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FYI, the most popular Node B2 library seems to be in the process of being abandoned: https://github.com/yakovkhalinsky/backblaze-b2

Would be nice if there was an official Node library.
They're ready to grab if you sensibly prepare a bunch of food ahead of time, once or twice a week. Nobody who's strapped for time starts from scratch every meal, and our American fridges are plenty large.

Besides, if I may rant a bit: If you have no money, then time, effort, knowledge, and social currency is what you have to spend to get by. Either you're going to spend those things, or spend money you don't have which will make your immediate future immediately worse. This is a situation that sucks to be in, and the only way to have any sense of even partially managing this is discipline. Many of us have grown up in and/or lived through these sorts of situations as adults, and you simply do what you have to and try to be smart about it. Obviously you need to put in time and effort, and do the dishes. But you can buffer things a bit to match your schedule, or establish specific routines, and any little lessening or organization of crunch is a huge affirming step. If you step back for a bit you also see that maintaining your health (including having mental and physical energy) is super important when you have no money and are working hard, and so making food at home hits multiple critically important facets. It does not matter that it takes effort, what matters is that you put forth effort commensurate to what you're facing.

And to position this back to the initial contentious point, it reaffirms my position that it is not an issue of healthy groceries being somehow priced higher, but rather that of stressful life situations that people turn to convenience food (with the time sink of shopping/shorter-prep/cleanup or driving/ordering/waiting at restaurants still intact).
Glad we can at least agree it's stealing.
Ask HN: Do you have a public guide to working with you?
I'm reading Elad Gil's "High Growth Handbook" and the interview with Stripe's COO Claire Hughes Johnson. In that chapter they mention the Google engineer Urs Holzle who wrote "A Guide To Urs" about the interaction approaches that work best for him [1].

"The idea is that if you needed to interact with him or you wanted things from him, you knew what to do. And apparently that really helped streamline how people worked with him."

Claire, wrote a similar document called "Working with Claire" (the full text is included in the book).

She mentions that it "spread quickly through the organization ... and now a lot of people at Stripe have written their own guides themselves."

I think this is a _fantastic_ idea -- I've worked long enough to recognize that I have my own quirks and it's better that everyone knows up front how to best get something from me and what I expect from them.

I've started to a draft of "Working with Nate", but I'd like to know: do you have a document like this you're willing to share? (Perhaps some Stripes would like to share their own?)

I'd love to read other people's examples of how they think of themselves and their work, and how they best interact with others.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-public-version-of-Urs-Holzles-personal-user-manual-If-so-where-can-I-find-it
Refuse to work for them because they aren't letting you do due diligence on the offer. What do they have to hide?
The article is wrong. Doing those things does not guarantee that your page is safe to prerender.
The phone verification step appeared when Twitter finally realized (way too late) that they have a bot problem.

A few years ago (before the 2016 election) they didn't give a crap.

They've only started purging bot accounts in the past year or so. There was an uproar from the Fox News crowd about how they were being unfairly targeted by liberal Twitter because their subscriber counts were dropping like flies.
What's wrong with a vast majority of the vehicles on the road not being owned by the people who use them for transportation? It seems that a large amount of people don't want to purchase and maintain a vehicle they might not always be using and instead pay on-demand like they do for many other services where someone specializes to reduce the cost for others?
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Unsure. But equality is one factor. At least where I live women outnumber men at universities - meaning that if one partner in the relation has an "important career", it's very soon going to be more often the mother.

Another factor is rents and house prices. If everyone you are competing with for that house can pay the mortgage on two incomes, you aren't going to afford it on one. So that's economic necessity I guess.
This is why most financial services companies partner with an existing bank.

A better alternative to starting a new bank is buying a small bank. It may actually be cheaper than starting a new one.
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It's not really user-hostile at all. It's great for users. We get easy to identify sites that load quickly on mobile. I waste much less time because of AMP.

You could argue it is bad for publishers. But users? Please.
I'm from Indiana. The price difference between a 1br and 2br is sometimes small. Sometimes you can get a 2br cheaper than a 1br, and sometimes both of these options run the same as a small studio in an apartment complex.

There are slightly fewer 3br apartments there, so sometimes those prices are higher. Of course, in many small-to-midsize towns there was the options of renting a trailer for the same price as the 1-2 bedroom apartments.

One city was an exception: A college town I lived in. It was fairly common for rent to go up with each inhabitant because they were accustomed to making separate leases for each student. Mighty expensive when renting to a family, but made sense for their normal renters.
Low hanging fruit article or what?
Do they resell my data?
Is that why I never get AMP results? I've heard about it a lot, but never gotten an AMP page in the results (obviously, in retrospect, because I use DDG). Too bad it's not a "real" standard that everyone can use.
Simply read what you wrote. No serious person defends a position like this:

'China is a sovereign nation and has every right to Govern itself the way it wants to.'

