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Did you know that in most states wait staff can be paid as low as $3 per hour, under the assumption that tips will bring them up above minimum wage? The law literally assumes that customers will tip them. It's not just a nice custom, it is fully expected in the transaction.
The modern creationist view on fossils is that they were laid down during Noah's flood. I grew up in a creationist home, and never heard anyone seriously claim dinosaur bones are a trick. As far as I can tell that's just a straw man.
I remember Java applets, and reading this thread it's hard to square the revisionist nostalgia with those experiences. The Java applets I remember absolutely sucked as a user. They took forever to load, had weird clunky UIs that were out of place in the host OS and the browser, constantly broke due to compatibility issues, and had no concept of graceful degradation. There's a reason Java applets lie in the dustbin of history - good riddance to them, it's where they belong!
Thanks for all the comments. I definitely need someone with a bit of experience in knowing what to do. I'd be happy to offer equity, even for a remote CTO, just to help get this on track. Basically a lot of the opportunities lie in creating better experiences for customers, from on-boarding to self management and CRM comms. The business model works, demand is continuing to increase, and marketing is on-point and effective. Hence, a hands on CTO would really take the business to the next step.
Taxi drivers in my city are notorious for, at least in my experience, attempting to swipe your credit card with Stripe on their personal cell phones. Not just for the tip, but for the entire fare. They openly commit fraud against their company by trying to steal the fare for themselves without reporting it to their company.

I've refused to pay for, and reported to their company, 4 separate drivers in the past 2 years for this practice. I have to assume that the companies somehow don't care that their drivers are going rogue, or else this wouldn't be happening so frequently. Where is the threat of dismissal, or even better, prosecution? Same thing goes for unlicensed taxi drivers moonlighting with a friend's car - taxi drivers here are required to hang their licensed ID on the side window, and the frequency with which you find someone driving "off the books" is downright reprehensible.

The worst part is, I feel my personal safety is at risk every time I report these criminals. They are likely to know it was me, and they know where I live. It's irresponsible, potentially dangerous, and unacceptable to permit them to operate in this way.

Our taxi companies are hook, line, and sinker in the pockets of our government. We have a history of corruption here, and taxi companies are definitely part of the equation.
But it's possible to have a star that is heavier than a black hole.

Say you had a binary star system of two supermassive stars. The smaller one goes nova because it runs out of fuel first. The core starts to collapse, meanwhile the twin is scooping up the ejecta, and the star and the black hole start getting closer together...
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Modern developers want more variety. I've been working on something new:

npm elipse.js

It's based on circle, but I'm still working out some issues.
Noob question. What are the implications of writing books on platforms that are commercial in nature? Say I want to write a book or apigee or IBM bluemix. Are there licensing restrictions on what I can cover and what not.
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At least according to this, 4.7 is quite typical for passengers:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/we-asked-you-for-your-uber-score...
Yes! Go has a really small runtime I think a lot of us can't wait till Go is usable in browser.

Every developer I know hates JavaScript. I think the only ones that like it are honestly people that haven't used much else. Literally everything about the language including tooling and module systems around it is a garbage fire.

I tried to use Node and it gives stupid shitty error messages all the time and blows up if anything hangs for 200ms because it only supports a single thread. It's honestly pretty crap compared to more mature runtimes in C#, Java, Go, Python etc...

I think what's happened is that a bunch of front end HTML guys that only use JS have been introduced to fire water and they're going nuts about it
I definitely recommend staying for at least year, probably longer to offset your previous job being shorter than a year.
I'm not being judgemental, and I'm not saying they're stupid to drive for a small immediate profit instead of doing nothing.

I'm just perplexed when they say they're losing money (or making so much less than minimum wage that they may as well be) but they keep on doing it instead of stopping. If they're not just blowing off some steam with hyperbole, they would literally be better off staying home on the couch.
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While I don't doubt this happening, where are you located? I've taken over 1,200 Uber rides in the Bay Area and LA, at all times of day, and have not once been solicited for drugs or smoke shop/convenience store items. (Plenty of other hustles, though.)
I would approach this problem by opening a bar, not a startup.
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TCP throughout is limited by window size divided by round trip time (I.e. How much you can send before having to wait for an ACK). With RFC 1323, you can specify a window size well above the 65,536 limit that would otherwise exist. With scaling you can have a window size up to a gigabyte. With an RTT of 11 ms, you can saturate a 150 Mbps link with a window size of 160-170kb.
>"Bombarding people with information that challenges their cherished beliefs — the usual strategy that people employ in attempts at persuasion - is more likely to engender defensive avoidance than receptive processing.

