skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One problem is dealing with features which language A supports and language B doesn't.

That's not a problem with parsers or parser-combinators though. That's a problem with converting from one DB to another.
they pay you to use it. if you are surprised for the 0 RMB charge, think about those people riding those bikes to collection Hong Bo as their day jobs.
If they're being bullied into this decision (and I don't think they are), it's not because they're too timid to stand up to the media. It's because their customers might leave them, because their customers prefer companies that act more justly.

You're arguing that a company should act only in its own rational self-interest. That's a reasonable point of view. But there's zero evidence that this is not in Uber's self-interest.

EDIT: I saw your comment in response to smt88. I do want to pay more for a taxi. I want to be able to control how much I pay according to how good of a service was provided, and I want to feel like the taxi driver is getting a decent pay rate. That's one of the reasons I typically use Lyft, and if it weren't for a terrible experience with Uber customer service, this decision would make me more likely to use Uber again.
There is no easy way for these people to make money. Not unless they start charging their customers some multiples of price higher than they are doing currently.

Here in India, I go by the office cab to home everyday. I generally chat with the drivers as to why they don't drive for Uber/Ola etc. The answer is they need to make a good 1300 rupees on a round trip to be profitable, at a minimum of 6 trips per day. A trip with Uber/Ola etc costs 300 rupees(With pool). But even then!

So that's like these people need to start charging a minimum of 5x extra to make profits. At that price these people are no longer a viable means of transport.

To be profitable you need to back to the yellow taxi medallion thingy all over again.

EDIT: Fix a mistake.
It's this slaughter and conquer mentality that has caused them so many problems. I mean Lyft's main selling point to consumers has been 'Uber without all the attitude.' If Uber had been a little more customer-focused and emollient a few years back, they'd have held onto a much larger slice of the ride-sharing market.

Look at Google; they're firmly business-minded and have often butted heads with regulators and so forth, but most people like google, not least because of that 'don't be evil' branding and and their habit of giving people Nice Things.
> Sometimes but not always.

Always. Even if it's just because this crowd is anonymous, and didn't have to pay to gain access. So they behave differently because there's 0 investment.

> This is a massive exaggeration, the number of people driving cancerous chat is quite small.

It's not. I moderate channels with between 10 and 12500 concurrent viewers. Around 5000 there is a turning point where chat becomes difficult to manage, and above 7500 it becomes nigh impossible unless you have subscriber only mode on, which effectively cuts the audience down to a small percentage.

For reference, have a look at channels like https://www.twitch.tv/nl_kripp (not one where I moderate) which is full of constant spam. That's also how the hate and racism filled chats work. One person does it, and if they get banned, there's EXTRA incentive for others to post the same spammy lines. Herd mentality takes over.

> Citation needed.

Alright, perhaps not the only way, but the only one I've seen work so far, in similar situations. Would love to hear the other ways though.

Currently, "charging for chat access" is the only method Twitch offers that actually works. It ensures people have something invested in the channel which you can take away.

The only other way is censorship, manually (admin/moderator corruption is a huge issue already for Twitch) and programatically (this WILL go wrong too).

.edit: coming back and thinking about this a bit - perhaps there's a way to only allow accounts "in good standing" (above X rating) to post in these chatrooms. How X is determined would be up for discussion.

Thanks for continuing this discussion, it's brough me some light that I might use elsewhere by making me think through this more than I otherwise would've!
Unless I'm mistaken return policies are pretty much dictated by law in a very customer friendly and reasonable way here in the EU.

At least here in Germany the Widerrufsrecht ("right of withdrawal") allows you to return items within 14 days without shipping costs or any explanation. It is my understanding that this applies to the whole european union.
Misty Robotics Raises $11.5M to Put Robots in Every Home
List of Akka anti-patterns
I'm sorry, I'm really confused now.

Here's the title of the article:

An Ancient Kernel Hole is (Not) Closed

I thought that I copy-pasted the article title to be the title of this submission.

Did I omit the parenthesis? If so, it was unintentional, and I apologize.
> “Buy more and get a discount which increases, within some range, based on quantiry”

What amazon is doing is not the same as this quote. This isn't buying in bulk. This is more kin to B&M retail shopping where you don't have to pay any upfront costs to try on an article of clothing and assess fit. Only now, it's in the comfort of your own home.

The discount would be icing on the cake, but in the realm of fashion, 10-20% off is game changer.
> If it was Travis's idea to leave a 10-person committee in charge, that is the sort of insecure, bad decision that would set off investor alarm bells.

