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I saw one economist trying to figure out what the appropriate fare for BART should be.

Ans: Free.

One place I worked in the early 2000's gave us checks were could redeem for transit.

https://commuterbenefits.511.org/docs/faq.pdf

One thought might be to have a subsidized ride share system where employers/transit authority pays people to ride share. Impression that based on transit authorities reaction to causal car pooling is they wouldn't support it. AKA they don't want people carpooling they want them to ride busses.

Second thought of mine based on buses in San Francisco is the buses are too large and too few. More smaller buses would increase ridership and reduce trip times.
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Care to expand on that? might save us noobs trouble down the road!
Perhaps not in everyday speech, but they might hear it in a movie or a TV show.
If the problem is that that makes other people ignore overwhelming scientific evidence, those ignoring the evidence are no less dangerous and ignorant.
"internet service providers got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission today to sell your personal information"

Take news clickbait. All this does is hold implementation of a rule that was recorded the last week before the election (clearly, extremely low priority to the Obama administration) and never actually went into effect.
When you're building a 'tower', what is more important? The strange new hammers and screwdrivers you're using, or the architecture, algorithms and data structures?
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"Night owls aren’t the lazy, distracted weirdos the early crowd makes us out to be. When the rest of the world winds down, we work, create, and tinker on our own schedules. Each evening, I watch the typical bedtimes pass by and wait for that jolt of energy and inspiration that comes well past twilight." I think there is a misconception of night-owls being lazy. Why are only early risers praised http://getliner.com/NRKBZ?hacker=true
Not directly related to this thread but I want to have a little moan about the Steam client, so here goes:

When I open Steam it opens in the Store view in the main window, and the promotions pop-up also appears with sales and promo info. Great, except that 90% of the time the main store page and the pop-up are pushing Windows only games. I game on an iMac and occasionally on a Linux laptop. I have never bought a Windows only game. I send survey info to Valve.

If Linux (and Mac) gaming is to grow Valve need to try harder to get the games into my field of vision. It's silly that I click on the details button of the promo pop-up for a whole series of games only to scroll through the list and mutter "windoes only" to myself repeatedly. It simply is not content aimed at me at all, and they know who I am and the platform I am using.
Do we have any reason to believe Lyft is actually more moral? And not just putting on a "we're moral" marketing stunt?
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From a human perspective, there weren't 8 billion humans whose lives dependent on the status quo.
Yeah this is a conspiracy, definitely not for preventing people from sending malware around.

If you are sending executables to your customers and you're not signing them or they are not checking the signature every time, you are doing your customers a disservice and they are bound to get exploited sooner or later. If you teach them to open executables from mail they will and it won't be limited to yours.
IAAN. The first question is slightly off. It goes "is the Norwegian Data Protection Agency positive to the DGF?"
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> People expect ethics and morals from people. Startups are run by people.

I agree with your sentiment. That said, would you expect ethics and morals from a CEO that organized a Sally Hemings[1]-Thomas Jefferson party? Would you expect ethics and morals from a CEO that used to joke about urinating on women? Which is why I would avoid interaction with that startup.

[1] Sally Hemings was the 14 year old black slave girl that the 44 year old Thomas Jefferson had 6 kids with.

[2] http://valleywag.gawker.com/fuck-bitches-get-leid-the-sleazy...

[3] http://www.salon.com/2014/05/29/6_leaked_emails_that_ruined_...
This is a pretty cynical snark and doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.
Rote memorization of Greek and Latin texts probably had very little to do with the expansion and maintenance of the British empire.

No, but the sorts of schools that required rote memorization of Greek and Latin texts tended to be 'good' schools that also taught other things that where considered useful (including things like how to behave in a 'proper' British manner) . Testing for Latin knowledge was a proxy for testing for a good general education from a good school.
The console supports 10/100, possibly gigabit, ethernet over USB. It's an <$20 adapter that can be gotten on amazon.
Elect people who are willing to take science-supported reality in consideration when creating policy.
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Their revenue is increasing while saving lives? How dare they.
The problem is that the effects of rising sea-levels alone will be pretty bad in our lifetime.

