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I only meant that how we look at them changes with their size, and if they want to remain the "good guys" their tactics should change too.

If Lyft had 5 times the funding, Uber recruiting their drivers would look like a bold move. It would mean Uber believes drivers will stick with them long-term because life for drivers with them is clearly better, and the initial investment pays off in the long run, despite them having a smaller war chest to begin with.

Now that Uber has 5 times the funding, the same move looks like Uber is afraid of Lyft beating them in the market, and is trying to kill them early by buying off their drivers and crippling them. They can afford this even if driving for Uber is a shittier experience long-term than driving for Lyft, since they have so much more money it doesn't really matter. Lyft will be dead or badly injured before drivers figure it out, so Uber doesn't need to worry about being the best in the market.

What their actual motives are is anyone's guess, but it doesn't look good for them to do this.
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I'm not quite clear on the norms for posting content here, so pardon me if I'm missing the point; but it seems strange to post a page from a 10-year-old reference book, especially since (as far as I know) Lua coroutines haven't changed significantly since then, and it doesn't seem that there has been a new Lua release recently.

Were you pointing out something especially interesting about coroutines in general, or in Lua in particular?
Indeed I'm aware that 3DRobotics was working on being able to feed ADS-B into the system for drones without using a ADS-B transponder.
Actually, if it weren't for Uber's call they would not have been at the incident's location at the wrong time. Of course, it's a worse case scenario / exaggeration, but when they make thousands of calls, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
My point is it's a high variance statistic which is hard to control for.

If population A = 95%, Population B = 30%, and Population C = 1% then it becomes vary important to get the correct ratio of populations A, B, and C. And correctly sampling culturally diverse populations in the same geographic area is vary difficult. Something as simple as a phone screen is unlikely to work due to things like % of population in prison or number of phone numbers in a household. Even block by block analysis can fail with transient populations as it's easy to introduce bias by counting someone twice or not at all.
Uber controls its fate, though its success may be stymied by municipalities. Taking the business directly to cities puts the onus on them- a much harder proposition than providing a good service. I know which business I'd rather run.
From the comments here, it seems a lot of you missed the bit at the end about Lyft aggressively recruiting Uber drivers. My impression is that Uber is less subtle about it, and perhaps less ethical / more aggressive, but still, competition is competition. If Lyft were such an underdog, then Uber wouldn't be so afraid of them. From a consumer perspective, I hope that competition cools off a bit -- the price drops are great, but if they keep escalating, neither company will be particularly friendly. It would also be terrible if one company were edged out completely, ending the price wars.

That said, I always take Lyft -- simply because Uber doesn't work for my phone.
I also don't understand why VCs pick companies that are clearly courting a huge lawsuit by providing a platform for people to ignore local laws.
Nice project. I'm working on something similar but command line based and open source.
I am unmoved by the many "... in pure CSS" posts, but I guess they are the equivalent of "HTTP server in x86 assembly" for CSS designers.
The interaction between native code and JS on the DOM is certainly an area of complexity and plenty of chance for subtle bugs in a browser implementation - I wonder if the observation that native code can only manipulate the DOM in a limited fashion compared to JS could be used to simplify things.

For example, the initial DOM tree will be created (by native code) when loading the document, and it needs to be freed as a whole when another (or the same) page is loaded. On the other hand, JS can create/add/remove objects on it, but they must not be freed if some parts of the tree still reference them. This suggests to me that some sort of ownership scheme is appropriate, and in the case of Servo they've decided to make the GC own everything - which certainly makes a lot of things easy - but it might be interesting to think of whether being able to transfer object ownership between GC and something else would have any advantages, e.g. "all objects in the DOM tree of the document are owned by their parent, and objects not in the DOM tree because they've either been removed from it or newly created by JS are owned by the GC."
I'm sorry but this is just not true. I work in the field and there are plenty of O-1 holders who are not well known in their field at all.
> Lose all your past revenue AND your product stock overnight? That's unheard of as punishment in commercial law.

(a) Unrealist scare story: In nearly all businesses you won't have "all customers" returning things.
(b) I approve of this general scare tactic to ensure businesses don't try to scam their customers.
According to Uber, that is.
This isn't so much to revert your database, but to manage your schema migrations in a similar fashion to rake db:migrate.

Liquibase works well with Spring, so you can have the Spring context run migrations as required without involving application code. This is a very good thing. Without this, you have to have your code up your own solution for figuring out at runtime if your database schema is in line with your Entity objects (assuming your using JPA).
Is there any evidence of this? That is going beyond anything I've read, in my opinion.
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The way people perceive actions tends to change based on the status of the person(s) performing the action at the time the action was performed.

