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You're thinking of Lyft. Uber has always been a professional cab or limo service.
You'd need to look at Uber's current marketing materials. Most current drivers are probably fairly newly recruited.

Within the last three months, I've seen short text ads where driving for Uber is marketed as a job that pays $21+/hr.
Honestly once I though Google is doing their deep learning processing on my machine when I use Hangouts!! Are they using CPU for image processing? That could be an explanation.
I think it's more binary. Either the platform takes care of it for you, the way Erlang and OTP do, and thus you do your code and it just works... or the platform hides it from you and you think you're doing ok until you get bitten in the ass in production-- and then you have a Very Bad Day, and possibly years of Fail Whales.

So, Erlang/OTP are correct. The rest, so far, are not correct.
Cassette tapes are worst in terms of a lot of things. They lack the width and height of vinyl and CD so album art is not as cool. It is difficult and time consuming to skip a track or skip to a favorite track. And they can get "eaten" by the playback device.

I think one of the main reasons cassettes caught on is that people could make mix tapes. Even after I adopted CDs, I always had cassette players and recorders around for mix tapes (until later, when recordable CDs and the computers to record them with became much cheaper).

Any revival (I've literally heard of this from nowhere except the article) is probably due to the nostalgic feel combined with the ability to make mix tapes.
Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
meanwhile in Canada...
I think it's time to rethink the "give away everything for free" mentality. The people who made the first bet on it should be rewarded. I'm sure things will look different in 2-3 years. Also, Meteor is actually nice without SQL.
In reality we are not very different. My toolset of choice would be hget and htmlfmt in plan9 which, when combined, just show the plain text versions of pages, or my own shell scripts [1]

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/httplib.r...

You would have fitted into the plan9 user community in the early 2000s and could still perhaps enjoy it today.

A small subset of us used the name "the Tim Berners-Lee kicking club", in reference to how one man killed the greatest tool ever created by adding a worse one on the top.
When you build highly distributed systems, making sure a value is properly transferred across different types of machine is actually not a trivial task because sender and receiver may encode values differently at the bit level (for example, because different endianess system is used). Erlang VM take care of this naturally, and the language offers built in functions to encode / decode binary representations that can be sent over basic transmission channels (like TCP / IP sockets).

If Erlang is not your cup of tea, look at htons() and nstoh() functions to have another example.

My trade is in real time distributed systems applied to the automatic control of trains. You wouldn't believe the number of times I have had to fix this issue in multiple codes, both new or legacy.

And my example is limited to individual values, not data structures. Think about how ugly things can turn if you have things like lists or dictionaries.

When you consider that Erlang adds on top of this built-in marshalling and demarshalling of data structure. As of today, I haven't found a more efficent environment to do this kind of stuff safely.
>On the other hand, most minimum wage jobs don't reimburse you for the costs or time spent commuting to and from work

Uber definitely does not compensate your commute back to your home when you turn the app off.

I'm also pretty sure that Uber does not compensate you during your drive to pick up your first passenger, so unless your first passenger is waiting at your parking location, you have an un-reimbursed commute to work as well.
I don't know about domesticating tigers. Look at house are which have need domesticated for thousands of years. Most cat owners have stories of their pet cat going berserk on them. Now imagine a 400 pound tiger going berserk. The owner would not have a chance.
OTP is written in erlang. The JVM is not "more low-level" and not "more general". In fact it is impossible to do on the JVM in any JVM language what the erlang VM gives you. You literally cannot replicate erlang on the JVM. You can fake it, but you will not have the guarantees and reliability that the erlang VM gives you.

To get erlang/OTP you would have to replicate it from the beginning in C, and there's no point in that, when you can just use erlang.
> I am curious how this submission keeps getting upvotes

https://twitter.com/msavin/status/622468894180147200
His administration was responsible for extremely bloody repression that killed hundreds in Buenos Aires and thousands across Argentina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragic_Week_(Argentina)
Something I've been thinking about:

> A perception of winner-take-all markets

> Enterprise-oriented companies raise much less private capital;

> The average enterprise-oriented company (where the primary customer is a business) is worth $2.5 billion, less than half the average consumer company.

The enterprise space doesn't seem to be following the winner-take-all mentality as compared to consumer startups. At some point you are still hiring regionalized enterprise sales reps, and each of them can only have so much quota.

Is there a enterprise-unicorn where they don't have traditional-enterprise-sales? Where their distribution/acquisition closely follows consumer companies?
And some people want to render Blender clips or audio mixes. It's not Skype or Hangouts that are the problem. It's the fact that Apple has increasingly designed for looks, not practicality.

I've yet to buy an Apple computer that could be used for full-processor computing.

