skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The medallion system seems to be a US peculiarity.

In the UK you have to also pay fees up front (and pass certain tests) but the fees are relatively modest[1] and the tests include things like knowledge, medical fitness and criminal records, which all seems reasonable. This legally applies to Uber drivers too, although whether it is enforced seems to be in doubt[2].

(I'm not talking about London black cabs which operate on a slightly different system)

[1] The fees for my local council are in section 10 here: http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/docs/default-source/licensing-docu...

[2] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/uber-may-face-21m-...
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JavaScript for Extending Low-Latency In-Memory Key-Value Stores [pdf]
Man, that just kinda feels dirty, but its true. Even for uber! An (ex?)uber driver I know in a semi rural area now just connects directly with locals and runs a charter to and from the nearby city, as those were most of his fares.

It also kinda hurts that the isolation of people is seen as financially viable. I would argue, but with very little to back me up, that there is an intangible (and perhaps a tangible) benefit from closeness to those we associate or do business with, that we are losing.
I guess maybe it because I am not a frontend person but completely redoing a project in less than two years seems kind of crazy to me.
Some hours of overlap with GMT/London would be nice, but not necessary... we're fine with any location.
When you are north of 150k in base that's already considered pretty high for a lot of these other companies.

Then you add in stock, bonus, etc... Adds up to a huge package.
> I had forgotten how nice having certain things simply work out of the box was (wifi drivers, bluetooth drivers, etc).

If this is what you want, why did you pick Arch Linux out of all distros?

I'm using Linux Mint and it ran flawlessly out of the box on my ThinkPad.
I'm often an Uber critic, can't see how their valuation is justified, appalled by their lack of ethics, etc., however I think your analysis sells them short.

Hailing or waiting for a taxi was a horrible experience in most cities. Leveraging the smartphone platform's ability to track location in real time, along with its ability to be connected and handle payments created a better service. This did compete with existing Taxi monopolies (which had enormous costs associated with rent seeking in many jurisdictions, not just labour costs), but it also competed heavily with non-consumption, car ownership, and car rentals for those on trips. The pattern of social life has changed in many cities where the inconvenience, lack of reliability, and cost of using a taxi had previously constrained peoples' options, and forced reliance on owning a car, driving when they shouldn't, or staying closer to their neighbourhoods or going home early.

It's true that most of what gets called Uber for X is just enabling casual labor, without significantly expanding the market, and that's why so few of them achieve anything close to an Uber-level of success.
Six months ago, I was making about 1/6 of that working as a software developer, and I wasn't badly paid for the area. I'm pretty sure most of my colleagues would sign up for that in five minutes.
I use GitLab for private personal projects, and in general I'm supportive of most of these changes.

Some paid features that I think are still useful to teams under 3 people:

* Block secret file push

* Various merge options (squash, rebase, etc...)

* Export issues as CSV
I thoroughly enjoy over-engineering side projects, and writing about them (linked below). The trick for me is in managing expectations. It's completely possible for a learning project to evolve in to something widely used, just don't go in with that expectation.

https://blog.skywelch.io/2017/06/over-engineering-bunnies-io...
Beginner guide to compile ClojureScript to CommonJS and use Webpack
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I believe knowledge should be free and I've done lots of volunteered mentoring like instructing RoR 101 more than 200 hours, created a free online RoR101 course.

I find mentoring, helping and instructing people about something you know is fun and exciting, also it makes you better at it.

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The program containing the declaration is unsound because it doesn't preclude using the variable in ways inconsistent with the declaration.
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Oscar was valued at $2.7 billion following a $400 million investment by Fidelity. Take a look at how we're simplifying healthcare: here's a recent interview with our CEO, Mario ; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-07-13/oscar-healt...
"Java pays the most" is the curse of the industry. That's why we have plenty of these dull corporate Java projects possible to setup only in Eclipse and people neurotically sticking to them with a hope for this fat salary.
What would you classify as remote collaboration? When organizations are more geographically distributed, a rise in work from home / anywhere, or something else. Just trying to better understand your point of view
Anything is better then the cheap ones you get for free. I guess people want to have "the original" lol. But then when you get better headphones you can hear the background buzz from low end devices ...
Depending on your definition of reasonable price; http://www.ozmarecords.com/shop

