skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said: Regus.

What is being missed though: WeWork have actually built out a fairly comparable level of capacity to Regus. The difference is that WeWork are heavily concentrated in major cities, whereas Regus is diversified (they have locations in Mongolia and Nepal, I believe).

The reason why is simple: Regus made the mistake of overbuilding in major cities last time round. The US business went into BK, they aren't making that mistake again. In fact, even taking this very capital investment strategy, you can see that they still have substantial swings in their business.

WeWork have built out massive capacity which cannot be filled (in London, they actually have a meaningful market share of new office space). They did this because you can show great short-term results. BK is inevitable.

I would go as far to say: anyone who believes this isn't bullshit has identified themselves as an idiot too (at least, in terms of investment knowledge). This isn't remotely difficult.
In high school, I had a bash script + cron job that did this exact thing so that I could host my own Minecraft server on a junky old Dell desktop. I learned a ton from that setup about Linux and the web in general.
I think losing $1.9 billion on $1.8 billion in revenue in 2018 (yes, I know it's more complicated than that) has made getting additional capital more difficult. At the same time a self-dealing CEO gives the appearance to investors that he might not be confident that his normal compensation/stock will be worth that much, hence the extraction of value in other ways, leading to concerns about corporate governance that makes private capital more reluctant still. So the IPO is necessary to raise capital, not just to give early investors a soft exit. Now its catching up to them a bit too soon for a maximal IPO, so they're rethinking and perhaps a bit desperately (my interpretation only) going back for more private money.
Both car2go and Evo here in Vancouver appear to have the right idea - when you rent a car, cell access is only needed for starting and ending the rental (which must be done within city limits). For a stopover (stopping the car without ending the rental), you just take the physical key with you.

They’re also quite convenient since you can pick up and drop off the cars at almost any street or parking garage. Because Vancouver doesn’t (yet?) have Uber or Lyft, they serve a really important role here.
A key element here is that the battery likely died _because_ there was no service. When the car's cellular unit is scanning for service, it uses significantly more power than usual—quickly draining the battery.
But Amazon started logistical services before some of those companies even existed. Seems like a creative re-write of history.
Well not because it was a crappy stock, but because of their dual-class share structure. (Meaning minority shareholders can retain majority voting rights.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/snapchat-excluded-from-sp-50...
Even if you manually manage hundreds of machines over ssh, I am still not sure how useful this can be.

For one, you still need to manually inspect each window and issue further commands.
Also important: parents today grew up in the 1980s, which I consider the golden age of Lego. I bet plenty of adults buy it for themselves.
First one was 48 hours, and we were unimpressed at them holding on to us for so long. Second was born at 02:10, we were home at 19:39. Both cases was after an induction.

Many babies are born at home.

Is it true in the U.S. that the baby doesn't sleep next to the mother in hospital? I've seen these warehouses full of babies on TV shows, like in this photo:

https://www.adoptionchoicesofkansas.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

But it always looks a bit distopian to me.
Worth pointing out that the number in that table (which doesn't break things out by fund) for "Vanguard Group, The"'s holdings in SNAP seems to only be about 1% of the total of VTSMX https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VTSMX
The follow on question is, how did an idiot get so much money?
I signed up because of this post. I'm rather surprised I hadn't heard of 8base prior, it appears to be a killer product.

Best of luck to you guys!

As a side note... I'm working on some Gatsby projects and want to use 8base for the backend. The few tutorials I've seen so far seem to be loading data dynamically post-build versus creating static pages with data at build time. Do you have any examples of this yet?

Also, do you have an official Gatsby source plugin or are people generally using the generic "gatsby-source-graphql" plugin?
If you read the announcement, this is already pretty tightly integrated into IG, assuming you link your IG account to your Facebook Dating profile.

Of course, that means you probably need to have a Facebook profile. And in that regard you have a valid point. Nowadays I'm pretty certain that most of the types of people I'd want to connect with have dropped their FB profile but still maintain an IG profile.

But I suspect we underestimate the number of people who are still quite active on FB and have maybe only heard of IG. The older, less tech savvy social media users out there still want to date too.
I agree, but I think the "dating self" and the "facebook self" overlap a lot for most people.

It's also important for a dating app to have critical mass. Almost everyone is on FB, only a fraction of those people are on IG.
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Cool. I think I have a chance with all those wives of my friends that used to be young and single.
Huh, missing from this article is the thousand or so DSP that service Amazon for shipping, basically contracting companies. A lot of Amazon shipping is actually Amazon corporate, but a huge chunk is a thousand smaller shops.

