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> Enhanced DBS checks are carried out on drivers every three years when they renew their taxi or private hire driver's licence, and every individual's fitness to become a licensed taxi or private hire driver is considered on a case-by-case basis.

And failure to properly conduct DBS checks is one of the four reasons given by TfL for suspending Uber's license.
> JACK = less fuss

WHAT? That is crazy talk. JACK is the most complected audio setup I have ever worked with. I owned a Record Label and a small studio. If you have to setup JACK from scratch it can get crazy complicated. Once you get it working it is an AWESOME framework but I only would ever see people needing low latency to ever really use it.

JACK is 100% for a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and it is for low latency. Pulse is for the rest. I have found that the legacy of a poor initial deployment has been a heavy chain around its neck just like KDE 4, RPM (for having an issue for a few months over 10 years ago) and now Systemd (Systemd had a fine performance roll-out but philosophy issues).
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It's mostly historical - Ubuntu shipped it as the default when it was still unstable. This lead to a lot of people learning about it and lots of 'try killing pulseaudio if something goes wrong' advice.

The reality now is it is very stable and has a huge number of powerful features. Personally I think it is great, and have no issues with it.
No excuse for asshat drivers, but I've had an almost identical experience with Black Cab drivers too, and plenty of issues with Uber drivers around the world.
Brand awareness. Getting exposure at hackathons around the world, etc. costs a lot of money.

Been there, done that.
Ok, so all of those are for reading, but I don't see any that would allow voting and commenting on HN. It's also the case with pretty much all other HN apps/interfaces I've seen (with notable exception of HN Enhancement Suite, which is a browser extension).

I don't understand why that is. Is there some important rule of HN that disallows any third-party interaction except through the official interface? Or do people simply treat viewing HN as a MVP, and give up after making it?

As it is, those tools seem only useful for HN readers / lurkers, not that much for those of us who participate in discussions here.
> to get this fixed very quickly

Uber could fix this quickly by amending some of it's businesses processes that effect safety.
> They had plenty of "traumatic stress" before the 21st century, in all parts of the world -- huge wars, conflicts, disasters, even genocide. But those involved (like older friends and relatives that have survived bombings and wars and dictatorship) also could grow a pair and snap out of it, and even thrive afterwards.

To the contrary, I think the past generations of my family who have survived WW2 and Stalinism were, till the end of their days, heavily impaired by it. They "snapped out of it" to the degree that was required for not starving, but I would not say they had developed nearly up to their full potential.
As one of the 3,500,000 users I hope they sort it out. I've not heard any demands from us fellow Uber users to have the service banned for our own protection. The assaults and muggings which happen are usually because someones walking sometime's because they can't afford a cab.
P code itself has a period of a week but the W code that scrambles it doesn't have a known period AFAIK.

Semi-codeless receivers can use it anyways. The reason is that the W code has a much lower data-rate (500KHz I think).

Take the incoming signal, correlate with the aligned P code. The resulting signal will be a MHZ wide signal, bandpass to it, and square the result. The squaring wipes off the residual W code. Because you bandpass filtered before the squaring you don't get so much squaring loss. Lock the resulting carrier, and use RTK signals and long observations to resolve integer ambiguities.

For a dual frequency rx you can exploit that P(Y) is the same on both frequencies and correlate them against each other to find the ionospheric delays.
So I assumed wrong. I assume my own life experiences filtered through then – my apologies.

Of course any discussion about popularity of and reasons for marriage over the last century or so is "heteronormative", for obvious reasons. Still I think men and women experience sex differently, even beyond individual needs. I have several gay friends, but I can't really tell whether any differences they have in sexual needs would be amplified if they were a different gender, potentially influenced by different biological needs.
But that boring web app doesn't even have pretty fonts.

It even has a "next" button, so you can see more than 30 posts, who needs that?

It shows the point count in a smaller greyer font, instead of a big circle, so I can't instinctively choose posts by popularity instead of their headlines.

It doesn't even pull up a random image from the article that might not have anything to do with the actual topic, and display it along with a preview of text, so I can't get distracted and pulled by fundamentally more attractive colorful pictures instead of boring text topics.

It's not written in the newest JavaScript framework, it's just plain old HTML, some simple CSS and Racket making it all run. Racket! That doesn't even have "JS" in its name. What is this, 2013?

Whoever wrote that version clearly doesn't know how Hacker News is meant to be viewed.

ahem

But seriously, the Hacker News site is one of my favorite "news" sites. Simple, clean, no distractions, just headlines.

