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I could agree with you even more than what I already do.

My social life is on WhatsApp groups. No one in my social circle uses Facebook Messenger for anything relevant. The number of friends' photos has steadily gone down over the years. I've switched off FB but come back when am bored and want to spend time looking at cat photos and BuzzFeed. Facebook not existing in the world would impact me minimally.

Google, and even Microsoft, on the other hand, damn if they stopped existing... I'd be fairly distressed I suppose.
Sorry, excellent point. For some reason I was thinking of Waymo as independent, even though I know that's not the case.
> People would rather pay 10x to sit in their own luxury bubble in traffic

I think it has a lot less to do with the bubble factor than the fact that public transportation in the US just sucks, period.

My 3-mile commute from Menlo Park to Palo Alto would take

- bus: 58 minutes (2 minute walk from home to bus stop + 12 minutes average wait for ECR bus + 10 minutes on ECR + 12 minutes average wait in Palo Alto Transit Center for bus 22 + 15 minutes on bus 22 + 7 minutes walking to work)

- train: 51 minutes (4 minutes walking from home to station + 30 minutes average wait till next train + 5 minute train ride + 12 minutes walking to work).

- running: 35 minutes end to end

- bike: 15 minutes end to end

- Uber: 13-20 minutes

- driving: 8-12 minutes

I bike, but I can see why others would drive. Public transportation is basically defunct here. I can run faster to work than taking public transportation. That says something about seriously how bad it is.
There are lot of stories going around on this, all of which are based on the client note by Leerink’s Ana Gupte which was released on Friday, setting cat among the pharma industry pigeons:

http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-pharmacy-could-make-w...

This article re-packages all the points from the client note like shipping, generics, B&M stores etc without even attributing to the original report.
Perhaps some ancient ones, but also more modern historians. When this list was written almost 50 years ago it seems that tradition was already fading, and now...as far as I can tell...it's covered in dust. Old histories inevitably contain aspects we find mistaken (both morally and factually). But I personally love reading them for the strange perspective, the vigorous speculation, the calm judgement.

Gibbon was surely intended as a "Great Historian". And Macaulay (whose "Third Chapter" on the history of the people of England inspired generations of scholars). Maybe Michelet. Prescott. You can still find these all the time in battered Modern Library editions in used book stores.

For my money the greatest historian (who was surely meant) was Jacob Burckhardt, not-quite-incidentally a student of Schopenhauer and friend of Nietzsche. A modern edition will use footnotes to correct claims that turned out to be errors, and you're left with an elegant, sweeping vision of human activity, saturated with all the melancholy and resignation appropriate to the subject.

Two early twentieth century books I've read that probably fit the mold of "great historian" intended by this author are Webb's The Great Plains and Young's Victorian England: Portrait of an Age.

I think what the author means by "old great histories"---as distinct from the many old "scientific" histories that are now merely wrong---is that the historian takes human nature as the primary subject and uses historical fact, at least as best as can be ascertained, as the concrete medium for both exploring and shaping it.
Sorry, I will avoid that in future ..
This "new" technology is 10 years old. Why is it catching on now?
You are probably judging public transportation from an American point of view. The vast majority of public transport systems in the US are greatly under-developed compared to what is done elsewhere. A small European city such as Toulouse has orders of magnitude better public transport than Los Angeles or San Francisco for example.
I would agree. Been using PC and Mac since 1980s, and I liked Mac OS 7-8 and Windows 2000 the best. Windows XP was great too actually, mainly because it had system restore, but it was already treading towards too much fluff.

I think Microsoft Metro on Windows mobile was probably the beginning of UI inferno, because it triggered race among major players to develop their own design language to stand apart; except it was a race to the bottom with Apple's flat UI adding to the already rubbish pile of Metro.
What I mentioned is general pricing..