To be honest, from what I've read, the two men don't seem to be similar at all except in the fact that they both founded spectacularly successful/revolutionary startups. Jobs might have been incredibly rude but he did not promote a culture of sexual harassment...that is just a different kind of aggressive culture. He was more about pushing people to unreasonable limits, not giving due acknowledgements etc.... all of which are reprehensible, but nowhere near as terrible as sexual harassment.

Like you mention, it seems EXACTLY the result of an insecure man trying to make himself irreplaceable rather than an adult understanding the reality of the situation and the actions required to save his baby (Uber).
why can't they just stop the burn rate, most drivers won't jump ship and they can have a skeleton crew? or does this prevent them paying back investors?
Still cheaper than paying rent in Bay Area I assume?
Haven't used MAFF before. But PageDash will preserve the look and feel exactly, and handle more corner cases. Web is huge, perfection is almost impossible, but we'll get there. Plans are to also allow MHTML/PDF/JPG exports one day.

More importantly PageDash is web hosted and will allow users to share their archived links (private by default). Eventually, full-text search and shared folders can enable collaboration. Basically stuff that an offline-only solution can't do.
> It turns out it's not feasible or desirable to just let arbitrary people make arbitrary queries.

GraphQL/Relay and Falcor are trying to make it feasible. And I think it's definitely desirable from a consumer point of view, at least.
> The whole reason they could raise so much money was that they showed as they reduced rates, they induced more demand.

I've yet to see an Uber driver who started rolling in cash after the rates were dropped. 100% of my anecdotal conversations (and that's not 99.9% rounded up, but a straight up 100%) reminisce about the good ole days.
Why would Eric even think of it?
The inaugural post is worth reading: http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/06/20/learning-to-reason-...

It explores a combination of neural networks and structured parsing to solve challenges at the intersection of vision and natural language processing.
"Cars should merely be one use of the roadways" is equivalent to "people who can't afford decent urban homes should live in shitty urban homes." The primacy of the car is what lets us currently live in decent suburban homes.

Urban and suburban residents have competing interests here: urban residents (for whom cars are a nuisance) would like to safely frolic in the streets. Suburban residents (whose lives depend on fast travel by car) would like to continue affording decent homes.

This competition will appear in city-level politics in various ways. The anti-car side is handing the pro-car side some ammunition when talking about them as subhuman (i.e. framing drivers and people and mutually exclusive categories).
The investors could have gotten away with much less, certainly without firing him, from a PR angle. I say this as someone who hates Uber with a passion because of the senior management's sliminess, and who no longer uses Uber because of it.

My guess is that there are also much deeper issues here. And things like the Waymo deal indicate that there may be a whole slew of other slimy behavior that will end up hurting Uber more in the end. My guess is that we don't know the depths of poor decisions at Uber.
"Language X allows you to be more undisciplined" doesn't sound like a great selling point for those languages.
Reminds me of SuperCombinators: a parser combinator framework written in Swift https://github.com/snipsco/SuperCombinators
Andrej paired with chip guru Jim Keller [1] (vice president of autopilot hardware engineering) should be an amazing combo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)
How about Elizabeth Holmes?
Wallpaper startups
This is the part that I think people are missing. Uber has a tight runway and burns a ton of cash every year. It needs focus, execution, and some more time (aka $$) to push this thing over the edge into profitability and IPO readiness. This means that Uber may need some money in about a year if it isn't IPO ready by then. Someone here mentioned that at their current burn, they have less than a year of runway left.

So while Travis holds the majority of the voting power, he doesn't hold a ton of real-world cachet because of circumstance around the company. Uber is in a relatively fragile period in it's journey and no one at the top can afford to disagree right now so he has to mostly do what the big chunk of investors collectively tell him to do. The hope is that they can stay calm, run on autopilot without Travis for a bit and guide this cruise missile right through an IPO if everything goes according to plan. Since the investors effectively control the supply of additional capital, they are in a unique position of power here relative to Travis.

I think Uber's downfall is a bit exaggerated in the rest of these comments here. They'll go through some troubling times, but they just need to stay calm, and guide the ship. A lot of the pieces are already in place thanks to Travis, but Uber doesn't necessarily need him to oversee the next milestone the same way they needed him the past couple of years of insane growth.
At this point, sure. In all likelihood, the actual operating business is more fairly priced in a fire sale. Free up overhead by trimming down the "eat the world" grandiose plans, cut growth-for-the-sake-of-fundraising subsidies, add some haircuts on bondholders, and you've got something that will reasonably work.
It's not about "pretending to be friends." It's about making a connection to another human being.
I believe Schema.org uses (/can use?) linked data that e.g. Google can again use to provide more relevant information about your content: https://developers.google.com/schemas/
The demographic that Twitch is after isn't just a niche curiosity. That is the same demographic that spent an estimated 1.6 billion dollars in 2016 on League of Legends, one of the many successful games that are featured on Twitch. Another estimated 18 million dollars a month in Dota 2. One of the most successful streamers on Twitch reportedly pulls in 2 million dollars a year.

