skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of funny to consider how long this debate has been going on and the self-driving cars excuse as merely the latest iteration of it:
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/must-read-there-is-a-...

To quote Tom Slee from the comment above:

- Uber has a nice business as a status product (Uber Black Car ~ 2010)

- Uber Black may not be profitable, but Uber will displace taxis and be hugely profitable because of technology-driven efficiencies (UberX: 2014-2015)

- UberX may not be profitable, but UberPool will lead to new efficiencies in mass transit (2015-2016)

- UberX may not be profitable, but Uber is a logistics company and will rewrite the rules of delivery (UberEats, various speculative stories, 2013-2015)

- UberPool may not be profitable, but when Uber displaces car ownership the scale of the market will make it profitable (2016)

- Uber with drivers may not be profitable, but driverless cars will make Uber profitable (2014-)

- Driverless cars may not be profitable, but Uber is looking into flying vehicles (2016)
If they are really posting huge losses, they might need to hike prices.

Besides, #deleteuber shows that bad PR has at least a marginal effect.
If you're worried about that, provide both ways of confirming the activation:
replying to the e-mail and clicking a link. But the switch from web browser to
e-mail client will still be there, unless you think up something different.
Sounds like my worst nightmare. Browsers won't and should never have the full capabilities of native APIs. It's certain that many more applications will shift into web apps, but there are limits to what I'll want my browser to do.
+1. In the end we all have to trust someone. Even Kyrie Irving thinks the world is flat because he chooses not to trust scientists or look out the window of an airplane. While I believe in human-driven climate change, it's because I choose to believe the integrity of the scientific community and the scientific process. But only 55 years ago there was segregation in the US and news reports of racial inferiority would have been controversial while today they would be racist and "disputed". Times change and this is a tough problem to solve.
Because it drives traffic. Traffic is money.

Most "news" these days, especially tech news, is just tabloids for people who think reading about celebrities is beneath them.

Do you learn anything useful from following these stories? No, but it makes you feel better about your own life and the company you work for. Sure we might be profit-driven megallomaniacs, but at least we're not Uber, right?
Agreed, except that it seems quite likely that users stick around. Where else would they go? The options seem to be an Uber competitor or taxis. Is there anything that will motivate Uber customers toward those?

Uber's service is more than just an app. They have operations teams in every market they operate in to onboard drivers, deal with local issues, etc.
I had no idea Lyft was operating at a loss. My Lift rides are consistently 10% to 20% higher than Uber rides of the same distance and time and they even encourage tipping.

I'm not looking forward to what these companies charge when (or if) they're ever profitable. I already find them expensive, especially Lyft.
There's not a whole lot to discuss because not a whole lot happened. Some people who get off on saying terrible things got pushed around.

All speech is not equal, and never has been. There are certain ideas that are not tolerated in America, and pretending like we ought to all sit quietly and let white nationalists promote their ideas is more fucked up than these two getting a few shoves on their way to their cars.
Document first (remote first) workflow.

I think I've /wanted/ it but have never experienced it because this is how I want all meetings to go:

* Someone makes a list of the points to discuss and the initial background on them.

* Everyone else contributes to clarifying the points and data, as well as possible reactions/conclusions.

* At some point the data is summarized and whoever does make the decisions does so.

* That feeds in to the next 'meeting'.

All of this, of course, happens without ACTUALLY having a meeting; it's just scheduling sync points to have contributes (if you are contributing) in before the deadlines.
Thank you.

I've also worked at a major dotcom, starting pre-2000 for all the fun, and in the television industry for a major UK broadcaster.

While each industry has required its own knowledge, I have more or less been applying the same set of skills. For example, now in the pharma engineering R&D role, I'm just a project manager rather than a scientist. I read a handful of in-depth papers in my specific area (Optical Coherence Tomography) and by then I could at least understand the technology. I also had just moved to a new country, needed a job and they needed someone with good English and reasonable management skills.

