skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to be hireable then forget about both learn Ruby or Java, you'll get tons of hiring options (depends on where you are and what types of companies you like)

Scala will get you more job openings now than Elixir, but less than Java jobs or even Rails/Node/Django jobs.

If you are into big data, then right now the most "hyped" toolset is Apache Spark and it is written in Scala and it does not have an Elixir API (not anytime soon)

One last thing, what do you prefer: dynamic typing or static typing? If you prefer dynamic Elixir is going to feel much better than Scala. If static typing is a must for you, Scala is your choice...

Also in Scala you get all of Java's ecosystem in terms of reusable libraries.

Elixir looks great and the Erlang VM is exciting and I know that my next language to play with is going to be Elixir. But this is because I already know Scala pretty well. (My main day job language)
The only other company than Apple, in my opinion, that consistently slathers on more self-adulation and importance than reasonable on their own products, is Tesla.

Safest? Hummer H1.
Fastest? Brabus 800 G.
Most Capable? Toyota Land Cruiser.

Edit: Every downvote is sweet with your tears of being confronted by actual facts, just letting you know.
It is annoying on the open web, and it is usually abused for news sites paywalls' to disable copying or adding boilerplate.

However, it can be useful for web applications. I got a requirement in an internal app to add a button to copy some text in an administrative application. That got scrapped due to the work required to do it reliably without flash.
I have no idea when they added it, but Google Street View now has a time travel feature. There's been tons of construction in my area since I moved here, so it's pretty cool to see parking lots turn into high rises. When I discovered this feature, I became excited to think that in 50 years I'll be able to look back (hopefully) and see the transformation of our society in time lapse. Imagine if we had a street view from 400 years back. Cool stuff!
> We can do both. Google stores, backs up, secures, and generally ensures your data is safe, and you can click a button to download it all if you think you can do any of that better.

This is exactly the right solution, and credit to Google for providing it.

> This is probably too hard to ask every company to do the same, as it would exclude smaller companies who don't have the resources (this takes a lot of time and development!).

I'm surprised you say that; it doesn't seem to me that 'dump this user's dataset to JSON/XML/whatever' should be very hard to do. Admittedly I've never worked on anything at Google scale. What am I missing?
Filtering by price, date reviewed, and open/closed status are in the backlog! Would you have a preference for the price as described by The New Yorker or by Yelp? (Or by some other source?)
The Scredis Driver Malfunctions in Pathological Environments
To add to this, I thoroughly recommend reading Smolin's paper on the "limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics." He expands on one of those mis-steps (quoting from the paper):

>This is in contradiction with the Platonic
view of mathematics held by many physicists and mathematicians according to which,
mathematical truths are facts about mathematical objects which exist in a separate, timeless realm
of reality, which exists apart from and in addition to physical reality

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03733
Chat about Unix and Bell Labs with Brian Kernighan
The rigid party discipline of the Republican party (in Congress) is starting to look like a temporary aberration. It was caused by a period of unusually strong party control over campaign finances. For a couple of decades there, Congressional leaders were able to strongly prevent Congressmen from being re-elected if they bucked the party.

Ironically, I suspect SuperPACs are contributing to the decay of Republican cohesion -- the party has lost its strong control over re-election. At this point the only thing Republicans in Congress can agree upon is that they dislike anything they suspect a Democrat -- especially the President -- of liking.

As for Democrats, Will Roger's famous quote is something like "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
That's buy-side, a different kettle of fish.
I actually have a friend who is in the latter stages of importing donated breast milk from Cambodia. At first, when he told me about it, I was a little bit disgusted, but the more I think about it the more I realize it could be a net win for everyone.

He described it as:

1. Breast milk is, hands down, the best nutrition a baby can have. Babies in the NICU need it, there's a massive shortage, and we can't match its nutritional value with formula, period.

2. A woman will continue producing breast milk as long as she continues either feeding or pumping, even if her child is too old.

3. There's a desperate shortage in the US, because people don't want to take the time to come to the donation facility for the blood tests, and those are very expensive to do by mail.

Basically, what he's doing is paying women in Cambodia for their breast milk. A woman in Cambodia will donate her milk for a few dollars a day, and it completely changes her lifestyle. Women are willing to come to their facilities to be tested, and are willing to go through background checks that make sure they're not neglecting their in doing so.

They can then export the breast milk to places that have shortages (like the US), and make a profit.

Domestically it's regulated by the FDA like a foodstuff (beans or corn), and it can be homogenized just like cow's milk.

It takes a while to get over the weird factor, but it seems like economically it's a win-win. I'd be curious to see if anyone else would consider this exploitative. I've gone back and forth.
I kind of like approval voting but there's one big problem.

How to we enact it?

