skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
obviously the least price-sensitive 5% would remain. it's not like they're running currency exchange or something - people don't have a super set demand curve. maybe 95% of their customers do, but not 100% of their customers... (unlike a currency exchange, for example, which would drop to precisely 0 users worldwide if it increased prices by just 10%, since 100% of any such users are super price-sensitive. likewise if a currency exchange subsidized exchanges by 10% it would have more users the next day - by far - than people on Earth. easily a trillion "users", or whatever the rate limit is for signing up and performing exchanges. try to visualize these two different demand curves and you will see that Uber should still have some users if they raise their prices, because not all of them are completely price sensitive and only use it because it subsidizes rides, and not for any brand or convenience reasons. unlike a commodity currency exchange which exists under ironclad demand curves that drop to 0 if you move along it even slightly. picture these curves.)
Google puts one of their offices on Mars.

https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5632909,137.39354...

https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5642766,137.39039...
Can't speak for Mobike, since I don't use it, but oBike has a very efficient penalty system. Breaking or stealing a bike results in an effective ban from the app (the cost goes up to $5/minute, then $15/minute) and users are rewarded for reporting badly parked, broken or personally-locked bikes. In several months I've only seen two instances of people using personal locks.

The bike is pretty solid and alright for commuting, but what would be the point? You get the first 5 minutes free, the first 2 rides of the day free for 15 minutes each, the entire weekend free, and you couldn't commute with your stolen bike since locking it anywhere visible would get it reported and removed almost immediately. Might as well put your card into the system and occasionally pay a dollar or two.
Usually these systems are set up so the driver rates before they find out what the tip is
These get banned quickly, just a heads up
In the Persian Gulf there is real concern regarding the volume of brine that the desalination produces.

https://www.sciencetarget.com/Journal/index.php/IJES/article...
How about Eric Schmidt?
Should Google acquire Uber?
That's more like "take them serious" on the "believe" (i.e. "It's true, do something!") - "take them serious" (i.e. that could very well have happened, let's check this out) - dismiss (i.e. yeah, yeah, let them talk, could never have happened) spectrum.

All three points lead to different actions and the one in the middle seems to be the most appropriate.
> it pretty much sold by itself -- similar to how Zuckerberg created Facebook, which sold by itself.

Haha don't know where to start. Facebook could have gone to shit in so many ways just like all the predecessors like Myspace and Friendster, but they made all the right decisions and won. Same goes for Uber.
solid tyres? then still the same heavy feeling.
There's no doubt that Amazon has much more established delivery logistics than Uber at this point, but I wonder if the real value would come from another angle:

Uber has been pushing hard on self-driving cars (I mean, in the long term, it strikes me as their only viable business model, so it makes sense). By my best estimates, salary for delivery drivers for Amazon packages run somewhere between $6B and $10B per year (for comparison, if I remember correctly, Amazon's revenue is somewhere around $35B/yr). Automating delivery could be a HUGE deal for them, and an opportunity to scoop up a major player in the autonomous driving space might look very appealing.

Then again, with Washington State throwing the doors open for autonomous testing, Amazon could likely develop their own system on their own turf for less, even if Uber's valuation goes WAY down.
>as though the complaints are true
>though not ... exactly factual

What's that supposed to mean?
That's like saying our eyes are useless because we can't see in the dark.
Of course not, but there isn't another option for Uber. Second place isn't good enough, not with their burn rate. You need Ghengis Khan if you want to slaughter and conquer.
I went to check the *BSDs and even OpenBSD needs 32mb of RAM for the 386 port. FreeBSD needs a whopping 96mb!
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This is less for "Large Engineering Teams" and more for beginners who don't know about the current landscape.

The second issue I have with this is that it is an opinionated tech stack which can lead to poor choices.
Ok, I'm glad it works.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll try to add that somewhere.
What a useless website https://istravisstillceo.com turned out to be.
No one's questioning that. Believe != immediately fire someone once you get a report, that's in GP
When you're #1 and losing money on every transaction, that didn't work.
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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

You should probably redo this as a Show HN. In that spirit, some feedback on your landing page:

- People have lots of reasons behind why they choose an infrastructure provider. Yours seems mostly "goodwill" (both from an environmental and OSS standpoint). Call that out in a "Why Datacenter Light?" Page or section.

- You mention (both here and on the landing page) your open-source stack. Can you say more? Is it KVM based? Do you use Kubernetes? The HN crowd and your target audience (OSS people looking for a box in Switzerland) would appreciate it. A basic set of bullet points would go a long way (and/or a Git repo!).

- Moreover an engineering blog on how you stood this up would likely get lots of interest from HN. How'd you find this factory? Why'd you choose whatever bits you did for a hypervisor? Enough of that content spreads around and you're suddenly looking at customers.

