skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When was the myth born anyway? II. world war ended the depression and the job market became shortaged of workers - I'm sure those of that generation profited. Before that there was the campaign in the 1800:s to colonize the vacant fertile lands and farmers could get all the land they could farm dirt cheaply. But other than those two episodes - was there actually that much socio-economic mobility compared to other areas? In the mid 1800:s the americans were massively more literate than e.g. english (something like 80% compared to 50%?) so I can belive the comparable opportunities were much better in the US than in the UK but I'm short of statistics...
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I am a strong supporter of intermodal; trucks & trains have got to work together. I think that trains are part of the solution to truck driver shortage plus they have lots of other benefits (environmental etc..).

I think that there is a great opportunity to make intermodal more efficient and to create more truck/train interface points and to make them more efficient. A lot of work to do. Opportunity for big application of capital AND software.
I've worked at a big internet company where the culture was very toxic and not a good place to work, let alone be a normal human being. Pushy, rude and underhanded people were plentiful and were willing to throw you so far under the bus at any given moment that you would never find your way back out.

This became evident to me when I went on my lunch break after working there for about 4 months. Each employee was given 1 hour for lunch. I spent ~15 minutes walking to the local burrito place, grabbed a burrito which took about 10 minutes and then walked back. I was gone roughly 45 minutes.

The next day I was called into my managers office because someone didn't like the amount of time that I spent on my lunch break. Lucky for me I had my receipt and logged my work time so I showed him how much precious company time I spent galavanting to the burrito place.

I said something that I definitely should have. "Maybe the person that reported me should have been doing work instead of worrying about my lunch break. If this company can't treat its employees like humans, I don't plan on working here much longer"

I got written up for insubordination.

I was pissed.

I went back to my desk and typed up my 2 week notice.

Good riddance.
No. The article said nothing about private efforts. It was advocating government regulation.

By self-regulation, I mean something like a set of guidelines multiple trucking companies voluntarily sign on to. Or employment contracts.

Not just unwritten "goodwill", which is what your comment seems to be equating to "self-regulating". Apologies if I'm wrong about that.
> growing almonds is fucking stupid in a drought ridden state.

I've seen this sentiment a few times, and it's never made sense. Crop growth isn't determined solely by water availability. There's plenty of water in Florida, but the climate there is likely less almond-friendly than the California climate. In a toy world with just those two states, you'd have to pick your preference: climate control in Florida, or water importing in California. Saying they're both just something an idiot would try to do is giving up on the whole idea of growing almonds in particular and of comparative advantage generally. Maybe California's exceptional climate justifies doing a certain amount of work you wouldn't have to do to grow crops somewhere else.

I've also seen two more sensible points about almonds and California water:

- It's difficult to make property rights in water work, because two people drawing from two wells into the same aquifer both just lower the level of the aquifer everywhere. Off the top of my head, you'd need tradable allotments, like ocean fisheries, rather than property lines which I believe are what we currently use.

- If you own a field and want to grow alfalfa (hugely water intensive), you can just let the field lie fallow if the price of water goes too high. You'll lose that year's alfalfa crop. But, if you own an almond orchard, you can't abandon it just because it'll cost more money to water it than you can make back selling the almonds -- if you don't water your orchard, all of the trees will die, and you won't own an almond orchard anymore. Since the California precipitation cycle is much longer than one year, it might be good policy to discourage crops that require maintenance on a yearly basis.
Any other suggestions on how to build an easy theremin on scratch? http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-theremin/
What sort of company is that?
Oh hey, neat.

http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/950ed4e8deb8ad4c

So from looking at the test, you can get JSON out of select queries now, not a full blown JSON type like PostgreSQL.
Many languages do follow a similar syntax though, that do relate to how plain english is written. I personally started with C#, and when I look at other languages I don't find them very hard to follow because they also follow the same basic 'read left to right' rule. Even coming across data formats such as html/xml for the first time are easy to follow because of the left to right reading.

In your example, the 2nd one is actually what I'd prefer to read as I know that it will be compiled down to 5 ADD assembly instructions, whereas the first looks like it will be turned into a function call that will then initiate a loop. I'm guessing/hoping Lisp optimises the (+) function though so probably a null argument from me. See my reply to nnq for a better example.
I am not sure they are meant to make sense in the normal way but in a larger than life way.

If anything in the latest wbw post is true, it is all done to fund saving humanity!

