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Something else which can’t be overlooked.... Apple developed iOS, and extremely extensive APIs and documentation to go along with them which enable these apps to exist in the first place.

In many cases Apple has done the R&D and then productized entirely new hardware and software interfaces which apps leverage. When you develop on iOS you stand on the shoulder of a giant who has enabled, through extraordinary investment of labor and capital, a significant portion of the actual end-user experience of running any given app.

One might even say about 30% of that overall experience is Apple’s own work product in the first place.

All that is before you even get to the extremely valuable services actually provided by the small piece of the puzzle which is itself called the “App Store”.
I'm from the US, but I noticed that a lot of train stations in Europe had full drug stores inside - with normal drug store prices as well. Super convenient.
You've gone from claiming that operating spacecraft doesn't fit what the Space Force would do (in your grandparent comment, before you edited it) to claiming that it's not relevant because they're only operating one spacecraft. I'm fairly certain you're not arguing in good faith, especially given the heavy editing of the grandparent comment after I replied to you.
I've seen a lot of "Expect a downturn in 12-18 months" stories lately.
I'd guess that most of HN is in roughly your position- enamored with the idea of a startup but without the savings to start one up, or enthusiastic about Big Name tech companies but without the background or geographic location to get in.

First and foremost, understand that your life is fine; you're a software developer with a job that, albeit boring, is stable and makes good money. You're supporting your family. Most people would give a limb to be in that position. Your problems are psychological.

Consider seeing a therapist; it sounds like you need more perspective on your own life than a bunch of commenters on HN could give you.

But for this commenter's two cents; if you do continue looking for a (even) better job, try to find one that gives you better work-life balance. 20 hours for work+sleeping+commute? A good situation should see that down to 17, tops- 8 for work, 1 for commute, 8 for sleep. Moving closer to work, to reduce commute, has been cited as one of the greatest happiness-enhancing life changes one can make. The 8 hour workday is poo-poo'd by HN because it's full of SV workaholics, but its an available and healthy choice outside that scene. (Notably, either working for a Big Name company or doing a startup would make your life much worse in this regard!) If sleep is eating up the time, consider getting tested for sleep apnea (which can also have complications such as depression... natch!)

With 7 hours of free time per day, rather than 4, you'd be in a much better position to get your feet under yourself, both psychologically and practically. (And perhaps, eventually, to make a better prototype for what you want to do long-term.)
is burnout still recognized as a problem? or better yet, post-industrial revolution, humans are described in machine terms like 'productivity' and 'effectiveness' rather than classical human virtues like patience, prudence or wisdom. If humans allow themselves to be measured by some metric only, work is then a literal rat-race.
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1. Absolutely. It would require some sort of viral approach. You won't win with traditional advertising.

2. Maybe. To be fair, I think the approach from point #1 would always come with an implicit :wink wink, nudge nudge:.

3. I'm not sure you couldn't allow it so much as you would be expected to respond to DMCA/etc in reasonable fashion.
True… a scumbag in one area wouldn’t hesitate extending their scumbaggery skills to other areas if they stand to gain something.
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"Musk is going a bit too far in suggesting that other forces are involved unless he has credible evidence,"

It's not a bit too far since oil&gas companies and car companies have an established history of doing very evil things.
Reading this thread is such a trip down nostalgia lane. NFL 2K (or maybe 2K1) was my first football game ever, and I have such good memories of playing it with my friends. Pity it had to die an early death, just like the Dreamcast.
Honest question: do you guys and gals think YouTube is really able (does it even try?) to identify the songs that Shazam or Siri can not identify - at all? I presume that if a song is unidentifiable for Shazam (or another service like it), then it's not popular and "important" enough on YouTube too so it doesn't get caught OR it's a folk song from a non-Western country.

It's highly probable that you can get the name of such a song much faster by asking about it in the comment section.
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I don't know who those groups are - but they're exactly the sort of name I'd choose for my single-share-holding activist organisation...

(It's a more-than-impulse-buy price of ~$1700 right now - but if I were the sort of person who bought single company shares to push my personal causes at shareholder meetings, I'd probably have bought in at a few hundred bucks 5 or more years back...)
> It's not a bit too far since oil&gas companies and car companies have an established history of doing very evil things.

