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> An app or surge pricing is what everyone does.

In 2017, yes. But despite the fact that in some countries, Uber clones appeared before Uber did, Uber was, as far as I remember, the first to implement such a model.

And everyone who remembers ordering a taxi in advance and waiting for 20-30 minutes for a bad, rude driver, for 2-3 the money that taxis cost now, can appreciate the innovation.
I agree that the sort of sampling bias/distributional shift you mention is definitely a real problem in deep learning. It so happens that yesterday I read a blog post that elaborates on this problem clearer than I can. Although it's still true that allowing arbitrary distributional shift is impossible, it does make sense to allow for distributional shift across the natural manifold (manifold of all "allowable" data). The blog post called this "strong generalization", which isn't a term I've heard before.

This is the blog post I'm referring to: http://blog.evjang.com/2017/11/exp-train-gen.html?spref=tw

I'm just an undergraduate doing research in computer vision/deep learning. I've been following a lot of the research in deep learning theory because I think it's really interesting and there's been a lot of activity recently. Maybe I'll be able to do research on pure ML theory one day, but my math ability is definitely not up to par yet haha...
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I take a bunch of ubers, by which I mean I take maybe 4 or 5 ubers a week. Before I took ubers, I didn't take cabs, I took the train. I walked five minutes to get on a tram to the train station, I switched to a train, and then I walked ten minutes home.

I never, really, took cabs. I can explain the multitude of reasons: Cab drivers with shitty attitudes, refusing to unlock the doors and just cracking open the window to ask how far it was you were planning to go: Too short? Don't want to take you, fare is too small. Too long? Don't want to take you, won't get a fare back. I mean, y'know, cab drivers are legally obliged to take you on any distance journey but the lack of accountability meant that they wouldn't. Sometimes there were no choices: Cab home or you won't get there. In those cases, I'd take cabs. The cab driver would be rubbing his eyes, swerving all over the road, tired after working a 16 hour shift, while talking on the phone to, I guess, whoever would listen. Doing anything they could not to pay attention to driving, apparently.

And now I take ubers instead. It's not because I like uber. It's not because I think that the laws around the cab drivers should be ignored and uber should be allowed to flaunt that however they like. It's because I think that, at least right now, uber works better than laws. At least right now.

Is the contractor thing a little bit on the suspicious side? Definitely. Should they pay their "driver partners" more? Definitely. Do I think that this problem is uber's fault? Most definitely not.

I don't have lyft available to me. If I did, I'd probably use lyft. I'm happy with being slightly conscientious and paying a bit more, knowing that I'm not ripping off some guy who can't do any better. Anecdotally, most of my friends think the same thing.

But what I won't do is support the existing cab industry.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15964185
I think that in this case, “too big to fail” would mean that investors would bail them out rather than let them go under.
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2017 Oracle is just about the opposite of what we mean by "next Silicon Valley".

Especially a satellite office.
Uber's argument is that they're more like a limo service in the sense that you call and book a driver. But you do this with Taxis too. It's just in most cities, taxis can also take immediate bookings on the street or from a taxi stand.

Technology really blurs the line, and for most purposes, they act and fulfill the market that is provided by Taxis.
and we make uis in html that look worse than this.
I still wonder why Uber is a thing. It makes no sense, it does not feel like something capable of reliable service and it got almost no use cases.

Is it just a passing fad of some sort, like fidget spinners?
IE probably wouldn't even exist anymore if it weren't for legacy intranet websites that require Java applets and run ActiveX plugins.
For god sake, can't understand the stupidity of people/government.
Uber just left, they really like the old fancy/stand on the street/fking hand waving old taxi service.
For some reason I feel those government is stupid to be the least.
Hey Bob - you'll be pleased to hear Tyk took that feedback on-board. There is now very comprehensive documentation and user-guides. And true to the Open Source approach, anyone can contribute to them, the community have been great in working to improve them.
> And everyone who remembers ordering a taxi in advance and waiting for 20-30 minutes for a bad, rude driver, for 2-3 the money that taxis cost now, can appreciate the innovation.

A cab company with a rating system?
maybe, but how do you quantify this data? and also there must be away to not let this affect small businesses
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In my opinion, it’s hard to blame just a Uber. It would be different if they were making tons of money off the backs of their drivers, but they’re not. The real problem is that customers aren’t willing to pay what it “should” cost.
> unfortunately it isn’t trivial

With a good heat gun and toolkit, it's doable in anything from 15-30 min (more if the case is bent or damaged from falls).
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Well, if we're nit-picking the ruling made was simply that Uber must be considered 'a service in the field of transport', not a taxi specifically. I think it would be hard for anyone who wasn't an Uber lawyer to deny that one.
Are they looking for a problem solver or an executor? Looked up on Linkedin - the manager has minimal online presence (the opposite of what is expected from me as a candidate), many years in the same company - it's safe to assume the main motivation the person stays there is paying off the mortgage and inability to find something else. The hiring person is a working student or intern. Why should I submit or even trust that their stack/technological decisions will be optimal or even competent? I'm being judged for the most detailed nuance and decision in my entire curriculum which I'm required to openly declare, why shouldn't I judge them?
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I'm sorry, but from the blog article it's not completely clear what this is.

