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>> Taxis have an ACTUAL monopoly

Not really, there are lots of private-hire firms in London.

>> Are you seriously siding with "banning potential monopoly" to protect an entrenched centuries old monopoly.

Nope. That's a wilful misreading of what I've been posting and I'm not sure it warrants much response. I'm siding with protecting a diverse market from an unethical company who appear to be bending the rules and sinking a ton of investor money into distorting the market in an effort to capture it.
I think the previous comment makes a good point that most new jobs are at Starbucks, Target and Wal-Mart. There is no negotiation for typical hourly wages at these places. They pay the going rate and that's typically poverty level.
Well, if you don't want to read it I can strongly recommend the unabridged version they have on Audible....
You wouldn't believe how controversial that is in the U.S. self styled rationalists will call you a quack for even mentioning fluoride.

Meanwhile, our internal organs are getting nicely calcified like a bright, shiny american dental association smile.
They will when they find out what F2 does.
Let me quote the original issue report on Github:

> What happened: iTerm sent various things (including passwords) in plain text to my ISP's DNS server

iTerm was accidentally transmitting passwords in plain text via the network.

I'm pretty sure transmitting passwords in plain text isn't "working as intended".

Sure, you can go blame the user for not knowing that iTerm makes DNS queries when you hold down the command key.

But if you want to make secure software, you can't just tell the user it's their fault. You need to make sure that accidentally disclosing private information is not something that easily happens.
I still don't understand why cities are giving out their water for free to multi-billion dollar companies.
What is the benefit of taking an antibiotic you don't need? Even if people are perfectly selfish, they should want to not bother with useless medicine.
Agreed. When I worked at a newspaper, my most valuable contributions by far were ones made after spending a day with a reporter, ad designer, etc. and talking with them about their daily routine.
Thanks for the extra context, much appreciated.
I've only taken a London cab a handful of times, but I never had a bad experience. I don't think I've had a bad experience with Uber drivers either...maybe one or two weird conversations .. same with Lyft drivers.

I just want to know if Uber drivers can average the same income as cabbies working the same hours. In New Zealand, several Uber drivers use to be cabbies and switched from Wellington Combined because they earned more money with Uber. That was years ago and I'm curious if that's still the case or if those drivers have switched back. In Berlin, the Uber app hails a regular taxi driver that's under standard taxi regulations from the city, so there it's more just a billing system.

Everywhere else I've taken Lyft/Uber, the drivers never started out in taxis. It's turning the taxi industry into a "gig economy" I realize a lot of people got their start in new cities as taxi drivers; immigrants from generations back. Things are changing. It's not good or bad, just different.

The biggest concern is Uber as a company. Most of the rides I've mentioned I've taken with others. I prefer public transport when possible, Lyft when I have to. For a while on HN, ever week was another post: Greyball, the Hell map, the two harassment blog posts, anti-union efforts against drivers, hiring Eric Holder for damage control, the continuing Google/Waymo self driving tech court case, etc.

Are there any recent posts on how much drivers earn? I've heard it's going down each year. Is it worth it to lose an entire career path for some people for cheaper rides?
and THIS is the attitude that gave us Trump.

/full disclosure: I voted for Johnson.
> For wages to grow, people have to be paid more than they're worth as an economic unit.

That's incorrect, very obviously so with even a moment of inspection. Real wages grew dramatically between 1870 and 1970. That didn't happen because employers had to pay workers 20 times more than what they were worth as a static number derived from 1870. That happened because vast productivity gains made it possible for each employees to worth a lot more and thus be paid a lot more. Simply put, the workers became far more valuable because their output soared.
Black cab drivers are very active, and quite violent lobbyists towards tfl.

I have literally seen black cab drivers spit at uber drivers.
At least.

Older versions supplied dmix but didn't automatically enable it. Newer versions are supposed to autoenable it on audio devices without hardware mixing.

Frankly the only thing PA brought to the table was the ability to handle multiple audio devices while there is ongoing audio IO. Primarily in relation to usb headphones/headsets. But then that class of hardware is its own kind of abomination in the first place.
It's the same with me. I didn't have any lisp experience before learning Clojure. I see it as very pragmatic language, the kind that lets you get shit done, it doesn't get in your way. But that said, I can understand why parent compares lisp to art. I would say functional design is art, because you need to put in a lot of effort to learn it.
"Assumptions and hyperbole"? That MSSQL isn't available as a service like RDS? That tooling and integration that's been building up for decades around PG (or Mysql/Maria for that matter) doesn't exist? These are just facts.