- Most directly, you presumably think of yourself as an alternative to VPS providers and Digital Ocean in particular. I'll caution that DO has had to gain "real cloud provider" services like load balancing, object storage, remote block storage and so on. Which of those do you (plan to) offer?

- While I don't think it's the most important thing you probably want a different name for this offering. Datacenter Light is fairly generic thing (and non-Swiss-German speakers won't know what your umbrella company name means, but you needn't change that).

- Finally, sponsor small events that most directly fit your target audience. My assumption is that you are starting this in Switzerland not only because you live there but because you believe in the current security climate that other people want to host there. There are lots of great ways to spend $500 to host a beer gathering at an important conference and turn that into interest and word of mouth.

Best of luck!
What's wrong with VPN?
The biggest change was how much more free time I had.

When you're building a Nights and Weekends side project, you get used to stealing whatever free hours you can to work on the product. But you also necessarily build things so that they don't take up much of your time every day. If they did, it would interfere with your day job and that just wouldn't work.

So when you remove the day job, you find that suddenly you have this successful business that runs itself in the background and you can do pretty much whatever you want with your day.

Most people in this situation will immediately fill that time up with work on the product, and I did to some extent. But I also made sure to take a bunch of that time just to enjoy with my family. I eventually settled on 2-3 days a week where I was "at work", with the rest devoted to other pursuits. Both me and my wife are rock climbers, which is an "other pursuit" that will happily expand to fill the time available. We're also parents, so ditto there.

I also make a point of downing tools for a while from time to time. Again, because I can.

I took the kids out of school and dragged them off backpacking around SouthEast Asia for a few months the first year. We did a couple more medium sized trips this year, and I took the entire Fall and Spring off because those are the best times for Bouldering in the forest here. Again, work is happy to ramp up or down to accommodate because I never shifted it out of that ability to run on nights and weekends.

So now, I burst for a few weeks at a time on work stuff (with possibly a more relaxed definition of Full Time than most would use), then slow down and relax for a bit.

It's actually not so bad.
It's not too reactive at all, it's precisely how I feel as well. I travel a lot in South East Asia and the absolute last thing I want is to have to bargain with the driver (100% of the time they will try to rip me off) or carry bundles of small notes at all times (100% of the time the driver will claim to have no change).

I have no idea who LibreTaxi is for, if anyone, but their marketing page makes me want to run a mile. Uber and grab have been a revelation for me in SEA and I use them exclusively.
They do. They have huge mind share, they are in more locations, and they offer a better service than Taxi's already.
Sorry, but you did not get the point op was making. None of those you mentioned are production cars like the Tesla, they are test mules. The point of op is correct, he/she is not talking about modded research cars.
Yeah, but winning meant becoming big while loosing money and saddling company with long term problems. Investors likely care about the money thing more.
They currently have no CEO, CFO or COO among other unfilled positions. Even once they bring on new people, it will take them time to become acquainted with Uber's massive worldwide operation... All taking place within a rapidly changing industry.

I'll grab my popcorn, this will be fun to watch.
... an execution that Uber's investors apparently could no longer tolerate.
Or maybe we just promote more women and gay men to managerial positions :)
To a Google-approved Wi-Fi network.
There's so "few" of them because they're in a dozen different languages.

And they're not startups, just small businesses, the difference being mostly the funding. Investing a million for some people to burn through and say "yah, that didn't work" is very much unacceptable.
I've never understood this position. We take a risk too by following innocent until proven guilty in criminal trials, but hundreds of years of the opposite (e.g. "A witch!" -> kill the
'offender', "A child molester!" -> kill the 'offender') have shown us that the risks of a fair trial are better than the risks of ruining peoples life over accusations. Why should this be any different in the work place?
But not Uber.
Maybe not, but they don't discourage/illegalize encryption and companies are supposed to delete your stuff on request.
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Uber drivers are already sufficiently obligated to make pleasant conversation with you. Do you really believe the lack of tipping somehow made your chats with Uber drivers more sincere and meaningful? A full-time driver for hire has dozens of these a day. They're not doing it for the sincere conversations.
General observations from experience:

A well-run company will have proper procedures, processes in place to deal with work place issues.

Management and all staff will also be required to take training on a continuous basis.

Professionally managed organizations don't walk around "believing" this or that or spouting off "innocent until proven guilty" and such

:)
I think the op meant the Tronc European style system for distributing tips.
Transportation is a very substitutable good. Uber doubles prices, they lose more than half their business, total effect on revenue is negative.
They could have remained shitty, but taken plausible deniability actions. As with a top exec personally going to India to get a rape victim's health records (?!?!), Uber seems to have no concept of covering their asses.