Rather than taking the human rights abuses seriously, you continually obfuscate obvious facts by pointing to the United States' history of human rights abuses (of which there are plenty), and simply double down on your own indefensible position.

You could also do the most elementary research into your own position, which would immediately reveal that currency manipulation, censorship, restrictions on freedom of movement and associated crimes violate UN human rights laws and countless international trade agreements. Any honest definition of 'legal' would account for this.

There's an honest conversation to be had about how sanctions impact the poorest segments of a country. That conversation cant proceed if you don't acknowledge reality.
Green cabs have definitely helped with added supply though I can't speak to how they have addressed marginalized groups.

But the green cab solution is half baked. It really frustrates me as an Upper Manhattan resident that I cannot take a green cab back uptown to my home. I have often seen them lower in Manhattan and they are required to drive back empty while I try to find a yellow cab.
Congestion pricing is generally politically unpopular in that it trades clear price increases and the attendant hassle around charging for hazy-sounding benefits.

At least until it's implemented, anyhow. Once people see congestion drastically reduced, it becomes more popular: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/12/06/for-politicians-conge...

It also pretty obviously favors the rich, which is not a big vote-getter.
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Thus, the purpose of bail money that people are complaining about. However, as I said in my post, most people are likely to be guilty of said crime and the most heinous ones are those you don't want them on the streets.
In this specific case, we have an essentially static system that's exposed to the public that you need to protect from an unknown number of attackers with substantially more resources than you do.

To use the analogy of the plane designer, it'd be equivalent to building a consumer airliner that can handle flying through a warzone.
Libraries are publicly funded places allowing you to enrich your educational needs. Yet, they have become a homeless shelter.
I have a lot of respect for you and what you did. Thanks for being inspiring and good luck with whatever you work on next.
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Observation: Housing is not affordable (for any but the rich).

Hypothesis: Basic market theory suggests that the need for housing is probably inelastic (everyone needs it, can't do without it), therefore if housing is to become more affordable an increase in supply must happen.

Prediction: If additional housing were encouraged (near where jobs are actually located) prices would eventually stabilize at sustainable levels.

Prediction 2: non-inflated housing prices will also lower the cost of living in those areas, creating a net benefit for members of society (which are not of the rent-seeking classes).

Testing: Please vote according to the above logic.

Results: To be determined.
I downvoted you because you seem to be implying that programmers shouldn't use IFTTT. There's nothing wrong with IFTTT if it meets your needs.
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One of the biggest contributors to income inequality is a lack of economic mobility. Maybe that sounds like a tautology - the difference between rich and poor solidifies the more difficult that it becomes for poor people to turn into rich people.

To oversimplify, easy access to capital can allow a poor person to turn a great idea that solves real problems and a strong work ethic into a sustainable business that pulls him out into the middle class or higher. Without access to capital, the poor man is beholden to whichever employers are in his area, and whatever is on offer from them - odds are, it won't be enough to allow the poor man to send his children to private school.
It is if you want to solve the problem across the board, rather than having a niche system that a small handful of vendors use that just introduces one more surprising variation at payment time.
My reading is that they didn't look at the Linux implementation (as "clean-room").
define hateful.
With whose money?
A popular one among expats where I live (Beijing) is the Laser Egg.
Do you seriously not realize that the planet is moving? Do you honestly not get that?
Could you lie when hailing the cab and once inside say they misheard you and say the genuine destination? Not allowed I imagine but pretty hard to enforce that rule? (Genuine question, as a UK reaident I’ve little experience of the US taxi system and have always had excellent service from taxi firms in the UK - as a result I’ve never really understood the problem Uber is solving in the UK)
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I'll repeat what I asked, what is your alternative?
In England theft requires dishonest appropriation with the intent to permanently deprive the owner.

I'm not sure what he did meets all of those tests. I'm not sure it meets "dishonest" - it sounds like it was a simple mistake.
This is the most common objection, but it's not a very strong one, for at least two reasons:

1. There's no reason we couldn't provide exceptions for the kinds of vans and trucks that blue-collar workers need to drive into the city to make their livings.

2. There's no reason we couldn't offer income-based exceptions to people who absolutely cannot ride transit for this or that reason.

As in all proposals to ration some scarce resource, it's important to understand that we already ration it, even if it's not explicit. Today, we do it by literally clogging the streets so much that nobody else can get through. (And now we've added this new way, too.) Surely nobody thinks that's the smartest way to ration.
That "get_upload_url()" trick they invented was in AppEngine's BlobStore since 2008. Although Google deprecated it in favor of GCS.
This is sad. NYC is one of the few (like 2, maybe 3) America cities with an actual usable rail system and it's rotted into disrepair.

