skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun project. From examining the source code, they are using the technique that can be considered a kind of higher order abstract syntax (HOAS). In particular, LJSON can be fooled by so called exotic terms. E.g.

LJSON.stringify(function(v) { return v; })

evaluates to the string

(function(v0){return v0})

While

LJSON.stringify(function(v) { return v(null) } )

Evaluates to the string

(function(v0){return "v0"})

In the latter case, v(null) was able to examine the variable that stringify injects into the function. In this case, v(null) is the name of the injected variable.
Hey, Haskell wouldn't be cool if /everybody/ used it. Some guys are totally down with bringing "the Foldable and Traversable typeclass to Prelude" and making "the existing function of Prelude more polymorphic", while others feel that just synergizes the wrong paradigm.

If you, like me, have no idea what this is about, just go back to coding in one of those subtheoretical languages for feeble minded norms, like me.

I'm sure these guys are doing some REALLY IMPORTANT WORK with a language as obscure as that. Way over my head, I'm sure.

EDIT: Scrollaway, thanks for asking. I don't really have a beef with Haskell itself, I just think its tragic that so many smart people are drawn to something that has .. well.. let's just say, I'd love to hear the practical aspects of Haskell.
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It's NOT open source as per the readme: "I purposely have not added an open source license to the project and am intentionally retaining copyright for the code, meaning that it may not be redistributed (in code or compiled form) without my permission."
Oh, I haven't seen that posting. Thanks.

I disagree, but since those are the rules, I'll comply.
yep, don't people know how Capitalism works? This sort of stuff is perfectly expected, just like the VW cheat. It's a fight for money and there aren't many rules.
Things on the front page has way less votes and seems fresher (more quickly replaced) than before.

There are multiple stories on the front page right now with less than 10 votes and only one story older than 9 hours.
Why Data Retention in Australia Is Worse and How Can You Protect Yourself
So, what is it doing that f.lux isn't/can't on non-jailbroken phones? I know they'd need access to APIs that Apple doesn't make available.
>The rich taking their business somewhere else

They already did. That's the whole point of globalization.
Without being able to call pure functions within pure functions, what use is this beyond the trivial simple examples? Couldn't it be possible to pass a "this" argument as the current JSON node and have it traverse the tree or something? For example:

{
"math": {
"sin": function(x) {...}
},
"numerics": {
"sin2": function(x) {
return this.parent.math.sin(x)
},
"parent": [automatically inserted by parser]
}
}
Apple Expects First Quarter Profits to Top $45M (before the iMac) (1998)
And I do believe that most of these ideas would be doable with Gil Amelio as CEO. The Performa was already dead for example.
It sounds like you're taking this as an attack or something on your personal experience.

She made her case pretty well. There is a stereotype about how ADHD manifests. This stereotype is based on how boys with ADHD generally manifest their symptoms. However, because women often manifest different symptoms from this stereotype, they go undiagnosed.

Yes, these lack of recognition of symptoms can also happen to boys that don't manifest in this "typical boy fashion".

I dunno I'm typing out a bunch of words to try to convey to you how silly and defensive you sound without breaking "HN decorum."
Doctolib Grabs $20M for Its Booking Platform for Doctors
They own more of your government than any other industry, which is incidentally how they managed to create their hyper-inflated prices in the first place.

Their chance of success doesn't depend on R&D.

God, some Americans are really cringe-worthy. Is it really necessary to get defensive just because other governments are more interested in representing the interests of their people?
Yes, now I remember that in my hotel in Shenzhen. Have seen the same thing in South Korea too.
> I am a young male suffering from ADHD. I've never exhibited hyperactive symptoms

Coloquially known as ADD. The condition presents in different ways:

* Inactive: "ADD." Symptoms of innatention.

* Hyperactive-Impulse: Hyperactivity and implusiveness, but no innatention.

* Combined: "ADHD." Hyperactivity, impulsiveness and innatention.

