skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anybody published an estimate of what Uber's cash reserves might look like, or how long they can remain solvent at these insane burn levels? Losses of $3B/year seem like they would put almost anybody out of business.
That's already the case if you want to do high-performance stuff with C/C++. WebAssembly is primarily about getting that into the web.
For all of your examples except "stand for", you have a verb and an adverbial particle. "stand for" (and "come from") is a verb and a preposition. So all of your examples except for "stand for" are already something different. For example, with "come from", "where did you come from?" is the same as "from where did you come?", but there's no equivalent with e.g. "stand up". And conversely, you can "screw things up", but you can't "come <object> from".

Anyway, simply put, they aren't verbs. They're "phrasal verbs". Or more specifically, most of them are particle phrasal verbs, and two (stand for and come from) are prepositional phrasal verbs. And you can't just pretend they're the same thing as normal verbs.

The Wikipedia page also says particle phrasal verbs (e.g. "stand in") are in the same general category as the separable verbs of other Germanic languages, the implication here being that prepositional phrasal verbs aren't. And in the link you provided, it explicitly says adverbial particles can be separated from the verb. So the point here is that ab·fahren is analogous to particle phrasal verbs in English, and not to prepositional phrasal verbs. So it's like "stand up", but it's not like "come from".
Maybe this will turn into a tobacco moment for the industry.
I actually gave you a specific line of reasoning. I suspect you missed it because you are not used to thinking in terms of signal processing or information theory. Strangely, you have failed to convince me to try to spell it out more slowly, though. I will give you this hint, which is to try to come up with a program that could distinguish between the two types of speech so well that even if you handed that program to the synthesizer writers they would be unable to fool it in any way. Then iterate that process indefinitely, with the synthesizers getting better each time. That is not the whole of the argument, but it would set you on the correct path of understanding, if you thought through it honestly and did not assume magic functions in the detector code that secretly sneak direct divination of the intent in the backdoor.

This isn't a general claim to AI; this is a highly constrained, specialized task that is, frankly, probably perfectly attainable with modern technology even without assuming any further advances in AI.
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From the article:
"The company, which has raised some $15 billion in equity and debt funding, said it still has $7.2 billion of cash left on hand, about the same as it had at the end of last year."
Here's a fantastic article which makes it clear why the drug makers deserves getting sued:

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
This is something Ive been tracking in the US for a few years even though I live in Australia.

It's painfully obvious why it's been suppressed for so long. All you need to is look at who the top advertisers with news organisations are, then imagine why they very rarely cover negative stories about drug companies.

Hell just to name 1 big example, the elderly couple who were passed out in the car with their grandchild in the back. When it went viral, the claim was they were doing illegal opioids and days later when it settled down it was found out to be prescription meds.
That's great to know, thank you. Maybe if things get too annoying I'll just raise prices. I didn't even think of that.
Uber might actually exist in 10 years, the dig at Snap seems extremely fair game in this frothy environment
Thinking about this more, that's not clear. When you say it doesn't do what we think it does... what are we misunderstanding?

Our desire is to make sure the server we're connecting to is "one of ours". eg to validate the cert provided by the server against a cert chain we've bundled with the client just for this purpose

The docs for the function seem to indicate that what it's for.

Er... suggestions/assistance (etc) on what we should be doing instead are definitely welcome. :)
Is 4. really doable? Would have thought landing while carrying a fully fueled rocket might be pretty high risk.
Thank you for your contribution to a great project that I use daily
I recently came to believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that the recommended XOFs SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 are actually nice and fast, but often when people talk about SHA-3 they focus on the slower "drop-in replacements" like SHA3-256 which are quite conservative.
This is one of the root problems in India too. At the end of the day, in a Govt job, it's just:

- a lot of bureaucracy

- and the mandatory ass-licking

- working on ancient platforms and techs

- and a lot less pay compared to the market (so either you do under the table deals, or well..)

Very few tier one engineers go for Govt jobs and almost no tier one engineers from tier one college go for the Govt jobs.

Top it wtih maddeningly absurd and archaic interview process and selection criteria.
How, exactly, would Trump be governing differently if he actually was on the Russian payroll?
Wargames was brilliant. How does everyone feel about the remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/? I've decided not to let it ruin my memories of the original so far.
I've been following and advocating for the Green Line Extension, a major transit expansion in the Boston area. I've been working on this for about 7 years now, through three different project teams, and I can say for certain that lack of effective management is a HUGE issue with the repeated failure of this project.

(This is the third reboot of this project... or maybe fourth. I've lost count.)

Not only does the local transit agency have _nobody_ who can manage the project, but the government doesn't even have the capability to assess contractors who might do that job. So they are totally at the mercy of commercial firms, who get paid whether they deliver or not.