I'm all for limiting rid share vehicles and better wages for drivers, but they need to dump a shit ton of time and money into the rail system, both the subway and intercity. Fix Penn Station, and get the tracks up to spec! That should be the #1 priority for city transport infrastructure.
So long as the bank's email server connects directly to your email server over an encrypted connection it's just as secure as anything else.
And that nobody outside the US ever has solved problems in a way that may apply to the US.
Yeah back in the 90s I was able to scratch out a living as a musician, but rent was $200 a month in 1992, the bar was very low back then. I did a recording session at Death Row Records that one I got paid $0 but Suge was not the kind of person you demanded payment from lol. Other gigs like DJing were more lucrative then to the point where I paid my rent and got food. But we didn't have cell phones or student loans. People had to buy our tapes to hear our music there was no way to hear it for free. Having only a couple hundred fans was good enough to survive back then you didn't need to have millions of listeners. Now if John Coltrane put out a Love Supreme in 2018 he couldn't pay people to listen to it. The hold that the majors have over music is heavier than ever. All my friends who still make a living from music are all signed to majors, I don't know anyone who makes $1 without being signed these days.
I'll make a small video, but it's going to take a few days before I can get it done. I'll let you know when I'm finished.
And then that guy invented AltaVista, in Silicon Valley: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flaherty
In the US, almost universally, they take the card away. Swipe it somewhere in the back -- without a PIN. Then bring back a receipt for an inked signature, which is supposed to the be the alternative to a PIN.

Oh, and you put the tip in on that receipt, and they go back and do a second entry of the tip (sometimes incorrectly, almost always higher when incorrect.)

Worse - the transaction alert -- if you get one -- is the pre-tip amount. Makes no sense.
The charitable explanation is that "rich people take Ubers, poor people in the outer borroughs drive their own cars." The cynic would point out that "Mayor Minivan" is notorious for driving an SUV from Manhattan to his favorite gym in deep Brooklyn every morning, making him precisely the kind of person who would take a hit from congestion pricing.

As the subway crumbles, ride-share and taxis are the only practical way most people can get around. The cab-limiting "medallion" system led to infamous corruption (Michael Cohen, a name you might have heard from the news, owns an entire fleet of them); most New Yorkers thus consider ride-share to be a godsend. I don't see how capping ride share will result in anything but making Ubers as terrible as yellow cabs.

btw, if ride-share is capped at current levels, that means that traffic would merely not-get-any-worse than it already is. This will do nothing to reduce traffic; congestion pricing would accomplish something.
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I frequently see failures on RTD doc builds due to memory exhaustion.
> You first saw pop-overs to harass people abut cookies as required in the EU

That's a rather a-historical way to describe that. The various cookie notifications used what was already common code to implement it since most people didn't want to spend much time on what they saw as a formality.
Thus a good reason to not put yourself into serious situations that cause you to be arrested. Let's not blame the system that arrested someone doing criminal activity.
Nothing's wrong with that; in fact, that seems like the ideal scenario. I think there should be a financial disincentive to owning a car in the city, especially if most of the congestion is due to private car ownership.

If Uber+Taxi make up a small percentage of traffic, then limiting them to fix congestion seems like a stupid idea.
I agree with the general sentiment of the article: "In order to make money, Snapchat is doing things it previously scorned"

This is particularly saddening for me because I remember back in 2011/12 (around that time) I desperately wanted an Iphone so that I could do one thing - download Snapchat. I wanted a totally new/expensive phone to do one single thing - use Snapchat. Sure I was 19, and it was slightly known as the sexting app but man oh man, there was this sort of aura of mystery surrounding it. It was literally the "coolest" app in my peer group (hell, in my age group at the time). It was soooo difficult to search for people, so you had to know their user before you could add them. It was as if the app was so public (sharing pictures that could be screenshot), yet so private (you tended to only add people you knew, and the porn accounts).

It's slightly funny to watch Evan Speigel still think that he knows whats best for Snapchat (e.g., the UI changes, monetization). He makes his changes now and tells the users to shutup and deal with it (bad idea). Now that I'm older, everyone I know still uses the app, but not nearly as much, and it's not nearly as "cool" or fun. It seems to be just another app on our phones now - not "the" app.

But in some ways I understand Snapchat's changes. Those servers, engineers, creatives, and yellow bikes cost money. You can't pay for an office lease in Venice Beach with "cool" points. However, with that said, I do think Snapchat went overboard with the monetization efforts. They followed in the footsteps of Google, Facebook, etc - not knowing that they were so much cooler and so much more fun than anyone else. And in trying to monetize, they ruined the experience, and thus the app. The "scale" thing [gives Reid Hoffman a side eye] doesn't always have to apply to everything. Sometimes just having an amazing app that does what it does is ok - the partnerships, click bait, and "publishers" be damned.

