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When I first read about OneWeb (2 years ago?) I figured it would be vaporware. However, things keep looking more and more promising.

I think these guys are finally going to open the door to having real mobile internet anywhere in the world.
That is actually my biggest gripe with the current model Mac Pro ("trash can"). If I'm using a desktop computer, I want everything to be enclosed in a single unit as much as possible. I have and still use the previous model of Mac Pro ("cheese grater"), and I have six internal hard drives, maxed out RAM, and several PCI cards. None of that is possible with any current model Mac except maybe the RAM.
It's a horrible idea to use a debit card for electronic payments. The laws that require credit card companies to refund unauthorized charges are much more consumer friendly than for debits from your bank account.

With a credit card your maximum liability for fraudulent charges is $50 even if you don't timely report a stolen card or suspect transaction; $0 if you do. For debit cards, it's unlimited.

So, for example, somebody could fraudulently use your debit card number to buy a stick of gum, hoping the charge goes unnoticed. Then, 60 days later, they drain your entire bank account, and possibly other linked accounts if you have automatic overdraft protection. If you failed to notify the bank for the gum purchase, your entire life savings is lost. Even if the bank account is only used for small purchases and only maintains a small balance, it can still create huge headaches.

Debit cards are for ATMs, and preferably ATMs inside bank buildings. Credit cards are for transactions everywhere else.

For similar reasons, you should be careful who you write checks to--because similar rules that govern debit card transactions also govern ACH transactions. And if you can help it, don't link a checking account on which you draw checks and make other payments to any of your other accounts; or at least, don't then enable automatic overdraft protection.
Software Is Politics
Same here. My employer, who is almost exclusively Mac, were reluctant to get me the new MBP.

I got a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (Kaby Lake) and so far, so good. Am very happy. Like you say, I wish it had the Apple touchpad (but not the new one - that's getting _too_ big).

Everything else is great. The Infinity Edge screen, beautiful keyboard...
For established tech and car companies, both Uber and Florida have basically no rules about testing and implementation of autonomous vehicles. Essentially the only rule is 'don't make us look bad, guys'.

Google is a league ahead of the competition with their Autonomous OS, and they're getting close to implementing robotaxis commercially in limited capacities. However, Chris Urmson, ex CTO of the self driving project doesn't think they'll be able to go everywhere a human can for ~30 years.

Uber's autonomous program is looking pretty sketchy at the moment, but now that they have Anthony Levandowski to play Darth Vader to Kalanick's Emperor Palpatine, the project is in capable hands.

Uber's robotaxis need only augment their human network of drivers through the mid-term, and as the capabilities of their Autonomous OS improves they take over more responsibility. Still, this is capital intensive and it'll be still be many years before autonomous vehicles have any measurable effect on Uber's bottom line, and even then, Uber will still be facing competition from other companies with robotaxi networks in development, including but not limited to GM/Lyft/Cruise, The Tesla Network, Waymo, Zoox, and any Automaker willing to license from the Mobileye/Delphi/Intel partnership.

Uber is currently playing hardball with the California DMV, in some sort of attempt at asserting their dominance over the law. I'm not sure if they've got some kind of legit strategy here or not, because I'm skeptical they'll have as much luck leveraging popular public support against regulators in the Autonomous Vehicle space with as they've had in the taxi industry.

It's also an inevitability that Uber's labour will organize for better bargaining power. Legislators seem to side with drivers as 'employees' rather than 'contractors' in the few regional cases that have made it through the courts.

Nonetheless, these incomplete financial reports that have been leaking out make it easy to spin a negative narrative about Uber's future prospects. That narrative may be on the mark, but we can't know for sure.
> Many people here would dodge Uber if they expect surge pricing

Notice that they've stopped displaying the surge price multiple on their hail screen. Previously I would have hesitated at 1.4x surge, but now "fares are slightly higher due to increased demand" just makes me shrug my shoulders.
I think the reason why we're stuck with the current Mac Pro is because Apple learned the wrong lesson from the Power Mac G4 cube. It was beautiful but few people bought it because you could get the more powerful and expandable Power Mac G4 for less money.

This time around, Apple didn't build the the tower nearly everyone in this market would have bought instead of the trash can.
If they could do this with a phone (x86/x64), or at least something with a cellular radio, they would hit it out of the park. I want a laptop that is just a dock with a phone slot in it. A desktop as well. Slide the phone in and instant form factor change with ports, GPU, extra HDD/SDD, etc.
Graeber is an avowed anarchist, so I don't think he's very keen on planned economies. People are forced into labor market participation because they can't meet their basic needs other ways, the police will squash these alternatives with violence.

If you are actually interested in what Graeber has to say instead of making up strawman arguments, you can read "Utopia of Rules".
Any know of a site like this that is targeted at non-profits?
I can't get over how much of a smell the requirement of an RPC interface in order to interface with tools that may or may not have any good reason to be running on an ongoing basis is to me.