As you said, there will be all kinds of Demand pricing.. one example
You will have 1000/miles per month general rate. If you use peak hours 8 AM to 9 AM , then it is counted as 2X miles of real distance etc..
You can lookup the Juniper bonus packages on OFLC if you want (it's what this website data is, but more info). I just checked for sunnyvale engineers making 68k and their bonuses go up to 250k.
The link to their study isn't working any more (https://hired.com/state_of_salaries_2017).
Sure, eventually it will be better. But I wouldn't be shocked if bad-weather automatic driving lagged at least a decade behind what they can get away with in Arizona. It's a significantly harder problem, and much more difficult to generate reams of data to test against.

Worse, the risk shoots way up, and people will be much less tolerant of risks that aren't under their control. "Driver Ends Up In Ditch" is never news in places with real winter. But "Google Almost Killed My Family" sure will be.
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So I guess it's interesting to look at salary in terms of the local cost of living but that's actually pretty meaningless. The reason is you don't have to live "average". This is the strategy many employ. Do their time, save a lot of money and leave.

I come from Australia. I live in Manhattan. The amount of money I can save here is now than I can earn in Australia. It's just ridiculous how much better it is.

Also I think just is the real winner for this strategy. For one you don't need a car here. That saves you on buying a car, gas, maintenance, insurance, tickets, damage, parking and so on. Plus you can actually live in decent places for much less than anywhere in the Bay Area, like Jackson heights.

I mean Austin isn't bad either but you need a car there.
It is a brain-dead solution: any Unicode scalar value not matching /[\u0000-\u10ff\u2000-\u200d\u2010-\u201f\u2032-\u2037]/ doubles the cost. [1] The primary range ends at U+10FF because it conveniently excludes virtually all CJK characters (Hangul starts at U+1100) with relatively low error rates. Yet, it's still brain-dead.

[1] https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/928030981805588480 (used to be /[\u0000-\u10ff]/ during the test period)
Obviously...
This pictures reminds me about what one's can see under psychedelics. All sensory input basically begins to break down to that kind of patterns, and thus reality dissolves into nothing. This is equally terrifying and liberating depends on look. The terrifying thought is that there's no-one behind this eyes and ears. The liberating thought is that if there's no-one there, then there's no-one to die.
Hi erasmuse, the Fallible Ideas mailing list (http://fallibleideas.com/discussion) would be a more fruitful place to discuss your ideas. There, openness to new ideas is valued, as is being willing to discuss disagreements persistently until resolution.

http://fallibleideas.com/paths-forward
My understanding is that in America, the Democratic party is considered to be the liberal party. Most people left-of-center vote for the liberal party. They think of unions and worker protections as liberal values. They also oppose globalization because it has the effect of reducing wages and increasing local job loss.

And so, these Democratic Party supporting liberal minded left-leaning people are in a bind. The new conservative president at least on the surface seems to be doing more to protect local jobs than the last two Democratic Presidents have. In-fact, their champion in the last election sought to increase globalization.
salaries would come down and cost of housing would go up which begs the question... why are people that live and work in SF trying to bring more people in? (maybe because they already own the property)
This article doesn't seem to mention non-salary compensation like stock options and RSUs, which can form a pretty large fraction of total compensation, and might vary wildly between locales.
I helped to create that spreadsheet we tried to be as fair as possible and whenever possible link reproducible, verifiable benchmarks (but then again all benchmarks are lies ;).
A point is 1/72". A dip is 1/96".
My guess is your experience is anecdotal and open to bias. Same with glassdoor, since it's self-submitted. The BLS's Occupational Employment Statistic's prevailing wage data is fairly exhaustive.
Hire these guys for TV! I wish them success, all the big players are doing the same thing with more people. Keep on innovating, disrupting. Here is to your next cache hit.
For users of some non-english languages, the 140 character limit was a lot more problematic than anything else.

