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This is speculation, from a website not known for their reliability. Seeking Alpha make money off ads and click bait stories about stocks.

Perhaps the title could be edited to reflect this?
Oh good. They oughta be handling those billion dollar 6 month losses just fine then.

Reinvesting in owning a market that is literally an app install away from someone else stealing your lunch is not reinvesting. That's just burning cash.
I agree, Uber drivers seem to be getting progressively more clueless and inexperienced. Last night I had one that would just stare at the moving map on the GPS, without any situational awareness at all, up to the point where we were down to about 15mph on an interstate highway while he tried to figure out which of the tangle of exit ramps it wanted him to take, which was wildly unsafe. It did occur to me that for all the frustration cab drivers engendered, they did actually like know how to get from the major airport to the major train station without getting confused and stopping in the middle of the highway.

That is what it is, but the larger point I think it inspires, as does your post, is that I can't see how Uber can possibly claim that it's going to be able to generate some kind of monopoly profits from the whole endeavor.

Theoretically the whole point of all this insane fundraising and spending is that Uber will, one day, be in some dominant and unassailable position, and can raise prices. But that doesn't make any sense, they're increasingly making it clear that they have a commodity product at best. How they plan to defend that as a monopoly is a mystery.

And let's talk about self driving cars when there's at least one single car somewhere in the world that actually can drive itself somewhere without a driver present. Until that day, which is likely in the semi-distant future, we're talking about the economics and practical effects of an app based car and driver hailing service.

And lastly, it's probably worth noting the parent commenter posting multiple times in this thread defending the company actually works for Uber, and has a HN posting history almost entirely composed of defending the companies who pay him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbarone
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Well if the boss is still around until 12pm the machine can work just a little bit longer...
Amazing mechanics in the 1800's. Probably a mistake to call it a 'programmable computer'. No indication that it could be programmed at all.
What does 'doing that with POSIX' mean? I have read this many times but I do not have a clear understanding.
Yes -- a merge merges one branch into another, and creates a merge commit while doing so.

A rebase rewrites history, as if the PR had been written on master directly. There is no merge commit and no evidence of a previous branch. Some people prefer rebasing over merging because it gives you a linear commit history.
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Your use case is super weird. If you're going to do a --no-ff merge why would you rebase?
Its not about the app. Its about the Uber lawyers gaining entrance into local markets across the world. That's where the money is going.
Impressive app.
It's a weird thing tbh when most of my mail is literally just advertisements for services around my area. Some of it is interesting but most don't apply to me (ex. Had several mailers for private schooling since there's a couple schools like that in the neighborhood) so I have to wonder how successful is junk mail like that in producing a profitable result. I have to imagine the cost would have to be very low to justify the constant stream of junk mail I receive.
What would be interesting if they handover this project to an organization like the ICIJ to oversee and run while they merely take care of the infrastructure.This sort of setup can work.Provided Google provides a transparent organisation which handles the daily workings.
I do not have any issues if a any X corporation provides such opportunities.The kind of attack that Krebs faced, there is absolutely no possible scenario where a non-profit could cater to.

Every organization has a bunch of people who support the open web.This could be their voice from within Google.
PS: I am not from google or a fan boy.Just that never judge a book by its cover.Let this unfurl before we pass the judgement.
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On mobile, if I click the link for reading the rest of the article I get a full screen and impossible to close popup asking me to download their app. Sigh.
Presumably doing this right would restrict these loans to "financing". Which is to say, to people with reasonable cash-flow who are seeking up-front capital for a purchase. A good public utility lender would offer low rates, but would have to reject more home-loan applications than the existing speculative players. By this measure, of course, Fannie and Freddie were the opposite of public utility lenders.

Done right, I'd like to think that utility lending would constrain bubble growth. Low-risk borrowing would get utility loans, producing actually-guaranteed-AAA investments. High-risk borrowing would remain with private lenders looking for risk, much like business loans do today.

The daylight between the two would (hopefully) prevent both housing price bubbles (by offering a stable rate floor) and credit bubbles (by clearly dividing safe, non-profit-seeking loans from speculation). It would likely price up risky loans, but we saw in 2008 that those were dangerously underpriced to begin with.

It's an interesting idea anyway, as is a utility model for 'safe' banking activities - non-interest-bearing deposits and financial services.
Out of the 110+ listed items, I'm curious which five are the most useful.
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Yes, but they are library calls without any help from the compiler.
The Indian person works cheaper than Nordic people, but his own pay improves. The result of this has been rising incomes, primarily among the poorest.

