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> Great, the amazon model of

Apple does pretty much the same thing with its suppliers, no? They even work out what profit and costs a supplier is supposed to have (meaning: if your costs are higher it's the fault of the supplier).

A "others do it too" might not be too good of an argument, but I do wonder why heavily looking into your suppliers (costs, etc) is that bad.
How about a 3D point cloud with dot size corresponding to intensity?
Amazon Polly?
I'll try another example. Let's say we automate cleaning of cities. Suddenly people are going to want drones that can trim trees and bushes, devices that can clean walls, bots that can scour woods and lakes for plastic and junk, and 100 other things that we didn't have the time and energy to do, but now are possible. Each of these applications need to be designed, produced, deployed and managed.

My point is that automation creates new applications, and thus, jobs that sit on top of it. Like SEO - who would have guessed what SEO is 25 years ago? And now there is a whole field. We create new desires, we raise our entitlement to the equal of what we can achieve, no matter how much it is.
56K is 0.01% of the overall workforce of India.
> I'd prefer a leadership position

Why ?
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And then the duplicate doesn't even have the answers you need.
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It's not just Allianz. I've worked with a bank founded in the 16th century who rented office space next to their main building, plastered with agile motivation propaganda posters of the worst kind [1]. Supposedly, they're doing it to attract young developers, and to build up fast-moving teams so FinTech startups don't get all the talent.

[1]: https://www.startupvitamins.con/
Mastodon?
I can't speak for its overall veracity, but if nothing else Jarhead (the movie) did show the life of deployed Marines as endless, frustrating waiting.
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> What does the delegator do when the work has all been delegated? Nothing absolutely nothing and that’s where all these ideas, terminologies mentioned in this article come from.

Delegating work is still work which needs to be done. In a large organization, figuring out which work to delegate to who is a full-time job. Just creating the (ever-changing) structure of the company - what positions you have, what responsibilities they take, etc - is also a pretty hefty effort, done by managers.

It's difficult for me to not parallel your "no hard skill" complaint with how farmers in my country complain that programmers "don't create any physical product" but get paid more. Organizing even small numbers of people(10-20) calls for someone with quality soft skills, otherwise the efficiency of everyone drops significantly.
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I often reach assumed duplicates via Google but still get very insightful answers. If I click on the link pointing towards the assumed original, it's sometimes completely deserted with a single two-line answer that's been outdated for three years.
Hows downgrading to _secure 1.2_ insecure ? Regarding sslv3, why would client ever use it, downgrade/POODLE or not ?

This is literally very simple, few lines of patch. Its basically tls server discovery.

Its a crisis when a upgrade makes 3% webservers stop working.
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.. up until the 1970s, when the wages-productivity link was broken. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/what-happened-to-the-wage-a...
> Most hotel chains guarantee the lowest rates on their websites

To be clear: My response is not about OTA vs Google. It's OTA vs hotel.

Various OTAs used to have clauses in their contracts prohibiting this. See e.g. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ad48f831-75c3.... They made them switch terms. Before that it was pretty much impossible for a hotel to offer a lower rate through their website.

Consumers were being hurt (by OTAs) due to not being able to offer lower rates in their own website. It only changed after EU stepped in. Nowadays you see that you can book directly with the hotel, immediately become a member for free and immediately get a discount for that booking. Before the lowest rate was usually via the OTA. Then obviously people will book via the OTA.
It actually is illegal if Google is a monopoly in some sense and using that monopoly as leverage in other areas.

Once a company has a monopoly, the rules change.
I'm in Belarus now and I can confirm that a developer with fluent English and a few years of experience gets around $400 a month.
That show isn't a documentary. It's far too watered down.
The point is that we wouldn't have a need for these slow-downs if we could just replace the batteries ourselves.

The whole thing is geared to make Apple more money, and consumers stupider.
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>And you almost certainly can't compile some of them with a modern compiler,

I wonder how long and difficult it must be to get all the required dependencies to compile a modern web browser...

[two hours of obscure error messages later]

"You have v2.3030392.302 of dependency 113, you need to compile v2.3030392.300 in 32-bit first, then build the 64-bit version of v2.3030392.301 then ..."

You get all the compiler errors fixed and then it's on to round two... linker errors.
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The point isn’t how it gets the coordinates. It’s that the User disabled Location Services, which means that the User’s expectation (on Apple’s platform) is that the app will not locate the User, regardless of whether it theoretically can do so with GPS, WiFi, or a stellar sextant.
More like wildly pessimistic about the places they flee from. These are usually people displaced by religious, social and racial discrimination looking for a fresh start.
Is that the case here, though?

