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> Tipping is a repugnant practice full stop.

Not everyone agrees. It's vulgar in my ideal world (Star Trek), but that is not the world in which we live (yet).

> I'd much rather know my driver is paid a fair wage (and pay more upfront) by their fucking employer rather than have to be responsible of making up the difference.

I agree with this. But, I also believe that Uber is exploiting its drivers, and that its app is not sufficient in these situations (yet?) to dispense with tipping altogether.

So, on balance, I see Uber's return to the custom of this culture to be a benefit to Uber's employees.
> isn't really the average results, but what is possible and the distribution among beneficial results only

No, the bad results also matter: you are still spending visitors and revenues in testing out bad variants, which is part of determining the costs and benefits. Even with a bandit approach, you incur logarithmic regret in the number of variants. And testing a bad variant is common: the best category, 'scarcity', has a 16% probability of the variant being harmful. A Value of Information calculation has to take into account the harm done while testing.
I did not say anything about package managers. I trust my distro and its suppplied packages just like you trust yours and aim to use official packages as much as I can.

The instructions in README.md say "sudo pip install" and "sudo ./setup.py". To me, that is a bad idea. Things that are manually installed should be kept in completely separate directories. My preference is to install such packages in my home directory, which should in no way require sudo.
Tobii is horrible for people with disabilities. Their reps are driven by making money, their devices dry your eyes out because of the amount of IR they put on your eye balls. And they don't offer extended support. And forget trying to run these devices if you have glasses or any eye condition!
I disagree. When I was in college (09-12 in Baltimore) it was impossible to get a cab unless it was a weekend night (in which case they’d all line up outside the dorms). I remember calling cab companies, being told “we put out a call on the radio, someone will probably be there in the next half hour.” And then nobody showing up. The ability to rate drivers and the ability of the system to punish drivers who won’t pick up mildly inconvenient fares has vastly improved this industry (at least from my POV).
Amazon does exactly the same thing though: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/cheap-words (focusing specifically on books, but they do it across all sectors)
Melissa, whoever she is, probably has a better track record turning around nose dives of high profile firms.
They are very popular, primarily because you can take them with you on the train. They're not as fast or comfortable as a regular bike, though. And very expensive.
Oh no, 6/7 are not just alternatives.

Parole after release is common (e.g. you're sentenced to X years, get released earlier at Y years and are now on parole for X-Y years). Depending on country, a simple traffic ticket(!) can be a parole violation, so you get why this is an issue.

Same goes for alcohol and drug testing, again often used in combination with parole.
They do now in San Francisco. But only because they lost so much business to Uber. This was an industry that was effectively a monopoly -- not one company, but one type of provider. And none of the players was improving the experience for the customer.

Calling for a cab was extremely unreliable here. You could easily wait for an hour (because any driver coming to pick you up could, without ill effect for him/herself, stop to pick somebody up on the street). Some cabs took credit cards, some didn't. Some claimed to take credit cards but then "the machine was broken" so you had to pay cash.

Uber improved on every single aspect of the customer experience. And they did it while offering lower prices for the consumer.

However: to me, they haven't proven it's a viable, long term model. I highly doubt that they are paying their drivers enough to cover the cost of wear and tear on the cars (many/most of the drivers I see with Uber and Lyft are doing it full time, so they are crazy if they aren't factoring in the cost of the car and maintenance as part of their cost). And AFAIK neither company has proven they can make money.

So: this industry was due for a shakeup.

But it needs to be done by a company without rampant management problems, and it still needs to prove that there is a viable, long term business model that works for the company, the drivers and the consumers.

[edit: and, yes -- long term, there won't be drivers in these cars. But Uber has to find a way to survive until then, and I don't believe they can burn cash that long]
> That's why these local taxi companies usually have billboards

What year is this? $YEAR_OF_BILLBOARD_INVENTION + 2?

> Alternatively, convince the taxi companies to open up their API.

