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As much issues I may have with actions of Uber as a company, and to an extent actions of Travis as its CEO, this video isn't really saying anything bad about him.
He is running a business and doing what he thinks is right for it. He was trying to engage in a reasonable conversation. When the conversation became more emotional and blind blaming, he walked out in anger. Aren't people allowed be angered by what they believe are unreasonable accusations?

Poor guy, just added this to the list of negative things Uber is being called out on, and apologized.
Must-have necessary evil :)

Anyway, I do not agree with all the stuff in the linked article. He was just used as an example for need of programmer-focused engines.
The core presumption of my argument is that Uber isn't really succeeding as a company in the way that Apple (or even NeXt) did at the same "age." There are a lot of articles out there making the case that Uber's current business is not sustainable, and I tend to agree.

If NeXt wasn't profitable, it was because their sales hadn't yet caught up with their fixed engineering costs. Uber's unprofitability isn't because they're waiting for sales to grow large enough to cover the cost of their engineering operation, it's because they're heavily subsidizing the unit costs of their business.
Like so many other things in tech, "it depends".

Network gear can be configured to treat frames/packets in various ways -- leave the ToS/DSCP bits alone, strip them out, or remark them. At the edge of a network, it's common to mark them. In the core of a network, you'll usually leave them alone (but honor them). On connections to third-parties (such as ISPs), it's not unusual for them to strip your QoS markings -- unless you're paying extra for them not to.

For a random packet that leaves your home network and hits the Internet (even VoIP traffic), I'd be surprised if it ends up at its destination with those same QoS bits set.

Like zrm said, though, if there's no congestion on links, prioritizing traffic typically isn't going to do you much good. It's only when there's contention that moving packets to the front of the line helps out.
Finding a new job is easier said than done for low skill workers.
Agreed, the sea creatures have evolved to capture even more light. I'm only guessing, but I would think the pressure and temperature sensors on fish would be more important than sight?
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Then it should be easy to disprove, should it not?

If you bothered to actually read cited sources, you might find that there's criticism there as well. There is criticism at Wikipedia, backup up in some of the 153 cited sources.

Congratulations, by dismissing it out of hand without justification all you've done is remove any doubts as to whether you should be listened to on the topic at all. Hand-waving away massive amounts of information as propaganda because it's inconvenient to your view is not the action of a credible person.
It's an interesting narrative. But isn't it more likely that normalcy and predictability that we are so used to for the past few decades is the actual illusion? World is inherently chaotic and unpredictable. On top of that, human history does go through tumultuous periods where established systems are uppended.
Sure, lawyers will always counsel you not to. It's their job to minimize risk. But if you are getting advice from a lawyer, it's your job to decide when to listen to it.

In particular, taking responsibility for a problem requires things like admitting it and apologizing. Especially so when it's a big company culture problem. If Kalanick has put short-term Uber cash flow above solving his company's culture problems, then it's a sign they are going to remain the same bro-y toxic cesspit.
Hence also the magic phrase "fiduciary duty" that absolves everyone of wrongdoing (if any) in making such decisions.
I think being an asshole and being demanding can also get really misconstrued, lots of people who have worked for me think I'm demanding, probably annoying, and sometimes an ass, however I'd like to believe they would also say they have grown because they were pushed, and I don't think they would say I'm unkind, or a jerk, or hurtful. I don't believe that's what is going on with TK.
Used be, Sococo Teamspace could do that. We demonstrated 100-person meetings routinely. Presentation, some video sharing, everybody could hear everybody. Using our proprietary media channels and media servers.

Then Sococo got taken in a different direction - using WebRtc. The new version can only do maybe 6. Hangs routinely. Takes forever to enter a room/connect streams.
That's precisely it. Uber is dependent on outside investors to stay afloat, and I'm guessing they don't want the bad publicity to be associated with someone like him, which is forcing him to take these actions. On some level, I don't trust this guy one bit but hopefully he is serious about making changes (a lot of people depend on/use Uber).
Part of the reason it is better is that the rides are subsidized which pays drivers more than otherwise and attracts more drivers (availability) while making driving a newer car possible (quality). For it to remain "better" prices would have to rise significantly which wouldn't work outside of a niche market. Worse still - if Uber loses riders and starts serving a niche again, availability will get worse as there will not be enough demand to keep that many drivers on the road.

Take a look at airlines for what a race to the bottom in transportation looks like. People in aggregate are often unwilling to pay a premium for better service and will choose cheaper tickets over amenities like in-flight meals or "free" checked luggage.
The Uber driver(s) are all self-employed businessmen, with Uber and Lyft being apps that help them get business, taking care of things like payments etc. As a businessman, you take a risk, especially if making big investments like a $100K car. The 3rd party, in this case Uber, has no obligations to the businessman; if the driver wants more money, then stop relying on Uber or go to a better-paying competitor.

