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There are lots of people wanting rides on New Year's Eve, their aren't remotely enough drivers to take them and without surge pricing there would be even fewer. Supply/demand isn't unethical, it's reality.
The site looks mostly OK under Firefox, but the <canvas>es are rendering at (I believe) 50% of their intended height. This results in graphics on there being smudged and distorted, looking twice as wide as they should be.

I'm on a HiDPI/Retina display, for what it's worth.
This previous thread may be of interest to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13316462
18% isn't that high; fixed deposits (almost no risk) give about 8-9%.

Inflation in India is quite high.
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> Implicit in your statement is a belief on your part that women, black people, etc. are inherently less qualified than white and Asian men. Would you like to back that implication up with evidence?

Principle of charity.
Why hasn't AirBnB, CouchSurfing, or similar companies started disrupting the global shipping business yet by using their users as shippers. They don't even provide an API for building such apps. It's a huge opportunity i think.
He/she is saying that the flow is better at Facebook than Microsoft.
or IPFS.
> Facebook has large engineering offices in New York, Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv, and smaller presences in Boston and Dublin.

Updated my comment to reflect this better. I was just looking at the jobs site earlier and didn't see much in Europe outside London. Wasn't looking at the US.
What exactly makes you think Uber would hire your friend? This isn't Wall Street in the 80s where hustling is what matters. You have to have technical skills and experience working in tech. Your friend might want a job at Uber, doubtful he'd get one.
That sounds like backpacking paradise, of which I am delighted to hear of as a contradiction to my experience. I hiked the New England section of the AT in high school, but our small party included a guy who snored louder than anyone I've ever met before or since. A wet, sucking, horrific noise that to the mind of my light-sleeping sixteen y/o self was surely identical to the sound of a giant lamprey or hagfish, slurping the innards of its living, long suffering prey, still undead after twenty-odd very very long nights...
My free meal today tried for a southern theme. The shrimp & grits was really good. The vegan dirty quinoa was perplexing.

Not FB, mind you.
All code needs to be reviewed and approved. The official technical rule is something along the lines of anyone can approve anyone else's change (to anything) so long as they both aren't interns.

Socially, it ends up being more like "someone who maintains and cares about this code should approve it" almost all of the time.
Tesla should buy Uber and get that house in order. Also makes sense since the future is "mobility services" and neither alone can deliver on that promise.
Safety? Reliability? Cost? Maintenance burden? Maybe some other stuff too.
Thanks for feedback. We are working on website along with rolling out new features. The dashboard page you saw was a mockup that was for testing (hence had all numbers as 18). We are fixing it, thanks for pointing out.

Actual default rate is of course lower than that.
I used to be like that. Now I plug in an external HDD occasionally and rsync ~, lol
If you are fine with overpaying a little bit go to a local shoe store, or even a REI. They will help you get a good fitting shoe.
"A standard engineer at Google can work on Android, transfer to YouTube, then decide they'd like to work on Google Flights or Cloud" - this is more true in theory than practice. In practice you're beholden to the perf cycle, and the other team's manager. i.e. you can't just decide to move to a team and that's it. You still have to "apply" and get interviewed by that team. For instance, it's not like you can just move from the Angular team to the Google Brain team - otherwise there would be a lot more people on the Google Brain team :)

And if the manager accepts you there can still be costs. Most notably it can put you behind in your performance review cycle. This becomes a much bigger deal as your level increases because the timespan between promotions increases.

I have a lot of friends that work for Google and it's usually years between when they change teams. And when they do, it's a big deal that they think about for a long time.
The million dollar medallions that are now available on the market for $350K?
Yeah, that would have been nice to have even just one more day of food outside the cannister, but I was pretty committed to following the rules.
When I choose to connect to an existing notebook nothing happens. When I choose to clone I get to the login screen by clicking the login button does nothing :|

EDIT: I'm now able to login. It brought up a little redirect modal after entering my user name which due to my typing was apparently getting canceled. The notebook load, but I get now chart.Plot output.

I haven't used jupyter notebooks much. They seem cool, but not as cool as light tabels insta-repl.
More importantly: someone who not only called them on it, but appears to have documentation to back up her claims. Which blows up many of the usual strategies a company would employ to discredit an ex-employee making such claims, and also threatens to trap them even further (the smart thing is to keep good records; the really smart thing is to only disclose part of what's in your records, let the other party respond and likely lie about something you have records of but didn't yet disclose, then nail them on the lie).
Yes, it helped. But how much jerkery are we willing to tolerate? And, for how long? Uber isn't an early stage start-up anymore.
Thanks for your feedback. We had both the fixes in our rollout today, they should be fixed soon.

