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Travis Kalanick is a poster boy for bad behavior but this article is self exploiting trash.

First Uber is close to break even in the US and Latin America. They've also stemmed their losses in China with the merger with Didi.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/uber-profitable-us/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-31/uber-s-fa...

The story they should have written is how Uber is going to hire with all this bad publicity? Any 'A' players are going to demand outrageous compensation to work for them now.

As for Travis himself he needs to send a plane for Jerry Colonna, startup coach to the stars ASAP.
Which AAA game titles are using that right now?
Love this comment and don't want my more serious commentary to override how good this turn of phrase is.

That said: I think we should. Electron is problematic and you can always tell an Electron app when you see it because the performance is so terrible.

Still - at some point if you want to build an app that has a UI users interact with, connects to the internet to get data via HTTP requests, and then stores some data in a database: at some point you should just be able to write that no matter where the end delivery will be.

I'm not sure how we're going to get there, but it seems like things like Electron and React Native will at least be part of the path. Eventually they'll hit a critical mass of performance and will become the default, then we'll have to deal with that from there.
But aren't we all always looking to escape our strings? For such is the fate of puppets.
If that were true, they would be swamped with competitors. In most markets, they only have one significant competitor; Lyft, Grab, previously Didi. (let's not count taxis)
What's the explanation for the huge drop in sales? Those single engine airplanes are still around? Deregulation of the airlines has resulted in cheaper commercial air travel? More telecommuting? What?

I'm genuinely interested in the explanation.
I'd like that, but in my experience, markets tend to be big-bang control systems.
Either a typo that was fixed in the meanwhile, or you misread. It currently reads "arm64".
Several folks have analyzed this in depth. The economics of self-driving cars are definitely far from clear:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/20/2142450/do-the-econom...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/01/can-uber-ever-deliver...
You're still ignoring the fact that Uber is the middleman here. Uber won't be manufacturing their own vehicles so when self driving takes off why wouldn't a car manufacturer directly offer the same service as Uber? They could undercut Uber and still make a profit because Uber will never be able to buy vehicles for as low as they can manufacture them.

Yes the driver is a big cost factor but so is the vehicle. If you can eliminate the driver and produce the vehicle and parts you will be able to produce and repair cars at rates lower than anyone without the same manufacturing capability.
I don't get the constant hype around self driving cars. Sure - they will be revolutionary when they get here - but the reality is they are years and years away at best.

We have autopilots for planes, that can effectively take off, fly, and land a plane. We've had that technology for quite a while.

So why is not common place for planes, at least cargo planes with no passengers? Surely companies like UPS, FedEx etc that have a large fleet of cargo planes that fly around the US and the world would have significant cost savings?

Why do we feel a car is easier to autopilot than a plane?

And when the car autopilot technology does get here - why does Uber feel it will benefit them more than Lyft? As soon as it is available - you'll just have Uber style copy cats with "on demand" vehicles? What benefit does Uber have at that point?
What about the opportunity cost of driving more sustainable competition (whether that's better taxis, direct competitors, or public transit) out of business? Uber doesn't exist in a vacuum.
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The comment was more nuanced than "the president is tweeting".
"Fake-news" was from the start a tool for censorship with a political agenda.

Now we can vote "disputed" if you do not agree with something. Great.

If it is fully democratic: "Any climate change news is fake".

Or if it is Technocratic (only certain scientists and companies are allowed to mark fake news): "Patents are great. Open source is bad. Monsanto never does any bad things."

Or a CIA echo chamber: "Iraq (or Syria or Iran) has Weapons of Mass Destruction." (Not really, but we don't know until we have invaded it).
This battle was lost decades ago, along with semantic markup and needing to enable Javascript to see any text. I don't like it either, but the market took the shortest available path to what it was seeking and now there is no way anyone will roll it back.
I don't know, I understand the need to build things, but I can't say I agree with the conclusion. Maybe sometimes we should spend time crafting something nice, rather than scraping something together out of mud.
This is off topic for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The US Military leadership has publicly lobbied against raising military spending at the expense of other government activities. They know that national security depends on a comprehensive international relations investments.

The White House is pandering to their populist base and contravening the advice of their own military experts
There is a rough line between the task of understanding the immediate environment and the task of driving through it.

I get the impression that many of the efforts have used detailed mapping to assist the first task so that they can get started on the second. I don't think this means they are stuck with it.
In line with your first sentence: the stand to take is to do nothing.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive and/or uncivil comments despite being asked to stop.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789762 and marked it off-topic.
>I already find them expensive, especially Lyft.

