skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real problem with Facebook and the News is that facebook is using human curators to assert, without challenge, what is "trending" with the other humans and then denying it.

i.e. The real problem with Facebook and the News is that facebook is fucking blatantly spreading propaganda by misrepresenting consensus and then lying about it.
What are you up to now?
Exactly, the proof in the pudding is if the author reruns his analysis a few years down the road with the expected outcome of a dramatic drop in tickets issued in those locations.

Anything else is just blowing smoke (EDIT: on the part of the government agencies)
By "unicode support" I mean here on Windows 10 PC I’d like "git log -p" print to the PowerShell those changed lines + line numbers, like it works with ASCII files.
In practical sense it does because the big content providers are incentivized to work with the common DRM solutions, in order to keep eyes on their product without causing massive headaches for everyone involved. Smaller producers don't have the influence to start putting out custom DRM solutions.

You will probably still have the morons who insist they need some special thing, but that's just standard.
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Yeah. I see what you're saying in the parent comment – even getting this much of a response is a positive thing compared to existing practice, but it's not an overall positive. I suspect they want to avoid a possible lawsuit for unlawfully ticketing legally parked people and hope this blows over because they "gracefully addressed" their (illegal) practices.

A really great response would have been, ”Thanks for contacting us. We realize that we were wrong for issuing these tickets. We will now put in place a program to refund the people who were wrongly issued tickets.”
ISTR a significant reason it died was the .Net platform's reified generics, which made making a language with generics and a type system more expressive than the underlying platform problematic, and especially made it difficult to have something that would be fully compatible with Scala-on-the-JVM.
Why risk parking in a questionable area like a ramp cutout when some streets have an entire extra parking lane (indicated by a picture of a bicycle)?
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Pulling the stick all the way back is the normal stall recovery procedure for an Airbus 330. That's totally different from standard piloting. With the flight control system in normal law, the control system protections will keep the angle of attack below a stall, and will increase throttle to get airspeed if necessary.

AF447 had ice-clogged pitot tubes, and the pilots lacked reliable altitude and airspeed info. Redundant sensors reported conflicting data. The flight control system dropped back to "direct mode", where the control stick (which is a little joystick-like lever) directly moved the control surfaces. In that mode, pulling back the stick stalls the airplane.

Hitting the pilot with a mode change like that in the middle of an emergency was part of what caused the disaster.
Nobody sane would, intentionally. But I'd bet the house on it happening by accident quite a bit.

At a technical level, I like this idea. When used well, it makes sense to allow. It's hard to fault it without bringing in human error, politics, or economics.

At a practical level...

I can't wait to see what happens when a bug allows Facebook to serve this header on all pages, even for a few minutes. The most Facebook dependant folks around, those checking their phones every five minutes, will be stuck in a perpetual time freeze, unable to move forward ;).

I also can't wait to see what happens when a government tries to ban a cache-control: immutable page.

Or even what happens when, someday, Google is selling it's assets and gets to "google.com.". (Someday, itll happen - Google won't exist for all eternity)
struct { char name[30]; } tgt, src = { "Einstein" };
tgt = src;

Since there are no strings, it cannot be true that strings are pointers. They can be arrays, and array sizes are known at compile time. It's just a 40-year old cop-out that we can't copy by assignment all types based on their `sizeof` size.
The chetty paper is a classic. They claim that raising a teacher from -2sigma to 0 adds 1% to a student's earnings.

http://www.rajchetty.com/chettyfiles/value_added.pdf

If you scroll to table 3, you'll see how huge an effect non-teacher quality factors have. Table 5 shows huge specific roles for parent income and minority vs non-minority status.

Perhaps a simpler way to think of it: if teacher quality dominated everything else, then a teacher getting poor scores out of a class of poor black kids, relative to another teacher getting great scores out of a class of rich asian kids, would be entirely to blame. Do you really believe this?
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Awesome, thanks for the quick response.
I agree. Venice was a very viable Civ to play as in V, and there you're only allowed one city.
There's an iOS device attached to my Google account and I own no Apple products
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EULAs are not valid in NL either, and the law trumps contracts. We pay taxes for the right to make home copies.
I respectfully disagree.

An error was identified, communicated, and acted upon as a result of open data. Specifically, it became known that due to inadequate training practices patrol officers were unawares of the change whereas parking enforcement were the only ones trained and therefore were not making the same mistake:

> "When the rule changed in 2009 to allow for certain pedestrian ramps to be blocked by parked vehicles, the department focused training on traffic agents, who write the majority of summonses."

> "Yet, the majority of summonses written for this code violation were written by police officers. As a result, the department sent a training message to all officers clarifying the rule change and has communicated to commanders of precincts with the highest number of summonses, informing them of the issues within their command."