I'm sure there may be cases where you interact with the containers frequently enough that spawning a process each time is actually a worthwhile optimization, but more and more of these containerisation systems are becoming an unholy mess of daemons that needs to run in order to run and manage containers that need not depend on anything but the host init/systemd.

E.g. one of the really appealing things of rkt for me is the simplicity - depending on the level of isolation everything is running either direclty under systemd, or under an individual isolator like systemd-nspawn.

I disliked this tendency towards a herd of daemons intensely when Docker continued as it started and used HTTP for volume/network plugins, and I dislike it just as much now.

It's as if someone sat down and thought long and hard about how to add more complexity and more "fun" failure modes.
Is this a bubble, and if so, when will it pop?
What's wrong with swapping CPUs?
Better $25 than $28000. http://www.philly.com/philly/business/Uber-customers-get-sur...
Then they should act like it.
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I think it is important to keep in mind that theories can sometimes only become testable after sometimes unforeseen advances in technology. Consider the Higgs field, theorized in 1964 [1]. This field was only detected, via the Higgs boson, in 2012 [2]. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [3] and its computing grid, which detected the Higgs boson, generated 25 PB of data per year, had 150 PB storage, and 200,000 processing cores [4] (which I assume were at least 1 GHz on average). In the 1960s, the Cray CDC 7600 supercomputer had a computing speed of 36.4 MHz and 65 kword memory [5], and IBM produced the 1311 HDD with about 12 MB storage [6]. Thus, the LHC required advances in fiber optic cables, a 5-million-times increase in computing over existing state-of-the-art processors, an 89-million-times increase in computer storage (from 12 MB to assuming 1 TB per HDD), and integrated-circuit RAM. More directly, the 1971 ISR hadron collider had energies of 31.5 GeV [7] compared to the LHC's 6.5 TeV [8], 200x increase.

What other theories might become testable if we could reach 130 TeV, analyzed by a computing grid with 1 trillion processors and 1 yottabyte of storage?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_PRL_symmetry_breaking_pap...

[2]: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-the-higgs-b...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_LHC_Computing_Grid

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_7600

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_d...

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersecting_Storage_Rings

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
As much as I hated and still hate the Uber tactics and way of business, I have to give to them, they managed to shake things up and force taxi companies to get on with the times or suffer hard ones. All in all it will be good for consumers and workers as long as Uber is forced to pay its dues where it wants to do business.
OSX/MacOS is still viable but it doesn't receive the attention it once did. It feels second-rate compared to the mobile OS. I get the feeling one day Apple is going to release the new MacBook and it will just be an iPad with a keyboard.
Well, yes, I do imagine that somebody throwing everything that's about to go bad into a pan and calling it a stir-fry is doing something wrong. That was my point. I'd end up with lettuce, spinach, cilantro, banana and jalapeno stir-fries every week. I like all of those things as ingredients, but that sounds like an awful dish.
Some have already done it, Taxi Stockholm has a very nice app; enter pickup and destination, book it, track it, pay through it, etc. And they're marketing themselves by stressing all the things they provide that Uber doesn't. You get a licensed, properly insured taxi driver in a nice car.
I think they spend a whole lot of energy on the iWatch and it didn't pan out the way they hoped.
> I'm convinced that most people that gets small trucks would do better with minivans.

Agree. I would add that most in an SUV would be better off in a minivan. The minivan is the perfect way to quickly cover long distances in comfort for 3+ people.

Speaking of cargo space, the latest Chrysler minivan products have lie-flat rear seating that disappears into the floor and provides a huge flat area for sleeping/transport.

My family fleet consists of a Chrysler minivan, two Honda Accords, Toyota Tacoma 4x4, diesel VW beetle and diesel VW Westfalia Camper Van. The minivan is by far the most practical car and the easiest and most comfortable to travel in.

> downside is how you are sometimes perceived, and thus treated, when on the highway..

Also my experience. No one wants to be behind a mom van and no one wants to be passed by a mom van. Often get passed while going 10+ over the speed limit only to have the person pull in front and slow back down the the posted speed. Ironically, the 3.6 Pentastar engine in the Chrysler minivan is the most powerful engine by far in my fleet at almost 300HP. Fuel mileage is close to 25mpg when cruise is set at 70mph.

Minivan is rational purchase but we are not rational beings, especially when it comes to car purchases. Choice of vehicle represents our aspirations, self-image, etc.
I would go a bit further: I want my state to be inside a seamless hardware agnostic VM, that I can access anywhere through public terminals that I only partially trust. I would have the option of either having my storage with me that I plug in, or in the cloud and I just provide 2fa. My device would have a cpu/gpu/etc befitting a mobile device, and the most barebones / untrusted terminals would just be screen/inputs/charger, but in better environments the terminal can optionally provide extra oomph if permitted.
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I sold my MacBook Air a year ago and don't really miss it. I do my day-to-day development work on a very small Lenovo desktop PC running Ubuntu connected to two Dell 23" IPS screens. It's fast, silent and cheap & easy to upgrade w/ standard PC parts. And since all my servers run Ubuntu there's very little context-switching needed between my dev & live environments.

