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The problem with Uber is their valuation. Nobody disputes there's a business here-- it's whether it's as big as it needs to be to make the math work. They could conceivably create a monopoly on ride-sharing, but if they do that and raise prices (probably to roughly taxi parity, all told), then demand basically stays at where it was for taxis, we all live slightly more convenient lives, and all Uber's investor's lose their asses because this was not the moonshot they were promised.

For Uber to justify their valuation, they're going to need to invent the self-driving car, and frankly, they don't have time. There will not be a clear winner in the self-driving car market, which does not exist at this point in time, anywhere near the timeframe they're going to have to return their investment or go kick rocks.
This allows you to create one host thread per guest vcpu, so yes, you can run a smp guest on aws. But, it will be pretty slow compared to KVM, since the execution of the threads is limited by the host cpu resources and the fact that you are using translation and full system emulation.
The emulation cost for non Apple Systems would be enormous to implement this solution (= SLOW). SPIR could be used native on most devices.
All is never forgotten, all is revealed sooner or later; it may look like Billy boy is getting away with his bullshit; but he's as doomed as the rest of them.
> Having an emotional reaction and a strong dislike to the way a corporation behaves, isn't an argument for why it must fail.

I agree with you here, but this is hardly the only argument presented in the article.

Something has to change when investor subsidies dry up. It might be a shift to self driving vehicles, a significant fare increase, or a monopolisation of the market. His assertion (which I broadly agree with) is that none of those seem likely to be successful.
Especially if it can kill in 48 hours, it doesn't leave a lot of time for the patient to seek help and to diagnose it.
Don't take any advice.
It's a bit different. For system level programming you have a choice to get around C/C++.

For browser programming, or full stack in a single language, you have less choice, and none if you reject transpiling.
I would say try edibles as others have had positive experience and relief, but my body digests it too quickly and usually doesn't do much (tricks to eat high fat food before, but doesn't always work), so I haven't had too much luck.

However,

What I actually recommend, and has helped for many of people, is the Phoenix tears/ Rick Simpson oil regiment.

You can buy premade oil marketed as such or Rick Simpson provides diy on how to do this yourself.

Essentially it is ingesting small amounts of concentrated cannabis oil daily, like taking a prescription.

It vastly helped my mom's Chrons and I know of a few people help with chronic back pain
Little is known that recently FedEx was forced to convert their contractor delivery drivers to employees. The same way it may work out for Uber.
I'm surprised NPR would do clickbait, can the White House influence NPR in any way?
By "doing great" do you mean "profitable" or do you mean "still price dumping until everything else dies off"?
In some countries Uber is not the largest I know for a fact that Grab in East Asia and Careem in Pakistan and many Arab countries is the first option for many people instead of Uber. It's Market position is not because of any technology break through or advantage that can't be copied it is mostly because of discounts. Someone with larger pockets can out muscle them. With the negative publicity around Uber it could become harder for them to get more cash from investors. The next big thing will be self driving taxis where Uber won't be able to compete with car manufacturers providing the same services directly or to its competitors. Even google saw that it is hard for it to get car manufacturers on board with its self driving tech with most opting to do it on their own despite they are a few years behind in tech.
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Agreed, this is a tired tired thing at this point.
How much advance notice did they give when they were shutting down that email service? I bet it was like eight months or more. Things change, you have to deal with it sometimes. Seems kinda normal.
Even the BBC isn't powerful enough to do this. I can't remember who it was but one of the heads of the BBC said for a long time that content on BBC should be available for free everywhere. He reasoned that it was already paid for. It's one of the reason that they do so much free software development.

One of the shows that I want to watch is Match of the Day. Not sure what the situation is like now, but when I was in the UK the BBC was having a huge problem trying to negotiate the rights to put it on the iPlayer (strangely MOTD2 was OK ???). It would be impossible if they needed international distribution :-(
I agree. Uber cannot monopolize the space because principally, there are no barriers to entry, and no network effects or switching costs for users. This means profits will simply be competed away until a perfect competition graph is achieved.

I have yet to see any really solid arguments against either of those points.
When I was given the task of defining how our multi-robot server would interface with our user interfaces, I eventually settled on REST. Most of what I knew about REST had been obtained that week. I implemented something pretty vanilla with Django and it all felt pretty elegant. I didn't have to worry about defining a protocol, there was pretty much already one for me:

- GET, PUT, POST, DELETE (I learned there were others but were kind of niche/obsolete)

- 200s for success, 400s for client (request) error, 500s for server error.

It was all nice and worked great (and still does, years later).

But over time numerous people started told me that no it's actually all wrong for one reason or another. I've heard that I should never use anything except GET and POST. That I should ALWAYS return a 200 and provide error metadata as a response if there actually was an error. That POST is actually meant for updates and PUT is meant for new entities. That the opposite is true. That neither is true and I should always use POST for any mutation of state. etc.

