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> I will never do business with Amazon again.

Every other day it's someone saying they'll never use Facebook again, they'll never use Amazon again, they've quit Dropbox, they'll never use Google again. People in HN are quitting startups, quitting established companies, forswearing this and that, and getting angry at all kinds of shit day in and day out, and to be honest, I'm not sure it's ever made any bit of difference ever.

Even GoDaddy is still alive and strong and not one of these other companies has a founder go and shoot elephants and post about it on their official blog with pictures, after supporting SOPA and demeaning women on national television. Boycotting does nothing, and crying about it even less.
Surely not the brake, though. Right? Right?

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire
Both are viable. We use a contractor that takes a cut (~25% for < 25k claims, 20% for bigger claims IIRC), but I know of companies that do it themselves and hire a SRED specialist to review their application on an hourly contract.
The Analects By Confucius
It would seem from the article that the business model not only requires the free protection, but that the enforcement of fines an judgements is a major driver of revenues.

In your hypothetical example, I believe you are referring to a physical storefront where the primary revenue generating activity is to sell merchandise.

If your hypothetical shopkeeper had a shop that made more money from forcing shoplifters to pay a fine for scaling, then... perhaps. I don't think your hypothetical shop exists, so it's tough for me to answer.
I don't believe it ever said "Google Cache", but I don't believe you are going crazy (or if you were, that this would be a symptom).
I think it will be great if PHP's internal developers start focusing on HHVM.

From comments it seems like some people are afraid that FB will keep driving HHVM project in it's own way. But this fact is dependent on contribution. FB may loose grip on HHVM if If people outside FB start contributing more on it.
(I have a toddler, so I drive a car with a child seat.)

I think we'll get over that attachment to specific car seats and instead more versatile seats will come into play.

In the future, I imagine your car booking app will recognise your usual bookings (e.g., solo/couple, family with one toddler, moving cargo) and you will tap a preset to book whichever car you need.

If your partner and kid are heading to a family engagement, up rolls a car with a baby seat pre-fitted and cleaned. If you're needing to move something large, a van shows up.

Those that want a premium service, will book the platinum tier, either all the time or maybe just for date night.
Similar story. I really liked Slack and the integrations are fantastic, but the UI has way too much going on and the lack of a native Windos client meant even just deploying the app is a hassle. The mobile client has menus that slide from left, right, and top last I checked. I told them they'd have had my business easily if they had a one click windows install and an optional Dummy Mode I could turn on for users by default that makes it work like a simple irc client.

I went to HipChat instead but it's got its own problems. Weirdly you can choose to get notifications for all rooms you're in or none of them, but nothing in between. Very frustrating.
How does one "tell" the car what to do without controls ?

I hope you're not suggesting voice recognition because anything less than 100% accuracy will guarantee accidents and possibly deaths.
They have a behind the firewall version of hipchat for security concious corp customers.
Yeah, that's not how economics works...

If I pay $100 to a landscaping company, the company pays it's workers (even if we have a company with one person). The company keeps some portion of the money and invests in improvements for the company, e.g. better equipment or advertising. The employees use the money to pay other companies for services which, similar to the landscaping company, reinvest a portion. These companies grow to be bigger companies, thus employing more people who can afford yards which need landscaping. Growing the economy. Not the zero sum game you imply.

You assert that investment in companies is a better use of money, but in reality if I or someone else buys a share of any large and widely traded company, I'm pretty likely buying that share from a shareholder who, after selling the stock, has no vested interest in the company. How is that exchange producing value for the economy? I likely bought the stock from someone who after selling the share, invested it in a different company, by buying a share from someone else in the market. The money doesn't enter the economy, it doesn't pay someone a salary, it just stays locked up in the stock market betting that the valuation of a company will go up. In the very unlikely scenario that I do buy a share from a company directly, and assuming that the company does not have significant cash reserves, the money from the share would be used to pay someones salary or reinvested in the company thus creating a net positive for the economy, but then we are back in the landscaping example, not the engineer or science example.
Exactly, and the way I see it is that driverless cars will remove the parts of driving that people don't enjoy, things like commuting, dealing with traffic, and parking (and running over pedestrians). But people who enjoy driving, are still free to a leisurely drive up the coast, or to race on the local track.
You could probably get a lot more density with a custom built car storage facility. No need to accommodate pedestrians, cars of different sizes, or random access.
Sure, it's a public relations ploy. But it's a public relations ploy which helps out the group which is most negatively impacted by the current situation.