The latest move is to hire a project manager for about $400k/yr (on a contract basis, naturally) to try to "save" the project, which has already spent $1 billion, yet has not put a shovel in the ground. (Ok they did fix up one bridge, woo hoo.)

Unfortunately, this PM is only one guy, and he's being assisted mostly by (you guessed it) more contractors. Even more comically, the contractors who are assisting him are the exact same ones who blew the first billion dollars.

Needless to say I don't have a lot of confidence that the incentives are aligned with me ever riding on this line.
I wonder how they'll be able to raise more cash with all this turmoil within the company. Even a 15B [1] cash hoard can't last much longer at this burn rate.

[1]https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/business/dealbook/why-...
Yep, you got it. Somebody try to redirect loop with shitty url shortener. I impressed but I didn't delete the records.
I accept if anyone wants to help. Maybe the shit in the future could be nice.
> Two luxury retreats, in Centreville, Md., and Oyster Bay, N.Y., where Russian diplomats have gone for decades to play tennis, sail and swim, were shut down by the Obama administration in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged hacking in the presidential election.

That sounds like something a petty third grader would do.
Is your work difficult or useful?
The second example was a 15 line switch statement that they replaced with a lookup because they thought it would be faster.
I don't understand your comment, because that's the entire point of the person you are responding to: that only current real world product of blockchain technology is Bitcoin, and the only real world use case of Bitcoin is flight capital from China; like... what exactly do you mean by "and"?
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NIST made clear that by the time of finalist selection, the point of SHA-3 was NOT to replace SHA-2. OP should know better.

That's exactly what this post is about. That we shouldn't replace SHA-2 with SHA-3, just what NIST ordered :)
So for $70b I can buy a wallet that pays me -2.8b per year?
Not to be negative, but it sounds like it is time for a down round.
Revenue: $3.4B
Loss: $708M
Growth: 18% Quarter over quarter
Cash to burn: $7.2B

With the current burn rate, Uber can burn another 10 quarters.
$708 million loss, narrowed from $991 million last quarter

18% growth from last quarter (note: that's not Y/Y. this is ridiculously fast, given the huge base.)

708mm loss / 3.4 billion in revenue is only about 20% under even. And what most people miss, is that the 3.4 billion is the 30% cut Uber takes from a ride. Prices don't have to rise 20% to break even, prices have to rise 6% (assuming no efficiency improvements via pool etc, which is frankly ridiculous)

Yeah... Uber is doing fine.
At least it just works. Nobody knows how. It's fun.
I think he means electric single driver cars.
As an average citizen I bunch events into the categories of 1 "Things I Can Prevent" and 2 "Things I Cannot Prevent". Opioids fall into category 1. I refuse to take any opioids even when prescribed because I do not want to go near such dangerous substances. However terrorist attacks, mass shootings, crazy people, etc fall into category 2. Category 2 frightens me quite a bit more than category 1. I'm willing to bet that a ton of people feel the same way as me. And that's probably why issues like terrorism get a ton of air time and issues like opioids get very little.
Sorry, but I'm going to take a different perspective. This will not destroy society if not stopped. We've had opioid epidemics in the past. Drug choice changes over time. Not long ago meth was the scourge of the land. It will ebb and flow.

Humans have always wanted to use mind altering drugs. What makes that a problem is prohibition. What's nice is I think society is slowly realizing that and turning to harm reduction. The safe injection sites and prescribed heroin are a couple good examples of that.
One of the few things that makes me proud of my country.
How many people have overdosed on LSD? None? I don't see why you would include LSD on this list (I may be missing the point of the list, though).

I do understand a small percentage can have long-term, negative reactions. However, the mechanism for this is not well understood, and what we do know suggests many of these individuals were already at risk for mental illness. Thus, this is something that can likely be prevented with more awareness and research, to a large degree.

I'm discounting "bad trips" here -- my understanding is that the large majority of people who have experienced a bad trip report learning something from the experience and don't regret it [1].

[1] Unfortunately I don't have any sources handy, and am short on time. I might be able to look some up later.
They haven't broken out the losses.

(a) Are they profitable in the US? That would be a huge milestone.

(b) If not entire US, are they profitable in top-X US urban markets, and thus losses are all due to expansion into 2nd/3rd quartile of cities?

(c) Maybe some metrics like "After subtracting R&D efforts in self-driving cars, and legal fees due to multiple lawsuits, we are on average making X cents for every mile/minute driven."

"Our drivers take X days to enroll, and then work for us Y hours per week, and the turnover rate is Z."
I've never seen a society destabilized by car accidents, smoking, obesity or drug abuse. I have seen societies destabilized by terrorism.
This is awesome but a little bit scary. Interesting that they didn't physically connect the tail wings at all, I wonder what stresses and torques the main wing will endure under maneuvering or turbulence. I assume all the control surfaces are computer controlled to synchronize and minimize that, but from the perspective of an ignorant observer, looks a little fragile.
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The guy who did Silk Road was involved in the deaths of 6 users. He got life without parole.

