skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it should not. Because surge pricing requires supply crunch. But the moment they jack day to day prices you will have supply glut. And creating an Uber like app for just one city is not that hard.
Must have been strange watching 24 in France, then. In the US, the time in the story was set up to align with ad breaks, so when it was XX:47 (for example) in the story, it was always 21:47 in reality.
1200 job openings... that's impressive.

I agree that you need people to expand, but it never hurts to question how many people you actually need. Nobody denies that megacorps probably have many redundant positions, it's not possible for a company with 3000 employees to have them either.
> program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but it is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.

Have seen this idea stated in various forms. In an absolute theoretical sense, the idea is quite true, but I'm not sure what wisdom or value is supposed to be imparted through expressing it - especially in the way it's phrased above.

The vast majority of programs exist to deliver net positive value in some form. In this context, the value and even the concept of absolute correctness become very fuzzy. Not all bugs are equal in terms of impact on that delivered value. Beyond a certain threshold, what even is a bug? Is it a bug when the program crashes when a user intentionally feeds it with extreme inputs, that would never be used genuinely, to try and crash it? In a mathematical sense, yes. In an engineering sense.. most likely not.

From this point of view, testing will show an absence of bugs - not categorically all bugs, but all bugs I care about.

With testing I can show that my program performs a certain set of functions as I want it to, with a certain set of inputs. That's a baseline, proved to be bug-free. If that baseline provides the minimum value the program is written to provide, then the program is by definition correct for its given purpose.

Whether it's correct in a pure, absolute, mathematical sense is a different question (perhaps even a philosophical question) that it doesn't provide me much value to answer. So where's the practical value in expressing this idea?
The immigrants in the story are from Zhejiang, so they likely natively speak a Wu dialect that does indeed not have an /r/ sound:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_dialect#Phonology

And even the sound we write "r" when romanizing Mandarin is pretty distant from an Arabic /r/ (ر).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese#Initials
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-$545 million. Not one of Rupert’s finest investments, but I suspect he lost more on the WSJ.
Alimony, or the quick modern way for man to achieve indentured servitude.
To make your analogy more precise, the article is in that's-so-mind-control-rays territory. Your proposed addition would be, "wear a tinfoil hat!"
My understanding from talking with people close to the company is that they have a process for opening one city. It's a specific number of people in exact positions (15, if I remember correctly)? They go out and clone the exact process/number of people in each new city.

It starts with one person who is responsible for spearheading the operation; that person is supposed to find, hire, and manage the other 14.

It's like Uber is opening up franchises of itself. The model has been nailed, so it's just a matter of cloning/duplicating that model.

I'm not certain on all of the details, but I find it absolutely fascinating.
Because the mobile web is putting the magnifying glass to the issues that have been lurking in sites. Most people here have computers and the bandwidth to download a large site in seconds, and needed RAM and drive space to have a large cache. When you get rid of that cache, and you slow down the connection, the Verge is a shitty site on the desktop too.
Have they? What large tech companies never IPOed?

Counter-examples I can think of include Google, FB, Twitter, Apple, Amazon, MS, ...
Ben is one of those guys that looks at the world differently. Smart as hell, humble and fun to hang out with. Hardcore OSM user!
You are completely wrong.

Pretend I made $100k, contributed $6k -- they matched an additional $3k into the account.

The match was considerably more than $540 @ $18k.

Source: I work there.
They keep getting jobs if they can do it, or make the numbers look like they did. It's all a shell game, and in many companies, the numbers are all that matter to the people calling the shots.
It may actually hurt. Uber is in the growth business. They aren't bootstrapping. It may not be worth the time for them to think whether or not they really need to hire someone for x position in x market when they have hundreds of positions to fill in dozens of markets.
> I do wonder what will happen once Uber starts charging market rates.

That's an excellent question and the answer is it wont be cheap. That's why, in countries where Uber operates, a clear legal framework is needed so that Uber doesn't end up with a monopoly. If Uber is allowed to operate somewhere then anybody should be able to do that without the need for an army of lawyers and lobbyists or it's just replacing the old boss with a new boss and in the end nothing's going to change for the consumer. That's what I hate with the whole situation.
If I change my name today, my emails that I sent yesterday won't magically update for everyone to display my new name.

For some reason my birth certificate and all text ever written with my name won't automatically update.

Clearly this was a ploy by the evil white mail crowed against the feminists, LGBT and minorities.

...or the author should get a hobby.

What if I change my name/email address and I do want my old work to stay under my old identity. I might work for Foo Corporation and then move to Acme Corp. thereby changing affiliation and email address.

