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> Necessary for what?

For many kinds of changes and progress. Disobedience is one of those things that ends up measured by results.

> What is the end-game of Uber and does that really align with the best interests of their drivers and/or riders?

What do you mean? Uber literally makes all their money by providing a service that people willingly consume. They are really providing lots of value.

> Uber is revenue unsustainable and driving for a monopoly status on delivery/taxi.

Maybe, but does it matter? An Uber monopoly is a lot easier to fight than a state monopoly. To the very least, there are several companies competing in the space already. And if Uber goes bust, the only losers are the shareholders.
Robots in safety-critical applications are not new. Who do you sue if the fire alarm in your building fails to detect a fire? Who do you sue if the railroad crossing gates don't go down when a train is coming? Who do you sue when you're walking on the sidewalk, a bicyclist yells at a cab driver, the cab driver gets flustered, jumps the curb, and amputates one of your legs?

The answer is: it's complicated. That's why we have courts. We don't even have it sorted out for human drivers yet; if you kill someone with your car, you may get off without even a ticket, you may end up in prison for manslaughter. I honestly don't think robotic drivers add any complexity: there's already infinite complexity ;)
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I hadn't actually connected the socioeconomic dots of routes such as the Jeffrey Jump, but I'm glad you did: I'd say such convenient routes are mandatory for any city that has priced its service workers out of living near their jobs. For all its failings of its residents on the south and west sides, I'm glad Chicago has at least done this.
In the long run regulation (read artificial market manipulation) hurts everyone. Law/regulation (as well intentioned as it may be) always moves slower than people's wants and needs.
> For every one of those
> folks there are thousands
> of amazing, solid
> developers

This does not match my experience.

Also, for every genuine genius in the world, there are a whole bunch of pretty average people who think they're really smart.
Having spend the last decade living the startup life, and now searching for something more stable, I have to say you're setting up a false dichotomy between passionate and balance-seeking. They are completely orthogonal, you can be passionate and work widely varying hours; you can also be indifferent and work widely varying hours.

On a tangent, I don't really like the word passion anyway. What makes me a good programmer is not my passion for it, it's my curiosity and motivation. My motivation is a primary factor in my performance, and that probably is 80% influenced by context, and 20% by the content of the task itself (at least for most things that fall within the standard purview of programming tasks).

Finally, you don't mention talent for the new graduate. That is a huge factor. If the new grad is not extremely talented, they will never produce anything of value. If they are highly talented they can likely power through a lot of things, but they also need to make good decisions about what to work on since time allocation is the single hardest thing about getting early traction for a startup. Yes, all else being equal, take the guy that wants to work 16 hours a day and has no other distractions, but if the veteran who wants to work 30 hours a week has better business sense and a smarter idea of what to build and when, then that dwarfs the code quality consideration.
Interesting take. Most government positions are pretty flat as well, but come with decent incentive packages to make up for the perceived lower pay. For example; insurance, civil service rules, unions, pensions, stable working hours, etc.

Now let's talk about railroads, utility companies, and other "blue collar" work that requires an apprenticeship. First of all, layoffs happen quite often and seniority determines who is laid off. Not horrible and expected in a wide range of professions, but my neighbor is laid off way more often than I would be comfortable with (Union Pacific). Such is the ebbs and tides of business.

Then there is the rampant nepotism and other forms of preferential treatment to even get these jobs. To work for the Electric company, you had better know someone that is a respected IBEW member who will vouch for you. Same goes for the natural gas utility and just about all the people I know who work for utility companies in my city.

I say all that to say, these are still dead-end jobs unless you are lucky enough to pass the subjective management tests. Like you said, there is an upper limit on the wages you can earn without overtime. That sucks because you are going to absolutely destroy your body working most of these jobs. Why settle for that? The outcome is predetermined... additionally the work may be boring as shit after 10 years or so, then what?

If I had to do it all over again...
> I will blog about this stuff one day!

I'd love to read this blog post.

One thing to keep in mind, for readers--while LINQ can be awfully slow, it often isn't and should be your first stop (and then improving on it when you find hot paths). I build game engines in C#, and I happily use LINQ to get something done--then I go back, profile my code (anything you're not getting out of your profiler is likely mythical and at best lying to you), and replace as-needed.
Sure, no problem. Here are the last five:

C4
AF
AA
39
1A

How effective is it?

