skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would any country agree to this if others do not? And it is a big advantage to be able to outwork your competitors so there will always be holdouts.
Thanks for sharing this. I stand corrected (by a Googler, no less!). I wish Google pushed for greater adoption, then, as it does with Page Speed, SEO advice, etc.
Adrafinil metabolizes into modafinil (to put it short), and it's completely over the counter and not controlled.

Told my doc that I was taking it instead of Provigil (the brand name for modafinil) and they're all for it, as long as I get my liver enzymes checked on a regular basis.

Technically, I was prescribed Provigil to deal with very bad sleep apnea, but it's also to take care of my mild ADHD. Sleep apnea / shift work disorder are the only "on label" ways that insurance will pay for it.

I tried adderall a few years ago, and it was great for ADHD / productivity / made me much more outgoing (according to my girlfriend at the time), but I'm one of the few people that has the side effect of massive uncontrollable sweating. I could be sitting in a 75F degree office and just dripping. Had to stop taking it after two weeks. The changes in prescription laws (must have a new prescription every time, no refills, and then supply issues for a while) are almost too much trouble to be worth it, anyway.
There's also a lot of Trello clones.
Seems like it's a trait shared all these: FORTH, ST, Lisp. They're the logical machine right in your face. No strict classical lexer / parser / language / compiler / binary layering. It's very thin and hackable.
Maybe, but he's a badass hero!
That's one of the conspiracy theories. I don't care if it is true. I have seen the benefits of content blockers to my browser speed, and I am happy about it either way. Ads on Apple News are very unobtrusive from what I've seen, and are all reviewed.
> Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field?

Here's a story I find interesting.

Einstein got his nobel prize for discovering the law of photoelectric effect [1]. This discovery influenced the development of quantum mechanics quite a lot. I'd say that this discovery alone is enough for the theory of QM to emerge.

However, Einstein did not like the "probabilistic" nature of QM, "God doesn't play dice with the world."[2], and he argued against it. Albert Einstein along with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen have formulated a paradox[3] which was resolved many years later by Bell's Theorem and corresponding experiments[4].

So yes, there were scientists arguing against the probabilistic nature of QM.

> Does anyone know of someone explaining that proof in a comprehensible way?

"Comprehensible" explanation in this case mostly depends on the reader. The wiki[4] gives a pretty good explanation of the Bell's Theorem and experiments.

[1]: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/192...

[2]: https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Practical_exp...
Isn't part of the core of pagerank that certain domains are more trustworthy than others?

Given that this is supposedly true, wouldn't the same content on stackoverflow out rank a random new domain with the same content
Drivers are fallible human beings. With families. And car payments. And mortgages. Many of them own their own trucks, and have to make payments on those as well. I'm pretty damned sure that nobody goes out on the road thinking that they're going to kill someone, while destroying their livelihood and injuring themselves in the process.

If you knew that the difference between working today and not being able to work for another several days was to put in a few extra hours, are you telling me you'd never make that same decision yourself?
> indeed high level languages often move the other way, abandoning value types altogether

Such as? Every major language currently used has value types. Even Java which in which they are treated like unwanted children (and the language suffers for it).
That's not a timestamping service; that's just a way to quickly notify Google when you add a page to your blog.

What if your blog doesn't use Pubsubhubbub, but mine does, and I copy your blog post? Google will see my post first, but that doesn't prove I wrote it, so Google cannot use that to make ranking decisions.
"It would be resoundingly ignored, and its utterly unenforceable."

My understanding is that currently, a driver has essentially three states: on-duty, driving; on-duty, not driving; and off-duty. Further, as I understand it, strictness about maintaining logs and electronic log books (which drivers like, judging by the ads I see for it) have made fudging duty hours much less of a problem now than in the good ol' amphetamine days.

You can force a driver to go off duty, but you can't force him to sleep. And the driver hours-of-service regulations are insane.[1]

[1] http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-h...
Thoughts on the Design of APIs
Markoff – 'Machines of Loving Grace' NYT Review
More than being an intro to Julia fractals, I think this post is a great introduction to complex numbers and functions of the complex plane[1].

The way this is presented is very similar to how most math-folk I know picture these concepts in their head. This is probably one of the toughest things for beginners, who don't understand that (most) math-folk think in pictures like this and not in symbols.

For example, starting at around Slide 29 in the first visualization, the author actually paints a picture of a branch cut[2] without using that term.

Likewise, starting at around Slide 12 of the last visualization, the author hints at the special relationship between complex numbers and differentiation in the complex plane. The jargon-y stuff involved here are holomorphic functions[3], the Cauchy-Riemann equations[4], and the very surprising-but-central theorem of complex analysis: Cauchy's integral theorem[5].