Turns out you can also contract with those shops as a private citizen to just ship random heavy stuff anywhere for super cheap. Because Amazon gives them enough volume, it's become cheaper for individuals to make their own shipping purchases too. Strange side effect.

I don't work for Amazon or anything, but my dad has used one of their DSP to ship some truly heavy stuff (250kg+).

Is all that in the "other"? Or did it get lumped in with Amazon's chunk? I want to know but the article doesn't help.
Money, dating and social credit system in one place. How convenient.
Good lord. Vanguard has 5% of Snap!

Vanguard must own a significant share in so many companies right now. I'm starting to believe the narrative that the next crisis is passive investing.
>cause to mock it

You do realize you're talking about Christianity here, right? As in, people who worship a homeless man who was rejected by his own people, tortured, spat upon, and nailed to a cross beside common thieves. He died pitifully on that cross, naked and exposed. And you are saying that what gives cause to mock Christianity is ... some dude making idle predictions 2,000 years later???

"You will be hated by everyone on account of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved." (Matthew 10:22)
Just goes to show the market can stay irrational longer than your species can continue to exist.

At the end of the day Slack is a SV unicorn that went public without turning any profit. I believe they marketed this in their S-1 as a "loss-making" company...who does the market think it is anyway trying to act rational.
There's at least two ways of handling serious product failings: "Oh, shit, we have to fix that!" or getting rid of the customer exposing the problem and trying to conceal the issue. One is the action of a healthy company, especially one that is trying to grow, while the other maximizes current profit levels.
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Your business is still putting you on AA/Southwest/Delta/Etc. though, they're not putting you on some random regional airline. That's the argument as I read it.
No chance this will happen.
It is common for any "in-group" to speak faster than the same people in other groups. This is commonly studied in linguistic 101 courses by undergrads because it is so easy to observe - in your own groups - once you are looking for it.
Nice work! I can imagine this was a big hit
I fail to see how that would ever happen. Authorized participants [0] are always in the market for ETFs. If an ETF share price is crashing out of line with the index it tracks, they will step in and buy shares, swap them with the ETF issuer for the shares of the underlying stock in the index, and sell those shares for an arbitrage profit.

Even if one of the underlying stocks becomes illiquid, a big enough price divergence on all of the other liquid stocks would make it profitable to eat the loss or hold the illiquid ones (risky, but remember, there are many authorized participants competing with each other so if there is some way to make an easy arbitrage profit, they will find a way). You'd basically need the entire market to become illiquid.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/authorizedparticipant.a...
April fools? Had to check my calendar
> "they're on the extreme end of..."

Yes, and it caught up to them just a bit too soon for the IPO. Had the CEO been a little less brazen in his self-dealing, they might have pulled it off with more success.
Those fall off all the time if you roll in your sleep.
That may be the case. But they can no longer use it to deny you from traveling. It would become fairly obvious there is a list when you go to board and find out you can't by all the airlines.
Twilio at IPO was a good investment, Twilio at 23 was even better. PagerDuty, Elastic, Fastly, Datadog, CloudFlare... there are lots of great stocks to invest in. This certainly isn't one of them.
From their privacy page, interesting bit: You can also choose how you want to present yourself to potential matches, like whether you provide different information than you have on your Facebook profile
The article says this: Facebook Dating won’t match you with friends, unless you choose to use Secret Crush and you both add each other to your list. All of your Dating activity will stay in Facebook Dating. It won’t be shared to the rest of Facebook.
How could a Coke can leak its contents without any apparent holes?
The difference is that you're using a USB port directly built into the car (which is "smart" about not draining the battery) while the other user is using a cigarette lighter to USB adapter (the cigarette lighter is a "dumb" circuit).
Especially if you are on free tier since then you don't even have a history held hostage.
By that logic all textbooks are bribes. After all, anyone who assigns a textbook could just write their own materials. So by assigning a textbook and spending the time now saved with their loved ones instead of on better/more teaching, almost every professor on earth is taking a bribe.

That kind of reasoning is perfectly logically consistent, but it wouldn't track our ordinary understanding of the world very well. It would also condemn almost every situation in which someone uses a third-party tool that they don't personally pay for to make their job more efficient. If you're a developer, and you convince your employer to pay for a license for an IDE so that you can get your work done quicker and spend more time playing with your cat, that's not bribe-taking...
SoftBank is raising a second fund that has many overlapping investors from the first fund.
"Not everyone has those" seems probably a USA-related perspective as people not having ID is a problem there; but in many places in Europe it's normal to assume that everyone does have a valid ID; you're required to get one when you become an adult, you're required to report if it gets lost/stolen so that it gets blocked and replaced. You don't have to have that ID with you, but not having a passport or ID card at all is a misdemeanor. Even homeless drug addicts generally have them because it's necessary for various things e.g. social services.