The hyperactive variants are easier to diagnose, the first is often misdiagnosed as "your kid is lazy/stupid." It's possible that females have a lower chance to present with one of the hyperactivity variants.
How is it abusive for a country to band together and negotiate a single, good price?

The selling side already bands together to present a unified front. For many drugs there is a single supplier. This naturally gives them enormous power.

Yet when you do the exact same thing on the other side, suddenly this is somehow anti-market, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, or what have you.

It's the exact same thing with labor unions. When employers band together to present a unified front on employment terms, we call that a "business" and it's so ingrained in how the world works that we have trouble conceiving of doing things any other way. But when employees do the exact same thing it's looked upon with scorn by many.
Is this that thing that shows up when I swipe left on my work iphone with vapid news about celebrities and poorly-targeted sport-related tales?

I'm unexpectedly finding XING's news stream peculiarly adequate these days. Nice to see a bit of competition.
https://www.serfdom.io/
The voting behavior of the users varies with time of day and day of the week.
>From what I could tell the business model seemed to be 1) send entirely generic form letter at very little cost to dispute every single ticket, regardless of merit 2) assume that you can overwhelm the system and they'll just give up on some percentage of the tickets 3) profit.

But isn't that (claimed to be) the exact model used by the parking authority? Write tickets without a lot of care for getting it right, knowing that most people aren't going to fight it? What's good for the goose...
> But the world is full of clumsy men.

But that doesn't excuse them from making offensive statements.
Opera Mini browser has a night mode too, it dims screen and lowers temperature.Works excellent. Feel free to add to the list
I feel the same way (that ethernet is a perfectly good way of moving data around), so I created this a while back as a side project:

https://github.com/mfassler/eFirmata

Basically, I wanted USB, but I wanted much longer cable-lengths than USB, so I used ethernet.
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Starting to introduce engineering to my businessy friends
Go figure.. might be another perk of the lifestyle ;)
We had this discussion the last time "off-grid" came up.

Some take it's meaning more literally, with grid meaning pipes or wires delivering services to your home.

So gas being piped into your generator would be on-grid, if it gets trucked in then that's off-grid. Electricity via wires is on-grid, electricity via a factory built solar cell or windmill is off-grid.

Others have a more poetic definition of "off-grid" as "self-sufficency" though it's hard to see where that ends, as there's no clear dividing line, even a child born in a remote rainforest tribe with no contact with the world will end up using tools and techniques passed on by local culture.
When I was 8, I read a 1970s novel, describing a struggle of young nuclear engineers to promote newer reactor design through the behemoths of rigid bureaucracy. The new design was inherently safer and thus did not need the expensive steel containment shell built around, thus saving resources to the Motherland.

Chernobyl happened the next year, we lived 250km north of it. Luckily for us, most of the fallout precipitated on heads of other people some 100km south. Yet the radiation levels were a part of daily weather forecast for the next decade. We didn't have a toaster, a microwave, a dishwasher or a VCR home then, but we owned a radiometer.

We were instructed to hide from the rain in the weeks after the accident. I remember hiding with a friend under concrete slabs at a construction site on our way from school. The habit kind of stuck in the unconscious: in Belarus, people still scramble for cover at the slightest hint of rain, even though the accident was a full generation ago. I only realized it after living abroad for some years.

Anyway, whenever someone on Reddit or here rediscovers that Nuclear is Safe when Done Right, I always remember that novel.
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I was recently in Tunisia, and got to see into a co-working summit (http://www.coworkingsummit.org/), which feels like a very related trend. I was surprised at how each of the co-working space managers really focused on building communities and encouraging inter customer/team communication (shared meals, workout spaces, etc).

They are very much like little incubators, and there is a great efficiency there. Tech doesn't quite have Guilds, per se, but I think that we're closer than we think we are.
This is why I think cities should get out of the business of providing free street parking. Take away the street parking, remove parking requirements from residential/commercial development requirements, and let the price of land and market demand dictate how many parking lots get built and parking fees.

