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I started out doing telephone technical support 20+ years ago.

After the bubble in 2000 I moved back to NYC to work with my dad as a Private Investigator. I did that for 8 years until I realized I was too young for that life.

I applied to only one grad program (RISD) because their ID program sounded interesting and I wanted to get into the design world. Focusing on only one school made it a challenge and allowed me to fine tune everything. Like a cosmic coin flip.

After finishing up the program in 2010 (I specifically wanted a 2 year program because of the double hit of negative income and cost) my wife and I moved out to the Bay Area. I went from taking an internship at a design firm ($15/ hr as a 36yo is humbling) to my current role of building out a UX design team of 20 designers in Providence, RI.

In the 7 years of working in the Bay Area I burned through 8 jobs. Some were wonderful stepping stones, some were side tracks, a few were painful situations of treading water with waves constantly going over my head — but all were learning experiences that made my skillset hard to beat in the marketplace.

My current role is funding my family (oh yeah, had 2 kids in that 7 year span…. Don’t drink the water in Rockridge unless you want kids) to relocate back to Providence, RI. It feels nice to come full circle back to the place that gave me a chance to experiment and reinvent myself.

My advice… life is about collecting experiences. Don’t let any single experience define you. Be proud of your accomplishments, learn from your failures, and be nice to everyone you work with. My network has helped me out countless times.

Everyone roots for the underdog.
...and actually showed up when you called them
...and refund your money when the driver is a schmuck, no questions asked
...and provided cleaner, more modern cars than typical taxis
...and dealt with gnarly details in GPS
...and provided smarter, better conversationalists than typical taxi drivers
...and worked in multiple cities with one app
...and support multiple payment
...and let businesses handle complex expensing
...and and and
Magic Leap is partnering with Turner sports and the NBA to stream games
The sudden death of the website
Yep! That’s what it does. Hopefully I can get it moved over to BCD which will drop basic arithmetic performance, but more than make up for it when faster rounding. :-)
Star Trek: Discovery ends the season with a bang (and a whimper)
And a 4.5B loss, which seems insane to me.

It's interesting that UberEats reached 4B gross revenue run-rate, which according to the article means food delivery is 10% of their business. Seems like that's pretty significant given how recent UberEats is and how many competitors they have in the space. Why is UberEats better than Grubhub, for example?
> In some countries petrol tax must be spent on building and maintaining roads. Similarly, can't we have an 'expired IP tax' which must be spent on cancer research?

Are you trolling?

You're comparing a petrol tax used to maintain roads, to an "expired intellectual 'property'" tax which hypothetically would be used to fund a completely unrelated activity, one which cannot be argued with, because how could you be against cancer research, you heartless bastard? What about the children with leukemia? You monster!

I will therefore raise you a "let's put a cancer research tax on EVERYTHING! No disposable income until cancer is cured! You have to be in favor of it, or you are a cold, emotionless hater!" You can't disagree with me, because "no enemies to the left, no friends to the right."

Do you see how this goes? All I have to do is out-extreme your extremeness, and you can't disagree with me, because emotional appeals to child cancer research. It's an intellectually dishonest form of argument, so please, knock it off.

Seriously, do you not realize that you are proposing to give the government ownership of all expired copyrights? What part of "for limited times" and "public domain" do you not understand? You actually want the government to own everything in our culture?!
Evidently one of those consequences was not lower revenue.

Edit: replaced profit with revenue. Uber is not currently profitable.lol.
See also: TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386331
Even if you use it perfectly, between fingerprinting techniques which could be used to cross-reference your logged-in "normal" use and some of the communications Yasha Levine dug up (showing that Tor gave intelligence services early notice of vulnerabilities that had not been patched), I would be sure someone couldn't pierce the veil of anonymity.
Wolfram Interactive Demonstrations Project: College Physics
SpaceX to launch its satellite internet prototypes this weekend
Taxi apps like these are prevalent in Europe and have been around for 5-7 years. MyTaxi/Hailo is owned by Daimler and is Europe's largest taxi app. Gett Taxi is a large player - Volkswagen invested $300 million in them in 2016. However, the taxi industry is regulated and can't set artificially low prices like Uber does.
Buckhacker – Amazon AWS S3 bucket search engine
A meditation on love, loss and the forgotten – using WebGL and Three.js
Big-City Life on Very Little Water
Yeah, I've seen people go apoplectic at the idea.
Many places don't even have an alternative.

Here in Melbourne, Australia the only alternative that seems to exist is "GoCatch": which just books a normal taxi for you. The drivers don't have a clue about it, and often end up asking for payment (when it's all handled in the app).

When visiting Vietnam, I've found no alternative to Uber that works.
Well, there's more one can do with a dual-lens setup -- but good to know. Thanks for making the grass less green on the other side :)
Most of the jobs in the industrial age were powered by human labor. Women and children are weaker, and thus, would tend to earn less.