The "elephant graph" is the most important graph in the world of economics: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVkQuGtP3s2...

Citation needed. The only one I can accept off hand is that it reduces inequality between western workers and those in countries with less opportunities.

See the work of Branco Milanovic - the bulk of inequality in the world is across borders rather than within borders. His book is excellent: http://amzn.to/2dl3sVJ

Worrying about inequality between CXOs and their employees is also a silly distraction by politicians. Inequality in the US is mainly between firms, not within them. Inequality within Google and within Walmart has not gone up much, it's inequality between Google and Walmart that has gone up.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/27/u-s-pay-inequality...
I think ideal way is to charge people for dumping the waste, and use that money to properly recycle all the material therein. May not be ideal in terms of energy efficiency, but its highly workable solution.
Surprised this article doesn't mention Bias lighting: http://www.howtogeek.com/213464/how-to-decrease-eye-fatigue-...
It's about Uber's very expensive lawyers clearing the regulatory path for competitors (who are only app installs away) to then utilize for free from here until the heat death of the universe?

Clever strategy.
"This is code I personally would love to maintain compared to what an imperative version could look like."

I think this piece would have been much more compelling if it didn't end with this line.

I personally would never want to maintain that code (in C++). I mean hey, look, I get it. Functional programming is awesome. But with all of the magic behind the scenes needed to make that work in C++, it just feels like an overly complicated, Rube Goldberg-esque solution to a relatively simple problem.
A Chinese person who is allowed to work in Finland gets all these things.

I also don't care about wages "for people in western countries". Why would I care about wages for one group of people to the exclusion of others?
I am so glad, you fell into that.

You finished your answer with comparing your military system with ISIS beheading. That was what I looking at. Your comparison standard for your military system is ISIS, Wow. You literally proved my point.

Have good day.
BTW It is not secret. I am Iranian. But I don't believe in nationality. I am kinda extreme anarchist.
I personally think that commit history should be kept as long as it makes sense. But in some cases, you don't want to keep some of the commit messages if they don't add anything to development flow.

For example,

- Force SSL flag when connecting to server

- Use new syntax for SSL flag

- Wrap flag implementation to its own method

- Add forgotten tests

This branch's main goal was to use ssl flag on external requests but ended up having several commits that does not really matter to other developers. Then you want to squash this branch into a commit and merge.

Rebase and merge example,

- Improve sorting by adding cache

- Implement a separate config class to fetch caching times.

- Modify search implementation to use cache config class

These are rather important commits by themselves and better keep them separated in your history.
That's pretty much what the LibreSSL people have done. And no, they didn't get much response or buy-in.
I had one after having a c. diff infection. Didn't turn into a fatso. I did lose 25 lbs from the c. diff, though, now mostly gained back. We're very unclear about how the microbiome affects us; to be a FMT donor you must be in perfect health: not fat, no mental illness, etc.

A FMT is not a panacea for everything that ails. It can cure c. diff, but the results of it for anything else are much less clear. We don't really know why it works and the long term effects of such a dramatic treatment are unknown.
Written by Carl Szabo from 'Net Choice', a Trade Association whose members include Google, AOL, Facebook, Ebay. This is a straight-up corporate press release.
It's populist, which globalists despise. Racism is only the cover they use to mask that they're trying to drag down worker protections and wages to the lowest common denominator.
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It is not prevalence that is growing exponentially, it is diagnosis.
My guess is it keeps the history as linear as possible while still being able to undo the merge if necessary.
Anyone know of a break-taking app that watches your activity and can wait until you've lost focus on your work before reminding you to take a break?

Something like the alarms that wake you up at the right point in your sleep cycle.

It would probably need to have a cut-off eventually, but I'd hate to be interrupted in the middle of tracing some complex logic if there's a perfect stopping point 10 minutes later.
You missed the part that AOT native compilers for JVM languages already exist today, but I accept that people don't want to pay for them.
Air travel is already pretty efficient and clean? Certainly when calculating emissions per passenger-mile. Compare them to shipping, which is at the other end of the emissions spectrum. Lets hear something about cleaning up the oil-burners sometime.
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I can think of a couple of reasons:

i) Better integration of realtime search results.
ii) A social network that's already established. Google wants a social network, but has failed spectacularly to create their own.

I agree it's probably complete nonsense though. But weirder things have happened. Apple bought Topsy, a Twitter analytics company, and shut that down, presumably for the data.
Shaked (an Israeli minister) posted (and thus endorsed) a text that calls for genocide.

