skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly does it need to execute on? It's valued at $60B and is losing money with every. single. fricking. ride.

It doesn't need someone to "execute" some sort of plan, it needs a miracle only innovation can provide.
You are correct that he is not a founder and in that respect SV is a bit more forgiving of age.

He will be a terrific asset in managing the legal issues that are surrounding Uber w Google and others as Immelt has vast experience in managing intensive litigation threats to a company.
They've hit their stride only if their goal was to run headfirst into a wall.
I've been interested in how 4-function calculators and cheap clocks work for a while.

Most of the implementational details would appear to be buried in files on engineering workstations at Chinese factories.

I found a calculator teardown at http://electronupdate.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/reverse-engine... a while ago. The author says it's very old but doesn't provide a ballpark (eg, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2003, etc). It does look quite hairy (and possibly not particularly compactly designed?).

I would guess there's a ridiculously simple ALU somewhere in there, but I wonder what else is involved in the specific context of a high-production-volume fixed-functionality design.

I hope to find something similar for a clock at some point.
This always blew my mind: a smartphone app for a cab company that doesn't even own any cabs raised $16 billion.

It simply can't be that they spent even a small fraction of that writing software, smartphone apps just aren't that expensive. But they've got one helluva marketing engine and investor relations group...

That, and a lot of their money is buying market share, effectively subsidizing people's rides.

I've never understood how that's going to work, beyond vague handwavey arguments about potential future driverless cabs and other complex arguments that don't seem backed by data.
Firedrop: Design your landing pages automatically using artificial intelligence
My interview was outrageously more math-y than this. Sadly, Amazon NDAs these things pretty hard.
Certainly nerd culture isn't famous for an endless litany of flame wars. Emacs vs vim, that's pro-wrestling, right?
I remember reading Arnold Shwarzenegger's autobiography, and hist amusement on the difference in body perception between Austria and USA (as in Austria it is a norm for mixed-sex groups to go to a beach or a sauna completely nude).
That's not how it works. Good surfers will just paddle around you without a care. You will just be injuring yourself and other beginners. This happens every day.

A person usually only has two options for getting waves, whether they like it or not:

[1] Show respect, humility, and make friends [2] Be the stronger/faster paddler
Brilliant!

Can't wait for KiCAD to become more mainstream. Projects like this will definitely help.

Great work guys, fantastic.
To really dispute GP's claim you'd need to make a claim that GE has innovated in new categories under Immelt. The fact it paid out $15 in dividends might only support GP's (and the Forbes article) claim that Immelt has optimized for better selling what currently exists.

This is the same thing that happened to MSFT under Ballmer. MSFT stocked performed well, but they missed the biggest opportunity of the post-PC era (mobile), were late to the cloud game, and probably missed some other opportunities I can't think of.
It used to take around 20 farmers to support a single non farmers, such as a noble or black smith. We now have many people supported by each farmer in the modern world.

If people are too "nice," we can totally go back to a hunter-gatherer way of life instead of keeping modern institutions alive. I imagine billions would die to get there from here. But, at least we would no longer need to make hard decisions like which poor sucker to fire.
> With render-function.

This is even worse as for me. Generally the JSX/React.createElement approach itself and the fact that many people like the idea make me cry. Do people like it just because it's given by FB?
I could make an argument that it's a great parody of the alt-left, as the author has postulated an elaborate capitalist-driven conspiracy.
I think the lesson here is that kickstarting new markets (entering new countries) is not easy. They basically have a local or regional team that needs to find a way to drive user adoption. They also spend a lot of money on promotions to change user and driver behavior.

IMO it doesn't do them just when we say "it's just an app". It's a complex operation that they've simplified to appear as that way.
Artificial scents are the most potent trigger for asthma attacks (along with tobacco) and asthma attacks kill many times more people than terrorism does, every year.
All fair points and totally valid.

My concern is the facade/promise of type security.
The Digital Abyss
It is in context, but it's not like he's directly quoting something, so I don't think I misunderstood. E.g., I don't refer to African Americans with the N-word when I'm discussing slavery.

In any case, I don't think anyone is offended by his use of the term here. In fact, AFAIK, it's not even considered that offensive---just a bit dated. I was just making an observation. Not accusing Chomsky of racism or anything.
> Obviously you can find ways to break out of the type systems...

