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Ask HN: What happens when cost of local delivery goes to $0?
With Autonomous driving around the corner I think the cost of getting items(food, hair dryer, etc) delivered will approach $0.

How will this affect industry?
There can't be a long history of documentation for something which is proven.

Um, what?
> I have no problem with that. I have a problem with them choosing what I can share with my friends, and more generally what people can share with each other. "

They don't choose that, they choose what you can share via their platform. You can share whatever you want with friends, etc., using your own resources instead of theirs, and Facebook has no say.

Facebook limiting the use of Facebook's resources to things Facebook is comfortable with may not make them your ideal service, but why should they be obligated to be that?
Github is better. It just is. You don't have to worry about backups, it has great tools built on top of the vcs to make working with it and project management easier. It makes it easier to manage the D part of DVCS, and it lets you easily put your tools into the community.

I suspect they see it as a charity case, if true.
> though it could be turned back on at any time

That's true right now, but the new GPS-III satellites do not have that feature anymore, so in the future it will not be possible to turn SA on again. The link you posted explicitly mentions that.
Draw that graph back further before 2006 and you'll see that labor participation was lower from 1948-1984, almost 40 years. It appears to have peaked between 1990 and 2008, but even today it's not quite as low as it was during a time of pretty solid prosperity (50s and 60s).

Even today's rate is only 3% or so lower than the 2006 rate, so if you add it to the unemployment rate it's still not very bad.

Just another perspective on this as it seems to be something that comes up over and over in these discussions.
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I see. Sorry, you don't get a pass here.

Getting to truth is important. However, the way you want to go about it makes it very expensive for your audience.

You want to say things that are true in a socially unacceptable way, and then leave it to us to do the work of questioning you extensively to figure out whether you are someone who is well versed in statistics and meant "deadbeat" "blacks", or if you are a Stormfront-style white supremacist and meant "deadbeat blacks".

This thread is an example of that. If you want to be an effective persuader, you have to talk at your audience's level. If you want a giant thread on HN where your audience walks away believing exactly what they believed before they encountered you, keep doing what you are doing.
Whether the conversation itself would qualify as a bikeshed could be the matter at hand.
The OSX client is quite awful. But, under Preferences > General, there is a "Show conversations in separate windows" option.
On the flip side, it could also convince executives that they need to cover up security breaches as much as possible.
True, but this OP's scenario is very similar to what happened during the ND oil boom in 2010. Guys with certain skills (heavy equipment operation, truck driving, ect) could make two or even three times what where in their current jobs.

What was the result? A flood of workers coming in how left their families, homes, and everything to live in trailers (or even the truck cabs) for the opportunity.

If the this had happened near a real city like Sioux Falls SD with available housing and had been long term (like the OP's scenario), people absolutely would have moved their families and put down roots.
Any more ignorance/racism you'd care to share with us today?
> Your belief is that Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous.

Wouldn't want to be guilty of the same sin, right?
Harder to vectorize 64-bit arithmetic?
I have some experience with therapy under medication for exactly the same reasons you describe, and it was the right choice for me at the time, so I agree, sometimes they buy you time and space to do the work.
I also have fixed solder joints/BGA's via last ditch attempts such as the towel technique for xbox 360, and a few variations for certain Nvidia chipsets in certain cough cough apple crap. So I did choose the example for a reason, however, I eventually bought a soldering oven and a desoldering hot air gun lol.
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You're missing the point. The thesis of the article is that "There are Plenty of Jobs Out There" and people are happily working at them.

The article isn't claiming people are lazy and don't want to work. It's claiming that plenty of jobs exist and people are already working at them. It's also claiming that if you really are having a hard time finding one, there are plenty of people willing to hire you at a wage possibly lower than you might desire.

I.e., no shortage of jobs.
Their UI/UX is still nowhere comparable to GitHub's. GitHub is so much simpler to use that GitLab and everyone I talk to seems to have the same opinion. GitLab is still lagging far behind when it comes to user experience, it's just not easy to find stuff.
What missteps?

Supposedly competitors may be cheaper or offer more in the free tier, and I could imagine you'd call Git itself a 'misstep', but otherwise I can only think of incredible cultural and technical achievements by GitHub?
That was a typo. It should be:

> There can't be a long history of documentation for something which is unproven.
They've done enough irritating and questionable things that I've stopped paying them for my hosting and moved to other options for my paid, private repos.
Except as pointed out in the article, the massive increase in spending was fairly frivolous. They spent crazy money on a new huge office, threw big parties, and sent their employees traveling everywhere. They also doubled their headcount, when I think we can all agree that they haven't had a surge in volume or features that merits that many new employees.

