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T-Mobile in the US has a set of plans that offer unlimited international data roaming in more than 140 countries [1]. The catch? The bandwidth is capped to 128kbps.

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/optional-services/roaming.html
It kind of goes both ways. Personally I really do not care about peole like this author that likes to rant as if the rest of us are a-holes for not being comfortable seeing a person being abused. Why did he even write this? It reflects very poorly on him. Had that baby been hit it could have been worse. There was really no excuse to use force in this situation and yet the fly attendant choose to do do so. It doesn't matter what his excuse was, a baby almost got hurt because of his actions. Yes, I will get upset about something like this.
Saying less is a way of not saying something bad without lying. For example, "I left because I realized I wanted something different," doesn't disparage the former employer and is the distilled truth and is not bullshit and is emphasizes the action rather than the injury from a bad workplace.

Good luck.
> a proudly bigoted org, succeed in NorCal.

Then don't eat there and shut the fuck up about it. It's a fucking sandwich joint. They're not putting queers in camps.
> the best I could do was make a welcoming and safe environment for them. That has never really sat well with me

As a child of a kindergarten teacher, this is the constant truth that both breaks every teacher's heart and motivates them to try harder every day.

Title I schools are tougher. Kids who get themselves up and to school, if they come at all. Kids without access to clean clothes. Kids who don't have access to a solid meal outside of school breakfast / lunches.

I can't find a link offhand, but I know I read that some school districts around the country are beginning to co-locate social service points of presence in community schools to good effect.
Again, this is not reddit.
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This is incredible. Make sure to watch the video to get a sense of just how rigid these things are!
In Germany, hunting rights are community-owned in a way. The landowners in a municipality all form the Jagdgenossenschaft, it's a civic corporation (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts). An individual would lease hunting rights from it, and an individual landowner can't probibit hunting on his lands if the Genossenschaft things otherwise.
They solve the problem of having to manually go through 1000s of applicants. Most jobs these days have over 100 people applying. This software allows the system to easily get rid of unqualified (whatever you set the criteria at) applicants automatically.

I am sure there are many other uses like applicant tracking, job posting, compliance with discrimination laws, etc.
That's really cool. Thanks for the followup.
I don't like the five minutes of hate either. And the over abundance of out-of-context filming going on everywhere.

But I do care that a woman was hit by a stroller and that a baby was almost hit. Mr. Flight Attendant is an employee, not police officer, and has no right to assault anyone.

What upsets me, and everyone else if they spent a minute to think about it, is that flying (among many other things we do) has become a throughly unpleasant.

Flight crews are increadily underpaid, over worked and under extreme stress. If they don't close that gate on time they'll miss departure, have to wait in cue several minutes and cost their company thousands in fuel.

So they're stressed, annoyed, view us a cattle (which we are) and will lay their hands on woman with babies.

It's not the flight attendants fault. It's American Airlines' fault.
You chopped off my quote. "can have LESS". "can" be an operative word, there.

An electric BMW is not compatible with the Supercharger network, which is faster and more extensive than other networks. Additionally, it has one-half the electric range of even a lower end Tesla, and about a third the electric range of a large-battery Tesla. It's really not a good example of what "can" be done.

You also picked a 2 hour drive. For a lot of people, this isn't super common. More common is commuting every day, when you might run low on gas and have to worry about when in your schedule to fit in a trip to a gas station while if you have an electric vehicle, you simply charge at home each night and so don't have to worry about it.
It won't. There's no money in malaria.
I recommend looking for a new career path. Software is no place for introverts. You were born a few decades too late: back in the good ol' days, software was a good place for someone who liked a quiet office environment with their own office or cubicle, who'd be left alone most of the time to get their work done by themselves. Not any more. Now it's a "team sport" as 'timfrietas' says here: you're going to be in a noisy open-plan office environment with people interrupting you constantly. It's absolutely the wrong environment for an introvert. You're still a student, so you can change majors now and go into something more suitable for introverts, unlike us older guys who are now stuck. Sorry, I wish I had some more positive advice for you.
Also Ted Chiang, who is a technical writer for Microsoft.
One would think that they would have all of the licensing deals, etc. signed, sealed, and ready to go long before we got to this point. What if the movie had been a hit (a longshot of course but it's possible) and the soundtrack delayed?
But Lightsail is not Django hosting...
tl;dr: Stop reacting to videos of humans not being at their finest.

Well, yes and no. Yes overreacting with outrage to situations where we don't always have the full details is fraught with pitfalls.

At the same time, perhaps we can as a society use these moments, not for outrage but to make us better at being human. Recognize that in the grand scheme of things, we are all humans and in the same boat, and that it is better for us to suffer a LITTLE injustice instead of escalating to A LOT of injustice for someone else (aka. revenge).