^The great fallacy of the stereotypical Facebook/television political flame war/shout fest. The result is almost always detrimental to both sides' understanding of eachother.
In Melbourne I have literally never had anyone at any cafe, food stall, or any other similar place ask me for a tip, and yet every single one of them have a tip jar.

The tip jar is always filled with silver change, almost always a "round up" from a note. If I buy a coffee for $4.20, and pay in cash, the tip jar might get my 80c. (I almost never carry cash, so this is rare in and of itself.)

The only time I've ever even seen a tip requested is as a part of some POS card readers, where it asks if you would like to leave a tip before you enter your PIN -- Conversely I've also had employees tell me "just hit enter to skip the tip bit of the transaction" before I've even gotten to that stage.
Is there any pdf version for this ?

p.s. thank you for wonderful job anyway.
dunno about that. I grew up there, so at one point, all this was completely normal to me. It wasn't till I went back that I realized how INSANE it all was.

My family ask me every week, when I'm moving back. lol
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It depends on your perspective on property. When a hunter kills and eats a deer does he not steal from the deer family? Id bet that a bear doesnt think kindly of some human showing up to pick all those berries that the bear has been waiting to rippen. This man decided to step out of society, so much so that our rules were no longer his.

Remember also that not too long ago "hunting and gathering", poaching, was a hanging crime far greater than petty theft. Our rules change regularly. I wouldn't applaud this man's behavior, but i do respect his thought process. A tweek here and there and i might call him some sort of artist. His story, which i have read about many times, broadens our perspective. That's art. Good art breaks rules. The best art denies them entirely.
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Do you also believe that investment into physical transportation infrastructure is "unnecessary"? If not, why do you believe digital transportation infrastructure is less "necessary"?
Uber's tipping scheme is extremely transparent: Don't tip.

The "self employed contractors" who pick you up may have tipping schemes inconsistent with one another, though.
> It's simply

From your description, it's clearly something you've never experienced, and the only thing uniquely American about this phenomenon is that you're reading about it from a State Department page rather than, say, a page on the Le ministère des Affaires étrangères website
Hmm. Do you know anyone with a plan, but without the courage?

I don't know if I have the courage, but I definitely don't have a plan.

I feel badly prideful the way that sounds like I'm presuming that I have the capability but not the courage - yet at the same time, I'm reminded of the end of this quote:

“We bring you here to a House for the Feeble-minded and the man who won’t accept that is the man we want. It’s a method that can be cruel but it works. It won’t do to say to a man, ‘You can create. Do so.’ It is much safer to wait for a man to say, ‘I can create, and I will do so whether you wish it or not.’ There are ten thousand men like you, George, who support the advancing technology of fifteen hundred worlds. We can’t allow ourselves to miss one recruit to that number or waste our efforts on one member who doesn’t measure up.”

- Asimov, Profession"

On the rare chance that it's that case - for anyone reading thing and thinking the same think - it's worth asking the question.
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so funny because when you are paying your taxes you are paying not only your own debt, but the debt of major banks, major government sponsored financial entities , insurance company bailouts, the debt of military contractors --------
you are paying for what was spent by the government on all of these guy upfront......and it's your debt............they call it taxes. so you are in big debt and you're paying it off!. it's just , you didn't spend most of it.
What liability? You're supposed to constantly be aware and in control of your vehicle when using AP2.

(At which point, you may ask: What is the point of AP2..?)
Maybe some sort of p2p hosting decentralisation like ZeroNet? I guess people can personally fund the site directly. Maybe some sort of way for the users to "tip" the submitter and the site and the uploader split the "tip".
I think I dislike about papers like this, or at least how people refer to papers like this, is that it's easily phrased as a universal truth. As in, applying to 100% of the people 100% of the time. Which is clearly ridiculous, or else no one would ever change their minds from conflicting evidence at all.
I tried to install but I'm getting an error message: "undefined" is "undefined" on line 27361 in elipse.min.js . I'll send you the stacktrace because it's bigger than the message limit here. I see that you're transpiling typescript into ES2015 then down to ES5 in Babel, cool. Could I get a source map for the original file?
Do you have a source for that I could read?
In how many places was building copper profitable? If it wasn't for government intervention most of the world would still be waiting for copper connections.
Your calculator would probably need to be updated? I just tried it out and the difference between the locations Mumbai and Bangalore, the latter is close to 2.5x less than Mumbai (0.08 vs 0.20).

