skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A block chain where all participants get a minimal income of coinage simply by existing in the mix? That's an interesting idea but a far cry from a government that exists solely to issue currency without all the other important functions that make it a government.
CVE-2016-4171 – Another Flash Zero-Day exploited in targeted attacks
Aside from taxes, which others have mentioned (and I believe the standard in Europe is for prices to be tax inclusive), the EU typically has stronger consumer protection laws. More refunds/replacements/support etc. means higher cost.
> Why don't they just add the dynamic typing when that happens.

Haskell (at least, GHC Haskell) has support for dynamic typing, in three(ish) parts.

"Dynamic typing" in the sense of being able to ask the types at runtime is available in the Typeable typeclass. This is provided by the compiler automatically for known types; it must be visibly asked for for polymorphic types - partly for visibility and to preserve reasoning (https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4mu30y/what_is_the...) and partly to clarify what dictionaries need to be passed where.

"Dynamic typing" in the sense of foregoing static checks in favor of runtime checks can, of course, usually be done in a constrained way simply by choosing looser types. That said, depending on language, that can often mean substantial boilerplate. GHC does provide Dynamic, which will wrap any value up with its type annotations and let you apply (possibly wrapped) functions to these wrapped values in a dynamically checked way.

Lastly, I'd kind of put "existential quantification" in play here. It's sometimes the case that you only need to show that some pieces of "the same type" are internally consistent, without knowing their precise shape.

As for why it's not added, I'm not 100% sure what you mean.

If you mean on every build, making that the only option, then I would say "because many of us who choose Haskell find static checks a huge help (particularly when refactoring) and wouldn't want to give that up".

If you mean in place of the current behavior of -fdefer-type-errors, I expect it's sometimes quite useful to know earlier when you're exercising magically untyped code (as compared to deliberately demarcated untyped code).

If you mean, "why don't they add -fdynamic-type-errors", an additional flag that subs in use of Dynamic in place of inconsistently typed code, that's certainly an interesting idea; given that terms are sometimes derived from types (typeclass polymorphism) it may not always be possible, and in any case may be a large engineering effort - I suspect Simon and company simply haven't gotten around to it.
DeBeer's stranglehold is already broken. The Canadian diamonds did that.

The only thing holding the prices up is that none of the people supplying diamonds really want to let loose as the value of diamonds will rapidly go to zero and nobody will get any money.
Damn, imagine being an early employee at Dropbox, holding onto a lot of stock that you can't sell until an IPO. This situation is probably your worst nightmare. If anything, you want the company to struggle a little bit so that they're forced to raise more money in an IPO.
I'm still waiting for articles like "Bay Area Needs to Start Building More Roads to Alleviate Traffic Problem and Ensure Its Future" :( .
At a branch of downmarket discount retailers B&M recently, I asked the cashier if I could make some change for a trolley. He handed me a sardine-can key and asked if I knew how to use it.

That jimmying the coin operated locking mechanism with part of a tin of fish is considered semi-common knowledge leads me to suspect Britain's trolly theft problem is endemic!

I've also bought a tin of sardines. Just in case.
Yep. It can be hyperparameters ("knobs to tweak" as eanzenberg puts it) but regularization is also often used in a regression context where regularization either pulls parameter estimates for features towards 0 or just kicks out features altogether.
CNSA Suite and Quantum Computing FAQ
Telegram bug allows attackers to crash devices, jack up phone bills
Carry your own food and enough batteries to last to the destination. Or have a hot swap battery bot like a military jet re-fueler. No stopping at all!

In all seriousness, I'm not saying there won't be stop offs and rest stops (because really, who wants to be in a moving box for 3 days), but in terms of feasibility I can definitely theorize a situation where stopping is no longer necessary.

I just finished a road trip and man, would an auto-RV have been amazing. Instead of only catching ~50% of the view because I was the driver, I could take it all in and interact with my lady at the same time vs focused on driving. Growing up I thought RVs were crazy awful - but now I look forward to my auto-RV at age 75 driving my old ass around the country.
Crystal 0.18.0 released
In this specific idealized scenario the driver has something else he would rather do (another production of value - care for children, writing a novel, playing video games) or else he would offer to drive the truck for less money than the automaton costs. So that driver's alternative production + the value from the automaton is the net positive.
Maybe you can :)
Have you heard about a company called Xiaomi? They have the balls to straight up copy the industrial design of Apple, so pretty sure they would have no problem copying the software.
>I can imagine a new trend with bored teenagers. Jump in front of the driverless car or truck and watch it emergency stop.

