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I'm confused, are you suggesting there are places where bus routes change hundreds of times a day?

I can't imagine many reasons a route would have to change on short notice (accident blocking a road?), and in those situations the announcements not quite being right would not be the end of the world.
Incidentally, a strong middle class also keeps the rich from killing the public.
How do you think “income equality” is a good idea in a society where some people work harder than others. I can’t comprehend this common mentality.
Source? I can't find any comparisons online. FLIF is inspired by FFV1, so how can it be worse?
My wife made a Sirpinsky quilt a few years back.

Edit: pic https://www.flickr.com/photos/94816668@N00/2801479427
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Ask HN: When is enough, enough with potential cofounder?
This potential cofounder and I have known each other for 4 years.

We've been actively talking mostly every weekend for 1-2 hours (and sometimes during the week via email) about problems we're both interested in solving for the past 1.5 years.

Over this past yr and a half, we've interated through a ton of problem areas. A few areas we've spoken at length about, and even started working for a few months on a specific idea. Then all of a sudden, I didn't hear from him for 3 weeks, so I emailed him and his response was "I didn't know how to respond, but I don't care for this specific space" - this was probably about 4 months ago now.

We've still been talking since then, but haven't been able to find an area we're both really excited about to begin in.

is the writing on the wall that we're just not mean't to be?

Thanks
I'm talking of allowing apps to mark things (like the WhatsApp data previously mentioned) to only be accessible by itself or some other app(s).

As for FAT, I said in another comment that Google has already imposed MTP on us and Android's adoptable storage uses ext4 anyway, so they could easily require it on all removable storage where application data is stored.
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Into BC? That seems counterintuitive.

I had a friend who worked at the Canadian border in BC a few years back. According to him, the main reason the border exists is to control goods coming from the states so that they can be taxed. A lot of people go south of the border to go shopping and don't accurately declare what they're bringing back.
Sales persons are necessary when continuing growth requires efforts that do not scale as effectively. Marketing and advertising campaigns work sufficiently well for b2c with 1-2 people but you hit a wall if you want to selling to, for example, the Pentagon because the way those with the deepest pockets buy is nothing like how most efficient individuals and organizations buy. Groupon's massive needs for salespeople is an example of how even lower margin b2b even needs sales due to how scaling out b2b is so much less cost-effective. But for investors, landing a huge contract is not as much about the revenue as much as an indicator of stability in terms of both revenue and market signal (no Fortune 100 will buy some random fly-by-night vendor's stuff without code escrow even if it's the best thing ever because their sourcing overhead is so poor and big companies are immensely risk-averse by design).
I'd be pretty happy if wages were proportional to how hard people worked. I.e. the executive working 80-hour weeks gets paid twice as much as the line worker working 40.
From 2009, still relevant: https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/
Solar phones ?
And even that is only a small part of what makes Uber, Uber. If you want to actually compete with Uber, then once you've gotten all those minor details worked out, you're going to have to tackle the real problem which is dealing with 100's of different regulatory frameworks for offering taxi services, being a taxi driver (or a not-taxi driver as the case may be), hiring of private contractors and two dozen or so other entirely non-technical things neither you nor I have considered.
Well, with 2000 engineers I could do it in a weekend :)

Anyway, here's a related link: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-AirBnb-and-Uber-need-so-many-en...

And here another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597232
Probably 18-24 months ago, before adding an ad blocker to my phone, when one got in my way while trying to scroll or the page jumped around during re-render when an ad image loaded and pushed the link I was about to tap out of the way.

Oh, wait, deliberately? 3-5 year ago, I'd guess.

I block ads and thus almost never see them. Even without ad blocking enabled...

A) they're rarely if ever relevant to me
B) I'm too skeptical of advertising in general to believe a word of them
C) when they are about something I'm researching to buy, they pretty much always suggest an item I've already eliminated from consideration for very good reasons
D) I find ads too annoying to be willing to encourage their use by clicking on them

Maybe once every five years I'll see one that piques my curiosity enough that I just have to find out what's behind it.
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> Banking apps/shopping want access to the camera to scan your debit/credit/gift cards, instead of having to type it out.

I forgot about that type of use, which makes the camera usage rate a lot more reasonable.
> They asked you to prove a negative?

At least in principle you might be able to get a court to write a letter saying you haven't been charged.

