skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People that are too defensive on transit tend to cause congestion, not avoid it.

Have you any proof of that? I would guess that both "agressive" and "defensive" drivers cause problems in different ways.

For example when I am waiting at a pedestrian crossing to cross, if a driver comes up fast and brakes hard close to the stop I won't start walking until I am sure he is stopping. If another driver slows down well in advance it indicates to me that he is inteding to stop, I'll start crossing earlier, and consequently he will start again earlier. I have also read articels about traffic waves being caused by people basically driving faster than the car in front then needing to slow/stop when they catch up with the one in front.

Idiots not moving from the middle lane must cause a lot of congestion in busy motorways, as they are effectively reducing 3 lanes to 2 for others around them who want to use the road properly (though I wouldn't class them as either defensive or agressive).
Germany, for example (Where I live). Most people don’t live in the US, and for most people wasting 1.20$ for a product where you save one or two lines of code to integrate it is not okay.

I seriously rewrote several web products myself that I'd have to normally pay 4$ or so per month for. I took over development for the QuasselDroid Android client because I could not afford IRCCloud. I ended up rewriting all the features of Reddit Gold last night as a browser extension because I can’t afford wasting money on Reddit Gold.

It’s problematic wasting money in one place, but for a dozen services at once? Nope, that’s gonna bankrupt a student who has no income except for a small grant.
You really believe "most people" use socket strips and a remote control to turn their tv's on and off each time? In the words of respected philosopher Nelson (from The Simpsons), "Ha Ha"
Delayed_action: rails gem to queue long running actions and avoid timeouts
I'd be curious to know what progress they've made since I worked on VITA-2 as a Daimler intern as part of PROMETHEUS back in 1992. We also had self-driving on highway with a driver sitting attentive next to a red E-stop button to revert to manual control.

We couldn't get the bus to the highway autonomously, but once there, it could self-drive. (I'm sure it's a lot better now, and the hardware much smaller (we had 3 40U racks of equipment) but I'm curious.)
You're correct. In modern browsers we have control over the history via the HTML 5 history API. Previously we used the hashtag to deal with state changes, which mostly worked (does allow pages to be bookmarked).
You can try contacting the moderator by email to hn@ycombinator.com . (I'm not sure that they have the information collected in a single easy to use place, perhaps they can only reply something like "the 80% of the current batch".)
You missed my point: of course they will be more sophisticated, but if they increase the demand for road resources then there will be more cars out there. They will move efficiently but as slowly as people are able to tolerate before switching to alternate means (e.g. trains, biking, etc).
Can a Computer Make You Cry? (2013)
There must be wide differences in these costs from one installer to another. I recently saw two solar installations in western Massachusetts: One was mounted on very sturdy-looking frames bolted to concrete bases. One right next to it was mounted on tubular aluminum "skids" with a stack of three cinderblocks on top of each skid.

The cinderblock and bent tubes arrangement looked like a fraction of the cost of the welded frames bolted down. Both were in what looked to be formerly a pasture or hayfield. Both were fenced in with a chain link fence, which I imagine could also be cost-optimized.
Just published this gem, it was born of frustration with lots of long running admin requests that would timeout on rails.

Let me know if you have any feedback, hopefully it could be helpful.
What? Having something for the sake of having something isn't productive.
Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking Than Modern Artists (2012)
Cost of Privacy
fwiw thread-ring Rust, 38 lines of code

$ time /usr/local/src/rust-1.3.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/rustc/bin/rustc threadring.rs -o threadring.rust_run

real	0m1.466s
user	0m1.340s
sys	0m0.112s
Operation Delirium: After a risky Cold War experiment, secrets remain (2012)
Correlation, Causation, and Confusion
Worst is the whole country's cultures who really believe that each person can only be great at one single thing. Being great at multiple things? Impossible, right?
The premise of this article seems to be that if VW didn't spend so much time and money on CSR, that their emissions cheating would have been prevented. That seems rather far fetched to me. It's not really clear how one would have any impact on the other.
I understand and largely agree with your core points and concerns. I, myself am cautious and suspicious of new and/or unfamiliar software stacks. :)

So, the following disjointed commentary might be entirely superfluous. It also makes no mention of Elixir or Phoenix, as I've not yet used them:

AFAIK, everything shipped in Erlang/OTP has a test suite that you can run and -if you've the time and technical chops- inspect and evaluate for completeness and correctness.

