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> older programmers who maintain their skills on new technology are worth their weight in gold

and also true of older programmers who maintain their skills in older technologies. see all the COBOL comments below. If history is any guide, competent Java programmers in 10 years will not be aged out, and will be compensated more than whoever is competent (regardless of age) at the current tech stack.
that's awesome. thanks for sharing that. orcas and whales have some complex relationships. i have seen some research suggesting that humpback whales have begun interrupting orca hunts, even when they're hunting other species and not necessarily humpback whales.

at the end of the story you linked, it seems the orcas did their wave dashing technique on the boat. this has been filmed with the bbc crew having it done to them as well. the orcas had just finished off a seal i believe, and did the same technique with the filmers in the boat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBRu3LGceAg

it looks like they were just halfheartedly doing it, so i am curious if they were sending a message or just training or experimenting.
I feel like all that will create is "partnership contracts" where a large company will be split into the "ideal" size tax-wise while still being run by an "advisory board". Compensation gets interesting at that point though, so many its an interesting idea.
> It seems to me you're indexing too heavily on the "merit" in meritocracy. When most people, myself included, talk about meritocracy they are simply referring to systems where people are ranked based on capability or performance in some task.

You were not talking about a "meritocracy", which would already be a problem considering that it doesn't hinge on merit[1], but a "pure meritocracy".

If you use "pure meritocracy" to refer to a system where neither pure performance nor merit are used to rank people, and call it "too fair", then you are twisting the meaning of the words "meritocracy" and "fairness" into something unrecognizable.

Such a system does not evaluate people based on capability or performance.

Such a system certainly does not evaluate people based solely on their merits.

Such a system cannot be called meritocratic, or fair. To do so is ridiculous.

[1] Because amongst the "initial resources" you speak of there are also wealth and connections, which do not improve "capability or performance in some task", which only improve the chances of someone obtaining and keeping the job.
Congressional hearings are about informing law makers (and also for grandstanding). They are not intended to provide immediate results in the way a trial would. The results if any will be in the form of legislation at a later date.
>Still I thought about how only a decade ago, I could be on this same street and hold up my hand and flag down a Taxi. Today if I really wanted a taxi, they're pretty much only in the city. I'd have to hunt around for a payphone and would need change too.

You just happen to live in one of the few cities where this used to be possible. For most of the country, even a decade ago, it would be very unlikely to find a cab by just waiting on the street. Maybe in downtown areas, but not on most streets.

I've never lived in a place where I could rely on a taxi driving by when I need one. It's always been "Call a taxi on the phone".
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If you require the PIN to lift a credit freeze, some people will lose their PIN and never be able to lift the credit freeze.

So there must be a workaround that relies on verifying identity, based on non-random information (e.g. no PINs, no passwords).

They've made it too easy, but until we can request that a credit agency blacklist an SSN and forget all associated information, this will keep happening.
Don't do this. Browsers are very optimized for subrequests and especially parsing image data.

By forcing base64, you're eliminating all the caching and using much more CPU power to parse that back into a binary image. You're also making the page load slower as the initial payload is bigger and image data has to be handled in line rather than asynchronously.
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Sure. It's worth a consideration though if that specific thing is one that's actually something that enriches your life, or just something you're doing because it's what you've always done. (personally, the best places have been those where a group cooks their own lunch every day, but that's somewhat rare)
Interesting, thanks for the link
Considering the political leaning, expansion of censorship and other ideologies ever more prevailing in higher education, I wouldn't exactly call it well rounded as a goal. There used to be a goal for actual tolerance and an ability to listen and respect ideas or politics they disagree with.

I have no formal education... I've worked with others in software development with no formal education who can code with the best rock star developers. I've also met those with a masters in CS who couldn't think their way out of a paper sack. It really depends.
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From my experience, one works a lot explorative in REPL terminals (like IPython, R Studio, MATLAB, etc, depending on your field). This is the place where to create novel graphs and plots and to discuss them with colleagues in order to make conclusions. Discussion also takes place in regular meetings, completely depending on the kind of workplace, of course.

