skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it had anything to do with ego as the blog suggests. Once things get to production there can be a managerial aversion to any change due to the amount of tracking/process involved. Someone probably got an ego boost from getting the fix into production in spite of the process by circumventing it. The big issue is not so much that they violated the part release process - which is bad, but that the severity of the issue did not get elevated to the point that it would cause a recall. This in spite of having some very fine safety analysis people.
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The thing is that uber is priced such that it is only attractive to people who live where it's not needed, i.e. Manhattan below 96th street, parts of western Brooklyn, and one or two hot spots elsewhere.

Even cabs (green and yellow use the same fare structure) are priced way out of line with what the gypsy cabs were negotiating in many parts of the outer boros. UberX is another 30+% again on top of that.

It looks to me like uber's biggest market in NYC is not people who live in outer boros and would otherwise have hailed a green or gypsy cab but people who would otherwise have taken a pre-arranged black car because hailing a cab is for the proles. That market isn't nothing, but it's far from the whole thing.
Relieving Europeans of responsibility for their own government guarantees American power over them. They can complain while still feeling righteous, brilliant.
Ask HN: How does fancy.com make money? 
Manage operations for a fashion brand, recently we were contacted by an Andrew Tuch (EVP of Operations @fancy) to help him out with an order/exchange he had placed. The order was filled out processed as a personal order for Mr. Tuch himself. Our product was returned to us marked up with Fancy.com packaging and barcodes. This is interesting since we do not sell wholesale to Fancy.

After a quick look at their site, I was able to find the product for sale. Same price, no markup. Difference in shipping costs were negligible.

Reached out to Andrew to let him know if he was interested in wholesale I would be happy to discuss the particulars. After this conversation the product link was updated to remove the ability to "checkout" with our product.

According to their wikipedia page, "In return for selling other merchants’ products, Fancy takes a 10% cut of every purchase that is made through the website."

Fancy purchases our product at the going rate, charging their consumer the same amount. Where are they collecting/pulling that 10% cut from... Dorsey & Hughes? Is this a standard business practice to resell online vendors goods without gaining consent from them to list? At least someone like http://www.farfetch.com/ puts a premium on their pricing.

Similar account noted here: https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/10441928/

Screen shot of our product in their cart after they have removed the ability to "add to cart"
http://imgur.com/GfVkEL4
500Px probably.
I hope it does get ugly, because that's the only way this 'fast lane' horseshit is going to stop.
Funny, the writer (who sells a cross-platform development toolkit) didn't mention which mobile ecosystem has the majority of profits for app developers. Must be totally irrelevant, I guess.
So moment a baby comes out of the uterus, doctor should read him/her the Miranda Warning.

Kid! everything is bugged, we are watching and recording everything. any thing you say or type, will be used against you in some kangaroo court.
....
You have the right to consult an attorney and his cell phone and emails are bugged too. So nothing is confidential....

Good luck
Yes! I'm saying: (a) you are unlikely to get acquired, and (b) if you're going to get acquired, chances are the DD process isn't what's going to kill it unless you make a mistake bigger than bookkeeping.
Why would Yahoo be any better?
Bill's OS was a mess... didn't write DOS, but "fixed" it... which was the most god awful mess ever to be loading on a box...

Facebook in the early years used to crash on a daily basis... I guess you don't remember that... My wall would disappear altogether sometimes... he didn't invent HipHop which is actually amazing...
Specifically, S-SQL only escapes SQL and does parametric statements (Interpolation) only manually, while SxQL is safe by default: Every object in an SQL query is passed in an injection-safe way.
In addition to expanding the taxi market, Uber also has great potential to expand into other transportation and logistics markets. Who is going to direct the fleets of driverless trucks hitting the road in the 2020s?
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Even more
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endbenutzer-Lizenzvertrag#Situa...
(German, sorry; I'll try to translate it roughly into English):

"Even if the license terms were agreed when buying, their effectiveness can be restricted. Then they are general business terms and their content is governed by the content control of the Civil Law Code.".

Thus many of terms in EULAs are not valid under German law - the terms that are allowed are rather restricted (and thus lots of Germans will not understand the fealty that US citizens seem to have to EULAs).
So, first, sincerely: good luck to you, and second: doesn't the fact that you can do this indicate that founder terms aren't a conspiracy against employees? If you don't want to accept employee equity, start a company.

I'm not arguing that employee equity valuation can't be abusive. It often is. Dishonesty is dishonesty regardless of who shoulders the risks. But if you're a founder and you're transparent and honest, the market does a pretty solid job of allocating upside.
The current US government nutritional guidelines call for 6-10 servings of grains per day. It is only in the last 10 years that "whole grains" (white flour with a little bran added back) has been added, but the glycemic index of whole grain bread is almost identical to white bread. Grains are the "foundation" of the food pyramid.