If you try even comparing German text with english or even japanese on twitter, you'll notice one big issue immediately: You can barely put 3 German words into a tweet, while Japanese can fit an entire novel in.
>At the time, I was wary–if Apple keeps adding gestures to this simple language, I wrote, “it will kill what made these devices successful in the first place.”

I remember having this thought at the time as well. Then, the gestures became useful after I learned to use them. While most of these gestures (mostly on iPad) weren’t needed by the average user to do the important things, they’re nice to have if you’re a power user. That’s where I thought this UI divide was heading. Power users (gestures) and regular users (no gestures), still able to accomplish the same things but in different ways.

Now, it’s gone too far. Now the ecosystem is fragmented and gestures are necessary to use the device. I decided to pass on the X because I didn’t want new gestures and muscle memory to interfere with the way I use my iPad and iPhone currently. Of course the fragmentation issue will be resolved when this language is applied across the lineup, but for now it’s not.

Still, I doubt I will see an infant pick up an X and know how to use it without instruction like I’ve seen an infant use an iPad.
No where in the article do they mention how they factor in cost of living into the comparison. As other commenters have pointed out, most studies naively make a linear adjustment; i.e. if cost of living is 2x you need 2x the salary. This makes no sense. Say your cost of living is 30k and your salary is 100k in one city. In a 2nd City your cost of living is 60k and 180k. A rational economic decision would be to live in City 2 since it maximizes your savings. The linear adjustment based on cost of living only make sense if a person is saving 0% of their salary.

The other issue is I don’t buy the 110k vs 130k difference in Austin. They are not considering total comp in which case the delta is way bigger.

Finally, Hired is mostly used by startups and low to medium paying employers. There is a huger salary difference at large tech firms between SF and other cities.

What this study is really saying is “if you want to work at medium size companies, don’t earn anything beyond a salary, and spend all of your salary San Francisco is not worth it”.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of the brevity. For me who I follow is about breadth, and the longer people's tweets are, the fewer I can follow. I also think a lot of the >140 tweets I see could easily be written in 140 if the writer worked a little harder. As this edit of Jack's first 280-character tweet conveys well: https://twitter.com/caitlin__kelly/status/912795950476857344...
I'm a little confused about the columnar database comment:

> Performing queries across billions of metrics looking for labels that only match a few of them (a common scenario with time series data at scale) is really slow in Cassandra. This is because of the way it stores data in columns. This extends to any columnar database including Google's BigQuery which all have a natural disadvantage with time series data.

I've pretty much only heard "columnar database" used as opposed to row store database, and it seems like storing time series data in columns makes much more sense. Could someone clear up exactly how "labels" (which I probably don't understand) are so much harder for column stores to deal with?
In the future cars might be so safe you don't need a seat belt. Another thing that changes with autonomy is a reduction of crash-related features.
Any chance of creating a Brave extension? https://brave.com/

I know probably not, but it's the only browser I use for gmail. It's so convenient keeping it open in the background, isolated from my main Chrome browsing workflow. Whenever I get an email I get a nice OSX popup. I know Chrome can do this too but I restart Chrome like five times a day.

Brave is pretty good, but doesn't get much love. Hopefully it'll catch on more.

Thanks for your work!
They just got a ton of press, reaching the exact markets they want to hit. Their fax machine is probably ringing off the hook right now.
Mentioned on this list, Druid is #1 is my book. Imply[0] has a very nice system built around Druid.

[0] https://imply.io/
Totally agree about XP being the high water mark for desktop, though older MacOSX was good too.

The other side of the equation was dev tooling. Visual Studio in the late 90s to early 2000s was a far superior GUI design system before they ripped that all out for the current XML abomination.

I think the real trigger for the fall was the rise of mobile. Mobile seriously cannibalized PCs especially on the low end, so PCs entered this misguided race to try to be more superficially like mobile. Metro resulted from this, as did flat and all the rest of that trash.

