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This is amazing, wish you'd launched on Friday and I would have been one of your first customers.

I live in SF, needed to go to an event in San Jose with 2 other friends who live in the city. Looked at all the options on Friday. Zipcar needed a membership card which I didn't already have, Turo was slightly more expensive for the car near me ($60/day), Lyft Rental was super-duper expensive ($109 for the day), Lyft rideshare was even more so ($120 each way). Ultimately went with National, which due to my company's corp plan, was $40/day ($60ish retail) for any car (got a sports car), with CDW and liability and no deductible (both due to corp plan) with a slow checkout experience in SoMa. With Carve offering an (admittedly less nice) car for $45/day with Uber credits both way and a quick checkout, I would definitely take that up. Would be even nicer if there was a loyalty plan (so that my rentals for work can subsidize my private ones) and home delivery.

Quick UX bug: On the latest version of Chrome on a laptop, if I select a pickup date and then the same date as my dropoff, it seems to clear the pickup date. I can still successfully hit search and see the right results.
(Note that this was posted December 14, 2016)
My Charge 3 has been nothing but problems. Freezing, blank screens, faulty readings. The proprietary charger and inability to reset when not connected the the charger have compounded the problems. I'm also on my third band.
Discounting the homeless? Lots.
Normally I prefer El Reg but that is dry and uninformative, whereas the New Yorker article rocks a heap of other critical information.

Most importantly they are colouring in the people and their flaws, without specifically labelling them (e.g. psycho/sociopathic is never said, but the behaviours are).

The interactions with politicians and federal entities are critical to understanding the story.

What you see as irrelevant information is all extremely relevent if you care about protecting yourself against fraud, manipulation, bad actors, etcetera.

Think about the legal and social context of this article, and you will see other facets of the reporting that are clever.
But there's a pretty established management structure, the roles are clearly defined, the output is clearly defined.

Only in tech is there a relentless drive to figure out how to get more and more productivity out of us, and who to hire that will produce the most at the lowest cost, instead of a fair sane career path.
Do you cycle in Manhattan?
It probably only makes it easier for them as well since they can see what add ons/tools are the most consumed. Then they can use that data to figure out what features they should build next for their tools
Content moderation does not reduce or remove the liability protection of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan
It predates the US, but the name switch that has astonished me the most is "Anne" which was unambiguously masculine and is now so unambiguously feminine that it looks strange to see it used for a male in a historical context.
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I mean, 20mph isn't actually that fast. It's pretty easy to exceed that on a road bike, even if you're not in the best shape.

Their stronger acceleration is probably a bigger problem.
I hereby nominate Senator Warren for Minister of Truth due to her 25 years of service on the Cherokee Tribal council.
option 2 will create status quo bias. The system in power will marginally favor ads that keeps the current system in power.

option 1 can't be effective unless you also know the targeting criteria of the ads. Otherwise, interested parties cannot create 'counter propaganda' at the same cost/benefit ratio as the original propaganda campaign. And all it is really doing is decreasing the time to counter propaganda, not reducing the volume of it.

good ideas tho
I ran into this last week with golang. I’m used to building statically-linked executables, and forgot to set `CGO_ENABLED=0` to force this when compiling. I was doing a multi-stage docker build from `golang:1.13` and copying the final executable to `alpine:3.10`, only to see `shell: main: file not found`. `ls` and just about everything else showed it there. It wasn’t until I rabbit holed into dynamically-linked go executables that it started to make any sense at all. A simple message of `main: linked '/lib64/...' not found` would have saved me hours.
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lumost: Good idea: incentivize consumption.
This used to be more of a problem, but IIRC they have forced political ads to be publicly visible to anyone on the page that's running the ads.
This piece is a repeat of a strategic smear, for the obvious reason that more Republicans and moderates can be reached through Facebook than Democrats, so if they pressure Facebook into not running political ads, they win a bit, and if they use the process abusively, they win also.

You can tell by the way this issue was raised when Zucc was at Congress the other day: AOC just sat there spouting incoherent nonsense that could be cut into soundbites, and was 100% uninterested in Mark's clear answers to her non-questions. This one is entirely about framing.
Mandatory bike registration is a terrible idea, but I got no problem with fining people who ride dangerously.
> If you turn off the clipboard interception (there's several extensions that do just that) you'll often get garbage out instead (e.g. raw HTML, gibberish, etc).

One of the proposed fixes (only copy visible text) would fix this, not cause it to spontaneously happen.

Not that it should be happening in the first place. If your site is abusing HTML to such a degree that the browser can't figure out on its own whether or not some text should be included when copying to the clipboard, and that you therefore feel the need to pull some insane switcheroo to get the "right" data into the clipboard, then that is the exact sort of site that ought to be burned to the ground and redesigned from scratch per my previous comment. That strongly indicates an extraordinarily-broken design.

