skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes me sad to see the waste created in the environment due to ignorance. It's common practice to use re-usable drinking containers.. and you can do this while traveling as well. It's like bringing your own shopping bag, people didn't used to do this often, but now it's become more of a trend and it's good for the environment.

I feel like many environmental actions that governments support are taken because they are easy, not because they have the highest impact. In your example of re-usable shopping bags, most items use more packaging that the bag itself. The environmental impact of mandating bag re-use seems minimal, compared to the packaging used for fruit, meat, vegetables, and all other common commodities.

In the case of re-usable water bottles. Yes, they can be useful no doubt. There are situations and people for whom this doesn't work well. For example, a re-usable bottle should be washed with soap once a day [1] and that might not always be possible. So suggesting that all or most users of bottled water are "lazy of apathetic" does not seem justified.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wait-youre-supposed-to-w...
Not really, it's a service charge that in most places is charged for groups over a certain size (4 or 5). There is no culture of compulsory tipping for anything, because it's ridiculous.
> "Not shared by the rest of the world"

And that is their loss. ADHD is very much a cause whose impact goes far beyond just procrastrination. It causes people to be terrible spouses who are never there when they are needed. It causes lost friendships through blinkered social conduct. It causes persistent self hatred and anxiety and depression.

"you might want to try behaviour change first"

This is such a, forgive the harshness, ignorant way of thinking about ADHD that it makes my blood boil. Behaviour change works when the person in question has the capabilities of making that change stick. This is the equivalent of telling a handicapped person to try b-mod to climb the stairs.

It. Just. Won't. Work. A shortage of persistence cannot be solved through more vigorous exhortations towards greater persistence. Here's how I think of the drugs. The drugs lay the platform so that I can implement the behaviour change. They don't let me study better. They let me start studying in the first place, at which point, all the best practices and behaviour modifications can come into play.
Oh that's nice, found some interesting projects there, thank you. I use all three git sites, I mostly use BitBucket because it was the first one I found with free git repositories, but I use GitLab now for private projects. Thank you again for coming on here and always being willing to respond to anyone asking about GitLab I always appreciated that about you.
UX is important for entertainment and media companies
Here is another one with custom range settings:

https://hn.algolia.com
Did the EU Commission hide a study that did not suit their agenda? – EDRi
Yep. In fact, this is how it formed in the first place.
I prefer not to pay my bills automatically because it doesn't take much time and lets me make sure they are correct.
Absolutely! If they can reform, great. If not, well they've certainly forced the hands of other operators to modernise and offer a better service, but that's no excuse for the rest.

(ex Londoner who still visits once in a while...)
I'm quite certain that the last one is the important point. All the others can easily be fixed. But that the company had a program to avoid regulation should be enough to ban it. Unless they do a full code audit, there's no way to know if they still use these techniques.
straw-man proposal: lottery. pick one citizen at random and give them all of the money.
AL charge a fortune for airport runs last I checked. Central London to LHR via uber-x is 30 quid or so.
> The FOI showed the number of people charged who gave their occupation as a taxi driver or minicab driver.

That would include Uber drivers.

> I prefer knowing the name and track record of my driver

You know their name, but their track record? You can see previous ratings, but that's not exactly going to include "1*, driver sexually assaulted me" is it?
I want to advise the way I lost weight at 15 kg without dieting
Always nice to tip. Not expected or required.

Uber, it's worth pointing out, does not currently allow for tipping either, I believe.
Did you try Taxify? Started in London recently, could imagine many drivers will sign up there now. Haven't tried it yet (didn't take an uber over the past weeks) but their offering appears very similar.
Hello again hacker news socialists.
I think you'll find sexual assault happens because an assailant sexually assaults someone, not because someone can't afford a black cab.

Do you really consider it acceptable for Uber not to do legally required background checks (DBD, health)?
What. the. fuck.

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-republ...

> The FCRA Liability Harmonization Act is particularly noxious. Authored by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), the bill would cap actual and statutory damages for class actions involving credit agencies at $500,000, and completely eliminate punitive damages.

Loudermilk said Friday that his bill “is aimed at curbing frivolous class action lawsuits against businesses under the Fair Credit Reporting Act,” which contains many of the rules for credit agencies.
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> Correct me if I'm wrong here: MyTaxi and Gett are solely for black cabs? This makes them a lot more expensive than private hire. Their UX is also slightly behind Uber's offering.

Gett IME charges less than the normal metered rates.
Don't forget widespread genital mutiliation of men in the US that's accepted as the most normal thing in the world - circumcision is straight from Abrahamic religions.
Not even sure how you would convince them. Full code and database audit isn't easy nor cheap and I doubt Uber wants to pay for that. Apart from that, there's no way to detect if Uber runs services to detect regulators.
Not all their profits. Just the profits that occur outside of the US. The US corporate tax system is relatively unusual in that it attempts to tax not just profits earned within it's borders but worldwide profits for any company incorporated within the US.