Happy that you liked the idea :)
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2.32 billion people in the world have a smartphone. More people have smartphones than access to clean, reliable water.
> If my API supports that some non-IT office guy can get his daily report through the browser

Most APIs I work with wouldn't work this way even for read-only access because of authentication requirements. I guess you're using something like HTTP digest auth with usernames and passwords?

Even so, that still works for your use case as long as your users are happy with a default version. e.g. requests without a specific version get the latest version, or requests without a specific version get version 1, or requests without a specific version get the latest stable version that changes from time to time. I don't think I've ever come across non-IT office guys that have more complex versioning requirements than that.

> I also fail to see how versioning through urls break anything, except if the newer client no longer has support for v1.

Here's an example:

Client A (using version 2), talking to Client B (using version 1):

> Here is a friend suggestion for person https://example.com/v2/people/foo

Client B:

> Okay, I'll add them to my contacts. My contact list is now:

https://example.com/v1/people/foo
https://example.com/v2/people/foo (error: cannot parse)

Had the URIs truly been identifiers, this would have looked like:

Client A (using version 2), talking to Client B (using version 1):

> Here is a friend suggestion for person https://example.com/people/foo

Client B:

> Hey, I already know that guy!

Once you break the identity part of URIs, you start getting a tonne of these awkward problems to work around. URIs are meant to be the primary keys of the web, and you're going against the grain of the medium when you break that.

To put it another way, imagine if websites had to change every page URI from /html4/ to /html5/ when they switched versions. That's a whole lot of work and breaking things for no reason. I'd rather follow how the web was designed to work and not create so much extra work.
Not one of these companies mentioned, but a company called Roadie is trying this idea.
I meant 18% default rates, not interest rates. But I'm still surprised there are 18% interest loans in India even though I was aware of the going 8~9% CD rates (am Indian).
I like this comment, it may be true; it certainly should make us careful about making a final judgement. It's true of literature and art - what the next century decides was great about the last isn't obvious at the time, at all. Or not usually. If the next century lives largely in cyberspace, then we're in the golden age and No Man's Sky (a game I quite like, actually) and VR are epochal advances for all humanity. But overall, I'm a pessimist, Jane Jacobs book "Dark Age Ahead" (which is mostly about trends obvious back then) left a big impression on me.
I really wish this wouldn't happen. Yes, I can bring some books on a 14 hour flight. But it gets to the point where you want to watch some in-flight movies to kill the time.
>"a manager groped several female employees. (The manager was terminated within 12 hours.)"

He must not have been a "high performer".
It's sounds like it's implicit in your belief that women and minorities are inferior and need to be selected for.

Any situation where you have two candidates and hire one because of irrelevant characteristics you won't be hiring the best.

You want sexist and racist hiring policies, but only when it suits the genders and race's you want. Do you here outrage from white people about being under represented compared to Asians?
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people I know from US mostly use, Line or iMessage. And yes whatsapp is not much known in US to many people. Strange but true.
Thanks for the feedback! Just to add to my partner Harshit's point, we are sending personalized reports to lenders which show live stats.
Moving a team of ~20 engineers from IJ to VSCode for a single technology is a nonstarter. IJ is still the preferred IDE for the backend and works perfect for everything we've used that's not Typescript.
Is it me or does it feel like they've extrapolated a bit too much from the light of a star dimming at intervals?
I have been writing one available at https://github.com/archevel/ghoul it is not finished in any way shape or form. I'm currently rewriting the evaluator to do tail call optimization in my spare time and when that's done I'll work on handling macros.

If you want a more complete one you could check out zygomys https://github.com/glycerine/zygomys
For those interested in Double Dragon, it's probably also worthwhile to check out its spiritual predecessor Renegade and its spiritual successor The Combatribes, both developed by the same company (Technos Japan Corp.).
The world will never again reach the world wide death rates the Mongol empire inflicted. One hopes.
Roadie still has to build the network, and it doesn't seem to be cross-continent. I'm talking about international shipping. It makes more sense for those companies because they already have a huge network.
'Cranky old Unix dude'? Jesus. Please read his interview in Peter Siebel's Coders at Work, it's fascinating.
Can confirm this as a hiring manager as well. Even if I do find Github activity, or even better strong OSS contributions, experience shows that those are generally terrible predictors of the candidate's ability to work in a team in a fast-paced continuous delivery style workflow.

Can also confirm that most Github accounts are made of a dozen forks of existing projects with a trivial commit or two slapped on top. Also doesn't tell me much about your proficiency.
Can I ask what the feature set looked like? I always kind of wanted to do this with the Skullgirls AI, but never had the time while we were developing it. As a developer, I obviously had full access to the game state, but I'm still not really sure what the best way to represent that state to a neural network is.
> Border agents can find your profile online and make you log in on their own machine.

