skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a sense you are right, but practically speaking individuals can't morally unilaterally defect from tipping. When nearly everyone agrees that 15% is the tip for normal performance, and one person leaves 0% for normal performance, that one person is free-riding and effectively hurting an innocent victim.

One practical solution would be to close the minimum wage loophole for tipped employees. The difference between the two minima is the presumptive value of the normal tip, so this is a means by which you can coordinate an instant and universal change from relying on tips to having no reliance on tips. It's not exactly ideal, given that everyone knows waiters typically make a lot more in tips and evaded tax than that difference, but it is at least consistent and nominally fair.

I am not sure what other practical solutions you might have in mind.
Yea, I don't get where this idea came from that tipping is either good for the employee or good for the customer. The employee is getting paid a crappy wage and the customer is being guilt-tripped into making up for it. The only winner is the employer.
It might be in really tourist-heavy areas like Vegas and Orlando (where my bad encounters have been).
"I wish more people thought this way."

It used to be common to view personal debt this way.

I noticed a big change in the way debt was perceived by during the late '80s. Since then, debt is seen as normal. I'm pretty sure the finance industry has pushed 'Fractional reserve banking' to the limit to allow unchecked borrowing for land and housing. [0]

Reference

[0] "fractional-reserve banking permits the money supply to grow beyond the amount of the underlying base money originally created by the central bank" ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
WebAssembly is mostly about being a faster-to-parse version of asm.js. asm.js is an easier-to-optimize subset of Javascript. If it were easy to transform any arbitrary Javascript into asm.js, then browser makers would just apply that transformation themselves (or more likely, write the optimizations so they don't target only a subset).
Total anecdote, but I absolutely learn better when graphs/charts/drawings/illustrations are part of the instructional material.
It's a sliding scale from perfectly matched sides (equal numbers of troops, equal training, equally good equipment) to completely mismatched. It's often implied to mean a small group of people that are hopelessly outnumbered fighting a much larger, well equipped force (à la Lawrence of Arabia) but insurgent groups are much larger than back then.

I'm just talking about the equipment and training angle, where humble, practical weapons can prevail against sophisticated, expensive ones if the right strategy is employed. Sometimes the shitty, cheap thing can be pounded out in such numbers that the expensive counter is no longer practical or effective. American tanks were toys compared to the German top-tier ones, but they were also made in such massive numbers they couldn't be stopped.

So the America that prevailed by coming up with humble, practical, cost-effective solutions to fighting a war is now under seige by adversaries fighting them with the same approach: Cheap, practical, easily mass-produced weapons.

While you're right that America vs. Germany wasn't asymmetric, these crazy expensive weapon platforms are making modern asymmetric engagements way harder to win.

Hell, at $3M a pop, simply getting that weapons platform to fire is a victory of sorts.
How would they organize that sort of collective action? There are lots of people already who don't tip, but it hasn't changed anything. I can't control what the guy next to me does, only what I do. If I stop tipping, it only hurts the person serving me - it doesn't change the tipping culture.

I always find these sorts of arguments vexing - people act as if we can just 'decide' as a society to change something, and it is that simple. I can't 'decide' for society to do anything, unless we organize, coerce, and perhaps legislate.
I've been having the very same experience and were also seriously considering moving off of gitlab at this point. It's a shame but the amount of hours lost are starting to become entirely unjustifiable.
Thanks for your reply.

Can you please explain what you think differentiates someone working in netsec from security researcher? And where do you think a Security Engineer position would fit in?

Thanks for the public sector advice. Although, I think I won't be a good fit.

Thank you!
I saw your reply right after I made mine... finally someone else who understands the problem of collective action!
Leverage doesn't come without a cost -- it magnifies your losses too.
5 years? All years, actually.
Bugs was a joke.

Analytics is the biggest missing feature...it will come. It's also not cost-effective at the moment for timeseries data.

We've updated the posts in light of some of this feedback.
Ah, open source drivers.

But you must've understood that.
A Hawaii judge has just blocked President Trump’s revised travel ban
Kernel – Fix cluster_write() inefficiency
I had similar upbringing and I can say I feel the same. Definitely something to be said about being averse to groupthink.
I don't disagree with your basic premise, and cannot even fathom what its like to have your formative years defined by such tragic and insurmountable circumstances...

That being said, there are a lot (probably a considerable majority) of people who have gone through the same or worse, and never commit an act comparable to the methodical slaughter of 70+ innocent strangers.
I'm a NZ permanent resident and moved back after nearly 5 years living there. My shock is mostly politically related; I'm hyper aware of the polarized nature of the country now as well as the lack of understanding of UHC. The inability of our government to streamline and adopt modern technologies into the governance process(downsize), hyperbole and rhetoric on both sides, etc.
I recently moved to an area where the local coop did step up and is bringing Fiber to one of the least populace continues in California -- Plumas County -- and the spinoff of the coop is Plumas Sierra Telecom. They've been providing some form of internet to the area for 11-12 years (maybe more).