They just showed a complete lack of care in so many situations... Shows that ignoring the rules can certainly pay off.
Is the Golden Age over?
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because they are both backed by major investors with access to unlimited cash. they don't invest in those bikes, your deposit covers that, they don't manage those bikes, what else to spend their cash on?

well, they picked the easiest way - they pay their users to use their services.
There's no reason to believe that Marissa would be right for any sort of turn around if yahoo is the reference here.
Hi StavrosK, yes 33mail (and others) propose almost the same service. Two slight differences though:

- email are less guessable with nBox

- if 33mail gets hacked, spammers will get your email address
Is Shadow becoming the forefront of Gaming?
Baidu and Microsoft will be customers:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-20/amd-serve...
Centralized systems have value, sometimes far more than open systems. The other way around is true also.

You can't automatically assume that closed systems are a bad thing.
Is that Sojourner?
I've literally never seen a "can" of olives, is that normal in some weird part of the world?
I hadn't heard that. When did he state this, and is it still accurate as of today? It's possible he sold shares in the last few weeks during the run-up to this decision. Or maybe he hasn't sold shares, but there are other ways that he could have profited handsomely from Uber already. Cash bonuses, private sale of options (has he said he hasn't sold an option?) etc. I'm just saying if he has enough in the bank, he may have decided it wasn't worth it to fight his investors, the media, and basically everyone else that has jumped on the anti-Kalanik bandwagon.
You can have a look at the best sorting algorithms (for various definitions of "best") here http://sortbenchmark.org/
Hi mccolin, thanks for the support! :)
Overnight success, years in making.
It often does, really.
What? Why? I looked her up on Wikipedia - she's an author and a political commentator?
That's going to depend how you define it. I worked at a place where:

Don’t reward good behaviour with scotch, don’t tap kegs at 12pm, and don’t host video game or ping pong tournaments

Very precisely described the culture. The place was owned by a woman and that was the culture she chose to put in place. Is that a bro culture?
Are you sure that CS:GO isn't just a less popular game than it used to be? At least on the esports scene?

Given the absolute minimal user flow needed to watch a livestream, I find it hard to believe that people suddenly can't find tournament streams when there's already extremely limited options to do so.
You are not solving the privacy problem. You can be easily identified by your custom domain, unless there're a couple thousand people using it.
Everyone keeps saying "7.5 years old" as though that is the only fact that matters.

I happen to like my Nook Glowlight. I have a newer Kobo also, but, like all the new ereaders, it lacks hardware page-turn buttons, and microsd slot.

In the case of that Nook, I did in fact root it and already had to side-load apps anyway, since it only runs android 1.6. So, don't bother telling me how to make my Nook work. It's not about me or my Nook. It's about this idiotic response that no one could possibly have any legitimate reason to run 7 year old software.

You know what? I'd LOVE to run new software on my 7 year old DEVICE. But they don't bother to make current software compatible with old devices.

It would be incredibly inconsiderate to demand it, but I'd even almost swallow "just get a new device", except they don't make new devices that have the same features as the old device. For instance that Nook. New nooks and all other ereaders lack the features I specifically valued about that one.

There are countless examples of features that you want, that devices have only one time or for a short while, and then not again. Hardware buttons, sdcard slot, removable battery, headphone jack, (conversely, headphones with a cord that plugs into anything, how do you use airbuds with your roku remote? ), size that actually fits in your hand even if you're a small woman, special museum glass anti-reflective screen (vaio tz laptop), or literally countless other features that someone else decides you no longer need.

Meaning there are countless examples of why someone might actually want to run "gasp 7 year old software omg I think I just threw up in my mouth..."
Travis Kalanick's words to that Uber driver back in Feb 2017 are very ironic now in retrospect:

"Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit. They blame everything in their life on somebody else."
Because they won't get any more free advertising from Kalanick whoopsies? Must be someone in the public relations department, because that will now have to get a much more generous budget.
I think it's just because these bikes are very cheap, maybe the guard system is the major cost. Indeed, some of my friend's bikes were stolen even carefully locked(about 1500-3000 RMB). On the contrary, mobike use steel frame not Aluminium(so it's heavy), doesn't have a derailleur, and other parts are all very cheap. Which make it's cost to be very low(I can buy such a bike with 300 rmb). So just buy one will be more convenient.
p.s I live in Wuhan.
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Why never carry any cash? I can see not wanting to carry large amounts but what if your card or cards fails and you are left stranded.
Not every round has to be an up round. They could decrease their valuation significantly and still survive. Surely there's plenty of value left in Uber.
That's simply not true. Places where Uber and Lyft aren't allowed have a thriving alternative ride-sharing economy. In Austin, there are 3 different Uber-clone apps that do a fine job: Ride Austin, Fasten, and Fare.
Sure, discounts for buying more is nothing new, but no upfront costs? No place does that at Amazon's scale.
they include comments, wiki, reviews, etc.

https://sourceforge.net/p/mulinux/wiki/browse_pages/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mulinux/reviews

it's pretty stupid.
Agreed. Whether or not your listed events are the exact same set of reasons for his ousting, it's a good thing for our industry that his brand of unethical leadership is being shown the exit. As if TK is the only leader than can deliver the same type of value. Good riddance! Lyft just got their opportunity, hopefully they learn from Uber's mistakes.
Making decisions at the cost of their employees' well-being didn't keep them in first place. Having a toxic work environment for women didn't put them in first place.
> Not every meme, click bait article, or shitpost needs to be saved.

