skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've started using docker and docker-compose for browser automation.

Edit - I blogged about the basics of my setup - https://stacktoheap.com/blog/2016/01/04/running-webdriverio-...
> If we let our lawns die, we'll see more property damage due to soil erosion.

Replace them with native plants.
Delegative Democracy
The sense of self or the "I" is part of that stream of thoughts, that is why you can't stop thoughts except by fully concentrating in something; the intention of stoping thoughts and the self that wants to achieve something are thoughts themselves.
An approach that I have found very powerful is to direct atention to nervous system activity which is an objective form of conciousness, something like the sense of touch but extended to the inside of the body (it is called kayotsarga in jainism), besides gaining the ability to fully relax at will all parts of the body it brings awareness to a whole new level.
Someone correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but it looks like the actual answer to the headline is "95% chance of yes". I actually thought it was remarkable for being a counterexample to Betteridge's law.
This is actually pretty common, worldwide. The trains in the Netherlands technically 'flush', but they flush right onto the tracks.
I don’t need to be dealing with signing religious codes of conduct or dealing with campuses where eighteen-year-olds can carry concealed guns

Quelle horreur! So he wants tenure at a US university, but he won't go to the UK or Europe because...oh dear, that might involve sacrifice.
No, it is about context. The same can be said for Iraq - more ordnance dropped there than in all of WW2 and that is just 2003-2010. In WW1 the arms trade was barely started compared to what we have today. The world is at war against the arms trade profiteers but people talk about race instead.
"The Earth has no memory for the dead-ends of evolution. In a few hundred thousand years glaciers would grind our works and our bones into gravel, would grind the gravel into sand, and in a few hundred million years the movement of continents erase the last of any trace of our brief existence, save perhaps for a handful of deeply-buried and enigmatic fossils."

This brings up a question I have often wondered about: do we really know we are the first intelligent conceptual life to do things like use tools and language on this planet?

If let's say a dinosaur reached the level of stone or bronze age civilization would anything be left other than... well... a couple enigmatic fossils that are easy to dismiss?

I doubt a massive high tech civilization like ours could come and go and leave no trace, but what about something much smaller scale?
And it is little appreciated that federal agriculture subsidies are structured the way that they are because maintaining food security was seen as necessary for the stability of our country.

To see why you have to go back to the Dust Bowl, and then the prospect of severe famines in Europe at the end of WW II. It turns out that if you have 10% more food than people need, food is cheap. But make that 10% less and food becomes very expensive, people starve, and you get political unrest.
> the rabid insularity of the Haskell community definitely doesn't help. The Python community was dissatisfied with JS and created Coffeescript, and as of ES6 now everyone can enjoy the fat arrow syntax. Less pleasantly, the Java community got class syntax added to ES6, but at least they're trying to contribute. I'm sure Haskell has plenty of really cool things to bring to the table, but I've never heard of any of them, because all the Haskell community wants do is talk about how JavaScript sucks instead of embracing the functional side of it.

Since you mentioned CoffeeScript, Elm seems like a particularly relevant example of something that came out of the Haskell community and which compiles to JavaScript.

I think you have a negative impression of both Haskell and its community which isn't necessarily justified. It's a little insular, but not to the extent that you're suggesting here. PureScript is another language that Haskell has almost directly spawned. It's a lot more complex than Elm, like Haskell itself, but has quite a few brilliant insights of its own.
I'm not talking about fancy types either. Standard ML's type system is dead simple (no higher-kinded types, no GADTs, no type families, not even type classes), and I got a lot more value from it than from Haskell's type system, mostly thanks to:

(0) Abstract types, generated by means of opaque signature ascription, which Haskell doesn't have. This ensures that different modules can't “accidentally” each other's internal invariants.

(1) The fact variables stand for values (due to ML being strict), rather than potentially diverging computations (due to Haskell being lazy), which makes useful algebraic laws sound even in the presence of nontermination or whatever effects.
FWIW, said financial firms do pay very well for the rights to use those towers, and they almost always have to employ local or relatively local tower climbers and ground crew to maintain them. If Vodaphone wanted a tower in this town, it wouldn't be news.

