skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew someone who drove a taxi, before Uber was available, and he said the biggest cost is car repairs as they ride them hard each day. Then there is variables like gas and insurance which fluctuate. These costs apply to all drivers, not just Uber. He said he made around $45k/yr if I remember correctly. But he said the freedom of having no boss and driving around meeting people made it worth it.

This will probably depend on where the driver lives and works. There is also the question of whether they are a 'broker' or not with another taxi, meaning they own their own car and also do Uber and/or Lyft on the side while working with another taxi service. Which is common.

In Toronto where our taxis are far less regulated than other cities like New York, allowing for more supply but higher per ride fares to compensate, all of the drivers I've spoken to have said they make more money per ride with Uber than they do with normal taxi services and always give preference to Uber calls over the dispatcher. Also they have been busier allowing them to do more rides per night worked.

Uber likely increases the amount of people taking rides in any city as it makes the UX easier to call a cab reliably, direct it, and pay for it.
Permanent residence status applies for as long as you're a resident. If you're out of the country for a sufficiently long time (or some other set of circumstances enforced at the whim of immigration applies), your status was invalid before you got to the border - you weren't a legal resident at the time you tried to enter.

What's different here is that nobody's arguing that their status has changed. They are legal residents, and they're being forbidden from entering anyway. These are not the same thing, and it's legitimate to be more upset about one case than the other.
Do you pay your drivers a large cash tip so their profits are at least the minimum wage?
There's also the follow-on book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration, which is focused more on distributed systems.

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-...
Is there anything that allows using templates with wp instead of the unbearable fragmented patchwork of functions and code?

Something like twig maybe?

I come from rails and trying to develop for Wordpress caused a lot of wtf and disgust.
Sometimes emailing a higher up executive helps. I had placed an order for an iPhone 6 a few years back when there was a 1 month wait. While waiting, the card they had on file expired and the charge failed when my phone was about to be shipped.

Conversations with customer support were going nowhere and they were going to place us "in the back of the line" again. An email to T-Mobile CEO's response team and SVP of customer support seemed to do the trick and our phones were shipped the next day.
Obama administration bombed every one of those countries in 2016 to the tune of 72 bombs per day (some this year as well). Might make some sense why those countries were selected..[0]

[0]http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/

Edit: I get several downvotes for stating a fact? Please.
Since the actual facts seem so starkly in opposition to 'WildUtah's point, I'd be really interested in seeing what evidence he expected to use to support his argument --- if only to see whether I'm misunderstanding his point.
Who was blocked from coming back under Bush?
I last took a cab ~15 years ago.
Yes
It's not that hard to check it yourself btw
If you don't vote you're just as responsible for any unwanted outcome as the ones that did vote.
I guess we will agree to disagree. I stand 100% by my opinion/advice. I have many current and ex-coworkers and friends who suffer through a long commute, a shitty neighborhood, etc, even though they have great jobs. They are critically unhappy because they should be able to afford a home and live in a good neighborhood but they can't.

If you want a reasonable commute (less than 1hr) (ie. South Bay, Peninsula, SF, etc) close to great companies, live in a safe area, with good schools, then earning anything less than $300k combined makes it tough. You can't even afford the mortgage payment on an average house in those areas at $150k/yr, unless you have a massive down payment, and God help you if one of you or your spouse loses their job.
The order applies not just to Canadian's, but to citizens of all countries who are also from those seven on the list.

See http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-visa-ban-also-applies...
Complaining on twitter works if you can get someone to notice you unless its Apple (they don't care). At work, it is basically telling the next sales rep to call that I don't do business with companies I cannot trust. Some companies are easier to deal with than others. HP did right by me when we had a lot of hard drive failures in their netbooks ("uhm, that's getting to be a really high failure rate.. uhm... you got techs there right? well, why don't I just send replacements for all of them?"). Some forget they were supposed to return the computer after it was repaired.

I think its a lot like working with any individual. What they care about is particular to the company and it is often hard to know the correct thing unless you have experience with the company.

I did ban one company for about 5 years over a conversation that had me shouting at my phone and saying a word I don't normally say. It was quite strange as I normally speak slowly and lower when irritated while I try to figure out if I'm just being stupid or the person I'm talking to is actually a world class idiot.

Their rep (a different person) that called five years later was new and getting a lay of the land and I wasn't as diplomatic as I should have been. I imagine cold calling former customers is not a fun part of a reps day if their CRM doesn't warn them. I amazingly was still mad, but kept my voice even.

