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You can make the argument either way. On one hand, Lyft has its eggs in one basket. On the other, Lyft is concentrating on one market and can focus on it a lot more clearly than Uber can.

I agree about Uber Eats, though. That feels like a genuine differentiator. But I'll bet that when Uber IPOs it'll command a price far higher than Lyft's, so it'll be factored in.
Thanks for the appropriate TL;DR
Honestly this is a drop in the bucket compared to what normal automobile traffic produces. Not that war shouldn't be avoided, but carbon emissions are the last of the reasons we'd want to worry about.
This is basically impossible.

Enterprises do not buy from a single person companies and the sales cycle alone usually takes multiple people even if you could build a product that they would use by yourself.

That being said, there are several examples of single-person businesses that have gotten around the 1-2k/month price range.
Everyone gets the same 'x' regardless of individual circumstances. Easy policy to prescribe if one holds certain political beliefs.

Unintended consequences: Wealthy and middle class kids will still have access to the same quality of education as they did before, those that rely solely on public education will have access to lower quality.

Inevitably, students from CA will be less prepared for college entrance exams. CA will have to institute a 'statewide college entrance examination' and, maybe they'll pass a law prohibiting using any other entrance exam in an admission process (because they're racist or something or other).
Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors
> huge support and network burden

I don't think anyone on Linux setting up and tweaking WireGuard to integrate with CloudFlare's free network expects to be able to call up support and be like "hey, I need help debugging my custom client." :-) As far as network burden, you're just concerned that we'll be using too much traffic?
Couldn't stand 5 minutes looking at it, sadly.
> How are we supposed to expect the leaders in AI to perform ethically in the future, or today, when their first foray in to machine learning commercialization has been sloppy and ethics-free?

Remove the billions and billions of dollars in profit to be reaped from making humans obsolete.
> Other VPN providers do offer an option of choosing TCP/UDP as per usage i.e. better reliability vs faster speed.

I don't think TCP-based VPNs are offered for increased reliability. They might be offered so you can run your VPN traffic in restricted scenarios, e.g. I run a VPN-ish service that uses TCP/443 by default and all connections are only outbound, so you can still use your VPN in restrictive scenarios.

Outside that, encapsulating TCP inside TCP is nothing short of a headache as you have two congestion control algorithms kicking in and one doesn't know about the other.
Php-wise Symfony is easily on par with Laravel and a really well managed project.
It was valued at $14.5bn in their June 2018 round of fundraising.
Why is the thought that some people see software development as nothing more than a way to get money put in their account a couple of times a month so reprehensible to you?

Yeah I started out as a computer geek over thirty years ago in my bedroom doing assembly language. But anytime I spend learning anything at this stage in life is with the goal of making money.
Well, I would actually do be very happy if my bootstrapping business do $200k/year in revenue and a $1m exit value
A Rights Revolution for Nature
Or lyft is focused, and uber is spreading itself too thin. (I am not invested with either)
This kitchensoap article may be more correct, but man, it's a arduous read. A bit of brevity and humour can work wonders, conversely complete correctness can be detrimental if people lose attention.
You are preaching to the choir. I am just explaining why KPIs are prevalent and probably not going away any time soon. The business world is full of mediocre people who will cling to mediocre but predictable methodologies rather than take any kind of risk, especially if that risk is based in their own competence.

The devil you know, etc.
I am a "back-end" engineer that could be said to "look down" on front-end development, but the truth is more nuanced than that.

I actually think really great front-end development, when necessary, is hard to do and the folks who are interested in it and good at it are great Engineers. I also think that good User Experience is what makes money, though this doesn't always mean lots of bells and whistles or even, what is traditionally thought to be, "front-end" development.

Unfortunately the barrier to entry is probably lowest in front-end development and so there are a lot of folks, when seeking a career change into software development, naturally gravitate to front-end, when their natural aptitude would probably be better suited to something else in tech, like product manage, devops, or even "back-end" engineering (though I will admit that "back-end" engineers tend to be biased against folks with non-technical degrees/backgrounds).