I knew a major rewrite was going to be required with Gecko and XUL being abandoned by Mozilla: is this a step in that direction? Or just a stopgap measure while still relying on legacy code?
why don't you just share it and print it as need at other locations? the data is all readable
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VC money is try to see how far you can go by ignoring existing laws
This just seems unnecessarily harsh on Google. Just because they haven't solved security / privacy in its entirety, they shouldn't be lambasted for taking a step forward!
Yes, just tried to record my voice, but the service didn't finish. Can be a temporal glitch.

The fake voice by Donald Trump is terribly close.

This definitely has a repercussion for fake news and overall trust. We will just not be able to trust what we see (computer-rendered images) or hear (rendered voice).
If they believe that the company will make money in the long-run. Otherwise it's just putting bad money after good. You can only bail out a company if you believe it will become profitable. You can't subsidize rides eternally, it does not make sense for investors.
Undercutting taxis and at a loss are two separate issues. Taxis are overpriced in the US with or without Uber.
> [edit] actually how would the Chrome installer work in the first place? I thought the very definition of Windows 10 S was that it only allows apps from the store. How would that download app install anything?

It didn't:

> [Note to Windows 10 S users] Windows 10 S is incompatible with apps like Google Chrome. To use Google Chrome, upgrade for free (for a limited time) to Windows 10 Pro.

You can still see the cached version at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Which would be incorrect. Bitcoin spot markets are protected from insider trading from the CFTC if no one else due to the influence the spot price has on derivatives markets. Moving the price 30% in one day would absolutely fall under their jurisdiction, and there are laws on the books since 2010 making such insider profits illegal.
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> That's not what taxi means unless you consider all ride services such as black cars taxis -- which I don't think anyone does.

No that's what I mean. You can put a label on then depending on local regulations for monopolies which is why in some cities there are lots of silly distinctions such as cab/minicab/"black car" or whatever.

But all those distinctions have just appeared because of the local monopoly - not becasuse they are inherently differnent. From an insurance/employment/etc. standpoint they are "cars that take people from a to b for money" - and whether you call that "cab firm" or call it "ride service" or something else is irrelevant.

> Also taxis don't hire people, people rent taxis and then drive them.

Again - this is a local phenomenon. There are places where cab firms are one man businesses, co-ops, owned cars/rented cars etc. It doesn't really matter either.
Usability.

This is the same aspect that I think will be very important in making Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies viable as a replacement for current currencies
But it's not compulsory on android.
I like many of these ideas, they address real practical problems in the area and new research is always welcome. How this all will be packaged into a working environment is not clear to me but even the individual parts should be useful.
Wouldn’t it not count as income until you sold it for USD? In which case you wouldn’t be liable for every fork, just the ones you benefitted from.
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I'm a non-mathematician stats newbie but here is my take:

Strength of this book seems to be that it is very approachable in a "plain english" kind of a way. This is the first time I have seen it and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Strength of _All of Statistics_ is that it is fast-paced and approachable even though it is essentially a math textbook. You only need a bit of algebra to make sense of it. That book exudes the feeling that the author wants to get through all this theory as quickly as possible to move onto other exciting things. (_All of Nonparametric Statistics_ by the same author is actually less approachable and shouldn't be taken as a simplified "the good bits" subset.)

The stats book that I have had the most value out of is _Statistical Modeling: A Fresh Approach_. It's fundamentally about making sense of different kinds of data using a computer. http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/StatisticalModeling/
I've only ever ridden Uber over a period of two weeks - the last two. In India, in Pune.

The drivers more or less all complained about Uber cutting the incentives and margins, stating that they are making a low amount of money. Ola seems to be a contender that many local drivers flock to?

Yes, these drivers might've lied to me. I'm just putting this anecdote against your statement of 50k INR of profit/income: That's certainly not the impression I got when I had discussions about just that on my rides.
I may need you to provide the definition of innovation. Uber enables me to call a cab even before I leave the building, it suggests a price for me, it shows me cab's location, it sends my request to more than one cab.
$500,000 medallions seems to be a US 'innovation'.

