skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know one in a similar style, but if you're looking to learn Python as a first programming language I highly recommend https://www.udacity.com/courses/cs101

As far as I remember it it had good pacing and by the end of it I could write useful code (albeit initially brutishly ugly code that I will deny ever having written lol).
As an engineer,this is the correct response.
Well considering what you've lost, I don't think you're really in a position to claim EFF is exaggerating considering the whole of copyright law has been corrupted and the industry has gotten its way every time over the last 200 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...
And kittens. The kitten was the moment I literally LOL'ed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_7600 could handle 10-36 MFLOPS in 1970, which is about an iPhone 4.

The Elbrus 2, which was the first Soviet supercomputer, didn't come until 1977. Earlier systems, like the BESM, were mainframes - designed more for data handling than compute power. It looks like 355 BESM-6:s were made, ending in 1987. There were also Minsk mainframes.

There were also clones of US hardware, like the ES EVM clone of the IBM 360 (production didn't start until 1972), and PDP-11/VAX clones. Those were after 1970.

I'll use 50 BESM-6:s as my shot-in-the-dark estimate. Those seemed to be 1 megaflop (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM ), so the USSR could probably do about 50 MFLOPS in 1970.

Or no more than three iPhones.

For 1985 it's much harder to even guess. Is it even reasonable to include the aggregate sum of the microcomputers of that era? Not if you want to simulate an H-bomb. Only you can answer that.
On the bottom of https://brand.uber.com/#our-new-look, they explain the roots of the new icon as well:

01. The Bit
At the center of our app icons is the Bit—the symbol of our technology.

02. Product shape
Surrounding the Bit is a shape that denotes the product and represents the atoms moved by our technology. For the rider app, this shape is a circle.

03. Grid line
To convey the rider story of a trip in progress or the arrival at a destination, a single line connects the Bit with the shape around it.

04. Patterns and colors
Behind the other components is a canvas of color and pattern, another representation of the physical world that symbolizes the cities and people we serve.

EDIT: The leading zeros in the numbered list above were featured on the site. What significance could that hold?
But then they would have to buy all of the cars.
The brand video reads a little pompous and I haven't really taken a liking to the new icon yet, but I don't think the concept in the brand video is really that faulty. Uber is one of first companies to integrate software with an external consumer-facing physical service on a big, meaningful scale.

The whole bit-and-atom routine may be a little cheesy if you are a marketing skeptic, but it's fairly reasonable by Corporate Marketing Speak standards.
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I'm pretty sure that a car capable of driving itself, with everything that entails, is capable of getting itself back to the service facility before its gas runs out.
I think people will understand more easily if instead of saying "database" specifically, you say "database tier."

I'm pretty sure the usual understanding of the terms "business tier" and "database tier" is that the "business tier" is a bunch of ephemeral nodes, and the "database tier" is where-ever the data from the "business tier" goes to be persisted.
I wonder how much of their most recent round of funding went towards this.
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This is the real question- I can't find anything on their page saying how much it costs to use their API. No such thing as a free lunch...
In the "design team" photo, it looks like he was pretty baked when he combed his hair that afternoon.
...and underlying economy (full of exchanges that cannot even OLTP)
One more invite available for me? luislupe |at| gmail
https://brand.uber.com/#bits-atoms

> "We leave no bit or atom unturned, to create industries that serve people, and not the other way around."

I thought I heard wrong, I had to rewind it.

This whole rebranding proposal must have seemed and felt so incredibly different to the Uber executives within the context of their conference rooms.
Looking for an invite. thanks!
Took you long enough.
I dislike Uber for reasons I can't really articulate, they just are not for me. I wait aeons for the night bus rather than just get a cab, I don't even think 'Uber'. So I am new to the branding, having not seen what went on before.

Despite the dislike, I think this brand website is extremely slick and quite inspirational. Not bad for Wordpress. The video isn't bad either, as far as these things go. I still do not buy into the brand though.
Well said, never realized the arrow in FedEx. Yeah, I'm still to become a Uber user, but reading that article made me feel like they're over-doing it a bit much.
I didn't say he lied, I said he was called a liar (but really, it's more that the strong implication was that he lied, that was overly strong wording on my part). Specifically, I think the wording "I find that hard to believe" has different connotations depending on whether you are talking to the root source of some information, or someone relaying that information.

For example, if I state "I had chicken for lunch" and you reply "I find that hard to believe.", I think the implication is clear that you think I'm lying. Alternatively, if a third party says "kbenson had chicken for lunch" and you say "I find that hard to believe", there is not a clear implication that the third party is lying, nor that where they got the information from is lying, as there are multiple locations in the chain of authenticity of such a statement where a mistake or purposeful misrepresentation could have happened, so it's not clear where fault may lay.

