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> I'd be curious to know though, and be honest, you've really ever only worked 40h weeks? You havnt logged in on a weekend or an evening, stayed longer on an Thursday, checked your mails when off work? Not ever? Ignoring on call time offcourse.

I work 40 hours per week on average. For the 20 years I have been in the industry.

I solved some problems in the shower, but I also slack away on my desk sometimes.
Sure.

And all you do is put up with having those "affordable" units for a couple years, then you wander in one day and tell the tenants you'll evict anyone who doesn't sign a piece of paper to convert their apartment to a condo with an 8000% monthly increase to keep living there.

The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very-Bad Socialist Soviet Liberal Big Government Regulations Nanny State Market-Hater's Utopian People's Republic of San Francisco basically only exists in comments like yours.

Or should I say: in theory you're right, but in practice you're not.
"Leftist" is just bad grammar, really.
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This seems like a wildly outdated article. I haven't heard anything off late on the bus situation and I believe the tide is turning when it comes to housing. There are still some clueless opposition like the Aron Peskin and the Palo Alto mayor, but a consensus is rapidly developing that more housing is needed. Also, other than SF, most cities in Peninsula and East Bay go out of the way to court tech. Look at Mt. View granting land to LinkedIn or Fremont creating Warm Springs corridor.
Why can't the small penis be part of the libel?
>> Funny enough, index funds outperform hedge funds, etc

I'm weary of reading this on Hacker News. Index funds do not beat hedge funds. That statement is devoid of nuance and accuracy, and contributes to a narrative that active managers do not have a skillset or function.

Most hedge funds do not maintain performance that beats the market, but many do. This is easily verifiable.
How big is smartphone penetration? Is the app based dispatch useful in japan or are they really everywhere? Are there normal taxi dispatch smartphone apps?
You know what, it's not going super well here in Sweden either. Can't say I'm sorry about that. There are some things I'd rather not "disrupt", one of these things is basic workers rights. I'd like to see Uber as masters of gamification. They've successfully gamified fast money, and screwing yourself (but perhaps mostly others) over in the long haul.
It's funny to consider that these errors slipped past the peer review stage. It really highlights the major issue with reviewing source code published as part of an analysis.

If there aren't enough resources / skilled eyes to catch these simple errors, what are the chances they would catch errors in source code too?
Well, mattermost is not entirely open source. Last I checked their LDAP feature was enterprise only and we went with Rocket.Chat which had all features open source.
I'll just quote Soustrup here: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." In particular you see the spreadsheet GUI as a downfall, but I think it is a great enabler that has allowed millions of non-programmers to create useful programs.
Slack's performance also depends a ton on how much your teams are using it, and how many teams you're on.

"reactjis" are one of the worst offenders -- I've had a channel open with some people messing around with them, and it'll be casually consuming 30% of cpu and 3 gigs of ram on my top-of-the-line macbook.

I would have long since deleted an IRC client that was such a poor performer, but unfortunately there's not any good/complete 3rd party slack clients.
A much higher level of responsiveness from applications and operating systems. This is hard to quantify but if you've used a system like QNX as your desktop machine the continuous irritation at small 'freezes' of your machine would evaporate, you could control hardware directly from user processes without dedicated CPUs to drive time-critical stuff and so on.

Hard real time seems like a luxury until you've worked with it in practice and then you wonder why it isn't a basic requirement of any half decent operating system.
We should simply lock everyone up, who could become a bike thief. If you have hands and legs, i personally find that very suspicious.

The problem is, that there is a strong retalitation instinct in humanity, to enforce group norms.That worked well in villages, but if allowed to be lived out produces ridiculous amounts of locked up people.

Whats even more disturbing is, how those locked up people are not allowed to be a productive part in society. They get hamster-wheelian-jobs in the prison industry, instead of continuing with there real jobs.

Everybody looses to the brain bug.
> Jupyter (formerly IPython) is "an overgrown REPL"

They say that like it's a bad thing.
Yes. There is no such thing as this supposed object, there are no little green men orbiting earth. The whole thing is just the stuff of paranoid delusions with no basis in fact.

May as well go read your horoscope now, just as factual.
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While a very interesting read, I'm curious how much is applicable anymore since the paper is relatively dated. I ask from ignorance not to dismiss the paper.

The reason I ask is because my current line of work heavily involves supporting and troubleshooting VMware and HyperV infrastructures and I frequently do receive cases where we have to consider why the VMs on VMware struggle or have issues with quiescence; I thought this would be a good article to learn a bit about the underpinnings, but for most of the problems they describe near the bottom of the article, the linked VMware KB articles are no longer available - have many of these issues been improved upon and are no longer as relevant?
.... and then we get into the whole realm of simple user errors - alarmingly easy to commit in an environment that positively encourages the production of a rats' nest of essentially unauditable calculations - then then feed into important financial decisions.
That's a rather recent redefinition of "racism". Recent enough that most general dictionaries do not reflect it.

