skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really nice. At a street corner the rider could just look at where she wants to go next.. no need for steering.
> It turns out that there's a pretty easy fix for this. People have to start caring how the money they're accepting has flowed through the economy.

I don't understand how this is "easy". Money doesn't become evil because of how it was earned, that's just an overly emotional way of looking at a system of transactions.

> Money is power. Anonymous money prevents you from choosing which power you'd like to submit to. Decentralized money prevents governments from restricting power. Let's keep the decentralization and remove the anonymity so you can reject power you find undesirable.

That's ridiculous FUD. Consider people donating to WikiLeaks or similar, where the sender might not want a record of where they sent their money. If the source of the money is anonymous, there's no "power" involved. Nobody can force you to do something under the pretext of "but that's what I paid you for".
I actually just use aliases, it feels like this DLite/dhyve is more of a hack.
Ah, that's what Home and End do? Different from the browser. Like I said, I never use them for programming.
I'm skeptical that's a significant factor, because right-populists seem to be gaining even in countries, like Denmark and the USA, which have a large portion of mainstream media and politicians hostile to mass immigration. In that case, immigration opponents can't claim that nobody takes their concerns seriously, or that you're not allowed to criticize mass immigration, because many mainstream outlets and figures are doing so. But the media support seems to if anything just help their cause: years of Fox News harshly criticizing illegal immigration from Mexico feeds well into Trump's strategy of doing the same thing, but with the rhetoric amped up a few notches.
I always wondered why games like Euro Truck Simulator never tried to use real geo data (not necessarily street view, but just accurate streets, shapes, cities and distances) for their games. After all, trying to rebuild a miniature europe seems like a dead end at some point and, maybe I'm alone with that, but using real world times to drive from Amsterdam to Berlin on a realistic route feels way more interesting to me.
> But this could happen with any device that is controlled by software.

Absolutely not. This kind of lazy, defeatist attitude towards failure is a huge problem in the software world.

There should have been checks that handled when the server (or anything else) became available with a contingency already in place to fail safely. Ideally, some of those checks should have been outside the area affected by software updates, such as in hardware.

As software moves into more and more areas that are traditionally thought of as hardware developers need to realize that in some areas bugs are not acceptable. Ever.

// sigh - do we need to get the terac-25 report out again?
Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (1961) [pdf]
I can see this as a new feature for gyms
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There is no evidence he was actually working with a neural net.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120717041345/http://sch57.msk....
I don't like the audio with all the coughing and the mic picking up at times all kind of "smacking" sounds.
Well, yeah, I guess, but you can at least see what is going on and whether or not there is need to fork it.
OProfile: Full Linux Profiler
Our Hands Are Tied Because of This Damn Brother-Sisterhood Thing
Encryption-at-rest help all that much, no.

What do you need and what are you worried about? A local git repo backed up to Tarsnap is pretty secure and unlikely to lose your data, but may not fit your needs.
Without types, IDE's can't perform automated refactorings

This is your obligatory reminder that the entire concept of automated refactoring was first developed in a dynamically-typed language.
Building realistic looking modes of the real world is a lot harder than building graphics in games like that looked, the last time I played one.
Their first tweet is hilarious:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CIA/status/474971393852182528
You must have had a bloody field day with all the moaning about chrome and firefox climbing the numbers.
Twitter's darkest hour is now
Also, Python is getting header files (called "stub" files), like C. In most modern languages, such as Go and Rust, that's all handled automatically by storing type info in the object files. But in future Python, that will be manual.

Stub files are not mandatory; type annotations can be in the same file as the code. This is perfectly legal, for example:

def add(first_value: int, second_value: int) -> int:
return first_value + second_value

Stub files exist because the syntax support didn't exist in earlier versions of Python, so if you write a library that supports older versions of Python you ship a stub file rather than causing syntax errors for a subset of your users.
Michael Moseley and the BBC are doing some great work challenging the status quo recently, especially with diet.

If you're able to access iPlayer where you are, the programme he did on fasting is well worth a watch if you have an hour spare.
You can also use Docker on AWS. Just use it as a target "runtime" for all your environments.
Having type annotations that are ignored at runtime would cause problems when you interact with code without type annotations, no?

I seem to be doing this a lot in this thread, but...

This is your obligatory reminder that several statically-typed languages actually run on dynamic-language runtimes, because programmers don't like to think about the cost of polymorphism/generics, but implementers have to think about that.
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Singapore has the death penalty on drug possession and is a very safe place in general compared to the US.