You might argue these are special use cases. IMO if you can't use the cycles you paid for, the design is bad and the machine isn't truly fit for purpose. A lot of people perform music with Apple laptops. You really don't one to crap out on you in the middle of a gig.

At least give people a choice of fatter turbo models with realistic cooling for those who need it.
Comparing free food as a recruiting advantage to democratized management is a huge stretch. Everyone likes free food... not everyone likes arriving at a new company and being told to look around and go do something useful.
Maintained properly but also driven softly. When you drive for money you drive hard plus stop-and-go city driving is hard on a car by itself.

A used car with 100k Uber-miles on it will be worth considerably less than the same car with 100k highway miles, and rightfully so.
None of those are equivalent. In fact they don't actually address the issue.
Erlang/OTP are not just "actors", and Actors on the JVM aren't actually actors. They're poser actors.
I don't think I've seen a manual tool that was so expensive. Are you using some kind of pneumatic crimper? I thought of getting even better tools, but I found an outfit that will cut and strip wire to my spec. and crimp on any contacts I need, and they do it cheaper and faster than I can.
It's very easy to verify that a company provides free lunches. It could take months or years of employment to determine that a company's "flat management" structure actually exists in a form that agrees with employees expectations of the designation. They are not the same kind of perk, at all. Flat management may not even be a perk! Good management is a perk.

I worked at Valve for several years, and my experience was quite different from what the popular handbook described. It wasn't an especially bad experience, but it wasn't nearly as good as the lore makes it out to be. As you might expect, without written rules or hierarchy, the scene is dominated by social forces. If you put a bunch of people in a room, tell them that there is no hierarchy, then compel them to complete a difficult task, natural human interaction will create a pecking order among other very ugly control systems. Without some rational thought (ie written and mutually-agreed rules and laws), things can turn into Lord of the Flies pretty quickly. It's true that no one tells anyone else what to do at Valve. It's also true that people get fired without warning. Think of it more like the wild west than anything else. Sure, you can be very successful there, but the chaos level might be too high for some folks (me). Check out glassdoor for other anecdotes.
Not even close. And that your claim seems to be widely believed shows me that people don't understand what erlang/OTP are and what makes them unique (so far.)
You seem to think that's a bad thing for them to do? Why?
I suspect you've never tried it. This technique didn't work with WEP either: open system WEP simply encrypts every packet with a key derived from the password, and shared key WEP has the client encrypt a challenge from the AP using that key and send it back. In neither case is the password ever sent over the network in any recoverable form.
Think of the positives of an Uber job: (a) you can use your car for your 2nd job for free; (b) you meet your state's welfare-to-work requirements!
OK, I re-read what you said. You are right, projects are rarely created with that intention. But projects quickly develop an attribute of being a place to dump people.

1. Noisy executive wants to do something

2. Everyone else agrees, sure go ahead, but you have to staff it with the freaks

3. Noisy executive either shuts up or rolls the dice because her idea is so good

4. Project usually dies a slow death or by some crazy chance, project heats up and freaks are all seen as heros which get supplemented by steady pragmatists. Often freaks get sidelined (rewarded?) into managerial roles or wander off to do some other risky thing.

Generally steady pragmatists avoid these projects like the plague. They are just not risk oriented.

This is sort of how startups work, btw.
> "Correct me if i'm wrong, but Uber started out as a service that connected people without a ride to those who happened to be on the road within a few miles away and willing to give a lift for a few bucks"

This never happened, as much as Uber would like to imagine themselves a grassroots, populist movement.

Uber started out a service that connected black cars/limos to riders. The idea was to provide competition to taxis, and the easiest existing source of professional drivers was limo drivers, who had a great deal of down time between bookings - and Uber helped fill in the gaps and provide extra income.

Uber was never a "connect riders to random people willing to give a lift" - other companies tried this model, most notably Sidecar, though even then I think most of its driver-base were at least semi-profesisonal.
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You could implement a half written, buggy version of erlang in C++... but GPC isn't even close to erlang/OTP.

What I'm learning here is that people don't understand what erlang/OTP is.
Does this have any similarity to Goldman Sach's internal language called Slang/SecDB?
No it isn't. It's just an artist's fantasy. It has no more basis in history than the Nazi flying saucer depicted in the other renders of the set.
Glad you enjoyed it! If you'd like to read a few more, here are some links:

#2 The Problem with RPGs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bAMoEXM_uObEJUUlFfcXdvWk0...

#3 God Games https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bAMoEXM_uOUHJSVGpac1luUzg...

#4 Boss Battles https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bAMoEXM_uON3NXT21lM1oweHM...

#5 SMB https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bAMoEXM_uObnZ4MG5QZndNdWs...

