skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fascinating to witness this byproduct of the ubiquity of Google Maps / Waze as it begins introducing traffic jams of it's own creation. So many people are directed to alternate routes en masse that Google has the power to direct the flow of traffic.

This is one of those AI-run-amok problems that everyone has been so worried about. A Google robot is algorithmically directing our traffic now, no self-driving cars necessary. A bot potentially throwing an enormous monkey wrench in billions of dollars worth of traffic planning done by city engineers all over the world. Going to be interesting to see how all this shakes out
It doesn't have to be illegal. A fake "no through traffic" sign might be illegal. But there is nothing wrong with: "Donkey carts may make frequent stops," or "Enjoy our street festival and parade every morning from 6 to 8 AM."
Holy crap how have I not heard of this? This already scratches an itch I have for no good vertex shader editors. I'm looking at the "composed" graph editor thing, a little confusing but it looks really powerful. Thanks for sharing.
I would argue the moon is more difficult than Mars to colonize. No atmosphere means landing will always be, at best, a giant pain in the ass, and at worst, extremely dangerous. A lack of water of any kind makes life nigh-on impossible, as well as the moon's extremely long days; Imagine being in the sun (albeit at a toasty 100C or something, but whatever) for fourteen days straight, followed by the longest, coldest night you've ever experienced (to the tune of -120C or worse) for fourteen days straight. That would be a nearly insurmountable engineering feat in and of itself, totally neglecting the other problems.

I think Mars will ultimately prove much easier to colonize. Getting there isn't necessarily hard once we've figured it out; we have the life support systems to keep the ISS going (albeit with constant support from the ground) for 15 years, and we can already do all the orbital math and whatnot. It's just a matter of doing it.
> I think this shows how putting your reputation on the line when you accuse someone makes the accusation itself far more powerful and likely to believed

I agree, but that has to be balanced with the costs, and especially the costs to rape victims.
Let's not exaggerate, that's a car every 1.9 seconds, 24/7. There are major arterials that don't see 45,000 cars a day. Waze isn't doing this.
More people work in internet publishing than for newspapers
Speaking of Spark, has anyone used it with Go? Is such a thing even possible?
I visited LA once, and parked for less than two hours. Managed to get a ticket even though a studied the sign for a few min to try to establish it was a legal parking. It was really hard to figure out if it was legal or not.

Of course I just paid it.
PureScript + learning Erlang/Hakskell rekindled mine :)

I ended up learning Erlang after hearing about Elixir and not being a fan of the Rubyish syntax and immutability comporomise, which has been a very rewarding experience. Haskell even more so. And Purescript has some nice Elm inspired libraries [2].

[1] https://purescript.org

[2] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3Apuresc...
Lower range for engineers than I would have expected.
From my point of view (and I posted the same thing in another thread about Elm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667799 and the mailing list post that sums up better https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-discuss/AmxE3qAm...) it's that it still seems driven by a single person.

I understand why but in the meantime I'll use something else and will try it again once it's more open.
...which is why I moved all my notes to quiver from evernote. The format is open and is extremely well designed (https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format). And someone's used it to build an android app. So with the notes stored on google drive and the notes folder set to sync, I have access to my notes on all devices.
"Notebook app for Hackers".. and No Linux support? I'm confused why their definition of hacker is only bound to those who use Windows and OSX.

Not even "Linux coming soon"...
I make no excuse, nor is it an argument. I expected the number of false positives to be on par with the number of false negatives. Said otherwise, the number of false accusations is way lower than the number of instances of rape that never even go reported.

To me, it goes without saying that I wish all of those numbers to converge to the lowest possible value.
Atom has syntax highlighting, markdown live renderer, file management, maybe even tagging.
Elm is still way too immature. You either end up rewriting a lot of code that might otherwise already exist as a library or you simply cannot use features because they don't exist. If you hang out on the slack channel you'll get an idea of what the language can and cannot do right now. It's also worth remembering that it's a technology that doesn't have the weight of a big company behind it so pace of progress is relatively slow.

I would probably agree with your first 2 hypotheses. However I don't really see any momentum against Elm. Just the opposite in fact. There are other projects that have the same kind of goals such as Purescript or GHCJS but Elm is the one with the momentum.
Anyone who invests in the DAO can split their money out at any time
Wouldn't it be interesting if there was an app like Waze, but it's primary focus was safety? People report intersections or roads with blind spots, bad lighting, lots of jaywalkers, etc.
Elm is very new in the grand scheme of things and it was considered experimental for quite a while. The recent changes show that its developers are still willing to make big changes. But I do believe it's stabilizing quickly and I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing it used a lot more, though still mostly in smaller hobbyist projects simply because even if it stabilizes it's still so new that you can't expect larger companies to risk anything on it.

