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I don't mean any disrespect to the author or his team but this sounds much like Stockholm syndrome (1). I see symptoms even in many "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" posts. Yes, we work long hours but we play games at lunch. We have snacks and drinks!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Yep. The reason that's the next predictable response is because Uber is holding off for self-driving cars, so it can become the logistics network for delivery.

That doesn't mean that they will, of course. I have a feeling that these platform-locked services like Uber and Lyft will not be able to compete with the scalability of an open auction network.
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Isn't "text understanding engine" a poor description of what is basically a classifier?

I'd expect a text understanding engine to do more than classify, I'd expect it to read a bunch of sentences in context and then be able to answer questions about it:

John was walking down the stairs. John tripped and fell. John lays on the floor.

Describe John's status: Is he hurt or in pain? Is he standing?
> For one thing, nobody wants a representative of the Saudi government to sit on their board

I think there is a faulty assumption here; I don't see much evidence that the Saudi government is treated as some kind of pariah investor that everybody wants to avoid being represented on their board, such that they have to offer substantially more favorable terms or be the only player around before people accept their money.
This. Most people with liberal arts degrees don't have pre-existing knowledge of/interest in all things tech/programming. The people on here who say they have graduate degrees in history, etc aren't even remotely the average LA degree holder. Without a lot of extra studying/bootcamps/programming since you were 12/post bacc certs/second BS degrees in computer science, a plain old average liberal arts degree I'd wager is much, much less valuable than a BS in CS.
yes I'd say so. problem is sometimes they may not know when they are arguing about something they are knowledgable about versus things they aren't. once again I'm talking from anecdotal experience and there are always exceptions.

honestly the biggest problems I've seen from my peers(college aged and new grads) are superiority complexes and not realizing when they are out of the bounds of their knowledge base.
One would hope that their cosmopolitan and well-educated audience would tire of repeated regional stereotypes. I have apparently overestimated the aim of their editors.

That's why I subscribe to NY Review -- which can be parochial, but is more adventurous.
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Uber is a fad...and will soon be be moved to the back seat...unless it's too late. One poster might be on to something "...they are trying to get enough money to sustain the subsidies until they kill all existing competition"...62bn for a ride-hailing company?
Texas man pays traffic fine with two buckets full of pennies
Au least on mobile, often I will accidentally hit an ad, and immediately back out as soon as possible
You just start charging for curbside parking, and remove mandatory minimum parking requirements for buildings.

People are still free to build parking places (and even charge for them).

The hope is that by ending the parking subsidy for car owners, they choices will be informed by something closer to their full economic impact.

(The cost can even be borne by the same people---ie currently a car owner might as well be paying for his own parking on average with other taxes / higher rent / etc. The economics still work out to better incentives, if we allocate the whole cost to the decision that causes it.)
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What do unsolvable math problems and Mount Everest have in common?
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What company do you currently work at and what is your role?
Good list. Pasadena, Silver Lake, Echo Park. I'm sure it works in Venice and SM too, although I don't have personal experience with it. K-town or mid-Wilshire might be OK too.

I had no car for about 2 years in Pasadena.
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Funny...lol. I flew past this post and then suddenly started laughing.
I didn't mean to imply they had a Windows-like monopoly. I do think there are some real network efforts around driver and rider density (especially if pool takes off). I think they settle somewhere in the middle between monopoly and commodity, and the fact that the transportation market is so huge helps them carve out a nice valuation so long as they have only a handful of competitors. I spend around $100/week on Uber and I haven't switched to Lyft even though I heard it would be a bit cheaper. On the other hand if Tesla offered me 50% cheaper fares to ride in their autonomous vehicle fleet, even if it was just available in my city, I would do it in a heartbeat.
When you do valuations you must take risk into account, and with the benefit of hindsight it is far too easy to imagine that 3 years ago the future as it played out was more inevitable than it actually appeared at the time.

Hindsight bias is usually unconscious, so its unsurprising that it is not cited in the ruling.

Your last sentence suggests that every acquisition is a swindling of shareholders, but again, you are not taking risk into account, and perhaps the judge did not either. Most professional investors do not adequately adjust for risk, so why would I expect a judge to?
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Those people are profiting from the misfortune of others. They aren't providing any useful good or service. They simply held on what should have been a depreciating asset, reaped the benefits of negative externalities, and now they expect the government to protect their ill-gotten gains. Fuck that. The entire point of regulation is to prevent these sorts of market failures.

