jryle80

For which companies are those driver driving post-Uber? There aren't many choices, SF specifically.

Talking about turnover. Any ideas how that's for Uber compared to Lyft et al.?

I don't know, I'd rather be an early Apple's employee or part of the first iPhone team, witnessing a major new chapter of computing, than a comfortable developer in a comfortable setting.

> The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there.

I suppose by "this problem" you referred to tilt-rotor technology. If so V-22 is combat ready, and has been deployed since 2007. Not sure what "still aren't there" means.

The next generation, Bell V-280 is in active development and already made the first flight [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-280_Valor

> The very structure of a corporation today means it is incentivized to sneak by and almost break as many laws as possible to be short-term profitable

Can you elaborate on how corporation today are structured toward short term profitability? and how we can change it to balance between "do no evil" vs. profitability?

That person may however learn to become caregiver, healthcare worker, or another society supporting worker.

As automation and AI take bigger roles, couple with the population aging, we the human being need more and more support from other human fellows, and those professions become more important.

Statistically speaking, I agree that comparison isn't helpful. At the same time we have to take into account it's still learning phase for self-driving. I'd be interested to learn from the history how well automobile was received by public a century ago, and whether the accident rate spiked early on.

True, but this is no difference than when there is a major incident (e.g. construction) on the thoroughfare and the surrounding quiet streets become the detour. Unless the algorithm mistakenly makes it a permanent preference.

Stock trading is just one of many ways aimed at making capital available to whomever need it. Without capital Olivetti may not have existed in the first place (assuming they borrowed money during their existence).

You may blame lax of regulation in this regard, which may be fair. But blaming capitalism in general is disingenuous

It's news because Tesla projected to have delivered 1,500 Model 3 by end of 3rd quarter. They missed that milestone. Simple as that.

I wouldn't read too much into this myself. Scaling production is hard. Regardless, it's an important metric that speaks to Tesla's ability to deliver, at least short term.

Absolutely. That's human nature. The differences: there are due process, separation of power and free speech in democracies.

> The US has 6800 nuclear weapons, and it seems that people are getting worried about a country who may not have one single functioning weapon. That's of course if we want to just play this about the numbers.

It's not about a single nuclear weapon, it's about the lasting impact it may have. 9/11 only cost 4000 lives, and look at its impact -- Iraq and Afghanistan wars, terrorism policies. Now think about what'd happen if a war breaks out in the Korea Peninsula. It'd have devastating effect to South Korea, and possibly Japan. It would definitely disrupt the global economy. It may trigger a war with China and Russia.

> NK does not really care about bombing the US, they just want the US to stay out of NK.

NK does care about SK. US cannot unilaterally withdraw the troop. It is obliged to provide military support to Japan and SK

Also, the very presence of the US played no small part in helping both countries to become world economy powers after the devastating WW2 and the Korea war.

If all parties are really interested about reunification, they would agree to something like a roadmap in which the US will gradually reduce its military presence, NK open their market, and an eventual election. The thing is, nobody at the table wants that, not to mention such agreements are historically futile. Think about Vietnam 1954 and 1973 agreements.

What Syria, Iraq and Libya all have in common -- dictators with brutal policies that naturally create a lot of domestic enemies. Did US try to influence those countries? definitely yes. Playing dirty? of course. But that's world politic for you.

Single out the US isn't helpful for the discussion. Do you think Russia, China, EU have all just stayed away from all of the conflicts? How about Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, even Turkey?

Ask South East Asia countries what they think of China; or ex-USSR states of Russia; or Sri Lanka of India.

North Korea has the support of China and holds South Korea ransom. They don't need nuclear weapon for self defense.

The leak won't make those who support Clinton change their mind. Those hate her will feel vindicated. Those undecided will stay skeptical. In other words, it has done no harm.

If they are truly unbiased, they should release all the information they've got at once; or hold onto it until after the election; or also release other information they've got about Trump and other countries. Let the readers decide.

The fact that they release the emails in daily batches clearly shows they have an agenda and want to influence the outcome of the election. Which is fine, if that's what they aim for.

Care to show how western media depicts China? Do you want to bet that for every negative article you cite, I can find a positive one?

I was in China last week. Major Western news sources such as NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, BBC are all blocked as far as I can tell. So Chinese audience is deprived of major alternative sources, political correct or not.