I feel like I had success because I approached it from a position of ignorance, meaning I just implemented a simple, sane REST API and was none the wiser that I was doing it wrong.
Could there be a similar path for Amazon wrhse workers to go down eventually?
"oh no I only have _an entire year_ to deal with an API deprecation what ever will I do?" :-P
So they can get us to Mars? So they can cure malaria? Obviously doesn't apply to all of the riches.
How does Uber achieve monopolization?

What can they do that no one else can?
What!!?? No one seems to have head about Jeff. I have.
Who needs a "next generation WebGL?" It's hard to find an interesting or useful WebGL site.
There are plenty of demos and ads, but few sites worth visiting.

Here, go shoot some zombies.

http://www.y8.com/games/abandoned_island

That's about as good as it gets.
Is there any evidence provided that the per-mile amount paid to drivers of Uber Black cars has gone down? I saw the article mention that the price to customers has gone down from $4.90 to $3.75, but is there any evidence of this actually flowing through to the drivers?
Just a thought.
>misgendering me is a way to pick a much bigger fight.

I only get peoples gender identity information from their YouTube profiles, thanks.

"A software engineer who likes to play Minecraft. His irrelevance is only surpassed by his ineptitude." -You
tldr; a doom and gloom piece from someone that's never started a startup
There is no competition here in South Africa so, while they are very cheap, they are doing great in Johannesburg. That being said, I'm [hopfeully] emigrating soon and will most likely end up using Lyft.
"a reasonably sized binary for delivery over the Web" This frightens me. I consider a web page over 1 MB (including images) to be outrageous. I dread the day when web developers think its okay to include a 5MB file in a web page! At least other large binary files, like video, can be streamed. Can WASM binary files stream? I imagine the answer is no.
Who's saying anything about prohibiting speech? I'm saying that private organizations should choose not to be associated with white supremacists and their ilk. Twitter's not the government. The protofascists and their broheims can go hang out on Gab dot AI for all I care. But they don't want that, because that means there aren't any targets for them to assault. Which they do, en masse, as part of a planned and intentional strategy to silence and shut up women and minorities across a wide range of topics.

Twitter does not need them. Twitter does not benefit from them. Twitter will actively lose users by pursuing these jackals as customers. And so Twitter should show them the door. But I certainly haven't said a word about the government prohibiting speech.

(I will not bother to engage with you with regards to "oh, threats aren't violence" because that is silly and you should be better than that.)
Did Uber fire the driver? Or are they ok with passengers being recorded and those recordings being made public?
An interesting outcome is that SpaceX has been able to analyze the rockets post-landing so that they can learn more about the stresses on the rocket during launch. Of course they have to in order to re-launch the rockets, but this is already a capability that no other space agency has had. This ability could end up paying for itself if it means they can feed the knowledge of the rocket back into the design and launch of a new rocket.
Hmm, so why would anyone buy a Titan X now? For 1 GB extra (slower) RAM? Did they hobble it in any other way?

Edit: According to Anandtech, "NVIDIA has been surprisingly candid in admitting that unless compute customers need the last 1GB of VRAM offered by the Titan, they’re likely going to buy the GTX 1080 Ti instead."

I would suggest changing the article link to Anandtech, as it's really a much more informative and better written article. Jen-Hsun Huang seems to have bottled his cringe-inducing presentation style and fed it to whoever wrote that PR piece on the Nvidia site.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11172/nvidia-unveils-geforce-g...
The self-described white supremacists (since you don't like "protofascist") who plague the mentions of women who dare to comment on politics or make video games are not deprived of liberty because Twitter decides to show them the door. They are shown out of a private establishment that can choose who it serves.

Put those goalposts down. You're going to pull something.
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Rendering for VR currently is more intensive due to the high frame rate and double-rendering (once for each eye).However no one renders a 360 sphere and single-pass stereo rendering is already possible which does the cpu-side rendering for both eyes together. [1] Still, at present, VR rendering is way more intensive than regular rendering and it hasn't yet benefited from decades of optimization work like regular rendering.

The parent post is probably referring to foveated rendering - a research technique which uses eye-tracking to render most of the screen in low quality and areas being looked at in higher quality. (Real vision is perceived something like this - try reading text that isnt in the center of your gaze.) You can do foveated rendering better for a close screen so eventually it's possible that the quality of VR rendering will surpass regular rendering.

[1] docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SinglePassStereoRendering.html
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I like the simplicity of the website and the authors dedication to releasing both updates & informative articles.