Otherwise entitled drivers refuse to accept that city parking space is an inherently limited resource that must be shared, and protest any regulation as if unlimited free parking is some kind of basic human right.
Full disk encryption is (thankfully) becoming a bad example. Apple has been pushing it aggressivily and both iOS devices and Macs have full disk encryption by default.

It's a shame that it's not default on Windows or Android yet, but it unfortunately makes sense since they have to run on so many different configurations (unlike Apple which can ensure that everything running their OS' are capable of full disk encryption without a noticable performance hit).
It's kind of amusing, because you are somewhat in line with what Bruenig writes, apparently without realizing it.

If you think that Bruenig is arguing for price controls without any qualifiers, you read the article wrong. He is arguing for equality, because equality is a necessary precondition if you actually want to get the full benefits of a price system (among other reasons). I have yet to see a convincing counterargument to that point.

You may have been misled by the part about the theory of the second best (which is a common point in economics): since the best solution (eliminating inequality) is off the table for political reasons, you have to turn to second-best solutions. Under certain circumstances, that can mean price controls.

But yes, the best solution is to eliminate (or at least reduce, as a first step) inequality. For example, taxing the rich and giving to the poor, as you point out yourself (which is where we're back at you agreeing with Bruenig ;-)).
Given the unequal power - the prosecutor can jail you, the most you can do is embarass him - yes. How else would you "attack" the unfair system? It's basically a kind of civil disobedience.
@garrett I beg to differ. At first I thought it was a terrific service. After using it twice, their true business was revealed. They leave advertisement cards on vehicles with tickets and indeed is how I learned of the service. The card states there's an error with the ticket (regardless of whether there is ... every ticketed car will be canvased by Fixed). While I do believe they legitimately file a contest through the official channels, I don't believe they expect or care to win the contest. Here's why - by using the service you agree that Fixed will autopay on your behalf with a few-dollars service fee. I'm convinced their business model is fairly scammy in that they hook you with the promise that you've received an invalid ticket that can be dismissed. When in reality they know the majority of the tickets are valid, have no chance of dismissal, and reap the service charge you agree to when you file your contest with them.

Fixed is clearly not a sustainable business anyway - really, what percentage of tickets are not valid? A very small percentage I'm sure. And if their revenue is seriously modeled around winning contested invalid tickets then there is very little money to be made.

Edit - I missed the Founder David Hegarty reference. Maybe someone can fact check me but I think this is fairly inflated to spin his case for his business.
With all the new ultrabook laptops lacking ethernet, this would be awesome!
I've seen this argument before, from someone arguing against universal health care in the US in general, and Obamacare in particular. I said that one advantage of socialized medicine is cost, and they came back with this: it's only cheap because we pay for all their R&D.

Except then I ran the numbers, and it turns out that medical R&D in the US amounts to only about $500 per person per year, while the gap in costs is many thousands of dollars.

Perhaps it is you who does not realize how much of it (i.e. not that much) is subsidized by Americans.
Wow! Awesome story! And unfortunately yet another human-oriented tool which got dumped by the IT crowd in favor of obscurantist arcane machine-oriented engineerism-ridden hacks that break most of the possible principles of design and HCI and that are fantastically performant (i.e. have mind-boggling throughput) but often quite slow (i.e. take 300ms to react to key press and start for long seconds).
Wow, more of this "free market" non-sense.

a) It's not a free market. Especially in cases with life-threatening diseases a person can't just "walk away from a deal", that would be suicide for that person.

b) Entities banding together to negotiate a better price? Boohoohoo how unfair. Welcome to capitalism. Oh wait, if the entity were for-profit companies all would be fine, right? It's only bad when citizens band together.

Is it so hard to accept that in all other civilized countries health care works better and at a more reasonable cost?