Old men probably didn't earn as much as the 20 year olds at the shipyard or meat packing plant, either.
> only thing the taxi industry needed to do to prevent this all from happening was develop a ride-hailing app

There's no way the taxi industry could have pulled this off. There's an incredibly complex dispatch system that keeps wait times and prices low, and hundreds of millions invested in incentives to create a new consumer behavior. The long term future hinges on the self-driving, hard to imagine the taxi industry being on the forefront of this tech.
Ethereum makes up the overwhelming majority of the hash power across all the networks (I'd guess about 75% of the total). If those GPUs go looking for other things to mine, they will crush the difficulty on the remaining networks and profit will go to zero.

Many chinese miners are using electricity that's nearly or actually free, they will keep trying to recoup their investment even if it sends small miners into the red.

On top of that, most Ethereum people are mining using AMD GPUs - and AMD GPUs have garbage efficiency at all the other coins. Ethash is literally the only one they do with reasonable efficiency, NVIDIA is ~2x more efficient at everything else.

https://i.imgur.com/2u2HOw7.png

(numbers from WhatToMine.com and include undervolting for all cards, and BIOS mods for AMD cards)
sincerely non-confrontational question:

Someone who has not completed law school, albeit a PhD candidate university instructor, is qualified to grade someone else's brief on a seminal case?
The twitter replies referenced undergrad moot court competitions. I never knew there were moot court competition for undergrads...
Okay that is helpful. In my experience, this situation -> people that, for one reason or another, appear to wander around with no clear career progression or direction, so it looks like they are "junior" in experience despite being "senior" in total years worked. has always been that the person wandering didn't know what they wanted, and if it had been years, didn't have tools to figure out what they wanted.

I am reasonably certain there are other explanations/causes but the three cases I can recall easily were all that the person got into a career in computer programming because someone one else told them they should. And they stayed employed but they didn't have any idea about what they wanted to do so they changed jobs for all sorts of reasons, a girlfriend, a pay raise, a manager that kept bugging them at the old job. All of the change reasons were external to their career path.

One really wanted to be a musician. They could talk on and on about different styles and influences. They lit up and were on fire. One was lost, they had always had their life planned out for them by others and they followed that plan until it ran out (just after graduate college and get a job). And they never previously had been required to create their own plan. I didn't get to talk with the third person I can remember because they moved on to a new position before I had that chance.

If that resonates with you then my advice is to work on figuring out what you really care about. And I recognize that isn't an easy task, it was simple for me I was fascinated by computers and the systems you could build with them, so much so I build stuff just for fun. But a good way to search for the things that you care about are to explore different things (very hard to do as a single breadwinner in a family). As I told my musician friend, even if you're not an artist with a signed label contract, you have a understanding of what they are going through and you can write code. Can you find ways to help other musicians that way? Or music lovers? Or screenwriters trying to match music to scenes? or hospitality businesses wanting to influence the mood with music? You can get quite meta and still exploit the experience you've developed in an area you care about.

Without an amnesia treatment there is only so much you can reset :-) Mostly folks learn basics about work (its not always fun, how you work can be as important as what you get done, your boss may be an idiot but it doesn't change the fact that they are your boss, etc). So instead of 'resetting' it's more like vectoring. Now that you've been in the career for a while, if you know what you'd like to be then imagine you have reached that point and and then try to imagine plausible steps that you would have had to take to get there.
Single Trapped Atom Captures Science Photography Competition Top Prize
Sure. Was just trying to provide some context for the Rust book.
And sold dollars for $.75.
1-Year-Old Twin Girls Joined at the Chest Separated After Successful Operation
App support was problematic, in part because Microsoft kept coming up with new, incompatible ways to develop apps. Apps for WP7 could work on WP8 and W10M (except sometimes, when the app compat didn't work right on upgrade, and users had to wipe their phone and try again, and Microsoft never fixed it); but there was also a 'new way' to build apps for WP8 that was required for some features, and a new way to build 'universal' apps for W10M that didn't work on any of the other versions of Windows Phone. To say nothing of the apps for Windows Mobile 6 that were thrown away (despite WP7 still being Windows CE, but with a fancy skin).

It's one thing to build an app for a platform with not very many users; it's another to build three similar apps for three similar platforms that don't have very many users. This is something Microsoft should have done better, and falls in the camp of if you're going to be a third ecosystem, you have to be consistently good.
To bolster your argument in a non-technical way: if Tor made users untrackable by US intelligence, would US intelligence really keep funding it?
A literal tab character is equivalent to 8 spaces in Python source (or 1-7 spaces if the tab is preceded by a number of spaces that is not an even multiple of 8). This follows well-established Unix standards.

