skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this would be a nice solution. Yes or no, and then create a percentage. Just like Netflix and some services.

So let's say, if you have less than 30% or something like that, you get out of Uber.
And if you have more than 85%, you can be part of Uber X VIP (at least here in Brazil, if you use a lot Uber, you earn one month of Uber X VIP, so just works with drivers with top ratings. If you use a lot again, then you'll earn another month and so on)
No one has mentioned NewsBlur yet. It's fantastic as an RSS reader, and provides intelligence training (filtering) for only subjects you might be interested in, allowing you to tame high-rate RSS feeds quite easily: http://newsblur.com/
The code suggests otherwise...
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That was a typo, he meant to say recursive-ascent needs tooling. Recursive-descent parsers can be hand-written quite easily.
They do, but at the other end.
Highly controversial opinion - if we need to shut down some services during the night hours to ensure they're well maintained, and it's not reasonably possible to do the necessary maintenance any other way, then maybe the population needs to adapt its behaviour.

Obviously, some people work overnight shifts or have other critical needs for transport around the clock, so there needs to be a reasonable level of public transport services for that purpose. But if the problem is that people can't stay out late at bars, then... maybe they just shouldn't stay out late at bars if they don't have a way home?

I am deliberately ignoring the obvious issues with drink driving risks, flow-on effects of the "nighttime economy" and so on here. Also, I'm an introverted non-drinker who doesn't understand why people are out drinking at 2am when they could be sleeping at 2am... So more practically, yes, you need decent coverage of night-time substitute bus routes.
For a week. Downloading them all costs bandwidth and unless you're downloading them and watching them in a week you're going outside the intent of the promotion, which is watching them free for a week.
Oh wow you're right. I didn't know that.
Ask a Brit how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning everything is going fine and they're happy. Ask a Californian how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning something is seriously wrong, and you need to ask about it.

Some cultures in America naturally tend to 'Fantastic' as their base line of descriptive language. This probably translates to ratings too.
At https://feeder.co onboarding is one of our largest hurdles to solve. For a lot of reasons we're lucky to get a lot of users who are completely new to RSS. This means we have a huge job in educating what RSS and what it's not. We've seen that a lot of large sites have stopped advertising their RSS feeds on their homepages, making it harder to detect via the standard means.

Also, we've never stopped growing and are approaching profitability on one full time employee so don't believe the RSS-is-dead hype.
It could be replaced with concrete questions. In case of Uber:

Was your driver late?

Was your driver polite?

Did you feel the way they drove was safe?

Did you have troubles communicating with the driver?

(Yes, no, kind of).

ASK FOR FACTS, NOT OPINIONS.

I understand customers can't be bothered to complete a full-blown questionnaire, but the system could pick one or two questions at random after every ride. It could even incentivize answering two instead of one, or three instead of two (as in Google's "Local Guide").

Over time, data will accumulate.
Hi. We are not "selling" our product..its a free service..we just used a profile of someone we admire to show people what we mean by standing out.I guess all the people using his photo as avators are also infringing or manupilative?!
I have a 1999 iBook clamshell that my daughter now uses for school. It has been upgraded with more RAM and I replaced the slow HDD for a Compact Flash card so it's probably the fastest clamshell of the world...

For basic tasks (homework assignments, simple image/video editing, light browsing) it's surprisingly usable! The only downside is that I had to create a separate, unsecured WiFi network because the original Airport card doesn't play nice with modern security protocols. Oh well.
Also you can force an unprompted shutdown/restart by holding option when selecting the Apple > shutdown/restart menu items.

Alt/Option also toggles the “quit” on dock context menu to “force quit” without waiting for the app to go unresponsive or invoking the command-ESC force quit dialog.
MDI and tabbed interfaces aren't mutually exclusive but if the master window does not embed resizable child windows (like a traditional MDI interface) then it's not MDI regardless of tabs.

I think VS used to be MDI tabbed. It definitely used to be MDI. But I have to admit it's been years since I've last used it. In fact thinking about it now, it's been even longer than I realised (I switched away from Windows development around the time of XP getting released so we're probaby talking close on 15 years. It's scary how fast time flies).
Twitter offered a RSS feed directly. But they disabled it,
with their "new" API, because of some bogus reason.
After I started riding motorcycle instead of public services or my car, time spent during transportation reduced almost %80.
I live in Istanbul, when I leave work to go home (prime time) it takes up to 2 hours with car and 1.5 hour with public transportation to reach home. With my motorcycle it is around 25-35 minutes.
yeah, it seems that with the goal of being modern, their usability has dropped enormously. I always feel confused whenever I happen to open a TechCrunch article.
But this doesn't answer my question: I'm running a little side project here in Australia but with customers who happen to be in the EU. I have nothing in the EU - no sales office or support in Ireland, no hosting anywhere in the EU. How is the EU supposed to mandate that I do anything?
250KB -> 100KB

Youtube use would have to be > 2.5 times as big after for the resource usage to have actually grown.

