skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point, though, every company that wants a sustainable business model needs to make money "on average" on the sum of all items (units of service, e.g. rides) sold. Uber being a local business should be able to do this progressively as its business matures in each city. However, if it is true that they are not profitable in their mature US market where by some accounts they enjoy >80% market share, that implies some substantial flaws in their model. Subsidizing rides in Asia or some smaller city in Europe is ok to gain growth, subsidizing rides in New York or San Francisco is worrying. And autonomous driving implies a completely different business model and economics (driven by the "who owns the car fleet" discussion).
Is that the video where he explains how there wasn't huge demand for upmarket cabs to angry upmarket cab driver? There wasn't much scandal there.
But no other company is selling the promise of an autopilot car. For example, Audi is expected to launch renewed Audi A8 this year with Level 3 autonomous driving but it's called "Traffic Jam Pilot". Level 2 was called "Traffic Jam Assist".

https://media.audiusa.com/models/piloted-driving
Google wants my traffic for themselves and calls it “more secure”. Ha ha, nice try.
Because he understands how to read it. Punctuation is here to help the reader, not the writer, to read his texts.

BTW it reminds me of Flaubert who did shout out loud every sentences he would write.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mPpydgyUSKQC&pg=PA244&lp...
Waymo: the judge has not ruled yet, and there is no evidence revealed to the public which implicates Uber. There is lots of evidence implicating Levadowski.

But uber is still lagging behind Waymo/Lyft in the self driving technology. They were desperate to catch up, hence the acquisition of lewandowski's new company in the first place. Now that path is no longer viable regardless of the verdict.

Whoever becomes the new CEO will have to be laser focused to make their auto pilot program work somehow. Without that, Uber has no path to profitability.

They really should have done what lyft did, building partnership with companies like Google/Waymo and GM instead of trying to build their own auto pilot program from scratch.
Another real-Linux-on-the-mobile project, SailfishOS, has community ports onto popular Android devices[1].

Jolla, the main developer of SailfishOS, is set to announce an official port of SailfishOS, to the Sony Xperia Z sometime this month (according to their blog)[2].

[1] https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris_reboo...
[2] https://jolla.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sony_Jolla_pres...
The suffix thing is generally a sign you're doing functional programming and should instead explicitly name the state if any is needed.

The problem with that idea is that it clashes with the OOP notion typical in languages like C++, Java, C# and so on. (Though it does make dependency injection and persistence of the state easier.)

Plus some names like "allocator" or "garbage collector" are ingrained in standard.

(FYI the state for an allocator could be a freelist, for GC could be a graph.)
Question is whether Uber board thinks about it.
I'm confused as to how this relates to my comment. My point was simply that military UAVs are 'easier' than autonomous cars because they are not autonomous. They are remote-controlled.
> And if you add the "standardized fields" thing it also matches the REST interface+RDBMS+SQL comparison the OP made.

The standardization in REST is basically "read stuff" and "write stuff". For everything else you're supposed to look up the API docs and write a specialised client.

I can query a SPARQL endpoint for a list of people and their friends, sorted by age - without knowing anything about that endpoint. I can also merge results from different endpoints without worrying whether they use slightly different data formats.
And then you end up with the eternal TO-DO. Congratulations.
type Parser a :: String -> [(a, String)]

"A Parser for Things
Is a function from Strings
To Lists of Pairs
Of Things and Strings!"
- Fritz Ruehr
The most important men in town will come to fawn on me
They will ask me to advise them,
Like a Solomon the Wise
"If you please, Reb Tevye?"
"Pardon me, Reb Tevye?"
Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes
Ya va voy, ya va voy voy vum

And it won't make one bit of difference
If I answer right or wrong
When you're succesfull they think you really know.
Android Root App
FWIW new Xilinx silicon is programmed by a new software suite, Vivado - which is much better than the terrible ISE you probably had to use in your class.
Your link dropped me off in a rainforest in the Kongo.. Are you sure that's where Apollo landed? I was kinda hoping for some crater on the moon....
I think you're really just reinforcing the point. He's been willing to do whatever it takes. In the US that meant testing how far he could push and how many regulations he could bend and break before people called him on it. In Australia, apparently, that means first pushing the product experience as far as possible to convince people Uber is much more desirable than taxis.

