skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have any kind of advantage apart from being first mover in the states so no guarantee they will take all the market share in the short term and in the long term if and when AI driven cars come they will be out muscled by car manufacturers who can put millions of cars on the road in a year when they go all in.
Interesting, but this article doesn't say actual numbers for how old an "older father" is defined in the study, and I'm too lazy to dive deeper. Anyone else find out?
I really liked the idea and would have bought an Ubuntu phone, but I'm glad I never did. This:

> The phones were slow and had to be rebooted on a regular basis. The Meizu MX4 overheated. The battery indicator tended to show bogus data. Mobile data was unreliable, (national) roaming often didn’t work at all. The location service was very unreliable. The phone didn’t always ring when called, or you couldn’t make an outgoing call because the UI hid the buttons. The alarm didn’t work reliably. Bluetooth only supported audio devices, and later input devices, but not even basic file transfer. WiFi would not connect to WPA Enterprise networks until OTA-5. I think at one point the music player even started deleting files while indexing them. Et cetera.

I understand making an OS for a lot of different devices is hard. But this is just unacceptable regardless of the circumstances.
> Kalanick is a jerk, but he created that insane valuation.

I don't think Kalanick had much to do with it. He created the product, but it pretty much sold by itself -- similar to how Zuckerberg created Facebook, which sold by itself.

I'm very optimistic about this change. To me, Kalanick, and the culture he bread, were toxic to Uber.

I'm reminded of how Microsoft's share price jumped by 12% the day Steve Ballmer's retirement plans were announced. Microsoft has been on a major run ever since. Let's hope that we see something similar here.
The company saying we have decided to make a change makes it brutally obvious he was pushed - Chris should have gone for a compromise agreement.
Kaiser offers "flat fee primary care", and they do OK. But they have experience at running that kind of business.
>Take measures based as though the complaints are made in good faith.

Which is to say, do more than just investigate. Take action as though the complaints are true, although not necessarily all the action you would take if you knew the complaint to be exactly factual.

You should always investigate, even if (to borrow your formatting)

you believe that
they believe that
their statements are false

and are making a bad faith accusation. It would still be correct to investigate if that was your belief. If you believed that the accusations were entirely factual, then perhaps the immediate step would be to fire someone. But if instead you simply believe that the person is accusing someone of something in good faith, something has already gone wrong and there is a problem. Even if no one did anything wrong.

To put it in terms that might be more familiar, every complaint is an incident and should involve a (blameless) postmortem that asks how the system failed such that someone felt the need to complain. And action should be taken in response. Sometimes, the system failed in such a way that it allowed a malicious actor to do a bad thing, and that malicious actor should be reprimanded, independent of the postmortem.

Believe the accuser when writing the postmortem, and begin incident response as soon as possible. Investigate fully before reprimanding a potential malicious actor.
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Also, payment is very culturally specific.

In Brazil, Uber required drivers to accept cash payment having seen that it was successful in other countries like India. Suddenly carjackers realised that Uber cars were basically cash machines on wheels and so armed robbery, murder and mayhem ensued.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/brazils-love-affa...
There already are lots of Uber clones. You can buy Uber-clone code to start your own.

The hard part of cloning Uber as a company is building both sides of the market. It's almost impossible to do without a clever strategy and tons of cash.
Why Lyft is not worthy rival of uber? Pretty much wherever you can find uber in USA, you can find Lyft. And considering they have taken way less money from investors than uber and still doing as well tells me that Lyft's executives are not doing that bad after all!
People are talking about Mobike being innovators, and their business sounds like it's doing really well, but bike sharing is a concept that's been around for a while.
Melbourne Bike Share[1] was founded in 2010, though apparently the bike sharing concept was around in Europe since the 60s[2].

People suggest Melbourne Bike Share was largely unsuccessful due to mandatory helmet laws in Australia making them a bit inconvenient. I'm sure there will be idiosyncrasies in certain places which make the concept less appealing.

In saying that though, I really wish there was a service like this when I lived in Guangzhou. I think it's a great fit for very dense cities.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Bike_Share

[2]: "Runde Sache". Readers Digest Deutschland (in German). 06/11: 74–75. June 2011.
Chris Lattner out at Tesla
You bring up a good point, IMO: the "Open in Data Viewer" button is far-too obfuscated. If I hadn't used Enigma before, and hadn't already known what was contained in a previously-visited dataset, I too would have assumed that I hit a dead end because the button was the last thing I noticed on the page.

