skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people."

That's on point.
(EDIT: nevermind, bug was already reported: https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/issues/51 )
Its American mobile companies so id agree with you :-)
I take issue with the thought of conservation only being necessary for cute, cuddly animals. There are significant benefits of maintaining biodiversity in the various biomes.
What we learned from the Wii is that those kinds of controls can move over 100 million console units. Seems people don't mind the lack of force feedback that much.
Pretty simple. Haxe is a small project supported by some niche-market companies. It's just now starting to break out of that. Typescript is from Microsoft and was integrated into Visual Studio straight away.

Aside from that, it has a longer learning curve than TS. This article does a great job of outlining some of the differences.
There is no "their" and "our" problems - extinction affects humanity on a global level.
Your car is insured and is easily replaceable.

Car theft has declined precipitously in recent years. According to the NY Times [1], in 1990 there were 147,000 cars reported stolen in NYC. In 2013, that number had dropped to 7,400. On a per capita basis, it went from 1:50 to 1:1,100; a 96% drop. This dramatic reduction in theft cannot be solely attributed to an overall reduction in crime either.

This is not an argument for the status quo. I'm just pointing out that the principles being espoused in the responses here aren't axioms, they're value judgements. As software developers, we're taught to be hyper-paranoid when it comes to security, and we should be. That's how a culture of security is built.

However, in a broad sense, a balance must be struck. Like it or not, there is an acceptable rate of car theft, and that rate is non-zero. The acceptable theft rate is defined by what consumers are willing to pay to insurance companies to take on the risk and the assessment of the balance between probability and the anticipated inconvenience of having their car stolen. Consumer choices are defined by the alternatives, though. If the solution is that cars shouldn't have these features at all, can you find that car? What else do you give up in the process? Unless automakers ignore the problem, and theft rates skyrocket, buyers are still going to seek out these network enabled features because their convenience outweighs the risks.

Of course, it could be argued that we'll see a rise in theft again as criminals learn to use new technologies to steal cars. This has already happened in some places. BMW has run in to a couple of fairly high profile cases of this recently. In one case, attackers combined the easy accessibility of the ODB II port from a broken window with a security weakness in the cars software to bypass all the theft protection. No network access required!

The linking of the CANbus to network systems is too enticing from a consumer convenience perspective. That genie is out of the bottle.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-...
I don't think that's a good idea.

Frankly, the secret to a magic trick has no value. It's always disappointing. What's entertaining is the effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCxPT7UUkkY
When the US gets close to election time and there is at least the chance of a conservative win in the White House; the Chinese government gets worried and defensive. They will probably remove the police after a couple of years and the new president (conservative or liberal) has settled in.
While an SSL certificate from GoDaddy is not ideal, attacks are still detectable in theory by verifying the public key of Hulbee independently of the chain of trust.

What I personally would be more concerned about is the fact that DuckDuckGo is hosted by Amazon. As an US company, Amazon is required to collaborate with US three letter agencies by law. Thus, whatever is hosted by Amazon is within reach of the NSA. In contrast, Hulbee is hosted in Switzerland on servers which are under physical control of Hulbee.
This is amazing news for the hardware community. Tindie has been a jumping ground for so many of my friend's projects-turned-product. It's going to be awesome to add Hackaday (parent company SupplyFrame) to the mix!
There is... certainly a learning curve. The Haskell community is still tiny. Per capita, it's one of the best language communities out there. It just hasn't had the thousands or millions of person-hours necessary to make everything pretty and intuitive.

I generally say that, all else equal, and if I were to use a GC'd language-- obviously, there are projects that mandate C or other low-level languages-- then I would use: Python for a short-term (days) project, Clojure for a medium-term (< 3 months) one, and Haskell for a long-term (> 3 months, or multi-developer) one. You don't find yourself needing static typing if you're doing a small, self-contained, line-of-business task like a script. You start to really want it for multi-developer programs and for infrastructural jobs that'll take months to complete (and, at age 32-- that's ancient in programming years-- the only programming challenges that really interest me are the hard ones where Haskell's type discipline pays off in a major way).

Haskell will probably never beat Python in terms of ease-of-use, and (while I would prefer Haskell over other offerings for hard-core machine learning infrastructure) it has a ways to go before it can take over the exploratory data science world (we need data frames, and it's not at all clear what the "right" way to impose type discipline on such beasts is).

All of that said, Haskell is way better than it used to be in terms of user experience. It's gone from god-awful (circa mid-2000s) to hard-but-acceptable, and in the context of a longer-term project (i.e. at least 2 months) the uptake is a rounding error and the pain is paid off.