While many Israeli politicians are terrible, I don't think that single endorsement substantiates your claim that "many Israeli politicans have repeatedly called ...". Even that single endorsement was deleted by Shaked.
I don't think you are racist. I think you have an equally evil bias based on a different accident of birth (location, rather than ethnicity of the parent). You haven't offered any reasoning to suggest otherwise.
It might be better to run a wash cycle with an empty detergent drawer. Repeating the same rinse cycle with inadequate water won't necessarily help. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if the standalone 'rinse' programme used more water than rinsing as part of a wash programme...)

Supposedly the 'extra rinse' or 'rinse plus' buttons which you see on washing machines only started appearing at the same time they stopped rinsing properly, which is pretty telling.
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out of interest, where exactly did your friend get their FMT done ?
"Funny", after grief, I started to feel tons of problems, but also heart issues (as mentioned in another comment in this thread). Although it was way more than tingling and sensations (pain in fingers arteries, arm veins, heart, all felt like tiny clogging things moving around), I couldn't lift my arms, run or do any sort of efforts, for an ex athlete it was very damaging.

Anyway I also did the same tests as yours. Things looked normal, but I dismissed their tests (a 5min effort test is not enough, you can exhaust yourself in 5 minute, you'd need 15minutes sustained effort to trigger change in heart and vascular regime). After 2 different doctors, I finally accepted the SSRI pill. It did affect my state tremendously for 2 days, mostly brain and lung. Still not good enough on the muscular/stamina side though.

Body is a complex machine.
It is useful for when you want the commits to be clearly grouped in the log (because they belong together conceptually), but you don't want to squash them all together (because, for example, you still want to be able to browse/bisect/revert some of those commits in the future). Also, it is easy to revert the merge commit if you want to undo the whole group at once.
It shouldn't matter what browser you're using, that's the point of having web standards. I can understand not wanting to support certain users that use whatever browser you don't want to support, but a visible, non-intrusive and dismissible warning at the top should be enough. Otherwise, making radical decisions based on the User-Agent defeats the whole point of having web standards.
Maybe he's been infiltrating the Verge secretly working for Apple, and now the mission's done and he's ready to transition to official employment with Apple, he doesn't care what happens to his career at the Verge?

(conspiracy intensifies)
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I have been very interested by the self driving car progress that has been made thus far. There are lot of interesting computer science problems to be solved to make self driving cars work. There are also lot of companies and some very big ones that are involved in making self driving cars a reality. Is there any niche space (like collecting more granular data) in this domain for a startup to exist?
From the sounds of things, it was roughly a month ("[he] was not in contact with us through most of August and into September.").

That's probably not super crazy for a reasonably senior writer working on "longish" form stuff. While a month is probably a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if a week or two usually passed without touching base. It might take a couple of those "week or two" cycles to notice someone hasn't checked in.

The article also says it wasn't unnoticed, and that they tried to reach him several times in that period.
> I don't quite buy that autism will be shown to be genetic. I think it's an environmental factor. The rate of increase in autism is pretty much exponential:

You're confusing increase in diagnosis versus increase in autism. This confusion is the whole basis of the "autism epidemic" claim.
I guess it could be useful for putting conflict fixes in the commits themselves rather than all in a lump in the merge commit. And it could also help have useful commits for bisecting.

From an aesthetic perspective, rebasing and ff merging also destroys the history of what commit is related to what work branch.
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Here's the 2014 article referenced (it's a good summary): http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/MPR/article-full-tex...

After a particularly intense few weeks of work of computer-based work, I started getting double vision every time I tried to read or type at a computer screen. Initially it was rather disturbing.

Recovery was 3 days away from screen time and time outdoors (focusing eyes on far away things). I've definitely reformed my habits to spend time looking out the window more.

Also, flux is a requirement for any screen I use.
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Fair points but let me add a few things to consider as well:

"Uber operating at huge losses... service worse and worse." I don't agree here, the service is much better than before. Even with the introduction of uberpool, the service has stayed nearly the same for me in NY, and especially here in SF, while the cost has cut over 50% or more. If you follow Uber closely you can see they're investing into the company to continue to grow. You can see them experimenting with new products and services. UberEATS [1] (leveraging the same tech and driver network), San Francisco flat rate subscriptions [2], and self-driving cars [3]. Lyft and other competitors are followers at this point and are trying to compete by burning capital on huge ad-buys. Uber is significantly ahead.

