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Motorola gave up on competing with Samsung and Apple a while ago. The price cuts are a reflection of that.
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This is a real thing.
I hope it is availabe outside Germany too.

If not, here is a torrent link:
https://archive.org/download/snowden_interview_en/snowden_in...
- Typically companies are responsible for errors committed by their employees, unless there is malevolence/criminal intent/criminal negligence...

- The lawsuit suggests Uber is at least partly at fault, because the app is distracting, and Mr. Muzaffar takes the "fall" for Uber's distracting app.
Not to mention that before the iPhone Apple's P/E never dropped below 20 and was usually hovering around 40.
It's not only batteries that have to catch up we're still exceedingly wasteful in other areas. There's tons of potential for display technology to move forward it just comes at the cost of per unit price.

Computers don't need to be screaming away rending this form at 60fps but that's what we're doing at the moment just to make panels as simple as possible.
Whether he was using said app at the time or not, the lack of hands-free capability on the app is serious. The case does make some good points about that.

Further, I don't think the "he wasn't actively driving someone in the car so he wasn't an Uber driver at that time" is gonna fly. I think it would be more accurate to go by his use of the app; if he was using it and driving around looking for a fare, he's an active driver. If he's not using it, he's not.

It's really sad that this little girl died, and anything Uber's app may have done to in any way contribute to her death should be fixed. I don't know if they're liable and I don't think them paying out a big sum will work, but they should have some impetus to improve their app from this. I'm sure they will be thinking about that anyway.
I wouldn't. People have caught on that if they wait another 8 months, they'll have two new iPhones to choose from. ;-)
Where do you draw the line though. How long does the driver have to have waited since the last fare before he/she is no longer 'on-shift'?
>> Below is a list of people and companies that can go fuck themselves:

Tell us how you really feel!
Not trying to one-up you, but I have at least a dozen Apple products lying around the house. I've been using them most of my life, so some go a-ways back.

Some are for nostalgia, like an SE, a Portable, a 12" PowerBook and my well-worn first-gen iPhone. My G4 tower was still getting regular use as a file server until pretty recently. Now that we just upgraded to Airs, I have a couple MacBook Pros waiting around for something creative, too. I won't drag on, but I definitely have a hard time letting some of these things go.
I'm working on one for this Wednesday. Let me know if you're interested.
They're going that way. Check out the 2014 map. Bryce might be tricky, but Zion should be easily reachable.
Right. The insurance problem is the reason why I am hesitant to use these kinds of services (airbnb, peer-to-peer car rental, car-pooling apps). When something goes wrong, what happens? It just freaks me out - not that companies conforming to existing norms and regulations won't try to screw you over either.
Whilst I do not condone domestic violence, I accept we are all capable of acting on thoughts that feel beyond our control. What do you think brought it out of you?
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American laws never cease to amaze me of their stupidity.
> Uber asserts that Uber drivers without fares are not Uber cars.

This is just Uber trying to reap the benefits of providing a taxi service, without bearing any of the costs of the risk created by their service. It's a textbook case of externalizing costs while keeping profit privatized. In this case, the costs will be externalized onto injured people because drivers almost certainly don't have the resources to pay the resulting damages.

Of course, cab companies do this too. If a cab kills your kid, good luck getting more than the $50k or so minimum liability insurance required by state law. However, cabs are regulated parts of the transportation framework. In theory, in return for externalizing these costs to the public, they have to provide certain benefits, such as not discriminating between rich and poor neighborhoods, etc.
Yeah that's a good point I hadn't thought about, and it applies to non-expandable flash ram as well since basically your data will grow to fit available space.

But those issues are sort of cheating since they are basically planned obsolescence features that could trivially be solved if there were any incentive to do so. But there isn't, so more landfill generated for little actual new value.
I didn't say he copied my site directly (clearly the design is totally different), and even if he did I don't mind at all.

My site wasn't the first, http://www.globegenie.com was. I liked the concept and built an improved version.