For the good portion of people that live in reality, and not a sci-fi world that doesn't exist or they'll never be able to afford, a rise in global temperatures is a bad thing.
I never said it would be easy. All I'm saying is to shout them down and ridicule them is going to make the problem worse. Socializing is a good first time. Keep talking to them. Try not to lose your cool. It's hard.. it's really hard. I know people who are Trump fans and are caught up in one aspect that they like about him. Be it ant-immigration or whatever. I do my best to make them think I'm actively accepting their views.. then I do my best to talk about some stuff here and there..if I get them to acknowledge one flaw in their thinking then I see that as a positive. Its going to take years..decades and luck.
I think I see where you are going, but in the sample quiz the questions all relate to the article, and are very factual: Not "how many micro services are needed?", but "how many micro services does the author think is needed?"
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Technically.

+ Instead of hunting on the seas we should perform aquaculture. Establish diets that can use sea vegetables. Create methods to harvest on sea. This can reduce CO2 in the oceans and reduces the burden on land.

+ Accelerating research into reducing the CO2 footprint of our food. Lab grown meat and fish needs to be on wafer scales.

+ Create market places that reduces friction between CO2 producers and CO2 reducers. Make it easier to share solar panels or to share roofs. Make it easier to provide clean energy to Indian or Chinese households. Make it easier to find locations for wind mills. All these things can be accelerated through digital communication.
Net neutrality was a bogus hocus-pocus in my opinion to begin with. Good for Iraq but bad for us ? How and why ? The underlying principles seems completely arbitrary. People should be able to get more access for lesser price and that is always a desirable thing.
It also helps significantly that London's busses are double-decker and come more often so you don't have to wait as long for a bus you can board.

(I lived in Cambridge, MA for many years and this wasn't rare with the #1 bus)
> We really shouldn't have to use an encoding scheme that has that kind of overhead.

But we do.
A shame they can't just leave it up as static files. It might already be static files, it's a perfect structure for it.
Californian here. Completely opposite experience, especially SoCal vs the Northeast. NYC, Boston, northern Virginia, etc...always seemed like people were much more uptight and kept to themselves. Boston especially, you seem to have to get through like 4 layers of rudeness/offputedness before people open up to you...which doesn't always seem worth it.

Meanwhile, going to a friends' party in San Diego or Los Angeles and I can walk out with 4 new friends/acquaintances, which lead to more invites and potential connections.

And the differences only get further expounded professionally. I regularly go to work in a T and jeans. Sometimes even board shorts, when summer gets toasty enough. I would never dream of doing any of that working for any companies I've interacted with on the East Coast. In fact, it's regularly something they'll bring up in conversation.

There's a plethora of reasons behind those differences and neither is necessarily bad, but that's where my opinion of "laid back" versus not stems from.
This any useful for sentiment analysis and plagiarism detection? I might give it a go after I'm done with my current projects
If you use Gradle with Scala, you are using it as 'better Java' (point from article.

I worked with Scala collections for 9 years, last 5 years I implement collections for living ;-)

Scala collections are behind in implementation. JSR166 (java.util.concurrent) made large performance progress in Java 8 and 9. It was never back ported to Scala.

Nothing like `ConcurrentNavigableMap` is in Scala. Or Set with weakly referenced keys?
$ echo 'Oroville Dam: Photos reveal extensive spillway damage as operators stop flow' | wc -m
77

Pretty obvious solution.
Ditto. Except I haven't deleted it, but will probably be the first to go when I need space. I have no need for pictures that disappear.
I'm a vegetarian myself, although for another reason: I don't want living beings to be tortured and killed for my food.

But I find is that vegetarian propaganda is many times so disgusting and based on lies that it's probably going to turn people away from vegeterian food. Some vegeterians and vegans are obnoxious bigots and their efforts are generating opposite result - people start hating vegeterians and vegeterian food.