They've been bringing fiber slowly up from Reno to communities along Highways 70 and 89. The condo I just bought, PSREC installed fiber to the unit. I hope to help find ways to invigorate the adoption in the community and maybe some more tech up here. Reno is about an hour away.

Coops and small rural companies are the ones investing in infrastructure (in the town I am in, the cable company folded and the telecom stepped up) rather than the big telecoms which are trying to disinvest from things.

Interesting local article: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/today...
Because getting paid $2.15/hr is garbage
That...is spectacular. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I can die happy now that I've contributed facts. How did they pick that particular excerpt, I wonder.
It isn't local but something like this?

https://hypothes.is/

http://docdrop.org/
Thanks so much for the link, will look into it fo sho.
There's also the rebranding of the scary "second-mortgage" into the treat-yourself "home-equity-line-of-credit."
Amazingly, "zestier.ly" has not yet been registered.
Sure looks like uBlock supports a few more lists than just easylist to me:

https://filterlists.com/
You forced me to check my sources. Thank you. I cannot just trust my memory.

Looks like the front of the house can pool their tips in many states in the USA indeed. But according to Nolo, they cannot pool with people who typically get no tips.

"Only employees who regularly receive tips can be part of the pool. Employees can't be required to share their tips with employees who don't usually receive their own tips, like dishwashers or cooks."

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tip-pooling-credits-s...
Meaning high performance auto-completion feature is possible in Go now? Neat
China's 'Airpocalypse' Linked to Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Confusing latency number (although it is a real number) is gone.
Of course, GitLab should do better than that if possible
How did they gather comprehensive data like that? Seems like you'd need an employee to watch every employee, recording everything they did.
cool paper, i enjoyed following the post (and really appreciated the effort put into the bokeh viz!)

i wonder if this would have been improved by being clearer about the motivation. the authors frame it as though the ~60ms penalty for using the LSTM for prediction is a huge burden, and i can imagine situations where it is. however, it seems like if this is the case, we need some real life/"scaled out" examples of how this solution would work in practice. e.g. how long does the decision logic take to execute (maybe 5ms?); what proportion of the time will you have to run the LSTM after the BoW model anyway? note that those instances you are now worse off than just running the LSTM in the first place (total time = BoW time + decision time + LSTM time). once you have all these you can run the math and know (on average) how much time you'll actually save, and how much performance you sacrifice
TL;DR - Google might run virtualized Android apps in containers on Fuchsia OS.

There's no one repo to point to, but you can at least look at code review for the hypervisor: https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/q/hypervisor.
I'm an intermediate scheme programmer (experienced in C, Python, etc), and one thing I really didn't like about R6RS in general, and Racket in particular, is the amount of bloat.

I'm a staunch minimalist and one of the things that appealed to me learning scheme for the first time was the minimalism of the language syntax. Then I started learning about Racket (and Clojure) and realized they give you the kitchen sink of syntax and language features and take all the minimalism away.

So my question is: How much extra effort would it be if I wanted to do whatever is described in this book in an R7RS implementation, like Chibi, instead of R6RS?
I'm not patting myself on the back... I'm saying that I don't want to participate in the tipping system, but we know that waiters are not paid fairly. I see the 15% as the salary that is not, but should be, included in the menu.

The fact that you thought I was getting an ego boost from tipping is the reason tipping exist, giving people an illusion of power/status.
The statement could be true, but has nothing to do with learning styles. Because everyone "learn better when graphs/charts/drawings/illustrations are part of the instructional material".
> In the Bay Area, the average one-bedroom apartment is $3,336 USD ($4,470 CAD) per month. Looking for a two-bedroom? The average price is $4,469

No it isn't. That is true in San Francisco, but there's more to the Bay Area than SF.

Of course, by not living in SF, you'll have to commute there – if your job happens to be in SF; there's plenty of opportunity all over the Bay. Which is a pain regardless of transportation mode and should be factored in the quality of life comparison.
The problem here is your cancel reflects poorly on you in Uber's rating system.

But otherwise you're absolutely right. I have taken rides from two people who've called, asking for my destination, and I refuse to tell them. It hasn't caused me any problems in those two instances.
Is this the science behind smooth deportations?
In some cases, that makes sense, or at least, enough sense that I can see "reasonable people disagree..." there.

In other cases, I just want a ride home. I don't care about being regaled with tales, or how hyperoptimized the route is, or fake friendliness, or even refreshments. I just want to know, unambiguously, what it takes to satisfy my obligation for this specific service, and reasonably expect that the provider is on the same page.

Uber wanted to create a special zone for exactly this, and make expectations as clear as possible for everyone going in, and yet that still isn't good enough for many people.

