skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you consider something like Strava's aggregated GPS traces to complement how confident you are with detected roads?

For example:
http://labs.strava.com/routing-errors/#250/17/-46.42546/-21.... gives a fairly strong indication that something is navigable on bicycle or foot; even if OSM hasn't mapped it yet.
Water supply: what's the latest (?) Lake Mead still seems really low:

http://arachnoid.com/NaturalResources/

An AZCentral article, from August 2014, which lays out some good news/bad news points, including the 2014 NASA groundwater study:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/08/11...
Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach Nozzles
I tried

> I heard you like phrase structure, so I put a phrase in your phrase so you can parse a phrase while you parse a phrase.

It misinterpreted "like" as 'in the manner of; akin to' ("I heard you as though [I were hearing] phrase structure"?), so I tried

> I heard you enjoy phrase structure, so I put a phrase in your phrase so you can parse a phrase while you parse a phrase.

That got parsed correctly.

Edit: well, it says "enjoy" is a base form rather than 3rd person singular, which is wrong in this context; it's an inflected form, like "I heard she enjoys phrase structure".
Looks interesting - I'm not a node user myself but will probably take another look once other languages are added. Might be useful for prototyping.

I also found refreshingly honest:
> This is still a beta so don’t ask me how many 9’s. You can have all the 8’s you want.
So now Boston Dynamics get to make a household robot for Toyota.

Nice.
It's super cool since you can have hundreds of micro services deployed using SSL for only $14.99 a month.

https://zeit.co/now#pricing
Just to clarify, Zenefits is an incredibly manual operation. The client facing side suggests things are automated, but there are brokers and automated scrapers and fax machines to make that happen.

(I was an early ZenPayroll employee)
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Recommended: Comfort & Joy, the Bill Forsyth comedy about an ice cream war in Glasgow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_and_Joy_(1984_film)
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Haha, close!
Are you accessing the internet via a corporate, institutional, governmental connection or vpn?
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Second bit of feedback - http://improve-osm.org/ does a pretty good job of highlighting areas of potentially unmapped areas. Via slack, I've made the suggestion to them to open their platform up to multiple sources such as strava gps traces (via their tile layer).

Would you be open to working with them to deliver the potential missing roads; so that you don't have to reimplement a lot of the basics?
this claims to solve very hard problems that eluded many great minds so far. paint me skeptical.
That's a good point. I was about to point it out too. A bit behind if you're already 5-8 versions behind
It initially seems like it would be difficult to so comprehensively beach a ship but that impression may be in part due to the fact that normally the ship's crew would be trying to avoid being beached. In other situations when a ship is beached we are seeing a ship that did everything it could to avoid or at least minimize the situation.

Not that surprising really that the outcome is very different if the crew point the ship directly at the beach, try to arrive with as much momentum as possible and keep the engines at full power throughout while ignoring the various bumps and thumps.
Not quite as frightening as the schemes some financial institutions use... one that immediately comes to mind is 6 digits, no more or less, and probably stored in plaintext. Then again, bruteforcing attempts are usually very easily noticed and kept from succeeding on such systems.
EDIT: Easter egg.
> whether a new algorithm or proof works is (usually) immediately evident upon implementation

I would argue that this is a dangerous claim, because an algorithm working generally is different from proof that it always works, and this can lead to serious issues. I would say that this is one of the big reasons peer review exists!
Well "OS" was used loosely.

I was inspired by Firefox OS some time ago and found that I could access various parts of the filesystem via nodeJS. My plan is to run my node app and launch Electron fullscreen when the Pi boots.
Staying calm and speaking during confrontations is a learnable skill. I humbly recommend reading the book Crucial Conversations, if you haven't read it, then practicing the techniques.

I tell my "underlings" to breathe (with their diaphragm), to take their time, and to carry their voice.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-S...
When Breath Becomes Air – how to live, by a doctor who died aged 37
This makes me feel dirty for being an index investor. I want my index funds to make me money, but not at the expense of American workers' quality of life.
It is strange. It seems like all of the artist mentioned have Official Youtube Pages where they post their own videos and music - if they don't want to be on youtube why not take those videos off the site?
I've seen an ad for GTA5 for iOS and Android (obvious scam) on Facebook, and thousands of people liking, and hundreds of comments, most seemed organic, of people tagging their friends.

