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You're right, but I think that's exactly how/why Uber's investors were able to convince Kalanick to step down.

Uber may or may not take over the world at some point, but Uber needs another round of investment in the next 18 months just to survive. If the existing investors refused to play ball, they could kill the next round, which really would kill Uber.

And here's another important moral of this story for founders: Kalanick has a controlling interest in Uber, so on paper, nobody could have removed him as CEO by shareholder vote. But despite complete control over the vote, you don't really own your company if you're dependent on future investment.

No matter what the cap table says, if you're not profitable, it's not really yours yet.
Libretaxi sucks. I don't want to negotiate with the driver and I don't want to pay cash. In typical fashion, open source/FS people fail to understand what makes a product popular when they try to clone it.

Nobody gives a fuck about "Libre", I just want to get a fucking ride.
"The investors made their demand for Mr. Kalanick to step down in a letter delivered to the chief executive while he was in Chicago..."

So brutal to be fired from the company you founded and built via a FedEx.
We should also believe men, but that isn't a historical problem the way it is for women.

As an exercise, ask a few men and women you know if they've ever been harassed or attacked at work. If they didn't report it, ask them why.
There's an argument that Emacs is a collection of extensions to lisp that happens to include a text editor
Hell, its about time.
I wonder how things would have gone had Kalanick's family hadn't suffered that horrible tragedy a few weeks ago. That is, whether he would have had the energy/stubbornness to stay as CEO if he wasn't dealing with personal challenges at the same time as professional ones.
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Uber bought market share by subsidizing rides. That can't go on forever. Or much longer, without more capital. They're already borrowing heavily, having run out of equity sources. The business model hype is supposed to be that they push taxis out of business, then raise rates. Or self-driving cars will somehow save them. Both are unlikely.

[1] http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/growth-vs-profits...
Probably real, yes only Bay Area, and no not the norm for ML.
First of all only a few companies can pay that much (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Netflix, etc) and these are outliers. The average ML engineer in the Bay Area does not make 500k/yr total comp.
We've merged the comments there.
Travis Kalanick: turns out that Uber isn't a good fit for me
Accusers are unlikely to abuse this power in the workplace because it harms them, too. It's embarassing, stigmatizing, and often leads to conflicts with the friends of the aggressor.
You're right, but so what? "Go be edgy elsewhere" is a valid response.
You seem to have missed the irony.
I concur. This is a very poor decision all of which stems from the snowballing and mob mentality of the outraged.

Companies at this stage in an ultra competitive market (not talking about ride sharing, but self-driving) need their founders to lead and grow. It is just too early and critical to bring in a professional CEO. See Apple.
Have you considered that twitch might be that "elsewhere" and people who wish for politically correct chat are perceived as invasive species?

On a less confrontational note, I think options for moderation should lie with the individual streamers, not twitch as a platform. But then people call on the streamers to use those tools and at that point I think it should be noted that faulting them over "not doing enough" is silly. Moderating chat is not their raison d'être. And it's just chat. Maybe they are just indifferent or have other priorities than those who demand a different atmosphere.

At some point chat starts moving so fast that people can't have decent conversations anyway, at that point its value drops a lot where someone might simply not care.

And for the viewers twitch probably should make it easier to disable and hide chat completely. If they deem it not useful or even offensive it should take just a single click to remove it and use that space for the video instead.
can't they just cut their burn rate? I mean it's not like they own a fleet of cars they need to make car payments on and fill with gas to keep operating.... in theory there's no minimum spend to keep operating, is there? if (hypotehtically) they cut spend to approx. nil, and 95% of their drivers left, then 5% of their drivers would remain and they would be profitable... where does the "killing" of Uber occur?

Yahoo for example is coasting along at a market cap of 53.40B down from its high of over $125 billion[1]. In 1999 dollars. Is it "dead"?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-market-cap-over-time-20...
I pretty much can't stumble upon an article about Uber that's not about controversy. I know that kind of news sells better. But in my perception now Uber had the pendulum swung far off center. I've been shocked by their (reported) ethics, to the point of not purchasing their services. I know that consequence is not taken by a majority of people, but I do sense a more than average disgust for Uber's ethics. If you'd asked me, I'd have welcomed their demise. The only thing to turn that around for me is new leadership.

A woman for Uber CEO would be a good signal -- if the best candidate for the job happens to be one. Didn't Marissa Mayer recently resign from her job, and be available?
While that naming sounds a bit too MBA-ish for my ears, it does a good job capturing a concept that I have been trying to pin down for a while now in terms of the types of job candidates that have worked out best for me. Thank you for the metaphor, and for what it's worth, I agree in it being a desirable skill distribution.