My question (I'm not a systems coder), is how is this really better than C? How can it be even remotely as efficient as a compiler with decades of optimization witchcraft and sorcery? Is it really that much easier to write? I'd be curious in seeing a small 1/2 page code sample difference and seeing benchmarks on performance, compile times...etc. Nim normally jumps to mind as an easy to write language that transpiles to C and is therefore usually fairly equivalent, but is almost as easy to write as python. How does Zig fit in? Also, good luck on the project!
higher customers = less volatile risk of churn, but the volatility in churn rate for 100 customers is probably about the same as the churn rate for 1000 customers, but 10x the support burden.
Nice, interesting. Reminds me a bit of Terra, which is the most impressing programming language concept I've ever seen (if only it were ready for prime time usage). http://terralang.org/
Don't take advice from someone, with whom you don't want to trade places.
Perhaps I did a bad job of explaining, but it's a fundamentally different architecture, based on the same technology as Bitcoin. It's a platform that's been designed to outlive its parent company. And many blockchains already have outlived the companies and developers that built them. This one just happens to focus on cloud storage.
To the contrary, there's huge barriers to entry in every two-sided marketplace. To retain drivers, Uber needs many passengers; and to attract passengers, they need many drivers to keep wait times low. If you don't believe me, ask Sidecar.

In an autonomous-car world, there's going to be huge initial capital costs to buy the fleet.
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I appreciate that, thank you.

I am sorry that I jumped to conclusions. By coincidence it so happens you used a pair of keyprhases that are part of a very large social debate. Please be aware that saying, "Virtue Signaling" to someone who does a lot of conversations about these issues, you will probably see them steel for hostility.

But I maintain my position: I dislike this site. I dislike making fun of obvious novices. And I freely admit in my past I am guilty of this very behavior, as so many of us have been. My opposition is in part because I want to see fewer people do the same bad things I did when I was young. It makes the environment hostile. It makes the cost of failure socially high, and it makes it seem like failure and incremental refinement is not actually the standard for tech and startups, and I think neither is true.

I am also sorry we got off on the wrong foot. I hope we can speak again on better terms.
isnt that bitwizes original loosly based on the nutritional threads on hacker news such as [1] and [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155504

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13686671
If being a startup founder is necessary to analyze a startup, I guess that discredits almost all of the press. And the funders, for that matter.

A far more useful response would attempt to identify at least one flaw in the author's logic.
Google maps doesn't work without WebGL, and some other map related websites like mappilary.
Really? I made one yesterday based on a WSDL from a customer. The whole API was auto generated in type safe Scala in seconds. After adding authentication configuration and some sensible timeouts, I had the whole thing running in two hours. The SOAPui auto generated a mock test and load tests with which I could mimic specific weird responses.

The REST API I had to forward through however had no good documentation, no client library, so I was forced to write json serializers and reverse engineer the code. Overall, when you have a well written SOAP interface (rare, admitted), development time can be greatly reduced.
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So is tobacco and while I've known the occasional person who grew it, it's pretty uncommon. I've also been surprised that tobacco companies don't get in on the legalise marijuana thing. Possibly they are suffering so much from bad press they don't think they could withstand the backlash...
Are there any Ryzen boards that will accept ECC RAM?
Oh yea I know all about the power of a REPL. My friends with their massively bloated IDEs can't understand my desire for a simple read-eval-print-loop. I gain simplicity and instant satisfaction. Some languages like F# heavily promote both. I didn't think PyPy could be that fast. How on earth could it ever compete with C?
True. I agree with it all.

However, by then, TypeScript might be so darn good that people choose to keep going with it!

It really does have a better type system than C# in a lot of ways.
> most client and server applications don’t support all verbs or response codes for the HTTP protocol. For example, most web browsers have limited support for PUT or DELETE. And many server applications often don’t properly support these methods either.

I have never, as in ever, stumbled upon this problem. So I googled it. It turns out that what he means is that HTML forms don't support PUT and DELETE. In a world where everybody uses JavaScript anyway, I cannot see how this is a flaw in RESTful API's. It might be a flaw in HTML forms though.
One argument -- 2 sided marketplaces are a pretty decent barrier to entry. Craigslist, eBay, etc benefit from this. They have both sellers and buyers in the same place. Starting an Uber from scratch -- who would drive for it when there's not enough customers? What customers would use it if there's not enough drivers?
When given the choice, I only use PUT. Personally, I like idempotent requests.
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Secretly, I think Uber is doomed, but not so much because they fail as a business, or because they maltreat their employees. They're doomed because they're not truly building the future.

Uber wants to be the world's transportation infrastructure-- the default way for people to get from A to B. Their thesis is that the way to do this is to write software to hook up drivers with riders. Essentially, a taxi replacement. But this marketplace is an artifact of the fact that cars need human drivers. Without that need, the marketplace disappears.