Sounds like Simple Mobile could really use a decent CRM or record every call because I get the feeling the metric is time needed to get you out of the queue or customers per hour. Reps do adapt to the metrics set not the goals of customer service or later sales.
By having an external power brick, you keep a ton of heat out of the device. That means a smaller device and less cooling needed.
> public schools

to add 2c to the schools debate -- many of the south bay schools e.g. (for hs) monte vista, gunn, palo alto high, harker, menlo-atherton, ... currently have many recent students that are olympics-level athletes and international-level competitors in the sciences/humanities -- I would argue they tend to be better represented in the top US universities than many other places in the country.
What Altman doesn't need to worry about is the blowback and boycotting that occurs when actual CEOs speak out.

They know what he refuses to admit: that a non-vocal majority of this country strongly supports the President and will NOT support anyone who publicly smites him.

Attacking the President as a normal consumer goods CEO is a losing proposition.
> But how can they carpet bomb the US with fake news from Russia?

Thousands of websites are targeted at the US with fake news skewing the picture and messing with people's heads.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38168281

https://www.rt.com/

On top of that most news fora are overrun by trolls shouting down any kind of dissent and picking up a fair share of support from 'useful idiots' who will endlessly repeat the talking points.

Make no mistake: a war is in progress, it is a war without bullets but with bits, the consequences are every bit as real and sooner or later the one may lead to the other.

> Maybe Europe will have to shake off its arrogance and realize how much they have always depended on the US.

There is no other choice. But that also carries significant risk.

> Still, making a tactical error is not in itself evil. And chaos is a tactic that sometimes works. It won him the election already.

Yes but that's like congratulating the dog on catching the car.
The six month rule was already known about ahead of time, and thus people can abide by the rules. It's essentially part of the contract. This new rule is a violation of the existing contract.

It's the difference between being towed because you parked in a fire lane (that's your fault), and for being towed when someone came up after you parked, painted in a fire lane, and then towed you (not your fault).
> Aging, too, has conventionally been seen as a trait dictated by evolution. Organisms have a lifespan that creates opportunities to reproduce, the story goes, without inhibiting the survival prospects of offspring by the parents sticking around too long and competing for resources.

Can someone with more bio expertise explain this theory to me? I've heard it said before, but it doesn't seem right to me. Some species disperse widely, and the offspring end up far from their parents, not really competing for resources. Wouldn't such species evolve quickly not to age, if possible? Similarly, wouldn't it be far better for non-migrating species not to age but instead evolve to migrate when old?

It seems intuitive to me that keeping an old body from falling apart takes great resources / evolutionary focus, and there are diminishing returns the further out the age. e.g.,., if a species were only 1% likely to make it to old age T in the wild, then it would be hard to select for traits that led to it being in good shape at that age.
Half? You use this word twice. Where are you getting this figure?
Deployment can be a bit tricky to figure out. I end up compiling on my production server, which seems extremely unnecessary.
"Trump might just be the wake up call the nation needed to wake up and stop being so complacent."

I'll bet that at least 50% of Americans support the premise of a 'temporary ban on entry of people from areas of open conflict or that are governed by jihadi entities'.

Point being - there are many Americans who believe that Trump is the 'wake up call'.

I think there is a lot of danger from people living inside social bubbles making assumptions about what the 'proverbial we' should or are thinking about what is right or wrong.

By the way - I think this exec order is a political gesture.

After 90 days, everyone who was to come to the US, will end up coming.

I believe that most entrants are fairly well vetted already, and that things will get back to normal pretty quickly, with some minor adjustments so that Trump can claim his order was needed and warranted.
Yeah, supporting an anti-American dictator with a very dubious human rights record couldn't possibly backfire at all.

Wasn't Syria one of ye old state sponsors of terrorism?
Evince is usually good enough, the problem that managing type people often like to make annotations in Acrobat and to open those you have to have Adobe stuff.

Edit: not to open maybe, but to see the annotations
And in a democracy such as the US, there are certain inalienable rights to peacefully assemble and protest against perceived injustices.

Blindly supporting a president isn't what a democracy is all about. That's called a dictatorship.
Can I be the first person here to point out that armed toddlers killed more people last year than extremists of any variety, and that the armed toddler threat becomes even more terrifying when you factor out right-wing extremists (who represent a significant fraction of terrorist murders in the US) and attacks from US citizens? 21 people are killed every year by armed toddlers, compared to 2 from foreign-born Islamic militants.

