skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're a blast to drive!

Here in Seattle (and also Portland) we have BMW's ReachNow drive sharing network, so are able to drive the i3 for about 40 cents per minute point-to-point.

It's great since BMW handles the fleet management and electric charging, we just open up the iPhone, find the closest one and jump in, driving off. The future!

I have to wonder: how many people have gone out and bought or leased an i3 after experiencing the thrill through ReachNow?
...and how often do you need to do all that to a dataset?
Good points!

About that VBA thing, I was actually thinking about automation. Bash, Python, ruby, even JS, are really great for that. But then we have VBA. I guess most things you can do with VBA in Excel, you can do with python as well.

I agree, I need some background building before jumping into programming. I just figured maybe a good programming book will cover the necessary CS parts, too. "Learning Python" is over 1500 pages, and really is intimidating. "Haskell Programming" is also +1000 pages. Do you think picking up huge books like these, will help me build the required background?
That's an interesting take on the situation, and I appreciate the insight with someone with experience in China (I have none at all).
This is already the case. Humans doing judgement calls are an "algorithm" too. Moreover, there are only two algorithms you can't game - one that perfectly addresses and solves explicit and implicit aspects of the problem (impossible in practice), and one that is perfectly random.

Computer algorithms are much easier to improve than low-paid human clerks, so there's that too.
Your characterization of the Magic Bullet Theory is inaccurate. The error is in not realizing the car was of an unusual geometry (I believe JFK was elevated, and the seats were different widths apart between the front and the back- unusual for cars of the time.) So assuming the car was normal, and all the seats were the same distance apart and the same height, you would need a magic bullet. Applying deeper understanding of the setup of the car accounts for that, reducing it to the improbable bullet theory. That doesn't mean they were wrong, that means they didn't have access to the car to do direct measurements. When the government locks down the evidence (or in the case of 9/11 immediately ships it off to china, before the investigation begins, literally shipping buildings across the ocean to be recycled) it's not the fault of the conspiracy theorists if they come up with wrong hypothesizes when denied access to the evidence every legitimate researcher should have access to.

Regarding "fake film" you seem too be referring to Oliver Stones "JFK" which is not the source of the Magic Bullet Theory, or any of the theories there, it is merely a collection of the theories prominent at the time, and then fictionalized.
I don't know how this particular radar system works, but in general you can modulate radar signals with a special encoding, so that only the sender can receive and interpret it. For all others the signal is juse noise. At university we worked with m-sequence based radar systems that have these properties. This would minimize the possibility that someone (accidently or not) can send signals that you misinterpret. Depending on the remaining possibility you might still want to take same countermeasures.
Superintelligence and Singularity is Near are good books to read o this.
Have a look at redux's doc for instance, http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/, and do read the code (it's about 300 lines total), they're both masterpieces of modern JS.
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If you really know cljs then you are already doing it in a less kludgy and more elegant/sane way ;)
Maybe, but I'm not aware of any that have produced predictions on a broad in vivo population that are better than existing methods. It's one thing to do a heat map of a region at a certain time of day, and express that in terms of overall statistical risk. It's quite another to try and read the future intentions of a human being based on what amounts to a wealth of noise and a paucity of signal.
This article makes us learn a thing on what not to do when we run our business even in a small scale.
You were not the first person to suggest Klemens's book to me, but after reading it, I disagree with most of it.
There is no definitive proof for US contingency plans but the US is so heavily involved with Pakistan to secure these nuclear weapons and on top of that there have been so many statements of top US officials (even from US Presidents) regarding this issue that I'm 100% sure that there are plans to swiftly take out or otherwise secure these nuclear weapons if something dangerous develops there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_d...

Note how the government of Pakistan responds to these allegations that the US has these plans by reassuring everyone that the weapons are safe instead of being outraged that a foreign government disregards their sovereignty in such a way. That says a lot.

> This depends on whether or not you believe the ideology can travel past the level of technological sophistication necessary to deploy nukes. The ideology itself is pretty self-abnegating - it has many marques of a suicide cult.

Well ISIS is quite comfortable with using the latest technologies for their purposes and countries like Iran have a truly remarkable scientific community (considering their isolation), so I tend to believe that ideology alone will not inhibit them sufficiently to not being able to achieve this goal if they really want to.

Edit: Yes I agree, the US could take out ISIS in a few weeks, so could Russia. What is missing is the will as there are serious repercussions if you try to do it while other superpowers oppose it vigorously. (and on top of that you'd have to use very blunt force in order to do it - many civilians on ISIS held territory would die)

That's why I believe that Trump as a president would make it happen as he has stated on multiple occasions that he would do it together with Putin in some way.