So I don't evangelize vegeterian. Besides, my reasons are too complex for most people to understand: "But chicken and cows were created for us to eat! They are not suffering!".
> But unlike big businesses, open source projects don’t have people on staff

To read that from Google is frankly disappointing. While this is true of many open-source projects, it doesn't have to be that way. Red Hat (and Google!) are brilliant proofs of this.
The guy who wants to be the country's top lawyer was caught perjuring himself in front of congress. Republicans in congress can't ignore this without significant loss of face with their constituents.
"So you seem to have the experience we're looking for and our engineers seem impressed with your interview. Just one small final thing, a formality really, could you bring your daughter in tomorrow so we can talk to her and see if she's been brought up right?"

If whiteboard testing is frowned upon, I imagine testing a candidates kids would be doubly frowned upon.
Ai is already being used to find security bugs in software. An Ai is able to do in a few minutes which would take multiple programmers 1000s of man hours to do. As these Ai keep getting better the need for thousands of such code analyst programming jobs will be lost. 1 programmer with the help of Ai will be doing jobs of hundreds of programmers.
With the current economic systems the income of many will be funneled at a n exponential rate to the top. Rich people getting more wealth doesn't help the economy. A billion going to billionaire will hurt the economy compared to 100k going to 10k people. As those 10k people will use it and it would be used in the economy multiple times where as the billiionare will probably keep in his bank account.
It was 22 fields and the problem was not serializing/deserializing, but it was a problem with the Scala functions and tuples system not supporting case classes with more than 21 fields. This limitation has been removed since Scala 2.11.
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Buying Google at the IPO wouldn't have made most investors rich anyway. They IPO'd with far too high of a market cap already (as contrasted to Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, etc. from the prior generation).

A 17x return over 12 years won't make most (non-rich) investors rich unless they bet every dollar they have on said investment (a nearly impossible and entirely impractical scenario).

An average investor betting $10,000 - $25,000 on Google's IPO would be a serious investment. $170,000 - $425,000 is a great return off of that, it's just not anywhere near rich.

Had they IPO'd at something more like what tech companies used to, an investor could have seen a 250x to 1000x return up to this point. That would make you rich off of a $10k bet. Amazon for example, has produced something like a 560x return so far from the IPO.
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Anyone who says sbt > maven should have been an egyptologist.

I get you would enjoy deciphering hieroglyphs...
Which ones would that be?

6 miles is 10 km, that's a nice ride but I've never heard of traffic planners that expect 10km rides.
I too would suspect Bernie Sanders would have had some military events. I'm not saying either side is perfect. I am saying that shouting down at one group is not going to solve the problem. Especially if half the nation doesn't believe in climate change and typically more apt to vote than their liberal counterparts.
Can anyone point me to any articles on what can be achieved with this and how?

[EDIT] I reply to myself here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12226988
I'm in favour of 1.0 / 0.0 = Infinity, as in the current IEEE floating point standard. It makes much more sense with many algorithms. Checking whether the denominator is 0 or not costs time and unnecessarely bloats the code.
Depends. Is there a web framework for it? ;)
But that doesn't explain how the driver gets less money when they pick up more pool riders?

The rates goes down when they pick up the 2nd and 3rd rider, but then at the same time they are gaining more fares. So shouldn't that make up for the rate drop? It's pretty obvious why doing pool for one rider is a huge loss, but I'm not quite sure how it is more of a loss if a 2nd or 3rd rider joins in.
>One of the most influential open source projects of recent times is Docker. Docker is written in go. MS has gotten behind docker.

Which is orthogonal to Go, as Docker is a language agnostic container manager.