They may be doing it for cynical reasons, but I still like it.
Yes, sorta. http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/topics/10037-integrati...

It's a shorter list and the Slack ones might be just better.
To play the devil's advocate... couldn't Hatchet just pull out of selling ebooks through Amazon and roll their own and/or start an distribution platform for ebooks structured like Hulu? If the rest of the big 6 publishers got on board that would be pretty catastrophic for Amazon and they wouldn't be able effectively retaliate without crippling themselves.
The car needs to know what's safe regardless of whether or not the instructions are via voice or another method, so inaccurate voice control does not guarantee accidents.
We’re in a Bubble, That’s Not Disputable …
For most people who own cars, they are an extension of all their other personal space.

I want to be able to leave things in my car and not have to take them out or replace them each time I drive. My sunglasses, the car seat, old-fashioned maps. Maybe I'd like to be able to leave my potato chip wrappers in there without worrying about it, or maybe I'd like to own something where I'm guaranteed others haven't left their potato chip wrappers behind.

Cleanliness. Who else has been in this thing? Did they leave lice behind? Did they jam the window so that when I use the car, there's an annoying breeze?

Style. My car says something about me. Maybe I want rims, or to paint it with flames, or maybe just pink. What about that stereo system?

Status. My car is mine and I can afford it. Like watches, nice clothes, or big houses, it's something people desire.

Practicality. If I don't live in a city, how long is it going to take a rental car to get to me? Why not own one that sits in my driveway, so I don't have to wait for it?

There are plenty of great reasons to want to own a self driving vehicle, instead of renting them.
Yes, one of my first thoughts was about how much I enjoy road trips. But realistically, the bits I don't enjoy are having my attention pegged to the road and my foot to the pedals. A driverless car still leaves that progression through the landscape, the scenery, the togetherness.

Taking your family on a road trip where the travel was in a capsule with two bench seats facing each other, and a table between, would be great. Read books, play cards, get some work done. Convert seats to beds and get some sleep while you cruise at 40 kmh to your destination overnight.
I hope I'm being helpful. There's definitely a glass half full / half empty dilemma with talking about P6.

Let me now include a standard caveat list I created last year in an attempt to ensure balance in the force:

"Perl 6 is not remotely as usable and useful as Perl 5; it has dozens of users, not millions; it is 100-1000x slower than Perl 5 for a lot of stuff; the P6 documentation is immature and incomplete; the spec has not reached 6.0.0; the Rakudo compiler has not fully implemented what's already in the spec; most of the concurrency and parallel implementation has only just begun; P6 can not currently use CPAN modules; Perl 6 has syntax and semantics that are not backwards compatible with Perl 5; Perl 6 culture is -Ofun which some think is incompatible with getting things done; some folk think that Perl 6 code looks like line noise... In summary, there are infinitely many things wrong with P6."

I hope that hasn't brought you down to earth with too big a bump.
Hmmm, will Google go into manufacturing their own cars or will they stick with software and license it to other manufacturers?
Facebook should implement something like this for their mobile site. When I have scrolled too deep into the newsfeed, I find that refreshing the page is a better option than trying to scroll back up.
Ok, so how about if you can drag a representation of the car to the place on the map where you want it to go? This doesn't seem like a very difficult UI issue to me.
multiplayer AoE over dial up- this was great.
Takeaways:

- They're working on physical prototypes.