What if you have a long password that you cannot remember? Same for email, etc.

I don't have fb on my phone. And I don't remember the password. They would have to make me do a password reset via email, which might work.
Thanks for the appreciation!

Trust is indeed the biggest pain point in peer lending that we have focused hard to solve.

1. We guarantee 100% genuine and verified borrowers because of mandatory biometric authentication. This solves problem of identity theft and fake users.

2. We verify borrower's employer and their unique ID as well, so that there is a deterrent to improper behaviour on part of the borrower.

3. We co-invest with our lenders so that we have a skin in the
game.

4. We also have auto-debit and post dated cheques to ensure money is returned on time.
Honestly, it still isn't even that good. Best startcraft AI in the world that cheats, still can't beat the low tier pros.
> if your users actually cared about perf, they wouldn't be using ancient browsers.

Many of them do care, but not the IT department that vets their machines.
Peter Thiel is at a disadvantage here, unless of course zip1234 is Peter Thiel. He can't answer here or elsewhere about the apparent contradiction between Palantir's use and his libertarianism. His corporate responsibilities forbid it, since his comments might not be entirely positive about Palantir.

I can think of a couple of arguments. One, that he set out to make hammers and thought they'd be used more responsibly but now can't exit without doing more harm than good to others who's loyalty he asked for. Or perhaps he thinks that libertarian regimes are only likely to arise from the collapse of totalitarian governance; or that abuse is inevitable from non-ideal-libertarian governments so it's the only game in town right now.

I'd love to know his answer, but as I've said, I don't think he's in a position to disclose it.
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Like with Dropbox in 2012, a hack which they discovered only through reports from users, I am receiving spam on an email address specific to a website. This time it's PayPal. Is anyone else receiving spam on a PayPal address? This particular email is about jewelry, but that might differ.
Now if only we could replicate this somehow in the 21st century knowledge worker world without actually dedicating 8 hours a day to walking in nature. Any tips?
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Seems crazy, but is actually a smart move.

I own 3,000 Tesla shares. Purchased most shares at $30 after driving my model s from the factory. I have seen my net worth get cut in half when tsla went from $280 to $140, but never sold any.

LinkedIn, a crappy website, was recently purchased by Microsoft for $30 billion. That's about how much Tesla's market capitalization was 2 months ago.

Take a look at the all of the industries that will be impacted by the convergence of self driving cars, electric cars, and ride sharing.

The global parking industry alone, is a $100 billion dollar industry. Other impacted industries include oil, traditional auto, car insurance, auto repair/servicing/maintenance, auto dealers, etc.

Batteries are getting cheaper than anyone ever expected at this point. Solar recently became more competitive for electricity generation than fossil fuels.

The dam is about to burst.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13710961
Thanks for the feedback! We are looking into it.
which commercially motivated shop would keep up its promises?
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You are right, they have fucked up in the past. There will be some more fuck ups going forward. What i have seen is employees fiercely question each & everything in weekly town halls & there are positive steps that have been taken to make things better. I am optimistic that Uber will become much better going forward due to genuine efforts taken, question is can they do it fast enough to overcome the cultural debt they have accumulated during the hyper growth period.

Out of all, below happened after i joined for which i have some info.
* Tracking users locations even after they get finish their ride (even more ominous when combined with their "rides of glory" privacy invasions)
This is done for 5 minutes after the ride ends. This is required to fight fraud & ensure safety of riders. This can't be opt out because fraudsters will opt out & we still have fraud.
"GSA Data Breach JE16-004" is gross jargon. If I read it correctly and I'm stretching here to understand: Slack isn't an authorized app, worse the Google Docs integration was used which means linked documents would be indexed for that user. If the other compliance issues are as bad then 18F might be productive.
No, although I've done many days of more than 18 miles in the mountains, including 50 mile single-day mountain races. (The elite runners complete those in around 6 to 7 hours, over terrain of similar difficulty to Colorado Trail.) I don't mean to downplay their achievement, but the article is about a pair of average thru-hikers, out for a relatively short thru-hike. It is something that the average person can do, if they set their mind to it.

It doesn't really make sense to compare that effort to a race of any kind, let alone a mountain bike race -- since the thru-hikers we're talking about were not doing it as a race. Of course their effort was done at a lower level of intensity. For some perspective, a fellow recently set the Colorado Trail record with a time of 9 days 12 hours, almost three times as fast as the thru-hikers in the article:
http://johnzahorian.com/coloradotrailfkt

For anyone interested, here's a youtube video documenting the record effort. The guy is kind of a celebrity in hiking circles, in large part because of high-quality videos he makes of his adventures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk6CrWJdRto

(Zahorian's effort set the "unsupported" record, which means he carried everything, including all his food, from the start, and didn't stop at any towns along the way to resupply. Most hikers carry only enough food for 3 to 5 days at a time, and resupply along the way -- understandable because it's much easier than carrying everything from the start.)
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Couple of questions:

1. What exactly is Creedy's business model? You claim on your website that you charge zero fees, and digging around the FAQ reveals no other charges or figures, so I'm a bit curious as to how Creedy generates revenue.

