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I have no way of predicting Snap’s future, but I am certain that tomorrow, the founders and VCs will take hundreds of millions off the table through share sales, the investment bankers will earn fat fees, ditto the deal lawyers, some people will buy in hoping for a quick buck on a first-day big pop, and founders and VCs all around will be looking for increased pre-IPO valuations. That’s what this show is, and the rest is just speculation.
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See "Intentionally"

A dash cam has the several prerogatives mentioned above.

The court case would be interesting; especially if a government entity argued no expectation of privacy and no intentionality in the recording.
The cool startup thing here is gas delivery a.k.a. "the Uber of gas stations". It seems like they could add this as a service, since they need something as a reason to exist.

(this is a submarine comment, I don't want Yoshi to go out of business or I'll have to inflate my own tires again)

Or, well, you could buy carbon credits…
> No major revelations of political support

They took a kind of strong stance [1] in protesting the recent order that restricted travel from those seven countries, so that's a political statement (whether or not we agree with it.)

Their announcement also included some strawman language, which turned off some people:

"This weekend, Trump closed the country’s borders to refugees, immigrants, and even documented residents from around the world based on their country of origin. Banning people of a particular faith or creed, race or identity, sexuality or ethnicity, from entering the U.S. is antithetical to both Lyft’s and our nation’s core values."

The first sentence was true, the second sentence (while noble and I like it) was a strawman.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/29/lyft-donates-1m-to-the-acl...
Man-in-the-middle vulnerability in OpenBSD's wireless stack
Couldn't drivers also negatively rate passengers in retaliation if they don't tip?
Apple shareholders overwhelmingly reject diversity proposal
Couldn't agree more. It's THE reason I use Uber, instead of lift. Tipping has gotten out of control in this country. It's supposed to be reserved for when someone performs an exceptional service, not to subsidize their wage.
Ah yeah I had the old link, thanks for fixing. Actually we privately disclosure the problem to the developers and get it fixed following responsible disclosure and not post PRs directly.
That is in no way true.

Suggesting that black people are somehow to blame for Uber not allowing in-app tips is one of the most out there things I've seen on HN, and that's saying something.
Instacart is building datasets right now on what people purchase. They can simply bypass their physical market place partners of today and become a retailer without the cost of running physical stores. They would only need to take care of fulfillment, and hey, maybe with machine vision there will be a little Instacart robot that delivers your groceries to you direct from the Instacart warehouse: cutting yet another cost and justifying their high valuation. Who know's if that's what they're up to.
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Uber wanted to make payment so easy you don't even have to think about it. Tipping seriously gets in the way of that ideal, even if it's purely digital.

The first few times I used Uber, the most impressive aspect of it to me was that at the end I could literally just get out of the car. It was done. Payment was already handled. This was a tremendous improvement over the experience with taxis, where paying could be stressful and awkward and not even easy.

To this day I'm strongly against tips for Uber. Uber already has a rating system. I don't need the ability to decline to tip to communicate that a driver did poorly: I can just give them a low rating. So the only argument remaining for tipping built into the app is to supplement their pay, but that is a slippery slope that will quickly hurt drivers.

As soon as drivers routinely expect and rely on tips, that opens up Uber to reducing their rates to grab more customers. Drivers will become totally reliant on tips to make a decent wage, just like servers are in the restaurant industry. But not every customer will tip appropriately, which means one of two things:

(1) Either the drivers' overall compensation will go down due to the non-tippers, or

(2) The expected tips will go up, so that tipping customers effectively subsidize non-tipping customers.
That's super cool! The only complaints I had was that it seemed to need more training, or it did relatively poorly at the training than desirable; And I wanted the ability to move around symbol and text more than it allowed. It needed to be smarter and learn faster. But still, even in its rudimentary stage it's very useful!
I'd be shocked if any significant number of UberX and Lyft drivers had a CDL. Even in NYC, where a TLC license and commercial insurance is required, drivers still don't need a CDL.