I still feel like one company will take over. You cannot build a good product by federating APIs across different municipalities, governments, continents, (planets?).
Well that's probably a good filter, then.

They obviously want to socialize.
Nah we had VRML instead.
Does the D compiler know how to mangle/demangle C++ names?

Do you have to write some kind of D header file for foreign C++ functions? Otherwise, how would D even know about the existence of e.g. vector<int>::push?
I keep hearing this, but why wouldn't you own one? Part of the reason to own a car is the immediacy of use. I don't want to have to do the equivalent of waiting for a lyft/uber every time I want to run to the grocery store.

Sure in large walkable cities with constantly circulating fleets car ownership might go away. For those of us in the suburbs who HAVE to drive everywhere, not so much. Even waiting 5 extra minutes for every errand (optimistic, given that my most recent lyft took 10-15 minutes to arrive) adds up fast. Let alone going out into the rural areas where Uber/Lyft scarcely exist and the nearest human structure can be miles away.

I could, however easily see a model where people rent their self-driving car out to Uber/Lyft when they're not using it. Driver fees would be gone, and they could take a greater cut that might even put them towards profitability.
For Mac users, Sidestep [1] offers a similar VPN over SSH experience. It's the only VPN product I've ever used that I've never had an issue with...it just works (no doubt due to the bulletproof nature of SSH).

[1] http://chetansurpur.com/projects/sidestep/
Generally speaking, as a group, yes -- especially when compared to the social pressures put on women. Yes, that's changing, but we still have a way to go.

Happy to hear any difficult and unrealistic social pressures you think we regularly face today.
What's an example of something that can be recognized with parser combinator but not PEGs?

Do parser combinators have the notion of arbitrary lookahead or backtracking?
Jouse3 $1500 mouth mouse/joystick seems tried & true. http://www.compusult.net/assistive-technology/our-at-product...

Source: https://www.twitch.tv/nohandsken quadriplegic streamer who plays Diablo/Path of Exile, Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft, etc. (I encourage Amazon Prime subscribers to give him ~$2.50 every 30 days via their free Twitch sub! https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2574674-how-... )

slightly related/helpful discussion: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes
I still have fond memories of building a kernel in winter on a P4. No heater needed. Make menuconfig, because the TCL part was too heavy...
FWIW, I use Fakespot.com now for any purchase of significance.
1. Learn Microsoft Excel. 2. Take test at temp agency. It's all they care about. 3. Profit. Quickest way to earn a living with a computer.
Apparently on Android I get an error about EXT_color_buffer_float not being available.
Not Going Down the VC Route Has a Lot of Benefits
Agreed, much more in the asshole (this is a good thing?) category.
If that's true, what occupies the space between Libertarian and Anarchist? There's an umbrella of libertarian thought camps, you're thinking of Anarcho-Capitalism which is a pretty small faction.
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Walmart, and Amazon are all our clients, and Apple had strictest requirements of all of them. They want to guarantee that nobody is looking at their data.
Gartner shows us a world of public cloud haves – and have-nots
> I doubt it.

I bet you do, because nobody in their right mind believes that, and you are obviously attempting to cast the notion that a CEO might know what happens in their company as absurd.

Or do you also think that others believe oversight committees on BoDs literally stand over the managers and nod or grimace?

If he didn't know what HR was up to, he was incompetent.

> that doesn't necessarily mean that he's a big fan of sexual harassment

And... exactly nobody I've read here or anywhere else has asserted that. If you want to argue, do so in good faith.
How Long Does It Take to (Quick) Draw a Dog?
I'm aware of the increased startup latency for functions haven't been recently used, but that's not the same as downtime or dropped connections.
I'd argue this is a common organizational dysfunction -- "only the leader can lead," nonsense.

There are glaring organizational problems at Uber, and I truly hope removing Travis from the head helps turn their toxic culture around.
One common mistake is to assume that 'only way to solve his job problem is to teach him to program'. If your goal is to make the man stand on his own feet, there are more than one way to do so.
High schoolers have career counselors. Their job is to match student's interest and available careers. You are overwriting career counseling step.

