skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often I go out to a restaurant with a friend and order fairly common food - totalling <£30 including drinks, and not making many demands of the staff. I don't think tipping someone to do the bare bones of their job is reasonable.

On the other hand, if I were to go with a reasonably sized group of people, had to get a table big enough for the lot of us, have people with dietary requirements or order cocktails or who otherwise make many demands of the staff... it's worth tipping as we're a pain in the ass, basically. And many restaurants automatically add a service charge in that case anyway.
Does generating that substitute value imply launching a shell command?
Counterexample -- happened near London. I asked to the cab driver if he accepted card payments and he says no. I asked him if we could stop to an ATM machine on the way and he said no and had me leave the cab (it was raining and there was a huge queue to get a cab).
Or by making use of an interpreter as first stage.
Not to defend this congressman, because I've never heard of him and I don't know anything about him, but frivolous lawsuits are a thing, and though you'd expect a judge to recognize them, by the time it gets to that point a lot of time and money has already been wasted.

And not to defend Equifax, because how can you, but a lot of people make their living there and in general corporations deserve reasonable protection under the law just like individuals do. After all most of them are net positives for society: they provide employment, benefits, and many support their local communities in a variety of other ways.
Excel users don't think that way, I guess. Remapping keys requires a registry update on Windows, which many of my windows-at-work friends don't get access to. Even if they did, they might not trust themselves to make registry updates. Popping the key off is easy, secure, and effective.
Judging by the media coverage I've seen over the years, burning cars seems to simply be the standard way of protesting in France...
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/uber-and-volvo-put-300m-in...

“Uber and Volvo put $300M into building self-driving cars” doesn’t imply that Uber really care about their drivers either.
I don't really agree with the author's stance here. Especially since it was posted a couple of days after the inept bomb attempt on a tube train: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/20/parsons-green-two...

Yes, it's a bit sensationalist, it's the news. Have you seen the UK news scene? This won't even be in the top 5 most misleading things said or printed in the news that day.

Please also bear in mind the law on explosives precursors: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supplying-explosi...
Uber drivers were accused of 32 sexual assaults on passengers in 2015/16. In 2015, 126 London taxi drivers were charged with violent or sexual offences — or 521 over the past five years.
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> I'm curious whether you were asleep or not during that trip?

No. I was not asleep.

> That's a massive detour in the wrong direction twice. You and the driver both have a map showing your current location and destination. It seems like an easy mistake to quickly notice and correct

And yet somehow he missed the A312/M4, he missed the A40, took his time turning around passing two exits and then took the A40 in the wrong (west) direction. Unbelievable in the evening with no traffic. Should have cost £20ish pounds.

I had to point out each of these, and I couldn't understand his english. He might have been too tired to drive, or he might have been incompetent. I don't really care, but I'm not getting in an Uber again.
I remember back in the days of 98 when in my experience, hitting F1 would trigger the help which would never load rapidly or successfully. My standard operating procedure was to do a hard shutdown. It was so frustrating.

I was roughly 5-7 while using it. Maybe it wasn't that bad and I was simply impatient. Regardless, it's always been useless to me.
Uhh no. Those costs are transfered (at least in part) to the employee every year when they reup.
All of which are completely unsuited to use with luggage, and/or require you to first get to Paddington station.
I think 'paying bills' here is shorthand for the general administrative burden of being alive, which seems to have grown substantially in recent decades.
I would question it if most people had a tap dispensing cheap Diet Coke at home. That's a strange comparison to make.
> Restarting PA does not help; have to reboot

Then PA is not the problem, your sound card/drivers is.
Thank you! I like to keep it subtle, especially considering that many readers are not Mac users. I think it's totally possible to measure everything with a start/stop kind of tracker.

I heard good things about Selfspy for Linux:
https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
OMG I feel dumb - I didn't notice it! Awesome. For those looking, the "collapse" function is after the "ago" [-]
Materialistic on Android is particularly good.
> business reporting and BI in the same box at scale.

