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Well, at least they got their US Federal Motor Carrier broker registration and insurance:

Date: 09/14/2016
USDOT Number: 2926893
Legal Name: UBER FREIGHT LLC

They're not trying to pull their usual "we're a special snowflake beyond regulation" stunt.

Trucking is vulnerable to Uber. "More than 1 million smallish companies own 90 percent of all trucks, each owning about three trucks on average." That lets Uber be the master and the truckers the slaves, as with their taxi service.

Cargomatic claims 1,811,000 miles traveled. They launched in 2014, so that's under a million miles a year. That's nothing. The average delivery truck travels 12,000 miles a year, so, from their own numbers, Cargomatic represents about 80 trucks, total. They may be run over by Uber.

The biggest freight broker is C.H. Robinson Worldwide, net revenue about $2.2bn. They also organize ocean freight and air freight, which Uber isn't likely to get into because the players there are not small.

Freight brokerage is so fragmented that Uber could roll up the industry.
This is an area where the startups and disrupting efforts completely fail. We read and learn from so many blog posts about "startup X is shutting down" - but what about species? Would be nice to see wildlife and animals as priority (e.g. for Ycombinator). Also, movie makers like Disney who make fortunes from animating animals, should contribute. Otherwise, the only animals we will see is a Pixar movie.
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I agree
Heh... for some reason youtube can't survive when I start a video on my monitor and then I switch outputs to TV using an xrandr script by closing one output and opening the other. I thought it was possible to continue the video that way but once I noticed it doesn't work, it made sense immediately.

Mplayer and co, on the other hand can cope with it but my window manager can mess it up so I don't bother.
true. I did read the article but it's more socially acceptable to want poachers to come to harm than to express an opinion of wanting expansion of human settlements in africa to cease.
I was interested too with the Latitudes. The article is vague, but it does mention latest models.

I just picked up an e7440 - new but a few generations old - from the Dell business outlet. The touchpad (along with the battery) is the biggest weak point of the laptop. It works somewhat okay with Win 10, but it is awful on Linux using recent kernels on Fedora 25.

But I tend to use a MBP at work, and the touchpad on it is just so much better. I don't even bother with a mouse with the Mac as OSX really integrates the trackpad well. I am much happier with a decent wireless mouse with the Latitude.
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> There is no added benefits to have done that.

For god's sake, it is subtle, but not that hard to understand. There are added benefits. For one thing, consistency. Why is `sys.stdin.write()` a function but `print` isn't? What happens if you want to replace `print` with your own function, e.g. for logging? With a print function, you can just reassign that function, with a statement, you can't. What's the effect of this switch on the bytecode/parsing code? All the arguments against it seem to come down to "I don't like it".

> being one of best language out there.

Why is Python one of the best languages out there? Ease of use through consistency. Surely that's just an argument for `print()`.

Python3 allowed the devs to fix some of the mistakes or sins of the past, similarly `input`/`raw_input`. In the short term, it's maybe a bit of hassle. In the long run, not at all. 2to3 handles this mostly, but you can use `from __future__ import print_function` to test it in Python2. Nobody is refusing to switch to Python3 because of `print` alone.
All indexes are eventually consistent or just lucene ones ? I remember they created a ~clone of lmdb which has transactions (and can build indexes on top of it).
So I know of only one competitor in this space (I don't know very much about startups that do freight hauling) -- UShip.

Wonder if this has even registered on their radar
People say they're against animal cruelty and express concern for the environment, but they seem unwilling to back that up with action. Could economic pressure help?

Specifically, since this is being driven by the development of farmland, does anyone know

1 - Whether eliminating agricultural subsidies would have a noticeable impact, and

2 - How likely that is to happen?
I would be extremely interested to hear how you found this bug. Sounds like a difficult bug to track down, and I always learn from good debugging stories.
> "code is read more than it is written"

Is that really true? An amazing amount of absolutely mission-critical infrastructure runs on code that was written once and probably never even code-reviewed.
One billion cubic meters is a cubic kilometer - a cube with each side measuring 1km. 11 of these would be a cube with ~2.25 km sides. Or slightly less than a mile and a half per side.
http://take.ms/fwwhx

That is frustratingly poor contrast.
Interesting. How will they regulate shipping illegal goods? Moving people and food is fine, but this adds a layer of grey to the already blurry line uber are skirting.
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That's just how your server was/is configured.
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I was asking about intruder in specific. I am not doubting the capabilities of Burp.
xargs is fucked up when it comes to handling spaces in filenames and such. In fact, this is pretty much the only reason I use GNU parallel — I rarely need to actually run stuff in parallel (but it usually doesn't hurt either), but I need to do something pretty complicated (list | grep | sort | uniq | feed it to feh / whatever) over multiple arguments, without having to worry if these arguments contain spaces, quotes, unicode symbols, etc.
Farm Cheetahs.

