skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would be more than happy to pay even a little more if it meant not getting guilt tripped over a tip

That does not sound very logical.
In the current version or will never be?
Bonus points for frustration: "...and also his last name is the name of a famous American automobile company." I mean at that point I would probably be thinking of General Motors.
Yes, it's compiled in Oz.
You know Indian govt is busy building such infrastructure at Railways and villages with the collaboration with Google. Around 150 railway stations are equipped with free wifi. Govt is pushing optical fiber network in villages so that it can promote Digital India.

In my opinion you should contact govt for more help and I am sure your ideas can be utilized.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Amazon-sets-up-...
> Personally I don't care if there is no incentive to go above and beyond the base level of service. All I want and expect is the base level of service.

This is the exact problem. A base level of service should be three stars, but people have been conditioned to read five stars as base level, and anything below as problematic. The whole point of a rating system is to get an idea of what to expect. When different people rate on different metrics, the data doesn't actually represent what you think it does (whichever metric you subscribe to).

The only reason anything less than five stars is interpreted weirdly is because people started rating weirdly and then start taking that into consideration when looking at the ratings, and it gets all confused. Many of these ratings systems clearly state what each rating level means, and people still don't rate by those criteria. People have been culturally indoctrinated to rate things incorrectly (that is, they specifically don't follow the instructions in lieu of following what has become the norm). This compresses one end of the spectrum which leads to loss of fidelity on that end. It's clearly worse than a system where people actually followed the criteria and we could actually identify a five star average as exceptional, a four star as good, and a three star as sufficient.
I must admit having made a valiant attempt at writing fizzbuzz in brainfuck as a lark, once upon a whiteboarding session. Ran out of space and/or ink, if I remember correctly.
One would likely go mad not avoiding the ton of BS/propaganda put out daily by the mainstream media circus. Not sure the point of the study, if not to aid said circus to target people more efficiently. One would think there are more noble research to be done, other than to invent more crafty clickbait titles, or disguise your content with some psychological wizardry to evoke emotion, etc...
How much temporal dilation would a relativistic orbit about a frame-dragging massive object create? Would the black hole or other objects orbiting it look weird (relatively--hehe--speaking).
More proof that tipping is wrong, local variances with no way to find the local standard!
Great, I'll run the benchmark on Firefox. Really excited for this.
How tangible is cyberspace?
I though SIMD had already landed on WebAssembly.

That will make asm.js look a lot slower and should get it closer to C/C++ where it's still lagging.
This line of argument is ridiculous. Are software companies pricing their computer programs based on location? Do folks in Ohio get to pay less than folks in New York?

What if you hire a great remote developer who lives in San-Jose, then she moves to Kentucky 6 months later, and their contribution is still the same. Why should their pay be adjusted?
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I prefer the cost of service to be up-front and clearly labeled, tipping obscures the cost
Just to add a data point, I earned about $2,000 with a self-published "how to start a podcast" book in 2015: http://record-and-release.com

I wrote it and released it in 10 days and followed a highly-abbreviated version of the promotional plan from Nathan Barry's _Authority_ to market it.

I know $2,000 is small money compared to some of the figures being tossed around in here, but I'm thankful to have earned that much.

My 2nd book was a total flop, commercially: https://gumroad.com/l/clientconflictbook

The people who bought the book found the content super-useful, but the subject matter just did NOT catch on as something my audience was willing to spend money on. I found d a real pain point, just not one that was compelling enough. I also prompted it poorly.

Here's hoping my 3rd book does better! I feel optimistic about the profit potential of self-publishing, generally speaking. As has been mentioned here, you have to market it well AND have a compelling subject matter with a hungry audience. It's not easy.
Every Turing complete language is a universe language runtime.

The interesting question is whether it's a good universal language runtime, and what kind of languages it's best for.

Today, WASM doesn't support GC, which means it's unlikely to be a good runtime for any language that wants to automatically manage memory and interact with the DOM (which needs to have its own GC).
Is it not possible someone's already found it? Whoever finds it would have to pay taxes if they report it.
America should not be comparing itself to developing nations, but other developed nations. In that they fall short in many things.
Is it just me or do Java applets seem like they were way the hell ahead of their time?

If the sandbox didn't have so many holes in it Java applets were arguably better for webapps than the unholy mess we've cobbled together over the last ten years to replace them.

It's sad to me that Java fell out of the browser and was replaced with a slow non standardized single threaded shit language for almost ten years just because Java didn't have DOM access.

JavaScript is just nearing Java feature parity and still not anywhere close for performance.

And I'll tell you what Java didn't have. A unfathomable clusterfuck of module systems, transpilers, shit build tools and IDE support, crazy syntax gotchas, unholy and inconsistent exception handling systems. God dammit what have we done.

