skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but almost every regulator now has both of them on their radar and they are going to end up eating regulatory costs roughly equal to a taxi company. It is going to happen sooner or later because the cities need the revenue and "regulatory equality between taxi companies and Uber" is not likely to result in the voters getting pissed off. Otherwise, they'd have to raise sales taxes or something which would piss them off.

I think its worth around 10 billion [which is where the original article said VC's started dropping out of the auction en masse].
Especially since systemd and its prerequisites were very much designed around Red Hat's needs and design from the start.
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More cost effective, I'm sure - and I'd probably approve of those more than this. That being said, decisions are often made with a lot of "gut" feeling. I could see this going in a few very strange directions.
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Isn't that essentially saying there's a crowd outside the bar waiting to get in because the bar itself is already packed?
Any reason why you're not using Case Sensitive HFS+? I realize most people aren't so this is a nifty change but that seems nicer than using DMGs.

The only problem I ever ran into with it was needing to rename the internal file structure of Adobe apps since they were not particularly careful about matching file name case in code and configuration files. There were scripts to fix their apps. I hope the newer CS editions don't have that problem still...
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Internet current conditions. Love it. "And it looks like we're going to have a very blustery afternoon making for a tough easterly traffic situation and a high of 97 cuils"
This is quite scary. "by default, the feature is being turned on without its subscribers’ prior consent. It’s an opt-out system".
Getting a critical mass of drivers is Uber's network effect.

However, when we are talking about $1 billion in funding that can be ripped apart pretty easily.
I was referring to typo'ing for instance assignment (perhaps you were as well?)

a = 3
if true:
a2 = 4 # lame I know--but beginners like me do it

--Python lets discover your failure at runtime...[as a good dynamic typed language does--Go doesn't FWIW]. It was just from an experience I had with learning Python recently. Now it makes me wonder what his blog post would look like saying things he'd miss going from Go to Python, or "what I wouldn't miss from Python..."
I would go farther and say Haskell is the only popular general purpose language that can get away without exposing programmers to object-like abstractions in the general case. Of course, these languages are general enough that you could probably shove whatever paradigm you wanted on top of them, but they do optimize for a particular kind of paradigm.

A type theorist's definition of OO will be quite different from a generalist's. For type theory, various kinds of polymorphisms mostly overlap between paradigms (e.g. generics and structural subtyping are useful in OOP), but nominal typing is both commonly associated with OOP and relatively useless in FP languages to be a distinguishing feature. This also dovetails with my named-oriented definition of OOP: objects have identity, but their types have identity also. If you come at it from the FP perspective, identity for objects AND types aren't very desirable...there are no meaningful names in math!
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Monolingualism is bad for the economy
See followup comment below. You're confusing logical atomicity for physical consistency and durability: yes, these operations may have certain atomicity guarantees from perspective of the application, but they are entirely asynchronous from the perspective of the storage medium unless you explicitly fsync(), and for example on Linux, even then the default behaviour of ext4 is to allow metadata updates to complete prior to data updates (no "write barrier").

In other words:

1. fd = open("super-safe-file.tmp", O_CREAT|O_RDWR);

2. write(fd, "super-safe-data", 15);

3. close(fd);

4. rename("super-safe-file.tmp", "super-safe-file");

5. (kernel flushes file and directory metadata to disk)

6. CRASH

7. Machine reboots, "super-safe-data" exists, but no longer contains any data, since file data itself was never flushed.

8. Tears are shed, programmers are fired, backups are restored
Can you tell which browser is which?
The congested interconnection point is part of Verizon's network, surely.
Nope. No need to throw away the Lua. We're moving more and more to a combination of C-based (nginx) for core serving, Lua-based for logic and Go for services.
Is that real? It doesn't read like it was written by an attorney, and there was even a grammar mistake in the first paragraph.
Style properties such as transforms can be changed at runtime by JavaScript (and frequently are for things like dragging operations). There is no practical way for the profiler to detect which styles of which elements your JavaScript will attempt to modify.
What way is best depends on your intent. Do you want to speak the language or write it or use it for a particular specialization?

Chris Lonsdale teaches a methodology for quick acquisition of spoken language that he presents in this TEDx talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0

This primarily involves listening, getting the basic meaning first perhaps through body language or other clues, mix up words and expressions, go from a tool box to command acquisitions to pronouns and adjectives to glue words, copy facial expressions, and finally direct connection by exercising multiple paths to the same meaning.
There are already freemium car sharing apps/websites doing quite well already. They are already winning in some markets. There's plenty that have been going for longer than Uber too.

