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That's what I was getting at, thank you. I understand that taxis are regarded as horrible but I don't get why Lyft is seen as "the better way" (either by investors or customers) when Uber is increasingly reviled. Lyft has the same systemic flaws as Uber but does so behind a pink mustache and a CEO that seems a bit more restrained. Neither company took the opportunity to "fix" a broken taxi system by ensuring that both drivers and passengers get a better deal.

If anything, it looks like Uber and Lyft looked at the taxi industry and said "hey, if we made that into an app, we can make bank for ourselves while incrementally shafting the very people we need for our service!" and proceeded to do so and Lyft does so in a more camouflaged way.
I think someone would see more success convincing people to eat less meat rather than eat no meat. e.g., make red meat a special occasion thing rather than an almost nightly occurrence.

This could work a little at a personal level, but any larger campaign is going to come up against industry groups with more funding and no financial reason to care about much of the environment.

I don't know about the US, but in Australia, there are very strong campaigns promoting lamb consumption, for example. It's tied very effectively, through marketing, to our national identity as part of Australia Day.
That is very true, thanks. The educational point is great too.
Fighting over the remaining resources of course.
> demonstrated
This would only allow them to win more elections and retain power for longer. Instead include them in discussions; try to socialize them. Don't talk down to them as they will move away from the discussion and purposefully remain ignorant and vote on such feelings of wrong and vengeance that emerges from ridiculing them. Have we learned nothing from Trump's victory? If so, get ready for two terms.
I wasn't suggesting fear and shock tactics, and I agree that they don't work. My suggestion was quite different.
The key points are

- CEO never blackmailed journalists

- No major revelations of sexual harassment

- ~~No major revelations of political support~~

Related to core business

- Surge Limit has prevented complaints about emergency pricing vs Uber.

- Lyft takes a lower commission capped at 20%/25%

- Lyft has in app digital tipping (drivers keep 100% of tips). Uber's tip policy encourages cash, which is an often cited complaint of taxis.

- Major investment / partnership with GM (mentioned in an Uber thread that Car Makers will need a cheap / reasonably priced app)
Why are so many companies using Node.js?
I've seen it being used in quite a number of places now (specially startups) and I don't get why people use it over other stacks which might be easier to maintain and code. Here are couple of things that comes to mind

- Most startups have inexperienced people writing async code (which is hard) and make too many mistakes

- The reason Javascript is used in frontend let's use it for backend (even using the same programmer) seems flawed. Backend programming would require intimate knowledge of threads, mutexes, async and other things which a frontend programmer may not be familiar with so using the same programmer or language may be moot.

- Flaky drivers. Surely it works great with MongoDB but try using MariaDB, Postgres with concurrency and pooling and there are so many issues (async is hard ?).

- Is Node.js performance really that good when people start making mistakes and bugs arise that infact hinders performance. Why people move to Node.js when horizontal scaling can provide sufficient performance needed by most.

These are only couple of points, may be Hackernews can give more perspective towards why some of the people/companies choose Node.js with these flaws. Is it because it's new or the love of Javascript (designed in less than 1 month) is so much that it has bleed into the backend realm.
I mean, they did neither. And Netflix would have done a lot of "free" work to put their app on the Switch.
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> it's hard to know where to go when basically every service industry seems to exist to exploit workers for profit

No argument there. I completely agree (with the caveat that some small niches or niche companies seem to be "playing fair" but they're, by far, the exception than he rule).

> Do you just walk everywhere? Go live in the woods?

I intentionally didn't mention it, but since you asked: I don't use either service because of my objections to them. Where I live, public transit and bicycle infrastructure is pretty good--at least compared to most of North America--so if I can't get there by train, bus, bike, rented or friend's car (when going as a group), or my own two feet, I just don't go. I 197% recognize that this is a choice that many people don't get to make, but I don't think it invalidates the question of "why is Lyft seen as so much better than Uber?"
Oh, I'd readily admit mentioning a cartoon character is fair use, but it seems like using the actual image of a cartoon character is infringement—what else IS a cartoon character? Where's the line? If one person can put Tinkerbell in a science book, why can't I publish a "Disney characters coloring book" without a license?