(Though, FWIW, I think they also abused their position by driving rates insanely low.)
So what happens with the IRS if you disappear into the Alaskan wilderness for 20 years (or get hooked on meth and become homeless or whatever) and subsequently want to reintegrate into society? Do you get tossed in the slammer for failure to file?
n has a bug where it doesn't symlink the new npm version in correctly when you change to a new version. If you manually symlink /usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/n/versions/node/x.x.x/bin/npm it should work just fine.
So the selling point is that consumers can be lab rats right now?
Agreed. Used Uber for what? 2 years now? Just tried Lyft after all the crap about Uber and I liked it. I normally do tip the Uber driver for a long ride (I live in NorCal an my house is a pain to get to). Moving on to Lyft. I like the fact I can tip in the app.
It's possible the margins are not as high, or they are not as high vs other more popular products. It could be a combination of multiple factors at play. Certainly if nobody was buying cereals in the US the high margins would not be enough to sustain shelf-space spending, so that's a valid point.
Couldn't you just NFS export and copy or even use rsync?
No one is saying his childhood absolves him of any responsibility. The article is merely looking at his upbringing. It's apples and oranges where you compare genocide to child abuse.
A tragedy, but not an answer to my question. Is there a fundamental difference between this and putting people away for murder, or is it just a matter of making sure we get it right?
Don't forget that you're implicitly paying a premium to compensate for the unpredictability/lumpiness/[1] of the tips!

[1] as well as "the presence of people who deliberately flout the expectations" and whose non-payment must be made up, in expectation, by more honest customers.
This was an absolutely stunning story - the parts about starvation and the rye sprout is fascinating.
A high end upwork or elance that only has semi vetted developers, e.g those with github commits > 100.

A simpler and cheaper version of meetedgar.com that keeps retweeting my blog posts on auto pilot.
Ask HN: What topics would like to see in a book about transitioning to Cloud?
Dear All,

i am an avid reader of HN.

for that past ~9 years; i have been working in various sectors where i have helped many clients build hybrid cloud platform.

One of my largest accomplishment is transitioning/building eComm platform for a top 5 retailer in cloud .

i would like to share my experience on how to manage that sort of large project both from leadership stand point as well as technology stand point (however, limit the conversation to only how of choosing a technology and not why one is better than another).

our project lasted over 2 years and its the fastest in the industry, and it met all deadlines and standards set for us (e.g. dates, quality, budget...).

I truly believe the way we executed it can really help many with the similar transition.

would you all let me know what sort of topics would you like to see?

i was thinking:

-vision
-strategy
-building the team
-motivational strategies
-communication strategy (up down and sideways)
-project management strategy
-resource allocation strategy (both money and skills)
-QA strategy
-performance testing strategy
-VALET metrics strategy
-transitioning skills from one type of area to another
-building Site reliability teams
-
....
In Australia we've tried tipping Uber drivers (e.g. because we've inconvenienced them with a stop to pickup food on the way home) and so far after 5 occasions no driver has accepted the tip (taxi drivers accept a tip without question, and usually won't accommodate short trips, despite the law, yet alone special requests).
You aren't required to file if you make less than 3000 dollars of income a year.
What's the implication here? The parent post paid more than they were required, if not then the business could charge more to cover their costs.

This kind of thinking is precisely what's wrong with tipping in the first place.
I just made an account to post this, a factor that isn't really being brought up by any of the comments I've seen in this conversation is drugs and other illicit practices used by Uber drivers to make money.

I have known several drivers who sold marijuana, small individual shot bottles, smoking papers, flavored cigar papers, and other 'party related favors' out of their cars to make their Uber driving more profitable. Without this source of income made from people going to/from parties and bars on weekends, alongside their actual ride fares, their profit margin is not even worth the time.

These 'tipping' hustles are frankly extremely mild in comparison to my experiences. I'm of the opinion that these hustles are publicly frowned upon, but in practice are not effectively policed on purpose. If Uber policed these sorts of practices in an effective way(like if they had cameras/monitors in cars) they would lose a substantial portion of their drivers instantly.
Simple solution. Don't work there. If they can attract talent at that price then good for them.
Martin Shkreli keeps buying domain names of journalists
Actually it's a bit more than that, my bad: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch01.html
Correct. Drivers should also be driving less for Uber.

Or, alternatively, everyone is making the correct decision and there isn't an imbalance anyway.
Magnet – Window manager for Mac
GM's partnership with LG Chem seems to match the market demand today more closely than Tesla'a expectations for tomorrow.

People are buying CUVs due to low gas prices. The electric buzz is already wearing off.
The implied social judgment whenever Uber drivers come up is a bummer.

Yes, people prefer to make a little bit of money instead of not having money. This is surprising?

And when someone earns a little bit of money, they might wish that they made more money. Again--not news.