In the next year or two, Tesla will come out with gorgeous, highly efficient, self-driving cars, with fabulous software, all talking to each other on a network that Tesla totally controls. That will put them in a much more powerful position than the company that owns the software to route random cars around. When that happens, Uber will be screwed. Maybe they could build their own self-driving electric cars, but so far they're not doing too well. They're learning, like everyone else, that it's not a problem you can just throw money at.

The Model 3 will cost $35,000, and allow drivers to make automated, passive income by having their car drive people around while they're at work or something. Why buy an ordinary car and drive it yourself when you can buy a slightly more expensive car and essentially collect rent?

Uber riders care about two things, the experience and the price. Tesla wins on both fronts. Teslas are gorgeous, and feel like spaceships. (Take one for a test ride). And the thing about price is that with self-driving cars, with each ride you're basically paying for electricity plus a fee to the owner of the car for its depreciation. The cost becomes less about server maintenance, and more about who is better at building cars and writing car software. And by the way, you can't just have self-driving cars. If you want to win the unit-costs game, your cars have to be electric.

The fact that Uber thinks of itself as a taxi replacement is a sign of their oldness. The end game for transportation can't be a taxi replacement, because it'll be unheard of for people to drive each other around.

Tesla will have production limits, of course. But they demonstrate that building the future of transportation consists of (1) building cars and (2) getting them in front of people who want them, and that part 1 is by far the harder and more valuable.

I've been dumping my savings into Tesla stock, and look forward to being rich in ten years.
Yeah I really like Terra. One thing I've been wondering is if it can be done with C or C++.

In other words, could you replace the C preprocessor / C++ metaprogramming with something like Lua? That is, have Lua/C instead of Lua/Terra.

That would be adopted a lot faster than a brand new language. I think one problem as always is parsing C++, but that should be doable with Clang now.

EDIT: Also, what about it is not ready for prime time?
Check out Char2Wav (recent) and SampleRNN (the RNN-based audio synthesis architecture). The related work section of the Deep Voice paper mention a bunch of related papers that are relevant!
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This is an overblown statement lacks substance.

If by technology company, it means doing their business through smart phone APP, then Uber is one. In this definition, this statement does not hold strongly.

If it means that the company build their business around proprietary technology that few can match, Uber is not yet. It's obviously that any decent technical group can deliver a comparable service as Uber with reasonable amount of VC money. The proof is that there are many such companies across globe.

Uber actually realized this, and is strategically focusing on self-driven car, which is no doubt a correct and necessary move.
I did server-side programming in JavaScript in the late 90s. In retrospect it was a bad idea, but people were doing it. Note: this shouldn't be confused with the more recent node.js version of server-side JS.
There's no way to prove or disprove this guys' predictions about the future. His main assertion, Uber is doomed, is not based on fact, instead it's an opinion based on publicly-available information.
Well of course they're all not going to be knee-slappers, humor is subjective. So what's the answer to this? Is there one? Should there be one?

We're just going to downvote jokes-even if one is made completely within context of discussion? Even if it's an absurdist take on a topic that actually manages to get a laugh-while also / potentially bringing up a valid point?

I'm not asking to argue this with you specifically, I'm just kind of curious in general where that line is drawn with the community.
What Government earns from tobacco taxation [1] is eclipsed by the cost of healthcare and economic impact from smoking [2].

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[2] - http://www.health.gov.au/tobacco
I'm used to running R scripts with cron to handle some batch jobs and I'm no python dev. Would it be easy to start using Airflow?
Actually the driver rated Kalanick 1 star:
> Later, the Uber driver app prompts him to rate Kalanick, as he does all his riders. Kamel gives him one star.
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I don't quite know what VoCo does, but it seems like a concatenative system that they've tuned a huge amount. I'm a little skeptical that it works as well and as reliably in real life as it does in demos. But, even so, there parametric models tend to be much smaller in size and more flexible, so there may be applications where WaveNet-style systems are applicable in ways concatenative systems can't handle (high quality on-device TTS, emotive TTS, speaker synthesis for new unheard speakers, etc).
Really? I tweeted about a week ago about the change publicly, and I've been getting a lot of anonymous shit for it. I've been out about being fluid for awhile now, but I was waiting on the pronoun shift in a larger public sense for when I wasn't managing a large organization. I knew they'd stress more about getting it wrong than I would about them getting it right.

I forgot to update my G+ profile (that's where YT gets its data, and I really don't pay much attention to that). So Mr. No_just_no has a fair point, but I'm not relishing opening up the door to further bullshit there.

That said, the "they" is a compromise pronoun for me because I know that something more descriptive will just meet with _even more pushback_.