skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have in a lot of markets, like Denmark and Spain.

Taxi companies are not these monolithic nimble entities, and have multiple parties involved with any transaction - actual driver (independent contractor "renting" the vehicle"), medallion owner, vehicle owner, dispatch service. None have a very strong incentive to differentiate or enough financial resources to break from the pack.
It's very common at all dealerships. My dad worked at a Toyota dealership for 20+ years. He still takes his cars there for service. They frequently overfill them with oil because they don't take the time to let the crankcase drain fully. I worked for a guy who took his vehicles in to the same dealer for service and the Toyota shop forgot to put his drain plug back in then drove his truck around the lot and told him it was good to go. Luckily he did his own inspection because the crankcase was completely empty.

I was in the waiting room of another Toyota dealership and the service writer told a woman that her scheduled service would cost $500.00 because her drain plug was stripped out and she needed a new oil pan. She insisted that the car had always been serviced at that Toyota dealer and they told her they could not verify that and the part is not covered under warranty because it is a "wear part".

The incentive structure at a dealer service department is the exact opposite of favorable to the customer. Dealers are incentivized to perform the maximum number of warranty services so as long as they don't run afoul of the manufacturers expectation of warranty costs they are rewarded for excessive repairs. The excessive repairs are passed on to new customers in the form of less standard equipment and increased sticker prices so as long as sales are at an acceptable level manufacturers have no incentive to call the dealers on it.

When out of warranty cars come in the customer is treated as a blank check to be bled dry because most people won't question the repairs if the price seems reasonable.

e: I forgot about the time that same Toyota dealer that left out the drain plug over-torqued my lug nuts so severely that they warped the brake rotors. I noticed the pulsing in the brakes and pulled the wheels off to replace the rotors and the studs snapped off with my hand wrench! They were so tight that the threads were visibly stretched.

Oh and when I worked there as a lot attendant in high school a tech replaced a radiator but didn't reattach the fan shroud so when I started the vehicle the whole fan/shroud assembly exploded and destroyed the radiator.
who cares about any of this? it will have 0 real world impact on Uber just as the starbucks boycott will have 0 real world impact on starbucks... just more hysteria
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No.

There are a lot of "if"s in this discussion. Trump has only thus far fulfilled some of his campaign promises. We're discussing potential outcomes if he were to exceed his authority and refuse to yield to the rule of law. I don't believe that will happen.
Wow, people who engage in hashtag activism don't pay attention to facts? Stop the presses!
Nonsense. Any lawyer fired for obeying an illegal order would end up pretty much owning the company that fired them. The duty of lawyers is to the law first, and their employer second. An EO is not a law.
It's not really new...Richard Hofstadter won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for Anti-intellectualism in American Life wherein he argued that it was fundamentally embedded into the American character due to the democratization of education and our evangelical Protestant heritage.
Which is one of many reasons why we are not governed by the private sector.
... are you seriously too lazy to do ctrl+t->'canned food endocrine disruptors'->enter ?

And don't use the argument that the onus is on me for giving more links. If googling it is too much effort for you, how can you expect me to do it for you..?
I always ask that because I find it correlates with their personality
Tim Cook also said that it is better to have a seat at the table than the alternative.
She signed an oath to defend the constitution, not an oath of loyalty to Trump.
It sounds incredible, but this may be the first case of a gov "worker" who gets fired for refusing to work.

Good riddance!
You missed the most important aspect of that scene in fight club: "If the profits are larger than the costs of expected settlements and fines". That means you just need to either the chances of being caught or the fines – preferably the first because low chances of being caught just invite delusional thinking ("I'm smarter than others") and people are pretty bad with evaluating probabilities not close to 0 or 1.
Factually, it did have legal review, as she called out in her own letter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3dOVzFXAAIGOlW.jpg

It's obvious this was a stunt and she fully expected to be fired.
Yellow Cab San Francisco has the YoTaxi app. (I heard about it during one of the few recent times that I took a cab instead of Uber/Lyft since my phone was dead and they advertised it on the back of the passenger seat)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yotaxi/id1046974371?mt=8
> non-male

In what way are the genitals of a programming blog author relevant?
It's a matter for the judiciary to determine exactly whether an obscure law is contradicted or not and whether that law supersedes the President's authority to issue EOs to the contrary. Not the AG's role, especially since the matter at hand is not prosecutorial discretion but merely the DoJ's ability to prepare a fair legal defense for President Trump's order. Why should a judge not be able to hear what the DoJ can trudge up? Would the hearing be fair if Ms. Yates' rule was allowed to stand?

