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I can't really say anything about this situation. But I can definitely attest to my current relationship with Uber, and my previous relationship with Kansas.

I grew up in Kansas. Many times, the government attempted to teach me Intelligent Design and I was always given the option of opting out of being taught Evolution.

Sodomy is still illegal for any non-strait married couple. While not enforced, it is still a Class C Misdemeanor. Just the to let everyone know the governments feelings on homosexual couples.

Only 17 counties are allowed to have liquor stores, and there are 28 counties that are completely dry. (Dry counties have on average more drunk driving crashes compared to wet due to people driving further for a drink)

Thanks to the DARE program there, I grew up thinking Marijuana was more dangerous and addictive than Meth or Cocaine. (Meth is a much bigger problem in Kansas)

The legal system there is very much Guilty till proven innocent, they bully people into signing plea bargains.

I can attest... Kansas is backwards. So, I left too.. to Colorado.

Uber on the other hand, has been nothing but a blessing. Its fantastic. My girlfriend and I love it. Its cheaper than a cab here in Denver. Cheaper than driving (due to parking costs). My girlfriend and I have always felt safe.

If you disagree with Uber. Go live in Kansas for 22 years and tell me the state isn't backwards.
Blog post author here. It definitely seems that I worded that part poorly. I hope the comments on the blog help clear this up, but it's a bit hard to talk about in the abstract.

If you have an app that's using the Sync API, feel free to reach out to talk specifics.
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We're using weave a lot at Cloud 66; we find for the majority use-case inter-container comms at this throughput is sufficient; for high throughput endpoints like DBs there is an argument for not putting them in containers in the first place… (but thats another discussion)
Roughly speaking, high availability (HA) clusters, and horizontal (ie. "add more nodes running an identical service to the pool") scaling.
What is the motivation for Lenovo to keep making that software? I can't imagine it would be cheap for them, and I find it hard to believe people buy their products for the preinstalled software; Are there other reasons?
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What blows me away is comparing the acceleration of a fully loaded Falcon 9 and today's test. Obviously, the two are different and you know the acceleration will be different to escape a failure of the rocket.

But to see something so small with relatively little fuel on board, take off so fast is really incredible.
Here is a good starting point:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp
TFA uses a cheap rhetorical trick to imply that since those opposed to central currency share something in common with a low-status group, then opposing central currency lowers your status.

You know who else liked central currency? Hitler!
Planetary's Medieval Madness remake does indeed use a BBB as a core CPU, connected to a driver board. I don't know exactly what it emulates, if it's emulating the original CPU or it's new code (I presume some emulation layer).
> Bigtable internally runs virtually all of Google's big services

Are you sure? I'm not a Googler but have been told by other Googlers that Bigtable has essentially been replaced internally (though heard it's still similar). So I wasn't sure how much Bigtable is even used anymore inside of Google.
One of my favorite displays of how little the tech press gets it is this stark contrast. (I think Garry Tan is the one who pointed to me it originally but I don't have that reference right now.)

PandoDaily in 2013:

"While I don’t have my Tarot cards handy, I don’t think there’s a big winner in this bunch either."

http://pando.com/2013/03/26/y-combinator-demo-day-2013-still...

Startups are a function of markets and execution. Pick a big market and execute well and you're golden. It's difficult beforehand when a company is larval to tell who's picked the right market unless you're able to really think through it.
Canada is voting to pass surveillance legislation the tech sector widely opposes
> Point of all of this being, it's not clear to me that either company is committed to providing or not providing price quotes.

Point taken. I'm willing to believe that Lyft may not be committed to providing price quotes. But there's at least ambiguity there, whereas it's very clear that Uber does not want to provide exact quotes. If they did, they would have in London and avoided the expensive, multi-year legal and PR battle that they're engaged in there.

How much do you think this protracted battle has cost them over the years, both explicitly (PR firms and lawyers) and implicitly (opportunity cost of lost revenues from additional rides)? Whatever it is, it's a high number, and Uber has decided that not providing price quotes is worth even more[0].

> Uber also does do fare estimates on UberX and other rides.

An estimate is simply lead-generation for them, not a quote. They are not committing to charge me the price they estimate. As the consumer, I still do not know what the ride will actually cost until I am already on the hook to pay for it.

