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What does this have to do with the observation that when a poor person gets towed, it can throw their whole life off the rails, and when a rich person gets towed, they don't even feel it? Do you think that because more poor people take public transit to work than rich people, that these stories don't matter?
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Because leveraging bundling is illegal, if the bundled item is a monopoly, in both the US [1] and the EU. Further, leveraging their search monopoly in such a way as to juice other products is to the detriment of users: if the product deserves a given space in the search results (where deserves means would rise there without bundling), it should rise there on its own, or there is a better alternative that should have been there instead. Hence user harm.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
I really don't understand why the laws are such that they can just keep your car, adding fees, until you pay. It's not like these people want to store their car there. Regardless of the outrageous storage and towing fees, you should be able to take your car immediately and pay them later. They can just put collections out or impound your car later if you don't pay.

I can remember few times I was as angry as I was at a tow yard. My car was stolen, found by the police, and impounded at a tow yard. I went to the tow yard to get the car out, they wanted hundreds of dollars to store the car for the few hours it was there. I went to get some belongings out of the car (I foolishly left my wallet in the car when it was stolen, so I had no cash or credit cards to free the car at that moment), and was accused of stealing my own car by the tow yard employee (as if that somehow makes sense). Later, I returned to pick up the car the next day, these tow yard people had stolen my snow chains out of the car.
The point of an ambulance is to receive medical attention on the way to the ER.
What determines whether a car is hard to rig up or not?
You think these towing fools care how much damage they do to your car when they tow it?

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Really looking forward to reading these. Thanks for contributing.
Hahahaah, did you even read that survey yourself???

"The survey was conducted as a telephone study among 520 San Francisco residents aged 18 and older
during June 2011."

What if I tell you a huge portion of low income workers in SF are NOT San Francisco residents but live in other places such as the South and East Bay?

What's your suggestion? Tell them to walk from Fremont to San Francisco or build their own public transportation?

Your data is about as irrelevant as it gets for this discussion.
Co-founder of PayScale here. Fun concept!
I suppose most of my ideas for projects seem silly and I never follow through. Maybe I need more discipline :).
The principal expense the article referred to is the towing charge. I don't know you make that sliding scale - the tow company is a private business.
This is why most tow truck drivers carry a weapon.
Any suggestions/resources on learning how to implement these kinds of optimizations?
This is true. There will always be room for improvement on anything, especially this.
I certainly am. Thanks again.
This is basically the same point as the one in this (imho better) article written in 2011: 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor (http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-...)
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Anything can do that including a health crisis (a far more common cause of financial despair), an arrest, or natural disaster. The entire premise of the article, the title of which states outright that towing fees are the worst part of inequality in America, is completely ridiculous. The worst part about inequality in America is that a million black men are in prison, and parking enforcement isn't even in the top 50 worst things about inequality in America.
Another one of the "one mistake and you're screwed" games, along with health care, and a few others, that the system likes to play with lower-middle class people.
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As I and another person described, you'll also be dealing with an impound lot if your car is stolen and subsequently recovered by the police.
Of course -- the fines don't have to relate linearly to one's income, in the same way that taxes aren't linearly related to one's income. But a system that relates fines to some function of income could be a lot more just than the current system.
I'm not sure I've ever called anyone too aggressive or too emotional. I can say that you are far from the first commenter I've castigated for completely missing the point. You're still doing it. No one in this subthread is disputing that there is an issue wrt women in tech. Whatever the other evidence, there's enough smoke to indicate a fire. I was going to ask for details on your male-named account, but realized I believe you, and it doesn't change the situation.

As for deducing an emotional response, your logic was obviously[] (and self-destructively) flawed, and the usual cause for that is some sort of emotional involvement. This is completely universal. I hardly needed to know, in addition, that this an emotionally sensitive topic. Which it is, what with everyone being accused of something.

While I couldn't vouch for my specific language in previous posts, this is not the first time I've done this and I'm guessing it was mostly men before. I'll try to work on bthem more evenhanded, when it comes up; I don't like a perceptual bias any more than you do.

[] For reasons I won't bother repeating. I'll just note that you didn't bother refuting any of them and went straight for the personal attack.
I see how that could be seen as disparaging, in English.
Then why do laws change?
Hmm. Maybe that's why Google kept about 600 or so out of 17,000 or more.

The streets of Hyderabad, eh? I can only imagine, having been there about 2 years ago. The level of construction and build-out is amazing. Where are all of the "trained" workers going to come from?
I'm not saying there shouldn't be a fine for parking in no parking areas but these amounts are ridiculous and the author hit it right on the the head. The amounts charged are not in proportion to many people's ability to pay. This imbalance doesn't make society, which we all inhabit btw, any more stable or functional.

