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with voting you also end up with low quality commenters gaming the system, because voting itself is an attempt to gamify culture. One only has to look at Reddit to see how "high visibility" and "high quality" don't often correlate. Sometimes they do, but not always.

Also, with voting, you have meta-debates about voting, people complaining about voting, voting rings and brigading, etc. Voting also presents the problem of earlier posts persisting at the top regardless of their quality.

Of course it's possible to gamify imageboard threads as well since they sort by the last comment, but a purely chronologically sorted thread wouldn't have any such issues.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character
Direct eyewitness/victim testimony is proof, actually.

You can doubt the credibility of that, if you like, but that's up to you; to say there is no proof is a falsehood.

It is interesting that you pay more heed to the notion of a character assassination conspiracy involving multiple credible parties than the simpler explanation that perhaps this well-known liar is also a well-known rapist.

Have you heard of Occam's Razor?
Just to leave it here - use downvoting when the comment is NOT SUITABLE for conversation, not when you disagree with the statement. As long as the statement is nonoffensive, not a lie and not a trolling - do not downvote it.
I have always found music to be extremely helpful. I hated quiet study or reading time in school. I'd seem to hear every shuffle, every pencil drop, every erasure, every whisper. When reading, I'd lose my place and have to start a sentence or paragraph over again. Music helps muchly because it regulates everything to background noise.

I don't do it as much at home because home is quiet with predicable noises, but if the outside is too noisy or the spouse is snoring sporadically, I want the background noise. Coffee shops with murmuring people? Perfect.

Out of necessity I have gotten much better at dealing with this as I've gotten older, though I do notice the difference between the two.
Generally you pay for some kind of permit to be a taxi driver. A quick google suggests in excess of 150KUSD:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/08/05/what-about-taxi...

So they potentially have a lot to lose...
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No, those two aren't proof.

How the fuck is victim testimony proof? "hello I got raped. plant this man in jail. cya"

Same with eyewitnesses. "hello this is my friend. she got raped. plant this man in jail. cya"

Medical reports ARE proof. Where are those?

PS: I believe it's possible he's a rapist, based on his looks and his degenerate behaviour. But to plant someone in jail, you need actual proof. Period. http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/appelbaum,jake/Interesting
It's awesome! It is what I'm looking for!
Ask HN: What lesser known startups are you excited about?
That is horrible from a human understanding perspective
Exciting! Now instead of waiting for the street view car to pass through your neighborhood, you can add the pictures yourself!

I wonder how privacy issues are handled though. Is any blurring of car numbers or faces being done or planned?
Yes and double yes to comments!

Otherwise it's useless as a configuration language
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This comment sounds like you've never worked on any program larger than few
hundreds lines.

All three languages implement the same programming paradigm and neither of
them enforce (or even suggests) any structure whatsoever, so you easily end up
with the same mess/spaghetti, no matter the language.

Of course Perl adds some idioms of its own on top of it, but (a) not that many
as most people like to attribute to Perl, (b) most of the idioms are syntax
sugar, and (c) most of the mess comes from program structure, not from
superficial things like syntax.
Umm, I'm not sure you understood my point. How are they going to earn more? They don't have degrees to fall back on, and the only skill they have is driving taxis. They're going to be replaced by younger people willing to work for less who rely on GPS instead and aren't hampered by needing any training, certification, or medallions. No one is going to hire someone less qualified than a recent graduate, especially one hoping to earn the same (or more as you claim) as before. Do you really see it as a net gain if a taxi driver ends up bagging groceries? Innovation makes education more important because the more menial/automated stuff is already taken.
How do the app taxi buisness work? Are drivers employed by the app-maker or are drivers registered for VAT?
It depends on what kind of programming do you do, to be honest.
I am using an X230 since ~ 10 months, specs maxed (16 GiB RAM, 256 GiB SSD, i5, Intel Graphics Card).

Well, I can:

- run many VMs

- browsing using this monster of RAM named Chromium

- have as many terminals as I wish

- work on frontend projects (React.js, jQuery, Browserify, Webpack)

- work on backend projects (NGINX, uWSGI, Node.js, Gunicorn)

As for the battery, it depends on how do you use it and what do you install on it. I run on i3, and with my average workload, it can survive ~ 3 - 4 hours. A friend can survive ~ 8 hours, but he has different way to work (no Chromium process, etc…).

The key is what do you want to do? Machine learning? Native programming? Mobile programming?

For example, it makes sense to get a Mac to do React Native / iOS development.

But, the other way: it makes sense to get a ThinkPad / UNIX-friendly machine to do Linux kernel development IMHO.

Anyway! Good luck with your hunt! :)
I used to think this, too.

Turns out, there is a really good reason for the lack of comments in JSON.
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Just a quick question !