If the US and Russia / China shared a common goal here they would destroy ISIS very quickly.
Same is said for his Python book as he discourages Python 3; 'Automate the Boring Stuff' is also free and superior
> I wrote the article. Thank you for your response. I don't think post-scarcity will eat the entire economy anytime soon. In particular, I think that it will still be unaffordable to access proper medical care, child care, and housing. And I don't see how UBI solves that.

From a US-centric perspective, those things are true. But the rest of the industrialized world has largely solved access to medical care (even if they are still working on timeliness in some respects). Child care has been solved in parts of the world through a combo of subsidy and parental leave - you can look at parts of Canada and Northern Europe for some models. Housing is tricky - areas are expensive because they're either on the coasts or near major economic hubs. In a post-scarcity economy, there will still be upward pressure on the former, but the latter eases quite a bit. We'll see it sooner than this, though, as tech starts to go more and more remote, and production processes become more and more automated. Not tomorrow, but optimistically, within my childrens' lifetimes.

> Hence there are more pressing problems, like deploying a sustainable universal health insurance in the US (either public option or single payer) and reflecting on how we could make housing more affordable so that middle class and working class people can live where the jobs are located.

I agree with both of these. Both of these problems have some political solutions, though. They're not technical impossibilities.
Then they should be forced to positively report that you are agreeing to the terms of your lease. It shouldn't be a one way street. Right now, there is nothing for most land lords to really see on credit reports except for seriously cases of rental delinquency (evictions will show up, but these are outstandingly rare). You get dinged for them looking at what will largely be irrelevant information to your landlord. How I manage my credit cards has no correlation to how I've how honored my apartment leases. It makes no sense for someone to deny you a place to live because of other outstanding debts, often these debts do not even follow the same financial contracts or have the same importance in many people's lives.
> In a future where by all current data, the world will be a richer more capable place.

But climate change is already too far in progress to wait for a future where we're more capable. We're already capable enough, just need to funnel money to the right places.
Hey Nolan,

Those are really cool. I think your palettes are a more useful representation than my 'data dump' strategy.

Another commenter used Selenium to get screenshots. I'll have to look into that as I update this.

Thanks for sharing!
I'm sorry your comment was downvoted, but thanks for taking one for the team. Whether you are right or wrong, it's exactly the kind of comment that stimulates an interesting conversation, like this one which I learned some new things from.

To the downvoters: how do you expect to have an environment conducive to intellectually gratifying discussions, if you're not willing for someone to share a wild idea, and maybe even be a little bit wrong, without penalty?
Given their own stated goals, if/when this all falls in a heap, the developers who apparently need some overlord to tell them how to format code will have no one but themselves to blame.

The groups own stated reason for being was to document what the various major frameworks did and document the most common ways of achivieving goals.

Note: most common, not most flexible or best technically.

The influence of existing frameworks/libraries has also tainted their proposals: the logger interface defines the log levels as STRINGS. That they share the same names as syslog is irrelevant once they're no longer integers - you can't exactly use "info" vs "debug" as a simple "greater than level X" test.
Why does it have to be a special treatment?
WW1 was inevitable. The incident that triggered it was irrelevant.
Yes, you can usually find illegal copies of recent books. HN tends to frown on such links, though.
That's pretty cool.

Do you think you can get it to support Manta? I think a lot of people in that ecosystem could benefit from it if you could. I'd help, but I don't really know Java all that well :-(.
I agree as for what Blair did for the NHS, but it was precisely his way to deal with the NHS being a thorn in the side.

What's interesting is the underlying philosophy: instead of providing citizens with money, the New Labour tried to rebuild the best system possible for rich and poor alike. A UBI is unable to achieve that goal in healthcare.

As for the French example: I agree it isn't the theoretical concept of basic income (and thought I wrote so). Rather my point is that this is how basic income would end up after 1 or 2 electoral rounds.
I wrote the article, whose point is precisely that: what I called "bullshit" is the endless "problem-solution" conversation around basic income which, in my eyes, ignores politics as well as history and drains the political will to fight on other fronts, such as universal health insurance in the US (or affordable housing).
Oh, I agree! But I think we've seen a trend away from things like the 747-400 and the Ан-225 already over the last decades, and not just in the military, and I wonder why that is.

It seems likely that the current war, if it really takes off, is going to be more significant than WWII. In WWII, major parts of Earth were not battlefields: the Americas, Antarctica, Australia, most of Africa, India, Mongolia, Siberia, parts of China, and orbit were spared. And there were no nuclear weapons on the table until the end of the war, and no precision-guided munitions at all anywhere.