It's not on the level of the NFL's 13+ billion dollars a year, but it's certainly nothing to laugh at. Keep in mind that Amazon purchased Twitch for almost 1 billion dollars.
>Or even avoid a pothole.

Humans can avoid potholes with one eye. I don't know why you assume LiDAR is a requirement for this.
Same in Australia (except with 100 mbps down)
Ah that's a good point, thanks!
Only if you are in #1 in a pie that isn't getting bigger. Ridesharing is most definitely not a developed market globally. There is a lot of room to increase the size of the pie.
>> The board lacked the power to fire him

That sounded right, but I was curious where that gets quantified. You can find the information in Uber's Articles of Incorporation. Not sure if this is the most recent copy, but here's a version from 2013...

http://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/SmartDrivingCars/PDFs/Uber...

The stuff about voting rights and board members starts on page 16.
Thanks a lot for your awesome suggestions boulos! It is much appreciated and I think our web team is already working on fixing some of the things you mentioned!

I think you have many valid points and let me try to answer some of your questions:

- Our Stack is based on Devuan, OpenNebula, Ceph, KVM, cdist, Django, Keepalived, radvd, nftables, bind and tayga...

- ... which brings me to another point that I haven't mentioned: we are also 100% IPv6. No VM has IPv4 addresses, but our routers do stateless NAT64 so that VMs are still reachable by IPv4.

- No Kubernetes yet, but containerisation is on our roadmap

- Git repo: there are actually many! Most if not all on https://github.com/ungleich/ are directly used or at least related

- We do actually have a blog at https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/blog/ - mostly engineering, partly also content from our other project "Digital Glarus" (www.digitalglarus.ch)

- How we found this factory hall? By bike. It's just pretty here and if you ask the right people, you literally get door openers!

- Regarding additional services: load balancing is planned to be either provided with OpenNebula or custom (because we already have cdist types for it) - the challenge here is that our billing system is not that far developed at the moment

- Object and block storage is also on the roadmap and we can probably provide it directly from Ceph - again the billing part is the current challenge at the moment

- Name point taken - we are great in finding bad names (that's why we are called ungleich)

- Small conferences: Sounds indeed like a good idea - we have been sponsoring the OpenNebula conference in Spain so far (because we use their software), but targeting Switzerland is indeed a better idea

Thanks again for your great input, it helps us (me) a lot!
>> I think it's a bummer to see developers who make way over the national median income complain they "don't want to think" about maybe giving a couple extra bucks to people who could use it.

Numerous comments here are indeed suggesting "don't make me think" but to be fair they are also suggesting higher prices and wages for drivers. They are not saying "don't want to pay", they just want to not think about it and rather let it be part of the payment formula in the first place.
It could explain Eyewitness: Mass Dead Fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70_SbAbPG_M
Resigned, or rather has been fired by his investors?
Here in Asia, Uber pricing is too much and our most popular rival is Grab. Now that Jack Ma is planning on investing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/jack-ma-s...
So is every company who ever employed me, who MUST make a lot more money from the labors of my body than they pay me to remain profitable. What's your point?
Doesn't work with Chrome Zoom > 100%
Here's an article with citations from November of last year. Note that it does use data from 2015, since at the time that was the most recent publicly-available published data.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...
Spotify?

Edit: you did say 'almost'.
I actually like algorithms over users. Governments and businesses have time and time again asked Google to censor this, make exception that, etc - and they have given in here and there, but in a lot of cases they've been able to shift the blame from people to The Algorithm. As in, if the algorithm thinks your competitor's site is more relevant than your own, stop whining and make a better website (for example).
One eye backed by millions of years of training in depth perception and object recognition... The argument that humans are able to drive with just two cameras and software (brain) is deeply flawed because the brain is highly advanced in areas necessary for driving and Tesla's claim it will replicate that any time soon is absurd. This is why you need additional sensors like LIDAR to alleviate the computational load.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14600873
Are you implying he's being strong armed into selling some of his shares?
As someone who's worked on the wayback machine and responsible for uploading around 300 TB of data into it, I think it should be. From all the well researched, immensely valuable sites and page to all the badly photoshopped memes and ugliness that simmers in it. I like to think of as the collective external brain of humanity.