Of course, if fines were lowered self entitled assholes would do whatever they please and laugh off the fines. I think the solution is this... first offenses should be a very very small fine and the amounts should double on each subsequent offense. That should stop the self entitlement fairly quickly. Of course, this is assuming the intent is promote proper parking, not to strong-arm money out of people's pockets in order to finance an army of bureaucrats and general wasteful spending. That is the intent...proper parking behavior, right?
Agreed, it is absolutely insane that you have to pay 100% of their seemingly arbitrary fees before taking your car back.

Your credit card company, that you have a written agreement with, would have to jump through such greater hoops to take back the TV you bought if you default (if they can at all).

Taking someone's car should be considered more like turning off their water, for many it's not a convenience but a necessary part of life.
I am a scientist (a botanist) and I don't think the objection is short sighted. You are fundamentally changing the base of the marine food web. This is not a system that is well understood, and one that is difficult to model. This type of intervention might be successful, but you could also kill off large amounts of marine life, making a bad situation significantly worse. That doesn't mean geoengineering shouldn't be explored, but it's potentially risky. A wrong move could lead to mass starvation of not only marine life, but the numerous human populations that depend on that marine life.
Paxos paper is in "Basics" category just like it is meant to be a joke. Even the "Paxos made simple" paper is not easily understood by graduate students as many studies have shown. (see Raft paper for a study on this.)
I would expect so, since these processes are working towards using the same protein structure organized in the same way as produced by the living creature.

Also note that TFA and my earlier discussion is all about protein fibers and attempts to recreate those. Protein fibers include animal fibers such as silk, spider silk, wool, alpaca, and many more. Another approach to novel fiber qualities might arise through bioengineering and process improvements around cellulose fibers. In fact, this is exactly what's happened with rayon fibers. Rayon is a now-broad category of cellulose based fibers. Lyocell (branded Tencel) is one variant that was specifically designed to be pollution-free amongst other qualities, eliminating some serious environmental concerns with the chemical production process of early rayons. Likewise, you'll find "bamboo" yarn and fabric, which is a kind of rayon based on bamboo cellulose vs. the more usual wood chips.
Reliable, effective, and inexpensive public transit would solve 99% of problems like this. Cars are expensive to own and operate (let alone deal with unforeseen expenses like these). In my city, our "public transit" is a joke that consists of buses that run every hour or so and stop running at 7:30pm—hey, at least they have free wifi?

After seeing Europe's transit system first-hand all summer, it makes little sense to me why the investment has not been made in the USA—especially in larger metropolitan areas like SF.
Gosh, you're right. The ONLY WAY to get from Fremont to San Francisco is to WALK! I'm sure that's the predominant mode.

OH SHIT WAIT. They totally have data on that too.

Of people who live in Fremont and work in San Francisco, public transit is BY FAR the predominant mode. Surprise!

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/transportation.htm
Some cars are rear wheel drive, some are all wheel drive. Many expensive cars require a flat bed tow truck. Cars with double clutch transmissions do not have a "neutral" setting and cannot be easily towed (when you put a BMW DCT into neutral it becomes park, for example).

If towed in the wrong way, it can severely damage an expensive car, and considering Ferrari owners can also afford lawyers, it's safer to tow the Civic, especially the towing fee is the same either way.
I agree. I was referencing this -- https://medium.com/@abhinemani/ubers-as-ambulances-4e3a2db38...
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I honestly don't comprehend why the prototypical HNer (in their 20s, working as a developer) doesn't have a year or two of expenses saved up. It should be trivial.
Mildly interesting podcasts and audiobooks help me a lot.

Too interesting and you get wired. Too dull and your mind begins to wonder. Some work so well that it takes me several runs to listen completely.
There's been failed cryopreservation businesses before, I think, with exactly this problem.

I think anyone who spends 200K on this today should expect to pay 200K again in a decade or two (if they make it that far) since at that point the "state of the art" will almost certainly be with a different company, and I doubt the failed company will give refunds.
Just a couple guesses, but sportier cars will have less space between the ground and the body, making it difficult to raise them at an angle or pull them up a ramp onto a tow bed. They would also probably have more sophisticated anti-theft measures.
Well, as a woman doing a computer science PhD, I'll say I initially felt that my advisor didn't respect my opinions, always argued against my ideas, even though I was better informed much of the time (and that's normal, he only has a mile-high view of my thesis work). This made me angry, and I didn't hesitate to show it. I stood up for myself and I must have come off as abrasive at times. Other factors may have contributed (I'm now the most senior student in the lab), but I feel like he treats me with more respect now, and our relationship has much improved.
> a year or two of expenses saved up.