I'm admittedly not an expert, but there have been many rulings stating that characters themselves can be covered by copyright,[0] and fair use is supposed to allow for commentary and criticism, not just "oh, that's nice, I'll use that." It's not very different from just putting people's photographs in a science book, is it?

[0] http://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/dc-comics-v-towle/
If I say I have chest pain, a nurse will assess me and decide if I need to see a doctor. Overall, real, acute emergencies are taken care of quite well.

I don't do annual checkups. They say such checkups are not needed. My employer paid for one at a private doctor when I turned 50. I've heard that if we were more like Canada, that would be illegal.
Sea level rise is neither the largest nor most immediate threat of climate change.

Water happens to have one of the highest, and I would argue, the most important thermal capacity of all the compounds we're likely to come into contact with daily. Water has about 5-10x the heat capacity of most common things and so heating up the all the oceans by say 2 degs average is an ENORMOUS amount of energy.

Why is this important? The reason we have climate refugees today is not the water level but rather the higher intensity storms that the warmer waters spawn. Far before ppl are forced from the shores by rising waters they will be forced from the shores by massive, frequent, destructive storms that, instead of say destroying 1/1000 homes, will destroy 1/100. Eventually it will be economically non-viable to live in storm-prone zones. And those zones will increase in size over time to go far inland (away from fresh water), causing more migration.

This is happening NOW and will be a major factor in the lives of all our children.

It's easy for ppl to dismiss rising sea levels because it doesn't seem dangerous and happens over decades. It's far harder for ppl to dismiss weather disasters that they might have some first or second handed experience of or, more likely, a visceral fear of.

Maybe we should have a different metric? So instead of sea rise/year we should have expected floridian homes destroyed/year.
Anybody who's got a small but viable alternative to Uber could really benefit by pivoting to an "ethics first" model right now. Between Kalanick and Thiel, the market seems ripe for disruption.
that's so weird -- how could an adult intrude into a kid's snapchat conversation with other kids?
The only data layer for Scala that matters is Spark and Data frame.
Early stage private valuations tend to be focused on future potential, usually expressed in total addressable market figures.

Lyft was selling slow expansion (they're still a US-only operator, and even within the US operate in relatively few markets) and most likely positive cashflow.

Uber was selling rapid global expansion, where each new city could be scaled up via Uber playbooks. Then it started selling itself as "last-mile logistics provider" for things like food deliveries and clothing. Then as a leading developer of self-driving vehicles, later complemented by self-driving trucks, later complemented by self-elevating passenger-carrying robotic drones.

You have to give Uber credit, they do address a broader TAM, even if their underlying core business doesn't seem that different from Lyft or Gett or Wingz or Hailo or MyTaxi or Didi or GrabTaxi or Ola or Yandex.Taxi.
What exactly are people going to do in AR that's so compelling?
All my nearby stores offer this, I still use Instacart. It lets me shop from any store, their QC is amazing, and living in a small apartment I need to make 2 or 3 $35 trips (instead of one big $150 trip) and that becomes free on Instacart (saving me close to 5hrs per week of drudgery).
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I know one nice thing was last I knew they were like ... half female executives. So they would appear to be doing better on diversity issues than most of the valley.

Anecdata I know...
I would counter that it's not privacy / lack of human interaction we're increasingly desiring, but regularity. Or, being able to expect a thing happening in a given situation.
And surely they could just make a call to not run ads against a community/non-profit story?

Is it not unlike Microsoft donating product as sponsorship? (e.g., $100k non-profit sponsorship turns out to be in-kind provision of MS Office licenses.) That's often viewed critically by many on HN.
It's really the only way forward for widely accessible GPU programming, since the native scene is so fragmented and such a kaleidoscope of OS-crashing buggy drivers. Of course it's possible that will remain a niche thing, but with the just arrived WebGL 2 and imminently arriving shared memory in Web Workers there's a lot of new possiblities opening up. All this AI-on-GPU stuff that's in the headlines lately, for example.

