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> It was created by Larry Wall and retains all the characteristics of Perl 5 whilst adding a lot of great stuff

Except, you know, rampant incompatible syntax. Being invented by the same person and having an overlap of desirable features doesn't make it the same language, in the same way that C# is not Delphi.
One thing I immediately noticed about meetings at Google is there'd invariably be a shared google doc for the agenda and meeting notes. There's not just one person taking notes trying to capture what happened, everybody just jumps in and updates the doc all at the same time. Huge time saver and a revelation compared to what I'd seen at previous jobs. I've since introduced this idea elsewhere to great effect.
I'm fairly sure they meant evading regulations. One means to structure your business in such a way that current laws are not directly applicable. The other means to ignore them completely. Unless you were trying to make an argument that Uber did not evade regulations and in fact broke the law?
Lyft and traditional taxi service are a couple that come to mind... not that Lyft is necessarily lower quality.
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Sincere question: is this true in the SF Bay and/or California? $21/hr might not make sense in Cincinnati (edit: Cincinnati is just an example)--local context is important.
We don't block 1st party ads. We block tracking tags including GPT/GTM, which will block some direct sold ads. We can with the publisher as partner fix this, but not by whitelisting tracking.
Meta HN question (I'm sorry if this is inappropriate). Normally, in HN "{Title} ({Year})" signals that the article is written in "Year". So when I read the title, I thought the article will be from 1890, but then realized the article is named "CS Alert (1890)". In this case looks like "(1890)" is added to the title to disambiguate it from other "CS Alert"s i.e.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_Alert

I initially thought it would make more sense to name this article as "CS Alert" since it wouldn't matter as much as Wikipedia if the title is ambiguous. But then I disagreed with myself since other "CS Alert"s are all named of the form "CS Alert ({Year})" so it could still be ambiguous even in HN context. Maybe the title could editorialized to "CS Alert 1890" or "CS Alert, 1890" or something, but I understand that HN rules are against editorializing titles. It's an interesting problem.
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I’d considered it and partially done it. The issue is that we don’t really fit our own criteria. Without a widget to sell quickly or relying on growth to make profit, it’s a big ask to expect that contributors will wait potentially years for a payout. I see it being a valuable route to take once we’ve matured a bit though.
I guess you can try one in pretest?

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
Coding interviews have gotten out of control. Most of the people giving the coding interview couldn't pass it themselves. Even worse, the people who can pass these tests only do so by memorization--once they are hired, many are not competent Software developers.
You can tell that the parent post understands all that, right?
Evaluation is subjective at the moment, by a review of the jupiter session by the hiring managers.

For certain data science usecases, evaluation is possible by using a CSV output bu a user, and comparing that to an expected CSV.

(I worked on the product).
Large employers attempt to do this quite often, even in states that specifically forbid it in state statue. Some states have laws that prevent this behavior but it doesn't stop employers from trying to bully those without knowledge.

I personally would be highly suspicious of any startup that was trying this while simultaneously offering or paying you a below market wage. If a company wants your attention they should pay to hold it, not threaten your job because you take a side job to make more money or have a hobby.

Another similar policy to this is the "assignment of all inventions", related and unrelated to the company, done on or off company time and even done using personal equipment. Again, some states prevent this, and even in states that don't have specific laws preventing it, generally I have seen the legal system is remiss to allow employers these wide unfettered control over peoples private lives.

Also, this is a reason you should write down every thought, idea or actual stuff you have worked on as excluded works before signing any document about inventions, non-compete etc. While I 100% disagree with the concept of these policies, there are ways around them almost all the time if you plan ahead.

This is also always something up for negotiation when you are being hired. The companies first response is almost always well this is the only way we hire anyone, and your response to that is what matters. It is also your first look at what the company really thinks of employees, if they care they'll figure a way to work with you, assuming you aren't being unreasonable yourself. If they are there to use you as a cog then they'll say no to all reasonable requests and that should be your warning sign to walk. I had people tell me you can't get more vacation back in the day when 2 weeks was the norm in the U.S. for all new employees. And here I'd be hired and have 4 weeks the first year and people were pissed cause they didn't negotiate it. Those are policies written by people, not laws of nature, it is all on the table you just have to work a little and be brave enough to push a little.