My only point was that if you are going to take an existing idea, build something better.
The money laundering charge, however, might not be such a slam dunk (Count 3, I think). That requires a showing that the BitInstant guy intended to promote illegal activities. Courts are usually pretty flexible when it comes to showing intent, but I think a good defense lawyer might be able to argue reasonable doubt with respect to whether the guy KNEW that BTCKing's customer's were going to use the bitcoin to buy drugs.
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In Javascript or Ruby, we'd just pass in a hash--named arguments lol.
I don't know... Unless people have specifically been avoiding smart phones/tablets in the expectation that eventually Apple products would become available - I would expect most of them already have devices that are as good, if not better than the iPad/iPhone.
I thought Uber required drivers to have commercial level insurance. Is that not the case?
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Time at a white board breaking down a problem is rarely wasted :)
apple is master of planned obsolence. and other are learning later but following close.

battery as you said is almost the norm now.

sd card dissapeared from all android devices save from some expensive sony ones. and with storage prices dropping (ssd just broke the 50c/gb barries) this is a sure way of making next year device much more appealing.

scren resolution being improved in homeopatic doses. year over year. this also contributes to new storage needs as apps space quadriplicate to support all screen sizes, reinforcing point above.
Link to the real article without all the hate:
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/is-cystic-fibrosis-foun...
That's not how shorting works. You short the stock and NOW YOU HAVE THE MONEY but you OWE the stock to whomever you borrowed it from. If the stock goes up, you lose. If it goes down, you use the cash you have to buy it back and keep the rest.
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> employees

Uber drivers are considered freelancers/contractors, and not "on the clock" until a fare is accepted.
Did you read the paper? I skimmed it, and wouldn't describe it as "blatantly speculative." There are certainly predictions based on facts (or at least, claims which are believed to be facts, but I repeat myself), but I don't think those are out of place in a thesis.
> which nowadays appears to consist of mostly stories and comments by USV employees/partners

At its inception, Hacker News (then called startup news) was intended primarily to share stories amongst the y-combinator network. Reddit was used for this purpose earlier, but due to its rise in the mainstream consciousness, most stories were no longer geared towards hacker/founder-focused YC.

If you view HN's early days on the internet archive, you'll see that a large portion of content came from yc-affiliated folks. So clearly, a news site for a small community can have value for that community, irrespective of mainstream adoption.

FundersClub's community (though it shares a lot of YC dna for obvious reasons) is distinct from HN in that investors & founders of funded startups are the largest component. Of course there are many of these people on HN as well, but they are a small minority. A glance at "venture news" demonstrates that the focus is much more startup/industry focused than HN.

The difference is also clear from the name: "hacker" news vs "venture" news.
Why not just partner with SeekingAlpha or the Motley Fool?
Apple 'followed' on smartphones and tablets.

I'd say they execute so well it doesn't matter.
There's an interesting game one can play with such sites - get a random location, and try to find your way back to an airport without looking at a map

...Of course, this was easier before google indexed so much countryside....
But if we exclude C/C++/Java then static typing is just an obscure feature of some academic languages.
That would be a terrible plan. Apple stock raises on average 2.1% the day after an earnings announcement: http://www.thestreet.com/story/11505061/1/where-will-apple-t...
> What research exists that testing actually is worth it?

It's absolutely not worth it. By the way, I have a codebase with 240k line of early 2000's guaranteed-untested PHP, coded by the best and brightest and complete with best-of-breed programming practices such as global variables I could maybe interest you in. I also have a full complement of bridges available.

> I never read about any actual convincing research that shows TDD as actually being beneficial.

TDD? That's probably good when you know what you are doing, but I must admit I'm a "test after the fact" man most of the time. Probably because I don't know what I'm doing most of the time :)
Who will take care of the disabled and the elderly?

If your answer to that is to let it depend on the goodwill of the community/family (to do it themselves or pay syndicates to do it), you're setting things up for a large number of people to be left rotting in the streets.
Exploiting phone information and location is a high-priority effort for the intelligence agencies, as terrorists and other intelligence targets make substantial use of phones in planning and carrying out their activities, for example by using phones as triggering devices in conflict zones.

That's a good point and a good reason why it's irresponsible for these newspapers to post the details about this technology. This kind of CI doesn't work as well once everybody knows what you're doing. It also gives a road map to more oppressive governments looking for ways to spy on their citizens.

The documents do not make it clear how much of the information that can be taken from apps is routinely collected, stored or searched, nor how many users may be affected.

Right, so this is just publishing some details of NSA/GCHQ counterintelligence technology without saying how they are using it. Unless they have some evidence of wide scale deployment of these techniques, how is this surprising? Do we not expect spy agencies to develop surveillance technology?
I don't have the money to lose if the stock goes up.
So, that's interesting, right?

It's similar to the issue with BYOD at work--if an employee sends inappropriate pictures to a competitor using their own phone while also at an office, to what extent is the company reasonable in being upset, and to what extent is it the company vs the employee being responsible?

The device being a car or minivan instead of a phone only serves to present a more extreme example.

One of the most unfortunate trends of the 21st century so far is the increasing integration of work and off-hours life, and the similarly increasing inability to acknowledge the effects of this by companies.
I'll try to reproduce the problems you mentioned. There are some keyboard shortcuts - J and K for previous and next image, and G for go. Maybe these are being triggered somehow.

