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Seeking a monopoly seems to be a big part of their business plan or else why would they be offering fares which are so low they lose money for years?
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https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/develop/examples/tra...

You'll need to `pip install spacy-nightly` -- it uses spaCy 2 alpha. Until spaCy 2 stabilises it'll be a bit unstable, and unfortunately it's not in the docs yet.

You'll likely get better results by running `spacy download en_vectors_web_lg` and doing `nlp = spacy.load('en_vectors_web_lg')`. This will download word vectors, trained on an enormous web dump by Stanford NLP using their GloVe algorithm.

Once the model is trained you can do `nlp.to_disk(output_directory)`, and then run `spacy package <model directory> <package directory>`. This will setup the model data as a Python package, so that you can run `setup.py sdist`. You'll then get a self-contained Python package that exposes a `load()` function, to give you back the `nlp` object. (Note that if you do base the model on the GloVe vectors the package will be enormous, like 1GB. Shrug?)

If you're starting one step back and don't have the data annotated yet, you might be interested in our annotation tool Prodigy. There's a demo video of the text classification workflow here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=638&v=5di0KlKl0f...
Ah!!!! You'll get used to it after a while I promise.
> Just tell them you don't have cash, and they'll make sure their card reader starts working.

They will actually usually just suggest driving past an ATM so you can get them cash.

A good alternative that usually works is if you suggest paying them with a cheque. Usually then their card reader will magically start working.
I have a fundamental issue with a building block of your argument - Real compensation being a bad measure.

REAL compensation will always exist.

Simple systems, like first order approximations, can always do away with complex balancing constants, or recursive functions/costs, and feedback loops.

Similarly, in any real world situation, some fraction of firms will always find a way to plump up their employee compensation, without having to put a real cost to it.

So for example -

Major tech firms have on campus gyms, doctors, free food and so on. (We'll be ignoring the fact thaty they have campus-es in the first place)

Startups do it by offerring risk/reward tradeoffs.

In India I know Firms that provide complimentary transportation - and manage the insurance for that transportation.

Pilots and their families fly free, hospitals give admin staff better health care access, so on and so forth.

These are descriptive, non exhaustive examples.

The point being made is that Real Compensation in the real world will always have to be a calculated/inferred field/value.
I'm sorry if my wording was confusing; the company in these both situations is convincing people (investors) that they can become those things in the future, not that they are at the current time when they're not (which would likely involve some sort of deception).

It's like:

Case 1: "We are spending like mad to capture what we believe is a valuable market as fast as possible. This means we are losing money like crazy right now, but it is working and we are growing fantastically. Once are in a large dominant position, we believe we will be able to retain that market, so we won't have to spend as much on growth, and we can focus our energy on maximizing revenue and being capital efficient and start making a lot of profit."

Case 2: "We have validated our product market fit and business model, and are profitable. Our market share, growth and revenue numbers are small but stable and positive. We believe we will be able to rapidly accelerate our growth and market share in the future while maintaining our margin and start making a lot of profit."

Both are good, neither are fraud, but (1) currently tends to be the favored approach for venture financing, and one way or another it tends to be venture financed companies that end up dominating the important tech markets (though that doesn't necessarily means it's casual).
How many people here installed and use an under-sink water filtration system or full-home system? I've been using them for about 12 years, re-filling liter-sized nalgene bottles as needed.

For a long time, I've wondered whether a filtration system in every home would change people's water consumption habits: would people still buy bottled water despite having superior-quality water available from a tap? As the expression goes-- You can lead a horse to water but you can't teach it to drink.
> People record music and codify this in a big number (a wav file). Should they be paid every time such a number is put in a particular software?

Are you actually questioning the whole concept of paying for digital goods?

Do you really think you only paid for a jewel case and logistics when you bought your CDs or packaged software back in the 90s? No, you obviously paid for the work that went into the product. And that should still apply, even if you buy the content from Bandcamp's digital shelves. Or the App Store.

> There's an obviously failing business with little to no added value: that of big record companies and rock stars.

The piracy discussion always seems to be limited to big major labels. I agree that we don't need more of those, but they are really just the surface of the industry. There are countless small and niche labels that do honest and important work, acting as curator, supporting their artists and gathering a significant and loyal following among avid listeners.
I am not 100% sure what I am looking at in that pic...