And regardless of that, it doesn't matter: by the time Uber started operating in Australia (or any non-US country, for that matter), they already had a history of pushing hard against existing norms. Uber would have never even gotten to the point where expanding outside the US would have been possible if it hadn't been for Kalanick.

Sure, he's a jerk, but to claim that he had nothing to do with Uber's expansion after launch is just absurd.
The sharing schemes in Europe and MoBike are completely different. The dockless nature of MoBike, Ofo, Obike etc is an order of magnitude game changer. I pick up a bike from below my block, ride it anywhere and just leave it there. I use it many times a day. When I lived in Europe I never once used the docked bike sharing services.
Anyone have insights on how Go Forward Health (https://goforward.com/) is doing? I love their concept, to the extent I almost want to work there. However, I wonder if such services would suffer from an adverse selection problem -- their current cost of $149/mo seems almost free these days -- how do they manage high-volume users?
Yeah for the most part that works, but I'm also often itching to give my own feedback to the streamer, and that is difficult to do without having it open :D

I will say, in the circles I move in, many content creators are also running a discord along side twitch. Some will even invite people into their voice chat to talk with them on stream.

I much prefer using discord in those situations, but that may be partly due to the higher barrier to participation that using discord immediately entails.
As a large guy, this could be potentially a big deal (no pun intended). I hate clothes shopping, and usually wind up having to try on 2 sizes of everything, sometimes the larger size fits, sometimes the smaller... often I need to have a collar lifted regardless.

Frankly, if custom ordering shirts/pants weren't hard to do right and as costly, I'd just do that.
Webpack and Preact-CLI HTTPS Vulnerability
The Mobikes in Singapore are the best. They glide along compared to Obikes. They have chains so must be a new design.
Hi synicalx, I used that method for many years too, but with time the emails end up piling up. That's manageable of course, but it feels nice to control exactly who owns your information.
Its because of human drivers(cunts), just wait till the autnomous car revolution, I have a feeling it'd be bliss.
But this was done globally though.

'Software company, Not a taxi company' argument was used extensively to circumvent license and medallion regulations. On top of it they used VC money to drive down the prices by 4x-5x.

Several tens of thousands of drivers in every state in every country they went to got shafted because of these moves.

So yes he was very brutal and ruthless upfront. You can't replace that kind of human quality easily.
He owns more than 50% of the voting stock. Boards don't operate on one-man-one-vote, they operate on one-share-one-vote. If he had really wanted to stay no matter the consequences, he could simply have voted against his own firing.
> Nope, This is wrong. Kalanick stood in front in the fight against the City officials and Taxi unions across the globe.

Don't kid yourself, this fight was fought by lawyers and lobbyists.

Uber financed one side of this fight, but seeing as the outcome of this fight was critical to Uber's business model, that wasn't some genius insight, that was self-preservation.
> Can anyone comment on what the development story is like?

I can. I've developed and released an app for SailfishOS, and am currently in the process of developing a second one.

I do all my app development in emacs, and VirtualBox (running an i486 version of SailfishOS). My app's written in Python. The UI parts are written in QML (basically JS). I have a Makefile that does an assortment of things for me (setup dev env, package application, clean up stuff).

My second app is going to be written in Python and Go, with the UI once again in QML.

It's real Linux underneath, so you can write your application any way you like (as long as it runs on Linux/arm). However, it's easiest to write the UI in QML, as it handles all the input/widgets for you.
Monadic parser combinators!