There might be more Asian states fulfilling the statement (Thailand?), but this was the first one which sprung to mind.
So that would mean telling Docker to setup a container to model the configuration on AWS on all my environments, correct?
I converted it to MP3 and did lots of hacks. :-)
How about a cybernetic creature that is 30% Minsky? Is it much worse then current approach - passing down DNA and spending 18 years on training?
> For Leila, the results were very different. Whereas pasta was "bad" for me, it was fine for her. Yoghurt was good for me, but bad for her, and our responses to bread and butter were also complete opposites.

(Note: "bad" and "good" above refers to "high-GI" and "low-GI", respectively.)

Another interesting anecdotal observation from my acquaintances: our relationships with food differ significantly. While some people simply like to eat (like myself - I find great pleasure in food and seemingly can't ever get enough), others simply don't find such enjoyment in eating - food tastes good for them, but not particularly amazing, and they don't seem to perceive the same amount of Freudian pleasure from the feeling of fullness. Interestingly, this seems to correlate highly (and again, anecdotally) with our life-long struggles with weight - the first group has to be conscious not to eat too much (and put on too much weight), while the second group consists of mainly skinny individuals, some of whom struggle putting on weight.

So the "goodness" and "badness" of food might have completely different base levels across population!
Scientists gave praying mantises tiny 3D glasses to test their depth perception
So this is where you enter a slippery slope from web page to application.

Developing a webpage and adding progressive enhancements to HTML elements is a strongly advised best practice with numerous advantages.

Developing an dynamic application at the complexity of say Photoshop it would be absurd to have a static HTML file with behavior decorated by JavaScript, or try and offer a fallback. Whilst you could in theory perform you photo editing with form submissions and round trips to the server I am not sure it would be worthwhile (I did actually create one circa 2004).
Both your statement and your parent's are probably true. Extended forced isolation is incredibly psychologically damaging. Likely more so than being forced to interact only with "hardened criminals".
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The full study is much more interesting:
"We devised a machine-learning algorithm
that integrates blood parameters, dietary habits, anthropometrics,
physical activity, and gut microbiota
measured in this cohort and showed that it accurately
predicts personalized postprandial glycemic
response to real-life meals."

http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)01481-6.pdf
Neat-o. My searching didn't turn up that link for some reason. Thanking you kindly.
I'm not sure I would prefer the bad taste of an individual to the bad taste of the masses. The bad taste of the masses is at least more democratic.
I think the main issue that most people have with aliens is that we kinda expect that if they exist (which scientifically and religiously they should) and they have the technology to have found us and interact with us (possible) they would have subjugated us or annihilated us by now.

The fact that they haven't suggests that either they don't exist or that they haven't found us.
Very easily in fact: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...
And at the beginning of the multi-touch revolution, while Apple was releasing the iPhone, Microsoft was still busy developing Surface (now PixelSense) - an 80kg, 50x50cm coffee table cum multitouch screen. Really.
So I agree with you, it seems that impressive products of Microsoft research look like proofs of concept rather then viable mass products.
Thanks very much for the thorough explanation :)
I bought my Note III when it came out in 2013 and have had constant support for it from Samsung. Google dropping support for their own device in their own platform really does not speak well.
That works as well, with a really small glitch which I'm not sure if it's present on the real hardware as well. I think my emulation of sprite limits is correct.
Code.google.com was shut down, Go packaging is broken
I don't agree with capital punishment at all, for a number of reasons that I won't get into here, but I can at least see a reasonable case being made for it. But public hanging? In what way could that possibly be good for society? If regular capital punishment doesn't work as a deterrent, I can't imagine that making it public would do much better.

Although after seeing public hangings the will for capital punishment in general would probably drop sharply, so maybe that would be a benefit. Seriously though, the idea of public hangings is barbaric.

I don't disagree with you as far as not locking people up for things like drug use though.
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It would most likely not do anything at all. As the Rubik's solving algorithm should return null (if not stuck in an infinite loop).
You (and I) might have that baggage but the new 20 somethings at work have a very different view of Microsoft.

Their view is of a company who makes great games and consoles and a phone that no one wants. Show them Active Directory, Office365 and they're a little taken aback that Microsoft does other stuff.
With all the data that Foursquare has on places worldwide, I was actually expecting this to do more than ask my friends to build a list for me.
I have a lot of time for Michael Moseley, but recently his "Trust me, I'm a Doctor" TV show has been falling into the same traps as the medical establishment, making concrete claims based on the flimsiest of evidence.

In a recent show one of the presenters (admittedly not Moseley) claims "The good news is that we have shown that Olive oil really is good for us", which was a ridiculous claim based on the evidence presented.
How much of the hg revset functionality could be implemented for git, without writing any C? Is the revset feature basically a DSL for specifying queries, and are the queries thus-specified ones that have direct analogs in git and can be done in git using git's API?
Volkswagen Golf's facelift coming this March
The Illustrated Stephen Hawking BBC Reith Lectures
SRC (RCS reloaded) 1.0 is released
This. Absolutely this.

