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Sorry, but the ofo bikes are shit. Mobike just works, ofo is as likely to be broken as not. This is my personal experience living in Shanghai, and the opinion of everyone I've talked to about these bikes. If you can't rely on the bike working, the service has no value to me.

What is likely to happen is as the local governments get involved to stop the proliferation of bicycles taking up limited sidewalk space, there will be increasing restrictions placed on the bike sharing model, and there will be some consolidation in the market. When the tide goes out we can see who was swimming naked.

I think the mobikes are engineered just about right, and they have at least four totally different designs out, which shows they are experimenting. I usually pay 1RMB per ride, which for the middle class is as close to free as makes no difference, but probably enough to make the business sustainable at scale.

Bottom line: bike sharing is here to stay, and mobike got it right.
Actually, they are and have always been in front of the pack.
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It sounds vaguely like refactoring a recursive-descent parser.
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The affordable care act has enrolled millions on to some kind of health insurance plan.
Even if you are stuck with a high deductible plan, oftentimes that annual check up (preventive care) is fully covered without requiring a deductible payment.
And, of course, if you are on Medicaid - you have Medicaid.

If you are relatively young and/or healthy, that's all you would really need.

As a result, their patient population likely gradually dwindled.

I was a proponent of dpc at one point but, now enrolled in a high deductible plan myself, i don't see as much need for it personally. I'd rather take the money and throw it into my health savings account and use it when i need to.
Often they are a means of having something to which they can point and say "we were doing our very best to create a safe environment". It's more of "ammo in case of lawsuit" than actual useful training. It may also be to just follow regulations in some places where they ought to have at least X hours/minutes of training on compliance related matters per year/month etc.
Actually you will need more than a camera input, may be even a sound input.

In darkness it helps if you can hear the vehicles coming close.
Heh, okay, so it wasn't a deliberate decision!
No. You don't get thrown into prison for being a threat. You get there for a specific action.
What's the point of that analogy? Darkness can be fixed with lights on the vehicle itself. Inclement weather is entirely outside the control of the vehicle.
1. What percentage of your health issues are "emergency, heart attack RIGHT NOW"-class issues? What percentage of health care spending overall are these issues?

2. Have you or someone you know in the United States ever "shopped around" or otherwise prepared in advance for an emergency through the provision of, say, catastrophic health care insurance, which promises to pay for emergency room visits? (Employer coverage can count here.)

To the extent that (1) is a small number, this question is a non sequitor. To the extent that (2) is large, even that small number is further mitigated.

There are lots of arguments about why it might be better to structure health care as a centrally-planned activity instead of a market-based activity. This isn't one of the good ones.
Hopefully my grandmother's funeral arrangements.
Highly dependant on the setup you have.
Solar desalination is not new ... I performed the same feat in the '70s during Boy Scout camp-outs in Virginia Beach (Fort Story) [0]. What is new is the level of efficiency!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
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Uh, I know what higher order functions are. You misinterpreted my comment, I wasn't saying decorators are more powerful than higher order functions. My point was that decorators are implicit in a way standard, explicit use of higher order functions is not.

This "please, please learn" bullshit comes off as so smug and patronizing, did you realize? And when you're misunderstanding something it's even worse.
I still see a lot of AT&T first phones. AT&T still seems to have some "power" to themselves. It's once you establish a specific phone's brand that you push it out to other carriers I suppose. It took Apple quite a while too as far as I knew. Never owned an iOS device and I probably never might despite enjoying macOS.
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It's not that funny.
That's how legal complaints work. You set forth a chain of facts that plausibly imply a conclusion. Proving the conclusion is what you do at trial, after having the benefit of discovery.
It's not. People don't see the prices. It's whatever the insurance company can be convinced to pay. People don't get to pick their insurance plan either because it's locked into corporate contracts for the employees (for most people). This model happens because the government allows companies to tax deduct the cost of health insurance as a benefit but not individuals...which happened from union demands.

When people are totally removed from the cost, people aren't being exploited. Removing people from the cost increases the cost.
Reminds me of Tom Henderson's so-called Punk Mathematics[0], a USD$30k vapourware kickstarter that I funded.

After that disappointment and Schuyler Towne's famously USD$90k vapourware Lockpicks by Open Locksport, I stopped supporting crowdfunding projects.

Good job guys, you ruined it for everyone else.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1541803748/punk-mathema...

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-o...
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You go from X to Y. Then you go back.

