skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has a lot more to do with protecting their buildings from angry invaders

Well, time changes. We no longer face the threats of the barbarian hordes of northern Europe but we have modern day speculators that will torn down anything for a profit and not think long term.

And again with the culturally valuable. What is valuable today might not be years from now or viceversa, that's why deciding what should be protected usually requires quite a lengthy process.

> Can you imagine not having Independence Hall today because historic preservation statutes decided to preserve all the historic Chestnut Street homes that were torn down for it?

Or having it two blocks up from the current location? But listen, I'm not arguing that everything should be preserved for ever. And I don't know any preservation society that thinks in those terms. What I'm saying is that deciding what gets preserved and what does not is a tough call and a very complex issue.

You asked where's the evidence that historic preservation, as a whole, matters. I'd argue its pretty evident. Yes you are right when you point out that the system can be abused but that doesn't diminish the importance of building preservation initiatives, specially in country that has a short history.

Also, no such thing as survivor bias when applied to hypotheticals, for obvious reasons.
Hey Ar7hur,
Awesome Bot Engine - thanks. 2 questions, if I can:
1. How much of an inspiration did the Telegram bot API make on your dev team?
2. What's the NLP back-end for it and what are your plans for duckling? I forked it a while ago and was going to add some languages I know - would that be useful?

Thanks for an awesome product!
Sites like http://noisetrade.com/ recognize that the majority of artists' best chance at a steady income is on tour, so they give away the music as promotion.
If you guys want to start soft with some small dosages of mdma at home, I definitely recommend you to spend some time watching Daft Punk videos on YouTube, you won't regret that! It will a be somewhere in the middle between sweet, smooth, nice and brainfucking!
You won't forget the music and the mood for long...
Design and UI look great. Honestly I'd prefer not to have to cycle through a bunch of videos when they don't seem to add much value. In fact they may even lead to certain biases. That's the whole reason why HN is just walls of text. It's easy to digest quickly.
I agree, but again that's for new code. Many times you'd be going in to an existing codebase like he mentioned. Especially in the areas he mentioned like Financials, HPC, or Compilers. You might get away with Games because even though the engines are reused the code is mostly written to be thrown away to make it faster.
Hmmm. Does he even reference the fact that the SF Bay Area was the recipient of massive amounts of government and government contractor money?

And what about the free-wheeling, non-traditional culture (embodied in the Homebrew Computing Club)?

These two factors created Silicon Valley. Federal money subsidized the semiconductor boom, which brought a lot of technical expertise to the area. Then the open-minded culture created the perfect environment for entrepreneurship.

It seems like the formula for success is:
(1) Massive exogenous funding (on scale only the federal government can do)
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(2) A highly open-minded culture that accepts failure as an inevitable part of creation.

Honestly, there's just not a lot of places that qualify. Pretty much all of the east coast, mid-west, and south are too conservative. And nowhere is really receiving massive loads of external funding like the Bay Area did in the 20th century.
As you correctly guessed, I was arguing about surveillance warrants and not physical searches. So I am to blame not only for being off-topic but also for causing confusion by not even being clear about if.

For physical searches, I agree with all your points.
Searches are visible and can be questioned if invalid, so there is incentive for good (or at least acceptable) work on both sides of the warrant application. Besides, physical searches are inherently bottlenecked by manpower, so an artificial quota would not improve anything over unlimited warrantless searches, whereas a warrant requirement certainly does.

In the immaterial world of modern electronic surveillance, important things change (invisibility, no natural upper bound, it having so much more utility for illegitimate use than detectable physical intrusion). I do believe that there, unbounded rubberstamping approval could easily reach a level where a blind artificial quota would be the lesser evil.
To add to my previous reply, it has in truth been sad to watch sites like CNN do away with their commenting sections. Now that I hear that Sam Altman - a person with considerable popular influence - has openly chastised debating, I am becoming worried about the presence of a trend.
I've been looking Rust with good eyes and I want to be using it in my future projects in College. But how easy would it be for developers to "give up" OOP for a more safe and up-front language like Rust?

I mean this as a serious question, cause I see C++ being used instead of C thanks to its multi-paradigm capability and I don't know how Rust could fight that for now.
Filled out the form. Definitely excited to get into a CD environment, rather than the 1-2 deploys/day that I've been exposed to in the past!
IS There a Inshort for windows?
In the city, yes, absolutely.
Now if you go out way into the suburbs and the country....well..they don't call it the bible belt for nothing...

Note: I'm not knocking on Christians..I am one myself. Just saying a lot of the people out there are not as accepting. However I have found a larger percentage of "nicer" people here than in other places I've lived.
"nicer" is hard to define in words though...so I'll leave it at that.
That would be good too actually, although I can't recall any IT failure causing 100 000 of people to consider their life has been ruined by it. But still, we are responsible.
Is there an inshort for windows?
Not GP, but I would assume:

> As of the date of this report, Uber has not received a National Security Letter or FISA order.
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This is pretty common (albeit unorganized) in India. Would be helpful if a platform like this is used for organization/one stop shop kind of thing. Like others have mentioned, this might come across regulatory issues in the US. Maybe not so much in developing countries.
The Geothermal plants in Iceland are amazing to see. The tech is still quite new though. There are many improvements that will make them more efficient. Regardless, they are really really cheap to run.

I would imagine that drilling deeper will would allow for Geothermal plants in more places in the world.

Here is some background info on the poor economics of nuclear power:

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

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power
Hah - you are right! Somehow I skipped reading the big "Sahara" at the top and read the actual text, and looked at the image. I never read the "title".

Mea culpa - I was wrong.
You edited it to leave out my qualifier about people who qualify for a transplant list. In most cases, you are talking a serious and somewhat drawn out health crisis. If they weren't rich before it started, they are very likely dirt poor now.

Health insurance in the U.S. is all kinds of messed up to begin with.

Also, if you want to defend your remark with "just tossing out ideas", hey, that's a two way street. Anyone reading your remark and thinking it sounds like a good idea is also being told by me "I am someone with a vested interested and informed opinion. If you want to help people like me, do something else. Don't do this."
The longer you take the further away it will be and the range of the lasers is only so far. The average speed during acceleration is 0.1c so if you take 2 days it would be 51 billion km away which is out of range.
Yes, but Dallas fails abysmally on the urban livability and density test. It's one giant exurb. Much of it should be reclassified as a rural area.

(Speaking as an Atlantan -- we have the exact same problem.)
No guarantee, right. Just past experience. But even if there's no big payoff at the end, I'd argue it is important for the identity building process of a community or a nation. If 100 hundred years from now gov't finds out it has a worthless building, they can torn it down then.
This is a lot of fun. The default dataset is too easy, though, try out the Swiss Roll one!
50M years of work could be lost to anxiety and depression
So could I have social engineered a 10 year old MTGO account? Yes. But without it, I would have been locked out. I was NOT going to remember some stupid passcode kid me set on a game account.

And apparently I am the nacho King.

What are the chances that you'll remember it in the future? You're already two years into remembering it for the next decade after you found it out again.
Well hang on a second. Shouldn't we at least let this play out so we see what exactly the data was, what their criteria for giving in to the requests were, etc?

Or is there something immediately shocking about this besides the numbers?
The best metric is essentially "deaths per terawatt hour." From what I remember, nuclear has an extremely low 0.05 or so (and that's entirely workplace accidents like equipment falling on somebody...) Solar is more like 0.50, and Coal is something disgusting like ~200.

Everything has its risks, and nuclear is actually among the safest of all energy options. It's just like the irrational fear of flying: planes are concretely safer than driving long distances by all statistics...but the handful of rare crashes stick in the mind more than the everyday reality of automotive fatalities.
You're not really giving up OOP with Rust, traits give you interface abstraction which is most of what you're getting with C++. As I write more C++ I find myself using less classes and more structs + functions that let me decouple my code and data.

If anything I would say Rust is a tad more multi-paradigm due to its really strong functional roots(Sum types!) and nicer treatment of lambdas(no alloc like in std::function).
Anyone want to build a bot with me? I'm playing around with this and it looks really fun.
Thanks! Here is the text: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k...

I worked at Snocap for a while. Like that Snocap wanted to enable indy artists to self publish. But, the major labels wanted to control the "distribution" of their content. "Their" content. I left.

Now, I'm thinking of getting back into it. Maybe enhance live gigs. This talk is really timely and inspiring!
1. None, AFAIK their API is a way to send and receive messages, but does not provide automation. Am I wrong?

2. We use a combination of traditional NLP (CRF NER, maxent classifiers) and deep learning. The "old" stuff needs less data to be trained. We'll continue to support duckling, we always love PRs, please help us!
Teslas can be charged at home at night when wind is available, or at work during the day when solar is available, so they reduce the amount of energy storage needed in grids with a lot of intermittent sources.
Get yourself some content blockerz, yo.
Fully agreed there. It's easy to get caught up in the rat race when everyone around you is doing the same, and it can make you feel crazy to be the only one saying "guys, what are we actually doing all this for?" But ultimately, you can't beat yourself up over others beating themselves up.

Another way to think of it is: I don't like Donald Trump. I think what he does is wrong and bad, and it saddens and angers me if I let it. But, if I hold true to my beliefs, then he's just another part of the universe playing itself out, which will continue inexorably regardless of how I feel about it, so there's no sense in getting mad about it.
TransitFeeds – Public transit feeds from around the world
Per the article, the 12 million records were disclosed to "regulators", not law enforcement. From "transparencyreport.uber.com", it looks like the primary consumers were California (~5M) and NYC (~3M), followed by various other cities, states, and airports.
Wouldn't that only work if the object did not rotate at all?
With the Messenger platform being opened up today as well, are there currently plans to provide some kind of boilerplate integration between the Messenger api and the wit.ai HTTP api?

Been playing with the Bot Engine all day btw - great product so far :)
is that a feature of Route53?
The vast majority of the requests are by 'regulators'. Anyone able to provide info on what that actually means?

Edit: Could the link be changed to the actual Uber post instead of the almost infoless Reuters article? After reading the actual report the regulator stuff doesn't worry me too much.
You could write a note on the sail to any aliens at Alpha Centauri asking them to call back.
Seattle's already doing fine. Any more of the SF-like tech-bros and I'd have to run screaming somewhere else.
I don't really see what OPNsense has done too much differently, other than commence re-writing the UI in a different PHP framework and Bootstrap it.

To look at it, you're largely looking at pfSense.

I couldn't find a clear map of what has been changed or added to.
You have no idea the ungodly amount of accounts that carders create.
I think you're spot on at 4). Just the other day I gave up on buying music for this exact reason and went with a YouTube player.

This is the service I'm looking for:

A free service optimized at promoting new music, or just random radio. Medium bit rate MP3 ok if 320kbps can be sold for a low monthly fee instead. Spotify is way too expensive for this, use case.

An added value store for those rare gems I actually want to spend money on. For me, most importantly, high quality recordings in lossless CD-quality. For other it might be fan memberships to get pre releases or other bonus things.

To me the problem is he either or thing. Either I have to buy lots of insanely expensive downloads in iTunes or something, and then listen only to that. Or, I can get the opportunity to discover new things in Spotify or tidal for equally insanely expensive service fee, but have no option to keep discoveries besides keep paying said insane fee.
I've only been to Dallas a couple times, but it seems like the soul of the city is in the suburbs.

Downtown seems dreary and dismal; it has the potential to be exciting, it's quite a beautiful area — but so few people! Scattered coffee shops and restaurants, but I felt like I could've been literally anywhere else.
Yup, that's why I say 2-3 years. It's going to take some time.

I also think there's some interesting work to be done w/ language integration so you can drop Rust into Java/C#/Ruby/etc. I think this is actually the best way to drive adoption since you don't need to greenfield it. Tricky part is going to be making sure you preserve the correct lifetime guarantees but I don't think it's insurmountable.
They took those PHP scripts and rewrote / are rewriting them in a different PHP framework, for better, or worse.
The S has a small grill for battery cooling, as do the X and the 3.
I believe that for that particular type of fraud the distinction between people and users becomes important — especially with a product that has a user sponsor new user promotion, fakes accounts are probably common. That could explain the alarmingly large number of _accounts_ being investigated, presumably not as many individuals.
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Apache Storm 1.0.0 introduces batching internal disruptor queue which adds latencies slightly (but with timeout set to 1ms per each queue so it doesn't hurt) but gives huge throughput improvement.

https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/765
There's plenty to complain about regarding Pittsburgh's gray, gray weather, but this up-and-down spring is wildly atypical for the area and not localized to southwestern PA. The same thing is happening in Ohio, across the rest of Pennsylvania, through New Jersey, and into the NYC area - and I'm sure in neighboring states as well.
Likewise, such a spacecraft could survive the inside of the sun.
What do you mean they get paid for music that is played which they don't own the rights to?? How does it even work?
They're so cheap they might run a cable from Iceland to the UK to supply power.

That would be a cable 30 cm in diametre and about 5600 km long.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075pxg8

> The Ice Link interconnector would link Iceland's cheap and carbon free electricity from hydro and geothermal to the UK. It could provide the equivalent power of a medium sized power plant through a copper cable laid under the sea between the two countries. Crucially the power would be reliable and available when other renewable sources such as wind and solar are not. However, as Tom Heap discovers when he visits the land of fire and ice, environmental campaigners like Bjork fear that this green solution for UK homes could create a need to develop into the pristine wilderness of Iceland's Highlands. Should we pursue our global climate goals even if it has the potential to affect untouched and fragile landscape elsewhere? Tough decisions for Iceland and for us all.
Producer: Helen Lennard.
From what I have seen on PH, you are guaranteed best results if the person "hunting" the app is a PH poweruser or an influencer in general.
Ok. 10 minutes then.
> Some people pride themselves on doing their jobs as well as they know how.

And others might become good at never crossing paths with those. Subtleties like wether this is possible or not make or break a desirable outcome.
On my Nexus 4 facebook app takes ages (a few minutes) to update/install. I wonder if Redex "optimization" is the reason for that.
There is a reason why sin(X) is an input property. :p
I was pleased to see Dreamhost (who I use) offering free Let's Encrypt for any domain bought/hosted with them. Quick & easy setup. Would love to see other registrars/hosts do the same.
Not having a git tag for your release would be bad style. Actually, releases should always be tagged in order to make them reproducible. Everyone should be able to see what is in a release.

Releasing software properly means that you actually care for this. Please do not just dump a git repo somewhere and expect distributions to pick up from there.
No. A docker-compose.yml just provides runtime configuration.

In other words, a Dockerfile specifies what you want to build, and a compose file specifies how you will run it.
> My guess? The "next valley" will be highly decentralized and a lot of big cities will act as innovation hubs.

Really? It seems to me like things are getting more centralized, rather than less. I recall reading (though I can't find the source right now -- on mobile; correct me if I'm wrong) that venture capital is more concentrated in the Bay Area now than it was in the dot-com boom.
>Rome has a ton of old stuff that's been reasonably well preserved. Berlin has been torn apart and reinvented. Berlin is doing way better than Rome in terms of startups.

So what city should we bomb to create the next startup hub?

That was obviously very facetious but there was a quote from the eighties or so when the Japanese were doing so well in manufacturing relative to the rust belt. One of the reasons proffered was that the Japanese had to rebuild their infrastructure from scratch after WWII. The quote was to the effect that the problems of American manufacturing wouldn't be solved by dropping an atomic bomb on Gary, Indiana.
Oops… they're showing up on mine too with the blockers ️
I work for a medical device company. We do a lot of things, but mostly blood manipulation. Our products do everything from making a particular day easier for someone, to making more specific blood products available, to saving people's lives.

This job is the best contribution to society that I have ever been a part of, and I'm grateful to have done so.
I work on the Front-end/UX of healthcare/hospital sites across the U.S. My job is to make it easier for patients to find the doctor/specialist/physician they need. It's indirect - but connecting patients to the care they need can potentially save a life or ease someone's pain. I think about that for every website I touch.
Cursing is Right
Yup, and articulated louvers on either side for extra cooling(always fun to hear them open up and the fans go full tilt at 120kW supercharging).
Redex runs at compile time, not at install time.
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Sounds like the book was just sour grapes because the author didn't receive a J.E.D.I. award despite having so much H.E.A.R.T.

Using a 128-slide PowerPoint presentation to convey their culture is ironic at best.
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Well, you sure sound open minded.

If by open minded we mean writing off 26 million people because they live in a geographical area that's different than yours (and perhaps hold religious views, "quelle horreur!"). But what you really mean by "open minded" is "votes for Democratic politicians". And lucky for you, Dallas (just like all of those other bastions of conservativism, San Antonio and Houston) has a mayor who is a member of the Democratic party!

Funny, huh, stereotypes aren't always accurate.
> Well, time changes. We no longer face the threats of the barbarian hordes of northern Europe but we have modern day speculators that will torn down anything for a profit and not think long term.

You don't think those existed in antiquity? Now that is some survivorship bias.

> What I'm saying is that deciding what gets preserved and what does not is a tough call and a very complex issue.

Of course it is. All I'm asking for is to let the decision be made by the people with the skin in the game: the owners. Otherwise you get committees overrun with people who see it as nothing more than a tool to send "fuck you" notices to developers. Without skin in the game, there is nothing stopping them from being abused as an anti-development tool, and to the detriment of our current culture and quality of life.
Can I use Arq to backup disks connected to my airport extreme router? I don't have a desktop; will be installing it on my laptop. Can I schedule when to backup ?
I want to sell my bot which currently people are using for free, where can I do if not in an App Store?
(Wit.ai engineer here)

Thank you for the interest :-)

We haven't released any examples showing an integration with Messenger Platform API. In the meantime, please refer to the Messenger Platform docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quic...

If you have any feedback, please shoot!
I've been using it on nginx for about two months. Was pretty easy to setup and works on most browsers.
Browsers that don't work are chrome and ie on windows XP and android 2.3.7 or older I guess.
Not to mention a couple of top-ten universities located within 50 miles, and other great schools elsewhere in California.
I felt like I could've been literally anywhere else.

Bingo! That applies to 90% of Atlanta, as well, despite some notable exceptions.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but I just want to clarify - lambdas only include dynamic allocation if you convert them to an std::function, right? I was under the impression that 'auto f = []{...}' did no heap allocation, but converting to an std::function could, depending on the size of the closure.
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read the report https://transparencyreport.uber.com/

the 12M users are mostly demands from regulatory authorities

- 6M is California, likely CPUC

- 3M is New York, probably the TLC there

that's how you get the data sets for analysis like
http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...
which appear on HN periodically and are eagerly upvoted

the regulators make this a requirement for Uber to open or continue operating in their respective regions. Uber tries to negotiate a narrow scope for info disclosure as much as possible.

(disclaimer: uber employee)