Disclaimer: I work for one of the two companies mentioned as having applied for permits in TFA.
Everything that you say is correct. But given the choice between trying to maintain agriculture and guaranteeing working water taps, California should choose people.
It moves at that speed because the index of refraction of glass is about 1.5. In single-mode fiber the light doesn't really bounce off the walls.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144
Given how little we know about the Higgs -- namely, that we're pretty certain that at least one particle exists which probably behaves in the same manner as a Higgs boson would on several tests -- I'd hesitate to draw conclusions on the basis of how a particular model suggests that the Higgs field behaves.
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The all too common sin of putting visual designers on UX design.
New Report: Computer Energy Use Can Easily Be Cut in Half
I'm Maggie - one of the maintainers that is stepping up for Tim. I just want to mention that in the time I've been working on the project I've learned that when Tim talks, you should listen. He's done an excellent job, and given our issue load I am surprised he didn't get burnt out earlier.
For anybody questioning why Tim didn't better self-regulate his work load, know that we as maintainers feel a really strong love toward the project. We don't want to see it fail, and we will push ourselves to make sure that it does not fail. Tim has always done this, and he should be commended for it.
Thanks Tim for all your time. Hopefully we can take good care of this.
Facebook could face extra $5bn tax bill after IRS investigation
You have situations like at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is in the Mojave Desert, where the project had to be scaled down to preserve some desert tortoise habitat.

If you're placing solar panels in a sand desert, you have to deal with sandstorms and shifting dunes.

The more land you use for solar panels or heliostats, the more difficult it becomes to find additional usable land.

> "Concerns about the impacts of the Ivanpah Solar thermal project led the developers to hire some 100 biologists and spend US$22 million caring for the tortoises on or near the site during construction."
On the Subject of Water.
> Sorek can produce a thousand litres of drinking water for 58 cents.
I am guessing this is the cost to produce and not the final cost to Homeowners.
How much further down can we reduce this cost? I am guessing this is close to the limit of efficiency, any more reduction will have to come from cheaper energy source?
Since Nuclear Power requires lots of water, would the both makes sense working together?

Most countries have leaky water around pipes. UK lose around 20%, US is a little above 10%. Are the any innovation that we can shrink this number? I dont see why this cant be within 98%+ region. What is stopping it?
Everything you wanted to know and VERY interesting :)

http://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/2015/10/26/episode-214-set...

tldr; water was used as an excuse by the British to limit immigration to Israel, so from the earliest onset of the formation of Israel, Israel has been trying to tackle the problem of water use inefficiency.
Wow. I just stayed up late to read that. Completely worth it.

What else has he written?
Don't forget that when using multicolumn indexes, order matters. The index will still be used if you filter (or sort by) any prefix of the column list, but not otherwise.
you may want to look at:
Alternative Routes in Road Networks
Ittai Abraham, Daniel Delling, Andrew V. Goldberg, and Renato F. Werneck
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Maybe all that's happened is people that used to take traditional taxis moved onto Uber.
Pretty sure Vodafone would not be building one nearly as high.
This is incredible!!
There's a difference between solving the problem (which it has been) and municipalities/governments/etc thinking the solution is palatable.
I did not know COBOL was functional too :)

Out of curiousity, what other criteria would you apply?
It's not entirely deliberate, more a consequence of my somewhat minimalist approach to life, but I do this and it works. In don't have chips or crackers or sweets or whatever in my home often. Typically specifically for a party or small servings for me. The worst is after a party of it didn't get eaten. But that's not terrible, a day or two of overeating quickly offset by my normal exercise routine and getting back to normal (low) levels of food at home.
View the weather using UNIX finger (finger sydney@gw.jensenwaud.com)
Huh. That's pretty cool and very convenient.
> Eventually the college loan bubble will burst, and universities will no longer be able to be run like businesses.

Can you explain this sentence?

If you mean, "Students will be less likely to get crazy loans," I can only imagine that would encourage universities to "be run like businesses.)
Didn't know that option thanks. Better than nothing, but unfortunately your environment is still subject to the remarks in my second paragraph. So pip-tools is still required if you want more guarantees.
A tangent, perhaps. But it's not FUD.
Commonsense says this study is flawed in someway. Uber has giving millions and millions of car rides with drunk people, and how many of those wouldn't ride with a sober friend or take the time to call a cab?
Just curious but what do people see the major use of smart mirrors being? I'm personally only in front of a mirror a few minutes a day but I know others are a lot more. Also depending on the mirror re-installation would be quite a pita and so would likely be as bad as in dash systems for aging out. Especially with early rapid iteration.
The Blog That Disappeared
We have 75-100 components along with all the angular pieces, polyfills, and ngrx/rxjs. It's 250kb with a minimal build process. I haven't even started digging into any optimization/build tools. I think you're doing something wrong.
Asian wars
Or perhaps the study says that common sense is flawed in some way? If the study holds up to scrutiny (not saying it will) then updating to have new common sense is the whole point.
I think it's not bashing of npm specifically so much as it is the node ecosystem it serves and depends on; at least in my mind it's difficult to separate node from npm. That said, for what it's trying to do (read a list of deps, resolve vs. registry, download and unpack) it seems to do a fine job of it.

My major complaint about npm is the choice to allow version range operators on dependency declarations. We know the node.js ecosystem places a high value on composability, so using lots of tiny modules which themselves depend on lots of tiny modules is the norm. This is a problem though because range operators get used liberally everywhere, so getting reproducible builds is like winning the lottery.