[1]: Functions from ℂ to ℂ are "hard" to reason about because there
are 4 dimensions involved, at least if you're picturing ℂ as a
2-dimensional plane.
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_point#Branch_cuts
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic_function
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy-Riemann_equations
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s_integral_theorem
Enforcement of rules, inspections, paperwork, etc. Fuel is taxed, not a toll for the road usage. In the OPs example where there is a rail line literally next to the interstate it would make sense to charge a large toll. For other highways that don't have parallel railways it would not make sense to charge a hefty freight toll.
More likely they'd just buy up all the satco's and run the thing out of business.
Look at how birds fly. Then look at how planes fly.
Bit Twiddling Hacks – Sean Eron Anderson
One thing that bugged me: why is he using DVD-Rs? I (almost) haven't used such ancient technology in years. Many modern computers don't even have DVD drivers. And then with hand-written labels on then. WTF? Those can be found and read(!) by laymen. No way! He should just have a few (encrypted) externel HDDs or use cloud storage or something.

Otherwise: great show getting so much stuff right without boring the hell out of people who don't recognise what's on the screens. That's special. I love it.
I believe the industry successfully fought off a simple hours-of-service schedule like that several years ago. Instead, you have: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-h....
The days if simply being able to work hard and do well are long gone. All the straight forward factory jobs are long gone and never coming back. So that American dream is probably dead.
That doesn't make the law right or just.
It's the other way around - removing pointer indirection would ruin their complexities.

If a tree is an unshared value type (eg. there are no references), then a functional tree update is O(n). Using shared references, this is O(n²).

Cyclic data structures without pointers are of unbounded size.

De-structuring a type (X, Y) is O(sizeof(X) + sizeof(Y)) without pointers, but O(1) with.

Tons of examples.
I realize that, but it is what the person I was replying to was suggesting should be the case.
I'm the CEO of SpeedGauge - a safety and performance company that uses data from 3rd party GPS trackers to monitor and coach hundreds of thousands of commercial vehicles in the US. We use standard GPS tracking data to understand and improve driver speeding behavior - clearly the cause of the crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan and killed James McNair.

From our experience with fleet customers we can see that there is a split in the US trucking industry between those companies that eagerly spend to improve safety and fuel economy and those that think they can't afford it and therefore fight regulation and mandates.

Many companies are way ahead of the regulators when it comes to safety and fuel saving technology and practices. Just look at which companies voluntarily govern their vehicles to a fuel efficient max speed (say 62 mph) vs those that let trucks roll at higher inefficient speeds. Or, look at those companies that have invested in telematics to get improvements in safety, operations and fuel economy and those that resist any such mandate.

Police and inspection based monitoring system (ie. current US DOT CSA regime) allow effective comparison of risk patterns at the aggregate level for large fleets but statistically are invalid at the single driver level because of the paucity of data (even risky drivers don't get in accidents very often). Fleets need more granular data to evaluate individual drivers. Sadly in this incident, it was Walmart, who maintains one of the highest aggregate safety ratings in the industry, that failed to identify the granulal events that put their driver, and the driving public at risk.

Transportation is a tight margin business and solutions need to work within the capital and operational constraints of the market and the reality is that smaller and independent players often don't have the capital to invest (nor do many telematic solution providers direct efforts to micro-fleets). Our customers' experience is that safest drivers are the most profitable drivers (and the best paid). While I am a strong supporter of fair government regulation, I remain hopeful that technology can in fact lead that way by pointing out that safe operations are profitable operations.
As in, something that doesn't have an hours-of-service regulation?
EasyOpenCL – The easiest way to get started with GPU programming
Career in blackjack
These blackjack books will give you a fun new money-making tool, usable at any time for the duration of your life. Reading is an essential skill if you want to succeed and make your own luck.

http://gamblers-united.com/essential-books-for-the-best-blackjack-players/
I don't see how pubsubhubbub differs from the originally proposed timestamping service. For any timestamping service, it will still be the case that if you don't use it, and somebody else scrapes you and does use it, their timestamp will be better than yours.
I'm not 100% certain, but Python, Ruby and Scala are three.

Anyway, I don't mean to imply that they're 100% gone in most languages, just that the trend has been heavily in the opposite direction.
Well we have completely opposing views in that case. I think if you cannot compare atrocities or crimes you are suffering from sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies (i.e. morally bankrupt) but I say that as an armchair psychologist, much like you say what you say as an armchair moralist.

I think given any number of examples you would gladly compare crimes and atrocities and quite easily state which you think is worse.

