skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair criticism. I did conflate two different things there, and I was needlessly snarky. (And I upvoted your comment for pointing it out.)

I also failed to address the thing that bothered me in the comment I replied to:

> Far from a cartel, we should let the government create a standardized LED lifespan rating based on the actual needs of consumers. For example, if we know the average renovation cycle for single family houses in the US is ten years, then we should make LED bulbs that are rated for 10 years.

Why should it be the government's business to determine what "the actual needs of consumers" are? How does the government know what the average renovation cycle for single family homes is? What about people who want to spend more for longer-lasting bulbs, or spend less for shorter-lived ones? What about other types of homes that don't fit the government-specified "average renovation cycle"?

How do companies innovate when the government has said, "This is the standard specification for an LED light bulb. You will make them to our standard or you won't make them at all."

I just find the very concept offensive that this should be any business of the government. Life is full of trade-offs, and it seems to me that the government - the instrument of force - is least capable of anyone to make these trade-offs.

Regardless of my personal feelings, there is a real cost in getting the government involved in these things. Government intervention never comes for free.
Most of this is the top 10% using the 90% against the top 1% so the top 10% can pay less taxes and have more power. Not that I'm against that, but the 90% are just used for centuries by the fight of the top 10% and the top 1%.
There are some US states whithout an IKEA, such as Maine.

Incidentally, in Maine, incandescent light bulbs are almost 100% efficient for much of the year as they produce both light and heat.
See, this actually worked at your place. If plastic bags will be banned people will make a point to bring bags with them, which they don't do now.
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It's the same in all European countries.
Probably because "Our cars are super safe, if in perfect weather conditions, otherwise you are on your own", wouldn't sell very well outside of California.
You're misrepresenting what Pinker is saying in "Better Angels". His claim is that violence globally has declined and he backs that up with quantified data and argument. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and not disagree that there probably are some remote cultures that are less violent but it doesn't detract from his larger point.
That's a very complicated honey trap to set up. And it's a failure on both the accounts that elected leaders should protect its people before things escalate and secondly elected leaders aren't supposed to set up trap like this in the first place.
> Prolog and Lisp were the two languages we were forbidden to use in compiler design project

Haskell/Ocaml/SML? :3
What about Opium wars?
Well, I think that it's not some arcane knowledge that nobody but enlightened can understand. Anyway, it's better to collect some information before talking to them.

Singapore looks like a good location wrt taxes and ease of doing business, but I may be missing something.
> Why should it be the government's business to determine what "the actual needs of consumers" are?

The government has signed up to various international treaties around ewaste and other eco indicators.

Consumers only buy on price.

Government sets minimum standards, which forces manufacturers to build their minimum cost devices to that standard. Manfs can also offer better devices for more money.

> How do companies innovate when the government has said, "This is the standard specification for an LED light bulb. You will make them to our standard or you won't make them at all."

Your mobile phone is intensely regulated across a number of different regulators. There seems to be plenty of innovation in cellphones.
So I just recently learned how a rather simple ring buffer implementation is lock-free and doesn't even need primitives like CAS (although it does need memory barriers).

In spite of this, all the literature about lock-free queues that I see (including this one) is for some kind of linked structure. Any reason for that?

I guess one big limitation of the ring buffer is that it only works for a single reader and single writer. Although maybe you can work around that using CAS primitves...
> And that it's tricky to get there unless society is willing to put something out onto the streets.

Tesla relabeling what other OEMs call Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) under the Autopilot moniker is dishonest and misleading.
I really wish the applications section had more detail or perhaps an "editorial". I don't really follow the consequence of a frequency map being associative.
Quick intro to D3.js
#destroyallifs

#notallifs
OK, configure the network interface this way. Oh, you can't. So it is not a file, it just has some metadata exposed with a file interface.

Create a process in the same manner. Oh, again you can't do that. What a shame.

And with route and user account examples you confuse being a file and being
a record in a file (which, couriously, is not a file itself).
Couple this with the fact that most people are still concentrating on the road while autopilot is in action. So in effect you still have a human driver, they are just not fully engaged with the cars controls.

I know when I tried my friend's auto-pilot that I was concentrating 10x more on the road than I would be normally. Obviously if I got more comfortable with the tech then I would be concentrating less but I can't imagine that I would ever stop paying attention unless I knew the system was fool-proof.
Not only is the statistics a big issue, but the apples-to-oranges comparison is what really irks me. The NHTSA average is over all car models on the road. Even in 2014, a non-negligible fraction of those are cars without even decent airbags and crumple zones.