Also, some of the websites listed in the article are quite useful, like the search engine. Most of the others are simply different ways of reading Hacker News, not "better". Might be better for some people. Not for me.
Total compensation is up that is a fact, healthcare costs have risen dramatically post Obamacare and paying that cost is the raise most Americans got over the last 8 years.
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There is no proper API, IIRC. All those clients scrape the website.
This isn't a problem only for FOSS - windows starts dumping my audio down my monitors whenever I change input on them, even if I specifically disable the device. I actually don't see any issues like that on arch with pulse.
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This would be an interesting tine for Lyft to launch in London if it can meet the regulatory requirements
There is (or at least was) an API, AFAIK read-only though. I still don't see why one couldn't combine the API and scrapping to get a full read/write interface going.
When you say Taxi are you specifically referring to Black Cabs? Pre-booked radio Cabs are reasonably priced, perfect for moving (it's what people used before Uber and still use today) and for regular scheduled trips like going to work.

For late night trips, Uber was very handy for that short window of time before the night tube. It still has some use when you can fill the car and get the per-person price down but unless it's very late you'll just sit in traffic.

In conclusion, life will go on.
If the anecdote and the law are both accurate, then that certainly goes to show exactly how effective all those stringent regulations are. It seems like this one would be simple to check.
For much of big picture economics, what we do is define a few fundamnetal concepts with which to narrate the economic story.

The 20s - 80s "theory" that you refered to narrates its story with productivity and bargaining power. It makes sense and is based on microeconomic fundamentals. It makes sense for union-esque bargaining and politics. It also implies a constant relationship between production and wages.

Like any narrative choice, the productivity-bargaining power story works better in some cases than others. For example, productivity (and output generally) is just more abstract in 2017 than 1967^. It's hard to adjust for inflation and its hard to measure productivity of office/info workers.

An alternative set of fundamentals to narrate our stories is now gaining popularity because of the Picketty "family" of economists. It's early to tell if that school of thought will have influence on economics and policy, but for now we have some new terms, new characters for our story.

In this corner of economics, labour & capital are the main protaginists (or antagonists :)

All net income in an economy goes to either labour or capital, our two forms of income. For example, my back-of-the-envelope^^ suggests that about $60bn has been paid by Google to employees in the 10 years since IPO. About 600bn in capital has been created in that time.

Should we define this as high labour productivity or capital productivity? Either way, I think the point illustrated is that economic productivity/growth can go to one or both of these. There's no economic rule ensuring proportions remain constant.

So, what is capital? To dip a toe into Marxist grand history, capital was mostly land. Then it was mostly factories. Today, it is more ethereal. The only way to define it is financial terms: discounted future income. $600bn in capital is a $40bn annuity.^^^

Anyway... I don't have any big profound conclusions to share. I just think labour-capital aggregates will continue to be adopted in these discussions.

For example, if the post work automated future happens, I think these terms will be more useful. If Elon Musk automates the machine that makes the machine, making driverless cars,then what is he creating? It will be a bundle of capital requiring very little labour inputs to generate value. You could try to describe it in labour productivity terms, but it starts to get ridiculous and totally unlreated to wages.

^ I ws starting to write in examples, but stopped. This needs its own thread.

^^Just assumed 150k global average salary, I could be way off.
The option (2) happened to me many times in a row. One of the intermediate touch stations that you're supposed to whack at Highbury and Islington when you transition from tube to rail wasn't reporting or not working. This meant I got mugged every day for a week.

Getting the cash out of them proved very difficult.

Sure there are arcane and complex rules but the nature of those demands that the liability is on them.
Here's a cool site where you can ask questions like this:

http://www.google.com
Doesn't work for me (not the person you are replying to) - every time I change input on my monitors Windows starts trying to use them for audio - doesn't matter what default I set, even disabling them.
All London black cabs must take card payments. If their machine isn't working, they're not allowed to be on the road.
Did anyone else end up ditching Wire on android due to an update about two months ago breaking notification sounds?

They're aware of it but no fix as yet.
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I signed the petition too.
> They behave as if they are attempting this, IMHO.

Every rational company should behave as if they're attempting to become a monopoly, this is a completely meaningless point to argue either way.
Launched this off the back of this news: http://uberdrivers.london/ - crowdsourced thoughts from Uber drivers and users in London
From the article it looks like he works 7 days a week, in two 3hr+ sessions. Not so punishing perhaps in terms purely of hours, but .. really? Not even one day off a week? In 2017?

> It seems I value working less than other people

I don't know anyone who works 7 days a week.
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Ugh, the annoying PulseAudio that sometimes makes your volume suddenly much louder or much softer when you want to change it by just one notch, just because it wants to try to be "smart" with different applications or whatever thing I don't care about it is that it tries to do, there should be 1 volume slider and it should work correctly period (and without lag - another thing PulseAudio introduced).