And yes, Google Docs and Office 365 would be included in that category of "burn it to the ground, salt the earth upon which it stood, and rethink its design in its entirety" if they were really that defectively-designed. Thankfully...

> But don't take my word for this, install one of those extensions and never opt out of any sites.

I already have (or more precisely: I set "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" to false in Firefox's about:config page), and just tried copying and pasting in Office 365. Word works without any issue whatsoever (except for a loss of formatting). Excel won't let me copy and paste cells, but if I double-click into a cell, copy the text, double-click into another cell, and paste, I get the same text (with default formatting). Similar deal for PowerPoint; it won't let me copy the text boxes themselves, but I can copy the text inside them and paste that text elsewhere.

If I were to fix O365 in this scenario, I'd probably opt to use JS to detect the CTRL-C and CTRL-V keystrokes and maintain an application-specific internal clipboard specifically for these rich objects (cells in Excel, text boxes in PowerPoint, etc.); they're unlikely to be wanted outside of those applications, so no need to put anything in the real clipboard (besides what the browser thinks should go in it by default, if anything). The only thing that'd still be broken is any kind of text fallback (if one even exists).
>Honestly, I don't think they did nail it, specifically regarding customising the pizza visually. Sure, some sites let you do this but noone cares really.

I may be in the minority but I find this feature quite useful. As someone whose is a more visual learning person, having the ability to virtually see how my product will turn out makes it easier for me to make choices. Instead of thinking about if item X and Y go together, it gives me a better idea of how it may taste when I see them stacked on top of each other. I know X tastes like this, so seeing them next to each other, it may allow me to better think if tastes will work together.

We also can’t forget about people who may not be able to read properly. Instead of worrying what they’re ordering, they just make it look like what they want. (somewhat of an extreme case but possible)

So while I agree this small design is not a high priority for UX designers, I do think not having it would be somewhat of an accessibility barrier for some users.
I think tying it to the source paying for the ad would be an easy delineation.

Is the purchaser a PAC, political campaign, or someone personally running for office? Political ad.

Is the purchaser a private individual, or company? Nonpolitical.

I'm not an expert in this area but I'm fairly certain FEC and IRS already have designations on what counts as political, one could just use those.
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Yeah I had press and hold on the lower button to launch music app, then IIRC the same button was skip track (or hold to fast forward).

I like my Apple Watch too, but I miss the hardware buttons and being able to do stuff without looking at it.

Apple's take is that I should talk to Siri instead of using buttons, but the 8 year wait for them to support 3rd party audio apps kept me from building any habits with that. I'll probably get used to it.
Yep, I bought it new in a sealed box from an Amazon third party store with prime shipping a week or two after product launch.

Fitbit said they "had" to refuse my warranty on account of having purchased the watch from an "unauthorized re-seller" because of clones, but their software already checks serial numbers for duplicates and rejects clones, so that sounds like an excuse.

Incidentally, my next watch was a Garmin, and while I tried to buy it from the official Garmin store on Amazon I found a 3rd party store on the receipt, so I contacted Garmin and ask them if this would invalidate my warranty. They said it would not. They made good on that promise two weeks ago when a fatigue crack showed up in the plastic frame.

tl;dr Fuck Fitbit, Go Garmin!
You are not the only one.

My most recent experience with Apple's documentation (regarding some iOS 13 API concern), left me with a sense of impending doom and hopelessness. After about 5 minutes I gave up and went back to playing the google/stackoverflow search game.

I have become very addicted to the quality of Microsoft's documentation for things like .Net Core & C#, and have found it virtually impossible to tolerate reading documentation from any other vendor at this point. A completely arbitrary but hopefully obvious side-by-side comparison:

Exhibit A:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enum...

Exhibit B:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreimage/cicolor/...
Exactly the reason I watch most Joe Rogan content as "highlight clips" on YouTube.

I don't have time for most of this drawn out content.

(I did listen to the entire Joe Rogan - Snowden podcast but that was a first)
After Apple announced Dark Mode, I called up the dev who builds my startup's iOS app. We already had some dark-mode-like features in the app, but with this I was excited to make it global. Then he told me that if we want our iOS 13 users to be able to have a Dark Mode that is tied to the iOS 13 flag, users who are on iOS 12 or earlier. This killed the idea for me — I don't want to force people to upgrade from 12 to 13 (which has many bugs still), and I certainly don't want to cause problems for people with devices that are not supported by iOS 13.