Not Jevons paradox's, not sure what to call it.
Is it? Understand I am in no way defending GPA, but I don't think it can be taken as given that one works better than the other without some evidence.

GPA in practice has numerous problems on which I could write a whole other book, but where it fails it is often for social reasons which would equally apply to and be gamed by people under the "limited resource/grade to the curve" model.

You will see people start to game away and politicise how the "stars" are awarded and distributed in both. In the later specifically, you run the real risk of having to start to fail genuinely good people and pass genuinely bad people. And there is no universal algorithm used by people in their subjective distribution of stars that allows one to compare or interpret the distribution of stars after the fact or between different "ecosystems".
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You can run specific night-time substitute buses that follow the train route between stations rather than the regular street-side bus stops.
I really like the ones on test design (categories Test Isolation, TDD, and Stubs and Mocks), and the computation series. Functional Core is awesome too.

Once the promo is over check out his talks too
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks
There is a concept in ecology that relates to this one [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
I feel like this is an article that could only be written by someone who has never owned a car. One, because it's clearly about Uber. But two because rating inflation has been going on at car dealerships for over a decade.

For those who don't know, when you get your car serviced you're asked to fill out a satisfaction survey. And they all, ALL, have this disclaimer at the top: if you can't give us a 9 or 10, talk to us first. Because they're pretty heavily penalized if they don't get an average rating of 9/10 or better.

It's this bizarre game - they could just say "we want to make you happy so talk to us if you have a problem" but corporate HQ doesn't trust local dealers to do this so they survey them. And of course local dealer game the surveys.
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> solving RSS as business model. There needs to be some sort of a commerce layer around feeds

> I would gladly pay money for an Amazon Prime-like subscription where I can get unlimited text-only feeds from a bunch of a major news sources at a reasonable price. It would also allow me to get my privacy back to boot.

Facebook had a scandal over selling private data, so move to RSS for the privacy! RSS doesn't allow tracking (from Amazon), let's turn it into HTML.
Site seems to be down, cached mirror from Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3feSvC...
There are many advantages (and few disadvantages) riding, for me time spent on road was the killer and you can not imagine how much I recommend it.
If you want to read an economic examination of a world without scarcity, I can recommend Trekomics. The title may sound fanciful, but the subject is not. Some of the trends discussed and the social phenomena do seem to be happening.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E6USVP0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
I have the opposite problem. Here in Austria drivers give me, a passenger, bad ratings for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

I had a perfect 5 star rating for many years, then I visited a 3rd world country where I had some problem with the Uber driver that was supposed to pick me from the airport. He gave me a one star rating. Then Ubers from the same country all gave me bad ratings. I have no idea why. Perhaps because I didn't leave a tip? I don't know.

Then I came back to Austria, my rating was around 4.90, but then it continued to drop slowly, and it's still dropping. Now it's 4.62. I'm having trouble getting rides, presumably because drivers reject me. I used to be picked up by 4.9+ drivers, but now it takes up to 10 minutes to find a ride, and they are all 4.4 drivers.

I don't understand why my rating keep dropping and dropping, especially since it used to be a constant 5, in the same country, for many years.
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The thing that annoys me with Uber is that one common (at least where I'm located) misbehaviour doesn't get penalized with their rating system at all... You find a ride, but the guy doesn't even start the car in 10 minutes. Then they simply cancel it, and now you're late.

Besides, I don't want to be connected again to someone I ranked negatively once (even if other people gave them 5 stars). I don't think such blacklisting - even in mild form, eg. with some sort of expiration period - is implemented. [EDIT: apparently it is, although the app never explicitly states that].

This is to say that inflation isn't the only, or even main inefficiency of Uber's system; from my perspective.
I think they missed a great title opportunity. A "fart detector that works a mile away" seems to be great way to phrase it; it's concise, easy to imagine, relatable and comical. The article could then go into the specifics of what the detector actually picks up (e.g. CH4).

I find the diffusion of the smell of flatulence to be a better comparison, because it invokes a visceral reaction ("eww", "yuck", etc.). Imagining a device which does this seems easier. I have a worse idea of what "1/4 of a human exhalation" means.
So effectively, if you post something on Blogger it cannot be taken down, because the whole Google would come down with it.

Still, encrypting SNI hides quite some information (were you searching, watching youtube, reading blogger, was it image search, maps...?)
We can create methane but I'm not sure if "exhale" is the right word.
Developers still underestimate how much code bloat and dependency proliferation harm security and administration.
Static linking encourages even more bloat by vendorizing dependencies.

