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This has exactly been my experience while talking to drivers although most have been driving for less than 3 months. This has been quite different to what I see driver reviews [0] on the Glassdoor. The difference in reviews is quite stark when you compare the reviews between engineers/managers vs drivers.

[0] http://www.glassdoor.com/GD/Reviews/Uber-Reviews-E575263.htm...
I thought there was some evidence related to stress hormones, and the toll of being in a constant state of arousal due to stress. But that may be on older children.
It's a song, and probably the tool and aphyr's blog posts will have more staying power than the song and the singer they are named after.
Exactly. Large tech companies hire people to build products, not spin up landing pages. If it's possible to outsource so marketing and launch teams can work independently, it's a good move.
now that you mention it, i think we were billed a setup fee. we just had to do it quick because the thing had already started.
It looks more like a Google-designed router that is manufactured by TP-Link. Notably, the firmware is from Google.
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What are the benefits ? I mean china is overcrowded polluted place.

I could deal with that if i would be interested in China,chinese language etc.
specifically Jitsi Meet https://meet.jit.si/ is the important thing
As some others have mentioned, the hardware for this unit is made by TP-LINK:

"To develop OnHub, Google partnered with network hardware maker TP-LINK. Another model, built with ASUS, is coming later this year." [0]

0. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/google-onhub-router-aims-t...
I don't drive so that's actually not a practical alternative.
Once from Texas for only 19 seconds. I don't live there and my video was unlisted.
I believe the post was not disputing the existence of the requirement, but the idea that it was to improve ad targeting.
The 30% federal tax credit does apply to leased systems. It's just that the leasing company gets the credit "on your behalf" (also known as keeping it for themselves) but includes it in the calculation of how much to charge you as the lease payment.
I agree, but there was outrage by the social justice warrior crowd.
maybe instead ask "how do you like being considered a contractor and setting your own hours vs full time with health benefits"?
That doesn't change the fact that nobody is forcing them to be Uber drivers. It's an opportunity that's out there, and they can choose to participate or not.

The ones that have chosen to participate and be Uber drivers seem to be pretty happy about it (or at least the ones I've talked to).

A lot of the Uber drivers I've talked to are part time. For example, the other day, I talked to a grandmother who literally just liked driving around. Uber X gave her a way to pay off her car, doing what she loved. Whenever she got bored, she would just log off and head home. She had nothing bad to say about her job at all.
Could you elaborate more on what makes Google more evil in your opinion (honest question)?
Curb has the universal app convenience of Uber but partners with licensed taxi companies instead.
I think the best way to judge this product is as a hub for a smart home. The fact that it is an easy to wifi router is incidental (in spite of the fact that is all the marketing is talking about). It seems pretty clear, "onHub" is suppose to be a hub for a bunch of "on" branded smart home devices.
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I've worked with two organizations now where Slack has been heavily used. There is absolutely no chance 75% of the orgs would have used IRC, even if mandated, the way Slack is used.

Even something as simple as having an avatar next to your name makes all the difference.

The real question should be what does Slack do that Hipchat did not? The designs are obviously much different, but other than that, was it just amazing marketing and word of mouth? Even the Slack founders seemed a bit baffled by this when asked months back.
It's less about your skills, and more about your presentation. "Honestly" and "Trust me" smack of salesmanship. It's a weird effect. Engineers try to be more persuasive by picking up, intentionally or not, vocabulary used for persuasion. Unfortunately, there is a lot of nuance that's hard to control.

Tighten up your writing, and perhaps speech, so you simply state the facts as you see them. This router will meet your needs because it has these 3 features. 1,2,3. It's much harder to argue with flat statements of fact as opposed to the salesmanship trick of, i would lie to most people but i like you so i'm going to tell you a secret.

Or, you know, don't. If it's not a problem for you don't waste time on it, but that's the underlying effect.
> Permanent history

Slack frequently does not even offer this.

> embedded images and other media

Many IRC clients do offer this

> persistent notifications

I only get notifications when my client isn't logged in via Email. I can get this, and other options, with an IRC bouncer.

> additional software needed

There are web IRC clients.

> more intuitive access controls

About the same between Slack and IRC clients here. Click on a channel in the sidebar. Right click for more options. Type and hit return to send messages.

I use Slack, not IRC, but these aren't the real advantages for Slack over IRC.
adding wildcards works as well, eg: id_rsa?
OSX is defiantly a curates egg "good in parts" cough cough ntp :-)
I honestly do not see why the child had to go with. What was wrong with the husband taking care of him?
Ha, that's a good and funny point that hadn't occurred to me. More info in answer to the parent's question: the song is "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen.
"OnHub sets your default DNS provider to Google Public DNS. (This can be changed in the Advanced Networking settings of the Google On app.)"

