skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They wouldn't want people to think there might actually be something fun to do.

You might be right! Just think of how unstable the system would be, if people thought that!
They identify you and all your clones and twins, who are separate people. Which you may currently have none of, but that might not continue to be so.
If you like thinking about this sort of thing you might want to read this:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
I like how the map shows the walking route as down 6th street.
I've never been a fan of doing front-end web programming because of my distaste for Javascript. Elm solved that problem for me. I like the syntax, type checking, and I've never had any code that passed the Elm compiler error out on me in production.

I also like the functional programming aspect of Elm, and the syntax is quite nice (similar to Haskell, only smaller and easier to learn).

I found this site useful for getting started with Elm 0.17: https://www.gitbook.com/book/evancz/an-introduction-to-elm/d...
> Fourth, the Normans are only one link in history. Why stop with them? The Normans come from the Norse. The Norse are Germans. Why not simply say it's all due to German colonization?

You could well say that... but I'm not sure how it makes the assertion true that nordic countries/people didn't have colonies. It's actually something that I've picked up on from my studies of history that many colonizers derive from Germanic roots. (My hunch which I can't prove / haven't investigate much is that the germans picked up on it from the romans)

I didn't mean to suggest that there's only one kind of colonization, I'm actually a huge fan of the idea that there are many types, and that some of them were beneficial.

Also, I don't really buy into the idea that colonization was responsible for the success of the nations that did the colonizing. I think that the exploitative type of colonization was harmful to development of the economy just as slavery in the Southern US lead to widespread poverty when compared to the North.

Yes, that was an absolute statement which you disproved handily, not all colonies were created by nordic / germanic peoples.

The very language we are communicating in is a testament to the colonization of England (or whatever the fuck it was called before it was colonized) by Nordic/Germanic people/countries. It's a colonization similar to America by Britain, where the colonists decided to give the middle finger to the motherland, similar to the way the English just gave the finger to their original colonizers in Denmark.

https://www.englishclub.com/english-language-history.htm
Computer scientists are bad at naming. Let marketing handle it.
Right, but I'm not saying anything about the people who've lived here. In my first sentence, I'm suspecting things about the perceptions of people outside the UK (or possibly recent arrivals).

In my second, I'm speculating wildly about how race works in the UK but stating that I really don't know.

By the way, as an actual concrete statement: Your border force is absolutely grand and made me feel so welcomed. I should be going to sleep to stave off jet lag, but I am just really excited to finally be here after many years of planning and working toward this.
Thanks for answering.
It makes me wonder if the will of the people who want her pardoned could help her, or if it is actually hopeless.
Should have a [2014] tag.
I didn't mean to offend you, and it really shouldn't. I think very few people have voices that translate well to "radio". That's why voice-over artists have jobs ;)
What a situation. I can't help but marvel at how so many Google Docs users don't understand they're looking at a not real example document. Maybe they should've used a common-but-famous name instead ("George Washington").
> that's not freedom of speech.

I didn't say that, I was talking about the value of anonymous communication in a democracy. Surely voting is a form of communication.
Transgenders have an alarmingly high suicide rate even without those factors piled on.
For such an awful app, you certainly seem to use it a lot.
Totally, I'm always stuck with the Enterprise Car Share car with less than 1/4 tank and get stuck with an extra $25 'refueling fee' when I don't take it back (I have to pay for the extra 15 min of rental time PLUS stop by a gas station--which is super annoying). This would be a killer use case for their fleet to manage.
Plenty of news on global warming.. daily
https://news.google.com/news/section?cf=all&hl=en&pz=1&ned=u...
Ah, it's apparently 90% have two tanks. The remaining 10% have 3 and have pre-mixed, because they had leftover tank from when they did leaded gas, and by doing this they don't need to upgrade the pumps. So it's probably old/cheap/un-upgraded stations which have 3 tanks.
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Yeah, but if this isn't real, someone will probably make it real by the end of the week.