So what US companies tend to do is incorporate subsidiaries in tax friendly locales like the Caribbean (Ireland is also popular) to avoid paying US corporate taxes on this money.

It's quite common.
Firefox stopped supporting ALSA, so I had to install PA. PA gives me: a noise chirp when the PA daemon starts, which is probably some uninitialized garbage buffer. Sometimes (I don't know what triggers it, seems to be random, and no, it's not the auto-suspend module which is on by default but seems to cause a similar bug for many people) audio starts to lag by .3-.5 seconds. Restarting PA does not help; have to reboot, which I can't/won't do for days at a time. This is supposed to be a Linux system, not Windows 98.

I don't hate PA. On another machine it was always installed. But it is quite clear to me that it is yet-another layer on top of the existing infrastructure, so it statistically will cause more issues than just the infra that's there already.
The question would then be, after the US got a central bank, have the recessions got less severe? The Great Depression was arguably greater than any of those prior to 1913.
Colorado to narrow down one specific location for Amazon headquarters
"You are required to have one that works...no?" — "Nah mate, this one literally just broke, they'll fix it when I'll return the cab later."
Do TfL "mystery shop", they should and with confiscation of license and vehicle for malfeasants.
>Free market fanboys will argue that the issue will fix itself after Uber raises prices

The "issue" will likely fix itself by uber going under and losing all of its investors their money in a spectacular and richly deserved hubristic implosion.

What uber is attempting has been managed before (e.g. the 'bus wars') but it's unlikely they will achieve a sustainable monopoly.
Plus, you can more easily switch banks.

Provision and migrate accounts with Ansible?
> Can I just feed it a JSON object that represents a query and it will "work"?

You can use a query builder [1][2], although it's not exactly create a JSON object for a query but still better than directly writing SQLs and IMHO it's more clean than JSON object queries.

[1] - https://github.com/tgriesser/knex

[2] - https://github.com/hiddentao/squel
If they just lose it for a week this could be fatal. I can imagine most drivers will now start signing up for competitors. As soon as the license is gone, people will switch to a competitor. If they offer similar service and price, there's no reason to come back to Uber. The only way then is to start giving away free rides again.
I somewhat disagree with the idea that being friends with someone makes you more likely to look past their flaws. If anything, you are more aware of your friends flaws, and can plan accordingly. Hiring the wrong person for the job is obviously not productive, but not hiring the right person because you know them too well seems down right foolish.
Why is this on Show, as opposed to being in Show New?
Can anyone shed some light or point me to external resources about this? Thanks!
I used an Uber for a 45 minute journey recently. The seatbelt didn't work. In the UK it's illegal to not wear a seatbelt, and it's against Uber's terms of service for me not to wear a seatbelt, and against their terms of service for the driver not to provide one.

Uber didn't care, told me they would "talk to the driver". I'd have expected at least an acknowledgement that they endangered my safety, but no, no acknowledgement of any fault at all.
Your entire comment is a straw man. The article doesn't claim the internet ruined journalism, and I don't even know where your "end of the world" comment is coming from. You're also comparing papers like the New York Sun and other tabloids, while this article is talking about respectable papers such as the New York Times.

I'll quote the relevant part of the article:

> The real story in this mess is not the threat that algorithms pose to Amazon shoppers, but the threat that algorithms pose to journalism. By forcing reporters to optimize every story for clicks, not giving them time to check or contextualize their reporting, and requiring them to race to publish follow-on articles on every topic, the clickbait economics of online media encourage carelessness and drama. This is particularly true for technical topics outside the reporter’s area of expertise.

> And reporters have no choice but to chase clicks. Because Google and Facebook have a duopoly on online advertising, the only measure of success in publishing is whether a story goes viral on social media. Authors are evaluated by how individual stories perform online, and face constant pressure to make them more arresting.
I don't believe anybody is really productive 200 hours in a month. Focus on fewer things if you feel you need to work 50 hours a week, every week.
> Loudermilk said Friday that his bill “is aimed at curbing frivolous class action lawsuits against businesses under the Fair Credit Reporting Act,”

Has this ever even happened?
The vast majority of phones out there support GPS and GLONASS (as well as ESA's Galileo), and have for years. That's not new to the iPhone 8 (surely the iPhone has has this before as well, right?)