There is a nice paper on the subject by Graham Hutton and Erik Meijer. It's a very good introduction to both parser combinators and monads, and it's very readable even for beginners.
This was basically the only reason I ever used Uber instead of Lyft. Now I'll just use Lyft 100% of the time since drivers seem to like them better anyway.
I've found that third party applications like Orion are far better UI wise than Twitch. The twitch web interface always felt clunky to me. I don't know how they managed to mess up the interface but Orion (a desktop app) plays the video streams far better with no weird lags or stutters.

You can get the source here: https://github.com/alamminsalo/orion

or just google "Orion Twitch" if you want compiled binaries.

I have no affiliation with Orion, just a satisfied user.
Yes, the advice in this is pretty bad, especially since author does not know what active vs passive means. It is about verbs not nouns.

Albeit one letter is too short.
Raising prices could include raising (by not as much) payouts to drivers, which could make them more attractive to drive than Lyft. Then again, if too many customers leave, then you have a surplus of drivers who get frustrated because they can't get fares. But perhaps there's a balancing point somewhere in the middle.

And many/most Uber drivers also drive for Lyft. There's no harm in leaving both apps on and grabbing a more-elusive (but higher) Uber fare when one comes along.
I got contacted by some internet historians because I had the oldest extant archive of one of 4chan's erotica boards. That was a weird feeling.
> It turns out it's not feasible or desirable to just let arbitrary people make arbitrary queries.

It turns out where and why exactly?
That is a spurious relationship at best. Actually you couldn't possibly have chosen a worse example. Scandinavia actually has the highest share of billion-dollar exits compared to the rest of the world (7% of such exits compared to 2% of global GDP and 3% of total European population) http://nordic.businessinsider.com/the-nordics-are-the-best-f...

Anecdotally, famous Nordic startups include Spotify, Skype, Mojang (behind Minecraft), King (behind Candy Crush, Farm Heroes), Rovio and Supercell.
I doubt the bikes cost more than €50/bike.
For some reason, your website interface is the problem, both on firefox and chrome for me. I know it's the website and not my connection because apps like Orion are able to play your streams at the highest bandwidth setting flawlessly for me.
Don't forget Supercell and Nokia (which are Finnish). And it might not be a startup, but Ikea too.
They were run in a way that assumed funding and burning money to get there. If they suddenly need to turn profitable, they can still downsize a lot. Consider their 2000 engineers... That's on an established service. Sure, they would slow down new features and expansion, but they've have expenses they can cut. And prices they can raise.
That's the whole point : people who could use it should just be paid decently from starter. Tipping is just an unnecessary social pressure, and if you read what people actually say, this is not about the few bucks it costs, it is specifically about the practice which introduce doubt and insincerity in what should be a dead simple process.

Increase the prices, and pay people decently, but don't tip.
What has happened to the initial idea of developing a platform for distributed homomorphic encryption?

EDIT: Seems like I am confusing it with http://www.enigma.co/
Potentially still an issue if drivers can see if you tip or not (with some services, such as Postmates, Amazon Prime Now, they can) and give riders who don't tip 1 star or something.
Node.js community absorbed Alibaba cloud engineer as CTC members
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1296/the-cat-th...

Not a cat person but I remember "The cat that walked by himself" from my childhood.
Hi imhoguy, spammers also happen to buy leaked data sometimes to better target people. Anyway, spam is one thing we address, but that's not the main point. It's more about control of your privacy.
Anecdotally, I'm in the process of being sexually harassed by a director at the company I work for and choosing not reporting it. I plan to leave in a couple of months, my startup is in the final stages of closing a seed round - getting in to a sexual harassment lawsuit right now is the last thing I need in terms of stress and career.

The power dynamics are significantly different though, I don't feel at all in danger, I'm a 6'2 man who lifts weights in his spare time, so it's more of an annoyance than anything truly worrying. I understand that this person may go on to harass the next person who fills my role, but I simply have too much personally riding on the outcome of the present to leverage it in that way.
Well, async/await and several other features were held up at stage1/2 for a long while. I found quite a few things very valuable far earlier on... async/await, object rest/spread, class (static) property syntax.