The new stuff does look a bit better but usability is worse.
> Having more characters will making tweeting easier

That's exactly what I don't want. When I tweet, I have to take a minute to try to make my idea more concise. I make multiple passes over it and end trimming a lot of the unnecessary words.

In short, the author has to spend a bit more time, but saves a lot of time for every single person who has to read the tweet.
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That machinery is still there, and has always been - it's exactly what happens when you muck around with "make everything smaller/bigger" in display settings in Control Panel.

The problem, rather was that the OS didn't really do much to implement it. That ruler was basically just surfaced to the apps as an API to query, and then they were supposed to apply their own calculations as needed. One exception was the API used to create dialogs (but not other types of windows) from Win32 resoures - CreateDialog etc - these measure widget sizes in "dialog units", which is "an average width and height of characters in a system font"; the idea being that this way, the size of the widgets would naturally scale to the size of the text labels, according to DPI. However, many (arguably, most) Win32 don't use CreateDialog even for actual dialogs, and many frameworks in the past didn't respect the DPI setting at all.
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And the fact they're only including base salary instead of looking at total compensation. Bonus and (public) equity would probably skew the numbers and thus change the conclusions drawn here.

This kind of distortion makes the Toronto market seems a lot better compared to SF because it's not common to receive a large equity grant in Toronto.
The Mapillary situation seems complex. What's clear is that volunteers shouldn't be assisting Google get still further ahead of the more open alternatives.
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>>USA is failing its own citizens by either giving them an inadequate education or not providing them opportunities to succeed.

US millennials are a bunch of people with most privilege, comfort, opportunities, freedom and other nation level perks(like infrastructure, mobility etc) compared to may be all the humans combined in all of history.

There is a reason why you can't get more out of this scheme. The reason is you can only make incremental progress in systems that are this advanced. And after that its usually a bit of Math called 'Central limit theorem'. It just means the progress will only be around the mean.
Over the past few months, I've been leveraging the Code For Cash community as my own personal freelancer pool. This has provided a huge boost in my freelance consulting (software dev) business: it's like I have an armada of individual contributors that I can delegate tasks to, on-demand.

Some example microtasks I did:

$120– translate designer's mockup image into react+html+css app (https://utask.org/img/microtask1.png)

$200– take links to websites with VC funds name, and build a webapp to make them searchable by location so you can find venture capital funds near you (https://codefor.cash/vc_firms_list)

So now, I present to the community, for your consumption: Microtasks!
Oh, I am old enough (40) to remember too...I am in fact old enough to know that I am much better of with FB in my life...minor annoyances asides (but no product is perfect in the end)
Nothing special about the boards. They're likely just small runs and so don't have a lot of units to amortize development and setup costs over.
putting on blinders or rose-colored glasses will change the color scheme
This sort of thing is (forgive me) _de rigeur_ in cultural criticism. It's possible to infer the rough meaning of many from context clues. The article also settles down quickly, with subsequent usages of French or Italian being titles of works.

Sometimes it's nice to be exposed to new things, n'est-ce pas?
"I don't see much fat to trim."

Well, the obvious one is that Express Scripts probably isn't already sending you a package of other stuff every week or so to which a bottle of pills could be added at little or no increased cost, nor do they likely have the clout with shippers that Amazon does.

Yeah, not everyone gets an Amazon package every week, but enough people do that it's going to add up.
> In which category do you place something that cannot belong to any category?

How could something created by a body not belong to any category? It belongs to the category of self-regulated systems adapting to their environment.

Creating concepts has been demonstrated since 2012 (Google 'cat detector' https://www.wired.com/2012/06/google-x-neural-network/). In natural language processing, Andrej Karpathy demonstrated in his char-RNN blogpost the emergence of neurons specialized in various concepts (http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/). It happens naturally in deep networks, as lower layer features are combined into higher level features.

> I'm suggesting that "just sensation" is a placeholder for "I have no idea what that is"...