There are other things I don't like about using npm: node_modules/ is big and has a lot of duplication (even with npmv3), it's pretty slow, historically it has been unstable, its still crap on Windows, etc. - but for someone who has 'ensures reproducible builds' as part of their job description, the way its modules get versioned is its worst feature.
Wow, that's really interesting. Do you have other tricks you use for efficient homesteading? Using solar and whatnot?
And here Sim City had me thinking this was common place when I was a kid.
Shocking! Google's started supporting more languages than just the ones they care about. I really hope this signals the death of their disdain culture.

Being a worthwhile Cloud provider means hiring experts in all sorts of languages and supporting their efforts.

Imagine a world where Google didnt just "support node" (YEARS late), but actually turned their v8 expertise into a Cloud product.

But that'd involve convincing Java-devs-turned-VPs to care about JavaScript, <2004>and EVERYONE knows that JavaScript is a terrible language.</2004>
To be fair, not encountering bugs is often broken into two fields: a) aggressively defining user issues as out of scope, or b) not having a varied user pool.

Examples of (a) are not always malicious, mind. For a small shop, if your program messes up because during a process the machine it was on got unplugged, it is easy to see why that can be called not a bug in the system. When your shop gets large enough, though, scenarios like that become far too common.
You are correct, in LA, it's broken out into a separate line item.

From the DWP FAQ:

"The Sewer Service Charge (SSC) is based on metered water use"

https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/wcnav_externalId/c-cs-sewe...
I just run Ubuntu now but I like the features of Swift.

Does anyone who uses Swift on Linux have any comments, suggestions, use cases, etc.?
Note that, from the article, this is a town that gets a good chunk of its economy from tourism. (Brits love their holidays.) So something that vacation-goers consider an eyesore could, in fact, cause significant economic damage.

It is kind of funny that you use "naked money grab" in defense of HFTs.
Try from your own command line:

$ finger sydney@gw.jensenwaud.com
sydney
Weather in sydney is Mostly Sunny with a temperature of 62F
Civilization isn't a thing that just happens. You have to work for it.
I don't think it's all about race. That was just one of four adjectives that I used. But fundamentally I think they were (and are) viewed as more "different" from us and so naturally we feel less empathy and kinship. I think something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre would be less likely to happen in a scenario where US troops are fighting a proxy war in Canada.

The points you make about Iraq, war profiteers, and context are all spot-on and very informative. Thank you.
Reminded me of the Takata airbag recall. From this article:

"A propellant made with ammonium nitrate would swell and shrink with temperature changes, and eventually the tablet would break down into powder. Water and humidity would speed the process. Powder burns more quickly than a tablet, so an air bag whose propellant had crumbled would be likely to deploy too aggressively."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-06-02/sixty-mill...
This is an honest question, I'm not trying to be negative but I'm really confused.

It would seem like best practices is that all of this is part of your automated tests. Tests that are checked in to your repo and written in code and part of your CI. How does a native app that is OSX only fit in that scenario? Or maybe I'm not understanding it?
Clash of Clans Hack Tool 2016 (Android+iOS)
I was in a similar position when I graduated in 2002 and I went to grad school. I went to grad school because I couldn't find a job, not that I really wanted to; but, it was probably the best career decision I ever made.
Debian Project News – July 29th, 2016
GIMP 2.9.4 and our vision for the future
> "Optimise" JavaScript code taking advantage of the fact a function can access all local variables in the scope of the caller.

This is just not true. I believe he means in the scope of where it is constructed which is actually a useful technique.

As I don't have expertise in all of the enough expertise in all of the areas discussed, I'm not sure what other techniques are actually possible.
I'm actually curious how anyone not a geek gets on Wifi at many coffee shops etc. Many captive portals don't seem to do anything and chrome just says "can't connect" or "cert bad". I used to go to test.com, now I go to foo.com. But I'm geek. What do all the non-geeks do?
Neighbours will complain and city will fine you. So better let the fucking lawn die. /sarc
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590914...
I watched the piece and I'm honestly wondering what your objection is.

I assume that you, like me, are very much in favor of vaccination. She clearly is as well, but 1) has concerns that large portions of the American public don't trust the agency that regulates vaccines and 2. thinks that all medicines (and vaccines) should be carefully studied for safety. She also rightly points out that mercury was removed from most vaccines a number of years ago because there were other safer and more effective adjuvants. She makes no reference to the autism myth and says that she thinks vaccines are a critical part of public health (or something to that effect).

I apologize if I have misinterpreted your distaste for her, I just wanted to say that as a strongly pro-vaccination person, I don't really disagree with anything from that clip.