Expenses is the keyword, I think. Most prototypical HNers live life well above what they could live at (e.g., less organically-grown gourmet coffee and more rice). A year or two of true, necessary expenses could be closer to 6 months of income for many here.
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Sometimes I'd like to make a purchase using my Amex credit card rather than my Visa debit (pseudo-credit) card. Many online stores don't accept Amex because they charge a higher fee. Is there any service that will, for a nominal fee, grant me a "temp" Visa card that is loaded with credit from my Amex?
I wonder what happens if you make it technically impossible for your car to be towed (for example, if it detects a tow attempt, it "wakes up" and nudges away from the tow vehicle). Or if you make it get out of the impound lot by itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLC1Iy1UkE Or after you win a tug of war with the tow truck...
These types of things are usually progressive scales.
What about something like activating the form with another xhr call when the user does something like presses tab or clicks on a field? It can set a code from the server and then check for it when the form is submitted.

Not foolproof but if you are getting caught in very wide net this might be enough.

EDIT: Missed the part about the macro, this may not help at all.
What a freaking straw man's argument. Where in the article did the author state it's the "worst part of inequality of America", he merely says it's a part that's under reported and not many people are aware of.

And did you just compare horrible car towing companies to natural disasters? One is OBVIOUSLY WORSE than the other since last time I checked, tornadoes and earthquakes are not caused by greedy men working with corrupt government officially trying to squeeze money out of everyone.
Where do you get that most organizations are smaller and/or "un-enterprise"? I recall recently reading a study that suggested that (1) there were fewer startups of any sort now than there were ten years ago (this includes "normal" small businesses), (2) a higher percentage of startups fail than they did ten years ago, (3) a higher percentage of employees work for large companies than they did ten years ago. If your premise is incorrect, that would suggest that Red Hat is absolutely right to be focusing on its enterprise customer base.
The fact that a coffee maker has DRM at all is depressing.
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Tail call optimization is necessary as well (or at least extremely beneficial). I don't know enough about D compilers to say whether or not they do this, but this discussion gives a strong "perhaps?":

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jk5jc0$25cd$1@digitalmars.com
That's actually what I was told after running a stop light - the fine was relatively small, but the point was that in order to pay it you lost a morning going to traffic court even if you made a million dollars a year. Surprisingly nice cop overall! (This was in Berkeley).
Not everyone has the privilege of being able to work remotely on his/her macbook from the comforts of home; some people need their cars for work. You try lugging several hundred pounds of cement, lawn-mowing equipment, a mattress, etc. through your local subway. And SF has BART, caltrain, and MUNI, and while they all smell like urine, they do pretty much get you exactly where you want to go.
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Is there anything like this list for Operating Systems?
In Firefox, you can work around that with the menu item View > Page Style > No Style.
Next time Keurig should hire a cryptographer. GPG signed QR-codes or something similar (vulnerable to replay attack, but harder to circumvent).
I wonder how many of them are driving beat up old cars that break down seemingly at random, and hit them with even bigger towing and mechanics' fees to get them fixed?

Just another reason why it actually kinda sucks that most of America is impossible to get around without a car.
Their SSL is bad. It gets an F from SSL Labs due to an exploitable version of OpenSSL -- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=consumeraffai... -- and Firefox refuses to connect to it at all due to weak ciphers:

An error occurred during a connection to www.consumeraffairs.com. SSL peer selected a cipher suite disallowed for the selected protocol version. (Error code: ssl_error_cipher_disallowed_for_version)
Ooh that actually looks really cool, Thanks a lot for the link! :)
I find it really annoying when people compare cryopreservation to religious belief in an afterlife.

It's sort of like saying "Dieting is an eating disorder"- Yes, they share some superficial similarities (and some people may have both) but in any substantive way they are totally different things.
Hah, just wait until you experience the INTERNET OF THINGS.
Yes, how dare for people who needs their vehicle for work or does not work the same schedule that's convenient for public transportation right?

And even if 10% of low incomers drive vs 50% of high incomers drive, that's still more low income drivers since there are a lot more people with low income.

So what about the large number of people who drive to the city but do not make six-figures? (you can argue for the low percentage as much as you want, but the absolute number is still significant) Fuck them right?
They try harder, and charge more for recovery. Don't be surprised if they total it in the process, and you still owe them.
It's my understanding that the spammers parse the form's HTML to determine which fields must be submitted and the URL to which they must be POSTed.