Sick days and benefits will be calculated pro rata just like they are for people who work part time. It's not a hard system to create considering most companies have to do it already. There will be a contract that specifies that if you work a 40 hour week you get his much and if you work less you get that fraction of it. I would guess the contract would specify that overages don't accumulate more benefits but that's up to Uber to write into their contract.

The gig economy are exactly that, normal workers. Just because your work doesn't have regular hours doesn't mean we need an entirely new classification system.
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They are most definitely independent contractors. In what way are they not?
Would be interesting to hear any experiences. These researchers have background in Spark etc. so setting up might not be that difficult.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm
Considering how Uber was apparently wanting to evade to be considered a transportation service this is IMHO a correct decision.

Just because you're a startup/funded/unicorn does not mean that laws do not apply.

This is pretty much the biggest thing that will change the "new economy". The market has reached a point where rightfully so people start to wonder why IT startups should be evading laws. They should not.

Running a business comes with duties for everyone. That is in the end in the interest of all consumers.
Google Maps was leaps and bounds better than anything in the mapping space at the time.

Google Mail was leaps and bounds better than anything in the webmail space at the time (more space, better spam filter, better UI, imap support...).

The pagerank intuition (and the technical way of achieving it, with clusters of cheap PCs) was original in search at the time, which is how they built their lead.

Ads they mostly got from the Doubleclick acquisition, but the intuition of serving more palatable text ads on a mass scale was original.

Android they acquired, but the intuition of keeping it opensource was original in embedded systems at the time.

Whereas MS Office was just another office suite. Xbox was just another console. Windows CE was a hacked-down Windows that struggled vs real mobile systems. .Net was a Java clone. Bing was a Google clone. IIS was a clone of existing webapp servers, with the only advantage being that it came preinstalled. SQLServer they acquired and made it slightly easier to use than competitors. After Windows, IE was probably the only major project where they innovated substantially, and they let it die.
> And everyone who remembers ordering a taxi in advance and waiting for 20-30 minutes for a bad, rude driver, for 2-3 the money that taxis cost now, can appreciate the innovation.

I think what people are confusing here are the effects of a removed monopoly and technical innovation.

The solution isn't removing employment safety, the solution is just removing the monopoly in cities where there are taxi monopolies. All Uber did was simply circumvent the monopoly regulations.

Try a non-uber taxi in a city without taxi monopoly and it's exactly like uber.
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Anything is possible, but that doesn't seem likely.

It is helpful to think of what would aliens want from us that they can't get at home.

Raw material, like in the mini-series V, Oblivion, Uplift War trilogy, etc? It is too expensive to ship matter anywhere. If you need a lot of it for a construction project, you'd be better off heading to the galactic core.

Maybe they want our cultural uniqueness? But they could easily simulate many virtual worlds with different starting conditions, and poke around those without leaving the comfort of home. That would be much easier, especially after they get bored with humans.

And if they have advanced molecular nanotechnology, it isn't just waiting millions of years for results. They are likely running at a much higher "clock rate" than we are now. You can run an uploaded mind much faster than a biological one. So these hypothetical aliens would instead be waiting billions of years of subjective time for their probes to find something interesting.
The important question is - what implication does it have beyond the classification? Does Europe have different standards for cab firms to meet? Like employment, fare rules?
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It's used mostly in and for
Czechia. Why would someone in Czechia care about the rest of the globe when he'll mostly use it to find stuff in Czechia?
Using the UK, as an example, there are two very distinct types of taxis:

1. Those hailed on the street or found waiting at a taxi stand/rank. These are metered services. They drive you somewhere and you pay the amount shown on the meter. In London, and some other parts of the UK, these are known as Black Cabs (because the vehicles have traditionally been painted black).

2. Pre-booked services. Essentially a passenger phones to make a booking, informs the service of the pick-up address and destination, agrees a price, then waits for the taxi to arrive. These are known as Mini Cabs.

Both these services are licensed and regulated in the UK.

Uber very clearly falls into the second category. They're just a Mini Cab firm with a fancy app.
That's not what they argued. The ECJ ruling is that the Uber is a company providing "‘a service in the field of transport’
within the meaning of EU law."

Uber claimed they weren't. They were claiming to be just an infrastructure service without any influence over the transportation part of the business. They wanted to do this since transportation services are subject to the local regulations as a specific exception to the normal Single Market rules on the provision of services (where you only required to follow your home regulations).

P.S. Your home regulations will include all the common European regulations but customer local regulations could be different.
> "I'm not sure why you responded if you didn't get my point then"

For the sake of clarity.

> "All I'm saying is that your premise of "write once, run anywhere" is still not true for everyone, everywhere. So I don't see why I have to accept it as if I'm being unfair to someone."