Unless you want to unravel how Trump got elected?
Sorry HN, but lmfao.
Reputation is for B players.
Chris Lattner can go work for any company in the world that can afford him.

A players don't look at company's reputation, they look at things that actually matter.
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/874696738119888896
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Vice's Shane Smith Is Now a Billionaire
The melbourne scheme failed not because of the helmet laws, but because of its poor coverage. How many streets in inner city suburbs had those shared bikes stations for pick up/drop? Quite often you use those bikes for 10 minutes and then had to spend the next 15 minutes to find the location where you can drop it - that is after another 15 minutes spent earlier to pick up your shared bike.
Only asking for opinions from people who were successful is literally asking for survivor bias perspectives.

Possibly. But on the flip side, "only quit your day job once your business replaces its income" is a really good strategy for being successful.

That's actually a piece of advice I don't feel like I see pounded in enough. I see so many people "quit my job today to start a startup!" and I have to bite my tongue before I dump on their day by telling them what a terrible idea that was.

Then again, I personally did kinda quit my job before building my first revenue generating product, so pots & kettles and all that. I wouldn't do it again though.

Sounds like you're on the right path.
Which ledger do you mean? I found several with that name...
Liquidation preferences, senior equity, and debt-like terms, perhaps? If Uber is valuable enough in liquidation, it'd be a great opportunity to zero out the common stockholders and go home with a pile of cash.
"I really hope I can pay more to get from A to B", said nobody.

Also I don't know where your assumption "The market has spoken" comes from.
I'm not OP, but Arianna Huffington is on the board of Uber, helping lead the investigation behind the sexual harassment report. NYTimes also has this (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/technology/arianna-huffin...):

> In recent months, Ms. Huffington has become the public voice of Uber’s board as the company has tried to overcome scandals over its workplace culture. She has forged a friendship with Mr. Kalanick. And behind the scenes, she has been a driving force in recruiting an Uber board member and executives.
Yes, but leaving companies that just hired you and spent significant money doing so, reduces your celebrity status until you become Carrot Top.
Small-time taxi drivers.
Minor point-- Amazon does about $35B per quarter.
Hi nkkollaw, we're very careful to limit possible downtime, and there is a system of retry for incoming emails, so we should not lose some.

We're currently working on the "account creation" part of nBox.
Slightly off-topic but please stop this js smooth scroll nonsense. If I wanted to use smooth scroll I would have enabled it in my browser.
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Does anyone know of any comprehensive resources that cover various techniques to do things branchless or otherwise optimize for gpu? I learned about masking the other day, but it seems this sort of stuff is only covered in dispersed blog posts and institutional knowledge.
That is exactly my point for a while now [1]. The investors could have easily picked on taxi company handed them several billions, but they chose Uber. Mainly because of the hype created by the senior leadership team. They seem to have overplayed there hand.

[1]https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/nobody-will-talk-about-ub...
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> The whole reason they could raise so much money was that they showed as they reduced rates, they induced more demand

This is true for almost any good.
I agree on that. I personally think AI (and especially topics like deep learning) only makes up for a small part of autonomous driving or driver assistance in general. The remaining parts will be lots of old-fashioned control theory, signal-processing, general good software engineering practices, having a good software and system architecture, being able to build a fully deterministic (hard-realtime capable) system. For the latter topics a highly experienced person with more of an engineering background would be a better fit than a researcher with with a mostly-algorithm background.
I guess it auto defaults to English then? Running Tesseract on Scandinavian texts gives AAO instead of ÅÄÖ in my experience if you don't supply the correct language training set. That's quite the hen and the egg problem. Can't language identify without the text can't get the text without the right language identified.
You're going to face a lot of harsh criticism if all you can focus on here is VC and profit.
Jobs did say that looking back getting fired from Apple was a good thing. So who knows maybe Travis will come back later with a some new perspective in life.
That is a great list! (But I don't think it contradicts what I wrote)
None of which are production vehicles being shipped from manufacturers. They are test vehicles, nothing more.
Correct. This is why you see almost no billion dollar "tech" companies coming out of Scandinavia or Europe in the past 10 years. The places with so called, work life balance.