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If the number of restaurants declines, so does the number of restaurant jobs. Those that still have a restaurant job are better off until they find themselves in the market again, at which time they will be competing with more people for fewer jobs. Effectively, you've just transferred income from some restaurant workers to other restaurant workers and eliminated the income for some restaurant owners who went out of business. Those restaurants that do survive also end up reducing the number of staff or shifts available to maintain their profit margin.
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They make a dirt cheap (~$20) vertical mouse that helped me correct wrist problems from bad posture overnight.
I don't use anything else for long periods of time, they singlehandedly (pun not intended) helped me fix my wrist problems. And I use it for gaming just as well.

Anker is dope.
How would you compare yourself to CrowdFlower or CrowdSource?
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Ask HN: Dream Job or career suicide?

For the last two years I have worked remotely for a someone who is trying to convince a financial services company (of about 20 employees) to build a replacement for their existing (dated) software platform. We've been building free prototypes/demos for the last two years. During this time I have been the sole developer.

Overall my job is great. I get along well with my boss, there are no hard deadlines, my hours are 100% flexible, and the work is techincally interesting and low pressure. The pay is a bit below the going rate.

The problem is that I've slowly become convinced that it is very unlikely that we will actually get a contract with the financial services company. Additionally, my boss wants extremely technically complex features (like a time traveling database) in the prototype application without having any indication that the company actually wants those features. The application is his baby so feature X, Y, and Z are critical. The financial services company also commented in a meeting that his cost estimate was less than 10 percent of what they expected. So basically he is trying to sell the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars to them for dirt cheap.

I have very little experience in custom software sales but it seems to me that eventually the project is going to fizzle (no sale) or turn into a huge mess (a sale but an eventual trainwreck when actual expenses collide with requirements).

In the meantime, my work conditions are great.

My question is: Is it terrible for my resume to work for years on a project that never sees the light of day? Or should I stop worrying and just be happy that right now I have a relaxed work environment?
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Here are some stats[1] from some real dumps.

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It may not be him that is dependent on a commercial product. I rarely, if ever, use Facebook as an active product. By this I mean I may post a generic status once or twice a month and may actively check my feed once or twice a week. However, if I were to completely close down my Facebook account, I would lose all of the passive information that is sent to me. This includes invitations to parties, people letting me know they are in town, updates from groups and organizations I am a part of, etc. So many people use Facebook as a pseudo or complete replacement for email. By removing myself from that service, I lose contact with those people and organizations. I am only one person. I cannot change the behavior of a couple hundred people to suit me.
That was apparently fixed in Python 2.7:

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6116d4a1d1ecd6e9b94...

http://bugs.python.org/issue12099

But that commit pre-dates the blog post by many years, so maybe Armin was referring to something else, or maybe he hadn't realized it had been fixed?
I don't remember when's the last time I saw a non hit piece article from corporate journalists. The audience demands blood.
Yup, I didn't know there was an ArXiv version too...

That can go on the repo too I guess...
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Article seems to be under the mistaken impression that these tv idents were built, put in front of a camera and recorded and then the recordings broadcast - possibly after even applying postproduction effects. Actually they were generally broadcast live by pointing a camera at them. This is one of those artifacts of digital era thinking which misunderstands the nature of analog era technology.

These idents needed to be able to be shown on demand, in the event of a breakdown in some other piece of equipment. They needed to be able to run for arbitrarily long periods of time. They needed to be shown many times per day during regular programming. And you couldn't just connect up a computer and stream mpeg video - you would need some sort of a device that could generate the TV picture.

TV was recorded on video tape and video tape wouldn't work for this application - it would need to be rewound every time you stopped showing it; it would wear out with continual use; it would have a fixed maximum duration.

Having a camera standing by pointing at the appropriate device, on the other hand, was relatively easy.

Most tv stations just pointed a camera at a piece of card. The BBC obviously had to go one better and use a crazy globe and mirror setup.
Popularity has next to nothing to do with how good something is.
What about the subconscious suggestive effects of your feed as it evolves over time?
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Hey, some truckers are lucky they don't have to load the truck!
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It transpiles to C, which then compiles to machine code. I think Transpiling is the right word here. I guess you're right that you can compile to anything, but "transpile" seems more descriptive.
We have had guys quit and leave a full truck on the side of the road. Then you have to fly someone out to get it and finish the route.
This is awesome and exciting.