Fun note: the old Moses law of "an eye for an eye" was meant in the context of not retaliating with greater force than the original injustice, precisely to avoid conflict escalation.
> hope to make money

Definitely this one. The app is free out of the box but there's extra features for those who want them - productivity insights, Pocket-like features etc.
If we are choosing between the problems of:

A) Having users, with high expectations

B) Not having users

Problem A is a way better problem to have. Of course, no business would intentionally try to cultivate a user base of picky, high maintenance pain-in-the-necks. Nor would it be anyone's long term goal to be hacking on user requested features. But if those things bring users, easy trade. It's hard to think of any problem that would be more important than the problem of not having users.
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That the author even uses Uber as a rival to Weymo demonstrates their lack of awareness in the industry.
I've worked for startups basically my entire professional career, and none of the startups I've worked for were like that. I've interviewed at/talked about consulting for some that had a bit of a frat-house vibe, and turned those down.

- The single sexual harassment claim I can recall was a huge deal that caused soul-searching about how that person was hired. (Don't know that that was the best reaction, but it was indicative of the concern.)

- When things that pushed ethical lines were mooted, that was talked about a lot, and, at least to my sense of morals, we rarely crossed them.

Bottom line - being a startup doesn't mean you're an Uber. Being an Uber means you're an Uber.
S.A. is was also head of the committee that selects UN human rights experts. It sure seems like we are living in a parallel universe these days.
I'm pretty sure the service level is a function of culture (e.g. ones upbringing), payment vs expectations in ones job, overworking, stress and so on. I think hoping that a viral video will change anything about that without a change to the mentioned things is all washed up.
In that kind of situation the lack of an office presence is going to be a net negative in many if not most cases. The kind of small, in-house shop you describe tends to be governed very much by office politics and attracts a certain kind of manager who will very happily use the WFH policy as a cudgel as much as he will a carrot.
I pay $14/mo for unlimited 100Mbit/s home internet + 120 channel home TV + 12G mobile data/mo + 1000 min and 500 SMS local cell (stock offer from ISP). This is compensated by the fact that I live in Russia though.
Just for context, this record label recently released the OST for the new CHIPS movie.
This got flagged? Why? How can one vote to unflag? [Edit: seems to be unflagged now]
The bad press started way before the Otto flap.
I'm not the one who voted you, but I do see where the downvote may have come from – your comment doesn't really add much to the discussion. As for why it's on the front page, seems other people found it interesting and upvoted it. You don't have to agree with them, but I think it's easy to see why this article may be of interest to people.
It reminds me a lot of the conundrum large companies have when faced with the prospect of disrupting their own cash cows.
Which is more power than my lawn mower, which makes comparable outputs as what is inside those juice packets.
There's a dilema of browsing with a web app(firefox, opera, chrome) and navigating using a native app when you are in development countries.
Using web browsing consumes your data pretty fast and the cap limits are low(~500mb), but it gives you good energy consumption. Using apps to navigate is more efficient with your data consumption; however, battey life drains pretty fast.
The latter is due many cheap or mid mobile phones; if you have a high end phone shouldn't be a problem.
I used to live in Peru, and worked in mobile geo localization services.
Do you have any proof that Chick-fil-A is "proudly bigoted"? Like is there a page on their website somewhere saying "gays need not apply"? Or is it ok now to redefine words whenever we want? Because that would be... ungood.
How will self-driving cars affect society? Trying to wrap my head around the bigger picture.
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I wanted to do something similar for snakes once, but after some thought it didn't seem like the safest idea.
Just upvote the article
Hell yeah! Way to stick it to Big Consumer!
More discussion at https://research.swtch.com/glob#comment-3272455315
Thanks, you too!
That's from the video aban recommended. Cartman Algorithm.
There's a karma threshold past which the option becomes available.
Murray Gell-Mann has some not so positive views about Feynman https://youtu.be/rnMsgxIIQEE
They are an org of unethical people doing unethical and illegal things. The sooner Uber implodes, the better for the world as a whole.
Most of the positions identified are in the "low pay webdev" category. I don't mean low pay in comparison with median incomes nation wide. I mean low pay in comparison with the industry. I wonder how many of those WordPress "jobs" are really $35/hr 6-month contracts or low fixed-rate projects, for example.
Wikileaks is full of it.
LOL I've yet to get my hands on this. The energy drink I mean... I feel like you could sell the empty cans to some countries as souvenirs.
Nope, it's hacker news mate...
It's more in "enterprise computing," especially outside the tech industry. Think banks and big manufacturing companies, where the HR department doesn't know much.
Remember the time that the yellow cab was tracking our location? No? Me either.
Just use the default yellow colour then.
offering to build (tiny! like, 5-minute one-offs!) features _just for them_ sort of blows their minds

It seems worth noting that this can also be a dangerous strategy. It's really easy to fall into the trap of giving each customer exactly what they ask for, rather than learning what they actually need. If gone unchecked, this is the sort of product strategy that easily leads to disastrous results for product usability and experience.