When you see stop(0) it might still be searching for a Street View, especially if you're using the map.

Thanks again.
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Take a look at this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_Do...
It's not as stupid as you suggest. The actions of your employees, while on company business, are basically actions of your company.

Example: High-risk oil drilling operation off the coast. Engineer drops a wrench, wrench breaks a pipe, thousands of gallons of oil flood into the ocean. Do we hold the engineer liable for a billion dollars in environmental damages, because he just dumped oil in the ocean? Or do we hold the company liable, because they were engaging in oil drilling that inherently risks dumping oil in the ocean?
Plenty, but picking one lesson... aside from death, guilt is the biggest block to building positive momentum.
I don't think that's true. Even without significant software improvements, the iPad could noticeably benefit from a generation or two of faster storage and wireless technologies (both LAN and WAN).
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This and the levelling off of their revenue will probably increase shareholder calls for share buybacks, a dividend increase, or both.
I think you also need to take into account how many Model S cars are making a cross-country journey at one time. I'd suspect it is less than 10 (how many people drive from LA-NYC or vice-versa?).

Strangely, this is a great example of not over-engineering and pre-selling the capabilities of your product. Tesla knows that the number of people who will make this cross-country journey is small. They are fairly certain that the stations can therefore handle the load. They are proving it is possible, and likely don't have to worry about people actually doing it.
As we've seen with the Google buses, when an individual does it they must follow the laws, and when a company does it it isn't a crime.
> could trivially be solved

I'm going to guess you're neither a computer hardware nor a battery engineer.
After Java 8 gets released, the long due modularization will take place.

They plan to drop all private APIs people have been using, while providing an upgrade path with public APIs.

Hence the survey.
Right, obviously that is the stance Uber has adopted here. It's awfully convenient, isn't it?
Tim Cook can sandbag the iPhone business all he wants. While they can still bring in a ton of cash from profits, it won't trick wall street into driving their stock price up to a $1000. Maybe that's not his intention.
Not advocating for them, just sharing information: After a widely publicized issue in 2011 where a renter trashed a host's apartment, Airbnb started carrying a $50K insurance policy covering guest-incurred damage, which was subsequently raised to $1M.
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Old age, from the sound of it:

> Timothy Paul Hart of Cambridge, formerly of Lexington, died peacefully in his sleep on January 20, 2014 at the age of 74, surrounded by members of his family.

(Quoted from: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wickedlocal-lexington/obitu...)
> - OTOH, it would be a perfectly valid question to ask why I'm facing such a stiffer penalty for a significantly less harmful act than someone else.

No, it really isn't. Your crime stands alone, that someone else may have gotten away with something has no bearing on your case unless that other case established some legal precedent, which it didn't. Another crime doesn't excuse yours.
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Could I so boldly ask you to take a look at the work of Brian Arthur and Carlota Perez? They are struggling with these kinds of questions.
You're confusing static typing with explicit typing. This is static typing's version of the "dynamic typing doesn't have to be weak typing" argument.

There are a variety of languages that don't impose explicit typing on you to enable static typing. OCaml and Haskell are popular options. Scala makes the compromise choice of having explicit function signatures with inferred typing elsewhere.

If the only thing you're using the type system for is to make sure arguments line up, you're barely using it at all. When your types can encode (and thus, ensure) aspects of your program logic, that is when static typing becomes useful.
Unless there is "planned obselescens" like not support the OS on only the three newest models.
I don't know if I feel the author fleshed out this conclusion enough to get his point across firmly. Sitting where I am right now I want to disagree only because a lot of his thoughts are hastily concluded and don't reflect a reality of customer service.

Already posted here user `shortsightedsid` talks about how 2 days really isn't very long to conduct "Good" customer service if you are interested in building customer relationships. A big difference between a nameless call center and personal connections is recognizing a name. Saying to Joey that you spoke with Samantha last time isn't necessarily helpful if they don't even work in the same department. Joey relies on Samantha documenting the interaction well enough that he can take off and act like he's already up to speed on the matters. Departments have their distinct advantages to the piece-by-piece solution he describes.

And even now, in my small company I'm required to field customer calls when they're technical in nature. I have my primary clients that I know quite well, I've met many of them face to face and shaken their hands but when I've got deadlines or critical issues hanging over my head I shudder each time my line rings to field another call.

The end he talks about Chess grandmasters and the dedication it takes to do it well. The analogy to me came off wrong where he advocates a jack-of-all-trades method of dealing with customer service yet insists the overall corporation should maintain a master level expertise. How does that occur without establishing a concrete set of protocols and dare I say, departments?