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...
Actually I think the correctness of using a singular they is disputed but I am not a grammaticist, however the word cromulent which you used is not even a real word but I didn't mention the correction to do all that nitpicking, I just thought since the person's information is accessible, it'd be nice to refer to him correctly that's all.
With your description i would say what feynman suggests is abandoning the model altogether.
Whenever i hear physicist say "we don't understand it and it doesn't matter", or speak of "spooky action at a distance", you can't say that they've built a "model" of anything that can be proved or disproved by any "better" model.

They are, in fact, computing numbers, just like mayan priests, and not even try to put a "god" or a "magic number theory" behind it (as mentioned in Feynman's speech).

PS : this kind of debate reminds me a bit of the debate between chomsky and norvig, with norvig saying that numbers and results are all that matters, and chomsky arguing this isn't even science.
A closer alternative in Python is using pyparsing, which provides similar syntax. Since Python's operators can be re-implemented by the object where they're being applied, you can get pretty native-looking code.

https://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/file/view/simpleSQL.py
I think it's unenforceable with the current infrastructure.

In Europe, trucks are required to have chart recorders called tachographs. You put one chart in the machine per day and that's your log. I think this makes it a lot more difficult to keep two logs, and now there are computerized tachograph recorders which should be even more resistant to tampering (ie. they can get the current date and time from a trusted source such as mobile network, tv broadcast, or GPS.)
This is common across numerous contexts. I've found what appear to be bots Tweeting my reddit and HN posts (I don't mind), several Reddit clones of various levels of sniffitude, Google+ content harvesting, and some Diaspora syndication (to be expected), again, of various levels of sniffitude.

To the extent that this simply distributes data around, doesn't claim it for its own, and credits source, I'm OK with this. Better even if it follows site-specific licensing. Among my visions for the Web would be content syndication where such schemes would actually directly benefit authors and creators, regardless of where their content is served.
For starters ... all who want to westpoint. To go to the point you need a recommendation from either sitting congressmen/senator, or a "career" officer of note in the US armed forces. Westpoint is not open to just anyone with the grades. You very literally have to know people in high places.

http://www.usma.edu/admissions/sitepages/apply_nominations.a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronauts_educated_at...

(That's just the easiest to research. If you dig into most astronaut's backgrounds you can find prominent people who helped them along.)
The same logic applies to fintech. The opportunity comes from the incumbents using outdated technology and concepts.
http://fusion.net/story/184773/zachary-hammond-white-lives-m...
Newbie here.
Can somebody explain me what does the JSON SQL function extension? Any example?
Actually, they pretty much do. Take for example Dropbox. Windows officially 3rd party applications adding overlays to icons which dropbox uses to provide sync status for items in the dropbox folder. OS X has no such feature or API for icon overlays. Through lots of trial and error, swizzling, mach_inject, and mach_override they managed to provide this feature in OS X as well.
Nope, logs are all manual entries on sheets of paper.
Post-quantum cryptography
You could also build the roads properly to withstand truck traffic. The Canadians do a much better job at this than the U.S. does, from what I have seen. In Quebec, they've been rebuilding sections of the road north-east along the north shore of the St. Lawrence, and extending down towards the Maine border from Quebec City. They go in and build the road bed up from ledge, blasting out sections to create more gentle grades. When they fix a section of road, it stays fixed, whereas all too often, we just go in and resurface the top layer every four or five years.
thanks again.. so basically if I negotiate to get preferred stock and if the company gets valued at 100 million, I can cash out 5 million since it would not get diluted with subsequent funding rounds..
When I look at w3facility.org, it seems like Googles algorithms do not properly handle the case when a scrape-site provides a source-link to the original content.

Google recommends the latter to protect against duplicate content penalties when you use some external content to enrich your site (for example a short section from Wikipedia, imdb actor info, etc).
We want to build AI. We can't build bird. We can build plane.
Nothing new here -- Tesla already has done the same with hundreds of hotels and other destinations in premium spots.

They currently list 13 AirBbB locations in California, out of 210 California locations total.

http://www.teslamotors.com/destination-charging
The test is written in TCL, which has slightly non-obvious syntax. In essence it tests SQL functions json_array and json_object which seem to return JSON arrays and objects as string.
How about the ethical side? If one copies the human brain more or less exactly, then ethics will almost certainly become a big issue.
> But the actual function within a function with a function syntax and so on just seems to me to hinder the reading of the code and thus the understanding, maintenance and modification of it.