Society does this also, you can usually find it expressed in the sentencing for crimes.
Installing pidging, otr, starting a chat and confirming who you're talking too doesn't exactly require a comp sci degree.

This isn't really about stopping that though, it's about the snooping nanny state plain and simple.
If you don't have an SSD, upgrading to one would make a huge performance difference. You can also try Pale Moon and see if that works better for you.

You should certainly also upgrade to Windows 8.1 at least, if not Windows 10. There aren't any compatibility differences that I've ever noticed, and there are absolutely performance benefits.
In my region , I have been told the top drivers pulling Heavy loads . . steel coils 28,000 lbs, if overloaded are capable of using a maneuver . . when entering the scales of perching a back wheel on the curb . . reducing weigh in's . I was told these drivers are recruited , for these tax cheating skills , and highly paid.
"War is the health of the State."

http://fair-use.org/randolph-bourne/the-state/
But even in the enterprise responsiveness is appreciated... if you're making multiple calls on the backend... resource authentication, related item lookup, and other services, if you can run all of these requests asynchronously, then it's the max of those items plus a little overhead for conjunction... not using async is the aggregate... it's the difference between a sub-100ms response, or over... 100ms is nearly transparent, more than that is not.

I don't disagree that it isn't that much of a benefit in many cases, but tbh if I'm to chose between async usage and, for example ever seeing EntLib Data classes, or a DI/IoC tool when no testing is being done, I'll take async. There are plenty of practices in C#/.Net shops that are just hideous to work with, async imho isn't one of them.
Don Syme, creator of the F# language, wrote to an OCaml mailing list about how hard it was to get generics into the CLR. How MSCorp viewed it as "academic" and "experimental". Despite that what he was doing was basically implementing ideas from the 70s into a modern system.

It's strange how anyone would look back and think the language ideas from back then are all useless. Or that there's significantly new stuff going on now in mainstream implementations.
Exactly. In the SEO world, the common wisdom is you will get dinged in ranking or even deindexed if you publish duplicate content. Period. There is an entire sub-industry in SEO that's all about content spinning. I'm always kinda amazed that these sites show up and I usually get them for about 50%+ of my tech searches.

What I think ultimately happens is Google is notified and these sites are eventually deindexed. But this still leads me to really question the whole duplicate content theory sometimes. If Google was so tight about this, these sites would never show up in the first place.

It could also be that the tech terms searched for are not as competitive as, say, medical or diet or celeb terms. Maybe Google's just grabbing at any kind of relevancy at this point, duplicate or not.
Thanks, I have found it since then and use it on my server for all my email.
lol, really? https://twitter.com/radmuzom/status/635186717792727040.

Grow up. No one is impressed by this post.
Changing the rules and making it apply uniformly if nothing else, should increase the cost for the consumer.

Given the low margins, the beneficiary is not the trucking company, but the consumer, who then makes small savings in the price of goods but incurs a disproportionate cost in trucking accidents.

Case in point of a driver who has not slept for 28hours - it is a matter of public hazard to allow someone in that condition to operate a heavy vehicle.
I hope they don't blame the US for this.
I'm ALMOST certain we would never be that reckless.
The constant repaving of freeways is due to the damage caused by heavy trucks. Taxpayers pay a fortune to subsidize truck traffic.
The Markoff book's title comes from a 1967 Richard Brautigan poem from his free chapbook of the same title. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan.

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
deer stroll peacefully
past computers
if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
> "Worse still, an indirect assignment through a pointer, just as in machine code, can update any store location whatsoever"

Aside from functional languages, pretty much every language lets you assign through a pointer. This might be through a field in Java's case, but it's certainly there.

You could argue that people have unanimously agreed that mutable references are wrong, but given the popularity of imperative languages you'll probably not be able to argue that well. Plus, I still contend this is a property of the operation, not the type.

---

To put it another way, it's like calling cars bad because crashes are bad. People still use cars, because they are absolutely useful, and self-driving car proponents (aka. FP proponents) have managed to take away some of their dangers. They're still cars, even if you don't drive them.
I think Feynman's point is that to be a good scientist, you must keep in mind the difference between the map and the territory.

You preform observations. You think of explanations ("why"s) and try to fit them in a model. You make testable predictions using your model. You test them. If the experiments support your model, then it's a good and useful model. People will use it to achieve cool and terrible things. But it's still just a model. And you have to be ready at a moment's notice, as soon as the empirical data demands it, to drop your model like a hot potato and start looking for a better one.

To do otherwise - to believe that you already know the "why" - is to abandon the scientific method. "Knowing" is the opposite of "learning", and the antonym of scientific progress.
People use scummy networks because they pay magnitudes more than the nice ones. I have an adsense site that is averaging about 0.5% CTR.

