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Not that I use Uber (not really necessary in Edinburgh and they don't operate where I live) - but one of the problems with there being so many taxi and minicab firms is how do you tell which ones are actually any good when traveling to a new location?

I've had great experiences with taxis, but also appalling ones... At least Uber seemed to be trying to solve that problem - shame they decided to solve a real problem while being a shamelessly immoral company.
Not really. Regulated cab companies, for example, can’t offer surge pricing or things like that (a big part of Uber’s viability), or a single app in every market without a million different kinds of meters, etc.
In fact water may become scarce there, by relative vs absolute measures. The area depends on water to supply the massive natural streams and rivers and lakes and marshlands. These waters flow all the way to the Great Lakes and help keep those waterways and everything downstream refreshed. Water reduction could dry out huge swaths of wetlands ecosystem and affect water life. This is exactly why they are studying the river water levels to make sure it doesn't. That's like saying because you live near an ocean, there is plenty of water around. Not hardly.
FWIW I have the same issue on osx. :)
And here too. And the Uber driver was actually carved up by a truck trying to get off the motorway and had to drive past the junction.

Try getting money out of a black cab.
not turning the meter on, or asking you to give them the postcode (ie they should know how to go to you area of town, that's part of their training)
> I don't want to give any business to a company that are seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly

You don't have to use their service
It's a bad idea most of the time but sometimes it works. The smart investors have a portfolio of many bets, and it's priced in that most won't succeed. For the entrpreneur I think this is a bad idea but for the investors it's workable if they can do it a few dozen times over.

It's just injection of both money and risk, amplifying the result. It'll fail more often than usual. But if it succeeds, wow.
what about if they prefer the taste of the bottled water? San Pellegrino, since you mentioned it, certainly has a very distinctive taste profile, but even for other brands there will be a taste (which of course partially is affected by the branding).
That's not a bad idea actually and the prepaid card actually stays as real money, not "non refundable blue TFL smart card arbitrary number"
There's other constellations now, so limiting the capabilities of civilian GPS hardware has reduced strategic value.

If I understand correctly, the best implementations treat the various satellites as one combined system, rather than trying to average the solutions.
I don't, and I'm happy to see it disappear if it can't or won't behave fairly to passengers and drivers, and compete honestly.
Some gatekeeper like google would be needed to raise exposure by verifyability. The problem for a algorithm is to quanitfy truthfullness- it needs some feedback by the audience for that- and it needs to learn whos feedback is qualified.

Doubt that even google could build such a curating search engine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law

I think this is what you are referring to, the square cube law.
At no point it says it receives reflections first. It says that L1 signals are so long, direct and reflected signals are merged and received as a single signal.
I'd rather be raped that do another ride in a black cab. These things have no suspension whatsoever, and are louder than a truck (which matters a lot if you are trying to sleep in a quiet street). Uber minicabs tend to drive a Toyota Prius which is way more comfortable and silent.
> app-driven

Does that mean that you can only order for a cab via an app? Or are apps an alternative?
Shameless plug: I use my own home written app http://tophn.info to keep an eye on the movement of the top news articles during the day, in real time and jump straight to the comments.

I also wrote about how I built it using Vue.js and RethinkDB... https://hackernoon.com/tophn-a-fun-side-project-built-with-v...
I am quite surprised that PulseAudio has a bad reputation. I couldn't get ALSA working on Arch Linux, and simply installing PulseAudio resolved all my issues.

From the sentiment here I get the feeling that it might stop working any moment.
While I'm hoping to see this system work I'm not sure if it will and whatnot. It's great to see research for it and maybe they can study some existing systems as well.

I feel a lot of people on here want to be or are already an entrepreneur. So of course your friends are most likely gonna start a business if they had the time, opportunity and safety net. But maybe that's enough?

Another thing I hear a lot from people in this system is saying they wish they had more money and wish they could do something to earn more. (But then again I think this is always the case)

The money we get is based on some average income. It's enough to pay the rent for an apartment, save up a little to buy a TV, maybe even a trip to another country if you're careful, etc.

I don't think it's enough to own a car, buy a house, have kids, etc. To live that kind of "dream" you need to find a full time job. Which sounds fair within the UBI context but maybe unfair if you're disabled. (I personally don't know, my own life is more than good at the moment)

I should have mentioned that there's a social stigma with not working (at least in Norway). Many of my disabled friends are not very open about it because they think it's embarrassing. I have one friend who choose to work at charity-ish place just so he can say he's working. He's 40 years old though and I believe the stigma was much stronger back in the past.

Personally if people ask what I'm doing I tell them that I'm disabled but I like programming, making music and so on. I've never had anyone react negatively to this, but this is face to face, first time we meet, and maybe the non disabled people I meet have similar mindset as me. (programmers, freelancers, artists, etc) The friends I have who are disabled is another friend circle entirely.