This isn't to say that as a business you're always (or ever) better at knowing what your customers want than the customer is; but you are in a strategic position to be able to understand what similar customers are asking for, and distill that down to the core problem that needs to be solved.

I'm sure this isn't the extent that the original comment was aiming for, but it felt worth expanding on this since the whole topic is about early products getting users. A key component of that is ensuring you're building a product that people want to use.
Self-driving cars have been in the development phase for so long, I'm really excited to see them start rolling out in these beta tests.

I'm curious what sort of unconsidered edge cases they'll find out in the real world. I'm sure test passengers are much more "disciplined" than real world ones.
Train them to find truffle and you got a business.
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There is a lot for an engineer to love in the ZMM -- fixing things, a meditation on screws, the quality of shims, and father-son story. It's tempting for a rational engineer to laugh at philosophy. But it's a quality book.
Look, there is clearly an algorithm at work that promotes stories that get voted up early and frequently. So there's your answer. As for your question about why you got downvoted, check the news guidelines: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.
So a good friend of mine got LSD induced psychosis. It wasn't permanent but for about a month he was exhibiting symptoms and he was totally off the deep end for about a week or so. Friends had to bring him to the hospital days later and they kept him in the psych ward for a while.

It was incredibly scary that it lasted so long and I was so worried he'd never be the same again.
uh... yes it is.
and what is the value of:
"I Don’t Care If a Flight Attendant Almost Hit a Baby"

It is a purely selfish post that obviously focuses on the "I" of a narcissistic and maybe sociopath mind. What does it add to the broader value of the issue?

This should not be on the front page.
That is definitely a thing, but you only have to care about what you bring into it. I don't care about travelling for show, but to places I find interesting. But if you don't get anything out of it other than the stamp in your passport then I guess it's not for you.
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That totally scales if the new user long term value is sufficient to recoup these 5 months. These 5 months free are an investment, that may or may not pay off, but if it reliably pays off, then yes, it is a very healthy customer acquisition strategy.
Also, I am not really sure about the "quality" aspect. All that complexity, all those moving parts, high power components next to low power components - seems a lot could wrong down the road. Ofc they seem to be well built so the components could last a while.
Because Uber is ride sharing that is getting into self-driving vehicles, their money comes from the rides we take. Alphabet (Google) Is literally just testing and developing their own self-driving car technology. As far as we know they have no business model, yet.
It's like if someone offers you a beer. Bud Light or a strong IPA may not be to your taste, but saying "what do you have" sounds greedy unless they've offered a choice. A free beer is still a free beer. You either turn down the offer or you are grateful for the free beer. There are no other options.
This is a really good article! It was thanks to this (and the Wikipedia page) that I managed to write code[1] for drawing evenly-spaced letters along the curve. The letters are even rotated to match the curve, all thanks to this article. It's basically a one-stop shop for all things Bezier :)

[1] In Racket, here: https://github.com/piotrklibert/curved-text
or go get a book on plants and you will be able to identify them pretty easy. The guidebooks ask you questions to narrow it down (how many petals does the flower have? for example). you dont need any knowledge going into using one, and you'll learn to observe and appreciate plants more as well through the process of IDing! newcombs wildflower is the go-to for beginners on the east coast but there are many.
Thank you for spending the time to assess the validity of the claimed result, and for taking the time to explain it to us. This is a great example of the frequently poor quality of reported scientific studies.
It does. It's like the U.N is afraid of looking islamaphobic so they allow one of the more barbaric regimes to join these councils.

As N.N.Taleb says, the most intolerant will win.
> My critique about the Zen aspect is that Buddhism is not something you theorize about, it is something you practice.

yes, in principle, but there is a 2500 year old tradition of Buddhist monks theorizing about it at length. whether or not this is a good or true way to practice Buddhism is subject to debate (and they do, at length), but it's just a ground truth here that there is a long-winded scholarly tradition associated with the subject.
I was expecting another superficial article with some interactive graphs but this is a lot deeper with handy formulas for various flavors and uses of Bézier curves. Worth a bookmark!
No, but I did have a workout buddy for the first year or so that I was going, so that probably helped. But anyway, I'd still recommend a trainer as he might be able to identify any weak spots in your posture, mobility etc and give better personalized advice than what you'd find online. Had I had one early on, I might not have ended up as a hunchback with huge arms and chicken legs after my first few years of training (I've luckily been able to develop a more balanced physique since).
Gamification and competition can be a good motivator. I use the Strava.com mobile app to track endurance exercises (swimming/cycling/running) and just started using the Jefit app to track weightlifting. When I see my friends have been working out and beating me it gives an incentive to get off the couch.