The proper comparison would be with non-Autopilot Tesla miles. But that comparison makes Autopilot look bad.
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Ok that makes sense. But even here, and even in software it is tricky area to navigate.

I have found from experience that if I give a binary, they will, ever treat it as a mere sample, no matter what mickle warnings I send with it. They will treat it as the "official" version and ask questions about why various things work as they do, or why certain things are missing.

This can be very distracting if you are not prepared for it. So now I make sure that anything a customer sees is a release in some formal sense, and belongs to a proper release process, which includes QA.
"We don't condemn the server operator for being at the mercy of nonfree software, and we certainly don't boycott her for this. Rather, we are concerned for her freedom, as with any user of nonfree software. Given an opportunity, we try to explain how it curtails her freedom, hoping she will switch to free software.

"Conversely, if the service operator runs GNU/Linux or other free software, that's not a virtue that affects you, but rather a benefit for her. We don't praise or thank her for this; rather we felicitate her for making the wise choice."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-o...
Slight correction: They do have their own web crawler, it just doesn't make up a whole lot of their results.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot
One thing that would bear looking into is the "star system" - say you have a pool of 1000 people very skilled at whatever (singing, acting, athletics, TV talking, etc.).

Only a few get to be "stars" and reap most of the available rewards, although they could be replaced by another pool member with minimal difference.

Until the XIX century, there was not enough communication reach for this to occur noticeably. But now anyone from Podunk can have a global audience.

Is this a problem, and does it need fixed?
Is that most accidents, or most per mile driven? Because for many, quite a bit of driving is within a few miles from home, skewing the data.
This is exactly why the self-driving car vendors should have full liability for accidents. There's no bigger incentive to fix the issue if everyone sees them as the guilty party, and they can't just get away by pointing the blame at someone else. No other regulation is going to be as effective as this in making sure self-driving systems work exactly as intended with the absolute minimum of accidents.
"The world needs a non-US based alternate crawler but no one is offering it."

How about a US-based alternative that doesn't enforce UK, Pakistani, EU, and various other censorship lists that foreign countries promulgate?
plausible imho. data tapes could be in area A where people rarely go. admins could be in area B. temps could be set higher in area A, but not in B, at 4 am on a saturday night.
Germany is the only EU country having roads without speed limits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Roads_without_spee... .

Outside of EU, the only other European location that would qualify would be Isle of Man (as referenced in that article).
A good CLI has to satisfy a number of conditions, IMHO:

* Human-friendly interaction:

-- Command completion

-- Help for all commands

-- Doesn't need a load of APL-like runes in order to achieve anything

-- Intuitively obvious, so far as possible

-- Low bar for entry

* Not too verbose (something that requires the equivalent of COBOL's "ADD A TO B GIVING C" ain't gonna roll, sorry!)

* Sensible and consistent

* Embeds a full programming language - but you don't need that language to run straightforward commands

* Completely embraces parallelism without pain

-- Including being able to spin off and manage daemon processes

-- And having a painless way of managing (plumbing, in other words) inputs and outputs of each stage - {Uni,Linu}x shells haven't really improved the way they do this in over thirty years, and they didn't get it right the first time!

* As much as possible of the operating system's capability should be exposed, to as deep a level as possible, through the CLI

* Not tied to one operating system - inherently capable of being applied to any (or at least any common one)

My preference would be that the CLI presents a genuinely object-oriented representation of data and the programs that know how to interpret the data, plus the operating system services as well.

Microsoft's PowerShell satisfies a lot of these requirements...however, it falls way short of the "Low bar for entry" criterion, as anyone who's tried to learn it casually will have discovered the hard way.

A Pythonic shell could also be made to work (yes, I've tried using Python as a shell. No, it didn't go well), but would require a bit of nurdling to bring it into compliance with most of the requirements above, particularly the human interface ones.

A lot of questions here - a lot fewer answers, but I thought I'd throw out these thoughts for the assembled masses to contemplate, be inspired by, or tear to pieces.
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I think being part of a discussion sometimes requires some basic knowledge of the basic. Otherwise, if you need every concept explained to you, well, it's not a discussion, but a lecture. After all, if I deem it common knowledge and you do not, how do I know where is the limit of your knowledge base?

IMHO, people in the technical industry should first try to find knowledge by themselves, and ask only when it is not easily accessible. If you keep asking questions which you can find answers by Googling, hmm, how do you even survive in this industry? That is, if you're not in management, of course.
from the article: "...with zero confirmed fatalities and a wealth of internal data demonstrating safer, more predictable vehicle control performance" and "That contrasted against worldwide accident data, customers using Autopilot are statistically safer than those not using it at all." (emphasis mine)

i also stumbled over this statement, but i think they are using all telemetry data (e.g. what would the autopilot have done vs what the human actually did) in all accidents, not just fatalities per miles driven.
While there's a point buried in there, it's poorly made and analogised.