How can that be ambiguous?
And belittling people and treating them down emotionally.
Link? It might be useful to see a simple example
Honestly, grsec has rightly earned a reputation for being hostile and even irresponsible with their conduct, regardless of how good their patches are (of course, the quality is known to be high- but there have been some blunders. Don't run `script /dev/null </dev/zero` on an older grsec kernel ;)
Boob-er anyone?

http://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions?currentPage=1
I get it. They would want to release their cars in US or Europe as their primary markets.

But even in those cases it makes sense to test in India. Why? Sooner or later you will have some situation in the US which may resemble daily traffic conditions in India. Imagine a law and order situation where people are running around without regards to traffic laws. Or some other situation where traffic is being rerouted through a wrong way, In US may be as an exception traffic is being routed through the left lane(being a right lane drive country) etc etc.

For all these situations you will very soon need a test environment that provides you with all situations to test.
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> More volume just makes the total loss bigger, because that's more money you've been giving away.

Yup, that sounds about right.
Yet it's considered perfectly PC to create companies that hire exclusively women or organize black-only university events. Similarly, Infosys hired a large amount of minority group workers. Whether this is racist or empowering is a matter of opinion. (And in reality, it's merely a business model).
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There's also a lot of stupid shit that you need to have a prescription for that you ought to just be able to go out and buy. Case in point, my dad has a CPAP machine for sleep apnea, and it stopped working a few months ago. You'd think something that is conceptually similar to a vacuum cleaner operating in reverse with a mask on the end would be something that you could just go find on Amazon and have shipped to you in two days, but no, you have to do the dance of the different doctors first, then wait more weeks for it to be shipped, then wait even longer for them to schedule an appointment to pick up the damned thing. It's completely absurd.
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I can tell you what it was like to quit my job and focus on a very-early-holy-shit-what-are-we-doing-startup. Was at a marketing agency for 10 years when I left to pursue my first co-founded startup. Made the decision after we got a little organic press and signed up 5k+ users in 24 hours. I had been looking for an excuse to leave and do something new anyway.

It was scary as hell (no revenue coming from the startup), fun as hell, challenging as hell. Had my savings all planned out to help support the adventure, but still had that daily stress of knowing every dollar I spent was not coming back anytime soon. That part wasn't fun. But I didn't have kids or a mortgage and knew this was my chance to do something of the sort.

10/10 would do again in a similar situation, though knowing what I know now, I might have launched a business instead of chased a cool idea.
Isn't that something of a double standard though?

You say "Huawei's US workforce is overwhelmingly Chinese" and shrug it off, and then I read an article about Facebook that says they don't hire enough black people.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/25/facebook-...
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> I really don't like how racism comes up so often in these situations when I think the closer term is probably familiarity or customs

As a rule, 90% of what people call "racism" in the US today is closer to xenophobia.

Likewise, 75% of what they call "racist police" is fundamentally a failure of the justice system as a system to restrain, discipline, or be responsible for its own career employees (police, prosecutors, and even judges), let alone properly incentivise them.
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Based on the article disposing of the double salty water "willy nilly" is the problem. We should be able to pipe a system that delivers it over a wide area. Nice info though!
Yeah. After the initial excitement my first thought was if using nanotechnology could make the amortized cost of a panel prohibitively expensive.
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I installed Slackware 3.9 or 4.0 on a Contura 4/25C via floppy around the same time, but as I had 8Mb to play with I managed to get a browser running in X (though without a window manager).
I don't think he has been accused of doing it personally.

It also is weird that matt4077 repeatedly contrasts Kalanick with Steve Jobs in this thread, despite Apple having been accused many times of mean culture, sexism, harassment and cover-ups too.
> Why not just let them hire whoever they want?

Consider a sole proprietor. It's detrimental to society if she refuses to hire black people. It causes social tension, an underutilisation of labour and is just plain racist.

Now consider an investor-owned company. We don't want managers hiring their friends and family over qualified candidates. It wastes capital, promotes inequality and impairs labour utilisation. (It also messes with education incentives). All that makes raising money harder for everyone which, in turn, makes the economy less effective.

TL; DR Employers being racist hurts other people. Hence, we regulate it.
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Yesterday I made a deal with an old high school friend that reached out to me about a job as well as a loan. In general, I don't loan money to friends. It gets complicated quickly and risks the actual relationship. However, I made a deal with him where I would give him a little more money that what he asked for and he wouldn't need to pay me if he committed to learning how to code (with my assistance).