So the issue isn't that police were confused so much as their training wasn't updated because of a system failure (training only traffic agents and not patrol officers).

Further they are taking action to monitor the open data themselves to detect future anomalies themselves:

> "Thanks to this analysis and the availability of this open data, the department is also taking steps to digitally monitor these types of summonses to ensure that they are being issued correctly."

This is a great step forward regardless of whether or not en-mass refund occur.

To me, a refund would be icing on the cake. And perhaps one will happen (hopefully) this post was published today (May 11, 2016) after all.

As an aside, there is also something to be said about the fact citizens should be aware of their own rights and laws. Any citizen could and should have contested wrongly issued tickets.
OP Here. If you go through my blog, you'll see that I have pushed for change from many agencies. Scroll to bottom of article for list. And yes, I will be rechecking.
How so? You can find examples of poor engineering in any language. What's specific about go?
agree. Magento, wordpress and npm come to mind as places where quality is difficult to ascertain and can easily turn a great setup into a brick'd prod server.
Every cow is different that does not prevent them from being treated as a commodity. "In economics, a commodity is a marketable item produced to satisfy wants or needs. Often the item is fungible. Economic commodities comprise goods and services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity

Staff ex:Nurses are generally treated as a commodity in many economic models.

Music/Books/Movies can also be treated like this. Sure, as a consumer I might pick A over B, but movie theaters don't individually price movies based on quality.
OP Here. This is an amazing response from a city agency. In the end of the day, agencies rarely interact directly with citizens. The normal response to someone analyzing your data is to close up and have no comment. The fact that they admit the mistake is huge, and big step forward for Open Data and agency interaction.
I hope this ends up on Our Incredible Journey: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
They admit wrongdoing in the quote.
Another fix would be to let parents choose who teaches their children. Let the bad teachers wither away.
Let's Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw: http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
YC seems to be trying to reach into a number of different areas lately. Maybe they find that they don't have enough innovation walking through their door anymore. Or that they need to go the extra mile to push things forward themselves.
> Collision detection was not designed to work under human supervision, which means when it runs into something, it has failed its design.

From your quote upthread:

> "Digital control of motors, brakes, and steering helps avoid collisions from the front and sides, and prevents the car from wandering off the road."

(Emphasis mine.)

Notice the shift in language from "helps avoid" to "prevents" when describing the two different aspects of the car's thrust and positioning systems. The different is significant and important. It's clear that the systems are a front and side collision assistance system, not a front and side collision prevention system.

You see the distinction?
It calls into question the idea of ownership, too. Do you own a Tesla or license a Tesla?

Ownership implies to some degree, control of possession. Something to chew on with the IoT.
I don't understand. The very nature of experimentation is to figure out whether it adds anything to the process. It's impossible to sit and gestate about all the possible ramifications.

I'm not a snapchatter (snapper?), but hey, crazier things have worked swimmingly. Go Justin!
Particularly knowing that they use those logs against you, openly and to the press.
> Recording that isn't a right, legal or moral

Recording a netflix show so I can watch it later doesn't seem like at all a moral issue, so long as I keep my subscription.

Adding DRM also gives them the "You had to break DRM to do this" which is a handy argument to have.
First, the app only works on Windows 8/8.1/10 and a lot of people are still running earlier versions of Windows.

Second, many of the people running Windows 8/8.1/10 know so little about apps that they're "against" them.
Very exciting. I wished there would also be room for a group at YCR/HARC working on collaborative theorem proving (CTP) as proposed here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6186 :-)
Would billing your customers for Github access be a solution?
I like Scala as a language. I started using it in 2010 on an open source project (BigSense.io) and since then my Scala has improved considerably (improved meaning I've learned how to use the language a lot more efficiently).

If you want to get into it, get into it because you want a clean functional language on the JVM. That being said, some of the syntax in Scala ... oh god.

I really wish, before starting Scala, I had read through The Little Schemer and attempted either Scheme or Haskell. Functional programming is a different way of thinking.

You can use Scala as a cleaner Java, or you can really use a lot of the idioms in Scala to make cleaner, shorter and less error prone code.
My resume link above is broken - here's the right link: https://goo.gl/q8loaI
Unless you have positive control over the car -- like a radio controlled toy car -- it's autonomous.

It's not like the summon mode is simply disengaging the brake and letting the car roll around randomly.
Redistribution of wealth faces the problem of fleeing capital from your country.

Remember that the global elite (people who control the vast majority of the capital) is highly mobile and from their perspective there's no difference between being robbed and having their wealth "redistributed".