The horses and data science interests are linked and the direction where I want things to seriously go next. I'm learning the trade and just starting out now.

Or, you could look at my career path and deduce that I just get bored easily....
Yes, I'm also confused about this.

Existing maps should be enough, and LIDAR, etc. ensure that self-driving cars can respond to road conditions in an ad-hoc manner, instead of relying on a predefined detailed map.

The article doesn't make a good point of why this is needed. OTOH, given the money involved in the technology & companies mentioned in the article (like Here), I presume there must be a need for this.
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Part of the grandfathering has to do with liability law: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/odd-case-liabi...

Small plane / general aviation design is a complete mess. Even the fancy new 172SPs are still using engines with 1950s manual spark plug timing.
I have a ton of lag when I use my Bose Bluetooth speaker with my MacBook Pro, or when I airplay to my Apple TV. I tried using Bluetooth Explorer, but I can't figure out what's causing the interference. Anyone have tips on how to debug this?
Any fact checking site will end up reflecting reality's well-documented liberal bias.
> Uber is cheap only because investor capital subsidizes every ride.

Is that actually legal, in light of [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Introducing xcomponent – cross-domain, React-like components using iframes
In the context of cylinder head temperature (cylinders overheating is what phillc73 mentioned), 50LoP is markedly cooler cylinder temps than 50RoP.

See the blue line in the graph here:
https://www.advancedpilot.com/redbox.html

or the CHT line on the graph in Lycoming's (in)famous "Experts are Everywhere" document: http://users.kymp.net/kotkanik/documents/SSP700A.pdf (note that in the Lycoming document, leaner mixtures are on the left and in the APS red box graph, leaner mixtures are on the right; Lycoming graphs BSFC and APS graphs 1/BSFC)

> But, in general, leaner is hotter, not cooler.

That is not borne out by the data shown in graphical form in the links above (which agree with each other and match my experience operating big-bore Continental engines).

Only while richer than 25 rich of peak EGT is your statement correct. Lean of peak, leaner is in fact cooler, which was my original claim.

> Also, peak cylinder pressures are higher when run RoP.

From a cylinder longevity standpoint, this is a bad thing, of course. It's particularly a bad thing when cylinders are run very hot (over say 425F) because aluminum loses a significant percentage of its strength in that temperature regime: https://www.nap.edu/openbook/NX006900/xhtml/images/p20003245...
Uber's lock-in is so soft that they ought to be paranoid about any attack on their image.
they operated at a $600 million loss in 2016

http://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-lost-600-million-in-2016...

the number will be higher in 2017 as they are expanding internationally (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/13/lyft-to-go-global-take-on-ube...), they are primarily still US only while Uber is in most of the world
So I had some doubts about the numbers at first, but a rough quick calculation 12,000 / (1.3 billion (people) * .5 (age 25-54)) ≈ 0.002% of the available population a day creating a startup (1 in every 50,000) which does not seem too far-fetched, but still seems a bit high to be honest.
The documentation says to compile with GOARCH=amd64; isn't RPI3 an ARM architecture? Is that a typo, or am I misunderstanding something?
health is your greatest wealth.
I suppose this is a bad place to ask this, but given that you need to do math to update your credences and also that you can derive any proposition from Pr('2 + 2 = 4) != 1, how does this work?
>And they probably know that.

I imagine their hands are kind of tied- if they don't do anything, then people complain. If they do something, it is possibly not perfect, unless they can come up with some amazing spam reducing innovation which probably close to an AGI fake news bouncer.

The only thing to really do is throw some tools up, and adjust them as adversaries (fake news makers) get more tricky, until finally, after a long time, you get the big innovation.

