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A lot of low-income workers currently rely on informal ride-sharing schemes or shared taxis. They're not necessarily safe, reliable or legal, but they're very cheap and fill the gaps in official transit services.

Autonomous minibuses with AI dispatching could have a revolutionary impact on areas that are currently under-served by public transit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_van
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi
> despite the media screaming constantly that Trump is racist

This stuff is really, really not conducive to good discussion.

> Also, how does black targeted propaganda and state-wide "voter suppression" laws explain that HRC lost big on the black vote relative to 2012, but Republicans came out equal or perhaps even better in the black vote

A few things here:

* Can you cite a source that says Republicans did better in the black vote relative to 2012?

* Since the starting proportions were so skewed, you would expect lower black turnout to disproportionately impact Democrats (due to simple compositional effects).

* The propaganda was specifically anti-Hillary (not anti-voting), so you would expect it to disproportionately impact Democrats.
> Hitting airplane mode now drops connected bluetooth devices

wait, isn't that expected behavior anyway? You're getting on an airplane and turning off all the radios; bluetooth operates via a radio.
It still has to first pass the hundreds of eyes in congress, that's the primary challenge of any bill. Vetoing is relatively rare and I doubt he would veto an immigration bill coming from a republican-majority congress...

That said, I never said he had zero influence, but having influence on a congressional bill is a far cry from implying he wrote and proposed it himself.
Yes, this is a big part of why people like ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting. Avoiding carbs, and initiating a state of ketosis, means your brain is fueled on ketones -- many people subjectively like the feeling.
I know that hiring managers for high paying and high skill level niche markets also use Linkedin - in my line of work the skills are niche enough that we will look for people with certain backgrounds and initiate the conversation with them to see if they are possibly interested. It's one of the reasons that the only social network I am on currently is Linkedin, it certainly is a window for opportunities. In fact, I'm in my current position which I am quite happy with only because a recruiter reached out to me on Linkedin.
Though desktop PCs are still common for data storage, individuals primarily use portable devices for their computer-related tasks .. is patently fals, we are nowhere close to "using" our handheld devices for the majority of computer related tasks. Portable devices are in most cases used to consume media.
It seems as though you've come here just to violate the guidelines, so we've banned the account. We're glad to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start posting civilly and substantively.

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> We have not taken VC money at this time.

Are you wearing your glasses? What VC are you talking about?
> Some of the people featured in the article have vehicles which implies mobility

A good friend is a mechanic in the East Bay and services many people out in SF and the entire bay too. Before 2008's housing bust, about 90% of customers had 2 cars and routinely paid in checks or cash (yes really, even for a $3.5k transmission). After 2008, most people got rid of the second car, only ~15% have more than one now, and the credit card usage is about 95%. You can argue something about 2% cash back or something, but the fact is that they don't have the money to cover a brake job, let alone a new OBC.

So, no, most Bay Area families do not have mobility anymore, as they are both using the same car to drive to different workplaces. They can't move, as they don't have the money and trying to 'solve the 2-body problem' is very difficult.

Aside: buy one of these, or something like it: https://www.amazon.com/Reader-Diagnostic-Check-Engine-Light/...
I think they're in stealth mode until 01/04/2018
(1) is a "feature": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086
I think the major issue with your line of reasoning (which I mostly agree with it) is you are assuming wealth distribution. I mean, yes it is in our economy's interests to make it easy to steal talent.

However, do economic gains flow to Americans? No, not really because we don't have socialist systems in place to distribute the wealth gained from "stealing talent". So yes stealing talent is good, but it really only benefits corporate shareholders and upper class Americans. The unhappy Americans who are voting for "America First" don't see the gains from startups and tech companies; they are geographically isolated from these companies and even if they lived in California (or any other tech center) they lack the skills to be employed.

So essentially in my view you have a conflict of interest. It is in the best economic interest of the country to be able to attract talent. However, the US is a democracy and unless the economic gains are spread across the entire population, this will not satisfy, "we the people"

So we have really two options in response 1) implement socialist systems to spread wealth to the population or 2) go isolationist to insist that wealth only flows inward

It's embedded in American culture that socialism is bad which is why #2 has been the chose solution.
You can already buy KetoKaNa and similar products on amazon, so I don't see how this is any different, nor innovative.

The article hints to studies, but so far I have not heard of anyone combining ketone esters with carb rich diets. Typically they are only used to get you through the slump in ketone production when you first start the keto diet.

It seems this would have been a natural evolutionary path if ketones were meant to co-exist with carbs. Why is it that your body shuts off ketone production with carbs present? Why not keep them both available. Circumventing this without studying the effects first may not be wise.
And yet Google Maps has on multiple occasions failed to recognize when a on-ramp to a major California Interstate was closed (even after the road work had been announced days in advance in huge street signs). I was forced to set my navigation to Avoid Highways for a bit to get it to consider an alternative.

