skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain in more detail what you are asking?

In general, the Android/ios apps have their own file formats and then have a PC tool for generating those maps. It's relatively trivial to feed a shapefile into those generators (install GDAL/OGR and convert to a format the tool accepts), but there is not really a standard schema in use in shapefiles so it is also necessary to map the attributes in the shapefile over to something the app will understand (or to provide a custom style to the app that is based on the shapefile schema).
It's curious you don't find this author biased.
OP appears to be interested in scientific papers, and may have stumbled upon it. This is unlikely to be astroturfing and more a side-effect of the recent interest in Star Wars and its associated marketing push.
>Depression is not Facebook's problem any more than it is Budweiser's problem, or Ben & Jerry's problem.

Dunno about that. I can avoid beer and ice cream or buy them at my own pace but due to familial, work, and social obligation I pretty much MUST use FB. My feed is a lot of hot cause celebres like the debunked Clock Kid or outrage political articles with questionable facts. Its overwhemling and I can see it driving people into sour moods if not aggravating depression. Its an endless chorus of extreme negativity. Hell, I think how much poorly sourced and biased political junk you post on fb is a character judgment and its sad to see how many of my acquaintance fail this basic test. I just want to log in to see whats going on professionally or see people's baby or vacation photos.

Worse, FB is gamified to produce these results. People crave likes and just cater to their audience, hence the political crap and other negativity. There's a lot of work in this field and the FB guys know how to exploit people's desire for attention and validation.

>IMO, this is more a case of social media bringing deeper problems to the surface than social media being the actual cause.

As technologists, I think this kind of attitude is especially dangerous. Our products cause harm. Lets stop pretending they don't.
Thank you for this write-up of your experience. Many of the things you describe ring true to me. I left Facebook in 2013 because I didn't want to support their dishonest business model. Although I had a vague sense that Facebook may not be healthy, my plan was to return once they would start offering payed subscriptions. I want to pay for a clearly defined product and be able to ask my money back if it's not doing what it is supposed to do. Today, I understand that payed subscriptions will never happen, but I also experienced that my life is better without Facebook for many of the reasons that you described so eloquently.
Interesting to note that Soundcloud terminated the BCR account in October. Fortunately they finished transferring their archives to Mixcloud that same day.

https://www.facebook.com/berlincommunityradio/posts/51486844...
I had high hopes for OwnCloud. I set up a server to manage my home backups and found it to be far too slow for my needs.

It was estimating over a year to sync a directory that was about 180 GB in size. That's just not going to cut it.
>The ridiculous political bun-fight infects everything, it seems. It's a mental disease.

Thanks for providing an example of the political toxicity the OP was talking about.
Almost every metro system has two tracks for the majority of the length. The New York system is very unusual.
Try being a daily rider. It's miserable. When things go bad, they go very, very bad.

The BART sucks too, don't get me wrong. But the DC Metro is simply AWFUL compared to NYC, and it has far less tracks to maintain.
This is going to be interesting to watch.

In my entirely not-a-lawyer opinion, this could be a great opportunity for the court to clean up some of the problems with our current patent system.

Or they could deny cert and do nothing for a variety of reasons. Either way will be fun to watch play out.
The entire premise of self-hosting is SELF hosting. Internal network, no operational, day-to-day necessity for Internet connectivity post-install.

If I install such a product, it's because I want total control over my data and the terms by which I access it. Being forced to use Google/Github/email as auth goes against that.
Yes you are right. In fact, a simple work around, before Elasticsearch coming out with this feature in their 2.x releases, was to review mappings and what goes in Elasticsearch. And we got careless about that and shot ourselves in the foot. We learned it the hard way.
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Some debris is completely normal when the engine is first being started and breaking in. This is true for all internal combustion engines. That's why some designs use magnets to capture the debris and shavings.

That said, this debris was probably more substantial than shavings.
>Those posts garner a lot of likes.

Except they don't. I see political garbage like outrage pieces from some liberal rag or some conservative website garnering all the votes. Everyone gets outraged, argumentative, etc. Facebook is like an eternal thanksgiving dinner with your overly political uncle.