I'm not sure why it being automated would change how braking physics work. An emergency stop at 50km/h will still result in a minimum 25m braking distance no matter who is behind the seat.
The lack of communication from some projects has little to do with how ambitious they are. Simple projects can be terrible at keeping backers in the loop. I absolutely agree that it's a problem, and maybe something that actually represents an opportunity. An app that pushed project founders to communicate regularly would be useful...
Shenzhen and the Maker Movement
And how exactly does that solve the last mile problem?
> My approach when developing a predictive model has been always to throw the kitchen sink into a stepwise regression and then eliminate parameters based on their F Values. Is there a better way to do variable selection?

It depends on whether you care more about good predictions on data drawn from the same source or more about unbiased parameter estimates. For example, if you unwittingly add variables into your model that represent an intermediate outcome, you'll get selection bias and your parameter estimates will be off.
Right, let's stop talking about jobs. Who's gonna give to today's truck drivers the money to pay the mortgage they have to keep paying for the next 20 years?
> IMHO seeing an entire programming language's AST parsed almost entirely using a single recursive function with very little code and a table concisely describing its grammar can be quite exhilarating.

I recently implemented a toy interpreter for a small language which uses a hand-written, table-driven shift-reduce parser. The parser simply maintains a stack of terminals and non-terminals and applies the corresponding reduction if a suffix of the stack matches a rule in the table. Precedence rules are resolved through an additional "should_shift" function, keeping the grammar very understandable. I think it's a very elegant algorithm:

https://github.com/bbu/simple-interpreter
I'm uncertain if this is true. The market is the market is the market. The value of a company is what investors believe it to be. In tech, unlike an industry like lets say, Automobiles, this "worth" is very difficult to quantify. Tech companies can be scaled to near infinity (Apple) or go to zero with one wrong move. Investors are placing their bets.

Whatever industry replaces "tech" as the next great revolution (perhaps AI?) will have "bubbles" orders of magnitudes greater than what we're seeing now. If you think we're in a bubble now, which we very well could be (I'm unsure), just wait for the future.
How a college student tricked 17k coders into running his sketchy script
Great idea, then we can put rails on those roads to make them easier to navigate.
Orlando shooting headlines gloss over Native American massacres
Dad. Entrepreneur. (In that order.)
> These are technically related, but I think it would be clearer to have two distinct terms for them.

"Fishing" and "researcher degrees of freedom" are two terms I hear a lot in reference to fitting models in a very data-dependent way.
So true it hurts. My go-to grocery recently downgraded to the CC chip customer-facing-POS. I used to be able to swipe my card ahead of time and generally be on my way within about 6 seconds of the last item being scanned. Now the system has no pre-swipe ability and far more lag. Like, the first few times I used it I messed up and hit wrong buttons because there was ~1000ms of lag. It works sorta-alright if you use the CC chip, but it's trash otherwise.

I just don't understand how that big of a fuck-up is possible; they were clearly losing money with much longer lines. Everyone complained about it, and I know I don't make quick stops anymore because it's too much hassle.
I'm thinking about the profile features, Google Cloud Print, the Google Now thing that I think is now gone (not actually sure if I'm not being listed to)... I'm upset with Google because they keep imposing their services/design in an otherwise good browser.
Exactly this, in any language!
How do you ensure each person has exactly one identity on the block chain?
Well Mutual fund money is flowing into Uber and the likes. So, there will be some impact on public money. Agreed, it won't be as bad as the 99 bust.
You let the government simply print more of it.

This replaced taxation with inflation,
having the positive side effect that it pushes people to favour
investment over capital hoarding, but incentivizes dept at the same time.
The most common strategy of most Germans I know is to simply put everything into the cart after it's scanned, move the cart towards the car and dump everything into some sort of carry box in the trunk. Carry that box (or boxes) into the house at home and put the stuff you bought wherever it is stored.

If I shop by bike I usually have a backpack that I brought for shopping open at the cashier and dump everything in it upon scan.

One time use bags are sort of faded out. There's no more free bags (I think). Makes ecological sense imo.
If you aren't being merely rhetorical just google for Facebook quarterly earnings
If driverless trucks were to be such a transformer of economies, we'd have seen that many more trains and railroads appear, decades ago.

This is all just more puff about the massive campaign pushing for autonomous vehicles. Any publicity is good publicity.

But let's not pretend we're being given a choice about this driverless car thing.
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Whatever this is, it isn't a repeat of the late 90s. The term "bubble" doesn't even mean anything except that alot of people, many of whom aren't even investing or selling short, assume that the prices are way higher than they should be.

The 90s was a typical gold-rush type of scenario where no one knew what anything was worth, and so investment continued until someone figured out that there was no one everyone could make money even if the entire mountain was made of gold and started betting against the herd.

Going by the cyclical pattern, we're overdue for a recession in the U.S. However, no one knows how severe it could be, especially considering that the "recovery" from the '08 meltdown was tepid at best.

