skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 95% of the US population (i.e., outside the top 10 or so city centers), hailing cab by hand isn't feasible because the density isn't high enough. So you have to pick up a phone and call anyways.

If you want to preserve this ability in those select places, those cities should grant dirt cheap licenses to any driver who passes a background check (or whatever) and allow those folks to put a taxi light on top of their car. If you keep it cheap, then most drivers in those areas will get a license so they can easily supplement their electronic hails with street hails.
Would love to see it, but you'd need disruption beyond just the gear. It is incredibly expensive to gain access to the passes (lift tickets, etc.). Even after purchasing gear, a family could spend hundreds of dollars for a day of skiing. But that might be more bearable if the barrier to entry (cheaper gear) was lower.
Its a two way thing in Glasgow. Both sides are as bad as each other. "Normal" peope are better staying out of the road.
A used Volvo is pretty affordable compared to a new Subaru 'round where I live.

Mazda has a ~$1500 tech package option on the Mazda 3 with CAS.

I'm sure Subaru makes a decent car (my brother has a generation old Legacy, which seems OK), but saying they're the only manufacturer that makes it within the realm of your average joe is a big stretch I think.
>Could it have been used as a place to herd and trap animals?

Horses was just one of the examples. I dont think they used box canyons to trap animals only meant for domestication.
Not all of them were like that.

I don't remember getting any compiler or interpreter for Amiga, Atari or Apple Mac. You had to pay for them and the schematics were part of the OS SDK, also commercial.

Also going besides the ROM BASIC or Forth meant buying a compiler/interpreter.

The app stores are full of them, just pick one.
This feature is available in version 2. Target release : Nov 2. https://github.com/princejwesley/Mancy/wiki/Features-&-Roadm...
Think of all the great innovations that have come from people who realized that doing hard stuff is hard so don't try.
This problem was posed to me for real in a Microsoft interview in the late 90s. At first I was like "How hard could this be?" but quickly discovered that it wasn't so obvious. If I hadn't already seen the famous circular-list detection method, there's no way I would've gotten it, not during the interview at least.
Tjo-fa-de-rittan lambo?
A couple days ago there was a guy looking for people on the clojure mailing list.
He said he was hiring for a super secret ML project at a super secret company.

His linked-in profile says he works as a headhunter for apple.

Apples secrecy has become a joke, they're like that guy from sesame street selling you letters.
Interesting usage here. "Alphabet's (formerly Google's)" calls back to the headline yesterday about Alphabet's Google's search engine. Some speculated that soon we'd be talking about Alphabet's Google's Youtube's Youtube Red.

Now we can talk about Alphabet's (formerly Google's) Google's Youtube's Youtube Red.
It is ridiculous but at the same time tackling a problem of this size will provide so many new solutions to other problems as well innovations for new things that we might have not thought of. What we can gain from trying might be worth doing.
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“We’re data-driven as long as the data reinforces our pre-held ideas.”
Delegation in Rails
It is not exactly the same as now: there is much greater certainty about what the outcome will be. The physics is the same, but the human is out of the loop.

There's been a subset of people who already behave this way for as long as I can recall, and it probably started soon after the invention of the automobile. Automation will greatly facilitate it.
You're looking at this from the SV startup echo-chamber perspective.

People use Python because the language gets out of the way fairly quickly to let you get things done fairly quickly. Sure, it isn't a rigorous engineering language, but the ratio of small projects that just need something good enough and easy to work with to large/complex projects requiring careful engineering is staggeringly large. While Python is definitely cooling off; people have been working with it for long enough to want something better - unfortunately there just isn't anything on the radar that is significantly enough better to overcome Python's third party library momentum at the moment.

Believe me, I'd love a language with a really flexible/optional functional type system, better metaprogramming facilities, a better concurrency design, slightly more consistent syntax, etc - just as long as it is still easy to think in and convenient to use like Python.
This release timeframe was announced quite a while ago. As others have mentioned the quick jump from 4 to 5 was primarily due to the io.js convergence.

Expect future major releases on a 6 month cadence with LTS releases every 12 months

https://nodesource.com/blog/essential-steps-long-term-suppor...
Any idea how to play this on Fedora without flash? I've tried gnome-twitch that crashes a LOT and now trying to use livestreamer-twitch-gui which is not able to find the stream.

livestreamer http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux says it cannot find any streams on this URL.
It depends on underlying electron's node version. In version 2, we have preference to enable babel integration to utilize ES2015 features
Interesting way to look at it, adaptation as evolution as progress.
> But a colony on Mars would need to be a nearly perfectly self-contained, resource neutral system that harvests energy from the sun and is rarely or never re-supplied. That is currently beyond the reach of science and human ingenuity.