And don't get me started on Germany. You don't stand a chance if you attempt to use Google Maps in Germany to navigate around construction (which is basically always happening somewhere)--at least that's how it was two years ago when going through country roads, despite the presence of well marked closure and detour signs.

My point is, these may be the "easiest" types of things to handle, but we have a long way to go on execution. Getting something to work in one locality (e.g. Arizona) is a far cry from making something work worldwide.
why is that necessary in this case vs some other use of mmap?
My 6 had it's battery life destroyed under standard usage.
The misinformation in this thread is astounding. This is targeting graduate student tuition waivers: waivers given to students who are usually also receiving a stipend, who are almost never taking out loans to manage degree costs. It's likely that there is a better way for universities to quantify the net movement of money between student and institution, but to have lowly-paid graduate students bear the brunt of the change is unconscionable.
Right!! I totally forgot that part because it's just always there. But yes that's actually the worst part.
Really good slides. I should watch the talk.

It's a pet peeve of mine for people to suggest blurring as a "fix" to aliasing problems. Hacks are fine for one-offs, but I love how this clearly shows it's a sampling problem and what tools can do to address it.
Thankfully on a webmail, these all happen on the server, not consuming client memory. Oh, wait.
While I agree that it's impossible to make predictions, your example is a massive edge case.
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>prevailing wage

This is a joke as it is currently implemented.
I'm surprised the author didn't mention that Facebook has a history of screwing small business owners.

A few years ago I spent more than $4000 on Facebook to build up about 4000 fans for a karaoke venue I ran at the time. I'd put some news out, and reach most of the fans. Then Facebook told me that to reach all of my fans I would now have to "boost" my posts, while the company simultaneously cut the organic reach to the fans I had paid them for.

They used the excuse that "people have to much stuff on their feed" but we all know that is BS. If I had known they would have done that I would never have bothered in the first place. Why help a company build its audience for you to be treated poorly? I suspect many many small business people feel that same way, and will abandon Facebook as soon as a less greedy alternative comes along.
Yeah, but to disrupt it you have to deal with gamers who, as a group, tend to be a massive bunch of entitled whiny jerks.
You've gotta go Pocket Casts. I took the leap and never looked back. It's miles better.
Playing a videogame competitively to be #1 is well an good. Playing a sport to be #1 is well and good. But it can't be the only thing you do.

Tom Brady has 5 Superbowl rings but he's involved with so many other pursuits that he has a full, rich life. He dedicates himself to educating people about what works for him as far as physical and mental preparation in the most grueling and damaging sport around. Frankly, everyone should try and model their approach to life like his. He has always had to work hard to achieve everything he does. He comes in before everyone, everyday, and leaves last. He's always the most prepared, at anything he does. I'm sure a lot more people would feel fulfilled if they put their efforts into many pursuits like he did.

Unfortunately, society doesn't really allow for everyone to live like this. Financially, we become stuck trying to make ends meet rather than producing what we want to. I'd love to put my time into many other activities other than just "work" and then go home, perform maintenance on my life/home, and then get a small portion of time to game/work on personal projects.

Gaming is a positive life enriching activity if used correctly. It's easy to blow it off because one has an addictive personality, but the advantages are real when approached with the right mindset.
I normally avoid arguments about this, but factually you're incorrect.

There was approximately 61.4% adult voter turnout. Not only that, trump LOST the popular vote with only 46.1% of the ballots.

What this comes out to is that roughly 30% of eligible voting adults supported Trump. This is _nowhere near_ "roughly half of Americans".

(I'd add the additional factor that only ~130[EDIT: 250] million of the ~323 million US population is even eligible to vote. I don't mean this in terms of "Oh secretly all infants liked Hillary" but that it seems disingenuous to portray the numbers as an overwhelming popular mandate in the way you're suggesting. The data is simply not that comprehensive.)