Being able to better manage identities in a git repo would be a great feature, however in my opinion it's a shameful move to call the git developers "patriarchal", it is pure slander which I think has no place in a technical community. The author should either write a patch for git that implements what she wants, or write a new VCS altogether.
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Android 5 has gotten rid of JIT, and does AOT compilation of bytecode via libart, and thus runs native code.
I stopped reading half way. The mobile Web is amazing. The verge is the kind of website that is broken both on desktop and mobile. And unfortunately there are too many websites like those.
Clojure is a fascinating language. Rich Hickey gives a lot of his rationale for why he picked the JVM for it [1], which boils down to VMs being the platforms of future, not OSes like Linux.

[1] http://clojure.org/rationale
Yeah, I don't know why everybody is pointing at browsers and saying the mobile web sux. I'm constantly amazed at what my phones browser can do.

Its the content that sux.
Is it really a bad idea? Will people actually get off Facebook and watch more TV if the ads were shorter? I suspect ads aren't the reason TV viewing is declining and aren't going to accelerate it much.
That's odd to me. Everyone I know thinks that Uber is shady and uses Lyft. Very people use Flywheel in SF as it just gets you a cab. But at least a cab driver (generally) knows where they're going, rather than relying on GPS because they're from the East Bay and don't know the city at all.

Uber's app history of tracking people is also not great. I use Lyft when I can. Last time I used Uber was in New Orleans, and even then I used the mobile web version.
>"Modern" web sucks

FTFFY
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

My very limited skull size balks when I see regex, IoC architectures, EAV data modeling, fancy ORMs ... and, dare I say, ... functional programming.
Because of the data their website serves, only about 3% of it is actual content. The rest is beacons, and trackers, and ads. It's precious coming from them.
True, that's a good point.
You know, people call me crazy, but I build my website for mobile first, and stop there. I kind of like a narrow 480px columns even on desktop.
Maybe a better question to ask yourself would be "Is there something I want to do in a browser that I can't do with Safari"
Probably you're already aware of this but it might be useful for you or others. Item 4 of Scott Meyers' Effective Modern C++[1] shows you how to get some type information without needing to open the headers yourself.

[1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033707.do
Uber is certainly aggressive and maintains their attitude throughout. I would like to see Lyft's financials compared to Uber's considering Uber's global dominance target and Lyft's decision to focus on US domestic [1].

Source:

[1.]
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28566633/lyft-forgoes...
If this thing is related at all, it's about not "hacking" the OnStar.
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Surge pricing allows you to model the price elasticity of the service. You can do all sorts of experiments and regression analysis on this data. If I had access to the data I could tell you exactly how elastic the pricing is.

The problem is not that you can't extract the price elasticity from the surge pricing of an Uber-like service, it is that you might not like the answer. Down rounds are not nice to founders.
Flash wasn't the problem entirely. If they fixed the security issues we would be better off. The reason we hated flash is because of how advertisers used it.
If ever there was a headline designed for HN, this is it.
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Please tell me the name of your company, because I don't EVER want to make the mistake of working for you.
It's not like you can't change that in DDG's settings :P

http://puu.sh/jrd5U/09515744a5.png
During the game, it definitely wouldn't be an issue. But many players like to give away pucks to fans, keep them after scoring important goals, etc... The NHL doesn't want to destroy the ability to hand out pucks.
What you want to get down to is the intrinsic dimensionality. Go below that and you start discarding useful information.
What has been the tangible outcome of the Supreme Court's recent ruling?
I just thought to check HN again ([mumbles something about notifications]), glad I did. I just opened all the files that are there; Readme.txt has now loaded, and I commented! :D

And I was thinking something like this for the file listing (look to the right of the filenames): http://i.imgur.com/kC2Dzex.png

But you've implemented the general gist of what I meant perfectly. :D

Edit: THE COMMENTS NEED TIMESTAMPS :P
This isn't going to help the ratings.

If they were paying any attention at all, they would see what happened to radio when they jacked up the ADS. More ADS per hour did improve revenue, but that improved revenue came at a loss of audience.

There is a curve function, and it's complex. No ADS will deliver a nice audience, assuming the program is compelling enough, but no revenue. A few ADS will do just about the same thing, but deliver revenue.

From there, as the AD rates ramp up, audience will drop off and at some pivot point there the value of the AD, due to insufficient audience impressions, drops off impacting both revenue and audience.

If you ask me, TV is already well into the pivot point.
If you need deniability, you need it. Like, your life could literally depend on having it.

I'd say that justifies some protocol complexity.
Could we fly from London to New York in an hour?
America is so rich, she has to confiscate food from her citizens to keep a semblance of a scarcity economy.
We created an Android AND iOS farm for automated game testing. You don't need to root iOS to get it done - it's just a PITA to do it right. You end up needing an attached Mac running XCode to send commands & you can't use the internet connection through the wire so we set up a local secure wifi network.