Get your shit together, Americans.
When you take a step back and think about it, it is really weird how many public roads are built two lanes wider than they would otherwise need to be, simply so that people can park their cars on public land.
Year 2038 problem
"ana"(mom) and "ata"(dad) for Turkish

"anne" and "baba" modern Turkey Turkish

"mama" is baby food, or how you describe food to a baby.
The cards are stored-value - meaning that the card actually stores how much money it is worth. For cost saving and legacy reasons, most Clipper readers are offline and simply read and update the card value.

When you add value online, there is no way for the service to write to your card, so instead Clipper terminals throughout the system are informed of the value add and apply it next time they interact with your card. Online terminals, e.g. most vending machines, frequently synchronize with the online service and can transfer value added online almost immediately. Offline readers like those on buses, though, obtain a batched list of online value adds from time to time, often in the bus yard overnight via short range wireless networking - but in some areas this may happen less frequently than once a day. For Muni, I believe it should always happen overnight.

When you add value at Walgreen's, they set your card on a terminal that updates it directly.

This limitation is common to all stored value systems with offline terminals, including all Cubic transit card systems such as Clipper, Oyster, SmarTrip, etc. It's a compromise involved in rolling such a system out to a vehicle network without the expense of long range radio networking in every terminal - these systems were designed and implemented well before this was practical.
If it's the case that Walgreens has "the specific scanning hardware" (note that the parent to my comment had that hardware on a bus), then that's exactly my point.

I don't ride the buses; I take CalTrain. There's three pieces of hardware of concern here: the scanner that checks your pass, the Clipper website, and whatever Walgreens uses. The scanners take a week to pick up payments through Clipper (first party), and instantly from Walgreens (third party). I find it exceptionally odd (and mightily inconvenient) that a third-party is able to add value into the system faster than the owners of the system themselves.

(edit: and see the sibling response to yours from
jcrawfordor for more info!)
I'm not sure I agree with that view. Independant testing by another lab should remove any doubt on the validity of a forensic, rather than forcing companies to open source their technology. And of course some form of certification/random tests that ensures that the company providing the forensic isn't a bunch of conmen.
Judging from how shallow your reasoning appears to be, it is way over your head indeed.
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No, that's not it. My reasoning is very simple - in all likelihood an extremely advanced mathematician will be incredibly bored by very simple mathematics, and not want to spend much time explaining it clearly.

Unless they are that rare commodity - the extraordinarily talented mathematician who can remember what it was like to struggle with the basics and who is able to keep the teaching of concepts simple enough it doesn't go over the head of the class, or go too fast - then I would prefer to be taught by someone who cares about imparting the basics of mathematics in an understandable and reasonably paced way.

I've been to lectures where a clearly brilliant mathematician was teaching basic maths, and it nearly turned me off maths. You speak of killing wonder: well, there you have it.

(P.S. I'm an Australian who will never get the opportunity to go to Berkeley, and I'm definitely not bitter! If I was doing highly advanced math, then in that case I'd want a Fields medallist teaching me!)
Got some inferiority complex showing here? What exactly is your problem with Haskell?
I live in New Zealand, which has a centralised purchasing agency for pharmaceuticals (called Pharmac). The TPP doesn't require New Zealand to disband Pharmac. It can still negotiate reduced prices on behalf of the Kiwi public. The only change is that there is a more rigorous feedback and appeal process, which seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Do you really know about your web traffic?
The problem is that for many (smaller) countries, it's a race to the bottom. They want to attract companies that are huge compared to their "native" GDP or production capabilities, collect a little bit of tax from them, and maybe earn a whole lot more by creating (or maintaining) a financial services industry in their country.

It's hard to stop those countries from doing so, in the current framework of international trade and business. I don't know if a treaty limiting this kind of stuff is in the cards for the near future. And if it is, I'm not sure it would be signed or ratified by financial safe haven countries like Luxemburg, the Seychelles, Monaco or Belize.
How is F# on unix? I can imagine F# being nice on Windows, but can people with Linux or Mac OS use it? How dependent on visual studio it is?