Copyright infringement + scam, right there on Facebook.
in the future, please prefer to assume I'm not a moron, rather than personally shooting for some easy trivial point-scoring.
The idea, especially with Torrents, is that you are sharing what you downloaded...

So even if you download 10 files, and then delete 8... BEFORE You delete those 8, you can "share" them for a small period (or until you have positive "Download to Seed" ratio), thus helping others.

Pay it forward and what not...

That's the theory... lots of people download and stop thus leech without helping.
> Antimatter... it may be possible to find or scrape together an approximately Earth-sized chunk of rock and simply to "flip" it all through a fourth spacial dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.

Obviously this idea is entirely speculative, but I haven't heard of it before and was wondering what the theoretical foundation for it is.

I think it's alluding to a 4D rotation causing a change in parity, which seems plausible. Physics is very nearly symmetric under a conjugation of parity and charge (the CP symmetry, which is violated only by the weak nuclear force); so the idea would be that a change in parity through this 4D rotation causes a charge conjugation, maintaining CP symmetry.

I don't think this would work. Symmetries in Physics imply a conserved quantity, through Noether's theorem. The problem is that the conserved quantity associated with a charge-conjugation symmetry is not charge itself, but 'charge parity', a multiplicative quantum number. Under CP-symmetry, the product 'charge parity' * 'spatial parity' is the conserved quantity, so a change in spatial parity from the 4D rotation would cause an associated change in charge parity (assuming CP symmetry), which merely means the system would behave differently under a charge conjugation operation, not that the charge is actually changed.

Charge conservation itself originates from the gauge invariance of electromagnetism, and I'm not sure how that would be affected by this scenario.

I'm not saying the idea is necessarily wrong, but I think it's likely to have originated from a misunderstading.

For further information:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_%28physics%29#Conserv...
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deprogramming would be nice if we want to get rid of these autoimmune diseases.
One of my on-again-off-again projects is this something like this.

https://github.com/Lerc/notanos

There's a quick runthough in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7namj7iy16Y
I don't know, avionics seem to have a bit of a "wow" factor when they go wrong...
The Neuroscience of Op Art
This is tangential, but I'm somewhat surprised at how many journalists are recording with their iphones in the picture. Are these guys not big station reporters who can afford the big mics? Those mics themselves can't be that expensive.
Looking at earnings is obsolete in times of creative bookkeeping for tax evasion. Look at the pay and bonuses for managers, as they are rising since years it seems those companies have rising earnings. Else those bonuses wouldn't rise every year about 10%. If I compare that against the wages for common worker I think there should be enough space for a few crumbs for common workers.
its trivial and free to block all the subscription sms 'services' aka scams in Poland, and probably the rest of EU.
Where does the money from the higher wages go?
Maybe I'm mistaken, but the name rings a bell from a scraper company I worked at some 10 years ago (I left that company in 2008).

Our scraper back then was light years ahead of any others, both in regards to performance (think checkpointing of program state) + accuracy of parsing and JS execution (back then the target goal was a complete emulation of IE6+, sans ActiveX (exception being various host objects such as XMLHttpRequest))

This scraper was easier programming then anything else out there (think visual domain specific programming language). 7 years after having left that company I was called into an interview at a rather big HR company, with them essentially asking me to meet and greet a group of 20 people, all of them working with an old old version of said software, that I had worked on releasing - as a team of two - many years prior. Quite the bizarre encounter telling them how to work with a product that was IE 5.5 compatible, and drawing on old legacy knowledge for said purpose.
I think it is great to study basic income. While many people think it will work, many others are worried people will become unmotiviated and this will have bad consequences. An alternative thing to also study is a workfare program that gives jobs to everyone.

As mentioned in other comments, the HN readers are very motivated people. Most people in general are not. Many people may not work and either become lazy (such that they can no longer work) or worse occupy their time with something counterproductively, such as in gangs. Even without basic income I know people who didn't work for a while and eventually they became helpless with regard to work.