That does not mean they have done every specific evil thing they are accused of, such as sabotaging Tesla's factory.
Your Enron example is worthwhile for the opposite reason you intended: there was a massive short position against Enron too, and corporate management accused the shorts of all manner of conspiracy, and the shorts were right.

"People invested deeply in something" describes the management of fraudulent companies far more than it does short sellers. There's a quote from David Einhorn's book (that I think he attributes to Warren Buffet) that is something to the effect of: "When you're short a fraudulent company, you'll be surprised at the ends they'll go to defend themselves. Because to you this is 5% or whatever of your portfolio, but to them it is everything."
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Agreed. The difference is ultimately priorities. That is, what gets energy and attention.

The fact is, to __not__ give work all your energy and attention takes motivation. It's different. But it's still motivation.
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My biggest disappointment with Uber is that they did not actually implement a double-auction, and instead they try set prices.
This is excellent, thank you again.

I would guess I'm mentally in the same place as you describe yourself in the first paragraph -- and reading other comments it sounds like many HNers would self-assess similarly.

It's that (probably startling) transition to 'until we started getting demands from companies to advertise for them' that most of us have never experienced, and I can see how that would massively skew the expectations on both sides, especially as popularity / traffic increases and demands get more frequent, emphatic, dubious, etc.
My wife is a CPA, and now by reflex when I see a story like this I think of the tax consequences. Do you have to count products and event tickets as income and declare it?
Im going to tell you a secret. Go to work every day, put in your 8 hours and don't give a shit about your job after that. Crunch time, not my problem. System fell over, not my problem. More work than one person can don in a week, not my problem.

If they fire you (and they might) find another job. Programers are in demand ALL OVER.

You don't want to get promoted, you don't want to climb the corporate ladder, you want to launch your own product while you still send money home.

And as for launching, well just launch. Just keep building and adding features -- don't market out of the gate but GO LIVE and be very public about what your working on and how it is coming (blog a paragraph or two a few times a week)

That work is on your resume now, it is part of who you are, and might be something someday but doesn't have to be something tomorrow... your creating for yourself.
I get that people are upset with government abuses (I am too!), but stepping back for a minute, I think it is much more concerning that we’re building a world where a few tech companies get to decide what computing may or may not be used for.

The fact that even the government is hitting headwinds gives me an extremely negative outlook for where the cloud is headed with respect for individual rights.
There were no malicious code changes, rather malicious and deliberate misconfiguration of the software.
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That was my initial reaction to that assessment as well. Normally the risk-reward ratio is high, but with the largest short position of the market (at some point inthe last couple months, possibly still currently) at above $10 billion, that's a lot of potential reward that might be capable of being paid out, even when we consider that much of it is small individual positions.
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I've already said this, but there were no malicious code changes, rather malicious and deliberate misconfiguration of the software.
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Any concern about name confusion with ARK: Survival Evolved?
The same thing can be said about specific technologies.

1) Is it OK to work on facial recognition at all, knowing it will be abused.

2) How about machine learning in general. It is certainly being abused. Some people are worried about an AI destruction of humanity. Should all AI research be banned.

3) What about open source ML libraries? Having TensorFlow open source, certainly makes it much easier for bad actors to develop ML to do bad stuff.

4) What about open source in general. Having Linux as an open source, free software certainly enabled a lot of people to efficiently run computer systems that can be used for bad things. I am sure, that many of the surveillance systems used by the US, China, and Russia run some variant of Linux.

Basically, if you are writing software, especially open source, somewhere along the line, somebody will do something bad with it.
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Fantastic insight, really top-notch.

Just some random thoughts in no particular order - curious what you make of them:

- On the subject of incremental piecemeal changes over time with no requirements: don't you all find that in your workflows (when you're doing something for yourself), it is hard to step back and "architect" something? It is easier to just let it evolve.

- Likewise it takes real work and thought to organize something as simple as a spice rack. (I just keep opened packages of spices in the cupboard.) The knowledge that company is coming is one of the few pushes. But it kind of feels like it's being done for show.

- It's hard to add architecture when you know there's no team that is coding against it as an API. It's just you. It feels like that extra power is, kind of wasteful.

- The other thing is that it may be the case that you know there is some deeper level of architecture. In the case of my spices, for example, most of the opened spice packets I mentioned are actually mixes. (Such as grilled chicken spice mix.)

