skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've talked to a fair number of former drivers for Lyft/Uber in the Austin TX area. General feeling I've gotten from them is that Lyft was less shitty than Uber, but still not great.
Totally agree with this. Except, I've never liked the KDE look and feel. It's like the worst glossy cartoon ui ever. Yuk. To be fair, I haven't looked at it recently, so the gloss might have been toned down or removed.

But to your point of bug fixing, I absolutely agree. macOS is plagued by this as well, but mot to the degree Linux DE's are.

I've used multiple desktops since the 90's and loved it. macOS has had support for a while, but the animation switching from desktop to desktop was horrendous. I got a utility to fix that, but it's a joke they don't just include a checkbox to toggle the animations. This is one huge UX fail in my mind.
there's also the benefit that MSFT will be pressured to release quicker. even if there is a loss right now, there may be a higher pay off in the future with quicker fixes
It's dirty saying "here's what you're working towards!" if they've already decided the driver doesn't qualify.
I know a lot of people like the Book Depository due to their "free" shipping. They actually adjust their price using geo IP data. VPN's can save you a lot.

Someone made a website to show you the pricing discrepancies per location:

http://www.bookdepository.cheap/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-...
> I love that you're assuming they haven't already released it :)

Ha! I didn't even think about that!

Plus with Microsoft owning them, it's directly integrated as a core feature of Exchange Server. Probably rolled out in the most recent "security update" patch.
What's an outlier? I bet a lot of people feel they're shortchanged by about $10k, and will report that much higher to set a baseline. Outlier sounds more like "AngularJS developer making $250,000 in Cleveland"
We have experienced issues getting sourcemaps support to work in Webpack 2 and had to use Webpack 1 instead. Lack of sourcemaps is a deal killer for us and for any major application IMHO.
Has anyone experienced the same and has this been resolved?
oh please. Not everything in life has an rsquared and a p-value. It's perfectly obvious, when perusing the HN comments and the rest of the internet, that the Macbook Pro has been generally poorly received by high end users, for credible reasons. You don't need a degree in statistics to figure that out.
Discussion here, with an answer! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854821
another wapo article hammering home its anti-government ideology. they think that a public agency can and should act, think, and feel just like a for-profit entity operating in a competitive market. that's nonsense.

calling 18F a 'money loser' is just anarchocapitalist newspeak for missing budget projections. yawn.
In Greece, when most people refer to property taxes they mean a tax called ΕΝΦΙΑ in greek (another user already mentioned it) which is a different tax than the one you mention.

ΕΝΦΙΑ is not restricted by property value (but is defined by it), meaning that even low valued properties have to pay (for houses it ranges from 2,50-16,25 €/sqm) and is a tax that was introduced at first as a "temporary" measure around 2011 or 2012 I think.

The tax you mention above is a different tax that is indeed 0% for property up to €200K. Keep in mind the €200K limit is not per property but for all your properties combined.
No.

But I did get flown to the US (from Australia) for an interview.

It was for a DevRel position at a (quite successful) YC company. I've never done DevRel, but I did have a background in the field. Almost my communications was with the CTO.
It is the broken incentivization killing media companies everywhere.
but you know the CEOs for Microsoft and Apple and you don't even work there. The bigger the company, the more visible the CEO, not less.
Apparently, some readers do think exactly this of all other HN readers...
You are confusing copyright[1] (covers written works, such as source code) with design patents[2] (covers look and feel). If Elementary is infringing on Apple's patents, that would be wrong.

A cursory search of OSX design patents[3] turns up the Dock patent[4]. Whether Elementary infringes the patent is a legal matter (IANAL).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=design+patent+osx&ie=utf-8&o...

[4] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...:
You forgot the "choose 15 inch" on the apple site:

MBP13: 3.02 pounds (1.37 kg)
MBP15: 4.02 pounds (1.83 kg)
XPS15: 4.4 pounds (or 3.9 pounds with smaller battery)

MBP15: 15.5mm 349.3mm 240.7mm
XPS15: 17mm 357mm 235mm

But I agree - if you're wanting maximum portability, go with the smaller 13" device, which is 33% lighter.

But then you may want to compare the XPS13, which is smaller, lighter, newer CPU, has a larger battery (dell mentions 18h, reviewers tested 10h+, but actual battery life comparisons TBD), and is also limited to 16gb.

Yes, different compromises.
You didn't get a point of my message. But I'm not going to keep explaining conversation with a person who is writing to me to stop expressing my own opinion which is backed by some experience, you better keep chatting with your bus driver.
In my experience, 99% of people who talk about the blockchain innovation have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. They also have no idea (or pretend to have no idea) why Bitcoin was invented in the first place: it was invented to avoid the need to ask a permission to send value. That's why a blockchain and proof of work were needed - so people who don't know each other could exchange value on the network safely and without intermediaries. It was not invented to make AML/KYC easier or to make banks richer.