- These cars don't have a steering wheel or pedals for human override.

- Speed-limited reveals a bit more of their strategy.

- Makes clear how useful and empowering these vehicles will be to someone visually or physically impaired, the elderly, etc.
Retailer's like wal-mart commonly extract rents for product placement. Comcast thinks this is a great business model. Paying such rents to comcast for "product placement" in the last mile? Not so clear cut for Amazon.
Writing an assembler in PL/1 that used up a whole box of punched cards (I think there were 2000 cards to a box). This was for a class project in my first year of college.

Using Unix for the first time on a PDP-11 and seeing how much nicer it was than the IBM mainframe operating systems of that era. Later being trusted with root on that machine.

Learning C and Pascal simultaneously to write a Pascal compiler in C using Lex and Yacc (another college class).

Writing code for a 6800 microprocessor with only 512 bytes of RAM (with the instructions entered on a hex keyboard).

Hacking an IBM operating system to be able to read files that I wasn't supposed to be able to read. This involved disassembling (by hand) one of the system programs and changing one of the machine instructions to make it an unconditional branch.

Writing code for one of the first IBM PCs.

Getting my first e-mail address with an "@" in it - on the Arpanet (precursor to the internet) in 1982.

(Yeah, I'm well over 30.)
Google's New Car Doesn't Even Have A Steering Wheel
Looking at the Cordova Platform Support[1], barely any features are supported on Firefox OS - does anyone know why?

[1] http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.4.0/guide_support_index....
It would almost certainly not be worth it for a robocar, but having an assisted mechanical linkage is valuable and very different from a pure electronic linkage (i.e. drive by wire). As emgee points out, drive by wire is essentially non-existent in consumer cars.
Is cost of living comparable?
What would we do? Well, we might aspire to be more like our newfound superiors. We might attempt to become cyborgs.
It's always possible that the end result will be a hybrid one that's somewhere in-between the two visions (particularly with other variants, as it seems like Google's primarily targeting an urban environment). There are already concepts for retractable steering wheels [1] that could be combined with retractable pedals to handle situations that require manual control. Hell, the movie Demolition Man had them way back in the 90s alongside with plenty of cheesy acting.

[1] http://www.webdev.trw.com/sites/default/files/TRW_OSS_SWS%20...
We would like for publishers not to be scummy. But even if they are, scummy publishers are better for the authors than scummy Amazon.

If they manage to force publishers out of the picture, they will force writers to reduce their income as far as they can push it. Which in a world without publishers is very, very far.

By the way, you look like an Amazon shill, not providing any argument for your position and appealing to emotion (scummy publishers die!)
> couldn't Hatchet just pull out of selling ebooks through Amazon and roll their own and/or start an distribution platform for ebooks structured like Hulu?

Sure, just like, any one of the computer manufacturers that Microsoft was pressuring in the 1990s could have just pulled out of selling computers with Windows and rolled their own OS.

> If the rest of the big 6 publishers got on board that would be pretty catastrophic for Amazon

OTOH, if the rest of the big 6 didn't, it would be catastrophic for Hachette.
Because then you need another webserver for the static files.
Slack has a problem with retrieving deleted team URLs, seems like they have not covered all the test cases for the signup process..
How about a Jetpack? http://www.martinjetpack.com/
Since you have been reading a lot, you may want to try the old method. Just start a new project (with new technology) and learn along the way instead of picking up a book first.
Haven't recent cars and even aeroplanes shifted entirely to drive by wire? The mechanical linkage is already gone for the most part.
The (only) issue is the Kindle (which I love, and own four of). Amazon sold e-books at what some called "predatory pricing", using their large profits in other parts of their business, to allow them to sell below cost on their DRM-encumbered reading device. I would guess that close to 90% of e-book reader who purchase books, do so on a Kindle capable device (iPad, iPhone, or E-Ink reader).