In any case, deciding to take a stand is clearly better than doing nothing at all.
What statins do according to the Daily Express
The Story Behind the Masked Terrorist of the Munich Olympics
This is just a few lines in emacs: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/5xi92h/a_scroll_whee...
We are going in the direction he wants us to. We're just doing it under the name "containerd" and he's unhappy that we're not calling it "Docker". If he were to simply accept our choice of naming, 100% of his issues would go away.
That's the double edged sword, and worse still is that they don't realize how much of an art getting old or not inherently compatible things to interact correctly is. Duct tape, shell scripts, and even small programs to reshape data are an art.
> You can make up any concept you like, and if it doesn't contradict itself its perfectly valid to analyze it

Why limit yourself to ideas that don't contradict themselves?

http://www.iep.utm.edu/math-inc/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-inconsistent/

https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/5626/1263...
Even with async/await, raw promises are still key to optimal concurrent js
And yet, after several recursions, the Back button gets you out at once. Non-local exit?
I think there can still be a moral component, if you know that they are enacting and perpetrating a vicious cycle that will lead to the depletion of public transit:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2016/12/ci...
Not once during our frenzy of building these wondrous systems higher and higher did we stop to ask ourselves whether we should.
> If the race of the victim isn't Caucasian, it's obviously police brutality because of the power and authority disparity between police as an institution and people of the victim's race.

I can't tell what you are tying to say here. I hope you are not saying if the person is not white then by default it's police brutality.
I found this article (https://www.theinformation.com/how-uber-can-drive-profits) from The Information interesting since the "Uber will get to self-driving cars which makes them profitable" is brought as an argument all the time.

TL;DR is that self-driving cars according to an internal Uber study (according to The Information) would only modestly increase their margins:
"Doing without drivers will only increase Uber’s projected long-term net profit margin by as much as 5 percentage points, according to an Uber worker who’s seen internal data projected by that team. That’s in part because of expected municipal regulations on pricing related to autonomous vehicle services, this person said. Another factor is that Uber may have to purchase and maintain its own cars en masse, rather than relying on cars owned by drivers as it does now."
It's called "dumping": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
> I remember seeing one of their delivery people pull up and park in a red zone right in front of a cop. The cop told him he couldn't park there. His response, "Are you going to tow me?" was answered with "no, but..." and before the cop could finish, the driver had walked away. The cop dutifully wrote out the ticket.

I like the concept of an 'economic' crime for these kinds of situations. The idea is that when a misdemeanor has the normal penalty aimed at deterring private usage but was committed for commercial reasons, the penalty is massively increased.

This way, you prevent situations where it makes financial sense to park in front of a fire hydrant and just eat the fines.
This is a highly visible public issue in Los Angeles, so much so that voters recently approved a $1.2 billion proposition for housing the homeless.

Now, that measure is under threat because of a recent ballet proposal that wants to stop all housing development under the pretense of stopping gentrification.

Side note: Along with this, I've noticed that the demographics of the homeless has been changing. More and more of the homeless don't look like what one would expect (alcoholic/drug addict, older/rough look due to addiction, etc.) Just anecdotally, in my area, there has been a recent uptick in crime as well and the crimes are becoming more brazen. I'm extrapolating, but it seems like the opportunity cost of crime has gone down. Perhaps more people feel the system failed them and have lost faith and/or simply do not care for a society that doesn't care about them.

In any event, it's an unsettling trend that is being glossed over when statistics say that we are at full employment. I saw these trends in 2006-7 before the financial crisis.
It's more like you won't need to develop for two-three targets, like today with desktop, web and mobile. Instead you will use the same runtime, though there might be some restrictions on each platform you'd need to take into account (like handling permissions properly) and make sure your code would work on any platform that provides the capabilities you require.
Another week another language
I suppose a smart-ass response is "in the Bahamas, because we make them so much money".

In any case, excellent analogy there to illustrate the random walk.