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It's somewhat common for people in some security circles to post hashes of messages they don't want to post publicly, but might want to refer to disclose privately or at a later date, and have some reasonable proof they didn't make it up later.

This, for example, is a throwaway account. Perhaps there's something in the message that'll let them prove they left that message at a later date, if they desire to.
The same thing happened in digital advertising. People developed "Banner Blindness" and mostly do not notice the presence of ads in your page. It's almost like people are very intelligent and you cannot fool them for a long time.
> you'll be waiting for someone to want a ride south for a very long time

Why would you wait long? It's not like the system doesn't know where you are. Just start driving back, and if someone is around that needs a ride that direction, deliver it to someone already heading back to home territory in the same direction. Worst case you don't get anyone and drive back without any fares. All it should take is a slight bias towards those traveling back from long drives if it's going the same direction.
I honestly prefer the "Marissa Mayer" method[1] of A/B testing 41 shades of blue in order to experimentally determine which one produces the best results. If you have even the slightest ability to test at scale this makes the most sense to me.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html
Always wondered where the bandwidth was going when I was using HAMMER. Had to use UFS when testing last time.
Cool. And if you see slowness on more than one browser, please file a bug, it could be something in the toolchain we need to fix (if it's fast in one browser but slow in another, the slow one probably just needs to improve).
The most obvious differences for me were the eggs,I honestly thought I got a bad batch the first time I cooked after moving back because the yolk was so yellow, and the fruit. Fruit was always more expensive, but so long as it was in season, it was almost universally better than what I had eaten in the US.
Some people can't comprehend that a person would do something just for fun/interesting rather being selfish/greedy/personally optimal.
Most garbage collected languages don't require a VM as far as I'm aware. D, Go, Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, ML, Nim, ...
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Right, but their problem is - at SOME point, google or Microsoft will figure it out. MS in particular will destroy them if they do get their syncing and sharing down. I'm in your same boat but I also have free onedrive through work. The second they get their sharing figured out (and quite frankly they may have already but I haven't put it through the ringer again) - dropbox is in trouble.
If we're on the topic comparing Spanner, here's the 15-second live demo of resizing Spanner from 70 to 99 nodes at [0]. The act itself is quite unremarkable, but the complexity abstracted away is awesome.

Both Spanner and Datastore do quite well in the cloud for "huge scale" as fully managed services. And with any deployment on-premise, one certainly must manage their own capacity "by hand".

(work at Google Cloud)

[0] https://youtu.be/kwnWfHq2EfQ?t=11m48s
The article is not coming up for me, but here's Google's cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X5wnGE...

a direct link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ

and a link to the original 2011 experiment:

https://rasteri.blogspot.com/2011/03/chain-of-fools-upgradin...
This argument only works if you assume that people who go vegan enjoys food less than they did before they went vegan. The reality is that most vegans report enjoying food much more. The reason for that is that they are forced to experiment with different flavors and get more creative, which expands their culinary horizons.
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You can use constructors for JSON now. See https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin
I don't think it has GC at the moment. It might be alright if the GC doesn't show up for a few years; languages like Rust can demonstrate bare-metal, stutter-free performance on the Web.
NYC requires Uber drivers to be licensed as "TLC" drivers (taxi and limousine commission) - so yeah, they are exclusively professional drivers who would usually normally be working for a car service.
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So wasm is a bytecode format like Java or C#'s IL except it basically has no runtime?

Why don't we just use an existing bytecode format and skip all the pointless design? LLVM? Android DEX? Java Class or C# IL formats aren't enough? Hell if we use one of those bytecode formats we could reuse the runtime too!

I'm sure there's probably 20+ bytecode formats and I'm rolling my eyes that we need yet another for the web....
I try to upvote rather than +1, but chiming in to point out how wrong the parent comment is assuming they shouldn't tip.

Of course, scrolling down the thread just shows that waaay too many HNers live in their own bubble pretending to be Mr. Pink with their mightier-than-thousplaining that justifies their miserliness.

No matter how disruptive moving livery to cashless may have been, the truth remains: Uber's current business model is classic leveraging of unorganized labor in order to take advantage of a race to the bottom among drivers. Of course, this wouldn't be sustainable for a second absent Valley VC's willingness to subsidize this mirage until customers are hooked, regulators are left feckless, and then like clockwork, rates are raised with none for the drivers.