*edit -- fixed a spelling mistake and a repetitive word
Hey everyone. Adam, cofounder of Juris/DebtSettle here. We're building stuff like this to use tech to close the gap on access to justice/legal services. Would love any feedback or questions!
Seems very competitive, not anti-competitive.
Oh that’s awesome, thank you. I shall take a look at this when I’m home. That was so good of you :)
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That is true, and the company doesn't have to reimburse you for that. They can leave that to you to factor in your yearly taxes, effectively putting the burden on you to track and submit all of that.
I personally make it clear that side projects, monetized or not, are one of the best ways to learn new skills, ways of thinking, and improve productivity. I agree to sign non-compete and clauses stating that anything done outside of the business requirements (I don't work hours, I work results kind of thing) will not conflict with, impede, or otherwise negatively impact my position. I've only had one employer in the nearly two decades that had an issue with that, and ironically it was an organization that had pretty high turnover from the reviews I read.

Whomever is paying me is paying me to do a job. They don't own my life, my free time, or my hobbies. If they don't understand or support that, I wouldn't bother going forward with them as it's simply not the kind of culture I would want anything to do with.

Also, to the person who wrote about external income needing to be documented with a ton of paperwork... if you are in the US, what about US Reserve military members (which is a protected status)? Adjunct faculty positions? Seems like the employer should not have any say on that kind of income.
But IE was baked into the system (eg Active Desktop) which is why Windows was insecure.
I think another question no one is seriously asking is can Uber afford it? They're already hemorrhaging money. I understand they want to eliminate the competition but they might just accelerate the demise of the rideshare industry altogether.
Splunk aggregation is a life saver. If you assign a unique id to each request, you can trace its path thru it's entire lifecycle, including asynchronous post-tasks. This can also help see average delay latencies between a sync task and its associated asynchronous post task/s.
> Is that different from how normal taxi drivers get paid?

Yes, but it's not the point - it's misleading to talk about a minimum wage that excludes some time on the job from the denominator.
Yes, exactly.

I'm assuming that bad guys can modify the software they use, which seems to be a reasonable assumption supported by practice.

And given the proposed rules of key escrow the government has to assume that they use it as-is, because doing traffic inspection to ensure that they really do so is impossible without a specific warrant, so whenever they do get a warrant and get the keys out of escrow, then that's the first moment when they can tell "ah, we actually can't decrypt Bobs messages because he's not using that key".

So the proposed naive system of simply "encrypt the message twice so that either the intended recipient or the government with 5 HSMs can decrypt it" won't work. You can have a more complicated system that works around my objections above, but that would be a different system that will also have other drawbacks. Cryptosystems are very hard in general, all small details matter, a random proposal that hasn't undergone significant expert analysis has almost 100% chance of being fundamentally flawed, and doing reasonable escrow will have all kinds of "interesting" consequences and potential attacks, I am not aware of any public proposals for the specific details of a mass-escrow system that would have reasonable consequences.
Whoa! I actually had pretty much the same experience about 11-ish years ago, in 2008. I completely forgot about that until seeing your comment here; wow, wow, wow!
Same in Poland... and everywhere, really. I think the culprit is gentrification, to be fair. These new eave of barber shops all look exactly the same, with the red/blue/white little column at the door and wooden forniture inside. It's just a standardized, international general trend, in my opinion.
none, as long as i get my work done.
Then maybe people in those roles should be paid more. Or maybe they should quit to drive Ubers.
I’ve read somewhere ride share companies make more total revenue when prices are cheaper, and people use it less when its more expensive. Since these companies make more money with more total revenue, i’m guessing its in their interest to make it cheap.

It makes sense, if something is cheaper, you use more of it. If its more expensive, you start using substitutes, as the benefits of rideshare gets dwarfed by its extra cost. It’s literal econ 101
... and it also has Brand Names in abundance, even internally to java's core.

JustInTime, HotSpot, Swing, Beans, etc.
> it can be added trivially in emacs too

Agree with everything except "trivially". Emacs is a house of cards. Pretty much every shortcut is already taken, so then you have to figure out what's already bound to C-d, and how your change is going to interact with everything else you do. For one binding it doesn't matter, but doing that kind of customization over and over gets annoying, causes the init file to balloon, and slows the startup time.
Any idea when Brave will support password sync across machines / devices? It's a bit of a limitation right now.
“ I wish it was built on Firefox instead of Chromium. “

I commented in another thread. This is one area where Mozilla has failed. It should have been the goto engine for projects like Electron or Brave or even MS Edge instead of Chromium. But the last time I looked Mozilla was not very friendly towards developers who want to use their engine.
So is Ruby. So is Python.
Presumably the $21 per hour is before driver expenses (gas, depreciation etc: drivers often ignore that their shiny new Prius loses about $0.10 in value per mile driven).
I find them to be quite expensive. You can usually get a single 10 inch photo framed and matted for around $70 base around here.