It should also be taken into account that even if the wealth was redistributed, each poor person would only receive a minute amount, for example let's say 1 share of Google, Amazon and a few more shares.

They would almost immediately have to sell this wealth to transform it into income for current needs.
> Wow, Japan is generally known as being clean and corruption free.

Huh? This is the home of the keiretsu and the yakuza, you know. Corruption among the political elite is a standard assumption among the Japanese.
Edit: Once again, the DMCA rears it's ugly head. Time and again it seems to be the thing that is abused to screw over consumers. Maybe that's what we should actually be fighting against.

We should have prevented it in the first place, but given recent quasi-legal expansions centered around legal vagaries of it, I would completely agree we need to revamp and revisit laws relating to computing.
Sure.

But in this particular case, the quote is saying: "One can't possibly be expected to understand the two sets of clearly written dire warnings and strident instructions one was required to acknowledge before enabling this feature and using this feature. And one can't then be expected to bear the blame for proceeding to fail to follow the instructions one was given to ensure the safe operation of one's car while using this feature.".

That is why the quote is so disheartening.
If this was the case, then why do private school teachers get paid less? Private schools are the free-market and are ununionized.

In case you're curious, the reason is that teaching at a private school is easier, so people who love teaching are willing to take the pay cut.
As the article explained, tickets had been voided when cases were disputed as widely happens in just about every city.

Honestly, if I were a public official reading the comments here, I'd be inclined to just go "Why do I even bother? I explained how, even though the people who hand out most of the parking tickets were educated about the change, many police officers weren't. We'll fix it now."

Sure, rerun the analysis a year or two down the road. If things don't change, that's a story. But this strikes me as a nice use of open data and a reasonable response from the NYPD. You can argue that they should do pro-active refunds but a lot of addresses will have changed and it would be otherwise difficult and expensive. I'm honestly not convinced that's a reasonable expectation.
And yet, nobody would use an Electron-based app over a native Mac app with similar features.
As others have said, the problem is union contracts.

Unions, have negotiated to not pay teachers based on performance. And unless we reduce union rights, I'm not sure that's ever going to change....
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It's the winner-take-all paradox, which was mentioned in an article here on HN earlier today.

Given only a small incremental competitive advantage, a company is able to capture the overwhelming majority of the market, essentially becoming a monopoly.
Do you think ISIS was formed by elites?

I have absolutely no idea. But I'd venture a wild guess and say there are probably a lot of Ba'ath Party people and ex-Saddam Hussein cronies running ISIS behind the scenes. Those people used to be "elites" back when Saddam ruled.
I find it interesting to look at the relationship between the basic emotions and Maslow's need theory. So for instance, if you think something is about to happen that runs strongly contrary to one of your vital needs, I suppose you will feel fear. If you see one of your basic needs being well-met, pleasure. If you think someone is acting contrary to one of you needs, you will tend to feel anger. Disgust seems to be when you think something is happening contrary to your need to avoid disease and poisons. In terms of Ekman's concepts, I am trying to explain the various triggers.

Is calm a state of mind where you sit back and look at what is happening, good or bad? Maybe someone who knows something about Buddhism could explain what the Dali Lama means when he uses this term.
I apologize if someone already mentioned this, but there's a way to eliminate the penalty to the user without changing HTTP at all. Browsers can simply check all the non-expired resources after all the rest. Now the latency is the same, but we still do the checks, just after everything else and we're already rendering the page. Only if one of those resources did actually change then we re-render the page.

The immutable solution is cleaner, and doesn't load the server as much, but it's not backward compatible and requires the people who run the server to know what they're doing. Maybe the two solutions could be combined?

The biggest potential drawback I see is that maybe most resources, including the html don't expire, so every page will be rendered and re-rendered. Giving little benefit and making the rendering choppier. Some of that maybe could be mitigated by starting the rendering in the background and not displaying it until a certain percentage of requests return, or special casing the "page" itself as opposed to page resources.
- I've never experienced null problems in Scala. There's theory and there's practice. In practice if a NPE does happen, you treat it as a bug and wrap it. I don't experience problems, because Scala libraries are well behaved and for Java libraries I read the docs.

- Being a "jack of all trades" means Scala has the superior module system. In Scala you can have abstract modules, the way you have in Ocaml. In Scala type-class instances are lexically scoped, whereas in Haskell they are global. Haskell's type-classes are anti-modular, which is why there are people avoiding type-classes. A big part of what makes Scala so good is OOP. Haskell needs extensions to achieve similar functionality in a half-baked way and modularity is the main complaint of people coming to Haskell from Ocaml.