Look at cats and dogs not going extinct. Of course, it's not 'wild animal' friendly.
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That's easy.

They are picking up enterprise customers left and right. The strategy there is easy.. just go up the stack and peddle solutions built on AWS. Oracle makes billions selling crap the customer never install, much less use.
The reason there's no interest is because the primary concern for investors like YC is generating a high return on investment. No matter what feel-good stuff Sam Altman might say about YC's goals in basic income research or other non-profit initiatives, at the end of the day, they have to deliver returns to their LPs.
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Seconded

Then watch Only The Dead (see the end of a war) by an australian bloke

Good luck sleeping afterwards
Freelancers, can you share some useful workflows you've acquired over the years?
it's more socially acceptable to want poachers to come to harm

Interesting opinion. I agree that there's a common human tendency to look for someone to blame, so bringing poachers to justice might look like an easy solution rather than changing behavior. The article discusses ways of attacking the problem of range preservation.

Is the opinion of wanting poachers to come to harm (rather than be criminally penalized) one you share yourself? If not, do you have figures that back this up?
Bezos speaks Wall Streets language and will get away with making little for many years.

The grocery business is a huge push that will require much broader capital investments over a huge geographic footprint. They will be back to losing money soon enough.
No idea about the US but the standard way thr rich and powerful do this in India is to setup the "charitable" foundation and then setup companies (who's share holding structure can be made complex to prevent traceback) to bid to provide goods and services to the "charitable" foundation at inflated prices and take a cut out of that while sub contracting the actual work. If you think about it a bit, the possibilities to get at that 80-90% used for "charitable purposes" are really endless.

As an example, in South India, many rich cloth mill owners converted their land into schools and colleges when they realized they would not be competitive in the global market. In India, schools and colleges are not allowed to be profit making institutions. Guess who owns all the service companies that provide services to these institutions?
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I'm going to beat them both by releasing Ultron v1.0 soon!
There is a fundamental problem with uber freight : availability of trucks. In case of the uber taxi, most of US population owns the car and drivers working for uber already had a license.

for uber frieght : trucks are owned by companies, who will not work with uber, u need a special license to drive truck: these drivers will not work with uber.

who will work for uber freight?
> The UX of hg was more intuitive for users coming from SVN and CVS

I second this. Trying to go from SVN to git left me confused and frustrated, while I found it much easier to switch to hg. Once I had been using hg for a while, I found that I had absorbed enough of the difficult/confusing stuff that switching to git was relatively painless.
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Gerard Degroot argues in "The Dark Side of the Moon" [1] that going to the moon was mostly about (1) allowing Democrats (LBJ and JFK) to score political points by criticising the Eisenhower administration and (2) cashing in on American cultural enthusiasm for space (Buck Rogers, Orson Welles, etc.). Space exploration didn't actually make much sense in terms of defense policy, international relations, or scientific research.

Eisenhower hated the idea of throwing money away on expensive programs that offered poor return on investment and were primarily funded for political reasons (his famous comments about the military industrial complex were made in a speech at the very end of his presidency). He funded development of American ICBM and space reconnaissance programs in the late 50s, but did so separately from space exploration programs. By the time of the Mercury missions we already had mature ICBM and satellite programs and it didn't have much to do with real defense needs.

Even in the late 50s the US was never really behind the USSR in terms of space technology, but for strategic reasons it was sometimes unclear how far ahead the US was (for example, we had extensive photographs from satellites showing Russian nuclear missile launch sites; these indicated that we had far more missiles than the Russians, but at the time the satellites used to collect these photos were still secret, and so the intelligence they revealed was not widely known, even though most Americans believed at the time that America lagged behind the Russians).

Sputnik may have been the first satellite in space, but Eisenhower had intentionally stopped von Braun from launching a satellite even though we were very close to having that capability. Eisenhower was mostly concerned with establishing a precedent that would allow satellites to fly over foreign countries, and didn't mind if the Russians were the first to space if this meant that one of their satellites would establish this precedent instead of one of ours.