Oh how I miss the simplicity and elegance of before PulseAudio (and its evil twin "hi-let-me-put-your-text-logs-in-a-binary-format"-systemd) appeared in ArchLinux.
Can we still ban numbers though?
My thinkpad battery holds 5e23 eV of energy.
> Who said anything about them seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly?

Their former CEO. And not just a cab monopoly, but a car monopoly, period.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/16/technology/uber-travis-kalan...
That is the reason indeed. For years Pulseaudio was a pain in the backside to use - not just on Ubuntu but on Debian as well. I still dislike it and think it's overengineered but today it works pretty well to be honest; as long as your setup isn't anything too exotic.
Interesting that you're using ipfs. Didn't expect to see it in the wild.

I'll try your experiment with my phone's memo app.
Reaper for Linux is already there. 100% native,no WINE required, and works great.
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I'll give as a direct counterpoint Jo Davidson. I'd not heard of him, but friends mentioned encountering him (or someone who'd had a bust made by him) in Big Sur.

I started reading the commissions list, and the just burst out laughing. Davidson simply did an increadible number of works on some of the most notable names of the 20th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Davidson#Commissions
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I think the author is missing something- when labor productivity goes up due to automation, the increase in profits goes to whoever owns the machines not to the people working them. I mean after all, if you invest money in some equipment, you expect to be the one to get the returns on that investment. Altering that equation could take, as the author suggests, an outside force such as labor unions or government intervention- but the only long term solution is probably for the people who own the machines, and the people who work the machines, to be the same people.
And that applies to tips?
More like parties that are not technologically advanced nation states. Russia has its own satellites, China will find 10 ways around the problem, but a few random dudes won't be able to DIY a cruise missile with cheap parts that would be precise enough to be dangerous.

Or at least that's how I always understood it.
I had the opposite experience with Debian Sid a few days ago. I'd been using ALSA for everything without problems, but I was getting annoyed with the forced animations in Evince so I installed Okular instead (which has no forced animations). This brought in a big collection of dependencies, including PulseAudio. MPV immediately stopped working, even after manually configuring it for PulseAudio output. But it turned out PulseAudio wasn't a mandatory dependency for Okular, so I uninstalled it and everything worked perfectly again.
I am a small grape grower, and on various mailing lists on this topic.

People who grow grapes (or tomatoes, or anything but soy/corn for that matter) are really upset and angry about the growth in the use of Dicamba.

It's already very frustrating each year to find your plants damaged from drift from rampant glyphosate use. But the degree of damage from dicamba is just off the charts.

This article spends a lot of time talking about Dicamba's effects on other cash crop farmers. But it doesn't talk about those who choose to grow other things. The agriculture industry already acts like the only thing that matters is cash crop corn/soy rotation farmers. Drift reports basically amount to a shrug. That's very very frustrating.
Thanks. I guess I meant to ask what a partition is used for? When is it useful to use one and why?
For now, sure, but you may have missed the word "monopoly".

Fact is, Uber is running an unsustainable business in a lot of markets to gain market share. It's anticompetitive business practice. Free market fanboys will argue that the issue will fix itself after Uber raises prices - thus allowing more healthy competition, but this takes time. Not everyone can drive or rely on public transportation. In modern society, transport is a utility, and to act like people can simply "not use" a taxi service is ridiculous.
The other answers here are probably right about the use case here, but keep in mind that "oil/gas exploration" is often among the first uses of a new technology.

There's a ton of money in oil/gas, and any technology that can give a slight edge is often worth it. For example, oil and gas companies were some of the first to use Iridium (worldwide satellite internet at ridiculous prices), and I'd bet that they are the biggest users of the Iridium network to this day. This goes for inventions in tons of fields.

For example, new breakthrough in diving: great, you can use that to work on underwater parts of drilling rigs. New breakthrough in robotics? Great, you can replace the expensive and dangerous dive crews with underwater ROVs. New breakthrough in geology? Cool, you can use it to find oil.
I read what many Londoners say about Uber like they never heard about Addison Lee cabs, which existed years before, offer a nice app, professional drivers and fixed tariffs. Last time I checked, tariffs were about 20% higher than Uber. But depending on congestion, could end up cheaper. Most of my friends were praising Uber, but I was warning them that their prices are unsustainable and slightly higher easy-to-hail cab services with apps have been for years on the market largely unnoticed by hipsters ;-)
That's why many people prefer small, local cab companies that pay license fees and taxes to a local budget.
"You wanna pay £8 with card? Really?"