It is no where near the limits of our reach. We already have people living in space year round without any local resources. What we do seem to lack however is any faith in ourselves.
RemindeMe! 50 years
That depends on approach. If we try and use plants to supply most of the oxygen then that's innovative and risky, just sending lots of oxygen tanks far less so.
Reminds me of the time I was silly enough to install iTunes on a Windows PC ;-)
Hyperloop Test Track to Be Built in California
Is it going to be a replacement of privoxy?
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Think writing haiku is
All fun and games.

Seventeen syllables,
Cutless and seasonless?
Pseudopoetical --
Let's call them names!
Google has posted some interesting situations where their cars have predicted other driver behavior and avoided accidents in situations where it is quite possible an average human driver would not have been able to make the same prediction and avoided the accident. I agree that not every situation like this would have resulted in an accident for certain, I also strongly suspect the computers are much better at avoiding these types of accidents more consistently than humans.
So will the CFAA be getting even worse now that CISA is passing? I recall talk of some bad CFAA amendments being in CISA.
Have you noticed any downsides to using Lambda over running a persistent Node server? Is there overhead in execution time, for example?
Faster web application deployments using Mina instead of Capistrano
So is it about making sure nobody dies or about not cheapening the subculture? Because those are two very different things. And if the latter, the dickheads might be those who use the purchase of expensive handmade gear as an exclusionary mechanism.
Hey Stavros, thanks for the link! That tool looks awesome to customize your own builds.
If by "match V8" you mean "skip most V8 changes"? V8 revs on par with Chrome, at a pace about four times what you say.

Turns out that despite pillorying Joyent for sticking to V8 major versions, it is the only reasonably-correct thing to do for the ecosystem to remain usable.
Here's a similar case of how one can extract data from RAM. Of course it's more of a proof of concept than anything else, but it does show some inherent vulnerabilities in our systems.

http://jamesfarrugia.blogspot.com.mt/2015/10/the-volatile-se...
This isn't a disruption story at all - these boards are, basically, cheap bath toys that parents pick up for their kids on Saturday morning before they head to the beach. I think they are great for beginners who don't want to spend money before trying to learn how to surf, but the reality is that most people buy a "real" board almost as soon as they learn to stand up. Also, these things are flimsy - even if you wanted to keep using it after you learn to stand up, the odds of it snapping in half within a few weeks of heavy use are pretty good.

I'm not saying they're bad - they are great for beginners, but the market for custom boards isn't really going to get hurt all that much by these.
What about Azure Service Fabric [1]?
It seems a bit different that it doesn't even require you to have S3* /database storage. You have access to in-memory distributed and resilient data structures [2] right in your code.

They seem to provide Chaos and Failover tests (à la Netflix Chaos monkey but out of the box.)

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric/

[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/ser...

*or Azure S3's equivalent
You install lodash globally, and can then use the above line to use the module inside repl..
A formal type system that works for Scala.

More generally, shifting from term rewriting to operational semantics (i.e. proving interpreters correct) seems like a big improvement. Instead of working in a completely different semantic domain, we work in one closely allied to our implementations.
You can buy $50 snowboards at Walmart, but it's nothing that should be ridden outside of the backyard.

You can find bare boards for $75-$100, and bindings and boots for around $50.

So yes, to some extent it's already happening in the snow industry. I doubt it is going to get too much cheaper than it is now.
I'm going to have to disagree with your point about banking applications based on my experience (~15 years) in banking IT and security.

Whilst obviously Internet facing apps are treated with more caution, it's definitely not true in my experience to state that there are no security demands on internal applications. I would expect that most/all banks these days realise that there's no such thing as a fully trusted network...
Looks like customers are pretty angry. You have to wonder why companies won't spend a few extra days and dollars actually asking for some opinions before just shoving something into the App Store...
Or you can be a stray dog living on the street being just aggressive enough that people don't bother you, but you aren't being killed because you're protected by a treaty for humane treatment of animals and your numbers aren't dwindling fast enough because people aren't spaying their pets and the government doesn't have enough resources to spay every stray. You also learn how to appear cute and harmless when hungry and how to jump on a table, grab a loaf of bread and run at over 30mph uphill.
This is great. I've wanted to start a project in Rust but I'm hesitant since I haven't found any profiling tools akin to VisualVM. I'd feel a bit blind writing multi-threaded code where I can't see what's going on. What do people use to sanity check this sort of thing?
This reminds me of college professors calling homework assignments "homeworks". Initially, these professors were all immigrants from India, but the usage spread during my years in grad school. I wonder if this is evidence of a cultural shift at Microsoft caused by hiring so many H1Bs or even influence from their tone-deaf CEO.
What a great project! The author should do a talk about his experiences. I searched for something like this on YouTube, and only found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_-TRvbo54Y.
Of course, that doesn't rule out that some folks might.
Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent in Fortran and Assembly Language
Traditional Haiku must evoke a season. Most 'haiku-form' prose doesn't meet the bar. Maybe we need another name?
There's no stream on that URL because the stream isn't currently live. The event starts Tomorrow at 4pm EDT.