But why use humans? Phones are tiny. They should be dispatching their fleet of drones to your front door and flying directly to all the best Pokemon catching spots.
TLDR for the article:
The nascent field of AR games has not, heretofore, produced compelling experiences. There now is one wildly successful AR game, but it is successful because it taps into a massive, well-loved cultural phenomenon. This is "tragic".

My thoughts: I've met dozens of people while playing Pokemon Go in the past few days. Seen many clumps of strangers trading tips about where different Pokemon are and comparing the ones they caught. The gameplay is not particularly polished or deep, and the servers are constantly being overwhelmed by the game's success-disaster, but overall, I see a lot of promise. If they add more mechanics that encourage people to form groups and play together, it can drive a lot more positive, serendipitous connections in the world - a rebuttal to those who think that smartphones will necessarily make us more introverted and asocial.

I don't fault Niantic at all for the bugs, crashes, or capacity issues. Most apps have bugs and issues on their first release. Almost never do they surpass Twitter's DAU within their first week of launch. They should be lauded for such a great success and for keeping the lights on with so much usage.
I've got (virtual) servers all over the place. I run my tiny little "needs a minute" tasks on one or more of those. It's nice, I guess to make it a wholly isolated thing, but I rarely actually want to go to the trouble to design it to be isolated. My little jobs often need at least some of the rest of my production environment to be available (database, logs, libs, something). Making a Lambda thing just for those things seems like something I'd rarely want to go to extra effort for.

But, if building on a very large scale with strict isolation requirements for your individual tasks it would make sense. Which is the niche I'm talking about; maybe it's just bigger than I assume it is.
Don't be condescending, I wouldn't have ranted or cared if I didn't have a clue. Others are commenting on game mechanics, lack of features or use of AR, but I'm not a game dev so I don't care.

This app crashes so much, it must be some really obvious exception they're not catching. I don't expect it to be bug free, but constantly crashing? Since you're obviously such a pro, let me ask you: Would you release software that crashes so often?

Apple doesn't have contigencies for top-tier developers and emergency updates? Huh.

Caching is a famously hard problem, but wiping the entire state and starting again for basic information that doesn't change is sloppy. Deltas and common sense helps here. Same thing for use of GPS and data.

Seriously, I have no idea why you're defending such cruddy work, but even if I was completely clueless or outright hypocritical (I've launched buggy software, trust me), it doesn't excuse Niantic's complete screw-up here. Normally I give devs the benefit of the doubt, but this is crazy. So many people affected for no good reason.
Pokemon Go Is a Hacker's Dream
I just emailed customer support at Enterprise Car Share and shared them your TC article. They have a lot of cars in SF and they could probably benefit from you guys--especially since their cars are sitting in lots all day. It could be a great lead source!
Less 3k a month is in solid 1 bedroom territory for those neighborhoods these days. Around ~$2700 is what I'm seeing in my search for decent 1bedrooms in good SF neighborhoods.
Minecraft in the early days was similar, but it's also what I enjoyed about it. Having to have the Minecraft wiki open on another screen just to figure out how to actually build anything.. :-D
Hey, dang and sctb, thanks for all the great moderating work. You've built a fine site. Happy to hear you're getting a vacation!
Third Tesla crashes amid report of SEC probe
Phoenix seems to delegate front-end stack management to brunch.io, which supports Elm.
If you don't really get pointers then you probably don't really get any programming language. They are just below the surface in ruby, java, c# and any mainstream programming language.
Please see Hasbro, regarding release of the Atari Jaguar into the public domain: http://www.atarihq.com/news/1999/990514.html

This included the remark that Hasbro would not go after developers for discovering or bypassing the encryption key (which was discovered shortly after) to run their own software: http://allanswers.org/games/games/video-games/atari/jaguar-4...
Object to it, if they push back then it is likely a company to really look hard at whether they share your values.