I'm sure you're right that MS would be happy to sell support. What I don't see is a reason to care, unless I run in to a Windows app that can't use another DB that I suddenly need to run under Linux.
Still would need to be popularised to actually give any benefit (i.e. similar levels of accountability for minor shittinies as uber's ratings). people are lazy. Rating an uber takes seconds, and is built in to same app you need to order it. I am guessing many people don't rate anyway. Also, making an app that that does this well is NOT a weekend sized project.
As a naive user my response to that is "great, just as pulseaudio seems to be working properly and keeping out of the way; now we get something new with more bugs and less features".

>"We know that for many the original rollout of PulseAudio was painful and we do not want a repeat of that history." //

There's some hope!
Well—aside from the fact that London's public transport was pretty good ten years ago—it's not the same, no. There have been substantial improvements in the past 10 years, including the expansion of the Overground service, new rolling stock all over the place, capacity improvements, some 24-hour running at weekends, clawback of TfL Rail, system-wide contactless card support, improved bus services, the imminent arrival of Crossrail…

So yes, it's different.
Ah, if that's the case I guess I didn't make my point clearly.

Absolutely, it's fine and I personally feel, a great idea to use reusable bags (and water bottles).

The difficulty comes if people apply social pressure and say "why are you still using non-reusable bags that you are lazy and apathetic, and it's a sign of societies mental decline" (those are rephrased statements used elsewhere in this discussion).

Because there can be good reasons for using a non-reusable bags (or water bottles) in certain situations, and there are likely value judgments you make that have equal (or greater) environmental impact which have similar utility.
I think this is true to some extent - they do suit many users more than more flexible, but as a result more complicated, Android - but the iOS ecosystem is more restrictive than it needs to be, and more restrictive than is ideal, for many more than 1% of users.

Personally, I think more than 50% of users would benefit for more flexibility than iOS offers, even at the cost of less ease of use. I don't think it has to cost that much ease of use though. I think the ideal for most people is somewhere in between Android and iOS, but probably closer to Android. Android is not that hard to use. It is also not impossible to have a highly curated app store like Apple's, and allow apps from other sources at the same time of people want to install them. Ideally we'd have more diversity in OS implementations I think, based on one or a small number of actual OSs. Android based OSs that are more heavily modified to be easier to use etc. This would be easier I think if phones were more like PCs in that you could install your own OS and get the drivers for your hardware. I think Android is somewhat moving in that direction so there is hope for that in future.
Pewter?
I should rephrase that to "some people"! And likewise, neither do I.

I'd be interested to read a follow up blog post titled: "How I got down from 200 productive hours a month to something a bit more reasonable for sanity and health's sake".
Working hard, being curious, have a lot of different experiences... and always trying to understand how a technology fit to a business or organisational need or constraint
Some technologies are best to move fast, other to recrut cheap, and so on...
In general, all CxO jobs require a good/deep understanding of
1) the field (technology, finance...)
2) how people work together in an organisation... and how to make them work to get some specific result under constraints (timing, finance..)
3) how the business work and why the company is successful.. or not: strength, weakness,
I made and use a userstyle theme: https://userstyles.org/styles/71445/better-hacker-news-desig.... Not a big rework, just a bit brighter and bigger and more readable.
It's also worth noting that right now, student loan data in the Netherlands is not shared with this agency. Which kinda defeats the purpose of doing a credit check on anyone Living in the Netherlands, in their 20's and 30's.
Very much depends on the company but here’s what I think helps, perhaps in this order...

1. Be really good at Powerpoint

2. Be really good at explaining technology to non-technical people

3. Conversely be really good at understanding the business domain you work in

4a. Spend 15 years either at a big four consultancy

4b. Spend 15 years at the company you intend to be CTO at and be good at corporate politics

5. Have a super technical wingman who is loyal (and doesn’t want the CTO job)
The Clock Is Ticking on Fossil Fuel Cars – Electronic Design
They should at the minimum provide free credit monitoring for LIFE for all individuals affected by this breach.
RESTful API Versioning Best Practices: Why v1 Is #1
Every company should attempt to be the best in their field, yes. However, that does not in general encompass taking vast piles of VC money to run a loss-leader service for years and years on end in an attempt to monopolize an entire sector by undercutting all the competition that has to actually make a profit pretty much every quarter, with their valuation almost entirely based on the idea that they can succeed and then raise prices to become profitable.

Yes, there is a qualitative difference here.
That's, unfortunately, sales&marketing 101. Whether you go by the old school ("people buy by needs and wants") or new school ("people buy by fears and passions") - we've mostly run out of easy and genuine needs/fears to solve and wants/passions to satisfy. So what's the strategy with the best ROI? Solve hard problems? Provide for sophisticated passions? No. It's to manufacture fake needs and brainwash people into wanting useless stuff.