You can also accidentally have these issues if you are using incompatible pieces of software together. I was helping some colleagues with exactly this problem this week due to some changes in our toolchain.

EDIT: I wasn't clear. This was in a C++ codebase, but the same issue would have happened in C or any other compiles-to-assembly language.
Not yet, but I'm actively working on it... my employer's FOSS policy is that all personal projects must receive corporate sign-off before they published.
No, that point never made sense.

The fact that TS isn't sound has nothing to do with the fact it compiles to JS. If you wanted a sound type system, you should have checked out flow.
Lol.

I still support your free speech (right or wrong)

:)
Well, if Uber needs some serious earnings manipulation, errr, management, Immelt is certainly the guy. And boy do they need it. Guy made something like $300-400 million during his tenure - GE stock did nothing.
Hello, at the end of the day it's all wildly swinging voltages imperfectly mapped to ones and zeroes. There are no types in any of this. It's all a huge number of abstractions stacked on top of each other.

The implication that because TypeScript compiles to JS which has no types and is therefore wrong is pure drivel.
It's fine to spend money driving a new market but you eventually have to capitalize on it. How will that work? Large price increases, or just betting that driverless tech will eliminate costs and get them to profitability?

Also, they already have substantial scale. When would one reasonably expect them to stop losing so much money?
Hey this guy and Travis were both on Trumps business panel. At least Travis quit months ago, this guy waited until till the bitter end. Probably the biggest reason Travis quit outside of the public was because his employees asked him to. I wonder how the employees will react to this new guy support of Trump
I am indeed. Whom are you?
Sometimes an automotive analogy helps. In theory you could say 'Nascar' or 'IndyCar' has an international following and you could cite how some drivers come from outside of the USA to participate. You could even go through the history books and find cars built outside the USA and raced around banked ovals. But no, the rest of the world has F1, the WRC and plenty of other motorsports governed by the FIA and participated in internationally. For the rest of the world there is zero interest in knowing the ins and outs of whatever goes on in U.S. motorsport, it is a waste of time bothering to know.

Regarding tea, Americans don't drink it, not like the British do, my point being that this is one of those anti-British things going back to something that happened in Boston, to do with not wanting to pay taxes to the King.

Given the downvotes I had to check if I had misread 'baseball' for 'basketball', but I hadn't. You are kidding yourself if you believe baseball has a big international following. I also don't believe anyone in America knows anything about Japanese baseball or whatever is going on in the Korean game in any greater depth than what a Manchester United fan knows about what is going on in women's football. The IOC don't think that baseball matters although I am sure it will feature in the Olympics if the host nation is one of the few countries you cite that do play the game.
Aurelia has a great router and many other things going for it as well.
Eastern time is 4 hours (and at the time, probably 5) from UTC. 3 hours is somewhere in the ocean.
Google with Eric Schmidt, for example. Coming from Novell, I thought he would not be a good fit...
Or not. The stack canary is not the only random value reset upon exec.
Couldn't disagree more. Or perhaps, more accurately, I think the scenario you are referring to isn't the one that matters.

It's not about taking a massively existing complex application written using one of VueJS or React and onboarding someone completely green into it. Adoption is about "how easily can I incrementally adopt this technology into my legacy app". And the problem is that React is nearly unusable without switching entirely over to a Webpack / transpiler system and learning JSX, which makes it almost a non-starter for someone who isn't planning a major rewrite of their legacy app front end. By contrast VueJS "just works" after dropping a simple JS bundle into a page and the first templates you write are barely distinguishable from regular HTML. You can start by just enhancing the odd page element here and there, and slowly build up to a fully based VueJS app.
Bootstrapping matters more for the сurious and not very experienced individuals, think like Vue is a new jQuery.
What it needs is a time machine to bring the necessary automotive tech back from 2050.
Yeah, since he's did such a great job with GE's stock...
Being on the oanel does not imply support.

Apple CEO is pretty anti Trump but still sits on panels.