To be fair, it's an easy win to throw a replica in the mix with no downsides for BI.

Not to mention, BI at scale tends to send data to redshift or the like first
So get the AL to Paddington then get on the Heathrow Express. The Heathrow Express has never been very crowded in my experience, and has at least as much room for luggage as a cab does.
In the UK the banks take care of switching over your direct debits and standing orders when you switch bank accounts.
All the worse if you're used to readline / emacs keybindings, where ^W is "delete word".

Editing a Web form and suddenly having the entire tab disappear is less than gruntling.
> I wrote to Uber's support and they recalculated the correct route and refunded me the difference. Did you try that?

Yes. I pressed the contact button and had to type in a great deal. I never saw any refund, but I don't care about the money: I want my time back, and the best I can do is simply not give Uber any more of my time.

> This sort of thing happens with black cabs outside airports from time to time

Addison Lee has been extremely reliable, and since it's fixed-fee the driver is motivated to get you home quickly.
Yeah that's a tricky one. How about using the money to buy some of their sovereign debt, and then forgive that debt? Or probably even better, involve some NGO that already works in the region.
That assumes companies will not try to cut separate deals with unions which are worse for workers.
What should a 25 year old do to get hired as a CTO in 10-15 years?
What can young talent do to become technically strong and capable enough to be a CTO of large/mid size company in next 10-15 years?
never say no to money
Usually, even small towns have their own water extraction and purification facilities, so the size of a country doesn't have any influence (at least directly). Bar rare occasions with extreme climates, where no local water source is available.
Uber don't make contacting them easy, and even if I got one: A refund doesn't cut it. My time is valuable to me. If I wanted to take an hour to get home I would've taken the tube.
How to build a habit? Seinfeld Strategy
I'm not really sure what you expect the driver or Uber to do in that situation - there's no good solution AFAICT. The only option would be to leave the motorway at the next exit and arrange alternative transport.
Wait, what? Surely government prosecutors aren't motivated by monetary gains?
Ask HN: Best way to sell unused domain names?
I've acquired several domains in the past year that I'd like to sell. What services/methods would you all recommend? I have several .coms I think would sell for quite a bit, but I'm not out to bilk or price gouge folks; I just don't need them myself.
> When a more advanced machine lets you replace 10 unskilled workers with 1, you don't pay that operator 10 times the wage, you pay him the same wage or even less.

But this is an unacceptable, or at least undesirable, outcome - for the majority of people anyway. If there is more wealth sloshing around the system, and fewer people involved in creating it, more of it should go to the person helping to create it. If this is what our economic system encourages our system is sub-optimal.
State IDs manage state administered stuff. E.g. your driver's license. Pretty much every state has a ID that can stand in place of a license for ID but doesn't have anything to do with driving.

With current technology there's no technical or practical (other than inertia) reason federal services couldn't use state IDs. There's only 50 states, not N states. A 50-case switch wouldn't be that bad. ID requirements between states aren't so disparate that you couldn't get a good enough mapping.

The biggest hurdle to ANY effective ID system for individual people is that ID is a composite key. There are many Joe Smiths in the US. There are many Joe Smiths in a state. There are probably a handful of Joe smiths with the same birth date. There are possibly multiple Joe Smiths born on the same day that look similar and share a zip code.

People don't have unique identifiers other than DNA and even then if you don't do a good job processing it you're not guaranteed accuracy and I don't think we're at a point where we trust any .gov with that level of info about us.

So far we've been able to squeak by with just using really ugly composite keys.
Is there clear evidence that Uber is less safe for drivers and passengers than competing services? They've been operating for a while with millions of users, so I expect any shortcomings would be evident in the statistics by now.
Dimon warned that governments will eventually crack down on cryptocurrencies and will attempt to control it by threatening anyone who buys or sells bitcoin with imprisonment, which would force digital currencies into becoming a black market.

