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If you live in a dense city, taxis are a viable option. In SF, Flywheel is a good way to hail a cab by phone. The problem is outside of certain areas, driving a cab full time is a not a good way to make a living. I am glad Lyft, Uber, etc came along because it wasn't that long ago that your only option was to call Yellow Cab, who might as well have had a recording that said "Thank you for calling Yellow Cab, now go fuck yourself!". No words for how bad service used to be.
Android: the experiment gone horribly right.
Bar codes are probably cheaper for Amazon, as they don't have to make a card, transport it, store it and sell it.
Ah I see thanks. I was thinking the claim was that it might take an unbounded amount of time.
Never mind the specifics of the selection process, Silicon Valley's risk-adverse approach to hiring is baffling. Instead of making candidates go through an overly rigorous process, why not embrace California's at-will status and hire and fire often? Employers and employees already view each other with suspicion in terms of loyalty, the former willing to downsize capriciously at any moment, and the latter willing to jump ship every year or two. So accept the mobility and instability of startups. Instead of spending immense resources on the interview process to find the perfect, you focus on getting the good and terminate swiftly if they turn out to be bad.

Not to mention, even when you have these types of interviews it still doesn't seem to filter out toxic people, such as the harassers of Susan Fowler at Uber.

Of course, it would be easier for workers to be okay with this arrangement if basic needs such as health insurance were decoupled from one's employer. That's another argument for single-payer in CA.
The fjord was called "Hvalseyjarfjörðr" [1], the fjord of Hvalsey. The area is searchable in Google Maps, and in the middle of the fjord there is a characteristic island, perhaps Hvalsey itself. It is broad at one end and narrow at the other, like a whale.

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New battery tech takes a long time to being to market. Once an innovation is shown to be viable in a lab, there's a long gauntlet of stress tests to run--different operating loads under different environmental conditions. There's no market surprise to be had that's going to catch your competitors off-guard.

> Electric cars are very easy to build when compared to IC cars.

As I commented above, I recommend reading about the development of the Volt and Bolt at GM. They had a huge learning curve:

> Nearly everything changes when you opt for a fundamentally different power train, so GM’s greatest advantage—more than a century of experience building cars—was all but moot.

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mar...
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Oh yes...don't get me wrong, there will always be room for crash-and-burn debugging (my pet name for that style), and no doubt interpreted languages make it a much faster and safer method than doing the same thing in C back in the day.

Of course memory corruption was always a nasty potential culprit in C, and once again, using a step-debugger help with those issues immensely for a variety of obvious reasons as you could very quickly often see the exact line the program blew up.

BK's explicit endorsement of C&B debugging was bound to show up sooner or later, and we didn't even really touch on the difficulty of using a stepper in multi-threaded network apps, but remember I simply posited that stepping through code in real-time helped me quickly learn from devs much smarter and more experienced than I.
No doubt bringing in tech workers will likely cause prices will rise, but will they rise to the current SF levels? If they don't, assuming that the pay also doesn't drop too much, then it might be worth it for some individuals, no?

Glancing at Denver, downtown 1 bedroom ~700 sq ft apartments seem to run ~$1500/mo. That's ~$500/mo cheaper than way out in the suburbs of SF; and in my experience at least $1000/mo cheaper than SF itself. And the Denver area has houses for less than $1M, so home ownership might even be an option, whereas in the Bay it's been rendered all but a pipe dream.
Yes! Amazon Video can't do something as simple as "return me to the thing I was watching when I log in".

I'm watching a TV series and every time I start it (through the Xbox app) it forgets that entire series/season unless I save the season. And even if I save it, it will jump me to the latest episode that I started rather than the one I was watching when I quit.

Edit: also, I've long had a pet peeve with AWS, where they will gladly let you walk through all the steps for setting up an EC2 server before saying "oops, you don't have permission to do that".
That is the point. Simply by choosing which facts to mention and which to omit you can create an extremely biased news piece.
Some day we may reach that point. Today, I deal with businesses that require us to enable a firewall restricted vip for them so they can use SSLv3. Some can't remove RC4 from SSH. Some use antiquated software that can only do DNS over UDP and no EDNS support. Many of them can't support SNI TLS endpoints. I could go on for hours.

If the entire internet consisted of just laptops and modern web servers on modern web services, then I would agree it is time. We just aren't there yet.