For light photo editing work I use a Windows PC. I'm interested in doing more serious photo editing and the best practise industry expert recommendation is to buy a custom made PC (e.g., https://imagescience.com.au/knowledge/build-a-powerful-pc-fo...).

I don't follow hardware that closely but recent developments around e.g. the amazing speed of NVMe drives and AMD's Zen architecture make the PC hardware space look pretty exciting. The new MacBook's Touch Bar seems like a gimmick in comparison.
I'm not so sure it's no longer viable as it is stagnant.

Looking at some of the major "features" - more emoticons and reactions in Messages... Siri.

Some were certainly nice - Apple Pay... but I don't really see PIP being used, or Continuity (which usually actually pisses me off, because I'll switch from my Mac to my phone with an image or similar on the Clipboard, and have to wait several seconds while Continuity syncs - shame, such potential).
I kind of feel like, once you're talking publicly about things like if you are committed or not, you probably aren't and are trying to keep people from fleeing while you figure out what to do or while some long-term strategy kicks in.
They wont support Vulkan since they have Metal.
I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like a majority of the HN community seems to lean towards building a sustainable business without the need to take on outside capital that adds debt to the business. I definitely agree with that sentiment, however I love a nuanced article like this which doesn't paint debt as an entirely "bad" thing that needs to be avoided at all costs.

This was an awesome article to read as it balances the risks and possible advantages that taking on debt can bring a small company.
But don't actually LIKE the mac mini. It's not something I particularly want.

I do kind of want the huge cinema displays. But they're expensive.

I do kind of want the cylindrical mac pro. But it's expensive.

Apple's laptops are the sweet spot. I want them. The price is right. And they have performed. Tablets and touchscreens suck compared to a solid laptop.

Mac minis are borderline indistinguishable from any other mac during use. But they've always been coasters. Lazy susans. Arm rests. Furniture.

The only time you think about it being a mac mini is when you cycle power, or when you imagine opening it up, and adding more power because multi-tasking.

Providing the mac pro at closer to mini prices would be cool. The polished metal cyclinder is kind of cool. But it's hard to find fetish items that endure six months these days. The death march of cell phone upgrades has seen to that.

Once they started soldering and epoxying internals, well... I start to feel guilty about polluting the environment with electronics waste, and I start googling recycling programs.
While if you play a bit with Elixir it will likely grow on you, there is nothing preventing you from writing it as something like

element = :ets.lookup_element(buffer.ets, pull_index, 2)

pi = rem(pull_index + 1, buffer.max_size)

buffer = %Buffer.Ets{buffer | size: buffer.size - 1, pull_index: pi}

{:ok, {element, buffer}}
Really? Like convertible notes?
> "Folks don't want to do down rounds or flat rounds," says Haim Zaltzman, a partner at law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, which has handled well over 100 such loan transactions so far this year. "Debt allows you to get around that."

Eh. I'm not too into the whole startup scene these days, and I haven't been exactly fishing for VC deals in today's market, but I believe that if your startup is only getting term sheets that provide you with a deal that forces you down or flat, you should seriously be considering looking at your business fundamentals before you are trying to raise funding by other means.

VC is speculative and looks for returns with dilution; if your company starts to go belly up, you can look at some acquihire or insta-acquisition through the VC's network so the VC firm can save face and see some ROI.

However, if you can't make your debt payments, banks don't care. They have no LPs to answer to, just their balance sheets. They will gladly step in with their attorneys and carve out any asset they can from your precious company. Caveat emptor. I have always been told by trusted GPs that debt is useful in very, very limited situations, and it seemed to me that the dreams of the entrepreneurs getting stuck with debt deals are already grasping at straws. I think there's a point at which you need to know when to quit.
Eventually they might. Or at least if they'll be relevant at that time.
You're proving his point.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

There is difference.
Even if Safari catches up, everyone is still forced to use it on their iPads and iPhones as their mobile browser rendering engine and no competition is allowed in that space. So, it will still be "the new IE" but worse than the old IE since competition is locked out at the OS level.
I believe SpaceX is also gunning for a similar satellite constellation for internet service[1]. The more serious players in this space, the better (no pun intended).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
From your mouth to Tim Cook's ears. (Although I highly doubt it: Apple seem to be too much in love of high margins on everything)
There's basically a 10 hour window where a banana actually tastes good. Otherwise it's over ripe or under ripe. That's the reason I never buy bananas.
We use Nexus. Artifactory is the only alternative I know of.