The way I see it this creates a chain of negative causal effects. First, "front-end" is chalk-full of people who don't know what they're doing or talking about. Second, naturally being biased to think that the work they do is valuable and important, "front-end" engineers often advocate for lots of front-end rewrites and Rube-Goldberg-esque front-ends that aren't actually necessary to the success of the product or business. The front-end is the most visible part of the product even though it is often the smallest piece of the product so business leaders, who have little technical experience, will often put the front-end team in a position of de-facto authority over the product or at least give them out-sized input. The stereotype that emerges is that front-end teams often get more resources then they need, get to rewrite the front-end once a year using the front-end framework du jour, when it is often not necessary to do so and a static website with few interfaces would actually not only be fine, but better. This is a trope that you will commonly find complained about on HN, and my own personal anecdotal experience confirms. I once worked at a company that had a massive back-end; not that VM count is always an indicator, but we had over 1000 large servers running our stack. Our front-end team was half the size of the back-end team and wrote their own CMS at one point. Two thirds of our users interactions (as evidenced by our server logs) were through the CLI that the back-end team maintained and wrote. Users often had no idea how to do something on the front-end, because there was so much feature clutter.

My personal opinion is that a lot of products actually don't need as much front-end as they think and that hiring a design firm to come in at the beginning (and then once every two years) and hand off the front-end to a team of back-end engineers to keep up to date with features would probably be fine. Of course, of course, of course there are lots of exceptions to this, and I'm not suggesting a ratio of when this is true, but even if it's 50/50 that does not seem to justify the proliferation and front-end bloat that a lot of us have come to loathe.

My two cents.
Touché on DNSSEC. That only confused things. But the rest of my comment still stands.
They were classifying news articles. How could that possibly have a "criminal mindset"?
I think that’s a pretty fair interpretation, it’s pretty clear he sucked pretty bad at budgeting. Tiberius was famously miserly with the state treasury, and chances are that young Caligula couldn’t budget and saw how popular he got by just using that money, only to be dismayed at how quickly it went away.

What I find really interesting is the murder of political opponents and how it affects legacy. From where I sit, pretty much every single emperor killed senators, perhaps excluding only Caesar himself, but only a few got saddled with the blood thirsty tyrant image. Claudius killed quite a few senators, some without good justification, yet his reputation is largely “good emperor, misunderstood”, while Tiberius gets off the hook largely because his successor was so much worse. It’s all pretty fascinating to me.
Their God was invented by Marx, Mao, Fascism, and Capitalism. This has nothing to do with Confucianism or Buddhism or Taoism.
That seems like a separate topic. The question at issue is whether people who can be clearly classified as "men" or "women" according to general consensus show some cognitive differences on average. I have not seen anyone deny this.

In a similar way, one might argue that "races" don't really have any objective existence, and yet still acknowledge that e.g. African-Americans are less likely to go to college than Asian Americans. Such stats aren't invalidated by the lack of any objective biological definition of "race", or by the existence of some people with mixed African/Asian heritage, etc. etc.
> possibility of a nuclear war in any given year is ~1-2%

If it were that high, we'd likely have had one by now. I think it's an order of magnitude lower than that.
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Ask HN: What laptop did you go with when moving on from the macbook pro?
I have a 2017 macbook pro and it is driving me crazy. The keyboard is broken, the touch bar gets in the way, the screen has gotten loose and wobbles, etc. and I'm considering getting a new laptop

I was wondering what laptop those that ended up moving on from the macbook pro did end up going with?
In theory it sounds alright. It's not great, because Jenkins is usually layered with some existing deploy framework that makes "deploy a zip file" pretty suspect. A healthier setup would look more like "build a Tomcat war file Maven, upload and deploy that with Jenkins". But in context, it sounds like the horror is that people were making and transferring a zip from local code rather than building from the tip of source control.
GreenPark Sports is looking to hire a mobile engineer to work on a mobile sports game. We're a stealth, seed stage startup founded by well-known names in Silicon Valley.

We're building the mobile app in Flutter. Flutter experience not required. Just be interested and willing to work with Flutter.

We're based on Burlingame. Just a 10 min walk from the Caltrain station. Small company of just 6 people. This is a great ground floor opportunity for someone who enjoys building apps from nothing.