Looking at it I can only be disappointed in science fiction's failure (specifically tv and movies) to move beyond Minority Report inspired glass touch screens.
But do you have an assigned desk? Every morning I am hoping there is a desk free for me and don't need to squeeze in between two colleagues. No fun.
Okay, you are a proponent of basic income. There are pilot programs happening. We'll see how that works out.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Are the inefficiencies you mentioned significant? I suggest you read the empirical studies section of the Wikipedia article.

I think you can have an opinion but I don't think you can treat it as fact.

Note: your example of the teenager seems ridiculous as people get paid under the table all the time.

Edit: prices are always messed with. Inefficiencies are created and removed every day. A minimum wage is just a large union saying we want our share of the value we create. If you want to argue that they are messing with the efficiency of the economy or are shooting themselves in the foot then you should have damn good evidence.
iMacs did support this, called Target Display Mode. Similar to how macs can be mounted as external hard drives in Target Disk Mode.

2009 and 2010 models supported vanilla DisplayPort, 2011 to 2014 cut that for Thunderbolt only.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
Gotta love these kinds of comments. Meaningless pandering to the pitchforks.

Seriously, what are you even suggesting? That the FBI sniff out anyone planning to be a patent troll, then arrest them before they can even commit their crime?

Drunk drivers should be prosecuted by the FBI before they can even get behind the wheel, in my opinion.
This was previously noted on hacker news nearly 3 years ago, but didn't stick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9551613

Previous discussion when the extension was posted in hackers news (while present): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531941
C, C#, C++, Java, & JS could be said to have a derivative of Algol syntax. That covers probably 90% of all software being actively written in the world.
How is your boss funding this project, prior to signing up customers?

Do you have an equity stake, vested or otherwise?
Won't uber drivers feel this way when they have to drive to survive, and it's not just a novelty?
This.

"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated." - Thomas Sowell
I recall a woman who recently had this experience as well.
Thanks Travis, appreciate it!
Depends of objective of classification. What you say is applicable when the objective is national security. When the objective is to hide incompetence it makes sense to make everything classified.
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Are you a white coal miner dying of black lung?

I think the issue here is simple. Some women make complaints about events in their daily lives, and connect it to a wider conflict/issue about the rights and status of women. Let's call these women group A.

On the other hand, it seems rare for men to complain in the same way.

I've seen men complaining about group A merely having discussions.

I've seen men complaining about the treatment of men whom they are not connected to (e.g. coal miners, kindergarden teachers, nurses).

However, I rarely see personal gripes.

I'd invite you to actually make a personal gripe, because it will be more topical than dragging up an age-old trope.
>> I don't mean that in a spiritual way, I just mean it helps clear out the useless thoughts and gives you a way to center yourself.

You don't mean it in a spiritual way, but meditation helps you with become more spirited?

Or did you mean to use "religious" instead of "spiritual"?
> Firstly, he is not looking at the energy requirements for water solid/liquid phase change.

No he isn't, he's just demonstrating that the energy requirements are met.

> Considering the recent publication of research into the effects of CO2 on energy transmission, I have some concerns on the accuracy of his stated figures (regardless of anything IPCC).

Are you saying the greenhouse effect doesn't exist or that it is somehow reversed?
No. You've transfered from customers/restaurant owners/unemployed to the workers. The unemployed get unemployment, which is a transfer from the workers.

There are smarter people than us who are debating this. Maybe you shouldn't hold this opinion so strongly.

Edit: Downvotes for what?
You could argue that mandatory minimum wages are a poor way of raising incomes. It's basically putting the burden solely on employers. Some people argue that this means businesses become less competitive, which leads them to hire less. Perhaps abandoning the minimum wage, but replacing it with a basic income, e.g. through a negative income tax, might yield better results. I don't know enough about it to have strong opinions on this, but just wanted to point out that minimum wages are just one solution/tool.
I don't know how he is funding it. As far as I know, he has no existing business revenue streams. It seems like he is paying me out of his own pocket.

I don't have any equity.
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I've eaten them. It's the worst lobster roll I ever had, but the best McDonalds sandwich I ever had.
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Gandhi
Simply existing progresses humanity, but I feel you should find something you are passionate about and do the best you can at it, whatever it is, it will benefit someone somewhere somehow. You should stop fearing the "afterlife" and worry more about this reality.
I really appreciate your insight that different political structures work better for different scales and different situations. I suppose that's intuitively obvious but I hadn't ever considered it.
I don't think it's intended to account for all expenses. You do have the option of using compensation to cover your costs, though - why would that not be adequate for cost of providing services?
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Right now we're very focused on image, audio, and video applications. In the near future, it will include transcription, captions, object detection, and feature detection. We plan on adding features around NLP and language applications as well, since that's an area with a ton of interesting work.