I also see a small problem.

Party representatives stand outside of polling places and present voters with lists of party endorsed candidates. People who currently vote solely on the basis of party will just approve only candidates who are on the party provided list.

The two major parties control virtually every legislative body in the country and the current system serves them best.

Knee-jerk answers like "Vote the bums out" isn't realistic. I'm thinking back to when the people of Washington DC voted back into office as their mayor, a man who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine. Even when it should be a simple matter, party politics trumps common sense.
The Battle of Karánsebes [Wikipedia]
I can't wait to see how well they do in the Paris-Dakar Rally, because of course they'll back up all their hype by going out and handily beating the competition, just like the Tesla Model S completely dominated Touring Car racing and showed the GT class at Le Mans what innovation is all about. /s
Coffee is addictive, takes time to make and consume, and costs money. Even if you make it cheaply at home, this is still money and time you would not need to spend if you were not addicted to it. The more often you drink it, the more you need to drink it every day in order to feel normal. You get to the point to where you need to make it a part of your morning routine. Our lives are complicated enough without it. What happens when you have one of those mornings where you simply don't have time to make coffee? You have to buy some somewhere, which is even more time consuming and expensive and typically creates temptation to buy a less healthy coffee. Coffee is acidic. It kills the good bacteria in your gut, which goes against the very core of taking care of your health. Because it quickly gives you an energy jolt, it is an addictive drug. Any time you introduce a drug like that into your body, your body adjusts to it. Whatever body function was necessary to achieve the affect the drug does for you starts doing less work, which always has bad side effects because it goes against how your body is designed. Caffeine consumption negatively affects your sleep, which is another key to health. Most people feel that as long as they don't consume it too late in the afternoon, it does not affect their sleep. But what happens when you regularly consume an addictive drug that gives you an energy jolt? Over time you need more and more of it to feel normal. Eventually you will need at least a small amount of it in the afternoon in order to not feel exhausted and be able to continue to be a productive, happy person into the late afternoon and evening. If want to, go ahead and believe these studies conducted by people you don't know, who haven't earned your trust. Believe that they conducted it in an intelligent and controlled way. Believe that they interpreted the results correctly. Believe that it is totally impossible that someone paid someone to get the results they wanted to publish. Or you can become in tune with your own body and reason about experiences you have had and will have.
that's no excuse, its basically ignorance. not personal critique, but still lots of people follow blindly things they don't understand.
Spending 15 bucks on a notebook is the best investment you can make right now
> common, non commercial, purpose?

This is, IIRC, what the Mangiamele opinion held. If our common purpose is business, even if it's non-aviation business, the second person is considered a paid passenger when the pilot is reimbursed.

I get what the FAA is trying to do - they're trying to keep PPLs from running charters, air taxis, under-the-radar airlines, etc. But some of the 61.113 rules and opinions are just silly, and that section really needs a complete rewrite.

I don't need a CDL to drive my coworker with me to the conference, even if I am reimbursed by my employer. I shouldn't need a CPL to make that same trip in an airplane.
bulls#it, their stuff is so pricey they are way too happy to continue selling it.
"Tighten all the strings a bit to bring it up to D, and all the long keys will be in the key of D"

... briefly, before the piano implodes.
If You Have Savings in Your 20s, You’re Doing Something Wrong
Why the Mona Lisa Stands Out (2014)
I'm not so much struck by the exploitative idea (every American thinks that anything they don't want to do, but somebody else is willing to do, is exploitation) but instead by the American attitude of buy-it-instead-of-making-it. Seems nothing is immune to commerce.
There's a very tiny band of people buying old "Minkas"[1] and restoring them. My Japanese friends recently moved into one, and it's amazing. Here is an English article on the subject[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minka

[2] https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/miscellany/
Rightscorp's Tells Innocent People They Need to Give Their Computers to Police
I have no words.

> Does it produce a smell?

> No. Because we're not actually burning the hair, it doesn't produce a burnt hair smell.

What? Does the laser emit magic?
If you care about coherence, you should be very dissatisfied with GHC anyway.
Interesting extensions.

The nice part of the syntax is that:
1. it is clear when you are going external.
2. procedural code can be written in C# -- big win there.

But it misses the two big issues in ETL that I always run into:

1. You have a bunch files that are 95% the same but have 2-5 columns that are different.
2. Someone sticks the wrong type of data a field.

For those issues, you'd be better off mapping a file (or a group of files) to a virtual table so you can specify the schema up front.
Hahaha thanks guys, great way to wake up in the morning.

I'd thought my markdown parser was stripping <script> tags...turns out I was wrong. Probably should have tested.

Fortunately, it took about 30 seconds to find and delete the malicious comments using GitHub...point for GitBack. A quick fix is in place with a better one on the way.