It'd be unethical, absent this sort of business being an accepted part of the marketplace. It's called hospitality, and it is driven by tipping. There's absolutely nothing new or justifiable about the type of thinking on this thread. Pool/Line are down to $2.50 for 15-20 minute rides. If you enjoy bragging about avoiding the social contract inherent in tipping economies, you are no different than Susan Fowler's HR encounters: looking the other way as Kalanick rips off those whose livelihood he actively suppresses.
Also, we are looking for developers.
I live in one of the most corrupted countries in the world. Yet our newborn immunisation rate is nearly 100%, with free healthcare and education for the people in poorer rural area and ethnics minorities. And my tax money contributed to that.

I guess it's fine to hate your government, but a better solution is to change it than avoid paying tax. Because if people pay less tax then then the poor and vulnerable will be affected first, not the corrupted interest group.
The same questions tend to be asked repeatedly. If you read the last two dozen pages or so you've basically read the whole thing, especially regarding the more recent developments.

Every month or so last year I went back to that thread and could literally track Sonic's progress westward in the Outer Richmond, starting from the central office at Geary Blvd & 9th Ave. In fact, IIRC that's how news broke about the Richmond build out; people reported in that thread suspicious Sonic activity at the central office and nearby.

Also, if you read the CEO's, Dane's, comments, you begin to get a sense of the regulatory landscape they're treading. I think among the 2014-2015 posts, mostly discussing the Sunset, are some good posts from Dane explaining delays related to cabinet installation, including AT&T's behavior.
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> Lentils, beans, nuts, seeds, seitan, tofu, all great sources of protein.

This may be true, but all of those either: interfere with mineral absorption, decrease serum testosterone, or are not comparable in taste to animal protein.

You may have had an increase in quality of life, but this is not universally applicable to the entire population. Keto is the first thing that comes to mind that increases quality of life, that also focuses a lot on animal products.

Full disclosure, I am a vegetarian.
The website says the token is valid for 24 hours, if the user is going to have 2-3 coffee/cigarette a day he doesn't have to get a token every time. Also If this token is valid across all the Bakeries and petty shops then the user can go to any shop for a chai and use the internet. Soon people might give you a token as change ;-)
Depends on what you mean by "work". Official clients? No.

Third party though? onedrive:
https://skilion.github.io/onedrive/

google drive (assuming you're using gnome):
https://www.howtogeek.com/196635/an-official-google-drive-fo...
Out-Of-Control Uber Slams into Gas Pump and Explodes in a Fireball
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That's not at all relevant.
Thanks Nico, glad to hear that you'll give us another chance.
I sometimes wonder if the attitude of take on risks is somewhat of a survivorship bias. I'd assume that the expected return of the safe choice is always higher than that of risky ones.

Now you could make a ton of money by taking risk, but its kind of like playing the lotto. Few winners lots of losers.
What country is that?
There couldn't possibly be any PR consequences if they did that. I mean, it's not like redlining at all.
I don't mean to be a pill, yes it's fun to read pmarca's reply, and I appreciate your being a good sport. But I still think your comment deserved its chiding.

When a thing happens 99% of the time, its happening again doesn't mean there was any truth, or even any information, in your reasoning. You might just as easily have linked it to A16Z's cafeteria as their consumer strategy. Whether or not they have a cafeteria.

(I'm not assuming this startup has failed, of course; the point about snarky dismissals holds either way.)
Cool! Thanks for the offer for help. Can you maybe reach out to joan@gitlab.com?
+1. I use Uber over Lyft right now because I prefer a UX as close to "type destination, arrive, done" as possible, which Lyft's whole tipping deal needlessly impairs.

If Uber is going to implicitly make tipping a requirement to not feel like a jerk (as with Lyft), but without copying Lyft's ability to tip from the app, suddenly Lyft looks a lot less unattractive by comparison. Now that I know this is starting to become a concern at all, I would switch to Lyft immediately if they just added a setting for a default auto-tip that would be factored into fare estimates.

I really don't understand this aggressive, cutthroat effort to compete on price at the expense of their drivers; I can't be in the minority in considering price a secondary concern to the overall UX, so long as it isn't unreasonably inflated like taxi fares. Is it possible that the underlying model of ridesharing isn't actually particularly more efficient than the taxi industry, and that Uber/Lyft rates will naturally converge with taxi rates over time as they gradually stop subsidising rides and/or underpaying drivers?
ubers rating system used to be a lot simpler, this "give a compliment" shit is terrible, i dont even use it anymore.

i miss in app tipping too.

i really wish lyft was available in my area.
I'm six years in Japan. I think staying in touch with your home country makes a big difference. I'm yet to move back for good, but I find that two things have made my readjustment when visiting home much easier:

1. Keeping up with family via Facebook
2. Getting an AFL streaming subscription

If you're not Australian it's hard to understand, but once you've experienced the greatest sport in the world it's hard to give it up.
I believe there are no examples of charity ever being able to provide the basic needs of all but a small percent of the poor of a nation. It was not charities that provided clean water. It was not charities that largely ended hunger or gave healthcare to the poor. It was not charities that educated the masses. Government is necessary. It can be done badly but it doesn't have to be.
To add extra color, for about $3M/month @ list prices of Cloud Datastore [1], you can, in a Multi-Region active-active synchronous replication configuration, run a workload with the following profile:

Reads: >1.1M entities/second
Write: >380K entities/second
Delete: >190K/second
Storage: 100TB

And that's if you don't use any of the nearly free optimizations like Projection queries & keys-only queries, which any large scale customer does.