In general, we hope to tackle anything that humans are better than machines at and would make sense as APIs.
Yes! Finally. 8-0 even. Yes! All I wanted to say. Common sense finally.
I think that Facebook is almost the opposite of what the author describes. Not so much a "“ontological insecurity.”, more like a place for reassurance and security, i've written about it here: https://iainmait.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.htm...

Regarding algorithmic doppelgangers and how we govern them (Zuckerberg 2020) this is a good place to start:

https://iainmait.land/posts/20170418-algorithmic-governmenta...
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You can downgrade the military to some extend if costs keep rising, what of the NHS?
You're forgetting automation. Unskilled labor is valued less now; i don't think you can pin everything on labor surplus (especially illegal immigration) when the labor market itself is restricting.
Combining a projector with a touchscreen and Android. Sounds like a bad idea until you see the person cooking while scrolling through a recipe on the counter.
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I completely understand where you're coming from, but the User-Agent string is included in regular HTTP requests and you don't need to resort to overbearing client-side analytics to aggregate it; it's right there in the access logs on the server.
If anyone is interested, the code is up on https://github.com/jbaudanza/vlogotron. It's built with React, RxJs and WebAudio.
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Thank you! I want to write the loading logic to get the insanely complex systems like the one you linked. I'm curious to see what the performance will be like.
Most of the issues you listed with the language itself are fixed by using either Flow or TypeScript. As for that V8 issue, it's not ideal, but how about just putting comments of that size outside of the function, or not overcommenting functions small enough to be inlined.

I know a lot of people view using so much tooling as a con of the language, but if you use Babel + Eslint + Flow/Typescript, JavaScript becomes a lot nicer and safer to program in. For small to mid-sized projects, I think JavaScript is pretty great.
I'm quite aware - and I think it's often a useful lense. After seeing the parent comment, I initially was concerned I was in the wrong for finding interesting parts of the piece but the first sentence of your comment reminded me that it was silly to think that. The rest of your comment didn't enlighten me though, it just made it clear that you have an agenda.

For the record, I downvoted the og comment and upvoted you - I think your reaction added more to the conversation than their initial criticism.
I think the effect of social media in general is way bigger than the effect of the ranking algorithms specifically. The "serial pleasures of checking for likes and other forms of micro-recognition made suddenly meaningful by the acute insecurity" (as the article so eloquently puts it) have a much bigger impact on how we choose to present ourselves than the news articles and ads we are shown, for example.
Trump didn't answer to those allegations.
Probably none, they would use something like H1-B.
Here's a start http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/
In SF we absolutely haven't (especially if you add in the peninsula), but the planning rules are ridiculously restrictive, especially outside the SoMa "core". We're probably who this is aimed at.

The Bay area has some of the most bizarre real estate realities - the most expensive commercial real estate in the US, along Sand Hill Road - is mostly ugly 2-3 story suburban office buildings. It costs more than Park Avenue.

And residential is worse, especially in the peninsula - rambling, ugly, 70s built single family houses for millions of dollars. No hope of ever building a 5 story apartment building, let alone the high rises the local economy would support.

There is a very strong trend towards protecting everything as it was in the 70s, even as ridiculous and exclusionary as that is in practice.
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But since you finally got round to it - then nothing the press has printed is verified.
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Whether this actually helps security is irrelevant.
Yup, that's the easiest way.
It would be better for the employer if the employee paid for the oil checks on the trucks, or worked for the minimum wage. So why isn't that the case? "Because it's better for the employer" is simultaneously the explanation for everything and nothing. In reality, these situations arise from a lot of complex interactions between employer, employee and regulatory body, which is what I was trying to get at.
This looks like one of those products that would be extremely cool if it worked as well as advertised, but also not likely to do that (which is a recurring theme with the so-called "Weird Sony"). I once tried that "projection keyboard" in a Sharper Image store at the mall and it seemed to register about 20% of my keypresses. It's totally possible the tech has gotten better since then, but I'll wait to see reviews before I spend any money.
There are still relative bargains to be found in the Bay Area matching my criteria. My rent went up when I moved recently from Pacifica to San Bruno, despite the fact that San Bruno is a suburban wasteland with nothing to recommend it beyond proximity to freeways.