That's when I stopped using black cabs.
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I grew up with well water from the Midwest, which oddly enough is claimed by many to be very tasty because of its mineral content (but bad for pipes and appliances). I’ve also heard people say that distilled water actually tastes bad or uncomfortable precisely because it is very nearly just hydrogen and oxygen. I’m still skeptical that there’s any difference that could be discerned in a blind test.
It's been a few years since I lived there, but San Mateo had pretty tasty water.
This is like the idea that every rational company must skirt the very edges of the law, regardless of good ethics, to maximise profit.

I don't personally believe either to be true, and I do believe there's a very real difference between out-competing the competition and using a ton of VC money to undercut them, or skirting rules and regulations that may add cost.
I think it really depends these days. You can make a lot of games in a general case engine up to and including those that you might think need a specific set of tradeoffs they might not provide adequately. At the same time it can be easier to not have all the unwanted cruft. It's about where you want to put the time and effort and I'm not sure that's very easily generalizable right now.

I do think Unity is beginning to jump the shark a bit with what seems like a stronger focus on ancillary services rather than their core offering.
How will lowering margins drive wages up?
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I miss the times developers would optimize their lives without all the online rants and the sensitive encouraging, nodding and enabling of said behavior.

That said, don't you have banks which automatically pay your bills (electricity/gas/water)? Which country are you from?
> Free market fanboys will argue that the issue will fix itself after Uber raises prices - thus allowing more healthy competition

Yup, by which time the current players may well have been driven out by the undercutting. Not really a sign of 'healthy' competition.
I was pointing out that 2TB/day is not a very high write volume for modern OSS RDBMSes, especially distributed ones.

As for elasticsearch, I have found it to be temperamental. The "out of the box" experience was usually unhappy. For logging I've seen people move to other tools (splunk, stackdriver) more than once.
I would like to have likes to pull/point me in a certain direction. I imagine a person without likes or dislikes to be basically stuck in space and time.

By shallow I meant someone who needs external prodding to grow in a certain direction. Having likes or dislikes makes the process of growth easier.
You'd rather get raped? What a disgusting thoughtless comment.
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Just to name a couple
What about London public transport do you think isn't great? Compared to anywhere else in the country, it's leaps and bounds ahead.
The concern is more than from environmentalists and weed scientists.

It is from other farmers who are growing things other than the target crop. In some places it is in an urgent crisis for them.
> it doesn't actually need to implement a borrow checker

I was under the impression that Rust's lifetime and ownership system is not just used to ensure safety, but also for knowing where the compiler should insert deallocation code for dynamically allocated objects at the end of their lifetimes. Is that not the case? Does mrustc generate code that leaks memory, or is there enough information in the Rust source code to do precise deallocation even without a borrow checker?
I get that occasionally when putting my laptop to sleep with a HDMI cable plugged in, then waking it up with the HDMI cable unplugged. I've found killing the PulseAudio pid (systemd restarts it) usually fixes it. Weirdly trying to restart it properly through systemd doesn't work but YMMV

This is on ArchLinux running KDE4
While I don't particularly feel good about the business model and lack of employee rights etc, one thing I prefer Uber for over Black Cabs is the pollution.

Many Ubers are Toyota Purises. Black cabs have 2.7L Diesel engines which contribute to London's terrible air quality.

Especially as I often see black cabs without passengers driving around - not sure if the're looking for rides or not, but there is no reason for an Uber driver do be doing the same - I see them waiting with the engine off.
I'm not an original OP, but in my city there's a centralized call center and several apps -- you may choose to use whichever you prefer as most cab companies support all or at least many of them.
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Haven't you heard of self-documenting code? According to the dogma, if it needs documentation, it isn't written right.
I want one with a big hide button for posts/comments and anonymous comments.

I don't need to vote or something, I just want to get rid of uninteresting stuff as fast as easy as possible.
I would have liked to see widgets and small apps or things instead of just mostly sites. The responsive ones for mobile are nice and I use http://hn.reapp.io myself on my phone.
Or the card machine that is "broken"
> Spend whatever you can to capture the land, then charge rent.

Spot on. And this rent-seeking behavior is all about becoming quasi-monopolist in a niche and it's anticompetitive and anti-innovation.

Real R&D is done only to capture land, then it is replaced by PR and all efforts go into holding the trench.
Facebook can't hide behind algorithms
They can decrypt, and provide access to law enforcement (and do under warrant):

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
I like it. The code blocks on mobile are terrible (totally unusable) and the up/down vote buttons could be a bit bigger, but overall it's pretty good.