Remember, you don't need a perfect solution to this. When you and another person are being chased by a tiger, you don't need to outrun the tiger, just outrun the other guy.
This happened to me about a month after I moved to Phoenix.

I paid less than fifty bucks to get my car out of the impound. My insurance company cut me a check for $800 to fix the cosmetic damage, which I pocketed.

My story may not be typical.
> For example, Mega encrypts data client-side before it is archived online. Just like with regular non-free software, you have to trust what it is doing.

This is, sadly, not true at all. You have to trust

1) that the actual author of the site is playing fair

2) that you are not being mitm attacked by anyone in this list [1]. Note that 3 organisations on this list are known to have issued false certificates with the express purpose of stealing login credentials. They did this by sending through "amended" login javascript bundles.

> I agree that server-run non-free software is neither safe nor private, but I still believe that this is the flaw of particular programs, not web-based software in general. It only emphasizes what a need there is for further development of open standards in web apps.

No. Web apps can be replaced by malicious software every time you use it, and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. It is a fundamental design flaw of web based systems. And, of course, "cert pinning" simply means that a few organisations (google, facebook) get isolated from a few kinds of attacks.

The flaw is that control is placed entirely in the hands of the remote side. Needless to say, this is not secure.

I don't get where this idea of open standards being the solution to privacy problems comes from. Cookies are an open standard, the web is an open standard, TPMs are an open standard, the SSL certiciate chain principle is an open standard. Hell, microsoft palladium is an open standard. All are complete disasters for privacy and freedom.

> But the ability to use a cross-platform browser as a universal client and run software that is built on the advantages of networking is a huge bonus for software in general. Free software just needs to catch up in a few areas, but in general it is dominating the backbone of the web. Now we just need to push that freedom forward to the user.

I disagree. The web has brought back the "freedoms" of the mainframe era, only with a much bigger dependency on the mainframe system. Mainframes also in many cases ran free software. Can you claim with a straight face that a non-root account on a mainframe system is in any way free and private ?

If you don't decide what software runs on your machine, like on the web, you have ZERO security guarantees. Zero. Nothing, nada, zilch, ... no matter how secure anything built on top of that is. I don't get why this is even the slightest bit controversial.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...
SF is one of the worst cities for income inequality. Add to this that Towing companies are probably the worst scum suckers when it comes to unethical and downright illegal practices [1] and you have a deadly combination that preys on the weak and the poor.

I hear many anaecdotes of Cars being towed in SF for the flimsiest of reasons.

These incidents are often the beginning of the death spiral for people who are living on the edge...

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Beware-illegal-towing-...
Lets do the math. 150MB/visit @ 0.12/GB using Amazon CloudFront[1] costs $0.018/visit. This post was pretty popular here and I'm sure on other sites. It's probably safe to assume they got over 50,000 hits. For that much traffic it'll cost them roughly $900 in bandwidth.

However, I bet all the lost traffic due to people leaving the page was probably worse than having to pay $900.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
Absorption of some nutrients happens in the mouth and gums. Perhaps the poster is speculating that sugar (simple carbs?) molecules might be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream through the mouth and esophagus while caffeine has to be digested in the stomach?
These lists (of lists ..) are reinventing early Yahoo/DMOZ/webrings. If lists were available in a parseable format with accurate metadata (title, author, date, publisher), one could monitor github RSS and generate a local master list for analysis.

Related: https://github.com/inukshuk/jekyll-scholar
You had to learn how to print a new alphabet just so on a Palm Pilot. An iPhone gave you a virtual QWERTY keyboard. It was arguably slower to use for some people than the Palm shorthand, but any idiot could figure out how to use it. The rest is history.

Having an app store on the device probably helped as well, as you could easily add little features that mattered to you with much less hassle than a Palm Pilot.

I loved my Palm Pilots, but iOS (and Android) killed 'em dead.
Because not every developer makes a lot of money.
Student loans are a thing, unfortunately.
Toronto is maxed at $230 for a tow + 24 hour storage. Ottawa must be more http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/traffic/towing_practices_and_...
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Robots , Drones and AI. Sounds familiar!
> Because not every developer makes a lot of money.

The prototypical HNer is a good developer. Good developers make a lot of money unless they're making terrible work decisions.
Hmmm, who needs FedEx?

I'm now imagining a shipping container that get floated from China to $city stacked up top on a regular container ship, then without even unloading it from the ship, the roof slides back and the walls collapse, and a flock of disposable single-use drones launches out - delivering random manufactured crap directly to the purchaser bypassing the expensive first-world logistics chain...