It seems like this war, if not stopped quickly, could lead to the end of territorial monopolies on force, and thus geopolitics as we know it. What will it look like? Both the war and its aftermath are literally unimaginable. We can't even say it'll be better or worse than WWII — precision-guided munitions mean there's no more need to expensively Dresden a city to destroy its industrial infrastructure, but it also means you could be killed without warning at any moment because an IA misinterpreted your Facebook status or your cellphone metadata, like Malik Jalal.
It's true I haven't used NodeJS for actual projects, but writing entire apps in Javascript where other languages are available does not appeal to my personal aesthetics or technical sense on many levels. Simple namespacing in JS is a burden. A lot (not all) of what I hear about NodeJS being a great tool is from people that both accept callback hell as a way-of-life, and who decline to understand anything past the headlines of great performance.

Guess how that great performance comes about - C++ and non-blocking I/O! There's also the aspect of the community that makes packages for single functions and can't develop a useable package manager (last time I checked). I'm not against it as pure infrastructure for running clojurescript, though =P.
I have a feeling the ecosystem is becoming, err, slightly less worse :) My react redux babel boilerplate has not changed in about a year and I strive to stay up to date. Once you can write a webpack.config.js without looking at the doc you're all set :)
What C book has 300+ pages before you learn about pointers?
If Facebook or another company with goals that may not be clearly noble did it people may question their motives more. I also believe these is a natural higher level of trust in people like Elon Musk who have more praise worthy missions set for their companies than let's say someone like Mark Zuckerberg, ie. Elon wants humans to have a backup plant and is taking actions to save this planet, he seems to have dedicated his life to that mission, Mark maybe not so much.
Wise Guy - Nicholas Pileggi
This is the chronicle of the life of Henry Hill, a half-Irish half-Sicilian kid from Brooklyn, New York who rose through the ranks of the Mafia back in it's heydays. The most entertaining book concerning organized crime that I've ever read, by far (these guys really had it all. they were both feared and respected. they could quite literally do whatever they wanted to do, whenever they wanted to do it and they need not have any fear of reprisal from anything or anybody). Also, this is the book that gave birth to the Martin Scorsese movie GoodFellas -- but as is so often the case, the book is much better than the movie. Given that the movie is fantastic, that is really saying something IMHO.
This is the reason they gave to avoid it:

Too many factual problems and a presentation that gets you to do things wrongly before being shown how to do it correctly, and not even always then.[0]

[0]: http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Stuff_that_should_be...
Far more importantly than that: the landlord, usually morgaged, is making a tenuous claim of ownership of the tenant's home. If the landlord does not keep up with his payments the tenant and his family face the prospect of disruption and upheaval of far greater import than any monentey shortfall the landlord might risk. Therefore the tenant has by far the greater claim to an assurance of the landlord's credit worthiness than vice versa.
There's the rub. It can be hard to tell whether theory doesn't have any bearing on reality at the moment due to circumstance, or whether the theory is inherently flawed.
Just curious, why do you dislike Mac OS so much? I use an MacBook Pro laptop and have Debian based OS for work and I find the transition between the two computers almost negligible. Using the brew package manager on OS X lets me install anything I've needed.

Though to be fair I primarially do data analysis and not heavy application development.
AFAIK there's been some success in Germany with being able to combine a big enough crop devoted to biodisel along side a meaningfully size crop for food - but oil, especially subsidized oil, is really cheap energy.

But there was recently a big scare connected to farmers taking subsidies to produce biodisel - and biodiisel production out-competing food production and/or leading to hike in food prices... so yeah. If you have X square meters in which to grow food, you can't readily use some large percentage of that for "growing" biodiesel, without cutting into your food grow area.

I'm sure there are certain biomass that will work as both, but it's not trivial to "just use biodisel".
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You can look for the GNU utils, you know. And you can do explicit dependancy declaration by grepping the version output to see if it's GNU or bsd, and the version number.

It's not convenient, and it could be done better, but it is by no means impossible.

Also, how do your colleagues not know AWK? In a primarily UNIX world, that's something that everybody should know. Besides, you can learn the basics in about 15 minutes.
Did you read the first or second edition? The first edition had a lot of issues, the second edition was a lot better.
Given you'd like to focus on functional languages and you'd also like to be productive enough to build and monetize apps as an individual, you might like and want to look into Elixir and Elm.

Elm is a nice functional frontend language that compiles to JS, which you'll need for web apps.

Elixir is a very good and solid functional backend language that is good for general purpose programming, as well as web app programming (via Phoenix) and embedded (via Nerves).

Both of those languages are functional and focused on developer productivity and have some very good tooling around them.
I didn't overlook it, it's irrelevant in this context. The Surface Pro and the surface book are both made by Microsoft, they are still competing products that consumers have to choose between.
That was quote from Austin Powers. And a reference to the fact that Day 2 requirements almost never come.
>You are probably thinking about emulating POSIX filesystem API and things like that and using those command-line tools on top of that in a single-box kind of way. That's not how you treat your distributed system.