I was once asked by a Cypriot border guard to prove I couldn't speak Greek. I still can't think of what I could have said/done that would have convinced them. And yes I did ask at the time. And yes it annoyed them that I asked.
IMO the idea of "_____ on the back" is terrible usability. My grandma has an LG something or other with the volume and power buttons on the back, and every time I use it, I have to flip the phone over to see which button I'm pushing. That's fine, I don't use it often. But she uses it every day, and she still does that. Granted she's super old, but phones aren't made exclusively for Millennials. My car has controls behind the steering wheel, but for every control behind the steering wheel there is a control on the dashboard too. Nothing is exclusively hidden out of sight.
heres a youtube link for those interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY
This is a pretty good summary of all the problems with systemd. Of which there are many.
> targeting Win95/98 and WinNT 4.0 - a rare case, that, most games from that era didn't even bother with NT. I still play it regularly, and the amazing part is how it not just works on Win10 machines today, but works amazingly well

These two things are not unrelated. Windows from 2k onwards has been based on the NT line (I remember Windows 7 is internally NT 6.1, I imagine 10 is similar).
Softlayer made my "do not do business with again" list after about 3 years of renting a server from them. I cancelled the server within what I believed (and still believe) to be the time required and they billed me an extra month, refusing to acknowledge the cancellation was timely submitted.

They sit right behind Oracle and Verisign on the "never again" list.
So? They were clearly wrong, as they didn't have the opportunity to see the future.
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In France, the law (Art. R. 4228-10 du Code du travail) imposes one WC and one urinal per 20 male workers, and two WC per 20 female workers. So basically, it expects that up to 1 worker per each 10 workers will be busy with non-job related stuff.

Another datapoint, I heard that an accountant counted that the actual number was 1 for 50.

In any case, when you're alone or a small startup, this doesn't seem much, but when you have 100,000 employees, this means that between 2,000 and 10,000 equivalent employees are all the time in the WC (and being paid for that, basically).

Of course, there are a lot of other overheard that become very significant when you have a big corporation, but that still exist (and that we easily discount) for small startup and individuals.
Categorically yes, like genetically, but phenotypically no. TH are more home-like and more comfortable, even at this early stage in their evolution. RVs can be quite luxurious but in my opinion they are distinctly different to THs.

That can mostly be attributed to the use case:

RV (original intent) usecase was temporary living, moving often, the TH usecase is permanent living, moving rarely.

Compare:

https://i.reddituploads.com/303b76eaa06e495f8381f2bca3cf48f2...

https://i.reddituploads.com/ff4dee466ad34517bf0c1149ac3ba934...

with

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/crjeV4QxGmY/maxresdefault.jpg

http://www.bobhurleyrv.com/console/watermark.php?src=48636&w...

http://images.rvs.com/FOH/1222412/1000x/2016_dutchmen_aeroli...
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Did you try do an LOH Garbage Collection. We have a dot net in memory database, and do a scheduled one every 60 minutes or so.
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One of April Fools' RFCs.
Those 1998 extra staff don't have to make the product 1000x or even 2x better (however you might quantify that). They just have to make it sufficiently better to maintain or gain market share.
Why do AirBnb and Uber need so many engineers?
The top 5% pay over 55% of all Federal taxes.
How many studios or publishers are still in business under the same name? And how many gamers would actually care? Even in the worst days of Ubisoft's "add DRM until it doesn't work for 50% of legitimate users" approach people still bought their games.
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What about skill, responsibility, etc? Also, working hard is not necessarily working on the things that are important. Do not confuse activity with progress. The private sector is much better at allocating capital than the public sector.
Not sure many would believe in literal income equality... suspect where people use that term they mean a mixture of (a) a cooling of executive pay & similar, and (b) structural changes to reduce the cumulative advantage high levels of wealth have in securing future income, e.g. lobbying, tax avoidance, access to education.
My local bus network use M2M Sim's running on the Vodafone network but its basically a virtual private mobile network running on top of Vodafone's network with no connection to the internet.

These connections are in both the busses and the stops. The reason is so the stops can provide real time updates to people at the stops too. If a bus breaks down its no longer tracked on the real time updates so you are not effing and blinding because a the stop said there is a bus due in 5 mins and no bus comes. And if a bus is removed from service unexpected then the information on why can be feed to people waiting for the bus. People are less likely to be pissed that a bus didn't come when expected if they are given a valid reason.

Personally I was hoping they used some form of radio link I could of sniffed with a SDR so I could put a live updating sign in my house. I just scrape the data from their live feed they use to update the tracker on their mobile app/website instead.

Broadcasting out a signal from the stops could need a transmitter that may need to be licensed as the signal would be to be picked up quite a distance from the stop. Also not all the stops in my area are these "real time updating" stops as they are normally put into covered stops (EDIT: Bus Shelters... The correct term wouldn't come to mind while I was typing this.) and some of our stops are just poles in the ground with a sign on them. The busses tracking their own position wouldn't need these stops upgrading to give this information to people on board the bus as the covered stops can be quite a distance between each other and removes any issues if a stop get damaged and stops broadcasting data (say a car crashes into it).