You are saying 'Learn to code, that career path worked for me, it will work for you'.
Uber might improve "customer value", but as someone that takes a cab once every three months or so, cars with TLC license plates constantly failing to yield to my attempts to use a crosswalk have not improved my experience.

I've decided to solve this by 1-starring and no-tipping any driver that fails to yield to a pedestrian, drives in a bike lane, or exceeds the 25mph speed limit at any point in the ride (so, like, all of them), but of course, I take a cab once every three months, so that won't do much.

If we really want to reduce greenhouse gases, a better approach might be:

1. Properly funding the MTA (congestion charging)

2. Widening sidewalks, especially in Midtown

3. Grade-separated and camera-enforced BRT lanes and/or surface rail with signal priority.

4. Proliferation of bike lanes.

5. Charging market rate for all street parking.

Uber and Lyft have have increased car traffic in New York: http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/02/27/its-settled-uber-is-ma...
Was he?

He was an asshole of monumental proportions before and after. I am so far removed that I am a poor judge, what would be a good place to look into this.
My father contracted Guillain-Barre - a fast oncoming neurological disorder that left him quadriplegic. I did a bunch of research a couple of years ago to help him out.

First, if your dad can still move his head you can use Apple's assistive tech to "tab" through the items on the screen with a turn one way, and "clicking" on an item by turning his face the other.

Second, MS Windows' voice control is actually really decent. You can browse, search, send emails, etc. all with your voice. It takes some training (both for the user and the machine) but my dad has gotten pretty quick with his.

Lastly, there's a bunch of eye trackers out there now, and you can use them for a lot of things. I setup CameraMouse (http://www.cameramouse.org/) for when voice wasn't quite cutting it (or my dad got tired of talking.)

Unfortunately, there's no perfect solution, and all require time to adjust.
I'd say most of the ethereum-based startups, like swarm city or golem. Right now they're going a Cambrian explosion of different business models, many of which require everyday people to be using cryptocurrencies on a regular basis. Current prices are due to speculation for this eventuality, and personally I'm bullish on crypto, but this feels too much like the 90s was for the internet. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just the natural cycle of innovation.
That's simply false. There are always categories or "side"-categories that can be highly profitable and big stores only care about as a side business (small category in their store).

Being a small category for a huge store means they don't care about that category too much but it doesn't mean there isn't a lot of cash to be made.

I've helped several companies to build an online store that did exactly that and they are all doing 5 digit revenue month after month.

It's easy to rank higher in search engine for something you are 100% focused on compared to a big stores where it's only a small thing that they don't highlight.
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don't really care, Uber's behavior as a company is such that I'd rather see lyft succeed.

Those positives will be brought about regardless of who it is, so lets make sure it isn't a company who acts as egregiously bad as Uber.
Nielsen Norman Group ( https://www.nngroup.com ) is a good place to look for somewhat similar content. NNG focuses more on user experience, and so their studies are usually based on direct observation of users, rather than large amounts of data gathered through analytics.

Still, it has proven a very valuable resource for me when trying to explain a decision I've made in a new website design. They have many free articles that offer some good insights, as well as some more in-depth reports about specific sectors that will cost a few hundred dollars each.
This mechanism actually works pretty well in Chicago.
Eric was really no surprise :) such a great addition to the YC partner team.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13895967
New 27-Inch iMac Has Up to 80% Faster Graphics at Compute Tasks Compared to Prev
Controlling Our Simple CNC Miling Machine via USB
Pretty weird. I sure wouldn't buy food from Ebay. Or mainstream electronics, or razor blades, since almost 100% of the stock on Ebay are counterfeits. That doesn't leave a lot, mostly just durable goods, like tools, lab equipment, etc.