But Uber has the cash. So you keep hearing about them because of their PR spend. So now Uber has to buy up the competition, or try and beat free.

Which is why I think they need more money. It's more money (not sure how much will be enough), or all the investors lose.
I have lots of issues with Uber, but as they expand, there's tons of potential. Taxis in many places are lowbrow affairs with business dominated by drunks and Medicaid cab rides.

To me, the prospect of sitting in half-dried vomit in the back of a 10 year old former police cruiser isn't very appealing. Uber makes it approachable for people like me -- I'd rather have a pleasant ride to the airport or train station than deal with parking or inconveniencing my wife for rides.
Large number of files in windows-based directories was killer. I can not remember the full details as it was years ago but once you went above 10,000 files or 20,000 files performance just died in Windows. It was because a bunch of the main API calls for accessing files in directories were inefficient I believe.
No, the bar isn't packed at all. The bouncer is being a dick and only letting in the people who bribe him.
Yes, and the lines for paying are zero in length.
It has been a while since I read him, and I don't think I ever got a satisfactory answer: how does he get around the unbounded recursion of the Chinese room argument?
They are not dead until they are warm and dead.

There are enough cases known to science where cold has done wonders. And the technology seems viable. I say go for it. At worst we will be getting valuable knowledge.
Nope, if you fire the AJAX request directly on the onclick event, chances are high it will not be submitted/processed before the browser navigates away...
it will take at least a decade to rival Python. Go is a much, much easier target.
I'm right there with you. Started with RHEL but have since moved to CentOS, even for pet projects or cloud servers I spin up.
I tried to get this to work on my MBPr, and sadly it did not work. It might have been my lack of prowess, but it's pretty straightforward.
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Also why Google Ventures has been a huge backer unto this point.

Google's driverless cars + Uber's Dispatch..

Press a button, car arrives and takes you to a location, only cost for Google/Uber is gas/car for that time which would be very low.

Google's Driverless cars + Uber's dispatch + Google Shopping Express... Fedex and UPS should be scared.
> This is flat out false.

So Go has panics and they are _just like exceptions_ in Python? Because to accuse the writer of being "flat out false" these have to be exactly the same and he as to be ignorant to not see the obvious.

Let's say you have some step in your function and you might raise an exception. In Python you'd surround it with try...catch

try:
dosomething()
catch SomeException:
handle_exception()

Can you do that in Go. Please show how. And don't crate a new function that that is not what Python does.

> there is absolutely no reason, aside from sheer ignorance and not reading even the most basic Go documentation

ignorance? have you read the basic Python documentation, sounds like you haven't
I don't think you read me correctly.

I agree with the facts and premise he presents. A Tessel is a toy. It is not going to teach you C, Assembly, or any of the realities of hardware development.

I disagree with the premise that this is a bad thing. I disagree with the premise that people are buying Tessels with the intent to create production grade products. This is literally a toy for people who want to screw around with hardware. This is not a bad thing.

Would you give people shit for buying some Lego Mindstorms to do the same thing instead of a Tessel?
How about a link to the document instead of some fly-by-night web host with a cheesy flash PDF viewer?
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> why UPS wouldn't already be doing it?

Regulations governing licensing, employee welfare, public liability, and other such, which Uber currently works around (but might not be able to indefinitely, people are looking very carefully at the situation).

Even ignoring this difference, UPS might not consider the profit margin worth the risk and the cost of the up-front infrastructure changes.
sorry to break it to you, but there is no spontaneous way to meet people in los angeles. its the most socially averse city ive ever lived in.

while everywhere else you can get to know people by accident at coffee shops, supermarket lines, etc, that will never happen at LA.

that said, i still get 150k job offer for venice every week. so i have no idea what those people saying you will starve if your startup bust are talking about.
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Contacting those drivers is as easy as using Uber to book a cab. That is how some countries are fining them, and their drivers for breaking laws.
If they read comments from the public and acted on them (or at least considered them), it would help. You're right that actually doing something however is more helpful, but for the things that actually need done to the T there aren't really coding things we can do to help change things.
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I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted, but I thought the same thing. Ellipses aside, it does not read like a letter written by an attorney.
Do US hospitals ever turn away people from the ICU because of cost? If so, how do they verify the ability of an unconscious person to pay before treatment?

