skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like it is smack in the middle of a large area where Broadcast TV, WiFi, and cellphones aren't allowed. Given the prevalence of those things in everyday life you wonder how that effects the properties value regardless of the location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
Human ingenuity will figure out a way to have it record in a way that doesnt incriminate the police officer.
Here are some useful Haskell extensions:

http://sdegutis.github.io/2015-03-17/haskell-extensions/
My friends and I actually road trip like this! We drive a 1930 Model A from town to town, and because of its maximum speed (about 50-60mph), we can't take interstates or main roads. Well, we could, but it's better to avoid it.

This means that when we say something like "let's go from Panama City to Charlotte", we must plan the entire route beforehand, much in the style of these books. And it's definitely necessary to have a navigator to point out the turns correctly; it is still difficult to navigate on, e.g., tiny backwoods Alabama roads. The directions end up being quite long; when I saw that there were only 40 directions from Fort Morgan to Denver, I thought that was fewer than what we usually get in our ~140 mile days!

What makes these trips really interesting is that we have to go through towns that are not served by the interstate system (and in some cases do not even have U.S. routes going through them). This, combined with the fact that we often come to a stop to fix something, means that we meet a lot of interesting people and discover interesting parts of the country that none of us knew existed.

We also stop at old bridges and take pictures in front of them:

http://ratml.org/misc_img/saluda_bridge.jpg

Anyway I know this comment is quite long at this point, but, I highly recommend road-tripping like this to anyone and everyone! I have learned more about the rural Southeast in three weeks of roadtripping like this than in ten years of living here.
How do you proxy their traffic ?

I couldn't because they seem to use pinned certificates.
Its startling to see how evil insinuates itself into normal people gradually so they don't even notice. The store managers probably think this is a standard practice so its ok. Not a pointless waste of customers' time and energy in the cynical hope to manipulate them into buying what they don't want. I plan on resenting my local mega market in future every time I make the hike to the back of their block-long store for a half-gallon of 1%.
Isn't trying something we've never done before the whole point of research funding? I am much more interested in advances in space technology than whatever we'll find on Europa.
Applaud his appetite for risk but boy, I have a hard time seeing that working. Good luck to his $10K
Its difficult, I believe you should really get started working with.
No WiFi or microwave ovens allowed, and I would guess no cell phones. Good luck finding someone wanting to relocate their national headquarters...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio...
There isn't exactly a rush to go to Europa, why not wait until cheaper rocketry is developed?
It warms my heart to see proof that such people as yourself still exist.
I enjoy my homogenous Facebook feed, full of people who share my views and my life circumstances, just as much as the next guy.

But I also sometimes enjoy reading posts I disagree with, and posts from people who aren't part of my "tribe". If Facebook had a knob that could amplify the stuff it thinks I won’t like (less Bernie Sanders, more conservative talk radio! less wedding pictures, more farmville invites!), I’d turn it once in a while, just to go on a little social vacation.
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As I remember, it was the opposite with Qmail, it was awful.

You remember wrong, I had no trouble understanding qmail, neither the structure nor the code itself.
> There most certainly is not, full stop

This is an extremely bold claim. You are claiming that within less than a generation, people stopped dressing as a way to send social signals. I think you are so off base you must live in a tech bubble.

> It's actually a disservice to yourself to assume there is a relationship between wealth and style based on customs that are increasingly becoming dated.

Curious why you think car sales folks are irrational. Do you really think the guy who targets the "likely to buy" customers based on appearance does worse than the guy who takes all comers?

I have a bridge to sell you if you don't think profiling like this works. Sure you miss the outliers, but the mainstream makes up for it.

Is it becoming dated? Perhaps if you're looking for a 3 piece suit. But there are still all sorts of "wealth" signals the vast majority of people probably don't even know they are giving off in the way they dress.
We care about version numbers of browsers, because in practice those numbers encode what HTML, CSS and JavaScript is available.
I guess because its projects like the Europa mission that make rocketry cheaper.
I really doubt tipping is the primary reason.
Assuming ATMs take and store a photo every time they're used, then it'll be a matter of matching the photos to photos of people already in the corpus of training data several times. That makes it quite easy.
I think (and I don't know for sure) that the raw hit data is not available due to your visitors' privacy.