According to https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6279845
Genuinely curious what you would consider "old enough" and how you would determine that.
Without intimate familiarity in the field it's really hard to figure out cause and effect in something so complicated.

It's been noted that it's become much harder to find new drugs. Conventional explanations are that we're pretty good at this by now, and all the low hanging fruit has been picked (there's also fields like antibiotics where few are trying for unrelated issues).

More rigor in studies could be a cause, and/or there may be fewer successes because its become that much harder, and more iffy attempts are being made.
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adding wildcards works, eg: id_rsa?
The One Laptop per Child XO would form wireless mesh networks and had a chat program that would link up with other nearby XOs.
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I would not work somewhere that allows dogs, personally. Don't like them at all.
That vignette is classic pg. It makes me happy to see so well-chosen and vivid a detail in a report like this.
If you used HipChat, you would have found that it was consistently buggy and incredibly frustrating to use… but I don't think that alone would account for the difference in growth.
The "Don't see your city?" form is actually just Google Forms, too.
If you're talking to someone who isn't technical, they will find IRC very, very difficult to use. Try getting your mom (or your sales team) to use IRC as the only communication channel... it doesn't work at all.

The reason Slack works is that it's IRC with a great UX and easy-to-use clients on every device. The integrations and search are an added bonus, but the piece that separates it is a fantastic, fantastic UX.
"Why doesn't YC provide some basic support for its founders to attend the program?"

Because they assume that everyone who wants to participate is young, unattached, and without major needs like insurance.
This argument, that it's super easy to find any kind of work you want, is totally disconnected from the reality of these people's lives. Throughout history we've collectively decided that poor people can and should be protected from unfair labor practices. Just because plenty of children were willing to work doesn't mean we were wrong to keep them from doing so. It's our moral responsibility as a society to make sure that everyone within our society is treated fairly, especially in the United States since we fail so hard at providing the kind of safety nets that take care of the un- and under-employed.
Agreed. Cmd+Enter is more commonly a way to submit something I think. Shift+Enter is mostly used for adding a new line when Enter is reserved for submitting.
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I vaguely recall hipchat originally having a pretty shitty adobe air based app. Ever since they went "native" though, the overall experience has been much better.
I wasn't. This was my first comment. And for me morals trump over dollars everytime.

Not to mention that huge ecological damage also has cost someone will have to pay eventually.

So as long as you still believe in your country (which will pay its toll) or your children (which will pay their toll) from that, there's a hidden cost there too.
That's false, as you could trivially find out for yourself if you wanted to.
jgc is the author of the linked email, and this submission initially had a title that implied Cloudlfare was laying out plans for the future governance.
6500 videos -- 4.5 DAYS worth of video if every application stuck to exactly 1 minute each.
If you decide to take the git filters approach, git-crypt[0] is a good choice.

[0] https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
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Your last idea seems like the obvious approach to me. Don't blindly trust stuff just because it's local. That seems completely insane. I'd hope it wouldn't be easy to miss something, because you'd set up everything to require authentication.
To me, that sounds like he was trying to make arrangements to go with them. You don't need to have a substitute teacher to watch a child; there are daycare options, or he could bring the child to the school. Doesn't seem like a worse option than taking the child to live in a flophouse.
Also two space brackets are standard for Idiomatic JS and AibBnB Style Guide. jQuery uses four but that's because of age.
Or Akka's lovely akka.actor.dungeon.ChildrenContainer...

http://doc.akka.io/japi/akka/2.3.9/akka/actor/dungeon/Childr...
The market for this seems very small to me. Here in the UK, 99.9% of people just plug in whatever their ISP give them. They're not going to buy some box from Google to make their Internet faster. And even if they do, there's a good chance it wasn't the quality of the WiFi that was their problem, so they're just going to be pissed off at Google for taking their money and not fixing anything.
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and,,, you seem to have completely have missed the point.

if OSS is organic and evolutionary, we shouldn't be discussing market-share strategies. LO, keep on doin'. AOO, you keep on doin' too.

i wouldn't argue anything particular here, just would like to point out that the sentiment of the open-letter is one of coordinated community action, which emphasis on the coordinated.

if i wanted coordination, i'd join an organization, like, maybe, a company, like, maybe, microsoft. naw, i'll just keep on doin'.
You didn't respond to his core point, which is that in his experience (and mine), drivers are happy with Uber. Uber is better than what they had before.

