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If the manager can't tell that the customers are having a bad time they have no business running a restaurant. IME in the best places the manager comes to the table at the end (after entree is served or pre-bill) and ask whether you're having a good time / experience / meal / etc.

At any rate, I've not heard of tips being collated by the manager, and the employees with the smallest tips fired/disciplined... but perhaps it does happen? Unless that's the case IMO customers aren't assessing performance in a meaningful way.

> But if getting any tip at all depends on the quality of service

In the US it does not, service has to be DIRE to get 0.
Cool place: rather than have the animals in cages, you drive through the park in your car.

We drove down there once from Eugene, and my parents' crappy VW bus, which was always breaking down, broke down right in the middle of the lion area. Luckily, they are equipped for these things and they towed us out.
I've noticed the same thing with my T530. The Windows drivers for the Thinkpad also don't let you set the middle trackpoint button to middle-click. There was a way to get it to work by editing the registry, but that's stopped working in recent versions too. I don't understand why Lenovo keeps putting out user-hostile driver updates for Windows. I don't see how it benefits Lenovo, so I guess it's just total incompetence.

And yeah, just like you, I find the default behavior under both Fedora and Ubuntu to be perfect.
I don't see a contradiction here. Reusable launchers bring stuff in from Earth. They are just relieved from doing water tanker missions. But, if there's need, they can definitely bring in some water, too.

A partly self-replenishing Moon base is going to be cheaper to run than the ISS that depends on constant resupply from Earth.
I have a public calendar where I mark time when I'm busy and nobody should interrupt me. During such period I turn off emails, skype, messengers, everything.

The only exception is something critical. If somebody come and ask a question, I tell like "I will answer in 1 hour, is it ok?". In 99.9% of cases the answer is YES
The TSA has to justify its obscene budget and perpetual scandal.

Their justification is that they stop hundreds of bits of contraband (of which they control the definition) daily in the ongoing war on terror.
I was facing the same dilemma, and photo is a source of income to me. I made the jump, use Linux and Darktable every day, and experienced no frustration at all. I didn't try to run macOS in a vm though.

To answer your questions : it is quick, and I find it to be a very good replacement for lightroom. To me, it's actually easier to extend than adobe software, mostly because Lua is very simple and the documentation is crystal clear.

The best advice I could give here would be to give yourself a good dozen of hours of deliberate practice on Darktable, maybe more if you're into very advanced editing, but no more than a week.
It's not that hard, and doesn't vary from state to state. I agree, we would be better off if we did away with it, but it's very easy to understand.

Whenever you eat in a sit-down, full service restaurant, you typically want to leave 15-20% of the full purchase price of the food as a tip. Don't feel obligated to do this at fast food restaurants or anywhere where you get the food at the counter. It's not that hard to remember this, but I agree, it can create some socially awkward circumstances, especially for tourists who "forget" about the custom.
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I love how the receiving end's security works as well. You stuff everybody into a big room, hot, humid, badly ventilated (presumably that was the local climate, but still). You mix everyone from everywhere, and make them wait in line for hours, VERY close to one another. Breathing on eachother. Some passengers obviously ill, coughing and sneezing. You make everyone stand around like this for hours.

The video playing ? "we are working so you won't get hit by diseases"

There must be some real sadists working at government airport regulators.
> Thankfully I do think security personnel would not just immediately abandon their posts in the US when something like this happens.

I hope you don't mean the unarmed minimally trained TSA staff that earn next to minimum wage. I highly doubt they'll protect you over themselves. Hell, many of them are obese (this is America) and physically unable to engage in such a scenario.
Yup. Once we had to start pooling our tips, you better be getting a minimum of 10%, or you'd get crappy shifts. 15% was expected, and to be a star waiter, 20%+ was the goal. This was partly to weed out the underperformers, but also to limit underreporting of tips by waiters. No one liked pooling, so they'd surreptitiously pocket a few tips.
He's not. Those two are really the only AQ tied incidents since 9/11 and they waltzed right past the TSA.
It is funny how HN comes across as both pro basic income and anti government jobs programs.
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And now you get to hand over biometrics to them for the privilege. It's a win-win-win!
And, to pick another lone wolf, which lists might Brevik be on if he were at-large today?
I can tell you that there's a lot of overlap.
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I disagree with the conclusion since the premise (tipped wages make for unstable work) is exactly what the restaurant owners are complaining about, and many servers do as well. As others replied, the high payout often overshadows the rainy days for those servers lucky enough to get a killer night of tips. They remember that because it's an actual event as opposed to the night the spent not earning money while looking at their phone. In the long term it's unsustainable and it is more of a problem for restaurant owners than most want to admit.