Couldn't that make it more valuable? Take illegal drugs for example...they are very expensive because they are illegal to produce, distribute, but, and sell.
I saw those links, and can Google others as well when searching for Uber wrongdoing. I want their details, not a commenters.

I saw the Tfl's statement which only had four abstract bullet points. What did they ask about Greyball and what was answered? Which unreported crimes and were there cover-up attempts by the company?

In general, one might expect a level of detailed transparency in these rulings lest it's seen as a foregone conclusion retroactively finding reasons. Is there a commission report I can read or a committee hearing I can watch?
I've had very good luck getting them in City: Most I've spent is something like £70 since they're not getting any better offer that late in the day.
And when you read a linked story in MiniHack, it automatically renders the page in Reader Mode
Unplug the server, bury it in the back yard. Make sure the hole is deep. Website is now secure (maybe).
Not releasing a study is not "going to great lengths", it's simply not releasing a study.
This is awesome, thanks! I will definitely make some mindmaps for our future articles.
Anyone interested in this sort of thing should also check out this page. They swapped the electric drivetrain of a tesla roadster into a Lotus Evora. It was not a smiple swap and included the help of Motec(they make aftermarket ECU, popular in the race world) to control everything.

http://www.onpointdyno.com/bluelightning/
Lots of videos on youtube also with the builder Sasha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8rYXBYqPX8
I would imagine at the time, the first strike would be in the hundreds, of not thousands of warheads. Coupled with the blast radius, missing doesn't seem relevant in that scenario.

Like the saying goes, "almost doesn't count except horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear warheads."
I've run into a severe issue with Fitbit's app on the iPhone 7.

On my older iPhone, the mile counts were reasonably accurate. On the 7, there's a spurious ~2 miles per hour added at all times.

My guess is that the 7's chip updates position much more frequently, so that small inaccuracies (a couple dozen feet west, then a couple dozen feet east on the next update) make it look like I'm sprinting all over the place in random directions at high speed. No idea why Fitbit doesn't smooth it out a little...

Did a six hour, 4.6 mile hike in the Adirondacks and it tracked me at 18 miles (edit: 13, sorry).
MongoDB has is a pretty good example of building a business around open source software.
Rise of the Tech Bros Means Gender Pay Gap May Only Widen
Unless there is a strong mandate from the top to take time for maintaining and reviewing code I'd say absolutely. Even if those were in place I'd say a strong maybe. Ignoring competency some people just have wildly divergent ways to doing the same thing because of their background. Languages like Java and C++ allow for it because they allow you to do so much. So I agree with the basic tenant of Go that having one way to solve a problem is a huge win for code maintainability and readability. If the one way is clunky and kind of ugly I'm still down for it.
I dont think people appreciate the uneven response. They equate allowing Uber to Uber vs taxis. But thats not whats being discussed: cabs arent banned. Its Uber vs Governments. The foe is large and abusive.

You can exercise your opinion by not taking an Uber. Why would you ban a third person from using uber?
So, this is an honest question, not an attempt to be cruel: How exactly do you get that to happen?

Because my reaction when I read the linked article was that pulse sure does seem to have a lot of features that sound pretty useful, but after years and years of nominally having it on my system in charge of my audio hardware, I have, to be blunt, absolutely no clue how to use any of those features, except a bit about network audio streaming. None whatsoever. Didn't even have a hint the support for those autoconf protocols existed.

I did once try to stream a Pulseaudio stream from one linux system to another. I never got so much as a peep to go across. I have no idea where any diagnostic messages may have gone that might help me debug this. I have no access to a working configuration to compare to. I have no idea what I did wrong and no idea how to fix it. I can find documentation that assumes you're writing C extensions and I can find documentation on how to slide sliders in the Gnome volume app, but I can't find anything in between. And I'm a professional software engineer with a minor in electronic music; there are certainly people with more knowledge and more motivation on these matters than me, but on the flip side, features that I can't figure out or get working might as well not exist to the vast majority of the population.