The baby photos, vacation photos, etc are the ignored content here.
It is actually a lot worse than that article suggests. There is a history of big government software projects which proved practically impossible to complete on time and on budget or to get them working at all.
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The amount of revenue coming into the water department doesn't matter for getting financing?
I wrote sh for this very reason http://amoffat.github.io/sh/ This lets you use a programming language, instead of a shell language, to solve programming tasks.
reddit karma to BTC. reddit basically pays you for being a good actor on their sight and not trolling. This benefits reddit since people will want to come to the site to read the insightful comments.
I wanted to see what Flint looks like, so I dropped the little yellow streetview guy randomly. I ended up on Asylum Street (!). I'm at a loss for words:

https://goo.gl/maps/UuPPKQK5MoF2

https://goo.gl/maps/KunFSxxRFWA2

https://goo.gl/maps/yg1NH6ZMkFJ2

https://goo.gl/maps/xVi2n8muHV32

https://goo.gl/maps/pAQEyZSAEw92

https://goo.gl/maps/ssGZRAdiQak (memorial garden?)

https://goo.gl/maps/B2waNiVfeut

https://goo.gl/maps/8Wx2gQ6z8up

https://goo.gl/maps/nAY5Kb73PkM2

https://goo.gl/maps/kTqzqGXQqmF2

https://goo.gl/maps/xWkvXRdACWR2

As a Swede, I guess I didn't really realize how bad things really got in parts of the US. The last 50 years is just one crisis after another for this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint%2C_Michigan#History

To me, there's something really heartbreaking about abandoned and decaying houses. It's all too easy to imagine the hopes and dreams that didn't play out they way they should have.
It takes a lot of fuel to deorbit something in a controlled manner.
But articles are meant to be fully read, not only the title.
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> This situation might have been less crippling had Metro’s original architects built an additional track. The older systems in New York and Chicago both have four in places. Here, it was deemed too expensive. As a result, 40 years later, the only way for trains to bypass active work areas is to single-track around them, worsening delays.

It's incredible how short-sighted the D.C. Metro planners were.
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I just took a look at the Map of Michigan. I realized after zooming into Flint to try to understand where the water was coming from that Michigan has many, many bodies of water scattered all around the place. Plus they are right next to the world's biggest lakes.

And yet they never took care of their water supply? The one state with so much fresh water has little regulation on keeping water protected.

I keep wondering why its been prophecied that the world in the end will wage war over water, not oil. And now I am beginning to understand.
So in ten years time someone is going to kill someone and blame it on the lead he was poisoned with when he was a kid. What would the just result be in such a case?
I'm also a DC area resident and I agree with your analysis. Fortunately, I have an easy commute out here in the suburbs and use Metro mostly on weekends and evenings for non-work trips. But even then, there are times I drive in because it can be quicker and the trains run so infrequently at night that it can take a long time to get home. I like a lot about the Metro, but the maintenance issue has become a serious burden. And I agree that the multi-jurisdiction issue is a big part of the problem.
That's good, because we've only got the one. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
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I think a general comment that goes hand in hand with this list is: don't expect someone who has released open source code to be supporting you. If you are using extensive open source code in your (money-making) project, acknowledge that by helping out or making donations.

Open source is a two-way street. If you just take, and especially if you have an attitude of entitlement, that is the fastest way to burn your bridges with developers who are providing you with tremendous value.
As a kid I had many big Lego sets but not Mindstorm. I always enjoyed building those. Recently, I bought Mindstorm set to play with. I don't see it much different than regular Legos. Only difference is programming part but you can always download pre-built program and just tweak a bit.
So Flint has failed to govern itself - hardly the first time - and now children are poisoned. The city apparently now expects the rest of the country to pick up the tab for the cleanup of their mess.

At some point it should become necessary to recognize and acknowledge that self-government has failed and must end. I'd suggest some form of a city death penalty - declare the city dead and give the locals a one-time offer of relocation assistance to an approved list of better places. The city government, and anyone who remains, are officially on their own.

We've known Flint (and many similar cities) are doomed for decades. Why do we keep them alive as zombies rather than just help the humans and let the municipalities die?
I know many may not think SUZE ORMAN is right on everything but she used to always say "People who feel less than spend more than". Facebook may be thinking the same things as this would help their advertisers.
I've had a Square dongle since they came out and were free, but only used it a few times. I've used Square Cash perhaps a dozen times between friends. Most people seem to have it, but its use is still fairly uncommon. Part of it is that, at my age (mid-30s), typically there's no reason to send your friends money. It's handled for payments for, say, travel expenses.. but typically if it's just a meal, we either split the check the 'old' way or someone just picks up the tab.
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If you want feedback on the quality of your shells cripts, shellcheck is a great tool. You can run it locally or use http://www.shellcheck.net/

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
I would definitely set up 301 redirects to get the user to the new domain but from for concerns purely about duplicate content, the canonical tags should be sufficient enough to prevent page rank damage.
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If someone were to develop an open-source replacement firmware for a baseband chip, the hardware project could use that chip but ship with the manufacturers firmware. It would then be on the users to reflash if desired. I doubt the FCC can do anything about that, people are already doing this with the TI Calypso replacement firmware.
I was actually wondering if assistive techs like this might make people more likely to signal, as there's a slightly negative feedback to departing one's lane without doing so first.
Ask HN: It is worth to add to PJON bus network communication functionality?
Hi there, I defined some years ago a new multimaster communications bus system protocol Standard for embedded systems. After many successful tests transmitting through conductive materials, including the human body, radio waves and light I have released its first implementation for Arduino boards: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON and its wireless (433 Mhz radio) version: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON_ASK

Protocol Standard "RFC": https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/wiki

I now am receiving request from users and contributors to write a new protocol on top of PJON with the concept of connection, and the capability to route a PJON packet from a bus system to anotherone through a router device, connected to both different communication media.