Does it show that he took a massive detour (presumably to extract more money from you)?
OTOH that's already the case with C and C++ where the compiler is allowed to assume undefined behavior cannot happen.
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Try that at 3am and see if the cab driver cares.
Velocity of money doesn't have much to do with debt; money is a medium for negotiating the exchange of value between economic actors, the transmission fluid, as it were. If you were happy to get paid in very small increments very regularly, and similarly pay for other products in very small increments at very high speed, the economy could function with a numerically small amount of money, moving very quickly. Since that's not practical, we need lots of slack, buffer as it were, for converting our labour into money, before we in turn consume that money by exchanging it for other goods and services. There's a direct tradeoff between velocity of money and the supply of money; you need less of the latter when the former is high.

Debt is about moving around consumption and production relative to one another. It's inherently based on predictions about the future, which is why it's risky.

"Printing money and giving it to banks" is not how it works either. Rather, the government prints currency and buys debt with it. The debt represents future money, and is an asset today. But the currency isn't just given away.

The relationship, such that it exists, is thus indirect; buying debt increases money supply which makes up for low velocity of money.
Mini cabs are just as bad. I had one last week that was ordered by a top hotel, the hotel told me the guy accepts cards, the guy had card logos on the window, then when we arrive at the airport he tells me he'll add £10 to the bill if I want to pay with cards. I was this close to telling to go fuck himself and charge me the right amount on the card, but had a plane to catch and didn't want to waste time fighting so I went to an ATM and went back with the cash.

Uber may not be a perfect regulator, but it's apparently "good enough" and that's what the existing incumbent regulator can't stand - their own efforts to make cab drivers behave appear to be worse than what the private sector can provide.

But hey, what do Londoners expect when they voted in a Labour (left wing) mayor whose first act was to freeze the cost of public transport, thus gutting TfL's budget. Londoners also elected Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott. They don't get to turn around now and complain about excessive regulation killing off businesses they don't like!
> My impression was that Uber, through price and convenience, created significant demand for Private Hire travel in London where it didn’t previously exist.

That may or may not actually be positive.
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PulseAudio posts are always filled with naysayers; the vast vast vast majority of users (like systemd in this regard) have no idea it's even running and just get on with whatever they're doing.

I've primarily run Linux over the last fifteen or so years and barely had an issue that's directly PA's fault.

I remember the bad old days where a playlist would finish and then GAIM's notification sound would bleat fifteen times. PA saw an end to that.
Oh wow, thanks very much for explaining that to me!
This has happened to me before. I wrote to Uber's support and they recalculated the correct route and refunded me the difference. Did you try that?

This sort of thing happens with black cabs outside airports from time to time but with Uber you at least have some sort of way of getting your money back.
Addison Lee also tend to seemingly employ many drivers who drive as if they're doing their best to kill you, themselves, and any cyclists or unwary pedestrians around them. Worse still, this activity is actively encouraged by Addison Lee's own corporate policy
> What "threat to Londoners' safety and security"?

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/vv598m/uber-drivers-a...
Failure to report serious crimes and allowing the driver to continue driving for Uber: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/uber-fail...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/uber-drivers-accused-of...

Failure to properly check medical certifications: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1897962/investigation-reveals-...

Failure to follow up DBS (criminal records) checks (can't find an article about that one).

Use of Greyball to dodge regulators checking on the service: https://www.ft.com/content/2ab3c0e8-0076-11e7-96f8-3700c5664... (not specific to London but they're being sued all over the place for it)

TfL's statement about the ban - https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2017/septem...
Their previously voiced views on cyclists should be taken into account though.

http://road.cc/content/news/56999-addison-lee-chairman-airs-...

The Keen Group have always been reliable for us (but could hold similar views for all I know)
Well, it depends on which way is more convenient for whatever they want to argue at any given moment.
Same experience here. Nothing done about a virtual mugging where the cabbie had no idea where he was going, shouted at me and told me I was a cunt because I wasn’t stupid enough to fall for it and pulled him up on it. I rounded his fee down to the nearest £10 and told him to sue me.

I’ve seen black cab drivers shouting “Uber scum” and spitting in the windows of Uber drivers before. This isn’t want I and my wife wanted to experience when you’re getting into an Uber literally after she’s had a hospital appointment and surgery.

I’d rather fucking well walk than get in a black cab.

This whole thing is sad. TfL is a total turd bag as well. Constantly getting overcharged on contactless so I have gone back to prepaid oyster. Customer services tell me I’m a dumbass but several people I know have the same problem on the same routes.
I grew up drinking the chlorinated tap water of New Jersey. It never tasted good. Water filtration systems, such as under-sink systems, solve that problem.
Agreed. Plants can develop resistance to herbicides, but they can't really develop resistance to being dug up.