Everyone knows reddit admins used to game the system by faking submissions to solve the chicken and egg problem and nobody really cares, but there would be an uproar if they were found to be manipulating story placements behind the scenes today because the scale of the site is so different.

People are pretty willing to overlook borderline underhanded things if you are really an underdog trying to get a leg up, but far less so when you're the industry leader trying to crush upstarts.
Given that according to quantum mechanics, empty space continually experiences small, random fluctuations[1], I think you can argue that in the normal space, information does on average expand proportionally to the volume encompassed, even if the proportionality constant is rather low (edit: this applies to space-time volume too since the fluctuations are random, distinct on each timeslice).

Indeed, I think quantum mechanics would be the only system that guarantees this. I suppose a purely classical system that was entirely reversible couldn't contain information in the time dimension because each moment would imply every other moment. But claiming that any system determined by classical differential equations is "holographic" might be a stretch.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
This is in poor taste, but it's not illegal or unethical. If Uber was trying to hire Lyft drivers via LinkedIn, it'd be totally cool right?
Just because people use Hadoop and MapReduce interchangeably doesn't make it correct. I would love to hear how you think Spark can replace Hadoop, because that is an astonishingly inaccurate statement. Which part of Spark reliably distributes data? Which part of Spark handles enterprise level security? Which part of Spark can coordinate resources in multi-tenant environments? The answer is none of them, it relies on Hadoop for that.
They don't know which driver they'll get assigned to them until they get the driver assigned to them - there's no way for them to check drivers against the spreadsheet until the ride has been requested.
Depends on your profession.

Others have noted that on average, the answer is no, but without calculating the stats, I would expect the lower wage earners to be better off in Australia (especially when costs for healthcare and other services are near zero).

A few years ago, Australians were the wealthiest people in the World (they slipped to number 2 last year). This is private assets, nothing to do with income, government income and expenditure etc. What does this show? Not much really, just pointing out that statistics is hard, and if you don't like what something shows, then change the metric until you find the news you want. In other words, take everything that people are saying (including me) with a grain of salt.
Great lecture. When information moves outside of the shell of our observable universe due to expansion, shouldn't we be able to receive Hawking radiation from this process?
And yet if you post about AirBnB's history of spamming Craigslist users, you'll get downvoted into oblivion. Playing dirty is considered okay on HN so long as you're a YC company.
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Shouldn't the price be $119 in that case? I get bothered when someone thinks I'm dumb enough to not notice their little price increase in the form of a fee. I am not OK with that.

I would prefer to deal with honest folks that just give you the price straight away.

I only interface with assholey businesses that add fees when I have no other choice. I have no allegiance to those types of businesses. I'm thinking Delta, Southwest, every car rental place, Wells Fargo, most cell phone companies, etc.
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Playing nice with other companies by agreeing not to poach each other's employees? Where have I heard that one before?
This is wizardry.
It's also a good example of good EU regulation. There are many in the UK who think the EU does nothing but regulate bendy bananas. The EU brings a lot of good law for the little guy to the UK (and other EU states)
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Actually for me the missing features are

- a mail client that works well (and that includes at least push/imap idle support and SHOULD, in the RFC sense, include server side searches)

- a client for xmpp

Note that there are some apps for the latter use case, but those are either broken, incomplete, or use bosh to talk to a random untrusted server elsewhere which _then_ connects to the server you want to use.

I might be able to forgive the lack of (decent, usable) xmpp support, but at the moment the limited mail client is the feature that keeps my Flame on my desk. A smart phone without emails is .. a tough sell, if you have a working solution on another platform. Even if you WANT to make the switch.
Wow, burner phones and CC numbers?

Start off as a darling outdoing the establishment and taking all their business. After you've made it, the very next day, start acting just like the establishment you disrupted.
It just doesn't seem safe to me. Whether or not it actually is is a different story but it doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy.
I have a few addresses in my amazon account, and post to one 99% of the time. It shouldn't take a genius to figure that out.
I've been exclusively an Uber customer. Reading this, I'm installing Lyft and giving them a shot.
I would also consider that playing dirty, although not as much as answering ads, accepting the room, then canceling last minute.
What it boils down to, though, is it doesn't matter how much investment money you have if you're declared to be operating an illegal business and ordered to shut down. At this point, Uber and other ride-share companies are still in that danger zone. They're operating against the law in many cities (mine included, not that I'm complaining), and could be fined or forced to close at any moment.