Likely this is something an attorney suggested and stuck in there and if no one objects it just goes on by. If the company is decent they will strike that clause if you object. If they don't then take a pass or state they have to compensate you for that time as it is not reasonable otherwise, again if they object say no thanks their terms are not realistic or fair.

I contracted with a company last year that initially had a clause that said I was barred from working with any sensor or sensor like device for the term of 2 years following the end of the contract. First, it likely isn't enforceable in the US, but second I said no thanks that is completely unreasonable and no reasonable engineer would ever agree to that clause. They struck it but then tried to sneak in something later when the contract was concluding, trying to get me to sign a post contract agreement stating nearly the same. Horrible people, and the entire contract sucked and they still are a pain in my ass a year later. I knew it in my gut they were a bad client, but I ignored it and took the deal anyway. That was one of the worst mistakes in the past 4-5 years I had made, so listen to your gut.
Thanks for sharing that :)
Full output of the experiment is here: https://goberoi.github.io/cloudy_vision/output/output.html

I'm surprised by how good some of the CloudSight captions are.
Climate Change and Global Food Security: Prof David Battisti - for those who get high on anxiety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YToMoNPwTFc
Chaos Monkeys: Fortune and Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Wings Platform's Egg-Citing Bounty System
Actually lawyers like to work, so as a whole they like lots of complicated awful laws to keep the courts crowded all the time. Think a little more deeply about how special interests function, however. The NRA really cares about gun control, and few others do, so they get their way. The teachers' unions really care about public education policy, and few others do, so they get their way. Likewise, those who profit from our awful "justice" system really like that profit, so any giant attempt to destroy their entire world will get demolished. We may never know who invented this "one wonderful law will save us" meme, but one doubts he worked on the side of good. We've got to start by eating around the margins of the problem.
I hope not. Their cultures are so different they would each implode.
Great stuff!
The only feature I need now is 'open links in a new window' option.
Yes, I know that you can do Ctrl+click or click with the mouse wheel to achieve the same, but that is not the same!
What stack do you use?
What's the wire protocol used?
I'm thinking of signing up, I've been wanting to play the game, but don't really like walking around so this gives me the best of both worlds. I still get the excitement of the gameplay without so much unnecessary exercise.
Here's the company she ran afterward. Most of her time went into 001 Toolkit.

http://htius.com
Ask HN: Average ratio of lines, Assembly vs. C#.NET
I just read an article saying that NASA's Apollo 11 "space program" source code was released to GitHub on July 07 2016. They say it was programmed in a variant of the Assembly programming language. From an image on the article, the source code appears to span many thousands of pages when printed on paper.

My question is, what is a good ball-park ratio for the average efficiency in terms of lines-of-code when comparing Assembly with a relatively modern language (and framework) such as C# with .NET, assuming both are well-written?

Naturally this question of line-count efficiency between languages depends on numerous very important factors, such as level of abstraction and redundancy, but surely there can be a ball-park range for what to expect in the real world with professional programmers of similar experience levels. I was unable to find good comparisons for Assembly versus current modern languages. My underlying question is how much smaller the Apollo 11 source code would be if written in a modern language and framework.
The saddest part to me is that the AR experience is still sub-optimal, which given the state of monocular SLAM isn't necessary. Niantic, with the funding they have and google connections, could have given the AR function 6DOF had they tried a little harder.

Our little team have been able to do monocular SLAM 6DOF with 1/50th of the funding, so it's confusing why they didn't go that route.

Even still, it appears that the users really don't care, which is even more interesting to me actually - especially given the complaints that people have leveled at mobile based AR technologies to date.
Looks like this is the core argument for why Pokemon Go is a tragedy:

"""Even Google couldn’t make Ingress work without reskinning it as Pokémon. And while Pokémon is popular and basically harmless, the alternating reality it offers is still that of a branded, licensed, kiddie cock-fighting fantasy."""