These people (and I am one of them) - only purchase e-books from Amazon. Because it's DRM encumbered, we need to make sure we purchase content from a supplier who is going to be around 10-20 years from now.

Only Amazon (and possibly Apple) has any strong probability of being in that category right now.

This gives Amazon an outsized ability to negotiate with vendors - Amazon is close to being a Monopoly for both the ebook purchasers, and Monopsony for the ebook sellers.

There was a small chance to correct this back when Apple attempted to negotiate agency and MFN rights for their book selling business, but they did it in heavy handed and clumsy way that appeared to the DOJ to be collusion. Some have argued that what Apple did with the book publishers was not that different than what Apple did with the Music publishers - the key difference, of course, is that there was no "Amazon" to complain about their market position being disrupted by a new business model.

I'll still continue to purchase books from Amazon, as distasteful as I find their current negotiating strategy, but I would be (very) happy to see the book publishers decided that DRM encumbered books will ultimately be their downfall because of the negotiating leverage it gives the DRM platform owner.

See: http://stratechery.com/2014/publishers-deal-devil/ for a nice literary analysis of the situation.
A $10 billion media conglomerate is small potatoes next to $143 billion Amazon. Plus, Hachette is not the dominant player in its industry, while Amazon is.

So, nice try, but no.
Yeah just like that whole Dropbox x Condoleezza Rice thing went.
Completely hiding the main navigation bar - is this a UX problem?. Now I have to scroll back again to top just for seeing the navigation bar.

Minor tweak will be to allow swiping from top to show it or when user moves mouse to top.
Ever sat backwards on a train? Or first class in a plane? It doesn't matter if you're not driving.
Sounds interesting; I used to run a commercial satellite network but all my gear is C/Ku/Ka. If you want to try to work it from SFBA could be fun.
Given that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

is coming up on the 1st of June.

I modified the template:

https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d

Thoughts?
What about Paypal? I've heard complaints against them time and time again, and alternatives have popped up in competition because they sucked too much. Stripe, Square?
Good thing Google updated their logo!
Are There Any Side Effects Associated With Sandblasting?
The process of sandblasting involves the use of compressed air to direct abrasive materials towards a specific area. It is often used for cleaning, removing paint and etching patterns on a hard surface.
I wonder if when they say 'all devices' they are meaning Windows Phone as well as Windows? Though the service might be cool on a desktop, using it while travelling on you mobile device I suspect is the killer application.
The single page app has another _huge_ drawback.

The reload via JS fails silently, when you are on a bad Internet connection, like I am currently here in Nepal. You can not simply do a reload, like with a simple HTML page.

For example, Facebook is here unusable, because of the same issue. It works only, when you request the mobile site of Facebook in the browser.

So please, get rid of that damn JS, if you care about your user base and usability.

BTW: that problem also happens on bad hotel Wifi in the US.
Classic 'push this button to make more money' app, with a nice path to acquisition baked in.

Someone with an afternoon free should really step on this. Just make sure it doesn't end up starting price wars with itself!

Call it Autopilot, or something.
Benchmarking m3.xlarge with Wikibench
Vancouver is more expensive than Seattle.
Did you even try it? The header reappears when you start scrolling up - no need to scroll back to the top.
Please use this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7807315
OT, but how is Victoria as a city to run a tech company in? I lived there nearly a decade ago and enjoyed my time - I still think about returning some day.
Microsoft CEO Nadella unveils Skype Translation
Aussie startup sells for US$73 Billion
Faster Than Light Communication Gets Busted Once Again
An Uber Impact
Our compensation doesn't differ widely between our YVR and SFO offices. YVR rents and housing is very expensive. More than SFO in many areas.