I didn't directly infer from the article that there was a cost to not expending the energy being held in the grid (i.e. does the grid need to expel that excess?). If it needs to expel the excess to consumers, then absolutely the negative pricing makes perfect sense, but I got the impression that this was more a fortuitous set of variables than an intended outcome.
I wonder wether. this algorithm could be explained using Bayesian Learning. How it solves tbe trade-off between exploitation and exploration.
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If you look at all the interested groups contributing to http/2, maybe you will get your answer.
As OTAs charge about 15-20% you should be able to get a better rate from the hotel directly. This could be via their website (recent development) or by just calling them (annoying). Further, the lowest rate at an OTA might be non-refundable while the hotel rate could be flexible.

Source for suggesting to call: Often mentioned by front desk staff at https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk/
I liked that book very much when it came out, but I'm now in the leery camp. Replication and the general quality of studies is a matter of concern, but even one of the core tenets of the book, namely system I vs system II, turns out to be a great oversimplification that can fool as much as it can help.

The thing is, Kahneman is likeable, he has a good reputation and books like these are pure candy for the audience who enjoy that kind of literature (myself included)--but that's also a good warning signal. Could it be too simple, too convenient and too satisfying to be true? How do you know when you fall in love with an idea/theory?
That's really pathetic that a "consumer ready" embedded piece of software whose whole job is remote-management... needs to be remotely managed because it crashes all the time.
I'm not going to get into to the "gain wars" (yes, text bok, real-world you can have just one "good" (high gain) antenna, and it will work just fine for send and receive) - but your answer prompts the obvious question: What about lasers? Turns out, before optical lasers there were masers - microwave lasers, bit they were (are?) very limited power:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-practical-m...
Seeing this from the front page RSS feed I opened the comments page in shock thinking somehow Golang got templates a la C++...
Pakistani here, you really expect us to believe that in countries without reliable electricity in rural areas, nevermind reliable broadband internet access, and 40% literacy rates people who, looking at the average GDPs of countries in the region couldn't possibly afford the necessary computing power are mining Bitcoin?
Not for me. Screenshot and/or PEM?
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To my understanding the author doesn't present an 'grand unifying theory' but a narrative of one way money flows in markets with unclear assumptions.
I find the headline promises far too much.
That is still very much a small minority. For the average Indian programmer in the US, there's very little incentive to move back to India purely for professional prospects. Let's face it, I'd much rather code for Amazon in Seattle than Flipkart in Bangalore.

Other factors like the shitty visa situation (more and more people are chosing to move to Canada because of their permanent residency requirements), family ties and some more ethereal things like the pull of the motherland come into play. As an Indian in the US with maybe 70-80 people from my undergraduate class in the US, a grand total of one person went back to India to build a startup despite having a succesful career.
Yeah sure. You can get senior leadership anything, as long as you pay 5x the market standard pay. This is for companies who are a net negative in profit.

'Funding stats' don't mean anything in this case where they have to keep dumping money never to see any returns. This will hurt the long term ecosystem even for genuine start ups. As investors will largely look at India as some kind of a money sink, where rogue upper managements splurge by paying big money salaries to their own.

>>We are one of the world's largest consumer internet and smartphone market

Is this why Tata Docomo is shutting operations. Jio is in the debt of the tune 1,25,000 crores and Airtel is enduring losses just to survive?

>>oh and with strong net neutrality guarantees.

We all saw how 2G lobbying went.

>>Everyone wants to tap into that. India is moving very differently now !

Tap into what? Losses?

>>who want to move back to India...

Most of them hold US passports, and will bail at any hint of trouble. They will continue to work as long as their obscene compensations are sustained. They did the same during the 2008 crash. Moved to India, made big money and moved back to US the moment the honey was sweeter there.

Let them put their money where there mouth is, give up US passports, take up Indians passports and work here. Until then nothing much can be expected from this loot-and-scoot crowd.
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News Corp owns WSJ, and a lot of other newspapers and media brands. News Corp's competition is not other publishers, it is Facebook and Google.
There's not much to discuss regarding morals in this article, but I really can't stand justifications or "explanations" such as this:

> ...overwhelmingly male and requiring long, lonely hours on computers, has more avid consumers of prostitution than many other fields.

Mens' urges are not out of control. We are not werewolves that transform into savage beasts and get to justify buying other human beings just because we feel lonely and need physical contact.
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The bad guys might wear military clothes...