You'd be better off doing processing of your own server logs.
Can somebody please shine some light on why such an endeavor was undertaken by CERN? What was so important about JIT C++ that they had to write such a sophisticated piece of software?
When does moderation become censorship?
US in general have been more liberal on federal level and more racist on a more local level (especially in Souther state). Take civil rights act of 1875 as an example. So, a bigger company, working on a federal level in almost all the states would certainly be less prone to racism than a small cab operation run by a couple of guys from a shady garage.
Eclipse CDT has gotten pretty good in the last few years. Its code scanner is practically a full C++ front-end, and if I pay attention to the red ink I practically never break my builds. That being said, _instant_ C++ is a fantastic thing
Presumably you leverage the camera network to follow them to some other location.
The thing i find fascinating is that there was no single machine which was definitively the first computer. Every successive machine added some feature we now consider essential, but which was only a small increment over what came before. If we consider the machines which were actually built:

Mark I aka ASCC, ABC, Z3: executing arithmetic operations in a program, but from a separate memory, with no control flow

Colossus: all-electronic, but operations are hardwired, not programmed

ENIAC: operations are configurable, and include flow control, but cannot programmed

EDVAC: operations, including flow control, can be programmed, but from a fixed memory

SSEM aka Baby: operations, including flow control, can be programmed, from the same memory as data

The SSEM was the first machine that is basically the same as a modern computer, with all the limitless potential of a machine which can operate on its own program. But it was only a trivial increment over EDVAC!

There's a similar story with programming languages and their compilers.

Short Code - translation is partly manual, interpreted, kind of a fancy assembler

A-O - fully compiled, but more of a linker or fancy macro assembler

Autocode - fully compiled, but still close to the machine, explicitly naming registers

FORTRAN - fully compiled, abstracted from the machine, but no recursion
I think Charge meant to use it to show you what happens when you visit an unregistered domain.

This being the Internet, someone registered it and pointed it at Rick Astley.
I've seen a scheme like this used for numbering BOSH stemcells and releases[0]. If you have slow-changing or update-in-place artefacts like sourcecode it will look a bit like a shortened semver.

If, as is the case for BOSH, you are meant to totally replace the previous version, then the numbers advance rapidly. Note that stemcell versions are into the low 3000s.

[0] http://bosh.io/
I am sure the Yakusa can find 100 foot soldiers with to much difficulty.
Personally I had no idea such experiences were possible until taking a trip like this was suggested by a friend (who is the owner of the Model A). The people we talk to (or more accurately the people who talk to us) are from a different time, and remember when travel was very different. We've heard a lot of fascinating stories.

For me it is very enlightening to realize that the technology sphere in which I live is actually only a very small part of the world!
Finally. I've been wanting to see this for ages. It surprises me Twitter does not have this option.
7-Eleven and Post Offices are the only places which accept cards issued outside of Japan. I assume they have to cover all possible types of cards, otherwise people from other countries could get stuck without money here that way.
I'm curious though by your characterization of this as being "game theoretic"... It seems like this strategy is a consequence of correctly analyzing the game state tree, which doesn't on the face of it seem to involve game theory to me (in the way that term is usually used in economics.)
It's not that difficult to take the camera off before going into the bathroom. And if you forget to put it back on after and then some questionable stuff happens afterwards, well, it's going to look very bad.

If you can remember to punch in and out for your shift, you can remember to take the camera off and put it back on around bathroom breaks.
I was also surprised that flip-phones are a thing which a lot of people buy and use.
Presumably this only works for public accounts.
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” – Vox
In my area 2.1x surge (plus base fare) is still cheaper than a normal -and notoriously shitty- taxi.
Letting go
Apparently there was such a feature http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/now-you-can-see-twitter-the...
CC fraud in the US is/was waaaaay higher. Earlier EU adoption had to do with lower CC merchant fees..
Bandcamp Is Doing a Lot Better Than the Rest of the Music Industry
Contactless only lets you spend 25 pounds(so I guess $30-40) in a single transaction, you can only do 5 a day(until you have to enter the pin), and it's impossible to withdraw cash using it. The card also won't surrender its data without a valid decryption key from an authorized terminal. I have absolutely no idea how you can even describe contactless as "worse" in this case.
Snowpiercer only costs $1,000? Okay sure, but is that the decadent-drug-your-way-to-oblivion class, or eat-bugs-and-maybe-your-arms class?
If you look at the root of the domain (https://root.cern.ch/) it seems to be part of work on a scientific computing framework in C++. And having a nice REPL is important for this kind of thing, and if it is in C++ you can look deeper into it? (instead of using one of the bindings to Python/... for the REPL, where you can't inspect what is going on inside the C++ code)
You got any evidence for that?
Huh? I learned scrabble from a professional player 15 years ago, and at the time he said this was the default strategy for all serious players.
The guys retrieving the money, yes, but that doesn't guarantee that the masterminds will get caught.

Chances are the ones going to the ATMs are money mules (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_mule), probably not of the completely innocent kind, but of the "not too smart, falling for a 'want to earn $100 in an hour?'" question from a 'friend'.

$100 will give them about a 10% cut, if they do one ATM. It is more likely, though, that they had each guy do >1 ATM. So, you would need, maybe, around 250 of these guys. To recruit them, find around 50 slightly smarter but still not too smart guys who get $2000 each. On top of that, you need real criminals who can make sure the lower levels do not run away with the money, either by convincingly threatening them with bodily harm, or by following them to the ATMs while staying out of view of the cameras.

Yes, costs will add up, but you should be able to keep costs below 50%.
Interesting indeed. Thank you.
> but why would you want to?

For me, philosophical reasons. I want to fight-back against the centralisation of Internet services. It's the same reason I run my own blog, host photos on my own server, pay slightly more for an unfiltered Internet connection and so on.

I can't 'win' on my own but its depressing that so many people are happy to jump on the centralisation because it's easy and convenient right now.

And what will happen in 10 years when you only have a choice of MegaCorp-1 or MegaCorp-2 handling all your online services, slicing and selling your personal data and bombarding you to consume more, because anyone running their own servers is a "digital terrorist"? Too late then.
Where is Elixir gaining most of its traction with companies? What types of problems? I've seen the Phoenix web framework mentioned many times, for example:

http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/overview
I'm certain they are not hitting anything with any accuracy with the cannons described. Its hard to make an accurate weapon.
The most evident pro is saving you to type many more lines of code to implement the download or upload of a resource (json, image, etc.) from/to a web server.
Is there internet available on any of the trains? Anyone worked remote from a train like this before?
I'm a little ashamed to say it came naturally (I feel like that's a cop-out answer but I don't have a better one).
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The trouble with that idea is that some people are increasingly (and IMHO justifiably) skeptical about sensitive records being made or kept in the first place. Merely having some system for managing such records in accordance with whatever rules apply this week is not sufficient to retain the confidence of those people.

There will be mistakes. There will be leaks. There will be abuses. The possibility or likelihood of these things happening will surely have a chilling effect, even if serious problems are rare in practice.
I think there's a couple of memes being mixed here:

- There's North/South, meaning Rich/Poor. Australia and New Zealand are in the North, though of course most rich countries are in the Northern hemisphere.

- There's West/Rest (or East, if you like), and this one is a bit harder to define. You can go way back and say it's to do with having intellectual roots in Greek/Latin parts of Europe. That's certainly what many people who studied Classics would say. You could also argue that the liberal democratic tradition is what defines it. That would make Germany, Italy and a number of other countries temporarily non-western. Or you could go with religion and say it's to do with Christianity. That would make Russia a western country.

So, where's Nigeria? Well, it's not rich. Politically it's inherited a colonial system from the British, though corruption perceptions are not close to what people normally expect of western democratic countries (IMO part of western political tradition is to act scornful of corruption). On religion, it's a mix of Christian and Islamic.

I wouldn't say Nigeria fits into the common ideas of what the west is.
400 miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine
Depopulation of Diego Garcia
Ask HN: Has all interesting desktop software already been written?
My question sounds overly generalized, but indulge me:

Can you think of any worthwhile/interesting software that is desktop-specific (Windows/Linux/Mac) and that does not already have in-production offerings by at least two competing teams?

It's actually shocking how difficult I'm finding it to answer this question. Ten years ago you could have said anything from money management software, to code editors, vector image editors, remote storage, news readers etc. etc. but now all of those markets seem to be addressed and with saturated competition.

This makes me wonder whether the "organic software" model of companies like Bohemian Software (Sketch) and Panic (Coda, Transmit) is no longer viable. If you were to create such a company today, what kind of software would you write? Is there still even a single opening in the desktop space for any kind of new software? And how could you assure your ability to compete on the chance that a megacorp (Google, Apple) suddenly implements all of your software functionality and builds it into their services for free?

Is there any path forward for independent studios making desktop software anymore?
Good catch, I have indeed done so on purpose. My other favorite phrase to sneak into technical writing is "[this and this] needs to be done that way for hysterical raisins". Barely anyone notices.
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Globex_Corporation
I don't see the problem on this page[1]. In any case this would be an issue with the builder that turns the doctree into HTML, PDF or whatever.

[1]: https://ghc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/8.0.1-notes.html#hsc2hs
Iqaluit man uses free Amazon shipping to fuel food charity
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There are cases of Uber drivers not carrying passengers who have a fold-up wheelchair.

Then you have the whole "they aren't really employees" thing.

They (and Lyft et-al) all claim to be "empowering the sharing economy" and call themselves "ride sharing". Ride sharing is if I'm going to the shops, and offer someone else a ride to go there too.

Driving around in my private car and picking up people who want to go places, with exactly fuck all regulation, is just being an illegal taxi, which brings me to your "patriotic" argument.

