skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The type signature, with `catch` is something like Either mixed with `IO`, it's just a specific form of continuation[1]. Promises are not _exactly_ like an IO monad because it would not be pragmatic, but it serves the same purpose (controlled side effects and boxing temporal state) in the same way (a bind operator).

If you look at all the examples online for `IO` [2] they all translate 1-1 to promises just fine :)

[1] : http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/12/mother-of-all-monads.html
[2] : for example http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
I have been thinking about this as well. One idea I've been wondering about:

* Will more remote vacation destinations, including owning a second home in these areas, be more in demand? Buying or renting a vacation house that's a 5-6 hour drive away may not be as ideal if you have to drive yourself there. If you own or can rent a self driving car though, the trip may not seem quite as far. Longer road trips may become more popular, and geographical far places may feel closer than they used to. Demand in coastal or mountainous locations currently far removed from cities may increase.
If self-driving cars make Uber or similar even less expensive, then people could just as easily prefer to live in the city without a car because it would be easier to get one on demand. Then they can have increased "walkability", which appears to be increasingly desirable.

On the other hand if transportation is more transparent then they may prefer the lower cost of suburbs and travel more.

There's different forces pulling in different directions, so it's hard to pick which way it will go.
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I'm not disagreeing with you but just feeling like I could look at (A) as be helpful too lots of people and (B) live a selfish life of hedonism. Was that your intent or do you see a different way of defining (A) and (B)?
Using generic tags and allowing clients to specify presentation is pretty much precisely where I'm headed.

For an excellent example of the first half of this, see Mark Pilgrim's excellent "Dive into HTML5". I'm referring here to the structure of the document, not the content (though that's also excellent). The document is virtually entirely bare-bones HTML5 tags, with a typical nesting depth of 2-3 elements, rarely more.

Mark has also applied an excellent (and being the exception, proving the rule that virtually all CSS sucks) stylesheet to the site. Again with a minimum of chrome and glitter.

My thought, again, is that, similar to how LaTeX offers a few basic documenbt templates, a set of standardised site semantic layouts, for which clients offer standard presentation formats, with variants for high and low contrast, "night mode", and simplified design, might be preferable.

http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/
> It seems my post came out badly.

Ah. Yeah, it did, a little. Next time, maybe mention one or two languages that you recommend and one or two languages that you don't, for context.

Oh, well. :)
I don't get the blurb in the end. Can anyone explain?
well, google isn't a small business, where "the budget" can be synonymous with "the bank account(s)". like many (all?) large businesss, things are organizationally regimented into units (and sub-units, etc), and budgets are allocated toward each unit.

so while "google" might have funds, the "google code development team" may have a very tiny allocation.
That's not what the article says. It says that the fix won't be backported to KitKat and Jellybean. The GT-I9500 has a Lollipop build that Samsung patched.
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Good point, tunesmith, I should define a version of `util` that lets you start at your current personal bankroll, rather than at 0, and show how the amount you are willing to pay to play depends on how much you already have.
I referred to the title and a useful search-engine keyword set. Edward Morbius strives to avoid third-person references to himself.
We paid OVH for the renewal of our company's domain name several weeks before its expiration. This domain hosted our google apps for business and more. We received an invoice and bank statements for that. OVH never renewed with the registry.

We only got to know about this because of a standard email warning from the country's registry (not OVH as a registrar) itself about quarantaine and expiry!

We spent over eight hours over several days talking to OVH. I have been able to verify that the problem was on the side of OVH only, and not on the registry's side at all.

In the end, we made a direct payment to the registry to make sure the domain was not deleted.
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I think the problem with the emissions test is it tries to be precise. The authorities seem to think that if we lock down all the variables, we get a good guess as to the actual figures. Which wouldn't be a bad way to do things if you were doing a science experiment.

If we're trying to avoid gaming the system, wouldn't it be better to drive around a bunch of cars, using the natural variability of the conditions to defeat the cheaters? Sure, it's not as precise, but you get better accuracy because people can't trick the system.
How about testing them on the road? Worst that could happen is requiring the car maker to revert to those sub-optimal settings.
The point was that landfills and incinerators work pretty well and that there's no rational justification to eliminate them. And landfills needed for 1000 years of USA's trash would take up about .1% of our grazing land.

Just because people might not like the concept of piling up trash doesn't mean it's an inherently bad idea.