Now most of it is stage-3 or in-browser, so not a bad decision, but for a long time, you really wanted to be at stage-0/1 and deal with a bit of pain should things change.
I also don't think the bar should be "safer than a human driver", but "safer than than an experiended, sober, well-rested, defensive driver who doesn't use this phone while driving".
They stick around because by default ended streams hang around as a video and so you can watch it after the fact. Maybe they need to update the notifications so it can say "someone was live x hours ago"
That indicates how much the tech press love writing about scandals at unicorn startups, and how much some folk enjoy reading them.
So what you're saying is, in your "relevant" scenario, you would discriminate based on gender for a hiring decision.
I'm so surprised that so many people don't know that when Uber was first created, you had a tip selector in your profile that you could add a tip automatically to each ride.
Just doing VPN reinforces the wrong notion that LAN == Safe.
And with anonymous functions, your traceback often hasn't a clue where the function was defined.
Nearly is pretty slow.

check out Chevrotain

http://sap.github.io/chevrotain/performance/
Well, if thats true i am taking the next one-way flight to London.
You see this sentiment ALL the time in food services. Wait staff or pizza delivery guys always bitch about "cheap" customers instead of the reality that their boss lies about prices and then skims it out of their paychecks when people don't pay the "real price" of the food.
Please elaborate, I'm not a native speaker and I don't see how it can be interpreted differently in this context.
> The places with so called, work life balance.

I'd rather have a real work life balance (it's not so called, it's very real) than any amount of abuse working for a US style startup would throw at me.

Most of my colleague would as well.

To have the disdain for life you seem to display you must live in a very distant place from a sane version of reality.
"The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines."

- God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (a prescient book on social feedback loops, my favourite in the series)
Yes, the chips exist, but why do you need hardware decoding in something as unreadable as a TV?
How Lawyers Will Be Killed by the Blockchain and Not Machine Learning
Reminds me of XKCD 1119, "Undoing" https://xkcd.com/1119/
I'm curious why you think Abbeel is underrated. He is one of the few ML researchers to not succumb to the pull of the industry (at least completely) and his work is highly respected in the community, especially continuous control.
Yes, for example at Wallix, we created awless.io a CLI for AWS, that uses RDF (https://github.com/wallix/triplestore) to model cloud data. So far this linked data has help us since it is loosely coupled and has graph-like properties.
What makes open source popular in the market?
I think it largely falls to the size and discipline of the teams doing the work. I get by pretty well without them, but if I had to coordinate with over 20 other developers working in a single codebase, then I'd have a differing opinion. I'd also be pushing for 100% test coverage as it's FAR easier to do in JS than it is in other languages. Of course, adding types makes it harder again.
Good Lord, they rediscovered integrated rounding! :)

(Re: quantization change in encoder. Also known as statistical or statistician rounding.)
Also interested, yes.
"Standardized fields" here meant columns in a relational database, things you can index and look up quickly. "Birth date" would be such a field that you'd hope would be standardized, for example.

> I can query a SPARQL endpoint for a list of people and their friends, sorted by age - without knowing anything about that endpoint.

No you can't. I am certain that you can't.

To do this, you would need:

- A social networking service that uses SPARQL

- People to actually use that service

- Knowing the schema that would represent things like "friend" and "age"

- A model of permissions that indicates that somehow you're allowed to know the age of people's friends (seriously, how are you allowed to know this, that's creepy)

- A way to express that permission alongside your SPARQL query, which probably means you need to expand the query to include a representation of your identity and permissions

- A way for the SPARQL endpoint to authenticate that you have that permission (you will definitely need to look up API docs for this, as it will involve sending some sort of crypto token out-of-band)

- A container format for the RDF responses you get that can express things like "you don't have permission for that query"
Facebook had a major ace in the hole by starting at Harvard. That's the network pretty much everyone wants to be a part of.

