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   by dotBen 10y ago

   Yes, it's called a 'puff piece'. Given this is an entrepreneurial-leaning community, maybe we should be congratulating Yondr for securing the coverage rather than criticizing them and the NYT. Marketing is a necessary part o
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   by dotBen 10y ago

   Aside from the main topic of the post, I thought the use of a "precommitment", also known as a commitment scheme[1], was interesting [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme
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   by dotBen 10y ago

   Google the headline and click through from the SERP. Sometimes you need to do it from an incognito window if they set a cookie.
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   by dotBen 10y ago

   The exuberant language used is totally normal and common for this kind of legal filing. This is a (fairly common) example of where HN and legal matters don't mix - HN is awesome because lots of really smart people can exchange ideas ba
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   by dotBen 11y ago

   It really depends on what kind of company you are negotiating with. Companies of a certain size will have salary bands and they can't pay above a certain amount otherwise they risk salary imbalances within teams. Small startups may be
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   by dotBen 11y ago

   If a government agency responsible for signal monitoring and espionage suggests an encryption format, endorses one particular format over another or even just actively participates in such discussions -- shouldn't that raise alarm bell
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   by dotBen 11y ago

   Really, you should just buy a CB/VHF radio. As someone commented above, iPhones are not rugged enough for the kinds of use you might need such a radio in. And batteries can be changed/etc. They really are not expensive.
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   by dotBen 11y ago

   (going to give context for his ask + big up @perezbox here -- he's the CEO of the awesome Sucuri) @perezbox - you might want to mention that in your HN Profile. :)
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   by dotBen 11y ago

   Probably because their wireless equipment is the bottleneck and they are utilizing a mesh network topography which means bottlenecks impact other customers. The article stated that their backhaul uplink was on 70Mbps for the whole island.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    as it happens, that's my post on the subject from some time ago ;)
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    yeah, I don't think you've had a lot of interactions with Dept Homeland Security.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    I wouldn't. Why would you have paperwork to be in the US for 3 months to 'negotiate a contract'. Its a serious crime to lie or misrepresent to a Federal DHS Officer
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Technically it isn't clear what visa foreign YC founders should use to stay in the US during the 3 months. Visa waiver[0] only allows for meetings, attending a conference, attend short-term unpaid training or negotiate a contract.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Not true. Uber sets a commission (differs across different markets) with a new driver and that's what they get from the miles + time portion of the fare. If Uber decides to change the commission it almost always grandfathers existin
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    curious choice of username to promote The Groundwork's employment opportunities
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Does the fact that GCHQ have been able to scrape cookies from Hotmail, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, WordPress, Amazon, CNN, BBC, Channel 4 indicate that https encryption has been broken? In many cases of the above sites, authenticated request
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Uber | http://people.uber.com | Seattle (& San Francisco) | Visa OK* On-site Uber is opening a new engineering/product/design office in Seattle and we're hiring across those disciplines, plus data science and
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    I just want to shout out to Remix (FKA Transitmix) from the YC W15 batch - http://getremix.com/ Some wicked-smart former Code-For-America Fellows working on this YC-backed project.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    I'm suggesting, hypothetically, such a dump would be an on-going release of data rather than a one-time and ad-hoc dump. Hypothetically there may be more facets of data not provided to cities, etc.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    What Social Good and Smart City projects could you produce with a dump of all of Uber's trip data in a given city? I think it's fair to say we (Uber) didn't intend for this data to be made public, but it was produced under a
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Uber | http://people.uber.com | Seattle (& San Francisco) | Visa OK* On-site Uber is opening a new engineering/product/design office in Seattle and we're hiring across those disciplines, plus data science and
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Actually, it looks like this one only serves Boston...
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    If there was such an issue with churn, which isn't, the cap wouldn't be an issue because it was (as proposed) for total drivers not licenses issued.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    each market is isolated then the network effect is small Each market isn't isolated. I think the core difference of our perspectives is that I don't think we have a commoditized business, which you clearly think we do.
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    I think you under-estimate the power of network effects and also the cost of entry to set up an on-demand transportation company. If it really was as easy and low cost as you assert I would suggest you would have seen many other players en
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Assuming they eventually win all the legal battles and drive all other taxi and taxi-like services out of business That's very unlikely to happen and I don't think anyone here at Uber sees the world as a zero-sum game as you por
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Uber doesn't describe the service as 'ridesharing'. That's a term the media uses or very occasionally we will use if referring to (for example) "Texas Ride Sharing Bill" where that's the official name o
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Many firms won't let employees share a double hotel room due to the risk of sexual harassment violations (one employee stumbles in on the other having sex in the room, said employee may have grounds to sue the employer) . With that in
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    or kids
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    by dotBen 11y ago

    Acquihire is when a company buys a startup for the execution team and bins the product - but you're talking about the product still being valuable to the acquiring party. Sounds like an acquisition not acquihire. So I know I need to g