Overall waste and recycling is low on the threats to our planet so I think doing nothing is ok (if by doing nothing you mean incinerating trash to generate electricity or responsibly burying it). The primary issue is reducing meat/dairy consumption and the next is transportation.
Between the skinner box gaming industry and web, and the circus that is politics and war, the fact that we are both unabashedly exploiting this and unabashedly being exploited by this, makes me kind of pessimistic.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845016/

> Studies have shown that reward uncertainty rather than reward per se, will magnify mesolimbic DA, both in monkeys (Fiorillo et al., 2003; de Lafuente and Romo, 2011) and healthy human participants (Preuschoff et al., 2006). In PG, accumbens DA is maximal during a gambling task when the probability of winning and losing money is identical—a 50% chance for a two-outcome event representing maximal uncertainty (Linnet et al., 2012). Although non-dopaminergic neurons might also be involved in the coding of reward uncertainty (Monosov and Hikosaka, 2013), these results based on electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques indicate that DA is crucial for the coding of reward uncertainty. This suggestion is corroborated by a large number of behavioral studies, showing that mammals and birds respond more vigorously to conditioned cues predicting uncertain rewards (Collins et al., 1983; Anselme et al., 2013; Robinson et al., under review) and tend to prefer an uncertain food option over a certain food option in dual-choice tasks (Kacelnik and Bateson, 1996; Adriani and Laviola, 2006), sometimes despite a lower reward rate (Forkman, 1991; Gipson et al., 2009). According to Greg Costikyan, an award-winning game designer, games cannot hold our interest in the absence of uncertainty—which can take many forms, occurring in the outcome, the game's path, analytical complexity, perception, and so on (Costikyan, 2013).
> Ok, do you seriously not understand what it means to not want every website you come across to look the same?

Yes. Does you get annoyed that most books have the same formatting - a style you didn't get to choose? My mother absolutely loves her kindle, because it let her do exactly what I'm talking about and apply a font that she can actually read to all books.

> how can 1 design or style even work for the entire range of websites and web apps?

Of course not. That's why HTML let you specify styling to override the default stylesheet in the cases when it is important.

More importantly, I never said anything about not styling your pages, nor did I claim one style should apply to ll pages on the internet. I replied to a post complaining about the DEFAULT STYLE. I suggested that it is the responsibility of the client to render that style as they like.

How, exactly, does this get in the way of your ability to apply formatting?
Interesting that the demo page is using one of those super thin fonts my eyes have trouble focusing on and reading.

http://devinhunt.github.io/typebase.css/

PS: I'm on a retina MBP in 1680 mode so your results (and eyes) will vary
I thought it was the Heinz ketchup bottle with the awful design with the pressure valve that doesn't let you get any out without blasting a huge spurt of it initially.
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It's called native advertising and is a menace for journalism. If only there was an add-on to flag that kind of articles.
They can't be remotely activated of they don't. You just can make the standby state more efficient: a phone on standby consumes much less than a TV.
Why would self-driving cars reduce traffic congestion? If my car drove itself, I'd be less incentivized to use public transportation. I'd probably be willing to put up with a slightly longer door-to-door time than if I used public transportation because it would be more convenient: I'd rather surf the web in my own car than have to pay attention to stops, schedules, transfers, etc. Congestion would probably be different: it would be less stop-and-go and more uniformly slow speeds.
Very nice write-up on SET, Henrik. I hadn'e seen it before, and wasn't aware of your interesting results.
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Ok, we replaced "patch" with "backport" in the title.
Any examples of selling? Although I would agree, one of the largest acquisitions which i had no idea why was McAfee.....
> I heard that you you want to lose fat, you need to speed up your metabolism which means eat more often.

That's nonsense and debunked in the link I pasted below.
I think robocars will soon lead to robolandyachts. It'll be pretty tempting to rent a comfortable autonomous land vehicle that you tell the scheduling package that "I can leave after 1800 and I want to be at the Grand Canyon at 0800" - it tells you back the available vehicle systems and their amenities and what view the reserved parking spots at the endpoint have, and you and your family travel overnight without further attendance.
Intellectual property is a local maximum as far as progress goes. It's clear that society should reward all three of these researchers for their work, but our laws and our currency don't allow this.

Currency might seem like a tangent, but it's not. Currency is what we use to decide who to reward. It signifies a debt owed to you by society. When someone sells you goods or services or provides their labor to you as an employee, they're rewarding you for work that you've done in the past.