That's business. That's the American dream. That's the risk you take when starting your own business. Uber couldn't exist if it hired their drivers, so for Uber too it's a conscious decision.
I am disappointed in that it appears to have the same trap as cable, forced ESPN. So how ESPN tax is this setup? The channels look interesting but the price is just to high.

Leaving cable is getting to be more expensive than having cable once you start putting back all the channels. When calculating the cost of replacing cable TV add in a portion of what you are paying for your internet.

A better solution is to have different monthly fees and you get certain number of points to spend on channels you like and each channel shows how much it cost. Then its truly worth my while. I know its not going to happen but there are too many providers for each to charge separate fees.
I have this exact experience with offshoring in my company. The management became convinced that more people = faster/better and that quality of resourcing wasn't a thing. So we now have to manage about 20x the number of people, and the people change every day. We strongly suspect that we are being used to train these offshore people because as soon as they start delivering reasonable quality things, they move off the project and get replaced with a new incompetent person.

We are left with two options: let the project fail due to incompetent resources and take the fall as the only remaining in-house IT staff; or waste time training the resources and proving that the offshore model works.
No offense, but I would like to see other global automotive standards addressed first - primarily "safety related". Differences between Euro and US standards mean the same exact car can't be sold in the two markets, so they have to make at least 2 versions of every car. Ridiculous.
Yup there's definitely a tinge of racism there. Even the word "outsourcing" has a "send it to a cheap third world country" feel to it.

I remember talking to an American company who was doing all the design and web development for an Australian company. So I said "ahh so they outsourced and offshored it to you" and they got very defensive about how it wasn't outsourcing. Even though this is the textbook definition of outsourcing and offshoring.
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Ah yes, I am not aware of a logic converter shield at the moment, most are in an IC or a small breakout board like the sparkfun below.

I tend to avoid shields in projects as they are more expensive, take up more space, and not as flexible (can't be used as easily with another board e.g. teensy 3.0 vs arduino uno)

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12009
I have a 2011 iMac in the house, and gave my parents a 2011 Macbook Air. All are on the most recent OS X. They all have more memory than 2GB, but does the new OS really take that much more memory? I've not checked.
Yup, back when I was in games our ~70 person team was about 10 developers and the rest were artists/animators/designers.

Tooling cannot be understated and most of our goal was to be a force multiplier on the majority of the team who actually do the creative work. That's what these engines bring and while hobby engines are nifty they're not going to be making strides into that space until they have a compelling tooling story.
Can't be more true. There won't be any outrage if the jobs were outsourced to Hungary or Estonia where cost is comparable to India. Because subconsciously, Western power and western people needs poor brown/black nations to make themselves feel better.
Similarly, "no, those two addresses aren't the territory of the same company, there's no way to get there from here by cab."
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I think it's deceptive to frame this as Indians stealing American jobs. It's more like American engineers are being overpaid at the expense of UCSF patients and CA taxpayers.
Your example is not analogous to this situation. The driver is not an investor, he is a contractor/employee of the company.
If they're smart (and for all their dipshit culture they do have a good product) they will use all the data they have gathered on rideshares to possibly improve that experience. Or pivot into something else.
Hopefully that school doesn't have a CS or IT program, 'cause that's a pretty strong wave-off for people considering what career to go for.
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Please don't share sites like this. This is a common theme. People advertise "revolutionary products" for blind people, whithout actually explaining what kind of microactuators they use. I am 99% sure this is a fake non-invention that does not exist.
Here's an article on making your own circuit board:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-a-custompr...
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Have you considered using another browser? Staying up to date isn't just about the convenience of web devs, but about your security.

[Disclosure: I work in this area, but I'd much rather someone be using a patched browser than an unpatched version of our browser.]
>> Are you optimistic we can get speech synthesis to run on mobile devices in the near future?

You mean high quality right? I mean speech synth has been around for decades that can run on cheap hardware and is understandable. Speech recognition has also been around for a long time, but there's a huge difference in usability between "pretty good recognition" and "pretty good synthesis". One is useful, the other not so much.
Aside: as the author of the second link I'd rather you pointed to http://wry.me/~darius/writings/peval/ (though I'm grateful to ymeme for posting it without permission, since the original host fell off the web.)

