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You can downvote, but I hate cyclists in cities, because many of them break road rules. They think of themselves as neither pedestrians, nor vehicles. When they drive on pavements, they presume being pedestrian and expect to be treated equally (even though they operate a large mass of steel, often with high speeds, enough to cause serious injuries). When they are on the road, they like to be pedestrians and cross traffic lights, when cars have stopped. Don't know why cyclists constantly show such a selfish attitude. I am not singling out London, as I witnesses similar behavior in many European countries.
Why do you need sub-second latency for something you're unlikely to do more than once a year?
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"Tips" are not a thing for London taxis. It's not the US, the price is the actual price.
What happens if they just carry on operating?
I use Materialistic (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...). I can read comment vote, although down voting is not available.
I appreciate the answer but I want to point out that I'd rather just write because I enjoy writing, not in the hope of finding an audience. My frustration is that I don't find writing intrinsically rewarding.

I think that can come about if I write a deeply felt blogpost whose very existence touches something fundamental in me.
They didn't even mention haxor-news. This is basically a command-line interface with a lot of features. Maybe there is justifieble objection to the "read Hacker News without the eyestrain"-bit in this case.

[0]: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
So do you prefer getting more money or that same value or less in benefits that you don't decide?

Cash/pay let's YOU decide what benefits you need.

Yes there may be freebies and certain benefits available such as flying for free if there is a seat available, free food, or free passes to places you work etc, these are designed to keep you at work or involved as well.

However healthcare and insurance should NOT be managed by companies that you don't work at typically longer than 1-2 years on average. Should our companies also pay our auto, home and other insurance? so we can change them all when we change jobs? Benefits should only be freebies that aren't private.

You also have to be careful with benefits if they go too far i.e. in the future work will have apartments on campus like in China and a throwback to feudal/sharecropper kingdoms, then your company completely owns you. Better to just get pay, freebies and handle insurance/health and your own private business on your own.

The problem with real compensation is it is not evenly dispersed, cash/pay is. The real value also needs to be spent. You might have benefits that only 25% of a workforce take advantage of, well the 'real compensation' includes everyone using that, it is a bit like a gift card that you only spent a portion of. It isn't real money and sometimes costs the company little compared to the value that is stated.
We have the same problem here in Brazil in São Lourenço city, near to São Paulo. Nestlé has acquired a large aquatic park and now sale the water and accelerate the process to extract water and with this eliminate the natural minerals proprieties on the water killing all the ecosystem.
Wouldn't that require you to give a random site your login to post on your behalf?
Uber is too useful and too much better to fail.
"Yes", or if they make a fuss, report them - you've got their license number on the plate right in front of you, and actual accountability rather than an unaccountable star-review system.
I agree to some extent. Having a single app you can open, regardless of what city or even country you're in, and knowing you'll get a good service at a good price, that's a great idea!

The behaviour of Uber has been terrible, and it's a shame they don't operate much more like a passenger->service matching system with ratings, rather that operating their own fleet kinda-sorta-maybe (but they're all self-employed!)
I have. Lived exactly there as a kid. Swam, fished, drank it. Had a fort with running water from an artesian well. This water everyone thinks should just be pumped supports vast areas of flora and fauna and wetlands, feeds the great rivers that clean michigan. And removing a small amount can surely dry out vast areas of the thin surface layer of water of that marshy environment. Sure, some can be used, but it is not infinite.
It's England. You don't tip here.
Some companies are happy to serve a restricted demographic, provide work for the owners and employees; you don't have to be a megalomaniac to lead a company. That seems rational, can you explain why it isn't?

Some people aren't primarily motivated by power and profit.
Or better: why can't HN developers please work on API? Probably brcause building one takes too much effort.... and they don't see reasons to develop one.
It would. Whether you should is another thing entirely. I'm asking why noone seems to even offer the option?
Don't be condescending. The article is about why that isn't happening on a global scale.
So, you're arguing the majority of companies over, say, a $50 billion market valuation in the US are hiding all their profit in the Caribbean and none or very little of it is reaching the US tax system.

Conveniently, a few minutes going through public financial statements disproves that outlandish, comical premise.

3M, McDonald's, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America, AT&T, Delta, UPS, Disney, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Honeywell, Intel, Walgreens, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Boeing, Visa, Comcast, Altria, Exxon, Chevron, Nike, Honeywell, Intel, Merck, Pfizer, Cisco, Oracle, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, etc.

They're all going to be very upset to discover the 20-35% tax rates they've been paying on their earnings, they could easily have avoided by just squirreling it away in the Caribbean.