So the following lines are at equivalent indentation:

<SPC><SPC><SPC><SPC><SPC><SPC><SPC><SPC>foo
<TAB>foo

Or do you mean that when you press the tab key in your editor when editing Python, you don't like that it emits 4 spaces instead?
> Tor is far more fingerprintable than people think it is

You seem to have no idea about the existence of pluggable transports.[1][2]

> and its riddled with adversaries and malware.

Yes, and so is I2P... Freenet... the Internet?

> Even if you're good you have a separate problem now: Keeping the USG et al from painting a target on you.

Isn't that an argument for using Tor? As Mike Perry (who works now on the vanguard proposal implementation) puts it, "we want enough people to actually use Tor Browser such that it becomes less interesting that you're a Tor user. We have plenty of academic research and mathematical proofs that tell us quite clearly that the more people use Tor, the better the privacy, anonymity, and traffic analysis resistance properties will become."

> Just use a burner iPad and wipe it frequently. If you're truly paranoid light up a DigitalOcean droplet with a pre-paid credit card and a false name and install OpenVPN on it make an image and cycle your IP.

Your IP will be known since you connect directly using your IP to the droplet. Also doesn't protect you from browser fingerprinting which alone may have leaked enough information to identify you.

[1] : https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en

[2] : https://www.pluggabletransports.info/ (really good folks work on them, and we should appreciate the amount of work that they put in obfs research)
> Tor [... is] riddled with [...] malware.

what the ass does this even mean
I came to this article to read about snakes, not about an old romance.

Edit: OMG, even the original article is titled poorly with some clickbait.
I really wish it went a bit further into why a programmable RPN calculator is better than an iPhone app or whatever.

Explain why RPN is so much better than infix. Explain why the simple, distraction-free BASIC impl is so liberating for certain kinds of tasks. Explain what kinds of tasks this little gizmo enables and why are these tasks better on the gizmo than on a more "modern" alternative. Riff on the weeks of battery-use, the lack of push notifications, the cool retro factor...any of this to convey the coolness that is the gizmo.

Nice little one-off piece, but I'd love to see something similar with more passion and explanation!
That is a cool idea, if you can get really light and efficient mechanical gyro.

A boring solution will be fins operated by micro servo/
C++ and Rust, yes, but not Go. Go is a lot closer to Java than it is to C++, since its growable stacks and garbage collector require marshaling overhead to call out to languages that don't know about them.
I feel like this article makes two strong arguments in favour of C:

1. You need to know C because C is popular, and

2. You need to know C because C is a lowish-level language.

I can't very well argue with the first point -- indeed, nearly everything fundamental is made in C or the C-like subset of C++ still -- but I oppose myself to the second.

I do think you should learn a lowish-level language, but there are good reasons to make that language something like Ada instead; something high-level enough to have concurrency primitives yet low-level enough to force you to consider the expected ranges of your integers and whether or not you want logical conjuctions to be short-circuiting. Something high-level enough to have RAII managed generic types, yet low-level enough to let you manipulate the bit layout of your records. High-level enough to have exceptions and a good module system for programming in the large yet low level enough to have a built in fixpoint type and access to machine code operations.

Unless you target C specifically for its popularity, there are other options out there, filling the same gap.
I actually ran TCL in virtual machine and SSHed into it like this back when node.js only ran on linux well.
Not just useful, but impressively currently useful. Picking up K&R with little previous experience, and you can make a program that does something in hours, on a current machine. It's dense, but well-written and easy to pick up.
Correction:

There's no way the taxi industry could have pulled this off. They're bound by their country's labor laws.
Yasha Levine just released a book which is supposed to give a lot of documentation for his claims. It sounds compelling from a few interviews I listened to but I'm not that far into the book.
None other than various assemblies thanks to the "influence of C" convincing people that a flat (essentially contiguous) endless memory space was "how a computer works"
There is a wide and growing gulf between what cyber experts know and what the tech savvy public knows. The world is changing so fast right now you almost need to invent your adversary's tools to be free from them.

If you're talking with large numbers of people that don't trust Tor then it speaks more to the quality of your friends than it does about the prevalence of this opinion.
But what can summarize the Gizmodo article in 1/4th of its size?

Parasitism all the way down!
> "how do I know that Linode, Bluehost, and other VPS providers aren't looking at my traffic?"

I would assume that it's because they have no financial interest in the content of your traffic, whereas a VPN-specific service might. Most big VPS providers know that the bulk of their customers are technically minded people who read their own logs and monitor their own traffic, so there's no technical interest for them either.

That said, if you end up abusing their terms (higher than allocated traffic or sustained heavy CPU time, for example), you can expect them to investigate if only to see if it's malicious in nature (DoS, spam, etc) or just a bad configuration.

But again, those are just assumptions on my part. If you have any doubt about a particular service, it's probably best to move on to one you can vet/audit.
I'm surprised there isn't a one-click way for the user to build their own kernel with ZFS inside it.