That's why I hate sales&marketing as an industry. It's a thin layer of actual social good covered by meters of dishonesty and malice.
It would be kind of neat to have a standard platform for location based services....

Edit: Not just discovery, but transactions as well
London regulator announces Uber ban
While competition may be bad for Tesla stock owners, is it bad from Musk's perspective?

He once told investors that profits weren't his primary goal. If he's trying to improve the human condition, electric cars becoming more popular is a move in the right direction.
./mach bootstrap && ./mach build
This is quite true. I guess I don't count the hours I work on my own projects and learning.
Live from Disrupt SF: Equity Talks Slack, Lyft and Flying Cars
My day off is usually 4-5 hours and then I work 7-8 hours on the following days. Since I have multiple projects, a full day of entertainment feels boring because my mind still wants to think about some of them.

For example, I spend some hours each month helping a local non-profit with their site and promotion. Switching to their simpler tasks is similar to rest for me.
I visually inspect and smell it first. If it passes those then it might get reused up to a week before washing especially if it only held water.

I am also starting to see a lot more people with the Stainless Steel insulated cups (i.e. Yeti Tumblers) than water bottles.
Earl Zope II is dead, long live Earl Zope – gocept blog
I understand the social reasons, but I was wondering more about what compiler does in terms of technical achievements that goes beyond what gcc/clang can successfully generate. Surely this must be something that can be studied empirically.
Btw, any reason not going cross-platform (Win/Linux along with Mac)? Judging by screenshots it doesn't look like a native Cocoa app, neither download size corresponds to Electron - what framework did you use for the UI?
Trump Questions Facebook Turning in Ads Over Russia Probe – Fortune.com
Accuracy vs Precision. So they can pin your position to within 30 centimeters, but how small of changes can be detected? Can they detect relative movement on the order of 1cm or less? that would be really useful for some things. For example if you wanted to measure the distance between 2 points on the ground, you don't care about offsets but do care about precision.
There's the command line program Nut. http://nut.sourceforge.net/
Uber has a maximum driver count in most cities. In many places if you get below a 5 from multiple riders, you get cut. In Seattle, this meant a lot of them switched to Lyft exclusively after Uber dropped them. Lyft drivers in Seattle were terrible. One didn't stop for an ambulance. Another cut off several cars in an intersection.

I still prefer Lyft and haven't had big problems in other cities. But it's worth mentioning.
This is entirely accurate. The union has been trying to get workers at Boeing in Charleston to unionize ever since it opened.

The workers don't want to unionize. The reason?

Well, as it turns out...there are jobs there now that weren't there before. Those jobs could have gone somewhere where the union existed...but didn't.

So the people there...pretty happy to have quality jobs from a great company. A company that adds jobs continuously even through a recession...and the union forces a strike every 7 years or so costing the company about $1 billion every time.

Union negotiating power is based almost entirely on it's ability to hold the company hostage. It's the job of executives to look out for the best interest of the company and that, just like infrastructure planning, means redundancy.

It's the same approach as tax policies or raising minimum wage...it only works if the people involved have no other options.
Wages aren't growing because ZIRP is artificially increasing demand for plant and equipment (a labor substitute). When Fed Funds get to about 3%, I bet we'll start to see some healthy wage growth.
F# is not a superset of OCaml. There are many things in OCaml that are not in F#. The second link you pointed out lists them.
I try to run different paths as much as possible. My Garmin Forerunner fitness tracker is reasonably accurate at recording the path and displaying an instantaneous pace, but it still jumps around and gives erratic results at times. So better accuracy would certainly be a welcome improvement.
I've had black cab drivers insist that I can't use my card, and that I must get out.

I've had cab drivers refuse to drive me to certain parts of London because it's inconvenient for them.

They are also really expensive.
> I feel I've made my contribution to that discussion.

Well, I didn't like the tone of your comment. People building such an engine obviously aren't incompetent, just because one part of the code you looked at wasn't as optimized as possible.
Actually this sort of farming does have more yield per acre, it just requires significantly more manual labour.

As tech evolves tho, I think we'll see chemical pesticides and herbicides replaced with mechanical solutions instead.

The world doesn't necessarily need to use industrial agriculture to achieve the same yields, the alternative is to be having many more farmers working smaller a plots and actually getting better yields from it.
In at least one finance company I know of, alternative keyboards are not permitted without getting security's permission. They might not do a very thorough examination, but I can imagine they might disallow a programmable keyboard on the basis of it being too complex to analyze the risks.
I've had mixed experiences with Pulse. Although kind of flaky, it has been super useful for me to handle audio from my Chrome browser that I run in a VM and display via X. I'm not aware of any other way to pipe audio across the network these days, other than the pulse tcp module.
Long, long long article, and then:

> Compared with the water needs of agriculture and energy production, the bottled water business is barely responsible for a trickle; in Michigan, it accounts for less than 1 percent of total water usage

Right. So all this stuff about water shortages, the amount of water being used, the amount being charged for the water is meaningless. The entire article is pointless.