There will be holdouts no doubt but overall the rest of the world has no lack of people willing to wait tables. They just get a steady pay check out of it instead of hoping for hours.
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The way I heard it, the TSA was created by an accenture proposal. GWB's administration told the airline companies they needed to step up security for people admitted into airports, in response to 9/11. The airlines used the aforementioned proposal to suggest that instead of the airlines paying for individual security, the government do so for everyone, standardized, and pay for it as well. For god knows what reason, the government agreed.

The end result, is the airlines have no desire to improve the process. If you get angry at the security theatre, you think to blame the government, not the airline. The government and DHS has no desire to improve the process, they just want to keep costs down, while simultaneously making sure they are publicly notable to justify their existence.

Want to fix it? What if we: made the airlines pay for and run their own security. And make the DHS audit those security practices, instead of implementing them. Just one of many possible ideas.
I've started doing literate programming these past two months, and I have to say that I believe this statement less and less.
except when you want fast prepending.
MF is a pay-to-post site, so it is skewed towards people who will pay. It's the same as those small elite colleges where people will study something impractical for an exhorbitant fee. You would
only pay if you agreed with whatever the orthodoxy is. And it becomes self-selecting, and self-perpetuating. The people on MF are the sort of people who would say "OMG I can't believe anyone voted for Trump, because nobody I know did"
With batteries the size Tesla has, you really want to take a break after several hours of driving anyway. So the supercharger time adds only little delay to your travel.
This is just a quick experiment where I tried generating clouds using vector graphics.
So much of this list was about conservation and environmental issues that it was almost frustrating to filter it out.

I have nothing against these topics, but when you dominate your list with one theme and don't address that theme in the lede, I reflexively assume the author is attempting to pull the wool over my eyes. There is almost certainly some sampling bias going on, at least.
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>If developers aren't going to change things given such a runway, would adding default deprecation warnings really make such a difference?

I think many developers don't pay attention to these things. If it compiles - they've turned off the warnings - then it's fine. What's needed is the use of a "--use-deprecated-features" flag in order for the code to run/compile successfully. People pay attention when they need to change the build script in order to keep doing it wrong. Sure, they'll keep doing it wrong, but now they'll know it's serious.
I seriously got very annoyed at most places I went to eat during my trip to the US last year.

Having good service is not coming every 5 minutes ask if I'm all right, if I need something, if this or that. Leave me alone, I want to eat and enjoy, not have to reply a waiter eager for a tip.

Also the whole vibe is very "fake", I never felt really "welcomed" in any of the places I went to, the greetings, the whole attitude looked like a sham, I went to upscale places and just normal diners and it was all the same.

I'm sorry but I don't think this is healthy as a society, I prefer the level of service I had in São Paulo or here in Stockholm, waiters are genuinely nice or just get out of your way and let you enjoy the experience or just your food.

Tipping culture looks like whoring: if you pay enough anyone can be nice to you, I'm sorry but I don't like to know that the niceness is artificial and that I'm paying for it.
Yes, but eventually the subsidy will run out and companies will turn a profit or stop operating. Or maybe the investors will never stop the subsidy. That's fine, too.
I'd guess the parent has a "weird" last name. My significant other appears "white" but has an Arabic last name and is frequently asked these kinds of questions.
>> That said, who says "the worker's salary is a employer's responsibility?"

Why would it not be? The employer pays the employee for their labor. The exception is with tipping, in which the employer passes most of the paying responsibility to the customer.
Sure, we can filter it out, but the real question is, “when will Google take care of referral spam?”. Referral spam has been plaguing Google Analytics for a few years now.

For some websites (with less than 100 visitors a day) it’s gotten so bad that it’s almost making Google Analytics completely useless now.
Was thinking the same thing. Businesses are saying let's milk the elearning space with subscriptions. No visibility into the projects or anything. Tap on a subscription and you are immediately presented with a $100 add on for a soldering iron some clips, and $20 worth of goods.

Nope.
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> 32. Homelessness in the United States declined by 35% since 2007, and Los Angeles committed to $1.2 billion to help get more people off the street.

You mean the same city which destroyed DIY small houses on wheels made by volunteers for homeless people and left them nothing to endure the cold winter months ? http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/12/09/los-angeles-homeless-t...