Please make your applications modular. Optional dependencies are there for this reason.

Most good packaging tools support them.
The point of a signature isn't identity proof, atleast not primarily. The primary purpose is conscious acknowledgement of whatever you signed.
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Datacenters today work differently: IPs convey a fuzzy idea of where to find what you are looking for. Server name will be used to route your request internally in the DC.

I cannot imagine exposing the IPv6 IPs of single racks: it makes the whole "cloud" thing fall apart.
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Wait, what? You only have to press up and down on that Sonic 3 level? That’s BS.

Someone call seven year old me and tell them that Sonic 3 is possible!
"Human/bodily accident" / "jinshin jiko" in Japan.
Yep. Or "processing" -> "complete"/"declined"
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Did RSS ever die?

I've migrated from Google Reader to TTRSS when I was forced to make a change.

Then a few months ago TTRSS started to act up and started making bold claims like "your database doesn't respond" so I moved over to FreshRSS which was a much bigger improvement than I thought that it would be to begin with.

Runs fine using Postgres as a database.
> I don't understand why my rating keep dropping and dropping

I'm guessing that people (drivers) rate similarly to what the score is currently. If it's between a 4 and a 5, that's what you'll get.
Live to learn, feel fulfilled, and give back to bring or sustain positivity in my surroundings.

Material view: Live in a home and land that can sustain itself, OR improve the environment I live in.

Capital view: Live relatively cost free, or generate enough income to allow me to support family if I, or they, fell into a rough time.
Lots of money is nice, but I think it's more important to be able to give to others, or those you care about. There's no point in striving to be ultra rich if you only bring negativity or are completely self focused.

Mind/body: Be fit and healthy, stress free.
I own an XPS 15 and have had to have it replaced 3 times during the past 4 years. Thankfully the latest one hasn't had any issues.

Running Antegros (Arch based) at the moment but was using Ubuntu before without much in the way of issues. I do a mix of mobile and web development more so the later and the machine definitely feels powerful enough for this workload.

My work laptop is a T550 which is pretty solid running also Ubuntu and doing purely web development. I'll probably get it replaced soon as the CPU feels somewhat limited running VM's and multiple docker images.... topped with multiple PHPStorm IDE instances.
I'm 51 and the last time I used a cheque was 32 years ago, so go figure... direct debit bank cards became common here in about 1985.
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The UK were the first in the world to have ATMs, so there is plenty of ageing infrastructure in the UK. But the banks were forced (partly by the EU and partly by fraud) to move to chip and pin and they did relatively quickly.
If you do it right, maybe it can be solar powered?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area#Rail

> There are around 136 individual rail lines in the Greater Tokyo Area, and between 1,000 and 1,200 railway stations depending on one's definition of the area.
Wouldn’t it be possible to have nightline buses operating the same routes as the subway during that window? It works well e.g. in Berlin and Munich and only takes minimally longer than the train (since the roads are not congested at night and the bus can hence go much faster).

At least it should be possible for a temporary maintenance window?
You don't do the calculation on the fly, you do it at data mutation time (if the column should be the same for every client) or in a separate "thread" (eg, a script). Basically, you pre calculate the column and simply add it to your table, indexed.
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Did not work on https://losttech.software/stack.html

Looks like an unnecessary restriction on the length of the last piece of domain name.
exactly, so don't view this system as black and white. It is not if (social_credit < threshold) {}.
> The newspaper quoted an anonymous Tory HQ source who said Mrs Badenoch had gained access to Ms Harman's website by guessing a password rather than "real hacking".
It's because numbers and logic are all that's involved. Unlike those other disciplines, any "result" in computing could be derived and executed entirely inside one's head, the computer, in principle, is just saving us time by doing the calculations for us. This is what makes software analogous to math. I have no idea why math should be immune from the otherwise ridiculous and overreaching patent system.
What I think about drivers' ratings:

4.5 - he (or she) is gonna be polite

4.6 - ooh, I (mildly) wonder why that is

4.7 - nothing

4.8 - nothing

4.9 - nothing

5.0 - oh gosh, they're still learning
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> solving RSS as business model. There needs to be some sort of a commerce layer around feeds

RSS is not a business model. Selling things people actually want is a business model.

If you can't persuade someone to pay for your content (perhaps via willingly watching adverts), then it's not economically viable content. If you care enough to continue publishing it, great, but it's out of your own pocket.
Completely anecdotal, but after two and a half weeks of antibiotics (for an infection in my leg) I felt crap.
Diablo 3 did pretty poorly because of an un-fun system. No Man's Sky was a flop, a horrible flop.