Next post: How I got hacked by hacker news

Update: markdown is now sanitized. Malicious comments restored for posterity
Good point. Maybe there's an asterisk in there somewhere stating this claim is predicated on successfully launching used batteries into space and having them crash into a dump on the moon.
Does it come with a free bottle of Tres Commas?
Tesla have, on a couple of occasions, experienced the opposite: a journalist does a range test and falsifies the result downwards by unrealistic driving conditions. On one occasion they used the car's telemetry to disprove the review.

Top Gear got complaints for doing the same thing to (I think) a Leaf.
Comparing to known fuel effiencies of existing vehicles competely misses the point, which is to stimulate new technology development. For example, aluminum and plastic car body pieces, which reduce weight.

If you want to talk about "believable," start from basic physics and calculate the best possible fuel efficiency that a car could be expected to deliver. Even taking into account available materials, fuels, and engines, the answer is way better than what regulations currently require.

A lot of the expected gains will come from taking known "custom" solutions and scaling them up to mass market--like greater use of aluminum, and ultimately, composites.
I thought SUV's had larger rims than standard cars, they look the same as the model S , Any information available?
The name is obviously tongue in cheek much like Ludicrous Mode. I think it's hilarious and I hope when the Model 3 comes out I am able to get a Bioweapon Defense Mode button on mine.
Ironic: dontbuyshit.com selling this for $36
Optimizing a big RethinkDB Query
I think Just Eat are going to have trouble competing with Deliveroo, who are in a position to offer a far better customer experience.

That's going to drive their margin (and share price) downwards, nullifying this critic's argument and replacing it with another one.

In case you're not familiar, Deliveroo is like JustEat & HungryHouse except that Deliveroo provides the entire delivery service, so is able to provide food from restaurants that don't want to get into delivery themselves. This means that (a) Deliveroo are enlarging the market and entirely owning the new segment (b) since Deliveroo know where every driver is the customer experience is better; they call you to tell you the food will be late, rather than you calling them to ask them where the food is.
Let me highlight something I found in the data as an example of how this is nothing more than a gamed system that has nothing to do with Americans not being available to fill jobs:

Nested in the available data are several records for "Associate Data Scientist" and "Senior Data Scientist", meaning that the employer advertised the job as a role with this name.

(By the way, these visas were APPROVED!)

They then have listed as the category for the visa job role "Operations Research Analysts" for the Associate, and then "Computer Occupations, All Other" for the Senior Data Scientist role. Interesting how two jobs which sound very similar have completely different classifications for the same company, huh?

The best part: The prevailing wage listed for the "Associate Data Scientist" is $48,901 and the "Senior Data Scientist" is $61,110, because those wages are dictated by the bucket they are placed in.

The actual wages which were payed for these roles was $80k and $70K, respectively.

These rates are so far below market value it's ridiculous.

The point is that the law is supposed to be in place so that companies can get workers when Americans aren't available, but the reality is that they simply allow companies to refuse to pay the market rate.

The employer in question is Walmart, in case you are wondering.
that was expected.
Synchronous.io – shared objects between Client and Node
We were indeed on the buy-side, but we traded with the banks on the sell-side, which we observed becoming increasingly automated.
Gerrymandering applies as much to local school, county, and state districts as it does federal districts. At the school and county and state level, all issues are local. In fact, most legislation that has a large tangible effect on your kids, your home, and your job occurs locally, not federally.
I've got an 2016 Audi A4.

Audi claims 22mpg city, 32mpg highway and 26mpg combined.

What I see is 24mpg city, 31mpg highway and 26mpg combined; I don't drive especially slow either. FWIW, I factory ordered a manual transmission so that may make a difference.

I'm skeptical of cars that claim crazy high MPG ratings and performance cars claiming good MPG numbers, but for a standard car I do expect the numbers to be achievable. I've gone through a lot of cars over the years and I've gotten very close to the published numbers on all but one (Cadillac CTS).
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It absolutely is, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work in principle.

A HEPA filter is used in a lot of labs where biological substances are handled, even potentially hazardous ones. It should filter many types of biological agent out of the incoming air, and the positive pressure will keep such things entering other ways.

I think the reason they put it in is so people would talk about it and, look, we are. It is a marketing gimmick that likely doesn't require any additional hardware in the car (the air pump and HEPA filter are already in it, this just turns the pump up and adds a new dash button).