I've only spent single-digit hundreds on Ebay in the last ten years. Not because the prices were too high, but because I didn't trust the goods. This is a big splashy initiative solving precisely the wrong problem.
Contrary to the article's assertions, the main sticking point is not a low-cost catalyst to convert CO2 + H2 to CH4.

The main sticking point is the fact that CH4 can come from myriad other sources far far less expensively (some of them also carbon neutral, like landfill gas), and by the time you've renewably generated H2, I'd seriously hope you have something better to do with it than store it for later combustion (unlike H2, there's not many other uses for CH4).

Roundtrip efficiency from electricity to H2 to CH4 to heat, be it physical or economic, is pathetic compared to electricity to battery to heat.

Now if you've managed to make some heavier hydrocarbons, the US Navy might be interested in talking to you.
Their previous guy quit. That indicates a problem.
> Best to keep your workloads as small as possible, cold starts can be very bad, depending on the type of project.

Here's a recent, interesting article on the topic that quantifies some of this: https://read.acloud.guru/does-coding-language-memory-or-pack...
When companies are able to do this, they should be broken up, period. Unfortunately we are in a system that's essentially the worst of capitalism with none of the good (and especially not with regulations), so there is no hope left and more jobs will migrate to China.

That's what Trump should tackle if he wants to stop job migration, but it seems like he's focused on anything but regulating BigCos.
Walmart is also perfectly happy to run companies out of business by playing dirty by purposefully playing with orders and inventory. Which they have done to Field Crest when they refused to outsource to their chosen Chinese factories
> Err, the cheaper rates were due to uber subsidising rides with VC money, which was unsustainable. Uber also did start a leasing program for drivers.

The cheaper rates in NYC which are extremely high compared with the rest of the USA were because there was no $125 / 12 hour lease fee because there were no medallions.

Medallion owners would get mortgages (like houses) for the $1.2 million medallions and the high lease fee paid for the medallion mortgage. In fact the other special interests besides Yellow Cab medallion owners were credit unions who financed these mortgages.

A $125 / 12 hour lease fee comes to over $90,000 per year.

By not having to pay these excessive expensive leases, drivers could be paid less money and still make a profit. Drivers who leased the Yellow Cabs still have to pay for gas. Lower costs for taxi service means more time with customers in cabs. Everyone wins except medallion owners and credit unions with the mortgages and politicians bought off by these special interests.
>"It shouldn't be a big surprise that there are cases in which we'd prefer our most sensitive data isn't sitting on a competitor's platform, " he said, adding that it's a "small number."

what is unreasonable about this? do you trust amazon?
Also, hope that you are white.
School busses are very rare in Netherland. Almost everybody goes by bike. And in rural areas, it's not unusual for high school students to ride 10 km or more to school.
Calm down.

A company - in this case, Zenefits - will have its own distinct culture. This is what's being referred to ... not "businesses overall" (although there can be a lot of similarities) ... and certainly nothing at all to do with something like societal culture, much less the culture of a specific demographic or race.

Honestly, the word culture in this context has nothing to do with race.
Want the truth about your company?
You should probably read up on ABI Compatibility, and, Compiling vs linking as well.

Let's be clear a compiler builds a object files that have to be linked to create a executable binary. IE compiler makes .o files. Linker takes output object files from the compiler an puts them (.o,.so/.dll,.a) together, to make .exe files.

This all works because you are linking to the C/C++ library binaries (the .o, .so, .a, .dll) files generated by a C/C++ compiling/linking. In most cases this is shared object library/dll provided by the operating system or pre-built library you install on the system. There is no need to compile it because it is pre-built. if you do compile the library yourself, it is a one time thing.

In D you create a .d file that describes what is in a C++ library .o/.so/.a/.dll file. So that upon linking, you take your D code's .o files + the C/C++ .o files to put together a full executable binary.
The drivers don't suddenly cease to exist when Uber shuts down.
In the Chicago suburbs, calling the dispatch center was and still is how it's done. There are a few "posts" scattered here and there where cabs will queue up, but in general, you have to contact dispatch.