Incidentally, people at our company who have acquired said combination of wide skill breadth with a specific skill depth, got there because one employer or another (not always us) hired them when they were intent on (or already in the process of) a change of role. For instance, someone with a few years in graphics design who, when given a chance to (or being required to) work with HTML and CSS, found that not only did they like it, they wanted to learn and do more, even if that meant transitioning

There are all sorts of questions I have about how that might fit into the arc of someone's career, how it affects salaries, and so on. Furthermore, I do not think it should be the only lens by which to assess people's skills, at the exclusion of all else. It just seems that many of our A-Players, as it were, came into our organization with that sort of skill distribution, or quickly grew to have it.
Exactly. And this had been coming for years. A transgendered friend of mine starting working there in 2014. She quit within a week. It was only a matter of time.
Wow -- I'm amazed to hear this sentiment. I'm personally proud that one of our VCs was involved.

Travis helped build an incredible company, but his disregard for the law, for his employees' well-being, for basic decency threaten to tear all of that down. Just in the past six months:

* Susan Fowler's blog post exposed a terribly broken HR system and a culture of sexual harassment that reached the very top. This has huge legal implications in addition to the obvious moral and ethical ones.

* Waymo's lawsuit could shut down Uber's self-driving car program, into which they have put hundreds of millions of dollars. There may be evidence that Travis colluded with Levandowski to steal Google's self-driving techonology.

* Uber is under investigation at several levels of government for their Greyball program to hide from law enforcement.

* On top of all this, Travis was videotaped cursing at a driver who complained about pay rates.

At this point, Travis had to go. It's going to be hard for Uber to recover from all this, but this is the first step. I hope that this becomes a lesson in SV that there are consequences to this kind of behavior, and that at some point the adults will step in.
I suspect that reason might (often) actually be that they are in less than average health and selecting the correct 'plan' for them.

The insanity is forcing patients to compete for health plan coverage. We'd all be better off with a single payer system and locality based dutch-auctions for figuring out who provides the care.

Also, can I please have Dr. Watson (or similar) take actual inputs and determine if further tests are necessary to confirm or reject a diagnostic result? I still want an actual doctor to make the final check on the results, but I'd rather have an algorithm make the guesswork less dependent on one person knowing -everything- (that's what computers are for).
Pardon me for being somewhat rude, but your perspective suggests that you're perhaps relatively young?

IBM's recent demise, Lehman Brothers going down under, Enron, Arthur Anderson / Worldcom, the dismantling of Japanese mega conglomerates by the GHQ, Apple's 90's turnaround, the death of workstation companies, deregulation of US airlines, are all orders of magnitude more impactful than if Uber dies and Lyft prevails.
Though not yet proven, wasn't a similar logic used by HR (or higher management) to justify not taking action against "star performers" for their transgressions?
This notion ignores the reality: That nothing about Android is actually open, because Google controls all the OEMs through confidential agreements. They've already taken all sorts of control, for the purposes of branding, monopoly expansion, etc. (They not only require over 20 apps be installed by OEMs, but dictate which are default and which appear on the homescreen and where.)

The only reason the Android update situation is as bad as it is: Google doesn't want the expense or responsibility for maintaining or testing hardware support.
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I'm not sure what you mean here by belief, but it seems like a redefinition that causes the word to lose value.

"Believe" has always implied to me "understands to be true". How can I believe anything based only on the words of a single person? (Except trivial things like believing that they said something to you)

I have primarily heard the phrase "listen and believe" used by people who think it is impossible for certain kinds of people to understand the experiences of other kinds of people.

Following that argument, the claim is that if you assert an experience I am not capable of understanding then I must accept it, for I have no grounds to refute it.

This has always seemed like unquestioned faith to me, for I think any argument should be able to stand on it's own merit. Maybe I am missing some nuance to the argument, or perhaps there is more going on, but in any case 'believe' seems to be the wrong word.
Travis himself has exhibited poor public behavior that was recorded by an Uber driver. That in itself reflects upon the company.

Yes his assertiveness and drive got them where they are, but sometimes companies do need to grow up.

Jobs was a consistent asshole expecting perfection. That is way different than emboldening a climate of harassment, degradation, etc. that took place under his watch. Having recent external c-level hires quit due to the revelations of "culture" speak much.

I hope Uber can continue. As someone who travels internationally on business, it's quite useful. Seeing him go, it's just one more example. Pincus felt screwed through how Tribe.net went through, set himself up in a sheltered position at Zynga and through a combination of "management style" and problems at the company had to step down.

The cultural issues made public between Zynga and Uber are way different, but in both cases you had CEOs that structured the holdings such that they could retain power despite turmoil.

Sometimes the turmoil is too great.