How would you put ubuntu on it ? I have tried changing the boot partition to GRUB and somehow windows still ends up loading !

like how is that even possible ??
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> Well, social mobility is the change in social status relative to others, which can correlate with income, yes. It also correlates with things like education and skills, type of occupation, etc.

Why do you classify it as social mobility ? Would not economic mobility be a better term considering education and skills are economic goods not social.

> Well, education is expensive -- and has an opportunity cost -- so low-income people often cannot afford to improve their skills and earn more income.

I thought it was not economic inequality but something else. But yes this make sense and its expected/desired of a good economy. This is not preventing.

> If I am poor, and I have enough intelligence to become a good scientist, engineer, or artist, but cannot afford to go to university and gather the requisite skills, then this is a loss to society.

Thats why the concept of loan/investments exist. All you have to is convince them that its net positive for them too.

Also this not loss. This is absence of profit.
> “it would explain basically all the difference between the per capita income of the United States and Somalia”. In other words, without trust — and its vital complement, trustworthiness — there is no prospect of economic development.

Well said. It's the same problem with Bitcoin. While it is cool to think about trustless digital currencies I think what we're seeing over the last 5 years about probably about 20 is establishment of trust in blockchains. It's all a human psychology thing, not about technology. It's not gonna happen overnight. It may also never happen in the same way many countries never have gotten their sh*t together.
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I'd say welcome to China, but let's be realistic. America offers plenty of opportunities to get locked up for 24 hours for breaking selectively enforced laws (protest anything lately?) and then perhaps even worse for resisting arrest.
A driver with criminal record is not the same thing as a bad driver.

In many senses, being able to provide meaningful jobs to people with a criminal record is actually a service to the society. At least in my opinion, the idea of punishment is also rehabilitation, not that once you've been convicted of a crime, you could never be trusted with a job where you are in contact with other people or money or anything.

So if Uber can hire them, and even their customer feedback is positive, that is a good thing.
>They're not our slaves to be forced into productive jobs

Slaves no but being forced in to productive jobs is the whole point of tying income to market demands. A force which effects us all not just taxi drivers.

>The deserve some help

Sure. Financial aid to reskill. Unemployment benefits while they job hunt. Hell, as I said, I'm for a basic income presuming I get to not work alongside the ex-taxi drivers. Help doesn't need to come in the form of specific regulations to allow a minority of people to perform unwanted work in exchange for income.
Uber and Lyft supported the bill because they got a bunch of other stuff they wanted; it seems weird to me that all the sudden I'm seeing a bunch of stories downplaying what seems to be a rather pertinent fact here.
It makes perfect sense to me.

Which to be honest is what matters. However I would imagine that a lot of the problem grokking it is due to not being used to it.
>Uhhh, how about "suck it up and do it anyway"?

A lot of these people are older.

Also, it's gotten to the point that the rate of 'disruption' is too fast for a human lifespan.

It's one thing if horses are replaced by tractors in half a human generation. People can adapt to that and even benefit.

It's another if entire industries are replaced every decade.

Once the rate of change becomes too fast, people simply can't 'suck it up' enough to keep up. There are human limits: physiological and psychological ones.
Do non-refrigerated eggs somehow and magically not take hints of flavour from other things nearby? Or is there something about not refrigerating eggs that allows you to place them away from anything else that has an odour? I find this comment thoroughly confusing.
Did you make this account just to lament that people flagged your comment?
What can you say? They've got good PR folks and well-connected political hires.
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I'd like to reiterate the call for an HN black bar today. I think DA Henderson may be responsible for saving the lives of more people than any other single person who has ever lived. And he did it through science, but also through executing on a plan.
> Cab drivers don't become homeless drifters, they become your next lyft pick up.

Yeah, at significantly lower wages.
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I highly recommend having a couple of reformatting scripts around - its a great way to find logical errors quickly.

Of course don't commit reformats where it diverges from the codebase.
That's what my downvote says without generating meta-discussion or offering a toehold for "I don't care."
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For this analogy to work the ridesharing services would need to give taxi companies a lot more than a nickel a ride.
What does it have to do with Australian Rules Football?
When obsolete industries / models / methods become replaced by something better, the best thing that can happen at a macro level is to have them phased out as smoothly as possible. If that smoothness can also be fast, then you will maximize your economic productivity as well.

So this decision is exactly the opposite of what you want... you are going to prolong the inevitable with a market-distorting subsidy.

It would be much better to tax Uber and require the funds go to taxi cab retraining scholarships, so that people who couldn't make a living driving a cab anymore have another option. Better yet: send them to customer service school, so that they can work as an Uber driver if they wish to do so.
I didn't ask for it, but I love the clues you drop... "TIS-100"? "Xonotic"? My interest is further piqued, now I have to go and research...