And one does have to wonder about the purpose of that redefinition, given that the old definition was more consistent, while still allowing to express nuances in the usual way, by adding qualifiers (so you could distinguish between "racism" and "systemic racism", for example).

So the only thing that the redefinitions seem to achieve is reducing the number of people to whom the social stigma that is (rightly) associated with racist behavior applies - by saying that something is not really racism, you implicitly claim that the stigma is not really applicable in this case.
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Great! More deadlock on the 101.
The amount needed would be huge and we could see the effects. This "dark dust" would dim/absorb the light emitted by stars behind it and turn it into infrared light, that we could see.

Also, since it is regular ("baryonic") dusk, the slightest distortion would make it clump together, create stars, turn into visible matter.

The last reason is the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We can infer from it how much baryonic mass in the universe should be and the huge amount of dark dusk does not fit in this calculation by a factor of roughly four.
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It is much easier to develop drivers and system processes for a micro kernel because they run in isolation, you can hot re-load any one of them and if it is designed properly you can even upgrade the kernel on a running system without a reboot.
The existence of those jobs is a insult to the species.
Or "summertime". For half the planet that means precisely the opposite time of year.
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No this time it's serious and aims to improve our lives :D
But actually it's a good idea to add that in one of the sections. Thank you
Matt O'Dowd, an astrophysics professor, hosts a YouTube series called PBS Space Time that does a really effective job if explaining the evidence of dark matter in this episode: https://youtu.be/z3rgl-_a5C0
Conspiracy theories are a legitimate art form IMO.

Just like many religious places of worship are part horoscopes but also part art.

Learn to love the art. Unlike mass religions this at least is fun and shouldn't start a war!
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Apart the fact that you sound like an advertisement for another software it takes just a few seconds to see that noti doesn't work on windows or with telegram for example.
Not supporting a major OS is a big deal.
So is that the logic we use to impose the ideas of the majority of the rest of the world on Philippines? Is oppression by majority solved by more oppression by a bigger majority? What kind of logic is that?
Why not choose the 3 or 4 that happened to perform well and buy a full-page ad featuring them in Wall Street Journal, Money and Kiplinger's, the way every other fund company had done?
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Full markdown in messages is really useful, we make heavy use of it. Its integration with GitLab could use some polish though, images in tickets don't appear in channel notifications for example
I don't think that's true at all. In the UK at least I believe there is some expectation that a limited company will return profits to shareholders, but besides that the shareholders and directors can set the priorities of the company to be anything they want.

If you know of anything to the contrary I would be very interested to hear it!
I have read that the differential tax treatment of income and capital gains has given rise to various techniques for "transforming" ordinary income into capital gains via "pass-through" entities [1]. This transformation is apparently quite labor intensive while being wholly non-productive (save for the favorable tax treatment).

I don't understand what these pass-through entities do at all - can someone explain it?

Naively it seems like differential tax treatment creates distortionary incentives. Maybe I quit being the sole proprietor of my business in order to day trade, thereby escaping payroll and income taxes. This replaces productive work with non-productive speculation - a loss for the economy and a country. What's the argument against this?

[1] https://tcf.org/content/commentary/10-reasons-to-eliminate-t...
> However, when certain very specific circumstances apply, a bit of the tax code lets you legally pretend that instead of a success fee, the amount you get paid is a return on invested capital.

I'd love to see an explanation of why it makes any sense to continue treating capital gains income (i.e. "return on invested capital") any differently than ordinary income. If we fixed that, then the carried interest "loophole" would cease to be relevant because it wouldn't change the tax rates paid.

I don't see why the tax code should incentivize passive investment over actual work.
Well, this is Slate after all.
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The panorama situation is pretty stupid. But the rest of mozillas argument is pretty weak, and their approach of describing it and getting lay people to sign a petition is poor form in imho.
In fact a lot could be said of the millions of ways to shoot oneself in the foot with programming languages. Excel being visual (the formula is evaluated/tested immediatly after being entered), I'd argue a diligent user will make less mistakes with Excel than while coding.
>Most hedge funds do not maintain performance that beats the market, but many do. This is easily verifiable.

Yes, it's easily verifiable. It's also completely meaningless without a rational way to predict which ones will be outperforming in the future.
> 'Amazon is piloting 25% pay cuts'.