EDIT: As newlyretired correctly pointed out I conflated the total eligible # (250m) with total voted # (130m) That being said, I still stand by the crux of my post.
In a functional language I'd expect it to be #3 every time, no?
And has been largely irrelevant for the past 10 years. I still remember the day /. posted about some new web search service named Google. I was a big AltaVista user at the time and I remember trying out Google and thinking it was magic. Anyway, nowadays I come to HN to get my geek fix and pretty much leave /. alone.
That's what I thought, too. Many times under iOS 10 I would accidentally activate Airplane Mode, causing my AirPods to disconnect. This is not a new problem.
We have lost this battle, but keep fighting the good fight. We've also lost to top-posting and JavaScript.
On iPhone 7 Plus and iPad Pro battery was awful for me until I did a totally clean install and manually added back apps. Massive bore but fixed battery problems.
I would expect the opposite, being able to remove support for 32-bit.
Luckily Google Chrome has added device emulation recently for slower devices and network conditions. Hopefully tooling like that will make it in many developers Workflows.
> It's _reasonably_ strongly typed

> time assurances of correctness _in a majority of cases_

So basically, let's do it and pray it works, maybe?
To be fair, I'm having a similar problem with my Android. The calendar background service seems to get stuck after a few days and stops showing notifications. I now have a daily reminder to convert all important appointments into Slack reminders because these actually work all the time.
Yes, we've done all that too when traveling. But it's a lot easier to just hop in the car and go, knowing that all that stuff is already there.
I can't praise MailMate[1] enough here: A lean, no-fuss mac email client with first-party support for Markdown (with syntax highlighting!), and plenty of other goodies.

Cherry on top, its developer is very active, and keeps a regularly-updated blog[2], talking about email server quirks and many other interesting technical bits.

Note that I'm not in any way affiliated with the software – just a very happy customer.

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[2]: https://blog.freron.com
From the article: “Most images ended up being captured by humans […] Sheepview was charming, but it was at heart a marketing bid […].”
I _still_ don't understand how multiple apps and the associated gestures work on iPad. Is there a support doc or something to which somebody could point me?
I like that thread because you can load the entire thing and look for keywords relevant to your skillset - comes quite in handy when you work in a more niche market. I am not currently interested in new work but I always like to see what is out there to keep a finger on the market movements to see what is gaining popularity.
While there are some valid points there, I think most of those benefits can be realized to some extent without anyone needing to actually "own" any of these cars.

> using cars for storage

While it's true that you won't be able to just stash all your stuff in a car you don't own forever, I think it's entirely feasible to have a system that lets you rent a car for a day to use in this manner. Obviously not quite as good as owning a car, but you can get a lot of the same benefits in limited circumstances.

> being readily available

I think under most circumstances shared cars will actually be more "readily available" than a car you own. Once autonomous ridesharing services reach a certain level of market penetration, it's practically guaranteed there'll be a car less than a minute away whenever and wherever you call for one. Plus there's no need to worry about where you parked, whether your car is out for repairs, or whether you can drive home without leaving your friend who hitched a ride with you on the way there stranded without a vehicle.

> lower cost of owning

Wouldn't a shared vehicle actually cost less, since the cost is split among all the different people using it?

> reduced insurances

Again, probably be cheaper with shared vehicles, since the driverless car company can self-insure.

> customizations

Yeah, this you'd probably lose with shared vehicles. No more bumper stickers or vinyl wraps. Though there may still be a way to pick a car of a specific brand or paint job if you so desire.
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>CSS is almost as bad as PHP when it comes to naming

It took browsermakers 1O OR SO YEARS! to agree on complete flexbox spec and completely implement it.

People who were in touch with w3c process whom I knew, tell that at some times a whole meetings were spent arguing over a nothing more than a naming convention for single CSS property, or whether flexbox will be able to align element position on integers
Yes. You are the only one.
Sure, I can totally see us ditching the second car for a self driving subscription. We barely use the second car as is, but we use it just enough that it's still cheaper than Lyft/Uber. Unless the self driving rental were even cheaper, it wouldn't make sense.
95 TB a day would cost Google roughly a million dollars a year. For a company that routinely makes tens of billions, it's not a gigantic amount, and I'm not so sure they wouldn't make it back in extra views - "nearly live" Street View would be an incredible tool. But they wouldn't even have to save all the data for that - just keep it flowing.

As to the logistics of data transfer - why not move the data physically? You're already carrying it around in all the mail trucks. Most of the logistics are already taken care of by the existing postal infrastructure. Just take the SD card out at the depo and put it on the next mail vehicle going towards Google.

Or, to paraphrase Andy Tanenbaum, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a postal truck with a shoebox of microSD cards hurtling down the highway".

*Fun fact - a shoebox full of 128 gigabyte microSDs has a capacity of nearly 9 petabytes!
> No worries, they won't put you in a self driving car that isn't perfectly safe.

That they think isn't perfectly safe.

It's not about what they will allow or not. It is about what will happen. Whether or not it will happen remains to be seen, even if Waymo does not allow it.
I feel about the same... they're usually on top of chip design, power efficiency/etc, but quality of the software lately seems really questionable. They have been getting too aggressive with pointless stuff and losing sight of the basics.
That's not entirely true. LA had a semi-successful program to build housing that ultimately decreased the cost of _other_ expenses like shelters and jail. The program ran into problems for exactly the reason you stated, even though it was a net _reduction_ in social service expense for the people in the trial. So basically the equation is (cost of building housing per person) - (charged rent) + (mental health/ other support) <= (prison + hospital + shelter + existing homeless support services)

Although that's coming from memory and I can't source it...
> What's the benefit to a country to basically throw its borders wide open?