[0] It's not even a tough actuarial problem to solve at Uber's scale, which is why it's such a glaring omission, in addition to the example from London.
I'm not too concerned because it is microwave radiation, but a few milliseconds is more than enough for lethal doses of radiation.
What I discovered after I turned 35 was that erasing all evidence of my age from my resume made a massive difference in getting interviews. Of course, further success depended on being able to fake being young as fortunate genetics helped me to do. Just be careful about specifics in what you talked about, in a 2003 interview I slipped and mentioned PDP-11s, which prompted the interviewer to exclaim "Just how old are you?" I was hired, probably in part because the job was particularly difficult software archaeology, but my younger boss ... well, it didn't last long, or end well.
Huge missed opportunity to name this thing `scat`, and claim the poop emoji as a logo.
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Back when the Fed started its first QE program, I thought it was a pretty risky bet. I felt that all QEs have gone far beyond providing emergency liquidity, and instead conceded that asset prices were/are unsustainably high. But one thing that would bail out an overpriced market for assets was to have a domestic economic revolution that rivaled WW2 rebuilding or the tech revolution. So, their reaction was to actually continue to prop up asset prices. Forget the Taylor Rule and whatever. The Fed wanted to give asset prices a floor. By attempting to give asset prices a floor, it was simply buying us time to have a solid economic revival that goes beyond juicing GDP with credit and entitlements.

That was over five years ago. We chose to invest this capital in three routes. One is domestic oil production. It may be a little early to tell, but it looks like all that money will have been wasted. So, net effect on the economy may end up being that we wasted time, money and natural resources in building useless machines in the middle of nowhere that added an unfathomable amount of carbon to our atmosphere. The other is Silicon Valley tech and biotech. So far, that has not been a bust, but I'm not sure it's playing out quite as well as we need it to. SV has a strange dynamic where the efficiencies and labor displacements that it has been bringing about may actually be harming our economy. Biotech sounds cool, but it may just be a new rent seeking industry that sucks off the teat of inefficiencies of socialized medicine.

Needless to say, I don't think any of these industries are anywhere near the level of revolution they need to be to actually justify asset price levels. They can be good, but I doubt that good.

So, regarding 'potential dangers' in asset price overvaluations. Umm, no shit?
> Do you support background checks for all jobs?

Yes. Yes, I do.

I'm female, and on top of that, I'm part of a group that is exceptionally vulnerable to hate crimes. I'm glad I work at an company where I don't have to worry about a co-worker being a known rapist.
Pipe/heredoc to edbrowse will handle that, too.
Love it! Keep it up.
Actually, userspace packet switching can be fast (10GbE linespeed-fast) thanks to approaches like DPDK [1], where a userspace process has zero-copy, direct access to NIC ring buffers.

1 - http://dpdk.org/
Thirded. One of the most satisfying restorations we've ever done was a sand-it-down-to-the-wood repaint/restore of a Space Shuttle. There's an extra level of satisfaction to play a machine where every screw, bolt, wire, and switch is something that you personally put in place.
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A lot of the basis of economics that's still used today was devised before the industrial revolution.
No doubt that your average Indian experiences a greater degree of poverty than your average Oaklandian, but that isn't the only factor in privilege. Can you imagine what it does to a child when they see someone get shot in the street outside their house, or get their home raided, or lose family member(s) to incarceration / murder / drug addiction? It's a different kind of struggle, and I wouldn't be so quick to say that one group is more or less privileged than the other.
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Authorities suspect fowl play.
It is well-known fact in Lebanon they have their own.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2008/05/20086142340...

I hate this because it only validates USG reasons for the belief in strictly regulated communications, but this means Hezbollah runs a block whole network they cannot easily tap or monitor at the border of its interaction with regulated national companies.

Keep in mind the Internet in Lebanon is also a joke, known as WaitNet (Unter-Net in Arabic), and everyone uses 2G and 3G phones at crazy prices to do anything of value, compounded with afternoon power outages every day (especially in Beirut and major cities). So, cell phones are the best way of doing business, and Hezbollah can run its own network with impunity.

Or it gets pissy and shuts down an airport with a shit fit. Read my other post in this thread.
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That would be a total security nightmare and hopefully it's never going to happen.

I'd be happy enough with serving .py files with the exact same restrictions and privileges that JS libraries have now.
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Are the founders legally obligated to return the $6MM they took off the table or is it a moral obligation? (Or is there no obligation whatsoever) And if it is a moral obligation, what would incentivize them to do so - is it to save their reputation in the future?
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>weave has lots of very happy users who find that weave is plenty fast enough for their purposes

That just means that your users aren't using it for large production workloads or they are just wasting excessive resources to make up for it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit#Pre-trial

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publi... for a variety of examples of such suits.
Interesting.