As long as I don't distribute the resulting binary there should be no legal implications.
At least you weren't just passively consuming. As monkmartinez might say, you were making the decisions and interacting with the physical world. If you wanted fun you had to make it.
How anonymous could it be, if they know whether a reporter is a "private person/company"?
I found that one part of the feeling you describe comes from it being "organic" in an unusual way. It's easy to find any number of modern buildings that use "organic" shapes or materials (think curved or made from wood). However, they will still be boring and predictable inside and fit into a very boring street grid outside. Barbican is different: it's "brutalist" and as un-organic in its material as possible, but the structure itself is an unpredictable, multilevel maze where you don't know what awaits you around the corner. That provokes a very different feeling, more akin to a forest over the rolling hills than to a city. And it's built that way both inside and out, at least as far as public spaces are concerned.

I think that different kind of "organic" is why I love Barbican. There aren't many places that make me feel like a child exploring a new area, but Barbican is the best at that.
Perhaps the attitude of each fan blade rotates independently. To angle the drone, say, forwards, the fan blades might angle flat when they're at the forward position, every cycle, and angle tilted at the backwards position?

Seems expensive and tricky though.
AMP for email is a terrible idea
Double revenue, 1.5X costs. Uber is well on track.
Stopped reading after the title.

RAID5 is long dead. It's too sensitive to data loss and it has performance issues. Use RAID 1 or RAID 10.
If I am reading your chart correctly - the 1080 is also very inefficient at Ethash?
Super interesting. Something I wouldn't have ever thought about, but makes perfect sense.

The world is just frighteningly complex, sometimes.
I work at 18F. I have never been drug-tested. It's not a requirement for the job.
> Means if your app displays emoji anywhere without a user having it typed in, it’s illegal and will be rejected.

How does that work in a chat app, when the remote user has typed that in on their device?
The astounding science and engineering of printer jams
I would not buy one from eBAy used. You will never know just how much lifetime you have left after a 'miner' burned it 24/7/365.

And I thought the prices were a joke, but a AMD vega RX 64, was pricing between 1,100$ and 3,000$ 2/13/17
> You need to compare the difference in CoL as the percentage of that salary that goes towards CoL.

Great insight. Here in NYC, I know a few frugal programmers who share a 2 bedroom with a friend such that he pays about 25% of his income in rent (that's A LOT of money to save/enjoy life with). Another is nearing 40% but because he prefers living alone. And there's always the "I want to live like they did in Friends/I want a 10 min commute" coworker that spends 60%+ on rent.

These kind of studies make it seem like most people live like the latter, when my personal experience as an engineer in NYC, the city is not unaffordable at all ... unless you want to own property ASAP. Honestly, what I've learned is that COL discussions are hard because people spend money differently and value different things.
You can change the type of emoji Slack uses.
Data point: I don't know a single person using Uber in Dublin. You can hail a taxi with an app (mytaxi, used to be hailo), which actually tends to be cheaper than Uber.
UberEats has simplicity and convenience over most of the other solutions. After using it every now and then for the better part of a year, I've had limited issues with delivery.

By comparison, Postmates has had issues with delivery every time I've tried it. Usually, it comes down to a lack of drivers in my area, which isn't ever the case with Uber.
Prices have been dropping, so I assume so?
Correct. The 1080 uses GDDR5X, which is quad-pumped and delivers chunks of RAM that are twice as big as Ethereum uses. This works fine for graphics, and for many other coins, but on Ethereum half of the bandwidth is wasted.

(bandwidth consumption is what makes Ethash memory-hard/ASIC-resistant - same principle as the tuning parameters on bcrypt/scrypt, designed to make it difficult for an attacker to scale their processing)

The 1070 Ti is basically a 1080 with GDDR5 (dual-pumped) instead of 5X (and minus one SM), and does much better, along with the 1070. The 1080 Ti has enough bandwidth to brute-force it even throwing half of it away.
Porn could work around that with mocap and CG, I hear they're a forward thinking industry tech-wise. 3D rendered characters works better for VR anyway!

I do see your point though. Guess we'll see!
The method I've found is to ask people I respect a lot, "Who is the best X that you know?" Then call/email them, saying, "I'm the CEO of Y, and I'm trying to find out what a good X looks like. So and so said you're the best she knows. Can I have 30 minutes of your time?"

Do 5 of these, and you'll have a good idea of what someone good looks like. (And those 5 may give you some candidates)

This is very difficult though because things like "organizes the team to hit quota every quarter" can come in many different manners.
Even Bill Gates Is Worried That Silicon Valley Will Unleash the Apocalypse
I use Lyft Line several times a month, and have found it to be nicer than Uber Pool. I guess YRMMV (your ridesharing mileage may vary).
HN doesn't have any private message functionality but many people (including the poster you replied to) have a means of contact in their profile - just click on the user's name.