It's ironic how many people claim that Mercurial is simpler, when actually git is much simpler and more elegant. You don't need named branches, bookmarks, extensions, and all that stuff. Just a graph of commits. The core of git is beautifully simple.

I don't know what's more frustrating-- people who think DVCSes need to be really really complicated, or people who endlessly complain over what color the command-line bikeshed is painted.
Really awesome. I'm all for more tinkering with VR. I hope Unity Engine's Linux client will get out of beta soon. A setup of Android based phone, viewer and Linux based 3d Engine environment would be pretty cool. I think there would be tremendous value in actually teaching "low cost tinkering" classes. We have a lot of expensive gizzmos at our university (Oculus DK2, ReactTables etc.) but at the end of the day I feel a cheap solution that you can take home and play around with would be superior form a pedagogic point of view.
Have you tried mlocate? It has a much more sane updatedb, reading only the changes to the filesystem.

https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/
Also living in Switzerland, I've noticed a scary involuntary alliance of journalism with what you might call the US-style conservatives (which is right-wing to far right-wing here):

Critical journalists who tend - by a variety of factors like age and education - to be on the more 'left' side of the political spectrum write a large amount of critical articles about those various conservative initiatives, like the one mentioned above. The attacked parties gain an incredible amount of publicity and they've taken the tabloids as their "publicity hostage".

Combine this with the diffuse resentment of those readers/people not feeling represented by government, those conservatives easily win at elections and votes - even when some of those initiatives are in clear disarray of everything the country stood and stands for.

I always think of Woody Allen's "Bananas": By tomorrow the official language will be Swedish (same as Switzerland ;) ) and people have to wear their underwear on their heads. But at least its against the establishment.

The death of those sometimes outrageously stupid political ideas could be easily achieved by simply ignoring them and their pundits. This might force the political players to get back to actual problem-solving concepts and lead to healthier debates in the media.

But then again, maybe that's the wrong approach.
Also, it would be a great idea for fun exercise if this technology could be used to make multiplayer cycling games (think Mario Kart, but on bikes.. or maybe Road Rash) that allow people of varying fitness levels to compete, race, and get fit while playing.

http://zwift.com/
This happens in pigs and other livestock. Animals are specifically bred for their Feed Conversion Efficiency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio). I don't see why something similar couldn't happen in people as well.
Some users report Medium is blocked in Malaysia
Physics as a field doesn't have the same pressures and people aspiring to it as intelligence military analytics.
If you don't want to read the whole review, this paragraph is a fine summary:

At this point I would normally continue to run our PCMark
and GFXBench battery tests. Unfortunately, the Pixel C's
software makes it incapable of completing either of them. I
made five attempts to complete PCMark, which took a great
deal of time as the test runs over many hours. In all cases
the tablet locked up during the test and required a hard
reboot. It may be possible to eventually get it to
complete, but I didn't feel that it was worth delaying the
review further in the hopes that I could eventually get the
Pixel C to complete the test properly.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9972/the-google-pixel-c-review...
Zwift and Bkool already have offerings in this area. Zwift is outstanding.
A quick `bundle update` appears to be just the ticket:

…
Installing rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.3 (was 1.0.2)
Installing actionmailer 4.2.5.1 (was 4.2.5)
Installing activemodel 4.2.5.1 (was 4.2.5)
Installing activerecord 4.2.5.1 (was 4.2.5)
Installing railties 4.2.5.1 (was 4.2.5)
Installing rails 4.2.5.1 (was 4.2.5)
…
Bundle updated!
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Forthcoming OpenSSL release announced
The Go authors had a pretty good article on what's wrong with Java's performance : pointers everywhere. Every last little thing that isn't a primitive type is a pointer. Everywhere, in every bit of code.

That means a "new Object()" takes up 16 bytes (8 bytes for the object, 8 for the pointer to it). That means you fill a cache line by allocating 4 objects, or 2 objects containing a single reference, or ...

So in java you should never program a line drawing loop by using 2 vectors, because 2 vectors, each with 2 32-bit ints take up 82 (2 pointers to the objects you're using) + 82 (overhead for the objects) + 4*2 (the actual data) 40 bytes of data. No way you can fit that in registers and still use registers to actually calculate things. So instead you should use 4 ints and just forget about the objects, and even that will only work if you never call any functions.

Same loop in C/C++/Pascal/Go/... using structs takes 8 bytes (they don't keep structs on the heap), which, if necessary, fits in 1 register (granted, in practice we're talking 2 registers, but still).