The value depends on the people who are trying to dig up information about their ancestors to find out how they managed to live in those primitive times.

Historians could always use more information from multiple sources to piece together accurate pictures of times past and the reasons why people did what they did. We know that since we have dedicated people trying to reconstruct our pasts. We'll have to live with what survived from what our ancestors left us but there's no reason to limit generations of future scientists to such scant and badly pieced together material.
The first PC where I installed Slackware 2.0 was a Pentium 75 MMX with 8MB and 512 MB HDD.
I think this varies by location and subindustry.

I've seen the front end devs you describe in (some) smaller Aussie companies. OTOH every front-end dev I meet in San Francisco does HTML + CSS + JS. In a large enough place, they don't even need the CSS, some other team maintains that and publishes the internal equivalent of http://getbootstrap.com/components/

It makes sense to me that you specialize once you get past a certain team size on the same product.
Yeah, Tesla may fail to ship a safe LIDAR-less car.

But the problem of making a self-driving car without LIDAR or something equivalent is awesomely challenging! An I bet Andrej Karpathy will really enjoy working on it.

And the tech resulting from this line of work will surely find its way in other things. (I guess the military has wet dreams about this stuff... I mean, even "unsafeness" can become a "feature" here: "uhm, look, that school we blew up by, uhm, mistake... was an AI-error... like... these stuff happens, you know, even Tesla's cars have an accident from time to time, that's life". Well, those dreams could also be nightmares: basically any "self driving thingie" is a potential guided missile, and dirt-cheap-because-lidar-less stuff has the potential of becoming ubiquitous, and unmaintained/unupdated/unsecured/hackable, leading to nightmarish urban warfare scenarios...)

And: "People will die because of this."... Uhm, yeah, they will, but if people ain't dying it means research is not moving fast enough, and competition will overtake you. I'd be more worried about when this stuff will be deployed on buses with tens of people, but hopefully public transport would stay a safe decade behind bleeding-edge stuff :)

And about and Tesla: however this plays out, Elon Musk made quite a lot of what would've been technically considered "bad business decisions" and things turned up OK so far... so I wouldn't feel sorry for them or short their stock ;)
What's unsafe about radar cruise plus lane keep?

It takes longer for a driver to react to a problem in that mode than to react without it.[1][2] There have been full-motion car simulator and test track studies on this. Even with test subjects who are expecting an obstacle to appear, it takes about 3 seconds to react and start to take over vehicle control from lane keeping automation. Full recovery into manual, where control quality is comparable to normal driving, takes 15 to 40 seconds.

There are now many studies on this, but too many of them are paywalled.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847814...
[2] http://www.iea.cc/congress/2015/252.pdf
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Appsignal launched an Elixir learning course
This is an anecdote, but I do not choose an Uber because it is less expensive. I choose Uber because it is easier than hailing a taxi. It provides more certainty. You dont need to fight other people on the street for a taxi. You dont need to wait 30minutes for a cab to arrive (or never arrive) despite the dispatcher saying "5 minutes." You dont need to begrudgingly hand a $20 note for a $6 ride to a cabbie who "doesn't have change." You can reimburse corporate trips because the cabbie is never out of receipts. There are so many reasons I use Uber rather than traditional taxis.
If you think of skill as being the ability to operate the business, growth does in fact require you to hire people who are less "skilled" -- specifically technicians who are specialized in one area of the business' operations (preferably even better at it than you are), and who can handle that part of the business for you. Gerber goes into this with his description of how to support business growth by building out a hypothetical org chart even when you're the sole person in the business, and gradually replace your name next to most of the job titles with someone else's.

This is pretty much how you'd build out an engineering team of 50 or 500 people, too.

And within any kind of org - sales, engineering, support, whatever - eventually you're going to get large enough that you can be more efficient by sequestering simple work into simpler roles, which gets done by cheaper, junior people.

All 100% applicable to the audience here which is filled with people who are trying to found and grow companies.

Your comment implied that perhaps you think sales and support are low-skill roles, which makes me wonder if you have any experience working in those areas or managing people which perform those functions? I can assure you they take a very high level of a different kind of skill, and you would grow those teams more or less in the same way you grow an engineering team: starting with yourself, defining specific functions and duties, sequestering simpler work into lower skill roles for efficiency, and hiring people to fill those roles one by one. Exactly like Gerber describes.