(1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814719953
Leaded solder, or lead-free? What I've been reading is that at the hobbyist level, most people are still using leaded solder. The tight temperature tolerances of lead-free are hard. I've tried hand-soldering with lead-free solder, but keep getting cold solder joints.

Stanford EE just set up a maker space, called Lab 64. I'm going to find out what tools they use, and how they teach soldering. Stanford EE labs have big "No Pb" signs; they insist on lead-free soldering.
I built one of these years ago, didn't use that that much though. Totally supersed by radio these days.

One interesting use of free space optics is working around legal issues. At least in Australia the Telco act (via reference to the Radiocommunications Act) only goes up to 420THz which is red colour, so free space optics can be unregulated.
There's also Cyrillic o / о and e / е. And l can be substituted for the capital I or the digit 1. We're looking at quite a few different fake "google" domains. I doubt any of them will be worth a million bucks, they are not that scarce unless someone registeres all of them at once to squeeze the market.
I'm a fourth, and occasionally the IV suffix gets horribly mishandled. I recently booked a flight on Travelocity and had to change arrangements by looking up the reservation on the actual airline air, but it turned out they had dropped the space between my last name and the IV, making it impossible for me to log in until I figured out what had gone wrong...
I feel like you could make this argument about Apple just as well. It's got a larger market cap, so even more arguably successful. And they break compatibility (judiciously) in order to create a better product.
No one is against making print a function, we are just disappointed against the mandatory bracket thing. It's exactly what's wrong, you are not understanding because you don't want to listen. I agree with all the arguments you are presenting, but why can't you see why having to add - mandatory - brackets can be annoying?

In addition, the hack is already there:

Python 3.5.2 (default, Dec 2015, 13:05:11)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
print "hello"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python", line 1
print "hello"
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

Why not just calling print? We can do it right now and it's requiring no changes to the 3.x parser.

Finally, the print stuff was one of the main reasons I pick Ruby over Python for my startup 5 years ago. I may be alone but I don't think so. And I think I make the right decision. Look at the some of the latest benchmarks Ruby vs Python. Python is now lagging strongly behind when it was ahead 5 years ago with 2.7. The 3.x branch keeps making weird decisions.
Ubuntu dropped ARMv6 a long while ago and refuses to consider bringing it back, so it was out of the running as a Raspberry Pi OS, back when just the Pi1 was around.

Ubuntu will run just fine on the Pi2 and 3, just not on the 1 or 0. Pixel is a mildly-tweaked version of LXDE running on Raspbian, which is a mildly-tweaked version of Debian. That's problematic, when part of their brand is providing a good environment for learning (which is helped by keeping the OS as similar as possible between different versions of the hardware).
What I did/do is pick something that I like/challenging/be-able-to-grow(backend) + has community/jobs(like python) + doesn't change every six months(like js stuff) + has good working conditions/payment(unlike gamedev) and be good at that. All humans(should?) specialize for better ~everything (doctors!,farming! etc).

Makes sense ?
> Probably because they have a solid workflow already based on a React tool chain - so why not?

Can confirm, lot of Uber's web infrastructure is modeled around React
This is kind of like NerdKits, only NerdKits is a one-time purchase with dozens of different projects you can make.

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Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13261688 and the links there.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260049 and marked it off-topic.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260049 and marked it off-topic.
By the numbers, the vast majority of trucks in the US are owned by small companies.
A great resource for digging into the nitty gritty fundamentals of layout (the hardest part of CSS, in my mind):

http://book.mixu.net/css/

I came across this when I was looking to gain a more complete mental model of how CSS layout works, as opposed to to the odd assortment of tricks, approaches, and googling I had been relying thus far.
Find a niche and start a company -- solve something you hit as a programmer for example. Expose an API and call it good. You seem uniquely qualified being extroverted and competent. It's a crazy long shot I know but I found that only when I was day-tading (not the same thing) I was happiest because I was earning for myself and making my own hours and best of all trying to see if my hypothesis (or in your case your company) could pass the test in the market.
I couldn't disagree with you more.

New Einsteins and Oppenheimers are precisely what's needed to fight climate change. "Social enterpreneurs" will do jack squat, other than make people feel better. The only way to actually beat climate change is to improve the relevant technology to the point where the route to high standard of living is cheaper to do with clean tech. Constantly reducing the cost of solar power, and better batteries mean that we are halfway there.