I'll give Tesla the nod for one thing: They sure know how to market. Between the wing doors, the bio-protection mode (which will be on the nightly news), and insane mode they're very savvy.
Good point! I hope that happens.
Exactly what I was thinking. When it's raining, I want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Not wait for the door to go through an entire opening sequence.
also what about when someone parks too close to you? Malls, for instance, put parking spaces tightly next to each other, so either you park like an asshole diagonally across two of them, or run the risk of someone else parking just a little bit too close to you and then your doors can't open, whereas in a standard vehicle, you'd be able to squeeze in. They should have made them slide laterally like on a minivan.
An evening up close with the Tesla Model X
If you make the pedal more sensitive (increase the resulting travel per pedal press) you'll make it harder to apply a precise amount of braking power which doesn't sound like a nice feature. I suppose you could have a more clever system that would move the brake faster until it touches the disc and then behave normally but I suppose that for such a critical system constructors and regulators are very conservative.

There could also be beneficial side effects to having the pad in contact with the disc at all times, such as preventing water/fluids/dirt to coat it. I'm just guessing here.
> Audi Q5, Audi Q3 and VW Up

Apart from Up, the other two models you listed are for the above-average-middle-class-people, so to speak, at least in Europe. Most of the car-owners in Europe drive hatchbacks like Opel Corsa (average weight 1200 kg) or Skoda Fabia (average weight 1100 kg).
Sadly, Yandex has a limit for characters in their free API. A thing I noticed is that there is no free version of Google translate but that is not as much fun as well.
Thank you for that clarification. My point was that basing your argument on a paragraph from the Wiki doesn't really hold water. Have you gone through those cited articles? Have you checked the data? You trust that those statements next to the citation are representative of what is actually been said in the article itself. Wikipedia is great, I am all for it. I just personally wouldn't building my argument solely based on what is said there.
This reminds me of something I'm still working to figure out -- the 'negative capability' referenced by Keats.

In one sense, it's the ability to accept an answer of 'unknown'. Maybe it's the ability to choose not to drive towards closure.

Maybe it's just being comfortable watching yourself get bored.
Design Disruptors – a documentary by InVision
It was a response to the large numbers of new models being introduced (each with a couple of engine + transmission combinations), such that the EPA and NHTSA were unable to keep up with the testing load each year.

In hindsight, those agencies should have been staffed better. Additional legislation (which is sure to come, if only so Congressmen can appear to be doing something about the problem) wouldn't have helped, as the cars didn't meet existing laws as it was.
I don't like the falcon doors for this reason... i rather have rails on top for rack attachments.
Any repo’s browser’s address bar URL will work as a git clone URL too, if that’s easier for you.
Most people who have the money to buy it don't have the amount of kids to fill it!
Sure, but if the payload in this example is a Linux binary then it won't do anything to an OSX/BSD/Windows machine.

If the payload is an interpreted script, or something that's compiled (if it can find a compiler, etc) then it may be able to infect different OSes.
It's not my comment. It's data presented in the report. My comment is taken directly from the chart I cited. So if you want to quarrel with it, you need to quarrel with those who compiled the data, I suppose.

You first misread my comment, and now you're misreading the chart, apparently, so let me explain: the chart I cited shows the percentage of claimed improvement in fuel economy which was actually delivered in real-world driving.

This is precisely what my comment said.

Edit: I think your confusion might lie in the math that you think is being done, perhaps? The chart is showing the DIFFERENCE between two numbers. It's not based on just the claimed improvement. It's the actual improvement divided by the claim.

GM made a claim of improvement and their performance actually went down, so their number is around -38%. Daimler was the next-worst at around 16%.
If you watch the presentation (or look for some .gifs around) you'll see they parked some of them pretty close to each other and the doors opened just fine. I think that's a minor issue given you can "flood" your car during a severe rain :-)
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You forgot the bicycle tires. :-)
I did not know that term, thanks!
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The problem outlined, and the parent->parent->parent poster postulated is the Boolean Satisfiability Problem [1]. The Cook-Levin Theorem [2] more or less founded the idea that P and NP problems are different classes of problems. It also hinted that a generalized solution to any NP problem could be a solution to ANY NP class problem, by showing that several NP problems can be reduced to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem.

This discovery earned a Turing Award and started the whole P vs NP debate [3].

:.:.:

The joke.

>Pack it up folks. The webdevs have solved P=NP.

Either implies somebody accidentally solved the greatest problem in computer science... OR that web developers are as naive as their stereotype implies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Levin_theorem

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
All it takes is a billionaire genius with twin kids and a car company to finally engineer a real solution to the hassle of having room to put kids in the car seats.

I sure hope some of these ideas come in a slightly more affordable version. Amazing how many of the innovations are just everyday things like crash safety, air quality, blind holster your phone, trailer hitch that doesn't suck, and easier to get kids in their car seats - yet they have me drooling as even after 100+ years of mass auto production there are so many daily frustrations with cars.
Boredom is a sign of mental laziness. You can find something interesting about damn near anything- so make yourself search for it.