Use of native UI widgets is not a prerequisite for "write once, run anywhere". Code runs just fine using custom UI widgets. From a styling point of view, native UI widgets are a nice-to-have option, but they're not a required feature.
and why not ETH? or any other altcoin? I don't understand what's so special about BTC specifically these days
Last time I reinstalled Windows I just used Edge without any problems. All websites work fine and it is fast. Also has uBlock and other critical addons.
Yes, taxi laws need to be revised, but there are sound reasons for licensing taxis operating in a city:

- Limiting the amount of traffic on the roads

- Ensuring that vehicles are nice enough (that there isn't a "race to the bottom")

- Ensuring that drivers are nice enough (qualified, not scary violent criminals)

- Ensuring that drivers are compelled to pick you up and drop you off no matter who/what you are, and where you are going.

- Ensuring that there is a central point of contact for hailing a taxi.

- No ambiguity about who and what is a taxi with regard to parking etc.

To be sure, a lot of licensed taxi services are pretty terrible. But thats not to say that the idea of licensed taxis is bad- its actually pretty reasonable.

Its worth noting that San Fransisco and the Bay Area was the "perfect storm" for creating Uber about 5 years ago- you had a fairly car-dependant transport network, an absolutely abominably terrible licensed taxi service, a lot of local skill in making web services, access to venture capital, (relatively) lax regulation, a healthy disregard for the working classes, and a naively/cynically optimistic view on self driving cars. But try to transfer those conditions to, say, a European city, and Uberization suddenly becomes a lot more difficult.
According to this ruling, you support the taxi industry by using Uber in EU. Probably the Uber drivers will also start acting like you have described. After all, they are ordinary taxi driver now.

So I guess: Back to trams and walking?
Totally agreed, and I believe that’s what the commenter meant when saying that they aren’t too big to fail.
By this logic, all stock traders should be considered employees of the stock exchange they use. Uber is just like a stock exchange - a match making service.

* Traders/riders on a transaction/ride pay the exchange/Uber for this service.

* Traders/riders are free to trade/ride as much they want to, at any hour of the day, provided there's enough liquidity in the market (surge pricing etc.)

* If a trader doesn't cut a profit on a trade, it's the trader's problem not the exchange's

* If an Uber driver doesn't drive enough to earn a living wage, it's the driver's problem not Uber's.
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What I don't realize is how Waze, owned by Google, has more
roads (like 50% more, easily) and has house numbers compared to google maps, which has no house numbers and barely any roads, here in Lithuania.
> I don't think it's too big to fail.

My gut reaction: There's no company the size of Uber that could die more quietly. The world's reaction would be a muffled "meh".

Uber doesn't even own their most important asset, which is their drivers, and if they collapse catastrophically their drivers will simply turn off the Uber app and download one of a half dozen competitors' apps (if they don't already have it). For Uber customers, the transition will be even easier.

Maybe I'm missing something: This isn't like a car company that owns and manages factories, or like a tech company that has labs or does significant R&D, or even a bank that has lots of employees and owns other assets.

So genuine question: what do we loose if Uber vanishes tomorrow?

(Don't get me wrong, I'd be sympathetic to their employees who need to find new jobs, but my guess is that their skills are in relatively high demand.)
That's how a taxi works, yes.

The only potentially new thing here (though not necessary invented by Uber) was "shows me cab's location", but the remaining three? All of them were supported since people invented telephones and portable radio transmitters.

Uber's primary innovation is, and always has been, their operations playbook, which allowed - and still allows - them to grow a billion-dollar business while routinely breaking the laws in front of everybody and not even trying to hide it much.
> what is the meaning of the word 'know'.

that's the quintessential question, the holy grail.

> so completely pointless.

* pointfree
> I may need you to provide the definition of innovation. Uber enables me to call a cab even before I leave the building, it suggests a price for me, it shows me cab's location, it sends my request to more than one cab.

If there are regulations that would prevent taxi companies from doing that, then that's the problem.

If there is a monopoly so they don't have incentive to do that then that's a problem.

I can use an app to pre-book, pre-pay and track a taxi using any of the local taxi companies (of which none has a monopoly). The problem is solvable...
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Same for me. I absolutely understand the criticism of Uber but saying that they are just a taxi app doesn't cut it.

To add more advantages to the list: Full price transparency, pre-agreed price so you don't need to worry that you drive in circles, no driver searching for change for several minutes until you let him keep it.

And, like McDonald's did for fastfood, it creates a world wide standard for taxi services. I had a driver in India that took me to tourist stores instead of my destination and in Mexico City they warn you about taxi drivers robbing you - all not happening in an Uber.
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I doubt that "the Unix philosophy" - do one thing well - is applicable to the increasingly more complicated world of GUIs, except the basic window managers like cwm.