The comp rebate is nice, but not why we are in YVR.
But we're talking about making AJAX pages robot-friendly, not making regular pages mobile-friendly.
Atlas Shrugged novel by Ayn Rand
> control for situations like parking in a field for a concert

Or the car just takes a panorama and converts it to an aerial view and you simply drag your car where you want it to be and press Go.
I believe manual override is necessary, remember IRobot anyone?
I think the driver on the bus has more functions than just being a driver. He's also an authority figure and can provide assistance.
I find it is very useful only.But i am wondering how it captures the search in github and searching in other sites?

It is kinda bookmarks simplified
There are already several comments here from people who are knowledgeable on the topic, so I might not be fully correct in the following:

I think x-ray crystallography applies similar techniques to try to work backwards from an image of diffracted light to the crystallized molecular structure that would have created the (transform) of light to yield the image. For example, you have some compound, say DNA, and want to know its molecular shape. I think one of the methods that Rosalind Franklin and company used was to take crystallized DNA, shoot x-rays at it, and study the resulting diffraction pattern(s) to determine that DNA had to be a helical structure with atoms bonding at such and such angles. And if that's not clear enough I hope it doesn't escape you to note that it immediately suggests a mechanism for DNA replication hah.

That's hastily written and just tying random facts from undergrad so feel free to correct/add/disprove at will I am sure there are some commenters who know way more in much more detail. I do miss the full time learning days!
I think it would, but then what would be the portion of overall book sales via Amazon?
With a business-guy-hat on, selling "lead-gen services" and keeping the leads locked-yp and propreitary ...is a great business model. So this is a no-brainer from the supply side. The question for the "buyers" of this kind of quasi-lead generation svc...however are what else is outhere as a substitute? Demand aggregation, lead-gen, and overall simplificatation, and modular-expandability are all good selling points but hard to create/compete with from scratch.
Can-we-break-free-from-the-fear-of-missing-out
Similarly at a small startup I worked at were surprised at how rough the auditors were with us. We certainly thought we were 100% in the clear and doing genuinely innovative work but they really pressed us on it. Getting SRED is not easy as some say.
I think the price of a self driving car will be very high, and the price of a taxi/rental service (which will no longer have a driver) will go down, making a taxi/rental much more attractive monetarily than it is at present. To your arguments:

- storing necessities - this is probably the strongest argument that will have to be worked around

- cleanliness - is this currently a problem with taxis and rental cars? I haven't had this issue.

- style - I think this is true in certain places (I'm thinking of places like LA where there is a strong car culture) and I think is something that will change as owning a car becomes an unneeded expense. Think of it like owning a plane. Sure, it could say something about who you are, but there are cheaper ways to do that.

- status - same argument as style

- practicality - especially at a larger scale, wait times could be greatly reduced by having more taxis/rentals on the road at any given time, including in the suburbs. There still would be a lack of convenience, but I think the idea of having an expensive piece of equipment sit idle all day in your driveway for the off chance you need to use it suddenly will seem wasteful. In fact it's wasteful now, it's just there isn't a good, cheap, and convenient enough alternative to use instead. A driverless taxi/rental could be that alternative.
Well HHVM is a JIT compiler isn't it? Also it applies just as well to an intermediate representation (like bytecode, or some simpler language that gets evaluated).
I'm one of these Kindle-owners. I want to correct a misconception: it's not inherently DRM-encumbered.

Books you buy from Amazon can have DRM or not, depending on the publisher[1].

Books you buy from other stores will work fine on Kindle so long as said other stores aren't using DRM themselves.

Admittedly, if you buy a book in EPUB format from another store you'll have to convert it to one of the formats Kindle supports. Amazon provides a program to do so, and independent stores like Baen[2] tend to give you a choice of formats anyway.

(Kindle not supporting EPUB natively seems pretty blatantly designed to avoid competition, since it's the non-Amazon industry standard at this point. No argument there.)

[1]: http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/amazon-quietly-lets-publish...

[2]: http://www.baenebooks.com/
That is the most offensive representation of poutine I've ever seen.
This talk may interest you (includes speakers from Uber and Airbnb.)

http://nerds.airbnb.com/openair-algorithmic-pricing/