Furthermore, I don't think that Haskell's opt-out approach to laziness is more than a cosmetic issue. You can have as much strictness as you want; you just have to ask for it. However, high-performance programming in other languages (e.g. Clojure, Python) is also deeply technical and warty. When you start adding type hints and using Java arrays in your machine learning code, it doesn't look like Clojure anymore. My point in all this is that HPC is technical and rough in all of the major languages, and Haskell's laziness is just a small part of that.
Straight to issues please if you have a GitHub account:
https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/issues

A simple description how the crash happened is gold worth by the way!
It is way different having to kill a lion that is making life in your village miserable to having this foreigner come in and do it for "fun" disregarding the laws of your country. One thing doesn't excuse the other.

Having said that, he is right on " ... don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed ..."
Generalized Covert Data Exfiltration with Funtenna
>Don’t tell us what to do with our animals

the animals aren't yours or anybody else's. They belong to that planet which we just happen to share. Human race, having achieved the ability to destroy the planet's eco-sphere, thus got a duty of steward of the eco-sphere which it has been carrying poorly so far.

Anyway, killing big game this days is a serious mental sickness.
10 goals you can use to increase your happiness
I tend to think that human emotion was not rational by definition (and by not rational I mean uncorrelated not negatively correlated). Of course "not rational" is not synonymous of bad or superfluous.
Pretty much.

I've once done an informal "research", comparing some of the worst software sweatshops that I know against companies such as SpaceX. The metric used was the number of references to "innovation" and "innovative".

The results were very interesting. Highly recommended.
AGAR.İO
My god. I doubt this is coming to Ontario anytime soon.
The comment isn't sent to the server during the authentication
How about the requirement that foreign carriers have US citizens in US offices at the point of interconnect with the US.

I also believe there are reporting oddities in the role too, but I can't find the reference to it anymore.

The result is that same as China, the difference is who's paying the person's salary.

Edit [information below]:

[1] (13) Carriers shall comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), see 47 C.F.R. §§
1.20000 et seq. Page 5 of 6
1.20000 et seq.

[2] (14) Every carrier must designate an agent for service in the District of Columbia. See 47 U.S.C. § 413, 47 C.F.R. §§
1.47(h), 64.1195.

[3] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-348A1.pd...

Not that ominous, just normal legal intercept. The US has had this requirement for a long time.
Inside the Black Hat USA 2015 Network Operations Center
Any sources on this?
Yes, but it's about sentiment in journalism and "facebook masses", and not only in America...
>Are today's Internet addicts hooked on MUDs or MOOs?

They are, kind of. The very same "addictive" mechanics in MUDs have been filtered and dumbed down into popular freemium games.

>I'm pretty sure none of them owned a house

This is what bothers me most about sites like HN and Reddit. Its a lot of loud proclamations of the future from people who are more or less kids. They've never bought property, never been responsible for raising a human life, never paid 'real' taxes, never buried a parent, never have been in positions of leadership, etc. They don't understand the status quo, let alone whats good about it and what's bad. They just yell about how everything sucks and how a revolution is always brewing. The problem is that its rare for revolutions to be brewing, so they all fall for this dumb hype machine. Reading /r/futurology on reddit is cringe inducing. Everything amazing is just 5 or maybe 10 years away. As someone who has been reading sci-fi and futurist junk since he was a kid, well, lets just say none of that fun stuff happened and "boring stuff" like commodization of SoC's onto touchscreens and better wireless data standards are the real revolutions, yet no one was really singing the praises of smartphones or saw their potential. Even when I had a Treo with 1mbps EVDO it was seen as an "executive toy" by even the most techy kids because it couldn't play games. How wrong they were.

The problem is that tech is almost exclusively a young man's game, so its young men who will be making the calls. Everything is filtered through the experiences and expectations of INTJ males. They don't have the social understanding to know that maybe people don't want to a tissue box sized device strapped onto their faces or that lots of people, especially women, suffer strongly from motion sickness illusions. Or that FP shooter "presence" isn't a compelling experience, even if its 'neat to experience.' There's a major, major hurdle to overcome here. Normal and social people don't want isolating boxes strapped to their faces. INTJ males do. This conflict isn't going away. VR isn't a shoo-in here. It has nothing but an uphill battle. Shame articles that point this out are often marginalized. Only Jeff's celebrity saves him here.