Given that the Erlang community tends to be concerned about safety and reliability, I have substantially more confidence in the correctness of some random Erlang library on Github than of some random JavaScript (or -ye gods- Perl) library. ;)

Given that neither Cowboy nor Ranch appear to make use of any NIFs, I would be fairly confident in their safety in the face of garbage or malicious input.

The erlang-questions mailing list is a good place to ask questions of folks who use Erlang professionally and non-professionally for a wide variety of things. I've heard that the Elixir equivalents are similarly helpful.
Here's an example output

Query:

insomnia

Terms:

insomnia - C0917801
sleeplessness - C0917801
Documents:

NEW_PRL_ID49617 a new insomnia med, Belsomra (bell-SOM-rah, suvorexant)
Persistent insomnia (disorder)
Groups:

drug(12)

Zolpidem tartrate(1)
zolpidem(1)
zolpidem Disintegrating Oral Product(1)
zolpidem Disintegrating Tablet(1)
zolpidem Extended Release Tablet(1)
zolpidem Oral Liquid Product(1)
zolpidem Oral Product(1)
zolpidem Oral Spray(1)
zolpidem Oral Spray Product(1)
zolpidem Pill(1)
zolpidem Sublingual Product(1)
zolpidem Sublingual Tablet(1)
disorder(28)

Benzodiazepine sedative adverse reaction (disorder)(1)
Benzodiazepines(1)
Difficulty sleeping(1)
Difficulty sleeping (finding)(1)
Drug inhibition of cytochrome p450 CYP3A
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6518473
My sincere apologies if this offended anyone. What would be an appropriate term in this context? Edit: I'm not a native speaker and have heard this term in use in the media to the point where I did not believe it to be a "racial slur" as wikipedia says it is.

So, say I want, for instance, to represent the stereotype person who rolls coal on their diesel pickup and believes global warming is a left-wing conspiracy. Look it up on youtube if you don't know what rolling coal is. (We can get into a whole debate on whether stereotypes are inherently good or bad, but that's not the point. They're a very effective commumication tool, which is why humans are so quick to label and group other humans, but obviously they're only to be used when not offensive.)
If these do happen again:

1) A special account should be set up to post the threads (and people should flag the other threads).

2) There should be no more than one thread per month.

I did recently ask about this, and HN staff are reluctant, so I didn't go ahead.

There are websites (half-baked) and there's probably a sub-reddit (and it would be easy enough to create a subreddit).
I guess wikipedia needs an update because by its numbers the europe average seems to be half that.
>Who cares what google thinks.

90% of the web?

>They are not the w3c.

W3C? What's this 1999? It's all about the HTML5 group now.
Another KVR and gearslut forumite here.
MultiArray: Multiple Arrays, One Allocation, Generically
The race condition would be easy to avoid by just having a volunteer operating an account. "IdeasMonthly" would post the thread once per month, with a bit of boilerplate.

I'm not strongly advocating for this though - mods are pretty clear about what they think and HN is divided.
1950s jet aviation had a wide variety of new aircraft, and many of them were duds. Early jet engines were unreliable. Compressor stalls were not well understood. Materials weren't strong enough. Control systems weren't very good. Airframe designs good for a wide range of speeds and altitudes hadn't settled down yet.

Navy pilots of the era had about a 1 in 5 career chance of death, without any help from an enemy.