It sounds like society should reward all three of these researchers. They should be able to walk into a grocery store (or a Tesla dealership) and say, "Hey, I helped invent a way to edit genes in living cells. Can you reward me for that?" We want the answer to be yes, but we also don't want Tesla and the other people who make things the researchers want to be on the hook for the rewards themselves. The obligation should flow through society like money. Tesla should be able to say, "Hey, we made an awesome car for someone who invented a way to edit genes in living cells. Can you reward us for that by giving us supplies or labor?"

Not everyone will want to reward the CRISPR folks, but there's a pretty straightforward response to that: don't reward the people who don't reward the CRISPR folks. It might sound unwieldy to have to keep track of this information when you're trying to trade with people, but that's why we make software. You'll pick an app that implements the reward policies you prefer, then you won't have to think about it on an ongoing basis.

This is merit capitalism. It requires a common historical record of who has done what for whom, which we can now build thanks to blockchains. Intellectual property is a better tool than nothing, but we're getting fewer of the inventions, discoveries and works of art than we could be getting because it's such a cumbersome tool for incentivizing progress. Let's try something else.

http://meritcapitalism.com/
I'm sorry you had to waste so much time, MONEY, and pain-free years of your life on this. It drives me crazy how western medicine derides (at best) any medical practitioner who doesn't wear a lab coat. It's like chronic pain isn't worth the time of a doctor unless they can sell you a pill for it, at least until you finally experience otherwise irreparable damage and they can charge you for surgery. I trust my massage therapist with my health more than any doctor I've ever been granted an audience with.

I firmly believe that in the next ~10 years this attitude will change (at least in the US) as payers transition to community outcome-based reimbursement models. It's a lot cheaper to massage someone's SCMs (educated guess, I'd love to know if it was something else) a few times and teach them how to stretch FIRST than it is to send them to go through all that bullshit. Every clinician has the anatomical knowledge required to identify that issue, especially any that specializes in a system located directly at the insertion of this muscle. The fact that not one, but two ENTs missed this just shows how dysfunctional the healthcare industry is.
But this is just a band-aid fix. Personally, I would just put the user in control. Let the user decide whether they want to run their car in high mileage low emissions mode or high performance mode. Now automakers can "cheat" all they want and it makes everyone better off.
We changed the title from "Elon Musk‘s SolarCity announces new $0.55 per watt solar panel".
Too bad 2GB has been unusable for a decade or so.
I think it gets worse before it gets better. Early generation self driving cars will move slower than human piloted cars, who take greater safety risks in the name of speed.
Better to have this than not have it. HN admins wants to subcommittee this idea to death. Just to do it.
I agree, it depends on how the question is framed.

They won't be happy if they know where it is coming from.

I've met folks who would not be happy to know their tax money would be going to "lazy" folks.
Are "we" are not powerful enough to just propel the original object to the front page, instead of requiring a freshly-minted replica?
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“Nuh uh”, the difficulty of consolidating humor and logic
I would think real estate will become more spread out.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a 1.5 hour commute each way if I could code the whole time rather than drive, and if my car was electric.
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I don't think you want to backport the vulnerabilities...
There was a car called the Oldsmobile Cutlass (mentioned in the article) and, one imagines, "flying" it would lead to a broken axle.
The animation system in the video, Euphoria, is used in quite a few Rockstar titles: http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Euphoria_Physics
I recently came across the "Three Prisoners Problem": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Prisoners_problem

If you feel comfortable that the answer to the Monty Hall problem is "switch", you might want to test your understanding to be sure you reach the correct answer here as well. As Wikipedia states, Three Prisoners "is mathematically equivalent to the Monty Hall problem with car and goat replaced with freedom and execution respectively". But mathematically equivalent may not make it intuitively equivalent, and the answer may feel like it contradicts the correct Monty Hall answer.

Wikipedia points out that it's originally from a 1950's Martin Gardner column, but I came across it in the textbook "Stastistical Inference" by Casella and Berger. Here's C&B's phrasing:

Three prisoners, A, B, and C, are on death row. The governor
decides to pardon one of the three and chooses at random the
prisoner to pardon. He informs the warden of his choice but
requests that the name be kept secret for a few days. The
next day, A tries to get the warden to tell him who had been
pardoned. The warden refuses. A then asks which of B or C
will be executed. The warden thinks for a while, then tells A
that B is to be executed.

Warden’s reasoning: Each prisoner has a 1 in 3
chance of being pardoned. Clearly, either B or C must be
executed, so I have given A no information about whether A
will be pardoned.

