Microsoft Just Took Android’s Future Out of Google’s Hands | WIRED
Microsoft partnership with open-source, Android-based Cyanogen OS makes one thing very clear: Android’s not just for Google anymore.
Meet the lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy
"Here’s Uber, a business model with $40 billion behind it, that is seen as the future, but if she’s correct about their needing to classify all of these drivers as employees, it destroys that model."
Hasnain says:
"Liss-Riordan says that Uber, Lyft and other on-demand companies are making the same kind of arguments she’s seen before. “FedEx argued that it was a logistics operation, connecting people who wanted to deliver packages, not a delivery service. Strip clubs argued that dancers weren’t employees, that they were in the business of selling drinks and that naked women just danced on the side,” said Liss-Riordan. “These arguments have not gone well for these companies.”"
Posted on 2015-04-18T02:55:35+0000
Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tool to Sift Research Fudge from Fact
The journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology recently banned the use of p-values and other statistical methods to quantify uncertainty from significance in research results
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Hasnain says:
Software inflation. A great read on code bloat. Especially how /bin/true got so large
Posted on 2015-04-18T02:33:53+0000
Chord progressions of 25 000 songs!
The Hooktheory.com database contains analyses of over 25000 songs. These analyses are uploaded by users and allow for all these songs to be analyzed in bulk, as well as individually. One of these '...
Hasnain says:
This is a really cool music data set (though I don't get most of the data)
Posted on 2015-04-18T02:27:55+0000
A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
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Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App To Poach Uber Engineers
Snapchat is using geo-filters matched to Uber's San Francisco headquarters to recruit Uber employees through its Snapchat app.
Android's 10 Millisecond Problem: How Google and Android are leaving billions on the table.
Android's 10 Millisecond Problem: The Android Audio Path Latency Explainer
100 Days As A Black Man In Silicon Valley | VSB
I’d like to see more Blacks in tech, so I started with myself