Think it won't happen? It happened to Aereo. Sure, they didn't have as much money and weren't in as many locations, but its a similar vibe: if they closed their doors tomorrow, nothing would change. They might be in the process of disrupting the market, but they haven't won yet. They could lose everything overnight.
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I don't really know many people who use any of these services. Literally zero that use Square Cash, a few that use Venmo, the vast majority 'use' Chase QuickPay by virtue of being Chase customers. I've ended up signing up for a QuickPay account even though I'm not a Chase customer, on that basis.
Is there a way to enable e-mail notifications ?
Looks like a framework-agnostic version of Rails Migrations. Neat. Combined with git hooks could be useful - so when I merge a coworker's code I also get their schema updates.
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As a counterpoint, in the UK:

- Under 7kg you must be able to see it well enough to avoid collisions with stuff

- Between 7-20kg stick below 400ft

- Above 20kg it's more complex; everything else applies to <20kg aircraft

- If you're flying aircraft for money, you need to apply to the CAA for a permit and demonstrate competency

- You may be allowed to fly higher or further away as a commercial operator if you can put together a safety case

- There are procedures for blocking off sections of airspace for flying BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) with CAA permission

- You are very unlikely to get permission to routinely fly outside visual range pending the development of reliable sense and avoid systems

I personally think this makes a lot of sense; the majority of business operators & hobbyists seem to get on with things without causing much risk to manned aviation.

There were over 300 licensed small UAS operators at last count.

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/cap722.pdf
"What was once only possible with a Steadicam or a $15,000 tracking rig is now possible on your iPhone, for free."

This statement is undeniably false.
I agree that extensibility is a great thing, that's why i spent some time learning emacs. But unfortunately no amount of elisp could fix the bugs in core: jumpy scrolling, and keeping cursor always on screen. And more importantly after some time it turned out that i used all that extensibility mostly to get on par with other editors, so to me emacs felt more like a construction kit for a violin rather than an actual violin.

Hopefully new generation of browser based editors like cloud9 or atom will provide extenibility similar to emacs, but will start from more sensible place.
> Flights so cheap that you're willing to put up with the bullshit?

Yes.

I've taken ~100 Ryanair flights. It's a bus service. Buses are crap too. Ryanair, like busses, are cheap.
on ars, my favorite articles were jon stokes ones, such as : http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2006/04/core/

http://arstechnica.com/author/hannibal/page/36/
I came in expecting this to be an example of a website without tons of nested <div> elements- the problem that html5 was supposed to solve but didn't.
Sadly my city has Uber but not Lyft, or I'd switch.
Well it's interesting to see how to make a text editor in javascript (vs. one in C, for example my own: JOE). The top level libraries used seem to be: blessed, undo.js, cheerio (jQuery?), entities, lex, winston (logging), bluebird (promises), highlight.js, lazy.js (based on underscore), rc, fs, path, xtend, traverse, util, copy-paste.

I think I can see that there is heavy use of lazy.js to make string processing faster. Text buffer seems to be an array of lines...

The nearly complete lack of comments is amazing :-) The author should write some kind of hacking guide or similar documentation if he wants others to help with the project or at least to see how it works.
Lyft has stated they've had over 5,000 CANCELLED rides, meaning Uber is deliberately trying to mess up Lyft. If you don't think the cancelled rides count, how can you say that aggressively recruiting its drivers, and as a by product, reducing the earnings of the drivers/Lyft, is Uber not trying to mess up Lyft? I'm not saying its illegal, but its clearly Uber trying to win the market by shutting out Lyft.
maybe someone could post a link without paywall...
Personally, I think copyleft licenses are somewhat abusive by nature. It's not really making a contribution to society if you leave a bunch of strings attached to tell people how they can use it.

Plus, for a new platform like Sandstorm to be able to meet as many use cases as possible, it does need to be something that corporations can actually build business models and proprietary systems on top of as well.
Win95 apps didn't run on all computers, tablets, phones, etc. Today, using standard APIs, you can write this code once and have it run everywhere.
Actively requesting your competitor's service and then cancelling it is in a whole other league of scamminess than simply sending out a bunch of unsolicited e-mails to potential users, IMHO. Not a fan of AirBNB's tactics either, but Uber's are way more predatory.
Well, Mozilla doesn't actually build or sell any phones. Mozilla just provides the OS. Since Intex is no charity, you should assume that they are still making a profit at $33.
Shouldn't the cleaning fee only be a one time extra though? $119 for one night sure, but I'd rather pay $515 than $595 for five days. How would you add the flat fee to the nightly rate without knowing how long the stay will be?
having just been through a rather acrimonious acquisition (as an employee) I can't help but think about the unwanted employees who are on the other side of that desired "acquired team" divide.
What's new is that Ryanair used to not have any assigned seats. You got onto the plane and picked a free seat. It's a good way to ensure passengers get on quickly, so that the plane can take off 25 minutes later. Wonder what the assigned seating is doing to their turnaround times.
> Pretty simple. Cancel within 5 minutes for free.

