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Congrats @justin. I'm curious about culture, as the article mentioned that employees with different backgrounds have very different cultural expectations. Have y'all actively managed/shaped culture? Are you shoehorning non-tech employees into a tech culture, or is it more of a middleground?
I feel the opposite is true, but I have no data to support it
I use the standard one.[1] Open a terminal and type `node` to start it or run a script with Node's debugger[2] and drop into a REPL from there. I sometimes use Slimux[3] to send code snippets from Vim to a REPL in another tmux[4] pane.

[1] https://nodejs.org/api/repl.html

[2] https://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html

[3] https://github.com/epeli/slimux

[4] https://medium.com/actualize-network/a-minimalist-guide-to-t...
It's not a sane default for people gaming with mouse/mechanical keyboard. The voice activation can (in general) be set not to have squad breathing and chewing in your ear - but you'll hear every Crack of desperate mouse movement...

It might be better with people using Xbox controllers.
Simpler in understanding and mental overhead. I want code in my projects being written in a way so that it's maintainable by developers this business can reasonably hire. Which means that they didn't read SICP or even Knuth, don't have experience with functional language and overall are not the x10 developers everybody pretends to have.
I've never tried doing pcaps with Discord voice chat yet but it would be interesting "estimating" what was said best on the amount of voice traffic transferred. Might be harder if it still looks like standard Discord TLS "control traffic" blending in though, no?
Outside of "exhibits basic social grace and custom", culture to me is:

* Diversity of thought and multidisciplinary approach to problem solving
* How you view teams, how you would organize a team you were going to be part of, what makes a good team
* How you handle failure, defeat, and disappointment
* How you handle difficult people and situations
* Your communication style, especially for bad news
* How you convince others to change
* Your view on work life balance
* Your attitude towards management and leadership styles
* Your appetite for risk and entrepreneurship
* Your dispute resolution tactics

There may be others... In any case you can address most of these for senior hires with simple SBO questioning.

For juniors you're probably best off just focusing on communication skills, working in teams, and challenging situations or failures.
Yes, the banks were part of the cause. That is not in dispute, as you can see by reading my previous comments. But they would not have been able to commit their fraud without the aid of credulous buyers willing to purchase far more house than they could afford. That's all I'm saying.
If you're hinting at a revolution, a.k.a. what used to be a check against the upper classes, you can't really have one of those when every police department has a tank, a swat team, and carte blanc access to all social media and mobile data/communications.
If you could decide this accurately, then you would have a strategy for your own hedge fund.
> while being effectively subsidized by the taxpayers roads

Uber driver pays taxes including whatever is in the gasoline and vehicle insurance and whatnot.

The proper "get off my lawn" way to complain about non-payers of road taxes is to focus on cyclists.
>> .. when people use a ride-hailing company, they are opting to do so rather than take public transportation, walk or bike. They generally are not choosing between hailing and driving themselves.

This doesn't seem correct to me. If I can ride my bike or walk somewhere, I will do that pretty much every time. The only time I ever consider an Uber or Lyft is if the distance is too far to bike, and I would rather not drive for whatever reason. I know this is just one anecdote, but that seems like quite a bold claim from the article, and a claim that doesn't match up at all with the reality of how I and others I know use the services.
And nothing. She shouldn't have launched without resolving the issue raised by the commission. You're either misreading my comment or my comment was unclear. I'm assuming the problem was my lack of clarity.
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It has to be the keyboard, right? No other machine (phone/tablet) has a workable input device.
FCC's purpose, since their creation, is "to protect crony firms". No one is shocked that they're doing it in space now.
pdf of the paper :
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammod_Chisti/publica...
That was the whole idea with the Ubuntu phone -- convergence. I don't know that it will ever come to pass. No matter how powerful the thing in your pocket is, I have a box next to my desk that can hold 50 of them. And we're always going to find ways to use more power.
Thanks for the reply! Studying the photo more, I see that you are right about them being in the left of the second traffic lane - it's not parked cars like I thought previously.
Personally, I've been really annoyed with the slow, unresponsive Google Maps on my phone when my reception gets a little bad. I'd definitely like to try comparing this against Google Maps with the same poor connection (packet loss). The 25kb compared to 200kb for Google Maps makes a huge difference! Actual rendering speed seems a lot faster as well, which is another huge plus on my dated smartphone.
> revolutions happen not because of poverty but through the process of a society becoming poorer.

I don't think it's the case that most of them start because the society as a whole had become poorer, but because some particular segment has, while others accumulate wealth. It's not really worth having a revolution if there's nothing of value to seize. A lot of revolutions started as tax revolts by the wealthy, in fact -- the french revolution and english civil war come to mind. It was only after central authority collapsed that events outpaced the initial instigators.
> Gas tax does not go nearly enough of the way to paying for infrastructure. Most road maintenance is paid for by property and income taxes.