People might reply to this with benchmarks, but if you actually analyse the java code where java beats or is comparable with C/C++ you're going to see zero object allocations. You're not even going to see them using bool in the extreme cases, rather they'll bitshift into ints to effectively generate packed bools (certainly in SAT benchmarks). This is not realistic java code, which would have been way slower.

Java's memory model is the main culprit at this point in time. Java can do incredible tricks with programs, and actually exposes them, enabling lots of language creativity on the JVM. But there's a pretty sizeable cost in speed and memory usage.
What's your job title again? I'm a Front-end User Experience Developer
Monitoring high performance Python apps at Opbeat [audio]
Israel, for long-term monthly payments, mostly rent. Thanks to checks, I pay rent every month, but see my landlord once a year.
A related story featured on HN a couple of days ago [1]. I'll echo JonnieCache and recommend Jordan Peterson's lectures [2]. If you are concerned about investing the time in an entire lecture, check out the video "Dragons, Divine Parents, Heroes and Adversaries: A complete cosmology of being" [3]; it gives a high level overview of the content contained within his lectures. I believe 'Personality and its Transformations' (2014 series) followed by 'Maps of Meaning' (2015) to be the best approach, though I haven't yet had a chance to listen to the 2016 releases.

Jordan has uncanny ability to piece together observations on human behavior with science and mythology; expounding humanity's nuances, ticks and everyday common behavior through the lens of ancient mythology, evolution and ideas and theories by notable psychologists and philosophers.

Keep an open mind while listening, but also be prepared to think critically about many of his assumptions and assertions as Jordan takes a number of 'educated' leaps (and demands you follow) in regards to published studies and what they may infer, but the leaps are never illogical - just yet to be soundly proven.

Overall, listening to these lectures truly was a transformative experience for myself.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10941363
[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqONu6wDYaE

edit: linked this story and not the previous one.
Sure, Taiwan is funny that way. But I'm trying to figure out what it is that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have in common that causes you to label all 3 of them "microstates", but that causes you to exclude, say, Belgium or Denmark. I'll await your reply as I watch the sun set over Taipei.

Edit: HN won't let me reply to your reply below, which I'll take as a hint that I should stop arguing. As your first post was limited to Asian microstates, I agree that I shouldn't have thrown European countries into the mix. I still question the "micro-ness" of Taiwan, which is more populous than Hong Kong or Singapore by a factor of 3 or 4 (and not quite as wealthy), but sure, whatever.
Does making the py recursive miss the point because py isnt guranteed to be immutable?

def sum(list):
if list:
return list.pop() + sum(list)
return 0
Yeah, there are a lot a lot of people in universities wasting time and money while trying a make a name and career for themselves. I once studied literature, have you delved into the amount of BS people will write about Shakespeare just to come up with something original? Academia is an industry too.

But you know, a common ancestor who imparted the wisdom of ye olde wurld on to generations to come, like a LotR type sceanrio, that's not making the square evidence fit in a round hole. /sceptic
Will he be able to actually do something or will they all block each other so nothing changes? Won't the Tea Party find out that less solitary confinement will utterly destroy the U.S. and make it totally Un-American?
Yes. I had not previously noticed this. What a disaster.
Apple as a model for how to produce slick software? Once upon a time, perhaps -- but these days, surely you jest! The quality of their software has become abysmal. The latest versions of iMovie, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, on the App Store, have a median user rating of one star. Tasks which I was routinely doing with those applications, 5 years ago, are now impossible. That's an intolerable situation.

Not saying you're wrong about Google, though. I'm sure the Pixel-C problems are quite real: I encountered all of them myself, when my Moto-G was essentially bricked by the update to Android 5 (think 10-to-30-second lag on every keypress).

These frustrations with my Apple computer and Google phone are almost bad enough to push me into the arms of Microsoft... or would be, if every interaction I had with Microsoft products didn't immediately show them to be even less competently executed than Apple or Google.
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CyberFox and general Firefox forks
I'm in the process of switching from Chrome to Firefox and I'm wondering what FF forks are worthwhile. Default Firefox seems really bloated and clumsy nowadays (especially compared to Chrome), not to mention the Australis interface which I don't like much.

I've heard about Pale Moon, Ice Dragon, WaterFox. Currently I am testing CyberFox and it seems responsive and quite light on resources, and also has a portable edition. However, its webpage (http://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com) doesn't feel particularly professional (typos like Dreamsceens, overall interpunction, grammar). These kinds of things always raise a red flag for me so I wanted to ask if you had any experiences with CyberFox, can you reccommend it etc.?
Awesome, I'll check them out :D
Thanks for the recommendation :D
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" (and as news came out, they are doing)."

Can you point to any link on that ?