So while I'm not asking you to write a manual page, how exactly did you get to the point where you can do that? Again, I'm serious; the previous paragraphs are not to just slag on a project, but to show where I am and what problems I'm having. I've got a project I'm trying to do where it would be really useful to understand these things, but I have no idea even where to look at this point. (I've poked in every Google search I can think of and gotten the aforementioned C-API level docs or "I just installed Ubuntu, how do I volume?" docs.)
I wonder how that will work out for the euro zone, where national economies are so different. The Czech Republic already has labor shortages.
Half the power consumption, according to the article.
JSON Viewer – Best and Secure
A registry key? It’s incredibly you can change keyboard layout but not key bindings easily.
still vulnerable to worms
I'm sorry but you will have to do more to explain your point on black cab user experience being horrendous. Whilst it can be hard to get a hold of one at times, in my experience of 20 years of using them, the user experience is great - the drivers are typically friendly and get you there as quickly as they can. I have used Uber many times in London and abandoned it months ago, as the drivers don't have the local knowledge required to quickly move across what is a very busy city. SatNav isn't everything - give me driver experience every single time.
Taxis have an ACTUAL monopoly. Are you seriously siding with "banning potential monopoly" to protect an entrenched centuries old monopoly.
I always thought AL required pre-booking. Can I get a car to my door/where ever I'm standing in 3-5 minutes?
This is fantastic!
wtf did I just read?
Our whole product is based around "visual scripting" and we think we've nailed it:
https://www.construct.net

You can load it in your browser to try at:
https://editor.construct.net

Tens of thousands of active users and feedback over the years has been extremely positive on this aspect of our product.

I'd be curious on your thoughts on it coming from a slightly pessimistic starting point :)
You can also compile FF with ALSA enabled. Gentoo has a useflag for that.
> "The average effective tax rate among S&P companies that had posted calendar fourth-quarter results as of Friday was 24.11 percent"

The question in a discussion of tax avoidance, of course, is 24.11% of what.
Agreed. My non-expert suspicion is that Speck is secure and simple. The point is that we can no longer assume that's the case coming from the NSA and people in other countries don't trust them.

One could get out their tinfoil hat (as another posterdid) and suggest that the allies are publicly questioning it so people don't adopt simple and secure encryption. After all, the result of their vote is that it does not become a standard.

In the end we have to go by actual analysis. As it should be.
One of my coworkers is doing this: wake up early at about 6am, work till 4pm = 9 hours with a lunch break and commute.

After he comes back home, he spends time with his gf watching tv but still coding for another 2 hours at least.

This way he can work 220 hours a month not counting his side projects he works on weekends/free time.

He is easily pulling about 250-260 hours a month.

Yes, he's a workaholic.
Sure, but you wouldn't leave a tip after getting a cup of tea at a wetherspoons, would you. I guess that's the UK equivalent of coffee at a diner.

Some places accept tips, and perhaps in some you should. The vast vast vast majority don't expect them as par for the course.
In an instantaneous-clip of all our sensory data (visual field, auditory sphere, tastes, smells, touches/bodily tactility), where do we draw the line between perceiver and perceived ?
Yep me too! The amount of work that goes into something like this is quite frankly astonishing.
> It is strange that there aren't more writeups on Postgresql migrations.

It's probably because switching databases is very painful and rare.
Could we improve the title to be less clickbait sounding?
They've got plenty of times on their hands and no family or doesn't need to work to feed their own mouths, which is plenty of advantage over 99% of the population of the world.

Now add being born in a good country, or having rich parents, or getting good education

then add a bit of luck

there you go
While I agree that the proposed legislation is probably terrible, this opinion piece uses weasel words like "republicans" and "democrats" when they only cite I think 2 republicans that are supporting the proposal- out of all of the republicans in Congress! While it may be technically accurate (they are republicans) it is important to remember the spin on political pieces like this.