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Show HN: Wrote a Child Friendly OS for Kids to Learn Linux
The real change is going to happen when people can't tell a difference in taste and Walmart starts selling synthetic meat at a substantial discount to meat. At that point the consumer won't care just like the consumer doesn't care if their strawberry flavored cereal has real strawberries in it.
> Are we really just the product sold ...?
I you are not paying for a product, there is a good chance that you are the product.
Agreed, the GUI repl may be more friendly to data scientists and analysts who know some coding but not emacs.

Furthermore, the marriage of application framework / application model wrappers with industry-leading data science tools sounds particularly special, and orthogonal to the presence of a repl.
I consider myself fairly competent, and I couldn’t understand the wireguard documentation enough to setup my own install without resorting to algo [0]. There’s real value in wrapping a system like WireGuard into a product, because it democratizes technology rather than making it available only to those knowledgable enough to understand how to set it up. I think Warp is great in that regard.

[0]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Who are "they"? According yo Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil) vegetable oil and plant oil are synonyms.
My experience is the same with junior CS grads....
> Language has rules (They were taught to us in school). They might change over time but they still exist.

Those rules are discovered, not handed down from authorities, and the rules you were taught in school are largely not the real rules English speakers abide by. The real rules are learned the way every native language is learned: Through imitation and conversation with other native speakers, the caretakers and the peers.

> Iz their know point at witch "human caltoural fenonemon" stops and blatant misuse starts? Would you not draw the line somewhere?

First, we're talking about language, not orthography. If you want to see some bizarre orthography, read Chaucer. Or Shakespeare. Or Lewis and Clark, who managed to spell "mosquito" multiple ways on the same page, in full view of each other.

Second, native speakers do make mistakes, but if a "mistake" is persistent enough to bother you, well, it probably isn't a mistake, but a dialectical feature, and saying a dialect is wrong or inferior is contrary to the science of linguistics. You wouldn't claim to have a new rule for electrons and then rant about how the electrons refuse to follow it because they're uncultured and uneducated.

And saying a dialect is "wrong" is very often a proxy for saying some people are too poor or the wrong color to "speak right" in the mind of the complainer. Witness the idiocy spewed about African-American Vernacular English, commonly called "Ebonics" by the people who try to mark it as uneducated.
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Well if you want to play that game then how do we know the person who's relying on their instincts and intuitions isn't lying either?

Who do we believe?

I didn't suggest using metrics to make anyone accountable but using them as leverage to empower your team.

What would be the point of gaming those metrics? Nobody would profit from lies and if you're checking the providence of your data, in the case of Gitprime your own repository, then identifying a culprit would be rather easy.
Depends, do you want that to happen or not? You seem to be making an assumption this is good, but in some organizations this would be a bad thing to penalize. I'm not sure why you would do this in engineering, but it is important to acknowledge that this isn't a universal good and so maybe your company wants to discourage it for some reason.

Assuming you want people to help each other, you need to capture metrics on it. A few years back I had a metric of helping n people in a different department: I kept track of those interactions so I had something to report at the end of the year.
This is the reason I can't figure out how Uber or Lyft is worth billions of dollars. It doesn't seem like the barriers to entry are very significant. How long before there's an app that queries the different services and hails a ride from the service that can get there the fastest or provide the cheapest ride?
It's incredibly annoying.
I feel the same way. Does any one have a good overview on how the community actually separates functionality into “apps”?

I have been looking at a rails like framework in python called Masonite. Does anyone in the python/Django community think this will gain traction?
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Fits 15 inch MBP. A lot of pockets. Very stylish, I get a lot of compliments on this.

When I was going to gym during lunch, this was perfect, cause could hold shoes and gym clothes in separate pockets each. Though no place for towel.

What I wish it had was another pocket for personal iPad. Well it kind of does but it is too tight when both laptop and iPad is in.
I've been searching for a USB-C adapter with a SCART plug for a while now.

Finally I can connect my MacBook Pro to the CRT TV in the living room.
> bottom ~80% of the industry. The top ~20%

How are you defining "top" and "bottom" here? I can agree with the 80/20 split, but I don't think it necessarily tracks with, say, name recognition or market cap. Amazon, for example, utterly failed on their last Prime day, and from the discussions of those Amazonians I know, it was pretty much inevitable.