A’s reasoning: Given that B will be executed, then either A
or C will be pardoned. My chance of being pardoned has
risen to 1 in 2.

Who is right?

In what I found to be a parody of textbook tropes, C&B begin their explanation "It should be clear that the warden's reasoning is correct..."

While it's true that the warden's reasoning is correct, leading off with "it should be clear" seems cruel. Here's a slight variation of the Monty Hall problem, one of the most famous "paradoxes" of popular statistics, and you are going to start with a paraphrase of "it should be obvious to the reader" without the slightest sense of irony, even though this variation produces an answer superficially incompatible with the better known problem? Ah, the strange humor of textbook authors! The remainder of their answer (which is solid) can be found here on Section 1.3 page 22: http://people.unica.it/musio/files/2008/10/Casella-Berger.pd...
The question is will these folks ever get brought before law enforcement for such a brazen attempt to infiltrate networks?
I don't envy your position! It's hard to balance those things fairly. Good luck! And thanks for taking on the hard job of keeping the HN discussions civil... :-)
> Google Style Guide

Who cares what google thinks. They are not the w3c.

> HTML5 spec

It's not an HTML5 document.

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewbelt.n...

Even if you want to ignore the required <!DOCTYPE html>, the document is still missing the required <head> with exactly one <title> element.
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I see two opposing forces:

Self driving cars could encourage sprawl by making commuting long distances more practical. If you could be working during your commute instead of driving, and didn't need to find parking once you arrive, a 2-hour commute could become practical. That would intensify the "car culture" that currently drives municipal planning, but would reduce the harmful effects. As you mention, less space wasted on parking, less congestion etc.

On the other hand, driverless cars will be a big boost for Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, GetAround and the like. That could make city living more desirable, because car-on-demand only works well when there are lots of available cars nearby. Folks that live out in the boonies would still have to own their own cars, and so wouldn't benefit as much from the technology as city-dwellers. Also, spending less space on parking has a bigger effect in the city where space is already tight, so we might see even higher density in the inner city.
I wonder if it is an issue with high mass/inertia ratios. Large ratios between the highest and lowest mass of bodies can lead to ill conditioning of the underlying numerical systems, and practitioners will often 'cheat' by assigning everything the same mass. This could lead to an arm having the same inertia as a foot, which would cause the arm to flail wildly. Of course without knowing what the underlying model and solver is, this is pure speculation.
Why Chinese and Indians? Seriously, I'd like to know why your humor presupposes they'll be the ones to do it first.
Not sure you know how the algorithms on reddit or hacker news work but typically they are a function of some combination of log(upvotes) and time. The log function (or some closely related function that hacker news may use) ensures that the first couple votes are the most crucial to bring submissions higher on the front page. That being said, the variance on these first votes are high and basically determine whether or not the submission will be successful. Date and time also greatly affect how popular an article will be. Thus the re-submissions.
How will you handle all of the "its not fair" complaints that claim competitors were tested under better conditions?

And also, how will you ensure that certain manufacturers aren't actually given better conditions?
I would be okay with this but other things need reform. They need to cut down on bloated middle management layer in colleges. They need to cut out the shitty diploma mills that don't give graduates much success in getting jobs after graduating.
It's worse than that - "simply bad performance" using methods that are highly unreliable and have not been validated.

The philosophy seems to be that teachers are independent, heroic, commodities. That is:

"independent" - any problems can be attributed solely to the teachers (after some normalization based on the socioeconomic class of the students), and not to the school system or other large scale system;

"heroic" - the teachers are the biggest factor in education, and it's up to the teachers to individually supply everything;

"commodities" - a teacher can easily be replaced with another teacher, with no effect on learning, the teaching work culture, or long-term community stability.

The reason for this philosophy seems to be that it's well-aligned with certain view of a free market. By casting education in this framework it encourages the idea of replacing a socialized public school system, whose goal are the long-term needs of the students and the culture, with a state subsidized for-profit system with less local democratic control that is able to transfer more money to private owners.
Brown sugar + cinnamon is also quite good in Oatmeal with some fruit on top.
I am not sure if the consumers really like and demand no pulp OJ or if it's one of those fads that are being pushed onto the consumers by the big brands. I for one prefer high pulp OJ any day, not for the fiber, but because it makes the juice taste so much better and fruitier. Without the pulp, the juice might as well be made from artificial flavors.