What you're doing sounds a lot like time-domain spectroscopy in an odd sort of way.

What are the advantages of this versus just chirping a pulsed supercontinuum source?
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I agree with your second paragraph. But I think the comparison with Black Speech has driven you a little off the mark about what people actually say about real languages. I don't think anyone says that you can't say anything pretty in a so-called "ugly language." They only mean that some tend to sound less pleasing than others. So with your 99 Luftballons example, nobody ever said that nothing in German can ever be nice sounding. And for the latter, I think you're conflating beauty with moral value. Personally, I don't know what Mussolini's speeches actually sounded like, so I can't comment.

Again, I cannot see how this is a difficult position to accept: some sounds sound worse than others. Spoken languages are made up of sounds. So why is it so hard to accept that some languages contain more pleasing sounds than others. Of course, as I've already agreed, there can be a lot more at work than this, including racism. But as a general proposition, I don't see how you can hold that judgments about what languages are ugly are fundamentally racist. I also don't see how you've addressed the issue that the categories of people that we regard as speaking an ugly language only weakly correlate (if at all -- obviously this is not a mathematical exercise so I cannot be too precise here, unfortunately) with groups to which we have broad racial biases.

I suppose I can't rule out that there are people out there in the U.S. or western Europe who would tell you, as a general proposition, that African and Middle Eastern languages are ugly. If so, those people are, I agree, letting their racial biases drive their aesthetic judgments about the qualities of language. But I don't think this is the typical case.
There doesn't seem to be a homebrew package for Pixie yet on OS X. I made a quick Brewfile (http://brew.sh) but was bitten by pixie needing to find its standard libraries in a specific location.

I should look again because the project looks like a way to use Clojure style syntax for quick one off scripts instead of making an uberjar.
Not when you have your mouse over the demo when you start to scroll?

Interesting.
As someone mentioned earlier, today's $550 video card is tomorrow's $250 video card. Either way, there's gonna be some expense if you want to be an early adopter. This will be easiest to swing for people who already have a decent desktop computer (recent-ish i5 or better, 8GB RAM or better). Then you either buy a $500 GPU and a HMD or you buy a $400 PS4 and a Morpheus. Lots more early content and tools will be available for Win/Lin/OSX but if you already own a PS4 it will be a lot less additional expense.

Then again, if you already have a decent GPU you can still do quite a bit. When I got my DK2 it ran many things just fine on an older GPU. I only upgraded to a GTX980 because I hadn't splurged on anything in a while and it helped a lot with un-optimized, demanding programs like Elite: Dangerous. I could have kept using my existing card if I just wanted to mess with less demanding content or make stuff in UE4.
I'm curious to see if this is as big of an issue 20-30 years in the future as it is now. 30 year olds in America were raised with computers in the schools (if not the classroom and home.) 20 year olds were raised with computers in the home and in their pockets. [1]

Will we continue to see people over 50 (or even 40) as unable to grasp new technology if they were raised in a society that placed such a high value on technology being an integral part of life from a young age? Part of me says no, part of me says yes.

[1] I'm not saying it won't be an issue. Just as sexism and racism are still around in the workplace, ageism will continue to be an issue. I'm just wondering if it won't be seen as the norm.
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I also get harassed about using cards with the cabs, I rarely carry cash (for good reason considering the neighbourhoods I go through), and it's always a "ITS BROKEN CASH ONLY GO TO ATM AND MAKE SURE GIVE ME TIP"
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Just out of curiosity, have you ever installed a toilet?
True, but it's still possible to save quite a lot of money on such a salary because the cost of living is much lower outside of major urban areas on the coasts. My friend who is a chem E in the midwest is taking home about 70K and has already saved 6 figures over 4-5 years because his burn rate is so low ($400 per month rent etc).
Ask HN: Anyone want to take over the ZenDesk C# API wrapper?
It's been a great couple of years and I have enjoyed working on this project, but I just haven't been able to give the time this project requires. There are still a lot of active users out there so if you happen to be one of them or are just a good c# developer who would like to take this project over, then let me know.

https://github.com/eneifert/ZendeskApi_v2
Nope, not Lenovo nor any other company.