The busses tracking themselves also have benefits that don't visibly benefit passengers. The services back office can monitor busses and spot problems on the network as they happen. Unexpected heavy traffic on a route may trigger the company to skip or stagger a bus (one of my local routes in advertised as being "every 5-10 mins". The real time traffic condition information could also be sold on to other companies (not sure on the value of this data esp for busses that run once an hour or even longer).
I wish it was possible to take the DORA DevOps X-ray Assessmnent for free, before deciding on whether to buy or not to buy the book.
fuhgeddaboudit, Brooklyn.
Income is absolutely not proportional to harder work at all, not sure what is your point.
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Does that include everybody working on autonomous driving and related 'side projects'?
Those bezels though... In later updates they need to have a look at what LG did with the LG G2 and G3.
I searched for GTGACCTTGGGCAAGTTACTTAACCTCTCTGTGCCTCAGTTTCCTCATCTGTAAAATGGGGATAATA and found another post by the same author on another website http://bitfunnel.org/strangeloop/

I've seen some other posts by Dan before but didn't know what kind of things he works on because I generally don't check that because if I did then I'd end up just checking people instead of reading what people were writing. Anyhow, from the article linked above -- for which a video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I -- it turns out that Dan has done quite a bit of work with implementing search related technology, and I think that was interesting. His contributions to BitFunnel can be seen at https://github.com/BitFunnel/BitFunnel/graphs/contributors
Google + finger print scanner = ?
Anyone find the 528 MB C++ file that is referred to in the Twitter screenshot near the end of the article? (With only 57 lines of code but, oh, an array with the first 50M primes hardcoded.) What's that about?
Yes, because our post office is doing great in comparison with its private competition these days.

It is! The US Postal Service is required to operate under rules designed to financially destroy it (never mind that private shipping services often use USPS behind the scenes -- privatization would lower costs by making them, um, do more work and have to invest in more of their own infrastructure), and still manages to to keep working well.

Make UPS or FedEx or DHL operate under even a rough facsimile of things like the USPS pension-funding requirements, and they'd issue you a tracking number for their bankruptcy proceedings.
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2. Social Security has a cap on tax because there is a cap on the payout.
Edit: that said, this does increase inequality because the money put into Social Security does very poorly compared to private sector investing. The six figure salary person can instead invest in something better than social security.
YC alumni are in all those cities and YC only requires relocation for the 3 months of the program. So YC is already global.
The author of this blogpost is publicly insulting David Strauss (the systemd contributor to whom he responds) on twitter:
https://twitter.com/__agwa/status/782643469034528769
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You can do this with a RPi and a RFID reader. Every station would have a tag, when bus stops tag is read and your script just announces the station.
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I live in the moment! Enjoy and cherish those magical times when the work is right, the team is right, and you're having fun. Don't let the stupid stuff bother you.

You can rebuild teams like that, find those projects, etc.. but it feels like an eternity when you've had it and then don't have it for a while.
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I couldn't comment on the Surface tables but I think that Google were doing alright with the Nexus devices. Now it feels like they're keeping stuff away from manufacturers.
Recovery of civilization by 2040?

What is this boundless optimism? :-)
I'm talking purely for server/console myself. I've had a lot of crashes, bugs and missing features (most notably being unable to change the code style).
maybe you can model or simulate somehow?
Atlassian's 'b2b without salespeople' approach has worked well for them.
What special announces? Either the bus driver does it or it's one that's used frequently (like 'Please move down inside the bus'), in which case there is a button for it.
Can't stand it on servers. It takes an absurd amount of effort to just get a deterministic non-parallel service initiation. And the whole "systemctl start foo.service && systemctl status foo.service" bit to make sure it actually started is such a regression it's mind-boggling. Plus it hates the fact that I use a static /dev tree (that's the only way I've found to do it on a server while keeping my sanity).

On my laptop, it's fine, I guess, though even there I aesthetically dislike parallel service initiation; I'm glad Jessie still lets you replace it with a real init system, though I wish epoch [1] were packaged.

[1] http://universe2.us/epoch.html
No, phones aren't made exclusively for millenials.

But this one _could_ be made for one market, and other people could buy a _different_ phone that was made for a different market...
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the fingerprint scanner on the back is actually incredibly useful, at best it is placed just where you would put your finger whilst holding the phone in normal use, at worst you tap your finger and move it to the more comfortable position. I agree that any other buttons on the back are not useful but having had this feature on my phone for a few weeks now I would hate to go back to always needing to pin unlock it.
You couldn't.