If the goal is to just tie up the loose ends on laptops, you could certainly start there. Beyond end users, there needs to be some initiative to update old relics however. Old software installations that can't talk modern protocols, ciphers, etc. Even semi-modern software such as python and ruby need some attention.
Python 3's long road to full adoption is much more about mishandling major breaking changes than it is about lack of performance optimizations.
Have you tried it since version 5.2? Previous versions didn't cut it for me either. This one does. For one, it now has multi-column copy/paste in Calc.
Though there is more to a card than just the power train. Maybe that explains some of the quality issues Tesla is having with non power train parts such as doors, leaky roofs, etc.
Every Chromebook launched from 2017 onwards will support Android apps according to Google.
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Google now has: The dominant operating system, the dominant web browser, the dominant search engine, and the dominant email service. They bundle all of these together and make them relatively independent, and there still isn't an antitrust suit in the US.

This is where all the money Google pours into government comes into play.
No, that's the exact point he's making; excluding certain information and "sticking to the facts" does not guarantee articles are not misleading.
Well, (well developed) intuition is on average a net win. For any given problem, it can let you down badly.

I try to do something like "follow intuition, but with a timer started". If following the intuition fails to bear fruit by the time it "should", I start to question if I'm on the right track.
> A better strategy would be to determine which ISP serves Congress, and pay them for the data of IPs originating from Congress.

Except that would be illegal (and no ISP is going to sell raw data, even if they could)
I get that part but my local grocery store sells Amazon gift cards in $10 to $50 denominations. You can buy these with cash just fine and there is no fee that the store charges and there is no tax. A $25 card costs $25 cash.

Dunno if this varies by area.
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I think rewarding popular teachers would be a feature rather than a bug. As for the too-easy problem, well, if you had to take a certification exam (like, for example, the bar exam) then you would have to choose the courses you thought would most likely help you pass.

My larger point was that the current educational system has stagnated and seems to be frozen in the late 19th century. It is highly--even actively--resistant to change. It is very expensive for the results it delivers. Whatever the right answer is (if there is one) requires thinking about the root causes of the problems and possibly fundamental change. Unfortunately, with topics like these people seem to want a different result without changing the underlying system that produces that result.
yep. foot traffic. go to CVS to do this amazon thing and pick up some candy or something while you are there.
So you mean Quip? https://quip.com/
Maybe one has had a bankruptcy in the last seven years. Or is a 13-year-old. Or doesn't have an SSN.
Please note that Moto G4 doesn't have the compass. That means Google Maps is not as accurate. I've had problems with inaccurate location(or current location jumps around) on Maps when I'm in situations where there is a mix of stop and go, and freeway traffic. I didn't have this issue with Nexus 5 which has a compass. (It could be an issue with Moto's GPS receiver too)
Verizon's coverage is excellent but it's network is over-congested (probably from building out coverage without also expanding backbone capacity to keep up). If you were the only person ever on the Verizon network it would be the best in North America. As it is now though it underperforms almost everything in densely populated areas.
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and you also have other things such as other pieces of hardware the the os needs to talk to. this might not be part of what "android is", in it's barebones, so you can't just hope to build an updated version of the os and that's it. a lot of vendors customise their android builds, which means that they need to be the ones pushing updates. i'm not siding with google, but that's the way it is. could they have done a better job in assuring continued security updates? yes, but they were far too focused on trying to spread android everywhere they could.
> We would still walk through since it was the quickest route but cops were quick to pull up and give anyone a warning.

Exactly. If you are white, then this seems to support the parent comment's statement.
Qualcomm distributes firmware blobs. Once the blob is out of date you cannot use it on a newer version of Android.

(And device manufacturers do this too, but it's a ton easier to, say, fix flash with a shim than it is to fix networking.)
All with debit so the budget will be spent on interest payments.
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By "updated the registration," did you fill out a release of liability form after you sold it? It's probably too late now, but most states have a form you fill out after the sale of a car to indicate it's no longer in your possession (so they don't charge you for things like parking tickets; toll roads, red light cameras).
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Cherry picking a piece or two from your link.