The horizontally-flowing layout is problematic overall, but placing that "Explore Data" button much higher in the right-most column would be a decent compromise:
http://imgur.com/a/lS7ks
Hi heliodor, thanks for the support! :)
What are your thoughts on Fowler's assessment of the company, the scandals, and Kalanick himself?
Kalanick has stated publicly that he has not sold a single share - so he has actually taken no money off the table whatsoever.
Hahaha I love this
Thanks. I didn't realize it until about a week ago. Of course, none of these companies can put this stuff in their press kit: "we do in-app tipping so drivers can finally stop hassling riders about it."
"If you want a higher building, you should build strong columns"

They will change the company's current culture. Slow down the pace of growth to try to adjust what is wrong. Probably focus on where they have margin to operate. This is clear in Gary ( Uber Co founder) text on Medium.

"In a highly competitive market it is easy to become obsessed with growth, instead of taking the time to ensure you’re on the right path. Now is that time… to pause"[0]

[0]https://medium.com/@gc/ubers-path-forward-b59ec9bd4ef6
It sounds as if people were fired, investigated and so on. I don't understand the part about the medical records. Surely merely wanting to double check the story isn't the issue? Illegally holding the record would, but it seems the responsible person was also fired?

I mean, given their business practices, I am not surprised if their culture turns out to be toxic. I just don't see the reasoning behind blaming him for sexist men in the company, if he never supported such actions.
it also helps avoid expensive lawsuits especially for high profile roles who have the money to sue
I really need to finish that book. sigh.
Exactly what I think!
I would love to introduce this to my country, Germany. I think in large cities it might work well, especially for the last meters after public transport, but also in university towns. We already have rentable bikes, but Ofo and Mobike proved that you don't have to have overengineered docking stations and complicated locks. If you let people just leave the bikes where they want, it works surprisingly well.

Problems are:

- I have no capital, and you'd need a high investment upfront. Even the simplest bike is not going to cost less than 200-300 €, and those are not the most durable. Also, in Germany you require light. However, I think Ofo has proven that you do not need GPS or electronic locks (initially), and you don't need docking stations.

- Germans sometimes hate new things. It is my gut feeling that I'd get a lot of resistance. Especially after the first accident, or the first bike gets thrown into a river. One problem is that in Beijing, apparently there is an Ofo graveyard. I haven't seen it myself, but broken Ofo bikes are piling meters high. You just need one bad competitor who creates a mess, and the whole idea is in danger.

But:

- As a renter, you are not obliged to get insurance for the riders AFAIK.

- Bike infrastructure is good already.

- It should be possible to make a sustainable business, but you'd have to reach a certain scale.
It's there in Mars - Check

https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@18.705293,-33.003305...
Nope. They're subsidizing most trips in order to keep prices low.

Their profitability problem isn't just one of opex. They don't have margin, either.
"At Grab, we use ES2015 (with Babel Stage-0 preset) to enjoy the productivity boost from the syntactic improvements the future of JavaScript provides and we have been loving it so far."

You've not been using it that long then! Stay alive and stick with Stage-3
Most desalinization processes don't produce "salt", but extract a certain amount of unsalted water from the in put, leaving behind more salty water. Typically reverse osmosis at best reaches 1:1, that means you need 2 units of input water and get one unit of desalinated water and one unit of salty water. For sea water desalination 1:1 is quite optimistic though. This salty water can be safely put back into the sea. With very large scale plants you might want to make sure that you don't release the salty water at a single very concentrated spot.
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I would love to try them, they look really good, with solid tyres, a chain, and a large solar panel to feed the lock. However none of my cards are accepted by Mobike (including the two market leading banks). At least I can install the app, which I couldn't after their Singapore launch ("not available in your region").

oBike is for now the best UX in Singapore. Clean app, mostly works, and they've really started to get a grip on the broken bike problem. A recent Straits Times article claimed that of about 100 bikes reported parked incorrectly by the authorities, the oBike team removed 67 before the half day grace period ended (and got fined for the rest), so they seem to be on top of the illegal parking problem as well.

The main issue with all of them is the spottiness of geolocation in built up areas. To an extent this is no longer a problem as you can find the things everywhere, but back when they were relatively rare it could mean a good 10-15 minutes of walking around looking for the mystery yellow pin. These days I even get a choice of model (my favourite has the shiny mudguards, the 3rd generation? they seem to have the least friction; but the massive 1st gen ones are very comfortable so long as you don't encounter any hills).
Remembering eWorld, Apple's forgotten online service
on the flip side of this, at-will employment is a reason a company could take immediate action without having to investigate.
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That's one probable story.

Another is that the board could have threatened to sue Kalanick for violating the loyalty and duty obligations that corporate officers have to shareholders - e.g. for suppressing systemic sexual harassment, withholding details about the Otto acquisition, etc.
To the trolls that downvoted my post without explaining why, here is the proof: https://godbolt.org/g/xXecW2

I rewrote the function using if statements making it compile to exactly the same instructions.