Sadly, there is probably a real and major revolution going on under our noses right now that is ignored by HN and Reddit because "it doesn't play games." I have my own thoughts on the matter, but I really don't want an argument about who is the better futurist here, so I'll keep them to myself, but life as seen through the eyes of hardcore gamers isn't mainstream. Older men and women with kids and bills are mainstream, not Steam and freemium addicts. I wish more people could accept that here. If your revolution can't win over parents, minorities, and the elderly, then you don't have a revolution. I remember seeing the mockups of the first iphone and looking at my Treo and thinking, "Wow, Apple solved this. They made a smartphone grandma can use. This is going to be big." Meanwhile geek media was calling the iphone a toy, slashdot was in hysterics about how terrible it was (no 3G? No games? No keyboard?!?!), etc.
From Punk Rocker to Tech VC
Also worth mentioning this comment, which I unwittingly duplicated:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10009832
How is the trailer of new advance wikipedia?
It's a bit like painting a wall. You need more strokes to cover the whole wall, neither uMatrix nor Adblock do exactly the same thing.
Yes, they're done very well. Sponsoring doesn't automatically need to mean that you check your privacy at the door.
They mention both the MATLAB scripts and a "C++ windows phone app" developed internally. Don't know about availability though. Indeed, turning paper algorithms into real world usable software is challenging, to say the least.
The European jury is out on whether or not there is ongoing catastrophic mass migration across the EU.

Anti-immigration sentiment has been surging in the EU over the last few years in large part because of perceptions of excessive migration from eastern European countries like Estonia and Bulgaria ("the periphery", as they call them) to western and northern European countries like the UK and Germany ("the core countries", as they call themselves). In the UK, for instance, the UK Independence Party got something like 13% of the popular vote (though only 1 seat, because as bad as UKIP is, the first-past-the-post electoral system in modern Britain is worse) in this year's general election, and they're a single-issue, anti-European-immigration party. Word is that similar things are happening in other rich European countries, as seen with the National Front in France, the Danish People's Party in Denmark, and the AfD in Germany.[1]

To zoom in a bit on the UK (where I live), there is evidence that migration from the EU is high and growing[2][3]. But I don't think that anyone outside of those who are right-of-mainstream on this issue think it's catastrophically high. I'd guess at three main reasons for that. Firstly, accession to the EU requires certain "convergence criteria", which include levels of economic prosperity and social stability which, while not strict enough to mean that all the joining countries are virtually the same on these things, are strict enough to mean that they aren't as far apart as, say, the US and Haiti -- or even the US and Mexico. Secondly, the EU has a good few common institutions, including ones that do things along the lines of redistributive taxation.[4] And thirdly, there are differences in language and culture which might be restrictions to many people, especially in a continent as linguistically (if not culturally) diverse as Europe. (I'm guessing that and size are parts of why everyone isn't flocking to Luxembourg.)

1. Germany's Angela Merkel under threat from Pegida rallies -- http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/06/threat-to-merkel-from-right-w...

2. British and other EU migration -- http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/britains-70-million...

3. Bulgarian and Romanian migration to the UK -- http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistic...

4. EU contractors and beneficiaries of funding from the EU budget -- http://ec.europa.eu/contracts_grants/beneficiaries_en.htm
Can you elaborate on how it doesn't integrate well with existing JS code? We use TypeScript rather heavily and creating definition files has become part of the work (which I do not mind at all). How does Haxe differ in interfacing with external libraries?
Unfortunately, the reading of declassified documents that have surfaced in the last couple of decades shows a great capacity for the United States to destabilize countries (even allies) that might have otherwise had a chance of integrating socialist and moderate communists in the political arena in their home countries. To the aim of blocking any chance of success for alternative to the hardliner liberal and neo-con, the official discourse from the United States, has been to confuse all variation of communism into one blob: the destroyer of economical growth and private property. Such a reading of a political movement is naive to say the least.

I clearly remember an article about a CIA plan to have a puppet government in France in case the "civil war" (event) of May 1968 would turn into the favor for the French Communist Party (PC). And this is despite the fact that the PC could have never formed a government on its own, and had already had political alliances and a good relationship with the French Socialist Party (PS).

This is the same right of interference that was invoked when the United States decided to invade Vietnam and other countless countries, often with the help, active or not, of its allies.
I think it's different than a forced police presence forcing you to run your business a certain way.
I'm suggesting there would be a hardware device that sits between any device and the CAN-bus. It would simply decode incoming messages, and filter not allowed messages, recode the rest and put them on the bus. I bet you could program an Arduino Nano to do this (as an illustration that it's a fix that shouldn't require more than a few dollars, obviously it'd have to be rugged, robust and reliable for GM/Chrysler to do it).
> America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don't understand the issue at all.

Except that America stirred up this issue only because it was done by a rich American. Zimbabwe aided by claiming it was an illegal poaching, arresting the guides and then asking America to arrest and extradite Walter Palmer.

Lions are scary when they aren't in a national park and being monitored by research scientists, but that's not what happened. This would be like a foreign tourist luring a wolf out of Yellowstone and then killing it outside of the park boundaries. It's straight up illegal poaching.
Does that mean they don't want the tens of millions of dollars in aid the US provides every year? Their problems are our problems.

http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/countryprofile/z...
On the Bias Variance tradeoff in machine learning
My previous comment didn't get so much attention, perhaps this will...

https://hulbee.com/?query=perl%20-e%20'print%20%22%3CIMG%20S...