Some driving definitely requires specialized skills, but driving a Prius around SF or $random_american_city isn't it. Autonomous vehicles have gotten quite good, and I can easily see them filling the taxi/Uber use case by 2022.
You have a few faulty assumptions: the contractor classification is reasonable, many disagree it is or should be illegal, business model is money-printing machine. They are somewhat interchangeable but have quite different brandings.
I think organics food shows this isn't true. These gas stations would first target the affluent liberal markets. The marketing could be, don't feel bad about buying that luxury BMW gas guzzler, come to Neutral gas station. The station should feel high end, like the Apple store of gas stations.

This is how organic food started with Whole Foods. And the same strategy could work here.
The view part is only one half of AR. The second is that it provides a 3D surface of the users field of view.

Industrial uses and helpdesking are obvious.
1. Less need for physical interfaces on machinery
2. Need help in, say, fixing the elevator? AR allows the helper in other end see what you see and point out things and direcr movement in persons field of view
3. Building maintenance. To point out the location of work, just let the AR device guide you there
That person is also not enjoying themselves. I am with my arm waving.
What appeals to me about Scala is that is expressive and concise. It also encourages some healthy patterns like such as making distinctions between mutable and immutable containers, using futures/promises for asynchronous functions, using option types to prevent null pointer exceptions and many many others.

It influenced my programming style a lot and I try to prefer those patterns when I use other languages as well.

Some people like more advanced aspects of Scala, and like to flirt with category theory and hardcore functional stuff. Personally I find it hard to express myself in terms of higher order kinds, monoids, functors, semigroups and such. You can learn them but it's a bit like switching from qwerty to dvorak... if you have to look at the keyboard each time it doesn't make things simpler for you.
Is The Scala Evangelism Task Force back in action? I'm game.
Anyone tried carpooling services like Waze pool? As an employee at google, I decided to give Waze pool a try. I live in San Jose and usually ride the google shuttle to work. During traffic, it takes about 1 hour to 1.5 hours (keep in mind Google shuttle has multiple stops).

After using Waze Rider a few times, it has now become my main mode of transportation to work and back. It cost $5 (and possibly less) and you get to sit in a car and talk about life, share your interests, problems, with another human being. So far I have completed about 26 rides and the socializing aspect outside of my social circle makes my commute much more exciting. Since drives can't make a living off the money from Waze carpool, the drivers I tend to meet are those who doesn't really need the money and simply doing it to meet new people. They all have different backgrounds going to work (or home). I've met a nanny, tax accountant, an aspiring policeman going to the academy, VP of a company, and software engineers. Yesterday, I waze carpooled with a product manager and a startup who picked me up in his Tesla. It was the first time I've ridden in a Tesla.
They changed their tipping policy in May 2016 in response to a contractor lawsuit.

Drivers are now allowed to ask for tips; I've had drivers with tip jars and squares available. And I've seen reddit discussions of drivers calling riders who don't tip dicks.
"X is why Trump got elected" is just lazy shorthand for "displays politics or social tendencies I don't like". Did Trump really get elected because of an over-abundance of online articles writing about whiteness and cultural identity? I highly doubt it. There are so much more obvious factors: a weak opponent, easily exploitable economic anxiety, being the "Change" candidate in a charged election. The parent's comment was lazy kneejerk thinking and the fact that I'm here defending a rebuttal to such triteness is indicative of the perverseness of modern civic 'discourse'
Which language to use for Introduction to Computer Science shouldn't be a big issue--Computer Science should be programming language independent. The syllabus I envision would teach concepts independent of programming languages (but use multiple programming languages as examples) and would begin with a discussion of computer architectures, computer instructions sets, and assembly language.
> Why is either business the cat's meow?

I have, for years, commented on Uber's savvy relative to Airbnb [1]. This was partly due to Uber's retention of Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe [2]. Unfortunately, he left for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in January [3].

Uber's problems are, 80%, a PR scandal. #DeleteUber started when Uber seemed to interfere with a taxi strike at New York City's JFK airport [4]. Uber cancelled its surcharge at 7:36PM; the taxi union scheduled the strike, at 4:55PM, for between 6 and 7PM [5].

Biggest winner? Peter Thiel--numpties jumped to Lyft. Almost everyone else rallied against his competitor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521376#6521700

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plouffe

[3] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/10/ubers-david-plouffe-to-join-c...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/delete-uber-hashtag-jfk-airpo...