EDIT: here's the hashing code, in case it's helpful:

substr(crypt($domain, "xx"),2,2)
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It's not that kind of a hologram... all the hologram idea says is that all of the information in our universe can be represented on a 2 dimensional surface. It doesn't claim there is literally a hologram projector somewhere projecting a hologram of our universe. Such a thing would be nonsensical. If the projector were outside our universe it would, by definition, be causally disconnected from our universe and thereby never capable of influencing it in any way. If it were capable, it would, again by definition, be part of our holographic universe.
Bryan Cantrill has called Oracle the North Star of Rage - whenever you are confused or lost, you can realign your coordinate system relative to Oracle.

I have never had to deal with Oracle, but every time I read something about them in the news, I think of of that nice quote and tend to agree a little more with Mr. Cantrill.

On the other hand, I wonder why they do this? This can only hurt Java. I would imagine some companies will take this as a sign and go with .Net where they presumably do not have deal with problems like this one.
Ditto Australia.
I think he may mean that a lot of reflection methods take Type rather than a generic parameter? A lot of those have generic overloads now though.
FWIW, the pre-RyuJIT .NET runtime was definitely capable of inlining and devirtualization. I've seen it do the optimization for IDisposable.Dispose calls, off the top of my head. I would expect RyuJIT is capable of doing this in more places.

I don't know if they've ever implemented this for delegates, though.
What about cases where the free market is known to poorly allocate resources? I'm talking about negative externalities and public goods.

As a concrete example, take regulation regarding pollution that is known to be harmful to humans and therefore have a large cost. The free market will not generally take this cost into account.
I wasn't really old enough to understand and judge GWB's presidency, but from what I do know I can say my opinion of him isn't great.

Anyway, the first video about Tribal sovereignty doesn't really prove the point that he was stupid in my mind. I don't know what would be a good answer to that question, and I don't think he did either.
There is a 20% import tax when you bring in a car... so be sure to declare it at a much lower price then you paid for it.
This is related to my other comment. In Somerville/Cambridge there is already a visible change in the neighborhoods like Union Square along the proposed Green Line extension. It was this way in the streetcar days of the early 20th century too, where neighborhoods sprung up when new lines were built. In Portland OR, where I used to live, the new MAX lines are having similar effects. I feel like Ubers place to shine is low-density high-income low-traffic suburbs. That's OK too, because that's a big chunk of the United States.
I am not downvoting you, but there are serious flaws in your 'club' model. For one, there is nothing stopping people from doing your 'club' model right now; anyone can start a bus company, create memberships, and have criteria for who gets to ride on the bus. There aren't a lot of them, but ride share companies exist. If you don't want to use public transport, you are free to use one of them.

Second, not everyone can afford to pay as much as a 'club' bus would cost. While you might think that is ok, and that people who can't afford it on their own don't deserve to be transported places, a lot of us disagree with that. We think that even poor people deserve to be able to get to work, to get to the store, and to move around.
I'm able bodied, but like you and many other commenters here, I'm also a coward. I don't buy this 'home of the brave' crap, and like you I agree that cowardice is reasonable, and having more cowards makes us better as a society and a nation.

It's good that there are lots of elderly, disabled, and single mothers who have no option but to use public transit. It makes me feel good inside that if something ever goes wrong, I can run away faster than all of them. Not that I would ever use public transit. I like that America has a system for me, and a separate system for everything that I'm afraid of. It's what our grandfathers fought and died for.
Lead paint, asbestos, usury, food standards, heroin addiction (thanks, Bayer!) seatbelts, traffic lights, etc etc.

In a world where all information was equally distributed, sure, maybe anarcho capitalism would work.
"Spooky action at a distance" does not violate locality in the sense that information does not travel faster than the speed of light.
A boutique app firm is a small company that builds apps for clients. Generally those clients are going to be smallish businesses (probably mostly less than 1000 employees).

Some examples from my area include a small grocery chain (5-6 stores) with their own app and a local credit union with their own online banking app with support for mobile deposits via photographs of checks.
Hmm, thanks! I'm not sure why we couldn't figure that out. I can't remember if we were using the app or the website, I just know we were using mobiles.
The pretense of this article and this thread is astounding.
But that gets back to my original point about cell phones and airplanes. If the modern age, if there were an item that Senate leadership deemed sufficiently important, they could call the Senate back from non-recess recess and get their quorum in a matter of days.

Edit: it's also worth noting that serving in the Senate was originally a part-time occupation; recesses of several months were common until the 1930s. That's a very different case than in 2016, where the longest break was five weeks.
In 2013, I interviewed someone who had allegedly been working for a few years as a support engineer writing Ruby (using the "watir" gem) who could not even write the loop part of Fizzbuzz. They went completely silent on the call when I pasted the Fizzbuzz requirements into a shared code editor we were both viewing. After a few moments and my gentle prodding, they admitted they didn't even know how to begin writing the loop, so I thanked them for their time, wished them luck, and ended the call.
What would make you think that? Deterministic doesn't imply predictable, reducible, or low complexity. Even a purely deterministic simple system can be capable of (and most are) chaotic behavior whose information content would grow faster than any system smaller than itself could predict. In other words, the only way to "simulate" the system would be to completely reproduce every bit of it, and let it evolve in realtime. And practically speaking, we can't even approach that.
Thank you for saying what so many people keep to themselves.