"No longer door to door." This is to better connect both parties in the pickup and drop off. I've been using this non-stop in SF, it's more efficient and safe for the rider. It's also safer for the driver and helps them avoid getting tickets that ruin a driver's week.

"Feeling like a baller." There are still other products for these if you want privacy and better service. If your driver isn't giving you the expected service you can rate them accordingly.

"General quality has been declining." This shouldn't be the case. Uber has strict vehicle requirements in all cities that drivers must follow. Uber also connect drivers to fleet partners, rental partners and new and pre-owned vehicles during the signup process. If anything, the cars will get even better as they deprecate older models.

"What's your cab driver going to do...?" He will work for Uber, but again he will follow Uber's vehicle requirements.

1. http://eats.uber.com

2. https://www.uber.com/info/plus/sanfrancisco

3. https://newsroom.uber.com/pittsburgh-self-driving-uber
Another possible explanation for such a rise that I have seen repeatedly given is that the methods and basis for diagnosis changed in the early 90s.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/01/05/majority-o...

Its also discussed here on Fresh Air by the author of a book on Autism called Neurotribes.

" But because no one really explained to parents exactly what had happened - that the diagnosis had been completely rewritten - that, you know, autism by the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s was not your grandfather's autism, you could say. It was much more broadly defined because no one ever explained to the lay public what had happened with the diagnosis. When the numbers started going up, parents very understandably became very alarmed. And the media was sort of blindsided by the sudden spike in diagnoses."

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/493148713/neurotribes-examines...
I'm pretty sure I saw a port for Arch as well.
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Yeah I guess those doctors are all just lying to us. Damn you science!
Currently companies externalize the cost of disposing their products. You and I having to pay a bigger garbage bill is not going to change the behavior of the companies making all of this trash. If it were possible to query everything that went into a landfill, and bill the entire value chain proportionally for its disposal cost, THEN we might start to have a fair system and see changes. Current incentives are to produce the cheapest thing that will barely work for long enough that someone will buy it.
I don't think you're looking at it from the right angle. SO is a great resource that's amassed a lot of simple questions. My personally favourite use of it is to find boiler plate code, or to get answers to simple questions in languages I'm not an expert in, but unfortunately get forced to use for whatever reason. The same is true for sysadmining tasks. I'm wearing far too many hats to remember how to change hostname on 4 different operating systems - it's far easier to just google and click the SO link than to read manuals every time I have a simple task.

Additionally, your answer regarding:

> On the other hand, even the simplest questions are not closed just because they are simple. One of my favourite examples is the question whether you need a null check before calling an instanceof. My answer is number 2, with a sarcastic comment that this could be tested in an IDE for a minute. And a very good comment points out that it takes less than that to get the answer on Stackoverflow.

Is particularly bad. "Test in an IDE" is not a valid response when the question pertains to a JVM implementation. Your Sun JVM may be different than my Apache JVM, different than JoeShmoe JVM. A better answer might be to refer to lines in the official JVM specification, and note if there's an ambiguity, and that most implementations follow X, but not necessarily...
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20 seconds to look at an object at least 20 feet away and blink 20 times."

Is there any evidence that this treatment actually works?
This makes as much sense as "Imperative Programming in Haskell".

Sure, it can be done, but it would go against the grain of the language (imho).
Well this is a great addition! I've worked in places where `squash and merge` was standard procedure and others (including currently) where `rebase and merge` was the standard.

It's nice to see the later finally getting some love so I don't have to keep going back to my own terminal after my PR is approved.
Should the state really presume to sway cultural trends? It seems strikingly arrogant and likely to be counterproductive.
Didn't Fabrice do something very similar something like 3 to 4 years back ?
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What would you prefer be returned instead? Places like Expertsexchange or Quora?
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There's a huge discussion in this thread on tabs being slow, which made me wonder: is it necessary for browsers to have tabs?

Windows desktop apps work great without tabs. Could life be better without tabs?
1995 is a stretch for anything modern but I have kids playing Minecraft on Pentium 4’s (with decent graphic cards though - that is the critical part). These boxes would have been new around 2003 or so.
A problem I have with systems of such complexity is that it feels basically unknowable whether or not this is true. It totally may be. On the otherhand, it might just be that we're basically subsidizing an incredibly expansive practice by creating enormous and complex upstream costs that we ignore in our current accounting.
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Bamboo is made of cellulose, which is not what you would want to use for making plastics.

The problem with cellulose is that, because it is fibrous, there aren't really any efficient ways of breaking it down.
I don't believe it will take that long.