People using Docker are not, by and large, Go programmers and most don't even care about Go.
I'm sure their licensing with imagination includes full source code, and there's no reason they couldn't verify and/or change that for security.
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Please don't compare a programming language to a hammer. They're not similar in complexity, and it makes a really bad metaphor. Besides, unless you write entire applications in assembler, you DO care about programming languages.
There are at least two things more important than Scala being a cleaner Java:

1. The IDE
2. Oracle's claims on Java IP

A good IDE is more important than Java being verbose, and the only way Scala will displace Java is if Oracle win suits and makes Java expensive to use.
Board control isn't the problem at seed. You'll usually have board control. But if you need another round of funding, the investors control the company.

If your seed investors are "name brand", and they pass and say, "Ah yes, they're very nice guys. Wonderful conscience, very punctual. Unfortunately I can't follow on, my capital's already allocated. I wish them luck.", you'd better have a plan for profitability.
A corporation wants to use another corporation's services to distribute content, but does not want to compensate them in any way, expects that the facilitating corporation will prevent a charitable organization from paying them to reach out to the same audience.

Everytown for Gun Safety is a private lobbying effort funded by Michael Bloomberg, and believes that they can use a company's service for free while censoring paid ads from a true community charitable organization which is funded primarily by membership dues. Mic deliberately characterizes Everytown for Gun Safety as a "gun safety charity", and avoids using similar language to describe NRA, a registered charitable organization with a considerable number of members. Are they trying to say that the NRA doesn't care about gun safety?

I don't really see why Snap Inc. should have to promote Michael Bloomberg's fantasies for no pay, and prevent the voice of an established charitable institution from being included alongside it through the standard advertising process.
Costco's profits are less their subscription revenue. That tells me the space for bulk retailers in middle class areas with the type of consumers that can shell out a yearly subscription fee isn't a whole lot bigger than Costco already occupies. Costco shoppers have more money, so they can buy more economically at Costco quantities, and they have a higher expectation of service which requires a higher paid employee. Costco has effectively packaged that arrangement in a $50 fee and keeps prices competitive by selling mostly bulk quantities compared to grocery stores. Good luck trying to compete at scale while holding on to costly values that your competitors don't. Your choices are fail entirely or carve out a niche that you can keep almost exclusively.

In my mind, the mental ceiling keeping us from understanding 'Why more companies can't be like Costco' and 'What's the real value of an Uber ride sans venture capital subsidies' is a lack of understanding of the extensive properties of capital that automation is going to either push us through or bring down on us in a rain of deadly glass shards. I'm not going to wait around for the market to 'get real' and 'focus on companies with actual viable business models' though. 1) The bulk of your portfolio should already be occupied by companies that fit that mold, but 2) The practice of leveraging profitability today for gains in equity tomorrow is going to push through a few big winners consistently enough that it's not going away regardless of the overall consequences. Meanwhile we'll keep asking the same questions that ultimately amount to 'Why does capital beget capital?'
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"we would expect income to be a good predictor of voting for Trump right? It wasn't [0]"

The figures in that article are all aggregates (at county level) and say nothing about whether an individual's income level correlates with voting for Trump.

Imagine a scenario in which there are two types of county:

- Type A: High median income; high income inequality (as measured by Gini coefficient)

- Type B: Low median income; low income inequality

If there are more Trump supporters in A than B, does that suggest that low income doesn't encourage voting for Trump? Not necessarily: perhaps low income relative to neighbours or living costs encourages voting for Trump.

I'm not saying income isn't a good predictor for voting for Trump. However, I'm not sure the post you cited demonstrates that either way.
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Could you explain a little more explicitly what you are referring to, and what you think the solution will be?
if you focus on the y axis and ignore the x axis then it kinda of makes sense, mostly because the adoption trend is not related to the lifetime of the subject in this case, like it can be for programming languages and the likes.
For floats, 1.0 / 0.0 produces Infinity according to the IEEE standard. I prefer it that way because it perfectly makes sense for the algorithms I usually deal with and having to check whether the denominator is zero or not makes code slower, which isn't an option if you're crunching tens of millions of numbers a second. It also unnecessarely bloats code.
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