Though they also have apps now.
HN discussion on this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586390
Pilots require years of specialized training. Airplane autopilots have been around for decades and you aren't going to have an issue with unskilled pilots attempting to rely on them for things they can't handle based on a name alone.

Also, airplane autopilots do fly the plane for you (including take-off and landing). They can certainly do so more safely than Tesla's "autopilot" does. A lot of this has to do with the aviation environment being much more controlled.

This whole comment thread seems like a distraction in the form of a non sequitur, though. If Tesla is falsely claiming capabilities that their system does not actually possess right in the name, and that causes deaths, then they could easily be liable, and at a minimum they need to stop.
-clients - For client specific work

-Project1

-devel - For development/research

-Language/technology

-specific research case

And I built my own bookmarking tool for references/citations.
Seriously, it's mind-boggling what they're burning cash on. Driverless cars. Drone helicopters. Ubereats. Who knows what other pie in the sky tech that is decades away. Why would you burn cash on such things when the core business is not profitable?
You need to discern between companies nefariously sharing your email without your permission and those that were the victim of hacks. Dropbox and Adobe were, of course, both thoroughly penetrated and the exfiltrated logins including email addresses are widely available.

These aren't small numbers, either. We're talking about 68 million logins for Dropbox and 150 million for Adobe. To put those huge numbers in perspective, combined that's over half the population of the USA.
Actually don't requirements like this that constrain vendor dealings outside of the two parties risk running afoul of existing "restraint of trade" antitrust laws? Or perhaps Wal-Mart is taking a calculated risk that this adminstration isn't going to pursue much along these lines anyway. Still it seems like Amazon itself could pursue damages directly if it desired (I'm no lawyer though..).
In practice there are two dominating standards nowadays, the Itanium ABI and Microsoft's, so it's quite tractable to handle the common cases.
Looks nice, sadly I can't use it because I'm not sure all in my team are fine with an English UI. Also still a lot of worries about the cloud. So it is still sending back and forth Word documents and the hope you didn't miss any because people didn't pay attention to whom they sent the emails.
> I highly doubt that they are paying their drivers enough to cover the cost of wear and tear on the cars

Since Uber/Lyft has no problem attracting drivers at the rates they pay, this argument rests on drivers being financially ignorant enough that they don't notice they're losing money doing it.
Make your iOS apps look exactly like the expected design
the criminal justice systems is always going to have flaws. sure we should try to address them.

but it would also help a lot if we remembered that criminals are people. members of society who screwed up, felt they didn't have a choice, or have psychological problems. punish them, treat them, restrict them, but they aren't unhuman.
This doesn't work with electric showers. The element retains heat and the water trapped in it gets extremely hot, so you get scalded when you turn it back on.

Ask me how I know, go on...
Real scarcity exists, and there's value to communicating it to the customer.

I assume what was meant is that they're dick moves if done purely for sales optimisation (i.e. If they are lying) and not if the scarcity or time limitations actually naturally exist.
Is there an API? One of the main values as a Dev is all the integrations we use and build.
I recently switched to openSUSE from a Debian based background. I gotta say I've never been happier. My hardware (HP x360 2-in-1 with intel i3-6100u) is supported where I had to fiddle with some configurations in Ubuntu just to get the wifi going. It's so much faster than Windows and Ubuntu, and easy on development. Highly recommend for users looking for something slightly more advanced than Ubuntu or Debian.
I will try this out with our company, because this is exactly how I wanted Slack to have threading.

But Twists API to create either thread/comment in an integration will be more complicated to do than Slack and their attachments are not very powerful (yet?), migrating our existing Slack related code might proof difficult.
I remember trying out D a few years ago. One of the things that threw me off was the bare-bones compiler. I think I was using the reference compiler at the time. The language itself I thought was pretty cool, slices are neat.

I could really see D take off now that it's getting gcc support.
Eh, looks like a proprietary email system to me.