One could also do a few minutes of research:

"The average effective tax rate among S&P companies that had posted calendar fourth-quarter results as of Friday was 24.11 percent"

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/tax-cuts-sp-500-may-not-get-...
Micro dosing and "augmented" reality.
40,000 drivers. "40,000 jobs" is a misleading figure when those jobs can vary enormously in terms of hours worked.
> If a union wants to negotiate, then you just move the manufacturing to a cheaper country.

This is a disingenuous comment. Having a professional negotiation negotiating with a HR representative on behalf of the worker does not force a company to move their offices abroad.

Moreover, moving a company somewhere else entails a heavy cost that more often than not the company is unable to pay.

I don't understand why people assume that the worker force has to bend over repeatedly and perpetually, particularly when we are faced with stagnant wages in a time of low unemployment. This clearly shows that the job market is being manipulated to serve the interests of these corporations, in a time where high-skilled workers remain peddling for cash and without any job security.
I use ipfs, not out of some sort of edginess or hipness, but because it is literally the easiest way. I just run one command, ipfs add -w file/folder and it is online ;) Faster than scping something to the web server and having to enter the old password, remembering where to put it, ect. ;)...
Implementing Berkeley sockets in System V release 4
It would appear that I'm one of the few fans of pulseaudio here. Although I've only started using it since version 9, it always worked fine and we can do quite complex workflows easily. An example scenario:

1. We have multiple incoming RTSP stream where the audio is added as pulse audio streams.

2. We mix a couple of these streams.

3. We send this stream to an external echo cancellation device.

4. We take back the output of the echo cancellation device.

5. We mix some more streams into it

6. We route this to a certain output, which can be dynamically changed according to a certain algorithm.

We control PA using DBUS and the above scenario is accomplished with only a few calls.
Granted, there's some latency you can't really control, but all in all it's an incredible powerful system that's been working really well for us.
I have two extensions and I find the user/review ratio of this extension highly suspicious.
For sure. The problems happen when insufficient experience, knowledge, and leadership is combined with anything.

With enough fuel, fire, and gained wisdom, anything is achievable.

But, 10 kids playing with building blocks can't easily build an automobile, whereas one smart, dedicated engineer with a lot of metal, some tires, and better tools could pull it off. So, tools and resources matter, too.
are there already Ublox chips that use the L5 frequency?
Londoner here.

The license is not being renewed not because TfL isn't interested in innovation (they actively encourage it), not to retain power for the black cab drivers, and not because London isn't interested in companies like Uber operating here.

It's because of the rapes.

The Metropolitan Police (the part of the UK police force that polices London), has objected to their license.

In 2015 alone, they had to deal with 32 cases of Uber drivers raping or sexually assaulting lone female passengers.

In the entire history of the hackney carriage (black cab) license - going back to 1662 - I know of only one case of a driver having been prosecuted for rape, about 5 years ago.

Uber is not reporting crimes, not co-operating with the police when they are reported, is not doing suitable background checks on criminality or medical suitability for being a private hire driver on its "workforce", and there is suspicion that they are both price gouging and specifically trying to go around the private hire regulations they claim to support.

Also from the TfL statement:

> The Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 includes provision to appeal a licensing decision within 21 days of it being communicated to the applicant. Uber London Limited can continue to operate until any appeal processes have been exhausted.

That means they're not shutting up shop soon, they can appeal in the next 8 days, then continue to operate until the appeals process is over.

That means if they start dealing with driver checks, crime reports and regulations properly within the time frame of the appeals process (which can be years), they'll be allowed to continue to operate.

As a Londoner, I'm OK with that. If they aren't interested in conducting criminal record checks, medical checks, making sure my gf is safe when travelling alone, etc. I don't want them in my city.

If the regulators bring about these changes, they are doing their job and I'm happy for them to scare the holy fuck out of Uber and their management team in the process to make that happen.

In the meantime, other operators have upped their game a lot in recent years whilst Uber has been operating. Addison Lee (one of the larger private hire firms) has an app almost as good as Uber's, with fixed cost pricing.

We will not miss Uber if they go, they are going to need to show that they are worthy of being a part of the diverse and amazing London community if they wish to remain.
Learned inattention is different from ADHD. The whole world has learned innattentive behavior at this point. This can be solved without medication fairly simply. ADHD or as Dr Russell Barkley calls it, Executive Function Disorder, is neurological in origin. By all means try behavior changes first, like you said, but if that works, it was never ADHD to begin with.
Finding a youtube video of Dr Russell Barkley was a godsend for me.
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It's possible this is covered in the talk (as I don't speak French), but how exactly is "information" defined other than being non-commercial?