Elm is a lot more experimental than Elixir, for instance. Elixir is still built on the classic Erlang BEAM virtual machine. And its syntax is fairly similar to that of Ruby, which is an immensely popular language among web developers. Elm looks like Haskell, though, which very few developers are competent with. It was originally based on FRP, which has long been considered highly speculative and theoretical. But I think by shedding FRP it's growing into a very practical language, and while it has a Haskell-lite syntax, it's considerably easier to use than Haskell.
> No more growing in south america and shipping to new york.

You have GOT to be kidding! Or you didn't do the math.

How is artificial light better than shipping? I guess maybe you don't realize how efficient shipping is these days - it accounts for only a small fraction of the energy used to provide food.

> completely sustainable farming

That's a very strange definition of sustainable.
I don't care about that, I was only replying to your implicit statement that US law somehow should apply universally.

I'm not sure you even understand why someone would object to this, so I don't think we need to discuss this any further.
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CompileBench is a decent one. It's made by the author of btrfs.
https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/compilebench/
Strawman much? I never said nor intimated I was pulling anything over anyone. Property owners assume the burden of maintenance & costs of ownership. Those costs are reflected in the amount of money I give them for the privilege, not the "right", of residing on their property. When I leave, I have NOTHING to show for it.
I would cut out all the data with equity above 2% as the signal there is probably very noisy.
seems a tad corrupt. also seems totally awesome. new yorkers are just smarter than us. sigh.
There was once a company that would only diagnose what was wrong with your car so you could try to get mechanics to compete on price. I don't know what happened to them but I've never seen one in person so I think it's safe to say it hasn't taken the world by storm.

The problem with garage competition is that the average person doesn't know what they need most of the time, so without a way to get an independent diagnosis there really isn't a business model here. I don't think. And how are you going to make money? I missed that bit.
Here's a paper from Facebook about how they rearrange their data to improve locality. The paper is about distributed systems, but it's interesting and maybe relevant to graph locality on a single machine…

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/25/socialhash-an-assignment...
Didn't you say this just a few hours earlier?

"""I agree under 2nd Amendment authority. All others have to be exhausted, though, before that can apply. So, first try your Congress people about passing laws limiting it. See if the LEO's will do anything about the abuse. Try the courts. If they all ignore the corrupt behavior, you're left with no choice but using violence to deter the aggressor. Just make it untraceable with an alibi."""
> The legal system in western countries is very biased in favour of rape accusers.

Could you back this up somehow?
No. But the world would be better off it litigation were not buyable by either Thiel or Gawker.
> Does that mean the 'buy locally' idea has little climate impact?

No, buy locally has a large climate impact - only not in the direction you think. Local uses much more energy than non-local.

Local has no environmental benefits whatsoever - only negatives.

The only thing it has going for it is some nebulous social benefits of knowing your farmer.

I avoid local because it means the produce was grown not in the climate where it grows best, but rather forced (i.e. lots of extra resources) to grow near me.
For the uninitiated...

Erlang 19's included Dialyzer improves the scenario of type-checking maps in useful ways. Namely that now you can represent an empty map, an arbitrary map of any type, and a partially arbitrary map which must include certain key type and value type associations but is not limited to those. Which leaves out one representation which is a map which includes and only includes a specific set of key type and value type associations.

Erlang 18's Dialyzer has basically just #{} =:= map() which is equivalent to the union of #{none() => none()} and #{any() => any()}, so it was basically a giant escape hatch in the type-checking system, and thus not particularly valuable.

Looking forward to a pending change in laxness as a result of the coming changes in 19. :-)
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In this case, yes, that's how I see it. But I don't trust Thiel just because he did the right thing this time.

The underlying problem is that anyone, Thiel or Gawker, can buy the law.
DARPA-backed IoT-sensing security startup Qadium raises 20M Series A
From reading the article and reading the comments here it seems to me that giving "programming" power to the masses does not mean they will want to use it to actually implement their individual uses cases, especially if they are one time or rare use case. Besides all that talk of applications being deconstructed into libraries with a programmable interface on top of it is nothing but a pool of APIs with something like IFTTT on top of it.

There seem to be 2 major friction points that prevent one application to be used by another or being a part of a flow:

1) Generating an API

2) Consuming an API

If there was a way to automate API generation based on parameters then presumably a person could create an API endpoint that gets them the data they want and then use that in an IFTTT recipe.

However to use it in an IFTTT recipe the API should also have a specification generated to we can automate a program like IFTTT to look at the specification and create the API consuming code.

So from a simplistic viewpoint it would be better to think of how to create a standardized way to auto generate APIs.
"You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap."
Well, not quite. Spinnaker is OPTIMIZED for spiking neurons, but in theory you could run standard computations on it. It is just really messy (speaking form experience).