Ride hailing drivers pay income tax.
Won't the new name confuse potential customers because they think of the Azure cloud for deployment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953823
Yeah, maybe.

But it's Google. I could name at least 12 datapoints to check wether it's still the same user it was for 10 years on top of my head. Starting with "still using the same device" going to probably things like "typing style", given how sophisticated their AI is.

There is really no excuse for Google's ADD and implementing half-assed features and stopping to support them 2 months later...
Also vaping incessantly...
What lack of meaningful goals? I find it very hard to believe that any human being is ever in a position where they find it hard to see meaningful goals to strive for. The lack of ability to achieve any of those goals, however, I could easily see being a problem. You can't really achieve anything that requires concentrated effort if you've got to work 40 hours a week so that you can eat.
So why do you suppose he should care?

It's not his business to figure out how they pay their expenses. It's his business to make value judgements for himself. He decided this service wasn't worth the cost.
You left out "public transportation." There is very strong anecdotal evidence that here in DC a large number of people take Uber where they used to take Metro.
>I don't think index fund investors are the cause of Amazon's growth.

Sure they are.

Index funds are not equally weighted. Practically every tech ETF you can buy has Amazon weighted in the top 10, sometimes over 10% of total assets [0] whereas the average for other securities is below 1% at the most.

[0] https://money.usnews.com/funds/etfs/large-growth/invesco-qqq...
> The surprise will come the next time a Financial Crisis comes and the government works to sell out the working class

Meh. There won't be any surprise at all. Even now, people who are outraged about the bailouts are just the lunatic fringe libertarians (like myself) and some equally fringe progressives. Almost everyone I talk to about it says, "yeah, it's too bad that we had to give Citibank billions of dollars, but otherwise bad things would have happened, according to people who didn't predict the previous bad things, and are thus totally qualified in their predictive abilities, and Citibank paid it all back anyway, with no fudging of balance sheets or interest-free loans or anything like that".

I think people make the mistake of seeing the 2008 crisis as the mortgage failure, instead of the massive wealth transfer that you're talking about. When working class people paid too much and took too much leverage for real estate, and the market turned, they had to deal with the fallout. When banks like Goldman paid too much and took too much leverage betting on CDS, the proper response is the same -- not to give money to AIG to pay them back, but to have them face the consequences just as everyone else did.
Yes. The only traffic/land usage-related improvement from "ridesharing" is that less space is needed for parking. Not that that isn't important, of course.
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The VM based build agents are slow, especially compared to more modern CI/CD systems that today use a Docker/container based approach for each build step, along with a persistent store between each step.

Is something like this going to arrive soon?
Only around 50% of Americans own any stock at all, including indirect ownership like IRAs and pensions. So, I don’t see the working class suffering that much due to stock market decline. They will suffer due to joblessness.
Thanks! That's pretty encouraging performance.

Further details on my project in private e-mail.
"I don't want to spend 8 hours a day with this person" is a perfectly good reason not to hire someone.
$0.25/gallon is roughly a penny a mile. Besides road maintenance, cars also get the right of way, add to the noise/air pollution, and add grave danger to pedestrians, all for a penny a mile.
The buses are fine. What's missing are the little screens that tell people when the bus is going to arrive. If buses arrive every fifteen minutes, and people would be willing to wait for a bus instead of Uber if the bus will arrive in less than five minutes, then simply adding screens means 33% of people no longer hail a ride. Yes, there is NextBus, but anyone who's used NextBus knows that it often takes longer to figure out when the bus will come than it does to simply order an Uber. Adding the screen improves the user experience: you don't even have to think about whether you feel like struggling with the stupid NextBus UI, and in fact, you don't have to take out your phone at all (a huge advantage IMO).
It's nice to meet competitors. We have run the name against trademarks databases. The product was not ready when we registered our domain, but that's valuable feedback, to look out for similar domains.
I know I am days late, but the submitted page is horrible and 'stolen'. They even reference (but of course don't link) a leaner page as their source: https://www.joe.co.uk/news/sleeping-tricks-197402

That site has less sensationalism (not calling it secret for a start, yuck) and less ad crap.
I don't work on it, you should reply to the PM on this page or reach them via twitter/email to discuss further. Seems they are willing to listen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953476
If someone is going to be so prompt and complete at forgetting everything, then they may not have a tickling awareness that something might be up when the occasion to apply 1st principles knowledge does arise. Seriously, if the algorithmic complexity of a shuffling algorithm is going to be a challenge, why even have a degree!? If someone is so good with the forgetting that they can't even apply "n choose m," just what are people paying tens of thousands of dollars a year to learn in college?