Apropos Qt, it is not for the faint of heart: even on platforms it officially supports, it is very hard to build, at least it was last I had to do it professionally, back in 2013. Qt is really unprofessional as a product, I remember it involved a lot of hacking and coercion of the build engine to get it to build. And it's monstrously large.

Post scriptum:

ah, "Xonotic" is a fork of "Nexuiz". Okay, that's clear now.
"TIS-100" is a puzzle game. So these are individual titles, not technology which enables running on a different operating system. "The Ur-Quan Masters" used to build and run superbly on Solaris; it showcased just how good of a gaming platform Solaris could be if the code is good and clean.

lx-brand could be made to work, this screenshot shows it's possible:

https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/whats-new-in-pkgsrc-2013Q2.h...

I haven't researched how to translate that into the lx-branded zone though (what the package equivalents would be), primarily because I viewed even the above as too much work: for example, the desktop would have to be brought over to somewhere with an X server. I don't see how it could be made to start on the bare metal's display when it's running in one of the hypervisor's zones?
I've never heard it described that way.

And like most semitic languages, hieroglyphics mostly record the consonantal skeleton of a word.

There are additional symbols (determinatives) to disambiguate homonyms.
I would not consider some action that has no victims to be a crime, but just going against the law. The law could be wrong itself.

For example, if you see a woman driving in Saudi Arabia, it goes against the law, but is not a crime.

Another example, in the US having a kid drinking wine goes against the law. As a kid in Spain and France I drunk a glass of wine in all meals, like the rest of my family and it is very healthy.

You get used to the rules in your country, but this does not mean that the laws are good. For instance a foreigner going into the US will probably consider barbaric the tradition of circumcising kids when they are born( I thought it myself), but locals rationalize and defend it(like locals in Saudi Arabia do with women driving).

A kid can drive a car but not drink a glass of wine? Utter non sense, but real.
What about adblock, adblock+? Is it possible for it to work as a webapp?
I guess you need to do a boot repair. All you need is the same bootable flash drive and follow instructions online as to how to repair GRUB. This kind is think l thing happens a lot, happened with me too. If the problem persists, contact me, I'll mail the steps.
Some years ago I went on a cruise and they provided a name-brand toothpaste, and iirc a hotel in UK or Europe provided toothpaste on my stay. I was excited each time I received it.

A Sheraton I visited recently provided a packet of shave cream. It smelled of horrible medicine and it didn't protect my face at all during shaving; in fact, I determined over two days that using it had been worse than not at all. Note that I tried with and without mixing it with an appropriate amount of water, but it didn't matter.

I know there is probably a significant cost different to the hotel, but I vote for name-brand toothpaste over horrible shave cream.

As for the rest, they only thing I would want is shampoo. Since the TSA started checking for "insecure" amounts of fluids, I have really started to rely on the shampoo in hotels. I only keep an "insecurely" large bottle of shampoo at home and don't want to waste time and energy putting it into a small bottle to take with me for the matter of a few to several days of use.

BTW, If you're curious about the 100mL TSA rule, read these for their explanation and reasoning:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/liquids-rule

http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/02/more-on-liquid-rules-why-we-do-t...

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/05/3-1-1-liquid-policy-still-in-pla...

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/talk-to-tsa-response-are-liquids...
The card machine probably wasn't broken. A lot of taxis have told me the card machine was broken until I said I would only pay via a card. Then it magically worked again. I assume this is because they pocket some of the cash.
This is one reason why we need basic income, to protect people who get 'innovated' out of work through no real fault of their own. So we don't have to subsidize failing businesses just to protect workers. This is not something that's just going to go away if we bury our heads in the sand.
Do you have any thing to back up this claim? I've kept chickens for 15+ years.

I don't wash, nor refrigerate my eggs. I regularly keep eggs longer than three weeks. There was a whole box i consumed once that was at least 6 months old. Not one egg was bad, although they were "drier" then usual.

Bad eggs are incredibly easy to detect. They don't smell right.
I hate to break it to you, but looks are not correlated in any way with whether or not someone is a rapist.

Multiple, independent women accusing someone of rape is, however.
One type of argumentative comment I don't like to read on Hacker News is the line by line rebuttal. It cherry picks remarks and opens multiple fronts of attack in order to extend the argument.
That is why you would typically create a struct, and then assign the whole struct at once. If you are regularly assigning > 20 variables at the same time, something is wrong with the language you are using.
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Not true. Safari used to support it and it was removed in Safari 6.

I remember when it was removed; I had been an avid user of the shortcut for many years. It hurt at first, but after a bit of getting over the muscle memory, I don't miss it at all now.

To everyone complaining; let it go, our browsers are better off without it.
Don't get me started on the awfulness of csh...
I think you misread

but its not (enough to be comfortable)

as

but its (not enough) to be comfortable
> I don't really understand your point.