> Americans have a patriotic obligation to disobey corrupt laws

So, any law that any american thinks is corrupt, they have a duty to break? Or, are you the arbiter of what's corrupt and what isn't?

> Those laws are no different than handing out tickets for doing 56 MPH in the middle of the desert

The difference is, if you break that law, you're probably only affecting yourself, or the people you know in your car.

Uber & Lyft together spent 8 million fucking dollars, campaigning for the right to self-regulate themselves, because they think a fingerprint background check is too onerous.

So sure, the medallion system might be fucked. But on the plus side, the taxi industry is actually regulated and follows the laws that are put in place to protect the fucking customers.
I have a colleague who gives great talks. There are three reasons they are great. (1) The science is great. (2) He speaks engagingly and explains his (complex) material very well.(3) He always includes a citation and some very specific remarks on the single paper that I can read, to learn more. This third thing is the most important to the growth of the academic field, because solitary study is usually required to make progress, and nobody has time to read dozens of papers in a field that is not quite their own.
Not surprising. All these guys want to protect their own fiefdoms.
Arduino – Autonomous Tractor
Interactive programming is very developer friendly workflow, something that was already possible at Xerox PARC in their Smalltalk, Interlisp-D and Mesa/CEDAR environments.

Actually there was an early attempt to provide C++ repls back in the early 90's with Lucid Energize C++, after they pivoted from Lisp Machines and applied their knowledge to C++.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk

Also the majority of CERN code is written in a mix of Fortran and C++, and not all teams like to use Python. So they rather use something that provides interactivity to research their algorithms and speed at the same time.
I'm willing to accept email is rigged. Who uses it for actual communication these days anyway? I use mine primarily to get lifecycle emails from webapps I tried once and to reset passwords.

What's next, then? There have been lots of replacements for all of the old school protocols like IM and IRC. Even newsgroups have been (adequately?) replaced by forums and link aggregates and facebook. But, I've seen no attempt to replace email. I've seen lots of attempts to enhance email, but none to replace it completely.
Don't forget that natural evolution is a very slow and inefficient process, essentially driven by randomness, and that there is no such "optimization" that you describe, only selection.
Moore's law may come to an end, but we have many great things coming such as quantum computing or nuclear fusion.
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Tex – The most secure messaging app
Interesting insight. Interesting that Uber and Lyft are the ones with the most numeber of SDKs by far.
My main thesis is that we needed religion, God, the threat of eternal damnation in hell, and the promise of bliss in heaven for all these centuries because the population was illiterate. They needed to be told stories to get the message across, to scare them into behaving themselves.

I said several times in the article that I agree with all the moral teachings of all religions - which, by the way, are almost identical in all religions.

My main point is that we no longer need the "stories" in each religion because the vast majority of the population is literate now. The stories are what cause religions to attack each other. "My God is better than yours", "My prophet is right, yours is wrong". Those stories are no longer relevant or necessary. Instead, they cause strife and bloodshed.

Nowhere in the article do I single out Christianity as the only problem. All religions have this problem equally - because they are based on two thousand year old stories.
Interesting thing about Japan, is the complete acceptance of people wearing surgical masks in public (it's considered to be polite if you are ill). Makes it a lot harder to identify people from video surveillance.
A bear jumps out of a bush and starts chasing two hikers. They both start
running for their lives, but then one of them stops to put on his running
shoes.

His friends says, "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear!"

His friend replies, "I don't have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun
you!"
Tweetdeck used to have this feature, there was a "Home" option on the row at the bottom of the user profile modal. I was disappointed when it was removed, it was a super useful feature and worked on desktop!
That's what I initially thought of as well. Great movie.
i think there were only 40 directions because there were a lot fewer roads / intersections back then.

its interesting how so many things come full circle. like how turn by turn directions faded out of style and came back with GPS
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I concur. There's a query explorer here https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/ to download post aggregation data, but never heard of it providing raw data.

If op's planning for the future a number of system exists to collect analytics, but he'll need to correlate views with ga to deanonimize audiences. Not impossible, but not the most convenient and will work only from the implementation day forward
Wow, that's interesting. Interactive python a la jupyter notebook revolutionized my workflow; I guess it makes sense to allow the same for a codebase written largely in c++
Haha, right on. We need a shot of Chris Evans in one of the coaches to sell me.
No worries, even with the typo you did make a valid point
I've never encountered a situation in which the One File - One Module imposed convention was problematic. I also find it greatly helps when reading new Haskell code bases. I think it's generally a sign of good project design when there are lots and lots of small files, each with one data structure and a few associated functions.
>Is there internet available on any of the trains? Anyone worked remote from a train like this before?

no these trains don't.

But some amtrak's in america do have wifi.