So, when someone states "I don't use any of the default iPhone apps" and another person replies directly to them with "I find that hard to believe", I think the implication that they are lying is clear (whether or not they were actually lying).

Now, as for your specific assertion, I think you are obviously correct in the general sense. Although am interested in your opinion on how you would classify someone that is very loose with regard to their statements and their certainty regarding those statements. If I made a statement asserting something, but thought there might be a 15% chance I was wrong if I really looked into it, would I be lying if I stated it as a fact due to the false certainty implied?

Specifically, in this case, if the author was 85% certain they didn't use any default Apple apps and stated as much without qualifying with "I think", or "probably", they may believe they are correct, but be ultimately wrong. Was it a lie to imply a higher level of certainty than existed? I'm not entirely sure how I would classify that. (Note: I don't mean to imply a specific state of mind for the original commenter, this is purely a thought experiment and that statement was handy).
They don't. They're much better at estimating their future fuel usage and routing/scheduling a refill. That refill will probably be at some kind of base station for a while, yes, but you'd probably want to run the car through a tiny maintenance cycle every 12 hours anyway, so that works out.

If they somehow actually run out of gas, they do exactly the same thing you would: call family or a friend (AKA home base) and they'll drive a can out to you, or they call AAA, who does the same.
does anyone know what's the pricing for this service?
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I don't see how it's different at all in this respect. If you want to support other payment systems or currencies, you need to implement Bitcoin and another service. Just like the GP was saying about Visa.
This is awesome.

Wonder if VISAs exposes the BIN #.

BrainTree exposes the BIN number. Built this at a hackathon last year.

http://www.reversecreditscore.com.

You can reverse engineer the BIN Number offered by BrainTree's API to calculate the species of a credit card, thus the minimum credit score.

I have a payments entrepreneur group on facebook. It has about 50 folks in it. if you want in and have built payments stuff message me.
The entire system is architected so that you don't need to trust them for anything, beyond the trust you generally need to have in open-source developers. What is a specific scenario that concerns you?
Actually, this reminds me of "This Is a Generic Brand Video, by Dissolve"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M

It even has a wrinkled ethnic old man.

In other words, the new video shows that Uber executives lack the self-awareness to understand that they just made their company look like Walmart, Exxon-Mobile or Altria.
Like an iRobot Roomba, it'll probably just drive itself back to the charging station?
I also thought this was already the common analysis ... the drivers are ultimately cannibalizing their own jobs.
Thanks! Glad to hear it. :-)
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Because Facebook--not LinkedIn--is a threat to Google's business model (and is worth 18x as much by market cap).
Welcome to "The Cloud". VPS can be effectively rebranded as "cloud", except when a server has problems you shoot first and ask later.
They want to move away from the "black car" roots that was embodied by the original branding. Silver badge, dark motifs, etc. all evoke the limo/upscale transportation service and the new brand is all about the ways they've moved beyond that.

I personally don't like the work too much but I get why they had to rebrand. The biggest challenge I see is the disconnect between what their internal culture appears to be to us techies (extremely cutthroat, willing to bend rules to sabotage competitors) vs. the brand they present to the world (we love kittens, we move cities).
Banks are still the gatekeepers of this network. Unless you've negotiated deals with VISA partner banks, these APIs are pretty much useless. Companies like Marqueta on the issuer side and Stripe on the acquirer side have relationships with banks that let them move money from your VISA cards. (And even in ACH land, which is lightyears behind the card companies, SynapsePay for example has a bank partner who provides a license for their charter).

Don't think you're gonna be able to write a script to move money from your credit card to your friend. This is still a tightly controlled network of banks. If you're looking to innovate in the payments space, take a look at Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
One law for us, etc. Have you ever asked an anti-gun politician whether he or she has armed guards?
Add one more, although my firefighting days are behind me now. I was a volunteer with Civietown and Supply VFD's in Brunswick County NC for basically the decade of the 90's. For a while I was an NCFRC certified Instructor II and could teach FFI/II, Incident Command and LP Gas Firefighting.

Then I moved to the Triangle region and started my "real" career and found that I didn't have time for firefighting anymore. I miss it sometimes, but my life is complicated enough as it is, without trying to do that now. But still, I remember a few things and I still enjoy discussing fire safety issues.
It's not clear to me exactly what you mean. Could you elaborate? Or provide an example?
They drive themselves to the gas station.