The recently discussed Qt remote WebGL app feature is a nice example that you can do even with WebGL 1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744631)

Also a lot of non-game 3D customers historically have been inhouse scientific / data visualization users. I suspect many of those are already moving to WebGL & internal web apps, but you won't see them much on public web sites.

It took a good while for interesting or useful JS apps to arrive too...
It just like "A Narcicist's Prayer":

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did...

You deserved it.
> Oh, I'd readily admit mentioning a cartoon character is fair use

It's probably not even an otherwise-infringing activity that would require fair-use analysis. At least if we are talking about copyright; if the character name is also a trademark, that may be a different story.
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This felt more from a VC perspective than a founder's one..

1. VCs have portfolios and can talk about averages. As a founder, you're dealing with your particular reality, and as startup phases are inherently high variance... your terms will be all over the map, and not driven by your dilution aspirations. Oh, SaaS crashed this quarter and you lost your F100 account? Too bad for you. Bots are in? Sweet!

2. I'm surprised by the dilution percentages here: I'm guessing they're for the top 10% or so, where everything already aligned anyway. Likewise, I'd expect it for something like a SaaS snack boxes -- stuff where averages and predictability make sense from day 1, not crazy bumpy tech etc. Otherwise, for example, VCs will fight HARD for their % minimums. So, 10-15% sounds like one VC at their absolute bottom... and therefore not normal.

3. 7% might be what accelerators converged on... but that's high compared to F&F, angels, & specialized advisors in your field (vs "startups").
Loopholes are not exploits. They are compliance. The only moral obligation is to follow laws, and then when they are just.
(In 50 years) Humans haven't shown the same level of adaptation to different skill sets that GP AIs have.
Easy: the Rift is the current best VR, while $300 headsets will be of lesser quality. It's like a Mercedes vs. a Ford.
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Seems likely to me that many of the 100k+ Lyft/Uber drivers are better off than they were before Lyft and Uber.
I still hold a massive grudge about Google Reader. That single retreat caused me to reduce my Google services usage, a habit that I continue to this day.

Maybe once a year, I check Google Takeout services to see what I've used, then go on a deleting spree. I hope at some point outlook.com matures to a point where I can abandon Gmail.
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According to the survey, it seems FB wants to claw back their lost market share before more VR entrants become an issue.
Why not have colorblind mode be the default? Much more courteous to make the nitpickers change their mode than casual browsers who just want to be able to use the site.
Uber's official tipping policy changed last year to suggest that drivers can ask for tips, have tip jars, and HBR suggests trade tips for reviews.

https://hbr.org/2016/05/ubers-new-tipping-policy-is-a-mistak...

An uber driver even offered square for tip.
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Yeah, because if you buy circuits into the right places in the same neighborhood you can reach a huge chunk of the internet via settlement free peering. Plus IX costs of course. And IP transit is epically cheap in the Dulles area, sub $0.10/Mbps.
In the magical future where self-driving cars will be able to replace 100% of what a driver does 100% of the time, what barrier to entry will protect Uber from competition? What stops someone from leasing a few dozen vehicles, and opening up their NotUber self-driving taxi service?
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"eat less meat" has been tried and doesn't appear to work that well.

In the US, there are lots of industries in which producers of beef, eggs, pork have to pay $$ to a marketing board that buys advertising. Needless to say, they won't buy advertising that says "buy higher quality X" or "eat less X!" The government is for it and the courts have upheld being forced to pay into it, so, there you have it.
I think you're wrong. Folks used the most convenient tool at their disposal that is based on the internal tool.
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You claim that the scenario you describe is happening "NOW". Could you provide a citation for that claim? Or even better, are people betting money that it is true, as might be represented with a greater-than-inflation rise in premiums for flood insurance, home owners insurance, or umbrella insurance in the affected geographies?
Fact is that the income of the top 1 (or use another number) percent has increased steadily over the last 40 years. As far as I know their share of national income has doubled while the bottom 50% have seen no increase. I doubt that the performance of top management these days is much better than 40 years ago to justify that increase while the rest of the workers has been slacking off and therefore doesn't deserve a raise.