I was under the impression that they already ate those costs.
Wait. So a single DOCSIS 3.0 modem (which I own) can support 171 Mbit/s but Comcast gives me 50 for the low price of $70/month (not including TV)?
There's a large orange "Download" button directly to the right of the document.
Can you please elaborate. I don't understand what could be wrong with keyword arguments. Also I can't see how an unused import can waste a life, unless there is some lethal side-effect to importing that package (I don't like import side-effects, but they are inconvenient whether the import is used or unused). Exceptions seem pretty useful as well.
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Yeah, clearly the message here is: hackers understand that passwords are mostly useless security features if you don't trust the site you're using them on. Better to make them easier to put in than use something high security and have it compromised. Using your bank password on, say, GitHub, is a bad idea.
It took them years to decide to release this data in a usable format, which surely they had internally for the longest time. I agree that 3rd party work is essential to check them, but it seems they aren't aware themselves of these things... or at least not to the public. The GM just spins happy stories.
Scribd isn't exactly a "fly-by-night web host". They've been around for almost 10 years already.
The problem, as I see it, is that Verizon/Comcast (and other ISPs) are overselling, and the amount of traffic that Netflix is generating is showing that. Verizon sells X customers Y-bandwidth connections, but they don't have X*Y worth of uplinks, so they can't supply data to the people who want it.

Until now, this hasn't been a problem, because most people didn't max out their connections, and if they did they didn't do it for very long. The very nature of Netflix's business, though, is to serve the best traffic that the customer's connection can handle, and that starts to add up. Unfortunately, it adds up so much that in some cases (e.g. Comcast) you can't even serve VHS-quality content to all the customers who want it.

Because Verizon is overselling their bandwidth, they're now having issues where they can't service the demand that they sold their customers on. Instead of upgrading their upstream connections (which would cost them money, which they have a lot of), they want Netflix to pay for it. The logic is that Verizon wouldn't have these problems if Netflix weren't sending so much content; that argument breaks down when you consider that Verizon sold their services based on available bandwidth and now can't provide it; Netflix is just the service that exposed the problem.

Netflix has other solutions, though; they can provide servers that get hosted in the ISP's network to provide content to users without traffic coming from outside the ISPs' networks (thus freeing up their normal uplinks for regular traffic), or by peering with Netflix at various points (which accomplishes the same thing).

Unfortunately, neither of these solutions involves Netflix giving money to Verizon, which is why Verizon doesn't want to bother with going to the time and trouble when they can force Netflix to pay for their infrastructure upgrades instead.
As soon as you take anything and put it together, my lawyer has told me. Technically, even computer shops assembling computers from parts will need a full certification for every combination they sell... it's crazy.

Add the WEEE regulation (valuable resource recycling) to the mess and you're out a couple thousand bucks if you do everything by the books.
Curiosity: Why did you start with flat files? It looks like hackernews was started in 2007, relational databases had been around for quite some time at that point, and were the standard way to store such forum data (see: every popular forum framework at the time)... the decision to store this sort of data (news/link forum with comments, 100% text) as flat files is very confusing to me.
On Linux, you can use macchanger[0], a tool which does this automatically for you. I wrote about it here[1].

[0]https://github.com/alobbs/macchanger
[1]https://www.zufallsheld.de/2013/08/07/mac-spoofing-under-lin...
Sure, but that's the least helpful possible response you could have made. We've got an observation:

> I never needed to scan the directory to find "all users"

> lookup by name, and creating/deleting files, is quick, even if you have millions of files.

And a question: given these observations, where do the benefits of filesystem fanout come from? Is it not true that looking up a file by name is fast no matter how many other files sit in the same directory? Is HN doing something weird?

You can't answer the question "where do the performance benefits come from?" by saying "look, the performance benefits exist".
And you will need earth sized spaceship to survive crashes even with hydrogen atoms. Unless there is something that I don't understand.

You just cannot travel with that kind of speeds in normal space IMO.
What, did Honeywell hire the vaunted Hardware Copying division of Samsung to make this? Couldn't look more like a Nest rip-off if you set out from the start trying to make a Nest rip-off. (Which they likely did.)
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C++ has been pushed into performance niches. Those are big niches though. Games, real-time programming, high performance networking.