More people means a bigger economy. Immigrants -- at least the ones that choose to immigrate -- are by definition risk-takers. Risk-taking is core to entrepreneurship. I hope I don't have to defend the value of entrepreneurship on this site.

We've known for thousands of years that free trade is a net positive for everyone involved. Why would free immigration be any different?

The US had open borders for centuries. It became the most powerful country in the world because of open borders.

Here's an economist far more literate than me making the case: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...

(We should also welcome all the refugees we can get, of course.)
Out of curiosity, which are these countries?
See also https://golangnews.com - an HN inspired forum written in Go and hosted on a $5 instance, holds up pretty well.
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Google Now or whatever comes preloaded on Nexus phones will figure out things you like and start sending you notifications. They're really hard to kill completely and very determined to tell you sports scores if you ever do a Google search for a team name.
This nonsense again. This has been happening for years.

What happened was that Apple switched from Waterfall development to Agile. And what came from this was more regular and frequent releases at the cost of less polished releases. The way it works is Apple releases 11.0 with only P1 issues fixed, then from 11.1 -> 11.6 the focus is on P2 followed by P3 etc. Then a seperate team continues to work on 12.0.

11.1 was just released and 11.2 just went public beta and is another few weeks away. And none of the bugs you have listed are even all that serious.

And Apple had to release 11.0 as it was ready to coincide for iPhone X launch.
Only Intel seems to do it like that. Weird "house style".
I was expecting this to be about Disney working practices and treatment of workers.

No, it's because they don't let critics see the film's early.
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You're talking as if there are only two parties here: owners (rich) and tech workers (not rich). But tech workers are well above the average US income. The unspoken group in your argument is the consumer, who on average is poorer than the tech workers. Lowering tech wages with H1B visas helps the consumers as well as the owners, because it makes the marginal tech product less likely to fail.

You might still think that the workers have the strongest claim. But as with most protectionism, there's more to consider.
I don't understand this. During my PhD my "scholarship" was just basically the university choosing not to charge me money. It's not as though I sat down and set on fire $20k worth of paper every year. So now they have to pay tax on to the amount they would have otherwise charged me? Isn't that kind of a hypothetical concept? Like, can't they say, "Oh the tuition for the civil engineering PhD program is now zero"? Virtually no one in my program had ever paid tuition before.

Maybe what they could do is claim we are first and foremost employees and that the PhD is a certificate of on-the-job training. Presumably they are not going to charge Facebook for the training courses they give their employees.
> The latent nativism among the Hacker News crowd is laid bare.

+1. that and sheer ignorance mixed with some American-grade entitlement. being anti-h1b is just socially acceptable (among 'liberals') way of being xenophobic.
Yep, this bit me hard with my NVidia Shield TV. Plug in the portable USB HDD and the remote stopped worked.

Thankfully Kodi streams from SMB shares extremely well.
Same goes for the battlecruiser spammer - you could always tell when that was going down and it was even easier to counter :)
Lockers in the trunk reduce the ability to go grocery shopping :/
Scala is exactly what you're looking for.
Can you elaborate more on what is going on at universities?

Are you saying that grant money comes in for research, but gets funneled back to the university through tuition?
Sensationalism at its finest. At some point we have to demand some sort of integrity from our media. This is getting out of hand. The tax plan will force schools to alter graduate tuition accounting. But "Destroy" really?
>The majority of H1-B holders are the IT body shops

That's not what the data says in the article you linked.

It also lists companies such as Apple, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, etc. as part of the majority. Consultancies like Cognizant, Infosys, and Tata are not even close to the majority of H1B holders.
They've already been sitting on the same physical design for the past 4 years, from the 6 to the 8. I wonder why they waited so long to release a new chassis. The fact that they took so long and when it finally does come, they jack up the prices for what should have been standard annoys me.
If you honestly believe the Executive in the US has this little influence on policy agenda, I'm not sure what else to say!

I think most people are capable of understanding that when we talk about "Trump" performing a legislative act, we almost never mean he literally picks up pen and paper and writes the bill himself, or even directly proposes it.
That's why I said it's the ideal best of both worlds. Shifting the framework from a primarily relative-based one to skills-based, ala Canada/Australia, is a still a better system regardless.

Plenty of republicans and democrats criticized the "50% reduction by 2028" projection when the original bill was announced a few months ago, so it's not entirely wishful thinking it may change in the future for the better.
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