I think the real tragedy is that the author of this thing can't lighten up and enjoy something that is making all kinds of people happy.

Edit: He even links to this example of why it is a wonderful thing! https://imgur.com/KAwwxFp
But no, it's a tragedy because it's corporate-branded and juvenile. OK.
Then more power to you! :)
>The median student loan for all people with student loans, is a mere $13,000.

= The student loan debt is close to 1.3 TRILLION in 2016, almost TWICE the credit card debt (already substantial at 700 BILLION)

= With a delinquency rate of ~20% (compared to 2% in real-estate)

= The class of 2015 graduated with $35,051 in student debt on average, the most in history.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-growing-student-lo...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/student-loan-delinquencies-decli...

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/credit-card...
> Second the app on iOS crashes every few minutes - I've never seen a more buggy app

Then I'll posit you haven't played many mobile games, much less the top 10 for the past few years. Blood Brothers 1 (as with most DeNA titles) was notoriously this unstable, for example.
Hopefully not too off topic, but I believe the preferred nomenclature is more along the lines of "People who are transgender" (though I could be wrong and would appreciate someone saying so)
I'm not sure this a fair analysis. Yes, Pokémon certainly added a nice built in fanbase, but I don't think that alone would have made it the social phenomenon it currently is.

As the article mentions, the gameplay is significantly easier than Ingress. Also, the theme is much more family friendly and less paranoid. It's got cute pocket monsters you can collect throughout the day. Additionally, the camera aspect makes it built-in social sharing material, especially since it's a palatable theme.

I'm not going to share Ingress photos with anyone else, but a humorous picture of Magickarp flopped on the beach is fun to share.

I'm seeing a lot of people who are completely ignorant of Pokémon playing this game. I see parents downloading it to go on walks with their kids. It's fun, easy, and fits in nicely with people's aspirations (more exercise).

None of that was really in place with any of the previous iterations. They were all too "serious", dark, and/or niche audience.

I suspected Niantic expected this to be a moderate hit with Ingress players and Pokémon fans - both were a niche audience. It's the gameplay and family-friendly theme that has made this as popular as it is.
Knowing Nintendo's stubborn management, I wouldn't be super surprised if they just announce that they will make their own Android phone and make Pokemon Go exclusive to it.
How about not touching on that at all? Surely she hears more than enough on that already and is confronted with it when she's not reading about it also.

Something that has nothing to do with her and her current situation, something that allows her to escape her situation at least in her mind for a little bit, would probably be welcome. If I were in that situation, I believe I would appreciate that anyway.
Mattermark Daily – Monday, July 11th, 2016
Oh, I have to admit I assumed Unity would be more stable to use as it's so popular and self-contained. That said, I don't recall other apps that use it crashing so often! Any clue if Unity is the cause?
> Apple doesn't have contigencies for top-tier developers and emergency updates? Huh.

Thanks to the mysteries of Apple, sometimes your emergency update to fix a crashing bug takes several more days to get approved than the update that introduced the crash in the first place...
> Isn't this a red hot signal that it's a great idea?

Unfortunately both the great ideas and the awful ideas look awful.
Took me exactly 0 seconds, since I had played trash toss and basketball toss games before. The whole 3d avatar customization is wasted effort, at a glance. It will lead to vanity items later, obviously, but why have it in the game at all right now?
What a legend. This video is absolutely inspiring.
It's only part of a name. Examples of a "full" name including Yoshi: Yoshida, Yoshinori, Yoshiko, Yoshimoto, etc.
iRefract (just kidding)

Do you want "Fiber" in the name? "Web"? "Internet"? "Michigan"?