Unfortunately, only five issues were ever made, and it's been a long time since I've been in contact with Tom Russell. As far as I'm aware, these copies on my Google Drive are the only copies available online.
If you guys know where to find the videos or write-ups on the battery pack, that he talks about in the video, please post them here.
SF is def way more than just those things you cherry picked. Also, the "more douchebags per capita than Manhattan" -- you're going to need a citation for that.

Personally, I like the people here - both counter cultural, and also scientific. Very friendly to us aspy-leaning folks. A place where someone can say "I quit my job and am doing {teaching yoga, making the aforementioned craft cocktails, etc}" without judgement. A place where, quite literally, the core of our technological world is being invented. The weather is a bonus, and the accessibility to the great American west.

So yea, quit knocking my town!
It depends on what you're doing. Most of the time, the fans are totally inaudible. Even at full bore, it's an unobtrusive "woosh" not an annoying "whine." And Apple probably has the best fan control in the business in terms of not fluctuating between different speed ranges. It's actually kind of a shock to go back to a ThinkPad and hear the fan struggling.
The guideline is: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." (It has never said to always use the exact title, though people sometimes misremember it that way. More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9898976, if anyone cares.)

So yes, please do change misleading or linkbait titles to make them not be misleading or linkbait.

When changing a title, it's better to find accurate, neutral language in the article itself than to make up something new. We usually look at subtitles, introductory sentences, or (if necessary) the body of the text. Occasionally we don't find anything suitable for a title and have to make one up, but that's rare.
PC Apple is a PC that give with a Operation System or is a Operation System that give with a PC?

In a PC market Apple not survive without your O.S. Then what is important into a Apples PC products?
I would turn that statement around, the biggest advantage of coops is that they do not fall into the debt trap. When you borrow money from VCs they own you. Keeping them happy becomes job #1 and your customers job #2.

The day your funding comes through starts a clock that defines your runway. Most startups are too early into a market and run out of money/time before the market develops/matures. Co-ops are one of the most stable forms of enterprise and money earned stays within the ecosystem rather than being funneled off to disinterested investors.

Co-ops adhere to democratic principles so, yes, in the context of most corporations (totalitarian/dictatorships) that notion might seem quite radical. I would argue that the old forms of work and the corporate form we know today is due for some refactoring. Co-ops are a uniquely positioned alternative. See also: "The Second Curve" by Charles Handy.
The author missed the obvious and common attack scenario where an attacker gains access to an email account associated with a vendor account, uses the email account to reset the vendor password, and logs in. Two factor effectively prevents this attack.

Third parties (like Google Authenticator) possessing the 2FA codes is not a problem because they don't possess the passwords and are generally "trustworthy." Losing access to the 2FA hardware isn't such a problem on platforms like Heroku that assign account recovery codes. Just PGP encrypt them and call it a day.

2FA is a valuable last line of defense against a targeted attack.
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Unfortunately, I think you're serious. And you're probably one of many who think this way. Which shows that people really don't understand what it means to do concurrency (as go doesn't support it really.)

Look the erlang syntax is not that hard.
If you are interested in wartime mapmaking and are in the UK, I highly recommend a visit to Hughenden

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hughenden/

And of course it's free for NT members :-)
Absolutely correct and one of the reasons I love that car so much. (Along with the handling and stability).
Or you can use Elixir and get the real thing with a ruby like syntax (plus a lot more.)
Wow, I can't believe that worked...

This doesn't feel very secure at all.
From a point of view of a person not employed at NASA manufacturing plant who would like to learn something from that document, I agree. But my guess is that this standard is created for people who are paid to obey, not to think, because there are decisions made higher up the chain that depend on the components being deterministic.

This reminds me of an anecdote I saw on HN once, about Apple hardware team sending boards back to Chinese manufacturers who replaced a capacitor (or some other part) with a cheaper one without realizing it was vital for the product to work for reasons they were not aware of.
Yes, and to several other similar systems, it's another reactive graph.
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Well same thing, isn't it? Clearly he is forced to use a spamfilter with no opt-in or opt-out.
Interestingly, not everyone likes free food! At least, in the company-provided sense.

I've had many engineers tell me that they find the emphasis on free food these days to be patronizing, as if engineers were not capable of obtaining their own food. Some of the disadvantages of free food:

- You are pressured to eat whatever the company provides. What if you prefer something else?

- You are socially pressured to eat with your coworkers every single day

- It's a transparent attempt to get people to spend more hours in the office, in return for food that is worth only a few dollars; not nearly as much as their time.

- It removes the natural opportunity for a break around lunchtime to go outside and get something to eat.