Although the dandelions and bindweed in my garden would be prominent counter-examples.
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Show HN: Crowdsourced Thoughts from Uber Drivers in London
Deponia's iOS port (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deponia/id953047550?mt=8) uses this. That should really be on top of thow showcase page https://godotengine.org/showcase/
Let's make it 27 ways. Try also:

https://hackerhunt.co/
http://searchhn.com/
https://hnews.xyz/top
https://www.taggernews.com/news/
http://hntop.org/
https://hackerhunt.co/

I find several of these quite useful.
B can offer a lower price than A and take their business away. High margin businesses (like A) attract competitors. Everybody wants to be in a high margin business.
I've toyed with Go for a while, but it has not yet become my main language. Can you talk a bit about what you use it for, what your tooling is, and if you've discovered some great go-to libraries and supporting tools?
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1. Your example of a bad trip is extreme. It's clearly awful but out of probably close to 100 trips I've had one where the driver took a bad route (he ignored GPS and got stuck in rush hour traffic in a tunnel). I contacted Uber who gave me a full immediate refund.

>> there are cheap hotels all over London

2. I could get from Brixton to Mile End for £20 (£5 when split between passengers). Find me a hotel for that price.

Finally - my point was that Uber was the only cheap and convenient option. You have not provided an equal alternative. My point was never that Uber should keep their license. I agree with you there are huge issues and hopefully this will spur them to solve them.

Edit: Although the first issue you point out is not your fault in anyway I'm curious whether you were asleep or not during that trip? That's a massive detour in the wrong direction twice. You and the driver both have a map showing your current location and destination. It seems like an easy mistake to quickly notice and correct.
Yes, I use feedly to read the rss and it's fairly easy to quickly parse the whole feed.
I don't know about now but Hailo (now MyTaxi) certainly used to do regular cars as well as black cabs. You could book them ahead of time and they were quite a good service.

In the early days they were a lot better than Uber, which was quite unreliable in London at the time. At the time I was working late on a startup and I could be there after the last tube had gone so I just expensed a cab home.
I'll vouch for Qbserve. I've been using it for a year and it's the first thing I install on a new machine. It's a lifesaver if you have to fill out time sheets and just the act of tracking your productive time can be a huge boost to productivity. I've probably spent a total of 20 minutes configuring it in the last year, which is pretty amazing.
Yeah if you cherry pick a long journey that's possible to do in one go on the tube you can obviously find situations where public transport is cheaper. Most of the time it is. But there also exist journeys for which Uber is faster and cheaper, especially with two or more people, and especially at night.

Or journeys where Uber is marginally more expensive but people are willing to pay £1 for convenience.

I'm not sure what we're arguing about, the fact that it's 40k drivers and the everybody's phones just received several messages about it proves that there's demand.
Here's the spec requirements for a taximeter: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/taximeter-specification-1.pdf

There's no requirement to log information (let alone store it for future upload), only that the taximeter is audited (for distance accuracy) every 12 months or so, and that it has updated fare structures (which modern ones do over GSM/GPRS).
The TFL press release summarises the points on why the licence is not being renewed - https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2017/septem...

TfL considers that Uber's approach and conduct demonstrate a lack of corporate responsibility in relation to a number of issues which have potential public safety and security implications. These include:

Its approach to reporting serious criminal offences.
Its approach to how medical certificates are obtained.
Its approach to how Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are obtained.
Its approach to explaining the use of Greyball in London - software that could be used to block regulatory bodies from gaining full access to the app and prevent officials from undertaking regulatory or law enforcement duties.
I can second that. I'm by no means a fan of PulseAudio, I got bitten by it many times in the past, but my experience with Windows and audio over HDMI has been at least as bad. Even with a fully updated Windows 10 and a bog-standard on-board audio chip, Windows consistently messes up my speaker configuration or randomly mutes the audio. Particularly after updates it regularly forgets that I have a 5.1 receiver hooked up over HDMI and defaults back to stereo, and I have to re-configure it again.
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> If you're too drunk to ride the drunk train/bus, there are cheap hotels all over London

That may be but getting any at 11pm+ is impossible. I have tried a few times after missing my last train home... Always end up calling a friend to sleep on their couch or more likely office meeting room sofa...
I've been reading its reviews and I can't honestly say if they are machine generated or not. They are so generic that they'd work for any app. Examples:

> This chrome extension saves my time. Just love it. Very very useful thing I have ever got.

> It's a awesome app and work effectively. I try to use in my all work. It's truly a great extension

> Highly recommended extension. I am so much impressed with it. In one word it’s great.

> This extension has improved my work efficiently. I am very much comfort in every time for this extension. In one word it's best.

> Its relax to run. Totally a WOW app. Looking forward for more updates. Thanks.