Expensive compared to what exactly?
> As other people have pointed out, getting a job is similar to dating. Mutual interest makes a good pairing, and two parties that are only self-interested makes a bad pairing.

This is a common analogy, but one I fundamentally disagree with. Dating is about creating a deep personal bond with a single other person. Getting a job is business, and business is fundamentally about two or more self-interested parties coming to a mutually beneficial agreement. I think not treating the process as such, and treating it like dating, are at the root of this industry's hiring issues.
It doesn't matter if such descriptions can describe a whole lot of companies and institutions.

The fact that they can become the P.R-lightning rod for "everything bad about SV-VC culture" means they will have to actively campaign harder to recruit top notch talents.

HR is arguably the most important asset a company has to continuously acquire & grow, and it'd be highly disadvantageous to have to fight such an active & growing negative reputation in an already fierce market for talent.
Trump+wire-tapping+claims+'simply+false'+-+Obama+spokesman+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
Are you assuming these automakers won't compete with Uber directly? I think some automakers are looking to enter the "transportation services" market.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-says-it-will-focus-more-on-...
Reminds me a lot of Jesse Wilson's excellent talk, "Decoding the secrets of binary data". It's a fun video to watch on a lazy Saturday =D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_p22jMZSrk
Python hit this issue in the last few years after the transition to unicode-everything. Since the filesystem is supposed to have an encoding, but doesn't enforce it, Python needed to choose what to do with a filename that contained bytes that were invalid for the encoding. In order to make a round trip of decoding and encoding result in the same bytes, they decided to use certain surrogates to represent the invalid bytes:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/

So with most systems being UTF8, this means that the encoding is "UTF8, except with bytes that would be invalid UTF8 mapping to this range of surrogates". So you've got an encoding with no holes, which is compatible with all valid UTF8 (since those surrogates are invalid UTF8).

It's not common, so it doesn't match that criterion of yours,but I think it's a great solution and hope it catches on. We need a solution for "text, except with graceful fallback when someone decided to put arbitrary bytes in there"
Okay, let me try it from an different angle. Imagine a completely empty universe. What would be the meaning of seven?
The "one video from one driver" prompted people to look into the driver's claims, and it turns out Uber is squeezing the drivers more.

This was posted here earlier:
http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-travis-kalanick-drivers-...
They are both taxes. All else equal, taxpayers would happily pay 1pts more income tax and 2pt less social security, or vice versa. All my tax dollars are the same color.
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I've been wondering the same as I'm reading this thread. I like the idea with a new model, especially one that get rids of the concept of taxi medallions, but I have an issue with what is essentially unfair competition.
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I'm excited at the prospect of 64-bit integer support, which will significantly speed up many applications, making even web-based proof-of-work mining feasible.
> If that were true, they would be swamped with competitors

Are they not? I hear of tons of ride sharing companies every week almost always in very local areas. Seems like they have a ton of competition everywhere. At least anecdotally that's how it looks to me.
Looks fantastic. Argparse isn't hard to use, but it's a lot of boilerplate. I'll be happy not to have to deal with it again.
Lyft and Uber have wasted so much time and money. This is the problem with VC money focused on growth. There's no pressure to build anything sustainable, no pressure to build competitive advantages. Arbitrary point to point level 5 self driving is decades away. And even if it came tomorrow, what competitive advantage do these apps have? They are a single Google Maps update from being wiped out. They should've spent past few years using network effects in the same way as Facebook to protect themselves. They should've built loyalty programs like frequent miles. But they completely wasted their opportunity.
If the person who was supposed to win the election had won the election there wouldn't have been this huge fake news crisis. The system was working just fine until it wasn't doing what it was supposed to do. The tsunami like immune reaction of all the players in the political system to the incorrect person being elected president is certainly awesome to behold.
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We once spent a small amount of money advertising with Google, just to try it out for a new business.

The referring page with the most "visitors" was literally a bunch of buzzwords in something like 6pt grey on slightly darker grey text. It was like some sort of spoof stereotype of an ad-abusing landing page, which any crude detection algorithm I could imagine would have red-flagged. Various other pages were similarly obviously deceptive.

We wrote off the small amount of money since it wasn't worth legal action to recover it, called it a lesson learned, and none of my businesses has ever given Google a penny in ad spend in the years since.
I thought we already had theranos
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Java promised that, but we got write-once, debug anywhere. Those different features, bugs, permissions, etc, mean you'll still have to test the platforms, build up different UIs for each platform, etc. About all you'd end up gaining is a stylesheet-based rendering engine, but you'd get that with something like XAML as well.
Yes. I agree. People who dare to look up the statistics about rape in Sweden--especially Malmo--are racists and need to be shunned.
I agree. Even if the number is too high, I wonder about the failure rate.
Aspirations often trump facts in many aspects of life, not just economics.
No lawyer was willing to take the case, because it's Google.