I did a larger one (maybe 30" x 20") at Michael's with a nicer frame a few years ago and it ended up being almost $300.
Okay. I didn't see that in the FAQ.
I just visited https://techmeme.com/river in Brave and on the right you will their first party sponsored posts, alive and well.
How would I know it's "completely implausible"? Should I just blindly shut out any dissenting voices?
AND your own gas, maintenance, and depreciation would come out of your $10.50.
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This reply doesn't seem to be in line with HN guidelines. "Be kind. Don't be snarky." and "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have a very similar problem with Google's Chrome store. I have a small open-source extension. Recently they started to send me notices that it is in violation of their policies. All my attempts to figure out what exactly I am doing wrong failed. I emailed multiple times. Finally, they just removed it from the store.
Ads first appear as OS notifications on your desktop. This notification displays plain-text content from the regional ad catalog. You get 70% of the ad revenue at this point.

If you click the notification, Brave opens a tab in the Brave browser and navigates to the advertisement location. At this point, the ad can load images, video, etc.

Important to note, however, that ad pages are not given any special treatment in the Brave browser. They are subject to the same privacy/security restrictions on all other pages. Third parties are severely limited, if not entirely prevented from engaging in the session.
It doesn’t speak for Mozilla that even with these people Chromium turned out to be the better option.
Prediction: If this goes through, there will be such an oversupply of drivers, that in order to beat the competition, drivers will de facto have to adopt unofficial practices like "Ok, you wanted to go 20 miles, we've gone 10 miles, now change the destination to where we are now, and pay me for the 10 miles, I'll drive you the other 10 miles off-the-record."
> Until Perl6 is actually released, it doesn’t really matter what they call it.

> (yes, I know they have functional snapshot builds, but as long as there’s not a final "6.0" (or "1.0") release, expect most devs to steer clear of it. Few people (masochists, mostly) want to use an ‘experimental’ programming language for important work).

The “1.0” for the Perl 6 spec (6.c, because reasons) was released in 2015; the stable implementation in Rakudo was a little later but years ago. Current Rakudo has a stable, production-ready implementation of last year's 6.d version of the language spec. So we’re well past the threshold you suggest.
John Oliver did a great piece on the need for reform in this industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUAntt1z2c
My understanding is that people believe the free market
is failing to provide a living wage to a certain class of society. One of the root causes of this failure is technology and automation, so they think it’s just to implement a minimum wage for Uber drivers.

One could imagine a world where automation replaces half of the labor force and the free market would essentially allow corporations to rake in enormous profits while the unemployed class gets paid pennies and lives in poverty.
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What's the underlying tech aspect of this tool?
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>“the ability to influence decisions about their work.”

Wow...on one hand UBER is in an existential crisis regarding the status of drivers (employee vs independent contract).

On the other UBER is now passing around a petition in order to give drivers rights (which UBER controls) that are commonly understood to be inherent for contractors. Moreover, a contractor generally has complete control over their work, and UBER by passing around this petition is essentially admitting UBER controls drivers work which is typical of an employer/employee relationship.
Take a look at the bottle and description here:

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Daily-Multivitamin-Mineral-Probi...

The FDA says they cannot be used this way but they are.
> The easiest way to identify a monopoly is to look at how badly a company can treat its customers and still get away with it. My company has a half dozen stories like this about Google in the last year alone.

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to apply to my local general contractors, painters, landscapers, electricians, etc.
This.

After using stack driver, the setting up your whole logging mechanism in AWS atleast is so backward.
> queue sending to dead endpoints

This is a subcategory of "app fails post-queue." Suppose you build a happy working queue, and someday somebody releases a new version of the queue consumer that isn't backward compatible and therefore is broken. How many messages will be lost on production before this caught? Do you have a way to recover those messages?

> circular queue problem

This is the queue version of an infinite loop. Suppose you have an infinite loop in your code, you'll crash the app but catch it very quickly.

Suppose queue message X calls a function which generates ANOTHER queue message X (infinite loop). This will be VERY HARD to catch and slow down the queue system progressively until its overwhelmed (likely only caught on prod).
Most residents are ridiculously underpaid given the circumstances. Salaries are pretty solidly in the $50k range, but the number of hours (up to 80/week) equates to abysmal hourly pay.
Show HN: Browse ridiculous myths about the EU
Related idea: https://adnauseam.io
There are many myths about the European Union, so they released a list¹ recently where these are debunked. This was such a ridiculous read that I decided to make a small website that highlights the tone of these headlines a little more.

The thing is a small sideproject so before somebody complains: it doesn't really work w/o javascript : /

Edit: little explaination: the 455 myths are randomly stepped through without repetition and in the end it loops over. I toyed with the idea to play the european anthemn to those who make it all the way through, but left it out for the moment.