I hypothesize that the growth that I will receive by teaching code and the potential positive impact that can result in his life will be worth the experience. Have any of you done something like this? I would love some pointers or thoughts :)
This may kill Uber.

Highly unlikely. Why? Investors who stomach multi-billion dollar annual losses will probably just shrug off the recent bit of trouble. If the choice is to either write off $15 billion or to give another couple to help the company go through a rough patch (what a buying opportunity!) I think I know what investors are going to do.

Kalanick's head has now rolled (not that it really hurts him much personally though, it's probably even a relief for him) but seriously a whole nother level of crap would have to happen with Uber before investors start getting comfortable with the thought of letting go those $15 billion.
There's a middle ground between innocent until proven guilty and condemned by accusation and we've been using it in a courts of law for many, many years. Sexual harassment is primarily a civil issue, not a criminal one. And civil issues are resolved based on the preponderance of the evidence, not innocent until proven guilty.

Anyone accused of sexual harassment should have a chance to give their side of the story and an investigation should be performed, but the company should act based on what HR believes happened, not just what HR can prove happened. Neither the accuser nor the accused has the presumption of being right or the burden of proof.
The efficiency will certainly be a lot less than 100%, and it does seem likely that at least two companies might bring the tech to market within a couple of years of each other. I think whatever the starting price point is, there will probably be so much of a demand/supply gap that the initial price point will hold for a number of years.
of course. kind of like how oxygen can kill us.
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A link shouldnt get a pop up but, if running JavaScript had required at least a one-time user approval for each individual script link from the day off it's inception, the web would be a much friendlier place.
Im sorry, but if you extrapolate that kind of paranoia and self-servedness everything has difficult repercusions. Maybe companies shouldnt have an HR department at all because people might decide the risk of someone complaining about them is so big that they stop hiring anyone.
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Considering the vast numbers of prisoners, the rate of literary production is not that great, especially when you take out the political prisoners.
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Yes, but in my town you can only pick them up at the train station and have to bring them back there. In larger cities there are more stations, or in some places you can leave them anywhere, but I've never been to a place where they were abundant. From what I've heard, Munich is a particularly good place.

The difference to the chinese bikes is:

- The chinese bikes are dirt simple. They sometimes have reliability-oriented features like special tires, otherwise they are just commodity bikes with a lock, painted colorful. Call a bike in contrast is really overengineered, with custom frame and everything. (OK, this is more of an advantage for the company than for the user.)

- There are no stations. This is the big difference. Where ever I can walk, I can ride faster. I never look for a bike, I just grab one when I find it.

- The bicyles are absolutely abundant. Even at a small subway station in beijing, there are at least 50 of each brand. Contrast it with Hamburg, where in the city center, 2 stops away from the central station, you find a sad docking station with eight empty places. Maybe this is only possible due to "chinese scale", I don't know.
Xenophobia is a negative spin on an evolved response that is very basic to human nature: homophily [1]. You see it in all human societies.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily
I'd say I learned more by playing around with Slackware, but Gentoo provides all those nice tools to mantain a consistent system.
Yes I also believe it is possible to spin a web of the intellect to make this seem like something else than what it is, but all you get from this is the satisfaction of a web well spun, and the exploitation continues.
Yes this is the thing, they just want to pay less and make sure the onsite guys work overtime for free with the fear of getting offshored/fired. This wont work well with the Americans. This has nothing to do with racism.
Search is a different machine learning problem than recommend / match. They are very related, but performance isn't a symmetrical challenge.
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At scale - maybe. If I go to a manufacurer and say "Hi, I'm a startup, I'd like to buy 100 bikes", they say sure and point me to their regular catalog.
6 litres / metre-squared per hour.

We require 130 litres / person per day in Europe. A town of 10,000 people would require 1,300,000 litres / day = ~54,000 litres / hour = 9000 metres-squared.

A facility of 100 x 100 x 1 m seems feasible. Based on those calculations, this all seems quite practical. I do wonder how frequently the filters need to be changed, though.
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We're actually building something really similar at https://nstack.com. You can deploy your Python model into an API in one command, and then turn it into an HTTP endpoint, or build plug-and-play workflows with your data warehouse, 3rd-party APIs, etc.

I'll reach out on email!
Awful, absolutely terrible.