(I also have never read / seen any interview material from her prior to this article and discussion, so I'm not defending her as a supporter.)
BeeCanvas – Interactive whiteboard. It works like Powerpoint beecanvas.com
For a long time I thought that "But I couldn't ever be happy doing anything else!" Now I'm not doing it but have a great job I'm way happier than I ever was in grad school. I wonder how I could have been so foolish.
The issue with comments written this way is that there are no details to support the claim.

Writing "see: JavaScript" doesn't really help without context. Without context, one does no know if you meant "JavaScript in browser" or "JavaScript via Node.JS" or "I simply don't like npm".

I'm not claiming there aren't any problems; however, "problems" are situational and one person's "problem" is another person's meh.

I just think it's irresponsible to not provide detail when making such claims.
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=10...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=up%20dog

:)
isn't it the other way around - a triumph of economics (i.e. common sense) over politics?
What bugs are we talking about? You've never encountered a functional bug or a security bug? That's definitely a good track record. Bug studies on languages definitely point to only a slight lower rate of bug for Haskell compared to other languages, so to have none is quite an outlier.
I live in Boston. Until uber, the minimum taxi fair was $6, they always had broken credit card machines, and there was never enough cabs when you needed them. I remember s New Year's Eve where we had to promise the dispatcher we would pay a $100 tip to get anyone to pick us up. The "reducing drunk driving" theory was a happy side effect but ultimately not important. Über destroyed a a BS industry full of idiots and made it professional and reliable.
If this is true, I think this probably ranks high up there among the daftest of management responses for such a thing as "terrorism".

If the world and its manual processes were programs and code, these stories would be front page of the The Daily WTF.

Head hurts.
Did you read the article you posted? Your mind seems rather easily boggled.

tldr: jill stein is not an anti-vaxxer, quite the opposite, and is primarily concerned with the perceived corrupting influence of lobbying on the FDA.
Most operating systems have started detecting captive portals and presenting a notification. All of the modern consumer ones (OS X, Windows, Android, iOS) appear to have this detection. (I don't use it so not sure how well it works, though.)
What is your objection? Are you against vaccinations?

Jill is a Harvard medical grad and has some experience in the matter. When she says that vaccinations are "absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases" you should listen.
I'm guessing this is more for in development or debugging issues.
Fair point, but I also think that a fair number of HN readers who are the target audience for Paw are not necessarily high paid engineers and are likely home hobbyists or students etc. who are building stuff on the side on a ramen budget.

As someone who is trying to bootstrap a SaaS app myself that is currently costing me a around $1000/mth, spending yet another $60 (converted to AU$) is something to think long and hard about, especially seeing as I have been using Postman for several versions with good results.

If someone can point out a compelling reason that Paw > Postman v2 because of x,y and z then I am happy to consider that and perhaps splurge for a licence. I don't think $70 is expensive for good software BTW, but I just haven't been sold on the value of it so far.
Mind expanding a bit more?
The point of the Nautilus article was repeatability is a must before a scientific result is accepted. However pressure to publish new results often lead to scientists losing motivation in doing replicating studies. It's a bug in the scientific ecosystem, particularly in the allocation of rewards. A significant number of experiments will always fail to replicate for various random reasons. That doesn't mean the concerned scientist is at fault.
I played with ‘The Lab’ a little in an open space with a Vive. It was an intensely magical technological experience. (So was Tilt Brush.)

Exploring an environment in VR can’t be compared to exploring one on a screen, because the objects have scale that makes sense, and you can freely move around them to see their shapes. Or, when you pick something up, you can freely move it around with your hand to see different sides and angles.

The software includes detailed representations of the Vive controllers, so you can see them while you’re in VR — including accurate battery LEDs, the state of the buttons, and the position of the analog trigger.

Even the little toys in The Lab’s “menu room” are fun and natural — there's a wooden bow on a table. You can reach out with a hand, touch the trigger on the controller to pick it up (the controller disappears so you seem to just be holding the bow), and then use your other hand to grab an arrow, pull it back (holding the trigger), and release (by releasing the trigger).

The demo worlds are equally magical — when I played fetch with my little robot dog, I kneeled down to pick up a stick, stood up to throw it, and then kneeled back down to give the dog an approving scratch when it brought the stick back.

I was mildly excited about VR and AR. Now I’m convinced that they’re going to change how we interact with computers, and with each other.
If you want to look at it from an quantitative perspective, say a developer wants to build that sewage plant. He scouts out a location, decides he can make 2 million bucks on this project, and starts building.

Once it's finished and the neighborhood literally smells like shit, the value of 200 nearby houses each drops by $100k. It adds up to a total loss of 20 million dollars for the residents.

The net effect being that the sewage plant developer has built a sewage plant, made $2MM, and destroyed $20MM of property values. If everyone is looking to make a buck and has no checks on what negative impacts they can have on nearby property owners, then schemes like that would be happening all the time. Government oversight of land use is a means for communities to prevent it.