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Definitely going to need an estimate of testing hours. Trusting devs with testing is like estimated hours times 2.

Too good to be true. Seems like they are just trying to get some media traction to convince some VC for some funding or creating a footprint for themselves in the tech fraternity.

Yes I will be a cynical hypocrite when it hits the market with seamless performance and after I will purchase it.

Real life scenario:

French chick: Bonjour. es tu perdu?

Scrawny-geek: (All blushing and shit...Is she interested in me? put on "groundbreaking" Pilot earbuds)

FC: excusez moi mister!!

SG: gives hand gesture to wait

10 seconds time lapse

analog audio signals are converted to digital and then data buffer is sent to the smartphone via BT. Phone pre-process the raw data and sends it to Watson-Siri-Echo-Now-esque ultra system composed of signal processor then NLP then translator and it sends it back to the phone and phone does some more voodoo on it and sends it back to the Pilot via BT and plays it to its user.

SG: Oh. I am sorry mademoiselle. I am just trying to find direction to the bathroom.

FC: lost and confused expressions appear as if she did not understand one word of English

SG: punching the air in frustration..wish this device could play the translation back to me in French

Or more like an erased figure is "revealed"

Dev writing automation tests for their code is kinda pointless. It would be better to have another dev or a different team such as automation engineers writing regression automation tests. Automating regression tests is definitely better than manual QA-ing the same 1000 tests over and over again. There has to be a good balance. Have extensive coverage of automated regression tests and let manual QA test new features. This will at least increase the frequency of release cycles. Getting rid of an entire QA dept is somewhat equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot.

Where's McDonald's logo?

How about publishers start spending more on R&D and less on useless law suits. Ditch the whole ad-network/ ad-exchange model and start offering native ads. Ads that are deeply embedded in content. Sure they would have to hire more designers and content writers to come up with these ads more frequently but it might be the right and/or only alteration of business model publishers have to opt for. Partnering up with third party businesses directly and ditching the useless middle man (aka ad exchanges) would be better.

Thanks.

I am a bit surprised. Why host Netflix application on Amazon EC2 and not have your own data centers? A startup hosting at Amazon EC2 makes sense

Simple short term solution would be to pay special attention to applications coming from Wipro/Infosys/TCS and not treat them same as applicants from Google/Apple/Amazon. This will sure improve the odds for the next year's lottery.

And eradicate consultancies for the love of God. The relationship should not be Employee-to-Employer's payroll. Instead it should be Employee-to-Employer's product.

I would take Uber over rude Manhattan cabbies any day. My personal experience with Manhattan taxi drivers after living in NYC for last two years.

1) They drive as if they are on a rally track. I have had never experienced motion sickness before until I moved to Manhattan.

2) If you ignore the tip or tip them in the range of $1-3 you get snarky remarks from them.

3) If you try to hail a cab and (regrettably) ask the taxi driver to drive you to a place where their chances of hailing a passenger back are slim then they will rudely turn you away (Tip: First hop in then tell the direction. It is a NYC law).

I can go on and on but point being Uber is the much needed necessary evil in scarce resource cities like Manhattan.

And then teachers (some of them at least) complain why are they getting paid less? Go figure...

I see the gist of this article (which is positive) but some "hunches" of writer are conveniently converted in to facts. Take this for example: "They have to race from one end to the other of warehouses the size of 16 football fields."

Has she ever been inside a warehouse? Or worked at a warehouse? Or have a friend who works there? Sure those warehouses are indeed huge. Not one but multiple football fields long, at least for large retailers. Amabots or selectors or pickers (politically incorrect term but it is often used within warehouses) work in zones or areas. And they work in their zones and areas for months before they are asked to move to a different selection zone. Each zone is the size of roughly two-to-three decent size living rooms. Lets say if item A for an order is located at the southern end of a warehouse and item B is at the northern end then a single selector does not run back and forth to pick those two items. One selector picks item A and then the shipping box (or a pre-shipping plastic box) is routed via electric conveyors to southern end and another selector picks item B. Watch a video on Youtube.

Obviously there are time constraints because that is the nature of the job. A company can ship out items fast only if selectors will pick/select/process them fast enough from the shelf and place them in to the conveying box.

Now most of these people are not "directly" employed by the warehouse retailer (Amazon or Best Buy or Walmart). Third party staffing companies bring them on board. Sure imho that is a dirty business money-saving tactic to keep the liabilities off of you ledger.

Point being. It is very convenient to rant online these days and shove your broken opinions without doing a proper research. And heck I am just a happy consumer who loves her Prime shipping.

“Imagine the Internet without HTTP and TCP/IP” That's quite an absurd analogy to push forward Amazon's drone program.

Even though I am quite fascinated by the innovation of this idea, not so much about the practicality of it. I believe it is good for rural areas where highway system is not streamlined and major shipping carriers don't encourage frequent routes.

I hope none of my future clients come to me with a reference to this app for cost estimation. This estimation is vague and garbage. Good effort though.

Death to Flash.

Uber should have filed for IPO.

Automobiles were around as early as mid 17th century but that does not mean they were available for large scale consumer consumption which would cause massive infrastructure changes such as highways. But good read. Thanks.

Learn how to use a smartphone and download the app. Problems solved. I am sure they pay a certain % to w/e Frenchy cab companies anyway akin to infamous Yello-cab in NYC.

This feature should have been part of Facebook a while ago when your platform has photo-sharing and friends in your DNA. Well, better late than never.

"Neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk is affiliated with any Hyperloop companies" Yet it is hosted on spacex.com. I love the project but I hate the legalities here. What does that mean? If something bad happens during operation then these aforementioned entities cant be held responsible.

First world problems.

SAT and all these similar "standardized" tests are a big joke. This outdated testing methodology needs to be evolved. College admissions should be somewhat similar to job interviews. Students walk in, meet admission committee panel (composed of a member of registrar office and professors/lecturers), talk about expectations, solve a few problems, talk about their essays, present design work, piece of literature etc. Such experience is more personal. Better education system needs a better paradigm shift.

I suggest reading "The Idea Factory - The great age of American Revolution". The book talks about the experiences of all these exceptional engineers and scientists that were brought together under the umbrella of Bell Labs and as a result a plethora of technologies came out of it (digital computers, networks etc etc). What we need today is another similar revolution but in the field of bioengineering and health sciences.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/d...

If the "buy" button takes the user to sellers' whatever e-commerce solution then it is a win..and I dont mind giving % to a pinner. We use Shopify for our products and Shopify is also powered by Stripe.

I agree with you. I was like whaaaat..

Someone at IBM: Senior Software Engineer $7,278,870,000 Philadelphia!! Probably some lucrative patent.

Since you have referenced dictionary.com, a very authentic source for tech terminology, I would like to argue why a plane is not called "vessel" in everyday usage?! http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vessel

Correction Lily - Quadcopter camera

It is annoying that everyone started calling Quadcopter a "drone", which is a very generic term. Flippin non-tech marketing peeps. -_-

Another scheme to get money in seeds funding form VCs, split biggest shares among co-founders and then BYE. Very "Innovative" idea.

Seriously is every media outlet on the internet becoming "serve all" content website?!! The hell this news has anything to do with Tech, Hackers, VC, Software ....

Can we start getting mods on HN?