>Books-a-Million - Saw its stock

>VA Linux - .... They set the record for largest first-day IPO price gain; after the price was set at $30/share, it ended the first day of trading at $239.25/share, a 698% gain (9 December 1999)

I don't think we are quite in the situation where valuations are based on updated websites. Nowadays it seems like monthly active users drives valuations which when your revenue is ad based, is a smart metric. In Tesla's case, they are actually shipping cars.
"Much easier than before" or "much easier than at Walmart"? I buy the former, but I doubt that many of the cash-only customers shopping at Walmart live in locations or lead lifestyles conducive to receiving regular package deliveries easily. I'm skeptical that payment logistics are their biggest barrier to Amazon shopping.

I suspect many of us on HN have a distorted view of how hassle-free online shopping is because we live in buildings or neighborhoods where packages can be left without signature with a high probability of making it to us and many of us have the luxury of working from home on the odd day when we need to sign for an expected delivery.
While I agree that Waymo is in the lead, I disagree they're two orders of magnitude ahead of the competition. If you look at Cruise, they are clearly making significant progress each month. If you look at their last month available, they have 6 disengagements for 2284.35 miles, or 2.62 disengagements per 1,000 miles.

Waymo reports 0.2 disengagements per 1,000 miles, which is clearly better - but only by 1 order of magnitude. And if you look at how quickly Cruise is making progress, I'd suspect (by as much data as we can glean from these reports, which is limited) that Cruise will be roughly on par with Waymo in <2 years.
Well not really. There is a reason why learning into itself have value and thats exactly because it benefit society which is why governments have paid for it historically.

But if you want to study alchemy you have to do it on your own. My point is that perhaps philosophy and psychology and economics now belongs to that group.
There are plenty of research or toy OSs, but if they try to get really useable, they just implement a Unix compatibility layer and take drivers from BSD.
I have to agree with this. If you're going to be celebrating your company's culture, this is a great way to find out what that culture actually is.
the parent has provided no citation on his claim of no growth potential. my source at least provides qualitative reasons why Ford has seen growth in the 2016 fiscal year, reasons which are clearly overlooked by parent. Not many people are aware of Ford's big sell on Mobility Services - it certainly is not as exciting as Electric cars that have a "Ludicrous Speed" button. Full disclosure, I'm a fan of both companies.
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Except it didn't happen like that.

More like: "Let's pioneer this field." Later: "Sure there are international standards now, but we won't change how we do things because money."
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It could be a bad system or just bad legal advice. She should have at least been able to plead 'no contest'.
How to use a VPN to protect your internet privacy
Revenue is nice, but earnings are all that matters when you have debts to pay. Just look over to the recently IPOed Snap, Inc. for a company with less revenue and more eyeballs!
Now that I think about it, this was all pre-search engines.

The truth is just a Google search away now. I wonder if the Santa myth will recede into history for my kid's generation.
Hmm, I doubt this can compete with Bitcoin, the incumbent online currency.
That's an interesting thing to notice. Most of their issue do seem to be more car related than drive terrain. Guess that goes to my point though, being a car manufacturer is much more than making the car.
No, they're all similar enough. Only things forcing the upgrades are...

- Android breaks compat with old drivers every update
- HW makers only ship (often vulnerable) binary blobs.
What a cool concept. Maybe there should be packages for major web frameworks that implements this.
What innovation is Tesla making? Electric cars are not new. In fact the first production car to reach 60mph back in the day was electric. Aluminum in a production car is a lot more innovative that an electric car. (li batteries in a production car though is innovative)
The actual text says that describing a h1b petitioner only as a 'computer programmer' is not enough to qualify for a specialized job visa.

It's comparable to 'Speaking French does not qualify you to petition a H1B to work in a bakery'.
Elsewhere on HN, someone posted this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1XLqc5IUg

This was my comment reply:

Wow. That guy is going nineteen miles per hour on a simple road in daylight and the car literally crossed to the wrong side of the road in nine seconds!

That's an absolute disaster.
Well, I assume you will have your 250 by then. Just comment and/or post articles. You aren't too far from it.
> Honest question - why is their reputation so toxic?

combination of factors. atrocious customer service is a major one. failure to bring FIOS to market at the scale promised to local municipalities is another big issue. generally bad pricing where they extract extra fees from you for absurd reasons is another (not that they're alone in that bad practice).
Transparency is a relative term, and full transparency is an illusion, at best. I suggest companies don't use transparency as a core value because of this assertion.
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