Ah sorry, I didn't mean "sensation" as in "placeholder for no idea". I meant it as a neural net, the kind we have in our vision system, or the kind used in Deep Learning. They are made of millions of neurons and trained on millions of images to distinguish and localize objects and object relations in images. We have had thousands of papers optimizing on this kind of architecture - Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) - arguably the most successful part of deep learning. Not only that "sensation" was a neural net, but "emotional response" is also a neural net that computes scores of utility of states and actions.

So I was referring to concrete concepts. That's what I like about RL compared to philosophy - it replaces vague concepts with concrete models.
> ...move out of the Bay Area when they want to have kids...

This is fascinating to me, because if demographers' prognostications are to be believed, then future growth economies (on the multiple-decades-scale) are heavily represented by new middle-class families, in Asia and Africa, and to a lesser extent the Middle East and South America. So not only is the Bay Area ecosystem doubling down on its geographic centrism into a non-growth geography, it is tripling down on a bet that a non-family-oriented HQ culture (where the majority of unicorn companies consider the majority of their staff "who matter" to be located) will innovate sufficiently to penetrate and hold family-oriented heavy-growth markets of the future.
LA (at least in the places you'd want to live) is no longer cheaper than SF. This data set is flawed.
I'm very jealous of my friends with SF jobs who work remote and live with their parents. I know three who do this, they're all late 20s/early 30s. I totally would do it if I had the opportunity, I still get along great with my folks.

I also know 1 person with a remote SF job in the midwest who lives like a king.
This sort of murder and radioactive pollution that will effect the whole world is moral reason enough to declare war and take control.. or is that what i am being manipulatied to believe.. i don't know anymore
Is chromium builds available on Windows (not Google's chrome)?
Well that sounds like an easy browser extension to write :)
Agreed re: that last bit, as a JavaScript fan. I think we’ll see a dominating convention or two emerge over the next few years. Maybe (selfishly, hopefully) not quite as opinionated as Rails but the current landscape is a bit of a mess.
I think it’s mostly for effect, but you’d be hard-pressed to find people in the classical music sphere who don’t understand some French. Oh also Google Translate exists?
Great counterpoint below:

> Surely 280 chars is better to extract data for twitter to get revenus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15649155
From me? Only about 50 yards or so.

But I don't think you can get to "every car is self-driving" without a pretty high proportion of self-ownership in rural or exurban areas. Lots of people live ~20 minutes from the nearest downtown-ish area, and you can't really serve all those people without a pretty serious wait.
Tl;dr: they took an ad for Hired.com and made it into an article. There's no methodology or data reported.
I do think it’s funny, though, that when HN has literally no analysis to offer, either out of laziness or a fundamental inability to understand something that doesn’t end in .js, all they do is criticize some minuscule, tangential fact about the article’s structure or layout or how “the scrolling is fucked up on my phone”.
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CDN? Cross-region replication? DB replication/failsafe/backups? No idea, just spitballing.
I think all mainstream font renderers do have the ability to produce identical output in terms of metrics, at least. E.g. on Windows (DirectWrite), you have "ideal layout" as an alternative to "pixel snap", and that should do the same thing as OS X - not pixel perfect, but dimension-wise.

The problem is that the output sucks on low-res displays, like most PC screens. Mac users are kinda used to it (and Apple uses bigger fonts to compensate somewhat), but for Windows users, it's a major eyesore when someone tries to use ideal rendering. For a long time, WPF did that, and it was constantly reported as a bug - indeed, I filed one of those bugs myself (https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...). They actually had to fix WPF to allow for pixel-snapping.

Ultimately, this problem will only go away for good once everything is high-DPI, including desktops and laptops. Ironically, the reason why WPF only supported ideal layout initially, is because the team thought that this would be the case by the time they released the final version (the design process started somewhere in 2001, IIRC). It's obvious now that it's not going to the case anytime soon - indeed, many cheaper laptops still use 1366x768. Hopefully we'll get there eventually.