That said, I wouldn't recommend buying property anywhere in the Bay Area at current valuations. The specific coastal city I had in mind when formulating my above strategy was actually Barcelona.
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NYC has plenty of very good very safe public schools. Gone (at least for now) is the need to move to the burbs or pay up private for that.
Sounds like you might like Clojurescript + Reagent which is based on React but with much simpler tooling (Leiningen). You can also run Clojurescript on Node now with Macchiato (https://macchiato-framework.github.io). If you need something CPU-heavy you can hook it up to a backend API written in Clojure. Turtles all the way down :)
Yup. I think that has been the biggest thing that Apple screwed up, not the price. The idea that you buy the app once and you own it on iOs forever. Not that iOS version. Not a subset of iOS versions. iOS. Unfortunately, this means that most people think of it like a song or similar. (I bought it on my iPhone 3 and therefore the song should play on my iPhone 8.) That mentality does not work with software. It is unsustainable. The mentality that Apple should have pushed would be similar to video games (i.e. I bought this for the PS!. And then the PS2. And then the PS3).

As I stated above, I don't mind regular paid update intervals. I just loathe the idea of subscriptions. I want to own the software I buy. But the problem is that the average person thinks that $1 to $20 entitles them to a lot more than is reasonable. And the best way devs see to fight that off is subscriptions.

I know I am in a very small minority, but ownership is worth a lot more to me than price. I just hope that there are devs out there that will continue to build quality software and sell it outright.

I would like to see Apple give the ability for devs to handle pricing like JetBrains does. That to me is a subscription I would consider. I am not 100% sure, but it is about the only model I would be open to. https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
We're approaching the problem differently than both of those companies, and over time I think the difference will be more and more apparent.

Scale is vertically focused, currently focusing on image annotations and audio transcription. This allows us to provide extremely high accuracy and an ever-improving developer experience by investing heavily in tooling, automation, and screening. It's very difficult to do that as a more generic crowdsourcing service.

We're also entirely developer-focused as a company. Our users are engineers, and we have a singular focus to provide the best experience in using Scale to build more complex products.
Yeah decent point.
I'm having a ridiculously hard time finding archived versions of FB's previous ToS, privacy, and data policies. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Disclaimer: I'm trying to avoid going to facebook[.]com directly because I'm a paranoid ninny.
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There were at least 2 exchanges in 2010: BitcoinMarket.com (opened in April) and MtGox (July).
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Why would they? Using stars for energy is a human-scale idea.

The majority of alien-scale ideas are likely unimaginable in our current state of development. Trying to imagine them is like trying to build a Haskell compiler out of rocks.
Was that "always look on the bright side of life" I heard there?
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See you all at Signal Conference :)
> There are smarter people than us who are debating this. Maybe you shouldn't hold this opinion so strongly.

An ad hominem is not an argument. If we're going with logical fallacies to make our case, I'm going to appeal to authority: I understand this pretty well as I used to work directly on macro-economic reports at the largest broker dealer in Latin America upon which many international institutional investors based their investment decisions. Unfortunately, the citizens of the country whose economy I covered (Brazil) didn't understand these economics issues (among many), which among the reasons why its economy has contracted over 3% for the past 2+ years.

You're assuming that it's a strict wealth transfer where the size of the pie stays the same. It does not. The pie gets smaller when you reduce economic activity, which raising the minimum wage accomplishes as it eliminates jobs and puts businesses out of business. You can lie to yourself by using welfare to prop things up, but that doesn't work so well when the amount of taxes you collect to fund your welfare state drops as the economy shrinks. Eventually that gravy train runs out of steam.
I wouldn't necessarily blame science fiction as a whole, but the moreso the concept artists or directors for sticking with physical touch screens. And while many may think of Minority Report as the innovator for interfaces, the current Avengers' Tony Stark has a holographic interface that he manipulates in space.

(I'm just as excited as you are because I had the same idea in middle school, but until a manufacturer like Apple implements it in a flagship device, I'm just considering this a novel gadget. And as another aside, I always thought the idea of moving screens the way Tom Cruise does as super tiring--lemme just nudge that Thinkpad nub.)
It opens a random youtube video everytime (I got several 10 hour vids including Jeff Goldblum laugh and relaxing hairdryer sound).
There's a LOT of space, vertical and horizontal, in the Bay Area. Land near the tech giants goes for upwards of $300 per square foot - and is filled with 60-year-old single-story tract housing.
Which is why you do it as early in your life as possible, where you might still be able to count on your parents support.