If someone needs banking services (or, really, any services from anyone) but don't have a proper gov't ID document then would be considered normal to require that the very first thing they'd need to do is to get/replace that ID. And if you have that, then that's all you need for basic banking services.
Skype never went public though. Investment from VCs happens well before going to an I-bank with the intention of going public. VCs can invest in anything, investment banks are the ones who create the initial public offering.

Even so, Skype was a household name for video chat for years (despite it's sometime shoddy quality) until FaceTime, Gchat and others implemented video towards 2010.

What's Slack done that's different from other chat platforms available today? Stuff like Jira integration is of interest only to a small portion of its target market, and it's that exact market that will complain about the pricing, that it's non-federated, heavy on resources, intrusive in its tracking, etc.
I am shocked by the ignorance here. "Why would Facebook do this? Nobody trusts them, they've run out of ideas, etc."

They're the largest social network in the world, and this site is a filter bubble of privacy advocates and relatively anti-social people. Do you truly believe there isn't a market on Facebook for dating? Do you really think Facebook brand is universally tarnished in some way that this isn't a good move for a company with such power and money on hand?

Come on.

I'm angry at myself for not predicting this. Although back in the day, it was allowable to search for people by a lot more filters, such as town, interest, school, etc. to find people. Now it's doing it for you.
Do you test timeouts? Connection drops? REST itself may be stateless, but it exists in a complex and failure-prone environment with numerous moving parts. What's the routing like between interfaces? Are there proxies? Do you control their configuration? Are your certs properly managed?

"Unit tests should be sufficient" is a fancy way of saying "Throw it over the wall and pray it works".
Interesting choice of pilot countries/regions.
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They will be in Regus/IWG the next week, and a week after that will have forgotten that WeWork ever existed.
As advertised?

I wonder if there's a reason why traditional rentals don't lock you out when your reservation ends.
Among all people sure, but among people in the dating demographic? I would not be surprised at all if more people in prime dating ages are on IG than FB (especially in an active manner, do young people post on FB in any real way?).
Somewhat related question: when I go to add a domain to CloudFlare, it did a great job of importing all of my existing DNS records. Since `dig any` doesn't seem to work anymore, how could they be doing this?
That's what those dolphins were trained for!
They just pretended to be releasing them into the wild.

[0] https://timeline.com/is-russia-amassing-a-dolphin-navy-b6e5b...

/s (just in case)
Post-hoc?? Defense of the free state is the explicit reason given!
this could be quite powerful if combined with react. excited to watch it develop!

See this relevant project[0] which enables you to use JSX/React to program the popular 3d library three.js

[0] https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three/blob/master/README.m...
I don't know enough about the Slack product or business model to comment authoritatively, but I'm really confused how they're losing money (and so much of it) and I sense a bit of "weirdness" around unit economics/user conversion/pricing.

I've long thought that they've essentially built beautiful native/mobile/web clients for IRC-type chats and provide hosting/IRCOp services. Charging per-seat to enterprise seems like a very, very lucrative proposition for this type of product/service.

There are a couple of eyebrow-raising financials:

1.) 100,000 paid users @ $6.67-$15/mo = $667k-1.5m MRR = $2m-$4.5m QRR

2.) 13m DAUs @ $0/mo (free tier)

3.) They lost $30m Q3 '18

4.) They lost $300m Q4 '19 due to 'stock based compensation' (which from my perspective should have been accrued Q4 '15 onwards)

And for all the above... a $5billion unicorn valuation considering chat is a solved problem?

Three major questions:

1. Has any other SaaS or company in human history ever had a 1:130 ratio of paid:free users with a hard cap of $15 on MRR?

2. Does quarterly losses between $30-$300m on $4.5m in revenue make sense considering the unit economics of cloud-based chats?

3. Does 100k paid subscribers seem a bit low for a 6 year old company?

Really weird situation from my "knows enough to be dangerous" perspective and I'm all ears because from my perspective:

1.) There's really not enough innovation or a big enough TAM (considering competitors) to drive a unicorn valuation

2.) Which shouldn't matter because this is still a potentially lucrative market

3.) And yet... they're losing money hand-over fist

Weird, weird weird. Feel free to share your thoughts, I just ask that you consider this message comes from a perspective of "confused guy trying to make sense of these crazy times"
The table below the fold breaks it out by fund
JD has its deliver and warehouse and still use network of delivery companies and warehouse too. Tmall and Taobao use a network of delivery companies their own logistics arm Cainiao is not that big in warehousing and last mile delivery like SF Express or YTO.