Using the other constellations helps you see more sats, but it doesn't really help deal with the reflection issue in urban environments. The "big deal" about this chip is that is uses the new L5 signal (and it's equivalent in other constellations). Previously that has only been available in very expensive hardware.
New FinFisher surveillance campaigns: Internet providers involved?
Your product is not access. Your product is peer review.
I remember reading that they are loosing money on the aggregate. While there are some successful investors, majority is not long term successful.
Is that really a problem in London, of all places? I've never been but it doesn't seem like driving to bars would even be a temptation.
In what way are Oyster cards/credit not refundable?
You can still check if they're correct if you do it automatically though. You can just cancel the tranfer.
Exactly that. Try to get a refund if a black cab rips you off. No chance for that.

But to be fair, this works for all app based cabs. If uber is replaced by some competitor, there's no reason for people to miss uber.
The difference is that those companies haven't built software with the express purpose to operate extrajudicially.

Being "innovative" doesn't mean that you have full reign to operate unethically.
Yeah, except most people won't bother. So it gives in fact less accountability.
Yes, children are incredibly resilient. We just assumed it was a normal part of life. Now that I think about it, the end of the Cold War might be one of the causes of the great crime wave drop in the early 90s. Maybe when you don't think you're going to die randomly at any second, statically, society makes better decisions.
Why are back-end developers not supposed to have a deep understanding of their tools? I hear this sort of statement all the time, it’s infuriating. I once even had a dev team lead claim that it was not a dev’s responsibility at all if the app generates bad SQL; the DBA is supposed to make the queries fast (this person no longer works for me, but I consistently hear similar claims from consultants and others in the dev community).

DBAs are expected to understand the crappy inefficient row-at-a-time ORM in use by the devs, which implies understanding a particular programming language, but not the other way around? There’s nothing magical about SQL databases that a decent developer can’t understand.
30th Sep
Remember to change your DNA on a regular basis to avert identity theft!
Not a lawyer but I find it interesting that they say to "immediately challenge" the decision. Since they can operate in the meantime, shouldn't they file it on the 21st day? They can already announce to appeal but challenging it now could just shorten their life span?
My pleasure. It was only about halfway through my course of CBT that procrastination and perfectionism came up as related to anxiety. It was a mind-blowing moment.

The weird thing was I knew it all, but something hadn't connected in my thinking that it was better to do/make/release things than to not. The mind is weird place.
The bribe was for a rich and powerful family in Uzbekistan. The US and Dutch authorities didn't like that.
>On the other hand, everyone would love to hire someone who produced 10x their compensation

If there was somebody out there who was half the price and produced 20x their compensation they would be less impressed and would probably credit themselves for producing most of that value.
Canada is in the same position. Cab drivers regularly take longer routes than necessary to drive up the meter and often pretend their card machines aren't working to force cash payment.
1 vote for HackerWeb for your phone. Wish the full HN had collapsible threads - a feature on Reddit I find very useful for traversing long threads without getting "sucked" into a "reply black hole"
Destructor scopes are determined from syntactical rules and lifetimes don't play any role in them. OTOH, lifetimes are restricted by the shape of the destructor scopes.
> but if that works, it was never ADHD to begin with

You're putting yourself in an irrefutable position then.
I've read it five times. It gets better every reading.
most taxi services in Europe are quite bad and hugely overpriced due to artificial monopoly, to the point that I try to stay away from the countries without Uber
>We have a perfectly healthy cab ecosystem in my city, app-driven and with fare competition and city regulation

Sure, but that doesn't exist in the majority of cities. The user experience is why I use Uber.
Oh, I agree it's totally impossible, and the only solution is to not attempt to evade regulators in the first place. Otherwise you end up like Uber:

> We know you've evaded regulators in these cases, in other markets. How should we know whether we don't have evidence of you evading us because you successfully have or because you haven't used it here?

We didn't use it here.

> You said that in the markets where we have clear proof you used that, why should we believe you?

We won't disclose our code/database.

> OK, we'll assume you did use it here.

We didn't use it.

etc.
Well, this is probably not the best point to base an argument on:

"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."

Anecdotal, and also, "prosecuted" describes a very certain slice of the data.

The following link extends into other companies and crimes, but it hopefully adds to your anecdotal comment a bit.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/over-400-london-cab-dr...
Properties like source/sink volume. It's bad UX if the adjustment is performed out-of-sync with the visual (volume slider) and manual (key press) feedback.
No, the fee they require you to pay to lock your credit profile has nothing to do with them monitoring anything. They require you to pay money in order to stop doing something you never authorized or asked them to do - releasing your credit profile to anyone who asks.

While blackmail is a specific case of extortion where unfavorable information is released, what the agencies do by requiring you to pay for protection(the freezing of your credit)seems to qualify as extortion.

"What Is Extortion?

Most states define extortion as the gaining of property or money by almost any kind of force, or threat of 1) violence, 2) property damage, 3) harm to reputation, or 4) unfavorable government action."