RIP Snapchat. The only app I've ever bought a brand new to device for.
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I've got a 2BR in Chicago on a single income and I am certainly the outlier in my friend group. TBH most of my friends have roommates.
True, but then only rich parents would be able to send their kids to college, because they'd be able to win all the bidding wars.
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And banking industry consolidation has cut into those community ties that can change lending patterns. If we want to do something with regulatory policy, I'd think trying to keep banks small and local would be a fine start.
Alternative title: "NYC Taxi mafia strikes back, gives Uber 12 months to come up with a large enough bribe".

Really, the life of nearly everyone (who's not a taxi driver, perhaps) improved a bit since Uber entered the city.

Even the fabled subway in its theoretical best has been dysfunctional in Brooklyn since the takedown of streetcars a hundred years ago (see how all the tracks are running towards Manhattan and very few across?).

And need anyone be reminded of the countless problems with the yellow cabs (good luck hailing one around Kings Highway!), green cabs (too little too late, same problems), car services (aka taxis you order by phone, which may or may not come to pick you up and may or may not go where you need to, and can tell you to, quote, f$#k off when they're late), etc?

Obligatorily, I have a lot of reservations towards whatever Uber is doing elsewhere - but the NYC situation looked unfixable before Uber came a long with a stick (or candy) large enough.
Does it make a difference to you if (as seems like might be the case) smoothie bar employees did attempt to speak to him directly (though not in especially calm or lucid ways, as Aaronson describes it) but, at least from their perspective, he just walked away mid-interaction?
UPDATE: I have a phone call with a hiring manager from Amazon tomorrow. Sent out 20 resumes/emails so far this week. And going to dinner with someone here in Portland that is on this thread. Feeling better about potential jobs everyday. Thanks again from everyone here for advice/support!
maybe temporarily, but as soon as all the third-party js that slows down your site start advertising themselves as GDPR-compliant, that goes away.
I don't think the issue is that landlords are protected from competition. No matter what they do they're competing with the rest of the country. The issue is that there's massive demand for housing in one particular area. As such, the price of housing will increase in that area until the market will no longer bear it.
Banks do this so they can gain the interest on the delay. Very annoying though for the end usrr
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17621344/uber-lyft-nyc-ve...

> The number of new vehicles on the road has surged since the last time a cap was up for debate, growing from 63,000 in 2015 to over 100,000 today. These new vehicles have added an unprecedented number of new miles driven in New York City, according to a recent analysis by traffic analyst Bruce Schaller. Trip volumes have tripled in the last year and a half, and 600 million driving miles were added citywide. In addition, Schaller found evidence that ridership was shifting from public transportation to ride-hailing apps.
you seem disillusioned by mozilla's actions. i can't help with that, other than to say that based on past actions, i believe mozilla will course-correct if necessary here.

i'm not defending this new "advance" experiment/feature (i'm reserving judgement until i know more about it). i'm only expressing appreciation for them trying to address a user pain point (that search is crappy), while also responding to the general question "why?" posited by the GP post.
New York City cracks down on Uber and other ride-hailing apps
Yes, I did that a couple of times. Then once I got in, i changed the destination. It made for a tense ride because you're already in an adverserial transaction for something that should be a default right of rider.

Oh, and my mom has bigger problems. Cabs pass her by at Manhattan hospitals. Of course no one knows drivers' intents for sure, but there is some quick eyeballing, i'm sure, of whether the potential passenger is B&T (Bridge and Tunnel -- NYC Yellow cabs hate B&T passengers because they often have to deadhead back to Manhattan on the return trip -- so they take pains to avoid B&T passengers, which favors wealthier Manhattan residents and harms residents of other boroughs.) Uber/Lyft has been a lifesaver for her.

There is also a larger problem Uber solves (one of many) -- once you lose density (i.e., outside airport/centercity) it is hard to hail a cab, so you have to dial a cab. You dail, they invariably say "wait outside be there in 5 min" -- sometimes they show up in 5min, sometimes 10min, sometimes 30min, sometimes never. Variable pricing and GPS tracking solves this.

A lot of these problems were traditionally not problems at all, but the NYC transit system has ground to a halt on evenings/nights/weekends in the past 3-5yrs, so people are relying increasingly on Uber/Lyft and pooled rides for things traditionally accomplished via mass transit.
Ah ok that make sense. Not sure how you measure conversion, but in our case (I’m in B2C ecommerce) both traffic and conversion often fluctuates, so if one is stable doesn’t mean that the other won’t move.