Then, suddenly, around the end of the 1960s, the job was done. The 1960s produced the SR-71, the F-4 fighter, the OH-58 helicopter, the Boeing 747, and the Concorde, all of which were quite good and were used for decades thereafter. Since then, most aircraft development has been continuous minor improvements.
I really liked this article. Even though we don't have access to the most relevant information (e.g. dollars per ton CO2 saved, or a cost benefit analysis using a shadow price of CO2), the author presents a lot of very compelling figures to show that recycling is overrated.

For example, given the overwhelming concentration of the benefits of recycling in paper and metal (as opposed to plastic and bottles), surely collections efforts and public education should be focussed on these.

And the author is exactly right to refer to "indoctrination" regarding recycling. At least that was my experience in primary school and high school.

I think the most important problem with the Green movement is not special interests per se (I doubt recyclers really that powerful) but the mindset that says that changing other people's opinion is more important than presenting them with the most accurate information.
Also interesting on a related note- "Steve Jobs made Warner Music sue my startup" https://medium.com/startup-study-group/steve-jobs-made-warne...
You're well past the point of diminishing returns where it makes sense for you to focus your efforts more on increasing income rather than reducing expenditures further. If saving $1 per month is significant to you then it sounds like you've already cut your expenditures to the bone, and there's no more blood to squeeze from that stone. Even working a single hour per week at a part-time job would have better returns than extreme penny-pinching on unplugging appliances and rewriting entire applications to save a few bucks per month. I'm a frugal person, but not illogically so, and I know that income has no ceiling but expenditures definitely have a floor.
Hearing voices in itself is not a symptom of an illness. Even in our culture some people cope really well with hearing voices. For example lonely old people may feel that they have company when they hear voices.

Some facts:

http://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-voices/essential-facts
Perhaps it's because CSR is just a facade. Too often we're seeing companies branding themselves as customer-centric, and with the large volume of tehchnology-illiterate in the population, people believe anything/doesn't question their own consumption and The consequences hereof. I have friends who volunteer 6 months in Thailand to work with children only to come home and post instagram pictures of new Nike sneakers once every month (as far as I know Nike doesnt exactly have the vest reputation in regards to child labour).

Most of the time, I feel like people don't give a shit about their consumer habits because they are not motivated by The difference these habits make in the long run ør in a global perspective. It's all about getting those likes. "Supporting" companies with a good CSR profile is a good step towards these likes.

Look up how many people shared and signed up for anti-Kony marches in social media and find the articles that show how many actually showed (it was under 100 I think).

I may be extrapolating here, but I don't think my point can ever be proven even of I'm right.
The rules for "Show HN's" aren't the same as for the rest of the site, and a negative comment staring with "Lol" probably wouldn't clear the civility bar even for a normal thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
My TLDR summary: all probabilities are conditional. If you have two probabilities for the same event and they aren't the same, you're just assuming different priors in the statement of the probability. (and if you can't find any different priors, maybe you've discovered something new)
Nothing will change. Remember, the XBox One sports a Blu-ray drive, made by their archenemy Sony. (maybe not physically made by Sony, but most patents regarding Bluray are in Sony's hands)
I'd argue that if you're setting the same password on thousands of servers, what you're doing is inherently insecure.
Doesn't all technology eventually become commoditized? At the latest, after the patents expire.

I think every piece of tech ever invented is either commoditized or is on a path to become so.

I think it would be more productive to see if anyone can name a tech that isn't commoditized and isn't likely to in the future.
That's true. But it is also true that, in the specific case of the US dollar, it's backed by US hegemony. That hegemony is brittle, and supported by an outsize military that was misused in a way that almost broke the nation in combination with a derivatives crash that could easily have caused a global depression. The US's ability to get away with ZIRP, QE(n), etc. rests on "You and what army?" and on a hegemony where vassal states have no decision-making autonomy and submit themselves to US surveillance.