This could theorically enable the possibility to use this "on top of PJON protocol" to build an opensource distributed network of embedded systems.

What do you think about it?
Well I suppose if there were an "anti-liberal" that hadn't yet evacuated Flint they would blame the exclusively Democrat government for their obviously malfaisant administration of the Flint water supply.
Domoticz and OpenZWave are actually way more powerful than Razberry, and I'd highly recommend investigating that so that you don't need to keep updating your own controller. Domoticz also has a pretty good scripting (lua) support built-in, so you can automate stuff in a really simple way.
I guess the article waffles between subscribers and views, because subscribers are worth a lot more when you're negotiating product placement money. So I guess the analogous question is: Say 100,000 people are interested enough to notice every time you put a song out. Is it plausible that collectively they decline pay you enough to make a living?
Probably, but your ability to process the information is severely limited to someone who has be trained on how to do so. And I'm not saying that your doctor has been trained to do so.
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That's the one I'm going to read then. Cheers.
I agree it is a fun project.

The I'm unlikely to use a tool like this is because I find the exercise of updating the codebase manually an important. Really understanding how and why ES6 syntax can clean up your code and how to use it properly.

Also, how many times do you get such a good opportunity to re-factor everything? This is a great excuse. Make it better, not just ES6ify.

Finally, improve your regex by updating certain elements of your code. A good example is moving all var statements to let across whole codebase, and then finding cases where you can 100% use const, and replacing all of those.

I've done this update recently (as have a lot of people) and it was great. If you do it right, you should delete more code than you add, and avoid numerous bugs by using const.
#fear
Well, do keep in mind the origins of the Metro itself- I've talked with older residents in DC who remember when Metro was being built people were terrified it'd bring the problems of the inner city out to the suburbs; remember that it was being planned/built in the late 60s/early 70s when DC was a much more violent and scary city than it is today. This is what led to the system being inefficient and weirdly laid out in the first place.
Last year a team of people crowdfunded, bought some radios off eBay, and took over a decommissioned NASA satelite.

http://observer.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds...
The way I try to understand it is that the US is about the same size as the EU, has the same magnitude of population, and generally has less interest in equality of its citizens than EU countries. So there are parts of the US comparable to all the parts of the EU -- rich countries and poor ones.
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> can't figure out what the type of (car '(x y z))

What? (quote (x y z)) is a constant expression denoting the value (x y z). We know statically that its car is x, of symbol type.
This is my first car with the ultrasonic parking sensors; they're nice to have for sure. I won't know the corners of the car as well, but, frankly, today's cars are getting harder than ever to see out of anyway, so likely I never would have been as comfortable in a new car.

Also, part of "knowing the corners" of your car implies at least some gentle contact at some point in time, which it's best to avoid entirely.

One of my favorite features so far is rear assist, which is able to detect oncoming cars as I'm backing out of a parking spot. The bigger the car the more useful this is. It doesn't tell you when you're 6" from a vehicle, it tells you when there's a vehicle traveling at speed further away that you're about to back towards.
I agree here, though I personally wouldn't trust a single doctor to him/herself be able to parse, as you say, the research.

Research is written at a peer level and most doctors are not trained or don't care to know how to interpret the results of research. Not to mention that the vast majority of research is extremely specific.
Why should the Michigan state government care about this? Flint is a bunch of liberals, and the State government is Republican.

The Snyder administration will certainly pay a heavy price for "giving free handouts" to the Democrats in Flint, all to remedy a problem that many Republicans don't believe exists.

EDIT: wording
Every argument FOR this is made moot by the fact that you dont have to register ultralights...
They could be. They should know if they buy water from Flint or not. If they don't buy water from Flint, without having looked into it, I would not expect the same pollution in ground water and the river.

It also seems to be the case that the lead is coming from residential pipes:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-spotlight-Flint_wa...
The one tells you, "Go see a doctor" and the other one tells you very little, if you don't know how to interpret what it's saying.
This isn't as surprising as you might think. Roger and Me isn't a documentary, it's an editorial. It's actually used in film classes as an example of creative editing to make a point. I'm not saying that Flint isn't bad, but Moore did pretty much everything he could to make it look as bad as possible.