That seems bizarre. The last account I read of an actual legal action against Google was a small claims procedure for a few thousand, and IIRC the conclusion was that Google basically didn't show up on court day and lost by default. I could understand not working on contingency if a lawyer feels the case isn't clear-cut, but no-one taking a six-figure case? Surely they must have had more than just "It's Google" to put them off if everyone was saying no?
Only if you know at compilation time what function(s) you will be calling in a tail recursive manner. If the function you call comes from a parameter or variable (for example, in continuation passing style code) then there is no straightforward way to compile it into a loop.
The band Vulfpeck used the PNG export for this recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbO2e65gmwg
can you add some examples on how to use it ?
How to make a small fortune in aviation? Start with a large fortune and do pretty much anything aviation-related...
Expiring cards has a few other benefits as well. It ensures that the card company has a reasonably-recent mailing address for each of their customers. And it makes it easier to roll out security features/improvements to the actual card since they can limit the maximum age of any valid card. Also, merchants can use the expiry date to alert customers to re-enter credit card details prior to expiry for recurring charges.
Intel's ME/vPro can do a lot, but its nowhere near the fit and finish of Computrace. They aren't very good on sales, but once you become a reseller there are a ton of features you can access & use to manage your computers.

The reason Absolute is Vancouver based by the way is the Canadian Govt gives massive tax breaks to software companies, hence why a ton of point of sale and other software companies are based just to the north.
Way more money is spent advertising online now than in the 90s and early 2000s. The delivery mechanism has simply been optimized and figured out.
If you've got scripting on, you're just running an animation rather than following a link. Even if you were following a link, it's standard browser behavior to back out with one click even after you've clicked several times through the same link.

try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13793733
whatever happened to just JavaScript and JQuery :(
I'll check out the tutorial, thank you for writing it!
Maybe someone can answer this:

Why isn't there some sort of cache on the earbuds that allows the device to send the packets to it and buffer as needed (for, say, music)?
In my dream world, Apple would make some sort of standardized bluetooth receiver similar to AirPods minus the actual audio hardware. It would just be the transceiver, electronics, sensors, and DAC. Then you could attach it (via e.g. a UE or Shure audio cable connector) to whatever IEMs you wanted.

This would not only address the fact that the actual audio on apple buds is very mediocre, but would also allow for some separation of concerns and easier replaceability/customizability.
Similarly, I applied last month on Feb 14, including the official application. No response?
He's right though, you can never be truly certain that some kind of God doesn't exist. But if you're referring to a specific God, then maybe.
You can also do channel bonding on 5G and use 40MHz channels. Almost double the capacity!
What was the dotcom?
Did you work for the BBC?
Uber was an interesting idea brilliantly executed with billions and billions of other people's money that in the end has no chance of ever being profitable. Like Twitter, it's an indispensable product that nonetheless doesn't make money and in the end making money is what real businesses do.
Not the person you are replying to, but if I used Uber/Lyft for everything I normally do with a car, it would be more expensive than owning a car for my own exclusive use. Even reasonable cutbacks of trips I don't really need to make if I'm paying per-mile still only get it down to about parity. Uber/Lyft has the extra cost of paying the driver, but also the supposed cost savings of sharing vehicle cost across multiple riders. I would expect it to be slightly cheaper, if it were a sustainable model.
I would just go with a typical signup process. Don't listen to all the growth hacking stuff when you're first starting out. If your service is good, people will use it. Period.

Optimizing for bounce rate comes after. I see so many people fall into this trap because they read too many growth hack stuff online. These are all correct once you get to certain point, but when you're just starting out they're nothing more than distraction.

I've been there, and learned the hard way that optimizing early is not only unproductive but actually counter-productive because:

1. Let's say your optimization effort paid off and 100 more people signed up. This only means you had a good optimization strategy and doesn't tell if your service itself is attractive or not. Which means you may feel like you have made some progress but you actually haven't. Let the product speak for itself.

2. From my experience, if you have a compelling product and just put some effort to put it out there and promote, you WILL get users.

Optimization by definition is something you do when something's already "working". You have no idea if your product works or not early on. Your goal is to find THAT out.
I don't think this will ever happen, for most games. AAA games don't generally have much headroom for waste. And even if they do, supporting yet another platform is expensive.
Somewhat similarly, it annoys me every time someone rounds off decimals in the middle of some calculation. You round at the end, not in the middle, even if the amount rounded off is tinier than a single atom. Edward Norton Lorenz found this out, and called it the “butterfly effect”.
I probably only know a few hundred people here, and there are multiple people starting businesses every year.