Organizational tasks like preparing a work setups, sorting, downloading or uploading data also takes a significant time. It is always a tradeoff of automating tasks (writing scripts to do the painful work) or doing it manually by hand.
I mean, those notifications everyone gets that have no actual pertinent info/are super blatant engagement hacks have been widely discusssed/experienced, and there's no strong argument that those make products better for users (and it's obvious what metrics they're attempting to inflate).
> Any company that is working on self-driving cars will want to acquire Lyft: Google, Apple, Tesla, GM, etc

To me this is like expecting Netflix to want to acquire Blockbuster ten years ago. The investments Lyft has been making into self driving cars are mostly for show. Blockbuster was investing in the web back in 2009, but they were never close to catching up. If Lyft was far along in building self driving cars, they would be far along in other AI applications too. Everything Google and Amazon does that pushes the boundaries of AI makes them more capable of building a network of self driving cars. Google, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, or IBM might not build a self driving car network themselves, but if they're the kingmakers, will they want to help Uber or Lyft or other companies with more resources?
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A better to phrase it would have be to say they left after they got into a spat with the city of Austin.

I did try the new companies that popped up but never had much luck with them. Had problems with the apps or took too long to get a ride.
Hello there, what I have been using is Airtable.

Not exactly a CRM but it's quite perfect. You could use the templates (https://airtable.com/templates) or copy some of the Airtables made public: https://airtable.com/universe

You can create forms as well, so it makes it easy to keep all the data in one place. (We use it for our contact form, feedback, bugs etc).
good evidence its just politician talking and nothing will come out of it
the old hay is, if you charge less than your competitor, you're engaging in anticompetitive behavior, if you charge the same as your competitor, you're engaging in collusion, if you charge more than your competitor, you're price gouging, so as a business, the only way to survive is to lobby politicians enough and buy yourself protection.
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All of that is true, but it seems that people think that this is different. I'm not sure though exactly what makes this proceeding more "secret" than a typical grand jury.
This post was dead for no obvious reason — new account, I guess? — so I vouched it.
Most driving is done by humans. Humans are terrible at it and kill people unnecessarily all the time. That's the standard to beat. Speaking as someone who rides a bike on city streets, I really don't give a shit how many people Uber kills, as long as it's less than human drivers would. This whole thread smells like Monday morning quarterbacking and people throwing aside reason under stereotype threat. (Techies are in love with technology, techies are in thrall to startup narratives and oblivious to social responsibility. Everyone's anxious to disprove that.)

In fact, the mistake Uber made here was relying on a human being to do a job that is routine and boring the vast bulk of the time but occasionally requires life-saving decisions that depend on attentive awareness of the surroundings. That's the same mistake our entire civilization makes a million times a day. The fact that the operator had fewer responsibilities than a normal driver probably magnified the problem, but it's the same problem that makes driving fundamentally dangerous. She thought she was doing a good enough job and then oops, guess not, somebody's dead.

That happens every day without robot drivers involved. The standards we hold autonomous driving technology to should reflect this insane status quo.
> I don't really see how that's a bad thing, unless you don't think people should ever get divorced (which means you support people staying in abusive or miserable situations)

You're conflating divorce to remove oneself from an abusive situation with remarriage. I happen to think that remarriage after divorce is fine, but I can easily imagine arguments against it (here's one which leaps to mind, although I don't know if it's true: one's failure to marry well the first time is a strong predictor that one's future marriage will be poor as well).
I sort of depends. Usually there's a subjective boundary. In parents place the first floor is tile, and it's acceptable to wear shoes on the first floor. But the others floors are carpeted and you don't wear shoes up there.

In the older house, the one I grew up in, the front door led to an atrium where it is okay to wear shoes. But the hallways and rooms connected to the atrium were off limits for shoes. The Laundry room opened to the outside (namely, our bunny's enclosure) and we also stored some yard tools in the laundry room. It'd be inconvenient to take shoes on and off all the time when going in and out. So the laundry room is fair game for shoes.

At my apartment I do it Asian-style and take them off at the door because there is no natural boundary and because San Francisco streets are especially filthy.

So the answer is: it's chaos and there are no rules.
IV feeding would seem to be a similar concept to what gp is talking about
Presumably an app focused on privacy wouldn't even _have_ an account for the user to sign up with? Just let them install the app and off they go.
New account, yes. Thanks
Not in general bound to secrecy, but apparently this is some sort of "secret" grand jury that's secret in a way that grand juries are not usually secret. I can't seem to find any details on this point though, so it might just be overblowing the default "secrecy" that goes into normal grand jury proceedings.
I agree it should be harder the bigger you are, but it's not the tax rate. Right now, FAANGs either run a 0% profit margin, or book their profits to Ireland.