But it is not used _as_ much as in the past for core business logic. There are legacy system that will run for many years. A lot of web backends are not not in C++ when in the past they were. It was the language to rule them all, but now in some areas others have taken over.
FL Studio (a so-called digital audio workstation) has an option for using the typing keyboard as a piano keyboard. The layout looks like this:
http://www.image-line.com/support/FLHelp/html/img_glob/qwert...
I'll definitely try the layout as mentioned in the article, the playing looks very natural.

Not very hacky, but you can download the free demo of FL and have a go at playing with many synthesizers and audio samples.
It's too bad my keyboard (and, I suspect, a lot of keyboards) doesn't support every possible key combination; a lot of even 3-note chords are impossible to play.
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I would like to see LastPass et al add this to their interface: auto-detect max length, allowed characters, etc. it would be for user convenience but they could even phone those characteristics home and start shaming services that employ poor practices.
Verizon doesn't have to raise prices; they made $5.1bn in profit last year: http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/21/technology/mobile/verizon-ea...

They just don't want to have to re-invest it in their network if they can force Netflix to do so instead.
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It is ideal if ops doesn't have to look inside the containers and CAN just slot them in place.
"But researchers at a number of institutions say they have perfected the technique, known as Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, or E.P.R., in experimental surgeries on hundreds of dogs and pigs over the last decade."

Did they actually do dry runs of the surgery from shooting to triage to finish? I wonder whose job it was to shoot the dog with a .45
The drop in performance isn't just while learning. I worked somewhere where I had to regularly use TCL, Java, PHP, C++ and Python - each was the most suitable tool for the job (at the time the tool was written anyway) but the constant context switching caused a real and permanent performance hit.
$24,000 a year is not a bill most Americans can afford.

Where are you getting $24,000 from? The parent to your comment said he has spent $2,000 so far this year, extrapolating that out says he might spend ~$5,000 on Uber by year end. I think the average American easily spends $5,000 on a vehicle annually. I probably spend at least half that amount just on gas.
yes, that would probably work, but they have such a huge influence on washington that at the moment we're having a hard time even keeping net neutrality alive.http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display?z=1xne7
Since building a new home or building is done through contractors and not likely to change given laws and, well, logistics, if you don't have a contractor channel, your product doesn't get installed from the start.
It should really redirect automatically and not rely on you getting the "https" part of the URL right manually.
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Netflix should just stop serving to Verizon and Comcast. the outlash would force the FCC and companies to recognize.
What do you mean by "compatible with the JVM"? Android is compatible with the JVM. Android's dx tool converts the JVM bytecode in your JAR files to Dalvik/ART compatible DEX files. You probably mean that is not compatible with all parts of Oracle Java.

You can make Android apps using Scala, Kotlin, and Clojure. To my knowledge can use the 'native' build tools for Scala (SBT) and Clojure (Leiningen) already. I'm building an Android app using Scala libraries of which the authors never even thought about running it in an environment as alien as Android.

So yeah, I think that the door is open already. What is still lacking is official support for better languages than Java. That would be great.
"Do fathers really make a difference in their children’s lives?"

It's sad that this question even needs to be asked.
We don't have a painter, but we do have a muralist in Poland. You might check it out.

As for non-freelance occupations, Developer Relations Manager in Google Poland is a mentor, so at least some cool companies don't mind.
Wasn't the big miracle of Reiser4 supposed to usher in an era where this was no longer a problem?
I appreciate your POV that what you have now is "good enough" and it doesn't feel right to be taken along to support other people's habits. (And it's totally rotten you got downvoted.)

However, ISPs are a shared resource. Just like I tell people who act shocked when their speeds aren't guaranteed, sometimes the needs of the shared network override yours. You are getting a tremendous discount over a private line by bundling your whims with a bunch of your neighbors.

That said, if your current service is "good enough," you might try using wireless or DSL.
Which forces you to login and then pay. Just link to the damn PDFs. Scribd is a parasite.
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British Telecom has been doing this for quite a few years now as "BT FON".
I'm not a lawyer and I partially agree. But your comment just reminded me of some similar comments I've seen along the lines of "All a programmer does is copy/paste code from stackoverflow and charge you $500 for the privilege ... you're better off picking up a book on PHP web development and constructing your own, adding and removing features as needed."
looks like your makefile doesn't have a pep8/pylint/pyflakes step...
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Je suis sûr que les friends vont aimer, mais les faire adhérer et suivre, c'est la partie difficile de cette affaire!
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It uses geolocation to give different answers depending on your browser location. Mine says $72 / yr in Woodside, CA.