Not all 'republicans' and not all 'democrats' are the same.
Scientists Closing in on Dawn of Plate Tectonics
> This is just not true, and the medallion system doesn't seem to exist outside of the US.

We have licenses in argentina which are basically the same. While the taxi drivers that are unionized flipped out cars and threw stones at Uber offices down here, they claimed Uber wasnt safe.

At least 50% of taxis in argentina dont have working seatbelts.
If it's a simple permissive license with patent grant, what's the advantage over BSD-2-Clause-Patent (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent) ?
> they provide employment, benefits, and many support their local communities in a variety of other ways.

I mean I hear you - corporations are important, as they're a great way for a group of people to accomplish something together - but if the most important thing you do for society is employment, you sound like a pretty shit corporation.

On the other hand, The New Deal did a lot of that. Hmmm.
These are all tall apartment blocks, so land is involved, but is amatorized ofer many units.

Construction workers are unskilled by design (farmers from the country side, not even high school educations, construction is basically a jobs program for them). The techniques they use to compensate will result in higher maintnence costs later on down the line. It isn't stupid considering what they have, but the resulting buildings become dipilated rather quickly, why pay $1 million for that? And if I can rent that place for a cheap 10k rmb/month anyways, why would I bother buying?
I WAS CONTACTED BY THE ILLUMINATI- W/ SCREENSHOTS
Ease of use - you can get a lot done with only one developer

Mongo doesn't have JOIN pain, sparse tables, many to many join tables, etc - all stuff you need programmers for on sql
>but frivolous lawsuits are a thing, and though you'd expect a judge to recognize them, by the time it gets to that point a lot of time and money has already been wasted.

Yes, but I would guess, more frivolous lawsuits are filed by corporations looking to silence critics or competition more so than ambulance chasers. They certainly have deeper pockets.
Yeah mangling the keyboard should be a last option , I'm guessing they're not aware that all the keys can be remapped.
The credit system as is massively contributes to wealth inequality in this country. You can't get credit without money, and you can't (easily) get more money at a reasonable interest rate without credit. Couple that with underreporting agencies like utility companies, and landlords, it really only benefits the middle class (and then only if they are upwardly mobile).

That's not a net positive to society in my eyes.
Actually, studies found that pee-wee football players get hit with the same G-Forces as the pros (13 to 15 Gs). I can only surmise the same was true for high school and college. I was at an EMS conference when they cited the study. The one below is the only one I could find though.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10439-012-0530-...
GameMaker has been around since 1999 - if the engine is capable producing a hit game is simply a matter of time. The more time the engine has been around the more likely there will be hit games made in it.
A friend of mine managed to wrangle a device from his local fire department that measures the heat or lack thereof of whatever it's pointing at. It shows a picture of what you're looking at, but colors the hot / cold spots. It was really enlightening to see the different places around the house that heat was escaping. Food for thought.
That's a big part of it. If you want to serialzie a list of optional ints, you're going to have to write something like

List.serialize (Option.serialize Int.serialize) my_list

Whereas in Haskell it's just

serialize myList

This also shows up with equality and comparison, numeric operators, etc. (which beyond being syntactically inconvenient also makes data structures trickier to use ,usually with a somewhat convoluted functorized data structure module).

There are also some things about the language that break composability. For example, the presence of mutable references means you can't compose polymorphic functions (sounds weird, I know), which is inconvenient.

It basically boils down to less ability to front-load work by creating good abstractions.
Very neat tool! Bookmarked.
Of the distros, Fedora has the strictest compiler bootstrapping policy, and Fedora seems to be doing great with Rust packaging (for a number of CPU architectures).
The UK manages well enough with out a national id (seen as to Gestapo).

And if the USA had national ID it would be used to harass BME citizens ala Sherif Joe