Great!

Let's be honest - most working professionals (especially in Software) earn more money than they need. I think it's much better to have more time - time with you family, time to be outdoors, time to be healthy - than it is to have more money
It's a joke.

It's a joke basically saying "First, there was B, and it looked like this. Then, there was C, and it looked like this. Finally, there was Go, a new evolution of our work".

The git dates were clearly faked and created entirely for the purpose of this joke.

If you wanna know how to edit dates, this blog does a slightly better job than the `git-commit` man page: https://alexpeattie.com/blog/working-with-dates-in-git#chang...
Which is still more expensive than SCHB.
In Japan, taxi services fall into broadly 2 categories,
- large to mid size fleets 2000+ and - private 'kojin' taxis

There is yet another category commonly referred to 'izakaya' taxi, these are also private taxis who work together as a network to compete with the big players.

Things to know
* all taxis are clean
* some are spotless ie washed every morning
* 75%+ are equipped with wireless radio
* 90% of cars in general in japan have gps, so it should not come as a huge suprise to see taxis who have 2 units.
* Most of the big fleets accept every credit card under the sun including certain cards from some processors not too popular elsewhere (JCB).
Some accept nfc 'type' payments from several different incompatible processors.
* In the good old days 90s - you could call a cab company and they would radio (motorola) a taxi to your location. Now the big companies have apps developed by 3rd party vendors which support points for free rides etc.

People in Tokyo prefer the subway because its quicker in most cases- So you are left with
* people use cabs to get from pt a to pt b by making an on the spur of the moment decision. i see a cab i jump in. Uber would have a problem unless the fleet was huge from the get go.

* other people who 'plan' and use a cab can easily call one of the established players. Addresses are fairly resonably defined in tokyo and gps kits are excellect after having being engineered for 10+ years. Uber would have a problem because their software is not adding any value to what incubments are offering

* then there is this segment of people who use taxis for everything- thats where the izakaya taxis come in. They provide a first class experience using luxury grade cars (think lexus++) that are able to handle the longer distance rides, they might offer you a beer, tea etc. This is a premium service, you call the cab and he has you registered if youve used hiw before so he knows you by name. If hes busy enroute with another customer, he will just route you to his buddy. They mostly have 2 smart phones to help with this and they do this while driving with off the shelf apps well configured.

All factored in Uber's traditional model is challenged. But Uber hopefully has deep pockets, they should start by buying a small fleet and focus on certain/towns.
Plenty of people work much harder than dentists, lawyers etc and get paid an order of magnitude less. Supply and demand sets prices, not worthiness or fairness.

Personally, I feel like I sold my teenage years as a price for my edge in tech. I'm not always sure it was worth it.
New York City's financial industry went through a devestating crash in 1929. Fifteen years later, would you have believed it better for the city to not become the world capital of finance?
Warren Buffet is a spectacular value investor, but those funds are not representative of the best performers in the industry. A brief Google search demonstrates that a variety of hedge funds have consistently beaten the S&P 500 for well over a decade; in some cases, for 25-30 years.

I do agree with you that almost no professional can beat the S&P 500, but I think that is due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to the outright difficulty. For example, if you beat the market consistently you still might not become rich. With $100k in starting capital, "merely" beating the S&P 500 by a few percentage points each year (let's say 10% average annual return instead of 7%) will not make you rich in the conventional sense of the word. This prevents many people with the aptitude from investing in the skill development because they could earn a greater living doing other things.

A trader whose insight is primarily responsible for driving that same return on $2B in assets is already very rich or will very quickly become so. Beating the market with that kind of capital requires an entire infrastructure devoted to trading and execution just to make the trades with minimal market movement and signalling, let alone maintaining alpha on it. Not all people capable of beating the market can do so in a manner that is actually worth their own time, because the scale can be astronomically different.
I thought they were going to compare it to matrix/vector.im.
"I had to use a taxi in St Louis, MO last summer. In order to do this I had to call the taxi company. No app, no website, nothing. It took 45 minutes to show up, period. The driver couldn't find me when he got near."

This is almost all true and ride-sharing has totally changed the game in St. Louis. One nitpick: the area's biggest cab company has had an app for a few years [0]. It's not a perfect app, but I used it a lot before Uber started operating.

[0] STLtaxi by Laclede Cab
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I wonder if that also applies to DNA tests used in criminal investigations...
Is everybody a washington post subscriber? Or have I missed the route around the paywall somehow?
Related discussion: Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8276565
I don't know anything about Californian law except what I read in comment threads on the interweb. But I have heard that Prop 13 capped the absolute amount paid.