As far as tech investing goes, the best way to make money is to back a number of good looking horses and hope the wins pay for the losses. Which is the same as it always was. If you're smart, you'll also diversify in case something does happen to cause the entire industry to take a dive. However, short of a major quake taking down most of SV, the number of different ways businesses are trying to make money means that, IMO, it's more difficult for one event to take them all down, unlike 1999.
I find myself thinking that there could be a middle ground.

Keep the article but slap a border or something on it to indicate that it is no a proper wikipedia article.

I can't think an article like this takes up much storage capacity on their servers.
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The Civil Rights Era wouldn't exist but for an active Federal Government overruling state and local governments. Same with Obergefell and similar pro-GLBTQ laws and rulings.

Countries need a strong central government to overrule local governments ruled by prejudice. To think otherwise is historically illiterate.
Why? It's not text book and scientific material but it's definitely good enough for the general population.
A Lost Decade? We Should Be So Lucky
Even though the technique doesn't require collecting all of the data, Apple still does collect a huge well of data.

They store all iCloud sync material (backups, photos, contacts, calendars, mail, documents, etc.) without end to end encryption, and have all of the iMessage metadata.
I'm not saying we need to "stop talking" about the current economic configuration, including asking the very well-put and timely question in your second sentence.

But the constant drone of "create jobs" at every political debate? The yardsticking of every public policy measure against how many "jobs" it will "create" or "destroy"? A central bank with a mandate not to simply implement fair and simple currency regulations, but to actually manipulate the money supply so as to "create jobs"?

This is not just a discussion; it's an obsession. And I posit that it's as much about a moralistic work ethic (and a bunch of other things) as it is about any sound economic theory.

We need to move on to new ideas about automation, economics, and sustainability.
How to download Coursera’s courses before they’re gone forever – Free Code Camp
This is one of the most important and overdue articles I've ever read. Git is a nightmare and I don't understand how we got to the point of having to use it.
pretty easy to programme a bot that acts like a teenage girl.
* parse magazine
* foreach ad/article
* capture image (sources: google images, tubmblr, #tag)
* Post article to FB feed
When idle;
* every 30mins wakeup
* search through network, like (rand * (TotalPosts * 1/3 * 1/8))
* like all sponsored posts
A century ago there were people [1] whose job was to manually light street lamps. How did they transition into the advent of electricity?

There's been countless other jobs where previously-essential human participation was rendered unnecessary by technology, sometimes with entire social classes finding themselves unemployed; why should this time be any different? How can it be different?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamplighter

Also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-boy
This is a great example. I also recall seeing refinement types (Liquid Haskell) used to prove termination of Euclids GCD.
With the number of deaths caused by human controlled cars, I do not think we humans deserve a choice when it comes to driverless cars. It is going to become very easy to revoke somebody's licence for dangerous driving given that this does not affect their ability to drive from A to B.
> I have no idea how earnings multiples wound up with their pay-offs in the denominator.

Same way as with miles per gallon.
In the US bread comes pre-sliced in a plastic bag. You can pick up this kind of bread nearly anywhere, from a convenience store to a fill-up station or a pharmacy. Bakeries which put out product that Europeans would consider bread are almost exclusively found inside grocery stores. This bread is slightly more expensive per weight. Grocery stores, like most commercial establishments in the US, can be hard to get to without a car, and public transport, if exists outside the few major cities, typically has low frequency and poor coverage of residential areas.

UHT milk does exist, but most people don't know about it, and it's expensive. Most milk sold isn't shelf-stable and needs to be refrigerated the entire time.

You make a good case with the salad, though.
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For each friend you refer we'll give you both two months for free. So if you refer 600 friends you will get 100 years for free! :)

https://apascrum.com/?ref=hacker_news
> that might include private resellers or dealers as well as places like Academy or Walmart (in some places).

Asking a family member (who's a police officer and private dealer), pretty sure it does include anywhere with an ATF license to sell firearms... So in some ways the map may be exaggerated.

I agree, it'd be more interesting to see where all of the automatic weapon sales are.
Obviously this is a hugely tough question. Some kind of reputation / web of trust? I bet the Etherium / Counterparty guys have an idea.
As cool as the concept is, no, I don't think so. A line of self driving trucks can break up for any reason (cars getting between two trucks, messy junctions, an isolated accident or malfunction). At that point you need again full autonomous driving, as you can't stop a whole column of trucks on the emergency lane, run to the one that got stuck (and the rest of the column behind it) and make it catch up with the rest.
Yeah, wow. I backed VoxelQuest which is a kinda famously failed project now that was just on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11904287

Projects like this can be great because you have direct contact with the creator. That might also be a huge distraction to the creator...