Ignoring the president just creates divide and conflict. If you sit on the panel you get Trump’s ear and don’t really have to give anything in return.
So what patents FB grant is related to?
Very very few knew what an atomic bomb was at that time. I'm pretty sure even the captain of the ship didnt know exactly what he was really carrying.
Forgive me if I misunderstand, I still don't understand your concern – TypeScript has type safety because it can check types at compile time (vs. JavaScript which has very limited type safety at run time). I don't think it's fair to call it a facade, because it is definitely commonly accepted as type safe.
Nice if you are in UK, but a very small % of tech companies is in UK.
It's a small world eh
In my experience with app development, having worked on multiple handset-to-tablet conversions as well as universal-upfront projects, it is a bear to add tablet in after the fact when it wasn't considered upfront.

And the opposite is also true, that if you do both along side one another, it really isn't that bad. I guess I'm just surprised they would be willing to tackle cross platform upfront (ios/android) but not cross form-factor (handset/tablet).
It needs to re-focus on it's core ride-sharing business and substantially reduce it's burn rate. There is little doubt that ride-sharing will be a massively profitable business, they get paid dollars per ride and their booking costs should only be pennies.

The myth that their rides are unprofitable is because they spend money like drunken sailors in a whorehouse. Anyone analyzing their financials has no insight into whether ride sharing is profitable in the US, or other countries because the needed information is not broken out in those reports

They have up to 100 side businesses like UberEats. They've spent a ton trying to design autonomous vehicles they don't need now and likely never will need (given they'll be freely available for purchase from Tesla, GM, etc when created). Lastly, they spend huge amounts opening new markets, basically paying drivers to sign up with such lucrative bonuses that Uber gets scammed constantly by them.

The plan is pretty simple
1) Kill almost every side business, and do a substantial headcount reduction.
2) Dump the autonomous driving development group and cheaply settle the Waymo lawsuit.
3) Focus everyone left on ride-sharing, improving the brand, and efficiently expanding internationally.
4) Clean house in the HR department and of every remaining harasser.
5) Raise another round to ensure Uber's long term financial stability.

Thats a plan that gives Uber a very long runway to achieve full profitability, even without an IPO.
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Agreed. I have horrible short term memory but these questions are trivial as a "homework" type assignment. Plus, for my current data scientist role, the interview consisted of me bringing in a project I had worked on (actual code) and demonstrating how it worked. I much prefer that tactic. I think it gives you greater insight into the candidate.
Shorter than the React code, I'm not seeing a big win other than the need for an explicit render() in didSet, which also allows for more fine-grained control if needed.

class ViewController: UIViewController {
let indicatorView = ConnectivityIndicatorView()

override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()

indicatorView.frame = CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: CGSize(width: 20, height: 20))
view.addSubview(indicatorView)
}
}

class ConnectivityIndicatorView: UIView {
var isConnected: Bool = false {
didSet {
render()
}
}

override func didMoveToSuperview() {
super.didMoveToSuperview()

isConnected = arc4random()%10 > 4
}

func render() {
backgroundColor = isConnected ? .green : .red
}
}
> How does React Native take full advantage of the hardware if it has to be cross-platform compatible?

It's easy enough to add a native module to address specific hardware -- so easy in fact that you can usually find one already done (ARKit for example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-arkit). As with all 3rd party library use you have to do your due diligence of course.

The more of these you use, the less 'cross-platform' your code becomes. If there's enough similarity in hardware between platforms, you might write (or find) a react-native library offering a javascript/RN API that addresses native apis under the hood. This is done with animation, for example.

> A company like Facebook seriously doesn’t have the resources to make Android or iOS native applications?

I'm can't imaging they don't have the resources, and know nothing about FB or its motives. But if I was managing a large cross-platform app, I'd definitely want the largest number of developers I possibly could have communicating via a commonly understood codebase, rather than via meetings and specs.
That's sort of my point. Having ten different implementations of, for example, a data table, each using its own variant of what button template it prefers seems like exactly the kind of hole npm dug itself into. That doesn't seem very desirable for a UI framework that is shipped to clients and demands polish.

Sure, you don't have to use it, but it's the main selling point of polymer. It seems nice in theory but npm also seemed nice in theory.
How do you know it looses money on every ride (genuine question)? Is there proof?