Your data-source for this is very clearly wrong.. any income/cost-of-living report for India will show that the cost of living is the same for these 2 cities.

Just FYI.
I've never had a driver ask for a tip in the bay area. If one were to, I'd give a 1-star rating and write in "asked for tip" as the reason. If that's unacceptable behavior I'll stop using the service rather than join the under-the-table tipping game.
My theory on this is that Uber is not 100% transparent on what drivers will earn, offering them incentives and promises that skew the numbers for new drivers. Because there are always drivers willing to try and get burned out, prices stayed depressed.
Huh. I use Flywheel, and it has tipping with a default tip. You can change it during or at the end of the ride if you want, but if you do nothing, it sticks with whatever you picked as the default. I'm surprised Lyft doesn't do that.
I feel like the inconvenience of getting hustled is just a minimal tax on using an questionably moral, very low-cost, low-job-security service. You get it cheap, but you've got to interact with desperate people, and deal with how that makes you feel uncomfortable...

If you don't want to get hassled, better pay is the byline, not a tacked-on after-thought.

(Disclaimer: I found the tone of this post pretty insufferable.)
I believe they do tip their hairdressers in the US. Rest of the argument stands though, and I agree with you.
Some scholars have contended that given the striking resemblance between the names Esther and
Mordecai to the Babylonian deities Marduk and Ishtar, the story was rooted in
Babylonian worship practices...

They really just left that there, without any hint as to whether there's anything in common besides the names? The Wikipedia pages for Marduk and Ishtar don't give any hints AFAICT.
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Sure, but in that window of time people who like paycheck to paycheck will suffer a sudden loss of income and likely slide into poverty. Which is why we take proactive political action. At least in theory, anyway.
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Wait. What? A star more massive than a black hole?

I must be missing something here. Once something reaches the mass of a black hole, it becomes a black hole. No? How is it possible for a mass to be greater than a black hole but not a black hole? Mass over distance?
One word - Enron.
Holy crap, you've just done your company - or if you are an external recruiter, your client - a huge disservice by posting this reply. You've done nothing to assuage future candidates' concerns. You've merely confirmed that your compensation offers, and likely the entire hiring process, is driven by undesirable corporate metrics. This makes GitLab sounds seem like a company that only knows how to regurgitate HR 101 tactics. No thanks.

GitLab, diversify/improve your recruitment strategy. Why you only have "the recruiter", aka a single person heading your recruitment, rather than a group of competent personnel, is concerning. Your public image is of a medium-sized company which is already established, not a tiny startup outfit wherein all hires rely on a sole (apparently inadequate) person vetting each potential employee.
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You don't need a co-founder, you need a senior developer/engineer. If you don't have the technical nous yourself then finding a good one is way too much of a crap shoot, so you don't want to hand over a chunk of the company.

Consider also that from a technical point of view, you prbably don't and will never need a big investment in technology anyway. Build as little custom software as you can because it's expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain (there is no such thing as a "done" phase). Have someone on payroll that can learn the business and it's users and customers that can gradually iterate.
Also, I'm not sure how many chicken nuggets are sold (some quick calcs say ~23 lbs of fast food chicken per capita per year). But even just being able to replace those would be a ethical boon.
Why do you think this is fraud?

At least in SF, I'm pretty sure the standard deal is that the drivers pay for the cab regardless of what they get in fares. Cabs were a cash business for a hundred years, after all.

I think the deal with credit card machines in the cabs is that the cab companies see it as a revenue source. I know cab drivers grumble about the cost of using them. It makes sense to me that Stripe is cheaper for the cab drivers.
SolarCoin is a cryptocurrency that rewards people for generating solar energy. I think that's a pretty neat idea.
Safari's notifications can use the Apple push notifications server the same way iOS apps do.
Hi, I'm the creator of Cogent.

I don't think Cogent would be much good for writing a compiler, actually (it doesn't natively support recursive data structures like ASTs). It's designed for OS components like file systems.
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Even in the primitive, preagricultural societies this story inspires thoughts of, humans lived cooperatively. Surviving on one's own in the wilderness is an homage to a lifestyle that never existed no matter how far back you go.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3551345
There are three points of his, with which I have personal experience, where I believe the article is incorrect.

1. Division of ownership in an LLC can be made very similar to a C-Corp. In all rights and restrictions. In an LLC it is typically called a Unit instead of a Share. You can sell a PPM (Private Placement Memorandum) for Units, at some par value, to raise money. You can dilute Units. Units can have voting rights or not. His statement on division is clearly incorrect from my own company where we had many initial investors. Some were institutional, some were individual, some were via investment vehicles.