These drug company execs belong in prison. They've directly and knowingly destroyed millions of lives.
Drug companies don't write scripts. That falls entirely on doctors.
Insider trading data can be mixed into a buy-and-hold strategy to beat the market.
Not to be that guy be decriminalizing and offering alternatives and open treatment with out stigma would allow the free market to help this.

The government going ohs nose we have a prescription drug problem lean hard on the doctors and suppliers just drove normal people that were given bad advice and developed addiction because of injuries and the wrong treatments into the black market were the only affordable alternative for many was heroin.
Great example of how the headlines can drive a story more than the story itself.

While Uber may have posted $708 million of losses, it is also up 18% in revenue from last quarter. That's 3.4 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2017.

Uber is making approximately $1,500,000 per hour.

I dislike Uber as much as the next person for ethical reasons, but a company that can achieve millions of dollars in revenue per day, in 7 years, is quite extraordinary.
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Would could possibly be the advantage of hard coding divisibility checks against every prime number? There's so many problems with this. The simplest thing would be to just make an array of primes and iterate through it. There's also faster algorithms to check for primality.
If you're so passionate about it, you should go implement these changes to show how the model fails. I would read that, if it were done well. It's not obvious to me that simply changing the radius or grid geometry would have the effect you claim.

Your objection is just that the model is too simple, but everyone knows linear regression predicts quite a lot, quadratic polynomials estimate physical motion very well, etc.

On the other hand, I don't think the authors make the claims about faithfully and objectively measuring reality that you say they do. You're building up a straw man there.
Not making heap allocations in loops/Update and favoring object reuse really isn't comparable to writing your own engine.
Of course it will, big pharma has deep pockets. Why go after the doctors prescribing the drugs? They don't have any money.

And in the end what will happen is that people that legitimately need pain killers will be told "sorry, you might get addicted, just tough it out". Not a world I want to live in.
Yeah what a dog argument. Basically either shows the author has little comprehension of ml or he happened to design a terrible demonstration of small data issues.
I've never encountered a stuttering issue in any Unity game I've played.
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If you'd like to see a society destabilized by drug abuse, visit some of the... Less well-off reservations. Or these days, anywhere in Appalachia.

Oh? Drugs are not the source of their problems? Well, neither is terrorism. It doesn't happen in a vaccum. The kind of terrorism that destabilizes societies takes place in the middle of civil wars. If you are in the middle of a civil war, terrorism is not your problem.
The primary advantage of airplane launch is that you can fly to into a launch window for an orbital rendezvous. Otherwise you'd have to wait for the target's orbit to be just right w/respect to the launch site, or do a long orbit matching process.

This is very useful if say you want to very quickly and quietly launch something towards another satellite.

People are making comparisons with the Spruce Goose, but the Glomar Explorer may be a better analogy.
> Uber is doing fine.

Yes and no, they are in a space which is extremely price competitive. I literally am watching Uber take a dramatic hit in my area right now. Lyft came to town and probably 80% of the drivers solely use them now, driving up the Uber prices.

Now, I only use Lyft - as do most of the people. Plus, most of the Uber drivers are shady here and the people think Ubers a snaky company.

I realize this is ancidotal, but everywhere I go (I travel a lot, switching between Uber and lyft), Lyft seems to be more popular among drivers and riders. They simply don't use it because of price/market share. However, adjust the price or driver's and the equation changes.

I honestly still don't see them making it out of their situation.
You know why Purdue "lied" to the medical community? Because they aren't allowed to say anything that isn't in their drug label. That's called "off label promotion".
Look for any differences between what they are offering and what you are. Seemingly small differences can actually be big things for customers when it comes to ease of use, functionality and preference. Usually competitors don't approach things exactly the same way you are I've found and the differences can make your offering better.
Yes and it goes beyond homelessness and crime. Social services, never built to handle an epidemic like this, are overrun.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/ohio-drugs-c...

Hospitals are ill-equipped to handle addicts and the tangled web of birth, opiates, and crime that comes with it. The result: kids die.
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/baby-opio...

The mere aspect of caring for a child born with what they call neonatal abstinence syndrome e.g. babies addicted to opiates is too much for the current system. Lily's Place in West Virginia is one response, but it's a drop in the national bucket.
http://wvpublic.org/post/lilys-place-continuing-care-addicte...

Now picture a school in a community overrun by this trying to contend with children born addicted to opiates, and parents who merely shrug when social services takes their children away. Portsmouth, Ohio is one that has been hard hit by the opioid epidemic. There is no safety net for this sort of thing, and it's crushing the institutions that it touches while wrecking the community.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/17/drugs-opiod-...