Yeah, but Manta's mapreduce does something close, and it seems to work okay.
I think language of choice decides how I can earn money, see:

Swift -> iOS

Java -> android

JS HTML CSS -> Front-end

RoR SQL -> Back-end

C# -> Desktop software

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"In practice, nobody knows the first thing about either" is what you meant to say?
>Complaints about book prices are silly. Take your career more seriously.

Not everyone is a professional developer in an advanced economy, I am neither. Some books I've bought, have costed me as high as 25% of my monthly income. Also I am not talking about Tanenbaum hardbacks, I have never bought a book that expensive.
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The i3's disjointed hood and gigantic bumper give the car a strange look that screams "I'M ELECTRIC!" the same way a Prius does, and the market for cars that scream "I'M ELECTRIC!" is already oversaturated.

Until car manufacturers can make an electric car that looks at least as normal as a civic, Americans will shy away. A huge part of the model 3's success is that not only does it look normal, it looks _good_.
Both disk and CPU failures are recoverable on expensive hardware
people shouldnt have to preface their statements with disclaimers whenever they comment on a topic, especially in such an informal setting.
Beej's book isn't on the avoid list, it's on the free books list.
I assume that the "Pocket Marbles" is the same app with a different name and icon? :D

Thanks for releasing the golang lib, I'm pretty sure people will find nice uses for it! ;)
Manta? Definitely not lightweight.
I'm a bit disappointed there aren't any hidden chunks that take advantage of the PNG format :-(

Uncompressed it's just a binary message of 2 pixel colours, so unless that comment at the end is pointing somewhere else then it's not got much depth...
> All languages have design flaws. Thats why people keep making new languages. Arguing that Rust does not have design flaws is going to arouse more skepticism then anything else.

As somebody who has used Rust since late 2012, I completely agree. It seems that most of the more sweeping claims come from those new and excited users - hopefully over time this will soften and become more reasonable. Hype is definitely something that needs to be kept in check though, as it more than often results in a back-fire.
Also of interest: http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03601
Can you spoil the latest Bourne film for me as well please?
You're ignoring correlation. The twin towers are, for almost all purposes, virtually identical, and experienced largely identical scenarios. For them to behave differently under such circumstances would be less extraordinary than for them to behave similarly.

To my knowledge, the twin towers are the only buildings in history to have been hit with a four-engine plane full of fuel (El Al Flight 1862 apparently had only two engines left when it struck the apartment building. Note that the building fully collapsed at point of impact). Again, to my knowledge, with WTC 7, they were the only high-rises to have experienced serious, out of control multi-floor fires for hours after receiving major structural damage--Deutsche Bank received serious damage but no fires so far as I can tell.

If 100% of similar structures in similar circumstances have failed in a similar manner, is that improbable?
Thanks. I had just heard their names before, but now I'm thinking maybe the combination of Elm+Elixir would suit my needs. Some other people have also suggested Elm here, didn't know why.
I shall answer specific questions but before I do that I want an answer on those I put to you.

> Broadly your position appears to be that Africa is not necessarily backward but that ...

> Is that an accurate summation?

> I repeat; is my summary accurate?

I was repeating in my words your arguments, and I need to know whether I have it right or we shall descend into the weeds.
> Attacks against the power grid are weak because, in almost every scenario you can conjure, the remediation is just disconnecting the network and flipping the on switch.

In two of the last four winters, I've lost power for extended periods of 4 and 5 days, respectively. It's not fun, and even with friends, family and businesses in the area that did still have power that we could depend on, it was difficult. These types of issues are not flip the switch to reset, there is physical damage that needs to be repaired. Imagine this on a much larger scale and it is pretty scary.

If you've never watched the document Zero Days [1], I recommend it. Towards the end, they mention (and the documentary pulls from quotes and testimony of many intelligence personnel) that Olympic Games (Stuxnet) is just the tip of the iceberg, and that we essentially own Iran top to bottom. We completely own their power grid and could destroy strategic pieces of it in the same way we destroyed the centrifuges..using only code. They state that with something like this it could take weeks or months to fully get power restored. Considering the fact that water plants, refrigeration, businesses, etc. depend on that power, access to clean food and water would likely be severely limited, probably also leading to looting, riots and violence...a not-insignificant number of innocent civilians would certainly die.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/
You write your cyclical graph implementation many times less than the implementation is used. The majority of the code need not deal with it.
>I used to think the paperback was way too expensive.

How much was it?
I'll have to check; it's on my bookshelf at work.
There's some truth to this. The rumors around here (I live in Cupertino and overhear a lot) was it was going to be a hydrogen fuel-cell car. They certainly were looking at it.