Changing tax rates don't fix either of those.
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This is all predicated on someone thinking that the rideshare buisness is profitable. It hasn’t shown that it is. Uber is also losing money on every ride, isn’t profitable, and still has multiple rideshare options, and side hustles of food delivery and freight. Same is true with every other similar company the world over. Nowhere is there the indication that the industry will be profitable anytime soon. People have assumed that if you could just stop paying drivers, the profits will come. They might, but fully autonomous cars don’t exist, and also, they seem much further off than they did just two years ago. Even Andrew Ng publically suggested that pedestrians should just change their behavior, because the AI doesn’t work, and won’t work for a very long time.[0] So betting on magic cars to save the industry is a bit iffy.

It’s certainly plausible that at some point, the companies simply burn through all their cash, and investors give up on expecting a return. That would kind of suck, but why keep throwing good money after bad?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/to-get-re...
It could be worse. At the pharmacy, they ask you for your date of birth whenever you go pick up a prescription. That's how they verify that you can pick it up. You can send a spouse or family member or friend or personal assistant to pick up your prescriptions, too: you just tell them your date of birth and the pharmacy will just give them your prescription drugs, no questions asked. And if they have your insurance on file, they'll run it through, too.

OK, fine, whatever, except this is the same even for controlled substances. Which is quite weird considering all the other regulations around controlled substances. One time I had to get rid of some excess oxycodone after a surgery, I ended up having to go into a little booth at the sheriff's department where they had a drop box and a sheriff's deputy sitting at a desk behind a window watching me. But all my wife needed to pick it up in the first place was my name and DOB.
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I wouldn't of expected it to tend towards 30+ year old people especially in the Bay Area. Any overlap with other shall I say "cultural subgerenes" that you've noticed? Say PC Gamers or people really into sports?
Also my absolute favorite game as a kid: SpaceSim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Space_Simulator
> As we get closer, I think we will find few will want to own them. Why bother?

Out of curiosity, do you have children? I know that my desire to own a vehicle has gone up considerably after having children. Right now in my car I have:

- Diapers and wipes for the baby

- A change of clothes for both kids

- Car seats for both kids

- A booster seat for use in restaurants

- A stroller

- Some towels (just used one yesterday to clean up a wet kid)

- Snacks

- DVDs for long rides

- Spare jackets for both kids

- Shopping bags

Sure, I could carry all of that around in a bag, but that would be a huge heavy bag, and where would I put it when I got where I was going? To say nothing of the need for car seats. Even as the kids get older and I don't need all those supplies, I can still see the value in owning the car and having all their stuff in it, whatever that may be (sports equipment, musical instruments, etc.). I imagine I'll need my own car until they are at least teenagers.
They really are piss poor low hanging fruit level of effort. I once I got a question asking which car I owned with four answers and I had owned two cars listed...

Then, of course, what if you get a question about your sister when she's toxic and you've cut her out of your life. Or even just naturally lost touch with her over the years.
40-50 an hour is a bit on the high side. If you're doing a back of the envelope guess based on what you're charged, keep in mind that there is a sampling bias; you're probably riding hours where other passengers are also making requests. Nonetheless, I would say 35-40 an hour is not unreasonable. There are of course probably lots of drivers who are exceptionally bad at finding rides (let's say 20-25 an hour) who are making less than that. Without tooting my own horn too much, let's just say that there are a lot of really stupid folkways that go around the driver community. There was literally one guy who once said (paraphrased), "I drive a circuit between these five points until I get a ride". Also, he drove a truck. I tried to point out to him why this was a bad idea, but he seemed resistant to the idea of changing his tactics.
> as long as you don't use your position to illegally prevent competition.

Which is why I said, literally, "their behavior crosses into anti-competitive." You can compete with vendors, or you can control most of the market. But you can't do both: control the market, then use that advantage to drive competition out of business.

> Even in the eCommerce market their share is around 50%.

50% is a staggeringly high market share. For reference, Toyota has less than 10% market share.

> Citation needed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-20/got-a-hot...

http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/

> And Amazon does not build them, they license another companies product.

Those companies are accusing amazon of literally copying their unique products. We're not talking about buying batteries or something from a supplier. Amazon is literally copying existing products that do well.