A threat that is not overstated is the risk to Muslim minorities in Syria and Iraq. Armed toddlers, lightning strikes, and even lawnmowers (a threat that dwarfs all previously stated causes of violent death in the US) are a trifling concern to a Yazidi in the path of Syrian civil war conflict, either from ISIS or from mortar shelling from the Syrian regime.

And, of course, as we consider who's being harmed by this ban, it helps to remember that the ban also applies to lawful permanent residents of the United States. The spouses of many --- actually, 3 in 4 --- American citizens are LPR non-citizens; they've lived here for in many cases decades but can't return back (or, at this point, ever leave to visit family). No American can look at that situation and call it right or just or tolerable.
> - At least some level of popularity or usage

> - A diverse set of opinions. For example not dominated by either liberal or conservative views.

Sure, that used to be the norm before up and down voting because the trend. It's the voting system that has made sites like Reddit complete cesspools, coining the term "down-vote brigade." Perhaps then most communities were more left-wing because conservative people didn't have internet-connected computers. But they were less exclusionary than today.
thanks for reminding us - I just put in my card on a repeated monthly donation. Easier to keep giving if set on auto-pay vs forgetting
Yeah, looks like IPT and ultrahdclub might be worth a purchase though.
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If they actually follow through on paying their drivers that aren't able to work due to this executive order, it won't be "a cheap PR stunt". But, it could still be a PR stunt.

I support tech companies (and everybody else) speaking out, emphatically, against this order, even if I think the company speaking out has kind of questionable moral standing. If only those who are perfect can act against evil actions by our government, then we're in serious trouble.

Uber is imperfect. But, if they are sincere, I support them in this. And, perhaps if it comes time for armed insurrection to depose our Vichy regime, we can all hail an Uber and roll up to the revolution in style.
It's the white man's burden, after all.
US tourists visit North Korea; Vice magazine did an interesting doco on their experience. Tourists are chaperoned and experience cartoonish levels of propaganda, but they're not blocked.
I was about to make a similar reply, but I was going to say Nixon.
The article mentions switching to Windows.
How are we arming ISIS?
... and start a war.
Which is why I don't understand why Uber & Lyft bother with stars. Why not just thumbs up/down instead?
This car rental p2p company in LA still hasn't paid me nearly $300 that it has owed since early October.

Their policies were very sound, otherwise why would I rent my car out to a stranger? But they completely blew off policy and have just stopped responding to me.

Sometimes they post on Who's Hiring posts here, I've replied there to get a response but no dice. Emailed the founder, called all the numbers I had (they never pick up my calls now).

I sent the founder another email today after seeing this thread, but I'm filing a lawsuit next week (it's like a 3 page worksheet in LA) and then I'm blogging about the process.

It's crazy to think that suckers like me are out there lending their cars to these guys based on the trust and policy of the platform when in reality there is no policy (and therefore no platform worth trusting).
Sample script for calling your mayor; anyone near an international airport should be able to use a variant of this.

I am not a lawyer, but it looks as though airports (but not airport security) fall under the city's jurisdiction. (For example San Jose makes decisions about Uber at SJC, and Mayor Daley infamously tore up an air strip in the middle of the night with no warning).

Hello. My name is X. I am a resident of Y. Please do everything within your power to push for the release of any middle eastern refugees being held without cause by the Federal government at [local airport], and to put an end to this moving forward.
actually I had a serious issue with my COBRA administrator (health insurance) and threatening to sue was the only wat they escalated my issue and fixed it for me promptly.
Sorry to hear that you lost two friends. It's such a terrible thing for the hacker/maker community to lose two people that seemed like such talented, intelligent individuals.
Obama was an unusually charismatic candidate who got 93% of the Black vote in 2012 and 96% in 2008. There is no way Hillary or any other democratic candidate could match that. Hispanic turnout did turn out a bit below expectations, but not by much. Note that Hillary got completely crushed in the "White w/o college degree" category, which is a much larger demographic.

And despite that Hillary still won the popular vote by 3 million votes. She did pretty well across the board and in an election as close as this one almost any single thing could have flipped the outcome.
The alternative is lots of people without income. One upside of Uber, Lyft and the taxis' ruthless price competition has been the data. Specifically, we now know just how price elastic the demand for taxi-like services is. Raising prices to pay driver's a minimum wage would result in a predictably dire cutback in demand and commensurate cutback in earnings.