I think before getting critical about why Uber drivers are so dumb, it's worth thinking about why you don't drive for Uber. The answer probably starts with "because I don't feel like I have to." It does for me.

If someone has a great highly-paying full time job and still drives for Uber, then sure, question that person's judgment. Most Uber drivers are not in that situation though.
What Do We Want the Future to Be?
Take an art history course. Pay close attention to how the artists that Western culture* holds up as ideals used color.

There are no shortcuts. Emotionally evocative use of color is 90% cultural, and the only way to learn how we in the West interpret color use is long-term study over time, the same as learning to interpret literature, philosophy, or sculpture.

(*assuming your intended audience is Western. You'll still want to at least touch on other major systems as well to increase contextual knowledge.)
We're discussing that here: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/rapscallion/issues/51

It should be relatively straightforward to add - its just a matter of deciding on the right level of abstraction.
Apparently on sale for $0.99. I gave it a try and it works very well.
Uber is up there with Monsanto, and circa 2000 Microsoft in terms of nasty. I wouldn't work there no matter how much they paid me.
Seems like a waste of time.

Maybe if we had a JS framework for reinventing the wheel...
https://github.com/lexi-lambda/racket-r7rs

Racket can be used in many ways.
Let's not forget the record holder and only male American weightlifter to qualify for the last olympics: http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/articles/why-ameri...

The common theme among vegan athletes is that recovery times improve substantially.
because people need to get fair wages instead of relying on tips.

the only country i've visited that has tipping is the us. outside the us, people get paid fair salaries and tipping is done when the service is outstanding.
Those docs are coming. I still don't see how you can make any useful claim about consistency when indexes are never isolated or consistent, and sustained consistent write throughput can't exceed 1 wps.
Not him, but dark green lettuce for making a proper salad. It exists in some places, but it's considerably expensive and nearly wilting. People seem to prefer flavorless cabbage/iceberg instead.

Maybe it's a fair exchange for all the fresh fish though.
The implication is that 20% the widely accepted minimum "good tip" rate, and consistently tipping 15% is consistently being cheap. Especially when you're a tech worker FFS.

Let's break out of our echo chamber a bit. In the US, tipping isn't "paying more than required," it's basic manners. You can argue until you're blue in the face about how businesses are to blame, but the vast majority of society, who have no big beef with tipping culture, will find you cheap rather than discerning.
I think the important thing to consider is what you are taking on debt for - are you using it for investment in something or for an expense? A house or an education is an investment - it can be a good or bad one, of course, but the idea of going into debt to obtain either of those should not be dismissed out of hand. Both can provide a return on those investments greater than the interest cost.

However, if you are taking on debt for an expense (a vacation, a new car when you have a working one already, a new toy), then you are gaining nothing in return for the interest. You could easily wait until you have the money saved up, since those expenses have no extra return for purchasing early.

The worst debt, of course, is when you are taking it on because you simply have more expenses than you do income. This is often the source of credit card debt. If you are growing in debt but not growing in investments, you need to take a hard look at your lifestyle.
I've had the same experience in Poland. Tried to tip a driver who'd gone above and beyond in helping me out, and the driver refused to accept the tip.

The whole thing seems to illustrate just how far out of whack tipping expectations are in the US compared to the rest of the world.
I agree, why not just reflect the true price of eating a meal in a restaurant which includes paying servers.

My guess is that it is more transparent to both the customer and the staff who may view this development with some suspicion at first.
We imprison murderers and thieves based on objective proof of their crimes. Separating children from their parents because of undesirable personality traits seems much more subjective.
How the ‘Doom’ Soundtrack Was Made Will Melt Your Puny Mortal Mind
Why not ask once then remember?
"It is also correct that as a car manufacturer, owning a battery producing company and selling to the rest of the industry, is a competitive advantage."

You really don't get rich off of building commoditized foundational parts like battery. Any competitive edge you have is going to be short lived.
Spanner is great, but it's not pay as you go, or multi-region (yet), or multi-cloud.
I'm not sure what to tell you. It's literally based on a sound mathematics formula and the RFC that dictates how TCP operates. The only way you're getting maxed out gigabit with 11ms latency on a single stream is if you've got something on the pipe telling the TCP/IP stack to violate the RFC - IE: a piece of hardware like cisco waas, silverpeak, riverbed, etc.

There are literally hundreds of TCP throughput calculators out there and they all use the same formula.
Does it make the farmers' market unfree when it declares a rule that vendors may not purchase their wares (but must grow the produce/animals on a farm)? Does that make the farmers employees of the farmers' market? Without getting into the finer points of law about contractor independence & discretion, it's a bit silly to hold the position that Uber can't regulate the service in any way. In particular, standardizing the terms of the contract to be traded in a given market is a practice even the staunchest of free market proponents accept.