The stuff you use all the time in your job is largely arbitrary trivia. However, the knowledge referred to in the example given above are first principles. So your standards fall below the level of being able to apply first principles? I can see why people would want to weed people like that out.
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I am sad this wasn't seen when the story was still fresh.
Yes. It checks if a Facebook Page url for a given name is free.
Keyboard + Mouse + Screen real estate

Phones/Tablets are consumption devices first, and everything else is an afterthought/hack.
> The leveraged loans are now being packaged into collateralized loan obligations and sold to investors. Sound familiar? And the CLO market has grown to match the size of the CDO market at its pre-crisis peak. Yet one major difference makes the CLOs of today less scary: The loans that comprise them are backed by collateral, and if one of the companies in the mix defaults, an investor can find recourse through the sale of that collateral. Pre-crisis CDOs built on mortgage-backed securities had no such backstops.

Maybe this is just my ignorance of the terms of CDO agreements...but weren't they collateralized by the homes? I mean, it's in the name: Collateralized Debt Obligation. And wouldn't that make this CLO market exactly identical to the CDO market?
pions' webrtc is the only third-party implementation with that level of completeness, and it's not very complete yet. It's super new (months old), but it's exciting! See issues: https://github.com/pions/webrtc/issues

There are many aspirational repos that have been started over the years with the intention to implement WebRTC but very few of them actually made good progress.

I too would love more third-party language-native implementations. Right now everyone is binding to the C++ codebase.

The real problem without having language-native implementation is that it creates a protocol rift. Things like BitTorrent vs WebTorrent, or IPFS native vs IPFS JS: It's effectively UDP/TCP vs WebRTC, clients on one end (native apps that aren't NodeJS) can't speak to clients on the other end (browsers) without a relay bridge (which is always NodeJS).
[edit - sorry, read that as amzn not causing index growth]

FAANG+M probably has a disproportionate impact on the index

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/fang-tech-market-concern-vol...

>But the Street's favorite stocks have outsized clout in the index. For instance, Silverblatt says the FANG names — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet — equal about 7 percent of the S&P 500. With Apple, they make up about 10.6 percent.
but you have to average that against the percent of the time it's uber pool and has 2-3 passengers that otherwise would have required separate trips
Banks still use mainframes, and mainframes still have capabilities that laptops generally don't have. Neither argument means we're not in a post-mainframe era.

Today the majority of computer & internet use happens on a phone. But it's still a small majority, so we cannot yet call it a post-PC era. If/when that turns into a substantial majority we'll be in the post-PC era, even if you and I still primarily use PC's.
If race is equivalent to the 'importance of eye color', does that mean 'the importance of race' is the 'importance of the importance of race'?

Why does race automatically have some kind of value judgement associated with it but eye color does not? Just because people have used it as a standard of other-ness in the past doesn't mean that the qualities have ceased to independently exist.
Has "the American taxpayer" paid out a great deal for this in the past? What percentage of the annual budget?

Satellites generally stay in their orbits, don't they? That's my understanding of the term "orbit". How would we determine that one satellite is guilty and the other isn't? Would it be whichever fired a rocket most recently?
Do you have a diverse set of friends? I think there's a set of folks who take public transit but don't walk or bike (either physically disabled or too afraid). Either the article is wrong, or this is a good time to fix your assumptions.
And cars are, still, one of the leading causes of death in the US. Doesn't this illustrate the GP's point?
Good idea. I need to get approval they are OK with their peers being publicly listed (easy DDoS potential, we don't have code yet to [but working on it] mitigate it).

I'll start one with just mine, and then others can PR to opt-in. You want to join?
> [...] letting the rideshare services run rampant, while being effectively subsidized by the taxpayers roads, etc is no solution either.

Given that any additional taxes will be passed on to ride share users, why should taxpayers subsidize private car ownership but not use of the roads by ride share users?

A blanket congestion tax feels more fair to me.
The problem space for computer science algorithms is gigantic and many of these companies testing for this knowledge then immediately throw new engineers onto line of business CRUD apps and bug fixes, which rarely have the engineer implementing any of these algorithms from scratch.

Unless you have a super targeted problem space that interviewing employees know about, then you are doing about as well as drawing a random problem from a hat.

Most developers I know just brush on as many algorithms as they can remember when they are going to interview for a new job. Then they just go through interviews until they find a company that manages to pick an algorithm out of the ones they memorized. This is a giant waste of effort to create a system that is effectively a lottery if you can get past the, admittedly large, bump of being able to understand any comp sci algorithms
I guess the question is, "Which socialists?"