One thing this article and many so called experts don't "get" about the blockchain is that it's pretty useless without the currency, namely Bitcoin. There has to be an incentive for lots of decentralized parties to verify (by spending energy) transactions on the blockchain and agree on the history - that incentive is mining currency that has value. If you "invent" your own blockchain, not many people (if any) are going to mine it, making it de-facto less secure than Bitcoin.

If you have a number of financial institutions (who already trust each other) that need to process transactions, send documents etc. you don't need a blockchain - you need a database and a messaging system. Blockchain is going to be a less effective and more expensive way to do the same job in this case.

Here's a small diagram to help you understand whether you need a blockchain: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn2zMbTWYAAQA6i.png
I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend.

Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense.

There is some residual value in LinkedIn groups, where peers can network for mutual benefit, but these pools of genuine interaction inevitably attract recruiting agents - if indeed they aren't already present as groups admins, happily lurking while candidates posture and parade.

But I'm not about to close my account (if that is even possible). I'm very fond of the growing number of endorsements I've received for Sarcasm and Bubbles.
> 2. Thank the people who never get thanked

I always make a point of telling anyone in IT at whatever company I worked for that I appreciated what they did and knew it was a thankless job.

It's one of those areas where if you do a perfect job no one knows you're there and you're only high-profile when you screw up.

I've found over the years that they'll pay back that kindness ten-fold and often when you're in some sort of gnarly bind where time is critical.
Given the nature of the subject matter I wonder if otherwise scrupulous users may actually click on and follow through with some of those adds.

Sometimes porn doesn't play by the same rules as other markets.
Until everyone start using it.
Ah the classic MVP
Another distinction to make is business vs private users. Unless something has changed recently, Macs are basically unheard of in offices (aside from maybe the receptionist), so if 50% of the market is businesses where there's 0% market share, "how many people use a Mac at the coffee shop" will overstate their overall market share by 50%.
For me it feels a bit different

I can throw $XX at a linux distro, pray that it goes to the right things and gets improved proper, and then wait until it becomes good, or I could throw $XX at a closed source solution, and have something that works good right now.

Its all fine to donate $XX, but buying for $XX to get something significantly worse than its competitors is a bit weird, and can only really be justified through "I support free software even if it has binary blobs", which is still a bit weird
No wonder they are getting smarter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846537
Yeah, makes sense from that perspective. If your payments are based on eyeballs and not clicks or conversions, then absolutely I can see why they try to get around it...
Bad move on Slack, accept your competition and work to stay ahead of the game that you no longer have a monopoly on.
The current title of “Still Don't Get #Blockchain? an Explanation for Five-Year- Old” is rather incorrect anyway. I wouldn’t expect the average five-year-olds to be helped particularly much by this article. Especially when it slings around terms like “P2P” without explanation.
(sincerely) Why Manjaro and not just straight Arch?
The innovation behind a blockchain-based system isn't the ledger or the distributed nature of the thing. It's the incentive structure behind proof-of-work that gives Bitcoins their value.

The non-zero value of the bitcoin network is the reason the blockchain exists, and it's the reason it can be used as a decentralized neutral third party for building apps. The blockchain "killer app" is money (Bitcoin).
When BetterTouchTool forced the switch to a "pay-as-you" want version (they even forcefully expired existing versions of the app, it simply stopped working unless you fork over money), their minimum was 4$ or so, because apparently if it was less, then the payment processing would be too high in relation.

So apparently in the bait-and-switch mentality of the mac world, that you can pay '0 dollars' is not obvious.
How can you write an article on blockchains without using the word "trustless"?
Some CEOs report to a bot:

http://observer.com/2014/05/v-c-firm-names-robot-to-board-of...
LinkedIn Salary appears to be reporting base salaries and total compensation.
Pornhub Bypasses Chrome Ad Blockers with WebSockets.

Firefox request filter APIs do cover websockets for example.
Well, I think they did a reasonable job at finding a compromise (referring back to my comment about an 82% increase in GPU performance, etc.).

But, yes, if they were to offer something like what I referred to as a MacBook Super and get rid of all other offerings besides this "Super" and the current Pro, that would satisfy both users.
Well large sites don't really care if you click - of course that's better - but simply displaying the ad already counts towards the CPM count. Oh and nobody said something about a click having to be intentional. Anyone can click on them by accident, which is easier if they are natively looking embedded.

Also the adblock rates are already quite high [0]. I

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-use...
36" x 18" x 24", say with an actual weight of 20lbs.
Shipped from Los Angeles to NYC via UPS. The dimensional weight is 94 lbs.

Rack rates: Ground: $130, 2nd Day Air: $471, Overnight: $634

Even a discounted rate is $90 for Ground. And, I don't consider 36"x18"x24" to be crazy large. There are lots of online sellers that ship cardboard, packing peanuts, printed signs, home furnishing, cad routers, etc..that would have far larger packages.