So I don't experience the stigma but I can imagine there are some people who don't like it of course. It's just that I don't hang around those people.

But this stigma could be an important factor as to why people want to work.

I feel like I'm talking for https://www.nav.no (the system in Norway I'm talking about). Maybe they have more useful (and more accurate) data for the people who research UBI.
Deflation is prices going down. ( i should have said "which would be the definition of inflation")
More UK cabs need to start allowing cars payments. Instead they use their local monopolies to force cash use and under declare taxable income.
The Future of Quantum Flow
I live in eastern-Europe and your bipartisan politics leak here too.

If I was an American, I would read politics even less since you already know who to vote for, you pretty much have 2 choices. It's a bit more complex here.
Weird stuff like collapsing downvoted comments (and their replies) by default. I even browse with showdead on, so I don't want to have to manually expand comment trees just because slightly more people disagree than agree with the point being made.
Controversial Lightning Process 'helps children with chronic fatigue syndrome'
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/accepting...
> Two-income households: doubled the labor supply without making an equally large increase in demand

Interesting perspective. In Norway the consensus is that equal employment and the resulting doubling of productivity was a major force in increasing standard of living - way before the oil boom (corally: Sweden and Denmark are also rich/high standard of living - with no/hardly any oil industry).
I don't really understand your question... this is the favored approach of many Silicon Valley VC firms, and they are widely considered some the smartest tech start-up investors in the world.

If it really is a bad idea, and those firms have been so successful for so long not because of it but in spite of it, then it seems like a huge opportunity for others to come along and displace them with a better model. There's a lot of money in many of these tech markets. But we don't see that happening.

I guess the answer is that it's unintuitive... it seems like an obviously bad idea to many people, but the people that have the most experience think it's a great idea and continue to succeed with it.

There are other approaches: in China, for example, investors generally considered profitability much more important and expect it very rapidly, like in the first 6-18 months (though this has eased quite a bit towards a more SV-style model in recent years).

The gripe then is that companies can't have any long term vision or go big because they have to be making profit immediately and constantly.

Something about green grass...
Btw investors are also going to check your website, and even though they'd try to stay objective and focus on core (team, idea, market blah blah) the appearance of website will have at least subconscious effect on their image about your company, and thus on the valuation.

In that way "investing" bit more on your website may increase the investment on your company.
Nintendo pulled Mario 64 Online creator's Patreon and videos
The US only got a central bank - and a pretty limited one at that - in 1913, exactly because the many panics that hit the US money markets were too severe without a lender of last resort to act as a moderator.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1819 a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837 a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression

and so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises#19th_c...
I used to sleep in (11AM, 12PM)... then I had a baby. Here I am, 7AM, already doing 2 hours of work because baby woke up for a feeding. This is my normal now. After work (which is now 3 or 4 depending on when I wake up), I spend my entire time with my family. No work, no distractions, lots of play, and lots of fun.
True, but that does not work for TfL because of how they charge you. Details:

http://news.revolut.com/post/146212645837/touch-it-tap-it-re...

I've been charged a wrong amount by TfL a few times in the past, I contacted them (either on the phone or via the webform) and I was always reimbursed. There are basically two situations where you get charged a wrong amount:

1. common: the "touch out" did not work. Just log in and click "refund previous trip".

2. rare: some weird software exception where your trip is charged via a Zone that you did not travel through.

The second happened to me a few times but honestly if I think of the massive amount of complex/arcane/exceptional software rules they must have ...I feel I cannot blame their software engineers :)
But Nestlé extracting fresh water in Michigan is not depleting the fresh water supply of any place in Africa, right? Water scarcity in another region of the world is not a reason to reduce or stop extraction in Michigan.

How many ways should I put this?
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They're loss making by choice so it's not problematic for them at least.
WeChat confirms it makes all private user data available to Chinese government
More than 400 London cab drivers charged with crimes last year [0]. Not sure if this includes Uber, but from your comment, Uber doesn't report to DBS, so it doesn't. When you judge a service, you should really ask "compared to what". I prefer knowing the name and track record of my driver, not to mention an easy way to report mis-behavior, a history of my ride and ability to share my location. I don't have any stats, but from my experience, these factors greatly increase safety and comfort

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/over-400-london-cab-dr...
> voting will make me jump around the page

What do you mean by that? Voting is handled by AJAX requests, so it shouldn't jump around.
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Isn't a bubble defined as a price increase that at some point pops?
>This problem is mitigated with the help of an organized worker force, [...]. Therefore are able to get much better deals than the average worker acting alone.

Yes, that's the simplified happy ending for voting in a union but the reality is complicated by factors outside of the union's control.