(riffing off keane)
- FiberStream
- EchoLine
- CloudLine
The onboarding is like SnapChat's -- nothing is explained, a lot of the functionality is hidden, and you have to learn about it from your friends or by looking up how-to articles online. I've already compared notes multiple times with random strangers I've met while playing the game.
As I said, that's 100% due to Pokemon (and a couple relatives who are rabid fans). Any other app would have been deleted after the third crash.
On a one lane road with a broken single yellow line, possibly turning into a driveway. I generally get very cautious about people going way too slow for a road and wouldn't whip past them, but possibly the other driver thought that OP was stalled?
> Scott is my cofounder from Skysheet

Off-topic, but if anyone is interested in educating a non native speaker: why is the word "my" used here? Wouldn't this mean that Scott founded the author? Which doesn't make sense. Or does it mean that the author and Scott are both co-founders?

Thanks for any input.
With imaginary power comes imaginary responsibility, and don't you forget it!
Somebody has hacked Scott Adams' account (and by "account" I mean brain).
It would be nice to understand on a high level how it compares with other systems for the non-experts.
And if you are going to violate the ToS, might as well skip the half-measure and spoof the GPS.
When is it time for a style guide?
Transdichotomous convex sets?
It would be good to be able to hide non-submissions like job postings and whatnot.
> I'm also skeptical of the long-term prospects of this business model based on the rise of transportation-as-a-service and the inevitable demise of gasoline in favor of EV's. Both of those factors will be especially pronounced in the Bay Area, where this startup hopes to gain a foothold.

IIRC they're also pushing for traction in Tennessee where one of the founders is originally from, so they've split their eggs into at least 2 markedly different baskets.
You'll interview again, and again, until you are qualified.

Then you'll get hired.
Well done, Hacker News.
As already mentioned, $4-$5 gets you a tiny instance all month. But, for me, I just run my small jobs on my existing virtual machines, generally speaking. I have a bunch of servers, they already have my necessary libraries, files, and database information and caching and such setup. Running a cronjob, or something triggered or pulled from a queue, is trivial and practically free.

My feeling on this is that if the job is small enough and infrequent enough, I don't care about its impact on other services so I can run it anywhere (and it's effectively free in such a case), and if it's large enough and frequent enough then setting up for it in Lambda every time is wasteful and I probably want a system (even if a small one) dedicated to the job, for probably less money. There's probably a sweet spot in there somewhere...but, it's not high on my list of things to integrate into my infrastructure.
Well done! I'm reminded of an Ani Difranco song that was playing back in my college days: perhaps parent is a goldfish?
Somehow I doubt that any of that has too much effect on quality of life. I live on less than 400 USD per month and I bet I'm happier than the average Bay Area resident. I also know that I eat far better. Via the internet I have access to all the arts I could ever want. My transit is a bicycle, which is ideal for me. My city is FAR more diverse than anywhere in the US and I'm a few hours from the sea. Weather is a bit hot but I like that. But like I said, pretty sure whether I'm happy vs. sad derives from something else entirely.
Microsoft even made the C# language specification ECMA and ISO standards. The ECMA process started shortly after the first commercial release. I'm pretty sure if they had just talked to the Microsoft guys, they would have realized everything would be fine.
Its just a hypothesis (guess) in a thread in a comment on the internets, its not a paper ! lol
I think Niantic's going to have a harder time figuring out if you handed your phone off to another person vs. are using a GPS spoofer.
He does write about this in one of his books (although I've forgotten which one). He tells a story about arguing with a colleague and coming to the conclusion that "trivial" in the context of mathematics is often used to simply mean "it is proven" not that it is necessarily trivial to arrive that the solution.
I find it very amusing when people name other brands/apps etc on their homepage especially those where you don't have any business connection.

Case in point here is naming Pocket App on the homepage prominently. It gives on impression that Pocket is some big successful app but in reality has merely 22M users (active users must be lot lower).

I hope I am right to assume that MS has nothing to do with Pocket app.
I address that in the post: apparently Cloud Sight uses a mix of machine learning and crowd sourcing. My experiments and their pricing suggest that the captions you see were mostly crowdsourced. Still, the quality is great, and if their pricing works for your use-case, they offer a great solution.