Don't do that -- it screws over the driver who has to burn gas.
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I've thought about this sort of thing for a long time, it's always been possible, but I think the corporate cloud companies have distinctly tried to prevent anyone from realizing it. The cloud era has led users to sacrifice so many freedoms they never even realized they lost, making compromises they never should've been forced to.
Yes, but they would have been driving around the same city. That they went down street X as opposed to street Y is a really, really tenuous attempt to pin responsibility on Uber.

In fact, you could argue that Uber doesn't give them directions and that they drove down the wrong street of their own volition. More to the point: this thinking is just a distraction.
No, no less work done in total.

You work that extra hour/day, week after week, and you see real productivity gains (not necessarily per-hour productivity gains, but marginally speaking, you make progress faster). As others have mentioned before, this trick can work very well in the short term.

However three months into it (roughly +150 man-hrs), you make a small blunder that nobody notices at first. One year later, it will blow up and set your whole team back for a whole month (assuming team_size = 5, -800 man-hrs). Everybody will try to catch up by staying an hour later, or working on the weekends... rinse and repeat.

The problem is that cause and effect are so far apart in time that nobody notices why this is happening. Usual suspects such as "rusty codebase" or "technical debt" get assigned with the blame and no lesson is learned.
Don't tell Uber you're calling them employees, they don't like that.
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The -idx- system in Lush is a pretty good example. Like I said above, this has now made its way into Torch7/Lua.

Anyone who works with arrays and matrix math for a living needs to look at an array based language to see how it is done properly. J is the one I've been futzing with. It's a rough learning curve, as the language looks like line noise to the uninitiated. The upside is it teaches you a lot about how the array parts of other languages should work; vectorizing R or Matlab certainly becomes more obvious. As a bonus, it can be amazingly fast: single threated SVD in native J matches lapack speeds on big problems. Stuff like J encapsulates decades of insight into programming, particularly with arrays, that is mostly forgotten in modern programming languages. Learning an APL is the same sort of experience as learning Lisp: "why doesn't everything work this way?" Definitely a productivity boost if you can do a project in J; you can replace pages of Java with a line of J. That line might take a while to write if you haven't been J-ing for a decade, but it's still a productivity boost. As a bonus, J comes with a decent columnar database built in. It isn't concurrent yet, but it's pretty good for medium sized problems, and unlike something like Redshift, you can do some fancy math on the data directly using J verbs.

I don't want to crap all over Julia, but it's pretty obviously a student project. I'm sure its compiler is better than that of Lush, but Lush was designed for people needing to solve real problems. Julia definitely has more momentum, but frankly, I'll stick with R/Torch7/J until Julia has proved useful for something.
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How many people do you know that use excessive amounts of water recreationally, or are addicted to litres and litres of water?
Pronounced "poLEE" like the French word for polite ("polis" would be plural, male or mixed-gender)?

Or more like "police"?

Or Poe-less? See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law

Rather different interpretations (but all meaningful in the context of online discussion, interestingly!).
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Wow, seems like everyone has built a version of this. I've been working on something similar as well, and really went for nailing down the element selection. Seems to be a basic duplicate of what you have done. Best of luck.
It's insanely easy to use and is one of my favorite apps. Splitting rent, utilities, etc with a roommate, settling a debt with an out of town friend, etc. Basically any time you write a check to another individual, Square Cash turns that process (finding your checkbook, writing a check, mailing it, opening the letter, endorsing the check, mailing/delivering to the recipients bank) to opening the app, typing the amount, and pressing Send or Receive.
The MS Research Hyperlapse and this are totally different. This is just video stabilization but it's not as computationally expensive and so can be done quickly and on a phone. MS Hyperlapse requires an absurd amount of computing power, but it goes above and beyond stabilization, creating an entire 3d model of the world and then rendering that. The downside is it has a lot of weird artifacts and jumpiness.
OK i found an alternative on reuters...
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It's but a proof-of-concept.
In my experience, the need to eat comes pretty much constantly.
This app has a UI flaw. My friend was testing how cash request works. Her request arrived when I was already inside the app (just exploring it). And without giving me even a warning it started the process of verifying my SSN and all that. When the process was over, I had apparently given the green light to transfer the money with no recourse possible. This is stupid and frankly dangerous. I understand seamlessness has its prices but the workflow should be adjusted to avoid large cash transfers without giving the person to think about it.
Earlier today it was free instead of $0.99, so that developer is pretty smart.