And those "download button" ads aren't through AdSense. There are other networks under Google like doubleclick that serve the "scummy-er" ads. (which IMO they should crack down on)

If you do see any ads that do things like fake download buttons in what they call "display ads" then they should be reported, as that specific example is used as a not-okay ad.
Scenario 1

inbound service request
request remote resource
wait
request additional details for logged in user
wait
request X info
wait
resolve inbound request

Scenario 2

inbound service request
async requests
request remote resource
request additional details for logged in user
request X info
wait
resolve inbound request

Scenario 2 will finish quicker...
If you can fingerprint a penetration workstation, they're doing it wrong
> Yes everything is a function

No. Read on macros.

> and code is data (a rare need of mine anyway)

Rare? Read on macros, then on "Blub paradox".

> But Lisp sacrifices the most important thing of all; readability.

> Everyone tries to read programming languages as close as possible to plain english in their head

No. That's too wrong to even seriously argue against. The best I can do is to paste this: http://blog.ppenev.com/parens.png without any comment.

The rest of what you wrote is completely subjective and I don't want to comment on it. But I think you should go and take a look at Smalltalk, which is another awesome langauge with 4 decades of history, which pretty much reads like plain English.
Actually, he uses a software called DeepSound to encrypt the data as audio files (music), the hand-written labels are album/artist/band names of the audio files.
A few years back, Dr. Dobb’s posted a pretty great series of articles on some of the techniques RBK Dewar employed when building the original SPITBOL compiler: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/some-programs-are-poorly-designed...

(I was lucky enough to study compilers under Prof. Dewar when I was a grad student at NYU - I still have my notes on SPITBOL’s architecture, somewhere…)
There is a WebP support now. Thank you.
Trucking is a very low margin business. These guys live and die based on controlling costs.

Quoting $700B total industry revenue and saying there's room to spend on safety is meaningless... Would love to see a more in depth analysis on the issue from a financial perspective.

And fta:

The industry also bases its opposition to safety-rule changes on money, saying that increasing costs will hurt profits

Excuse my bluntness, but this is a terrible argument.

Saying that safety measures are too costly is ridiculous, because what is happening is that all the other road users are bearing the cost in death and dismemberment when the trucking companies should be bearing the cost in dollars spent on the available safety measures.

Trucking companies absolutely should not be seeking out slightly higher profits on the back of death and destruction. It's a net negative for the entirety of society. You have the truck companies sucking out this little bit of extra profit through their regulatory capture at a much greater cost to the rest of society.

Think about the slight difference improved safety measures would make to the bottom lines of these companies. Then think about all the years of life they are destroying through negligent safety measures, and think about all the things those years of life could have contributed to the world.

The more I type this out the more I realize how absolutely indefensible this argument is, "Yeah, we'll just carry on killing people, because preventing it would cost us a little bit of money..." That is just stomach churning in its crass indecency.
Sure; but he blames the type for its semantics. New languages have shown that

* even with the downsides, pointers are absolutely worth it, and

* the type's semantics can be improved, removing many of the types's problems.
Hmm, I actually use that novels corpus. Sounds like you may have found a bug in Nihongo. I'll look into it. Thanks!
Sorry, not yet.
I have always been surprised why this does not exist already. Surely it can't be that hard to build a system that does this?
The article is weasel worded, frankly.

In 2013 there were 32,719 vehicle related deaths in the US, 3,964 of them involved a 'large truck' in other words about 12.5% of total deaths.

According to the IIHS - the number of fatalities per 100 million miles traveled is significantly lower (.88 for passenger vehicles in a large truck involved crash and .21 for occupants of large trucks) than the average for all vehicle (1.10) - and in just 15 (1998) years the numbers have declined significantly (from 1.67 and .37, and 1.8 respectively).

I'd be happy to hear what your solution to the problem is, I realize any death at all is a shame, but nothing can be made 100% safe - statistically, you're at a greater risk of dying of stomach cancer, suicide or malaria - than you are to die in a vehicle accident of any kind (11.6 deaths per 100,000 in the US), or for that matter you're more likely to die of Melanoma, Hepatitis B or an Upper Respiratory Infection then you are to die in an accident with a large truck (.9 deaths per 100,000 in the US are involving a large truck).

The solutions are neither clear, nor easy, but if you have one, I'd be open to ideas.
That is completely subjective, and your example is bad. What's more readable here...

> (+ 1 2 3 4 5)

or

> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5

In my (subjective) opinion, the first one is. The extra +'s are redundant and noisy, and sacrifice a meaningful syntax for "trying to read as plain english". The syntax of any language takes practice and lots of reading - that's not unique to Lisp.