That's not a great policy to highlight in 2016. And that's just one point, I'm sure the whole list is filled with false-positive news.
That's only doing the math on the instantaneous flow rate down the nozzle/plug. Pulling into the station, waiting in line, hitting the rest room and paying the bill need to be included too to get a relative penalty.

Also: if that 33kWh/gallon number is a heat of combustion (I'm too lazy to convert to real units or look it up myself) the efficiency gains of an electric motor vs. an internal combustion engine is significantly higher than 3x, I believe.
I'm including things like annual equity vesting in bonus. This is not uncommon for senior individual contributor positions in high paying tech and finance companies. It's also not uncommon for sales and senior management roles in all industries.
So am I, obviously.
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The ones who idley stood by while that guy attacked people with a machete last year?

To be fair they don't even have non-lethal armaments, but it does again point to how useless the operation is in the face of a person who isn't just mad because their flight is delayed.
Why was parent downvoted? I'm seeing the same (503)...
This sounds like a program that was designed to fail so they could say that they tried. I don't see a ~400mi charge from zero ever happening in the sub-10 minute range. A swap is the only way to do that without a major technological breakthrough. Swaps have their own logistical problems, but swapping battery packs is the best solution for cars, phones and anything that needs a battery that can be easily swapped.
He found vulnerabilities in (very old) third-party software written in Perl (that's the 1%) then did nothing but lie and attribute them to the language while demonstrating his (accidental or willful) lack of understanding of the language. His code slides often aren't even valid Perl, which is an achievement in itself.
I've not read this second one yet but the first was very good:

http://prole.info/

Abolish restaurants. Might be interesting to you to give it a chance.

I was thinking the other day that the 1800 world of servants living upstairs/downstairs has been replaced by privatised slaves who have no job security, no guarantee of lodging and nothing other than temporary masters. The situation we have right now is demeaning, these people have little choice.

No doubt someone will tell me if we kill these businesses people will have no jobs, but I want a more radical reform than this.
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I personally don't buy into pre-check because I know how artificial scarcity works. It's not about being safer, it's about inconveniencing those that don't want to wait in the "slow line" enough to make them pay for it.
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No-tipping trends are starting to reverse now, however: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/why-rest...

Upscale and some midscale restaurants in NYC have seen a drop in demand since no-tipping policies have been applied. Its not clear if this is purely a product of pricing psychology, or if service quality at the upscale end starts to suffer with service staff having less incentive to provide top-notch service.
Valuation is misleading. The later investors likely have enough clauses to protect their capital that they're not thinking of the investment the way a public investor thinks about buying a share. I think you're right that the valuation will become a lower market capitalization if/when they go public.
Or, the existence of a functioning dam is of benefit to ISIS so they are less likely to destroy it (causing a catastrophe) than they would be if electrical supplies were cut off (?).
It's stated here: http://www.taz.de/Der-Fall-Jacob-Appelbaum/!5361578/

No party should get the chance to defend their position.
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I too am shackled to LR and OSX. I've tried DT a few times, but it just does not quite hit the ease of use of my current LR workflow. Plus, I do not want to recreate/buy the filter packs I have made/bought. I also do not want to lose years of edits across thousands of pictures.
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Google Analytics already filters out fair amount of bot traffic from Google Analytics (compare your server log files with GA traffic and you'll see what I mean). Why they haven't tackled this problem is a mystery.
Yup, it is built in to the SDKs. When I did some work with google drive[0], I had to implement it myself (not that it is that complicated, just that it is one more thing that I'd prefer a SDK handle for me).

[0]: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1450
Wow you weren't kidding.

> It may be better to go help out some other free software project that already had the misfortune of working on that platform...

I understand their points about maintenance, but telling someone to go work on something else rather than keeping an experimental branch around, sheesh.

As someone who appreciates open source and works primarily on Windows I really wish they had a better attitude. Take a look at Rust or Elixir, fantastic communities and the software is better for it. I'm sure that Darktable has some interesting things but based on what I saw in that thread I think I'll be sticking to Lightroom.
There are many strategies to deal with that efficiently. Eg. negative indices (having memory before index 0), append-and-reverse.

You can also map memory before an existing mapping, but it's a bit system-and-platform dependent. (But an entirely feasible thing to do).

Naively you can also grow-and-shift or copy ... the first one is actually incredibly fast due to perfect locality, and also very simple to implement. It's still, technically, O(n^2) when building a list, so it's usually a better idea to go for append-and-reverse (which works outside the actual list implementation). Normally that's not a problem at all, and often no reversal has to be materialized.
For long distance travel, one would install some more superchargers than fuel pumps. In day to day driving recharging should not be an issue at all, as it should happen over night anyway, you start with a filled up car every morning.
Let's be real here. The reason these stories are popping up is that the restaurant industry is getting squeezed, hard, by supermarkets that are moving towards prepared foods as online delivery starts to nip at their business.