We've also been told for 50 years that sugar is metabolically inert, so you "just have to worry about the calories". Sugar is a fine substitute for anything, just look at Snackwells.

The message has been driven home so well that stupid things happen like a mother getting fined for packing a nutritious lunch for her daughter, but not including the all-important "Ritz" food group[1].

1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/daycare-gives-kids-cr...
From what I've seen, Elephant gives you an interface to some persistent data structures then finds a way to back them with SQL or something else. This doesn't have that kind of backend hiding, it's meant to be tightly integrated with SQL.
The problem, though, is that much of Uber's success comes not from massive innovation, but just doing an end-run-around the regulatory capture of the taxi industry. In places where the taxi market is more competitive, Uber doesn't offer as much value or find as much success.

Uber has made some impressive achievements, but ultimately their big success was in figuring out how to run a taxi-like service without paying for taxi medallions.
Humans, not climate, to blame for the disappearance of large mammals
My experience is that 99% of the time that partnership goes absolutely nowhere, and never would, but that 1% of the time that partnership is the one key thing you needed and it enables you to roll in beaucoup bucks.

NB I've never been at a company where that 1% of the times happened. I could be over-estimating its importance.

If you get people coming to your startup from a Cisco or IBM, though, they will totally think that partnerships are the magic answer to every problem. I suspect in their experience they work more than 1% of the time.
I've had a terrarium in a sealed mason jar on my desk at work for 2 or 3 years now and have never once opened it. It seems like everything grows much much slower in there. There's some type of grass that has maybe grown 2 inches in that time and a leafy plant that hasn't grown appreciably either. The leaves don't really fall off, so decomposition is at a minimum. Perhaps the waste products of decomposition keep the bacteria and whatnot in balance.
I think the more compelling reason for 80x24 is that it works out reasonably well to do the arithmetic for it by bit-shifting. 64x16 displays used to be common because that works out even better. I think the IBM PC went to 80x25 because that's as many as you can fit in 2048 bytes without going over, and they were willing to spend a lot more chips on video than earlier microcomputers were.
We must discern ideas by the merit of the idea, yes?

Otherwise, Argument Against Authority ;)
If that's what you're trying to do, you might want to explore cross compiling Mac apps on Linux:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2786240/how-to-compile-in...

See also Mozilla Bug 921040 - Cross-compile Firefox for Mac on Linux. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921040
These kinds of arguments are like chess openings. If you've been here long enough, you know how the thread is going to end up many hours before it ends. This particular game doesn't end well. Don't personalize.
I could give cooperatives as a counter-example.

However what I'm talking about is something different -- e.g. language in options contracts that cause you lose your shares if you leave the company unless you immediately exercise them, which most people are not in a financial position to do. This has caused many early employees to lose out on windfalls that would have been theirs if they had the same terms as founders (actual vested equity).
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Or perhaps it'll just make ISPs start charging by bandwidth instead of offering "unlimited" and hoping most people don't use it.
Before 2012 (when I started using Uber), I took a cab (outside of NYC) maybe 5 times in a year. Today, I take an uber 5 times a week. This is anecdotal but I am sure that's the market growth investors are looking at.
I concede and now wallow in the soupy black of my wrongness.
This is something I've also noticed, and ironically it took writing an ORM to get it. I still think however that using Crane is worthwhile, even if I only use the migrations and connection management and write all my SQL by hand.
for the sidebar in particular, it's looking for menu_default.json. hope that helps!
> Why do you want to change the world? Because you want to be great in the eyes of others!

Or because they want to make a positive impact on the world. Changing the world is just an extreme version of that. Is that an actual reason, or just a rationalization? I don't know, I'm not in the change-the-world camp. (And don't try to continue this like a Socratic Questioning - why, why, why - that is soo passé.)

I know. Absolutes is a very tempting and convincing framework to work withing. Everything-is-X is a popular perspective, from human behaviourist bloggers to language designers.

> People who don't care about what their peers think of them are sociopaths.

And people who are never motivated to eat will soon die. The contention was with the "this is the only motivation, ever", not with the weak version of "sometimes/partly". Don't try to weaken your stance.
Not sure why this is in HN but I want one! This is the first year I've had a rabbit problem (Western Oregon) so now I'll have to think of ways of keeping deer as well as rabbits out of my garden.
Serious question to those who have used uber: how safe is it? what makes it better than getting a ride off of craigslist?
Millions of smart TVs share this security flaw
Piracy is legal in the EU sometimes
The mistake, IMO, is assuming that they will be able to replicate that in other cities.