The best part is many of these people aren't even landlords. So many homeowners are obsessed with the values of their homes staying high, even though it benefits them in no way whatsoever. Well, unless you count "paying more property tax" and "making the neighborhood affordable to everyone but wealthy white families" as benefits. These people are working against their own self-interest because some banker convinced them that real estate was a good investment.
See, you're doing it, too. My sofa isn't on fire, metaphorically.

Science != science journalism. In terms of how narrative works, scary stories sell better, so there's a bias in the story-telling. It just makes filtering through all the rubbish that more difficult.

If I have to bet, I bet on AGW but that's like one bit of information. All the other bits are harder to get to.

I literally am dependent on the kindness of other people who can do the math for a reading of it. And that ignores the side effects of overreaction.
That's easy. Because don't have to worry about finding customers, fighting off competition, and competing with their customers (like Uber). They just have to worry about building cars.
Lol...you guys on a roll!
That giving the money to poor people was a suggestion relative to `give it to construction companies as a subsidy'---which is really, really stupid.

Depending on your political leanings, you might be happier with just lower taxes.

(And yes, the welfare-trap is probably real. Make sure to watch out for effective marginal tax rates of poor people especially.)
I'm glad to hear that you've appreciated that tutorial! It's especially neat to hear about it being useful to people who aren't just cramming for a class.
I know this isn't new, but if companies have the abilities to raise money from international entities like this, at these kind of sums. All the while, people are locked to their country of citizenship for working rights... is globalization in its Capitalistic form not claiming as prisoners its own citizens?
> So I try to embrace the bubble when it is useful for me. I appreciate that when I type "something something python" into google the top results are relavant to my work and not about snakes or comedians. But when I'm want to form a politcal opinion I use duckduckgo and activly look for contrary positions.

I have a hard time feeling like it's helping me when I get filter bubbled; I feel like I'm more productive and on point when I know where I am in relation to the rest of the world for whatever reason. The feeling when you learn what to search to get the desired specialized results instead of other general usages by adding keywords or going to sites that are more specialized themselves (e.g. stackoverflow where you can search [r] to search posts tagged with "r" in particular) is wonderful. You opt in to a bubble of a particular sort versus not knowing what else there is out there. I tend to feel a bit... disgusted with Google deciding what's good for me during a given search.
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Yup. When I lived in Venice I went to great efforts not to cross the 405 for errands unless absolutely necessary (and even then, tried to batch trips if possible). If Expo II had been around I might've taken that across the 405 instead of driving.

By the same token, if you move to the Westside from pretty much anywhere else in LA, you'll get tons of shit from your friends who now have to go over the river and through the woods to see you.
A high quality liberal arts education is years of full-time deliberate practice, under constant feedback and guidance from experts. It's also exposure to the enormous volumes of arguments and ideas that have already been explored.

Someone who has been working for years under the engineering culture and code review regime on an elite Google distributed systems team is probably going to write better code (at least in that domain) then someone who did a couple of side projects after reading the Rails tutorial.
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I need a large high resolution screen (4K 30" or better), a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. I need responsiveness to my inputs, so I need a local GPU and some local processing (pretty much where the web browser is headed), but most storage and computation could happen on the cloud and I wouldn't notice if the apps were written properly.

My hope setup is already this for the most part: laptop + 4K monitor + wireless keyboard + wireless mouse. And I write applications and do CAD and 3D computer graphics. If I can live this way now, it means that most everyone else can too. Just need to continue to shrink that laptop down until it is just the size of a smart phone.
You can split an Uber 4 ways but you can't split a bus fare. So if you go out with a few friends it becomes much more reasonable for short trips. If Uber gets more expensive, some people will go back to public transit.
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> That is a problem, because the moment that people have to pay the actual costs of an Uber ride, they may go back to taxis or driving their own cars.