No one denies that President Trump's order is more restrictive, nor that it's inconvenient for the people whose travel plans have been temporarily disrupted. The point is that Trump did not pull this out of thin air. The countries had been previously identified as potential sources of malicious actors. It seems perfectly sensible for a new administration with a significantly different perspective to temporarily suspend travel to/from such high-risk blocks while the vetting procedures are evaluated.
Worth noting that 3 collective entities "broke" the strike.

1) Uber drivers by responding to pickups.

2) Uber customers by requesting those pickups.

3) Uber the company by facilitating those pickups.

I am not sure we can claim high moral ground and label (3) immoral while staying oblivious to (1) and (2).
And I bet if a reimbursement program were put into place, most of it would mysteriously not go to the cabbies themselves.
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I think WebAssembly is really going to shake things up here in the next few years.
> I'd just like the freedom to edit with whatever tool I wish to use.

How should whatever tool you're using handle the case when another person is editing the document at the same time as you?
But Uber drivers in New York were free to strike if they wanted, no? Did uber threaten to fire anyone who didn't drive during the strike?
Which explains why Google Wave is no longer with us.
When has this strategy ever worked? This is not how you appease or bring about change.
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I have a 2011 Toyota Yaris I've been pretty happy with it. I went from a four door 1.6L engine car (2002 Kia Rio) to the three door 1.4L Yaris. At the time I purchased the Yaris I was 50/50 toss between it and a Mazda 3. I ended up getting offered a good deal of the Toyota so went with it, no regrets since then.

I'm single and live in the city so fuel economy and ease of parking trumps everything else for me.
Crudely put, but accurate. It shows the emptiness of this seriously versus literally sophistry. The more norms he breaks, the more certain segments of his base eat it up, seriously, literally, or other.
I agree that ultimately the forum reflects the joint will of both YC the company and its users. For instance, a bird-watching forum might have a a strict ban on anything not related to birds, while the YC ban on politics is softer.

What I don't like at all is people abusing flagging. You can flag any new article with ~4 votes, so less than a handful of active users can shape what we end up discussing.
I would like to see Big Data used to improve everyone's lives. I think of McDonalds in Denmark - Government supported Union actions forced them to pay a living wage ($20/hr), offer decent shifts, have 6 weeks vacation, and confirm to Danish working conditions. A follow-up study showed, if I recall the numbers correctly, 3% fewer McDonalds in the country, 18% less profit to the wealthy owners, and much higher quality of life for the workers. I'd like to see Big Data used to look for similar "policy wins" which benefit our society as a whole (while having essentially no impact on those who already have enough wealth to have a high quality life.)
> > The major worry for me is Trump's seeking to punish anyone who shows disloyalty.

> It's the entire reason there are 2 other branches of government.

You have DHS officials refusing to obey a court order[0] and the White House refusing to share information with Congress[1]. Where are the checks and balances?

0. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/customs-bord...

1. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317006-rubio-state-asked-...
This EO is certainly unpopular, but it is hardly clear (yet) that it's illegal. Even the NYT does not make that claim.
Yesterday I built a 100M user social network using Jabberwocky. It took me just 25 minutes, bro, and now I've retired to my own private Caribbean island.
So can you explain to me, how this is not democracy, if Trump was elected, democratically?

Without saying the election was rigged by Russia.
> funny thing is, Trump supporters are now deleting Lyft in favor of uber.

Then it would appear there are far fewer Trump supporters than people who oppose Trump.
Reality as it is is what science is moron, moron fuck why am even wasting time replying something has gone really fucking wrong somewhere holy fuck
Another possible factor:

If Uber had 'picket-lined' a location (like JFK) against all pick-ups for a time period, that level of driver control could work against the preferred independent-contractor characterization of their driver-relationships. Whether the employer dictates the exact places, times, and manner of service is a part of that evaluation.

It also seems odd to have an employer dictate to its contractors (or even wage employees) to participate in a labor action, or political protest.

Shouldn't that be the workers' decision? Uber didn't force anyone to either do, or not do, JFK pickups.
I am merely pointing out the flaw in your argument that the Trump administration's order is in any way acceptable simply because they're working off the same list of countries that the Obama administration used for a past order.
The actual interview on Fox News where Giuliani said this is easily googlable, and on youtube. No missing qualifiers.

I haven't watched the interview. What you say would imply that I'm wrong to think that it might be due to the reporter. Despite my clumsy phrasing, though, I was mostly thinking that Giuliani might have failed to mention Trump's implied "until we figure out a way that we can identify who's dangerous and who's not". For me, that clause makes a difference. Does it matter for you?

After all, what evidence would you find persuasive?