- If I had to architect my own spice rack, I should start by learning which spices I'm actually using more of. And since what I'm doing works, I don't actually care. Plus, it would be a step down: the first time I mixed my own spices, I would probably end up with a worse dish than pouring some out of a premixed packet.

- The first time you architect a "proper" framework rather than let your machine learning algorithm "overfit", the result is probably demonstrably worse.

- That is a lot of pressure on not architecturing, and just continuing to (over)-fit.
Those zealots would do it anyway.

If there's any correlation between non-zealot-developers and highly-effective-developers (which there may not be, but the optimist in me hope there is), then the world might be a better place as a result of this...

(Note, I have been _tempted_ to take on work that fascinates be on a technical level, that I disagree with on an ethical level. I've never crossed my own personal ethical line there, but - without judging - I can see why the temptation succeeds for some people...)
For me, personally, I strongly dislike the Hyperloop and Loop proposals. I can provide lots of details about why these systems suck as public transit options (and I've done so in the past several times), but there has tended to be an annoying cohort that rejects any and all criticism, no matter how reasoned it is. While I don't particularly pay attention to Tesla and Space X, I've noticed that there is similarly a very vocal cohort that responds to criticism by attacking detractors as shills for short sellers/Big Oil/Big Auto/Big Space, which certainly fuels schadenfreude for me and make me want to root against Tesla just to see that vocal cohort shut up.

It should also be pointed out that there was recently a very public revelation about a Silicon Valley startup that made big noise about disrupting a stagnant industry whose technology was accused as being impossible which turned out to be a massive fraud. Tesla is a company which has certainly failed to meet many of its projected milestones, and whose public stature is partially based on a major technology which has failed to deliver so far (Autopilot). Undoubtedly, many people are liable to find the comparison too similar for comfort.
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, the argument "you sound like a conspiracy theorist" doesn't hold water any more.
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Terraform also lets you create abstractions via modules (admittedly with less flexibility than arbitrary code). I'm still not quite seeing the value proposition here over Terraform.
Which raises the question: How motivated must you be to be productive? That is, does a drop in motivation cause a like drop in productivity.

Put another way, just because you're being productive doesn't mean you're doing the right thing. Perhaps mindfulness means less work but better results?
Isn’t what happens after that condition is detected the critical point? That’s the part that I’d imagine needs to be modified/tweaked as emission standards change.
kinda the direction Lytro were trying to take
Omg, what a waste of time. I’m so glad almost no one is making money doing this stuff. Shill for free, shill for money, the shilling part is the common part.
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I agree with this in principle, but in the US the intelligence/police don't really seem to be accountable to the people.

They regularly conduct surveillance on huge scales and no one even knows about it until we get lucky with a leak like Snowden. Who knows how many dozens of other secrets like that they still have. The CIA/FBI etc. have a history of doing this kind of thing for decades, at least since WW2. Then it gets declassified 50 years later when no one cares.

Surveillance is a case where its good for the government, but bad for the people the government is meant to represent. Bottom line is they will never police themselves on this issue. So going after the people making it like Amazon may be a better idea.
Yes, you’re right about all of that.

But it is critical to understand/remember that those (racial motivations) were Not the underlying cause of the war. Had Hitler not started off with the lebensraum gag, nobody would have given a damn about it - in practical terms, barring a few strongly worded speeches and possible protests lodged with various German ambassadors.

Claiming to fight hatred might have flown well in the media, and that’s one of the reasons the whole antisemitism and eugenics business started to be disliked - because of its association with the 3rd Reich. But no government at the time, a time when all were busy recovering from WWI, would have bothered to send troops to fight the gassing of a few million Jews.

Even in recent years/decades, far too many near-genocides (of some African tribes by other African tribes), and currently, the case of the Rohingya moslems in the Burma - all it garners is sharp criticism, occasional sanctions, and a lot tall talking by the UN. And the current level of awareness and popular dislike of these issues is far greater than in the time of WWII.
Pre-ads on services also don’t play well at all with failures. Even a short crappy promo for 15 seconds gets old if it keeps replaying the crappy promo every time my actual show fails to play. So the experience goes: $ad, $error, $same_ad, $same_error, and before you know it you’re muttering about how much you’re over-paying.
For someone who talks so much about empathy you ironically completely fail to empathize with Asians.