We're only partway out of that crisis, and it could come roaring back. Chest-thumping about "Where else ya gonna go?" is unproductive.

I don't see US hegemony as good or evil, except if you call brittleness that could lead to a very deep unprecedented crisis "evil."
Only if you already know the trick to attack this class of problems.
Take in mind that music industry could not exist without poetry. A successful song with fine lyrics can have a huge impact in the economy.
Note that gcp targets different customers than normal google services. So those decisions probably are well-justified. The story is different in gcp, so common sense would reduce these decisions to the level of any decent cloud provider would do, for example AWS.
You should have the "chunkify" checkbox on by default (or at least warning before people hit one of the Map/Reduce buttons).

People are likely getting their browser tab (perhaps their whole browser) frozen when they click those buttons and having to bail out on your page/submission.

Also, add some overview text instead of a blank page with a ball on it like:

https://github.com/yangmillstheory/chunkify
Looks like a Raspberry Pi 2, given its connectors. Should be relatively straightforward to figure out what the device does by just getting the microSD-card out of the case and taking a peek at its contents. Chances are there's nothing of interest on it though, except a small script setting up a SSH-connection to a remote server, allowing them to do pretty much anything later on.
Let's keep, or at least not further erode, respect for guns. There are few things civilians will ever touch that deserve more respect than guns, and I suggest we don't cloud that message.

Hey downvoters, why don't you take that attitude to the army and see how they react? Professional gun-handlers tend to have a lot more respect for guns than you have. That ought to make you pause for thought.
I guess I'm not clear on why randomizing hashes for identical passwords across thousands of servers is enough of a problem that I would run a new HTTP service to handle it, given that SSH keypairs largely solve this problem already.
The essence of tightening emissions and CAFE standards (as currently implemented) is that they are hard to meet and even passing manufacturers are generally "just barely" passing.

For CAFE, makers sell some high mpg models at cost/slight loss to allow them to sell high-margin luxury and sports models.
The connection would be that with CSR, VW hhas a lot to love up to. Without those promises, they might not have felt a need to push the buttons they did.
I program a decent amount in R, and this left-arrow assignment operator is incredibly annoying. I believe it's a holdout from the days when there was a single key that would input '<-'.
"Commoditized" meaning "sold as a product?"

If you can produce more than one and sell it at a price people are willing to pay, it will be commoditized - right?

Particle colliders probably won't be commoditized; spacecraft will.
I have noticed that all google cloud services now require credit card information for validation. Can this be be made optional and instead rely on their Gmail accounts ? (Especially for people just wanting to tinker with new services for fun)
I guess opensourcing is the sign. See what Joel has to say on this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
Problem is that you don't get the people responsible if you do this. Punishing corporations only work if you do it in real time as the crimes are committed so that it has consequences for the individuals responsible.
If you mean that the problem is that they have the same salt, then just call "passwd" individually on each instead of copying /etc/shadow.

But anyway, just disable passwords and login with SSH public key authentication.
Nuclear power. Most things military. Many things aerospace.
Thanks. It sounds like it might be more trouble than it's worth for me at this point, but I definitely appreciate the effort.

Of course, the root of the problem is that HTML is not really a good basis for implementing hypermedia.
Agreed, but the Monty Hall problem wouldn't make sense (at least from the game show perspective) if Monty's selection were random. If his selection were random, and he picked the car, it would just be "OK, I randomly decided to pick a door, and look, it's the car. Congratulations, game over."
What's the point of this? I can already ssh into any of my instances on AWS, Linode, whatever platform.

Is it just because it's in the browser. Who cares...
Many of the big hitting AAA games use Havok. Although they haven't launched yet, assassins creed, fallout, Halo, just cause 3. There were plenty last year like Destiny, watch dogs, evil within, shadow of mordor.
While I agree with no reinventing the wheel unless there's good reason to do so, LDAP is a bloated, over complicated piece of $#!£¥.
Sure, but to stabilize you need what, less than a minute of capacity? To store you need hours.
Another point of view: Daily Mail is trashy, but at least it does not display the sanctimony of something like that Medium experiment linked above.