The idea is sound, it probably works in certain cases but overall I think the issue of customer service has been done better in the department model than the diversified one.
I think that part of it is that the thought process is closer to "I want to send an email to my friend Bob" than "To Bob I want to send an email".

I realize that sounds contrived, but I think activity/tool/app centric experiences are more closely tied to "solving a problem" and people centric experiences are more obscure/less obvious in what you can do.

Perhaps the problem is that people think more about what they want to do than who they want to do it with.
So.... Your forum is meta.discourse.org with a photoshopped logo and a blur?
I'm inclined to agree with you, but its interesting: Uber has a legitimate point that in the end, it was the driver - but an Uber drive is not a "part time" Uber employee only. Per their rationale ,would an Uber driver only be liable when their driver is taking an Uber fare / on the way to one? Ie, is the idea of one job / one source of income part of the issue they are pushing back against here?
An interesting post on c++ like memory management in java:

http://vanillajava.blogspot.ca/2014/01/sunmiscunsafe-and-off...
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when you change things slightly sometimes a shift in the regulations might be bigger than you expect. A lot of the taxi regulations have to do with the taximeter - as a passenger, you're have to have trust that the taximeter isn't shafting you (FWIW I don't think that lyft or uber necessarily completely solve this problem because you don't pick your route at the outset, unlike other livery services). Other parts of the taxi regulation to do with congestion caused by taxis that are cruising, which certainly seems like less of an issue for these "alt-taxis".
> in no way hindered their success at their mission

Except that their mission is deeply compromised by their actions: they've lowered domestic cyber-security, undermined the rule of law, and deeply shaken the public confidence in the armed forces - all of which are contrary to their core mission.

They seem to have lost sight of their high level goals in their quest for more power to accomplish specific secondary tasks.
Quite correct. But historically - and worse, codebases with a Standard Style that is perhaps older - these languages trend verbose.

IME, I've tried to make super concise modern C#, and it simply isn't concise compared to Haskell or even Python. YMMV, of course.
btw, Twilight Struggle is #1 game on Board Game Geek's overall game ranking (not just wargames):

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Or officially support the OS on older models, but leverage new hardware technology so much that it crawls on the oldest phones/tablets.
Only the state can formally accuse you of a crime. The complaint accuses Uber of a variety of torts under a variety of theories, and includes accusations necessary to seek punitive damages ("The conduct of the Defendants and each of them was engaged in with fraud, oppression and/or malice, and was in conscious disregard of the rights and safety of others ...").

There is significant overlap between the elements and standards necessary to warrant punitive damages and criminal negligence statues, but they aren't identical and the two processes are entirely separate in terms of how and whether they proceed.
You can slice it any way you want, the preponderance of evidence points to median and average wages both trailing productivity in the long run.

Arguments about short-run volatility that don't address this fact are hand-wavy.
I don't think that's accurate when your using supercharging stations. Electricity costs far less than gas so if your adding more time than you save by refueling less it's basically pointless unless your could get to a much further charging station. However, there way to far apart for that to be practical so your stopping in the same locations if your doing 55 or 75.
This is Uber's first major "ransackgate" (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177, http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-air...): rather than playing dumb or being ultra-cautious and making teh same mistakes that Airbnb did they should immediately move to make the situation right. Sadly this incident involves deaths rather than just theft.

Another thought: This incident points to precisely the same type of litigation that self-driving cars will have to face, in fact in those cases the service provider/manufacturer will be hit even more since there will be no driver to "take the fall".
And I'm sure a taxi company would say that a cab drivers on his way home wasn't on the clock, yeah it's awfully convenient.

Would you want to pay for a liability that you might not be legally responsible for?

It's common sense to not pay for things you don't have to.
Because those are not real people, they are contacts. Also, computers are tools, they have functions, not people in them.
I meant solved by making the battery replaceable, even if as a service of AppleCare or whatever if not the end-consumer.

See: Teslas, which have to live by the same rules as everyone else when it comes to battery life issues but whose solution isn't 'throw your car out when it won't hold a charge anymore'.
Unless it crosses into criminal, then you are correct.
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I'm also wary for those reasons, but I believe AirBnB at least is making some efforts to do something about it (granted, after some bad PR [1] spurred action). They initially offered a $50k-per-host indemnity [2], and have since upped it to a $1m-per-host indemnity [3]. Assuming they'll reliably stand behind it (rather than get out of it via fine print, e.g. in cases of illegal sublets, which are common on their marketplace), that seems like a responsible approach to managing some of the risks their business opens up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813956

[2] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/airbnb-in...

[3] https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee