skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You got me there!! The state that gets 75% of its electricity from hydro leads the way!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plant...

As of today, there are still 50 states to go, plus the rest of the world. Better sell your beachfront property. Time"s up.
Why didn't they do an audit before making the purchase?!
What features does SML or OCaml's type system have that Rust's doesn't?

Haskell has higher-kinded type parameters and Idris has dependent types. But SML and OCaml don't even have typeclasses at all, much less higher kinds.

Furthermore, what makes Rust's type system interesting isn't just its use of regions (which the ML Kit used); it's regions combined with inherited mutability plus the borrow check to maintain soundness.
Surely stolen goods still belong to the original owner. Why would they need CF to give it back?
You would of course need to include the externalities associated with the manufacturing of solar panels.
You don't have clue what you are talking about.Read and listen to serious scholors instead of wasting people times in HN.
It can be worthwhile to bless a set of libraries. Even if it seems like it can be done unofficially, it helps to have it done "officially", at least, from the point of view of a newcomer to the language. Haskell's getting some mileage out of that sort of thing, lately, starting with the "Haskell Platform" and lately moving into Stack, a blessed set of packages that are maintained in certain snapshot sets and guaranteed to compile together.
Officially, the API is only open to "a select group of customers".

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/203585145-Ro...
Did it really all get built? I listened to her on Desert Island Discs recently [1] and it seemed that quite a few of her designs won competitions but then got cancelled.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0713rtr
Yes, and it's a huge pain! We have to pool game object instances, and sometimes even have to attempt to force GC to prevent things from freezing every few seconds.
Of course you will. Now the trick is to find a 7-dimensional bank to cash it.
Is XGBoost Really 10x Faster Than H2O.ai for GBM?
The download page there has me downloading Xamarin Studio. How do I get just MonoDevelop?
Shouldn't #1 be out of the box these days? You'd hope it'd be included in the standard library. Do any of the standard library sets available for OCaml (e.g. Core, Batteries, etc...) have Unicode support?
This one is compelling.

However this might not have caught the error condition described upthread. That condition might have overwritten data or moreData without touching s1 or s2.

Otherwise, great!
Well, consider that the conditions are quite a bit different. With conventional power, you have a small number of sources (plants) and relatively slow, predictable swings in demand. Things like temperature changes throughout the day, or the end of rush hour and resulting spike in entertainment electronics usage.

Contrast this with solar, with a large number of much smaller sources, and on top of the large predictable swings in demand, you add rapid, unpredictable swings in supply to the mix. That is a very different problem. It's solvable, just not using the same techniques and equipment that worked before.
I know Standard ML, and yes, it has eager evaluation and modifiable references. I've learned to appreciate lazy evaluation and purity, so those have little value to me. I miss parameterized modules, as Haskell's modules are strictly for namespaces. But I'm pretty clueless on the delta from SML to modern OCaml, so maybe I've missed out on valuable developments.
This is REALLY bad advice. Yeah, the high-flying finance firms will pay big bucks for Physics or Math majors that can code and think quick on their feet, but you have to be REALLLLY good to get into those firms, and those firms hold CS to the same level anyway.

If you want to become a software engineer, get a CS or CpE degree and do whatever you want as a minor.

Some anecdotes:

* My girlfriend got a Math degree from a good, but not Ivy-league, school with a minor in Physics. Turns out that the market doesn't value a B.S in Math as much as one would think. She landed up becoming a teacher, which she likes doing, but it's a field that's really hard to get out of without resetting your career.

* I went to school that had a cooperative education program. All of the engineering students were eligible to participate. Twice a year, the Co-op program had two days in which hiring managers from local companies (my school is in Hoboken, so local == NYC) would come to the school and interview people. We would put our names and majors on the lists that employers had, and they would select the people they wanted to speak with.

The CS and CpE students would always, without fail, get AT LEAST 7 interviews that day. Every other major would be lucky to get 2 or 3.
Microsofts AI bot became a Nazi
Which release channel are you on, and do you have e10s enabled?
Magic: The Gathering Meets Continuous Delivery and DevOps
For concurrency, Ocaml's spinoff Jocaml (based on joincalculus) works exceptionally well.

It got a lot of attention on Tim Bray's widefinder benchmark:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/30/WF-Result...
Even folks well versed in the English language have trouble defining the two words (ethics and morals) in relation to each other.

I'm guessing the earth will melt first.
Coincidentally, I had dinner with someone at the weekend that worked with her. He said she was brilliant, but a horrible person to work with. I guess she had a bit of the Steve Jobs in her.
That's news to me. AFAIK, the meaning of "organism" is inextricably bound to the concept of life, which in turn is inextricably bound to reproduction. But please do enlighten me: what is this established meaning of "organism" that has nothing to do with reproduction?
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Projects such as Ionic Framework that build upon Cordova will still remain popular becuase they appeal to front-end web developers with Javascript skills. However, Xamarin is a great fit for Windows web developers that already work with C#.
This has always been a big challenge for me with SQL - programmatically composing queries, filters, etc. has been 1. very difficult across the board and 2. very function-oriented rather than data-oriented.

I still hold out hope for a datalog-to-sql layer, someday.
Compare rust head to head with Haskell and and it will come out of that fight sporting some serious bruises. But Rust's lifetimes are a genuinely interesting idea that you see nowhere else when people start discussing sophisticated type systems
I bought a $15k system in 2013, and if current trends continue it will have paid itself off 7 years after installation. I was interested in solar purely as a means of reducing my carbon footprint; I was surprised to learn that it had already become such a good investment, too. I'm glad to hear that the numbers have continued to improve.

(I could have gone bigger and come close to covering all of my household power needs, whereas the current system gets maybe 60% or so, but I'd have had to cut down the big old cedar tree which shades part of my roof, and that just seemed like it would be missing the point somehow.)
Not real-time, but yes, kind of. Add `--stream` to the command. Here's an example of it rendering every second: https://share.esdf.io/log.html

It is displaying the log file for my share.esdf.io domain (with IPs masked). I may take that link down in an hour or two if my puny server gets hammered.
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Dutch government to only allow electric vehicle sales starting in 2025
Does anyone know how this power/neuron compares to the brain? I know the brain requires a lot of power. The typical person's brain uses 300 of 1300 calories burned a day. One would think muscles burn it all. This power usage is why evolution didn't give any animal more intelligence than it needs.
This project hasn't had any discussion on HN for a long time, so we changed the URL to the home page from https://blog.phalconphp.com/post/phalcon-2-1-0-RC1-released.
Players in Eve Online are at war, here's what we know
>If something is illegal to own, then there should be no difficulties charging the owner with a crime.

Owning cash and fancy cars aren't illegal. These laws were suppose to make it easier to stop drug dealers where large amounts of cash were common place.
[TensorFlow] High Level API. Easier Neural Networks
C# is not different enough to Java to warrant the effort. There would need to be a killer differentiator, something only C# can do, and Java can't. Cross-platform including iOS might be it, but it's a bit of a stretch. I don't see C# displacing Java where Java is currently used in server-side development.
Worldwide, yes. In the US, not even close. According to the actual EIA report[1] (see PDF pages 15 and 16, table ES2) US government subsidies for fossil fuel power generation are a drop in the bucket compared to renewables subsidies. Solar alone gets more subsidies than all fossil fuels combined.

If these are the numbers that fed into the $557 billion and $43 billion[2] then it appears the US is responsible for a trivial amount of the fossil fuel subsidies worldwide and over 40% of the renewables subsidies.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf

[2] I know the numbers in the report are for 2010 and 2013, while the big numbers are for 2008. I'm assuming the other numbers have scaled similarly since then.
Thanks for explaining this. I was struggling to understand Erdogan's tactics. On the surface they seem simply idiotic: the Streisand effect is hardly news, so the result of protesting this video is utterly, utterly predictable whose been paying attention to the world at any point over the past 20 years.

But however much I might disagree with Erdogan, I know that he probably isn't actually be an idiot: people who can grab and hold that much power rarely are. Your explanation of how he's manufacturing this kerfuffle for a domestic audience makes a lot more sense.
Have you tried Crusader Kings 2? It's a strategy game which tries to simulate all the people from courtiers to kings all with their own motivations.
It's enough to give me the impression that MS and other tech companies (Google, Apple, Facebook) are leveraging superiority in certain areas (with user experience and UI being chief among these) to try to ram privacy invasions and other very undesirable features down the market's throat.

Why? Some suspect a government push behind the scenes, but personally I think the answer is simpler and more economic: that data is extremely valuable to advertisers and advertisers are willing to pay a lot for ultra-fine-grained targeting services. Sure governments can piggy-back on all this to implement panopticon type surveillance, but the primary driver is demand for user data in the private sector.

The new business model of the tech industry is: give away free stuff and use it to productize the user. Maybe MS is extending this model to developers. (Facebook too with things like wit.ai.)

OSS can't compete. The problem with the OSS ecosystem is this: a product that works is only 10% done. The other 90% is making it work well and making it easy to use. It's not done until I can use it in minutes, not hours or days, and that takes a lot of painful work.

An example hit home for me today:

Today I was evaluating Microsoft LUIS and wit.ai and I realized that for simpler use cases a lot of what they do could be done with OSS like the Stanford Parser. The problem is that to make those work I'd spend at least a few days just getting that ball of twine up and running, let alone figuring out how to represent my app's intents and entities and such and actually get to something useful. But with LUIS or wit.ai I can do it in minutes to hours and have a ready to go app.

It's incredible. I can get natural language command and control in minutes!. The catch? Facebook or Microsoft get to mine every single bit of data I send and get a strong degree of lock-in.

There are OSS alternatives but they'd take days, weeks, or months to integrate... therefore they do not exist.
I had a similar idea but couldn't convince people on my team to try it out. Glad to see someone is trying this. Adding a SaaS model is a good idea.

Have you tried switching out parts of a page? I tried switching react components in an admin interface. It took into account the user id, so in some cases, the user would get a 'customized' UI.

I had trouble tuning the data to make the output actually useful, so the project has been shelved for now. Hope this works out for you guys.
I agree. There are too many cases in the city where innocent people have been shot for no reason and nobody is punished.
Its Build 2016 right now, just in case you didn't know - its why there are so many dev-centric announcements.
I thought about it, but it would bring this outside of the scope of a weekend project :) Besides, gotty might be better suited for that task: https://github.com/yudai/gotty
>If everyone hates it, you've probably made the correct choice

That's why I'm a Visual Basic Rockstar Ninja.
I can run a $10/mo linode box, but then I need to deal with

1. Scaling up
2. Scaling down
3. Actually managing the box itself

If what you're making is compute focused, then this kind of thing is a godsend. I want to write code to do some processing and have a team of magic elves handle all the hardware related stuff.

The other advantage is that I can price things really easily. One call == 23s processing time on average. How much do 100 users making an average of 100 calls each day cost me? Running my own boxes means I need to consider reasonable waiting times, peak usage, speed of scaling, etc. With something like this/lambda/google's version I just go cost_per_second multiplied by 23 multiplied by 10,000.
MLKit
I have created a starterkit package to get someone's new opam switch prepped quickly. https://github.com/fxfactorial/ocaml-starterkit See it for cool gifs/images.
This thread overly focuses on algorithms, which are not necessary for the majority of coding. What is necessary is the ability to handle abstractions, purity and regularization of thought. Mathematics, Philosophy and Writing are just or more applicable as a skill than being able to please an Online Judge.
This one bothers me every time. Other parts in the library provide a checked and an unchecked variant to achieve the same. If you put in a hardcoded string, you know it never fails.

BTW I made a (almost religious) habit out of ensuring that everything I touch is encoded UTF-8 or can be converted to that as I have been bitten several times hard by unexpected encoding stuff. Therefore, the above problem catches me pretty often.
I don't think they are that different. Even romans had multiculturalism. Tolerance was not invented in the modern West.
I was learning react native, after this I will try Xamarin.
Much better to be able to use c# (that I use for work) than JavaScript.
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A few weeks ago I started learning OCaml via Real World OCaml. However, I became concerned when I discovered that there are multiple competing "standard libraries" and that there are also two different competing async frameworks. It looks like work is being done to ensure that the async frameworks are interoperable, but the existence of various standard libraries is worrisome to me.

In particular, while the one used in RWO (Core) seems very nice, it looks like its use of named parameters is via some kind of syntax extension (edit: not the case; see LeonidasXIV's reply). This seems to be a pretty large difference in approach, and while I can appreciate the reasons behind using named parameters in Core, it makes me worried about writing code that might have to interact across different stdlibs.

As such, I've decided to hold off on learning OCaml for now until resolutions to these community issues can be made more clear. But perhaps I just prefer the Python approach, and that may not be the same objective as those in OCaml.

Edit: Actually, the nail in the coffin was probably when I found a web framework that I wanted to use, but then the author explained why he was removing support for both of the async frameworks and going with only one of them (the one that RWO doesn't use). And then the other main web framework I found also used non-RWO async... :(
Fine, if my use of evidence upsets you, happy to change it to "known" - since everything I stated above in the comment you're taking issue with is public knowledge.

Second, are you aware of what I mentioned, or you just whipping around HN expressing your opinion without any effort; if so, that's bit above trolling in my opinion.

Lastly, given your username, if you have any affiliation with the government, law enforcement, etc. - in my opinion that should be disclosed in a comment on related topics.
> "Postmates is limiting the free deliveries to orders over $30, which make up about 50% of the orders"

1. I guess as a single person, I don't fall in this 50%. I never have orders that large, which makes this service something I'm obviously not that interested in. They should have made it appeal to all 100% of their users, like Amazon Prime. They could have made it so it was free delivery based on just select places where it made sense. Why cut off 50% of your user base for the subscription service?