It doesn't take much patronage to support an artist. Dwarf Fortress is fan funded. This is probably the original manifesto that started kickstarter + patreon etc.

http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
It will probably follow the Gartner Hype Cycle. After the initial peak of excitement for autonomous vehicles, there will be a trough of disillusionment where we realize everyone was too optimistic. But eventually the bugs and limitations will be worked out over decades of engineering of the vehicles and our road infrastructure before meaningful replacement of workers.
Having a fairly guaranteed reaction (from software) rather than randomly effective human reflexes turns what was a dangerous game into a prank.
How to set up cron job for Vik Booking?
Aldi accepting credit cards in Germany? The 5 or 6 Aldi stores around me (around Leverkusen) are still cash or EC card only.
I wonder how the tire replacement mechanism works on a driverless truck.
It seems like the reasoning here is exactly the wrong way round.

The number of possible programs is astronomical (though still countable!). The number of possible programs with the correct type is substantially smaller. If we can construct our types and type checking such that the errors we are likely to make are likely to result in ill-typed programs, then we can substantially reduce the number of uncaught errors.

More generally, in your comparison you seem to be expecting that a unique error be detected in a unique place. There is no particular reason multiple (or manifold) errors should not be expected to produce an error in the same "nodes in the program's tree".
I'm Indian and I'm seeing a lot of Hindi fonts on the front page with lines from Hindi novels as well

Nice little attention to detail!
JTB Hacked, possible 8M personal info leak Japan
What does Flint, Michigan have to do with a tech bubble? Or any other bubble for that matter.
> You have to trash all stuff down fast and then pack/repack afterwords somewere else and you get stressed.

1. Always have one or more foldable boxes in your car (like https://i.imgur.com/GG4FfAi.jpg). Make sure that those boxes can carry a heavy load.

2. Take one of those boxes into the store with you.

3. Load all objects onto the belt in the order in which you want to put them into the box (heaviest first).

4. Then just dump them into the box after checking as they come.

5. Finally just load the whole box into your car without repacking anything or carrying multiple bags.

I'm shopping in German supermarkets every week and I never get stressed. On those other hand I'm often annoyed by how slow things are in supermarkets in other countries.
What else do game makers do than deliver dreams? Just maybe not the dreams you planned on delivering from the start. :) Grats on your successes, may they grow with you.
Because the current technological quest is, by definition, to build machines that cover any residual advantage human beings had on machines. In essence, the goal is to produce human beings - at least as far as working abilities are concerned - extremely cheap and infinitely available.
"Compiled" and "dynamically typed" are not opposites.
Well since you're still positing a government (which to make this work would likely also need to have some manner of projecting will so that people are forced to use this monetary system instead of a competing one) the valid identities on the block chain could be handed out and verified by a central system (a la social security numbers).
But there was a ton of growth since then, and that growth created a ton of new jobs.

Growth today is almost flat. Interest rates are zero bound. Jobs lost today might not be replaced because... nothing is happening. Or nothing that requires people that is.
He has dabbled with the Rift:

http://pegwars.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/oculus-rift-integrati...

Not sure if he has ever had plans to sell the game. I think it is mostly a fun (and epic) project to work on.
We can offload to trucks driven by humans well suited to driving the intricacies of city traffic.
Seriously, Ghee is Butterschmalz
ummmm... metal cames out 2 years before vulkan. Vulkan was inspired by metal.
State of the Union is what the WWDC keynote used to be before it started being watched by press and the public. Much more technical detail, and information in the underlying frameworks rather than user visible features.
Disingenuous heading, anyone reading this post better use https://taiga.io/ open source and free if you host your own. If you use their own hosted version free for 1 project and very minimal charges for next tiers.
What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog ? They've lost their jobs too! All in the name of progress.

> Turnspit Dogs were bred to run on a wheel in order to turn meat so it would cook evenly. Due to the strenuous nature of the work, a pair of dogs would often be worked in shifts. The dogs were also taken to church to serve as foot warmers. One story says that during service at a church in Bath, the Bishop of Gloucester gave a sermon and uttered the line "It was then that Ezekiel saw the wheel...". At the mention of the word "wheel" several turnspit dogs, who had been brought to church as foot warmers, ran for the door
Technically under the covers HFS isn't anything great. But from a users point of view apple has extended it in ways that it hasn't materss to customers.
Companies went public without a working product? What are some examples?
Great to hear an alternative story (i.e. a non-exit or IPO story) out of Silicon Valley.

mega.nz does not have the great desktop/device UI that dropbox has, and also Kim Dotcom has stated it can no longer be trusted after the company was seized by the New Zealand Government. But it offers 50GB to any new account. How do they manage to do this? And what is stopping someone from just registering a bunch of accounts on mega.nz and using that as their primary cloud backup? (maybe with the addition of encfs or something)
"I really hate to link to some of these"

"Loathe as I am to mention them,"

You know, just don't do that if you really dislike those publications so much.

"The entire posturing of gun control has been to either fear-monger or to smear"

No fear mongering is required. Simple data mongering is enough

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/health/mass-shootings-in-ameri...