Translation:

"We will no longer pay our drivers, we will guilt you into doing it."
Prisoners are (in most cases) slaves of their own deeds. People are free to do whatever they wish. But some deeds are not good to others - like killing, stealing, etc. If they can't control themselves not to do those things (therefore "slaves of their own deeds"), then other people must take control over it and put such people into prison. By doing this, other people - especially those without control - are scared off similar deeds... A new chance is given to a prisoner when their sentence has finished and are free again...
Isn't part of the reason end users use Uber is for its ubiquity? If it was only available in a handful of cities that I won't be visiting, I wouldn't bother with it.
> which is definitely annoying when you have your editor set to autoconvert

Is this actually a problem? Every editor I've ever used has detected that I'm writing a makefile and has changed the indentation to tabs automatically.
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Exactly, not everyone is interested in playing the pc game. What if they mean exactly what they say: not a good fit. That doesn't mean he is bad at his job.
Emoji are incredible.

Up until now, the written word has been primarily used to convey mental state from one person to another. Emoji (and cruder emoticons before them) are the first time that text has been widely used to convey emotional state. Yes, they have issues — they can be ambiguous and they can differ subtly between intended and understood meaning, especially between different platforms. But early forms of the written word were just as bad (some might argue they still are).

In a short time we've evolved these new concepts from crude repurposing of punctuation to ambiguous yellow faces to skin-tone selectable faces, and now others are able to be formed with bigrams. All within a decade or two. The rate of adoption, experimentation, and advancement of what amounts to effectively an entirely new form of human communication is incredible.

Groan all you want, but 10 years from now, emoji (or their derivatives) will be as fundamental a form of communication as alphabetic text. Twenty years from now, and proper use for formal and informal contexts will be taught in school.

Plain text will seem outdated as telegram stop I for one can't wait stop
Pretty great, we're using it for resizing and serving images for our clients (large media companies, banks, etc): https://hmn.md/2017/04/27/scaling-wordpress-images-tachyon/

API Gateway is a little rougher, but slowly getting there.
Or you can use CI to deploy.
Surely a company with billions of valuation will pay a decent CEO salary even if said CEO happens to be the founder / main shareholder?
Function composition is great. In-place mutation of a function definition is not great.
Is the profitability in NYC before or after we discovered they were cheating their drivers out of money?

And there aren't too many NYCs in the world.
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That's really good feedback, thanks. Next time around, I'll try to just leg it broadly and see what happens.
That's a desktop chip rebranded as Xeon, with a different set of feature flags. The server chips are a totally different beast, with many more cores, dual socket support, network on chip, AVX 512, upgraded connectivity etc.
People like people who are like them [1]. The word for this is homophily. It's very basic to psychology and it is easy to see how we evolved this way. It's a survival mechanism: 'This like me, this good.' Advertisers use this aspect of human nature extensively.

We unconsciously seek the familiar and feel more comfortable with it. It doesn't matter whether it is shared interests in knitting, hobbies, common values or background, or even something superficial like skin or hair color.

We can fight against homophily, but I don't think we can ever get rid of it. It's part of our apparatus. What we are doing now in the West is unprecedented in humanity. The world wars of the 20th century were so horrific that we decided that the only way forward is to stamp out homophily, most recently by labeling a lot of it as racism or xenophobia. I want to be optimistic that we will end up in a good place but I have my doubts.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily
Actually in the dark you often drive as a leap of faith in the state of the road. I.e. with very little visibility on what can come from the side of the road (no light) or after a turn. We shouldn't. But we do.
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Lower cost, at least in Hungary, was artificial, as Uber was able to undercut local fares given its capital.
The fact that it is a problem doesn't mean that this is the solution for it. I think quotas are just symptomatic treatment instead of treating the cause.

Couldn't the market take care of racism? Nowadays if a company is dumb enough to make blatantly racist things, the social media makes sure that people know this, and not racist people will think twice when dealing with that particular company. However, if racism is hidden behind internal processes, e.g. they don't openly reject minorities, just set the bar higher for them when hiring, it can be really hard to unveil the misconduct.
It's what happens when you hide the price in a supply/demand chart.
>Maybe it is a local (US) thing, here in Italy/Europe you can find black olives in glass jars just fine

In India too.
I've always built my lambdas before upload and never upload my node_modules folder. It also means that when you get an error, debugging can be tricky.
These are different skylake xeons. Skylake E3 were available in 2016. They are limited to only 4 cores. The OP refers to the server-grade Skylake Xeons, previously referred to as E5 and E7. They will reach a lot higher number of cores.
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