Here's an ex-employee discussing the topic:

> Amazon sees your product is doing very well, they have the retained performance data, and Amazon copies to their best of their ability as a “generic version.” Through subtle advertising, and imitations of the successful attributes of your product, their product cuts straight to the top ranked in your categories.

https://www.skubana.com/the-best-kept-secrets-of-amazons-ama...
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I personally end up eating the same thing everyday quite a bit. Lunch is there to make me feel good and give me fuel to continue my day, so I feel like I can't really risk trying something out of the ordinary, at least on a workday. There's too high of a risk that I'll be hungry or cranky in the middle of the afternoon when I have things to do!
Warren's original post, Here’s how we can break up Big Tech:

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
This will definitely cause nutrient deficiency if you try to follow it for more than a few months... but if you added in some fruits and vegetables and you'd be fine.
I expect that the average Lyft or Uber driver is much more interested in putting food on the table than engaging in ridiculously-speculative and -risky private-company investing.
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This is an insightful point, and has been demonstrated in several studies [1] - limiting variety simplifies and bounds the food decisions you have to regularly make.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2005.10...
I think it's cool. I don't care that Foursquare has my location. And I continue to use Swarm because I want a record of where I've been and where I want to go.

After watching Long Shot on Netflix, sometimes I'm sort of glad I (and a few other companies) have a corroborated log of where I've been at specific times.
I'm still not sold on this. I'm no quantum mechanics expert, but I do have a philosophy background, and it seems as if true omniscience -- possessing all possible knowledge -- seems like it should transcend this limitation.

Maybe I'm thinking about a form of omniscience that exists outside of time, in which case, of course an omniscient being would know what happens next, because they would know the future just as well as the past. (Example: Any omniscient being will know which photons will pass through a polarizing lens not based on prediction but based on already knowing the outcome.)
They're not really promotions. All those 20% off emails only give you 20% off Lyft's fee, not the whole fare. It saves you a total of maybe $2 on an average ride.
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Isn't data collection by the ISPs/phone companies a bigger issue? Consumers truly have no choice there. Whereas you could get by without FAANG, though it'd be inconvenient.
I agree with your statement, but I disagree that there was a clear demonstration of bigotry.

A slip of the tongue does not equate to intolerance IMO. Not everyone adjusts as quickly and easily as one might desire or expect.
I felt kind of dizzy at first - your daughter... the 1930s?! Then I realised which recession you meant.
That's really pretty. The syntax highlighting is the cherry on top. Visually pleasing, but forced by a ruleset, which is neat.
If you set down any roots, your captive to that company in most lower cost of living areas. There aren't many alternative employers generally, especially around the same pay.
I think it's rare for cities to have notable topography within the city proper. Cities normally develop on the flat areas where its easy to build and move around, not on the hillsides themselves. SF is very much an exception here. Do you have other US cities in mind that have interesting topography within the city limits?
A customer base has value. Consider that Google bought YouTube for $1.65bn. There is little doubt that Google could build the necessary video streaming tech, but they still bought YouTube, and it was their best acquisition to-date.
This is Hacker News. The conversations generally have a tech-oriented context. I've never worked at a tech company in NYC where lots of people don't wear shorts in the summer. Shorts, flip flops, tank tops. It's all fair game. No one cares.
Why do you think so? It sounds as well studied already.
Not sure why you're being down-voted, this is exactly the issue.

The image is both a rabbit and a duck regardless of orientation, capturing the object it depicts as a single class with a confidence measure is a mistake.

The magnitude of this mistake becomes apparent when you connect it to real-world decision making, and it becomes highly unsafe.

As is most of ML because it only uses statistical (rather than causal) modelling of the world -- so really, it is only offering us generalised statistical associations. It cannot cope with statistical discontinuities.
>Once Waymo has fully autonomous vehicles on the road, they'll look to acquire Lyft for a decent price

Google would have no need to buy Lyft. Google Maps has a much bigger install base and already has ride share integration. Lyft does have technologies that would be useful like matching riders and drivers and Lyft Line. Creating that back end is not trivial task for Google but it not a 20 billion dollar one either.
I'll add a vote for the dolphins that trap fish in shrinking rings of mud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfqPQm-ThU
I think the advice is general: choose a very broad "total market" stock fund to minimize risk, that spans market sectors, large v small cap, nations, and seasons -- like the Wilshire 5000.
It is very well established that psychological stability, in youth and adults, comes at least partially from there being a need for psychological stability. Structure and "somewhere to be" really, really help.

Therefore I have little doubt that if you looked it up, you would indeed find that it's true that employment leads to increased happiness.
It is also not uncommon to have code where the various elements do not live up to the claims made in their identifiers.

If a programming language is expressive enough to create self-documenting programs, it is expressive enough to imply things that are not true.

The point is that if you are not going to trust the words a programmer puts in documentation, then you can't trust the meaning of any words they choose to use in identifiers, either - but if you don't trust the words they use for identifiers, then the code is not self-documenting in any meaningful way. The observation that documentation can be bad does not justify the claim that good code never needs documenting.
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