I would guess that Ocaml might be better in unixy environment while sharing similar features to F#?
> lets you buy the cheap non-workgroup version of pretty much everything (printer, scanner, label printer, ...) and still hook it up to a central server.

I would argue that this benefit is probably mostly historical by now. These days, the wifi-enabled versions of at least printers is generally within less than $150 of their non-networked cousins.
Yes, but how do you get that library, tooling, documentation, initial community? Here, Google, Sun, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook(?), Mozilla have huge advantages, but for the individual, let's hope there's something more intrinsic than promotion ability!

Syntax plays some role at that early stage, of attracting that initial community.
It doesn't have that flaw! But that's probably partly because it doesn't have typeclasses, so Foldable/Traversable aren't possible in the same way...
TL;DR: It doesn't work. The project has been abandoned, the last update is >4 years old. Don't waste your time.

Two weeks ago I have had to implement a solution that, for technical reasons, required a usb/ip implementation so I compared everything that was available.

I spent half a day on the project, perusing mailing lists and documentation trying to get usb/ip (as linked here) to work. Eventually, I got discovery working (win7 client connecting to linux/arm server) but the connection would never be established.

Eventually, since usb/ip turned out to be a horrible waste of time, I used a professional solution for about $40 which took 5min to set up and works like a charm since then.
Confusing!

The author states: "You may think it's dumb to have open sourced it then [...] even if it's under copyright. [..] So basically, it's open source so people can learn from it.

So this is public source code which is under copyright.
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It's not dependent on Visual Studio at all. It has its own build chain (FAKE), runs under Mono and ships independently from .NET. It's the most open-source of the MS projects.
You're right of course, I definitely do not want to do that. But I know
I would vote individually on the issues that I care about.

For example, if everybody had a say, SOPA wouldn't have gotten as far as
it did. I would have voted it out, as would everybody else. But instead
we had to sign a petition once it was nearly through. We could all be
pro-active about... well, everything! But instead, we're kept on our
toes being reactive to it all. (opt in not out, people!!! This ideal
should exist everywhere but instead it's nowhere to be found).

If everybody did that, I believe that each of us would have more of an
effect on the country than electing somebody who is never going to agree
100% with my beliefs, but is the best fit. That's insane! There will
always be compromise. In England, a party can promise to change x and y
if you vote for them, but once they finally come to power they might go
back on their promise. Okay, so what did I vote for then? Nothing. And
there's no accountability. This system is thoroughly broken and I refuse
to acknowledge it by 'playing along'. And the worst thing about this is
that nobody seems to notice, or care that picking the best out of a bad
bunch is how we should make our country work.

Vote Waldo.
This is from 2007...
India’s Ola announces carpooling service
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Well F# from the very beginning has always had a bit of a rebellious nature seeing as it was brining ML style programming to the traditional OO platform of Microsoft's .NET. Because of that, many F# people do not use Windows and F# is very much built to be as independent from Microsoft as possible. See here for various ways to use it on linux:

http://fsharp.org/use/linux/
Most of that money is wasted on marketing, like over 50%. As a part of the TPP or future agreements there should be a requirement to stop all drug marketing expenditure and instead reinvest that into research.

Also I wonder if arguments like similar drugs cost 55x as much so this should too would fly.
I wouldn't say it's an alternative any more than Haskell is an alternative to Java. It's a different language and ecosystem.

That said, F# is pretty nice. It's opt-in laziness for .NET compatibility but laziness is pervasive. There's no forced purity though. On the plus side it's easy to interact with anything that has .NET bindings.
I think it's actually using location services (GPS+wifi triangulation) to determine where you are rather than traditional server-side inference from IP address.

I'm on vacation in China right now and did some experimentation and even if I have my VPN connected the app still says it's not supported in this region.