By the time self-driving cars come to market, Uber will have had plenty of time to negotiate partnerships with several gas station companies, whose full-service lane attendants will use some sort of scanner/app to verify the car for charge purposes, and Uber will probably cross-verify gas tank levels automatically to make sure they're not being scammed by stations (eg 10 gallons for you, 1 for me).
It drives to New Jersey where full service gas stations make this red herring a non-issue.
I have CoreOS building rkt stage0 for ARM64, but have just done minimal runtime testing so far. It is on my todo list to do more work with it to get full ARM64 support. Contributions welcome! https://github.com/glevand/coreos--coreos-overlay/tree/maste...
Just like someone's phone number could be replaced by someone else, now you're calling a drug dealer instead of your grandmother, who is to blame then? Same thing can happen to URLs. Every time I let a domain of mine expire (well not EVERY time, but sometimes) some company buys it out and stuffs it up with advertisements.
I've worked on a client's Squarespace site on and off for the past couple of years. I initially stepped in when they had reached their own limits with customization.

At first I used the in-browser stylesheet and template editors Squarespace's free/low-cost plan had to offer. But almost immediately my clients had to step up to a plan that allowed me to access the Git-based developer platform. Unfortunately, they wanted to retain much of their existing markup and styling. It was all dependent on the system blocks johnny_utah mentioned, so I couldn't take the greenfield approach. This created some problems, but it still didn't take me long to put together a very nice brochureware site. And I am definitely no expert with the platform.

Yes, I would recommend Squarespace over WordPress. It seems very empowering to slightly-technical users who might want to do creative things that would be difficult with even a customized/fully-plugged-in WordPress setup. Also, avoiding WordPress security issues and third-party hosting headaches is a big plus.
I'm better known nowadays as a Rubyist, but in fact Python was the first language I really loved, and I have over 100K lines of Python under my belt from my Ph.D. research and my first startup. Our planned intro sequence includes Learn Enough™ Ruby to Be Dangerous, but I'm hoping to design it so that I can quickly make a Python version as well.
Any slimport adapter should work. This one works well http://amzn.com/B00HFYLR4M
It's ok, self-driving cars will never become reality.
GitHub is apparently in crisis again
This seems excessive and petty - not good business practice and (imo) suprising from Elon Musk. I wonder if there is more than the brief outline of events reported.
This looks like what Ubuntu had set out to do several years ago but never delivered on. The screenshots seem to be showing actual desktop Linux applications, so I guess there's an X (or Wayland) server being fired up, which is pretty sweet; I dig the idea of having access to "real" tools without having my own PC or booting to USB.

Oddly though, despite this being a distribution of Linux and Android, it seems like it's aiming for a commercial/closed-source release. I wonder how that's going to work?
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From a company whose marketing strategy is "act like assholes", with a business plan of "break the law and then whine when anyone points out that we're a bunch of criminals in suits", nothing surprises me anymore, including the fact that they're still in business.
"Uber is one of first companies to integrate software with an external consumer-facing physical service on a big, meaningful scale."

That's not even remotely true.
Haven't read this yet, but here's the thing about forcible entry that might surprise a lot of people. Many doors are much easier to force than you might naively expect. Even with a deadbolt.

Think about it like this... say the bolt extends into the jamb by a full inch. That means you only need to move the door frame by half an inch, and the door by half an inch, or some equivalent combo. But here's the rub... many doors aren't well installed or the frame has warped, etc. and the bolt does not extend into the frame by an inch. It might be half an inch or less.

So, insert a decent sized prybar (halligan bar, or flat pry bar, whatever. Sometimes a big screwdriver will do) and pry... it doesn't take that much effort to get the door to flex a quarter of an inch and the frame a quarter an inch, and bob's yer uncle.

This is really true on wooden doors/frames on residential construction. It's a little less true for something like a steel door set into a steel frame in some kind of commercial building, but there still tends to be a little bit of give which can be exploited.
How about issues like these?
https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues?utf8=&q=is%3Ao...

In my case I had a 0.9.4 influxdb setup fed by statsd for about a week.
The server hard crashed the first time I tried to back it up.
I'm reminded of this[0] excellent post by VC Mark Suster.

0. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/want-to-know-difference-b...
Fair use only exists in case law, and treaties have the power to override the Constitution itself (IIRC), let alone things like case law or the legal code. That's why TPP is such a game-changer.
I've never seen this definition used before.

I don't know what to tell you. The definition (admittedly paraphrased) comes from Adam Smith. The gist is that anyone can freely participate in the market on an equal or fair basis without artificial constraint. There is sometimes a need for strong regulation to prevent larger participants from using their size to gain an unfair advantage in the market.

Government regulation it need not be . . .

Can you give me an example of effective non-governmental regulation that doesn't ultimately derive its authority from the government?

How did you reach this conclusion? . . .