Edit: No...most don't pay rack rates, but even with a discount, it's roughly $90 for ground. Also, if you're using a shipping tool, they often don't show the pricing with dimensional weights. Try the UPS website, and enter your account number + package dimensions (not just weight) to see accurate prices that show your discount. Bottom line is that large packages are expensive, discount or not. Also, the "UPS Store" isn't owned by UPS, they are franchises...they actually charge more than UPS rack rates.
Yep, I was hired as a software engineering intern from one of Scribd's Who is Hiring posts (also ended up interviewing at Stripe by contacting them from their post).
Imagine writing drivers in elisp.
You'd be surprised. I'm not sure it's obvious that people on porn sites who install ad blocks aren't interested in porn ads.

Alternatively, there are services that do well to advertise on PornHub that aren't porn: https://blog.eat24.com/how-to-advertise-on-a-porn-website/
That theory has gotten a bit more elaborated these days: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/86/2013047...
Maybe people wouldn't use adblockers if their ads were elegantly integrated with their content (as opposed to opening hidden pages in the background and messing with navigation).

You reap what you sow
Thank you for asking this! I was thinking about what's the best way to ask something like this - I was too negative about the $subject to ask anything without offending people.

I have been watching these for months now - for a long time just out of curiosity and recently because I'm starting to look for a new job.

My own experience is that a single digit percentage of these jobs actually sound like there might be people who can interview for those if one had to check all tick marks on the skills and experience requirements faithfully!

This to me is baffling and discouraging as I typically don't want to bother with jobs I can't check all boxes for even though I am fairly confident I could easily do those jobs!

Anyone who was hired - can you comment on the delta between what the job posting asked for and what you actually had along with how closely what you actually did matched with what was asked for?
It takes time to get the mentality; took me years as well.

The shiny & pretty, especially if you're coming from the shiny & pretty, seems better and you forget to appreciate the things that silently just work in the background.

I've recently switched from the previous elementary (due to bugs and missing features) first to Mint 18 Cinnamon, just to find a lot of bugs there are well ( at least no missing features ), then to XFCE.

I'm slowly building an itch towards where most distros are moving to (being swallowed up by systemd), so XFCE: to get familiar with something that is truly portable, and runs of BSDs as well. xfwm4 + tint2 as panel + synapse as "menu" to be specific, and I'm really happy I did it.

No, it's not as nice as eOS or Gnome Shell; some apps are quite ugly and the terminal windows don't line up when tiled.

But it works. It's fast, it's glitch and bug-free so far; power management flies, and it feels like I got all the good from the good ol' Gnome2 days with updates.

The truth is, tint2 eliminated the need for fancy indicators: it has an executor, with which you can do (nearly) anything, like displaying weather, cpu temperature, fan speed, changing governors with clicks, etc.

So, as I started: it takes a lot of frustration, but eventually, you'll get to the point of install the most simple, most robust thing.
If it stops working it violates the GPL:

Freedom 0: "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose."
We hired our designer through a who's hiring post earlier this year!
> There are a shockingly small number of people who are really capable of being a CEO of a large (or even medium sized company) and doing it well.

How much of this is due to genetics and prenatal environment and how much to education and life experiences? If the former dominates there isn't much we can do for now, but if it's the latter, there's gotta be a massive market for CEO-schools, both public and private.

Personally, I suspect that the limiting factor is social capital--most CEOs get hired because they're known among people connected to the board, and it's hard to get known. I'm not sure what the solution in this case is though, except maybe more residential desegregation by class and ethnicity.
Drinking vinegar is a well known "get slim faster" myth. Nocive at long term.

Vinegar is caustic to tissues, can increase the probability of having dangerous inner bleeding episodes and will damage quickly your tooth enamel if you drink it each day. Some people had died by this practice, still popular among anorectic people because bleeding regularly leads to anaemia and weight lose.
> Why buy a place in the loop if I still have to get in my car for most things I need or places to be?

Because traffic is a total nightmare, because they keep building bigger freeways and making it possible for people to live further and further out. They're exacerbating the problem, not helping it. That road planning is done 100% without zoning too, I might add.

But I agree with your point that doing smarter stuff at the denser core might make it easier to entice people inwards and perhaps start Houston growing up instead of out. What's interesting is that people are actually starting to do that now; suburban houses inside the loop are incredibly expensive so most of the new development goes like:

1. buy a $500k, tiny house for the land

2. tear it down

3. build 4-8 townhomes instead

4. sell each for 200k-300k

It's getting denser, though not fast enough to make traffic any better.
Tried to use Fasten twice.

The first time, I waited 15 minutes when the driver was 3 minutes away, I gave up.