(trivia: the replica is on 3 discs as the original was 16⅔rpm)
Ask HN: How did you cope with being laid-off?
There are rumblings that several of my team members and I may be facing a grim future at September's end. I have enough savings to get me through 6 months, and feel like I will be able to find something else, but the uncertainty is still nerve wracking. Have you ever been laid-off and how did you bounce back from it?
Unfortunately, many people have a weird fetish for "disruption", and use it to justify pretty much any type of behavior.

They also view laws and regulations as inefficient, and don't understand that they often exist for good reasons (such as consumer protection).

If Uber ends up putting taxi companies out of business and becomes dominant, THEN we will see its true face and start hearing arguments for regulating it.
I'm a coauthor of this paper. It was published a couple of years ago; pleasantly surprised to see it here.

The paper shows that programmers have distinctive styles in their source code that can be extracted to create a fingerprint of coding style. It's not just the obvious stuff like spaces vs. tabs -- parsing the code and looking at the Abstract Syntax Tree is what results in a powerful fingerprint.

We have a follow-up to this paper showing that surprisingly, coding style survives in compiled binaries (even with optimization turned on and debugging symbols removed): https://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_when...
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> won mobile

until Google's Fuchsia takes off...
This. Arbitrage is something which has real potential in cryptocurrency markets but the problem remains on the capital front.
Well, I always wanted to be famous!
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Interestingly those kind of speeds could put it on the speed record list (if it was a vehicle) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vehicle_speed_records#...
I feel like this constant anti-AMP rhetoric has extraordinarily little to do with users, and primarily are web developers who don't like that AMP rolls back a lot of abuses. The argument isn't just "I don't like AMP", it's "No one should like AMP!" and it grows tiresome.
Yes I am, just used those as the metric for meeting the $500/month landmark from the title.
You mean 100% of those you have asked, right? Or do you ask that question to every Uber driver you ride with?
There's simply no worse technology that I've used in my life than Apple's Bluetooth and I've tried most things out there. A bt speaker can literally be touching its bt source and still can't play music without constant skipping. This is in multiple environments in multiple locations. The same speaker has no problem playing from other devices. I can't imagine buying an overpriced iPhone to get such a shitty experience. Apple used to make good technology, now they just make garbage. Let the ignorant masses use this garbage and be forced for no good reason to but substandard bt headphones when they have plenty good wired ones that bt can't even come close to in quality, reliability, usability, or battery life (infinite). Companies that follow Apple are making a mistake but idiot consumers don't know any better. I'm sure there'll be plenty of phone makers keeping the jack for users who actually understand what they're buying.
Surely you realize you're the exception, not the rule.
There's a lot more spots in the NFL so I don't think it makes you an idiot to go for the NFL if you can do both. Very few can do both anyway.

> I can't believe you're making a serious argument that the NFL requires more athleticism when half the players are morbidly obese and the other half never have to exert themselves for more than five seconds at a time.

Your definition of athleticism seems to be tightly related to body fat but the definition of the word encompasses much more.

physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports.... of or relating to athletes; involving the use of physical skills or capabilities, as strength, agility, or stamina: [1]

So you're saying this guy can't be as athletic as Kevin Durant because he's 330 pounds? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linval_Joseph.

You're also picking the lineman to try and make your point but there's 53 roster spots per team. You aren't going to see anyone in the NBA run a 4.24 40 like Chris Johnson or bench press 500+ pounds. Really any measure of strength. Or enter track and field in the Olympics.

> NFL players had the athletic ability to outperform NBA players, they would be in the NBA purely out of financial incentive

That would assume they actually cared about the NBA. It's not a loss to get in the NFL instead of the NBA, esp. if you come from a poor background like many of the players.

Your argument, if applied to technology, would mean that developers making more money in a certain technology are more skilled than people in other languages for the sheer fact that money is the determining factor of all skills. And anyone that goes into the lower income field is less capable and idiots for doing so. That's ridiculous.