I am currently reading a book about the so-called "Robber Barons" of the later half of the 19th century. If you want to see what truly unconstrained capitalism looks like, I suggest you read up on this period: fraud, price-fixing, market manipulations, extortion, bribery . . . they even resorted to armed conflict with their rivals on occasion. The fact that capitalists continue to try to exploit any advantage that they can in the face of strong regulation is precisely my point. Heck, even in my own comparatively small investments, I seek to exploit any advantage that I can. It is not rocket science; it is acting in one's own best interest. The job of regulation is to ensure (as much as is reasonably possible) that no one gains an unfair advantage.

I've talked a lot about regulation, so I want to make clear that I am not in favour of endless reams of red tape. Regulation should be as complex as it needs to be, but no more complex. What regulations there are should be strongly enforced. The current reality does not really live up to this ideal; there are many ineffective or unnecessary regulations, and there are regulations that are missing entirely. Nevertheless, I am talking about an ideal vision that we should strive toward.
I don't disagree with your point. But FB does allow one way following (you can subscribe to most users public posts).
By the same logic, every addressing system that might lead you to pirated material should also require the same checks. What if I print out a copy of a poster I don't have permission to use and then give you the GPS coords where you can go view it?

What if I put said poster on the outside of my house and then share my home address?

What if a band is playing a set in a pub and wants to advertise beforehand? Do the need to make sure the pub in question is not breaking any copyright laws before they can include the location on their marketing material?

Ridiculous.
> Does anyone else see the similarity between designing Redis keys and game art asset filenames?

I always thought Redis keys use filesystem-like names just for ease of use. Pretty sure you can name them whatever you want though, using colons or dots as separators if you don't want to use slashes. But yeah, I do see your point. Think it's just the most straightforward way to name something honestly.
> I blame the stock market pressure towards growth.

Every capitalist mechanism insists on growth. That's literally what capital is.
A more relevant question is:
Would you be angry if you lost $500,000 because your bank only insured $150k?
Hah, that's pretty mild compared to some of the things I've seen come back from creative agencies.

Sometimes the agencies throw these dud concepts in there to push you to select one of the better concepts they spent more time on. Which makes you wonder what the other concepts were that didn't make it for the new Uber icon.
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Lucky you, VMWare is getting rid of Fusion anyway.
I'm really hoping one of these drone cab companies rebrands themselves as Johnny Cab.
You aren't allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon, either.
That made my brain hurt.
If the Ruby tutorial is any indication, Michael's book will be the best when it comes out. Never gone through any Python tutorials but I've heard good things about: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html, and https://www.twoscoopspress.com/. Take the recommendation with a pinch of salt because I've never done them myself.
I guess I was thinking in terms of using EBS for ephemeral business-tier nodes, rather than as the backing store of your custom database-tier. (I usually use AWS's RDS Postgres for my database.)

For ephemeral business-tier nodes, EBS gives you a few advantages, but none of them are that astounding:

• the ability to "scale hot" by "pausing" (i.e. powering off) the instances you aren't using rather than terminating them, then un-pausing them when you need them again;

• the ability for EC2 to move your instances between VM hosts when Xen maintenance needs to be done, rather than forcibly terminating them. (Which only really matters if you've got circuit-switched connections without auto-reconnect—the same kind of systems where you'd be forced into doing e.g. Erlang hot-upgrades.)

• the ability to RAID0 EBS volumes together to get more IOPS, unlike instance storage. (But that isn't an inherent property of EBS being network-attached; it's just a property of EBS providing bus bandwidth that scales with the number of volumes attached, where the instance storage is just regular logical volumes that all probably sit on the same local VM host disk. A different host could get the same effect by allocating users isolated local physical disks per instance, such that attaching two volumes gives you two real PVs to RAID.)

• the ability to quickly attach and detach volumes containing large datasets, allowing you to zero-copy "pass" a data set between instances. Anything that can be done with Docker "data volumes" can be done with EBS volumes too. You can create a processing pipeline where each stage is represented as a pre-made AMI, where each VM is spawned in turn with the same "working state" EBS volume attached; modifies it; and then terminates. Alternately, you can have an EC2 instance that attaches, modifies, and detaches a thousand EBS volumes in turn. (I think this is how Amazon expected people would use AWS originally—the AMI+EBS abstractions, as designed, are extremely amenable to being used in the way most people use Docker images and data-volumes. The "AMI marketplace" makes perfect sense when you imagine Docker images in place of AMIs, too. Amazon just didn't consider that the cost for running complete OS VMs, and storing complete OS boot volumes, might be too high to facilitate that approach very well. Unikernels might bring this back, though.)
Trivial example but I only mention it because he died last year of WTC-related-illness.

I've always maintained that all firefighters everywhere, paid or volunteer, urban or rural, structural or wildland, whatever, are all a brotherhood. I didn't know your friend, but you and he are brothers nonetheless, and I'm very sorry for your loss.