The main idea behind Spinnaker as far as I understood it is "cheap cores, lots of them, architecture for message passing and load distrubtion vaguely inspired by human brain". This rang similar on a first read
Huge fan of nvAlt. I made a theme to make the markdown rendering closer to github and added some extra features.

https://github.com/bwiggs/nvalt-prime
I agree that in this case Thiel evened the playing field, but the fundamental problem still remains. It's still highly problematic that either Thiel or Gawker can buy the law.
pedant mode on...

there is no "immutability compromise" in Elixir. Static Single Assignment != Immutability. Elixir is entirely immutable - it has to be as it just runs on the Erlang VM!

I think a legitimate complaint along these lines would be "pinning is confusing and error prone for beginners" and I think it's fair. Christopher Meiklejohn mentioned this on Twitter yesterday, and it's a point that's caught me plenty and I write more Elixir code than most people by far.
According to: https://web.archive.org/web/20160127001734/http://feinternat...

Asking was $950k which I gather was the ceiling. Did they have any investors?
I would be down to drop one of these motors into one of the classic cars i own. The only downside i could think of is requiring the battery in the hood due to the unibody design, and getting into a front accident... other than that, i think the pros outweigh the risks.
I have seen his work and he is amazing. I'm almost sure that this is a fair use case and this is just bullying.

Too bad for him, I hope the best.
> No. Since it is no longer possible to create a Twitter acocunt without a phone number

Really?
Thanks, that's very informative.
If you give advice for a living, you have a responsibility to provide the best advice possible.
For what it's worth, I was under the impression that Appelbaum also has or had access to the Snowden documents and was instrumental in the whole thing (Laura Poitras approached him), and it's easy to find articles saying so, but of course you never know.

And a couple of months ago, Appelbaum talked about how he and others are unfairly characterised as "mere activists" and denied the protections journalists get[0]. I say talk, some would say he made a passionate plea, others a bride-burning rant (his demeanour towards The Guardian was vicious).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJValv4YQcY
yeah. i've had the same problems in Santa Monica and LA.

i've heard about a couple of apps for this sort of thing, e.g.
http://www.parksafela.com
> But companies wouldn't have sued YouTube asking for over a billion in damages if they wanted to do business with them.

A spurious lawsuit will cost the defendant millions of dollars to defend from even if they win, so filing one and then offering to withdraw it in exchange for large concessions is actually a somewhat common negotiating strategy for soulless kitten-eating behemoths with no regard for fairness or their own reputations.
GlobalHack
Hmm my money is on him moving to a different state and picking up there.
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I don't think either of your problems are actual problems. There's plenty of variety of food, and at a reasonable price.

I also think the economics for what you're suggesting don't pan out--have you talked to anybody that actually does one-off dinners as chefs? The planning and costs and time investment are nontrivial.
Ah the Canaries! Met a lot of folks from there when i was on my last adventure a few years ago. What an awesome start, man! If you're going to be in Spain in July/August hit me up. My email's in the profile. Good luck and enjoy it man!
I'm not the parent, but yes... if you live on a shared street, you have to share it.
If I hold an event in Chicago called "An evening for families," that doesn't mean my definition of family somehow includes living close to Chicago. Just that this event happens to be in Chicago, and this app happens to be for Windows/Mac because of implementation/demand/whatever reasons, not because of some definition about hackers.
I can't find the source, but a couple of years ago I saw a fascinating presentation from a genealogy & genotyping company showing that genetically more American's had English heritage than German heritage. Combining the 'American' census category into the 'English' category pretty much removed the discrepancy...
>the problem is you're still operating under the same misconception that all demand is met by H1B supply (which is false)

>H1B visas are only approved for the average or above average job wage

>Hence wages are not going to go down because there is no supply for below-average wages.

Wow. This is pretty tortured logic.

OK, what I am saying is that when you increase the supply of workers in an industry, the wages in that industry will go down. Whether it's a high or low wage industry, the wages will go lower.

Until now, I haven't been speaking to the impact on wages in other industries, however, I fail to see how decreased wages in one industry would not lead to a decrease in the overall cross-industry wage average. It's simple math.

In fact, the impact of higher wage earners losing a percentage of their income would have an outsized deleterious effect on overall wages vs. lower wage workers losing that same percentage.

EDIT: You've updated your comment three or four times, and you seem to be contorting a bit. So, I will just leave my comment as-is along with the quotes from one of your previous revisions.
Coming from Haskell, I kind of dismissed it on the basis of missing a construct like interfaces/protocols/traits/type-classes, and started checking out purescript instead which is closer to Haskell. Eventually stopped using purescript due to some unbearable compile times (in purescript's defence it was early on in it's development, and it's still pre 1.0).