(I also loved the way they tried to blame Pakistan's poor infrastructure on	Nestlé.)
That was my first thought too. Maybe it works for some people but I think I would burn myself out if I was putting in 200 hours of work each month for an extended period of time.
GDIt. This, this is why Linux is not on the desktop. Constant CADT churn.
What did you use to create this? Anyone have good recommendation for mind map tools?
This was pretty much my experience with getting a project posted in HN. A bunch of bugs reported in the HN comments, and not a single issue opened on GitHub.

Since I wasn't the one who posted it, the only reason I found the bug reports is because a friend recognized my username on GitHub, and sent me a message about it. I would have preferred bad tickets to total silence...
>> Does that mean that you can only order for a cab via an app? Or are apps an alternative?

Well, apps are my primary way of ordering cabs now, because I can set the pick-up and drop-off precisely by map, and track the vehicle before it arrives etc.

But they still have their phone lines too.
This is such an old programming language flame war trope that it was probably first written in Aramaic. When I started programming as a teenager and commented on FIDOnet BBS's, people literally said it about assembly language. If for no other reason than to preserve your own dignity, please don't imply that people program in a particular language because they're not good enough to program in other languages.
My bank doesn't know how much my bill is going to be every month, so I have to put the amount in. Fortunately, I use simple.com and paying a bill with their mobile app takes a couple of seconds (once I have entered the companies info). Some companies have decent recurring billing via ACH, and I use that on most of my credit cards (I still check the statements each month), but my electric, water, sewer, and gas companies (all separate where I am) all have absolutely terrible websites (and the electric company just plain sucks generally), so I often find myself just paying those bills manually as they come in (after checking them for accuracy).
They already had a warning shot four months ago, when their license renewal was denied in favour of a temporary renewal for four months. This one is the next step in the process.

Uber isn't magic - if there's pent-up demand for a company that fills Uber's boots, one will pop up. The issues TfL have with Uber aren't to do with the service they provide, it's failing to comply with TfL's administrative requirements. You could easily build a company that does what Uber does in London without the hate for local Government that is ingrained into Uber's culture - and there already are a number of minicab companies that do what Uber does, just minus quite as fancy an app.
> Some trials have been started, but people keep protesting and doing stuff like burning the fields.

That's not the reason why Golden Rice has been a failure[1]:

> While activists did destroy one Golden Rice test plot in a 2013 protest, it is unlikely that this action had any significant impact on the approval of Golden Rice.

> “Destroying test plots is a dubious way to express opposition, but this was only one small plot out of many plots in multiple locations over many years,” he said.

Rather:

> As Stone and Glover note in the article, researchers continue to have problems developing beta carotene-enriched strains that yield as well as non-GMO strains already being grown by farmers.

[1] https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden...
Jamaica. Straight from the fruit.

Just a matter of taste.
The first half of the original headline is clickbait; the second is too long for an HN title. What text would you suggest?
This one tweak improved my Angular code
> We shouldn't need to treat the developer like a toddler to get them to write safe code

You'd be surprised.
Many books are written to shape the history in the benefits of some countries. Linking them with other topics will attract more attention and will help to exaggerate effects of their claims. The passage above from wikipedia is a nice example of this propaganda technique. Underground cities are associated with totally another political issue. The blog post, the situation is just inflated and dramatized more: domino effect. It would be too long and unnecessary to answer all accusations, though. Here is not a place for historical or political discussions. Therefore, to sum up, as a local of Cappadocia, I can say that these places are not really unknown places. In this area, there are many underground cities inside the villages (since at least 1900s), not in isolated places. People used these places as warehouses. If a crime existed, then people could have been found there at most as hardly as in a normal village. Hiding on mountains would be a more plausible option. In the early centuries, against invasions, it may be safer than a regular village, because they are generally inside valleys and not in a place where a popular road passes. So, it can't be discovered from far points by eyes.

There are many churches in caves or as buildings. The ones as buildings are from 1800s. Ones in the caves are more older apparently. Also, many historical Greek houses exist. Majority of them contains caves as parts.
I hailed a cab during the big tube strike a few years back. 60 GBP got me, not to the airport, but the DLR (automated trains; no drivers). We had to stop by an ATM since he didn't take cards. Uber had surge pricing at the time due to the strike, so I'm not really sure which one would have been worse.
Office has a zillion features buried in various menus and panels. The help feature has been pretty reliable when I need to find something that I know is in there.