Both games have been heavily changed and built upon to make them fun and worth their price.
I usually prefer Snowflakes with a random suffix behind a timestamp. 34bit UNIX Timestamp sidesteps the 2038 issue and 30 bits of randomness are good enough to prevent collisions with a p < 0.0001 of up to 400 inserts per second (or 1500 inserts per second for p < 0.001). And you can always tweak this to match your workloads (use a bit more randomness, use a bit more timestamp, maybe even use a custom epoch instead of 1970 to reduce the number of bits necessary or use millisecond accurate timestamps)

PostgreSQL supports calling functions as the default value of a column so it should be possible to simply put in a function that returns such a snowflake (either in pure SQL or in PL/Python) and PG will use that.
I moved from MacOS to Linux for my desktop machine and still use a Macbook with MacOS on the go. I've tried chunkwm, Spectacle, and a few odd ones on GitHub. But none really come anywhere close to something like i3 on Linux if you're looking for a good window manager. MacOS is just too limited if you really want to have a predefined setup of (work)spaces and window regions.
I do not want tipping at all, but since some people do and it's already here, it can probably stay. Outside of that, there is nothing stopping you from just talking to your driver if you want to compliment them.

And yes, conditions change, which is why the 5 star system is too vague and useless. What is the difference between 4 or 5 stars? And why would this mean the same thing to anyone else who gets a ride after you?

It's best turn this into a binary signal instead. Any system can be gamed, but it's much better when there are less random choices.
Truly we most certainly would all be dead from cancer with the amount of mobile phones out there and carried around by everyone.
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It's non deterministic because it has a time variation ( newer posts get ranked higher).

Even then?
This is great news – it makes the service economy more ethical. If a negative rating is left only when people were truly dissatisfied with the ride, and not every missing smile or snippy response receives assessment like in the dystopian Netflix show Black Mirror, we are actually treating our service contractors as humans.

I also think it's completely fine that people are rating apps and toasters more negatively, because most of the time, the source of dissatisfaction (e.g. a bug) can be weeded out once and for all, while being an Uber driver is emotional work 10 hours a day.
Agreed. Your options are:

1) Beg and borrow from the people who love and trust you in the hope that either (a) you'll repay them or (b) they'll forgive you - this is known as a friends and family round.

2) Find some rich people and convince them that they will make lots of money (in tax-efficient ways) if they lend it to you - this is known as an angel round.

3) (In some countries this is still possible) Go to the bank and explain to them the viability of your idea.
> You mean like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter...?

Three of those provide paid-for tiers. The other two that do not, well...
Since you have a policy in place, I guess you must be very used to people vomiting upon your utterances.
Have you tried Amethyst[0]? It's a dynamic, automatic tiling WM for macOS; I enjoy it very much.

[0]: https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
All I want is an API for Google inbox so that I can programmatically make tasks.
Many people have written many articles about the NYC subway recently. Because the trains run 24/7, they cannot renovate lines and install advanced train control. Because of the terrible train control, they put simplistic speed limits on trains. Because of all the slow trains the number of passengers per train increases, resulting in more platform delays and medical emergencies.
It isn't really clear that synbitoics work yet, the evidence for metabolic outcomes at least is sparse as of now
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/9/3/167/htm (see figure 6)
IP adresses being protected as personal data has an interesting side effect. You can't be compliant under both EU GDPR and Turkish internet security laws (probably shared by a lot of oppressive and semi-oppressive regimes). That law states you have to keep the poster IP address of every post on the site and turn them over on court order.

Obviously, as with every law in Turkey, the enforcement is very subjective (for example, Twitter does not respond to most requests and nothing goes wrong for them. But say, if you're a non-Twitter scale website, you deny a couple requests or probably only one and you're getting blocked), and you might be able to get away with the "we don't store them/store them anonymized because GDPR" defence once.

Yes there' a 'justice' loophole in GDPR but I don't think "we're still saving the IP addresses anyway in case a court requests it" argument would fly. In the end, to be perfectly legal in both jurisdictions, you'll probably need to differentiate based on IP address ranges or something.
Apps Script is honestly pretty terrible simply because the "IDE" you're working in is terrible. There is no integration with any proper IDE or text editor. It's using ES5 iirc when it could easily support more advanced Javascript versions or when it could allow you to use Typescript. I only sometimes use it out of necessity, but it remains a huge pain.
My experience with tripadvisor:

4.5: Should be fine if there are many votes and the top ones don't look forged

4: average

3.5: Avoid at all cost

People are so bad at giving objective ratings. I often see people mostly rate their friends and the good time they had: "had a very good evening with my friends, blabla" Ok, what about the food, the service? seriously.
You say "strangely" but if you spend enough time cycling you'll start thinking that the idea any other mode of transport is faster through a city is strange. It's incredibly frustrating to see governments spend literally 100 times as much money on a rail system as they could on a decent bike network that moves just as many people more equitably.