Restauranteurs at mid priced places want to capture more value. No tipping means that the waitress currently pulling in $20-30/hr makes $15, and they pocket the difference through higher prices and shrink-ray.

All of these ethical arguments, armchair economic dissertations and tales of tipping PTSD woe are nonsense. It's all about dollars and cents for yet another dying industry.
Mexico all inclusive vs Thailand. Anyone that has been to these two places would have to agree that tipping directly correlates to the quality of service. This is why I'm going back to Mexico for the 9th time in 4 years.
It's almost as if different people have different opinions. If anything, that's a great reason to read HN :)
But it's always "grow or die"
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> I didn't know Wayland now supports displays/controls over TCP?

Ah, yeah. The design of Wayland is such that compositors have to implement it -- because Wayland doesn't know enough about the state of the desktop to be able to efficiently relay the information (it would be like VNC).
Nearly everything in the U.S. is on a truck at some point in its transit. Most companies that make those items don't own their own trucks.

Of the roughly 3 million trucks on the road, 10% are owner operators (a person who owns his or her own truck and drives it).

Those owner operators mostly drive around the country like chickens with their heads cut off trying to source loads to transport. The owner operators will work with freight brokers (middle men) who either scour load boards or have relationships with companies that need things shipped. Some of the owner operators have a significant other at home who does the sourcing of loads for them. Deadheading, driving to or from somewhere without a paid load, kills these drivers. These drivers make on average $50+k per year.

The pre-Uber taxi scene looked a lot like this national truck load scene does today. I imagine that's why Uber sees opportunity here. In the taxi scenario you have the supply (taxis) and demand (passengers). In the freight scene they'd have to link up the supply (owner operators) and demand (any company that has truck loads of freight to ship).

Disclaimer: this is a simplification of logistics, ignores 'less than load' freight, multi-modal, and fleet operations.

Source: I founded and ran a freight logistics startup in the 2000's. Developed a web app to try and do what I said Uber could above. It was designed poorly from an empathy standpoint of both parties and most importantly it was pre-iPhone/apps. We were a successful brokerage/consultancy but failed as a startup.
Also, tipping culture is almost like sales commissions. When I waited tables, if I sold a bottle of wine, that could add $50-100 to the bill; I would pocket $10-$20 more per table. That's a helluva incentive.
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I do not know but I do want to reach friends and family as quickly as possible so that we can all spend time on our tablets and phones at same place.
> The implication is that... they're also screwing their employees by keeping 40% of it for the owner...

Probably not. In the restaurant I worked at was customary for the waiters to tip the kitchen and support staff. Owners were not tipped.
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More like 36 kWh. Average mpg of new cars is 25.5 mpg (.71 mi/kWh) while Teslas get 3.2-3.8 mi/kWh so the efficiency ratio is closer to 5x. With 4 gallons/minute, that's 7.2 kWh per gallon/1.73 MW. In the US pumps reach up to 10 gallons/minute so 4.3 MW and 17.3 MW for truck-filling pumps. Not all pumps hit 10 gallons/minute though.

2 or 3 MW would charging power would require a really specialized battery and will probably never be worth it. The real advantage of an electric car is letting it charge overnight and adding some extra time over long journeys isn't a big inconvenience- its less time than unexpected traffic would take up. Plus the time is overall made up for by never having to fill up if you come home to charge overnight once a week. Same thing applies to trucks. An hour-long fill up once a week gets replaced by nightly charging.
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The project is to learn experiential context of addictive tendencies and active addictions. It collects labels of substances or behaviors (ie. #sugar or #shopping) and labels of experiences hoped for (ie. #energy, #relax) and disturbing ones (ie. #sadness, #loneliness).

The project was quite successful in Polish and the results are interesting (https://mikolajczyz.pl/ogolne/wstepne-wyniki-badania-wizuali... or https://mikolajczyz.pl/ogolne/uzaleznienia-wyniki-badania/).
FWIW, Munich is just as bad as major American airports, or at least it was this past September.

Edinburg and Dublin both seem to be doing it well. Minimal hassle. Plus, the US "border" check in Dublin is smoother than (non-pre-screened) checks at IAD.
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The titular poem is so quintessentially Neruda. Thanks for sharing this article.