Now, the article alludes to the idea that successful active management is a fiction. If this is the case, what's the currently most plausible hypothesis for why active fund management is so attractive? Somehow fund managers have sold themselves as Gene Sarazens, and supposedly there is evidence that they are not. And the evidence is strong. And yet these not-Genes successfully sell their services. How?
I asked this question a while back and I'll ask it again. Why is Kalanick still in charge?
The other part is that Uber's internal culture being rotten has not yet impacted their customers. Perhaps it will later on, but at the moment it doesn't seem likely to bring about business failure.
Self-driving cars provide no economic moat whatsoever.

1. There will be several wellsprings of that technology, all them with deeper capital pools than Uber.

Google is now running $5 billion of profit per quarter, nearly $7 billion in pre-tax profit. In any given year they overtake Uber's entire investment capital to this point.

Meanwhile the major car companies have hundreds of billions of dollars of collective revenue and possibly more than a trillion dollars of existing, largely fully-depreciated capital and equipment. A century of brand recognition and loyalty, with entire families swearing they'll only buy a particular maker's vehicles.

2. There is no lockin whatsoever.

Expect "AirBnB for self-driving cars" that disintermediates Uber entirely. When anyone can buy a car, expect them to rent it out at uneconomically low rates because they don't realise it's uneconomical. Meanwhile every livery company replaces their drivers too.

Or expect "Google Ride" / "Amazon Woosh" / "Facebook Gimme A Lift" to enter the market, leveraging their particular strengths.

Or subscription services, a la GE's engine-hours concept[0] or NetJets fractional ownership. All you want is a Fiat Funmobile 2-3 hours in peak and a Toyota Tyke-Transporter on weekends. Most of the time you have to buy both. No longer.

[0] In fact, Cadillac are already trialling this.
Are there any reasonable alternatives to adsense?
This entire thread seems to be missing the fact that during this period of us soaking it up, all legitimate competitors can't compete and will either disappear or suffer greatly.
and how would competitors get funding? by making each member of the public individually pay for a subscription?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
Well low is relative. I think GPs point was that Uber can never have a real monopoly because eventually they have to operate profitably. Once the base price of a ride settles competitors can still come eat their lunch. Heck I took a taxi in Seattle for the same price as an Uber but the driver actually knew where I was going and how to navigate in traffic.

Driverless cars would throw a big wench into this however.
Is Juno trying to set themselves up to be a national competitor though, or are they trying to stay local? Given that making a basic app to put dots on a map is basically free, I don't see what stops someone from investing a couple million bucks in hopes of getting a small but good return.
Ridesharing is growing year after year, so their top line is growing fast. Self driving cars would remove the biggest expense which is the human driver, so the expenses will drop a lot. Currently it costs $1.50 a mile with a human driver, and should get down to $0.50 without a driver. The lower costs will increase the profit, and way increase the volume of people using Uber.
South of Market, a district in San Francisco with a lot of clubs/nightlife.
They have also been around long enough that everyone in the industry knows someone who said "great product, shitty place to work", or something to that effect. We all knew there was _something_ a bit off, but didn't have a public, large-scale narrative to get behind.
Brain Activity at the Moment of Death
Unfortunately, human germline modification is still taboo here: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/scientists-argue-...

It angers me that a misguided and stringent sense of ethics might slow the deployment of one of the most beneficial technologies ever conceived.
You are confusing your goals with their goals. Their goal is to stop environmentalism from interfering with near-term business performance, not "fix the environment".
> They are aware of this, the goal is to have a large market share when self driving cars make their business model profitable.

That can't be their goal. Personally I think their goal is to get bought out at a very high price by some sort of car company / conglomerate. If car companies can make their own cars that are also self driving, why wouldn't they just toss up some software and go direct to consumers with them and cut out Uber entirely? Uber has a lead on the software and infrastructure for mapping but they're really pretty awful (I'd argue Apple Maps has surpassed much of what Uber does with mapping and routing at this point).

A car company with self driving cars is going to be able to provider a lower cost per ride while still profiting than Uber ever could unless they start producing their own vehicles.