> This is one awesome app that I have come across so far. The functions and features available are outstanding. I love it ..!

And now some with basic context awareness (the word "Read" from "Readlax - Speed Reading"). Examples:

> Speed reading apps is a very enjoyable to run. Its simple instructions will make you comfortable to use it. Just loved it.

> Its a awesome app that makes reading speedy easier and interesting. Highly recommend.

> I am very much happy to get it. I faced difficulties when I used other apps. But after getting this it makes my reading so simple and flexible.

> This app makes my reading very speedy. I highly recommend it. Best app ever.

I'm inclined to believe that they are spam. But surely Google won't allow that, right?
Try http://searchhn.com/

This comes close to your specs.
There is a mention of the taxi association being a major opponent. The black cabs have had numerous strikes regarding uber for their own wrong doing, it just seems like another tirade from them. There was legislation passed that required all black cabs to hold card readers, the overwhelming majority refused to allow you to use them, install them, or acknowledge the legislation ~2 years after the fact. They only have themselves to blame.

At a point in the past black cabs used to be good, this is no longer true. Not having uber (or an alternative - black cabs are not) will be more a problem than most realize.
Most Uber-sized companies squirrel the profits to tax havens in the Caribbean. Getting the profits to the reach of the US tax system would be unexpected.
Me too. Literally a one line complaint and a refund in a few hours.
The guy took the wrong exit twice. It's less likely to be malicious than accidental. Uber will refund you your money but you lose the time. Either way, hardly an argument to get a hotel.
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The 40,000 drivers won't go anywhere. They will just be using other comparable services.

I was using Wheely before Uber came to London. I switched to Uber after multiple unpleasant experiences, like the drivers showing up 40min early and chasing me. But Uber didn't invent this concept, it just happened to have become the platform that dominated the other ones through its critical mass / network effects. But it can be replaced pretty quickly.
Looks interesting, from the page (for those just browsing comments here):

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Interesting. I think you should tell us more about how it's better than existing services. Also state the price of the given service. I don't give my email in exchange for vague promises.
Also, you could get rid of the menu, as it's pretty useless for now.
I think if your project gets better than existing products, it could be a hit. And you get free growth by having people invite their colleagues to events
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> Who said anything about them seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly?

I think everyone who looked at them, for the past 3 years or so. It's been plainly visible that they're a) reaching globally, and b) not afraid of using any means necessary, including illegal ones, to destroy their competition - both from the taxi world and other Uber-like companies.
Low effort post? Why don't you provide more context and sources for your opinion.
I think that is the situation that Uber would prefer, but sadly (for them) not: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/28/uber-uk-t...
Not if they want, if they have enough cash to burn as Uber does.

Just look at Lyft, they don't have the bankroll of Uber to play so it's very hard to compete on the global scale when your competitor is basically playing a price dumping scheme with investors' money.
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/asla...

Court rules drivers are employees, Uber's appeal starts next week.
Did you contact Uber about that trip? Their business ethics seem to be generally shitty, sure, but they should be very quick to refund especially in such a clear case.
It's a shame for the people of London. Specially the not-so-rich-as-HN ones
What profits? Aren't they problematically loss making?
I'd not sure I'd call the AL drivers professional. A number of them are complete psychopaths around the Heathrow area.
I imagine the proper news story will be updated with the hour.
This is where prepaid mastercards which sync up to an app on your phone come in really handy.

You get a push notification instantly as soon as a contactless transaction goes through so you know right away if you've been ripped off.
Well, technically you can still power it down with the power button, but that's not so graceful to say the least.
No. You need Global indexes for that.
Seconded! Been using it forever, if he'd implement replying and voting I'd have no reason to ever use the vanilla site.
Unions aren't a good way to set prices. Wages in each industry shouldn't be set by how hard it is to unionize them and how well they capture regulators to ban competition. We need to find a better way.

Noone in London sheds a tear for black cab drivers, Uber just exposed the extent of their price fixing racket.

The innovation in making it much much faster and easier to hail a cab.
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Did gett do to Uber in London what HailO/mytaxi did to them in Ireland?

This could simply be a case of Uber not adding enough value for independent drivers who don’t need Uber’s regulatory avoidance scheme to get on the road in the first place.
Kaggle offers a much more open and social coding challenge experience than this
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Why would you buy that?
Its just aluminium powder and iron-rust.
Interesting, that would appear to be something of an oversight.
> PostgreSQL is not ACID when it's a system that encompasses more than one node. Simple as that.

Pretty sure Postgres has supported two-phase commit since at least version 8.