You're making an emotional argument not a logical or reasoned one so I can tell your mind is the type that isn't persuaded by facts but instead by emotional rhetoric. I bet you cry during political speeches.

You're not worth my time to try to persuade because you just demonstrated a thought process based on anecdotes and evidence and empathy you extend to only one marginalized party instead of both. So instead of giving you the "imagine you're a Cambodian first generation immigrant who gets shat on daily by society AND STILL has a fraction of the chance to get into Harvard as Michael Jordans son" I'll just say: good day to you sir and good luck with your half assed thought process and your attempts to ride the moral high horse of empathy when ironically extending empathy to only one party.

Your thought process is flawed, your reasoning is flawed, and you utterly lack the empathy and compassion you claim to exault. Peace out and good luck with your half assed anecdote-based reasoning -- meanwhile I'll be chilling here looking at the data, calling a spade a spade, and calling a racist admissions process a racist admissions process. You don't get virtue points for throwing your ethnicity under the bus when your ethnicity is actively being marginalized btw. Can't even believe how racist you are rly. Good day to u sir
I know in Microsoft it would be relatively easy to push destructive code changes. It depends on the product though. I was able to connect to production machines.

There was someone running torrents in the past.
"It's the fear of revisiting something that destroy's a code base." So true.
They could always drop their price to the amount they could charge without the 30%, and get supply/demand price sensitivity curves. If a bunch of apps did this, you could get statistically significant data.

A law firm could easily pay a number of app makers to try this out in exchange for the data, and then make a huge class action out of this.

I think the big challenge is that there are a number of confounding factors, like Apple's ranking algorithms.
Probably not. Riders and drivers are both primarily price-driven. They have little or no brand loyalty. It's a low-margin, race-to-the-bottom type of business.

L5 self-driving cars will be a game-changer for a while, assuming Uber gets exclusivity from Waymo (which now owns a stake in Uber).
That :wink wink, nudge nudge: was exactly what I was talking about in my first post that EA had to eventually give up on.

In order to have any competitive online mode, you need to have have player attributes that are in some way restricted so you can't just max out the attributes for your custom team. That would be in direct conflict with recreating teams realistically because real life teams can have huge disparities of talent between them.

And just to be clear, I am not saying that this can't be done. Just that the obstacles in the way make this such a risky undertaking that no established developer would take on a project like this.
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You're right - there's _lots_ of grey area here, and some people's ethics are different from mine (and mine are probably different from yours, at least at the boundaries. _Most_ people agree on basic human rights, they just all define them differently sometimes...)

While I agree we need new laws, I also recognise that laws by necessity change slower than fashions, so there's always a period (often a long period) where laws trail behind what's going on in society. It's during those periods where approaches like "it is good to have as many software developers as possible steering away from unethical work." might help.
Express Pool and Pool include an up to 2 minute wait to give other riders a chance to make a request in the same area or along the route. Express Pool often feels much faster than Pool because they ask the rider to walk towards main streets and I notice it helps the driver avoid having to drive around city blocks unnecessarily. I think Lyft Line is the same offering as Uber Pool and doesn’t require a 10 min wait (but the wait could be that long if there aren’t drivers nearby or it’s totally possible that they used to add a 10min wait). Perhaps the thing you’re thinking of is called Lyft Shuttle now?

F.D. I work for Uber, but not in the rides business.
The number of 20 - 40 y/o that have the same amount of free time (to FO on the internet) is minimal. If you're post-college and have a job you have a fraction of the internet time of a college or high school kid.

I'm not disputing the existence of such 20 - 40 y/o, just that their percentage of YT or IG usage is small compared to real kids.
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I think you should reconsider your thoughts about this a bit. There is a genuine revolution underway being enabled by plummeting costs of producing lithium-ion batteries at scale.

Whether or not Tesla will lead it (or even continue be part of it) is certainly up for debate, but large, real things are happening and saying "everyone ride a bike!" is ignoring a reality that isn't tainted by feelings about Tesla/Elon.
In the past 24 hour cycle of news I have seen:

- Microsoft catching heat for their deal to allow ICE to use their capabilities

- Amazon catching heat for their deal to allow government to use facial recognition

- A photo of Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos and Trump sitting next to each other and shaking hands

What's the play here?