Of course, Lisp isn't really a systems language like Zig -- I think it's great that it's tackling the problem its own way.
And the fact that it has a rather small standard library with JVM 6 compatibility means it's very very easy to adopt it into existing Java 6 (Android!) projects.
Hey HN, I co-wrote the article with Maxime. A little late to the party here but happy to answer any questions you might have about it. I'll send him the link as well.

By the way, thank you to Maxime for sharing his thoughts, and the Astronomer team for contributing great questions.
As much as I believe that psychedelic experiences should be available to those who seek them, and pro rec mj, LSD can't be legalized. Enough dumbasses out there will drink a vial and then try to drive their car to the moon. Penalties should be much less extreme though.

Maybe designated psychedelic theme parks where it's legal and quality controlled with no access to motor vehicles? (with music too?)
"America's awesome healthcare and insurance system"
Huh?
I'm rewriting a legacy ASP application to PHP right now, and this isn't my first. Though the code is not .NET, .NET was the obvious upgrade path yet it was decided that moving to PHP was preferable for a variety of reasons. You already know the non-technical reasons (inexpensive Linux servers, easy to find devs, MySQL licensing vs MS SQL Server licensing, etc) but PHP 7 is extraordinarily performant and (as a VIM user I cannot believe that I'm saying this) with a good IDE such as PhpStorm it is an absolute pleasure to write and maintain.
I'd love to buy a competitive device that's 1/2-2/3 the price of a MacBook, but I've never seen one at that price point. The models that come up in these threads usually lack a quality screen, long battery life, durable construction, or good support for Linux / unix user land tools or some combination thereof. Linux subsystem for windows may be starting to address the last point, but I haven't had the chance to use it yet.
Support for GC and DOM is coming

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
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a girl out at sea fishing with her dad and his fifsing colleigues fell into the water in the eastcoast of carolina this story has not been put on the news for simply one reason ... she was apparently possesed by a demon wich made her do it reports of her acting strangely towards people like scratching dark and disturbing photos in to the table and talking to herself uncontrolabley comment what you think happened
It's a good thing they're based in South Korea then.
Not to mention the sub-standard-vs-US working conditions HCL has in India. Outsourcing to a sweatshop is bad karma.
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> (...) for cars that use a mechanical, cable-operated internal release for the fuel filler, it’s much easier to have the release be on the same side as the fuel filler flap (...)

The position of the mechanism that you use to unlock it can also give you a clue, on those vehicles where there isn't any arrow.
> As a passenger in these services, I had an expectation of privacy---I would not expect that the driver could record me. I've certainly had conversations on the phone that I would expect to be private.

My understanding is that California law likely protects Travis in this situation because it was just him and the driver and he could thus expect privacy.

However, it's unlikely that you can prevent someone from publishing your private conversation in a Lyft or Uber, and given that most of these drivers are not high earners you're not likely to get a major payout from them, so while you might legally have the protections of privacy it still probably means very little in practice.
That makes sense. Just out of curiosity, to my point above, how much cooperation from the manufacturer of different systems (Hololens/Xbox/Playstation) do you need to be able to target builds for them?
Riot accounts are tied to different geographical regions, so I would expect the service doesn't have to span across them, http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Servers
Somewhat implausible future?

I spend some effort to make my house "perfect". Clean, fully stocked with groceries and bathroom supplies and everything like that.

At night, while I sleep, a robot or team of robots goes through my house to reset everything to it's "perfect" state.

It'll tidy up, wash the dishes and put them up, do the laundry in the laundry hamper and fold it when it's done. It would even order replacement supplies that are getting low, get them off of the front porch when a drone drops them off in the middle of the night, and put them up.

If a person sleeps lightly maybe the robot would do this during the day when the family is at work or school.
It will be 4 pixels of different colors though, making it easier to distinguish the shape of the object.
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I have done some $1,000 deals at angel.co

fundersclub.com used to allow some $1,000 deals (and I did a few), but now the minimum seems to be more like $3,000.
> You're asking an implicitly deontological question with an explicitly consequentialist answer.

Found the philosopher
> You need at least DOM-handling libraries.

Did you see the '(set! (inner-html (get-element-by-id document "demo")) "Hello JavaScript!")' bit? That's DOM-handling in Scheme. Not a really great API, but it's not terrible either.
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The worst mistake to make is to be afraid to make mistakes.
The hose may have a collar on it to help it retract back which is often plastic. Stretching the hose to its limit can also potentially damage the hose and/or the nozzle depending on how rough you are with it so back in my gas-jockey days it was policy that you don't do it at all.
I'm a Google employee, opinions are my own.

Duo is person-to-person for mobile without the requirement of having a Google account. There are no multi-user video chats. There is no desktop client. It's more akin to Facetime from my point of view.