The only devices we had to "root" (aka put in developer mode) were some android devices that wouldn't allow us to change the HOSTS file otherwise ;-)

I'm glad that AWS is now offering this type of service, I can't wait to try it out.
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What are you talking about? I was pointing out how expensive SF is and how you might hit a 15% higher food cost in Hawaii than SF. But that will be offset by the massive amount you will save in rent.
Use it to serve PHP pages. That oughta do 'er.
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
> Let's be honest: mobile web is a far crappier experience than the desktop web

Some websites actually have a better 'mobile' site (either through a dedicated site or through responsive stylesheets) than their desktop site, explicitly because they minimise the amount of noise on the page.
Groovy's problem is that it is the "anything goes" language. There is the eternal September problem of new people entering the industry, and for the first ten years of a person's career they think that more complex, more verbose, and harder is somehow better. Groovy provides syntactic sugar for much of java, but that is going to be seen as a negative for people who compulsively have to type out long form code or use the most complex language feature they can. In ten years people would have forgotten about Groovy, because Python has already won over so many communities. No one complains that Python is slower than Java or not as complex as Scala.
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Interesting. This is something I've been wondering about.

Because I've been noticing a lot of RVs and vans (with windows blacked out) that seem to be permanently parked in areas of Palo Alto. Sometimes on fairly busy roads. So have been curious as to whether any were actually being used that way.
Flash did solve the problem that the article complains about: consistency of experience and not having to develop your site / app to a pile of different runtimes.

But that's not a bug, but a feature for those in the business of selling admission to walled gardens. Same as it ever was.
Thank you for the correction. I stand corrected.
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It appears to me not like overthinking, but like completely failing to understand the way the analysis I've quoted was done (if he wrote the details I've quoted were published). Nobody knew, before the analysis was done, that it would be even possible to use the Doppler effects of the communication recording.
Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring Engineers to build the future of Mobile A/B Testing
I would like to see them cover Bluetooth and 802.11-based tracking. Most people I've talked to are unaware that their wifi device periodically sends out probe requests containing its unique MAC address (some more frequently than others, in my testing), which can be used to correlate your location and build a profile.

It's not even difficult, I set up a Raspberry Pi to do it and graphed the arrival and departure times of individual workers in my office. There are businesses putting tracking across a constellation of retail partners, then selling the partners information about what other stores their customers visited.

And yes, I'm aware that iOS 8 is supposed to randomize your MAC address to guard against this (cynically I'd say it helps them push iBeacons) but as of September 2014, it wasn't really working as you'd expect: http://www.imore.com/closer-look-ios-8s-mac-randomization
Good Eggs just laid of 140 people, more than 50% of it's workforce and shut down 3 out of 4 of their markets - only SF, their HQ, will remain, and even the SF office sustained layoffs. They are Sequoia/Index backed, and raised $21M less than 12 months ago.

Good example of a company that asked the question "how many people do we actually need?", with an unpleasant answer =(

http://blog.goodeggs.com/
There are companies which love all-around workers who can pick up all shits tossed from anyone. You will have to deal with everything from setting up a website to debugging a Windows device driver, and probably fixing a motor fan occasionally. They will tell you that can contribute to your value as an employee and help your job prospects. But the truth is the management does not have the skill and interest in task division. All they can do is sort of 'people skill' to make you voluntarily stay overtime and get the shit done ASAP.

I would rather not having that kind of job prospects.
I desire private space, but I'm willing to sacrifice just about anything to avoid the Midwest and suburbia. If no private space is the cost of living in real city, then so it goes.
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I like it as a starting point, a minor sidenote though: What you perceive and describe as bright red links, code and sidenotes is for me, as a color blind, almost indistinguishable from the body text if it wasn't for the underlines and monospaced font. Those off-black and red colors are for me just very similar dark hues on an off-white background. If you want to highlight these elements the current red does a poor job for colorblind people like me.
I read some answers on this article in the past weeks. Some interesting links:

http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/

https://twitter.com/satefan/status/623226230301523968
If your so-called "marketable skill" only yields a salary equivalent to minimum wage, you're probably better off looking for unskilled positions or trying to acquire a new skill.
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Thanks for expressing that point of view.
Professional investors short-selling specific companies in the S&P 500 could undo some of these drawbacks.
Indeed, times didn't match. And worse: In most movies/series we can clearly see that a sequence is supposed to be a summary for people who come back from a break. Very similar experience to series you "buy on bittorrent".
I live in China. It relies on three things - having a poor enough underclass of people to do the scavenging; a high enough price for it to be worthwhile; and readily a available facilities for recycling. If one of these is missing, it's absolutely pointless.
> a word that describes the same code but running in a different environment

Uhm, that's a wrong way to think about it. The same code can't run in a two different environments. If it does then it means that the environment is the same! The question then becomes what is an 'environment'.