One reason is that a good part of their claimed novelty is being able to hail a cab via mobile-phone app (as well as get pricing and such), which is not actually novel in many markets. In much of Europe the existing taxi companies have that feature and it works just fine; it's not too hard to add it as an incremental improvement to the traditional radio taxi. I used the app from 'AAA Taxi' a bunch in Prague last week, and I don't see what Uber would offer above the existing functionality.
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Like the other two posters, I recommend Jekyll. I really like the Poole (http://getpoole.com/) theme.
OCaml hasn't stood still either. The latest releases take advantage of some "fairly recent" research. Python on the other hand didn't even take advantage of cutting edge research at the time it was created, and as far as I can tell hasn't since.
> I'm not arguing that employee equity valuation can't be abusive. It often is.

And that's all I'm arguing. It often is abusive, and it shouldn't be. Of course one of the problems is that young coders just out of college looking at the startup scene (typically the only people to make the sacrifices necessary to be first employees, because of a lack of other commitments) don't know that they are getting a raw deal.

So I make posts like this on HN, in the hopes they someone might read it and choose differently.
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>I can't quit - my active Facebook-ing GF and my own profile have a relationship status pointing to each other. If I quit her relationship status would suddenly look weird (I think) and that would raise silly questions.

That's a valid reason not to quit Facebook if you're both 14 year olds.
Hmm. I've seen that it's pretty easy to get published. What's difficult for experienced academics / researchers is that they want to get published in journals with a high prestige rate. This is used as a proxy for one's "impact" on the field, with effects on one's standing in a department, pay grade, career advancement, etc.

Other than that quibble, I agree with your points.
Just a tiny piece of feedback: I was annoyed that clicking the checkboxes didn't work in order to answer the questions at the beginning, I had to click the text.

ie:

I consider myself to be an:
[ ] Artist
[ ] Gamer
[ ] Storyteller

It would be nice if one could tick the checkbox by, huh, clicking on it :)
Even finding a cab in NYC is a pain in the ass. If you're in Manhattan, cab drivers can deliberately discriminate against you if you want to travel to Brooklyn or Queens. The number of times I've had it happen to me makes me have zero sympathy about the idea of Lyft or Uber owning the NYC market. On top of that, Queens and Brooklyn are big, so it's improbable to flag a cab outside of very specific neighbourhoods.
Also the subject (well, really the sub-text) of a movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
While they may have spent a long time learning 'The Knowledge' that was in the days before Sat Nav.

Like many other things The Knowledge has been superseded by a computer.
Step one: have money

>Perfect Audience started as an ad design product called >NowSpots, which was itself spun out of a previous company >called Windy Citizen, a local news aggregator that I >bootstrapped (entrepreneur speak for self-financed).
No doubt Freelancer is pretty sucky, but: "The entire site is a huge money making machine", that's kind of the point. It's there to make money for Freelancer.
i get this: http://i.imgur.com/MoeEuZ2.png
which is caused by this: http://i.imgur.com/RwZluqB.png

i fix it by right clicking and choosing inspect element and deleting the node.

i believe the issue i have is caused by barracuda blocking the iframe's content.
Not quite. Ad populum describes the position that a proposition is true based on its popularity. Having doubts of a proposition's truth is not the same thing.
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Good luck with building a fence that keeps out deer.

http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/deerfences.html

White tailed deer can jump 8+ feet high, and by then your backyard attains somewhat of a prison feel.
Things I never learned at newspapers about making news on the internet
Preferred still has downside protection. What's that worth over common right now? 10%?
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It's impossible to predict your exit. Too many variables at play beyond your control. The most reasonable expectation is to be fairly compensated for your time. It's the experience you gain, and relationships you make-- that will pay dividends for the rest of your career.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7853603.
Not necessarily. The bacteria might have evolved inside the bottle.
People who want to make careers in the startup sector need to be taught the skill of doing simple financial projections --- how to make 3 revenue forecasts, how to see what multiple of forward revenue results in in what final deal size, and how to work back from total deal size to employee outcome.

I agree that because almost all startup candidate employees don't do this, equity can be exploitative.

But by the same token, most engineers don't know how to negotiate salary, and will lose even more money as a result.
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OT: This is probably the worst way to represent cost per distance using different units

> £167 per mile ($250/km)
Where do you get from that 'fat has always been fine'? It's been the target of demonization by trendy dietitians for essentially the second half of the 20th century. This article on the subject made it to the top of HN a while ago:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230367840...
Well, let's not redefine partnerships to win an argument. It won't teach anyone anything. To speak plainly, I will include affiliates, resellers, system integrators, software integrations, trade associations, and distributors all as partners.

Distributors have not succeeded with SaaS yet because SaaS is intrinsically intractable to distribute. If the customer has to come back ultimately to the manufacturer (aka ISV) who will then insist on controlling the billing and customer service relationships, then the distributor has no opportunity for brand or margin.