Why can't you believe that this is only because you're not used to reading this syntax? It's very frustrating for me. I know the basics of ~80 programming languages (see my blog for a full list) and I know for sure that "readability" is an artifact of familiarity and nothing more. I experienced the transformation of a bit of code from "unreadable mess" to "elegant and concise" more times than I care to count. Why can't you believe is true? Why don't you want to check it for yourself? Why don't you just - as I did - try using some Lisp for half a year and try to judge its readability then?

And above all else, why do you insist on taking part in the discussion when you didn't invest the required time?

EDIT: this comment went from 1 to -2 to 2 to -1 again during the last hour. I wonder, why the downvotes? Am I being rude? I didn't intend to, sorry if it sounds like that. I'm not sure how to change the wording to make it better (obviously I'm not a native English speaker). Could someone please help me?

Or am I being wrong in my central proposition, which is that '"readability" is an artifact of familiarity and nothing more'? I admit that this "nothing more" part is an oversimplification on my part, but not by much. It's just that it's not worth discussing these relatively minor things which affect readability without first accepting that 99.9% of perceived readability comes from familiarity. Other than that, though, I'm honestly not aware of any serious papers or experiments which would claim otherwise - that some programming languages are inherently more readable than others.
> Trucking is a very low margin business.

So... without subsidies (in the form of tolerating fatalies as well as monetary burdens imposed on the rest of the citizenry) it wouldn't be a viable industry?

Sounds like there's a simple solution to the problem.
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Even better... Which company?
I wrote something similar a while back (https://github.com/Polytonic/Chlorine). Always good to see more attention paid to OpenCL though!
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Thanks for taking the time.

I've read the wikipedia article and think i got the argument better : from what i got, you can't have a "classical" effect underlying QM, because it would mean faster than light transmission of information. And yet, experimentally, Bell's experiment has been done, and it is working the way it is predicted by QM (the famous "spooky action at a distance").

Would that be correct ?
Everything you say is true in aggregate, but let’s not forget that the future is still unevenly distributed.
It's just 'Ukraine', not 'the Ukraine'. Other than that, totally on board. I'm a dual US/EU citizen (Italia) and I support this post.
The meteoric rise and slow decline of Neopets
Quote: "Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey.

I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing."

I claim that the west is hardly better: Just say "copyright law".
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> I'm not sure how you come to this conclusion looking at this data.

What data? The article is an opinion piece, not a data analysis.

> Many things can happen, but they aren't happening, so...

Aren't they? The opinion doesn't say anything about private efforts to fix things. It focuses on government regulations. It doesn't indicate if truckers have made efforts to get better hours, or companies efforts to make things safer while staying on budget, or insurance companies studying if lower hours/better tech would help or not.

Now, if that stuff has been tried, and failed, then what have states done? Why do we have to go directly to Federal level?

Ultimately, we should never give more power to one group unless it really is the only way to do what is needed. No matter how much we trust that group. Thus, whenever someone suggests new regulations, I always question if they are really needed. Especially when we're talking about the USA Federal Government.
Cattle can be moved to water, if necessary, or herd culled. They're restored fairly quickly. Beef cattle are butchered at about one year of age, dairy cattle live about 6 years. Milk is typically produced somewhat locally, in that it's a heavy bulk liquid which is expensive to transport.

Trees are far more difficult to herd than either cattle or cats, and orchards have lifespans in the decades, with some historic California orange groves up to 300 years old. Most nut and stone-fruit trees have a 30-50 year ife. Moreover, there's a period of 4-7 years depending on tree crop during which an orchard is nonbearing, so if you remove an orchard, there's a significant hit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/32b6yl/drought...

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/Documents...

The upshot is that it's much more difficult to rapidly adjust tree-crop water use than cattle, whether dairy or beef. Though on a gallons per unit protein basis, almonds do rate as more efficient as I understand.
In an Efficent market it's to buyers not the industry that pays for regulation. The only way raising rates hurts an industry is when it reduces demand.

Full disclosure I have relatives that own and operate a fairly large shipping company they really don't care about industry wide effects like fuel costs. Thinks like software integration with their customers are compeditive advantages, regulation just gets passed along. Though, the overall economy is also important as people don't avoid shipping a PC because transportation is adding an extra 1/20th of a percent to the cost, but of nobody is buying then there is no need to ship.
I see this happen a lot also with the MSDN forums. The interesting thing there is that some of the mirror sites are still carrying topics that have been deleted or otherwise disappeared from the real MSDN forums. More than once, in the obscure subset of Microsoft tooling that I work in, the only hits that are still alive are on somewhat suspicious looking .ru sites, so in some sense, I am glad these sites do exist - otherwise, I'd be completely SOL trying to figure out why the badly-documented API I'm relying on is barfing up an opaque HRESULT.
I don't think Hammond was asserting that white lives don't matter. He was correctly pointing out that the media don't see much of a story to sell when it's a white person on the wrong end of the police officer's gun. As a resut, this incident is unlikely to generate much public outcry when in fact it should be viewed within the same context of excessive use of police force against the citizenry.