The second time, I got in the car and the driver said he didn't know where I was going and demanded directions. I had put it into the app but not sure why it wasn't passed along.

If Fasten's mission is to "be good to drivers," that's fine. But I thought their mission was to "get passengers to their destinations."

I started using cabs again. So Kitchens+Adler appear to have won that one.
It says Pearl - made me cringe
To clarify this gnomic reply: http://spacemacs.org/ it's sort of a modal emacs with live keybinding display.
I was hired 2 years ago by Angaza to be one of their early engineers. Found the role when I was idly trawling through the massive hiring thread one evening, mildly dissatisfied with my job at the time, but not really actively looking for a new job.

The company's mission was exactly what I was looking for -- a chance to do good in the world with technology. I reached out via email, got a prompt response, and have been here since.

We are still alive, still trying to lift people out of energy poverty, and still hiring. Our entry in the most recent thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12847949
Historically, letters like this don't bode well for the company writing them. People are drawing comparisons to Apple's "Welcome, IBM. Seriously" ad from 1981. Rdio sent one to Apple when Apple Music was launched too.
New MacBook Pro Received Most Online Orders
When I first heard about zero-Ohm resistors I thought it was hilarious.

They do serve a purpose though.
7 rounds?? Does that mean you go in on 7 seperate occasions?
I've come to a conclusion that if you have high standards, you can't look to other people for happiness. Even if I had a dream system for a while, at some point they'd follow a new trend that annoyed me and I'd feel left out again. Or they'd fail to follow a trend, and I'd complain that they'd fallen behind.

I've been orphaned from several platforms. OSX surprised me. It appeared to be the dream commodity unix. But then a release broke my workspace usage.

Eventually, I completely switched to a stripped-down unix. I use a bash menu for controlling things like wireless and screen lock. Tmux/dwm are my window managers, I use whatever the latest browser is.

All this required effort to learn and set up. People who look to the big companies for fashion would sneer at this. But it's a sharp tool, and it'll never be made obsolete by shifting trends.
Why do people seem so adamant that Russia didn't do it when it's very and most likely that they did?
My absolutely boring, "cannot complain of seven year ride", anecdata:

- Late 2009 white plastic MacBook, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 1000 euros, came with OS 10.5 or so.

Earlier this year tossed in 200 euros worth of RAM (8GB) and SSD (500 GB), because Safari was gagging a bit on too many tabs of modern web. Has been updated to the latest macOS at every release, Sierra included, no problem.

- 2008 or so vintage HP-tx laptop, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 700 or so euros on sale in 2009, came with Windows Vista.

Installed Windows 7 pro (BizSpark gift), upgraded to Windows 10 pro, with no problems (except Windows updates being painful in general ;-)
It's not media's fault. Russia is waging open cyber war against west, of course media covers it. I know from reliable source that my country's government IT infrastructure, especially ministry of foreign affair, are being attacked by Russia nearly constantly -- it's even worse that what media says.
The Mindgeek employee arguing[1] against adding WebSocket blocking capabilities to the Chrome API linked in the post is a fun read. Sounds like the ad industry is starting to get a little desperate.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129353...
Stamp duty is a one-off tax in the single digits (or exceptionally, in the very low double digits). This is a 2% tax per year!
Oh, definitely. Open-source software is awesome. I'm just saying it's a shame that they do such awesome work and have to keep it parallel, maintaining a ton of their own software (or suitcase full of patches) with their small team, compared to the GNOME team that has a much larger developer community.
I did a couple years ago. Attack Pattern (http://attackpattern.com/). They are still alive and well, but I ultimately had to find a different job when I decided I wanted to go remote.
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> I'd happily pay $100/y (year being, new versions/etc) for a stable and awesome UI/UX.

The problem is that many people have differing ideas of what the UI/UX would look like.

If you asked me to provide such a thing I'd just use Debian. Others might prefer RedHat, or similar. But copying an existing distribution, and keeping up to date with new versions would be a full-time job in itself, and that wouldn't leave any room for actual development.

The GNOME project, and KDE project for that matter, have spent years creating a unified environment, and even with their funds and developers the project is never-ending.

I wouldn't say a minimal & unified distribution is impossible, but it would require a lot more users to pay, up-front.
5 tips to lower your office space spend, burn and impress investors
Show HN: $ npm i npmusic -g && npmusic
Made a little toy that plays music during npm tasks

$ npm install >> $ npmusic install

$ npmusic -m exciting #play an exciting song

$ npmusic # =play random song

$ npmusic --help for all options

$ npmusic -p <youtube_url/music_path) # play a song at a specific location
To save time, I guess. Elementary OS doesn't hit the mark.
IANAL, but the app prominently displaying "you're this much closer to the bonus" every time the driver uses it would seem to overrule some never-communicated retroactive contract term? If the app can't be relied on for commerce, why should any customer trust it?
Carrot magic
Yeah. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854983