I'm not sure. Short of Trump explicitly saying "I don't think we should allow Muslims to live here", I'm not sure what single thing would convince me. A pile of lower quality evidence eventually would, but I don't think we are there yet. I tend to agree with what Scott Alexander writes here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo.... I don't think Trump is a subtle guy, and if he truly was personally prejudiced against Muslims (as opposed to concerned about terrorism) he would just say so explicitly.
Yep - me too, and I've used a variety of beans from that same source to great effect. Good luck. Also, if you're in the bay area, I'll be happy to give you a demo if you need it.
Just a small point of disagreement: Often, in busy parts of NYC, hailing a cab is much more convenient that calling an Uber. Ubers often take awhile to get to you whereas a yellow cab can be hailed within a few seconds.

I am interested in the question you pose though - about the social utility of the medallion system. Perhaps there's some benefit in keeping the number of cabs limited in order to keep the roads emptier and thus more usable?
It's not a real Toyota - it was designed and built by Subaru.
This is one of many feeds of information for me, and I assume for most of us. Currently, all my other feeds are overly politicized. Yes, I have a political opinion and understand the need for discourse, but we are currently in a hyper-partisan political cycle and in which there is no winner. The gap is so wide, it is hard for one group to engage the other. So now all we get in these "political discussions" is hyper virtue signaling. I am talking about all sides.

This is not the time for discussion, because in our minds the battle lines are drawn.

I wish HN enforces a month of political moratorium. I will live and die on HN and will not make a single low info comment!
This isn't about "messaging" or "optics".

Kalanick is playing a double game, collaborating with the Trump administration on the one hand, while simultaneously trying to be seen as moral.

This is too transparent and Kalanick got caught trying to play both sides.

If he believes the Muslim ban and other policies of hate are immoral, he should loudly and publicly resign his position on the president's economic advisory group.

But if Kalanick continues to collaborate, then we know where he stands and we're free to delete Uber and use Lyft instead.
It is, it's called parse-dashboard and it's open source as well.
Except that it isn't a law. It's an executive order. The President isn't a dictator and doesn't get to rule any department by decree. If the secretary feels that the order is illegal, they can refuse to follow it, and get forced to resign, but then the President would still need to find someone else to follow the order.
what's the problem? the concepts in that first lesson on the link/pdf Cozumel shared seem pretty relevant to someone learning the basics of meditation.
And what's the Constitutional argument that the President is not allowed to issue EOs of this type? What's the argument that Mr. Trump's EO specifically violates the Constitution?

Law enforcement is not the judiciary. They are part of the the executive branch. Their job is to enforce the law under the direction of the chief executive, at the moment President Trump, who was clearly installed by Constitutional means.

Unless Ms. Yates can highlight a clear and present Constitutional violation that justifies disregarding the also-Constitutional obligation to uphold and respect the peoples' elected chief executive, there's simply nothing to go on here.
I presume that by "vertebraes" you mean "vertebrates"? All vertebrates are actually deuterostomes (see the Wikipedia page [1]), as are echinoderms (sea urchins, sea stars, etc). Insects, etc., are protostomes, meaning "mouth first" (though apparently there is some debate about that, see references at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostome ). Vast majority of animals fall into one of these two groups, though not all, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria .

Anyway, quite agree this is a fascinating discovery!
Breaking the strike was picking up someone at JFK during the strike. Uber and Lyft both picked up riders during the strike. It's not complicated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/01/2...
It isn't a law, it's an executive order. If it was something passed by Congress, I would agree with your point, but it is not. So it is down to the acting attorney general's judgement on whether to defend the order.
I actually completely disagree with you on the toxicity issue, but WRT to rethinkDB I don't think you are wrong. AGPL + Apache drivers is unlikely to be a successful combination if you are going with opencore. If you want to use (A)GPL, I think that's fantastic, but I think you need to make a pure free software play.

While I differ with you on the choice of pejorative descriptions, one really has to study projects like Ghostscript to see what the problem is with GPL and open core. The GPL is actually used to restrict freedom rather than promote it because the non-free side of the project is a free rider on the free side.

What happens is that nobody contributes in such an unbalanced situation. As a business you have to maintain a product where many people are using it for free, but nobody is encouraged to hand you contributions for nothing. If you want to use (A)GPL in your product, you need a business plan that ensures freedom for your users, so that they are encouraged to join you.

If you want open-core (as rethinkDB apparently does) then you need a license that levels the playing field so that other non-free-software entities are willing to collaborate with you. Non-permissive free software licenses effectively block those contributions and so you are left with a lose-lose situation. Of course, if you are motivated by software freedom, you really don't care about this... but then you wouldn't be doing open-core.
Asking for forgiveness instead of permission is something I tell work colleagues.
And a lot of us on both sides of the former partisan political spectrum are wonder what - if any - boundaries Trump supporters have past which they would not defend the actions of this administration.
Here is an approximation

http://imgur.com/a/vfCWb
>As an example, Rudy Giuliani, who seems to have been involved in drafting it, explains that it does

From the article: "And what we did was, we focused on, instead of religion, danger — the areas of the world that create danger for us,” Giuliani told Pirro. “Which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible. And that's what the ban is based on. It's not based on religion. It's based on places where there are substantial evidence that people are sending terrorists into our country.”