There's no reason that GitHub couldn't be run profitably if they weren't just out there burning VC money as quickly as possible.
Agreed. Gitlab's interface is better. Especially the issue board. Throw in their fully-integrated CI platform and container registry basically makes Gitlab a winner.
The drop seems excessive to me, even taking into account BABA's daily performance. Bought some shares but didn't bother hedging against BABA so it's essentially an investment in BABA and baby arb, would definitely look into more serious hedging if I were managing more capital.
This...If I wanted my company to pay move to G Apps from O365, my data scientists and accountants would be in an uproar over why we're paying for a worse data analytics tool (G Sheets vs. Excel).

At this point, it's a marginal cost vs. benefit game: the cost differences between the two services are virtually 0 (and if not, getting closer each month), and the benefits show that we have more to _lose_ than gain from the switch.
> As opposed to the hiring of people based on their demonstrated ability to contribute to your team.

That is a super optimistic view of software engineering hiring. Hiring is a disaster and a crapshoot, and everyone knows it; don't pretend that processes with certain demographic qualities (any demographic qualities, honestly) are somehow rigorous. You hire based on a brief interview and some algorithmic trivia people forgot from college, or you give up on that and decide that hiring based on where someone went to school or who referred them to you is higher-quality.
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Much as I love science, I hate that it's drained so much of imagination out of daily life. 'Magic isn't real, you're just going to be working off generational debt for most of your life unless you get lucky, and many of the super-cool animals that we do have are going extinct' is a pretty shitty realization to have to come to in youth or early adulthood. Technology sort of fills the gap but can also lead into a trap of consumerism. I thought the internet was going to lead to some sort of transcendent human awakening and so on but underestimated the degree to which many people would just use it to find new ways be mean to others.
Instructions to view the demos of material-components-web: https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

Took me a while to find. It would be nice if this worked: https://rawgit.com/material-components/material-components-w...
Couldn't you just require people to recuse themselves from hiring decisions involving relatives?

Particularly for early career people, I suspect most of these "quantitative" measurements are basically reflecting where and wtih whom you worked.
I think you are intentionally simplifying my statements, and the intents of educators, in an intentionally disingenuous way. If you are not being malicious, then I apologize, but the only way I can interpret you seems to indicate you have an axe to grind.

Let me provide an example of a language complexity that hinders education, presuming education cares about things common to many languages like function, types, control flow, classes and objects.

In C++ there is a strong separation of declaration and definition, this is required for silly, technical and mostly historical reasons. Teaching all of the concepts needed to make sense of why the compiler cannot elide definitions included twice is not useful when trying to teach about anything other than C++.

Another example, in Java there is much boilerplate and an implicit package scope when scope specifiers are omitted. Most languages need little boilerplate and in order to understand why the implicit package level specification is bad (or good if you disagree with me), one must understand the concept of public and private already.

For each language I know I can highlight such things. There is plenty of room for simplified teaching languages then extra courses to cover language specific things.

None of this should be taken as a general defense of how programming is taught. I just mean that whatever problems there are, seem not to stem directly from the use of education oriented languages. I even think that classes focusing on specific languages should more closely resemble the real world, but not all people are ready for such detail.
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Depends. It has its own pros and there are definite cons. I don't know how much time me and my friends spend picking a restaurant/cuisine. Everyone wants something different. It is hard to pick a place when you have more than a certain number of folks. I can totally see people who are going there for socializing, rather than just for eating, having fun at this place. Also, keep in mind that this would be a full size bar as well.
One thing the article doesn't talk about is how sustainable the Apple Watch's dominance is going to be. The iPod gained dominance via its superior UI (namely, the clickwheel), but what allowed it to sustain that dominance was the fact that iTunes' music selection and integration with the iPod was unparalleled. Does Apple have a similar advantage with iOS/watchOS and the Apple Watch?
I know nothing about investing but I feel somewhat skeptical about these arguments. How many startups actually failed because they were using a poor package manager or source control host?
I love GitHub (product + company), however over the past few years there's been a lot of very public internal issues.

That being said, the product itself is stellar.
No fucking shit! Google makes a product, and then goes to fucking sleep like a little fucking bitch.
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Yeah maybe, even the pope said fake news isn't real.
"Ignore" is easier said than done. Students make mistakes. They type the wrong character. They put something in thew wrong place. If you don't enforce your sub-language, you are effectively throwing them into the open, and they suffer. We've seen numerous examples of this, which is why DrRacket offers teaching languages that are subsets of the full language, with customized errors that match the student's vocabulary and level of understanding, etc.
It takes a long time to train up a new employee to effectiveness in a company like Google or Facebook, even if the hiring pool is limitless (which I dispute).