Could it be that there are profitable rides in some of its markets that inspire investors that it would eventually be able to make every ride profitable at some point?
I have a Steam Link, and I get all the benefits of PC gaming from my couch. It's a pretty seamless best-of-both-worlds situation.
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Every company doesn't need to innovate, sometimes just running the business well is the best strategy. Warren Buffett's entire massive track record is based on companies that do little innovation. And it's a strategy Uber desperately needs.
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Vue templates are compiled into render functions. They are checked when the template is compiled. If you are using a build process, then that would be at build time.
Just take a look at Didi. They won the market in China and now prices are up, driven incentive pay is cut, wait times are up because drivers are leaving the platform because pay is down.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/09/1...
Programming an Android app – 17 months in 5 blog posts
>Icahn’s role was novel. He would be an adviser with a formal title, but he would not receive a salary, and he would not be required to divest himself of any of his holdings, or to make any disclosures about potential conflicts of interest. “Carl Icahn will be advising the President in his individual capacity,” Trump’s transition team asserted.
In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.

How is this shit legal?
Major Winters of the Band of Brothers fame was originally in the army as an enlisted man. But while in basic training he witnessed an army officer giving a presentation while holding a wrong rifle for an hour. So he realized maybe being an officer would not be so hard after all and applied to be an officer. The rest is history.
When I start feeling like your last couple of sentences I break my work up into a list of smaller easier tasks, do a couple then go and take a break for 30 min-a few hours. Go for a walk outside, have a shower, drink coffee at a cafe, have a nap, etc. anything that is away from my phone and computers. That usually calms me down enough to work more.
Isnt it pretty obvious what uber needs? They need some one to act like an adult. They need a real business man to either start charging actual fees for service and somehow magically keep customers or start planning and figuring out a graceful way to lower valuation.

Suppose Immelt steps in, stops subsidizing rides, things stabilize and Uber's valuation cuts in half but they find a sustainable place to be. That seems like a job well done and the echo chamber can crap on Immelt for not innovating or destroying "value"
Selling the private key would be a bad idea since you can't guarantee the seller destroys it. But you could have the staker address be a contract, with an ownership that can be transfered.
Your quarrel is not with JavaScript (as everyone else has pointed out, there’s no reason one can’t build a secure compile-time type system on top of JavaScript), but with some of the specific design decisions made by TypeScript that open soundness holes, such as “programmers are too stupid to understand the difference between covariance and contravariance, so we’ll pretend everything is bivariant”.

See https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil... for a less cynical presentation of these design decisions.
Adding web as a target on top of the enormous complexity of ios/android is a siren song. These cross-platform codebases are already held together with popsicle sticks and bubble gum with just the two targets.

Of note is that Appcelerator did target all three simultaneously (as well as blackberry and windows phone), but eventually dropped web support.
When they stop expanding worldwide. The world is an extremely large place. Paying drivers hundreds of dollars to sign up with Uber in hundreds of countries is a massive startup expense.
As someone who hasn't followed GE closely, why is Immelt considered a good CEO?

Looking at the numbers, over his tenure, GE's stock is down ~38% while the S&P 500 is up 123%. He did take over during some rocky times, but in the last 10 years, it's the same picture. If you put $100 into GE at the start of 2007, today you'd now have ~$105. For the S&P, you'd have $210. For a basket industrial stocks, you'd have $205.

http://performance.morningstar.com/stock/performance-return....

How can the CEO who delivered this be considered good at his job?
Reminds me of where the word "tank" came from.
If they want to go to patent war with Facebook, they're going to have to answer to Facebook's patent portfolio counterclaims, whether they own companies which use React or not. Facebook owns thousands of patents they have bought over the years.

Your company or startup should focus on building a great product and attracting users.
It's not a good look. The fact is, the issue that is at the heart of this is commercial confidentiality about many of the processes that are employed in the creation of GMO products. Because it is confidential, the only studies that get released by the GMO creators are ones they they view as successful.

The only way to resolve this is to require all studies to be independently conducted and all research to be publicly available, regardless of whether it is positive or negative. Therefore the only solution to adequately determine the safety of these products is expensive. Which is why no one does it. Until this requirement is legislated we will continue rolling dice.
>Have you tried QT or Xamarin?

These are for desktop/mobile apps right? If so, yeah, there are other options as well.

Was thinking more something like this, but for SPAs.