I really wish Apple made it possible to give access to this feature without cutting off a significant portion of iOS users (including pretty much all schools, which are critical for us). Existing users can't upgrade, but new purchasers wouldn't be able to download at all.
According to https://nacto.org/publication/urban-bikeway-design-guide/don..., they claim that a driver making a right turn around a curb can react to a cyclist moving at 16 feet per second approaching from behind while only being able to see about 8.2 feet to their right. Half a second is well under the average reaction time for a driver who may not be aware that the bike lane is present on the other side of parked vehicles. For example: https://imgur.com/a/JcS4RK5
This is a tricky question. Traditionally, communication with the public was mainly two-way; the public could directly question candidates and hold them accountable there if the candidate lied. I’m very much for traditional free speech here as there is direct accountability.

With the rise of broadcast media (TV, radio, newspapers) came a new era of marketing-driven candidacies. Candidates became much further removed from the process of attracting voters, and they figured out ways (helped by Madison Avenue ad men) to manipulate the public using those ads. By the 1990s we reached peak crazy with negative ads, innuendo, third party ads, and the elimination of “equal time”
rules on broadcast TV that required at least an attempt to level the playing field.

Now with social media, we have the most challenging combination of marketing savvy, cheap and automated provisioning of ads, and precise targeting - and even worse accountability. We’ve even heard possibilities that politicians might target ads to non-aligned voters misdirecting them as to voting instructions or locations.

So: am I against free speech? No. I’m definitely a believer in it. But am I against delivering political advertisements through certain channels? Yes.
Yeah I went through 3 Charges in a year. Lower quality than the cheapest no-name electronics I've ever had, but at a price premium. It's like they were manufactured to be disposable.
It will be interesting to see how Google uses the fitbit data. I could see them synchronizing a user's searches with their heartbeat information to try to gauge emotional response to topics.
I hear you there, the same situation :) I am now on Powerbeats Pro that are quite expensive, and hope they will last.

Not afraid of rain, only of sweet, as I use earphones only inside on treadmill.
What’s the answer to quality-of-life crimes in SF
I'm wealthy and I spend my money on charitable giving instead of building and defending an ostentatious mansion. When the revolution comes I hope that means my back won't be up against the wall, and my house won't be torched by revolutionary warriors.
Personally, I agree with you in this example. As I mentioned elsewhere, given the culture at Facebook and its size, it's hard for me to imagine any major strategic decision that would not generate 250 employees willing to sign their name opposing it, down to things like eliminating single-use plastic.

In my original comment, I was simply conceding that covering internal disagreement about a major policy, in general, is at least arguably news, while still trying to make the rest of my point: that this article is either written in bad faith or wildly unaware of how employees communicate internally at Facebook.
Did you realize you had to press the circular button on the back of the charging case. It's hard to see and they won't pair with anything unless you do.
The FEC already has rules on what defines a political ad, including mentioning or displaying a candidate in a window before an election. There's additional distinction on how the ad was coordinated, the type of organization behind the ad etc. Those advertising politically in a federal election are included in reporting their activity to the FEC.

So if an independent org ran those three ads, only the third could be considered political for election purposes.
Cyclists typically move between 10 to 30 mph. Pedestrians move between 2 to 6 mph. That's not slightly faster.
for(int i=1;i<=10;i++){
doStuff();
}

Sounds trivial compared to the rest listed here, but for me it was just the first time I got a for loop to work in java.

Like, conceptually I knew programming was about getting machines to doStuff, but this was probably the first time I actually had a machine do something I asked of it directly. Well, that and Logo writer.

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/726236764759842817
For reference, Firefox 60 was released May 2018.
Terminals have almost always been dark mode. MS DOS is a great example of a very popular OS that was fully dark mode. Or any installation of Unix or Linux without a window manager. Tying it to flat-design just sounds like a lack of familiarity with the history of computer interface design.
Anyone who knows what they want out of a "new" car isn't going to want to accept one that already has 50+ miles on it, and 50 already is stretching it.

As a potential new car owner, you don't know how that car was driven for those tens or possibly in this case hundreds of miles.

Maybe not everybody cares, but there will definitely be a segment of the market that does. I don't think that's really an issue for this startup, but would be for any dealer they're working with that doesn't want to take significant hits because of it.
You've completely missed the parent's point.

It's not productive to lump every cyclist together, or every driver together. At the end of the day, people are people, and some people who happen to be cyclist are shitty, while others who happen to be drivers are assholes. But that doesn't mean ALL cyclists are assholes, or all drivers.
I agree with this, and I had students like that too, but no way, not in the case of this particular company. It had to be deliberate, or maybe they were just hiring their drinking buddies. I don't know, but it could not have been anything approximating engineering competence.
Alternatively, The Register article contains so little information you can't discuss much and hners create their own "facts".
Then you're doing something very wrong. You can't rely on NAT to stop connections, because that's not a thing NAT does.