The job of carbon taxes is not to be the cause of reducing global emissions in the long term. It's to make development of cleaner energy production more economically viable in the short term, to drive investment that way, so that the cost can eventually be driven below fossil fuels.

It's not necessary for some to be pulled down for others to climb up. The rest of the world catching up (and they will) will do nothing to the capability of the the USA.
But Governments can. They are already spending billions of dollars and a major chunk of that goes wasted due to inefficiency, corruption, red-tape etc. The kind of stuff that big organisations like IBM or HP had that startups came and disrupted by being more efficient and nimble. Imagine if Governments can setup and run a transparent organisation like YC whose sole purpose is to promote startups in those important areas like environment conservation and clean energy without worrying about profit.

I can imagine that many startups and founders are willing to let go of their unicorn dream and jump aboard (including me).
This may vary for cheetahs, but a good case study is european bison[1] who was restored after WWII from 12 animals, population now ~4.5k.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison
I hope not. One of the reasons for allowing undefined behaviour is to allow room for compilers to perform certain optimizations that may not be possible if a specific result were required.
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I'll appreciate if you could provide a screenshot :)
Sorry, but rehashing this for the 10,000th time is seriously off topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241873

Classic flamewar tedium doesn't belong on this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

The target audience of ACM Queue the practitioner, not the researcher. My column tends to try to bring people up to a baseline of sanity rather than explore new research. 90% of the world is below (what I consider to be) the baseline for IT sanity. :-)
I worked in the trucking industry for about seven years, so I can answer some of these.

Most trucks in the US are owned by individuals are very small companies.

I'm not aware of any taxes specific to interstate trucking. If you have a licensed and insured truck in one state you're good to go anywhere in the US. There are some slightly different regulations on trailer length and such, but there is a consistent baseline across the US.

There are toll roads but they're uncommon, especially in the middle of the country where most of the freight is moving. Those that do exist are fairly inexpensive and would be trivially easy to price in.

Carriers are generally not responsible for the contents of their cargo. If they accept a big 'ole pallet marked "cocaine" they're gonna be in trouble, but they're not required to ensure that the cargo matches the manifest.

LTL (less-than-truckload) cargo is generally delivered to your doorstep on a given day, not at a given hour.

Trucks are commercial vehicles, so insurance is going to be much less of an issue there.
Just how would you make this case defined? The alternatives to undefined behavior tend to be (1) being silent about the issue and letting users and implementers find out themselves (2) defining the behavior in a way that makes it difficult to implement on some architectures or (3) defining the behavior in a way that imposes costs on all architectures. None of these is particularly attractive.
> The way most shipping works for most companies today is by going through a brokerage firm, which makes calls to trucking companies and arranges the best deals for its customers. The broker takes a commission of between 15 and 20%. To start, the Uber Freight marketplace will eliminate that middleman and offer shippers real-time pricing of what it will cost to move their goods based on supply and demand.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-to-launch-uberfreight-fo...
> But hey ho - I suppose we have important social engineering to do...

Please drop the ideological vitriol from your comments here. It breaks the rules, poisons the discourse, and discredits the substantive point you were making.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The article states that Pokémon GO was developed by Nintendo but it was developed by Niantic.

Could it be that quality games starring classic and popular characters, at least those not originating from mobile, are just too expensive to produce?

It seems that way due to what I perceive as high marketing and licensing fees, an inflated profit expectation on the part of rights-holders, and perhaps even a sense of nostalgia.

Personally I want these kinds of games to succeed but I'm also not paying $10 for one.
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Religious flamewars, including calls for religious persecution, are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.
please note the use of the word 'hyperbolic' in the original post.

I guess my point was driven by thoughts around preservation of endangered animals in general rather than just this specific case. There are animals where poaching IS the major problem.

and I guess i don't want specific harm done to them, i would much rather they just didn't do it.

but what does 'criminally penalized' look like in your opinion when the poachers might have no assets to fine, no reputation to lose and no fear of prison?
> Swagger and RAML are really similar, but RAML 1.0 uses its own YAML-based format to describe entities.

Swagger actually uses either JSON or YAML that conforms to JSON-API, but YAML is the default in its editor web app. So they're even more similar than the article suggests. Check it out at http://editor.swagger.io/
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