It's an especially important point to make w/r/t/ food delivery, because delivery drivers for incumbent providers are absolutely not treated well. These are some of the workers we hear about in horror stories about people not being able to schedule child care because their work schedules change at the drop of a hat.
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I fid HyperV an godsend I run about 5 or 6 vm's for testing at work a mix of Ubuntu LTS and various phone emulators
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As near as I can tell, all the new stuff is a strict subset of what is fairly standard in the XMPP world. The only novel addition is that instead of supporting many clients, there is one blessed client, which is web-based. This means that rather than wondering if a given client supports some feature, or has some emoticon set installed and turned on, you know exactly how the client behaves and can implement features faster as a result. The configurability, flexibility, and client choice that XMPP offers appear to be drawbacks rather than advantages. Plus web browsers are so capable now that using them as a programming base for something like chat immediately gives you a huge UI step up.

Tone note: I'm dead serious, no sarcasm anywhere in there. Things that are self-evidently true to developers like "choice is good!" aren't always true in the market. Being able to count on a specific client really helps with the feature development.

If you're interested in getting in on the action you could probably do worse than start a startup shipping an open source XMPP server, using an open source XMPP web client, and doing the rather minimal modifications it would take to make it support some manner of embedding YouTube videos and inline images. (Seriously, like, two weeks, from a standing start.)
I will do that. Thanks
I also admire Julia for the commitment she showed. She made it work, and by the sound of it, it was damn hard.

Don't get me wrong, YC clearly provides great support in general for its founders. What I'm suggesting is that I would expect them to go that bit further to be inclusive - especially with their public commitment to encouraging female founders.

My impression is that the funding founders get is interpreted as funding for the company, rather than for the founder to live. Is that wrong?
> You entered into a contract to block all other signals? Doesn't matter, you entered into a contract to do something expressly illegal.

Incorrect. There are many things that are illegal without consent, but legal with it. Sex, for example. In this case, as soon as you enter into an appropriately worded contract, that de-auth packet stops being interference and starts being an agreed-to part of that contract. Therefore it's none of the FCC's business. It might be the subject of a civil suit, but that's a different matter.

That's why I've said repeatedly that Smart City's misdeed (and Marriott's before them) was not the mere sending of de-auth packets. Condemning de-auth packets is like condemning screwdrivers. The real problem is that they did not obtain consent for that use of the tool. They could have made that part of the convention registration, and they would have been OK (though they would almost certainly have faced an outcry). It's no different than a company forbidding the same thing within their corporate HQ building, which almost everybody here seems to believe is OK. I see a lot of people throwing words like "legitimate" and "illegitimate" around today, but nobody seems to have a realistic definition handy. I find it amazing that so many here want the government making technical distinctions for us, which they never do well, instead of relying on the simple notion of consent (or lack thereof) between parties.
> The time travel stuff is somewhat transparent and hard to talk about.

Wouldn't that mean it's opaque, since we can't see see into it?

PS. That's picky. This is a rad project and I love the time travel & the 'requiring packages automatically installing them' feature too.
It's actually $4 flat fee for delivery, tips included.
It can be computationally expensive for a robot to use any sorts of deep learning on board for improvement during work.

It takes hours if not days sometimes to train a good scaled model. Then retraining the model could take a quarter of that time, which is too much delay for a robot. However, with linear models things can be easier.

Also, there are very few people who know how to manage DNN or creating neural nets from scratch in a proper required way. Otherwise Boston Dynamics have to stick to one of the existing libraries which wouldn't be ideal.

DNN is amazing for some work that am sure they must be using them already, for example models that can help them with the feature engineering and such.
Sint Maarten (Caribean island && country) -> Lisbon, Portugal

A your ago, crossing the Atlantic in about four weeks with a sailing boat. I actually had many problems cancelling my residency there because they could not believe I was leaving on a boat. The rules required a one way plane ticket. Its an island ! Good we left...

And because I have a EC passport I can just walk up to the local municipality and get residency.
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They need to rollout fast. Any kind of landing page can be successful. Once this is enough proof they can tinker an in-house one.
Licensed taxi companies uniformly treat their employees like shit. I would be interested in hearing a story about someone who's talked to a driver who (a) did not own their medallion and (b) was happy with their job.

Like others on this thread, I talk to my drivers and ask how they like Uber, and, once I started doing that, also started asking cab drivers. Cab drivers for licensed companies are not happy.
Google's new OnHub home Wi-Fi router: What is it and who might need it?
> If someone has a cell phone and needs to call 911, would you be held liable for their inability to make that call?

I've been in plenty of buildings with terrible-to-nonexistent cell reception. I somehow doubt that they'd be held liable if I wasn't able to get reception to make a 911 call. I can't see that the large Faraday cage example is appreciably different.
I'm not clear on how drivers are better off if people boycott food delivery companies out of concern for their welfare.
Home Wi-Fi routers are often designed as unattractive, dumbed-downed versions of enterprise routers. Google's just-announced OnHub router takes a different approach – designed for consumers to connect everything to Google's and other clouds, it actually looks pretty sweet.
i guess we're due for DRM built into the corn seeds/DNA. And in some near future one can imagine human designer genes with DRM too. You lose connection or skip monthly payment and your 3rd eye stops working...
think logically for a second.

do you think the drivers with a bad experience would stick around at Uber? or would they probably leave?