I think you could make a case for number 3 - gaining money for threat of harm to reputation. Your credit score is very much your financial reputation.

source:
http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/extortion.html
I like the idea, but I would prefer not to share all this information and instead store an encrypted index, that I can e.g. put in a dropbox.
The title as submitted to HN is a bit misleading. Should be "[...] monitoring every HTTP request"
Comparing Risk and Opportunity
They seem to have added this feature to the main site within the last couple months. It works for me on my iPad anyway, maybe give it another try.
Uber's rhetoric doesn't seem appreciably different in London from elsewhere.

And yeah, I'm a Londoner, don't really feel the need for Uber to exist in my area.
Doesn't the OPEC trade only in dollar ?
Not everywhere in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam there are even a couple of specialized Water Shops. Which is really a lot like selling air if you think about it, considering that tap water is almost free and has often a better quality than what is sold in those bottles.
I would welcome the current taxis going bust
OSX remembers per device settings and reapplies them when the new device is visible. I haven't used windows seriously in 15 years. Linux has really bad UX most of the time. OSX is the best of the worst.
No other social or professional setting tolerates this kind of brazen self importance and posturing seen here without mockery.

This site doesn't allow satire but looks the other way when snarky claims are made without evidence. Blanket assertions must be backed up. At least show the problem you were trying to solve and the new solution in your favoured language/tool/framework so it can be judged.

This is how bad ideas and complexity gain traction without scrutiny and push back. People become vested in Ruby and run down php, people become vested in Rust and run down Go, people become vested in React and run down jquery. How comes tools people were using happily just yesterday are suddenly 'completely unacceptable'?

No one who befitted from these tools and languages is going to run them down publicly because they found something better. This is self serving ecosystem marketing at work that HN seems to ignore. It's as if every self congratulatory commentator often seen here was born an expert and short circuited the process of learning, and can use this platform to run down everyone else and their choices.
I gotta be honest. I read through your post two or three times and I still have no clue what you're trying to say.
Here in the Netherlands bottles like these are widely popular: https://dopper.com/ and http://join-the-pipe.org/ (there always a project for water in the third world attached) to be honest, the places I have been in the US the tap water tasted like over-chlorinated pool water and I would drink it either. Tap water in the Netherlands is very nice though.
I have the same experiences.
I personally never had a negative enough of an experience to warrant a bad rating, but I know people in the US that rated their drivers a low score for some reason (poor navigation, speeding, cell phone use), and they subsequently had an Uber rep reach out to them to discuss. It seems that they take the ratings very seriously. And it also shows because many of the drivers I spoke to were concerned about their ratings and even offer such amenities like water and cell chargers to make the ride more pleasant. As for yellow cabs in NY, many times I've witnessed the cab driver speaking on his phone and refusing to open the door before final destination is disclosed. Also, reports about not picking up minorities or people in less wealthy neighborhoods. These bad behaviors have gotten better over the years, but I attribute that to more competition from Uber
Not for DBAs, but I also don't expect candidates to get all the answers in that comment. It's a decent data structure question to ask why databases generally use binary trees for indexes when hash lookups are faster. Non-DBAs usually have to think a little bit.
>Such news don't actually inform us but spread sensationalism, negative emotions, and outright lies to capture attention. What do you gain from following the latest political crisis or some scandal? You can't do anything meaningful about these events. They only depress you and occupy space in your mind. It's better to direct your focus toward things that we can actually impact and improve.

This is a depressing point of view to have and dangerous to the future of democratic system.
Dunno, we have had huge WWII impact, dictatorship, civil war, and other such things in my parts, and they didn't impact much the generations involved in everyday life. I know tons of people that survived those events. Speaking to friends and relatives it was just things that happened. So it goes, etc.
As someone growing up in rural Austria in the 80s, when lots of grandfathers had been Wermacht soldiers, I firmly agree.

In hindsight, it was painfully obvious with so many of them. And the number of functional alcoholics (with often a rather loose definition of "functional") was huge.
It makes me wonder how often this kind of effect is tested for, and how many other chemicals might do this that slipped through the testing phase.
They absolutely are pumping it out of an aquifer. So are many Michiganders, like myself. Both for private homes and many, many cities, the normal water source is a well.

Fresh water is abundant on the surface, yes, but it's much cheaper (and tastier) to pump water that's been purified by long filtration through the ground than to pull it from a lake or river and process it.

This process is sustainable within the state. But even if you include all the vast reserves of surface water into consideration, the ecosystem can't sustain irrigating the southwest. We have plenty of lovely farms up here; stop trying to grow crops where they don't belong!
It's 46 hours a week and if he works 6 days a week that would be 9h per day. Considering that he has no commute it's probably not more than a 40h workday for most people working in an office. Rather less than that.