chambo622

+1 for FIRST. I'm hooked for life.

> Uber told Auto News that it was not related to the lawsuit with Waymo.

Okay

Twitter had a moment filled with negative tweets about United at the top of its curated Moments tab for the entire day yesterday. Even now I see a trending hashtag and moments about the incident. If their goal was to suppress this story, they couldn't have done a worse job. These accusations sound like paranoia to me.

In what way is that description inaccurate?

Feels old, clunky, and not fun to use compared to Slack. The hosted solution has also had major reliability problems over the past 6-12 months (may not apply if you use the on-prem offering). The mobile apps are very outdated and tend to botch notifications and message delivery/syncing.

On the bright side, the desktop client uses very little RAM compared to Slack.

I wonder if this means Square doesn't have much headcount to fill at the moment - usually you'd expect to see them find roles for the employees in a deal like this.

> [Periscope is] a great platform but I think it also needs a desktop client (with OBS support, the way Twitch does) to allow the caliber of content creation to go up.

You can broadcast from OBS with Periscope Producer - https://help.periscope.tv/customer/en/portal/articles/260029...

This already exists - promoted tweets

Thanks, I misread your comment. Agreed.

Mike Isaac produces top notch reporting. Worth supporting NYT for articles like this and many others.

What "big market" did Tilt "nail"? Haven't heard much about them in a long time.

If nothing more, this brief is very informative for those wanting to understand the issues at play here - a good jumping off point to case law, historical context, and current news.

Seems that this should point directly to the brief itself:

https://cloud.app.box.com/s/mx6vhp0m8c1jyc8fh5yvned3nlu6ihec

The tweets mentioning the commercial could be real - apparently it doesn't cost much to run a super bowl ad in a very small area.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7965777/the-verge-super-bow...

Poor guy thinks a follower saying they don't see his tweets is an indicator of a vast conspiracy against him by a large corporation.

Maybe this will be the tipping point that gets everyone to switch to Allo

Does anyone track the frequency and size of layoffs from tech companies? It certainly feels that there has been a notable uptick in layoff news over the past 6-12 months.

What about them?

Or is it?

What do you mean by the performance boost of Android media players? Do they perform better on Chrome OS than watching video in the browser? I'd imagine that in a lot of cases, the max bitrate served to mobile clients may be lower than the web, although I'm not sure this is true for all the services you named.

My company uses Quip and I'm very happy with it as well. Thinking of moving some of my personal notes and lists from Keep over to Quip. Although I'd give Keep the leg up for simple, quick notes on mobile (and their predictive entry for grocery lists is fantastic)

This makes me want to buy one to replace my ADT-1...which is not easy to do these days.

I sure hope there is a future for standalone Android TV boxes that aren't as expensive and large as the Shield.

At some level _every_ service is competing with every other for users' time. But at some point, such comparisons become meaningless.

This is fascinating, and also sounds like an extremely high-risk situation from a malware perspective. Isn't Facebook Lite [1] supposed to address this? I'm surprised they haven't solved distribution in these markets.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/lite/

Similar to Twitter's Digits, which has been around for a while and seems quite popular. https://get.digits.com

It's been years and there is no credible competitor to the Model S. Maybe it will be different with the Model 3, but until an equivalent car is on the road I'm not sure I agree with your statement. The Bolt - a nice car, and I've test driven it - is just so clearly sub-par compared to what Tesla is aiming for with the Model 3 that I would not consider it a true alternative.

It amazes me that comments like this, more commonly seen in the comment sections on second-tier news sites, exist even on HN.

Curious what you mean by the quality of service dropping? I use both Lyft and Uber pretty regularly (multiple times a week) and have had only positive experiences in SF.

In the US, significant figures are included in standard high school science courses. That doesn't mean they aren't forgotten though.

Do the Locale-related changes in Android N improve this?