There's little to no obligation to stay an uber driver, you can literally quit without notice any day.
Maybe, they just stop working when they get crossed with Uber so you never get to meet anyone with a bad experience working for them?
A rabbit in Australia, circa 1788.

The biggest issue with our era of technological growth, is we really have no idea if it is sustainable socially or ecologically over periods of time.

If we take human social structures out of current growth and look at the 'people like to work and create to survive issue as an individual' we can easily destroy the world around us. This occurs all the time in biological systems. The great oxygen catastrophe is a prime example. Each individual bacteria produced oxygen in order to survive. This worked fine for around a billion years. The bacteria had no means to realized that free iron and other rocks in the crust would absorb their byproduct only for so long. Once the saturation point was reached free oxygen filled the atmosphere and essentially poisoned the Earth for a time.

The question is, 'is there a technological saturation point'? How quickly will technology continue to grow even if it is poisoning the social structures it was built on? Will people and society adapt quickly enough?
What OS's will this docker.exe (3) work on? It does not run on Windows 10.
Thanks so much for all of the clarification; it's really helpful to know I don't have to execute the app in question. I'll keep going down the rabbit hole, hopefully others find this site and enjoy it.
Blogspam.

Here's the official announcement: https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/billie/
It'll probably get you ability to rewrite the logs, interfere with monitor, and all other capacities needed to hide the breach.

(Yes, the logs should be remote and write-only. Now, what are the actual odds of that?)
Must be a minority then you know they built the raspberry pi to try and get kids to have some programing experience at GCSE and A level (15-18)

This was so they didn't have to teach the basics on CS and EE courses
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Ouch.

I have an Asus/Google Nexus 7 2012 that makes me suspicious how much Google software and service can overcome underlying terrible hardware.
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The Skype that I use usually has a fairly crap and inconsistent sound quality.
Most the consumer hardware networking industry is based on costs. Components are sourced based on the lowest cost and quality tends to be prioritized for SMB/enterprise products. Typically, routers are relatively inelastic in demand and industrial design, brand recognition, and price point make up the decision criteria for consumers. Testing is mostly spent on integrating all these various components and very little is spent on general UI. I'm a bit wary on Google's approach unless they have some great QA process or are bringing higher quality components to consumers at a lower price point. (Used to work for one of the big consumer networking companies)
Google seem to be approaching their marketing from a consumers perspective, capitalising on the common experience of flakey WiFi and shitty tech support telling you that "turning it off, waiting 30 seconds and on again" should "solve" the problem.

I'd imagine they've approached the design and development of this product from that angle too.
> "We're only interested in talking to people who are in San Francisco and are cool enough to hang out with us."

I read it less as that and more "you are embarrassing us by discussing our product's flaws in public. please bring this behind closed doors"
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I have never talked to an Uber driver who complained about Uber. It has never happened.

Even if Uber had a strictly enforced "no complaining about Uber" rule with a system in place to correlate people relaying complaints to the likely subset of drivers, you'd expect at least a few stories.

In fact: Uber drivers somewhat regularly break Uber's serious, overt rules. For instance: I've had drivers ask for money at the end of a ride (if you rate a trip zero stars, Uber will ping you to ask why, and if you tell them you got asked for money, they'll refund it). This has happened to me on three different occasions. So your logic requires us to believe that Uber drivers will flout the most important rule on the platform (all commerce goes through the Uber app), but assiduously adhere to an unstated rule about saying nice things about Uber.

The simplest explanation seems compelling in this case. Uber doesn't do an especially great job at taking care of drivers, but the package as a whole is much better for drivers than the cab and livery companies, and Uber drivers are pretty happy to have the new option.
Cloud-based configuration? Isn't that virtually always a terrible idea security wise for a router? Is it another form of "lawful intercept"?
> funding for the company, rather than for the founder to live. Is that wrong?

Oh yes, quite wrong. The #1 purpose of the funding has always been to cover founders' living expenses while in YC. It was more than enough for that when we went through it in 2009, and of course the startups get a lot more these days.

I should repeat that I don't know any details, but I bet you the YC partners had no idea of the lengths Julia was personally taking. (Literally! Commuting an hour on foot with a two-year-old is quite a length to take.) This is clearly a strong and determined person. It seems unlikely that she would have brought such details up or asked for special treatment in any way.