So a new home or a new resident in an old one could pay a tax proportional to the high land value when the transaction happened. Wouldn't that create an incentive to encourage such transactions?
Watching people play golf is something that ton's of people don't understand. Nor chasing a black thing around on ice with sticks given the ratings. Yet you realize tons of people do watch these things.
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If I think the speed limit on my street should be 25 instead of 45, I won't do a thing to solve that by driving 25 on my own.
Sorry, yes Dunning-Kruger. If you think it is easy then you possibly don't know enough about the problem to be scared of it.
You make some excellent points and I completely agree with the thrust of your argument that people should not be so quick to judge.

However, from my empirical observation of many executives, there are two broad groups.

The ones you described, those that are worth their salt and have carved out their position through helping the business.

Then there is a large group of executives who exist mainly because similar companies have similar structures and they have expectations of roles for say CFO , COO. Then there are roles required by the industry or market: Head of Compliance, Head of Risk, Head of Auditing.

Those executives have not earned their place, they are appointments by pattern matching corporate structures
Mattermost is open-source alternative for slack, matrix is infrastructure for IoT using websockets.
Mattermost is bundled with GitLab. We use both at our company and it works great.
Maybe push back? You aren't a slave and by allowing yourself to be forced to work for free you devalue your work and ours as well.
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I would counter with "use the right tool for the job."

Excel is great at churning out fast and dirty estimates for low impact work. The problem is when it's used for large, complex, or important problems because these are just not Excel's domain--something obvious when looking at the kinds of features and bug fixes MS has prioritized over the years.
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My oldest photo in Google Photos is from 1994.

My oldest email in Gmail is from 1996.

My oldest file in Google Drive is from 1998.

All of which pre-date their current storage (and some of which pre-date the company that created the current storage).

None of which is as important as anything in a VCS in terms of wanting to keep history intact.

BTW: If any Google engineer is present: Gmail search over mail older than a decade is terrible. Just terrible.
According to this logic, our developer has actually earned his wages in perpetuity from this single year of work (or at least so long as that 15% value added lasts). But that's clearly not how it works either.

The issue in this example is ownership. Executives add value and they are granted large ownership stakes in the business. Workers are not. You use the example of the executive who figures out how to grow the business to prove that he is entitled to appropriate some of the other employees' added value -- since otherwise that value wouldn't exist in the first place. But our developer can't take his yearly salary out of the 15% increased revenue he enabled back in 2012, on top of compensation for whatever value he creates this year.

In any event, the example is very contrived. $10M in sales is as arbitrary as 20% profit margins. Margins could be any amount less or a great deal more. Revenues could be sky high or non-existent. You might expect to find a developer making $100k regardless.
Would this be an argument for not basing too much of revenue on taxing the sector, since that revenue could dispear in a trice?
I don't understand where this notion that 90%+ of taxis in Japan have GPS comes from. I can only think it's from people how hang out in central Tokyo.

Even at the main Shinkansen station in Osaka, there's a 50% probability that a taxi driver wont have (or wont know how to use) a GPS. I've regularly had taxi drivers dig out dogeared maps to try and figure out where I want to go.

If you give an taxi driver and address, they often take you to the general location and then need help from there.
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I think ppl are equating energy with force. Airspeed, altitude, and fuel are forms of energy, kinetic, potential, and chemical, respectively. Lift, drag, thrust, and weight are forces. We're talking about a heavier than air aircraft in cruise right now, and the contention is over whether all the energy added to the aircraft if used to counter drag.

Simple example: consider a helicopter in cruise. Fuel is burned to produce thrust. There is an insignificant component of that thrust vector pointed orthogonal to the vector of velocity. Since drag by definition acts along the same vector as velocity, not all the energy is being used to counteract drag.

Back to an aeroplane in straight and level, since that's a more interesting example. Let's assume that the direction of travel of the aircraft is normal to the plane of the propeller, so thrust is acting on the same plane as drag, in this idealized situation. Energy is added to the system in the form of thrust created by the prop. Said thrust is used to maintain the amount of kinetic energy of the aircraft. At the same time, this kinetic energy is being transformed into both lift and drag by the wings (and elevators, depending on how far aft the cog is) ergo not all the energy added to the system is used to counteract drag.
Worth mentioning that in Singapore taxi's have special stops where people queue up just to get into one (much like a bus stop).

I wonder how Uber drivers get away stoping everywhere they feel like. It is somewhat of a traffic disruption.
Indeed, perhaps a more apt analogy from acting would be the many famous actors who trained under Lee Strasberg (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn and others).

Strasberg in turn was a student of the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski[1].

And so it goes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting