skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you may not be calling their API endpoints directly with HTTPS requests initiated from your own code. However, as I understand it, you're effectively pushing the buttons (or hooking the methods, idk android) within the Uber/lyft app, which causes their app to call the API endpoint. So you are certainly calling the API, just indirectly. Regardless, your app is definitely "automating usage" of the Uber/lyft app, and could therefore be in breach of their terms of service.

I'm not arguing that there are no workarounds or hacks or backup plans to whatever technical obstacles Uber/lyft may throw at you. In fact I'm quite familiar with them from the iOS side. However, as a high profile startup and US corporation (funded by YC), you can't blatantly ignore a C&D just because you disagree with it. And you definitely can't introduce new hacks or workarounds after receiving the C&D. Your only option would be to fight it in court.

(Also consider the play store / App Store can remove you at any time without any legal due process, and will likely do so when notified of noncompliance of a C&D)

Don't get me wrong, I think a court battle over this kind of client-side integration is sorely needed. But as an investor, I would be concerned my money would end up in a lawsuit before the app even gets traction. If you're planning on a lawsuit, you might actually win it.

Incidentally, if you're taking the attitude of circumvention, then you could "go all the way" by asking users to sideload (via 7 day developer certs) a custom version of the Uber/lyft apps that includes code to interface with your app. That's the approach I took to automating iOS apps in the past, but that was on jailbroken devices. Side loading presents a hard usability problem, but I bet you could convince users to plug their phone into their computer every 7 days.
Sounds great until they shut your shit down without explanation, and all you're left with is a support number that is about as helpful as a brick wall...
End of the estate tax, end of the AMT, moving the top tax bracket from 39.6% to 25%, to start.
interesting article, uber grew too quickly...
Albert Malakov, DDS
http://implantsandperioastoria.com/what-are-dental-implants-...
Maybe you don't like the way they abuse their accounts, but it doesn't mean their tools are bad.
Depends what the ASIC does. The bulk of deep learning is still matrix multiplication and scalar operations on matrices. GPUs are, as the name implies, general-purpose. They aren't as optimized as they could be for optimal performance on matrix ops. This is part of what Google is capitalizing on with the TPU.

Further speedups can be gained by going with lower precision ops (eg: float16). A chip specialized for deep learning could support f16 only, which would allow it to have more compute power using less area and less power.

So, in short, there are ways to make ASICs that are more efficient for deep learning while still giving the ASICs flexibility. ASIC doesn't mean there is no programmability.
Seems pretty clear they're betting most corporate applications will be web-based, with custom managed Android apps as another front-end coming online.
My own notes on alternative backup/sync solutions: https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/secure-...

SyncThing+cloud storage seems most promising but I've not actually tried it yet.
I think the 'new FCC' comment is a reference to the current FCC Commissioner being a former general council at Verizon (though it was awhile ago). Additionally, he's been strongly opposed regulation of the telecoms and opposed net neutrality for awhile. It's not all him, but the FCC has sharply changed course on net neutrality since December.
One of two possibilities, IMHO:

1. They're trying to avoid a Twitter-like hype bubble on their stock, because they have so much brand recognition.

2. They're trying to drive a hype bubble and remove restrictions on cashing out their stocks before it pops.

Either way, gonna need to see that earnings report.
Well, it ended up getting archived before the list was removed. Whether that's right or wrong, the info is out there: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821212745/https://github.co...
There are a few problems with the very simplistic statistics in this article:

1) These stats don't account for growth in employee base. If a company is growing their employee base by hiring new employees they could have 0% attrition and the average duration of employment would still be low simply because of all the new employees that just started.

2) Most of these companies have a lot of different roles. For Amazon they obviously have fulfillment center employees working in the warehouses, folks working in the data centers, and folks doing engineering. I suspect these roles have very different attrition rates. The same goes for Apple, Facebook, etc. You could have 0% attrition rate on your core engineering team but still have a low average average employee "age" because there is high turnover in your customer support call center.

Basically the simplistic stats in this article are absolutely worthless and not newsworthy, which unfortunately is pretty par for the course with Business Insider.
"Truly" unlimited storage could potentially have unlimited costs. How on earth do you propose that could ever make economic sense to sell you?
does that mean IDEA 2017 is zero latency ?
Visualizing the solar eclipse's impact on US Internet traffic
This would have been very useful solving Project Euler's problem 93: https://projecteuler.net/problem=93.
Aren't you using your own version? The original meaning of left and right is the French Revolution, where people who sat on the left wanted revolution and people who sat on the right wanted to keep the status quo. People who sat in the center wanted a little bit of both. Then the definition transitioned to left being collectivism and right being capitalism.

But for some reason a good portion of academia (to not say most) labeled right as authoritarian and violent, and left as humanitarian and progressive. Hell, even Wikipedia and Google definitions says that national socialism is a far right-wing movement. So I don't blame you, definitions are a bit messy
Coursecoin regrets to inform its prospective student-investor-miners that there was a compromise to the secure ICO system before launch. There will be no courses or refunds. Thank you for your interest and investment in Coursecoin.
yeah... if you count "enterprise" "support" as a "solution" to what they're complaining about.
Helium seems like a decent idea and I'm proud to see a Nigerian startup represented.

However, to my mind and from my experience, the major issue in the medical records space is how the data obtained from caregiver/patient interaction gets captured in the first instance. Health workers have not embraced typing in any form (and they most likely will not)and traditional way of recording by hand does not digitize readily .

How are you solving this problem ?
I'm not sure how that would help. If I opt-out of data collection, I don't think I'd be particularly pleased if I get randomly selected to be one of the users in this "random sample" and the stats get sent anyway.

And if I opt-in to data collection, why would it matter to me whether the stats I'm sending are a result of me being selected as part of a random sample or not? Might as well just _always_ send those stats; it doesn't matter to me.
Hmm I tried using his tool on my Mac and it did not seem to work for any of the editors I tried (system vim in a terminal, TextEdit, MacVim).

Does anyone know if there is an existing tool for these kinds of measurements on a Mac?

Doing a few google searches mostly turns up this article. But maybe my googling skills are weak.
Looks like rclone might be the best alternative: https://github.com/ncw/rclone
HackerNews gets an unrepresentative picture of the token market. The only stories that get to the frontpage are the ones concerning hacks. But that's not the whole picture. There are a huge number of token sales happening, and the vast majority are not being hacked. This is certainly newsworthy but it needs to be put into the context of how many token sales occur.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Protocols

That is the only way
If you think an electric toothbrush was a huge leap in oral health, you should try a water flosser. I used to have some pretty bad gum issues, and still would if I didn't use my water flosser. It's like a little power washer for your mouth! I use it mostly around the gum line and between the teeth.
Ting is not on Verizon. Verizon doesn't have many MVNOs, last I checked all Verizon MVNOs came with lots of caveats that made them unsable for me at the time. FWIW, I chose Ting, no traffic shaping whatsoever and no artificial limits of any kind. Of course, T-Mobile and Sprint might do their own traffic shaping, but as a previous T-Mobile customer, this doesn't seem to be the case. It works better for me now on Ting than it used to work before on T-Mobile. No throttling, no video degradation, no bullshit. Definitely recommended.

Unfortunately worse coverage then Verizon though, at least where I need it.
Have a look at https://syncthing.net/ and see if it's suitable.
Chrome has enabled Google to move beyond the link as the primary currency of authority (PageRank) and toward click-throughs as a more robust proxy with respect to search rankings, ads, etc.
> What good is a backup tool if you a) can't restore using the native tool

I am so confused by your question? With Backblaze, you can get 100% of you data back in two ways: 1) you can get a free external USB hard drive sent to you with all your data on it, or 2) You can prepare a free ZIP file with all your data and download it. We provide a restartable native bzdownloader to help you download the recovered files.

> What good is a backup tool....

Isn't the goal to get all your data back? Backblaze does that. Maybe I'm mis-understanding your question?

> you can't restore files from more than 30 days.

With Backblaze, you can recover files for more than 30 days. You can ALWAYS get "the most recent version" even after 9 years. What you cannot do is get all the "intermediate versions" (like if you change a text document, we retain all versions for 30 days, then we only keep the most recent version forever). I do agree that would be a better product (retain infinite versions of every file). Unfortunately we would need to charge more for that, and many customers only want the most recent copy of all their documents.

I understand if Backblaze is not a good solution for you. I just want to be absolutely clear what we provide and what we do not provide.
Odd tho'. This mechanism defeats caching; it must cost them cash money to run on that architecture vs generating then serving static pages, perhaps only dynamically fetching comments. Someone at Google thinks it's worth paying for the ability to erase blogs entirely.
That's what a monopoly brings. It won't take very long for other countries to eclipse the US in tech.
Same here. Other than games, Sublime was the last proprietary software I purchased, that was 2012. I used it for a few months and I had no issues that I can remember but the radio silence started to get a little worrisome. I started thinking I might be investing too much into the ecosystem and developing muscle memory I will have a hard time breaking. I don't like my primary tools having an uncertain future and a text editor is the primariest tool of all to a developer. I switched to Vim. The experience is what set me on the path to preferring free, open source tools where ever possible, the lesson was well worth $60.
GBIF, https://www.gbif.org/, aggregates biodiversity occurrence data (observations, where specimens held in museums are from, etc).

Everything is available through an open API, although we don't index threat status. Perhaps we should.

Example: Ceratotherium simum, Southern White Rhinoceros [1]. (The threat status shown on the page is taken from an IUCN API.) The distribution data is available either as individual occurrence records [2], or as a summarized map vector tile [3], or a PNG map tile [4]. You would probably want to add a year range filter for recent observations.

You can also download e.g. everything with coordinates and crunch through the data yourself.

You will often find the coordinates have a low accuracy for endangered species, to prevent misuse. I won't comment on whether making such an app is a good idea or not.

(I am a software developer at GBIF.)

[1] https://www.gbif.org/species/2440880

[2] https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?has_coordinate=tru...

[3] https://api.gbif.org/v2/map/occurrence/density/0/0/0.mvt?tax...

[4] https://api.gbif.org/v2/map/occurrence/density/0/0/0@1x.png?...
LOL I avoid opining on some subjects.

I used to be married to a lady who was quite proud of me. Well, so to speak. She used to take me to these fancy parties where people dress funny and eat crap I can't pronounce - they also use utensils for certain dishes and all sorts of fancy stuff.

Well, she'd introduce me as, "Dr. KGIII."

Now, I don't want to say people are stupid - but this frequently resulted in me being asked medical questions. I, being drunk more often than not, would give absurd medical advice.

I've since learned to not opine on anything medically related, as it seems to result in people coming back to me with very angry moods. So, certain subjects I try just let the links speak for themselves. It works.

Also, my method was to remain in a fairly constant state of inebriation. It was surprisingly effective, though I'm not sure I'd recommend other people try it.
Some Navy Sailors' Corpse Have Been Found After the USS John S McCain Clash
I need to connect to my work's OpenVPN network, so I can't really use other options and don't know much about them.
With most types of software, if you're stuck with C/C++, you want to keep the development to a high standard where there aren't any bugs like this. But anti-virus software is unusual in that it needs to handle malicious input of an unusually wide variety of file formats, which makes completely eliminating file-format vulnerabilities basically unfeasible without some sort of broadly-applicable fix.

That fix could be a memory-safe language, or it could be sandboxing. But the assumption should be that for any antivirus product which does its file-parsing in C or C++, and which doesn't sandbox is scanning engine, there's going to be at least one critical vulnerability in the scanner. Bitdefender is still unsandboxed, so fixing this particular vulnerability is only of limited use; there are almost certainly other, similar vulnerabilities in it, so users running it are vulnerable to anyone with the resources to find one.

AV companies have mostly gotten away with this sort of thing in the past, because individual AV scanners tend to have low enough market share that they aren't as desirable targets as web browsers. But Windows Defender recently broke that trend by being present on every Windows system, and having a critical vulnerability, so now there are a lot more researchers looking at unsandboxed AV scanning engines and finding problems.
I'm stoked you built this, as I've had the idea and desired the platform for a while. I do a ton of last minute travel and have semi-unlimited options so it's hard to filter down to the best options that offer what I'm looking for.
There'll be an opt-out, just as there always has. That's not what's being discussed here. The question is whether to allow these stats to be collected as an opt-out vs opt-in.
Google products, services, and features are like farm animals or Hogwart's instructors in Defence Against the Dark Arts. Don't become too fond of, or used to them.
HelloSign Is Hiring Engineers (Elixir, PHP, Front-End, and QA) (San Francisco)
Adjusting volume from my phone does not work most of the time.

Selecting sonos as output device from spotify must be done a few times before it sustains (although that might be a spotify problem).
The comment I'm responding to is literally about questioning how a business could be comfortable using this. What do you want me to say? Do I have the complaint wrong?
Amen. Everyone: If you were using CrashPlan for simple p2p backups like this, use SyncThing now. It has versioning, it's open source, and it's secure. Made my day... I will enjoy donating to their project.
Back in the 90s there was a series of books "Graphics Gems" that was a great resource in learning these tricks. Most people are further removed from drawing directly into a frame buffer today,

https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Gems-Andrew-S-Glassner/dp/01...
That's funny. I have neither a microwave, nor cable TV. I'm currently looking for a used microwave, but I have no desire whatsoever to get cable TV. My phone is currently 3 years old, and I don't really have a ton of gadgets beyond said phone and a laptop.
Based on the enormous amount of feedback we have received today, we are actively talking about increasing it. It was an arbitrary business decision, it is as easy to change as a constant in the source code.

If Backblaze can afford it, we will definitely be changing it soon.
Wow, I thought TP had died out ages ago. I used it for a while before switching to Wordpress.
Worry not, you signed a contract. If they change the terms of the contract, demand they keep your service unchanged or cancel as a breach of contract.
Really cool link, thank you. I think you are referring to the 2017 QP1 asteroid that was closest to us on 14-Aug. the distance was about a sixth of the distance to the moon, or 38k miles. The speed was 24km/s and the diameter 37-83 meters. Just for fun I ran the Impact Earth calculator to see what would happed if such an asteroid hit Earth. Assuming the worst case scenario (iron meteorite, max diameter, perpendicular hit) the explosion would be equivalent to about 200 MT TNT, and the crater would have a 2 mile diameter and 2000 foot depth.

Edit: changed mph to km/s

https://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
> I think the 'new FCC' comment is a reference to the current FCC Commissioner being a former general council at Verizon

This is a somewhat silly argument. I remember the same concern over Wheeler; everyone was tripping over themselves to praise him when he turned out to be pro-net neutrality.
Ask HN: Any possibility of a high schooler getting a web development internship?
I took a summer program last year where I learned JavaScript and since then I've been taking other online courses, teaching myself. I've also done a bit of freelance work. I've had an internship before but it wasn't web centered, so I did things like take out the trash, made calls, wrote emails. I did get to play around with WordPress though, and I added two pages to their website.
That internship wasn't all bad, but right now like more guided learning, someone who could help by looking at mistakes in my code and offering suggestions. Summer just ended, but there are internships and junior positions I can hold during the school year, right? What's the best way to find these internships? Sure I can wait until college, but there's no time like the present. I'll be a senior this upcoming semester, and I live in NYC if that's important. I've made a few contacts over this past year, should I contact them and see if they're looking for interns?
Music is an evergreen respite, and I love to play with the sound of analog. But I'm under no illusions: I almost exclusively use digital models of analog gear. The technology was already to the point of effectively indistinguishable 15 years ago, and modern emulations border on lovingly obsessive overkill.

I will never own a Yamaha CS-80. The extraordinary bulk, unreliability, and expense make the signature synth of Vangelis unpalatable in every way but its sound. But the software version I use captures that effervescent analog flutter to a better degree than I can possibly discern, and it all fits on my MacBook.
But the question then becomes, is it a good or bad thing? Is it better to pay $10 per GB, or is it better to not have to worry about gigabytes, with the caveat that video (which happens currently be a high bandwidth consumer) gets throttled? Then add onto it that the video quality for many consumers is still more than adequate for the size of screen they are dealing with.

Personally, I don't do video over LTE, but I would like to use the mobile hotspot feature on my phone more often without having to worry about going over. And as long as it is enough for me to use ssh, RDP, or VNC, then I'm good. Other people, of course, have different requirements.
> Frequent high-quality updates

I don't really need any updates from sublime. It does everything I need it to, and I've never felt a lack of a feature. I'm looking at the new and highly touted "hot exit" feature, and I'm thinking "but sublime prompts you to save when closing the app, and honestly I haven't lost work due to forgetting to save in several years."

> lots of communication

Again, I'm not sure why I'd want communication from the creators of sublime.

> great plugin ecosystem

Any plugin I've wanted (linters, syntax files, git integration...) has been installable from a dropdown menu in sublime. Maybe if my plugin needs were more esoteric, I'd appreciate vscode more?

> open source

I dig that, philosophically. Although if that was a priority for me, I'd go with Atom, instead of something published by microsoft.

Again, I'm open to the idea that vscode could be better than sublime - but maybe it's only better to people who need more obscure plugins, or who really care about open source?
I got a 4 year contract with Crashplan (expiring in 2018) and I'm also pissed by this news...

I paid less than 4$ per month (the price would've been already higher if I renewed yesterday, but still acceptable) and stored around 130 GB of data (so not a lot, but it's already more than the 100GB threshold that some services use)

I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoid continuous rescans of the disks, and that would work on Linux...

Just these 2 simple requirements already seem to disqualify any other tool suggested here:

Carbonite (no Linux)

Backblaze (no Linux, and none of the 3rd party integrations with B2 seems to support live watching of files)

Tarsnap (no watching)

Borg (no watching)

Does anyone know if it's feasible to keep the whole / under Dropbox, Google Drive or Spideroak? (I know that GDrive doesn't have an official linux client)

The only solutions I know would be:

Lsync (but it would be only syncing, no history), r1soft (but it seems to be only servers, haven't checked yet the features)...

Are there any other tools out there?

I'd really thinking that I should write my own
I'm glad someone's worrying about this!

Interestingly, this topic is quite old. The original mainframe systems had channel controllers for I/O which did a lot of processing locally, which included echoing and even local editing, freeing the CPU for "real" work. This approach was thrown out when minicomputers arrived; this is why the Unix IO system looks the way it does and why C, in a then-noteworthy departure from most languages of its time, didn't include I/O operators.

Even in the pre-TCP ARPANET, network latency on interactive connections was an important topic (this is when the main backbone was a single 56K line IIRC). The MIT SUPDUP protocol (Super Duper remote access alternative to Telnet) included a local editing protocol for connections to remote machines. Even non-line-mode applications could interact with it so essentially run part of the interface remotely all in the interest of zero latency.
Yes, that much is obvious. What's not obvious is when it happened, or anything else about it. All this link tells us is that some account - of which we know nothing - has been reinstated.

And you still haven't provided any additional information.
You could try using Duplicati. It has a Web GUI. You could also just create the configs at home and then export it! You could also just invoke it from CLI.
My bad.. ..and that's why you use no compiled language, right?
Time tracking: my most effective productivity tool when self-employed