How does that stop terrorism? The bad guys could just say they're doing official duties.
I read something recently about photographers pushing for cryptographic keys, maybe it was even registering media in the blockchain. Certifying origin and authorship for exactly this situation. I think it was a podcast. Maybe Open Source.
The owner of WSJ is News Corp whose executive co-chairman is Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's views about Google are well known, Example : https://www.forbes.com/2009/04/03/rupert-murdoch-google-busi...
Discussion from 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009211
I have frequently wondered if the lag in productivity is partly due to the distracting power of the internet and social media. This isn't really paralleled by the other technical advances that the authors of the study this piece summarizes were examining.

Also, AI? We don't have anything even approaching AI in play now nor on the immediate horizon. The energy costs it would have are still enormous, even if we really could implement it. Maybe that's a revolution that's yet to begin. We got really good at problems that can be mapped into single precision matrix algebra, where the inputs and outputs are relatively small. It's a big jump to hard AI from there.
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Should Twitter also freeze Trump parody accounts?

Maybe saying parody on the profile makes it OK. Those anti-Semitic impostor accounts are probably still effective under that rule, since most people will not check a users profile.
"Tech, and the web especially, often approaches a zero-sum game."

Why do you think that? Since 2000, how many brand-new companies and brand-new industries have been created, from scratch? Doesn't look very zero-sum to me.
> For Indian techies, 2017 was the stuff of nightmares.

I still believe qualified engineers had no problems keeping their job or finding a new one. In any country.

No wonder that unqualified employees will always be laid off at some time.
>>Why only ML/AI? Because they are in demand now?

NO only that, but because it can be the new IT. Java, Hadoop etc are only languages and frameworks, that had at most a life span of a decade. But ML/AI is a whole new world. If things are going to be progressing in the current pace, then ML/AI could have a big impact on the world as the personal computers did and can be the next big thing of this century.

All this automation and job loss that the original article saying would be nothing if AI comes into full effect. There could be serious job losses all over the world. And with the biggest of population in the whole world, India would be the worst affected.. It is best for any country's interest to progress in AI so that they could have a say in future policy related to AI, not to mention getting more jobs related to that field.

Few of the several fields that could be affected by a combination of AI/Robots/Automation that I could think of ->

> Manufacturing / Factory workers
> Defence personnel
> Agriculture
> Auto drivers (Taxi, Truck, Rail, Ship whatsoever)
> Teaching (Virtual teaching)
> Construction (Ready-made materials combined with smart machines)
> Medical professionals (X-Ray diagnostics etc)
> Doctors (though far-stretched but could be possible)

Why now? No body have solid answers when or will this happen, but if you look closely it's been only couple of years that machines got the ability to beat humans in at least few tasks we figured would require advanced intelligence, including accurate visual/speech recognition. That coupled with smart robots, and automation could replace a large percentage of existing jobs. Self-driving cars are a proof of this. This is little scary, but not alarming if there are proper policies in place. Any country need to be in the forefront of this technology or else can get sidelined really quickly.
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"A third of the rise in the S&P 500 stock market index this year is attributable to Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp."

And yet don't those companies directly employ only around 150,000 workers in total?

Yes, Apple off-shores employment to Foxconn but they are open about their plans to automate their factories and replace all the workers.

This isn't a matter of patience, it's waiting on the never-never.
I have similar negative experience as a tenant of a WeWork rival, overall I think the shared office space fad is a big step in the wrong direction: http://www.alphadevx.com/a/512-Hell-is-a-stylish-shared-offi...
I was actually surprised (some) online booking agencies actually vet the locations they sell. So there is significant cost to scouting and vetting the hotels, i.e. to protect the customer. They also offer some various guarantees which have to be factored into the commission.

I'm fairly certain Google skips all of this, so I would say their profit is effectively (much) higher.

What sucks about the former approach is that booking portals make sort of an exclusive deal, where the price they advertise (with their cut) is as low as a direct sell.
> I don't know about hotels since airbnb is almost always cheaper

AirBNB is super annoying. You have to agree to meet at a certain time. You have to hope they accept your booking. While booking you cannot sort by price, etc. AirBNB informs about demand causing prices to go up in popular periods. Then for most places you basically have to put in writing if you could pretty please rent the place. This while on any hotel you're accepted as long as the credit card check goes through.

I often book by first searching via Booking.com, then trying to book directly or searching for best rate.