Employees acting in concert at those companies are a powerful point of leverage.
Electric car startup that taunted Elon Musk is going down in flames
This is an example of how VCs distort the market for other businesses.

I had a recent conversation with a prospect and they took issue with the price of our software. Our app is in a specialized industry (ie. a smaller market). We charge a per use fee of $35. This fee enables our customer to immediately earn nearly $200 (a 5x return with no risk to them). Despite the significant benefit and profitability of using the app the prospect took issue with our price and referred to the cost of other apps.

It was that conversation that made me realize how we've become accustomed to the quality and price of software that's been heavily subsidized by massive VC investments.
If a shortage genuinely existed, you would see substantial wage growth.

We don't have such wage growth.

Actually we'd have growth in compensation (wages + benefits). And we do, in fact, have that growth: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB
I think the cost of getting items (food, hair dryer, etc) delivered will approach $0.

Will it, now? You might want to think more about the fundamentals behind than prediction.
I figured MSFT was going to buy them and have it integrate nicely with Azure. They could do hosted enterprise github's natively on azure and would outclass code commit on AWS. Instead they bought linkedin which doesn't make sense to me.
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Sounds a little unlikely tbh. A VC fund exists to invest in a small portfolio of ventures to maximise returns over a fixed period to the Limited Partners who have invested in that particular fund. The Limited Partners aren't donating their money to help the wider ecosystem, and if they suspect the VC firm is investing in businesses without massive profit potential because they might assist the growth of startups in their other VC funds, it's lawyer time.
I moved from the UK, with my wife and two young kids, to the Bay Area in 2012. I'm an experienced dev; mostly hands-on architecture/development, but also leading teams.

Spending time there and experiencing the people and general fast approach to development has definitely help me and my career. It is, mostly, different to the more conservative approach typical used elsewhere. So experiencing the two and being able to use both, when appropriate, is helpful.

After two years we moved back to the UK.

Living and working there was amazing. But, overall it felt like it came at a too huge a cost (financially, work commitment, and commuting).

PS: I do miss being there though. :)
Is there a way of hinting this to the compiler, rather than adding a explicit padding? Any way of saying "please don't put the following on the same cache line"?
Yes, it's not meant to be production ready. Still, the padding you added is particular to Intel/AMD CPUs and this article is more about constrained memory/embedded.

On Intel you would not care about the missing slot when you have 256GB memory available.

I've added the atomic<> in the github and updated the article as well.

However with atomic<> it adds an mfence instruction which is not really necessary and might add a ton of latency.
In my house, we make good use of delivery for one major reason: sports.

Sometimes theres no dinner ready and in the hecticness of life, we forget to cook the night before so we get into an unfortunate situation of either going hungry until the game ends or cooking and miss the game.

Delivery solves this issue. Take out is definitely faster, but that usually means missing part of whatever game is on. My case obviously isn't universal but given the popularity of sports and how primetime games are only an hour or so after you get home from work, Id think there's a non negligible amount of people with similar situations.
We're discussing an infix language that does exactly that. In Pyret, binary operators must be surrounded by spaces. Therefore, `a-b` is not ambiguous.
Apparently, the term goes back 50 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule
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While my first order was close to a year ago, what I have to say about this and all the other food delivery services (Postmates, UberEats, Grubhub) is that I typically have a hard time meeting delivery minimums or straight up find the delivery fee too expensive to justify an order.

So far, I've only ever used Amazon when I have a coupon. It would be cool if I could accumulate Amazon restaurant credit as an option when I choose No Rush Shipping or have some form of loyalty/rewards system. Else, I'm just going to choose whatever is cheapest, even if slightly less convenient. And that's just me. Other users' loyalty could be even more elusive I'm sure.
I don't begrudge anyone all the opulence they can afford.

But when they can't afford it, my eyes start rolling pretty hard.
I'm seeing only 156KB for the entire page+assets. The logo is SVG and the CSS is minified. Where are you seeing the additional data?
I also belong to the skeptic crowd as far as fancy CS teaching languages are concerned. I think there's much greater value in a first language that's three things: dead simple, useful, and which lets you poke through the abstractions.

A lot of us hackers here today cut our teeth on BASIC, even me as a 90's kid. I remember the joy at having automated away rote chemistry or physics homework, and in hindsight realise that writing a working BASIC program made me learn stuff better and deeper and quicker than the homework I avoided.

