the guidelines may, I think, be a good idea.
Taxis in some places have awful service and blatantly ignore the law. Extrapolating from my experience, nearly every credit card reader in a taxi in Philadelphia is broken even though they must be working, and has been for years. As such I use Uber there 100% of the time, even when a taxi is available. By contrast, somehow, NYC cabs virtually always have working equipment - and there I use taxis for the majority of car trips.
Taxachusetts strikes again. Rather than let a shitty industry that already enjoyed monopoly protections, fail and be replaced with something more efficient, let's prop them up with a misguided subsidy/tax scheme.
In theory, yes, but you need to convince all the drivers and customers to install and use that app.

A lone person can create a new twitter and facebook too, it doesn't mean anyone is using it. I'm sure there are lone builders popping up every day. Is anyone using it, is there competition? - no.
The flagging of superswordfish's comment shows that people just abuse the feature.
All of this because they had the nerve to believe multiple, independent women telling them about Jake's behavior and to fire a serial rapist.

Stay classy, tech bros.
You're right except the whole "making more" part.

Once the market is saturated with Uber drivers like has happened in places like London, rates start to go down, and drivers make WAY less than than the used to. Simple supply and demand.

No defense of the medallion system. Maybe the government should "bail out" taxi medallion owners, and simply pay back these medallion costs so that taxi drivers are free to figure out the next step in their careers/lives without the indentured servitude of paying back the medallion loans hanging around their necks.
So is no one using mouse button 4 & 5 for backwards and forwards navigation? I do.
> Not sure it takes fewer drivers to satisfy the demands of customers.

I mean this in the sense that any one taxi driver can satisfy more customers with the use of a ride-hailing app than without.

You're right that ride-hailing apps have increased the demand for taxi rides.
It isn't meant to be "comfortable". That was clear I think from the parent comment. If you want to live long-term on the government money, it might be possible in a group living situation, with pooled resources. But it's meant to be a floor against abject poverty, not a recliner.
There is no "copyright protection" really. It's just the illusion that major players in the music biz and their affiliates are trying to deliver to the crowd. Digital music was, is and will always be pirated, and you have no protection from that. It's just the technology, the internet. As long as you release audio and people can buy it and play at their homes, they can make it digital and transfer online. The second you upload a song to any music platform, and make it downloadable, people can find it, download, and transfer, as you may say, "illegally" and do it any way they want. And there is no magic behind that. If I listen online to a song, its data is being transferred to my computer to be played eventually on my speakers. And that means that one can easily sniff it and store separately. The only way to fix this is to change the way people perceive music online. And Bandcamp has done a lot in that direction. Essentially, they fight "piracy" trying to change the mindset of the listener.
other direction: you can't downvote direct replies to you. You shouldn't see a downvote button on my comment, but on the comment above you.
And how those new apps get traction? They either need VC money or they die.

Facebook and Twitter are not Manhattan projects either, but there's no real competition.

Right now Uber is using the VC money to break or ignore laws and create itself a monopoly.

If we really wanted to disrupt the Taxi business, you need to destroy all the regulation for everyone.

Collecting tax pennies and giving them away does not help, of course.

It does not matter what the right answer is; the playground needs to be equal.