E.g. A $15/hour worker considering a union weighs the possibilities: a raise of wages to $20/hour or a reduction to $0/hour because there are no jobs at all.

That's the complicated calculation. Union representation can negotiate a Collective Bargaining Agreement to raise wages but a union can't guarantee the existence of the jobs[1] to pay those wages. Many employees know this which is why they reject unions. UAW has tried to unionize workers at Toyota in Kentucky for decades and failed. Nissan workers in Mississippi just rejected a union vote last month. FedEx Freight drivers in North Carolina and Pennsylvania recently voted and decertified their union in July 2017 after voting for it in 2014.

Some workers genuinely feel a union will make their economic lives worse. The unions' promises of better wages mean nothing if the plant closes and workers weigh that possibility when rejecting union representation. What arguments do we use to convince these people that they haven't already heard from pro-union organizers?

[1] examples:

Seattle union can't stop Boeing from locating the new 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina with no unions.

Steelworkers union in Indianapolis doesn't stop Rexnard from eliminating $25/hour jobs which cost more than $3/hour jobs in Mexico.

Nabisco (Oreo cookies, etc) moves production to Mexico instead of keeping the higher wage union jobs in Chicago.

The common theme is that the fear of no jobs is not FUD nor a theoretical threat. Workers know it actually happens.
So, can they become a mere client for black taxis, as they are in Berlin, for example?
Even more interesting - https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/accepting...

"Every driver must accept card and contactless payments and provide receipts for those payments upon request.

All taxis must have a fully working TfL-approved fixed card payment device fitted within the passenger compartment - a handheld-only device will not be sufficient to meet the licensing requirements. Any taxi found not to meet the requirement will be issued with an unfit notice, which will remain in place until the requirement is fulfilled and the vehicle is presented for inspection."

So it looks like either the story was a little old, or the cab was in violation of the rules.
I would suggest starting with the short introductory articles written by Chris Richardson: http://microservices.io/articles/index.html

A lot of useful articles can be found inside archives section of the Microservices Weekly newsletter: http://microservicesweekly.com/archives
The key word here is "overlapping". I think the "old" L1 signal was long enough for the direct signal to arrive first, then have the reflected signal arrive while the direct signal was still being received. This would create the "signal blob".

So yes, the direct signal always arrives first, but gets messed up during receiving by the reflected signal. The L5 signal is so short, that the likelihood of reflections overlapping is reduced. Think: so short that the signal starts and finishes during the time it takes a radio wave to propagate 1 meter through air or so.
> If you're too drunk to ride the drunk train/bus, there are cheap hotels all over London.

Is this serious? You think that booking a hotel in London is a better choice than just getting a taxi home?
> Like I said: direct democracy is a tried and tested method. It has failed for the same reason always.

Always? You should be sure to inform the Swiss, who've been operating under the mistaken assumption that direct democracy in their cantons was functioning just fine.

Then, climb in your time machine and alert the New Englanders that their town halls were actually ruinous disasters. Then go further back and mock the ancient Athenians for starting this whole democracy debacle by running a stable government for 200 years.
Stopping at damn traffic lights and constantly waiting for cars.
To apply for this position you require 12 years of Senior Experience in Go and Cobol.
Will be resolved with crossrail next year, thankfully.
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Show HN: Sheep Backups – Simple server backups
Hey guys, first 'proper' startup. https://www.sheepbackups.com

I've tried to design Sheep Backups to be very simple and straightforward, as well as a good focus on restoring backups (including test runs, fully listing the steps the restore will take etc). The goal is to be as user friendly as possible, as opposed to blanket saving hard drives where things may have changed, or you only want to back up certain things.

I'd like some feedback, particularly if you already have a backup solution in place. Why do you use it, what makes it useful, have you found any issues/problems you wish were addressed?

The home page I've made as direct as possible to address developers, by showing how simple it is to get running/configure. I'm aware this won't appeal to business owners at the moment, and not entirely sure how to progress there. Backups aren't particularly 'sexy' but still vital.

Anyway, 3 cheers for me for getting this out there, and any feedback is appreciated!
Addressing the Gap in Noncommunicable Disease Data with Technology and Innovation
This article is about this accuracy coming to smartphones, via a tiny chip, as opposed to costly, custom gear.
Accessible-autocomplete: an autocomplete component, built to be accessible
I'll continue with news.ycombinator.com, but with styling from the Stylish extension for chrome. Currently using this theme: https://userstyles.org/styles/107079/hacker-news-minimal-the...
Be part of growing buyandsell marketplace
I use headphones, and have tactile transducers on my chair. The transducers make the audio sound much louder than it actually is. That is good for your ears and your neighbours.