Edit: I had an example of displaying the IP address back to the user from my server, but it went over capacity in a few short minutes, so I took it down and removed the link. I am sure everyone gets the point, specially with a lot of the other examples provided by other HN users below.

Here is a screen shot for future reference: http://imgur.com/PkAGhqn
Trackerama (http://www.trackerama.com/) uses TMDB (https://www.themoviedb.org/), may be worth considering ...
Rich text editor from CodeMirror and Tern creator
Tindie Becomes a Part of the Hackaday Family
The Scrapper – Why You Don't Need to Be Great at Coding to Be a Great Developer
Doesn't really matter where its hosted when most North American connections go through New York when we're talking about the NSA... does it.

This should make you feel a lot better about the site... ignore the perl stuff, it was just part of my test.

https://hulbee.com/?query=perl%20-e%20'print%20%22%3CIMG%20S...
Bon Cop, Bad Cop[0] isn't TV (maybe a TV Movie, now) but its use of Quebecois was, to me (my formative years spent within 3km of the Quebec border), quite accurate.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479647/
Of course it is possible. But the forces that work against it are incredibly powerful.

Consider this: If before Wikipedia existed someone proposed to create an online encyclopedia that anyone in the world could anonymously edit, that it be funded by donations and that it become the encyclopedia that most people refer to, nearly 100% of us would have rolled on the floor and laughed out loud.
Log4J 1 end-of-life
The article does a good job of comparing the two. Here's an example TodoMVC in Haxe for a better understanding of what front-end development looks like: https://github.com/explorigin/todomvc-haxe

(full-disclosure...my project)
Wait..

Are you talking about what's described here: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2242

I just did a small typescript prototype and used the import syntax there. It might have been your typescript version as 1.5 recently came out (and I was using the 1.5 beta 2).

The hardest part is what you described at the start. If it doesn't have a type definition it's hard. DefinitelyTyped helps a lot (https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/tsd)

I had to create a type definition for something that wasn't there. It was annoying because I had to make the equivalent of a header file before I could use a library.
Makumba – Webapps in the fast lane
it's ironic that QUFB's (gp) specific complaint includes that the ad appears "regardless of search term", despite that this is maximally privacy-preserving: the only thing it gives away is that you came from the search engine.

He would be happier if ads were served that had some connection - no matter what - with search terms! (To an immediate loss of some theoretical privacy, which is true even if referral links are not sent, simply by virtue of campaigns having some connection to searches.)
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I'm continually amazed by what Americans can be convinced is the free market at work by vested interests. Wanting to stop politicians messing with the electricity grid is "Keep your government hands off my medicare"-level disconnect from reality.
I use Octopress, it's basically a wrapper around Jekyll.

http://octopress.org/

You just have to memorize a few command to publish stuff.

Also of course, know Markdown.
> when they don't understand the issue at all.

This is what people understand - Lion Conservation status: Vulnerable

"The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a major population decline in its African range of 30–50% per two decades during the second half of the 20th century. Lion populations are untenable outside designated reserves and national parks. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the greatest causes of concern."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion
And that's super cool, I can see how one can get hook into magic because of his work, the good thing though is that his audience is different from OP's audience.

Although if you ask me I still prefer the old fashion way and go to your local magic shop and meet the local magicians and grab a good book :)
This has nothing to do with type discipline and everything to do with early vs late binding.
The Maple Syrup Mafia and Doing It Differently
Right, Europe is just as bad as China as well.
Well, after all, it was only a symbolic gesture.

Short of cutting off the internet, it's impossible.
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The key here is demand - with open door immigration from Europe, that demand is ever increasing. People are flocking to the UK, and want somewhere to live. As long as we have that massive population explosion, there's only one way for house prices to go.

If we want to solve the problem, and a whole host of other problems, perhaps we shouldn't have an open door immigration policy.
Depends on the resolution and scan area you're talking about. I think the .5km can go off every 15min. But the 2km can go out every 5.

But that's nothing. IIRC, the Mesoscale (a 1000km x 1000km box somewhere in the hemisphere) can go out every 30s. On top of that, I believe you can snap a Meso without interrupting normal operations.

Here in the US, the idea of getting a snapshot of a Tropical Wave out every 30s during, say, hurricane season is very, very exciting.
Google Shell Style Guide
A chat with Uldis Leiterts, founder of data visualisation platform Infogr.am
Saw that guy on Penn and Teller: Fool Us. He actually fooled them, IIRC. Thanks for the pointer to the yt channel!
How is it different? Either way, you're doing what he/she tells you to out of fear, and all your other employees resent the shit out of him/her for it.