(bitly link, because the URL specifying the search filters is unreasonably long)
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...
They can (and do!) put the fax machine right by the kitchen.
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.
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.
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.
Hey HN,I've been teaching an artist friend of mine how to code. She's been loving it and recently has started to incorporate programming concepts into her other art. She's planning on doing a series of paintings that incorporate code snippets.Here's an early example: http://i.imgur.com/itPcm.jpgI showed her Quake III's Fast InvSqrt()...
"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."
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.
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...
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 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 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'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!).
As is the case with many students, I am currently approaching the end of my undergraduate education and I am faced with a decision about what to do next. I am in the unusual position, however, of having blown through my coursework quickly enough to finish a 5 year combined BS/MS program in Electrical Engineering in my first 4 years of college meaning my undergraduate scholarships pay for my...