I mean, on the one hand it's certain that there are people who will happily spend their days writing conspiracy theories or lies about certain minority groups without any financial incentive to do so, and I'd rather this didn't get money from my taxes and a government stamp of approval that such garbage is actually "information". On the other hand, I don't really want a situation where it's really easy for "independent" journalists to get distribution and an income stream, but only if they write stuff the government approves of.
I guess that would be the first time someone violated rules...
Where can i get that in the UK?
Aren't derivative posts of hacker news derivatives a bit derivative?
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I know it looks cool and animates and all that, but... really?!
Germany has what I would call a better healthcare system, but how much you pay for it is coupled to your income. So it is not independent of work.

In Germany the employer has to pay about half of the social security for their employees (this includes health, nursing care, pension and unemployment insurance). There are additional benefits in case of sickness or pregnancy.
Granted, although for consumers it’s rarely a bad thing to have more transport options.

Consider those who, in the absence of Uber, would rather drink drive home after a night out than pay the extortionate fares for a black cab.

I don’t mind a bit of extra traffic if a few more of those types are kept off the roads.
His comment is valid - black cabs are about as quiet and ergonomic as tractors.
Does anyone know how much time is left for them to operate in London on the current license then?
Thanks for your feedback @lecarore!

Indeed, we can list main features too and in what way it is better than other products to encourage people to sign up - we will update the website with details.

We want to have a free plan with limited features and a pro plan for around ~$10/month.
> B/c of above reason. Just fill a bottle. If that's too much - then this is an indicator of mental decline.

That a pretty heavy handed value judgment, made seemingly without any consideration that people have differing requirements and lifestyles. It might not be easy, for example, to wash a water container while traveling. Which it may be wise to do daily [1].

Suggesting that everyone who drinks bottled water is in mental decline to me seems unjustified.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wait-youre-supposed-to-w...
In the US, I don’t think I’ve ridden in a small, local cab company whose cars didn’t smell like cigarettes and was barely legal to drive, and often had drivers trying to scam you. It was always nice expensive black car service, or shitty local taxi company, which was a super last resort.

The transparency and accountability that Uber brought has been preferred by everyone I know, and people are voting with their dollars.
Because I change parts of the config via the UI many times a day. In my case, because I have multiple audio cards and need to change several attributes.
> If only an official REAPER port would come along (I know it'll run under WINE, but there's also been rumblings of a Linux port for years, and I'd much rather run something that works natively)...

There do appear to be official but as-yet unsupported Linux builds: https://wiki.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/REAPER_for_Linux

I had cause to try one for something small recently and it worked pretty well (including with PulseAudio). No idea how stable it is for serious use though.
Read this:
https://www.slashgear.com/google-fuchsia-dev-team-android-pa...
Cool. I didn't find that last time I went looking for the current state of REAPER on Linux, but I did find blog posts that indicated it was being worked on. That's exciting news.
4 miles in a black cab summoned via Hailo can cost you £25 on a Saturday afternoon as a price comparison. It takes 15 minutes for them to turn up and the journey takes up to 30 mins or so depending on traffic.

I can actually walk that in under an hour if I need to.
Apart from restaurants
I'd like to see some kind of filtering for HN based upon some preferences or, better yet, an ML style system like with Netflix that learns the kinds of stories you're interested in.

I skimmed through the descriptions of the "21 better ways", but didn't see anything that would help you to find the HN articles that you're interested in.
Its hard to get traction huh. :(
Anyway I just uploaded some teaser files in hope to intrigue!
https://github.com/fabricnature/index_1337
I have been using the Hamster time tracking application for the past 5 years (Ubuntu/Gnome3).

It works very nicely, you can export everything as XML and you can query the database with Python. I am using the XML export to generate static work logs for my customers and the Python bindings (dbus) to generate some special efficiency stats for me.
Can they get rid of those dreadful oBikes next?
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Yes, but partitioning also has a number of limitations that may be quite undesirable. Like inability to create UNIQUE constraints or primary keys, for example.
Airplanes are already using the higher-accuracy GPS+GNSS to land safely on the runway in low-visibility conditions, guided in by the Flight Management Computer. It makes a big difference whether the plane is 5 meters above the runway or zero meters above the runway.
Higher profits aren't always due to increases in productivity. Profits can grow due to decreases in the price of raw materials (e.g. oil), decrease in competition (e.g. due to an aquisition or a bankruptcy of a competitor), relaxation of regulation (e.g due to lobbying), and a variety of other chnges in the market.
I thought the consciousness one was a pun.
Feedback welcome. Implementation is done in Java in order to get good interop (this has a lot of SAM interfaces).
Autonomous vehicles and drones (used for delivery) can benefit a lot from such accuracy.
WeWork has nailed it
I decided to try working from East Berlin this week so I got an AirBnB to crash in and and signed up for WeWork to have a proper place to go write code. This office is awesome. I think WeWork is one of my favorite tech companies, for lack of a better phrase.
Monzo, Monese and Revolut all offer this.
The US unemployment rate is based on the labor participation rate, a measure of the percentage of people who are unemployed and currently looking for work. It does not account for people who are unemployed and not looking for work. There is a real surplus of labor and employers know it. The vanity statistic that the US publishes has no basis in reality.
So, the cyclists behave just like car drivers then ... /sorta-joking