Also, not sure how your age is relevant?

ok, let's assume such a hyper-connected system exists and ads disappear completely. You decide to buy socks. You find a supplier you like. Socks come in black and orange. You like black, but your wife prefers orange. She convinces you to change your mind with arguments such as "orange is more vibrant". Do you consider that a form of manipulation? is it unethical?

The truth is, we as human being are constantly target of manipulation, always was, always will be. If not in the form of ads, then masqueraded in other more subtle forms. Would you rather know you're explicitly being subject of manipulation?

> Not only do I not think that is true, I think there's real danger that people conclude that more risk is better

I don't think people in general consider more risk being better. Rather, higher reward often comes with higher risk. People aim for higher reward obviously have to accept the risk associated with it. It just so happens that, as you said, SV is the place to be for the tech industry.

> SV is in many ways risk averse. The days when any kid could get a million dollars are over. Almost every success story seems to happen on a background of brand name colleges, companies, incubators or investors.

I don't argue for or against the risk averse nature of SV. And of course, knowing the right people helps get your foot in the door everywhere. Undeniably though, for variety of reasons, there exists an ecosystem in SV that breeds the creation of hi tech businesses. If you want to make a name for yourself, being in SV makes a lot of sense. It isn't easy to replicate that elsewhere.

Just look at the list of car companies that set up shop in SV in the last few years:

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2015...

http://www.technologytell.com/in-car-tech/1848/volvo-geely-g...

http://www.technologytell.com/in-car-tech/1798/renault-nissa...

http://www.industryweek.com/expansion-management/expansion-m...

VW has been there essentially forever, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Electronics_Research_Labora...

Those are big names in a very established industry, yet they can't afford not to have a presence in SV.

> education tends to prepare for a job rather than for running a company or being a founder.

This is an interesting point. Can you elaborate?

> Because you don't risk bankruptcy by having a health issue, if you're single it's not a sausage fest, more laid back work (in SF it seems you're bound to stay longer times at the office), greater tourism choices (a short trip away) and probably still cheaper than rent in SF even if we're talking London

We have another reason right in this very answer: People in SV are willing to take more risk and sacrifice. Sure there are chances one may be bankrupted because of a health issue. Sure there are fewer entertainment choices. Living in SV may not be an ideal lifestyle for many but it has attracted a lot of adventurous mind from all over the world, who together conjure up trailblazing ventures.

So when the NYT maintains such a page, is it also part of their propaganda?

http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo

And when Newsweek reported on a case that reflects negatively on the US, is it also propaganda?

http://www.newsweek.com/morocco-delays-terrorism-trial-relea...

Not to mention the controversial one it published in 2005:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Quran_desecration_controv...

Sony Pictures in an American entity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment

Sony the company bought it in 1989, but it still operates as an independent subsidiary.

Came with generics which was introduced in Java 5.

No longer true with Java 7

Sony wearable are powered by Android Wear. Does anyone know if Android Wear supports BLE out of the box? I suppose it does but am not sure about light devices such as Sony SmartBand. There doesn't seem to be any mentions on the page.

Pretty interesting statement.

Why? Nations have track records of not killing/spying on each others?

I don't have any inside knowledge of how blackbox works the way it does, but I imagine, like with any critical system, reliability and redundancy trump everything else. I bet the two hour limit is not an arbitrary number but rather result of some lengthy tried and true testing process and debate. Any design decision is a trade-off, no matter how small.

I'd argue that, if we have learned anything from MH370, ensuring blackbox survive in the harshest environments in the planet and stay discoverable for long period of time should be the utmost concerns.

That's a good point. However I believe low pressurization event is captured by the data recorder. That information, coupled with other events, and the fact that the voice recorder goes silent for 2 hours, would give investigators sufficient clue.

Why 2 hours isn't enough? We're talking about voice conversation between the crew. Mot of the information meaningful to investigation would happen in a short period of time prior to the crash.

Why do you need to be an ass? We celebrate computers every single day. Is it unreasonable to acknowledge a brand that many many professionals feel emotionally attached? Did you complain when we were celebrating VAX, Atari, Commodore, Walkman, PlayStation 2?

Mac brought to the mass many things we take for granted today -- graphical interface, mouse, all-in-one form factor, SSD, etc.

Once popular brands -- IBM, Compag, Gateway, DEC, Sun -- are gone. Mac is still here and going strong. Not remarkable at all?