I'm kind of punk so I'm into all that dirty stuff.
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We've had these in my small town for years. They can also influence stop light turn signals which is interesting.
No one forces you to take public transit. You are free to stay home and avoid the public entirely if you want.
Most employers who include such clauses and aren't open to negotiation are violating common decency. Any company so incredibly tone-deaf is likely an unpleasant employer that thinks nothing of treating their employees poorly. Such companies should not be serviced by professionals.
I just love the brazen in-your-face audacity of this company. :)
> > good tiling window manager

> SirCmpwn is porting i3:

It's not a port, it's a complete rewrite. You can't port i3 just because of all of the differences between X11 and Wayland.

Also, I would recommend anyone who uses SirCmpwn's several projects that they donate to him (he even made a free software project for dontations): https://drewdevault.com/donate/
Or below the cost of living? Why bust your ass to live in your patents basement anyway?
This assumes that all self-driving cars share the same code base.

I submit that most cars will be running very different versions of the code base, even if they are the same make, model, and year. In fact , because they are going to be in different jurisdictions, we can guarantee that this claim will be true.
Nailed it. I'm so fucking tired of having social politics shoved down my throat by progressives and conservatives alike. I dont care and never have. I just want to get from A to B for as little cost and time as possible.
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Regardless of whether Uber is right or wrong, what benefit does the public derive from this $150 permitting process?
Mildly shocked? http://m.imgur.com/gallery/KR93TA2
> Uber is jacking up the prices for those who depend entirely on public transit

Uber is not raising prices of public transport. They are not part of government public transit boards or administrations. Holding them accountable for the income public transport would have if they didnt exist is simply unreasonable.
This is entirely true.

However, there's a class of companies which don't buy servers individually but by the datacenter (or large parts of one).

If your company is building custom ASIC parts, FPGAs or one of the main customers of an entire chip architecture (eg Power9) then the math is different.
It covers the costs of ensuring the applicant meets the agreed-upon regulatory requirements. Next question.
> For a field that doesn't cater to people with families and other life obligations too well

There's no reason that the field (of computer science/software engineering/etc) _can't_ cater to people with families and other life obligations.

Jobs that don't cater to people with families include being a surgeon, a pilot, a firefighter, etc.

I've worked at several software companies (including a company worth hundreds of billions[0]) and it totally comes down to (1) employer (2) team.

There's nothing about being a developer that is at odds with people with families. Some employers have awful work life balances (due to company culture) and others don't. Some employers have teams with awful work life balances and others with great ones.

If a company has an awful work life balance, the solution isn't to remove people with families and other life obligations, it's to fix the company culture.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198920
The article was very confusing to me. Does it really mean if I get the standard download that might have some licensed components (Flight recorder for example) I'm on the hook even if I don't enable/use those features? The VM even has flag for unlocking commercial feature so that doesn't make sense.

Or is it the fact that people are using commercial features thinking that all the free downloaded bits are free, that seems a bit naive for big companies.

Also not sure of the distribution angle, if I don't use the msi installer and bundle it in a zip or something does it still require a commercial license? From reading distribution FAQ it seems I can distribute it internally my organization not sure if I can as part of commercial application sold to 3rd party.
There is more tax revenue to be had on almost any single ride over a public transport fare.
Probably a naive question, but where does this put open source projects that use Java? Tomcat springs to mind ...
A couple of other examples:

Gas Station owner given $10 million overdraft instead of $100,000 , transfers it all offshore and runs:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

Student given "unlimited" overdraft, spends $4 million on handbags and clothes:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/80263909/Westpac-admit...
xrange vs range is basic competence for any Python 2 programmer. They are two of the most commonly used functions and have very distinct uses. I think that was the point of the original post, however, that the question is so basic it is actually insulting - like interviewing a doctor and asking the difference between red and white blood cells.
Probably train detection or train stop there, not switch operation. Edison never did much with railroad switches and signals, though.
NPR's Marketplace did an interview with Domino's CEO a few years back and surprisingly, one of the things he said was top on his list was digital security. Smart man.

Also, a company that is detecting breaching of this kind has its eyes open. Not only aren't they breached, but they are out there explaining how it happened to a tiny portion of their customer base and warning others who are using poor password management practices.