We're in the best of possible worlds. But it's difficult to fault Uber to the degree some people do when customers express their demand preferences so clearly.
> allowing for more supply but higher per ride fares to compensate

This makes no sense to me. With excess supply, the prices should come down. You'd expect prices to increase when the supply is constricted, as it is during Uber surge pricing. It sounds like maybe Toronto cabs aren't playing by the regular rules of economics, as many other cities' cabs aren't, which is exactly why they've been so prone to disruption.
Please stop with the long, ideological rants. They're not constructive to the discussion. HN isn't the place for this.
Ubers position on immigration is not relevant to ubers business so it costs them little to take any attention grabbing position they can as that offers the a cheaper marketing model than paying for ads. Ironically trump uses similar strategies.
Even if you take just the immigration process, the OP's point stands.
I do hope that he'll "soften up", but I don't see what consequences that has for now.

Especially his show-man-ship seems to make it more important to show clearly that a significant portion of the public isn't ok with the policy. Some might argue that he's disregarding that side's positions anyway, but he's doing that to some degree anyway.

Also, this is the period in his government which'll shape the rest of his term. There's more freedom/influence initially (government through reconciliation is time limited, no previous deals weighing you down, key personal brought into place). So even if he "softens" later, the consequences will be smaller.

It's also not like just Trump's opinion plays a role - his current alliance of supporters has their own goals which in some cases is only tangentially aligned with Trump's.

(FWIW: I didn't downvote)
The executive order we're all talking about directly affects only legal immigrants, doesn't it?
I can't remember the name off the top of my head but I recall a famous "no fly list" story about someone who was prohibited from returning to the US because their name was a potential misspelling of a suspected terrorist's name.
So take the 1935 Germans. Confront them. Rant about how their decisions destroyed so much. Visibly encourage others to do the same.

Now what do you expect them to do when they're offered the chance to vote for two new candidates, neither of which they approve of? Personally, I expect them to run the other way, rather than voting.
> leftist propaganda

The establishment left in the US has been a supporter of Corporate Globalization for many years. And the left in general has replaced class policy with race and gender ideology.

So you have a situation now in the US where liberal millionaires and billionaires protest against the middle and working class and call them racist, etc for voting for populist policy that protect there economic interests by reforming free trade treaties like TPP and NAFTA, immigration limits, lower taxes, repairing infrastructure and so on, (ie much of Trumps campaign platform).

The outrage is from those who have been consumed by this identity politics and the corporate globalism that sustains it. They have forgotten what economic solidarity is and there policy has little or no recognition of class. Identity and Race are placed above all else.
Ok, but this isn't just about people who have left for 6 months. If someone with a green card checked to see if they could travel outside the US last week, they would see:

> Does travel outside the United States affect my permanent resident status?

> Permanent residents are free to travel outside the United States, and temporary or brief travel usually does not affect your permanent resident status

- https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-green-card-granted/in...

Yesterday, they found out they were lied to.
It's weird that calling for mass murder == okay, but typing the word "shit" == zomg no.
The NYC Taxi Workers just called for a work stoppage
To a really simple first-order approximation, it's because the entire government is controlled by Republicans right now. The only branch that might be split is the Supreme Court, and they don't work on short timescales.
Well, not Iran (thankfully)
> If half of your population's will is being disregarded and worked against, there is a problem.

Then it seems to me there has been a problem in the US for many years now.

(Good news everyone! There's now a problem in the UK, too!)
Start here: http://triphackr.com/how-to-travel-to-iran-as-an-american/

TL;DR: Visa applications take longer (but still usually <30 days) and you must be accompanied by a guide at all times, but other than that you're free to travel around.

It's worth noting that this is considerably looser than North Korea, where you not only have a guide, but can only go to the places that have been agreed in advance and your guides permit you to go to.
Excellent. America shouldn't take any immigrants that just want to exploit our resources or wealth. Only those who believe in America and love the people and our land so much they would take all the risks of coming because no alternative is good enough should immigrate here.

I wish you the best of good fortune in everything back home.
Hi -- author here! Thanks for commenting and sharing your thoughts!

In terms of test scores, there definitely were a couple of classes in which my tests were dropped--but only 1-2 of them.
I embarrassingly exercised 27.5 hours in college...not something I'm proud of, and I decided not to include it in this analysis since the numbers weren't high enough and I didn't do this as consistently enough to warrant any sort of meaningful correlation. I did live in Berkeley and it was pretty hilly so I definitely found ways to keep myself active! I also did track my weight and used a Fitbit for two semesters, so perhaps I could add something about that in the future :)