Also, generally it is not a good idea to work with a "distributor" that has no experience retailing your type of products.

We talk about this a lot within the trade association (Disclosure: I'm on the board, as is Constant Contact) if you're interested.

http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com
Satnav sucks in many cities, though, especially for POIs. When I visit NYC that's one of my bigger complaints about the taxi drivers: they have no idea where anything is, and it takes them forever to try to type things into their gadgets, often with mixed success. And still they always end up in the wrong lanes and end up swerving across traffic at the last minute, because they don't actually know where they're going or how the street layout works. IMO it's shameful that someone could be a taxi driver in a major city and not be able to navigate to prominent landmarks and neighborhoods. That's at least one problem you don't have in London, where the drivers give you confidence that they might have actually been to London before.
Nothing new, but still interesting to read.
A little bit like HTTP 418
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_code#418
By coincidence USG guidelines are also not science, but something that is hammered together with the permission of the food lobies.
I honestly don't know much about this topic but i was curious and found an article (http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_Weber.html) that seems to indicate that japan was willing to surrender for months prior to the bombs, but not unconditionally, but the united states and the UK refused anything but an unconditional surrender.

It also discusses how conventional bombs were doing a fine job of systematically destroying the country (and population), waiting would have likely produced the same effect as japan was blockaded and staving, as a show of force a military base would have been just as effective and how "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets because of their concentration of activities and population."

It finishes with "General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of US Army forces in the Pacific, stated on numerous occasions before his death that the atomic bomb was completely unnecessary from a military point of view: "My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.""

It doesn't seem like there is much to speculate on. However this is a random internet article and could be rather biased.

>elements of the Imperial Japanese Army rebelled, killed the Prime Minister

According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_Incident) elements of the navy did rebel, but they were a small minority that did not manage to kill the prim minster despite attempts to do so.
I don't follow.

It seems to me that anything short of death would be a temporary outlet for 'general misanthropy'.
If you're ever in Tucson, you should go for a tour. It's a fascinating place, and they've repurposed the facility to do a lot of worthwhile and interesting science.
R code style tip: prefer functions that return data frames
The LG G3 specifications has the front-facing camera listed as "selfie"
This is really clever. One interesting use for this would be to target ads at people who visit certain sites, or to customize your site's landing page to direct visitors toward areas they might be interested in.
It's worth noting that all mini-cabs are 30-40% cheaper than London cabs, but it's a very fragmented industry with poor technology (Addison Lee has done a decent job). I would say 80% of my journeys in London used mini-cabs with the downside being that you had to wait 15-20 min longer (but in same cases much quicker) than black cabs.
For those who actually tried it, is cold-calling any effective? Because if someone I don't know called me up and tried to sell me "solutions", I wouldn't bother giving him the time of day.

Do other people respond differently?
Yeah, it's a bit disingenuous. I like cross-platform toolkits, and I like native code, but you're right about missing the weight of profit.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics, right?
Isn't 3D printing the most expensive and time-consuming way to manufacture anything? Rapid prototyping and relatively cheap one-off replacement parts: hell yes. A foundation for a work-free future? On Star Trek, maybe, but I'd have to see some references (with numbers) from anybody even advancing that opinion other than you. I've never heard it sold that way.
The London black cab has a meter that prices the journey. Other taxis in London do not have a price meter.

Uber needs to obey the regulatory rules of the industry. Either they don't have a pricing meter (and thus journey price is agreed before hand) or they do have a price meter and all Uber drivers are regulated like any other black cab driver.

They can't ignore laws just because those laws are inconvenient to them.
Yep, it definitely will! This has been on our list for a long time and I'm hopeful we'll get to it soon.

I'm going to bury this thread now. Questions like this are better sent to hn@ycombinator.com.
Amazing domain...
Should we shave off a Billion now?
the way we run synapse at airbnb, we do just stuff everything in /etc/hosts; the code is here: https://github.com/airbnb/smartstack-cookbook/blob/fd97e20bf...

you do still have to look up the port for your service, but the preferred way to address, e.g., search, is by search.synapse:1234 vs. localhost:1234 . that way, you get better introspection when errors happen, or in your logs. it also looks better in things like newrelic's 'external services' tab.
Thanks, but no thanks to FDA approved or "scientifically" structured and tested and accredited health recommendations for me.

I am willing to put to test the the traditional practices that I am (or become) aware of.
> it is impossible to reliably separate it from harmful false "knowledge" received in the form of tradition

Evolution/Survivability of a group usually takes care of that

Yeah, slightly harmful/long term harmful things will go though, but not major things.

Someone discovered cheese with mold is edible (probably happened in a low food situation), but there's a high likelihood on people having tried other things with mold and it didn't work out as expected.