> that in no way makes Uber a Ponzi scheme.

The parent stated "Isn't Uber like a Ponzi scheme in some way?" and then explained the rationale behind the thought. I think you took some words out of the parent's question when understanding what he or she was asking.

Uber subsidizes car rides using investor money to bring in more users which can make their valuation higher which can then bring in more investor money. Rinse repeat. It's not a ponzi scheme but it certainly has some traits of one and I think parent's question was fair.
That may be your adblock/noscript, but:

> This feature isn't available to everyone yet.

Really refers to the fact that Facebook is partnering with mainstream media in each individual country, and so they need time to roll this out internationally. Most countries don't even have a developed fact-checking infrastructure.
Years ago I put Google's ads on my website. Just before the revenue reached the payout threshold they disabled my account and withheld all the money I had earned up to that point. No detailed explanation, no appeal. While I can't prove anything I was left with the distinct feeling that I was being scammed.
I have had trouble understanding class numbers. Usually they measure the "failure" of unique factorization. So how does these failures become a special type of number, that multiply to form a group?

Here is an article explaining why exp(pi*sqrt(163)) = is near an integer:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/4775/why-are-powers-of-exp...
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4544/why-is-e-pi-sqr...

I have met all three of the mathematicians pictured.
That exists, with unity and unreal engine in the browser.
I wonder if the Taxi union is behind the Uber smear campaigns. I have no evidence of this, but I on the other hand, I would be in zero shock if this were the case.
I have a doubt that keeping those populists alive is a goal here in lieu of, say, money or at least profit -- regardless of long-term "if no populous, no tax or consumer basis" outlook.
Agreed. I got my PP license 40 years ago on a 172, then 4 years ago went thru training again to renew but quit due to the condition of the planes (all 150's, 172's). I also quit because I realised (maybe because I'm older now), that there is no place for a part-time pilot. Too dangerous. Either you fly every day or don't fly at all because eventually something is going to happen, especially considering the planes I was flying and if you fly 1-2 times a month you are ill-equipped to handle any emergency situation.
This isn't really a generic issue of "previous attempts" but more specifically LLVM, right?
Seems like there should be a new category for statements which can hold up to "technically true" but are intended to mislead.
> Why? If you can buy driverless cars from, say, GM, what do the strategic patents get you?

Royalties, most likely. Discounts on cars in exchange for licenses. Maybe something to auction off during the bankruptcy process so that investors get a fraction of their money back.

Patents can be the most valuable thing a company has. Google pretty much wound up scooping the patents out of Motorola and selling the rest (you know, the thousands of smart people and hardware and history) for a discount.
> Nobody who lives in a market that Uber serves will ever be willing to go back to the old way of calling a taxi dispatch line by phone, waiting on hold, and being told the cab will arrive in "five to thirty minutes". Seriously. Think about this.

In New York, every taxi is now hailable from a smartphone app that shows me the current locations of nearby taxis and reliably gets me one in 3-5 minutes from most places in the city.

> Nobody used to Uber will want to waste time taking out a credit card and swiping it through a dirty slot or handing it to a driver only to wait several minutes for it to finally go through.

Even if I don't hail a taxi from the app, the screen inside the car shows a code that I can use to associate my app's payment account after I get in the car. (Also, the real problem here is drivers claiming the credit card machine broke, but that's stopped happening.)

> Compared to the average Uber vehicle, most taxis are filthy and full of all sorts of odors.

You need to clarify what market you're in. Not NYC, surely.

> The taxi/livery industry is simply too used to enjoying a monopoly business to be able to fix itself.

It fixed itself in NYC, and if it can fix itself there it can fix itself anywhere.

Seriously. I do credit Uber and Lyft with making the taxi industry realize that they're doing things wrong and have an easily-eatable lunch, but they're figuring things out. I'm more curious about places (like the college town I grew up in) that have Uber service but barely any taxi service.