I also tried to make the myths permalinkable via location hash, but the counter will start again at [1/455] for new users.

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¹ https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
> some scammy crypto-of-the-day which even FB and Google ban

The comment you first replied to said that the ads were so bad and scammy that they shouldn't be shown to anyone, not that they were poorly targeted.

You're free to disagree with what they said, but it's weird to respond as if they'd said something else entirely that you already agree with.
I'm not defending the ad industry, the worst players have ruined it for everyone. It is 100% a safety hazard to surf the web without ad and javascript blocking. I absolutely support users having the choice of what programs to render on their devices, and being allowed to control what javascript executes when a page loads. If it breaks the site while your mucking with its local execution, thats on the user (although ideally all sites should have accessibility compatibility, and work as just plain text. 1st party ads would still work fine.) And although I find them annoying, paywalls and ad blocking detection are choices that publishers can choose to make.
Given the rates aren’t at all competitive, I wonder if this is more an attempt to generate positive cash flow than provide the service.

They do have the advantage of controlling replacement part pricing. They can raise those even higher to drive up competitor rates and pocket margin either way.
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> There is a vibrant official second hand market for iPhones where people sell their phones and the hand me down market.

Irrelevant. I'm not buying from the second hand market. If you want to push that benefit, push it on somebody who will.

> We know that your conjecture is probably false.

We know I'm right. It takes weeks for iOS users to update their phones if iMessage or Safari has an update. On Android, the SMS and browser apps updates automatically without the user noticing. For the phones that receive system updates, the statistics show they update just as quickly on Android as on iOS. For users who upgrade devices frequently like me, these Android devices are strictly better than iOS devices in security.
Let me get this straight... a noteworthy CS professor points out some obvious and undeniable flaws in the current theory or protein 'evolution.' He also points out that is difficult to get serious researchers to grapple with this issue because Darwinism has turned into a dogma where people are viciously attacked if they point out some fundamental flaws with the idea.

Your response:

"Almost everything in that article is wrong "

"pseudoscientific arguments"

"Stephen Meyer is not brilliant and he is a quack"

" Computer Science professor has no business arguing about evolution"

"widely discredited and dishonest "

"known to be fundamentally dishonest"

"So it's fundamentally dishonest."

"another lie"

"fringe views"

"fringe creationist quack"

In short, you've proved his point.
Your comments -- in any other area of discussion on HN -- would probably get you flagged.
By your logic companies that respond by correcting mistakes are just as bad as those that don’t.

So you are actively supporting the behavior of Facebook and Google in doing nothing to respond to privacy concerns.
I think that is the missing piece in all the minimum wage law proposals. It greatly devalues everyone making a similar amount to what the new wage would be. If someone went to two years of a trade school, their investment in increased earning power has been eroded. Eventually, these industries will have to raise their wages in order to continue to attract talent. This does mean that these industries will all have to raise prices to cover the higher costs. In the end, everything will settle down and the people with the higher minimum wage may actually have lost actual buying power. Rich people don't tend to frequent places where people make minimum wage. So raising prices in those locations mostly hurts poor people.

I think we need to just be smarter about helping the poor. How about we get rid of income tax for people under the poverty level (or multiple there of)? How about we give them some basic income to make up the difference? We can tax more on the high side to make up the difference. Also, giving poor people more fluid income will likely increase the velocity of money which should make rich people richer negating any increased taxation.
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Correct. The right response here is not ‘pay Uber employees less’, it’s ‘pay EMTs’ more.

Improving society and equalizing society can mean lifting everyone up, not keeping others down.
It depends on the definition of concussion used. If you go broad enough everyone likely has had multiple minor ones if they were ever on a playground or ambulatory (walk into wall, accidentally hit in head, fell, etc).
> You’ve learned how to drive uber

That's a bit of stretch. Also worth noting, many of the jobs did not even exist before Uber created a market for it.

> why don't they simply choose not to offer their services to Uber?

Collective bargaining, aka unionizing, does essentially just that, only with more leverage.
What you're asking for looks a lot like a kaggle challenge. You're asking if someone can use xgboost (or linear regression). It's the last ten per cent of a data science problem, if that.

The hard parts of data science include the following:

- choosing the right input data (rather relying on regularisation)
- figuring out what the consequences are if you're wrong in a specific way, and avoiding the bad cases
- wrangling your data into a nice CSV format
- handling missing data
- spotting biases in your data collection methodology

I'd expect a graduate to know about regression. For anyone else, this wouldn't help me assess their skills.