[5] https://www.axios.com/uber-didnt-deserve-deleteuber-22258932...
The top executives are buying luxury cars, yachts, homes. Paying for "entertainment", etc. Not to mention their advisors, etc. Have you looked at what the bankers take from a successful IPO? It would make your eyes water.

When companies raise a pile of money, they hire a bunch of managers, consultants, etc. Then they need executive offices, expense accounts, etc.
Here here.

Im new to scala and I love it.

Also sbt > maven!
It Can’t Be This Hard to Board a Plane
https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

>The intensity, frequency and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes, as well as the frequency of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes, have all increased since the early 1980s. The relative contributions of human and natural causes to these increases are still uncertain. Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm.
Tipping has been studied and has been associated with discrimination on gender, race, and class.

http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a23132/why-tip...
Slide 1:

Why fund us?

The key points are
- CEO never blackmailed journalists
- No major revelations of sexual harassment
- No major revelations of political support

Slide 2:

..
Will GMail support binary files and password protected archives again?

It's pretty off-putting - instead of just sending or adding a warning message, GMail blocks such files.
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There's Visionect's 32" e-ink display ($3599 for the dev kit or $4699 if you want the color version): https://www.visionect.com/product/development-kit-with-grays...

There isn't any technological limitation as far as I know; it's just that e-ink displays are hideously expensive to make.
> Alternate input methods for games have failed, but Nintendo keeps pursuing this.

The switch support standard input methods and then some.
> Lyft has in app digital tipping (drivers keep 100% of tips).

One of the reasons I don't like Lyft. How about this system: pay the drivers a fair wage up front, so they don't need to subsist on the generosity of strangers. If they get great ratings, you can give them a bonus.
great point.
Before you bury yourself in packages, learn the Node.js runtime itself
I think it was less about asking a second opinion than making sure the doctors opinion was drawn from all the available facts.
You missed the part I said I wasn't claminig Uber / Lyft drivers had CDL licenses and mentioned I thought most wouldn't.

Thanks for the downvote and reply to something I didn't claim.
Personally, being pressured to top is bad UX. I feel bad when presented with the prompt via square et al.

I'd much rather have the price baked in like other countries.
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But when a driver goes above and beyond, it feels good to tip. One driver offered me water and a towel when it was too hot. He genuinely gave a shit about me and lyft made tipping easy. I found lyft's customer service better.

Honesty lyft's pink branding and mustache logo gives off a fun and underdog vibe. Not many companies go for pink. Their 50% female executive represention probably plays a role.

Uber on the other hand with black/silver gives off a very strong corporate "we're gonna fuck you over if you don't play by our rules" vibe.

This are emotional arguments but that's what branding is all about.
They can and hbr wrote an article about it.

https://hbr.org/2016/05/ubers-new-tipping-policy-is-a-mistak...
> At this point Uber survives because they found enough gullible drivers that waste time and add serious miles to their own cars for Uber's profit. But at some point the bill kicks in.

Absolutely—at some point, the drivers all wise up, there aren't any new gullible people to replace them, the supply of drivers falls, and Uber and Lyft and their ilk have to raise fares. The only real question is whether this happens before autonomous vehicles can replace the drivers entirely. Uber, at least, is betting that it doesn't, and I think they're right.
A strawman indeed. None of those were used as criteria for the 90-day immigration suspension.

The immigration order was flawed enough as it was. It doesn't need a speck of embellishment in order to criticize it.
I used to work in enterprise performance management software, which touches corporate finance / FP&A a little bit. I have some ideas, always down to chat.
Sure - I take a bus to work and back, light rail around town, bike when weather permits, walk and eat/drink/shop local. I still take a Lyft when I go out and get drunk or whatever - not a real alternative out there.
Visionect have a 32" ePaper displays in color and grayscale: https://www.visionect.com/blog/32-inch-eink-development-kit-...

But they're pricy: grayscale is $3600, color is $4700: https://www.visionect.com/development_kits

The underlying display is still made by eInk Inc, who sells a very similar product on their own website: 31.5" instead of 32", and only in grayscale - but surprisingly: for only $2000: http://shopkits.eink.com/product/signage-evaluation-kit-v3-w...