A hat tip to you Dominos Pizza. Here's the interview:

https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/24/business/corner-offic...
Until two years ago, I rode the city bus every day and honestly preferred it.

Personally, I don't see it as "us vs. them". But I don't think that true advocacy is creating situations where otherwise reasonable people feel that way.
So then an x86 emulator running on x86 means the thing is conscious? No.. This is just pushing the essence of the problem onto the word 'aware'
The database can store both objective and subjective risk measures. If there is good evidence that a 'look test' can improve risk assessment, lets get the referring doctor to perform a look test and store the result in the database. In that way the hospital will not have an edge over the risk-adjustment model used in the study.

Edit: Many patients are already assessed by performance status [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_status
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There are a variety of projects that students from my university as well as other companies especially on Michigan collaborate with Domino's on. One of my favorites is the new Domino's specialized delivery car [1], and a pizza pick-up cart with accompanying mobile apps that will hopefully make it to production sometime in the future.

[1]: http://www.dominosdxp.com
Waymo's demo video showed a blind man traveling alone in their vehicle.
It depends on your point of view. The boss wants the most sophisticated talent he can get, and he doesn't want to pay anything for it. Every penny he pays, and every second of your life he doesn't get for it, is a failure in his eyes.

Since the 1980s, employment has become a game. Employers don't like it if you realize this and play them right back, of course, but there's not really any other option. Their viewpoint is dominant and essentially universal. In response to monumental productivity multiplication due to technology, they froze wages, destroyed pensions, cut benefits, and extended the work week. They believe if an employee becomes irreplaceable, they have become expendable. Keeping employees dispensable is weighed as far more important than keeping skilled talent. Read books written by managers for managers. Their actions aren't random or stupid, most people just don't understand their reasoning.

And if you only get one tattoo in your life, I highly recommend this centuries-old quote from The Rubiyat of Omar Khayaam: "Make game of that which makes as much of thee."
Sure, and it's the same with residential real estate in some areas. Houses are expensive because they're expensive; wealthy people don't want to live next to poor people.
It requires accidents to be disclosed
[Google owns any IP you develop, even on your own time](http://startups.stackexchange.com/questions/7822/working-leg...), and you can't easily work on those interview-worthy side projects after you get hired.
"Makes me wonder how these cars are going to handle individual state laws like this."

Actually, traffic laws can even be specific to a city.

- In NY City: No right turn on red, unless otherwise posted.

- In the rest of NY State: Right turn permitted on red, unless otherwise posted.
Knowing how to write HTML in 2016 is so passé, everything is abstracted on so many levels that nobody actually knows how to make a website.
Just a question, what does the NSA to do protect security with so many USA institutions hacked in recent years?
Paying $150 and getting a piece of paper doesn't do anything to protect pedestrians.
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I do, I'm the founder :-)
Seeing what the codebase is like for just a week may not be something many larger companies would be too happy with (think IP theft).
"In reality," says mathematician John Allen Paulos, "the most astonishingly incredible coincidence imaginable would be the complete absence of all coincidences."

For a job like president, the circumstances are almost always ongoing a crisis or political anomaly. I imagine re-elected incumbents also had to face exceptional political circumstances, just were able to navigate through them with luck and skill.
> Uber literally makes all their money by providing a service that people willingly consume. They are really providing lots of value.

Uber is not making money. They are burning through investor cash in excess of $2B per year in the false hope of breaking the backs of the incumbents so Uber can achieve monopolistic rents far in excess of status quo.

Riders "willingly consume" Uber because of this investor subsidy which conceals the true cost of carriage. When the easy money dries up, it's game over for Uber unless they can go full autonomous sans driver.

Uber is running out of runway and they know it. That's why they're flaunting the DMV in the rushed hopes of getting this Hail Mary to market.
Now Python has asynchronous list comprehensions, for which there seem to be few use cases. If Python supported compute parallelism it might be useful, but Python async is only for async I/O.
>We are moving towards all SVGs websites anyway.

Ha haha ha. That was good one. Haha. Funny joke. Never tell again.
Is it cheaper than classic farming, whereby you have 500 acres and grow a cash crop?
I'll take this opportunity to coin a new usage: "Trumped"
you're missing the point. altitude and drag losses are nothing compared to horizontal velocity. you need to be going 7.8km/s. Per second! That takes a lot more energy than gaining any kind of altitude or overcoming atmospheric drag. It's not significant savings.
Is this person wrong? Why were they flagged?
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted...

Clearly its about the implications of the permit, not the fee to get the permit.
I was just in a human-driven Uber that did this exact thing (bad right turn), whilst I repeated "watch the bike on your right" 3-4 times until he listened just shy of swiping the bike.