I don't know what your requirements are, but we've gotten by just fine with the free version of Nexus and just reading the documentation. Aside from the occasional upgrade we never have to touch it.
Last year when Uber raised nearly $5B many were asking why they needed so much money. I responded both Uber and AirBnB were amassing a legal warchest. I believe they are willing to innovate their way while piling up casualties and having enough ammunition to win a war of attrition.
As an example of [dead] due lack of value to the conversation?

I think users blame downvotes on disagreement, but in reality it's often badly formed written viewpoints lacking in value or OT.

But if it's a popular opinion people will be forgiving. Unpopular, not so much.
This links to an email signup.
Indeed, that's a nasty problem. One of the reasons I have little respect for Apple.
You should write a primer. A lot of programmers get into the game pretty young and figure they'll deal with all of the financial planning stuff when they're older.
Interesting. Whether that approach is efficient depends entirely on the workload. That complicates the analysis. (And one of the major benefits of skiplists is that the analysis is supposed to be simple.)
The author is contrasting "venture deals" against "borrowing capital" so I'm pretty sure they mean conventional loans with banks.

EDIT: The author is totally talking about venture debt and buried the lede. So yes, convertible notes as far as I can tell. Very misleading.
One advantage Uber has over the app you mention is that it's in many (most) cities. You only need /one/ app and one place to go to get fulfillment. The network effect is not insubstantial.
Discussion from earlier today (51 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209826

Original discussion from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079370
Why are you assuming that when mzw_mzw said that these policies only accounted for "some sliver of its annual income", he was referring to this from the article:

> But by 1847, insurance policies on slaves accounted for a third of the policies in a firm that would become one of the nation’s Fortune 100 companies

rather than the part of the article that actually mentioned income, namely this:

> Its foray into the slave insurance business did not prove to be lucrative: The company ended up paying out nearly as much in death claims — about $232,000 in today’s dollars — as it received in annual payments

?
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Can anyone comment on when at what level of scale this kind of issue might arise? It seems like it would be fairly costly to implement and test, is it safe to assume that when you attempt this it is either infeasible or too costly to continue to scale to be able to service the peak load? If you were running on bare-metal and simply could not add more instances/databases/caches/etc fast enough I can understand that you might be able to deploy a software solution like this faster than increasing capacity. I could also understand being capped by the cost of continuing to scale but I can't imagine putting the development effort into this kind of solution unless there were no other options?

Would these kind of techniques ever be a worthwhile exercise to a (early) startup or a small company that is hosting in the cloud or is it a last resort after you have already gotten quite large?
It's a regression model, so "accounted for" usually means that the factors were included in the models.

Ideally, we'd ask a group of male doctors and a group of female doctors to independently diagnose and treat the same set of patients. We can't actually do that--in addition to the cost, you obviously can't treat the same patient twice. However, we can try to estimate this effect statistically.

First, they build a model describing the probability of a patient dying within 30 days. They used a linear probability model, which essentially means that the probability of someone dying is the sum of the "weights" related to the patient, doctor, and hospital. These weights are estimated from the data using ordinary least squares (the same way you may have learned to fit a line to points at school).

Having built the model, they then ask what the marginal effect of the doctor's sex is. In other words, if you hold everything but that constant, how does the probability of dying change? They cite a nice Stata guide (#32 in the paper here: http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0260 ) which gives some background and examples.

The rest of the paper looks at different variations (only hospitalists, different diseases, etc), using a pretty similar approach.
I'm surprised to hear there are no taxis in SF. However, in the city of San Francisco there are plenty of taxis. I take them all the time and they are still easy to hail from the street. There are plenty of times when I want a professional driver who knows The City, instead of some random person from the East Bay.
Sometimes debt is cheaper than VC money, if you have the cash flow to pay it back. If sales tank, and your cash flow slows down, you'll learn how quickly debt is not always cheaper :) In the article, the first company mentioned talks about how sales doubled in a year. Well, and an anything that grows that fast can shrink that fast, too. VC money can have really favorable payment terms for a company that needs to keep cash within the company to grow.
It depends on where you live of course, but the BBC one is a pretty good list.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/seasonal-calendar/all
Apple currently already does this very well via their iCloud sync.

You stick 1TB of your files in your Documents directory (or app-specific data folders..), and you can access them in any device that supports iCloud, including iPhones & iPads.

Try it, you'll like it, and you don't have to deal with physical storage devices.

I mean, have people never even tried iCloud sync?
I absolutely agree, its not a "my side versus your side" issue, i.e. Left -vs- Right, it should be universal but somehow people (not just millenials) don't realized how potent the power of surveillance is in the wrong hands. It will attract sociopaths.
Could possibly turn this into a sleep headband: http://choosemuse.com/