You need to be using a firewall. NAT is just an extra, useless, complicated and unnecessary thing to be adding to the top of that; one that makes it hard to understand how your network is even working, and which makes it harder rather than easier to secure.
Note: this is an article about the hardware used to render an arcade game called NBA Jam. It has nothing to do with JAM stack graphics.
That's true if their efforts do protect the whole region and not just their local rich neighborhood.
You just said you yourself were able to identify them. Why couldn’t someone else?

And, suppose they were missing from your News Feed. How much would you miss them? And why would you need them back?

Finally, I’d love to hear about some of these “ads for products that have political messaging” (assuming they’re not the obvious case of T-shirts, stickers, etc. promoting a candidate or cause).
> I think the key issue is that these machines are internet or network connected.
If we're really concerned about this - get rid of the network connectivity.

They (generally) aren't.

(Almost) every demo of voting machine hacking involves physical access to the machine, tools, and keys/lockpicks.
Of the many people who hated Microsoft during their rise to power, one of the most coherent groups were people who were mad because MS put a competitor with an arguably better product out of business.

That is in fact how FUD got into the vernacular. They would make vague promises that you couldn't quite call outright lies about having a product coming in that market, and a year later they'd put out something tepid (thereby proving they were lying about their progress earlier), but with some bulk licensing deal.

By the time the MS product came out the competitor would already be experiencing reduced sales growth because people would play wait-and-see for the MS product.

There is nothing stopping any of these folks from pulling the same trick. Having a better product will not save you. A brilliant product might, but even that's not a given.
Graduate student working conditions are worsening. They’re unionizing
Mixing zones I'm sure are fine in some areas, but a lot of potential cyclists (like the very old and very young) are going to be intimidated by being with cars, period. Unless you heavily road diet the place with speed humps and other traffic calming measures, to the point where it's super obnoxious to drive in, at which point what is the point of still having cars there?

The Netherlands is probably Example #1, and IIRC they commonly have mixing zones for streets right in the city center that are rather pedestrianized, outside of that you'll mostly see separates bike lanes/paths.
This is true if we make all sorts of ideal case assumptions. Patents should expire but don't always do due to all sorts of shenanigans between corporations and govt. In the end I prefer corporations innovating in "optional" items like iphones, tvs and hamburgers. We however need to take a communal interest in the essential stuff. I mean, a lot of damage could be done to societies before patents expire.
Not sure of the breakdown by their subsidiaries, but they added about 20,000 employees in a year (~55/day), from 94,372 to 114,096. That seems huge to me.
Most engineers at Apple are assigned to one (small) team, including new college graduates.
This is the essential issue with the travel industry. The data, and especially integration with the GDS's themselves is tightly controlled.

I've had many an idea for travel startups but data has been a non-starter.

I give Duffel props for having the mojo/influence/connections/funding to successfully implement something like this in an industry that has had few players. The only one I can think of is ITA but they are no longer independent.
off topic but can you share your rise to 300-400k/year? Do you just bill more than your previous contract? i.e. 125/hr last 6 months, so at renewal time you jump to 150-175/hr? Did you work 2 or more jobs at the same time? It seems like 300-400K/yr remote work in a low COL would be the dream setup for most of HN, but to each his own. What's the take home on your salary after expenses/taxes?
In low concentration, it's in various cleaning products, rust removers, that kind of thing. In some places, you can buy glass etching cream which also contains HF.
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My 5 cents. Fitbit discontinued one of their best products Fitbit Flex 2, which I'm still using. It's a 50 bucks rubber band with 1 week battery life that tracks sleep & steps.

I don't really know why they cancelled it but I'm wearing Fitbit flex and later flex 2 since they entered the market and it's a divice that I'm used to wear and forget even when I'm asleep ( compared to the Apple Watch, which nevertheless needs daily charge and is simply too bulky to wear in bed ). I haven't found any decent competitors on that part and I'm honestly afraid of the wasted hours when I have to decide what to use as a replacement.
I hear the cynicism, I do. You might be right, but I have friends in these companies and some love it, some hate it. I want to give it a try.

As for the resume, maybe we've miscommunicated? I'm specifically looking for an iOS role, so having Python and distributed systems on my resume doesn't seem like it would help me?

I do appreciate you taking the time to post though!
Super good point. I've definitely run into that objection while trying to sign on used car dealerships--i.e. that they can't sell the car if it's being rented, so putting it on our platform might mean forgoing a sale.

But that's fine, because it basically means that dealerships typically only list cars that they have more than one of. So for example, if they have three Audi A4s in inventory, they might list only two of them with us. When they sell the other one, they'll take an A4 off Carve and put it back into sales inventory. In other cases, dealers will give us cars during periods of low sales and then putting them back into inventory when sales pick back up, thus minimizing the risk of a foregone sale.
Imagine if you will, a company that spends an investment on building product, instead of building SEO