Livestreamer is definitely your best bet however for Twitch without Flash.
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Thanks. Wasn't sure as the chat is live.
> Given what Google has already demonstrated, its more likely we will see fully autonomous within 5 years.

Really? I thought that Google's car doesn't work in bad weather (and it say so in the article too).
Get a browser plugin (like Styler for Chrome) that lets you add custom CSS/JS to a page. Then write a line or two of JS to fix the problem yourself.
Nice to see you chiming in. I picked up the 2nd Ed years ago and filled in a few of those "Oh, that's what they meant" gaps that looking at a complete/optimized/bummed implementation didn't explain for me. :)
> Mazda has a ~$1500 tech package option on the Mazda 3 with CAS.

I cannot figure out how you'd order that from their site. Even grand touring (S or I) in the Mazda3 doesn't appear to offer a tech package at all.

> but saying they're the only manufacturer that makes it within the realm of your average joe is a big stretch I think.

I concede that. It is an over-statement. For around $25K there are slim pickings, but if you have up to $35K (which is common for many people buying cars), then there are several systems to consider.
Code reviews focus on small things because they occur after the code is written. Major design changes at that point are quite expensive.
I think the article misses the point, while its secrecy may hurt other people from benefiting from the investment they have made in AI, it doesn't hurt Apple. Its almost the perfect prisoner's dilemma right? Apple defected and everyone else co-operated so they got the most benefit?

As a strategy I have observed that people with too much secrecy lose out on innovations that people outside the process could illuminate, but as a strategy it has a history of helping the company employing it stay ahead of the game. Look at Google's secrecy about its data centers, had it gone public with that stuff when it was done, perhaps 2 trillion kwH of power could have been used to do something else if other people had adopted those things. But instead it just helped Google grow faster and do more with their stuff. Is it bad for Google? No. Bad for the rest of us? Perhaps but we don't know one way or the other.

So when Apple's efforts fail to produce a competitive product, then I think you can say its hurting itself, but until then I'm sure they see it as a competitive advantage.
How about "17 syllable zingers" or something like that, no?
Interesting stuff, thx for the links.
I am looking to switch banks because of this.

"Major bank redesigns app using webviews. Horrible results. They spend $8.8 million a year stadium naming rights."
https://twitter.com/erikkerber/status/659915412629381120

"@usbank just released one of the worst iOS app updates of all time. They should roll it back. So bad I think I'm switching banks."
https://twitter.com/johnmfoley/status/659881696792285185
Reactive is "things happen, I don't need to know, async".

Right?
Yeah, let's just sit here on our planet, posting cats on the internet and wait for the next extinction event.
Pepper spray? Are guns outlawed in Canada? Why not just shoot it on sight?
Of course I understand that the auto industry is not literally in Detroit, but the fact that the auto industry is constantly referred to by the name of the city they ruined is...upsetting to me.
The stream is offline (it starts tomorrow) so livestreamer won't find it now.

I'm not on Linux ATM but Twitch moved to HTML5 video a while ago [1]. You should be able to watch it in Chrome. Firefox seems to show a black window for all streams because of a JS error apparently.

I uninstalled Flash a while ago (and turned it off in Chrome) and have been watching Twitch with no issues.

1. http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/07/video-player-controls-now-in-h...
How would you know if it did?
Maybe if you have one of the NFC capable ones and your phone is capable of that (admittedly there aren't overly many that are) and implement it properly (no Windows phones do, apparently, reducing the target device list still further).

Of you your device supports keyboards via USB OTG, though none of my current devices (an Android phone, a Windows phone, and a Windows-proper tablet) seem to recognise a yubikey plugged in this way (at least the tablet and android phone recognise normal keyboards, the Windows phone I've not tried)
To elaborate, by default Rust programs are entirely statically linked (dynamic linking is available with a compiler flag), though with a single dynamic dependency on libc. This means you can compile ordinary Rust code into a single executable and run that executable on any machine with a compatible version of libc (which is fairly universally available, so not a problem in practice).

If you want no dynamic dependencies whatsoever, then Rust supports linking to musl, which is an implementation of libc that's designed for static linking.
> He didn't even get it there with natural technical talent.

Being able to make a professional-grade app at 17 is natural technical talent.