The point is the inconsistent enforcement of laws. And you can be assured that if someone was wealthy enough, the laws don't apply to them. I think that's what the author was talking about when he said 25 people who had tested positive for drugs were let go and not held. They were probably connected somehow, or paid a bribe. China is an incredibly corrupt country where bribes are standard practice. (Source: Bribes the Unspoken Rule in China: http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardlevick/2015/01/21/new-dat... and Corruption Index: https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results )

Moreover, their inconsistent enforcement of the law is why they have such a shitty environmental record/problem. China has laws on the books regarding pollution and the environment comparable to that of the U.S believe it or not. But they do not enforce any of them. They don't have the equivalent of the EPA who's sole job it is to go after offenders. Some inspector shows up wanting to see your carbon scrubbers on your exhaust towers? "Oh, I must have forgot your birthday, here's a wad of cash. See you next year." I witnessed something shockingly similar to that happen on a plant tour in 2013. I was dumbfounded and speechless. The plant manager thought it was a big joke.

I have nearly 2 dozen unique stamps in my passport over the last 15 years. China is the only stamp I will never have a duplicate of. I've been to some pretty bad areas and countries and China's wasn't "I fear for my safety bad", well, if I'm being honest it was a little, but I like that. It's exciting. No, it was "Holy crap this culture is complete backwards and toxic." People care very little about their fellow man/neighbor and I was disgusted by it. It seemed like everyone was trying to pull a scam on everyone else. I felt slimy watching it happen.
Well I thought it was an xkcd on british royalty. Unfortunately this sort of titles are quite popular here nowadays, wish the mods would intervene.
For the confused ones (I was!):

This is about writing an app for the Pebble smartwach (https://www.pebble.com) in Python by using the Python to Javascript compiler transcrypt (http://transcrypt.org/).
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Since switching from a cartridge razor to a safety razor a few years ago, I've also switched from using shaving cream to using shaving soap (the use of which seems to go hand in hand with use of safety razors, if only for retro-cultural reasons). While I do not travel with the safety razor because TSA, I do bring the shaving soap (and a boar's hair shaving brush) along with a cartridge razor, in part because it's more convenient (it takes up less space than a travel-sized can of shaving cream).

I've found the standard units of Col. Conk shaving soap, e.g.
http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Col-Conk-Shaving-Soap-Lime-S...
to be good for travel. The plastic container the soap is embedded in can be resealed for travel and you don't have the 'slimy wet cake' problem that I have yet to solve for other forms of soap. Shaving soap is also more economical than shaving cream; much less of it is used per shave, and so a single small unit of shaving soap can last for many months.
No it's not. Lzip is more useful for storing text long term, or send very large text file as email attachments.

Text log file and database dump in text usually generate very large text file, lzip can reduce their size by a factor of 5 to 10, compared to gzips.
Depends on your field. Some math subjects would argue that "assignment" does not exist, because the same name within the same scope always refers to the same value, whether it's known or not.

Within algorithms, I'm most used to "<-" for assignment, for example "i <- i + 1" inside a loop to count iterations.
Again, it's not about punishment, it's about protection. You don't put wire around a chicken coop to punish foxes. You do it to protect chickens.
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You'll be surprised to know how popular speech recognition is among younger people.

Amazon Echo is far from perfect, but it's the perfect example of the rapid improvements in technology + building an interface that "just works"
> "They've been breaking the law," said Larry Meister of the Independent Taxi Operators Association.

If so, then the duty of government is to enforce the law (presumably with fines or prosecution). Imposing a new tax is another matter. It's amusing that a Republican governor supports a new tax of any kind.
The purpose of software is only partially to solve problems, the rest of the purpose is to serve as a liaison between user space and implementation space. Many tools with bad UI forget about that second part, but human factors are hugely important in the success of software.
This sounds easy with the "%" movement in vim. Put the cursor before the opening paren of the subexpression you want to move, "d%", then go to the target and "p".
I have the X1 and its ok I guess, but it has an awful touchpad, short battery life, and I generally think macs are much nicer. But the Air is old at this point and has a terrible screen. If you can't afford a newer model, maybe the XPS is the way to go. I've never used it so I couldn't say.
Like programs for Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Photos, Notes...?
They should tax cars and give the money to horse carriages
I think saying "I" creates clarity. It is a clear fact that I think downvoting for disagreement makes Hacker News better. I do not believe it is not a clear fact that downvoting for disagreement makes Hacker News better...and that's also a clear fact. Framing the issue this way, someone can offer rationales, reasons and examples why I ought to change my mind. But there is nothing there that I am wrong about.
Nope. Same deal. I'd probably pay about $5 more a night in exchange for toothpaste being provided. I'll be on the hunt for Hyatt now that I know it's standard there.
Good point. And the middle class damages itself with their lack of solidarity with the poor and minorities. Because the condition of the poor is the threat which keeps the middle class in line.