There's nothing wrong with going straight to bed after exercise. You'll probably sleep better for it.
Thanks for the reply!

The downvotes keep coming, I guess that's the hivemind at work.

But anyway, allow me to disagree: My comment has two very valid questions.

1) What's the point of the article? The rest of the comments here are just people being angry because a dude said he's tired of being angry, and that he can't be angry without facts. Really, please someone explain to me, what's the point of the article? I'm calling for civil discussion.

2) Why is this in front page? I understand the technical aspects of this being front page; but I'm baffled this is #1 and I thought people would be able to explain why they think it's relevant.

I guess there's no room anymore for difficult questions and it's all about being angry and downvoting.
You let it go. Or you leave HN. Or you email the mods.

But frankly, I perceive your exaggerated behaviour as childish and quite possibly abusive towards tome.
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-second...
I guess Canada doesn't have the population to scale the cost down. It's a huuuuuge country with a big spread of people.

$50 for couple of gigs is insane. I pay $50 with T-mobile for unlimited everything except international calls. You could say unlimited for 20 gigs before I get a bandwidth cap which is still usable. LTE speeds are faster than my home Internet with Frontier Fios
You call that harassment? It looks more like a critical request for clarity. You chose to engage and from a neutral perspective it looks like you just kept digging a deeper hole.

¯\(°_o)/¯

Any time things touch on sensitive subjects there's going to be people who agree and disagree, sometimes vehemently. It's the internet.
Soccer? Frisbee? I had a problem not wanting to do things if it wasn't competitive... and not wanting to play if I wasn't going to be good...

Anyway I sort of got over that... but mostly I just have some dogs I walk now. We do a 5 mile loop before breakfast every morning. Made a big difference in my health and mindset. Plus... it means getting up early enough to do a 5 mile loop before breakfast, and since I'm competitive (even with myself) I started saying, "Ok, yesterday was 1 hour... can I do the same walk in 55 minutes today?" So that turned into jogging... and a few years into it I really started liking to jog. My morning feels off if I don't get the blood flowing before I shower.

Think a dog or a stopwatch would help?
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I swear I am not a coffee snob, but...

If all you have is instant, you're better off not offering anything. That stuff is generally terrible.
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I didn't read the content, but observed you engaged with this person. As such, I don't see it as harassment (at least in the context of one comment tree).
http://www.simplefit.org/workout.html

Check this out. I workout three times a week for 20ish minutes or less. I modify this method a bit. Curls instead of pull ups and kettle bell swings instead of squats. I bought everything so I've got it all at home. Kettle bell and two dumbbells take up very little space. If you actually want to exercise there is always a way. I'm not in the same shape I was in when I was working out at the gym 6 days a week but I don't need to be anymore.
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I didn't exactly complain that it is inappropriate. I have asked two valid questions :)

I understand most people would only extract that from my question (which is nuanced, I admit); but they're either wrong or downvoting me in disagreement, which is against the rules I believe :)

Thanks for replying!

P.S.: Thanks for the reminder about the technical aspect of a story going to #1 fast.
How hard is it to throw the MP3 onto an online marketplace? Nobody is asking for hardcopies.
That he's a "phony, self-congratulatory, pretentious buffoon" according to the top rated review on Goodreads [1]. That it's new-age, pseudo-psychology masquerading as philosophy.

I don't share these views, personally. But knowing a fair few philosophers myself, I think the Analytic school is powerful in the US. Dominated by figures like Bertrand Russell, who rely on a formal grammar and logical syntax. Philosophy is a science in this view and there's no room for narrative.

ZatAoMM falls into the Continental school and has more in common in its approach with figures like Nietzsche and Marx, relying on a narrative or historical approach. Neither of those particular figures, nor the Continental school in general, are much in vogue and thus I think Zen gets rejected for being both Continental and popular.

[1]:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16210395

EDIT: It's also frequently observed that Pirsig offers nothing new to philosophy. This is probably correct. I think the narrative aspect is what really separates the work. I found this while searching around a bit looking for further information, and it really sums up what I feel is ZatAoMM's greatest contribution:

'hat makes Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance superlative (and unique, to my knowledge) is that Pirsig successfully blended the history of philosophy with the history of his psyche, allegorizing each into the other." [2]

[2]:https://www.quora.com/What-do-philosophers-think-about-Zen-a...