If you optimize the code with compiler flags (e.g: -msse, -msse2 for SSE/SSE2, -O3 for optimization) the generated instructions are exactly the same.

My point being: the code in the blog post is not branchless. The absence of if statements doesn't mean it's branchless.

If you care to disagree here by downvoting I dare you to reply explaining why you think this is wrong.
Remembering the Newton MessagePad
It is not just about generics though, it is about using a constraint solver for type checking programs of a type system which is needlessly expressive.

Also, it is slow compared to almost everything, even C++. It has got better over the last 3 years, but most of that is pumping heuristics into the system.
I live in South Africa. I can stream 1080p from YouTube with no issues, but Twitch is usually one of two outcomes: stuttering/lag across all browsers or, since the auto quality feature has been implemented, jumping between 720p and 144p, constantly adjusting quality.

Occasionally I can watch 720p just fine, but this is rare. I've resorted to watching tournaments like TI on YouTube, with the Twitch chat popped out for extra entertainment.
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The investors would have had to pay up given size of previous investments. The VCs just timed it "well" with Traviss personal tragedy. /smh

They could smell the liquidity ...
But then he probably would have a hard time raising more money.
I ask this because it is my understanding that drivers can and do rate passengers on Uber(not sure about Lyft.)

Is it possible that someone who doesn't tip what the driver believe is enough or if they don't tip at all they will receive a bad passenger rating now, even if they are courteous and respectful?

I had some hope that the tipping parts of the world would maybe move away from the practice and just pay people what they are worth:

https://www.eater.com/2017/1/12/14250128/danny-meyer-tipping...
Geal is very helpful too, he pops up around the place in the Rust community and is responsive on the nom Gitter channel.
Microsoft had a storied past with decades of profitability behind it. They were shedding an operational CEO who failed to succeed in Mobile and made expensive mistakes in tablets (Windows RT) along with the Windows Vista debacle happening under his watch.

Uber has lived in Unicorn land thus far. The potential to turn a profit has buoyed them but that cash bubble seems to be running out of fumes. They could sell for 1/10th of what they raised money at. Time will tell.

It's a bad time for Travis to be handing over the reigns because he clearly hasn't built a command team to takeover and the fraternity atmosphere is toxic enough that as these new leaders step in I'm afraid the middle management will view them as "illegitimate" leaders.

Time will tell. I hope for the sake of all the people who hold Uber stock as part of their compensation that they get a pay day but it's a gamble.
They may have painted themselves into a corner by saying the current hardware is sufficient for "full self-driving capabilities." The worst case is they're putting half-baked solutions on the road.
> The future is radar + cameras + a LOT of software

... all of which Waymo's solution also has, in addition to LIDAR.
That's insanity. Why would existing investors refuse to play ball? They're basically locked into it. Uber's massive valuation is built on its potential and to anything they do that hurts Uber's access to capital hurts them.

I think they made a huge mistake in pushing Kalanick out, but I'm an outsider. There is surely something dark at play here, that we don't know about.
Same day they fire Travis, they add tipping. No coincidence there.
Randomly saw this, a typo on the first slider image -
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I know, the comment was not directed against you :-) just in general.
No, he definitely had and still has a controlling vote on the board. The group of investors representing 40% of the company's ownership has more than enough financial leverage to force his hand, by threatening to close their purses for the next funding round.
How widespread is the "toxic bro culture"? Is it regional or a particularly silicon-valley thing. Is it more common in startups or with younger employees?

Do most techies personally relate to this sentiment?
If you have costs that scale sublinearly with volume, such as software development or idle driver time, then margins really do improve with volume. Many successful businesses use economies of scale as an sustainable competitive advantage against competitors.

In fact, the central concept of venture capital is premised on the idea that businesses start out unprofitable but become profitable as volumes scale.

To what extent any of this is the case for Uber is worth debating. So feel free to have that debate, and bring forth new information or new arguments that support your thesis.
That's GRSecurity for you
"I believe you" is a common thing people say. That's what OP means I'm sure.
> I don't think Kalanick had much to do with it. He created the product, but it pretty much sold by itself -- similar to how Zuckerberg created Facebook, which sold by itself.