> "..free delivery on all orders from over 3,000 Plus merchants..."

2. This is incredibly misleading. "over 3,000" has to refer to their entire market because here in Chicago, I've only ever seen about 10-15 places that show up in the "Plus" section. That's a pretty limited amount of restaurants in the "Plus". That list has also only changed maybe once or twice in the months they have had "Plus". And it's a very small variety (of honestly, not that amazing places). I wonder with the addition of this service they actually end up beefing that number up in their various markets because right now, that stat is just marketing fluff.

As you can see on my two points above, I'm not sold this is going to play out anywhere as well as Amazon Prime did. I bet they see a pretty slow adoption rate on this until they make it much more compelling. Or I also assume a lot of people are going to sign up for this only to be disappointed by the lack of options I mentioned in my 2nd note above. They are definitely marketing it in a misleading way.

Also, it's worth mentioning that Postmates has one of the worst custom support teams I've ever seen. On two separate occasions I have sent an order issues support ticket to never get a response back. Which was even more frustrating when it said they always get back to you within 24 hours after I submitted the issues. I had to eventually complain about it on Twitter before I finally got a reply from them. Quite the bummer.

EDIT: I do want to add a quick note to this. While I'm very critical above, I do indeed think Postmates has the best UX and app of the similar services available. Once they can just iron out some of the kinks I mentioned above, I think the potential of the service is indeed high.
I'm not sure it changes much of anything privacy-wise: The merchant already has your PII; they're just keeping payment data up-to-date.
The future of advertising is probably represented by the advertorial that then makes it harder than ever for journalists to actually criticize their patrons.
Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visualization platform
> He also splurged on the very best fake Twitter profiles; they’d been maintained for at least a year, giving them a patina of believability.

> Sepúlveda managed thousands of such fake profiles and used the accounts to shape discussion around topics such as Peña Nieto’s plan to end drug violence, priming the social media pump with views that real users would mimic. For less nuanced work, he had a larger army of 30,000 Twitter bots, automatic posters that could create trends. One conversation he started stoked fear that the more López Obrador rose in the polls, the lower the peso would sink. Sepúlveda knew the currency issue was a major vulnerability; he’d read it in the candidate’s own internal staff memos.

I've been wondering when more sophisticated Twitter sockpuppetry would start having an impact. The media seems generally unprepared for a coordinated campaign of fake tweets from accounts that don't have eggs as their avatar or #freeiphones in their profiles...I don't mean just the trend of "Hey 3 people said something on Twitter so it's a story", but that there's also not enough skepticism paired with efficient ways for sniffing out fakery on social media. I hadn't thought about the problem of a mass army of bots suddenly creating a trending tag.

It reminds me of "The Agency", a story published last year investigating how Russian operatives allegedly used human-controlled Twitter spamming to try to publicize a fake story of a Louisiana chemical plant explosion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_...

But as sophisticated as that sockpuppet campaign was...it was obviously destined to fail by the fact that an exploding chemical plant is fairly easy to confirm as true or false in real life. Trending opinions about politics don't offer such binary ways of filtering.
You are the only one bringing up race here and steering the conversation towards it. To me it seems obvious that the problem is their culture (islam included). It just doesn't lend itself to blending in with a liberal western society. The multicultural dream is that you can put people of completely different backgrounds in one place and they will naturally form a progressive utopia. The reality is less ideal - thus far I have yet to see the mutual benefits from all this needless friction.

I don't see the problem with making the statement that most of the terrorists in Turkey are Kurds, when that is the case. It's not an irrelevant statistic, it's indicative of some problem somewhere. The Moroccans in the Netherlands are nothing like the Kurds and Turks though - there is no (historical) feud, they simply came here and never changed their ways. In my opinion the responsibility to adapt lies with the immigrant, not the host. The only things I fault the native Dutch people for in this case are their naivety and short-sightedness.
If you want to talk about lazyness, I'd have to refer you to the discussion between Robert Harper and Lennart Augustsson in 2011 on Robert's blog.
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I think it's awesome you had the courage to admit that here. There's nothing wrong with just working a job from 9-5 to fund your passions. Programmers tend to take offense at it though, for some reason.
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>That would be an interesting point in the argument if true. Can you substantiate that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

in 1986 reported civil forfeiture assets were $93.7M

in 2010 that figure was $2.5B

"Over 12 years, agencies have taken $20 billion in cash, securities, other property from drug bosses and Wall Street tycoons as well as "ordinary Americans who have not committed crimes."[31] One estimate was that in 85% of civil forfeiture instances, the property owner was never charged with a crime"

emphasis mine.