I can feel the anger in this post but please know it's not directed at you or HN. I see this up close and the hopelessness of it all, makes me feel impotent to meaningfully help, and subsequently, angry.
They don't seem too concerned about the optics of this move.
drug companies shipped 9 million opioid doses over 2 years

Drug companies didn't ship anything. Drug wholesalers did that. They're the ones that sell to end customers (pharmacies).
Uber is doing fine where I live. No one is using Lyft here. Also this https://xkcd.com/605/
They were using them to collect intelligence, they weren't rec centers.
Related question: Couldn't we create some sort of rocket elevator with huge and very high balloons?
All of the extra convenience and features afforded by using .NET are more than worth having to do a few simple things not to make the GC trigger at the wrong times. A game written by a beginner in any engine is going to have classes of errors that make it harder to keep using the same codebase over time. Compare the few simple suggestions (many of which like object reuse apply to C++ as well) in the article to the huge list of things not to do in C++.
I think that's why it works -- if you change that = to a %=, the effect no longer happens.

It does make (intuitive) sense, though, because the only time that makes a significant difference is when a lot of fireflies flash around one firefly simultaneously, in which case the firefly wouldn't decide to flash twice in a row but instead interpret it as a singular flash. And if a firefly sees another one flash when it's about to, it would naturally want to synchronize its flashing with the other.
Many people who end up taking opioids say the same thing you say, and swear them off. It's easy to say that you won't take them until you're in pain that makes you feel as if you're dying, then it's a different story.
Shutting down diplomatic compounds and expelling diplomats is a standard mechanism for signalling diplomatic disapproval of a kind where war is not yet deemed necessary as a response.

Especially when the diplomats or facilities are either tied to the act in question, or known espionage actors or assets.
time will tell :-)
At their respective current burn rates they both probably have 3-4 years left.
BS. Purdue actively lobbied doctors to not alter their dosage schedules when prescribing the drug to their patients. That has nothing to do with labelling or regulations.
I hate this argument.

1. Crack has a lighter sentence than meth does despite meth being a "white" drug and crack being a "black" drug.

2. America has always casted failure as a moral failing. Its the basis of Calvinism. It has nothing to do with the war on drugs.

3. The epidemic is new. In the 40s, 50s, 60s, when healthcare was much worse, you didn't see this level of addiction to opiates. Easier access to opiates means better access to healthcare which is the problem.
Temporarily.

> a federal judge gave Järlström the temporary right to call himself an engineer, pending the results of his case.
We can conjecture all we'd like, but Sam Quinones wrote a rather definitive history of the opioid epidemic in America.
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem...

Sam ran the podcast circuit awhile back if you want to listen to his story. I found out about it via Russ Roberts' Econ Talk.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm...
After the point when the whole swarm is synchronised there seems to be no further nudging, does this make sense? Am I missing something? Very interesting, just not sure I understand.
assuming nothing changes, don't they have 10 more quarters at this burn rate?
Hope you get some good answers. I've looked for similar solutions in the past and it's staggering how many crm solutions there are for this sort of market segment, it's actually overwhelming since there doesn't appear to be a market leader (Salesforce probably wins for big companies).
> prices have to rise 6% (assuming no efficiency improvements via pool etc, which is frankly ridiculous)

If Uber raises 6%, the revenue Uber will decrease. If you raise the price, simply there will be less rides because people will find alternatives such as Lyft, taxi, or even public transportations.
Nice work. Should also add sections for summary, languages, & interests.

Any plans to add an option to import/export your resume to jsonresume format (https://jsonresume.org/).
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it's a proven design.

scaled composites, which built this also built the GlobalFlyer with similar configuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Atlantic_GlobalFlyer
You're right. We should just all get used to terrorism now, a few dead a year is the best we can do.
> I'm pretty sure we're the only country that has commercials for "Opioid Induced Constipation" drugs as well.

Well, we're one of only two countries in the world that allow direct to consumer advertising for drugs at all, so your statement is probably true.

(New Zealand is the other one for those curious, with Canada having some limited things they allow).
> Now, I only use Lyft - as do most of the people. Plus, most of the Uber drivers are shady here and the people think Ubers a snaky company.

Why's that?
How is this different from administering multiple antibiotics at once?

I thought administering multiple antibiotics at once was already common practice to reduce drug resistance.
If I understood the Reuters article correctly, Uber made $3.4 billion and therefore lost $4.1 billion in the first quarter of 2017.

Can someone help me understand what Uber spends $4.1 billion dollars on in 3 months? Is it because they're subsidizing rides by that much on average? (i.e. paying drivers more than riders pay)