In reality logistics is capital and labor intensive industry, Amazon will have trouble once the retail growth flatten but the cost structures are high. Amazon once unionized will have similar challenges and costs like UPS.

This is the reason FedEx never want to be unionized.
Yes, but...

This usage goes against many of the security claims of microkernels. In particular. If Linux is big and insecure running it in a VM doesn't really improves its security. It just make sure it doesn't infect the rest of the system. For this type of benchmark the "rest of the system" does not exist.

(I assume you meant the baseband processor in iPhone and Android. I don't think either use a clean microkernel and there isn't really a performance comparison available)
> Now, if you’re a “living Constitution” guy and think that the constitution means whatever you want it to mean in the present time, that’s fine.

As opposed to what? Textualist? The Constitution is not an unambiguous, coherent document that can have a rigorous interpretation without masses of precedent and case law. It was intentionally ambiguous so that broad swathes of people would vote in favor of it, thinking it said what they wanted. We've been arguing about it ever since. The usual criterion is to maintain stability so we know what to expect, but occasionally someone manages to engineer a major reversal, like the reading of the 2nd amendment in the 20th century switching to allow everyone and his brother to have firearms without restraint.

I'm more of a Jeffersonian in this: a Constitution perpetuated this many generations on is a form of tyranny by our ancestors.
It wasn't a strictly software company. It was a software-only role.

Hesitant to give the company name, as I don't want this experience to reflect poorly on them. The recruiter didn't work for them directly.
False, there are lots of last-mile Amazon delivery guys -- I live by a distribution center that has literally hundreds of Amazon-branded last-mile vans that deliver straight to my house.

The program you're thinking of is likely "Amazon Flex" which is just part of their last-mile delivery system and uses independent contractors.
Dating platforms are incentivized to keep the client (whether they are a paying customer, or an individual giving them passive income through advertising) from leaving the platform. What do you think is in Facebook’s interest? You leaving the platform to live a satisfying love life?
> I and others don't want to use Facebook. Please don't leave us with no choice

What? You don't want to use then don't use it. That's your choice.
Allowing people into the wilderness with a car that by design has these issues is very close to negligent homicide.
It can't be any worse than OKCs.
Since they don’t own any buildings I bet we see the WeWork ceo sell the buildings and or move to establish small clones of WeWork with local contracts.
Man what a shame, if they weren't a decade late (both in terms of competition and in terms of folks having trust in Facebook), this could have been cool.
For its second fiscal quarter, Slack posted a loss of $364 million, [...] . That included $307 million in stock-based compensation and taxes related to the company’s direct listing.

364-307=57
It seems super broken (search??), but somehow people use it in droves.
On #2, how does this change from CapEx to OpEx? Unless there's actually a transfer of ownership involved, generally at the end of a lease, traditional releases are already considered operational expenses, not capital.
People started realizing the truth: Engineers who can do engineering, do engineering. Engineers who can't do engineering, become Six Sigma consultants.
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> "1. Fixations... 2. Requirements"

Brilliant!

But I would have condensed the last 3 into one point: "Productivity."

Productivity - accomplishing more with less work - should be the #1 internal goal of every software team. Productivity means you have more hours of the day and more of your effort freed up. This means more time for testing; more time for enhancing your tooling; more time for spikes; more time for upgrades; more time to develop features. Even if no one does anything productive with the freed-up time, it still improves morale and emergency responsiveness.

You can of course go too far with it and ruin your fingerspitzengefühl by automating too much of your work.

Most teams have testers who are built-in advocates for requirements accuracy. But productivity has no built-in advocate. Developers themselves are the first to sabotage their own productivity in pursuit of - let's all just face it - fixations.
I agree for I what I assume you mean by prime dating ages, but think there are more prime dating ages which are not so "prime" in other ways, if you will.
Be careful with lists of quotes like this. Go back and examine the full context of the text and what the text was being written for. I have in many cases followed up on such quotes and found that the surrounding text made them mean something entirely different or sometimes even the opposite.
Ok, some of this stuff is horrifying. I take back my claim that nobody is paying bribes; this review fee business (about which there are other articles as well[1]) is just blatant bribery. I don't teach classes anywhere near large enough for this sort of scummy behavior to be profitable for publishers (plus I suspect they wouldn't dare try it in law schools), so I've never seen it, but I guess it does happen.

And, frankly, all involved should be prosecuted, at least if they work for the state.

[1] e.g. (paywalled) https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selling-Out-a-Textbook/254...