I have a four-year-old now, and the other day she asked if I could count to a thousand million. I answered "Nope, but I'll show you Mr. Fortran, he can." Give kids a DO loop, some arrays and WRITE statements and they will conquer the world. For learning, it's hard to beat the simplicity of

program count
do i=1,1000000000
if i % 1000000 == 0 then
write(*,*) i," Million"
end if
end do
end program

And I'm sorry to report, your examples don't convince me further of Pyret. (I'm a Python fan, BTW.) The docs you link for the "dead simple animation framework" assumes I understand templates; that's hardly dead simple. And while cloud integration is all cool for spreadsheets, if you did the same with Pandas in Python it would take no more lines of code, be no more complicated, but would start you on a tool that tons of people use for Real Work every day in a wide range of industries and sciences. Not just limited to interacting with half-baked Google Sheets data, you could read anything from HDF5 produced at CERN to SQL data from NASDAQ.
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They charge fees from the restaurants.
Cool, but soon enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU
How does lowering the labor supply solve the problem of the labor supply being too low?

Next up: solve hunger by setting food on fire.
There's an article about the writers hearing anecdotes they had to tone down for TV because it was too unbelievable or ridiculous. One that stands out was an angry exec storming out of a meeting on rollerblades, not being able to angrily slam the door without falling.

edit: whoops, businessinsider is shit. Here's the original article: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-va...
You could use the alignas(64) specifier

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignas
Exactly, raise it to $20/hour to start and he'll have no trouble. Also, there is probably only 1 job in that company that can pay $70K (~$35/hour) + bonus. They'd be better off at $12/hour to work at a restaurant since they can eat free food to offset food costs. My guess is that for most areas the highly skilled glass installer has to cap out at more like $25/hour and that is someone who is also filling the role of training new hires, etc. Even so, there are one of these for every 4 "grunts" at $12/hour at the same company.
The US census has robust protections against storing or disseminating personally identifying information. They do it right.

Facebook has hundreds of employees mortified by what their management is walking into (the Trump tower, among other things). They have a lot of influence if they choose to use it.
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IMO if you're going to tell someone they're attacking a strawman, you should point out specifically what they've got wrong about their opponent's argument. Otherwise any random person in the world can simply say, "Strawman, read more plz".
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Sometimes the only way, for people to take your ideas serious, is to get them to want to take them apart. 500 pages of proof, but to silence this grating, always arrogant, ####### at the next conference, so worth it.

Surely not the Noble kind of sciences, but if animosity leads too thoroughly read papers and found errors, maybe the dark side is just willing to work harder.
Isn't the migration easier because it's just a git repo? I'm curious how GitHub's software platform specifically facilitates easy migration.
You are right, even nothrow doesn't fix the weirdness with signatures. However, nothrow allows a program to change behavior based on whether a function it will call will throw exceptions. That wasn't available under the old exception specification mechanism.
And you're exactly right, but these days, that now works two ways. What I mean by this: Previously, economic theory theorized that people would move to where the jobs are. These days, it looks like more and more millennial (and read more educated, more sociopolitical advantaged specifically) want to move to a place they would like to live, and then find a job there.

Cities are becoming larger, small towns are disappearing. Agglomeration is playing an ever larger role in where people live and work. People are tending to cities which have more opportunities, entertainment, etc.

So my point is this, why would you want to live in North Charleston? Of course as I alluded too in my brief definition of advantaged millennial, not everyone has the choice/ability to move to wherever they want. But given that choice, why not move to another larger city where you have more options for better jobs with better pay?

I think in some places, even thouguh cost of living is low, employers will need to sometimes pay more to attract the talent they need, and not just say, "cost of livng is low, live with the $12/hr wage and like it." But of course, that's how capitalism is supposed to work. If you can't find employees, it simply means you're not paying enough. Literally Economics 101.

Granted, all of the above argument is a bit simple, and there's a lot of nuance involved in reality. Especially when it comes to peoples decision making about what job they choose and where they live. I also have little evidence to support my contention about less desirable places to live meaning higher wages, but it applies to jobs, so I don't see how it won't apply to places in the near future (well I do, it may never happen, but I think it's an interesting thing to keep an eye on).
I think I am missing the subtle distinction you are trying to make. It seems like you have real point, but I don't understand; could you expand on it?
> Half the team is remote! Kudos to them for making this work.

FWIW, I believe they're retrenching heavily on this. I remember reading articles about how they're trying to centralize management, and if you look at their jobs page (https://github.com/about/jobs#positions) most of their eng positions are SF only, at least the three or so I looked at. Only their support positions seem to be remote.