Using computers we can provide work for all people. This can be something like accounting, project management, or something as basic as rating movies and video games. There is always more work to be done, it just might not be economically viable. Where needed, these non-economically viable jobs can be subsidized as a form of welfare.
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What you're suggesting would be true of all redistributive programs. Replacing means-tested welfare with a UBI which is equally redistributive would have no inflationary effect.

It's also not clear that it's true in general. Invested money doesn't stand still. You invest it in a startup and the startup spends it. You deposit it in a bank that loans it out and the borrower spends it.

So it could be that taking from the rich and giving to the poor causes inflation or, if startups and mortgage borrowers spend money faster than checkout clerks and bartenders, the other way around.
I was skeptical but this actually seems pretty cool. I like the use of lambda to have staging and production.

I'll stick to my old-school Jekyll publishing to S3, though. You can even have a webhook hit Amazon API gateway to Lambda to build and publish. Costs me $0.03 a month per site. But I absolutely recognize that setting up a pipeline like that takes time and know-how and for some people it's worth it to pay a SaaS and that's perfectly OK too.
I've seen London rental advertisements list weekly prices as a way to conceal their cost, but I've never heard of anyone taking payments weekly. Do council-provided flats have weekly bills?
25 of the 26 highest-earnings quarters ever reported have occurred since 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_corporate_prof... (yes, adjusted for inflation). I think there's been plenty of increase in earnings without corresponding increase in worker wages. Not for us. I think we're generally doing fine. But for everyone else.
Ok, so this is "decentralized" in the sense that a communication from one client will be sent directly to another client, but you still have to have a centralized discovery method. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't WebRTC already cover the same bases? I think I might be missing what is really new or interesting here.
I think most hackspaces are pretty beginner friendly. I'm not in the Bay area but noisebridge is pretty well-known.
I'm curious, what's the problem with DI in dynamic languages? I don't really get what you're missing other than type safety, which is inherent to everything you do in dynamic languages.
what if us-corps keep most money offshore?
I guess it depends on who's performance they're talking about.
I still don't understand this need to tell everybody that you are using an adblocker.
This was tried in India. It is called MNREGA.

From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rural_Employment_Guar...

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (or, NREGA No 42) was later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act" (or, MGNREGA), is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.[1][2]
Starting from 200 districts on 2 February 2006, the NREGA covered all the districts of India from 1 April 2008.[3] The statute is hailed by the government as "the largest and most ambitious social security and public works programme in the world".[4] In its World Development Report 2014, the World Bank termed it a "stellar example of rural development".[5]
The comparison of vinyl vs YouTube I suspect is deliberately misleading. Since vinyl has manufacturing costs, if their $471m figure was revenue, it was the incorrect value to use. The gross margins are typically 50% or in that area +- 10%.

Whereas the YouTube revenue has a gross margin of 100%.

So very apples and oranges.
For what it's worth, the rest of the article delves into the "but"s and why a worldview corresponding to the initial paragraph isn't a realistic one.
This thread is another proof of HN's immaturity and lack of empathy. The slippery slope arguments are comical.
Ugh, no, I'm not using that as a population to compare to.

Here, let me put it into a story.

We're comparing the health care of two countries, A & B. The survival rates of cancer are better in country A.

So researchers study what country A does to get better results. They find that it has a system of early detection followed by slathering people with chicken blood.

Well, you aren't sure if the chicken blood is the right thing, but surely the early detection means people are healthier, right?

No, because . . . ahem, "if you detect cancer earlier AND CHANGE NOTHING ELSE you cancer survival rates will look better."

In fact, country A and country B may be exactly the same when it comes to treating cancer. But because of very real statistical artifacts like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_phenomenon, it leads to statistics showing the country A is better when people have the exact same outcomes.

Perhaps you think that rubbing with chicken blood is an unfair comparison of the US health care system, because it uses science-y stuff. But measuring outcomes
is hard. Lots of things that people naturally assume improve health outcomes (see other discussion on this page about annual checkups) don't. Some things
that we assume improve health care outcomes actually worsen outcomes. Radical chemotherapy is the go-to example. And insurance companies were required to pay
for it, too, following expensive court cases. (Health care costs were held nearly flat in the US under HMOs, which put a lid of costs but had no noticeable
negative impact on outcomes. This pretty much broke their cost containment. They were also unpopular because they said no a lot.)