You've got two people taking deliberate actions which could expose or at least violate handling rules for classified information. One was seeking to retain it personally persuant to her job, the other was exposing it to the world, under the guidance of his conscience and loyalty to his Constitution.

Both broke rules.

How they did so, to what ends, and to what effect are hugely different.

Drawing comparisons between Snowden and Clinton as GP did is far too muddled to really be useful, IMO.

(Disclaimers: I think Snowden should be a national hero to Americans, and is a global hero. Clinton rather grudgingly gets my nod to occupy the Oval Office, though given current contenders, that's very much a lesser evil option, with an enormous gulf between her and the greater evil not tempering the fact that she's damaged goods and quite probably not the leadership the US needs at present. She seems to be what they'll get. I rather hope that she does, actually. Trump would be a disaster for the planet, and any plausible GOP alternate would be nearly as bad. Not that the GOP have been constrained by plausibility of late.)
Erdogan's faction seems to be tightening their grip, but they didn't have to stage the coup in order to know to exploit it. as the saying goes, "never let a crisis go to waste"

I haven't read that article, but it's zerohedge and so should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.
I hope the government enforces this rule to the fullest extent. We also need to regulate those water bottles that are tossed in every corner of the streets.
Why does Swift use this weird constraint-based type resolution anyway? To me it seems like it, whenever it manages to found a non-trivial solution, would be one that is unexpected to the programmer and leads to unintended consequences. Anyone have a motivating example of when it would be useful?

What's wrong with a type resolver that resolves (or not, with an error!) greedily in order of precedence?

Here's how I would solve

let a: Animal = 1 + -(2)

Ok, 2 is an int. If that gives problems down the line, too bad. -(2) is an int, if that gives problems, too bad. 1+-(2) is int+int so result should be an int. a is an Animal, try to convert int to Animal. Fail. Error!

One thing in particular that scares me with the constraint approach is that it seems to me (though I may be wrong) that whether overflow occurs or not is not immediately obvious.

let a: Double = -(INT_MAX) + - (INT_MAX)

whats to say those INT_MAXes wont somehow be interpreted as Doubles and a will be -2 INT_MAX ?
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What Putin says, largely for domestic consumption, and what he truly feels, are, I quite strongly suspect, rather different things.

Adam Curtis has touched on this, in "Bitter Lake" IIRC. Recommended. (BBC video documentary -- this bit comes early on.)
I'm not sure you're aware of this, but there's a distinction between wait-free and lock-free.

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/lock-free-vs-wait-free-concurrency...

This might be relevant to answering your question.
I want a drama show similar to House MD, but with infosec/pentesting instead of medicine :(
This article (1) calls it "an attempt to grab the reins of a complex society with the almost quaintly antediluvian tactics of seizing the state television station and rolling some tanks on to the streets. It is as if the plotters had never heard of social media"

so what would be modern coup tactics? The medium article mentions that there are more communication channels that need seizing in order to be effective.

1)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/16/turkey...
But, Tesla's system is designed for collision avoidance, automatic braking, etc. There is absolutely a problem that they call it "Autopilot", as it brings to mind the airplane meaning of the term.

But, it matches neither the common use case for airplane autopilot systems nor the common perception--right or wrong--of what those autopilot systems do. So, Tesla enjoys the cachet that comes with that latter perception, while relegating the true description to the "fine print" of the owner's manual.
In NPM registry, yes. But in Node.JS ecosystem, it was left-pad's scope
combined with inability of the community to adopt seasoned sysadmins' tools,
like custom repositories to build artifacts without ever needing to touch
network (which is somewhat difficult to execute when you have dozens to
hundreds of dependencies for a trivial project).
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Because that's the convention everywhere else.
Yes it's not such an immoral decision as it is presented. Light bulbs that have energy consumption in the KW range because people want them to last forever would not be good.
Sandi Metz talks about ifs a bit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPfEXIlTVE
I miss the times when every light fitting was the same (one size, bayonet style).
I don't know how many different types and sizes of fittng we have. It's a pain replacing bulbs now. I preferred the light from the old incandescent bulbs too and if they give off a little heat, well living in the temperate zone we need a little heat after dark.
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Any one else think that the bug bounty rewards were quite low?
Thanks for your comment, you raise some good points. I do have to question a couple of things:

> Consumers only buy on price.