Btw, if you ask a C++ developer to describe OOP, he'll say it's the ability of having structs with a VTable attached. Most people think OOP is about state. That's not true, OOP is about single (or multi) dispatch and subtyping (having a vtable), hence it's not at odds with FP, unless you want it to be ;-)

- SBT is amongst the best build tools ever available. I could rant all day about the clusterfuck of Javascript (npm, Bower, Grunt, Gulp, Brunch.io, etc.) or Python (easy_install, setuptools, virtualenv) or .NET (MSBuild, Nuget, dotnet) or Haskell (cabal). For all its quirks, SBT is by far the sanest dependency and build management tool I've worked with. In fact, amongst the best reasons for preferring Scala.js is being able to work with SBT and avoid Javascript's clusterfuck completely.

- I've been working with IntelliJ IDEA with the Scala plugin for the last 3 years. I've had some problems with it, but all minor and it's amongst the best IDEs available, giving you everything you expect out of an IDE. Other platforms either don't have an IDE (Haskell), or require extra commercial plugins to behave like an actual IDE (Visual Studio).

And let me give an example: in IntelliJ IDEA I can click on any identifier in any third-party dependency and it automatically downloads and shows me the source code and I can set breakpoints and debug any third-party dependencies that way. Such a simple thing, yet it's a tough act to beat. Try it out in Visual Studio sometimes.
A method for overcoming cognitive bias is a technology, in the same way that spoken language is a technology. See formal logic. But if we were somehow, as a species, constrained to doing one thing at a time on the tech tree - then yes, we would do well to max that tech out asap.
I once received a parking ticket timestamped 2 in the afternoon. Funny thing is, that day I drove across the GG Bridge and went hiking - I had photographic evidence of crossing the bridge in the morning and the toll to prove I returned in the evening. Therefore I and my car were not in the city at 2 pm and could not have parked illegally.

Appeal denied.
They can be treated as a commodity as they are graded on value. How would a commodity market work if each instance of the commodity had a different value? Both live steers, and their resulting leather, beef and other byproducts are sold based upon weight and/or grade.

For example, 'a cow' is not a commodity... but a grade 3 live steer is.

Movie theatres do not price films based upon quality, but the distributors certainly do (I managed a movie theatre). You cannot commoditise a movie ticket, each theatre provides different facility and presentation quality.
Your reasoning about why private teachers make less is completely wrong, im afraid.

First, realize that if teachers were not unionized, their salaries would without a doubt go down. Unions function very similar to monopolies in that regard.

So just intuitively we would expect in a freeer market that teachers salaries would go down. That said, even in the private sector teachers are still unionized --its hardly a free market -- so why haven't private teachers been able to negotiate as high of a pay as public sector teachers?

> why do private school teachers get paid less?

Because public sector unions have much more negotiating power. It's really that simple.

Unions don't have infinite power, the can only negotiate as much as the 'pot' allows. In the public sector, the pot size is all tax revenue. There are almost no limits on how much public sector teachers can ask for.

This is exactly why FDR opposed public sector unions.

In the private sector, schools have to deal with remaining solvent. Teachers can only ask for at most -- the whole pot of revenue. And that pot is smaller in the private sector. The national average private school tuition is approximately $9,518 in 2015. Way less than the public sector at $12,922 per pupil in 2008.

As such, private sector teachers cannot demand as high wages as the public sector teachers can.
I'm excited to see what comes out of this. The area I'm hoping they'd look at is programming. There hasn't been any big ideas in programming in a really long time. Languages are rehashes of the same features with slightly different configurations and incremental improvement in performance or tooling. Programming interfaces are stagnant too -- Smalltalk's interactive devlopement environment is still the sci-fi version of what most people think programming could be.

The programmer and the program have never been further away from each other as it is today. The development environment have never been further away from the production environment as it is today. And end-user interfaces have never been as abstracted away from computing as it is today.

If any group can breathe some life into this stagnant area then my bet would be on this group.
Likely is the important part of your final sentence. They are not acting against your interests and they are taking on risk in the market to your benefit.

Is it limited risk? Of course, that's their job.

Finally, I'd ask, what is your point? That the law is flawed? OK, then work to change it. But know that lots of people have done their own research and come down in favor of the execution cost benefits of wholesellers.
Can you turn this around and say that as long as the bigoted political candidates don't succeed, the empire hasn't fallen yet?
I hope I'm not trivializing the value of your work. You have done the general public a great service by finding these erroneous citations. Thank you for that!

All I was saying is that there is a strong moral case for people who were wrongly fined in this manner to receive refunds on their fines, and I think the city agency should do that (but almost certainly won't).
Not technically a project use-case, but the company or department-wide giant uni-repo is where SVN works well.
wind-farm: https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2116
What does the future hold?