That's not pre-provisioned usage, it's actual pay-as-you-go usage - so if you have no traffic, you have no costs (except for what's already stored). It's been that way for 8 years too.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=e21b61d5-4a...

(PM for Cloud Datastore - if you'll looking at 1M+ QPS workloads feel free to message me)
And what are those exactly? JVM and CLR bytecode is totally platform agnostic and both support many languages without trouble.

Apparently they aren't cool anymore so we need to spend another few thousand man years building another system in their image
I see no choice but to live like this. The objective truth about how I stack up relative to others, what I amount to in the world, the things I have missed out on and all of the times I've failed others... it is too oppressive to think about. Better keep my blinders on and run forward in my own lane.
In my opinion, the best hiring interviews for tech positions should include the type of interactions that will actually take place in said job, but also resemble the usual way in which people in the given culture do intellectual work (e.g. for someone out of university, that would be the way he would usually sit an exam).

The best I can think of is to have a 45-60min written test with technical questions/problems going from very easy (where failure to solve is a red flag) all the way to more moderate, some difficult, and maybe even one very hard problem (solving which is a green (?) flag).

No need to be in the room with the person. Can put a webcam to record test if cheating is a concern.

After the test, the candidate gets a 5-10 min break, a drink, while the hiring team of 2-3 people take a quick look over the result of the test.

In the second part of the interview they all go into a room to have a chat based on the problems in the test. The candidate gets a chance to defend his choices, show additional skills, while the hiring team gets to ask tangent questions (how would you speed this up? why this data structure? if space was at a premium how would you improve this?).

I think the secret is to adapt the tone of the discussion to keep the candidate on the edge but avoid intimidation. If the candidate is a confidence artist, test him with more and more direct questions that he cannot weasel out of. If the candidate is more shy, engage him/her with a brainstorming like discussion, and go of on tangents from there.

The written test plus the opinions/notes of the 2-3 people present at the discussion should paint a decently detailed picture of the candidate, and also provide a written record of his/her performance for reference and comparison with other candidates.
If you look around enough, you may find many "international stores" that stock on foods sourced....Internationally. Of course, the Indian/Chinese stores are a class in themselves, but you can also find the odd store that stocks products imported from Turkey or Germany etc.

This is MUCH easier in a big city of course. Houston is surprisingly good in this regard: not only can you find all kinds of groceries, but the restaurants serving different cuisines are absolutely terrific.
This has been brought up several times in this thread, but none of those bytecodes is sufficient. LLVM is not platform-agnostic, JVM/IL are sub-optimal for languages like C++.

None of those platforms' security models are as good as the web's, either, nor are their runtimes able to work well in that context.
4.7 is low. 4.6 is where drivers get fired. At 4.5 a lot of drivers won't pick you up.
Previous discussions :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007
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Hundreds of trips on Uber, in Australia -- There is no tip culture here. Out of those hundreds, I've had two ask for positive ratings, absolutely none ask for a tip.

With drivers who have seemed friendly enough I've tried to politely and diplomatically inquire about how fair they feel the system is. Several ex-taxi drivers have told me it is better than driving for an official taxi company in every way, including pay. (Note that taxi drivers are never tipped either.)

I have been surprised by the number of people who have been driving for Uber as a bit of cash on the side, and not as a primary income -- all of them have told me it's "worth it" except for learning a lesson early on not to drive late at night and pick up drunks, as the chances of having to clean up after an extremely messy fare is too high.
This is really encouraging. The one thing that I'm not sure how I'd go about though is finding an editor. How did you go about that?
Well, even given the statement about the gov, that's not quite right: it was never your money to throw away.
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October 4, 2012 was the cutoff where they stopped generating Public folders for new Dropbox accounts-- at the time, existing accounts could still use the Public folders that had already been created.

I'm guessing they mention those accounts in the announcement to make it clear that the changes don't apply to those accounts, since pre-10/4/12 accounts never had a Public folder at all.
The problem is that debt starts modifying your behavior.

If you are in debt you are more likely to tolerate conditions you don't enjoy, e.g: if you live paycheck to paycheck, being happy at your job is not your top priority.