Really? Everyone I know also looks at reviews, brand reputation, and other factors. Of course you're right that sometimes we just buy the cheapest option. :-)

> Your mobile phone is intensely regulated across a number of different regulators. There seems to be plenty of innovation in cellphones.

Is the innovation in the areas governments regulate, or in the areas they don't? I just made a list of 20 or so key attributes of a cellphone, and I don't think they are things that are regulated. (I was going to post the list, but had second thoughts that it may seem argumentative, and they seem pretty obvious anyway.)
> Most of this is the top 10% using the 90% against the top 1% so the top 10% can pay less taxes and have more power.

This.

I would also add that all this parlance sounds an awful lot like communist propaganda, not in the message but on the power-grabbing strategy.

They've fabricated a common enemy (the 1%/the bourgeoisie) and in spite of all the propaganda the only objective of the elites controlling these movements is to manipulate useful idiots (90%/the proletariat) into doing all the dirty work to transfer power away from an established rival to their own hands.

The tactics are the same, the propaganda is the same, the rhetoric is essentially the same, etc etc etc.
>Autopilot was not operating as designed and as described to users: specifically, as a driver assistance system that maintains a vehicle's position in lane and adjusts the vehicle's speed to match surrounding traffic

I agree with your comment regarding their branding choice, and I'd add that the design itself is flawed: specifically, the entire notion of the car taking over specific reaction-based functions, but a.) leaving other such functions to the driver and b.) requiring the driver to supervise and override according to split second situations.
Yeah, the application section is pretty poor. The number one large-scale practical application of semigroups (and, more often, their extension the monoid) is in parallel and concurrent systems. Associativity says that order of operations doesn't matter, which in turn implies you can distribute computations however you like across multiple machines and still get the correct result. This is the big idea leveraged in systems like Summingbird and other big data frameworks (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7544) and in CRDTs.
if i wasn't running windows, linux or osx on my working computer, i probably wouldn't mind shoving a usb drive into it. security through obscurity.
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Just compare Teslas fatalities per mile with and without autopilot.

Remove the mileage driven from the cars that have never used autopilot, to control for drivers too cautious to trust their lives to beta software, and you should have your demographic.
Milton Friedman famously claimed monopolies/cartels would not exist without government assistance and that there are only 2 examples of private monopolies that lasted long period of time (De Beers and NYSE). I suppose he was very wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLBzfFGFQU
Milton Friedman famously claimed monopolies/cartels would not exist without government assistance and that there are only 2 examples of private monopolies that lasted longer period of time. I suppose he was very wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLBzfFGFQU
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You can use the same argument when Tesla has 10000M miles driven. Fatal accidents in the US are 130 per 10000M miles driven.
Why this name ? As someone who has family in this town I'm wondering. Historical reasons ? Some character in a game I don't know about ? Random chosen french city ?
It was very useful to me.
It told me the author of this library doesn't know what a predicate is.
Rwanda is becoming a hub for expanding tech companies
The light is better, but the heat is usually not where you want it.
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Cloning Facebook under a different title will be the greatest cloning of all times if that clone app becomes successful.
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Pilots do have to monitor the behaviour of the autopilot. Even though they are programmed to do one thing (hold a course or altitude, change to a course or an altitude with a certain rate of change), they rely on potentially faulty sensors and control many parameters to meet the goal. Usually the autopilot will simply disconnect if it detects a problem, but there are examples of autopilots causing passenger injuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
That's not a valid comparison for TIFF. TIFF is a container which supports multiple compression algorithms. You could plug FLIF in as a compression algorithm and use it directly.
Not if you understand statistics.
I think the missing speed limit isn't that big of a factor, as most traffic is still flowing at around the same not-so-high speed, maybe somewhere between 130 and 160 km/h (except for trucks on the right lane). It's the relative speed differences that matters, and there the differences on other roads where traffic is stopping and accelerating all the time, with other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists crossing the road which makes urban roads so dangerous.
Sometimes with big political events one sees something that just does not sit right with one's overall understanding of events. If the events were a movie or teevee series you would consider these things to be flaws in the plot.

Initially I was open to the idea that the coup was what the mainstream media said it was, however, the internet has opened me up to the idea that the whole thing was staged. This analysis better fits my earlier private observation that things weren't quite what they seemed to be.

So, my thinking is that the new internet medium (new for coups) will work against the 'President' because word on the street will be that he faked the coup. This word on the street will be spread by internet and messenger chat. If this becomes all pervasive then the 'President' really does end up getting himself killed, his regime completely overthrown, game over. I also believe he is one of those leaders that the U.S. can let go of, Turkey may be NATO but the leader is interchangeable.