I am fine with it.
It's always great to see these notebooks from Peter Norvig. There's also some really interesting implementations (in several languages) of probabilistic algorithms on the website [0] of the book he co-wrote on artificial intelligence. Great book and great material.

[0] http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/code.html
Automobiles do not require less care than guns. A lot more people accidentally kill and/or injure themselves and others with the former than the latter. Between cars and guns, I would say that cars are more due for a bump in respect. At least guns aren't so widely used so recklessly.
I get that there's a very specific use case for this, but it doesn't really need all the extra features like a REST client/server and key distribution. Most people have already built their infrastructure and config management and would maybe like a tool that just generates X different salted hashes of the same password and then copies them to remote sites. (Which commonly you'd implement as a single expect tcl script)
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/

Nice article on the differences between people's "style of thinking". It takes visual mental imagery as an example, and I can see auditory hallucinations being on a very similar spectrum (if you take away the stigma). In the visualization debate non-visual thinkers often report being able to visualize in a hypnagogic state (right before falling asleep), which is also the state in which (surprisingly many) people experience auditory hallucinations.
Yes it is basically a demo. Specimen and Specimen Sheet are common terms in typography. The author is trying to display how type looks in a grid on this page, though I agree the horizontal grid looks messy.
tl dr; Low on substance and high on hype.
You could make an argument that those things aren't bought and sold in a free market. Passenger planes and general aviation planes are at least semi-commoditized, but fighters, bombers, spy planes, missiles are all built for basically one buyer, the US DoD. The DoD decides which firms succeed and which fail, essentially. The "market" for nuclear power plants is so regulated as to prevent it from being "free" except to someone whose job depends on that market being "free".
Every time I read about the US admissions process, I'm so grateful for the Australian one

Do exams, get single number ranking you against everyone else. Send it to a centralised system along with your university and course preferences. Universities fill their available places from the highest scores down. No other factors. Boom, done.
Interview with the maker of OSM Buildings
How to Check API Availability with Swift 2.0 Using #available
Tunnels unlike most structures can last for very long timeframes so city's that devote a small fixed portion of there budget could slowly build extensive underground networks on the 100-200+ year timeframe.
Nice find! Pretty much what I was looking for.

There may be a bit of overlap with self-driving ICE cars, though. I'm wondering if that would be more difficult to handle.

Either way, I had been looking for this story, ever since people started talking about modern self-driving cars. Don't know how it slipped through.
The other phrasing of the problem that I've seen help people is this (I think was also originally from Marilyn Vos Savant): Suppose there are a thousand doors, and only one is a car. Monty opens 998 of them to reveal goats, leaving door #628 still hidden. Do you switch?

That helps people understand that their original probability of picking the car the first time was very small, and didn't change because of what Monty did.
The need for testing is the problem, and the realisation that car makers - all of them - are working on the test score over everything else, and that the test scores (which should represent emissions and air quality) have been getting "better" to the extent that that they are increasingly diverging from the real world.

I suspect that in a few decades time this will be regarded as a heavy blow to the internal combustion engine - or at least against Diesel. It is an inflection point at which a scandal pushes into public conciousness and mass media the mounting evidence against Diesel engines and the health effects of smog, and the insufficient actual progress fixing it. Meanwhile electric cars are gaining fast.

The politicians are in "something must be done" mode, which is the usual reaction to a problem that has been ignored for a while and now is in the news.

e.g.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-consider-phasing-diesel-tax...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/10/03/uk-volkswagen-emiss...

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/01/uk-governmen...
It is interesting to see how back then people were watching the future as a continuity of their time.

That is why I am very septic about predictions of the future, even if some become true alone, it is quite impossible to grasp how a future society might look as a whole.
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