Most people at 17 can't even pass the AP test or build an application that is truly useful.
At least on Ubuntu, vi is really VIM:

zck@zck-desktop:~$ vi --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 2 2014 19:39:32)
I have no problems with the inhumane treatment animals in the name of keeping humans alive longer and in better health.
Drivers disapper from the map when they pick up a passenger, so if the researchers were able to see cars fleeing a surge area, the cars were empty.
I wish they'd list the coordinates. I think I found some formations, searching for the "swastika" near Urpek village. In the upper left corner there is a bunch of green dots similar in size to the ones in the square, etc. They look like gardens.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0857785,65.2126098,636m/data...
> Believe me, I'd love a language with a really flexible/optional functional type system, better metaprogramming facilities, a better concurrency design, slightly more consistent syntax, etc - just as long as it is still easy to think in and convenient to use like Python.

As someone who, among dynamic languages, dismissed Perl quite a while back as not as useful as Python and Ruby, I'm starting to think Perl 6 may be the language that hits that spot.
I think apple has failed miserably to create a competitive product w/ siri, and I expect them to be far far behind google in other areas like cars.
It's not that leaving would restrict your social life so much as that FB enables a much looser social network to coordinate. I'd stay in contact with my friends, but I'd see a lot less of what my friends-of-friends and acquaintances are doing. Those more distant social interactions are less valuable to me, sure, but there is some value in them and there are a lot more of them.
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Better: Auto-Type. That way it's never even in the clipboard.
Ummm, no. I don't deny different forms of logic.

I'm telling you that you can't know anything or say something is rational or irrational with conventions of logic.

I'm also pointing out your treating laws of logic like laws (yay! I commend you for treating them like laws), but you are coming from a worldview that doesn't allow for laws (boo! inconsistency!).

This is where materialists bow out because they don't want to dig too deeply into their presuppositions.
Plus, you can make "hybrid" tables in PostgreSQL that have some fields in separate indexable primary and foreign key columns (or other uses, as needed), but remaining fields shoveled into a JSON CLOB "column".

The E/R information between tables remains exposed and enforced, but the content details can be made fungible where desired. There is an extension to include JSON fields in queries, as well, though it won't be as fast as using a real column with an index on it.
Pedestrians are subject to traffic laws. And perhaps some self-driving cars will be equipped with paintball dispensers.
Yeah they cancelled my order. The price (of a few cents) had been assigned by a software error. Amazon was most apologetic for their inability to ship the item, and compensated me with a $10.00 voucher.

On a related note, I found a copy of Adele Goldberg's 'Smalltalk 80: The Language' in a junk shop for 50 cents. When I checked Amazon, the listed price was over five thousand dollars (due to automated bidding bots from rival booksellers).
I'm going to create a programming language called Mildew. Stay posted.
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Compared to what is available on Mars, Earth counts as a local resource for living in LEO.
Doesn't the energy market already react exactly the same way? When the price gets above the cost of production for method x, produce for method x, increasing the supply.
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Being able to handle a large self-referential data structure automatically is never cheap. So, you need to either have complex GC, a manual approach, or leak memory.
This is what scares me most about self-driving cars. The "last mile" of making them self-driving is by far the hardest part (Google's engineers have stated that they're at least 10 years out, and that is admittedly an optimistic estimate), so I think this is an era we'll be stuck in for quite some time.
Re: From the linked Twitter: "Don't feed the trolls."

I personally don't have an opinion on the quick release and am happy to just use the LTS but calling the developers "trolls" seems unnecessarily harsh for people voicing a reasonable concern, even if they were just misinformed.
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Yes, but is it evolution or simply adaptation within an existing framework?
You're right. They are indeed web shortcuts.

But that doesn't change the fact that they show up as apps in the Launchpad.

Even worse, as I just discovered, they can't be deleted from the Launchpad! Neither do they show up in the Applications directory! WTF!
Wikimedia V. NSA: Another Court Blinds Itself to Mass NSA Surveillance
This is pretty much Apple's MO since early on. They're a business heavy company that has a different twist on marketing.

They have done some "somewhat" good things. (I.e. webkit) However, at the end they haven't followed through with it. (I.e. parts of Webkit were broken, they've refused to work with the community etc) At least with Google you're getting the benefits of the Google services and libraries that may not be their own products. (I.e. Guava, Dager, Guice, GWT, Angular, etc)
Found this really wonderful series of math stories.

It reads almost like poetry and is highly informative for non math geeks like me.
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Thanks!

Best advice ironically is to buy one of these $99 boards and try it out. Watch other people. Check out beginner videos on YouTube (I know do exercise routines for surfers from there).

Ah, and super important, is to find a beach that fits your level of expertise. Go online and look surf reports of beaches around you. For a board like the Wavestorm (that floats a lot and is easy to paddle in) in a beginner setting, you should look at waves around 1 to 3 ft for the first months. It will just be fun to fall (and don't be discouraged if you don't catch anything the first three or four days you try).

I go at least once a week now (sometimes three, but I have reduced that a bit since shark season started).

Have fun!
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