In this day and age, I don't see how any (profit-based) company would provide a clean and trustworthy install.
>strong encapsulation

What does that term even mean? Are you talking about encryption? If not, there is no 'strength' to encapsulation. Something is either encapsulated efficiently or it's not.
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That's like saying driving drunk shouldn't be illegal because you drove home safely that one time.
Our view of this is that growth is not inconsistent with improving the service - and, actually, quite the opposite, our growth is what gives us the ability to solve a lot of the challenges in this industry.

This is particularly relevant in your case (an installation error on Aetna's end). One of the biggest problems with health insurance for companies < 1,000 employees is that everything is done via paper / pdf / fax machine. This is of course a pain in the ass, but more importantly it's a source of large and irreducible error. Insurance companies average about 10% to 20% error rates on the stuff that we send them even if Zenefits is 100% correct. These errors aren't unique to Zenefits -- any broker or other company doing this stuff would have them -- and we spend a lot of time following up with carriers to verify, etc....

Here's the important thing -- our growth means we can make insurance companies build APIs for us, some of which are live right now, and many more of which will be live in the coming months. Only with this full electronic integration can these processing errors go away, for us and for everyone else. APIs == zero errors. Existing paper / pdf method can never fully eliminate errors b/c we (zenefits) don't control the guy on Aetna's end who is keying information into their system.
Yours is not the only small business I've seen executed by Google. 100% of the sites I've written content for or managed AdWords accounts for have been penalized over the years. My solution is to focus on getting traffic from anywhere but them.
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Please don't confuse weather with climate.
Wow, huge mea culpa on that one. I would assume that qperf is using us to mean microseconds, and judging by the source line

char *tab[] ={ "ns", "us", "ms", "sec" };

it would certainly seem that way. I'll update the post, thanks.

Now I'll just be waiting for someone to complain about inconsistent precision. I am not a good scientist...
Last year I was on a train that went from Germany to Poland, when we were in Poland a girl sitted in the same cabin I was, and asked me something. I said "bitte?" and she was like "we don't like that language, speak in english since you are obviously not german". I said "yeah I'm not german" and we started talking, I was shocked that she, so young, didn't like german language after all these years.
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I think "from scratch" is meant to imply a virginal source of windows, not the Lenovo supplied version.
Ha, thanks for that. I'll get it fixed.
Hi, I work on Weave; it may well have been one of my commits that broke the protocol compatibility for you. We've changed things over time to improve performance and resilience.

It should be fairly straightforward to deploy the same version on every host, but maybe that wasn't explained well enough, or didn't work for you. We'd welcome more feedback.

Lastly, I appreciate the positive comments. "Very very easy to use" is exactly what we aimed for.
Crashed my chrome :D
I think they are supposed to be 'us' based on the qperf output.
I'm sorry but your destination is not the same as your race, sex or disability. If a business doesn't want to drive you somewhere, that's not discrimination, it's business.
Indeed. I've worked for more than one company that died because it didn't listen when I said, e.g., this won't work because math. In that case, simple multiplication and comparing the result to currently available IOPS.

A lot of people just don't care until they actually crash into the brick wall, but in a start up that's frequently too late, and never fun. Our host pg has commented that more than a few dot.com failures were in part inevitable due to technical failure. I'm sure that's still the case.
Chart one, DJIA, 1982 to 2014: http://i.imgur.com/29GT453.png

Note that it's even higher now on the end of that chart, so push it to 18,000 and you've got the comparison.

That chart, at a bare minimum, whether you think we're dealing with "irrational exuberance" or not, should tell you that we're in an exceptional period in the stock market.

Chart two, federal funds rate, 1954 through 2009: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fed...

That funds rate is still that low. Whether you think it's too low or not, it's pretty obvious that this is an exceptional period for access to low-interest money.

I'm watching the real estate market spike up much faster than wages (again), and billions get poured into tech companies who's business model really just isn't there and/or heavily depends on advertising (advertising rates collapsed after 2000, by a lot). I was worried about the valuations a year ago, and now they're even higher. And of course, it's pushing a lot of private valuations up too. The more money publicly traded corporations have, the better your chances of selling a private company at a high value, or going public without good fundamentals.

I think there's just too much money sloshing around right now. Excess money doesn't go into CPI anymore, it more often creates valuation fevers. I don't think the overnight rates should have been this low for so long. And I'm pretty worried about what's going to happen when they finally start raising them, but not as worried as what happens if they continue to leave them as-is.
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