It depends what you mean by "actual costs," but I would suspect that Uber's will still be lower than cabs' under any reasonable definition.
>ride sharing is the least interesting thing about Uber

That's the only interesting thing about Uber. Sure they have delusions of grandeur and they certainly have no qualms about putting out glossy marketing material extolling how they will change humanity, but today they are a taxi company.
I agree but I think it's more along the lines of ''we will tax you'' than ''we will shut you down''. Once the Gov starts to make money from you then you've turned them into a business partner with a vested interest in keeping you alive (see Airbnb).
I wouldn't say they're fictions anymore than I would say gravity is fiction. They're models, so by definition they don't fully encompass that which they're meant to represent. I think IQ has some usefulness, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Job_perf... Race, well maybe, the political climate is usually too hot to entertain a rational discussion of that.
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You live in a different LA than I do, it seems. LA residents drive all over the frigging place all the time. It's not like the 405 is evidence of judicious use of private transportation.

Sure, you can choose one neighborhood - except your friends chose another one, your employer a third, culture happens elsewhere, and your doctor is always at the other side of the moon. You can make a no-car household work, but you're much more restrained in what you can do, compared to a city with even semi-decent public transport, like Chicago.

Yes, you can take public transport. Pre-expo-line, the 8 miles from my home to work were a 120-150 minute ride. One way. Now, with the expo line, I can do 8 miles in an hour. Whee.

LA residents unfortunately need a car for many instances, because that's the only way to get anywhere without spending a day.
Good point! I've added some sample images to the demo to make it easier to play with. Thanks for the feedback.
They hired away almost half of CMUs robotics department. That's gotta be expensive. They are building (in the city no less) an autonomous driving test track/facility. That's also gotta be expensive. Human drivers are just a brief stepping-stone.
>they choices will be informed by something closer to their full economic impact.

There's no need for weasel words. We want fewer cars and less driving, so we use policy to make it less pleasant to own and drive a car.

Okay, fine. But what are you replacing it with? Because making driving hurt more is a net loss to subjective well-being unless you're prepared to replace it with something better (i.e. a few billion dollars of rail).
Cap'n Magneto was my favorite game growing up, along with Dark Castle. I also spent a ton of time writing World Builder games and Hypercard stacks later. I doubt I would be a programmer today, if BASIC and world builder hadn't been so easy to use. Later, I tried to write a tile based RPG in Pascal but I didn't have the attention span or help I needed to complete it. (Not to mention not having a copy of Inside Macintosh)

I'm glad the ease of use of the early macintosh has made it into every device now. Hopefully the ability to tinker, mod games, and program easily doesn't go away as systems become more sanitized and locked down. The original web browser had an editor built right in.
> I seriously doubt the services you've managed have even served a fraction of the data and customers SalesForce has.

So what?

If your business is built around a system and that system goes down, would you rather that system serve billions of customers and go down for 20 hours, or serve only you and go down for 20 minutes?
It would not change the tax-inclusive cost of housing. Land taxes can not be passed on.

You are right, that the tax-inclusive cost of housing won't change with a land tax on its own, at least not as a first order effect.

If however, you eg use the land tax proceeds to lower taxes on labour and capital, building higher (ie using more capital for housing) will become more economically feasible. (No economic revenue will be lost. Lower taxes in a jurisdiction directly lead to higher land prices---which the land tax will capture.)

There's also some other second order effects, like less NIMBYism. (https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF) This will make development easier.
Why is it in the sync path? That seems unnecessary, as well as bad for both performance and correctness (another thing in any path means another potential for partial failure).
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Falling asleep like that is likely a symptom of severe sleep deprivation, not a personal characteristic.
Also, stop taxing capital, while you are at it.
Under point 1, a belief that some ethnic groups are less intelligent than cattle, but believing that it is not a negative trait, would not be racist? I'd classify that as a racist belief, wouldn't you?
I think GP was maybe more curious about how you would evaluate their agnostic church than about how you would evaluate their beliefs.
Linux can't be blamed for the decision to place Sun's technologies under the CDDL.
Hacker news seems to have a subset of people who believe CS degrees are not just useless, but perhaps actively harmful.

At least that's how it seems whenever this comes up.
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I agree, perhaps they are following Google's cloud vision-ML like product line
AG doesn't actually use minimax, it uses montecarlo tree search, which doesn't even try to simulate a good opponent, it just plays lots of games very fast.