You're sending me an article that quotes Giuliani as explicitly stating "it's not about religion, it's about terrorists" as proof that it's about religion? Am I reading this right?

>This is just plain false, the "immigrant and non-immigrant" text was part of the original executive order, and the DHS spokeswoman said it applied to greencard holders.

I addressed that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13507180
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there are apps for this. but as a taxi you are subject to fixed prices and regulation. uber and left can undercut them thanks to our glorious fake world of VC money. you don't see taxi drivers handing out free $25 for first time riders
OT: Someone I know this past year called themselves a (former) "baller". They used to be a big time partier and drug user -- a (mostly, distortedly) functioning addict. A lot of coke, among other things.

I initially thought of "eight ball", which does feature in one of their more dramatic stories. But apparently the term has other or mixed provenance. And things like the urban dictionary provide multiple definitions.

Just what is a "baller?" From origins perhaps in basketball to urban street culture to drug culture... to modern day "hard ass", type A or whatever? Just what do people mean when they call themselves or someone else a "baller"?
Use "elected" instead of "voted" in the future and you're more likely to avoid this kind of semantic distraction in the future.
Well, it was a video game development studio, so that might have had something to do with it.
"Appease"? Whom?
That perfectly timed million dollar donation to ACLU was marketing genius. I can't imagine how you go about making a decision like that and quickly pull the trigger in such a fast paced volatile environment.
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> There is nothing in Trump's EO that singles anyone out by religious affiliation or background.

This is false. It has explicit exceptions for "religious minorities".

Wikipedia: "After the resumption of USRAP, refugee applications will be prioritized based on religion-based persecutions only in the case that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in that country."
Consider for a moment an unmoderated forum. HN isn't, but it is lightly moderated, so it is reasonable to consider. An HN where most users agreed with you would be an HN where political posts rapidly fell off the front page, and simply get ignored by most.

Like or not, it is quite difficult to disentangle politics from everything else. A desire to remain apolitical is pretty political in itself.
The film Tangerine was shot entirely on the iPhone with a budget of $100k. It earned $794k at the box office.

It's still possible to produce commercially successful low budget films with lower production values. The trick is to tell an interesting and engaging story.
They did it when they were negotiating their license with some airports. Back in the days LAX was geo-fenced and you had to take a shuttle to a random hotel to get a pick-up. As soon as their licensing (and proper pick-up spots) were up, LAX went live in the app.
Perhaps you can educate us, then, when the executive branch gained the power to create law in the form of executive orders?

Thought experiment: if Obama had issued an EO stating that his interpretation of the 2nd amendment referred only to state militias, and as a result he was proceeding to forcibly confiscated all privately owned firearms, would that be constitutional?
The comments on this thread remind me of Drew's "Throw away your USB Drive" post from 10 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
What's wrong with stories?
> This is not the time for discussion, because in our minds the battle lines are drawn.

Yes, and discussion can make those battle lines disappear by finding common ground if possible and if not possible it will at least help assess how far the damage from all this bs can spread.

Sticking your head in the ground is not going to make the problem go away, in fact might make it fractionally worse.

On another note, in the US the choice has been made, but there are other places in the world where it is not too late and discussing this might throw up an argument or two that could be used to deflect disaster elsewhere.

> I wish HN enforces a month of political moratorium.

Because it's too much trouble to not click on links about subjects you wish were not discussed?
The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality by the late Michael Talbot is a must read for those interested in exploring this topic.
Those are good links, and you shouldn't be downvoted.

That being said, it's a little more complex than that. From http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/health/canned-foods-bpa-risk/ :

>Now, a study published in the journal Environmental Research on Wednesday not only reveals that consuming canned foods can expose our bodies to BPA, it pinpoints the worst offenders.
The study suggests that canned soups and pasta can expose consumers to higher concentrations of BPA than canned vegetables and fruit -- and although those foods are tied to BPA concentrations, canned beverages, meat and fish are not.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baller
No, her job is to help follow the laws of the country, not to do whatever the President says. The President is not a dictator or a CEO.
Lyft didn't participate either. Switching to them because of this strike is irrational.
I'll respectfully disagree with both of you.

My understanding of current events would be significantly worsened if I didn't regularly get the thoughtful perspective of dragonwriter, tptacek, bluejekyll, throwaway8383495, and so many others.
Sure. Here you go.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/health/canned-foods-bpa-risk/