Anyway, your point is still valid that free food is less controversial than democratized management ... by a long shot :). But I thought that it was interesting how the culture around company-provided food is changing.
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In addition to the misguided notion that somehow, someway, vegetables sold as organic are vastly superior to vegetables grown and sold in any other condition.
snarfy here is correct, I saw some of the same shenanigans. Consider that there are a lot of really smart people in the company and coming up with a 'perfectly legal' way of accomplishing their goal (which is to have the best people working for them at the least cost[1]) is not a particularly hard problem.

And while it can be hard sometimes to think of your company as a machine which is optimizing its economic output, sometimes at your personal expense, you always have a choice of whether or not you want to participate. And sometimes when things get close to going all pear shaped they respond in economically attractive ways (like giving everyone a 10% pay raise).

[1] Cost is not simply dollars here, its impact on the organization.
It looks like OTA updates will be available in the future, but who knows if 'older' models will get that feature.
Do you have a discrete GPU?
That's the main reason I ended up buying a Zbook G2. During summer, the 2013 rMBP was unusable, basically.
The toll on performance is the price of stability and modularity.
Akka preserves types across machine boundaries, at least inasmuch as the External Term Format does, AFAIK.

Would you say that it's missing something?
North Korea placed 4th.[0]

[0] https://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2015
People born with one good eye still generally develop depth perception. There is a lot of research into this topic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception#Monocular_cue... has a good list of things that work just fine with one eye. But, it's not obvious how much of these are learned vs instinctive.
Hangouts is awful in general...it heats up even very powerful computers in the process of showing pixellated, glitchy video with distorted audio, even over a very low latency 200 megabit connection. We use it every day for work and its a source of constant frustration. Honestly I'd prefer a conference call on a landline, we have the video off most of the time anyway because it seems to cause more audio dropouts when it's on.
Yup, syntax wise it's like if Ruby was mixed with Erlang.
You missed his point. He was just saying projects don't start with this intention. He agreed that projects can definitely morph into this. You have to be a pretty weak exec if you can't find projects to kill this way and have to create them from scratch.

I will agree a lot of projects are created with the thought "sure, why not gamble on this.. if it doesn't work, we can just dump our people."

I guess it's a pretty fine line.
There is a bug in the kernel that returns the wrong error message when Chrome/Chromium attempts to get a variable. This will be fixed in 10.2.

See: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/619969753566744576
Secure? You're revealing a password that you already know.
Well, Hangouts on Safari is a Google plugin. I believe it generally uses VP8. Hardware doesn't matter, as what's needed is an encoder - and hardware encoders usually aren't good enough to use for real time chat. Encoding video for any format well is going to be costly, hence the original article mentions complains about Skype as well.
My wife arranged for a person to come to her uncle's nursing home once a week to play music for him. He suffers from fairly severe dementia, but during these sessions he relaxes and "lights up", its the best thing in the world for him. It is a great way to bring joy to someone.
Two questions come to mind after reading that article:

1. Suppose I composed and memorized songs about my loved ones, and years from now began to suffer from Alzheimer's - would those songs help me remember who they are?

2. Suppose I taught someone just diagnosed with Alzheimer's a song. Will they continue to remember it as the disease progressively got worse?

This is an amazing discovery - I hope they continue to follow up on their work.
My dad's old typewriter also didn't have a number 1 key, so you had to use lower-case L (ie, l).
The Co-op Source Foundation (www.coopsource.org, an apex, not-for-profit organization) helps software developers build their own Co-op projects. Feel free to join us in this effort.

There are many advantages of going Co-op. Using the seven principles solves many of the problems found in startups today. Primary among them are maintaining agency in your work product, fairness, transparency, democratic principled workplaces as well as economic longevity/stability.

As for adoption, you can't satisfy everyone all the time and Co-ops aren't a good fit for developers chasing unicorns. But for those interested in long term sustainable development and an alternative to the VC roller coaster, Co-ops rock! You don't need to appeal to every developer on HN, you only need enough to solve your problem.

Also, by adopting the cooperative model you gain support from other cooperatives - see principles #6. https://www.coopsource.org or https://www.ncba.coop
The Linux kernel is probably the largest and best known example. The process actually resembles (or used to) Brooks's pilot-copilot system quite a lot, with Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox making the decisions on what actually got included. The vast army of contributors submits patches, but they would generally be localised to a particular driver or subsystem. Bigger changes (such as rewriting the IO system, or the original addition of the hotplug system) require advance coordinated planning.

In C anyone sensible ends up with a pseudo-module system such that only a particular set of C files are allowed to contain functions that modify a particular set of data structures. Like OO encapsulation that you have to check yourself.
Yeah nice points I had not thought of; thanks :)
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