The fact that we perceive this differently is an indicator of racial polarization in our society. This same racial polarization actually protects the status quo. For, only "liberal" whites get upset when this happens to African-Americans, and no one cares when it happens to whites. In a society absent of racial polarization, we'd ALL be outraged. This in turn would increase the pressure on the politicians to fix the problem.

Clearly the African-American population bears the brunt of police brutality much more often than the white population. I am not denying that. However, we should not bifurcate these incidents according to race and practice selective outrage.

I am not surprised at the author's failure to grasp this point. For, standing up to a perceived slight against BLM is a better way to impress people with your politically correct credentials.
... and that sort of definition is precisely the problem Cowen's post alludes to: defining "poverty" as a percentage of income means that poverty can never be alleviated and will always be with us, and even if real incomes in a given area double, the "poverty" rate will remain.
I know this is only a movie, a good movie, but in the episode 3 Elliot speaks about bugs. In some case, could it be right?
Elliot: A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking.
http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=303&t...
At first glance it seems like some functions that like json_object which can return (query) results as a JSON array or json_insert to I presume puts JSON directly into SQL tables.

Nothing too spectacular and nothing you couldn't do with any decent library already, but some convenience.
Over the years, I've actually come to think those kind of statistics are kind of irrelevant. It comes off as rationalisation in the end. As soon as you start inputting people's lives in a cost/benefit analysis, I get really sad.

What changed my mind? The effectiveness of Sweden's Vision Zero project: http://www.visionzeroinitiative.com/en/Concept/Does-the-visi...
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/11/the-swedish-approach-...
Yep, I loved when they'd fight over where the feeder was, just to make sure they were in charge. Like there's any limit to the food I'd put out for them. When there are enough of them, they'll eat out of the feeder while you hold it, even perching on your fingers.

In peak time, I'd be feeding them half a gallon of sugar water a day through one feeder.
Does anyone read actually read code left-to-right, line-by-line?

I for one start with the shape of the code -- the pattern of color (from syntax highlighting) and negative space (from indentation) -- and only then focus on the different parts.

And Lisp is particularly helpful this way, because instead of paragraph-like blocks of code where you have to reconstruct the state of the code in your head by mentally modeling side effects, you can see the general outlines of what's happening from the levels of indentation.

I want to defend Lisp, of course, but I'm also genuinely curious about different ways people read code.
How much do you want to bet that "someone" was actually your boss, but they didn't have enough guts to say it themselves? That sounds like a terrible place to work, good on you for leaving.
Would an awareness campaign about the dangers of drowsy driving help?

As for unionizing, why mention Teamsters? Just have each companies employees get together and negotiate with management. (Yes, I'm being purposefully naive. Even if this really won't work, it should still be tried first.)
It's odd how similar actions can have drastically different effects. At one particularly bad job (my only bad job?) fresh out of college I had a boss who took a special interest in me and hounded me non-stop. Earnestly trying to address his concerns never seemed to improve the situation...what finally did it was when, after months of prodding, I completely lost my cool and snapped back: "This is bullshit, Larry!"

A pretty similar act of insubordination with drastically different results. My situation improved after that for the remainder of my time in the group.
Drakon can describe data too. From the Drakon website:

What is ERIL? ERIL is a graphics language for representing data model. It is based on entity-relationship and class diagrams. Thus the name, Entity-Relationship and Inheritance Language.

ERIL is a counterpart for DRAKON. The DRAKON language describes algorithms and behaviour. It is an improved version of flowcharts. DRAKON introduces some rules that make flowcharts more human-eye-friendly.

http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/eril.html
It's not just mental health. Working 55-hour weeks (a number many HN users would laugh at) poses a 33% increase in stroke risk and 13% increase of coronary heart disease over "standard" hours: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/researchers-link-lo...

We're not just giving up a little time to prove our commitment, we're giving our life. Because our employers will fire us if we don't work long hours, citing a lack of passion or commitment. Just try interviewing for most tech jobs saying up front that you don't want to go over 40 hours. The best part? We punish anyone who doesn't harm themselves in the same way, when we could all be working together to insist on better conditions.