Hangouts video continues to serve a different market (people that need 3+ people in a chat, plus desktop support). Meet simplifies this for businesses that heavily use it, as you can just jump into Meet and join your next meeting (instead of finding it on your calendar and then joining it). From my own using of it, I've like it so far.

Keep in mind that March 8 is the start of Google Cloud Next[0]. This event covers cloud services, gsuite, and other enterprise focused features from Google. I'd keep an eye on that event.

[0] https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/
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It's not how you talk to people and, as the CEO, you have to take the high road.

He's at the helm of a mulit-billion dollar company. He should be expected to deal with partners with more respect and deftness. Not only is it a decency thing, but losing his cool so easily doesn't inspire confidence in his ability to manage real crises.

It's like he said himself, time to grow up.
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The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is that it may take us a while to get to 100% open source, but that's the direction we're moving. All of our new integration development will be open source and be part of the Singer project. Our original integrations were written in a different framework and couldn't be run independently of Stitch, and it's a nontrivial amount of work to convert them to the Singer format.

We included several of our existing integrations as part of this launch, and we'll definitely be adding more of them as well as new integrations.
I can't praise enough the quality and functionality of Joseph Joseph items. It seems like everything I own from them meets the advertised functionality and then some. And while expensive, the prices are fair. Great plastics and finishing.

They don't do furniture, though.
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I am a software developer at a major American university. I do good work because I am immersed in the culture of higher education, which is nothing at all like private industry. Both faculty and administrators are significantly different in their needs and ways of doing things than in the private sector. They have always been and always will be. "Running the college like a business" is an oft-repeated punchline used to describe people that just don't understand the system and are bound to fail.

My point is that software development requires both the creator and the customer to share an appropriate context in order to produce the desired results without error or miscommunication. You can't simply plug in development like a USB stick and expect the same results every time.

One caveat: our college town is in a very rural area, and housing costs outside of town are dirt cheap. I cannot imagine the financial burden to support staff in a horrendously expensive city like San Francisco. Because of this, we can afford a larger headcount, and provide an excellent service.
American engineers are being overpaid, or Indian engineers are being underpaid?
Not GP, but there is a sliver of sound logic in the call to put your money where your mouth is.

Why not start a charity/non-profit that assists such victims of outsourcing? I'd think unemployment benefits were supposed to do that. And that is not too far from you, me and all other taxpayers writing a check to such folks. Is it?
COX2 inhibitors can, but not Advil or Aleve... maybe a weaker NSAID and stronger/more cannabis would be a good combination?
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Show HN: A Chrome extension that merges all open YouTube tabs into one playlist
I don't see why you should get to run random, unauditable code on my machine or decide for me how I consume your content.
Surely Hangouts can work over WebRTC?

Is it using a plugin in Chrome also?
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Nope: https://www.pastery.net/tfyqwb/
You're exaggerating greatly. Almost the entire Houston metropolitan area is less than 20 miles from the Medical center.

Plenty of homes are near the Medical center. Nearly all of Houston is "dirt cheap" when compared with San Francisco's price bubble.

As for crime, Houston is safer than SF proper and doesn't have San Francisco's vagrancy problems, which are as much a product of the city fathers as of the vagrants themselves.
I'd definitely try to follow in the footsteps of many of our great 'turnaround' CEOs: 1) Insist on a 'golden parachute' clause in my contract that gives me a big payout on exit, 2) run the company into the ground, 3) jump ship before the explosion.

And I could do it for less than, say, Bob Nardelli or Carly Fiorina.
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>> They're simply resynthesizing exactly what the person said, in the same voice. It's essentially cheating because they can use the real person's inflection.

Yes, but imagine being able to take sound from one person and inflection from another. If you want to fake someone saying something you don't need to do pure TTS, a human can be used to fake another persons inflections.
I second your opinion and experience. I have been an Enterprise users for many years, but it has been getting in the way of getting work done. the Firefox plugin keeps losing passwords, takes forever to pop up and is a completely different UI from Chrome. Evaluating alternatives.
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Did he force you to type his domain name into your browser's address bar?
>Kotlin (1.0) works well with everything and is relatively succinct except for Mockito due to everything defaulting to 'final' - but it appears that Kotlin 1.1 fixes this with a compiler plugin.

It's worth pointing out that since Mockito 2.0, you've been able to opt into mocking final classes, making testing Kotlin pretty painless.

https://github.com/mockito/mockito/wiki/What's-new-in-Mockit...
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Zip code.

As usual only for Americans.

This time they didn't even pretend otherwise.