Once you start explicitly tracking what the dependencies of your code are, in terms of language/runtime support, external libraries etc, it becomes very clear what the 'environment' is (though JavaScript as a language is exceptionally bad at expressing these dependencies). If your code runs in Node.js and latest Chrome, then the 'environment' is ES5 or even ES6. If it also runs in IE7, then the environment likely is ES3. If your code also needs access to the DOM and WebWorker APIs, as well as underscore, then the environment is ES3+DOM+WebWorker+underscore.

If only we had support in the language and/or tooling around it to express these dependencies and warn us if we try to use some code in an environment that is unsuitable for it...
If you have an opportunity to go to a really top-end school, sure, take it. That's really valuable. But remember, that's not an opportunity most people have.

Don't pretend that a degree from the school you see advertised on daytime TV is the same sort of product.

This, I think, is the "big lie" about college. The idea that a poor person with a degree from a shitty college is going to have even just the opportunities that I had[1]... is a lie. There's really no other way to put it. Sure, if you can get into a really good college and make sure you work your way into a peer group of successful people? It can be a great leg up. Hell, if I thought I could get into Stanford, I'd take four years off right now[2]. But going to the sort of college your average poor person is going to go to, and being around other people in that same situation isn't going to get you the opportunities I got for just being born.

[1]to be clear, My parents were pretty solidly middle class, not rich. So am I. I'm a competent but not great sysadmin/programmer; I didn't go to college, but I had all of the advantages that your average kid who goes to a mid-level college would have.

[2]But the sort of mid-level school that would accept a mid-level middle-class mid-achieving guy like me? Maybe a nice UC? Yeah, four years at your average mid-level school isn't going to increase my salary any more than four years of changing my job to focus on the more in-demand bits of my industry. Probably a lot less, in fact. I mean, it sounds like a lot of fun, but I don't know if it's half a million bucks in fun.
Short sellers could help pick your mini bubble.
They are feeding the cancer, that is feeding upon them...
> What such jobs are readily available to early-fifties retired fashion models?

He doesn't need a "good" job. He could get an hourly minimum wage job and already have an equivalent salary to his current job.

Since he has some nominal "fashion" experience, retail might be a good place to start. I'm sure Brooks Brothers wouldn't mind hiring a former male model to sell clothes.

> How much are the up-front costs of moving to a new city and acquiring a place to live?

Honestly, it's probably an upper limit of $5k (I've moved for far less). But he got a lump sump payment of $30k for leaving his apartment—equivalent to two years salary. That's surely enough to move anywhere in the country and find a decent, affordable housing situation.
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I haven't seen the data, but I bet a huge percentage of it is subsidized rides. They essentially use free rides as a carrot for users to learn the value of Uber.

The great part for Uber is that once they've trained their userbase, that cost largely disappears.
Two of my three "least similar" were places (very near where) I've lived, and two of my three "most similar" were places I've never even come close to.

Funny enough, the city apparently #1 most similar to my speech pattern is Overland Park, Kansas, which is hilarious as I doubt I've ever been within 400 miles of there.
The competition would likely be smaller competitors chipping away at juicy chunks, like Wingz focusing exclusively on airport rides (and competing with UberX on price) and Blacklane promising higher level of service at cheaper rate than Uber Black.
I think things like this are great, as social experiments these are important, esp. b/c we are exploring how to reclaim spaces, making it less of a crime to inhabit spaces.
Do you have any info on the raspberry pi graphing arrival/departure times?
Perhaps it's too soon to tell. According to SCOTUS, the ruling was on 6/22/2015 and judgement was issued on 7/24/2015. At least this means the program is defunct, so I suspect the Raisin Administrative Committee no longer discusses this matter in the same way. Does this mean raisins could be cheaper in the future if there is less supply control/"diversion"?

SCOTUS Blog:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/horne-v-departmen...
Standardized mandarin differentiates, but a lot of people don't speak very standard mandarin, and R and L become confused. The R is also not exactly the same as an English R - it's somewhere in the middle of R, L and a bit of a Zzz.
I ran into the lack of HTTPS client support this spring; my workaround was to use the libcurl bindings.
Yes. Perhaps it also works when you decide to cater to the x% of consumers who are quality-insensitive. Many people will endure years of bad service, complaining the entire time while taking no action.

I imagine someone there has figured out the inflection point where they can reduce the quality of their service without losing a significant number of customers. But perhaps that's giving them to much credit.