My last international trip, I used Lyft.
Completely ridiculous. The model was not to raise rates in the future. The whole reason they could raise so much money was that they showed as they reduced rates, they induced more demand. They also had data showing increasing lifetime customer value. I recommend reading Brad Stone's The Upstarts. If they can have higher profits/customer while having lower rates than other companies, then they actually have a moat. I don't think they got to the moat, though.
Datomic, though, isn't Datalog syntax at all.

I've got nothing against Datomic, but can't help to think learndatalogtoday is outright false advertising by trying to capture "Datalog" as SEO term for a proprietary graph database which has nothing to do with Datalog/Prolog.

The point of Datalog is that it's a subset of Prolog syntax, implying that engines can be reasonably exchanged for one another. But this is only possible with real Datalog, or SPARQL for that matter.
The difference between Tesla and Google is that Tesla actually has to ship these cars to customers right now. Wouldn't LIDAR double the cost of a Tesla right now?
The title is a play on a 2010 LWN headline.

This is explained in the article.

But reading the article has never been a barrier for HN editing a headline to make it less accurate in the past, so why start now? :)
What you're describing looks a lot like adverse selection.
It's pretty trivial to land yourself in a position where no one invites you out for drinks. Once you arrive in that place, no one invites you anywhere. Then you age out, and nothing ever happens again, and you continue your treadmill of employment until death.

Welcome to this world.
That's an excellent brief answer, thank you for your perspective and time!
No they effectively euthanized a pet for making a mess on the rug- after they had already scolded it and put it outside.
Do VCs care more about public perception than long-term health of the company? Uber has been in the news for all the wrong reasons but thinking from the VCs POV, I doubt there is a better person to run Uber than TK. The company's monopoly is still precarious and I have a feeling that without a CEO like TK, the fate looks like a combination of retreating from markets, heavy losses, and a huge drop in valuation.
It comes down to conviction and courage to follow through. I find it curious that just when he's out, one of the things that he'd fought against for so long has been done i.e. tipping.

The reason it's courage involved in such a situation is because, against all external pressure, he maintained that he thought it would create friction. I can see that and some people may disagree - and those people can use Lyft, but at the end of the day, most people use Uber the way it is because of a certain experience that's possibly inexplicable to them. They just like it. Travis and his team have created this experience.

If there's no courage and conviction, then Uber becomes indistinguishable from Lyft. I honestly don't think the next CEO will have as much courage to say something like, 'we know automation is coming and we have to be on top of it regardless of any negative feedback. If we don't, it won't matter because someone will do it anyway...'

Time will tell and I think it will tell the same story I've told here.
Mobike and other sharing bicycle competitors has been in a fierce fight for three months.

From sometime this April to two to three weeks ago, it is not only free riding a Mobike, but there is also a chance of random amount of cash gift, known as Hong Bao. I have personally earned about $40 of cash by riding Mobike, the amount of which almost reaches the deposit for renting the bike.
Does anyone think that Amazon could be eying Uber but waiting for them to lose value? Seems like it would be a natural fit for their delivery network especially considering their recent purchase of Whole Foods.
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Yes, they can cut their burn rate.

But if they cut it too much, they'll stop growing.

The problem is they need to sustain their 70 billion dollar valuation for investors to be happy.

To be worth 70 billion they have to be either:

Growing at a very fast rate (which requires a very large burn rate to sustain)

Or be generating billions in profit each year. Even with a cut burn rate, they aren't going to be generating billions in profit. So they won't be worth $70 billion.
Which exec? The article doesn't say.
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I'm a bit jaded on this subject, but even not-profit dollars contribute to revenue dollars, which helps secure future funding. So not "not any part of the tips", just a complicated hedging game on those tips.
Any ETA on the new India region? Eagerly waiting to provision clusters to keep the latency low for our customers.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Has Resigned
Wow...Travis Kalanick has his flaws, but come on, he will come back bigger just like Steve Jobs. That hurts! A company like Uber needs an aggressive CEO, not a pushover CEO...this is one reason why investors kill companies.

I see this happen so many times, a company takes too much investment, the CEO is replaced, then the company dies within a year...
He is Founder and was CEO, so the toxic culture will be attributed to him.
> - is it a good thing that press (which it seems is sometimes influenceable) can effectively hire and fire by continued pressure?

If it holds people in power accountable for their actions, then yes, it's a good thing. I agree using the press may be a double edged sword, but if businesses and governments fail to keep their executives and personnel from harassing their employees, then what other recourse is there?
If the main source of problems was related to software architecture, it may have made sense. Academic AI people may be stronger on theory and end up with unmaintainable bridges. OTOH good architecture will be responsive to the fundamental underlying problems being solved, and that requires depth.