I don't travel too often, but AirBNB being cheapest is not my experience. Maybe cheapest no matter the quality and convenience? A shared room is not the same as a hotel for instance. I don't want to feel bad about coming back at e.g. 3am. In a hotel that's pretty much fine. With AirBNB I stick to renting out the whole apartment and for those the prices are slightly above hotels prices (these apartments are often tiny btw).
the certificate is good actually
But..if you photocopy them everyone in the meeting will have the same grid.
Or you could buy a desk and just work from home.
Coverity does a pretty good job. Of course it requires human interaction - but then, thats the only way to good code quality anyway.
> We got really good at problems that can be mapped into single precision matrix algebra, where the inputs and outputs are relatively small.

General AI is a "wave of the future -- always has been, always will be" technology. Only when a piece gets broken out from general AI do we get practical benefits. The benefits from applying all that matrix algebra aren't small, though!
Yes, and this does indeed mean that their results may be of practical importance.

At the same time, it's pretty well known that the kind of problem instances arising in practice and in those challenges are not hard instances. In other words, this also means that their result is extremely unlikely to be relevant for the P=?NP question.
I am afraid this is just more lipstick on the pig of a fundamental problem of the industry: the combination of 1) anyone can call himself a programmer and incompetence is widespread and 2) every company trying to maximize the data collection in the hope that will be valuable.
They did damage to their own selves by flashing their degrees as some kind of life long privilege, while contributing a net negative to the Indian economy(As their education is heavily subsidized at the Indian tax payers expense).
The meaning of "lo" was changed from the original existential meaning to its current grammatical meaning under the recent "xorlo" change, I believe.

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I'm pretty sure the app can be pulling his coordinates from anycast GeoDNS or a number of other things. It's creepyish, but not that weird. It's a location based app, you told them not to use your GPS, they are probably going to use the other tools they have to make sure they can deliver the experience they want to.

I'm not saying it's right, just saying that it exists and everyone has a lot of down to the street location information about you all day.
Old computers never die - their users do!
I agree - and what about all the high end bars/cafes/shops full in the same areas? Working at startups has become a relatively comfortable lifestyle for twenty-somethings who don't necessarily generate value.
After 5 years of working remotely from home, I'm moving to a coworking space this week.

Working from home hasy many perks. But the downside is that you get actually lazy.

I should move out to an office for the sake of my mental and physical health.
I'd wager that only a minority of projects use linters, static analysers, etc in continuous integration. I'd also wager that only a minority treat warnings as errors.
You absolutely can bring it up. Now, here's the issue though; "fake" implies that they fabricated or exaggerated stuff, not just skewed the coverage. If you can provide solid evidence that the WSJ fabricated this news piece you could probably get this link off of HN.
It doesn't yet, and by large I suspect it won't for the foreseeable future. We're doing proof of concept works on things like public records, task registration for legal oversight, landownership and such.

There is a company who've build an organizational component on blockchain tech. This may seem odd to a lot of people, but we're required by law to keep a bi-temporarily record of how our organization looked and who held responsibility for what areas and cases. So far he only option has been an old mainframe system, and it doesn't integrate too well with other components such as the pay-system. I'm not sure if blockchain will carry this responsibility, a lot of other companies are struggling to meet our demand on non-blockchain and it's an extremely hard market to enter, but the blockchain based solution came first, and is currently the only option, do who knows.
There are various treatments (like Chrome plating) vendors one of my metalworking clients use--all available in the USA.

They compete by being extremely efficient with their use of labor hours and cutting waste. Just-in-time everything.

I'd be careful to extrapolate your direct experience to indicate trends.
Data Loss Prevention solutions are the only class of security products I can think of that attacks the problem in a worst way than antivirus do... That's say a lot.

All the time spent implementing those "solutions" would be better spent deploying proper access control, so that retards that may inadvertently upload confidential data to box don't have access to the information in the first place. As a bonus, it also protects you better from malice and not only stupidity.
Using just wages is misleading since benefits (like healthcare) make up a much larger portion of total compensation than they used to. If you adjust for this, you'd find that that total compensation has roughly kept pace with productivity.

http://www.nber.org/digest/oct08/w13953.html
well something like that won't help the gender problem.

I'm a guy, but I never liked the "woman only" or even "men only" groups. it's so disruptive. they form a castle around themselfs instead of really changing the world.
I also think that these -only groups won't help the diversity problem.
people in tech should actually be rated by their skills and not by anything else.
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There are approx. 3.1 million employees[1] in India's IT sector. Is 56k (which is lower than 2%) so much?

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-approximate-number-of-IT-e...
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What is the storage density?