Nancy Mitford professed herself a socialist, yet wrote frivolous social comedy about the English and French upper classes. Kingsley Amis at one point was a communist, and wrote very funny novels.
They had every right to believe their homes were going up in value and make decisions accordingly, especially from 2003-2006. Subprime lenders were selling loans to people who were not qualified to have loans that greatly inflated the housing prices. It doesn't matter if they person signed off on a mortgage, by law, they shouldn't have received it.

People were making decisions in a market they thought was fair. But, that market was fraudulent created by originators and bankers trying to make a quick buck.
I have to admit, since I'm tut-tutting at other people, that I like spoken-Gladwell much better than written-Gladwell. And it's the same style and the same stuff. It's disturbingly subjective (although it would have kept him out of Igon trouble).
We don't host our voice servers on google cloud as that's actually really expensive. We rent commodity dedicated servers. Our voice fleet is basically JBOS (just-a-bunch-of-servers). We use really low-spec servers too (4 core - 8 thread xeons @ 4ghz), 8-16gb ram, shitty hard drive (as these servers literally do no IO operations aside from some logging), and have no persistent state.
Eh we raided Mythics with 25 where most people had voice activation. Was perfectly fine.

I think it's more about who you're playing with, if you are good friends with the people that you are on voice with, chances are you're quite alike and considerate to each other.
Police departments are made of individuals with friends and families. Factor in all the bureaucracy and pension cuts, you'll find they are more of a wild-card that will backfire against the elite in many areas.
Thanks. That's valid point. We are against front running or black hat SEO. That's not the place we want to be.
One of the major benefits in some cities of Uber/Lyft over public transportation is not risking interaction with thementally ill, inebriated, panhandlers, or otherwise dangerous people (like the dancers on the NYC subway).
I think this transference of attitude is a really insightful model for teaching. One of the other methods I've seen used (especially for math) is treating problems like a game. There is a joy in solving even difficult problems, that you can teach gradually with the right feedback... and learn.
Many places, like in California, do not have good public transportation and Uber is the only decent option. That statement in the article is definitely a heavy assumption.
The candidate can also be toxic and unprofessional, this is a two-way street. What if the company doesn't want to bring "sexism, bullying and worse" into the group?
According to an outdated anatomical taxonomy from the 1700s.
All you're doing is confounding anecdotal data with actual data because it feels good.

If you chase this back to the working paper, they received 4,094 completed responses from 5 major urban/suburban areas.

Those are valid numbers.
What are shadow banks? Sounds to me the risk was just moved off the books using some financial trickery into "shadow banks" and when those blow they take the regular banks with them.
For the discussion in relatively high quality formus like HN to survive there needs to be new rule adopted: Nobody is allowed to criticize or discuss the title of the article. Only the content in the body of the article.

These titles are usually written by editors who think in clicks and they are not the original titles from the writers.

This was good and interesting article but unless we discuss the content (and read it) there is nothing to say.
Thanks. We will look into that.
I moved from "brotopia" to "non-brotopia" and I felt that it was a step down culturally.
NFS again?
Having been a mediator for many peer/co-worker conflicts, I've come to believe that "true" assholes (in the sense of someone who is fundamentally mean and entitled) are way more rare than people admit. On the other hand, it's not rare at all that a person can be considered an asshole by one group but work well in another. A large part of culture fit is about minimizing these personality conflicts.
The buses in London, for the most part, work very well. Every bus is tracked with GPS. If too wide a gap opens up between one bus and the next, the earlier bus will sometimes wait for a minute or so to even out the service. This means you almost never have to wait more than 2-3 minutes for a bus in central London, 5-6 at the outside.

While busses and bus routes used to be very difficult to parse, compared to the tube map, apps like Citymapper have made them accessible to all. I take the bus often, it's often faster than the tube, and always a more pleasant way to get around.

Citymapper is now launching its own 'smart' bus and Uber-like services, using the mountains of data they have on the door-to-door journies Londerners make to plan smart routes - some that change throughout the day to meet demand. I've used both the busses and the cars and they're both fantastic (the cars take you to your door for a fraction of the price of an Uber, if you're in the right place to catch one).

London has embraced Citymapper and vice-versa and they're doing some really interesting things without disrupting existing services.
I found the Uber comments interesting. As someone on the other side of the table from Uber recruiting, I always figured a huge part of their hiring problem is that it was obvious from the early stages that Uber was run by and populated by a huge percentage of assholes, and people who had the sensitivity to understand that and the desire and choices available to avoid doing so would. Thus, the asshole primacy was maintained.
It's not the effort of moving (although that is massively painful), it's the effect on children's friends, schooling and education
Good culture fit is when we ask an employee to do something and they do it. A bad fit is someone who occasionally says no. A toxic employee occasionally says no and explains why they won't.
I'm fair certain the "authorities" in that area of the world would not be "polite" under the circumstances that hadrien01 postulates.