Because of this setup I need full-range stereo output on my headphones and low-passed LFE for the transducers.

How can I do this PulseAudio? When I enable lfe-remixing, I get full-range output on my transducers and I hear voices in my chair. If I set lfe-crossover-freq, I lose the bass on my headphones.

I found this patch

https://pw-emeril.freedesktop.org/patch/171424/

which seems solve the problem, but it was rejected.
That guy who works 12 hours a week in the grocery store, because the company doesn't give him any hours most days? Doesn't count as unemployed, but might as well be.
Nah, NASA is in the end, specialist work.

The Army can do everything from dig ditches to build sheds and structures - its there to have the sheer physical ability of killing its enemies to varying degrees of dead.
I’m reading 30 cm. Although it’s possible we disagree on what “a few” means exactly.
Occams Razor, often misused as you imply, says not to multiply elements beyond necessity. Newtonian physics doesn't explain observed quantum effects and so there is a necessity to use a more complex system to explain all the observations.

You're quite right to note it's heuristic nature, some people use it as if it's truth generating.
> In a lot of African areas Coca Cola is cheaper than clean water! Just think about the health impact.

If it really is cheaper than potable water (enough to be considered an alternative!), then I'm sure that hydration concerns come well before dietary planning concerns.

What on earth is wrong with Coca Cola producing a finished soda product at a lower cost than competing water products?

> Nestlé buys water then turns it into something trademarked and sells it. That's free market - and it's a huge shit and should be stopped.

Why should it be stopped? People buy the water, people who want the water buy it. People will buy water whether it's Nestlé's product or Coca-Cola's. If they want to buy it from Nestlé, what is your problem with that?

Food is a commodity, food is not a right; but food is a necessity. Ideally people are fed, people make a serious effort to make this happen. Water is a commodity, not a right; whether or not it is a necessity has no bearing.

When you see farmers selling agricultural products in a marketplace it must make your blood boil. To think that they would make an effort to transform the natural resources of the land into a branded product and sell it; the nerve!
I have been participating on HN for years never been accused of that before.

What exactly are you referring to?

Furthermore I can't fix anything as I can't edit.
That doesn't change the fact that the documentation you need isn't there, and that they have no plans to provide it. Can you figure it out? Sure. Am I going to pull my hair out doing trial and error trying to figure out the GPIO pinout for an SoC that they have no interest in providing documentation for when I can just buy a product with better documentation? Of course not.
There is a direct connection from Michigan to Africa - its name is Nestlé.
If they want any paying at all, presumably they will.

They are required by TFL to have a working contactless and Chip'n'Pin device mounted in the customer compartment. I have a feeling we're talking about things that happened in the past.
Yes, thanks to the Green Revolution, which is based on 'chemical' fertilizers/pesticides and intensive farming practices. 'Permaculture' style 'farming' (it's more 'gardening', really) doesn't have anywhere close to the same yields.

(I have a 2 acre 'food forest', I'm not a 'Big AG apologist' or any of the dozens of other things I've been called over the years - I'm just realistic)
Love letter to maintainers
It probably wouldn't work well. There's already a well established one - Hailo. Cabbies would probably use that rather than Uber who they don't like much.

Edit- now it's become mytaxi app.
Unlocking Big Data – EBook
I wonder how the DPL is compared to the MS-PL which is more BSD-like and does mention what happens if someone makes a patent claim against the code, they basically forfeit the right to using any of the authors own patented code / solutions, ie the entire code base probably becomes useless legally speaking.

https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL

I always found it silly when some projects with patents dual license as BSD and one other odd license, and depending on usage of code they relicense it when there's already licenses like the MS-PL. That's just my opinion anyway, what do I know, I'm not a lawyer. I just stay away from weirdly licensed projects though.
I filed my complaint with Uber support while I was standing in line at airport security, and I had a refund before I got through the metal detector. It's also worth emphasizing that the rider only even knows about these shenanigans when there's a GPS map of the ride; if a normal taxi takes a circuitous route when it's dark or you're in an unfamiliar area, you just never find out.
Here's a little perspective from another company trying to bring Uberesque services to London.

Not trying to defend Uber but the motives of british establishment might be a bit more selfish then they want you to know.

https://blog.taxify.eu/2017/09/bringing-fairer-ride-hailing-...
I think it was a buggy driver more than a Windows problem, as I tried selecting it as the default. It sometimes wouldn't show up when re-plugged in, as well. I'd even have to reboot sometimes to get it to show up as an option.
Collections with tens of Gigabytes and hundreds of millions of records can take a few hours per-node to build an index. You'll need to think about index migration strategies before that point though. I'd guess that once you have gigabytes of data in a collection you'll probably have less downtime with an election than you will waiting for the index to build.