(FWIW I'm both and sometimes ride a motorbike or drive a van.)
True, but not taken seriously by cab drivers. I've had many broken card machines in a black cab, and when challenged, it almost always lead to a, "alrite, get out mate" — or a, "well I can try if it works again, it didn't earlier..." I didn't report them, and with their ongoing nonsense and this now, I'll definitely make sure I will from here on forward.
Uber will not be banned; it will just start paying attention to a number of things that it should already be paying attention to. It is not as if its business model has been ruled fundamentally illegal.
I actually did steveklabnik said porting ghc to alpine linux. Lets just say, ghc's cross compilation can be frustrating.
That's quite interesting. Option 1 has happened to me a few times with an Oyster card, and I've always had issues claiming refunds, receiving this message:
"We have been unable to process your refund application, This is due to a technical error."

Since switching to using my Monzo card, I've had this issue one time and received the refund no problems. Not sure if that's coincidental.
It might be due to the fact that in most parts of Europe there's a cheap and good public transport available, so cabs must compete with it too. In USA, there's not much to choose from, so cabs have local monopolies, hence higher price and lower quality service.
Both because using mAh in consumer electronics became common with NiCd and NiMH cells before they broke the 1A limit, and today because it allows writing a bigger number on ads.
Regardless of the merits of losing the London licence - which will almost certainly be temporary. I hope there will be some other group to take advantage and bring competition.

London Black cabs complain too much... about _everything_ .. yet I have not heard about them modernising.
Uber as a company is immoral from time to time, however their service is great, and I'd be sad to see it go from London. TfL operates one of the most expensive public transport systems in the world, and is happy to license black cab drivers (who in my experience, can be rude and are an absolute rip off a lot of the time). Not only that, black cab drivers in my area regularly drive through zebra crossings while people are on them, but I am yet to see an Uber driver do this (I'm sure they do as well, but black cabs drive around London with a sense of arrogance and entitlement that I find most irritating).
Taking a full course of antibiotics doesn’t help prevent spread of resistance
Thanks, I'm happy it got into PG10 too. Just to make it very clear - the current implementation is fairly simple, and may not be smart enough to deal with more complicated dependencies between columns. Hopefully that will be improved in PG11.
Related: Do you use any native apps on mobile (preferably iOS)?
Thanks....

I know jokes on HN are risky, but this was both kinda funny and somewhat accurate.
You didn't get mugged. Please don't downplay muggings. Getting mugged is much worse than paying too much because of a software error. Tfl always reimburses and they pay out to any bank account, you just have to call them for the details. I can understand that it's annoying but that wasn't mugging.

Did you report the faulty purple reader? Those are used by several thousand people per day, I've never seen card readers out of service for more than a day.
Funnily enough, one of my big gripes with REAMDE so far has been that Neal doesn't seem to get the Russian mentality at all. I'm not familiar enough with the Hungarian culture to judge Csongor, tho.
I take Lexapro with Vyvanse. Fantastic combo. The persistently negative thoughts just turned off.
I try to take "medication vacations" for tolerance and I can tell by the end of the 1st day the shitty thought patterns come right back in a hurry. It's incredible.
The self-loathing and obsessive perfectionism (including having to correct everyone on everything, and not being able to be wrong without getting angry) has nearly completely vanished.
Did you read the comment you replied to?

It specifically says that people who miss the last train get cabs. So yeah, you've not really disputed anything they said. You like to get Uber? That's nice for you. I just use my local minicab company as they're almost as cheap and way more reliable. The price difference is only massive if you're silly enough to ask a black cab to take you 20 miles. Otherwise it's not really that much, nevermind "massive".

Also, if you're spending lots on public transport, just get a damn travel card. Transport's only expensive for tourists buying each on every journey. Londoners know how to keep their costs down, which makes me wonder if you're a tourist or business traveller who doesn't actually live here.
More so than cabbies or Uber drivers?
Well, in restaurants now the tip's already on the bill, unless you want to make your entire group or date uncomfortable by "talking to the waiter about taking it off".
AIUI, the regulator had evidence that Uber had used Greyball in some markets (i.e., the known uses), and Uber were unable to convince the regulator that they had not used Greyball in London.
Priuses can't take wheelchairs, have a wider turning circle and have other drawbacks that make them unsuitable for black cab workloads.

That said, the UK is committed to eradicating all petrol and diesel cars over the next 22 years, and the black cab drivers are looking at what you're talking about: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/11/black-cab-t...
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