The irony is that in growing, FB traded down that cachet -- but managed to transition from cohort value to network value fairly successfully.

This is an argument I've made for years, I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one -- danah boyd has mentioned it several times as well.

I'm not saying Zuck didn't execute well -- the advantage still could have been blown (and I've only just learnt of a similar network started IIRC at Columbia University which didn't go as well). But for all the things Zuck can claim, building Harvard's social appeal is not one of them.
See, there's this thing called context: the meaning of the word changes through the surrounding words. If there is a word "repealing" in text, this does not usually mean "everything that's related is repealed" - it means exactly what it says on the tin: "repealing Directive 2002/58/EC" - nothing about repealing the existing state-level legislation (to repeat previous context, "It's one ruleset for the whole EU instead one ruleset for each EU state.")

My point still stands - you still need to conform to both GDPR and the state-specific legislation.
Don't you just sit in the back if you want to zone out and sit in the front if you want to talk?
It works for me. Are you on mobile or something?
Correct. It's the video where the Uber driver blames Travis personally for him buying cars and his small transportation business failing. I mean, how could an incredibly high interest and high upfront capital car loan into a very speculative and low margin business be risky? It must be Uber and Travis screwing him.
> but if people ain't dying it means research is not moving fast enough

Could you help me understand this further? It feels quite insensitive to me.
What's the Net effect on OOP?
You don't need a library. Just have a policy that everything should be immutable by default and only turn into mutable objects when optimizing, for example for-loops. The benefit with immutability is not performance (it's actually slower) but manageability and debug-ability. It's easier to reason about code when the variables doesn't change, and you'll get all the variable-states when debugging.
Example:

var foo = 1;
var bar = foo + 1;
This is _not_ conclusive at all, there are way too many questions to be asked -

1. did those reduced mileage caused by more carpooling, improved public transport, e.g. Shanghai route 71[1]? or maybe people just choose to walk more often due to the slightly improved air quality in 2017?

2. Baidu map is on a head on competition with AutoNavi (gaode), Baidu claimed to have overtaken AutoNavi as the No.1 in 2016. With such claimed shrinking market share from AutoNavi's side, a 3% figure which is probably smaller than the error margin allowed, together with the fact that AutoNavi's parent company actively invested in such bike sharing scheme, you need to really religious about mobike/ofo to consider such claimed "reduction" meaningful.

[1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E5%85%AC%E4...
Just took a tour of the facility a few weeks ago. During the hour (or more?) we were there, nobody came in or out. I think their issue is just getting users at all; so high-volume users would be a great problem for them to have at this point.

They are trying to sell users on the fact that they are a tech company just as much as a medical service. But from what I saw they have a "Body scanner" (glorified scale that also gets height, O2 and pulse) and a bunch of iPads built into the walls.

EDIT: Also wanted to mention their trickery with pricing. They bill annually. The rep will tell you that they have a special promotion where you can sign up for the monthly plan if you sign up shortly after your tour. But the "monthly" plan still requires you to pay an early termination fee of 50% of the remaining annual balance.
For my own selfish interests, I was hoping they would keep him in there for as long as possible. I exercised my Lyft shares and the value is shooting up the moon.
I am not sure why this tech is acceptable, at all.

People fall asleep even while actively driving the car. How can they be expected to maintain vigil with something like this.

But I guess Tesla is content with ending their responsibility at "Informing the user that they should be vigil at all times, even when car is driving itself", with out considering how feasible it is.

Another funny thing about it is that, earlier, with regular cars, you only had to watch the errors from the other drivers on the road. Now you have to watch other cars and also mistakes made by your own car's AI...

What could go wrong?
Too Hot to Fly? Climate Change May Take a Toll on Air Travel
This has always been true in London - if you are willing to blag it you can get a well paid contract role. You can normally spot them because they have a lot of 3-6 month contracts, and no renewals
Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs–Why?
Straight up exploitation of people during their most vulnerable moments.