Compilers give a good base for transferring to things like databases, operating systems and IO heavy systems with lots of transforms / filters etc. They also ingrain a way of thinking that isn't native to most devs - writing code that generates code. Monads and other approaches to dynamically composing a computation - they come easy.
unless uber's logistics is better than amazon's (spoiler: they're not) uber is only valuable as a brand to amazon. brand probably doesn't move the needle for delivering groceries
> I wound up with hard to remember email logins

You could easily argue this is a symptom of a different problem.
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Why would you think Marissa would be a good fit?
I'd prefer Apple to buy Uber as a $AAPL shareholder... Nevermind this is all nonsense.
I understand your thoughts.

You do noy have to pay extra. You bring your lifes experiences on your drive.

You intersect with a person who may need a few extra bucks. A second job. A displaced older man. A parent trying to manage caring for pre-school aged kids. An immigrant making extra to help his family.

Now. You have a chance to help this person. That is ALL a tip is.

People from the school of hard knocks tip more and "get it"

But you never HAVE to tip
> and 95% of their drivers left, then 5% of their drivers would remain and they would be profitable... where does the "killing" of Uber occur?

People will stop using Uber if the wait times get really long, which they will if most of the drivers leave.
Most founders. I don't think it had come to that yet. The good he has done immensely outweighs any wrongdoings. There was a degree of penance on his part and it should count for something.

Travis has had to make a lot of hard decisions to get Uber where it is. These decisions have at times cost him goodwill of the public but I think they are (were) worth it for the long term.
I replied down thread to a similar point you made - I think you are redefining "believe" to the point where it loses value.

Responding as if someone is acting in good faith means that

- you believe that

- they believe that

- they are true

On the other hand, if you believe someone it means that

- you believe that

- they are true

Using "believe" to mean the first situation only makes everyone's meaning less clear.
"We discovered services we thought were long dead..."
You're arguing a claim I didn't make.
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Is it? Were steps not taken to remove the harassers, once the incidents came to light? How can the CEO watch over every social interaction?
I tried to "Create my nbox" (or "Generate an address") and it sent me to Chrome addons site.
Is it Chrome-only web service?
Keep in mind a company can be said to be valued at 100B today and 100M tomorrow yet everyone involved can still turn a profit.

What matter are: Cash In Bank, Cash Coming In, Burn Rate.
Alternate take (not originally mine): the bad state of Uber's financials is the cause of Kalanick's ousting. If the company had a longer runway, or wasn't facing the prospect of a down-round, he could have gotten away with anything.
What if Daimler thinks of buying Uber...
"If fewer bicycles are being produced due to higher usage per bike, that's good for the environment, right?"

The manufacturers are being hit hard because their profit margin is squeezed to the absolute limit. 8 RMB or less than 1.5 USD is the profit you get for building and shipping a bike. With this in mind, do you seriously believe that they are going to maintain the same level of control to limit pollution when making those bikes? Well, your room for environmental protection is now at less than 1.5 USD each bike, that is assuming the manufacturer is willing to give up _ALL_ profit to battle pollution caused during production.

"Yes. The subway journey from my place to work is unacceptably long, due to the long walk at one end. Mobike has solved that problem. Three-wheeler electric tuktuks riding the wrong way down the service lane are less prevalent now, too, which is a bonus."

Great, would you like to share a few photos on how the metro station look like during peak hours? let's focus on those mobike/ofo pollution outside the station. I have a few for you:

http://www.52qixiang.com/uploads/allimg/170421/1-1F4211AU9.j...
http://p3.pstatp.com/origin/1b7a00067dfae9a90762
I was referring the attitude in the USA in general due to the early ultra protestant settlers, and if you look at the history of nativist anti immigrant movements it was aimed at European often poor catholic immigrants who came for areas with a well established brewing and wine traditions.
As a former Uber employee (left 6 mo ago) this is shocking. Can't imagine who will step in...
That's too reactive. The point is that there may be services we want (ride) on infrastructure we can inspect and control and we might want to have respect for the operators while we're at it. I see those as features which make execution more expensive and tend to attract less investment and thus not as well done, when done by volunteers in their spare time. That is a incentive problem, not an open source problem.
But has any of the press coverage translated into actual business impact? Uber's been all over the news in Silicon Valley's incestuous little bubble for the last few months, but the general public has a solid track record of continuing to use whatever service is cheapest and/or most convenient, which remains... Uber.
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It's a conditional instruction but it can be implemented without branching. The difference is that you can execute arbitrary instructions after a branch but the select (operator-?) does not change the instruction flow. SIMD processors can do parallel select but cannot do parallel diverging branches.
Plenty of countries have laws against different types of racist behavior. Sweden has them for some types of speech. A rare exception to freedom of speech in our laws.
Perception is every thing ask a BME person about their interactions with the police
Amazon already has Flex. Source: I'm a software engineer in that team. Uber is way too expensive at this point.