2. He states LLCs don't have Options. This is also not entirely true. The similar vehicle in an LLC is called a Warrant. Warrants can have the same rights and restrictions as Options. Warrants are used to incentivize employees with ownership rather than cash. Again, in our company we used Warrants to attract talent and compensate early employees to great effect.

3. Protection is another point he brings up. Yes the Corp (C and S) is battle tested in the courts. Yes LLCs have not been tested to quite that extent. However, to flatly state that a C Corp will protect you is a little overselling what the reality is. The Corporate Veil is not impermeable. As a matter of fact, it is most often pierced (outside of blatant misconduct) by attacking under or low initially capitalized companies and closely held businesses. Companies like startups who start small and become successful quickly.

I see this particular article as not having researched LLCs, their use case, and the benefits they possess in some cases over Corporations. I understand no SV VCs will talk to you unless you have a C-Corp. I get it many Lawyers in the startup ecosystem want you to create a C-Corp. But this is truly a small percentage of businesses and even a small percentage of startup businesses.

Why blanket write off any particular solution (or all others for that matter) without first checking to see if it can meet your specific needs?
> probably much smarter to distribute their lender among multiple entities than one giant bank that would have leverage on them

The banks you see on the front page of the prospectus are not lenders in this transaction, they are underwriters. They are executing transaction and distributing the converts to the institutional investors (long-only and hedge funds). At any rate, underwriters and investors will have exactly zero leverage over Tesla following transaction (debt holders have no voting power).

> would use a portion of the money to inflate their share prices via a small buyback

Not at all. They are concurrently offering common shares, so buyback would make zero sense (i.e. buying and selling shares at the same time). They plan to use proceeds for general corporate purposes (Model 3!) and to buy a call spread they will overlay on top of the convert to synthetically increase the effective conversion premium above the premium that convert will price at. This is done to reduce potential dilution down the road.

> Tesla is raising capital without diluting their shareholders...

Correct - this convert will likely fly off the shelves and the conversion premium will be high (perhaps up 30-40% from tomorrow's close). On top of that, they will enter into the call spread that will bring the conversion premium to up 50% or 75% (depending on the structure they pick) from tomorrow's close.

> Also the maturity date of 5 years is rather interesting

This is standard duration for convertible debt. Generally they are structured with 5 year or 7 year duration, but 5 years sell better (pricing is also tighter).

Overall, smart deal for Tesla and net positive for shareholders.
But why should that make any difference to whether Google Fiber is a viable business? Since when did Google try just one thing at a time?
Who else thinks that Asm.js was okay, but WebAssembly is evil and might destroy the current web landscape. It's like a trojan horse. Guess which companies are involved.
Many cultures and sub-cultures don't believe in tipping for many different reasons. These cultures exist all over the globe and in the US. When tipping is needed to provide a decent wage for a service, people from these 'no tipping' cultures will tend to get bad to no service. Taxi services are heavily criticized for this behavior. I think it is great at least one of the two major smartphone hailed car services has a default culture of not tipping. Drivers can choose which they like better.

Uber rides are very cheap at the moment, especially when you get an Uber Pool and no one joins. I hope they up the fares some and pass them on to drivers and keep tipping for special extra-ordinary service. Uber is so much more convenient than conventional taxi service and I sure hope it or some similar service continues into the future.
The rose tinting of HTML should also be taken into account. Java was maybe 10x slower in those days, but more importantly internet was 100x slower and computers 500x slower.

Java ran pretty damn good for what it pulled off back then. It would have been orders of magnitude easier to make Java into what we have today than it was to bastardize HTML and JS to be usable.

Java these days uses native UI which looks nicer and is much faster than in-browser rending. Graceful degredation is only needed because some browsers are such crap. This was never a big problem in Java and still isn't. If a JVM supports JDK 8 you can expect it to run java 8 apps reliably

Java seems like a resource hog because it will use spare ram when you've got it, but most apps run fine on around 15mb of ram. Less if you use AOT compilation. Modern webapps use around 50-100.
This was my understanding as well. If they just ring up the total and pass you food, there's no expectation of a tip.

I do tip from time to time at places where I'm a regular customer. If I get takeout somewhere near work of home ~4 times a month I'll drop a dollar in once every couple of trips.
related: http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intellig...

I think you are probably asking for something far more advanced than prediction of a simple numerical model?