Nope, This is wrong. Kalanick stood in front in the fight against the City officials and Taxi unions across the globe. Uber could've been done and dusted had it been left as a product to be sold by itself. Kalanick pushed Uber up high against the current of water, which is not exactly similar to running a Social Media Company.
I completely agree on not promoting sexist behaviour, aggressiveness or "compulsory bro-culture", but I believe things like having a ping-pong tournament or sharing some beers with the team after a long day are perfectly inclusive and fine things to do and there should be no correlation between interest in these activities and gender. In fact I think this sort of team building things are beneficial.
It's probably eminently practical for a company of this type to cherry pick the most profitable core areas of the most profitable urban areas. Which is effectively what services like Instacart do. But it's not scalable and won't command a high valuation.
But does winning have to come at the cost of basic human dignity and law?
Open it, spent some time on Mars and Moon, then come back to Earth view and enjoy the blue planet... How gorgeous our Mother Earth is!
Not really:

1) Doesn't obfuscate

2) Comparisons operators compile very similarly to a conditional statement (e.g: if, ternary operator, etc)

https://godbolt.org/g/xXecW2

I rewrote the OP code using ifs, and it compiles to exactly the same instructions. You can then add -O3 -msse -msse2 as compiler flags, code will be optimized about the same way.
There are multiple ways to interpret the phrase "I believe you."
I don’t know why you would think otherwise. Yes, if a man of any background complains of victimisation, then take those complaints in good faith and investigate them.
"The asset doesn't lose value by virtue of being marked down."

It does in public markets. See sell offs, corrections.
People can also be very manipulative. Following down this path (i.e. "believing that the accuser is right even before the investigation starts") will only lead to less women being hired for relevant positions.

Here's a relevant scenario: I'm a man, I hold a managerial position and I have to choose between hiring another man or a woman as a one of my direct-reports. Let's say both contenders have the same qualifications, they're both equally fit for the job, but then, I, as a manager, start thinking that if I hire the woman she will then possibly think of filing a sexual harassment complaint down the line in order to take my job. Remember the "believe" part, which means that the sexual complaint doesn't even need to be backed by anything real, because most of the times after the complaint has been made public the damage is already done for me, as a male manager, no matter what the investigation finds (if it manages to find anything). So I choose the man over the woman as my direct-report.
We can respectfully and supportively receive such reports in good faith, but they need to undergo some level of verification.
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> Yes and my point is that it is not hurting Lyft's growth.

That's an opinion, not a point. There's little data available to support the assertion, other than that Lyft has been, and still is, a smaller organisation and less less popular globally, and hasn't been growing as fast as Uber. Ultimately you can't compare the success of Lyft-with-tipping to Lyft-sans-tipping since one doesn't exist.

> It's not hard for people to use--which was what the GP was speculating about

I agree with others (mostly non-US residents, I expect) insofar as I don't think it's hard to physically tap an extra button on my phone, but it's additional cognitive bother that didn't exist yesterday.

It de-differentiates Uber from its competitors (this doesn't really matter to me, but it does make the background to the decision more interesting).
An entire DSL to describe the DOM is not a simple API. React is nice, but its API is at best easy as opposed to hard, not simple as opposed to complex.
>but it pretty much sold by itself

It's called execution...
Yep, I remember them being part of Google Earth. IIRC they had one of the night sky as well.
Disagree. I think some of these VCs are just trigger-happy when it comes to dealing with founders. I don't know why this is the case; may be they think it's easy and they know better.

How often do you hear VCs talk about how much they're on the founder's side like Vinod Khosla. At almost every turn, you'll hear Vinod go on about his reverence for founders. He does however add that this is not always the case. Sometimes, he says, founders must be asked to leave. When Vinod tells you to step aside, I think he'd most likely be right because you know his intentions aren't malicious. Do I think it had gotten to that point with Travis? My answer would be no.
Can you provide a source for this? I'm honestly very curious. I've seen this claim bandied about for years, but I've never seen a source that verifies it. Is Uber really losing money on a marginal basis in developed markets?
The problem is that the left seem to be just as supportive of a hard brexit as the right. Labour have pledged to end free movement in their manifesto, which is one of the EU's fundamental four freedoms.

le sigh
Technically I love the use of PWA and material design.

I hadn't seen material.io used in an application and it looks great.
Almost certainly not the former, no. At best the code would be "supplementary material", which reviewers are not required to go over.
Excellent examples. To push the point farther, the Dow Jones Industrial Index tracks a basket of 'best in breed' companies. With the exception of General Electric, every company listen in 1896 is no longer listed. That speaks nothing to the many that were listed and removed over the years. Big companies rise and fall, and we often forget the companies that fail all around us.
Google brought in Schmidt.
> no car manufacturer ships cars equipped with LIDAR

For love of the god, please do not comment in the public if you do not understand the subject. Take a look at Chrysler + waymo minivans, Volvo + Uber suvs, Mercedes self-driving test cars. They all have lidars.
Go back to Apple and help champion swift from within Apple. I’m sure Apple is smart enough to just hire you to be at Apple be not elsewhere and give you the freedom to do as you please.