No way you can delegate work to 2k engineers and tell them what to do for next 2 days. Physically impossible.
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Also, it's often the case that it's better to buy a tool and integrate it into the company than build from scratch. It's especially true with a small team. It's not the most romantic idea and sometimes engineers feel that they could build the solution themselves in a weekend.
So true; I agree 100%!
It is not an automatic preference for in-house solutions, but just not being aware of how to take advantage of known UI patterns on the web. The problem is I have no slogan or buzzword to hang this concept on like "RESTful" or "big data".
For example, ISPs are not able to crawl your traffic if it's via HTTPS. I've worked on data sets gathered by major ISPs and it's scary how much they know about their users (especially if they also have a mobile phone with the same company). ISPs use such intelligence for personalised marketing (either for their own product catalogue or 3rd parties)
You generally want to make the announcement before the bus stops so that people can be ready to get off when the bus stops. Also buses don't always stop at every station on it's route so have to deal with what happens when stop is skipped.
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I have heard this Jobs bashing quite a few times and it has always left me confused. Here is what I know. Before iPhone I had a n-something phone from Nokia that in principle was a phone sized laptop. Yet, I never browsed on it unless I had to. There were some pointless apps, some "productivity" apps and some Uber technical apps none of which I would use because there was no user base. Ie.. no point looking at maps for restaurants, since it was an alphabetical list. Using browser to google something was a pain with the tedious UI. I could go on..
I am no apple fanboy. Never had an iPhone after version 2 or so. But let's give credit where it is due. Design is not just about form. It is also about usability. iPhone made the phone form factor usable for the masses. Sometimes the innovation is flawless execution.
A note of agreement:

The money is a symptom. Even if your current employer counteroffers, the fact that you got them to cough up the extra dough doesn't change the fact that they didn't value you enough to retain you with it in the first place.

If money/title/growth/etc. are important, and you've made it clear to your manager sufficiently, and they still don't act: go. The counteroffer won't change the underlying dynamic, and its other symptoms will continue to manifest.
I'm pretty sure uber doesn't do any of that locations or traffic routing stuff you mentioned. When I take uber the driver just has their favorite app if Waze, Google or Apple Maps for the actual routing or directions.
Again: git as some sort of Platonic ideal of an implementation of a DAG I don't care to argue about. But git's default user interface I will argue about until I'm out of breath, then keep arguing about.

Nothing in that interface is designed to aid in learning. Nothing in it is designed so that mastering one task provides discoverability or intuitability of how to perform another task. It is a complex mess of inconsistencies, discontinuities and obscurities which point more to a lack of design or even of someone with authority to perform design than to anything else. It can only be "mastered" through rote memorization, and bears no necessary or useful relationship to the underlying data models and structures whatsoever.
Why are all these think tanks named with such patriotic and nation building like names. It makes you look at it even more suspiciously, whatever they say.
one of the arguments against systemd is that it consolidates several scriptable and bug-prone isolated scripts into a binary. This is introducing it's own risks that require upstream interaction to fix a small issue normally a sysadmin without knowledge of C can hot-fix locally. Considering the non existence of a systemd developer community, it's pretty risky.

There are similar arguments (pro/against) docker where 2 camps, one saying it's poison & bloat the other the best thing since tabbed browsing.

People get so riled up because they're unwilling to acknowledge that they're just tools that make lot sense for solving specific issues. Everyone keeps looking for silver bullets. Problems start when one camp tries to become the de-facto standard (not just the tool but also the processes that come with it). Also people are way to scared of code-forks IMHO. The "fail quick, fail fast" mentality should apply here too. Some healthy competition and a willingness to let certain projects just wither and die should be a good thing ...
> skill

Only to the extent that its the product of effort rather than innate factors.
The |vouch| link next to dead comments allows people with sufficient karma to correct what they feel is unjust.

The |contact| link at the bottom of most pages allows anyone to bring issues to the attention of Hacker News moderators. They tend to be responsive.
gitless looks pretty nice, and I'll be installing and using it on my work PC tomorrow to see how I get along the rest of the week with it. I'm curious to see how the experiment goes.
On the way to EU, no problem at all. Entering CH, depends on your plates, they check these first. When with Swiss plates, you have much better chances of hassle-free slide.

Once I was stopped, checked thoroughly for about 40 minutes, in the middle of the night. They did some sort of exercise on me, taking away all my money, put them into envelope, then returning back and so on. Went through whole car, backpack, everything. Not a nice experience
prejudicial is absolutely a word in English. look it up