The REASON these fast-and-loose habits are habits are because, when they work, they make money. You can't look at a lottery and say the winners "did it right" and the losers didn't - the winners just haven't failed yet. Those companies that AREN'T trying to grow at ridiculous speeds but ARE trying to maintain quality (and are fortunate enough to be in a market niche that supports that) are the ones most likely to have bulletproof reliability. Those won't be the "top" companies by most peoples definitions.
Being "focused" on a plateauing market doesn't do much
It's already most likely cheaper when you take into account false pricing signals due to the fact that the US meat industry is heavily subsidized through taxation. Add to that lower healthcare costs due to less heart disease and realistically it should be pretty cheap comparatively.

I've had this burger and I prefer the Beyond Burger, but the meat eaters that had it said it tasted just like a run of the mill fast food burger, so I'm hoping that it takes off with the health and environmentally conscious. If anyone can really make this work I'm thinking Burger King or McDonalds could, they are both excellent logistically and process wise.

This is exciting news in the food world and opens up a lot of choices for people looking for less heavy food choices.
What American schools need isn't more acceleration (Algebra at age 14 instead of 15) - it's a better understanding of what mathematics actually is and why it matters.

While I agree with this sentiment, my problem is with the one-size-fits-all approach taken in San Fran. Lumping gifted children in a class with everybody else does them a huge disservice...

My personal experience in 7th grade (pre-algebra) was horrible. My school decided to experiment by placing gifted students in math with the rest of the kids, with the idea being that we'd magically bring up the average performance. Instead what happened was the nerds sat in the back bored out of our minds and lost a year of math education (and this was with an extra teaching aide in the class - the two teachers simply couldn't keep the non-gifted kids on track AND provide us any extra attention). This left us all behind when we entered Algebra in 8th grade.

I hate to be "that parent" - but gifted kids have different needs than normal students and deserve the opportunity to excel without waiting around for everybody else to figure out 2+2.

Edit - I don't care if the advanced math offering in 8th grade is called Algebra or something else, as long as there is an advanced offering. The linked article made it sound like there was not such a class.
They have ultimate quality! I've never been in HD videoconference in real-time before it. And it's straight from the browser, without downloads or installations. Hands down, the best video conferencing software now, no competition.
Necessary and comfortable are two different things. As long as the true external costs of keeping your house at a comfortable temperature are not included in the actual cost of air conditioning, people will choose comfortable rather than necessary.
I'm not sure how to train machine learning models before defining metrics. I wonder how many other approaches/tools make metrics unavoidable. I think the key here is not marrying the metrics, and being happy to swap them out.
The bear argument is far simpler: most people consume rideshare services in a single locality. Barriers to entry are close to nil. So there is no moat anywhere and limited profitability.
Ouch. Do you know which PoP (point of presence) you're hitting? To find out, Look at the last three letters in the CF-Ray header on any response from a Cloudflare site, e.g.

curl -v cloudflare.com 2>&1 | grep -i CF-Ray

The letters should correspond to an airport code nearby the CF server you landed on. Let me know what it says.
I think it's always better to have just one big screen.

Using multiple monitors come as a merit when someone needs to have multiple windows displayed at all times.

I think one way you can make this by using a single screen is to use a tiling windows manager.
One day, I really do hope there's a way I can take my email address and leave Google. Number portability deserves an analog in the email world.

It has one; register your own domain, then you can move it to any registrar and provider you like.

The analog going the other way would be if you took a Google desk phone number where people had to dial Google's offices into their phone system and then dial your extension, and you wanted to take your (Google office + extension) number elsewhere. That kind of service doesn't exist in the phone number portability world either.
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Those are the ones you hear about, because they're controversial and easily relatable to most consumers. Machine learning has had a major impact in "blasé" industries that you are omitting, such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.
True. The same with highways.
Context: I was the M&A lead for the purchase of Mailgun by Rackspace and I also spun a company (Jungle Disk) out of Rackspace so I know this situation well.

If you like how Mailgun has done things over the past two years (under private equity ownership after separating from Rackspace) you'll continue to enjoy using their service.

I view this more like a Series C/D venture investment than I do what most folks consider a "traditional PE investment" though the early stage folks won't look at Mailgun because of the startup -> acquired by public company -> carve-out cap table.