1 in 50,000 per day = 1 in ~136 per year. That sounds about right, perhaps even low.
yes they are saying they are going to expand nationally for the last 6 months but you can't expand nationally if you are running out of money (check ride sharing forum's where drivers are starting to report sporadic payments from Juno)
This seems to basically just create a launcher for a website. When I read the title I shortly got excited because I looked for something similar a few days ago but couldn't find anything.

I wanted to create a self-contained package of a webapp [1] (from source) so I could easily share it with less technically inclined friends. I was sure something to do this automatically must exist, but it looks like i will just have to create my own package out of a portable xampp or similar.

[1] https://github.com/stockto2/desktophero
Have you ever known anyone to use hyaluronic acid for old horses?
Such a reactionary comment. I don't think things will be quite as drastic as you claim. Much more interested in how self driving cars play out because that's the real goal they are all chasing. Finding markets and places to apply self driving cars or transportation to reinvent how transportation works globally.
Thanks for the link. I looked it over but I am a bit confused on 108K figure now. Is the 108K additional credit you can take whether a local exclusion has been taken or not? Is that correct?
Exactly. 1990s carbureted Japanese bikes are far superior to 1970s ones in reliability both in terms of design and manufacturing quality. But CL550s go for more than Super Blackbirds. The only reason is the steep vintage/hipster markup.

The Bandit is a good example that parts availability has nothing to do with the technology used and everything to do with the market. My bike is actually a 2001 Bandit 600. The 2nd generation 1200 sold well in the United States, the 2nd generation 600 never did. The 1st generation 600 did sell. So there are a ton of aftermarket 1st generation 600 parts availabe in the US, but pretty much the only new replacement parts you can get for the 2nd generation 600 here (that are not in common with the 1200 or SV650, if you can figure out which ones those are) are rebuild kits for the off-the-shelf brakes and carbs, and you can get the gaskets cut. Everything else you either have to import from the UK or get custom-made, which usually ends up being cheaper (things I have had custom made: throttle cables, fork tube).
I'm sure this is meant to mean something, but I can't figure out what.
Well, not to forget the legal case with Waymo, which might put a stop to all of Uber's self-driving efforts.
Taxis are already making their own apps now in an effort to compete against uber. Medallions licences and other restrictions are gone out the window when cities allowed uber to keep doing business. Whatever monopoly they had is gone. For all the terrible things uber is, they sure disrupted the ride industry.
Which person who was "supposed" to win the election didn't win the election?

The person who was supposed to win did win. There was only one person with the most Electoral College votes...
I'm assuming 6 months after launch they'd have a decent idea of what the demand is.
AAA games are much more about content than the code that displays the content.
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Even the great Butler Lampson has a slide set online which includes the item

Design (Apple's forté)

This is arguably a slightly more defensible version of the GP.
You mean like 3G/4G/LTE?
I've also been calling for this...

"Ridesharing" as we know is it going to crash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762242

Their valuation got so far ahead of itself that priced into it is global domination. Now that it clearly is not a global monopoly, there's nowhere to go but down. Everyday one of their employees goes to work is a day wasted where they could have been vesting at a company which is not horribly over valued.

Disclaimer: Former Lyft engineer / stockholder here (2014-2016)
Do you use your phone lines? If not check if they are cat 5. If so, use that instead of the power lines.
That's very likely to happen, unfortunately...

I did run across this link, which might explain why when you asked your initial question I was thinking "no way", but after reading the recent agreements was like "maybe so" (I worked in payments for a number of years, and always heard that cash discounts/surcharges for credit card use were disallowed).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/business/mastercard-and-vi...

So apparently there was a suit about that very problem which was settled in 2012. It looks like you would be able to, but if you're charging multiple thousands on the regular, it would probably be worth it for you to pay a lawyer to make sure you're in the clear. HTH.
They could hike prices and as long as they were equal to, less than, or even slightly above their competition, that would probably not cause much customer churn. The more interesting way for them to hike prices would be by rolling out upfront pricing everywhere. Consumers may not notice the slight price upticks if they happen gradually enough.

In any case, they may not need to hike prices on customers. They could just increase their share from drivers. This may cause driver churn which would affect supply, but they have their ride liquidity algorithm (surge pricing) to take care of that.

The bad PR will definitely be a pain for them, but doesn't seem likely to affect their longer term success.
Nice! I did not like diff and history that comes with git-plus. Thank you!