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It can vary a lot depending on location, but here's a search on zillow to give you a sense of the market in California:

https://bit.ly/3gEqOkw

(bitly link, because the URL specifying the search filters is unreasonably long)

They all do this now, to one degree or another. [1] [2]

The economics are even worse (because they don't get a cut from the restaurant), so these types of orders are either very high fee for the consumer, a loss leader, or both.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/doordash-pizza-arbitrage-shows-the-fubar...

[2] https://www.eater.com/2019/10/30/20940107/grubhub-to-add-res...

I don't actually think the celebrities are contributing purely out of an altruistic desire to 'give back'. I think that's _great_ marketing by Masterclass, but the primary thing celebrities get by associating themselves with Masterclass is helping continue to build their own brand. Masterclass has positioned its self as "the best in the world teaching their craft", so by agreeing to be on their platform a celebrity is getting publicity that reinforces the idea that they're the best in the world at that thing, and that they're still socially/culturally relevant.

A lot of these restaurants _do_ have a PC + printer in a back room or office somewhere. If the restaurant is owned by a group (or small chain), that setup may only exist at one location.

They can (and do!) put the fax machine right by the kitchen.

The short answer is 'yes' — fax machines are actually a pretty great solution to this problem. If you think about it, there isn't really that much overhead for having a fax line and a $40 fax machine vs running a full computer + printer combo, set up is trivial, faxes have a very well-understood track record, and the 'sender' gets direct feedback on whether or not the physical document was successfully delivered.

If there's a software gap here, it's being filled as features in modern Point Of Sale systems. That space is really crowded right now (Revel, Clover, Toast, 'more modern' offerings from legacy providers like Micros and NCR). There may be an opportunity to provide a more niche offering rather than a comprehensive solution like those, but the space is far from empty.

This has only ever been true for MMS received from Sprint users. Google Voice & Sprint's current FAQ indicates that MMS no longer works, even on Sprint [1].

[1] https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1205636?hl=en

As a former Bloomberg intern, you're right – you try very hard to make sure interns are working on real projects that are deliverable over the course of the summer. That said, the projects are often completely isolated from what will have real impact on users on a day to day basis. This isn't a problem, per se, but I've had other internships where the work I was doing over the summer was virtually indistinguishable from that of a new full-time employee. I imagine this was largely because it was a much smaller company with a much smaller product.

I don't mean this as a criticism – Bloomberg tries very hard to make sure interns have a great experience and usually succeeds. But there is a difference and I, personally, preferred the other experience.

You were really stretching on some of these. Sure, there will be software to assist any of these professions but that doesn't mean all the people in the profession should become programmers. You're conflating the need of an individual professional to learn to program with the ability of software to impact the industry that individual works in.

Firefighters, for example. Modeling & predicting fire sounds great, but should that be the job of a firefighter or a programmer/statistician who works for the fire department?

That said, I think you're right to call out the parent – many of these jobs should require programming or already do. Many artists & musicians rely heavily on an ability to write software. The group of professions producing food & drink will benefit from automation, but only so much as the professionals using those automation tools understand and can control them.

Programming ability is rapidly moving into all kinds of areas, but to assume that it must end up in every area seems almost as narrow minded as ignoring the impact it's currently having.

There's a lot of really great support in the robotics community. ROS, Robot OS, works great in ubuntu and makes it really easy to get data out of the kinect.

http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect

From Jeremy Stoppelman's written testimony, as posted on Yelp's blog (here: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2011/09/seeking-a-level-playing...):

"In 2010, Google began incorporating the content that it indexed from its competitors into Google Local without permission. Although Google had previously acknowledged that it needed a license to use Yelp’s content, it was now using it without permission to prop up its own, less effective product. In some instances, Google even presented this content to its users as if it were its own. [See Exhibit C]

Google’s Offers a False Choice

In response to our objections, Google informed us that it would cease the practice only if we agreed to be removed from Google’s web search index, thereby preventing Yelp from appearing anywhere in Google web search results. This, of course, was a false choice. Google’s dominant position in the market prevents services like Yelp from exercising any sort of meaningful choice in the matter: it is a choice between allowing Google to co-opt one’s content and not competing at all."

Is there something about this page that I'm missing? Why is this on the front page of HN?

There are plenty of other websites to post interesting internet miscellany, but as far as I can tell, this post contributes almost nothing of value to the community.

Perhaps I'm fighting a losing battle to even bother bringing this up, but this is exactly the kind of content I don't want to see on HN.

Whoops, so I did. Fixed.

TI's new uC platform is the MSP430 LaunchPad. They're only $4.30 shipped!

Not as user friendly, though, so if you're new to this kind of thing, the Arduino might be a better place to start.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_(MS...

I get the same thing on Chrome (Mac, 5.0.375.125) if the window is too narrow.

Interestingly enough, Bloomberg has started offering "Quant" tools to MLB teams: http://www.bloombergsports.com/proofferings/

They specialize in providing data and analytics on financial data. Clearly they didn't think it was too much of a leap to go from analyzing securities to analyzing baseball players.

As far as specific links, the Red Sox employ Bill James (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James), who is a fairly famous statistician, to help them run the team. He invented Sabermetrics, "the analysis of baseball through objective evidence". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics)

The article mentions Google Font API and Typekit as sources of fonts online, but there's another option that's worth looking at: The Open Font Library (http://openfontlibrary.org/)

The fonts hosted there are free (both as in beer and as in freedom). It's interesting to see how they apply the concepts around free software to another medium, like fonts.

The issue people are upset about isn't what Verizon was willing to commit to -- obviously any concessions from them that move toward an open and neutral internet are a positive step.

The problem lies in the commitments Google appears to be willing to make. The compromises that Google have laid out are clearly not a worst case scenario, but I personally hope for a better policy than "it could be worse" to emerge from this discussion.

It doesn't quite fit the bill of replacing TechShop, but you should check out Alpha One Labs (http://www.alphaonelabs.com/). It's a community hackerspace in Brooklyn that follows radical inclusivity – anyone is welcome to join, and as soon as they outgrow their current space they find a bigger one.

It's just getting off the ground, but there's a interesting group of people there. Drop in for one of the weekly meetings, tuesdays at 7.

And they just got a laser cutter (which they'll also let you use it just for asking!).