All that said, I'd probably check out elm now only because I've heard good things about it's developer experience.
While I agree that the world's appetite for leafy greens will not be sated by growing them in warehouses, the debate over whether worldwide food production can ever migrate to this type of system should probably be framed in terms of something like protein or calories produced per acre. What this movement is really about (it seems to me) is figuring out a way to feed the developing world in a way that does not involve converting tons of new rainforest to farmland or inundating additional watersheds.
I heard there are four types of people who work for you. In order (from most preferred to least preferred) are:

1) The smart and lazy---they'll find the easiest way to do the job (or automate it).

2) The dumb and hardworking---you an tell them what to do and they'll do it exactly how you tell them to.

3) The dumb and lazy---they won't help, but they won't necessarily hurt either (just the bottom line).

4) The smart and the hardworking---terrible combination.

I actually have experience with the fourth type of person. Twenty years ago I was doing some consulting work for a bank and had to convert a printed training manual into HTML (mid 90s). The person helping me was very smart and hardworking. I'm smart, but a bit lazy. I had to argue with the person not to dive into one process (linking each word in the text to an entry on the glossary page) because it would take hours to do by hand (around 100 files, perhaps 100 vocabulary words). We actually argued longer than I took for me to code up the solution (using lex---we were working on a Unix system).
> and the language will slowly decline.

I wouldn't be so sure for that one, the thing is unlike German, there is a country with 120M of Spanish Speaking people a few miles away, as Mexico's GDP keeps growing, US economy will become even more dependent of Mexico's trade. My point is people will get more proficient at Spanish over time, not less.
What?

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? Have you clicked on this page: https://www.thepiratebay.org/top/all

Wtf is the point of acting like TPB is a legit site where the main focus is not to spread copyrighted material? Are you that fucking daft?
In a larger context, I think corporate annihilation is something corporations should live in constant fear of.
This fellow came up with some innovative stuff to perpetuate his nasty way of life:

"One example, the court noted, is Zavodnik's penchant for making filings under often "bewilderingly lengthy titles" such as:

"Appellant's Verified Motion to Compel the Clerk of the Trial Court to Provide the Entire Record as Opposed to the Partial Record and to Extend Time for Brief to Be Filed Due to the Fact that the Appellant Does Not Have the Full Certified Record and the Record Needs to Be Complete and Fixed (Which Will Require Time) Because of the Clerk's Error in Providing Only a Partial Record or Alternatively to Relinquish Jurisdiction Back to the Trial Court by Mandating It to Fix the Record (the CCS) and to Provide the Court of Appeals and the Parties with the Corrected Full and Complete Fixed Record or Alternatively to Order the Clerk of this Court to Fix the CCS and to Provide the Complete Record or Alternatively to Allow the Appellant to Use His Own CCS Printed out by Him from the Odyssey Website."

The rambling titles burden court personnel and opposing parties and other attorneys, who must struggle with Zavodnik's filings."
There is a fourth choice, not mutually exclusive with 3: offer integration between their services and the other tools. They're doing this with Dropbox to an extent, for instance, while still competing with Dropbox.
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You are correct. It is not "their" street. However, it is not unreasonable for people to expect that neighborhood streets not be flooded with traffic beyond what they were designed to handle nor put to purposes for which they were not designed.

It is a public street that was designed to service the neighborhood and the traffic traveling to the neighborhood. It is not a highway.
Interesting, I suspect this is why the interview posting went up last week but was presumably very quickly removed (before I looked at podcast episode listings and attempted to download it).
Thanks for the idea to look in on the Slack channel; I had no idea there was one.

>However I don't really see any momentum against Elm. Just the opposite in fact.

I just edited my comment to reflect that by "momentum against Elm" I meant to suggest that Elm is fighting against momentum that is currently behind technologies like JS, angular, react, etc. in the web programming community.
Heh... sure. That, and blowing yourself up because the Navy Seal teaching you to make C4 was actually a 14 year old. The internet is a very YMMV experience, often that variance has to do with what you put into it. If the only people who can overcome a law are those smart and resourceful enough to learn how to mill their own guns, yet still criminally inclined, I'd say you've minimized your problem nicely.
Here are some data based on community surveys. These show a net outflow during that period:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/what-we-know...
Cloud...computing also?
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All for the sake of a stolen TV? I seriously doubt Bucks "nice guy" credentials if he resorts to home invasion for his own satisfaction.
We changed the baity title, bound to raise the usual objections, to a phrase from the article. If anyone can suggest a better phrase (i.e. accurate, netural, and representative of the article), we'd be happy to change it again.
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