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/athleticism?s=t
I used mine for Final Fantasy XIV for a full two years with zero problems, as well as various anime and other games.
why do you want to build your own multiplexer? is it just to learn the tech, or do you find screen/tmux aren't what you're looking for? (if the latter, what's lacking?)

i'm not trying to say it's not worth building your own, i'm just curious.
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Even the H1 program pits corporate interests against each other. The biggest companies have to enter the same lottery as WIPRO Jr. DBAs.
That is the biggest irony of all, isn't it?
Wow good work! How much time do you spend on this a week?
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Especially interested in HealthTech.
I don't think Uber is a good company, but I also don't think they are exploiting drivers. Even if you do, it is less exploitative than trapping drivers into a system by forcing them to prepay for the right to drive. Choose whichever you think is less exploitive when you need a ride, but don't pretend taxis are some noble system.
But they are totally taking on all the risk and hard work. YOu just have to work insane hours for half of your worth with the risk of getting fired. That's no risk at all compared to being a founder, you should be grateful they gave you that (pre-dilution) 0.015% as employee number 1. After all you get ot build something great!
I think it's more that people who never maintain their vehicles don't expect them to last past 100k miles. If you follow the manufacturers suggested maintenance regime in the manual it will last much longer.

Unfortunately, this means the used car market is also full of moderate mileage vehicles that require a ton of preventative maintenance as soon as you buy them, giving the used cars a bad name.

If you buy a used Chrysler with 100k miles, its probably 40k miles overdue for a timing belt replacement, transmission filter change, radiator flush, alignment, brakes, tires, etc... On the plus side, you probably got it pretty cheap.

For one point of reference, Ford was notorious for "value engineering" the old US Rangers so they would die around 150k miles, but I kept mine running for 250k miles and 23 years with mostly just regular maintenance and the occasional repair. The thing that finally killed it was an aftermarket slave cylinder for the clutch that failed and blasted brake fluid all over the inside of the transmission.
I think squash and merge is absolutely essential!
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Yes I agree with the last example you brought, this was def complaining, I should work on that.

A few times though, I got good feedback and was also able to make my point more clear after I asked about the reasons for the downvotes.

Also, I prefer that people reply instead of downvote (except it's trolling) which is also a reason I address this. Look, I reply to you as well. Hope I didn't make you too angry and I try to improve.
Sure, if you're tinkering at home where the stakes are low and your time is free. You can also save a bunch of money running Xeon engineering samples.

But if your production environment goes tits-up then your savings go out the window and a whole lot more besides. And that's what you're risking by running a hardware configuration that is non-validated/unsupported.

People constantly make the mistake of assuming that businesses need to pinch pennies on their money-generating assets, just like they do on the rigs they use for entertainment at home. In the business world, reliability and official support trump an extra $1k in your pocket every time.

Forget Xeons entirely: there are still a lot of customers who buy Sun/Oracle/IBM hardware even though it costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars extra. $1k does not even register for a lot of businesses.

(ECC is validated on Epyc, of course - but the prices are a lot closer to Xeons there, it's no longer a slam-dunk. You have to look at it on a case-by-case basis to determine which is actually a better deal for your workload. And frankly AMD has been doing an undue amount of massaging on their benchmarks here, like in their launch data where they just straight-up removed 43% from all the Intel benchmarks. )

http://techreport.com/review/32125/amd-epyc-7000-series-cpus...
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My 2015 Macbook Pro Retina works pretty well with Kubuntu 17.04. Only problem was HiDPI support, but I just set the resolution at 1920x1200 instead of 2560xsomething and called it a day. 0 hardware issues, and much much faster than osx or Windows
Even then the market clears. The equilibrium under H1 is different than without H1 but there's still an equilibrium.
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Seizing Cars with Civil Forfeiture Is Unconstitutional in Indiana
That's a ridiculous level of verbosity for what should be the most basic of tasks. Not to mention is has its roots in Java. I would have figured that LibreOffice, which is touted as an MS Office replacement would have full compatibility with Macros written in VB.