The feeling of most folks from Flint I've spoken to is that Moore made a disingenuous "documentary" about Flint not to raise awareness, but to make a buck. It's understandable he's not lauded as a hero.

I also think it's unfair to characterize the reaction of some residents of Michigan to a controversial figure at best as "Michigans backwardness".
Can this be the social platform of the future?
And not far from Flint, the city of Detroit now has the world's largest collection of urban ruins, even greater in size and quantity than Rome. Amazing, truly, what you see in that part of Michigan.

I lived 2 hours away from there in Central Michigan from end of 2008 - 2010. One of the sadder experiences I had was, one day while out on my daily walk around the neighborhood, there were a mass of people standing around one of the houses. I walked up to see what was happening, and the entire house and all of its contents had been abandoned without packing; little kids toys scattered on the floor where they played, wheel borrows, brooms hanging in the garage, plates on the kitchen shelves -- all being auctioned off one after another. They were literally taking them out of the cupboards and off the floor and an auctioneer (presumably hired by the mortgage owning bank) went down the sad road of dispensing of everything to anyone who wanted it.

And actually there were three auctioneers -- front yard, back yard, and inside, gradually dismantling an entire family's life for anyone to see, and participate in.
L-train capacity was increased due to Sandy renovations of the tracks and switches, not just signal improvements. Same as G.
TL;DR (though you should read the whole thing) - they've spend $100k+ dollars and just launched a free app with some IAP filter upgrades.

The article starts with saying how hard and crazy it is to build and an app and then runs through the empirical experiences as just why that's the case.

However, I think there's a flaw in the initial idea here where the level of difficulty in pulling something like this off nowdays is just astronomical.

I've been using the 3Axes framework [1] for evaluating ideas like this and this just seems incredibly difficult to execute on profitably.

Very consumer focused, more a tool than a done-for-you service and really no pain that it's solving.

1 - https://medium.com/@mbuckbee/the-3-axes-of-startup-difficult...
I took a tour of the tunnels with my High School science club while the system was under construction. It was fascinating and I learned a lot about why they made the decisions they did. Tunneling for Metro was staggeringly expensive and having a third track would have greatly increased costs. The rails of the Metro are 1/4" closer together than standard American gauge, to reduce the side-to-side motion of the trains, which have standard gauge trucks. This allowed them to make the tunnels just a little bit narrower and saved millions in tunneling costs. But, clearly, this does complicate maintenance.
16 Psyche is the most massive M-class asteroid in the Sol system. It has mass ~2e19 kg, which could be reworked into a spherical iron shell 100m thick with outer radius ~1400km. Rather than fill up the whole interior with incomprehensible machinery and bottomless pits, I'd just put everything interesting near the surface shell, rotate the whole thing at 40 minutes per revolution to get some decent artificial gravity in the equatorial region, put the spaceports at the poles, and use the big empty space in the middle for the boron-11 plasma containment and proton beams. Panels on the inside surface of the shell could convert charged particles from the center reactor into electricity.

Skip the big weapon. The propulsion system is your weapon.

It's a good thing Earthican engineers can use stories received from distant galaxies as cautionary tales on how not to build non-planetary habitats.
"Once you've got the coveted federal job you're happy to live in a basement 20 miles from the city on your entry-level pay tier because if you can just grin and bear it long enough you'll be almost guaranteed employment for life. Those employees can, do, and will continue to use Metro despite every problem it has because sitting in their car on I66 for an hour is not a viable alternative."

This is completely true. Let's also not forget that these employees quickly become unemployable in any other sector. They are literally trapped in the region, because most of these jobs are simply a part-time task for a single worker in the private sector, or completely automated. This further drives up home prices, because even if you hate the area, you're going to buy whatever you can afford since you know you aren't going anywhere.

DC: The weather of Philadelphia, the home prices of the Bay Area, the traffic congestion of Honolulu, the hostile to newcomers attitude of Seattle, and the not-so-bright but got rich off the system anyway culture of Wall Street.

What a place.
it's not really necessary to have a long form let's play video to assess the gameplay anyway, but just going by what I see on youtube, I don't think nintendo is actually enforcing that rule there.
There must have been some papers on it, but I lost a track. Will try to dig out something.

Meanwhile, you can take a look a my implementation of such a mix: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase/tree/master/src/l/...

An example of a grammar built on top of it: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/clike/blob/master/clike/... - see the `binary` nodes there, they're translated into Pratt while all the others are Packrat.
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A lot of the Midwest US looks like that. When I clicked the links I thought was looking at Northern Indiana.
Not seeing where economics has a play in this. Other than people allocation their resources for unnecessary alternative uses.
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