2. What makes you standout from the throngs of P2P lenders in India? As I understand it, companies like Lendbox and Faircent pretty much offer the same service as you guys, plus already have an established user base, so why should I use your service?

P.S. Are you hiring interns?
I know that it's not entierely related to the post, but is there a specific job board for F# jobs? I tried the language a bit and really liked it but it seems to be rarely used in a professional setting, which is a shame... I'd be interested to know where I could potentially find a job where I could use F#!
Many people, whenever it is suggested that something is wrong with hiring processes if they produce lopsided gender/race ratios, have a reflex arc which causes them to say something about how changing processes would be bad because you have to be sure to "hire the best". Or, about as commonly, that any change would "lower the bar".

There is no charitable interpretation of this reflex.

The only possible way to interpret it is as a naked statement that groups currently disproportionately underrepresented in the industry, or at specific companies, are made up of inherently inferior people. Otherwise, a process which "hires the best" would hire more of them, and hiring more of them would not "lower the bar".
Strange, it seems to work fine for me. Find usages on the other hand is a totally random mess.
Thanks for the comment! The loan interests vary as per type, for example home loans are very long tenor, lower rate and collateralized. For personal loans the rates are typically on the higher side. We offer loans starting from 12%
I don't agree with the premise that people will be contributing back to the open source software they use.

Most consumers of Typescript for example, would be unable to contribute to the core codebase, the same goes for Rails, Redux, React, etc.

The actual percentage of consumers vs contributors I would reckon at less than 0.01%, possibly lower.

As a developer looking for a job, I would use GitHub to build a small project end-to-end to demonstrate competency, but that's just me and the slice of the programmer world I live in.
Was it for a senior position or a very highly respected company? The companies I've applied to and interviewed with (not all) would ask me questions that were very specifically on my resume (I'm very confident the interviewers didn't even spend 30 seconds looking at the resume).
I'm interested in yours and where you would stop. Is it only race based is does every group have to be represented? Are you interested in the percentage of people from lower socio-economic groups working there or just the amount of Latinos?
What type of package is small enough to fit in someone's luggage, light enough to not cost extra baggage allowance, tolerates non-delivery well enough to lose 10% of shipments to flaking non-professional couriers, and is not well-served by UPS, FedEx, or airmail, and cannot be transported at rock-bottom costs with mild latency via a shipping container?

I have an answer to this question: illegal drugs. I don't have a second answer to this question. This makes me think that you'd have difficulty finding 1,000 of legal packages to run through a proof of concept, to say nothing of scaling to the millions you need to have a viable logistics business.
Those do not look like fuckups to me, i. e. things what happened accidentally. They look like the logical outcome of the very same culture and that thing does not change easily.
Exactly. Ramen, uncooked, crunched up, with the flavor packet sprinkled over it was a great favorite of some of my friends in college...

When there aren't any cool ranch Doritos left, what are you going to do?
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You want sexist and racist hiring policies

Did I say I did?

I want meritocratic hiring processes. I just happen to suggest -- and I believe evidence is strongly on my side -- that a process which produces lopsided gender/race ratios is extremely unlikely to be meritocratic. I also do not believe many of the other sound bytes people inevitably throw out in this argument (example: "that group just isn't interested in our field" / "they just prefer other things", another classic which will, I'm sure, rear its head in this thread sooner or later).
All these hunger games stories are getting more and more primitive, stupid and boring
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Всё то, что я хотела сказать - сказала, пока не поздно!
Yeah, I had a game with a sub-30 friend on Dominion. We were the only non-bots that match. I called it out in chat... not a single bot responded.

They all pretty much just walked counter-clockwise and just used autoattacks or tried to capture points.
From tilt's homepage, it seems like they are a mash up of venmo, gofundme and craigslist(?). Is there a particular direction they are headed for or are they just throwing stuff at the wall and waiting for something to stick?

Some comments point out that it would make group payments for Airbnb bookings a lot easier which seems fine. But is that problem worth spending $12 mil in cash + tens of millions in employee retention packages?
The rates depend on the credit quality of the borrower which depends on their financials, credit history and income.

Rates can be much higher in informal lending space (I have myself heard cases of more than 70% annualised rate, charged over a smaller duration). Borrowers in that space can benefit by moving to a more efficient platform like Credy.