I plan to buy one of these large eInk/ePaper displays and mount them on the wall in my home's atrium where I'll display a dashboard showing traffic levels, road cameras, and a weather update. I'd really like color though, but $2000 vs $4700 - I guess I'll make-do.
If the code were kept secret, or if you could prevent such use with DRM, copyright law would be irrelevant.

By having the code in the open, you don't 'implicitly allow' unlicensed uses -- you just become reliant on copyright law as your protection.
Keep in mind I said prison, not "US prison system in 2017".

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-...

You would let murderers out because you think there is some compromise between their freedom and the crime they committed.

What is your suggestion?
That is just plain dangerous. There have been times that I needed the defroster, couldn't safely stop, and had to keep looking out of my rapidly-fogging window.

This probably doesn't happen where Tesla's engineering is located. The typical conditions are probably 100% humidity, then suddenly getting cold rain on the windshield.
Wow, that's good to know. It looks like one step before the force on more to Google Drive
> The likelihood of dedicated hardware EVER getting back its previous glory is unlikely.

People that want good games with good input devices will always go with dedicated hardware. Most games simply can't be done on iOS/android.
Can you explain how it's a strawman? The Muslim ban (as it has been known for a long time) is a ban on people from a particular faith.
I mean, they could skip the whole "without attribution" thing as well by just providing a link to the LICENSE/COPYING + NOTICES (if included) file in the repository as well when displaying search results.

Overall I feel this was a pretty poor move by GitHub.
Patagonia is famous for this in the clothing industry. They are a premium brand so they can get away with higher prices and a lot of it gets reinvested in supply chain sustainability /ethics.
I often wonder what is the natural market price of these services? Basically, without massive VC money distorting everything, how much would a Lyft or Uber ride really cost? I have a feeling it would be much higher than now. Despite all the hype, true level 5 self driving is decades away. When the VC money stops, what are these companies going to do?

I think the only viable option for them is Lyft Line/Uber Pool. It benefits from network effects (more using the service, better it gets) which also prevents newcomers. It could become a monopoly like Facebook. They should be pushing this harder than unrealistic dreams of level 5 self driving.
This sounds an awful lot like "I'm taking advantage of the assumption of tipping to avoid paying a fair price for the services I receive."
Organic food is successful because a significant number of people believe it is healthier to eat than non-organic foods. The environmental impact is mostly not the reason. (Whether it is true that organic foods are healthier may be debatable, though for some foods the evidence is pretty good that it is.)

It won't work to use that angle for gas. Pure environmental plays are harder to find. There are people who pay more for renewable generated electricity, so that's a good parallel. I don't know what percentage, however, or if it'd be enough to support a chain of expensive gas stations.
> Sorry, I feel like the portable-gaming system went the way of the compact camera, MP3 player

So your saying they will still be bought by people that care about quality?
I don't get it. Snapchat is a business. Why should one organization be favored over another? Neither one is a "charity", though their non-lobbying arms may be structured as a non-profit.
I got my dad an Amazon Kindle DX for Christmas 2013 - right around the time they discontinued it. The display still looks good today, though not as white as the latter-day handheld Kindles, and the product casing bends easily with slight pressure which makes the device feel cheap, though I appreciate it is very lightweight for its size.

It'd be great if Apple's industrial design team did an e-ink iPad, they would be able to make it considerably thinner and sturdier.
Remove the word "minimalism" from your comment and I'll upvote you ;-)
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political/ideological arguments. That's not what this site is for, so please stop using it that way.
e-ink displays refresh rather slowly. My Kindle is slow to page refresh when I use the built-in browser. I'm assuming that that flicker would become progressively worse as the displays become larger.
Slightly OT but regarding floats - I was wondering if we could get by just with an exponent and ditch the mantissa. Each number would be represented as an integer exponent of 2^-n for n corresponding to the precision.
A completely different business model where they suddenly own tons of depreciating capital assets. Or are they going to franchise out the car ownership and keep relying on people to not realize they're losing money?
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Patagonia, jones snowboards, wikipedia and many more.