So figuring out if the US has better cancer outcomes is hard, because the US really puts a big emphasis on early detection, but it might be just early
detection which makes the stats look good.

I'm not trying to push a narrative right here. There are a bunch of different health care systems in the world, and the one thing we know about the US
system is that it costs more. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because it's possible we are getting more benefit (by pushing new treatments) but it's
also something that the US has not explicitly decided to do, neither by policy nor by the invisible hand of a bunch of individual actors in the market.
I think you're missing the bigger point that we have been giving out food for generations and it has not helped reduce poverty. You're basically telling everyone to go do all the stuff people have always been doing that never works.
A Machine to Foretell the Future?
Aren't most first world central banks going negative interest rates already? I guess they could always try to park cash in Venezuela.
It's actually higher prime interest rates.
Sure, people can borrow at 3% interest (or whatever is provided) but why would banks want to necessarily want to loan out at such a low interest rate?
That work is not done because it does not create enough economic value to provide a living. People can't afford to do low-paying work. BI makes low-paying work affordable, so more people will do it, which will benefit all.
I don't see how it got it wrong (and it would be surprising if it did given the sentence is not syntactically ambiguous). It does use a visual notation which, AFAIK, differs from the standard in linguistcs [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syntax_tree_for_Colorless...
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Bad arguments against a universal basic income
> Country can't pay, country must raise taxes or expropriate goods, or find natural resources.

Or sell infrastructure to private industries (this is what the economic hit man interview I saw claimed)
Fascinating.

Many years ago, when I wanted to become a programmer and I didn't know anything about code, I used to fantasize and be amazed by programs. Code was like dark magic.

This is how I feel today about machine learning. Neural networks, liquid state machines. It's wonderful voodoo to my eyes.

I hope one day I get to work in that field, it seems so useful for solving big world problems. I have notice a definite rise in articles being written and shared on HN about it lately, that's great.

For those completely in the dark, I found this library to have great wiki pages about the basics of neural network programming. Great read, I recommend it. https://github.com/cazala/synaptic/wiki/Neural-Networks-101
>But there’s little discussion (or investment) in one potentially-lucrative area where virtual reality and robotics intersect: sex.

That's ridiculous. It's practically all they talk about. There is also a steady stream of consumer products coming to market. Search "vr 自慰器" on TaoBao.
This doesn't have to be a government function. I do case management, and many of my clients receive social assistance in the form of unconditional cash transfers. They often have poor credit and incidents in their rental histories, so they don't meet the standards required to rent. However, landlords/property managers will grant exceptions if the social assistance is sent directly to a third party with an agreement that rent and utilities are paid first. Since this isn't a complicated or difficult role to fill, it's a competitive space with low fees.
The number of real rape and death threats is miniscule. Of the millions of times someone has received a comment they considered a threat, how many times has something happened in the real world? Your odds of being killed by a meteorite are better. There's no reason to take that kind of stuff seriously unless there's specificity involved.

There's a cottage industry of throwing rhetorical bombs and trolling 4chan in order to get threats. The people complaining the loudest about threats are reluctant to actually get the police involved, and they never stop trolling because they realize the threats aren't real.

tldr: Internet threats are no reason to even consider curtailing free speech.
How to set up cron job for Orangescrum? What cron job setting shall I use?
What makes you think it's them wanting it vs their labels wanting it?
My favorite is "Fruit flies like honey." which trips this parser up as well.
Great example of this is how climate change deniers protect their businesses from the effects of climate change:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...
This site is producing dependency parses, which have become popular in the last 10 years or so. The linked figure is a phrase structure parse, which used to be the thing everyone worked on but have since turned out to be both harder to get and less useful than dependency parses.
That's the setup I have running. Instead of r-kiosk, I've been using mKiosk, which is a more configurable add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/mkiosk/
True but almost no one actually does retire. You get about 1500-2000 a month as an enlisted retiree which most people would have to support a family with.
I don't understand the question. Are you asking why would banks use negative rates?