In my view it would be good to create a tax system that incentivizes paying average workers more. A strong middle class is the best recipe for a healthy society.
Google wasn't the first search engine, and Facebook wasn't the first social network.

Peter Thiel in "Zero to One" has a great chapter on "Last-Mover Advantage".
Given that the percentage of Steam users running Linux is declining, I'm not as optimistic as you.

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HIV testing needs to be a part of the annual physical check up, just like blood sugar testing for diabetes. Hep A/B/C testing should be as well. If I was forced to be infected with HIV or HepC, I would take HIV over HepC. C is some nasty shiat and there is no vaccine unlike the A and B varieties.
That has been the trend so far. But I would be cautious about extrapolating too aggressively from that. A situation with rich people that aren't breeding is not evolutionarily stable.
Just because humans are slightly more clever than past dominant species doesn't make us any less extinction-proof.

Homo sapiens: the Dunning-Kruger hominid.
Let's say I have to take a cab everyday to work. If Uber gives me a ride for 15 bucks and Lyft gives me the same ride for 18 bucks, I know which one I will choose. Do you?
Oh wow, this is the first I'm hearing of it. Yandex, the search engine operates a Yandex.taxi? That's pretty interesting, all major Global search engines, Google, Yandex, Baidu have interests in developing self-driving cars as well.
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Changing gears is not a problem for hill starts, you start in 1st gear anyway.

Using handbrake to assist hill start could be a problem, but not in Renault 4, where it might actually be more feasible for a passenger to operate the lever:
https://pim.famnit.upr.si/blog/uploads/Interfaces/hand-brake...

However, in modern Renaults some models (Scenic) have an electric handbrake near the driver door, where the passenger possibly cannot reach it. The electric handbrake is a hill start assist as such, though. And it's one of those electric subsystems that can break, is necessary for the annual MOT check, and is very expensive to fix... (900 € for the part, plus cost of work).
Sorry, you missed it. You could formulate the proof with only 32 bit FP numbers. I've created a function that maps any real number, computable or not, to a notional FP representation. The function doesn't actually have to be computable to show a bijection. I just have to show there is a way to do the mapping.

You would have to come up with a mighty strange notion of "floating point representation" that allowed you to have more distinct representations than computable functions

That is what I think I did. Let's say that you have a real number X in [0,1] that you say isn't in the set of possible "floating point representations." I could just posit a reformulation of the IEEE 32 bit FP where NaN is used to represent that number instead. There you have your mapping. Now reset the universe to the state it was 5 minutes ago. In that alternate reality, you say you have a different real number. We also call that real number X and in that other reality I posit a reformulation of the IEEE 32 bit where NaN is used to represent that number X instead.

Just because such a set isn't computable, that doesn't mean it isn't conceivable in a way that can show a bijection.
The client app, backend tech, and economies of scale.
That's some interesting data. Nvidia is really killing it lately.
OP here, yeah I agree, like I said the home page could be more explicit.

Here's some links:

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https://libraries.io/bus-factor

https://github.com/librariesio/lib2issues
the in app tipping that lyft provides is what seals the deal for me. the drivers are performing a service for me and having an integrated way to enhance their compensation is really nice. a lot of the drivers have a hard time making a good living especially considering vehicle related costs are all on their shoulders. I'm happy to have a 1-click way to give them a bit extra.

I've never understood why uber doesn't let you tip from within the app. it further solidifies the perception that uber doesn't care about its drivers. they can't wait to replace all their human drivers with a self driving fleet. can the same be said about lyft? maybe. but at least the humans are being compensated better by lyft right now.